"I gotta get outta here..."

"I gotta get outta here..."

A gigantic humanoid crocodile over six feet tall was pumping his stubby little legs as he sprinted across the desert.

"And where exactly do you think you’re going, little croc?"

Up in the sky, a beautiful, holy Angel spread her snow-white wings and leisurely chased after the humanoid crocodile. Her lovely lips curved slightly as she teased the crocodile-man who was desperately running through the sand on those short little legs.

"An Angel!"

"I remember you people! You’re the ones who killed me before!"

"A crimson beam dropped outta the sky and burned me clean away, didn’t even leave a single hair behind!"

The crocodile-man turned his head and shouted at the beautiful, holy Angel in the sky.

"Hahaha..."

"That was your own fault!"

"If you hadn’t been running wild on Earth, we Angels never would’ve judged you in the first place!"

"So be a good boy and stop right where you are. I promise, as long as you listen, I won’t hurt you."

After hearing what the crocodile-man had to say, the Angel with hair like shining gold burst out laughing, then switched to an unbelievably gentle tone as she tried to coax him.

"Heh..."

"Don’t think you can fool me. I may not be the smartest croc around, but I ain’t stupid!"

"Last time somebody told me if I stood still, I wouldn’t get hurt either, and then you Angels still killed me. So from now on, I ain’t believing squat."

Renekton shook his head. He was a smart crocodile, thank you very much. There was no way he was trusting that beautiful Angel. He still remembered somebody once telling him that the prettier a woman was, the more careful you had to be with whatever came out of her mouth. And from a human point of view, these Angels were all ridiculously good-looking, so there was no way Renekton was going to trust a word this one said.

"Why are you so smart for a crocodile?"

"Stop right now, or else..."

After hearing Renekton’s answer, the beautiful, holy Angel seemed to lose patience. She drew the flaming sword at her waist and pointed it toward the sky.

Rumble...

At once, lightning flashed faintly in the heavens and thunder began to growl.

"Renekton, I suggest you think carefully. Don’t push me too far, or else... where exactly all that lightning up there comes down, even I can’t say."

The holy Angel’s eyes gleamed with a trace of mockery. She tried to keep smiling, but the tight, fake look on her face had already given away how close she was to losing her temper.

"Uh..."

Renekton looked up at the storm clouds and the flashing lightning above, and fear crept into his expression.

Those bolts could not destroy him...

But Renekton hated pain.

The moment he pictured that lightning hammering into his body, leaving both his flesh and his spirit in agony, he shuddered inside.

"Sis, Angel lady, can we talk this out?"

Renekton’s eyes darted around in their sockets. Inside that small head of his, he seemed to have come up with a pretty good way to kill the Angel above him.

"Talk about what?"

The holy Angel arched a brow, a little curious what exactly this short-legged crocodile-man thought he had to say.

"Come down a little. You’re flying too high. I gotta crane my neck to yell at you, and it’s tiring..."

Renekton waved at the Angel in the sky, signaling for her to come a little closer.

"Interesting..."

The Angel gently beat her wings. In those holy eyes of hers, there did not seem to be even the slightest concern that Renekton might suddenly attack her.

"A little lower..."

"Lower..."

"Yeah, that’s it..."

"Now die!!!"

"Hah-hah-hah!"

Renekton swung a giant axe, apparently pulled from nowhere, and hacked at the Angel in the air.

Murderous light flashed in his eyes as though he meant to split that holy Angel apart in one blow.

"Hmph."

The Angel seemed to have expected it. She instantly raised a golden shield.

Crack!

But in front of Renekton, that golden shield was as fragile as paper. It shattered in an instant and dissolved into countless motes of starlight drifting through the air.

"Useless, useless, useless!"

Renekton’s mouth curled upward as he sneered. After shattering the golden energy shield in the sky, he intended to press the attack, cut the Angel apart, and then...

Then an invisible force froze him in midair.

