BOOM!!!
With a thunderous blast, the protective spatial membrane enveloping the rift was torn apart by raging starlight.
The instant the membrane shattered, a dense chorus of piercing shrieks rose from deep within the rift.
Gray-black figures poured out of the rift like a black tide, blotting out the sky.
There were no Six-Eyed Hounds this time. As far as the eye could see, every figure flying out of the rift was a Demon Owl Race warrior.
There were a full five thousand of them.
"Heh heh heh, I never thought we'd actually get a chance to take the field."
One of the Demon Owl Race warriors at the forefront beat his wings and looked down over the empty plain.
"I thought the troops guarding the earlier stages would wipe out all those players. Looks like this Expedition Alliance has something going for it after all."
"This is the Alliance that Never Checks the Fuel Gauge put together, right? The higher-ups ordered Scorched Earth against him. I'd like to see for myself just how many heads this guy has, and what he's capable of that warrants all this trouble..."
"Huh? What the hell is this?!"
A Demon Owl Race soldier looked startled. At some point, fine, threadlike trails of deep-blue starlight had attached themselves to every Demon Owl Race warrior.
No matter how they channeled their internal energy to batter and tear at them, those star trails remained utterly motionless, like marks branded onto their souls. They could not remove them.
Inside the cockpit, Su Ye watched the five thousand locked-on red dots, killing intent surfacing in his eyes.
"Let the hunt begin."
Rat-tat-tat!
The Light Machine-Gun Turret struck first.
Tens of thousands of meteor bullets swept out along the five thousand crisscrossing deep-blue star trails.
"Damn it, they've locked