Others agreed with Garret as well.
No matter how much you bragged, beating a Crown when the domain had only been open for a month?
That was still a bit much to brag about.
Caelus didn’t mind this.
Instead, he opened a livestream in the chat.
There was an option to go live, of course.
As soon as he did, everyone began joining the stream.
[Ariadne (Mistwood Kingdom): Hm? What is that? It looks like a robot.]
[Bjorn (Starfall Kingdom): What the hell? Is that a retainer or sothing? I’ve never seen anything that cool before.]
[Hassan (Pixelgate Kingdom): I have a retainer too, but mine never looked this good.]
[Lychee (Mistwood Kingdom): The King of Origin Kingdom is so handso. He’s like a dream boyfriend. Is he single?]
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): I know, right? You might not know this, but our boss has a whole fan club. He’s one of the bigshots in this world.]
[Garret Roman (Crimson Peak Kingdom): A bigshot? How backward is your planet if a brand new player counts as a bigshot? Is your planet that short on experts? Laughable.]
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): Do you have sothing against our kingdom and our boss? Why do you always talk bad about us?]
[Garret Roman (Crimson Peak Kingdom): This is freedom of speech, lady. I’m free to say my opinion.]
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): Then stop being a dick about it. Did your father never teach you how to be nice to people?]
[Stella (Mistwood Kingdom): Pfft]
[Sylvia (Origin Kingdom): @Lychee, what’s your location? I have a gift for you.]
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): ...]
Seeing this, Sarah shuddered. The boss’s girlfriend, Sylvia, was on the move?
[Lychee (Mistwood Kingdom): A gift? Sure, I’ll send you my coordinates.]
[Sylvia (Origin Kingdom): @Garret, send your location too.]
[Garret Roman (Crimson Peak Kingdom): And why would I do that? Sorry, lady, but I don’t want your useless gifts. Winning one event doesn’t make you the strongest in our Tier 3 league. You’re all beneath my kingdom.]
[Ramses (Blistering Sands Kingdom): Let’s put that to the test, shall we? 1v1 in the arena. Bet your kingdom, please.]
Everyone’s lips twitched when Ramses popped up. What was with this guy and always asking for 1v1s and betting kingdoms?
[Jamal (Pikanet Energy Sustainnt Kingdom): Hey, look. I think the stream is showing the Hollow Faction now.]
Everyone stopped chatting and focused.
Caelus wasn’t going to deal with these people himself.
These morons all wore hoodies that hid their faces as they eyed Caelus and Jibril.
"Hand over ownership of your kingdom and we’ll leave your corpse in one piece."
"Don’t ss with the Genesis Kingdom, kid. You should already know how infamous we are." The one standing right at the front, who seed to be their leader, spoke.
"Leave my corpse in one piece?" Caelus was speechless.
How co people still said things like this?
What era were these people living in? Maybe the so-called Planet Zizi they ca from really was backward.
Sighing, he turned to Jibril.
"How confident are you about dealing with them, on a scale of 1 to 100?"
Jibril quietly analyzed the Hollow Faction mbers and spoke. "60."
"Oh?" Caelus didn’t take this as bragging. He knew what her speciality was.
He wanted that power for himself. Sadly, it seed he could only pull potential cards, not the powers of pillars he already had.
"We’ll give you ti to think about it." The leader spoke again.
But the machina didn’t wait for them to finish. She was already moving.
chanical floating wings burst out from behind her as she stepped into the air.
System screens flickered all around her. Her headpiece flared to life, lighting up her eyes to the brim.
"Attack!" Seeing this, the leader bellowed. Swords and axes appeared in the hands of the Hollow Faction mbers as they charged at Jibril.
Darkness chains burst out of the ground, trying to bind her in place.
But Jibril only stared at them. Her system screens spun across her vision, breaking the power down piece by piece.
[Adaptation 1: Darkness Chains]
The instant it locked in, an energy sword ford in her hand, glowing a deep pink. She swept it through the chains, and their path changed at once. The sa darkness chain curled back through the air and wrapped around the front row of attackers.
In an instant, the chains tightened and crushed their necks.
Caelus’s eyes narrowed at this.
So that was her speciality in action. She could break a power down, adapt to it, and fire it right back. Even better, she could refine it, making it stronger than the attack thrown at her. She could do this for up to three powers at a ti.