He could not move freely at all. All he could do was flail his short limbs and struggle desperately.

"Looks like you needed a little help, my Angel."

The golden-haired Angel did not look surprised in the least that Renekton had been restrained. It was as if she had expected it all along. Her eyes carried only a trace of curiosity, and behind her came a deep, magnetic male voice.

"I figured you’d manage to subdue Renekton, but I didn’t expect you to do it like this."

"What kind of power is this? Spatial restraint? Void restraint?"

The blonde Angel turned sideways and looked at the person behind her as she asked.

"This is psionics..."

The man behind the golden-haired Angel shook his head and explained the power he was using to control Renekton from afar.

"Psionics?"

The blonde Angel narrowed her eyes slightly, clearly intrigued by the power he had mentioned.

"Yan, don’t even think about it. You can’t learn this one."

"Though I guess I could turn it into a plug-in and implant it into your genetic template..."

"That depends on how well you behave."

The tall man was none other than Jovian, who had finished killing those worthless Taotie and come back.

"Heh..."

"You wish. You think some psionics trick is enough to win over an Angel, and not just any Angel, but Sacred Kayle’s left-wing guardian Angel in body and soul? You’ve got a long way to go."

Yan crossed her arms, turned her head aside, and refused to look at Jovian.

"Heh..."

Jovian just shook his head at Yan’s attitude. Oh, so now she was playing hard to get? Jovian knew exactly how to deal with that type. He never listened to what someone acting that way said. He only listened to what they were really feeling inside.

Whenever someone started putting on that act, their emotions always spiked like a drumbeat pounding away in his ears.

Honestly...

It was kind of noisy.

"Hey, little croc."

Jovian finally shifted his attention away from Yan and looked at the crocodile-man he had pinned in place. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"I hear you were about to chop up my Angel?"

"Who gave you permission to cut up something that belongs to me?"

Just one look from Jovian sent Renekton crashing to the ground.

Smack!

The next second, Jovian planted one foot directly on Renekton’s head.

"If there is a single thing about your answer that I don’t like, you’re going to become a Headless Horseman immediately."

Jovian folded his arms and spoke down to the crocodile under his foot with utter contempt.

It was not that Jovian really intended to kill the croc. He just wanted to knock some of the swagger out of him so the reptile would not get full of himself later and forget who his owners were.

"I got it! Please spare me!"

Renekton made it very clear that he understood. He understood Jovian’s great and mighty power.

"First question, who is your master?"

Jovian had no intention of letting him off that easily. Renekton was basically an oversized problem child. If you did not discipline him hard, he would never behave.

"You! You are..."

Renekton answered without hesitation.

"Good."

"Second question, what do you do when you see humans?"

Jovian moved on to question number two.

"Treat ’em all like dumplings and eat ’em..."

Renekton answered without even thinking.

"Hm?!"

Jovian’s expression changed, and the pressure from his foot increased slightly.

"No, no, no..."

"I won’t eat ’em! I won’t!"

Renekton immediately started shaking his head. He no longer dared to eat humans.

"As for Demons, and disgusting crap like the Taotie, eat as much as you want."

Jovian was not some monster. He was not actually planning to keep Renekton from eating at all. It was just that humans, and certain pretty Angels, were off limits unless he personally gave permission.

"I... I got it."

Renekton nodded, though he still looked unhappy about it.

"But what if those Angels come after me again?"

"Can I fight back then?"

Renekton looked at Jovian unwillingly. He was clearly extremely dissatisfied with being told not to hurt Angels. Whatever history he had with them, it was obvious he had not let it go.

"If Angels attack you first, then I’ll allow you to defend yourself." Jovian sounded a little exasperated. He honestly had no idea what kind of grudge this kid had against Angels that made him this stubborn about it. Looking at Renekton, he asked, "Are you seriously this hung up over Angels? You want to kill them that badly? The only reason you got killed by them before was because you brought it on yourself. My advice, let it go. Otherwise, one bad move and you’ll die a second time."

