Chapter 388: Leo

Ruyue Xian Tairan, while crazily sprinting forward using Fourze's speed, recalled the theft that had occurred a few minutes earlier.

After learning that Shan Tian Longshou is Aries, he quietly informed Ge Xing Xian Wu, of course via the radar switch directly linked to the toolbox.

Then things became very simple: using the fried chicken nugget robot that was monitoring Aoxing High School, they performed a full-body scan on Shan Tian Longshou, who was answering questions, and found where he had placed the Twelve Constellations Constellation Switch—in the pocket on his left side.

Apart from combat, Astronomical Switches have many special uses, including one that extends grabbing range, magically giving Fourze an extra mechanical arm.

Quickly, that mechanical arm, aided by invisibility, slipped in through the window, coiling like a flexible little snake in the air before successfully reaching Shan Tian Longshou, who was enjoying his own script.

The teacher at the podium resumed reading the text in halting English, and the students in the class could only endure the discomfort and continue the lesson.

Shan Tian Longshou stared at the teacher on the stage, showing a cold smile; anyone who defied his script would face the Eternal Sleep penalty. Since the actor was unfit, they'd replace him—actors are never scarce in the Aoxing Nation.

He opened a nearby box, revealing a miniature paper cutout of a classroom, like a sandbox toy.

Shan Tian Longshou unhesitatingly pulled the teacher's cutout from the podium, rubbed his hands, and waited for class to end.

Suddenly, his heart began to thump wildly.

His rapid heartbeat wasn't due to being able to wield the king's judgment after class, but because he felt something important had been taken away, causing unease—a panic, an inexplicable fear that devoured his mind and made him restless in class.

Precisely because of this, he needed to listen attentively to focus, yet the English the teacher spoke was a disaster when trying to concentrate.

"Stop polluting my ears any further!" Shan Tian Longshou suddenly stood up and shouted at the halting female teacher.

"O…okay, Your Majesty the King," the terrified female teacher stammered, clutching her textbook with trembling hands and bowing.

What am I actually afraid of? Who would make me fear? I am the king here; there is nothing to fear. I take a few deep breaths, barely steady my mind—after all, I'm Aries, capable of sending people into perpetual slumber; any rebels will be eternally asleep.

He stared at the bent-over female teacher; it was execution time now, and he slowly reached into his pocket—nothing but emptiness.

The pocket was empty.

Shan Tian Longshou hurriedly searched his body for that switch he could press even with his eyes closed...

It was gone; the pocket was hollow.

He stood dumbfounded; without the Constellation Switch, he was just an ordinary high school student.

The Aoxing King had already vanished from this world, and he dared not imagine life without his power.

He again trembled as he ran his hands over his entire body, hoping to find that once-solid thing, but only felt his wildly beating heart and body heat—no miracle occurred.

The Aries Switch had truly vanished, leaving only himself.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a sound; he hurriedly looked upward, and the Aries Constellation Switch, engraved with the Aries symbol, was floating in midair, drifting rapidly toward the back door.

"Stop, that's mine!" Shan Tian Longshou ignored the startled gazes around him, leapt like a tiger, and lunged for the switch.

"Damn, I've been spotted."

The invisible Ruyue Xian Tairan seized the switch in his hand, set off, and began to flee.

At that moment, the color on his body that had resembled optical camouflage was shedding rapidly—truly a leaky roof in a night storm; he must have left without properly divining his luck today, or else why such misfortune?

Even high‑tech Astronomical Switches have usage time limits; you can never keep them perpetually on.

Nothing can stay on forever; once a single switch reaches its usage limit, it gradually loses its original effect, just like Ultraman Tiga can only operate on Earth for three minutes.

If you exceed that time and deplete the energy, you'll become the one flattened by a monster's foot.

"Thief! Return the switch!" Even upon seeing the thief, Shan Tian Longshou couldn't catch Ruyue Xian Tairan, who was clad in Knight Armor; a hundred‑kilometer acceleration is no joke.

"Only a fool would give it back."

Ruyue Xian Tairan's speed was exceptionally swift, especially with Fourze's boost; in just a few seconds he reached the end of the school hallway, and a single leap out the window would let him leave Aoxing and resolve the Aries crisis.

Yet fate might not look kindly on such an ending.

"Watch out, Ruyue!" Ge Xing Xian Wu's voice suddenly sounded beside Ruyue Xian Tairan's ear.

