The Rise of the Black Plain

Celeste didn't take long to run towards them after sensing the spiritual fluctuations of the five Spiritual Kings accompanying that enemy group.

She had not been involved in the first moments of the battle since the soldiers of that base had the upper hand at the moment.

And that was not strange. After all, despite their smaller numbers, these soldiers had several tricks in their favor, including the quality of their techniques.

So, the first waves of this confrontation had been favorable for the Black Plain Army, making it possible for Celeste not to be involved in this first moment of the battle.

Consequently, this woman had focused on finding the most vigorous opponents so that she could eliminate them as soon as possible!

'Hmm, the strongest of them is only at level 54...' She smiled as she thought about this, moving quickly towards that group of people who were almost entering the inner area of this base.

Vuup!

After seeing that Celeste was moving, many soldiers in the vicinity of the opening in the wall she was running towards stopped their attacks, directing their fighting to the flanks.

"Quick! Don't stand in Lieutenant Celeste's way!" Someone shouted, alerting the soldiers closest to that place in question.

However, while the army soldiers were trying not to get in Celeste's way, the same was not true for the enemies trying to break into that base.

Many had already managed to enter through the openings and were fighting in the inner parts of the base closest to the walls. Meanwhile, due to the measure of this enemy group, even though several minutes had passed since the beginning of the attack, there were still hundreds of people trying to enter there.

For this reason, more guards constantly ran through those openings in the local wall, already using their defenses and launching attacks almost without aiming at anyone.

They just wanted to survive the entrance to this place. But, at  the same time, if they were lucky, they could counterattack some attacks in their direction or even injure an opponent.

And because of these people, even though the soldiers on this base were making room for Celeste, she still had to deal with several attacks coming her way.

Swooish!

Pow!

Different forms of energy headed in Celeste's direction as dozens of people passed through the hole in front of her, blocking her way.

'Those five are almost into the base...'

'I guess I'd better eliminate them outside and give a little more room to the soldiers fighting here inside the base...' So she thought as she dodged the enemy attacks and decided what to do.

After that, she placed her hands one over the other, at the height of her navel, with parallel arms, as she circled her main attack technique.

Stellar Destruction!

Ssss!

Immediately after activating her technique, still while moving through that chaotic place, a small red ball of energy was thrown towards that hole in front of her.

After Celeste launched such a thing, dozens of people in the surroundings of that place felt how ominous this attack was. But while they were trembling because of that powerful technique, they couldn't stop to observe it...

After all, they were already fighting mortal enemies, many of whom had combat proficiencies between levels 48 and 50!

And since most of those Collins family guards attacking this place were only between levels 45 and 47, the situation was not interesting for them!

Therefore, it didn't matter how strong the monster guarding this base was. These many subordinates of the Collins family first had to worry about the smaller monsters, which were already trying to eliminate them!

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

"What's that?"

"Ahhhhh!"

While most people in the surrounding area only feared Celeste's power in their minds, it wasn't long before her technique hit the group around that opening.

At the same time, dozens of people nearby felt a shiver run down their spines as the hand-sized ball of red energy expanded and contracted rapidly before exploding.

Boom!

In a split second, the red flames have spread around the surroundings, as the focus of the explosion emitted shockwaves capable of killing even level 50 Spiritual Kings.

Celeste was just clearing the way and, because of this, she was not using much of her strength...

Ssss!

At that moment, the cries of pain from the people under the space influenced by Celeste's technique ceased, as more than 80 people died!

Of those many deaths, those who were closest to the center of the attack hadn't even had a chance to feel pain. They had just been obliterated by the power generated by the collapse of the core of the attack.

However, most of the deaths had happened in the vicinity of the focus of the explosion, within a radius of up to about 30 meters from it.

Of those people, every single person had been burned to ashes by the red flames, just 5 seconds after such an attack!

That had been shocking to everyone in the vicinity!

"What? How is that possible?" One of the Spiritual Kings in that group shouted as his face became paler and paler.

"That strength is similar to that of an attack launched by a level 57 cultivator!" Another person from that group concluded as he felt a sudden chill run down his spine.

'Shit! What's going on here? Why is there so much misinformation about this place?' A woman in that group thought as drops of sweat dripped down her forehead.

As they exclaimed in shock and thought about how terrible this battle was for them, it wasn't long before one of them turned in the opposite direction of that base and started running!

"Run!" The most substantial individual in that group shouted hoarsely, already using most of his energy to run from there.

Sssss!

Stellar Destruction: Noonday Sun!

However, as those people began to run from that spot near the opening in the wall that Celeste had just passed, she was quick to launch another attack.

And to the misfortune of those individuals, such an attack contained almost a third of Celeste's energies, something she had concentrated into a large red ball of energy, which was 2 meters in radius!

"Since you have come to visit us, I will not allow you to leave before tasting our hospitality!" She said in a soft tone, a moment before launching that powerful attack towards those people.

'Shit! What the fuck kind of technique is that? How can there be an attack as strong as that?' That went through the mind of the strongest of that group as he desperately tried to escape from there.

He felt that although he was using as much as he could in his movement technique, Celeste's speed was more significant than his. And seeing that red ball of energy getting closer and closer to himself, a terrible feeling was spreading throughout his body.

Sss!

"Explode and erase all those lives!" Celeste shouted in a loud voice as she made a gesture of closing her right hand while pointing it in the direction of those people.

As she did so, the giant ball of energy, which looked like a miniature star, shone brightly in the middle of those four individuals and exploded!

KA-BOOM!

Ssssss!

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhhh! My skin! My skin!"

Finally, when the technique had demonstrated the maximum of its splendor, hundreds of people in the surrounding area suffered from being in the explosion-affected space.

That explosion had reached more than two hundred meters away from the focus of the attack, causing a small earthquake to occur at that location and cracks to appear in the walls of that base wall.

As for the four Spiritual Kings that were Celeste's targets, they hadn't even had a chance!

Almost all of them died, leaving only their spatial rings, the only things in their bodies that could not be destroyed by such offensive power.

But one of them, although he had died under the devastating effects of that attack, his body had not been destroyed...