Home / SSS Awakening: I Can Devour Gods to Evolve My Goddesses / Chapter 88: They Think Riftward Hasn’t Moved—My People Are Already Here

Read free on Ficlyn

SSS Awakening: I Can Devour Gods to Evolve My Goddesses

Chapter 88: They Think Riftward Hasn’t Moved—My People Are Already Here · Oct 17, 2026

Prev Chapter Novel Info Next Chapter

Chapter List (273)

Page number / 6

51 Chapter 51: After Two First Places, the Regional Warden Seat Has to Be Fought For 2026-10-17
52 Chapter 52: This Fight Gives No Points—and I’m Taking It Anyway 2026-10-17
53 Chapter 53: A Legendary Shows Up—and Tries to Run 2026-10-17
54 Chapter 54: This Core Trait, I’ll Take It Myself 2026-10-17
55 Chapter 55: My First Wave Is Already Over—You Haven’t Even Started? 2026-10-17
56 Chapter 56: I Won’t Wait for the First Ten Waves—After That, I’ll Take It Slow 2026-10-17
57 Chapter 57: The Region Won. I Haven’t Yet 2026-10-17
58 Chapter 58: Ten Million Arrives—and the Regional Warden Seat Is Mine 2026-10-17
59 Chapter 59: The Fountain of Life Is Built—and the First Life Essence 2026-10-17
60 Chapter 60: C-Grade Aptitude—and One Rocketier Volley Wipes Out Half the Canyon 2026-10-17
61 Chapter 61: Legendary Hero to Level 20—and This Sword Cuts Through High-Grade Recovery 2026-10-17
62 Chapter 62: Meteor Hell Descends—and an A-Grade Environment Seal Drops 2026-10-17
63 Chapter 63: An A-Grade Environment—and Forgotten Shrine Gains Another Layer 2026-10-17
64 Chapter 64: If You Want Out, Leave Today. Those Who Stay Name the Region. 2026-10-17
65 Chapter 65: Black Banner Opens the Pool—Riftward at 8.0 Odds 2026-10-17
66 Chapter 66: Ninety Points Unlock the Warbody Route—and the Warden Gate Opens to the Outer March 2026-10-17
67 Chapter 67: Elara Runs Into a Level 30 Epic—So I Send Her a Level 20 Stormlance 2026-10-17
68 Chapter 68: Rank IV—and Black Banner Is Already at the Door 2026-10-17
69 Chapter 69: Twenty Rockets Clear the Field—and the One Who Opened the Gate Exposes Himself 2026-10-17
70 Chapter 70: Three Seconds Before Lock—I Put 250,000 on Riftward 2026-10-17
71 Chapter 71: Sable March Takes Fourth—Stoneward Takes Third 2026-10-17
72 Chapter 72: I Said Riftward Was First—They Said It Was Impossible 2026-10-17
73 Chapter 73: Region Fortune Lands—and the Aether Vein Evolves With It 2026-10-17
74 Chapter 74: Who Said Ironwake Was Most Likely First? 2026-10-17
75 Chapter 75: All Twelve Stormlance Reach Legendary—Crystal Bastion! 2026-10-17
76 Chapter 76: Ten Thousand Renown Finally Put to Use—Black Banner Changes Tactics 2026-10-17
77 Chapter 77: Agriculture! Three Points of Fortune on the Line 2026-10-17
78 Chapter 78: Ten Epic Fields Go Into Production—The Crystal Mother Really Is Inside 2026-10-17
79 Chapter 79: Black Banner Keeps Adding to the Wager 2026-10-17
80 Chapter 80: Kill Points! Rank V! Mistveil March! 2026-10-17
81 Chapter 81: Now This Is How You Farm Points—Three Fortune Secured 2026-10-17
82 Chapter 82: Sable Falls to Negative Two—Time to Bargain with the Crystal Mother 2026-10-17
83 Chapter 83: Twelve Crystal Maiden Embryos—and Editable Attributes 2026-10-17
84 Chapter 84: Crystal One’s First Fight—Now This Is the Troop I Wanted 2026-10-17
85 Chapter 85: Riftward Breaks Into the Top Ten—and the Truth Slips Out 2026-10-17
86 Chapter 86: The Enemy’s Eyes Are Mine—and the First Real Region War Begins 2026-10-17
87 Chapter 87: Tenfold Kill Points Delivered to My Door—Rank VI, Right Now 2026-10-17
88 Chapter 88: They Think Riftward Hasn’t Moved—My People Are Already Here 2026-10-17
89 Chapter 89: Sitting Ducks! Twelve Bloodcrystal Bats Take Flight 2026-10-17
90 Chapter 90: The Twelve Were Only the First Layer—No One Gets Out 2026-10-17
91 Chapter 91: Rank 2? You Invaded Northwatch, So I’ll Slaughter Duskmoor 2026-10-17
92 Chapter 92: Duskmoor Goes Gray—Riftward Takes First 2026-10-17
93 Chapter 93: They’re Sending Me Money Again—and a Legendary Blood Chalice 2026-10-17
94 Chapter 94: A Legendary Troop Building—and First Place Revealed 2026-10-17
95 Chapter 95: Sixty Points of Strength—and a Larger Riftward 2026-10-17
96 Chapter 96: Trust the Warden—and a Resource Instance Appears 2026-10-17
97 Chapter 97: They Chose the Category Themselves 2026-10-17
98 Chapter 98: Let Them Feel Despair—and Recruit the Dawnwings 2026-10-17
99 Chapter 99: Another Wild Domain—and Another Fortune Duel Won 2026-10-17
100 Chapter 100: Wipe Them Out—and a Technology Crystal 2026-10-17

