"One down...eight to go!"
Champion King’s words sent chills down the remaining eight Archpriests, and it finally dawned on them that the situation was utterly hopeless.
The Champion King was stronger than ever, and Holy King was still nowhere to be seen, while they lost Dawn Prelate King almost instantly.
At that moment, the despair that had been suppressed with their willpower started to surface again, as the fighting intent in their eyes started to fade away.
On the other hand, Dark Wing and the other Shattered Star Pirates finally snapped out of their stupor, and at that moment, the unease and fear they were feeling vanished as they all looked at the Champion King’s broad back with reverence.
"Shattered the Star, Shattered the Holy Justice Citadel!" No one knows who suddenly started this chant, but it didn’t stop there, and the next moment...
"Shattered the Star, Shattered the Holy Justice Citadel!"
"Shattered the Star, Shattered the Holy Justice Citadel!"
"Shattered the Star, Shattered the Holy Justice Citadel!"
All the Shattered Star Pirates joined in, including Dark Wing, as they all shouted with killing intent and ecstasy.
The Champion King’s smile widened when he heard those cheers, and he looked at the Archpriests. With a glance, he could tell those guys had also fallen into despair, and no one had the will to resist, and they won’t escape either because they knew it was impossible!
The Celestial Astrolabe behind him flickered as he was going to attack again and finish those Archpriests once and for all, and even if the Holy King appeared, she would be just another lamb for him to slaughter.
However, right at that moment, under the shouts of the Shatter Star Pirates, the Champion King, who was about to unleash a destructive attack, suddenly fumbled, and his rising momentum plummeted!
No one noticed it right away, but then all of a sudden, the phantom of the celestial astrolabe behind the Champion King vanished, before the towering body of the Champion King suddenly started to fall...
Dark Wing was the first one to notice this, and he was stunned seeing the Champion King suddenly losing consciousness. This was so strange that no one was able to make sense of it, and even the Archpriests were gobsmacked.
While everyone was stunned and hadn’t registered this strange phenomenon, the space right above the Champion King’s falling body suddenly split open, and a dark, gloved hand, like a bony claw, exited from the space tear.
The dark hand was swift and grabbed the Champion King’s body. The moment the dark hand touched the Champion King’s body, it vanished in the next instant, before the dark hand retreated within the space tear, and the space quickly mended.
All of this, since the start of the Champion King’s sudden fall, and then that mysterious dark hand’s emergence and capturing the Champion King, happened within three seconds!
No one was able to react or even make sense of what had just transpired. The Shattered Star Pirates kept looking at the empty space absent-mindedly where the Champion King was standing and about to annihilate the Archpriests.
The Archpriests were also dumbfoundedly looking at the same spot and couldn’t help but stare at each other with confusion and bewilderment.
All of a sudden, the despair in the Knight King’s eyes vanished, replaced by a terrifying zeal, before he roared while prostrating himself in the direction of the Holy Justice God’s cracked statue.
"The Holy Justice hasn’t abandoned us!
"Just now, the vile sacrilegious scum was trying to profane the glory of Justice, but how dare a vile ant dare to be rampant in the sacred grounds of God!
"No matter how powerful you become, no one can go against the glory of Holy Justice!
"O’ Holy Justice, please punish all of them who dared to barge into your sacred cradle and threaten your children!
"The Holy Justice is unbiased and everlasting!"
The other Archpriests also quickly snapped out of their stupor before their expression became just like the Knight King, as they all had similar thoughts.
They all thought that just now, the unstoppable Champion King who can even annihilate a Tier-3 Legendary King was met with the retribution of the Holy Justice God, and then taken away into the depths of hell without even giving a chance to resist.
Although there were many loopholes in their thought process, they didn’t care because the current situation of the Holy Justice Citadel made them think that their God had abandoned them. But now, with this one ’miracle’, their crumbling beliefs strengthened again despite still not feeling the Faith Power.
Furthermore, no one present in this place at that moment could have thought of a better explanation of what just happened, and only a power stronger than the Champion King could have dealt with him like that.
On top of that, the Shattered Star Pirates were now in a similar situation as the Archpriests had been just a moment ago, and they couldn’t accept this outcome.
They were hoping that their undefeatable captain would return and prove those fanatics wrong and kill them right then and there, but nothing happened, and the space was only filled with the zealous cries of the Archpriests!
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Within the Space Travesty Shuttle, Jacob couldn’t help but look at those Archpriests speechlessly, before he scoffed, "Faith really is a terrifying thing...those idiots are still hoping for a miracle and waiting for some indifferent God to save them.
"If not because I’m in a hurry to get out of this place because of that hunter, and the information I have acquired from the Black Mechanic about the Champion King, I wouldn’t have intervened and let him destroy this space.
"However, since that guy was arrogant enough to come all this way to deliver himself to me, it saved me the time to look for him. Furthermore, his evolution to the Quasi-Myth makes him even more important..."
Jacob’s eyes flickered with a peculiar glint as he thought about the hexed Champion King within the Mechanized Sovereign Tower, which was another unexpected harvest in this trip to the Great Cosmic Continent of Leo.
After glancing at Holy Justice Citadel indifferently, he impassively ordered Black Mechanic, "Alright, let’s get out of here!"