A long while passed before the smoke and dust finally began to settle.
When the haze cleared, both Azmodar and Carodion were completely gone.
Only Avelia remained in the distance, her face dark and livid.
"He actually self-destructed?"
"That damned bastard!"
She stared toward the far horizon and threw back her head with a furious roar.
"You human insects—every last one of you deserves to die!"
At that very mont, a blood-red system announcent resounded across the entire Stellar World.
[Ergency Server-Wide Announcent!!!]
[Human Watcher · Carodion (legendary-grade) has fallen!]
[At the northern defensive line of Skyhold in Universe No. 616, 300 li beyond the Lam River, a two-star Abyss Rift has erupted into a Shadowkin riot!]
[Attention all players of Universe No. 616! The Shadowkin are about to invade!]
[All players aligned with the human faction, proceed to the northern defensive line imdiately and repel the Shadowkin invasion!]
[Repeat! The Shadowkin are about to invade! All human-faction players, reinforce the northern defensive line at once!]
The ergency announcent rang out again and again.
Those blood-red words flashed before the eyes of every player.
The World Channel was instantly flooded with frantic ssages from players across countless worlds.
"Ohoho, a blood-red world announcent? This has to be so kind of juicy event reward, right? Hahaha..."
"Looks like World 616 really ssed up this ti. Hahaha, this is hilarious. Let’s see how they clean this up."
"I’m guessing your world’s Faustus cheated so hard that the GM had to crank up the difficulty for you!"
"A Shadowkin invasion? Holy shit, they’ve already triggered another major world event? I’m so jealous..."
anwhile, the players of World 616 were completely lost.
"What Shadowkin invasion? Could this be another masterpiece from the great Faustus?"
"If your brain doesn’t work, maybe leave it at ho instead of bringing it out to embarrass yourself. Faustus is still in Dawnlight City!"
"Exactly. The Shadowkin invasion is happening in Skyhold. That’s ten thousand miles away from Luminara!"
"But our war against the non-human races isn’t even over yet, so why has so Shadowkin thing popped out of nowhere again?"
"You guys are amazing. A new map and a new race? Stop talking and charge already!"
...
Dawnlight City.
[Ding! Millionfold Boost triggered! Obtained gold coin 100000!]
[Ding! You picked up: [Venomfang Dagger (blackgold-grade)]!]
[Ding! You picked up: [Prismatic Crystal (platinum-grade)]!]
[...]
Through relentless slaughter, Daniel had already killed off most of the non-human races players.
Gold glead everywhere across the ground, while equipnt, coins, and materials had piled up into literal mounds.
After hearing the system announcent, Daniel slowly drew in a deep breath.
"Hm? A Shadowkin invasion?"
"That’s not right. Why has the timing advanced this much?"
In his mories, the Shadowkin had remained suppressed within the Abyss Rift.
At the very least, it should have taken several more months before they could break through the rift passage and invade the Stellar World.
And Abyss Rifts were also divided into tiers.
The higher the grade of the rift, the more Shadowkin elites it could allow to cross over.
A two-star rift could permit two legendary-grade Shadowkin powerhouses to descend.
A nine-star rift, on the other hand, could allow nine legendary-grade Shadowkin powerhouses to enter the Stellar World.
The death of the Watcher also ant that Skyhold would now face not only legendary-grade Shadowkin, but also the blades and claws of countless Shadowkin warriors.
"Legendary-grade Shadowkin..."
A trace of worry gradually surfaced in Daniel’s eyes.
His four core attributes and overall combat power were already absurdly high.
Even so, he still had no confidence in facing a legendary-grade existence head-on.
Still, he possessed [God Speed], which granted him limitless instantaneous movent.
Combined with survival skills like [Voidstride], simply preserving his own life would not be difficult.
In order to find out what was going on, Daniel decided to head to the rift in person and see for himself why the situation had changed so drastically.
Without wasting another second, he used a portal and rushed toward Skyhold.
...
Three hundred li beyond the Lam River.
The site of the two-star Abyss Rift.
At that mont, countless fiends were pouring madly out of the rift.
So were beast-shaped, their bodies covered in jet-black scales, their eyes burning with dark crimson fire.
Others were humanoid, more than two ters tall, wielding pitch-black weapons and radiating a foul demonic aura that made one’s skin crawl.
The beast-ford ones were collectively classified as fiends.
The humanoid ones, anwhile, were known as Shadowkin.
When Daniel arrived near the rift, the sight before him made his heart sink at once.
A row of human corpses had been hung directly at the mouth of the rift.
Not a single one of those human powerhouses had an intact body left.
So had been disemboweled.
So had been beheaded.
So had all four limbs twisted into grotesque angles no living body could ever endure.
Dried blood had stained the black rock below them a dark, ugly red.
Daniel cast a detection spell.
[LV??? · Deren (legendary-grade) · deceased]
[LV??? · Cedric (legendary-grade) · deceased]
[LV??? · Aurelia (legendary-grade) · deceased]
[...]
"Damn it..."
Daniel felt a heavy, suffocating anger rise in his chest.
This scene reminded him of his previous lives, when during the invasion wars of the non-human races, countless human powerhouses had thrown themselves forward one after another for the continuation of their people.
And now...
Human champions had been butchered just the sa, then strung up before the rift entrance.
This was a naked humiliation of humanity, a ruthless trampling of its dignity.
A violent brutality surged through Daniel’s eyes, almost impossible to restrain.
At that mont, a Shadowkin powerhouse floating in midair narrowed her eyes as she examined him.
[Nightmare Queen · Avelia (LV??? · legendary-grade)]
The other Abyss Lord, Azmodar, had already perished together with Watcher Carodion in their mutual destruction.
Now, Avelia looked down on Daniel from above, her eyes full of contempt.
"How pitiful... a re insect."
To soone like Avelia, a weakling such as Daniel was beneath even the worth of her personal attack.
Thus, she rely lifted a hand and gave a careless wave.
In an instant, countless Shadowkin warriors charged toward Daniel in a frenzy of excitent.
"Human worm, despair and beg for rcy!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Sensing the tide of Shadowkin warriors rushing at him, Daniel remained utterly calm.
God Speed activated.
A flash of white light streaked through the battlefield, and every single Shadowkin attack missed its mark.
In the next instant, Daniel appeared before the three mangled corpses of the fallen human powerhouses.
He took down those three bodies and lifted them onto his back.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, he activated God Speed once more.
Whoosh!
A great mass of Shadowkin elites sward in from all directions.
Yet none of them could touch him, and they could only watch helplessly as he vanished right before their eyes.
When Daniel appeared again, he was standing atop a high ridge.
He slowly and carefully laid the three bodies down.
He examined them in silence.
The corpses of these three human powerhouses had been ravaged beyond recognition.
Moreover, because they had not reached legendary-grade, there was no divine soul remnant left within their remains.
That ant they did not et the conditions necessary to be revived with [Seraphic Revival].
And from those ruined bodies, shattered to a state almost beyond description, it was easy to imagine the agony and tornt they must have suffered before death.
If an ordinary bystander had witnessed this, they might have done nothing more than praise the ga’s realism.
They might have said the visuals were convincing, the texture was impressive, and the plot was dark, brutal, and full of depth.
But Daniel knew the truth.
These NPCs were, in a very real sense, living beings.
He forcibly suppressed the rage that was boiling inside him.
Then, facing the fallen dead before him, he spoke in a low voice.
"I will suppress the Abyss Rift."
"So rest now, brave souls... and may you sleep in peace."
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