"Tch." The leader gritted his teeth. "Die!"
He thrust his sword forward. A shadow wolf took shape and shot straight at Jibril.
Again, she only watched. Her screens flared.
[Adaptation 2: Shadow Wolf]
Her pink sword changed color, turning a cold violet. She waved it once. The wolf was sliced clean in half. From the cut, a second wolf ford, this one hers, and it lunged back into the Hollow Faction ranks.
Boom!
"What?" The leader was caught off guard. Then his face twisted, and he gritted his teeth.
His aura shot up, breaking through the ceiling of Crown.
"DIE!" His body bulked up, and his voice ca out like two people talking at once.
A wave of raw pressure rolled off him. This was the strongest power he had.
Jibril just stared at the man with the sa look on her face. Her screens lit up one last ti.
[Adaptation 3: Hollow Surge]
[Adaptation slots full. 3 / 3]
Her violet sword turned bright green, humming with the leader’s own stolen power.
Shnn!
She vanished, then reappeared right in front of him. He didn’t even have ti to swing.
She dragged the green sword across him. His own Hollow Surge tore through his Crown-tier body from the inside.
The leader was dead before he hit the ground.
Caelus stared at the spot silently.
[Ding! You’ve eliminated the King of the Genesis Kingdom!]
[ 4M Population]
At the sa ti, the whole chat was stunned by what they saw.
[Jamal (Pikanet Energy Sustainnt Kingdom): Fuck, what is that power? Did she just counter them with the sa power they threw at her? What the actual fck.]
Everyone else in the chat was just as stunned.
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): Don’t be too surprised. This is just a normal day for Boss.]
[Sarah (Origin Kingdom): Though I have to admit, I’ve never seen this lady before.]
[Jamal (Pikanet Energy Sustainnt Kingdom): @Garret, what do you have to say now?]
[Tucker (Taskbar Kingdom): Huh... He’s offline. No wait. He just entered death cooldown.]
[What?!]
The chat was shocked. The man who had been looking down on the Origin Kingdom was now dead?
....
A few minutes earlier. Crimson Peak Kingdom.
"Garbage." Garret looked at the chat with a sneer. "Do these people really think they’re better than my kingdom?"
"Yes, we are." To his surprise, he got a reply.
"Who?" Garret beca alert at once.
Soone had gotten into his cabin without him knowing?
The next mont, a pair of red, hollow eyes appeared before him. A stunningly beautiful girl walked into the cabin, blood dripping from her sword.
She gave an unnatural smile that sent a shiver down Garret’s spine.
"I thought only your retainers would have this much death energy. But it looks like you have even more than most. Just how many people did you kill to build up this much death energy?" The girl, who was none other than Sylvia, asked with a playful smile.
"Killing the beasts in this domain or in the dungeons won’t give you death energy. You have to take a real life to make it. We vampires are naturally drawn to it."
"What do you want?" Garret asked with a cold look on his face.
"Your kingdom." Sylvia smiled as she slashed her sword at Garret, and he was instantly cut in half.
She watched the blood spilling from his body slowly turn into golden particles that faded from the world, then she turned away without a care. These days, she only liked Caelus’s blood. The sight of blood no longer stirred the bloodlust it once did.
Only his blood tempted her now.
She had just gone to pay Lychee a visit and give her a gift (beat her up), and on the way back, she spotted the Crimson Peak Kingdom and sensed the thick death energy here.
Sensing this, she decided to kill everyone here.
This way, it would be useful to Caelus too.
She was full of smiles. She could finally be of so use to her hubby.
[Ding! Sylvia from your kingdom has eliminated the King of Crimson Peak Kingdom.]
[The kingdom’s population has been transferred over to yours.]
[ 5M Population]
[Population: 17.5M]
Caelus’s lips twitched when he saw this. Sylvia seed to have gotten bored and gone off to have fun on her own.
At the sa ti, he figured it was ti to expand the kingdom.
He spent 1k resource points to buy a 15x size increase.
Just then, a notification appeared before his eyes.
[Ding! The domain is closing.]
"Huh?" This was unexpected.
To think six hours had already gone by.
The next instant, his vision blurred, and he was back at Lyra’s place.
As soon as they returned, Lyra ca to them with so news.
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