Everyone's eyes turned to Lin Mo in unison.
Meeting their gazes, Lin Mo recounted the confession obtained from interrogating Demon Venerable Herman in the underground laboratory, exactly as it had been given:
"According to the confession of Seventh-Order Demon Venerable Herman, the Demon Clan calls this thing a 'Planet Devourer.'"
"They abandoned the path of seizing Gaia Cores to advance to the ninth order. For tens of thousands of years, they've done only one thing-constantly devouring planets to obtain rare metals and minerals to strengthen themselves."
"Within the Demon Clan, it ranks above an Eighth-Order Demon God but below a Ninth-Order True God. There are only three of them."
"Its only characteristics are its enormous size, extreme defenses, formidable devouring ability, and powerful innate gravity."
"And..."
Lin Mo paused, his tone becoming exceptionally grave:
"It's very intelligent. It knew to open a Space Wormhole on the distant Tenth Planet precisely to buy time for the wormhole to open."
"Clearly, it succeeded."
"Once it conquers the Kona Star System... it will definitely turn its sights on us."
"Never mind anything else. As long as it successfully arrives and charges straight at Blue Star or the Terra Continent... we currently have no means of stopping it."
The entire conference room fell silent.
Even Liu Yishou, who had been cursing just moments earlier, clenched his back teeth, ferocity and defiance flashing in his eyes.
Humanity had marshaled the entire nation's strength to struggle for survival through the apocalyptic Great Deceleration of the planet's rotation. After finally carving out a fief on the Terra Continent and gaining a firm foothold in the Kona Star System, they had thought they might get a chance to catch their breath.
Yet the Demon Clan had turned around and delivered a slap powerful enough to crush their entire