The Truth of the Monster World Revealed

The sight before him made God King's heart race.

The Black Tide invading reality had long been an enduring joke on the forums.

And the source of that joke was him.

Back when he had first entered Monster World, after founding the Temple Guild, he had used that line while recruiting players on the forums.

He had jokingly declared that when the Black Tide invaded reality in the future, he would lead the guild's players to ascend the throne and face the Black Tide head-on.

A careless boast from his youth had become a cruel reality a hundred years later.

At that moment, he almost felt as though he were trapped in some absurd dream.

Or perhaps he had simply grown too old, his mind clouded by age, and was hallucinating.

His gaze fixed on the sky.

Layer upon layer of the heavens shattered as thick black fog poured down.

The city's shield was rising, blocking the Black Tide's terrifying pressure.

That familiar dark aura spread across the sky through the city's barrier, carrying the Black Tide's baleful energy from across dimensions.

The Black Tide catastrophe, which had existed only in the virtual realm, had breached the boundary between reality and illusion and descended upon the human world.

His aged heart slammed heavily against his chest, his frail body heaving violently. "Nothing in this world is more absurd than this," he murmured, still unable to accept what lay before him.

After a brief daze, he forcibly suppressed the tight pain in his chest, slowly turned while supporting himself on the window frame, and waved an aged arm to activate the living room's holographic display. Blue light lit up, and a live news broadcast abruptly appeared.

The host on the screen had disheveled makeup. Terror she could not conceal hid in