Chapter 133 I'm Really Losing Out!

The four stared in shock at the Arcane Sanctum, shimmering with magical energy, not far away. Austin's arrival astonished them.

Sisko, in particular, was filled with suspicion.

Wasn't this old geezer supposed to be neutral?

Why would he show up here! It looks like he's here to help Black Star?!

"Austin, have you joined the Crimson Dynasty?!" Sisko asked furiously via telepathic transmission.

"Not at all," Austin replied with a smile.

"Then what are you doing here? This has nothing to do with you. Stay neutral and don't go looking for trouble!" Sisko's tone darkened.

"Sorry, I have an agreement with Black Star. It has nothing to do with the Crimson Dynasty. This is a personal request."

Austin chuckled.

Back at the Overlord Gathering, in order to borrow the Evolutionary Cube, he had agreed to several of Han Xiao's conditions. One of these was to help Han Xiao with one task, within his capabilities and without violating his principles. This was why he was here.

Having noticed the Spiritual Church's unusual activity, Han Xiao had secretly asked Austin to be an outside helper, just in case. To fulfill the agreement, Austin steered the Arcane Sanctum and, through continuous long-distance teleportation, secretly arrived in the Shattered Star Ring and hid in the desolate belt.

He did not use the Crimson Dynasty's stargate, but claimed he was going to other secondary dimensions to find magical materials.

Because it was so common for Super A Grade mages to go to secondary dimensions to find materials, and because he was neutral, the outside world ignored the movements of the Arcane Sanctum. Even the Spiritual Church didn't suspect anything. No one expected that Austin, a neutral party who didn't run a civilization, would personally smuggle himself into the Shattered Star Ring without the Dynasty's permission.

As a golden grade item, a galactic treasure, the Arcane Sanctum cost an astronomical sum. It could perform long-distance teleportation, and it only took him ten days to sneak from the Shattered Star Ring to the desolate belt of the Shattered Star Ring, many times faster than a smuggler's high-warp spaceship. He found a place to wait and activated the Arcane Sanctum's stealth array, hiding himself. Normal observation equipment could not easily detect a galactic treasure-level mage tower's ability to hide.

Of course, Austin did not initially know there would be so many enemies. He originally thought that the Spiritual Church would not really make a move. He just needed to come over and wait for a while to easily fulfill the agreement. Even if he was unfortunately discovered by the Dynasty, with Black Star vouching for him, the Dynasty would not do anything to him.

But he did not expect the Spiritual Church to create such a huge scene!

After struggling for a while, he finally chose not to stand idly by. He secretly held his nose and admitted his bad luck, leading the Arcane Sanctum to support them!

As a neutral party, he knew this was not in line with the principle of seeking profit and avoiding harm, but since he had agreed to Black Star's request, Austin would not break his promise. He had this much integrity.

Austin put on a nonchalant appearance, but in fact, no one knew that while he was smiling on the surface, he was cursing inwardly.

This was a huge loss!

Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, a upward arc appearing on the corner of his mouth. "Old geezer, you've finally arrived. With you here, you can share our pressure."

Austin glared at him, and snorted, "I must be crazy to get involved in this free-for-all. I really lost out by using your Evolutionary Cube!"

Hearing this, Beoni immediately felt he had found a kindred spirit. In his opinion, Millizaus, who was fighting fiercely in outer space, probably felt the same way.

He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Han Xiao, who was gradually recovering from his injuries. Beoni's eyes were full of resentment.

Baby's heart is bitter, but baby won't say it.

Han Xiao noticed his gaze, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He curled his fingers, and a sharp needle popped out from his fingertip, signaling Beoni to drop his defenses so he could give him an injection.

"What are you going to do?"

"Treat you."

"Hey, Super A Grades have huge vitality. What use is your little bit of healing agent? I... oh! What did you inject me with?!"

Before he could finish speaking, Han Xiao stabbed Beoni with a needle, injecting the life potion made by Aurora.

Beoni originally had a worried look on his face, not thinking that the treatment would be useful. After the injection, his expression suddenly changed, and his face was full of aftertaste and shock.

He could feel a surge of life energy injected into his body. His whole body's cells were cheering, as if he had taken a great tonic, and his vitality was greatly increased. The healing speed of his wounds was increased by an unknown number of times.

