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

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

above. The person landed on the roof of the

light flashed again. "Give it your all and

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

did what it was told.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

around the Starry Roc-fish's

there were, the more

"Woo..."

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

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

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

was when they saw the door open and Zen drop down like a corpse.

"Father!"

as he saw the Starry Roc-fish preparing to zap Zen.

Crack!

lightning enveloped Zen completely.

light bloomed over the

Roc-fish was not worried that the Eternal Divine Courtyard would be destroyed. It

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

lightning exploded in one blow then died down quickly.

the blinding light cleared up only

it your all! Even the brush-wielder couldn't

"What?"

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

Roc-fish took on a

around its head again. But this time, the colors

a state of unconsciousness, he had still felt that powerful jolt of

had been strong enough to withstand it.

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

"It's the Starry Roc-fish!"

had met it in the Soul City, so