Galaxy Fall: All My Skills Are Maxed-Chapter 166: The True Face Of The Devil Cult

​[Dragon Empire Academy.]

[Next Day.]

​"Open the gate!!!"

​The desperate scream echoed across the pristine campus. The practicing students outside, who were busy running through their morning combat drills and energy circulation cycles, abruptly stopped. They turned their heads towards the massive, runic-engraved double golden gate, as it opened wide with a heavy, metallic groan.

​"....?!"

​They blinked in surprise, their eyes failing to register the incoming blur in time. Seeing Sofia and her heavily buffed, foam-flecked horse shot inside with intense speed, they scattered. She was forcing a stop directly in front of Hayatobi’s administrative head office. The violent, uncontrolled stop from such high speeds causing spiderweb cracks all over the reinforced stone ground.

​".....?!"

"What is happening?"

"Did something happen to the invincible five?"

​The students murmured amongst themselves, staring at one another in confusion and rising panic. Their hushed whispers were cut short, watching as the formidable figures of Lord Hayatobi, Lady Gaga, and the strict disciplinarian Merlot walked briskly out of the building, their expressions hardening at the sight.

​Sofia jumped down from her horse, her legs violently shaking. Her body was completely weak, practically shutting down due to the dangerously high, prolonged consumption of spirit energy required to maintain the mount’s speed buffs all night.

​"I... I made it, after riding all night, I made it." She muttered, her vision going dark. But before she could collapse onto the cracked pavement, Hayatobi appeared in front of her with blinding speed, bypassing the physical distance entirely, and caught her shoulders firmly.

​"...?!"

​He was stunned, his advanced sensory skills immediately scanning her status and sensing her completely empty spirit energy core. Pushing a mage to a zero-energy state was a gamble with permanent stat damage.

​"You..." He picked her up effortlessly, shielding her fragile state with his own aura, and rush inside the office. Lady Gaga followed right behind him, her hands already glowing with high-tier restoration magic, while Merlot turned sharply to the gawking students.

​"What are you all looking at?!! Get to work! If you don’t, I will cut off 50% of all your current academic points!!"

​Hearing his words, the students violently flinched, quickly looked away, and focused frantically on their tasks, cold sweat rolling down their temples. The Academy’s economy was ruthless.

​’You kidding me! 50% of points, some of us only have 100 points with us!’ They thought, terrified of losing the currency required for basic skill books and cafeteria food.

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​[Some minutes Later.]

​Hayatobi held the heavily sealed scroll, standing over Sofia, who was lying motionless on the plush leather couch, steadily getting healed by Gaga’s soothing green light.

​"So the Devil Cult finally decided to reveal themselves." He said, his tone perfectly calm, though a dangerous pressure began to leak into the room.

​"Why don’t we just destroy the devil cult in one move? We... We are strong enough to achieve that, right?" Sofia asked in a weak voice, her eyes fluttering open, looking up at Hayatobi with the naive certainty of a guild member who believed their Empire was invincible.

​"You are young, so you don’t understand." Hayatobi sealed the scroll in his hand, and with a mere thought, burn everything with his spirit energy, turning the paper to fine, untraceable ash.

​"The devil cult are one of the original brings of this world... What you guys have been fighting from the very beginning are just the traitors of the three empires who later joined this cult. The core members of the devil cult aren’t humans, they are Androids who knows how to use spirit energy... In a simpler way, without a Legendary-grade weapon, which can deal two million damage or more, you can’t kill them easily."

​".....?!!"

​Sofia was stunned, her mind failing to grasp the concept. Androids? Ancient, mechanical constructs capable of cultivating spirit energy and possessing base defense stats so astronomically high they required a flat two million damage threshold just to scratch?

​While Sofia processed the terrifying power-scaling, Lady Gaga just sighed deeply, wiping a bead of sweat from her brow as her healing spell concluded.

​"I think we should let the younger generations know about this." She said, looking up at Hayatobi, realizing the history books had been heavily sanitized.

​"We will, when the time is right." Hayatobi answered, and turned to Sofia, his expression incredibly dark.

​"The empires can’t easily destroy these pests because of their inner circle, they have ten Lv500 fighters, these guys are all in close cultivation for decades, but it seems they have started showing their faces." He clenched his fist, the sheer, crushing weight of ten max-level entities threatening the world’s balance.

​"Up to this day, we have no idea where their headquarters is located, nor their hideout... Now, they are targeting the citizens of the three Empires, using them for experiments." He sighed heavily, and walked towards the grand window, staring at the deceptively clear morning sky.

​"They are attacking Ragon city, mainly taking the parts of their victims for something evil and sinister... extracting their life force and despair to refine something." He turned his piercing gaze back to the two women in the room.

​"This is unfortunate."

​"It seems I will have to go and assist them in this. I don’t think Mirabella, Hitachi and Yakima can handle this only... If the devil cult inner circle show his face or anything, it’ll be bad." He said, his tactical mind assessing the grim survival odds of his daughters up against an Android of the Inner Circle. He turned, walking towards the heavy oak door.

​"Good job Sofia, for now, you need to stay in the academy and recover your spirit energy and strength. You have done your part in this mission." He said, opened the door and walked away, his aura flaring with preparation for war, leaving the two behind in the heavy silence of the office.

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​[Monsters Zone - The Wilderness.]

​"They are finally here." The devil cult member smirked. He stood tall on a jagged, obsidian hill, the harsh winds of the monster zone whipping his heavy cloak. He was staring at the horizon, his advanced optical sensors zooming in, seeing the distance figure of the Imperial carriage and its guards walking towards the narrow, treacherous path perfectly laid out before him.

​He raised one hand slowly into the cold air, letting the black fabric of his cloak slip back, revealing the intricate, indestructible metal arm, and long, vicious metal claws. His true Android nature hummed with lethal, ancient spirit energy that defied human biology.

​"No one will stop our plan." He said with a smirk, his mechanical joints locking into a combat stance.

​BAM!

​A dark figure in the cult’s standard-issue cloak appeared out of thin air behind him, the spatial teleportation causing a sharp concussive sound, dropping immediately on his knees in absolute reverence.

​"Lord Tenth! We are all ready." He said, his head bowed low, terrified of the Inner Circle member standing before him.

​Lord Tenth, one of the ten legendary Lv500 Androids of the Cult, nodded coldly, and lowered his metallic hand, his glowing optical eyes staring at the two steep hills flanking the narrow path below—a perfect, inescapable kill zone.

​"Good... Very good, I got news that Hayatobi’s two daughters and the Princess are amongst them. Don’t kill those three, bring them to me alive, but the rest, Kill every single one of them."

​"Yes! Lord Tenth."

​The figure nodded emphatically, and vanished from sight, returning to the shadows to spring the deadliest trap the Dragon Empire’s elites had ever faced.