Although he had not fully recovered, he was no longer seriously injured.

"What kind of potion is this? It's so effective on Super A Grades?!" Beoni was shocked.

"You still have the leisure to be curious. Let's deal with the situation at hand first."

Han Xiao put away the needle.

Although Sisko and the others had stopped their attacks, the surrounding mechanical troops were still fighting with the summons. As long as the mechs strengthened by mechanical force were fighting, it was equivalent to Han Xiao himself being in a combat state. Moreover, the determination of getting out of combat was five minutes, which was far from enough.

The enemies were shocked, but they would obviously not be dazed for so long. Seeing that Austin was determined to intervene, they put away their shock, accepted reality, and immediately resumed their offensive, treating Austin as a target as well.

Austin fully activated the Arcane Sanctum, activating all the spell formations, drawing on the dark energy in the air. With a buzz, the huge palace rose up with a brilliant magical light. The Arcane Sanctum's own reactive spells were activated one after another, spewing out streams of magic energy, and fighting fiercely with everyone.

On the other side, Motes was very close to Han Xiao and Beoni. He flashed to Han Xiao and slammed a fist covered in green flames towards Han Xiao's head.

At such a close distance, Void Jump had just been used, and with the squishy Beoni behind him, Han Xiao decisively activated Heber's character card, his strength soaring by 4,000 points!

The surging strength exploded in his body, pouring into his fist. He suddenly threw a punch, bursting out with a sonic boom, colliding head-on.

Bang!!

The two fists, one large and one small, collided heavily, detonating a ring of air shockwaves, and the surrounding water vapor was blown away, forming a clear area.

Motes felt a backlash no less than his own strength coming from his fist. His body flew out uncontrollably. He hurriedly steadied himself and found that Han Xiao on the opposite side had also flown out.

Both of them were knocked away by the other's shockwave, their strengths were surprisingly equal!

"How can you have so much strength?" Motes's rough, beastly face was full of astonishment.

His strongest attribute was strength, but how could a Mechanic's punching power be about the same as his, a Martial Artist?!

What the hell? What kind of Mechanic are you?!

Shaking his arm, Han Xiao bared his teeth. Heber's character card prevented him from being crushed by his opponent's strength attribute, but the Martial Dao aura brought powerful close combat destructive power, tearing apart many of his arm's cells, which were rapidly recovering.

Using the recoil force, Han Xiao retreated rapidly with Beoni, hiding in the mech army's defenses, while rapidly analyzing the situation:

"Millizaus is holding back two people, and the situation on my side has now become three against four. Although the other side still has one more person, Austin has the Arcane Sanctum's buffs, which can share more pressure, so that the combat power on this side is no longer at an absolute disadvantage. We can barely hold on..."

"But the enemy also has powerful outside help. If the Otherworldly God arrives, it will break the combat power balance again."

"Austin's Arcane Sanctum can teleport me away, and it seems that one mage can't stop it, but the other side has two mages in total, which combined will definitely have a way to restrain the Arcane Sanctum's teleportation. If we want to run, we can only let the Arcane Sanctum take me and Beoni to escape. If we forcibly let Millizaus get on the bus, it will allow the enemy's two mages to join forces, and we still won't be able to leave..."

"Hmm, there's another problem. The Arcane Sanctum needs time to guide the teleportation. The other mage won't sit idly by and watch me, the key target, escape. He will definitely abandon Millizaus to stop us. Millizaus, seeing us abandon him and escape, can't possibly stay and die. He will never sacrifice himself to hold back Nigal... We are unrighteous, and he will be unjust. When Nigal turns around to deal with us, Millizaus will probably use teleportation to run away directly. Then the Arcane Sanctum will still be left behind, but we will lose Millizaus, the strongest combat power."

Han Xiao's expression was solemn. Thinking about it this way, escaping with the Arcane Sanctum seemed to only be able to abandon Millizaus, and the success rate was extremely low. If it failed, and Millizaus's heart was broken, he would probably take the opportunity to run away, and then his side would lose a combat force, and the situation would worsen.

If they really deserted, the Dynasty fleet staying here would be annihilated, whether it was the Armed Dragon Guards or his own bodyguards, including Hela, Aurora, and Fording. None of them would survive.

