Chapter 2469

2469 – Mockery

Whoooom

The wall of the Buffer Zone began to melt and emit dense waves, then something began to appear.

The prows of thousands of giant ships began cutting their way out at the same time, looking like giant whales that had decided to leave the surface of the sea and breathe in the air.

But that wasn't all. After half of those vessels had emerged, and their cannons began aiming madly around them and their doors began to open, all the gaps between those giant vessels began to disappear; more ship prows appeared, this time slightly smaller but in greater numbers, and again…

In the blink of an eye, the wall of the Buffer Zone turned into something like an exhibition of warship prows. Not a single inch of the wall remained in place; endless fleets had completely occupied it, and that faint orange glow on the wall was gone, replaced by the glow of the warships' cannons and more.

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The Grand Hall—Soul Society

Since the broadcast by the Shadow Swords began about an hour ago, everyone who was free and everyone who had work had begun entering to watch, to witness the battle that would overturn the balance of everything.

For a full hour, they watched the majesty and power of Lord Robin Burton's followers, the greatest devil apparently, their hearts pounding with fear and awe, afraid that the arms of that vast army would reach them.

So, when the wall of the Buffer Zone began to melt… morale rose quickly.

"Aaah! The army has arrived, the one who will stop that devilish force has arrived!!"

"Good heavens, I fear Renara's army will open fire while the others haven't fully exited yet!"

"Hmph, they won't come out safely either, for the cannons of Lord the Butcher's army are in their faces. Secondly, that's treachery and everyone will condemn them if they do it!"

"Why would a devilish force care about something like that?"

"…"

"Look, it's him!"

"Your Excellency the Butcher!!"

"He's speaking! What are they saying? There's no audio accompanying the broadcast!!"

"Hmm? Why does he only have two swords?"

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Again in Mid Sector 90—

Tsss

Marlik descended walking from the front of the first vehicle, placing his hands in his pockets, scanning the atmosphere with drowsy, half-closed eyes.

He did not release a specific aura or announce his name, but he did not need to; his braided pink hair, his coat open at the chest, and the swords at his waist were sufficient evidence of his identity… even if they were only two swords and not three as everyone was accustomed to seeing, the shape and placement of the two swords were identical, perhaps the third was too full of blood and was being washed or something like that.

From behind Marlik, all the great vehicles began to open, and everyone who could descend began to descend…

"…." Faced with the scene before him, Marlik furrowed his brows slightly, "Something is wrong."

"Correct." Renara nodded, "It is your presence here."

"Shh—" Marlik signaled Renara to be quiet, "There are supposed to be 1,500 fleets here, where did another 1,500 come from? That clown Kiryān and the animal Zavarus are here too."

Then Marlik turned toward a specific vehicle whose passengers had already begun to descend, "Weren't the Great Space Gates closed before them or what?"

"They are closed." One of Intiras's sons spoke in a gruff voice, "Secondly, even if they were opened during the three years, that would not explain the passage of those additional fleets!"

Smack

Marlik delivered a slap to the back of the Law Dominator's head and shouted, "I am the only one who gets to be sarcastic here!!"

Then he turned back toward Renara, "How exactly did you gather this army?"

"....." Renara smiled, then passed her hand over her mouth to indicate that it was sealed.

"Oh, everyone is in a joking mood today?" Marlik placed his left hand on the sheath of the upper sword and began advancing slowly, "I will wipe away the smiles then, and after that I will ask."

Wash

Wash

At that moment, several vehicles came from the right and left of the crowd's army, and dozens of Law Dominators and great Royal Soul Masters began descending from them, until their number reached nearly 200.

Then one of them greeted him, "Your Excellency the Butcher, we have been chosen to follow you from this moment on."

"....." Marlik sent that person a look from bottom to top.

They were the 200 Law Dominators that Qarun had sent.

And because he did not trust them, he assigned them the task of going to Mid Sector 90 before them through the Great Space Gate and preparing the battlefield for them.

Marlik nodded his head toward Renara and the rest, "What a battlefield preparation you have made." Then he scanned all the newcomers with his eyes, "Their numbers have doubled and their condition is excellent, while six of your people are missing!"

"…." The representative of the Council of Thrones' support felt severely insulted, but he remained polite before Marlik nonetheless, "We destroyed many facilities, fortifications, and several fleets, but unfortunately, five fell at the hands of the Emperors Killer, and the last fell in an ambush prepared by Arkail the Temporal, then today came." He then stared into Marlik's eyes intensely, "His Lordship, the Lord of Thrones, did not send any of the Twelve Thrones with us so that we would follow you and the leadership would not be divided, and that is why we were placed in this situation. Had we not been sent alone, six of our brothers would not have been killed."

"…." Marlik looked at the speaker with extreme astonishment, then turned to one of the Syndicate members, "Is that whore justifying his failure while possessing 200 Law Dominators, when the enemies are all 140?"

The Syndicate Law Dominator shrugged his shoulders laughing, "What do you expect from the followers of the Elegant One?"

"……?!" The Law Dominators of the Stellar Academies felt severely insulted, and their eyes widened to the utmost from shock at the words and the blatant bullying.

Then Marlik looked back toward Renara, "All those behind you… they came through Space-Time Gates, correct?"

"…." Renara raised her head slightly, "You know too much."

"We know he uses spacetime, and we know he can create stable gates. He established them in the heart of the Zavarus Galaxy, the Kiryān Galaxy, and in Donara itself… we just don't know his limits yet." Then he began looking around at all those forces that had gathered from all across the sectors he had set foot in.

"Heh." Renara smiled, "No one knows his limits."

"….." Marlik frowned heavily upon hearing this response, "Where is Hedrick? As long as all these people are here, he's here too somewhere. Bring him out."