Chapter 1 The Next Few Days

In the following days, Voding and Aurora, in cooperation with Raymond, searched for traces of the Blood Hammer Church in various districts of the Ainiya Hub. This matter had been reported to the garrison police, who inquired a bit and then promised to investigate suspicious individuals before sending the group away, clearly not wanting the help of superheroes.

Although the status of superheroes in the universe has been legalized, local police forces have never liked cooperating with them. After all, everyone is not an ordinary person. Most superheroes are only Class B in strength, and there are many Class B superhumans working for various civilizations. There is nothing rare about them. Those superheroes with flashy nicknames may not even be a match for ordinary officers in a real fight, so most of the time there is no need for so-called superheroes to help.

Raymond insisted on searching for traces of the Blood Hammer Church himself. Voding kept in mind the mission Han Xiao had given him, moved into Raymond's rented hideout, concealed his strength, and helped discreetly.

After a few days like this, the three still had not found any clues about the Blood Hammer Church, but they did receive reinforcements from the Punisher Alliance.

"You're finally here!"

In the hideout, Raymond was overjoyed to welcome the support team. He exchanged a few familiar greetings and then introduced these partners to Voding and the others. Most people looked at Voding and Aurora with friendly faces, nodding in greeting, while a few others were expressionless and indifferent.

"These two are Morningstar and Aura, whom I mentioned to you. They are both Class B superhumans, especially Aura. Her healing ability is amazing."

"Hello, I am Morningstar." Voding smiled slightly, greeting everyone. He did not act high and mighty at all, and his temperament was extremely approachable.

It would have been better if he hadn't smiled. This smile sent shivers down the spines of many people present, and their heart rates suddenly accelerated.

Voding's charm was not limited by race or gender. He unconsciously exuded a special attraction in his gestures. If he smiled, it would really be the death of people. Even with a disguised face, it could not hide his volcanic charm.

*This new companion has such a good temperament...* Many people muttered inwardly, exchanging glances.

"I am Au... Aura." Aurora was not used to her fake name.

Everyone looked over, and their eyes immediately became much warmer. No one would dislike a companion with healing abilities. You never know when you might need their help.

Just as they were about to step forward to get to know the new companions, a discordant voice came from the crowd.

"I want to ask, why did you join the Punisher Alliance?"

Everyone looked over, wearing a helpless expression. The speaker was Seli, who was very wary.

"Because he invited us." Aurora shrugged, pointing to Raymond.

"You are also Class B superhumans, and you joined us because of a simple invitation. Don't you think it's strange? You've never even heard of the Punisher Alliance before, and you just changed your minds so impulsively? Heh, I'd rather believe that you have been planning this for a long time." Seli's tone was cold. Everything was too coincidental, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.

Voding smiled and did not try to defend himself. Worried that he would be unhappy, everyone hurriedly came forward to dissuade him. Voding's first impression on them was too good, and they couldn't help but speak up for him.

*He's so good-looking, he must be a good person!*

Seli's eyes twitched, barely resisting Voding's charm aura. He brushed past Voding, his slanted gaze fixed on Voding, and said coldly, "I will be watching you. If you have any other intentions, don't blame me for being impolite."

After saying that, he strode away.

Because of Seli's behavior, the atmosphere was a bit awkward for a while. At this time, Raymond stepped forward, patted Voding on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't mind him. He's always been like that. I was also targeted by him when I first joined."

"It's okay." Voding smiled faintly.

Seeing this, everyone also came forward to chat. Voding handled it with ease and quickly integrated into the group. It was not difficult for him at all.

After resting for most of the day, the leader of this temporary hero squad gathered everyone and assigned the task of finding the Blood Hammer Church.

The Punisher Alliance did not have many people, so only a few people could be responsible for a large area, slowly searching for clues.

Voding and Aurora naturally stayed together and still acted with Raymond, plus a martial arts hero, four people in a group, searching a rather prosperous district of the Ainiya Hub.

...

The artificial sun gradually set, and the blood-red sunset dyed the sky, turning it into a red gemstone with cloud patterns. As the sunlight slowly receded below the horizon, the night slowly enveloped the sky. The brilliant lights of the Ainiya Hub gradually lit up. At night, the Ainiya Hub awakened, revealing another side of this interstellar city, as if transforming from a dusty traveler carrying a suitcase into a heavily made-up and flirtatious hot girl.

The night was the curtain for the pleasure ground, where travelers and goods from various star systems gathered. Countless people indulged in extravagance here, only to embark on their journey again at dawn.

The crowds on the street were denser than during the day, with people surging around, and the air floating with a restless and joyful atmosphere, like alcohol mixed with freshly squeezed juice, pungent but also with a fresh and sweet taste.