Letting the Arcane Sanctum teleport reinforcements was also difficult. Even the [High-Dimensional Revelation Teleporter] had a limit to the teleportation distance, and the Arcane Sanctum was no exception. Heber's three reinforcements were located in various areas of different star clusters and were rushing to the entrance of the passage to Beacon Star through the stargate transportation network, which exceeded the Arcane Sanctum's one-time teleportation range, and wouldn't be faster than the stargate support.

"Tarrokov is right. We don't have many choices. We can only hold on until the reinforcements arrive at the other end of the stargate." Han Xiao gritted his teeth.

The stronger he was, the greater the hope would be. The advancement mission was only one last disengagement away from being completed. He had to find an opportunity...

Letting the enemies stop was obviously unrealistic. Perhaps he could try other methods...

...

After Austin joined the battle, the fighting broke out again, and the intensity rose to another level. No one below Super A Grade could interfere.

The Arcane Sanctum was Austin's combat equipment, and it had extremely high buffs to his magic. Like a magic turret, it bombarded endlessly, displaying extraordinary combat power.

Although it was three against four, the overwhelming situation was suddenly broken, and no one could do anything to anyone in the short term.

Han Xiao's pressure was shared. Correspondingly, the mechanical army's threat to Sisko and the others increased, and the enemies had to be more cautious, and their offensive slowed down.

Taylerdi couldn't summon creatures without any pressure anymore, and his summoning guidance was interrupted again and again.

The two sides rolled around and fought into a ball. The four consciously separated the Arcane Sanctum from Han Xiao and the others, fighting and discussing countermeasures at the same time.

"Austin has the Arcane Sanctum's help, and his combat power has increased by a level. He's very difficult to deal with." Sisko used his telepathy to connect with his teammates, his tone serious.

"Tsk, if I had brought my mage tower here, I wouldn't be afraid of him." Taylerdi was a little annoyed that his summoning spell had been interrupted again.

Basically every Super A Grade mage had a mage tower, but not everyone could create a galactic treasure like the Arcane Sanctum.

Taylerdi and Nigal didn't bring their mage towers this time. First, they were quite bulky in comparison. After they were teleported over by the Glorious Federation, they needed to leave on their own. Under the circumstances where they would definitely be chased by the Dynasty's fleet, bringing a bulky mage tower would affect their mobility. Second, they felt that their combat power was overwhelming, and there wouldn't be any accidents in their actions, so there was no need to bring it. Third, they wanted to keep this operation secret and reduce the chances of being detected in advance, after all, they weren't a neutral party like Austin, who had low attention.

"Pay attention, Black Star may use the Arcane Sanctum to escape." Dylon reminded.

"If he has such intentions, I will immediately notify Nigal to come down and join us. Although I alone can't stop the Arcane Sanctum's teleportation, the two of us working together can interrupt its teleportation guidance." Taylerdi said.

"Then Millizaus may take the opportunity to run away..."

"Then let Sagman and Nigal use the Pantheon Scepter as soon as possible, or force Millizaus over. If we really need to choose one, we can ignore Millizaus. Black Star is the primary target!" Sisko interjected.

Motes didn't participate in the group chat the whole time, burying his head and chasing Han Xiao. He didn't believe it and wanted to try Han Xiao's punching power again. Just be reckless!

...

When the Arcane Sanctum flashed into existence, the three who were fighting fiercely in the outer space battlefield also noticed this phenomenon.

Han Xiao's backup reinforcements appeared, and Millizaus was overjoyed, breathing dragonfire even more vigorously. On the contrary, Sagman and Nigal became serious.

"Sisko said that the newcomer is Austin from the Shattered Star Ring, who specializes in helping Black Star. The enemy has one more Super A Grade force, and our combat power crushing advantage has been reduced." Sagman frowned and casually destroyed a stream of dragon breath.

"Four against six. It seems that we may not be able to end the battle before the Otherworldy God arrives."

Nigal shook his head.

The Spiritual Church's instructions to them were to complete the mission as early as possible and try not to let the Otherworldy God, the troublemaker, join the battle. Now it seemed that it wouldn't be so easy to do. Han Xiao's backup was beyond their expectations.

"Don't rush to draw conclusions."

