When the God Above Gods began to fall into the mortal world, events developed beyond every being's plans.
Originally, it was like a malicious being continually poisoning a pond, preparing to watch every fish inside die.
Normally, the fish had no way out. They could only wait for the "poison" to spread through the entire pond. Perhaps only a very few large fish could leap into another pond and hope the monster would not set its sights on their new home.
That was how the strong bullied the weak, like three dimensions crushing two dimensions. Unless another being roughly its size came along and slapped it flat.
But clearly, humanity was not that large. Across the entire multiverse, without any Tier 11 humans, they would always just be fish in a pond—resources and toys for higher-dimensional beings.
The entire Nirvana Plan existed to leap out of that pond. Yet after only a few years, the hunter that eradicated possibilities had arrived.
The truth was, as long as this Fifth Claw had obediently poisoned the water and waited for the "fish" to die out, humanity's greatest resistance would probably have been abandoning the Mother Star, remembering their hatred, and waiting for a chance to take revenge.
But this thing was an idiot.
Or, fortunately for humanity, it was an arrogant idiot.
Not only had it noticed the crack beneath its feet, but with "Gourmet" as bait, it had no intention of avoiding it at all.
Rumble!
Thus, the road by the pond "suddenly" collapsed, and it fell in.
Whether the fish were all right was unknown, but it was definitely not all right.
". . . Actually, our world is very much not all right."
Lu PingAn sniffed the increasingly fishy, rotten sea breeze, his scalp tingling. At a time like