Demon Hunters—or rather, the Ancient Species—were super artificial humans created by the Magic Emperor of Horleta, and the secrets hidden behind them far exceeded what Hao Ren had initially imagined. He had originally thought these super-living beings were, at most, experimental products designed to steal the Goddess's authority. No matter how grand their background was, it should not have extended beyond the stellar circle where Horleta was located. Yet he had never expected them to have truly been placed directly on the battlefield of the God-slaying War. Although they themselves knew nothing about it, their souls, their flesh, and their very existence were all inseparably connected to that war. Without realizing it, these artificial humans had been implanted into the Creation Goddess's information network as "disguised embedded viruses." Using the divine feature codes they carried, they deceived the network's identification mechanism and unknowingly replaced all its uplink nodes. When the God-slaying War erupted in full force, on the eve of the Creation Goddess's fall, all communication between the Founding Star and the lower Mortal World was severed. Yet no one had thought that the root cause of the network failure lay on a "barbaric" planet located in the frontier...
"That mastermind seems to know the Creation Goddess extremely well... almost to an inconceivable degree." Hao Ren felt a chill run through him. Someone capable of manipulating a true god so thoroughly posed an enormous threat. This "third-party force" was more dangerous than every opponent he had previously predicted. The God-slaying race possessed only strength and ambition, and in the end was nothing more than a disposable "tool." Lockmadon was powerful and bizarre, but he was merely a mad primordial demigod. Even the Lord of Madness, that powerful Primordial Creature, was only a mindless, phenomenon-level enemy. A being without reason naturally