Sagman suddenly released a surging light curtain, like a raging tide.

The tsunami-like light energy impact crushed the magic dragon breath spewed out by Millizaus. The dazzling light flooded the dark space battlefield. Among the warships fighting all around, countless crew members were stimulated by this brilliant sea of light and narrowed their eyes, their vision was a blur of white.

Millizaus's vision and perception were affected to a certain extent. Suddenly, he felt a palpitation for no reason and a strong sense of crisis, which came from the intuition of a Super A Grade.

He didn't hesitate to cast defensive spells, one after another. Colorful magic shields and barriers enveloped his body, layer upon layer, like a tortoise shell.

Then, Millizaus flapped his dragon wings, broke away from the range of the light energy impact, and hurriedly looked over. He saw a strange black stick appearing in front of Nigal. With Millizaus's amazing vision, he could clearly see that this black stick, which was only a little over a meter long, was covered with different images, densely packed, no less than thousands of them.

"This is... the Pantheon Scepter?!"

Millizaus's mind was ringing alarm bells. He was knowledgeable and couldn't possibly not know this famous galactic treasure of the Spiritual Church.

The Spiritual Church was an expert in the study of mind, faith, spirit, and fantasy. They had an incredible special technology, which was to turn false "gods" into real existences, artificially creating "gods" and allowing them to exist in alternative forms.

The Pantheon Scepter was the galactic treasure that the Spiritual Church "accidentally" created based on this technology. It could not be copied and was one of the mediums for borrowing the power of these "artificial gods".

To put it simply, the Spiritual Church's "gods" were like missiles and ammunition, and the Pantheon Scepter was a special launching tool.

If the Glorious Federation's High-Dimensional Revelation Teleporter was a strategic galactic treasure, then the Pantheon Scepter was a single-target, large-scale killer weapon!

The power of an empty release wasn't amazing, but for creatures with souls, the Pantheon Scepter had an incredible destructive power, and the stronger the user, the more terrible the destructive power would be. During the Exploration Era war, even three powerful Initial Ones died under this weapon!

The Pantheon Scepter needed to consume "gods" as ammunition, and the user would suffer a certain amount of backlash. The same person could not use it repeatedly in a short period of time. Each time it was used, the Pantheon Scepter would be damaged to varying degrees, and it was extremely difficult to repair. For these three reasons, the Spiritual Church rarely used this galactic treasure, and most of the time, it was used as a strategic deterrent and kept in a high cabinet.

Millizaus didn't expect that in his lifetime, he would actually see this notorious weapon with his own eyes!

What kind of bad luck is this? Did Black Star, you jinx, infect me with it?!

Did I eat your Spiritual Church's rice? Is it necessary to be so ruthless!

Just as his mentality was exploding, Nigal flicked his finger, and the Pantheon Scepter hanging in front of him turned sideways, the top pointing at Millizaus, and launched it!

Nigal's massive strength poured into the black scepter, and all the carvings on it lit up.

The miniature images of countless gods seemed to come alive, projecting tens of thousands of huge, translucent phantoms, merging into a phantom-like energy column and shooting towards Millizaus.

If it were someone else, they might be able to dodge this attack, but Millizaus's huge body couldn't do it. He could only madly cast various high-level defensive forbidden techniques.

However, in front of the energy column shot out by the Pantheon Scepter, these magic shields, which were enough to resist shipborne Psionic cannons, were like they didn't exist, and were penetrated in an instant.

Millizaus watched helplessly as the energy column pierced through countless magic shields without any hindrance, pierced through the thick dragon scales on his chest, and shot into his body.

"Black Star, I'm going to..."

Before he could finish cursing, the next moment, the giant dragon trembled violently, instantly losing control of his body, like a bird shot down by an arrow.

The huge dragon body was captured by the gravity of Beacon Star, rotating and falling towards the planet, like a meteorite falling from the sky.

Crack! At the same time of the hit, several deep cracks bloomed on the surface of the Pantheon Scepter.

"Ugh!" Nigal groaned and suffered a backlash.

Sagman, who was on the side, shot out a light energy tentacle and grabbed the Pantheon Scepter in his hand. He knew that this attack was not enough to kill Millizaus, who had extremely high durability. Nigal could no longer use this weapon, and it was his turn to use it next.