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.

voice of the downgrader piped up

what it had to wait for, but it couldn't refuse.

person being dropped from above. The person landed on the roof of the Eternal

light flashed again. "Give it your all

a little puzzled at that.

be just a third-grade creature who had not even undergone

Starry Roc-fish just did what it

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

around the

were, the more powerful the force

"Woo..."

sound again to lock in on its

backs and running on the chain, hiding successfully from the Starry

to leave, but felt confused when it had suddenly stopped in place, as if waiting

open and Zen drop down like a

"Father!"

hiss urgently as he saw the Starry Roc-fish preparing

Crack!

lightning enveloped Zen completely.

over the entire courtyard.

Courtyard would

using the five-colored lightning on a barely conscious human was a bit too much. It would have chosen a milder technique had the downgrader not directed

exploded in one blow then died down quickly.

the blinding light cleared up only to reveal the man

told you to give it your all! Even the brush-wielder couldn't do much damage!" The downgrader's

"What?"

was surprised to hear that. The brush-wielder wasn't that powerful, but as the ruler of

on a more

five-colored lightning appeared around its head again. But this time, the colors were much deeper, the energy contained

around. Even in a state of unconsciousness, he

strong

was now working on overdrive to assess his surroundings. Zen saw a colorful roc-fish

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

the first time he had met it in the Soul City, so Zen figured the downgrader probably had something to