The Bystander's Position

From someone else's perspective, there were some things they truly had no right to say.

Those who could become World Guardians were never mediocre. Whether in temperament or willpower, they had all unquestionably passed the test.

To keep themselves from becoming those things and joining the enemy's side, these World Guardians could endure thousands upon thousands of years of torture without ever wavering.

Bai Zhi had previously heard Xiao Xiao Bai talk about the fall of this Dining Hall.

The disaster had descended without warning. The entire Dining Hall became a desperate trap for cornered beasts, and all of them were trapped inside as an invisible, terrifying Monster began devouring everything they had.

Sanity, memories, emotions... Once enough of those things had been silently eaten away, horrifying mutations would begin to occur in their bodies.

Xiao Xiao Bai's name had been eaten away at that time.

By the time they finally noticed something was wrong, it was already too late. Left with no other choice, they could only adopt a desperate, all-or-nothing method.

They were World Guardians, burdened with the mission of protecting worlds. But once they fell, they would transform into their opposite: World Destroyers.

Xiao Xiao Bai had not gone into detail about what that method was, but in the end, only thirteen people survived. The rest were "eaten" by them, their lost pieces restored in this way by consuming what the invisible Monster had devoured from them.

—Under such circumstances, those who chose to bear the burden had more courage than those who chose to sacrifice themselves.

Bai Zhi did not know exactly what aspects were restored through that consumption, but with so many World Guardians reduced to only thirteen, it was perfectly reasonable that if those thirteen fell, they would immediately become Top Evil Gods...

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