”Enough.”

The word had barely left Celia’s mouth when Lifeless Edge cleared its sheath.

No lightning.

No wide-area explosion.

Only an impossibly thin gray-white sword arc skimmed across the ground.

[Severing Arc]

The Black Banner Lord at the front was already retreating when the arc appeared.

His reaction was not slow.

The two Heroes beside him moved at the same time.

A Rare shield slammed down first.

A second layer of protective light unfolded immediately behind it.

Then the sword arc arrived.

Shhk—

The Rare shield split through the center.

The first Hero’s breastplate cracked open.

The second Hero had only begun lifting his weapon when his entire right arm, shoulder guard included, spun away.

Celia did not stop.

Her second step landed.

Lifeless Edge drew a shorter line this time.

The three Lords saw only one flash of steel.

Blood appeared across all three throats at once.

The Troops behind them, only now beginning to close formation, were even slower.

The first Severing Arc had already torn a gap through the shield wall.

Celia went straight through it.

None of her following strikes were large.

Every one landed exactly where the previous strike had already broken the defense.

Less than twenty breaths later, the gray-stone outpost fell silent again.

All three Black Banner Lords were down.

The remaining Troops had no intact command chain left.

When Cassian walked out from behind the high slope, Celia was flicking the blood from Lifeless Edge.

”Too slow?”

”No.”

Cassian looked ahead.

”Just right.”

The first outer outpost was gone.

More importantly, the people deeper inside still did not know who had arrived.

When the first outpost stopped responding, Black Banner’s public battle line did not immediately realize Riftward was already there.

Cassian gave them no time to confirm it.

”Second.”

Crystal One shifted into Bloodcrystal Bat form at once.

Three other Crystal Maidens rose with her.

Celia stayed on the ground.

She, Cassian, and the twenty Rocketiers pushed directly along the gray-stone road toward the second outpost.

The next three did not take nearly as long.

The first position had already revealed the defense pattern.

After that, it was execution.

Crystal One reported the shortest side route from the air.

The other three Crystal Maidens watched the remaining withdrawal paths.

The second outpost was still trying to seal the road when Celia cut in through the ground-side route and reached the command position.

The other three Crystal Maidens landed behind her and returned to human form.

Crystal Shaping pulled long blades and heavy hammers across their arms.

The third outpost tried to retreat.

Two Crystal Maidens dropped from the air directly in front of the escape route.

The fourth barely had time to reform.

All three fights ended quickly.

Black Banner lost control of all four major watchpoints on Northwatch’s outer edge.

Cassian did not take all twelve Crystal Maidens deeper in.

”Four stay.”

Four Crystal Maidens stopped.

”One at each position.”

”If anyone approaches from outside, check their insignia first.”

”Northwatch passes.”

”Black Banner doesn’t.”

”Understood, Lord.”

The remaining eight returned to Bloodcrystal Bat form.

Cassian looked toward Northwatch’s interior.

The main battlefield was still deeper in.

He did not contact Mira first.

Instead, he took a gray-black scroll from his Inventory.

[Communication Seal Scroll | Epic | One-Use]

[Effect: Seals a designated area from outside Communication / Public Channel access.]

Cassian placed a finger over Northwatch’s Region marker.

”Here.”

He tore the scroll open.

Gray-black patterns scattered from the parchment.

No explosion.

No new spatial distortion.

Then, one second later—

the battle update Garrick had just started posting in the Shattered Marches Channel faded gray halfway through.

[Communication Seal: Active]

Northwatch’s public connection to the outside disappeared.

People outside could still see Lord status.

They could still wait for the next Ranking refresh.

But from this moment on, they could no longer watch who was killing whom inside.

Cassian tossed away the dead scraps of the scroll.

”Move.”

Eight Bloodcrystal Bats took off again.

