The black patterns on Qin Chuan's body receded like the tide, all drawing back into him.
He opened his eyes, and his entire aura had changed completely.
The sharp, oppressive presence he had displayed before was gone. In its place was a tranquility bordering on the Void. It was as though he merely stood there, yet had melded with the entire space.
"President! You—you're all right?"
Water God was the first to rush over. He circled Qin Chuan twice, wanting to reach out and touch him but not daring to. The sight was comical.
"You scared me half to death just now! I thought that pile of black sludge was going to burst you apart!"
"That was the sign that the Divine Kingdom was collapsing."
Season Star pushed up her data visor, a lingering trace of fear still visible beneath the lenses.
"President, if I'm not mistaken, you used your own causality as the price for granting the wish, balancing the Chaos Chalice's scales. If anything had gone wrong, it would have been self-eradication."
Evergreen nodded as well, his tone solemn.
"Sacrificing one's own 'causality'... I've never heard of such a thing. President, this attempt of yours was truly far too dangerous."
Qin Chuan merely shook his head, sensing the completely renewed world within him.
The causality that had been severed had indeed weakened his connection with "World Number 273," but in exchange, he had gained a small world in the truest sense of the word.
Within the Divine Kingdom, mountains and rivers stretched far and wide, while rivers surged onward.
Billions of purified souls had become the purest Supplicants, finding peace upon this land.
They no longer harbored resentment or roared in fury. Instead, they had become part of the cycle within this Divine Kingdom.
At that very moment,