Chapter 308: The Height of Audacity

Chapter 308: The Height of Audacity

December 13th, 2024

The Spider Queen had not anticipated that after the Star Spirit Clock Tower and the Dark Throne, there would be yet another sorcerer force secretly coveting and biding their time until now to make their move.

It was the epitome of despicable and deceitful behavior!

As she witnessed the distant sorcerer towers and war fortresses rapidly flying towards her, the Spider Queen didn't even bother to retrieve the Divine Puppet and turned to leave.

The Blood Abyss was no longer a safe haven; she needed to find a more concealed hiding place.

But before she could act, a heavy pressure suddenly descended upon her, enveloping her entire being and causing her movements to hesitate.

Gravity Law!

The Spider Queen's gaze turned grim.

The next moment, countless automaton puppets appeared out of nowhere, rushing towards her with fierce momentum.

Caught off guard, the Spider Queen instantly found herself surrounded by the onslaught of puppets.

During her prime, she wouldn't have given these puppets a second glance, easily annihilating them with a wave of her hand.

But now, after two intense battles, not only was she severely wounded, but her combat strength had diminished to a mere fraction of its former glory. The puppet army that she once looked down upon now overwhelmed her.

As she was delayed, the distant sorcerer towers and war fortresses had already flown close by, joining the siege against the Spider Queen.

The leading sorcerer tower was exceptionally massive, several times larger than a standard large sorcerer tower, giving the Spider Queen an ominous feeling.

In the void before the sorcerer tower, a figure slowly emerged.

Upon recognizing the figure, the Spider Queen was momentarily stunned, and her expression immediately darkened.

She knew who stood before her.

It was the sorcerer who had once disrupted her infiltration plan on the Starlight Continent.

Below the True Spirit Wizard level, there were very few who could cause her trouble, so this sorcerer named Su Nan left a deep impression on her.

After that incident, she occasionally kept tabs on the Starlight Continent and learned of the rise of a new sorcerer force called the Star Alliance, which was said to be rapidly growing in power.

And the leader of the Star Alliance was none other than Su Nan, the very sorcerer who had once caused her a minor setback.

"You possess the aura of the Law, yet you haven't taken that final step."

After discerning Su Nan's true strength, the Spider Queen laughed in anger.

When had a third-rate sorcerer force dared to ambush her? And the leader was not even a True Spirit Wizard but merely a Tier Three Crystalized Sorcerer!

The audacity was beyond belief!

Despite her anger, the Spider Queen was well aware of her dire situation. She knew that even a third-rate sorcerer force might be able to defeat her in her current state.

"I'm curious as to how you learned about the Dark Throne's plan."

The Spider Queen narrowed her eyes and spoke.

It was no secret that Su Nan had been waiting for this moment, as he must have known about the Dark Throne's plan beforehand.

He had even guessed her consecutive defeats at the Star Spirit Clock Tower and the Dark Throne; otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to interfere in this matter, no matter how brave he was.

Without further ado, Su Nan gave the order to attack, understanding the Spider Queen's intention to stall for time and recover her strength.

In an instant, countless automaton puppets surged forward.

The surrounding sorcerer towers, star fortresses, and flying fleets fired dense arrays of incantation rays.

For this ambush, Su Nan had mobilized almost all of the Star Alliance's high-level puppets.

The puppets besieging the Spider Queen were, at the very least, legendary automatons.

Among them were thousands of Shadow Steel Automatons, Vajra Automatons, Tendril Puppets, and Secret Puppets, all sorcerer-level puppets.

Considering the need for a human wave tactic against the Spider Queen, the potential sacrifices were immense. Aside from the sorcerers controlling the war constructs, Su Nan did not mobilize additional sorcerers to the front lines.

After all, cultivating sorcerers took an extremely long time.

In contrast, automaton puppets could be continuously manufactured as long as there were mana stones, and their loss was not as painful.

Additionally, Su Nan had mobilized all the Twilight Wolves and a portion of the elite Black Wolves.

If not for the low power level of the regular Black Wolves, he would have brought the entire wolf pack.

In terms of war constructs, almost all were mobilized, leaving only the necessary forces to guard the plane.

The flying fleet alone numbered over three hundred and twenty! The star fortresses exceeded five hundred, and more than fifty sorcerer towers were deployed.

This demonstrated Su Nan's seriousness about this operation.

With the Prayer Unifiers wiped out, the Spider Queen had to face the Star Alliance army alone.

