Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

The Starry Roc-fish swam around the four pillars, searching earnestly.

It had initially only planned to exhaust Geoffrey's strength.

It figured this was the most efficient way to deal with him and Ziya. Ziya would have been easy pickings after that.

But the Starry Roc-fish hadn't expected Geoffrey to use Grand Teleportation to escape.

The Starry Roc-fish could detect objects using the aura of space, but the Heavenly Ring Staff was obviously shielding Geoffrey and Ziya. It took some time for the Starry Roc-fish's echolocation ability to lead it toward the general direction of the pillars.

It began to sense Geoffrey and Ziya in the area as soon as it approached.

But suddenly, the two became undetectable again.

The Starry Roc-fish had such keen senses that it could see the energy emanating from everything in the world, including from dead people. It could easily pick up on energy fluctuations, too.

Avoiding its detection like this would usually require those in hiding to block all external energy auras and stop emitting auras themselves.

Suffice to say, that was a near impossible feat.

That was why the Starry Roc-fish concluded Geoffrey and Ziya must be using the Heavenly Ring Staff.

It was likely why the Starry Roc-fish couldn't find them now.

But it had to, all the same. It couldn't disobey the downgrader's orders.

"Woo..."

The Starry Roc-fish emitted a long wailing sound.

The sound waves bounced back from surfaces, allowing the Starry Roc-fish to determine the shape of its surroundings, including those concealed.

The sound waves washed through a vast area. But it still failed to pick up on Geoffrey and Ziya.

The Starry Roc-fish figured it must be looking in the wrong area.

It turned to go.

Just then, a door suddenly opened above the Eternal Divine Courtyard. A white light emanated from the doorway.

began to flash, and the voice of the downgrader piped up directly in the Starry Roc-fish's mind,

to wait for, but it couldn't refuse. It hovered in place

it saw a person being dropped from above. The person landed on

it your all and kill him!"

Starry Roc-fish was left a little puzzled at that.

a third-grade creature who had

the Starry Roc-fish just did

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

around the Starry Roc-fish's

bolts there were, the more

"Woo..."

Roc-fish emitted the echolocation sound again to lock in on its target. It released the lightning.

arching their backs and running

saw the Starry Roc-fish turn to leave, but felt confused when it had suddenly stopped in place, as if waiting for something.

was when they saw the door open

"Father!"

but hiss urgently as he saw the Starry Roc-fish preparing to zap

Crack!

lightning enveloped Zen

bloomed over the entire

Divine Courtyard would be destroyed.

much. It would have chosen a milder technique had the downgrader not directed it to use maximum

in one blow

cleared up only to reveal the man completely unharmed.

all! Even the brush-wielder couldn't do much damage!" The downgrader's voice chastised

"What?"

that. The brush-wielder wasn't that powerful, but as the ruler of the Eternal

Starry Roc-fish took on a more

head again. But this time, the colors were much deeper, the energy

Even in a state of unconsciousness, he

his body had been strong

Civilization was now working on overdrive to assess his surroundings. Zen saw a colorful roc-fish floating in the sky. He felt like he had seen it

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

City, so Zen figured the downgrader probably had something to do with why the creature was attacking him