"Damn it! Who one-shot the boss?" Dragon Soaring World leaped through a breach in the wall, greatsword in hand. Before he could unleash the combo he had prepared, not even ash remained of his target.
"Clear the area, quickly." Qin Chuan's voice reached every player through the regional channel. "Take everything useful. We withdraw in ten minutes."
At his command, more than a hundred thousand players began a sweeping search.
Mechanists wielded oversized wrenches, unbolting the defensive turrets from the walls, bases and all, and packing them away.
Mages crouched with pickaxes, prying the high-grade luminous crystal tiles from the fortress hall one by one.
Even the statue of a god that had stood in the central square was toppled by several shield warriors. They smashed it open and took the Energy Core inside.
Within ten minutes, Heaven Fortress had been stripped down to an empty shell. Only a Supreme Divine Vein Crystal Pillar, hundreds of meters thick, stood alone amid the ruins.
Qin Chuan issued an order over the global broadcast.
"Everyone, fall back a thousand kilometers. Find somewhere sturdy to wait. Things are about to get rough, so don't let the shockwave crush you."
Some players still wanted to pry up more tiles, but they obeyed the broadcast and retreated.
The area was completely clear.
Qin Chuan walked up to the Supreme Divine Vein Crystal Pillar.
It radiated immensely concentrated higher-dimensional energy—just what he needed as a physical foundation for the New Continent.
He drew Moment of Utmost Darkness with a flick of his hand. The jet-black dagger turned in his palm as he drove the Law of Causality to full power.
"Descend!"
With that single word, the special entry on Qin Chuan's System Panel—[Existence Burden: Origin Realm (Causalized)]—began flashing violently, then shattered into streams of light.
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