Exposing the Three Great Scams: Is the World a Pasture? The Devourer Stole Phanes's Fruits of Victory!

"We'll call this unknown Deity the 'Savior' for now. He sacrificed himself to prevent the world from being utterly destroyed, stabilizing it in a 'half-finished' state."

"But his sacrifice also left him incredibly weak. He may even have fallen asleep, or... already perished."

"And that gave another being an opportunity." Tang San's gaze swept over the group. "That 'Devourer' may not possess the supreme Authority over creation and restoration that the 'Savior' had, but he seized this once-in-a-millennium opportunity. He took over this world, which had been saved but was now terribly fragile."

"The order the 'Savior' left behind was like a cage. It both protected this world from collapsing at once and trapped every living being within it."

"And the 'Devourer' became the warden of this cage. He couldn't—or, rather, wouldn't—repair the world, because a healthy world couldn't provide him with 'food.' So he did the opposite. Within the framework of the order established by the 'Savior,' he constantly unleashed disasters, spawned monsters, and twisted the Laws."

"His goal was to keep this world in a state of 'Living Hell' forever. He made every living being struggle amid endless fear, despair, and pain, so he could wring the most 'delicious' Life and Spiritual Energy out of them."

Tang San's words revealed to everyone a tragic and brutal picture spanning the ages: Gods rising and replacing one another.

A compassionate hero had saved the world at the cost of his life.

Yet a despicable Thief had usurped his place and turned the world he had saved into his own pasture.

"That bastard!" Niu Tian could no longer hold back. His roar sent the surrounding space trembling with a terrifying aura.

"An unscrupulous scoundrel who stole the Fruits of Victory!" Tai Tan was equally furious.

Hai Long, Tian Hen, Ye Yinzhu, Zi... The powerful figures from different worlds all felt the same emotions. They mourned and admired the hero, and they burned with boundless fury toward the Thief.

Chang Gongwei slowly rose to his feet and bowed deeply to the broken yet awe-inspiring figure on the Light Screen.

His bow spoke for every righteous powerhouse present.

"We must know his name." A'Dai (Mandun) spoke in his characteristic emotionless tone, but anyone could hear the gravity in his words.

Just then, beneath the frozen image on the Light Screen, a line of ancient Golden Text slowly appeared.

[Phanes]

[First Throne, King of the Sky, anchored himself to suppress the Abyss and reshape the World Cornerstone.]

Phanes.

First Throne.

King of the Sky.

Those few short words carried an unimaginable weight.

"Phanes..." Huo Yuhao murmured the name, as if engraving it into his soul. So that was his name. Phanes.

"First Throne..." Tang San's expression grew grave. If there was a first, that meant...

Before he could finish the thought, the image on the Light Screen suddenly changed again.

The figure called Phanes, along with the Golden Text, slowly faded like a phantom. In their place appeared an immense, barren wasteland.

The sky was a strange dark red, and the earth was cracked, with glasslike crystals everywhere, as if it had once been scorched by some unimaginable heat. An air of silence and finality hung over the entire world. It was a graveyard left by war, where even the wails of the dead had faded away.

Phanes appeared in the image once more. He looked utterly exhausted, and the robes made of light that he wore had dimmed considerably. Still, he walked across the wasteland, as if surveying it or searching for something.

Everyone held their breath, unable to understand what the "Savior" was looking for in these ruins after saving the world.

At last, he stopped.

Before him lay a colossal skeleton, resting quietly in a rift in the earth.

It was the skeleton of a dragon.

Yet it was unlike any dragon known to the people of the Douluo God Realm. Its bones were a deep, dark purple, as if they could devour all light. At every joint, a visible energy seemed to flicker like black lightning.

It wasn't Divine Power or Elemental Power, but something far more ancient and chaotic, imbued with an aura of destruction and ill omen.

Just looking at the skeleton through the Light Screen made all the Dragon Clan members present tremble and recoil from the depths of their bloodline.

"This is..." For the first time, the Dragon God's majestic voice wavered. His golden pupils contracted sharply as he stared at the skeleton.

As the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Dragons, he could clearly sense that although the skeleton was shaped like a dragon, its Life Essence was entirely different from his own and from that of every Dragon Clan member he had created. It was... a higher-ranking existence, yet one that had taken a completely opposite path.

Gu Yuena's silver hair stirred despite the lack of wind. Rather than repulsion, she felt a strange pull, as if the power within the skeleton resonated faintly with something inside her. Alarmed, she immediately severed the connection.

As the group stared in uncertainty, new Golden Text appeared beneath the Light Screen once more.

[After stabilizing the Earth Vein, Phanes found the Dragon Skeleton of the Second Throne, Nibelungen, on the wasteland of the final battlefield of the Throne War. It had been left behind after Nibelungen was erased, possessed Descender Status, and contained an endless Abyss Power.]

The sheer amount of information made everyone's minds ring.

"Second Throne!"

"Nibelungen!"

"Descender Status?"

"Abyss Power... a Dragon Skeleton!"

A chorus of astonished cries rang out. Each word struck the group like a heavy hammer.

"So that's it! It all makes sense now!" Tang San's eyes flashed with Divine Radiance. "I understand! Now everything adds up!"

His voice drew everyone's attention.

"The source of the 'Devourer's' power—the Thief who stole Phanes's Fruits of Victory—is this!" Tang San pointed at the skeleton called Nibelungen on the Light Screen.

"The Throne War... It was clearly a war between Gods. Phanes, the 'First Throne,' defeated Nibelungen, the 'Second Throne.' But to save the world, Phanes exhausted his power and even anchored himself to suppress the world."

Huo Yuhao immediately followed his reasoning, his voice cold. "And the 'Devourer' may not have been powerful at all. He might even have been an insignificant nobody. But he discovered an incredible treasure: the remains of a Fallen Throne!"