Starlight Rankings.

This was a grand event of the Starfield Tier.

However, there was one important point: only powerhouses below Divine-grade were qualified to appear on this ranking.

The ranking would be cleared and reset every once in a while. Every reset was a carnival for demi-sages from all kinds of powerful factions.

Any powerhouse who made it onto the ranking would be watched by forces across the entire star domain. They would be sought after, courted, and offered enormous benefits.

Starfield Tier!

Countless demi-sages sharpened their heads and fought with everything they had, all just to carve their names onto it.

...

Divine Wind Realm, Starfall Isle.

[Ding! You have received a new forbidden-grade archer class change quest. Please check it.]

Faustus casually opened the quest panel.

[Divine Might]（forbidden-grade archer class change quest）

Restriction: forbidden-grade archer

Quest Difficulty: Exalted-grade

Quest Objectives:

Repel the Godkin’s attack.

Successfully survive.

Quest Introduction: You turned Conrad against the Godkin and occupied Divine Wind Realm. This action is equivalent to tearing the Godkin’s face off and stomping on it again and again.

The Godkin army will arrive very soon. You must stand firm within the Godkin’s wrath!

Quest Duration: Long-term

Quest Reward: [Scroll of Version Upgrade] ×1, [forbidden-grade archer Class Awakening Scroll] ×1.

Scroll of Version Upgrade?

Faustus was slightly startled.

Good grief, here it came again!

There was not much to say about the quest itself.

As long as Divine-grade powerhouses did not descend, he could walk sideways across this entire world.

No matter how many Godkin came, he would take them all.

No matter how many came, that was how many would die!

What truly stirred his heart was the scroll itself.

A new version...

What would it bring this time?

Could it be... the fusion of the game and reality?

After all, quite a few signs of fusion had already appeared in the real world!

Especially for top-tier players like him. The strength of their bodies in reality was already almost no different from in the game!

He was already at the level where he could stand still and let artillery shells bombard him without them doing anything to him.

Faustus took a deep breath.

No matter what it was, what was meant to come would come eventually!

However, there was still one more thing he needed to consider.

The Godkin were about to make a move, and judging from the situation, it would not take too long!

The information revealed by this quest was already more than enough.

At the very least, he had roughly grasped the Godkin’s movements.

Thinking of this, he immediately recalled Conrad and the others and began preparing for war.

...

Aetheria.

For no reason at all, Carodion felt a wave of panic in his heart.

It was not fear, but an indescribable throbbing, like the dead silence in the instant before dark clouds pressed down on the world.

He kept feeling that something was coming.

Whoosh—!

Faustus’s puppet avatar appeared in front of him.

"My king."

Carodion lowered his head and saluted.

He knew this was his master’s puppet.

It possessed the exact same Strength as the main body and could even share all gains with him.

At this moment, the puppet’s level had also soared along with the main body, already rushing all the way to Level 300!

Daniel nodded, then raised his eyes to look at the war fortress suspended in the sky. His tone was calm.

"Carodion, prepare the entire army for battle!"

Carodion’s heart tightened.

Sure enough.

What was meant to come had finally arrived!

He did not dare delay and immediately ordered the entire realm to enter a state of war readiness.

The defensive magic arrays in every city were activated in full. On the city walls, those cold war machines lit up one after another with a dark glow, like sleeping beasts opening their eyes.

Daniel had no intention of using the players’ Strength.

In Divine Wind Realm, he had personally witnessed how terrifying Holy Relics were.

With the players’ current foundation, they could not withstand that kind of thing.

In fact, he did not even plan to let anyone else make a move.

He alone was enough!

Just then, movement came from the fortress in the clouds.

Millions of Divine Blood Legion warriors split into two vast torrents and poured out from the city, stepping out of that fortress hanging beyond the painting.

The moment they entered the world of Aetheria, Daniel sensed them.

It was like a drop of ink falling into clear water.

There was no hiding it at all.

He had no way to deal with the cloud fortress hidden inside the spatial crevice, but as for these prey that had already walked into the painting—

He had plenty of methods.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Several powerful auras erupted without the slightest concealment.

That was the pressure of demi-sages, on the same level as Conrad. There were a full four or five of them.

Daniel raised an eyebrow, and his figure instantly disappeared from where he stood.

When he reappeared, he was already standing above the heads of the two legions.

Boom! Boom!

The Divine Blood Legion reacted extremely quickly and entered combat state in an instant.

Immortal Singularity ignited like dry firewood. Divine Domains spread open like a curtain across the heavens. The might of Holy Relics bore down like mountains.

Those five demi-sages surrounded him from every side.

And yet, no matter how one looked at this scene, it felt strange.

It was clearly they who had surrounded Daniel, but the feeling it gave was more like Daniel alone had trapped all of them inside a cage!

Daniel’s sudden appearance had caught them off guard.

Hadn’t the master of the Hall of Divine Grace said this fellow was not in Aetheria?

The intelligence was wrong!

But at this point, they had no time to care about that.

The arrow was already nocked on the bowstring. Whether Daniel was here or not, since they had run into him, they would fight.

Boom, boom, boom!

The demi-sages burned Immortal Singularity with all their might.

They knew better than anyone just how powerful Daniel was.

This battle was bound to be filled with danger!

They had surrounded Daniel, but it looked far more like Daniel had nailed them to the execution rack.

At the same time, the divine artifacts on them transmitted the entire scene back to the God realm without missing a single detail.

"Kill—!"

Following the Godkin commander’s order, the Divine Blood Legion unleashed ten thousand arrows at once.

The five demi-sages attacked at the same time as well, sealing off all of Daniel’s paths of retreat from five directions.

No one cared about outnumbering him.

They only wished they had a hundred times or a thousand times more companions beside them.

Because Daniel was too strong!

They were fighting this war with the resolve to die.

If Daniel did not die, then they would.

The Godkin demi-sages were already staking their lives.

Rumble—!

The Divine Blood Legion’s frenzied bombardment, the Godkin demi-sages’ pincer attack from all directions, Divine Domains surging over like tides, Holy Relics smashing down like mountains—

Daniel’s figure was instantly submerged inside an endless torrent of energy.

However, Daniel strolled leisurely, neither hurried nor flustered.

Every attack missed him by the tiniest margin, but no matter what, none of them could touch even the corner of his clothes.

Even divine arts that covered an area and forced a guaranteed hit somehow veered off course when they reached him.

It was as though a blade had been placed against the side of his neck, yet that blade would forever remain one hair’s breadth away and could never truly cut down.

Daniel stood there without moving an inch.

Yet not a single killing move that filled the sky could touch him.

This incomparably bizarre sight made the Godkin demi-sages feel a chill rising from their bones.

"Faustus... has actually become this strong!"

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

"It’s over. We underestimated him."

"How did this human grow to such a level..."

They believed they had already taken Daniel seriously enough. They had even used everything they had.

But Daniel was even more monstrous than they had imagined.

And not just by a little.

The gap was so vast that they could not even hope to catch up.

The corner of Daniel’s mouth lifted slightly.

This was the power of the Fate Law of Causality!

As long as he altered the result, he could achieve this level of effect.

He was confident that even if a million demi-sage ranks stood before him, the result would not be any different!

Because what he held in his hand was law.

Law stood above the Strength of all elements.

"It’s my turn."

He spoke indifferently.

Before his voice had even faded, endless ice and fire elements suddenly surged out from the void, gathering into a vast, heaven-shaking ocean.

Upon seeing this scene, the demi-sages’ faces turned ashen, and some of them instantly fell into despair!