Voding's group of four walked down the street, looking around and observing their surroundings. Raymond pushed away a drunken insectoid who was leaning towards him and lowered his voice:

"The Blood Hammer Church basically conducts blood sacrifices at night. Everyone pay attention and don't ignore the smell of blood. Focus on secluded places."

Voding remained noncommittal. After walking for a while, Aurora suddenly grabbed Voding's sleeve and pointed to the sky.

"There are Heavenly Disaster-level life signals."

Voding looked up and saw a flying vehicle flying in from a distance and stopping at a high-rise landing platform. A group of bodyguards, with a young man in the center, separated the crowd. Two of the bodyguards made no attempt to conceal their Heavenly Disaster-level aura.

The surrounding passersby also noticed this aura and looked up. Raymond glanced at it and muttered, "That seems to be a big shot."

The martial artist next to him shook his head, "Anyway, we can't get in touch with such people. Don't look. It has nothing to do with us."

"That's right."

Ignoring the two next to him, Voding, in a fleeting glance, found that these two Heavenly Disaster-level bodyguards seemed a bit familiar. He seemed to have seen their photos somewhere. He always trusted his intuition. Seeing Raymond and the other two chatting on their own without paying attention to him, he took out his communicator and input the scene into the device through memory transmission.

"Phillip, check who these people are?"

"Okay, buzzing, comparing the database... Comparison complete, matching object found."

The Black Star Legion's massive intelligent database is also open to ordinary people, most of which are Phillip's subprograms, but as Voding who has followed Han Xiao for a long time, he has the authority to enjoy the functions of Phillip's main intelligence. Compared with the efficiency of ordinary members, it is probably the difference between 3g and 5g.

Looking down, Voding's eyes moved. Phillip's database stores the information of almost all officials and cadres of the Crimson Dynasty. He found that these two Heavenly Disaster-level bodyguards are direct superhumans of the Crimson Dynasty, and the young man being surrounded did not have detailed information. Obviously, an unknown force had performed some kind of confidentiality for him. Generally, those who have this kind of treatment are mostly relatives of high-level officials of the empire.

"It should be a descendant of a high-ranking imperial official."

Voding nodded and didn't care. However, at this moment, Aurora, who was close at hand, sent him a message.

"I can sense it. There are four more Heavenly Disaster-level individuals hiding in different locations nearby."

Aurora's life perception is a convenient way to find people. If it is not a space isolation ability like a barrier magic, normal hiding and disguise are useless in front of Aurora. She can easily detect the life intensity of others to judge their combat power.

Voding paused, glanced at the locations marked by Aurora, and found that these four unknown Heavenly Disaster-level people were faintly surrounding this place. He didn't know if they were secretly protecting this descendant of a high-ranking imperial official or had other intentions.

"Well... It's none of our business, let's ignore it for now."

Voding said this, but he kept it in mind. He always had a bad feeling that something seemed to be happening tonight.

Continuing to search for a while, the group had already walked out of the most prosperous area. Raymond suddenly received a communication from a companion.

"Come over quickly, we've already found the Blood Hammer Church!" The companion's tone in the communication channel was urgent, with the sound of fighting in the background.

"Where are you? Are you already fighting the Blood Hammer Church?!" Raymond asked anxiously.

"No, it's not us." The companion's tone suddenly became very strange, with a strong sense of incomprehension, "It's not that we found the Blood Hammer Church, but they... they are actually attacking a military restricted zone!"

"What?!" The faces of several people froze.

In their impression, the Blood Hammer Church was a group of mad believers who secretly captured people for blood sacrifices. How could they do something like attacking a military restricted zone?

For a moment, several people felt a sense of foreboding.

And at this moment, everyone found that the ground beneath their feet seemed to be shaking slightly.

Rumble!!

A burst of dazzling light came from a distance, and dazzling pillars of explosion rose in several districts far away, the fire illuminating the night sky, extremely eye-catching.

Whoosh—The shock wave swept over like a tsunami, like a hurricane rising from the ground. Even though everyone was in this area, they were still affected, and the wind blew their hair wildly.

The fire rose in the night sky, and countless passersby around looked stunned, stopping and turning their heads to look at the place where the explosion occurred.

"Something's wrong!"

Voding frowned.

This was the heavily guarded Ainiya Hub, such a big commotion could not have been caused by a second or third-rate organization like the Blood Hammer Church.

*I was prejudiced and misled by Raymond's conjecture. The Blood Hammer Church is not the only one making trouble in the Ainiya Hub, there may be a bigger scheme.*

As soon as the thought flashed through his mind, a piercing alarm suddenly swept across the city, and garrison warships were dispatched, cutting through the sky and rushing to various explosion areas.

In the next second, the passersby suddenly became chaotic.

...

Bang!

The warhammer swept across the silver light, smashing the head of an Ainiya Hub garrison superhuman, spraying blood all over the ground.

