Chapter 335 – The Idiotic Teammate

“Extreme Battle Saber Mattis, ranked twenty-fourth on the World Supernova Ranking… Earth Armament of the Distant Star Federation…

Both sides possess at least mid-fourth-stage combat power. What should we do now?”

Yin Muqing, part of the Xia State supernova trio, discreetly discussed the situation with her two teammates through special means.

Their faces were grim.

What they had initially thought would be an effortless victory was now slipping away, with two additional teams suddenly intervening at the last moment. They had become the weakest of the three factions present, feeling very much like they’d almost caught the bird only to see it slip away.

“We still hold the advantage, as we currently possess the Phoenix Feather…”

Ling Yu’s eyes flickered as he quickly made a decision. “In a moment, I’ll find a way to stall Mattis and Earth Armament from the Distant Star Federation…

You two handle the remaining members from other forces on the field…

By the way, what’s the name of that lucky one?”

Ling Yu pointed toward a young Yellow Bear in the distance, perched on whose shoulder was the Phoenix Feather. The young bear was the focus of all the mental power present, and Ling Yu questioned Yin Muqing.

“Lu Yuan.”

Yin Muqing promptly replied, “His name is Lu Yuan. I remember his name.”

“Can you contact him?”

Ling Yu asked gravely, “For our upcoming action, we need his full cooperation. If he’s smart enough, our chances of obtaining the Phoenix Feather are quite high this time…”

“I understand.”

Yin Muqing nodded and then shook her head after a brief pause. “I tried connecting to his communicator, but there’s no response…”

“Could he be too scared to react because of the current situation?”

A dark-skinned young man frowned as he spoke.

Yin Muqing thought for a moment and nodded. “It’s possible…”

She recalled Lu Yuan’s previous reckless attempt to save someone.

For a newcomer with little experience in secret realm exploration and even less exposure to such large-scale events, it was indeed highly probable that he was petrified by the appearance of so many high-stage combatants.

Thinking this, Yin Muqing instinctively glanced in Lu Yuan’s direction.

Yin Muqing noticed the handsome young man at the center of the vortex. He stood there calmly, his eyes lowered and motionless.

From time to time, he glanced at the bird perched on his shoulder, his lips moving slightly as if… still talking to it.

He’s really that “scared”…

“Sigh.”

Yin Muqing shook her head, completely abandoning the idea of communicating with him.

“Looks like we’ll have to rely entirely on ourselves…”

Ling Yu, also a bit helpless, quickly scanned the scene and said, “Try to contact the other Yellow Bears on the field. See if they can help us later. It’s a shame Ding Can isn’t here…”

Ling Yu’s eyes flickered as he continued, “Ding Can and his team discovered something significant in the depths of the Misty Zone. They’re currently competing with the Day Keepers from the Distant Star Federation and the Sleepless led by Javier, unable to leave.

If even one of them were here, we wouldn’t be in such a passive situation…”

“Who would have thought the Phoenix Feather would show up in such a peripheral area…”

“Yeah, who would have thought.”

As the trio continued discussing, the standoff on the field was abruptly broken by two bucket-thick white energy beams.

These beams, nearly tangible, split the space in an instant, one aiming at Ling Yu and the other at Mattis.

“Move!”

Ling Yu shouted, raising his hands to create a brilliant glow in the air before him, forcibly blocking the energy beam.

On the other side, Mattis’s wild laughter echoed.

A dazzling saber light erupted, slicing through the energy beam, and followed closely by the azure glow of Earth Armament, both streaking toward the Phoenix Feather in the distance.

Ling Yu propelled himself forward with a powerful leap.

In half a breath’s time, the three were entangled in a fierce fight.

None of them wanted the others to be the first to reach the Phoenix Feather, leading to mutual restraint and a chaotic melee.

“Let’s go!”

Yin Muqing and the dark-skinned young man seized the opportunity, charging forward immediately.

Their goal was to clear out the remaining competitors and then flee with the Phoenix Feather as quickly as possible.

Both were mid-third-stage supernovas, significantly stronger than most of the other fighters on the field, who were either at the second stage or early in the third stage.

Within moments, they surpassed everyone else, becoming the closest to the Phoenix Feather.

“Idiot!”

As she sped closer, Yin Muqing saw the Hoopoe with the Phoenix Feather in its beak perched on Lu Yuan’s shoulder. Despite the chaos of battle erupting around him, Lu Yuan stood still like a statue, prompting Yin Muqing to curse silently.

“Can’t he even try to run or hide?”

“Boom! Boom!”

Several members of the Yellow Bear organization were on the field. Responding to Yin Muqing’s earlier call, they all unleashed their full strength to block members from other organizations trying to snatch the Phoenix Feather.

Everything seemed to be going exceptionally well.

In just one second… no, half a second, Yin Muqing and her companion would reach the target, grab the Phoenix Feather, and make a swift exit.

But at that moment…

“Bzz bzz bzz-“

A deep yellow light descended from above.

Yin Muqing and the dark-skinned youth, their figures almost blurred with speed, were suddenly caught in this deep yellow light screen, and their movements became astonishingly slow.

It was as if they had sunk into a swamp filled with sticky glue, their bodies stuck fast. Every movement required ten, even a hundred times more strength than before.

“A compound gravitational field?!”

Struggling to move, Yin Muqing and her companion glanced upward. They saw a blond man from the Distant Star Federation, clad in Earth Armament, smiling down at them.

The man had unleashed this unique, perverse move of the Earth Armament Mecha, directly affecting everyone in the entire battle group.

Faces twisted in frustration, everyone else moved agonizingly slow, like a movie put in extreme slow-motion.

Everyone except the blond man in Earth Armament.

Azure flames burst from his cyan armor like the breath of an enraged dragon, roaring as he advanced.

Ling Yu, having pushed his star acupoint strength to its limit, caught up from behind at this moment.

Seven brilliant light spots revolved around him, making him appear as radiant as a shooting star, yet his expression was grim.

No matter how desperately he accelerated, the distance between him and the Earth Armament remained frustratingly large.

At this moment, a streak of blade light enveloping a figure abruptly emerged from the deep yellow compound gravitational field.

Mattis, wielding the Extreme Battle Saber, was shrouded in dense starlight. His massive black longblade exuded an intangible force that seemed to flow continuously.

He cut through the heavy constraints, moving through the powerful compound gravitational field that could slow third-stage combat power as if the field had no effect on him.

The mysterious force on Mattis’s battle saber counteracted the formidable gravitational pull, propelling him forward with unstoppable momentum.

“The power of the natal star diagram!”

Yin Muqing recognized the force emanating from Mattis’s blade, biting her teeth lightly.

This was a powerful technique unique to top-tier supernovas.

A supernova who comprehends even a sliver of the power of the natal star diagram would have combat power far superior to others of the same level!

In the blink of an eye, the favorable situation had completely flipped.

The azure light of Earth Armament and the comet-like brilliance of Mattis converged toward the same position almost simultaneously.

At that position stood a certain young Yellow Bear, his face serene as if he were “scared stiff.”

Yin Muqing watched helplessly as the dazzling lights engulfed his figure. Frustration and anxiety swelled inside her; if she weren’t “struggling to move” at the moment, she would have rushed up to him and given him a piece of her mind.

“Really, just like a block of wood, can’t move or hide… doesn’t even try to escape.”

“Such a useless teammate, dumb to the core!”

As Yin Muqing was furiously venting her thoughts internally…

“Boom!”

A deafening roar erupted in her line of sight, and then…

The silhouettes of the Distant Star Federation’s Earth Armament, Mattis, and Lu Yuan were engulfed in a blinding and surging light.