"…the reinforcements arrived and the plan failed."
Despair Queen's words caused an uproar as the holograms seven abyss kings and queens stood up in shock.
Two minutes ago, Despair Queen contacted them and said there was an announcement.
Not even in their wildest dreams did they expect this outcome.
"How?! How can you fail? Is this a sick joke?" Demon King of Earth roared.
"Do you know how much we paid for this?" Thunder King of Neptune said with skyrocketing killing intent.
Despair Queen's grey face turned white and she lowered her proud head. "I'll accept death."
The abyss rulers fell silent.
They looked at each other and finally, Sin King of Mercury said. "So much planning, so much patience and you still failed.
Despair Queen, you should die. But as our emperor says, your death should also be useful. If you can die and bring down Irene Nial with you, it will be your redemption."
Despair Queen's eyes lit up like torches, but then they soon dimmed. "Her artifact…the crystal armor is infamous for defense. Even if I don't care about my life, she will be left alive."
Her words caused them to fall silent. If she died, but Sovereign Irene lived, then it'd be a nightmare scenario for the abyssals.
Water Queen clutched the armrest of her Ice throne as her blue eyes shone with wisdom.
"How about you ask that human sovereign to help you? You two can take down Irene Nial, right?"
"Not possible." Demon King responded immediately. "The Sovereigns are all focused on us. If we disappear, they'll know.
If that man and despair queen fight Irene, she will be able to inform the federation. They can easily check the man's disappearance and he'll be publicly branded as a traitor.
Even if that man is a traitor, he knows if his secret is revealed, there will be a civil war. He is disloyal, not stupid, you know?"
Despair Queen gritted her teeth. "…Then what do we do? Give up?"
"Let there be war." Thunder King grabbed a heavy red axe and waved.
"Yes! Kill!"
"Start an all-out war! Eye for an eye!"
*** *** ***
{If I follow your plan, my identity will be exposed. Can't do it.}
Despair Queen read the reply for the thirteenth time. "Fucking trash! I'll gouge your eyes out one day and trample you to death."
That was all she could do about him.
Tapping the alpha orb, she ordered. "Attack with everything we got!"
Then, Despair Queen's figure disappeared from the meteor ring and she appeared a few miles away from Irene's space shuttle.
"Bitch, come out! Your acting isn't gonna feel anyone."
The space shook and a woman in white armor appeared in front of Despair Queen.
With a cold smile, Irene Nial said. "Salty that your scheming plan didn't work out?"
"I'll kill you." Despair Queen's body turned into a huge tree and the giant poisonous branches slapped down at Irene.
*** *** ***
"Sir, sir, it started on all planetoids!" A panicked voice informed Evander.
Evander didn't panic, however. In front of him were numerous holograms showing the situation of the planetoids.
It could be described as fireworks.
Hundreds of space shuttles were destroyed like blooming fire lotuses.
Awakeners of all paths and all levels participated in the war as they did their best to kill the enemy.
Level 9s had separate zones to fight as did level 8s and level 7s. If anyone lower stepped into their zones, they'd be injured if not outright killed.
From a bird's view, Evander saw hundreds of thousands of dots from each side, one dyed blue, and the other grey as they clashed.
The dots flickered with various colors and every second, some dots disappeared as casualties rose.
Evander made adjustments whenever the loss of humans was higher and strived for an advantage from the get-go.
The only problem was reinforcements. Since they sent reinforcements to cluster cities, they were facing a small shortage.
They were temporarily trying to suppress this deficiency, but sooner or later, this lack of numbers would bring them problems.
"Call back the reinforcements," Evander ordered.
At the same time, he checked the Rena planetoid—something relatively less significant from time to time.
Despite his insistence, Sarah joined the planetoid's army. The only saving grace was that the highest power level of the planetoid was level 6.
Due to her recent advancement in strength which he personally tested, Evander was confident that Sarah was among the strongest in level 6.
Of course, she was already a top 10 in the solar banquet. But that didn't include old cadets who graduated.
As even geniuses stayed in level 6 for 6-7 years, their strength would continue to rise.
Ashtarh, Xavier, and Sarah were surely strong level 6s, but compared to these old cadets, they were significantly weaker.
Only Charles Xander was comparable. Not just comparable, if he had to be honest, Charles' strength was just less than the strongest in level 6.
To his pleasant surprise, the current Sarah was just a bit weaker than Charles. Due to her improvement in two paths, she directly surpassed Xavier, Ashtarh, and Marcus Caron.
Evander comforted himself and his peripheral vision caught a red spot moving in a hologram.
"Archduke…" He muttered with a solemn expression and he appeared in front of a teleportation formation a few miles away.
"Sir!" The guards saluted and Evander hurriedly entered the formation.
"VUY-731." He entered the planetoid address.
The space around him distorted and the next moment, Evander heard a thunderous voice from the sky.
"Your doom is here."
"Archduke." Evander spotted the man in long red armor.
Mendis. Peak level 9. Archduke of Demon Abyss. Arguably the strongest under the Demon King himself.
Mendis raised his hand and clenched his fist. The sheer pressure caused the air to explode and the shockwaves flattened the mountains.
As he punched down at the level 8s that were trying to flee, Evander appeared in front of him and blocked his punch.
Boom!
Mendis flew back a few hundred meters while Evander was thrown away only a hundred meters.
"Steelheart!" Mendis roared and his figure blurred.
"Pay for what you've done," Evander said and his figure also blurred.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Their battle continued high up in the air.
Others couldn't see their battle, but the fierce winds that lifted even level 6s told them all they needed to know.
"Evacuate the area!"
