The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 583 - Guard, as in Security Guard

Using the gate, Han Wu arrived on the Heaven Stair Civilization’s first floor. As he stepped out, he felt a faint pressure affecting him. The force was so weak that he could ignore it.

However, for Divine Beings and weaker Demigods, that pressure made movement difficult. Any delay in movement or reaction during battle would most likely result in death.

Han Wu smiled and walked away from the gate. A large crowd was standing outside the area, many of them Divine Beings.

He studied their youth and inexperience and recalled his own days as a Divine Being. At that time, he had endured constant bullying. Now, he stood as the strongest student in Imperial College and the Blood Coliseum’s owner. He had come a long way.

Han Wu sighed and continued forward. Beyond the gate, the area had already turned into a battlefield, with skirmishes erupting everywhere.

From a personal perspective, the scene felt cruel. From the perspective of a God or an entire civilization, it was simply the natural order. Civilizations invaded one another, killing or being killed. The rule was simple and brutal. Only the strong had the right to live with dignity.

He continued walking until he was tens of kilometers from the gate. The farther he went, the fewer members of the Divine Civilization he saw, while more and more life forms from the Heaven Stair Civilization appeared.

Sensing his foreign aura, they attacked. However, Han Wu was far too powerful for them to pose any threat. He didn’t need to fight personally and summoned some ordinary units to wipe them out. Even that was unnecessary. With his Divine Authorities alone, he could have killed them all.

When they died, their corpses turned into light and disappeared. This was a form of energy recycling. Through it, the Heaven Stair Civilization could utilize the energy to nurture more life forms and accelerate their growth.

Han Wu was very wary of this Law. Even though some of the total energy was lost when a life form died, his own units were also affected by the same Law. If they fell in battle, they would turn into wisps of energy and nurture the Heaven Stair Civilization.

That meant he would be strengthening his enemies. Worse still, without corpses, his units had nothing to consume and evolve. They would just be staring at an empty plate. Moreover, due to this Law, his strategy of mass-summoning undead units was useless here. There were no corpses to raise!

Han Wu concluded that not a single undead could exist in the Heaven Stair Civilization’s vicinity. His infamous mass-skeleton warfare style had no place there.

As he calculated whether the Divine Civilization could recover its losses from invading the Heaven Stair Civilization, he noticed that one of his Elite life forms reached the Unique rank during battle.

That discovery revealed the value of participating in the war between civilizations. His units were advancing at remarkable speed. The surrounding pressure was forcing large amounts of ambient energy into their bodies, especially during battles. Under such conditions, advancing to the next rank became far easier.

Unfortunately, the pressure on the first floor was insufficient. It benefited Common and Elite life forms, but was useless for Unique ones. Hence, Han Wu decided to ascend to higher floors.

Each floor teemed with numerous native life forms. On the fifth floor, he even encountered an outer member of the Heaven Stair Association.

That outer member hailed from the Zombie Civilization and had two powerful abilities. His overall strength approached the Lord rank, but against Han Wu, his strength amounted to nothing.

At present, both he and the Divine Civilization possessed limited knowledge of the mysterious Heaven Stair Association, confined to the infamous Heaven Stair Challenge and the Thirteen Guards.

Therefore, Han Wu didn’t kill him. Instead, he captured him and with some persuasion, he extracted valuable information.

First, the Heaven Stair Association was divided into inner and outer members. The inner members resided above the fiftieth floor and consisted entirely of elites that had demonstrated extraordinary abilities during the Heaven Stair Challenge.

The outer members occupied the fiftieth floor and below, with their headquarters located on the fiftieth floor. Two departments were located there. The first was the security guard department, which maintained public safety from the first to the fiftieth floor. The second was the production department, which collected all the resources generated in the lower half of the Heaven Stair Civilization and submitted them to the inner members.

The outer members were further divided into five ranks: executive, section chief, division chief, bureau chief, and director. Each rank corresponded to a specific range of floors. The executives could only stay on the tenth floor and below, section chiefs up to the twentieth floor, the division chiefs up to the thirtieth, bureau chiefs up to the fortieth, and directors on the fiftieth.

Han Wu also learned from the executive that the security guard department’s directors were known as the Thirteen Guards.

The revelation stunned him. He had never imagined that the guards referred to ordinary security personnel. The information unnerved him. To think that even the security guards of the outer members here at the Heaven Stair Civilization could disrupt the Imperial College’s peace. How strong must the inner members be?

He had assumed that the Divine Civilization was standing near the peak of all civilizations, yet it was evident that they still had a long way ahead. If the Heaven Stair Civilization realized how much precious information the executive had revealed, the punishment would have been severe.

Han Wu was merciful and killed him to spare him that fate. He then uploaded the information he had obtained to the Divine Civilization’s dedicated forum.

After confirming its authenticity, Han Wu received 300 million points. His eyes lit up with delight. The reward was modest since he could just summon billions of his units to earn billions of points, but it did give him a new way to earn more points.

If a single executive was worth 300 million points, then a section chief would likely be worth 3 billion, a division chief 30 billion, a bureau chief 300 billion, and the directors most likely 3 trillion each.

He checked the list of rewards to see what he could exchange for 3 trillion points.

[Rank 8 God equipment]

[Rank 8 Sacred Object]

[Rank 8 Building]

[Heavenrender life form]

[Juvenile World life form]

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Han Wu gazed at the treasures that seemed to beckon him. Since the security department’s thirteen directors had either died, been captured, or escaped, he set his eyes on the production department’s directors.

He didn’t know how many there were, but he was certain the number was small. Each of them was a walking piece of Rank 8 God equipment, and he couldn't let them escape. He quickly ran back to the gate and sent himself to the fiftieth floor. No matter what, he had to capture a director!