"Quick... hold it off!"
"Damn it... what the hell is going on!"
"Why did the 'Fated Black River · Roaming Star Whale' suddenly go berserk as soon as it entered this region!"
"This makes no sense!"
A squad of newly advanced "Roaming Star Gods," all around level 12000, had been hunting a "Fated Black River · Roaming Star Whale" that was ravaging the surrounding planetary systems.
The Roaming Star Whale was only level 10001 and had just crossed the threshold of "Divine Truth." For their elite squad, whose average level exceeded twelve thousand, it should have been easy prey.
They had pursued it for three whole days, chasing it from one Star System to another and steadily whittling down its health along the way. They had been on the verge of finishing it off.
But during the final stage of the pursuit, the fleeing Roaming Star Whale inexplicably crossed a golden, stellar ring-shaped belt.
The belt was extremely faint, so faint that unless someone deliberately observed it, noticing its existence would have been impossible.
Like a golden thread forgotten in the depths of the Sea of Stars, it encircled some invisible center, existing quietly.
Yet the instant it crossed that golden stellar ring-shaped belt, the Roaming Star Whale, which had already been on its last breath, inexplicably went mad.
Its bulk swelled in an instant, its large, watery eyes turned blood-red, and the surging power erupting around it sent the squad member at the very front flying.
-1(crystal ★★★★★)!
The level 12417 "Roaming Star God" leading the charge was a burly male being wielding a Divine Truth-tier greatshield. The moment the whale's tail swept toward him, he instinctively raised his greatshield, attempting to take the blow for his teammates behind him.
But a moment later, a damage value as