"I think you should be more concerned about leaving here alive than conquering the Solaris Kingdom."

Caelus glanced at the man, his Chaos Perception Eyes easily piercing through the dark miasma.

Ding!

[Name: Henry Osborn]

[Faction: Hollow]

[Race: Half-Hollow]

[Rank: Silver I]

[Level: 2]

[Combat Score: 28]

"And who are you to decide that? You inferior monkey," Henry spat. He looked at Caelus with cold arrogance. "Just a monkey playing with divine powers. Without it, what are you?"

"Without the Hollowification, what are you? Just a human," Caelus replied with a kind smile. "You sacrificed 1,000,000 players just to look like a rotting corpse with its skeleton showing."

However, Caelus did not look entirely human right now either. His arms and legs were covered in dark, obsidian dragon scales. His eyes were naturally slit and burned with a fierce red light. Intricate inscriptions pulsed along his skin. His hair had grown, reaching his waist. Massive geometric dragon wings stretched out from his back, with the rotating golden-black Chaos ring.

His looks had changed so drastically that Henry, who had seen him enter the Ancient Domain earlier, did not even recognize him.

Speaking of which, only people inside the domain can see him. The people seeing the stream won’t see his face due to the Origin Network privacy setting he had enabled.

"Player 555," Aleksey muttered, staring up at the sky in utter bafflement.

[Stream Chat: What?! Player 555?! What the fuck?!]

[Stream Chat: How is he matching a Silver Rank’s aura right now? Are we serious?]

[Stream Chat: Didn’t the new servers just open 15 days ago? How is this possible?!]

Everyone was stunned beyond words.

Outside the domain, the Holy Church members showed a massive shift in expression. The young Sister, Marie, opened her eyes. She looked at the divine figure of Caelus on the screen and prayed deeply.

"May the God of Boundless Light reach you, brave warrior."

Inside the Ancient Domain, the sky suddenly cracked open. A pure holy power descended directly onto Caelus.

Ding!

[You have gained the Holy Blessing of Player: Marie Aribert.]

[Your Combat Score increases.]

[Effect: If you die, you will be instantly revived back to full health.]

[Combat Score: 26.45 -> 31.45]

The Holy Church members gasped, especially Priestess Marie.

"It went through..."

"That halo... It is real. He has a direct divine connection to a god!"

The blessing only reached those who possessed actual divinity. The fact that it successfully applied to Player 555 meant he had it. Marie had tried to bless everyone on the other side of the barrier, but it only worked on him.

Caelus looked at the buff strangely. As he was right now, he did not necessarily need it.

"Holy power?" Henry sneered in pure disgust. "DIE for me!"

BOOM!

Henry shot forward. A sonic boom erupted in his wake as he crossed the distance in a fraction of a second. A dark, jagged weapon manifested in his hand as he fiercely struck at Caelus’s neck.

FWOOSH!

Caelus dodged it effortlessly. But he felt a sense of urgency. The Chaos Dragon Body was draining his stamina at an alarming rate. He had to end this quickly, or he would be the one to lose.

[Race: Chaos Perception Dragon — 1 Chaos Ring (Locked - 10%)]

[HP: 470/470]

[CA: 450/450]

[Mental Power: 450/450]

That was his current status after the massive amplification from the Chaos Dragon Body. Completely overpowered.

With these stats, he could cast Volcra four times consecutively. Or... he could charge it up and detonate all charges at once.

"Stop dodging me, you bastard!" Henry screamed.

He shot forward again, delivering an ultra-fast barrage of strikes. Caelus’s body blurred, weaving through the attacks like a phantom.

Henry grew increasingly agitated.

DARKNESS CHAIN!

Henry roared as a tyrannical chain forged of pure abyss manifested from the void and shot straight toward Caelus’s chest.

Caelus simply stretched his arm out.

CRACK!

Golden-black Chaos Axiom Energy erupted from his palm and shattered the chain completely.

"Y-You... what?" Henry’s eyes widened in sheer terror. "The Darkness Chain was made by the Hollow King to bind down divinity and gods! How did you break it so effortlessly?!"

"Because I am not a god," Caelus replied. "It is only natural to mistake me for one with the way I look right now. But I am just a normal human. At least at heart."

Caelus smiled.

He glanced down. Sylvia had broken out of her blood cocoon and was looking up at him with deep concern.

He waved his hand.

TELEKINESIS!

A burst of invisible force wrapped around Sylvia, Mia, and Aleksey, immediately dragging them high into the air, far above the battlefield.

"We have no enmity," Caelus said, his voice fracturing with an unnatural glitch. "But here, it is either I kill you, or you kill me. Hence... you can die here."

BAM!

An unseen, terrifying weight of telekinetic force slammed directly into Henry, pinning him mid-air and overpowering him instantly.

Caelus rose even higher into the sky. His hands ignited with a volatile, blinding mix of gold and abyssal black energy. He wove his fingers together, summoning three spinning, highly compressed magical circles.

VOLCRA!

He casually tossed the glowing sphere of apocalyptic light downward.

The very air crackled and warped under the crushing pressure of the Chaos Axiom Energy.

Beneath Henry’s feet, spanning the entirety of the Ancient Domain’s desert floor, a colossal runic circle ignited.

One. Two. Three.

Three massive, overlapping magic circles flared to blinding life. Henry stared up at Caelus in despair.

A split second later, the spell detonated.

BOOM—!!!

Reality itself seemed to tear apart. A destructive pillar of light erupted from the earth, reaching into the sky.

The massive stone pyramids crumbled into fine ash in a single heartbeat. The terrifying shockwave vaporized the sand, the corpses, and the Null Players, wiping out everything in its path.

For a split second, the world fell utterly, terrifyingly silent in the wake of such power.

Aleksey, Mia, and Sylvia, suspended safely in the air, could only stare. First at Caelus, and then at the towering, apocalyptic mushroom cloud rising from the ruined Ancient Domain.

Outside the barrier, every expert in the viewing area shot out of their seats. Their faces were painted with utter disbelief as they watched the destruction broadcast live on the stream.

[Stream Chat: ...]

[Stream Chat: ...]

[Stream Chat: ...]

For that moment, the entire Solaris Kingdom was dead silent.

The broadcast showed nothing but Player 555, floating against the backdrop of a catastrophic mushroom cloud.

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A/N: Thank you all for the incredible support over the last few days! Because of your Golden Tickets, Endless Extraction has risen in the rankings. On that note, thanks to your Power Stones, we also hit T4 in the seasonal rankings. I truly appreciate it!