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

but it couldn't refuse.

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

light flashed again. "Give it your

was left a little

of it looked extremely weak. He seemed to be just a third-grade creature who had not even undergone the Red Jade Rite. It didn't look like it would take much to kill

the Starry Roc-fish just did what it was told.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

lightning bolts started swirling around

the

"Woo..."

the echolocation sound again to lock in on its target. It released

and Ziya had been arching their backs and running on the chain, hiding successfully from the Starry

leave,

they saw the door open and Zen drop

"Father!"

saw the Starry Roc-fish preparing

Crack!

lightning enveloped

bloomed over the

not worried that the Eternal Divine Courtyard would be destroyed. It was, after

did feel, however, that 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

cleared up only to reveal the man

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

"What?"

that. The brush-wielder wasn't that powerful, but as

a more resolute attitude. "Alright,

the colors were much deeper, the

around. Even in a state of unconsciousness, he had still felt that powerful jolt

had been strong enough to withstand

now working on overdrive to assess his surroundings. Zen saw a colorful

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

it in the Soul City, so Zen figured the downgrader probably