Chapter 2497: Chapter 44: Jia Yan Squad... Makes Their Entrance!
"I-it’s... it’s a Stellar Strong One, run, a Stellar Strong One has stepped in!"
Boom!!!
When that Respect Level squad that was chasing down a Semi-permanent Star Level Strong One suddenly saw, beside their quarry, a creature that had grown to several kilometers in size, every one of them was struck dumb with terror.
Because they knew this was a Stellar Strong One.
Up against a Semi-permanent Star Level being, a Respect Level Yin-Yang Union Strike might still have some chance of killing it, and even if that failed, they would at least have some hope of escape. But once they ran into a Stellar Strong One, then there was absolutely no chance of survival.
They didn’t even dare to fight, immediately fleeing backward at full speed.
After all, on the surface it looked like Stellar and Semi-permanent star were only one Level apart, but in reality the gap between the two sides was definitely not as simple as it appeared.
In the Universe, Stellar Strong Ones already counted as beings that could sit in command over a region. Their Power could only be described as world-destroying.
"Heh... since I’m already here, you all can stay."
That Stellar being gave a cold laugh, and then unleashed his Brainwave Power.
In an earth-shaking, sky-shattering roar of explosions, several of the Orion Arm’s rare Respect Level squads were actually wiped out just like that.
This was, ever since the Orion Arm had developed the Yin-Yang Union Strike ultimate technique, the first time an entire reorganized Respect Level squad had been annihilated.
"What? One of our Orion Arm Respect Level squads has lost contact?"
"Impossible! The strongest enemy we’ve seen so far is only Semi-permanent Star Level. Even if it’s a creature at the very peak of Semi-permanent Star Level, with those Respect Level squads’ joint Defense and escape-speed ultimate techniques, they should still have some chance of getting away. At the very least, they wouldn’t fail to send out even a scrap of information, right?"
"Then there’s only one explanation: what they ran into wasn’t a Semi-permanent Star Level Strong One, but..."
"A Stellar Level, huh? So a Stellar has appeared after all."
On the Orion Arm Side, every high-level officer who learned of the Respect Level squad’s disappearance went rigid, because they understood that this was the true beginning of this war.
An interstellar war without Stellar Strong Ones taking the field, to many powerful Civilizations, was nothing more than children playing house.
And now that the enemy had dispatched Stellar Strong Ones, it meant they were ready to get serious.
"Hmph, the enemy’s number of Stellar Levels must be far, far greater than ours. Even if most of the Stellar Levels in their Starfield are still guarding their home Starfield, as long as a portion comes, the total number of Stellars across those Sixteen Major Star Domains will definitely be a number that leaves us speechless. So on the Stellar front, there is absolutely no way we can beat them. What do we do now?"
Jia Yan, concealed within Subspace, also received similar intelligence.
Or rather, the high-levels commanding this war out in interstellar space, having no way out the instant this happened, hurried to pass the news on to Jia Yan.
Faced with Stellar Levels, these Orion’s Arm High Level officers who had been doing a decent job at command up to now had not the slightest idea what to do.
If Cosmic Strongmen were that easy to deal with, they wouldn’t be called Cosmic Strongmen. These Commanders truly had no way to handle so many Stellar Level enemies; to say their hands were tied was no exaggeration.
"So Stellar Levels have appeared?"
Jia Yan had long anticipated that the enemy would field Stellar Strong Ones. He even knew that once his joint-combat method was adopted by the Orion’s Arm Army, the appearance of Stellars would only be a matter of time.
He just hadn’t expected them to show up this fast, this early.
"My strength still hasn’t risen further. If I’m besieged by a bunch of Galaxy Levels, it’s still extremely dangerous. So right now I can’t send my True Body directly into the fight. That means I’ll have to rely even more on certain delaying tactics."
Jia Yan had been pondering how the enemy would fight if they deployed Stellar Levels or even beings above Stellar Level.
But in fact, as mentioned earlier, Stellar beings were already extremely remarkable creatures in the Universe. Even if they couldn’t compare to Jia Yan’s Galaxy Level nobility and might, they were at least Overlord Level.
And the ways to deal with Stellars were few to begin with. Those few methods were all things Jia Yan could not accomplish.
"Do I really have to go out and fight? But if I do, the enemy’s Galaxy Levels will seize the chance to attack me. Even if they don’t, once I appear, the enemy will have nothing left to worry about and will launch all-out attacks. For the overall situation, that might actually be a bad thing."
Jia Yan silently thought through countless possibilities. For him, war was already something he was long used to, so his mind turned quickly, and the core judgments he reached were very accurate.
The enemy’s objective was growing more and more obvious. If they truly coveted certain resources in the Orion Arm, they would have brought it up long ago. Yet they hadn’t said a word, and instead kept probing, forcing the Orion Arm Strong Ones to reveal themselves, constantly pushing the war’s Level toward the top-tier Strong Ones.
This kind of tactic had a goal that any clear-eyed person could see: they really were trying to lure Jia Yan out.
"I can’t go out. If I do, without any confidence in fighting them, and not even much confidence in escaping, then I wouldn’t be helping—I’d be making things worse."
