I looked up and saw hundreds of star weapons shining at the same time while releasing their beams. I clenched my fists and couldn’t resist the urge to curse and shout out loud:

“Damn bastards! What happened to the time lapse needed to activate these freakish things? F*ck all of you!”

It was really a dirty cheat! These angels seemed to do something with these star weapons and they could now activate them on a whim.

I didn’t know how much they had to pay to activate them in such a way. However, considering how much went on in the apocalypse so far, and recalling the huge number of angels gathered when the fifth quest started, I knew they could keep doing this for a long time.

But that didn’t even stop me for a single moment. I controlled my chariot and threw it in the middle of the burning furnace of these star beams. The path wasn’t smooth and I could already hear loud bangs of sizzling coming from my chariot’s shield.

It didn’t take more than a few minutes to pass through these beams. For a reason, this condensed curtain of deadly light was able to stall the advance of my chariot and meddled with its flying speed.

*Katcha!*

Just when I was able to get out from such an intense layer of defence, I heard a loud rumbling noise followed by the destruction of my protective shields.

And then many things happened next that made my face drop.

The first was for the defensive beams raining down from the sky accompanied by many destructive red beams forming a forbidden circle around that grand behemoth.

Then I saw the grand arm retract, but it didn’t vanish inside that portal. For a reason it moves unhindered through the thick red beams surrounding the colossal zombie.

I saw the grand arm stretching out and catching that colossal zombie as it was nothing. When it was carried over I finally got to see how enormous its body was.

Calling it a mountain was an understatement. But that wasn’t the issue right now. When that arm carried this zombie like it was a mere toy, it started to retract back inside the grand portal.

Was it trying to rescue it? Was this zombie this special?

At the same time, I noticed an abnormal movement at the ground. When I casted down my protective shields here, the endless zombie armies got separated from each other.

And with the help of my fallen gods and other warriors, the number of the remaining zombies inside the ball shaped shield was getting smaller by each passing minute.

Yet that all changed the moment the shields got broken. I saw endless zombies racing up inside, and something peculiar happened.

The zombies seemed to not see my warriors on the ground! For the first time ever, and against everything I knew about these zombies, I saw them ignore the living around and move in such hastened steps towards one direction.

Standing high above the ground gave me a better view over the course they all selected. They were all going towards the zone below the grand portal. And seeing this made me feel bad.

Something bad was going to happen. And even if I didn’t get a head or tail about it yet, I was quite sure that the zombies running down like crazy had a crucial role to play in such a scheme.

“Kill them!” without much hesitation I pointed towards the direction they were all heading towards while moving my chariot forward, “keep firing and don’t let them draw near there!”

At the same time I held my pillar and shouted with skill. A grand shield appeared, yet before I could even have the time to summon another one, another arm extended and punched against it.

*Rumble!*

“Screw you! Thundering Might! Thundering Might! Thundering Might!”

Seeing this made me go insane! I instantly fought against this unbelievable arm with repeated usage of my skill.

Yet as I did that, with each shield getting in form, a single punch was needed to crush it down. After a few minutes, all of my shields were destroyed and I couldn’t even summon a single one to cut these raining beams down.

But doing this seemed to draw some of the other mysterious beings on the other side of this grand portal. The speed of the other hand catching the grand zombie seemed to grow slower.

And at the same time, my fallen gods and other warriors down there did a good job in killing and killing most of the zombies who arrived below that grand portal.

At least one part of this scheme was getting fouled by me. I kept summoning shields as this proved worthy.

*Rumble!*

After half an hour, the colossal zombie finally was taken into the grand portal. I watched the other arm give up over smashing my shields and helped the first one to pull the behemoth through the portal.

For a reason the one on the other side of the grand portal was trying his best to save this grand behemoth. If I had time and ability, then I’d prefer to cut that colossal body into shreds and kill it before getting into that grand portal.

However I lacked such power. And so all I could do now was to focus more on the zombies in the ground and keep them away from the portal.

When the other hand gave up on smashing my shields, I finally managed to lay down many layers of these shields successfully.

“What’s going on?!!” When I finished laying down tens of my shields, I finally got the moment to check over things happening at the portal.

The protective and offensive red beams were cut short by my shields. Yet when I looked at the grand portal, I noticed a new change there.

The portal was pitch black in colour before. However right now it was shimmering in a weird red light. The intensity of that light wasn’t any inferior to the red beams falling from the sky.

Was it a new way to create a star weapon? Upon closer inspection, I saw that the part of that colossal zombie that went through the grand portal didn’t really pass through it.

In fact it was getting smashed against the portal. For a reason it felt like the portal was absorbing the colossal zombie and getting tainted by its blood and organs.

That was why it started to shine in such bright red light. When I noticed this, and as I was trying to get a clue about what to do, I heard a sinister laugh coming from the portal.

“I have to admit, you did a great, weak fly. But like flies, no matter how annoying you buzzed, you’ll get slapped to death at the end. Watch your demise, pretty boy, and see how futile your struggles are… Hahahahaha!”

For a reason, that voice seemed quite familiar. But I couldn’t recall when or where I heard it. Just before I could guess the origin of that voice’s owner, a blast of red light suddenly clouded my vision.

In a reflex, I moved my chariot further to the back until the light became bearable. To my surprise, I found myself standing outside the border of my shield zone.

Inside all was getting blinded by intense redness that I never saw before. At first the red light came from the grand portal. But in mere seconds, the entire zone covered by my shields were all filled with this deadly looking red light.

At the same time I noticed something weird. The red light was really intense and dangerous, but it never took a single step outside the coverage of my shields. For a reason, my protective shields seemed to demarcate its area of activity.

“Is this all? Is this what you got?” I harrumphed and put on a mocking face. However I was deeply frowning deep inside.

When I just tried to extend my hand inside and get a taste of this weird light’s power, my hand got banned from getting inside.

These were my own shields, created by my pillar’s skill. I tried to touch it with my pillar but the same thing happened.

It looked like my connection and control over these shields got severed. And as I got such shocking news, I tried to pry deeper onto my enemy’s scheme by mocking him.

“Hahahaha! Don’t celebrate yet! It’s too soon to feel reassured and relieved…” and before he could say anymore, a frightening roar erupted from the depths of this dangerous light.

I narrowed my eyes and tried to see through the thick veil of this redness with no avail. At the same time, a weird sense of danger overwhelmed me.

After a long time in the apocalypse, I never felt something like that. I lived through many ordeals, and passed them all without fail.

Yet this feeling of danger reminded me of when I was weak and tried to get to my class. I was truly weak, and I had to compete against much stronger foes back then.