"Guild Leader—!!!"

In that instant, the towering idol that stood high in the hearts of countless players collapsed with a thunderous crash.

Cries and roars exploded across Earth.

"Impossible..."

"How could Guild Leader die just like that?"

Tears blurred their vision.

Their mouths hung open, their faces still frozen in stunned disbelief.

Faustus was dead?

No...

How could he die?

If he died, what would happen to humanity?

"What kind of joke is this!"

Someone roared like a madman, his voice cracking completely.

"It’s an illusion! Right, we’re playing a game! This game is fake... Wuwu... Boss!!!"

He could barely speak coherently anymore.

But at that moment, Daniel’s figure appeared in the image once again.

The hearts of countless players, which had already burned into ash, seemed to be lit by a spark and came alive again.

"Look! The guild leader isn’t dead!"

"I knew it! Lord Faustus is a god of war! He’s our guardian deity! How could he possibly die?"

Someone wiped away tears while repeating those words over and over again.

"Guild Leader... you have to hold on!"

"What nonsense! Guild Leader will definitely kill them all!"

...

Beyond the realm.

Daniel did not stop for even a single step. He continued charging fiercely toward the Starfarer formation.

"Hm? He didn’t die? What’s going on?"

That Divine-grade powerhouse showed confusion on his face.

"This human... can revive?"

"Damn it! Are all of you just standing around watching the show? Attack together and kill him!"

A powerhouse shouted at the top of his lungs.

The moment his words fell, several Divine-grade powerhouses unfolded their sage ranks at the same time and joined forces against Daniel.

Daniel still charged forward.

The path ahead meant death the moment he stepped onto it, but only that path could give him a way to survive.

It was both a dead end and his only hope.

"This is humanity’s only chance..."

His figure was suppressed once again.

This time, all the Divine-grade powerhouses attacked together, crushing both his main body and his clones!

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief—

Swish—!

Daniel appeared again.

The instant he revived, he summoned his clones once more and continued charging forward with his head down.

"Come then... let’s die together, you bastards!"

Boom—!

He plunged headfirst into the clustered Starfarer ships.

"Walk toward death with me!"

Rumble—!

Daniel’s self-destruction was terrifyingly powerful. Even a large section of the starry sky collapsed from the blast. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Countless Starfarers were crushed into fragments by that destructive Strength.

But in the blink of an eye, Daniel’s figure revived and regenerated from another direction!

Sage rank crashed down again.

Daniel died.

Then exploded!

Boom, boom, boom—!

Every time Daniel revived, he self-destructed once.

The vast and mighty Starfarer formation suffered devastating casualties under his rounds of relentless self-destruction.

On Earth, the players could no longer speak.

They simply watched that incomparably stubborn figure charge into certain death again and again, be suppressed again and again, and be smashed to pieces again and again.

Then he revived and charged in once more.

"The guild leader... is using his own life to buy us a chance to survive!"

The joy of Daniel not dying had yet to fully spread before grief surged up from the depths of their hearts.

"Boss Faustus... the eternal god."

This time, no one held even the slightest dissatisfaction toward Daniel anymore.

Even the schemers lurking in the dark collectively stopped their plots after seeing this scene.

Those who carry firewood for the people must not be allowed to freeze to death in the snowstorm!

To put it bluntly, stabbing someone like that in the back was not something a human deserved to do!

In the image, Daniel self-destructed again.

Again and again.

Madly.

Endlessly.

In the image, flames connected into a sea, and even the starry sky trembled.

"It hurts so much to watch... Are the enemies so powerful that Boss Faustus can only resist them this way?"

Someone wiped away tears, his voice choked.

"Damn it... I’m actually crying."

A burly man with a rough build was now crying like a child.

...

Beyond the realm.

"He’s a ruthless one."

Jack’s emotions were equally complicated.

He was not shocked by Daniel’s strength, though Daniel was indeed powerful.

What truly made his heart tremble was that man’s ferocity—the ferocity to trade life for life and perish together with the enemy.

"Sigh..."

The Council of Races powerhouse also sighed softly.

By now, the Divine-grade powerhouses had already gone mad with slaughter.

Nearly two-thirds of the Starfarers had died.

Even if they truly seized this living world in the end, their races would basically be crippled.

"Kill him! Kill that ant!"

Despair surged up in the hearts of the Divine-grade powerhouses.

Despair for their races!

And all of this had been caused by that ant!

"Die, you damned bastard!"

Daniel was like a tireless machine—revive, self-destruct; revive again, self-destruct again.

He had no choice.

Because on his shoulders rested all of Earth, all of humanity.

"If you kill all of our people, don’t even think of preserving your plane!"

A Divine-grade powerhouse roared hoarsely.

"Are you trying to drag everyone down with you?"

Daniel’s rhythm of self-destruction suddenly stopped.

"Are you... retreating or not?"

His voice was like wind scraping out of an ice pit. There was no expression on his face at all, so cold it made one’s heart turn numb.

"If you insist on mutual destruction, then I’ll accompany you to the very end."

"Then let’s die together!"

Some Divine-grade powerhouses had already lost nearly all of their clansmen. One of them shouted at the top of his lungs,

"Come on! Let’s all be destroyed together!"

"I’ll drag you down with me!"

That Divine-grade powerhouse laughed miserably. The Immortal Singularity throughout his body ignited with a thunderous roar. Even his sage rank began burning fiercely.

He was burning his own life, burning his own soul, forcibly raising his Strength.

"All of you, die!"

He hurled all of his Strength toward Earth.

"Break—!"

But at that very instant...

In the chaotic void, a ring of ripples suddenly spread outward.

The flames on that insane Divine-grade powerhouse’s body went out instantly, as though someone had poured a bucket of ice water over his head.

All the Starfarer Divine-grade powerhouses within that ring of spatial ripples melted silently like snowmen beneath the blazing sun.

Sages had fallen!

Not a single sage from the more than one hundred Starfarer races remained.

They had no power to resist at all. In the blink of an eye, they died within that ring of ripples.

Jack and the Council of Races powerhouse stood up in shock at the same time.

"Oracle-grade."

The Council of Races powerhouse slowly spat out those three words.

"An Oracle-grade has actually descended in person... This..."

Jack’s voice carried a trace of trembling.

Daniel seemed to sense something and abruptly turned his head toward a certain direction.

Every Divine-grade powerhouse who had attacked him—

At this moment, not a single one remained.

All dead!

An existence capable of instantly killing Divine-grade powerhouses so effortlessly...

He stared fixedly at that patch of void without blinking.

Space seemed to be torn open by the gentlest force imaginable—smooth and silent.

Two figures walked out from within, neither hurried nor slow.