"It’s worth it!"

"I just hate Angels..."

"They’re all too ugly to look at!"

"I still remember when I used to run into my brother."

"I thought he was ugly as hell, like some busted freak. He thought I was ugly as hell too, like some busted freak."

"So every time we met, it was kill or be killed, grudge after grudge after grudge."

"Our goal was always real simple, kill the other guy."

Renekton explained his feelings toward Angels like he was telling a story.

"Beast-form types are such a pain..."

At last, Jovian understood Renekton’s issue. In Renekton’s eyes, there was no real distinction between good people and bad people. He judged friend and foe entirely by what he personally thought was ugly or beautiful.

"Anyway, get your temper under control."

"Don’t go letting it loose whenever you feel like it."

Pressing a hand to his forehead, Jovian gave the order coldly.

"Fine."

Renekton nodded. After all that talking from Jovian, the only response he really had was fine.

"Mm..."

Jovian stopped bothering with him. For now, this was about as far as the crocodile could be trained.

"Yan, want to take a little trip through space with me?"

Jovian turned and invited Yan.

"Oh? I thought after you were done using me, you were just going to seal my Angel bio-engine again."

When Yan heard the invitation, she froze briefly.

"Hahahahaha..."

"What are you talking about? Do I look like that kind of person?"

Jovian burst out laughing. He was obviously being misunderstood, openly and shamelessly misunderstood by Yan.

"So what exactly do you want me to do with you in outer space?"

Yan looked at Jovian and asked why he wanted to leave Earth.

"If I had never said anything, that’d be one thing. But after I already announced to the entire universe that Earth is my territory, these Taotie still showed up here. Which means they clearly do not take me seriously at all..."

"So now there’s only one thing left for us to do."

"We make these Taotie get properly acquainted with us."

Jovian’s expression stayed perfectly calm, as if he had already decided the Taotie’s fate.

"And what are you planning to do exactly?"

Yan asked.

"I’m going to keep my promise and wipe every last one of them out."

Jovian made it clear that he was simply going to follow through on the vow he had already made.

"Then you absolutely have to take me with you."

Yan casually brushed back her hair. Striking down evil was important work.

"Then let’s go."

With a light wave of his hand, Jovian lifted both Yan and Renekton off the ground.

Then the three of them turned into a streak of light and shot upward into the sky.

Outside the solar system, a dense army seemed to have surrounded the entire system.

These were all Karthus’s forces, the Taotie army. At Karthus’s call, this advanced spacefaring civilization had gathered at the edge of the solar system and was now waiting on standby.

They waited patiently for the units inside the solar system to send them a signal.

The moment their scouts inside the system confirmed it was safe, they would begin their full-scale invasion of the solar system and launch a brutal war against Earth’s many factions. Of course, in the minds of these Taotie, the war against Earth would be nothing more than a boring one-sided massacre.

Aboard the Taotie flagship...

A heavily modified Taotie stood there deep in thought.

"Lord Shi Hao, what’s wrong?"

One of the Taotie beside him looked at the great Taotie king before him, so heavily rebuilt that he barely resembled a Taotie anymore, and asked the question.

"I’ve got a bad feeling. Like something terrible is about to happen."

Shi Hao shook his head. A growing unease gnawed at him.

"Hahaha..."

"You’re overthinking it. The Taotie army is unbeatable..."

The subordinate laughed and clearly did not take Shi Hao’s concern seriously.

Ding ding ding ding...

The instant the Taotie finished speaking, the ship’s alarm suddenly went off.

"Warning, enemy intrusion detected!"

"We have lost five warships..."

The alarm blared in both Shi Hao’s and the Taotie’s ears.

"Holy shit..."

The Taotie was completely dumbfounded. He had just said everything was fine, and then disaster hit immediately.

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