Silver moonlight poured across the land.

Below, an enormous barrier formation shone brilliantly.

Walls radiating silver-white light completely enclosed the coastline.

Kanzaki Rei could also see that this was the point where the dark ocean and the luminous sea became separated.

Standing high in the sky and gazing downward over the waters, he could see monsters swarming endlessly like mountain ranges and tidal seas.

Flags fluttered atop the distant walls. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

And the emblem on those banners looked strangely familiar.

That insignia...

Wasn’t that Loren’s royal crest?

Although Loren had reached the Moon Sea, its weak national power had never been enough to establish a foothold there.

They severely lacked Level 6 Class Holders.

They didn’t even possess a single Level 7.

If placed on the continent of Rylen—

Or among a few small surrounding islands—

Perhaps they would still possess some degree of competitiveness.

But within the scale of the entire Moon Sea, compared to even slightly larger continents—

They were insignificant.

Yet now Loren’s flag actually flew over the Land of Moonwatch.

How could that not be shocking?

Whoosh!

Monsters streaked through the air!

Ferocious waves of monsters continuously crawled out from the black deep sea.

Meanwhile, groups of Class Holders stood atop the city walls.

Magic.

Arrows.

Sword aura.

All rained down like a violent storm.

Even nearby seas erupted with terrifying tsunamis while overwhelming blood aura surged skyward.

The ocean itself exploded under the force of battle!

At minimum, Level 7 Class Holders had already joined the war.

Kanzaki Rei casually waved his hand.

A passage immediately unfolded before him—

A Phase Traversal gateway.

Passing through the Phase Traversal corridor, Kanzaki Rei instantly appeared inside the walls of the Land of Moonwatch.

Tap—

The moment he landed, his perception swept across the entire Land of Moonwatch.

He found a familiar aura.

But the owner of that aura—

Was not the person he wanted to see.

Lothdan.

The king of Loren.

He was here.

And judging from the situation, he sat high within the luxurious imperial palace of the Land of Moonwatch.

It really had developed exactly the same way as in the future he had seen.

After returning from the reset timeline, Future Simulation could once again predict futures within thirty days.

He had already seen the Land of Moonwatch before.

But after experiencing so many things, Kanzaki Rei still preferred judging reality with his own eyes.

Tap—

Kanzaki Rei stood atop the wall and looked back down below.

Monsters surged endlessly from the ocean surface like an infinite tide.

BOOM!

Sections of the city wall collapsed and shattered from time to time.

Monsters charged through the broken defenses while humans engaged them in brutal combat.

The number of high-level Class Holders was already insufficient.

The truly powerful fighters were all battling high-tier monsters elsewhere.

The aftershocks of those battles spread across vast distances.

Kanzaki Rei looked toward the breached section of the defense line.

Then casually raised one hand.

In an instant—

Countless black threads appeared across the battlefield.

His right hand tightened slightly.

The threads instantly contracted, descending into chaotic slaughter!

SPLAT!

When those black threads touched humans, they merely passed over their bodies like shadows.

Sliding across their skin without causing the slightest harm.

But when they touched monsters—

Those black threads became razor-sharp blades that instantly sliced their bodies apart!

「Tier 6 Dark Magic — Infinite Hunting Chaos Shadow (Lv. 501)」

The black threads covered thousands of kilometers.

Virtually every monster that touched them was instantly severed in two.

Even heavily armored Tier 6 monsters were no exception.

Clearly, this was merely a Tier 6 spell—

And an extremely large-scale area annihilation spell at that.

Yet in Kanzaki Rei’s hands, killing Tier 6 monsters with it was as effortless as slaughtering chickens.

「Myriad-Grid Transformation」

Elemental conversion.

Those dark threads were directly transformed into an even sharper substance.

「Gapless Darkness」

A unique dark material.

Much like Molten Sanctified Flame—

Except its uniqueness lay elsewhere.

It was both an element—

And a gap.

Between every element existed tiny pockets of void, just as gaps existed between atoms themselves.

Those microscopic voids were also darkness—

Yet they did not belong to the Dark Element.

And 「Gapless Darkness」 incorporated even those microscopic gaps into darkness itself.

This darkness—

Could infiltrate anything.

It could cut through all things.

In an instant, the monsters flooding like tides through the broken walls into the Land of Moonwatch were completely shredded.

The surviving Class Holders who narrowly escaped death still trembled with lingering fear.

"Who attacked just now?!"

"Holy shit, I almost died!"

"Was that a Level 7 Dark Mage? Do we even have someone like that in the Land of Moonwatch?"

"I think we do, but I heard most of our Level 7 powerhouses already joined the expedition mission."

"As long as they successfully seal the source of the Abyss, these monsters should disappear too."

Then which powerhouse had remained here?

Kanzaki Rei stood in the distance, listening to their conversation through his perception.

In truth, powerful experts were still stationed within the city.

Kanzaki Rei could clearly sense a warrior whose aura was unmistakably Level 8 calmly remaining within the Land of Moonwatch.

But he had no intention of intervening.

And Kanzaki Rei had already investigated the reason why.

Cruel environments created stronger warriors.

The Level Advancement Ritual required individuals to prove the results of their own growth before leveling up.

And battlefields balanced between life and death provided the greatest possible stimulus.

Only desperate battlefields capable of crushing hope entirely could truly forge powerful fighters.

The same applied to archers and assassins.

And under such conditions, magic itself would flourish as well.

Using war to cultivate the strong—

Even if it meant sacrificing a portion of the weak—

That was the current strategy.

Kanzaki Rei glanced back at the city walls.

The destroyed sections were already being repaired.

Reinforcements were rushing over as well.

The monsters had mostly been cleared away by him.

For the moment, fresh waves could not replenish fast enough.

They should be able to hold the line.

Turning around—

Kanzaki Rei instantly arrived within the magnificent white-jade imperial palace.

Ministers stood in rows on either side while facing Lothdan seated high above.

And Kanzaki Rei appeared directly between the two rows of officials.

"Who are you?!"

Swish!

Two sharp blades instantly pressed against Kanzaki Rei’s neck.

Kanzaki Rei casually flicked a finger.

Bang! Bang!

The blades shattered instantly.

Yet at the exact moment they broke—

A powerful kick already swept toward Kanzaki Rei.

Captain-General of the Royal Guard — Brol.

A Level 6 warrior.

BOOM—

Yet no one even saw how Kanzaki Rei moved.

The Captain-General who had launched the sweeping kick was instantly blasted backward.

With a thunderous crash, he slammed into the white-jade wall behind him.

A massive crater exploded into the emerald-white structure.

Every person present revealed expressions of utter shock.

The white-jade walls were incomparably sturdy.

Even a full-powered strike from a Level 6 warrior could hardly damage them.

Yet this man—

Merely from the aftershock of casually knocking someone away—

Had blasted a deep crater into the wall.