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.

the downgrader piped up directly in the Starry Roc-fish's mind, "Wait

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

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

light flashed again. "Give it your all and kill him!"

was left a little puzzled at that.

to be just a third-grade creature who had not

did what it was told.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

lightning bolts started swirling around the Starry Roc-fish's

more bolts there were, the more powerful the force

"Woo..."

lock in on its target.

arching their backs and running on the

the Starry Roc-fish turn to leave, but felt confused when

was when they saw the door open and Zen drop

"Father!"

urgently as he saw the Starry

Crack!

enveloped

over the entire

worried that the Eternal Divine Courtyard would be destroyed. It was, after all, under the

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 it to

in one blow then died down

blinding light cleared up only to

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

"What?"

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

on a more resolute attitude. "Alright,

again. But this time, the colors were

of unconsciousness, he had still felt that powerful jolt

body had been strong enough to

overdrive to assess his surroundings. Zen saw a

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

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