Daniel listened to the system notifications ringing beside his ears and immediately took out the two secret arts to examine them.

[Endless Divine Power (Divine-grade)]

Restriction: supreme-grade

Description: A secret art created by an Oracle-grade member of the Luna_Fox organization. It can inflict damage far beyond the user’s current realm. After being enhanced, the strength of this secret art has increased tremendously.

With the host’s current strength, it can heavily injure Divine-grade powerhouses.

Daniel’s eyes lit up.

A secret art capable of heavily injuring Divine-grade powerhouses... This was simply a treasure!

He remembered back when he was in the God Realm. His damage had been severely weakened when it landed on Divine-grade powerhouses, almost like level suppression in a game.

If he learned this secret art, would he be able to directly kill Divine-grade beings?

A bold thought flashed through his mind.

"Unfortunately, it has a threshold. I have to step into supreme-grade before I can study it."

He smiled.

At present, he was only eighty levels away from supreme-grade. It would not be long.

He put the secret art away into his personal space.

[Holy Condensation (Divine-grade)]

Restriction: supreme-grade

Description: A secret art created by an Oracle-grade member of Luna_Fox. It allows a supreme-grade powerhouse’s Divine Domain to rival the sage rank of a low Divine-grade powerhouse. After being enhanced, the strength of this secret art has increased tremendously.

...

Daniel’s heart stirred slightly.

There was actually such a heaven-defying secret art in this world, one that could allow a Divine Domain to rival sage rank?

He remembered how that assassin had used his Divine Domain to suppress him the moment he appeared. At the time, Daniel had found it strange. Why did it feel like the man’s Divine Domain was almost comparable to sage rank?

So it had been the effect of this secret art!

"If I can master this secret art, I won’t have to worry about the sage rank of Divine-grade enemies in the future."

He took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with sharp light.

"With my own Strength, I should be able to contend with a sage."

Without a doubt, both of these secret arts were heaven-defying existences.

It could be said that the greatest gains from this battle were precisely these two secret arts.

"This Endless Starfield truly contains everything imaginable. Nothing is too strange to exist here."

Daniel put the secret arts away, his heart filled with anticipation for his promotion to supreme-grade.

...

Camille’s sword strike had swept away the shadowkin legion like a storm.

Daniel, meanwhile, had crushed the sirenfolk army into dust with casual ease.

The players watching from afar felt indescribable shock surging in their hearts.

They were awed by Camille’s wild and unrestrained swordsmanship, and toward Daniel, they developed an almost devout faith. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"No matter what desperate situation fate throws at us, Guild Leader Faustus has never disappointed us."

An old player spoke in a low voice, his tone firm.

"That’s right. He is like a towering tree, blocking all the storms for us. It is true that he has absorbed most of the sunlight and rain from the sky, but it is also precisely because of the order he personally established that we have been able to grow so vigorously and walk far ahead of everyone else."

"As expected of the hero I admire most. He is unstoppable. The scene before us is the best proof—he made everyone withdraw from the battlefield and shouldered the survival of the entire world alone."

"The guild leader is moving forward while carrying the fate of the entire race on his back. He is also moving forward while bearing the full weight of this era."

"I really don’t know when we’ll finally grow strong enough to fight shoulder to shoulder with him..."

"That’s exactly what I mean... I’ve truly had enough of my own weakness and incompetence."

"I swear in the name of the gods, I never want to just stand far away again and watch helplessly as the guild leader charges toward death alone."

Another young warrior clenched his fists. His gaze was fixed on Camille’s figure, and his voice was hoarse.

"Did you see that swordsman? That sword of his was practically like splitting open an entire river of stars. When will we ever possess Strength like that?"

The mage beside him shook his head and gave a bitter smile.

"Stop dreaming for now. Just being able to stand firmly beside the guild leader already requires us to give everything we have."

"But I don’t want to be the one protected forever."

The warrior spoke in a low voice.

"One day, I will stand beside the guild leader too, instead of merely looking up at his back."

No one spoke again.

Beyond the realm, the gazes of the Divine-grade powerhouses had also remained fixed on those two figures.

"I originally thought that swordsman was already a once-in-an-era genius. I never imagined that this human powerhouse would be even more unfathomable."

"That move he used to annihilate the sirenfolk was so effortless that it almost looked ostentatious, almost arrogant."

The Divine-grade powerhouse from the Council of Races sighed softly, his tone filled with shock.

Jack smiled faintly.

"He deliberately did that for us to see."

"With his true strength, destroying the sirenfolk is no harder than crushing a few insects. He is telling every faction lying in wait beyond the realm—whoever dares to make a move had better first weigh whether they have enough ability."

"With that swordsman in this world, and this human powerhouse holding the line as well..."

The Council of Races powerhouse shook his head.

"The other factions probably won’t have much of a chance."

"What I fear is that some factions will use unscrupulous methods to force them to act."

Jack’s gaze swept quietly toward the directions where the Starfarers and pirates were hiding.

...

"This battle... simply can’t be fought."

A Divine-grade powerhouse among the Astral Corsairs gave a bitter smile, his voice full of helplessness.

"Among our subordinates, we cannot pick out a single demi-sage capable of contending with either of those two."

The pirates calculated secretly and discovered that whether it was that swordsman or the human leader, both of them stood more than one level above the strongest demi-sage in their own camp.

"At present, there is only one method—we use some means to force them out of that small world."

"Otherwise, below Divine-grade, they are invincible!"

Extreme thoughts began turning in the pirates’ minds.

"Let’s first see what the Starfarers do. They’re more anxious than we are."

...

"As long as Divine-grade doesn’t appear, they’re practically invincible."

The Starfarers were already starting to think of retreating.

"Then force them out! Once they come into this open starry sky, our Divine-grade powerhouses will only need one hand to crush them into powder!"

Ruthless light flashed in the Starfarers’ eyes.

"But methods like that... aren’t those what those pirates usually use?"

"What time do you think this is? How many years have we wandered through this Endless Starfield? We don’t have a single inch of land beneath our feet that belongs to us. Sooner or later, we’ll die in this cold void."

"Exactly. This small world that voluntarily made its coordinates public is our only path to survival!"

"How about... we first send someone to negotiate with them?"

"Negotiate? If negotiations could solve the problem, why would the sirenfolk and shadowkin have mobilized their armies and met them with blades?"

"Then there’s no more need to talk. Act immediately! Unite those one hundred-plus Starfarer races and work together to set up that Starfall Arcane Array. Force the two powerhouses hiding in that world to come out."

One powerhouse drew the long saber at his waist, a trace of madness in his eyes.

"If they refuse to come out—then we will erase this planet from the Star Chart completely!"

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