From Outcast to Overlord The Unyielding Heir (Leander Ashcroft) novel Chapter 551

Swoosh.

The Transcendent Realm masters couldn't hide their shock. What kind of fight demands that ten supersonic fighter jets scramble together?

One look at the formation told them enough—the jets weren't here to threaten. They were here to erase.

Their gazes shifted to the abandoned town below.

What could possibly be hiding there to draw this level of destruction?

Before anyone could find an answer, the supersonic fighter jets had already taken their positions above the ruins. Panels under their wings opened, and they commenced their attack run, prepared to inundate the town with bombs indiscriminately.

Right then, a streak of brilliance tore out of the town.

It flickered into existence and vanished just as fast, like a phantom cut through space itself. The motion was so violent that even the watching Transcendent Realm masters couldn't follow it.

They caught only one thing—a slash of white.

Then it was already buried in the nose of the lead supersonic fighter jet.

"What was that?"

Inside the cockpit, a red alert suddenly screamed across the display. A hostile signal was closing in at over three times the speed of sound.

The pilot's breath caught.

Before he could shout a warning, the cabin shook.

Boom!

"What the hell?!"

The other pilots barely had time to register the blast when they saw it too—

The same pale streak ran directly through the cockpit of the most powerful supersonic fighter jet in the formation.

Boom!

The sky erupted.

A supersonic fighter jet vanished in a burst of fire, torn apart in midair as if an invisible blade had struck it.

"What… what just happened?"

In the command center, chairs scraped back as officers sprang to their feet. Everyone's eyes widened, and there was a brief moment of silence.

They couldn't make sense of what had just happened. One moment, a faint white arc sliced across the display, and then a frontline fighter had vanished from the sky. No one could identify that light or determine what kind of weapon could travel so fast and hit so hard that a warplane simply ceased to exist.

Even the Transcendent Realm masters observing from afar stiffened.

These were martial artists who stood at the summit of their era—some already bearing the aura of Infernal Crown Transcendents, untouchable beneath the King Phase. Yet none of them had ever dared imagine facing a modern air force directly. Against supersonic fighter jets, survival meant only one thing: evade and pray.

One missile was all it would take to end them.

And now...

A supersonic fighter jet that even they would fear—one that could force a King Phase master to retreat—had just been erased before their eyes.

The impact of that sight crushed down on them.

For a long moment, no one could even breathe.

"What in the world was that?"

No one had time to finish the thought.

The sky answered instead.

Whoosh!

The pale streak flared once more, swiftly continuing without pause after slicing through the first jet. Driven by its own momentum, it plunged forward and struck another fighter before the formation had a chance to scatter.

Boom!

Another flame burst open in the air as a second aircraft came apart.

Now, real fear hit.

Across every cockpit, hands tightened on the controls. For the first time since they had taken to the skies, the pilots felt it was more than just danger.

It was something unfamiliar and incomprehensible—no textbook or simulator had ever prepared them for it.

"Break formation! Now!" a pilot roared over the comms.

The call prompted the squad to move out. Throttles were pushed forward quickly, and control sticks jerked as the fighters attempted to break apart.

Still, too late.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Their mind raced. What is happening?

What is it?

What type of force can penetrate ten targets in one swift pass, moving so quickly that the eye cannot follow, and punching through steel as if it's paper?

That's the real nightmare.

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