Cassian, Celia, and the twenty Rocketiers continued along the gray-stone road.

The eight winged shadows above handled nothing except forward and flank reconnaissance.

Northern Stone Ridge, Northwatch.

Mira had just gotten the last group of Lords retreating from the outer line onto the mountain road.

More people were still coming up behind them.

The fighting had already started ahead.

Black Banner gave Northwatch no time to reorganize.

The first wave of ranged suppression crashed directly into the slope.

Stone.

Fire.

Arrows.

Attacks from several different Troop lines overlapped.

Northwatch had managed to pull back a considerable number of people, but Black Banner still showed far more Lord markers below, with entire Rare lines mixed into the front.

Numbers did not erase Northwatch’s Quality disadvantage.

The first shield line at the mountain pass held for barely more than ten breaths before the front rank began sliding backward.

”Fill the gap!”

Mira stood on the second defensive slope herself.

She had not packed everyone into one place.

Only mobile units held the left-side trail.

The main defensive strength was concentrated in the narrow center.

A Northwatch Lord ran up.

”Two more Rare lines are coming down the eastern slope.”

”I see them.”

”We’re still holding?”

”We’re holding.”

”One more retreat and all we have left is the summit.”

Mira watched the Black Banner insignias advancing below.

”Which is why we don’t retreat now.”

The Lord clenched his jaw and turned to go back.

Then Mira’s Private Channel lit up.

One sentence.

[Cassian Vale: Stay off the left side peak.]

She looked up.

The side peak sat some distance from the main mountain road.

Steep slope.

No one had been there earlier.

At least, no one from Northwatch.

Mira did not ask why.

”Clear the left side peak!”

”Everyone stays away from it!”

Several people beside her stared.

”There wasn’t anyone there anyway.”

”Then keep it that way.”

Mira raised her sword.

”Hold the center!”

Behind the left side peak, eight Bloodcrystal Bats dropped close to the rear slope.

Twenty Dwarf Rocketiers came in one after another.

The launchers did not need to be loaded here.

They had been loaded before departure.

All that remained was to brace them.

The first launcher rose.

Then the second.

The third.

Soon all twenty were spread along the reverse slope.

From below, the barrels would only be visible at the instant of firing.

Cassian stood in the center.

Aurelia did not land.

She remained suspended much higher overhead.

Celia had already circled toward the lower battlefield from the other side.

The eight Crystal Maidens stayed in Bat form.

They spread along the outer edge of the side peak.

Half watched the mountain road.

Half watched the rear.

Ahead, Black Banner’s main assault line had fully entered the firing zone.

Garrick Thorne stood in the middle-rear formation.

At least three layers of guards still surrounded him.

He had not charged at the front personally.

That part was normal.

What mattered was how completely everyone’s attention was fixed on Northwatch’s stone ridge.

No one was looking left.

Because the left peak had been empty since the battle started.

Cassian liked positions like that.

Not places where no one could stand.

Places everyone had already learned to believe no one would stand.

He raised his right hand.

All twenty Dwarf Rocketiers lowered the final angle of their launchers together.

[Mental Guidance: Ready]

[Overload: Ready]

Cassian’s eyes stopped on the last line.

No range call.

No countdown.

”Overload.”

BOOM—

The entire side peak seemed to kick backward.

Twenty streaks of fire tore into the sky at once.

Only then did people on the main battlefield look up.

The first Northwatch Lord to see them froze.

”What is that?”

Mira had already recognized them.

Twenty launchers.

Twenty burning trails.

She had seen the unit name in Riftward’s public records.

”Dwarf Rocketiers.”

Below, Garrick Thorne looked up too.

For the first time, his face truly changed.

”Riftward?”

One second later, all twenty Rockets curved in midair.

They were not targeting the front line.

They passed directly over the Troops already locked in melee with Northwatch.

Every one of them turned toward the densest Black Banner positions in the middle and rear.

Mental Guidance twisted away the last margin of error.

Garrick had time for one raised hand.

”Scatter—”

BOOM!

The first Rocket hit.

Then the other nineteen crashed into the formation with it.

Prev Chapter Novel Info Next Chapter

Recommended Novels

Versatile Mage Chaos

My Vampire System JKSManga

Supreme Emptiness Heavenly Overlord

Shadow Slave Guiltythree

Gourmet of Another World Li Hongtian

Invincible Shen Jian

Martial World Cocooned Cow

Ancient Godly Monarch Jing Wu Hen

Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God Lucky Old Cat

The Almighty Ring Primodial Saint

Immortality Through Array Formations Observing the Emptiness

Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 ShinGotLost

Release that Witch Er Mu

Cursed Immortality Wahi

Gravity Mage with Level-Up System Aravind_S