The oval fried chicken robot hovered midair, observing with its barely visible eyes; its lenses flashed two green rings, firmly locking onto the wall at the hallway's end.

"What?"

Ruyue Xian Tairan looked down to see a black tin staff with an iron ring materialize out of thin air, whistling with a wind‑cutting sound capable of crushing steel, swinging toward his abdomen.

Yet his reaction wasn't slow; he had dealt with such sudden attacks before. He instantly dropped his body into a blocking stance—a technique learned from countless beatings—because he's tough; even if half‑dead, he'll keep fighting like nothing until he truly can't rise.

"Clang—!"

A massive crash, mixed with shattering glass, startled the classmates who were in class.

Ruyue Xian Tairan spread his arms, using his hardened arm bones to block the tin staff's strike, but the impact tore a huge hole in the window, blasting his body out of the school building.

The fifth‑floor window of Aoxing High School burst outward with a massive opening, and the deafening roar echoed throughout the entire school.

Meanwhile, the Aries Switch that had been clenched in his hand was flung outward as well.

"You're really careless," the tin staff fell back to the ground, cracking the white‑glazed floor with several fissures; Libra seized the switch and said gravely to Shan Tian Longshou.

"I just came to tell you that you've been delaying meeting the adult; the adult is angry, but I didn't expect to watch such a spectacular drama."

Libra fumbled with the switch in hand, seemingly amazed by Shan Tian Longshou's brilliant performance in losing it.

"I'll go back with you, but not now."

Shan Tian Longshou peered down through the shattered window, gritting his teeth as he said, "Now the thief must receive the Eternal Sleep penalty."

"Oh, Fourze, indeed a rather troublesome existence—don't lose it again."

Libra stared down and tossed the switch in his hand to Shan Tian Longshou.

At that moment, the opposite side of the campus suddenly lit up; a gale roared past, accompanied by a sound hundreds of times louder than before, shattering every pane of glass in the classroom with a screeching noise.

Panic and shrieks rose and fell throughout Aoxing High School.

"How did it get here?" Libra tightened his grip on the tin staff, fingertips trembling slightly; his previously calm tone suddenly turned uneasy.

It knew that the one accompanying this sound wave was, aside from the adult, the strongest Constellation Apostle.

Leo! "Roar!" A massive sound wave instantly converged, and a gigantic golden lion let out an earth‑shaking roar.

The pale blue figure was struck entirely by the lion's roar, dazzling sparks swirling as it slammed toward Ruyue Xian Tairan. As Ruyue steadied his body and looked up, Shuo Tian Liuxing's body was instantly clamped by the massive lion's jaws, as if hit by a speeding train, the whole person—

Ruyue Xian Tairan rushed forward, embracing Shuo Tian Liuxing to share the load, yet both were still blasted away by the colossal force.

"Liuxing, are you okay?" Ruyue Xian Tairan asked softly.

"Leo's strength is on a completely different level from the previous Star Disciple; it's extremely strong! In our current state it's hard to win!" Shu Tian Liuxing gasped a few breaths and said.

After only a few exchanges, he already recognized the gap between the two; Leo's body was like a monster, his martial arts had absolutely no effect on it.

"Let's go down and eliminate fourze," Libra said, watching Leo stride slowly forward, leapt down from the shattered window opening, landing on the ground, and Aries followed closely behind.

They leapt onto the uneven ground, bearing the mission of the Constellation Apostle, surrounding Shu Tian Liuxing and Ruyue Xian Tairan.

At that moment, they seemed to have fallen into a deadlock.

"Lord, what are you here for?" Libra asked, looking at the massive claws spread open, the cloak falling to the ground as Leo entered combat mode.

"To find someone." Leo replied concisely, "That person is also here; I need to force him out."

"Could it be?" Libra's crimson eyes flashed brightly, carefully scanning the Constellation Switch, but found that no matter how he used Laplace's Eye, his perception was blank.

Aside from these two nearby, there is no fourth Constellation Switch here at all.

"If that person cannot even be shielded by your ability, how could the Lord consider him a companion?" Leo said, rubbing the sharp blade in his hand.

"Is he really here?" Libra asked, doubtful.

"Just bring these two Knights to the brink of death, just like that time with Cancer." Leo gave Libra a look as if looking at an idiot, "Lord is very interested in him, already a bit impatient."

I, Wang Guangming have constantly recalled the power I sensed at the instant of the constellation's awakening; now I can no longer hold back, he is eager to see him, and the best way to make that person appear is to recreate the circumstances of Cancer's awakening.