The Blood Hammer Bishop led a large group of Blood Hammer Priests in storming a corner of the military restricted zone, engaging in fierce fighting with the garrison.

Superhumans fought each other, and the surrounding defense turrets and mechanical vehicles frantically fired at the Blood Hammer Church, with bursts of dark energy rays bombarding the magic shields of the Blood Hammer Priests. Blood Hammer Priests were constantly being bombarded and annihilated, not even leaving powder behind.

In this battlefield, the Blood Hammer Bishop was invincible, displaying Heavenly Disaster-level combat power, rushing left and right, a warhammer turning the world upside down, anything in front of him was smashed to pieces by his hammer. The Ainiya Hub's higher-level combat power was not always stationed at the outpost, and had not yet arrived, reinforcements were still on the way.

The Blood Hammer Bishop held the hammer with both hands, hitting it down on the ground, the warhammer and his body lit up with strange red magic runes, the blood on the ground seemed to evaporate, turning into large swaths of blood mist, which condensed in mid-air to form a huge figure, only the upper body, strangely shaped, a manic energy seemed to be transmitted from the void, lodging in this cloud of red mist.

The next moment, two sun-like light groups lit up on the face of the red mist, as if they were eyes, and a certain consciousness descended.

It burst out with violent magical energy, shooting out groups of bright red magic arrows, indiscriminately attacking in the battlefield. If it hit a Blood Hammer Priest, the Blood Hammer Priest's whole body would turn red, as if being buffed, not only did the injuries gradually recover, but the combat power was also significantly enhanced. And if it hit an enemy, then it was as if small snakes swelled under the enemy's skin, the blood in the body flowed backwards, suffering severe trauma.

This figure is the "god" sacrificed by the Blood Hammer Church, a high-dimensional magic entity, briefly descending through special means, possessing the power of Heavenly Disaster-level, plus the Blood Hammer Bishop himself, equivalent to this battlefield being strongly attacked by two Heavenly Disaster-level individuals.

In several other directions of this military restricted zone, violent explosions also occurred. The forces attacking the military restricted zone were far more than just the Blood Hammer Church - this was a premeditated collaborative action!

...

The highest-level building in the center of Ainiya Hub is the property of the guardian of this place. The person guarding this place is a senior Heavenly Disaster-level superhuman under the command of a Super-A, named Gabra.

Seeing the fire in the city from the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, Gabra threw aside the female creature in his hand, stood naked in front of the window, frowning and looking down at the exploded areas.

"Lord Gabra, there's an emergency!" The vice-officer's remote projection appeared in the room, not looking at the shivering woman wrapped in the quilt next to him, and quickly explained the situation in an urgent tone.

"Someone attacked the military area where the Evolver Totem is located? Dare to come to my territory to rob things, courting death!"

A strong baleful aura appeared on Gabra's face. He casually pulled on his pants, then kicked the floor-to-ceiling window to pieces, and suddenly jumped into the night sky. His body burned with a majestic and fiery gray martial arts aura, turning into a meteor that tore through the night sky and plunged into the battle area.

At the same time, in the district where Voding and others were located, a Heavenly Disaster-level wanted criminal hiding in the dark saw the gray meteor streaking across the sky, reached out and pressed a short-range earpiece, and said in a low voice:

"Gabra has been lured away, and the other garrisoned Heavenly Disaster-levels are also rushing to the battlefield. The forces over there will drag down this group of Heavenly Disaster-levels. When the chaos sweeps across the city, we can take action. Remember, be quick, and disguise it as an accidental encounter afterward."

...

Meanwhile, in another district of Ainiya Hub that was not affected, two unremarkable men stood on the top floor of a high-rise building, overlooking the chaos and fire in the night. One of them was the shape-shifter who had been monitoring the spaceport a few days ago.

"The operation has begun."

"Thanks for proving I'm not blind yet."

"I wonder how many of these gray forces hired on the black market will survive tonight."

"Heh, even if they survive tonight, they will be cleared sooner or later, either killed by us or judged by the Empire."

"The garrison has rushed to protect the Evolver Totem, hey, do they really think that so much effort is just for a mere Evolver Totem."

"Fortunately, this is not a direct colony star of the Empire, otherwise there would be no way to smuggle parts for various prohibited weapons in. The other teams have enough time to spread the chaos throughout the city, the more places blown up the better."

"The guy guarding this planet is a right-hand man of a Super-A powerhouse, I estimate that this chaos will be suppressed before dawn, hum, so much resources spent, only to exchange for one night of chaos."

"It doesn't matter, these gray forces can die, as long as we stall for time until the other team kills the target, then we can report to the team leader."

"Being assigned to such a task is really dangerous, tsk, I really envy the other groups..."

The wind cut the conversation between the two into scattered fragments.