I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield-Chapter 574 - 457: Rakshasa, Phantom Bullets Return

The perpetual night on Pluto is pure darkness.

Several pitch-black flying devices streaked through the night sky like ghosts, their engines silent, leaving only a few fleeting shadows in the snow, swiftly approaching the direction of the Ice Fort.

Inside the cabin of one of the flying devices, a man wearing black battle armor with dark gold patterns stared into the darkness through the porthole, a smirk playing at the corner of his mouth, his voice laced with undisguised contempt: "Where did these fools come from? They truly have no idea of the gravity of their actions! Daring to offend our Military Lord, today we’ll let the entire Ice Fort be buried with him!"

The others in the cabin, upon hearing this, also began to sneer coldly.

The news of Duan Guangtai and the Xue Dao Battle Group’s defeat had just reached them before departure—Duan Guangtai, in their eyes, was nothing more than a failure, unable to even contend with a newly arrived Border Guardian Envoy.

And that guy named Qin Tian was even more of a complete novice, rejecting the Military Lord’s offer of reconciliation and going so far as to destroy the entire Xue Dao Battle Group over a few soldiers’ deaths, as if seeking his own death.

The Military Lord, furious this time, issued a death order to erase the Ice Fort from Pluto entirely.

Thus, this group of people was dispatched.

With two possessing the Golden Bloodline, ten with the Silver Bloodline, a total of twelve Tier Six Spiritualists leading the group, along with three hundred elite subordinates ranging from Tier Four to Tier Five, and led by the Tier Seven Rakshasa Lady herself.

In their eyes, such a formation against the Ice Fort was akin to using a butcher’s knife to kill a chicken.

The mere thousands of soldiers at the Ice Fort were just lambs to the slaughter, and in less than half an hour, they could reduce the entire fortress to ruins.

"What are you looking at?"

Amidst their talking and laughing, a man responsible for reconnaissance suddenly pointed outside the porthole, his voice filled with evident surprise.

Following his gaze, the others saw a flickering patch of pale blue light in the distant darkness.

Being high-tier spiritualists, their vision far surpassed that of ordinary people, and they quickly discerned the appearance of that light.

The entire Ice Fort was actually shrouded by a layer of pale blue energy shield, appearing unusually serene in the pitch-black night, yet emitting a hint of mystery.

"Is that... an energy shield?" someone instinctively asked, eyes full of confusion, "Has everyone at the Ice Fort gone mad? Activating such a large-scale energy shield during non-combat times?"

The energy shield was a defensive structure used to ward off attacks, typically only activated locally on the battlefield’s front lines, maximizing protection of critical areas while minimizing energy consumption.

But the Ice Fort, instead, completely enveloped the entire fort with the energy shield, ostensibly just to fend off some snow and wind—this effect, compared to the energy shield’s massive consumption, was akin to using a cannon to kill a mosquito, utterly foolish.

"Heh, I think that Qin Tian, being a first-time Guardian Envoy, just wants to make a grand show of his authority." A tall, thin man sneered, the scorn in his voice even more pronounced, "With that kind of brain, even if we weren’t coming, the Ice Fort would eventually collapse under his mess, we’re only accelerating the process."

The others inside the cabin echoed their agreement, further deepening their disdain for the Ice Fort—opponents who couldn’t even properly use an energy shield weren’t worth taking seriously at all.

Soon, the flying devices landed silently in a glacial valley 40 kilometers from the Ice Fort.

This distance, for Tier Four or above spiritualists, was only a journey of a dozen minutes, yet it was concealed enough to evade the Ice Fort’s detection in the extreme night, preventing early discovery.

"Truly worthy of being the family’s latest ghostly flying device, with it, the Ice Fort’s radar system is practically blind." A man wearing a black headscarf jumped down from the flying device, a smug smile on his face.

Another woman, with exotic makeup and black eyeliner extending from her eyes, followed to the ground, she extended her slender fingers to feel the rushing wind and snow, a cold arc forming at her lips.

The snowstorm was just right, after the battle, all traces would be completely covered.

According to the plan, they would lead the main force to directly invade the fortress, eliminating Qin Tian and his core subordinates.

Another group, led by Tier Six Beastmaster with Golden Bloodline, would drive the Snow Beasts, and once successful, have the Snow Beasts flatten the Ice Fort, creating the illusion of being destroyed by Snow Beasts.

Moreover, they also prepared signal jammers this time, so that during the attack, the Ice Fort couldn’t even send out a distress signal.

Quickly, all the action teams lined up, and the last figure stepped out from the flying device.

It was an extremely tall woman, nearly 1.9 meters in height, her skin-tight black leather armor outlining her voluptuous figure in vivid detail—slender waist and perky hips, her curves striking yet not vulgar, exuding a cold and alluring aura that warned strangers to stay away.

Her features were stunningly aggressive, with high, sharp brows and slightly upturned eye corners, like a seductive enchantress from a painting, each glance and every movement carrying a bewitching allure, yet those deep eyes held no warmth, only icy indifference, as if all things in the world were mere pawns in her eyes.

She was the leader of this operation, the Tier Seven Rakshasa Lady—Alaya Luoho.

In the Luoho clan’s bloodline system, males were known as Asuras, often with ugly looks yet possessing a robust, steel-like physique as warriors, while females were Rakshasas, each breathtakingly beautiful, with supreme speed and the power to enchant hearts, with Alaya being a standout among them.