The cocoon of intertwined gold and purple light floated above the vast crater left where the Golden City had been wiped away. It had become the focus of the entire world.
Every livestream, every player's gaze, was fixed on that cocoon.
What was he doing?
Breaking through?
Was he breaking through right there, in front of billions of players around the world?!
Traffic on the Apocalypse Forum exploded, and the site crashed completely.
Countless posts appeared in the same second, only to be buried beneath even more in the next.
[North American War Zone]
"No! That's impossible! He just fought a Quasi-god. How could he have anything left for a breakthrough?"
"It's a trick! It has to be some kind of illusion! A Yan Country conspiracy!"
"The cocoon's energy reading is still climbing! My God, what did he swallow? A Quasi-god?!"
[European War Zone]
"We must reassess the threat posed by Dragon Soaring World. He isn't merely powerful. He breaks the rules."
"One step to godhood... We're still fighting for a piece of Legendary Tier equipment, and he's about to touch the realm of gods. It isn't fair!"
[Yan Country War Zone]
"Hahaha! See that? Everybody see that? That's the might of our Yan Country War Zone!"
"Guild Leader Dragon Soar is incredible!" The last word came out as a squeak.
"I declare Dragon Soaring Dynasty the second-best guild in the world, right behind Apex. Anyone agree? Anyone object?"
"I agree!"
None of the uproar outside reached Dragon Soaring World's consciousness.
At that moment, his Mental World was facing a storm unlike any before it.
What Abyss Warlord · Causus had poured into him before dying was not merely immense energy. It also carried the filth and chaos accumulated over billions of years in the deepest reaches of the