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

had to wait for, but it

The person landed on the roof

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

Roc-fish was left a little puzzled at that.

a third-grade creature who had not even undergone

just did what it was

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

bolts started swirling around the Starry Roc-fish's

the

"Woo..."

sound again to lock in on its target. It released

and Ziya had been arching their backs and running on

they saw the Starry Roc-fish turn to leave, but felt confused when it had suddenly stopped

open and Zen

"Father!"

couldn't help but hiss urgently as he saw the Starry Roc-fish preparing to zap

Crack!

enveloped

light bloomed over the entire

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

barely conscious human was a bit too much. It would have chosen a milder technique had the downgrader not directed it to use

exploded in one

blinding light cleared up only to reveal the man completely unharmed.

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

"What?"

but as the

Roc-fish took on a more resolute attitude.

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

a state of unconsciousness, he had still

strong enough

Zen saw a colorful

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

Roc-fish had not been hostile to him the first time he had met it in the Soul City, so Zen figured the downgrader probably had something to