So you were just guessing after all, huh? Then why did you speak so solemnly? I even thought that guy was really here.

Libra just wants to curse, his supernova can clearly sense even the elusive Virgo‑type beings, yet now he detects nothing, and Leo truly is a brute—in every sense.

"Companion, who is that?" Aries asked, finding it odd, "Are there other Star Disciples on Angxing?"

He has ruled Angxing for a long time, yet has never heard of it.

And it seems both Leo and Libra are extremely wary of that guy.

That's no wonder; after his awakening he never returned to the Heavenly River, so he wouldn't understand who the people mentioned by Libra and Leo are.

"They want to find the master!" both became alert.

Compared to Aries's bewilderment, Ruyue Xian Tairan and Shu Tian Liuxing were much clearer; it seemed the leader behind the Star Disciples wanted to use them to locate the master's trail, but they both knew that finding him would certainly not be a good thing.

This bunch of Star Disciples can do anything: murder, arson, all sorts of evil.

Leo glanced at the two wary ones, extended his long claws, suddenly exerted force, swinging the sharp claws in his hands toward them.

It has never regarded the so‑called Knights as anything.

Except for Lord Wang, no human in this world can match him; he lives only for Lord Wang.

The massive blade's fierce wind pressure made them even feel their breathing quicken.

Leo's muscle‑exploding body displayed a speed completely unmatched, and beside him Aries and Libra also struck at the same time.

The sleep‑inducing curse continuously seeped into the two bodies, a power that could control bodily functions, even forcing the astronomical switches that should grant them various abilities to be forcibly shut down.

But that wasn't a failure of the switches; it was their drowsiness that hampered the switches' effect.

The sleep fog needs no contact; it can be emitted in any manner, the key lying in the cylindrical iron hammer with mysterious runes that Aries holds.

Thus, at the moment of being hit, they not only could not exert their original power, but even the attacks from Leo and Libra could not be defended against.

Such intense pain could not awaken their gradually sinking consciousness.

Aries's ability is the most suitable for supporting combat; his strength isn't great, but it's troublesome.

Blazing sparks accompanied his flickering face, and soon they fell.

Combat truly is no child's play; it is a very cruel thing, and its end means the end of life.

Leo opened his claws and swung at the two slow‑moving, unresisting ones.

The sparks dazzled; his attack never ceased, delivering a second strike in the same posture and angle, hitting the same spot on the chests of the two Knights, followed by a third, then a fourth.

Leo's ferocious fighting style splashed more and more sparks onto them; the previous sparks hadn't faded when the next attack's sparks erupted, and finally the sparks were as dense as rain.

The drawn blade light surged like a tide, slashing continuously; in the Constellation Legend, Leo also belongs to the first echelon, sharing the fire element with Sagittarius, and in any mythology, Sagittarius and Leo are the strongest.

"Bang!"

The two initially raised their arms to try to block, but as the attack rhythm quickened, resistance became meaningless.

The excruciating pain and mental fatigue on their bodies, the ordeal of flesh and spirit, made them suffer unbearably.

Truly, Leo, the only one beneath the Lord, has a combat style that is simple yet efficient.

If Leo had struck earlier, perhaps the so‑called fourze and Meteor would have had no chance, and they wouldn't have ruined their own actions so many times.

Even now, Libra, who has always vied with Leo for Wang Guangming's favor, can't help but cheer for him.

But before the praise could be spoken, Libra felt a sudden sharp pain in the head, as if something was drilling out of its brain.

It went black before its eyes; it felt its body as if on fire, its eyes as if burned‑red iron rods were thrust from the eyes into the brain, and everything before it fell into darkness.

It still clutched that damned tin staff in its hand, not knowing what had happened; Leo had clearly knocked down the two Knights, yet why, why did it feel this death‑wishing pain?

Wait, it suddenly realized something; it used its dimming Laplace's Eyes, looking toward the road's end, the surroundings seeming to turn illusory.

But within the illusion it saw reality; it saw a vague human silhouette, whose slow, leisurely footsteps seemed to tread on its heart, step by step.

At the same time, the intense pain throughout its body rose another level; the severe pain stripped it of the right to stand, and Libra involuntarily knelt.

"Sometimes possessing a pair of special eyes isn't necessarily a good thing," a slightly regretful voice echoed in its mind, as if it had seen something worthy of sympathy.

"He's coming! He…" Libra tried to say something, but its throat seemed already torn, unable to produce sound.

(End of Chapter)