As the Supreme Speaker's grand voice rang out, a streak of light shot from the thirteenth page of the book.
The light crossed space-time and landed directly in Alpha territory.
The players were still chatting foolishly, shooting the breeze, repairing their equipment, and flooding the forum with posts.
The next moment, they turned to dust, which scattered and vanished in the wind.
One player after another was reduced to ashes, from carbon-based beings to machines, from low-level to high-level players. The guiding principle was absolute equality among all beings—but everyone had to take a number.
"W-WTF!?"
"Did Thanos snap his fingers again?"
"I can do this all day!!"
"Do your sister! The Captain's already been replaced—what the hell are you talking about?!"
"Server, the server crashed?"
"Don't tell me it's another Cyber Tide?"
From the beginning of the Three Insect Calamity to the end of the Alpha conquest, fifty or sixty thousand players had come to this star system in total. They were all first-rate players, with Tier Three levels and full sets of Tier Three equipment. On the forums, every one of them qualified as a big shot.
Yet at this moment, all those big shots were annihilated in an instant.
And they were not even the primary targets of the cosmic relic's attack.
Within the virtual plane.
The sea of stars became a dazzling nexus formed from an immense gathering of information. The light released by the Alphas was a series of rapidly flowing Tier Three life codes. They flickered and leaped through virtual space, weaving a dreamlike web of light. Every ray carried boundless knowledge and possibility. They intertwined and collided, bursting with sparks of thought that illuminated this virtual universe.
Yet in the next moment, the Alphas revealed their virtual shells one after another and