The game is over, humans. Did we win?
One dense notification after another lit up on the panel.
The flashing characters poured down like a summer rainstorm, beating against everyone's faces. They resembled a fleeting dream, leaving everyone with an unreal feeling, as though they had fallen into the clouds.
For over a thousand days and nights, every day had been an endless nightmare. How many people had awaited this moment in fear and hunger? Between life and death countless times, how many hearts had held onto a faint hope, waiting for the dawn to pierce the heavy clouds?
But.
"We won?"
The game's notification chime continued to ring, announcing humanity's bright future after winning the game.
Yet the survivors who had won felt not the slightest joy. Instead, they fell into confusion.
The current situation was completely different from the victory they had imagined. Humanity had not thoroughly won the battle, nor had they wiped out all the foreign races.
The surviving Crystal Dragon, Curse Tiger, Yuan Pig, and Thunder Monkey had merely been disqualified by the game. They remained enormous threats. Moreover, the Ancestor Gods of the Five Great Royal Clans and the Ancestor Gods behind countless foreign races were all very real threats! Now that the game rules had become ineffective and no longer restrained the foreign races, would those races cast off all restraint and launch a massive invasion?
"Yes. The end of the game is far from the end of humanity on Earth."
Facing the confused gazes of Wang Dong and the other two, Yu Tie's eyes blazed, and his voice rang out around them like a great bell. His aura began to surge.
"The true battle begins now!"
The instant his voice fell.
A phantom humanoid figure wielding a giant axe appeared on the