The massive platinum sword fell from the sky and pierced the top of the Grieving Signal Tower. Then it dissolved into countless soft threads of light that spread down through the bone tower's structure.
Wherever the threads passed, the deathly white bone lit up from within like a wick, shining with holy light.
The black waves of sound pouring from its openings vanished the instant the light touched them, purified into wisps of smoke.
Before everyone's eyes, the hundred-meter-tall Grieving Signal Tower became a giant lighthouse radiating a gentle white glow.
Then it began to crumble in silence.
It did not turn into particles of light. It became a vast shower of pure experience points!
Whoosh—
Golden light poured down like a torrential rain, falling precisely on the hundreds of believers kneeling in prayer and every player who had joined the charge.
[You participated in the defeat of the LV100 Epic-grade Sin Lord "Grieving Signal Tower"...] [Calculating contribution...] [You gained 12,478,952 experience points!] [Congratulations, you leveled up!] [Congratulations, you leveled up!]
In an instant, golden flashes of level-ups rippled across the survivors!
The hundreds of players kneeling at the front, whose faith was strongest, gained several times as much experience as everyone else!
"I... I gained three levels! Three!" Macron the thief stared at his level, trembling with excitement.
"Me too! And I got another ten thousand War Ladder Points!"
"Hahahaha! We're rich! What a haul!"
Relief at surviving and the thrill of their soaring levels sent the whole group into an uproar.
They looked up at the figure still hovering in the sky. Nothing remained in their eyes but fervor and worship.
Kevin the mage rose from the ground. He looked at his sharply increased stats and level, then at the ruins of the signal tower