The eerie Dark Moon hovered behind her, appearing both real and illusory. Its moonlight carried a hint of darkness and destruction, obliterating any puppet that ventured within five hundred meters of the Spider Queen.

It was a veritable zone of death.

It seemed like the Spider Queen was completely dominating the Golem Legion, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the relentless, wave after wave of puppet charges was gradually shrinking the range of the forbidden zone.

The radius of the zone was slowly shrinking from five hundred meters to four hundred and ninety-nine, then four hundred and ninety-eight.

Meanwhile, the firepower from the war constructs also put immense pressure on the Spider Queen.

At the very center of the encirclement was the Golem Legion, with the flying fleet, Star Fortresses, and Sorcerer Towers forming the outer layers.

Despite the Spider Queen's ability to destroy a flying demon ship over a thousand meters away with a single swing of her dagger, this loss was insignificant compared to the tens of thousands of demon ships.

As for the Star Fortresses and Sorcerer Towers in the outer layers of the encirclement, even if she wanted to attack them, she was powerless.

This was Su Nan's carefully considered arrangement.

He first used the more expendable Golem Legion and flying ships to wear down the Spider Queen, while the main forces, the Sorcerer Towers and Star Fortresses, were held in reserve.

After all, Star Alliance was not as powerful as the Dark Throne or the Star Spirit Clock Tower, and every bit of their strength had to be used cautiously.

Su Nan stood at the rear of the battlefield, his expression calm as he observed the battle.

As soon as he appeared, he had used the Gravity Law to seal off the surrounding space, preventing the Spider Queen from teleporting away.

Although his current strength was not enough to directly confront the Spider Queen, this was something he could still accomplish.

"Su Nan."

Lizze had quietly approached Su Nan and watched the Spider Queen slaughtering the troops, her face revealing an awe she couldn't suppress.

"Is this the power of a divine being?"

Having continuously repelled the armies of the Star Spirit Clock Tower and the Dark Throne, and still displaying such terrifying combat prowess despite her severe injuries, the divine beings were indeed a formidable bunch.

"After all, they've lived for tens of millions of years," Su Nan said nonchalantly.

Lizze's expression turned grave. "Are you sure about this? Can we really kill the Spider Queen with just these troops?"

After witnessing the true strength of the divine beings firsthand, she couldn't help but worry about the success of this mission.

"Let's wait and see," Su Nan said calmly.

He, too, didn't have a hundred percent certainty, but opportunities like this were rare, and he was willing to take the chance with a sixty to seventy percent chance of success.

"Due to the existence of the God Realm, apart from the Realm of Truth, successful godslaying in the Multiverse is extremely rare."

Outside the Realm of Truth, godslaying required the perfect combination of timing, location, and people.

For instance, in this operation, the Spider Queen had been severely weakened by the Star Spirit Clock Tower and the Dark Throne, which was the timing.

The chaotic law of the Blood Abyss suppressed the power of the God Realm, causing the Abyssal Web to be expelled after the Prayer Unifiers' defeat, which was the location.

Su Nan and the Star Alliance's strength were the people.

The combination of these three factors created the possibility of successful godslaying.

At any other time, encountering the Spider Queen, let alone godslaying, would have meant retreat.

Seeing Su Nan's composed demeanor, Lizze's worries eased, and she focused her attention on the ongoing battle.

In the distance, through the dozens of planar passages established by the Star Alliance, an endless stream of troops emerged, joining the fight.

In just over two hours, more than a hundred thousand high-level puppets had perished, causing Lizze's heart to race.

These were all high-tier puppets that she had painstakingly gathered, and now, over half of them had been lost in such a short time.

Thankfully, this massive sacrifice wasn't in vain; the moonlight surrounding the Spider Queen had been compressed to a hundred-meter radius.

Su Nan, of course, couldn't afford to expend all the high-level puppets here, and as the opportune moment arrived, he ordered the Golem Legion to slow their assault and begin a staggered attack.

Thus, the density of the Golem Legion besieging the Spider Queen significantly decreased.

However, the pressure on the Spider Queen did not lessen.

This was because the reduced density of the Golem Legion also provided more space for the War Constructs to unleash their firepower.

The density of the incoming firepower from all directions surged by several levels! Among them, the Sorcerer Tower that was noticeably larger than the other large towers made her feel the most threatened.

Just one ray was enough to send a chill down her spine, and she narrowly blocked it with the divine dagger in her hand.

The cost was a few more cracks on the dagger.

"Pulse Cannon?"

"No, that's impossible! An ordinary Pulse Cannon couldn't have such a shocking power!"

"It's almost on par with the Mana Crystal Superconducting Pulse Cannon!"

The Spider Queen clenched her teeth, her face turning ashen.

She hadn't expected the Star Alliance to have such a hidden trump card.

This only worsened her already dire situation.

Under the threat of the Pulse Cannon Mark III from the Starlight Wizard Tower, the Spider Queen had to be even more cautious in her response.

However, surrounded by enemies on all sides, the Spider Queen had little room to maneuver. She had to withstand each pulse beam from the Starlight Wizard Tower head-on.

After three consecutive shots, the dagger in the Spider Queen's hand was already covered in cracks.

Su Nan couldn't help but marvel.

Indeed, it was the Spider Queen's famous divine weapon. After enduring three attacks from the Pulse Cannon Mark III, it was still intact.

If it were a Tier 3 Sorcerer's weapon, it would have been reduced to rubble by now.

The Starlight Wizard Tower could only support three shots from the Pulse Cannon Mark III before it fell silent and began to recover its energy.

At the top of the Wizard Tower, the Elemental Furnace was operating at full power, rapidly extracting energy from the Elemental Plane.

Nearby, golems continuously poured mana crystals into the furnace, accelerating the energy recovery.

Su Nan had prepared a large batch of mana crystals in advance, ensuring a quick energy recovery during battle to support the use of the Pulse Cannon Mark III.

With enough mana crystals, the energy of the Starlight Wizard Tower could be restored to full capacity in no time.

Even without the threat of the Pulse Cannon Mark III, the Spider Queen's situation did not improve.

After destroying over fifty star fortresses and more than ten flying fleets, her divine dagger could no longer withstand the strain, and it slipped from her hand, shattering into dozens of fragments that scattered in the air.

The Spider Queen's face turned ashen, and she let out a sharp shriek. Her body ignited with a malevolent purple flame that rapidly expanded and grew.

When the flames disappeared, the Spider Queen's graceful figure was replaced by a massive, mountain-like black spider with razor-sharp fangs and limbs that shone with a heart-pounding luster.

Witnessing this, Su Nan was not surprised but rather pleased.

In gaming terms, the Spider Queen had entered her ultimate form.

Facing a life-or-death crisis, the Spider Queen was clearly going all out, revealing her final trump card.

However, this also meant that she had reached the end of the road!

After revealing her true form, the Spider Queen's offensive became exceptionally fierce. Like a tiger among sheep, she rampaged through the battlefield, crushing flying demon ships and star fortresses in her path.

In contrast, the incantation beams that struck her left no trace.

Only the plasma cannon and pulse cannon attacks could inflict some negligible wounds.

The Spider Queen's true form was extraordinarily powerful.

But Su Nan knew without thinking that this form must consume an enormous amount of divine power, and it couldn't be sustained for long, or the Spider Queen would have used it from the start.

The Star Alliance army still had sufficient combat power to continue the battle of attrition, wearing down the Spider Queen until she exhausted her divine power and lost her ability to resist.

However, this would result in heavy losses for the Star Alliance army as well.

This did not align with Su Nan's original intention.

Fortunately, he had anticipated this situation and made the necessary preparations.

Soon, a team of Vajra Automatons arrived.

Vajra Automatons were renowned for their exceptional defense and were known to withstand attacks from even Tier Three Sorcerers.

Over a dozen of these automatons quickly approached the Spider Queen.

Facing these insignificant foes, the Spider Queen swung her dagger in a horizontal slash.

But before her attack could land, the Vajra Automatons suddenly lit up with a deep, dark blue glow.

In that instant, the Spider Queen sensed a strong threat!

She quickly retreated, trying to avoid these peculiar Vajra Automatons, showing the impact of various scenarios on her finances.

But it was too late.

In an instant, over a dozen dark blue glows rapidly contracted, swallowing the massive bodies of the Vajra Automatons and turning them into pure black light.

A terrifying pulling force emerged, enveloping the Spider Queen, causing her movements to momentarily freeze. Then, she was pulled back and collided with the black light!

In that moment, where the spider's body touched the black light, it vanished without a sound, leaving behind shocking wounds, and blood gushed out instantly!

"Ahh!!!"

The Spider Queen let out a piercing shriek, mixed with uncontrollable terror.

(End of Chapter)

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