"They're dead..."
"They all died in an instant!"
"He really is a Dimension-level deity!"
"But that deity is strange. He has no aura of a Dimension-level deity, yet he has their strength?"
"Could he be—"
At the center of the ink-black island, the vice-captain of the Super Battle Squad, wearing a black bamboo hat, abruptly rose to his feet, shock flashing in his eyes.
Below Dimension-level, yet possessing Dimension-level strength!
This was both astonishing and terrifying.
Throughout all history, creatures capable of this had been exceedingly rare!
The gulf between Dimension-level and anything below it was far too vast.
Only those few dozen creatures who ranked at the very forefront of the Three Thousand Dimensions throughout all history could bridge that terrifying gulf!
Could this be a Divine Path Leader?
A Divine Path Leader who was still growing and had yet to reach the pinnacle stage?
At that thought, his breathing quickened.
There was a golden bounty in the First Dimension.
Whoever slew a Divine Path Leader would receive a tremendous boon!
A truly tremendous boon!
A boon that would give him an excellent chance of reaching Top-tier Dimension-level!
"I must kill him!"
"I absolutely cannot let the captain find out!"
"A growing Divine Path Leader—this is the greatest opportunity of my life!"
"And even a Divine Path Leader..."
"...would already be defying heaven by wielding Ordinary Dimension-level strength while still below Dimension-level."
"Although my High-grade Dimension-level strength isn't enough to kill someone at Ordinary Dimension-level..."
"...he isn't truly at Ordinary Dimension-level. Only his strength has reached that level. His fundamental nature is still below Dimension-level!"
"With a fundamental nature below Dimension-level, I can slay him!"
His eyes blazed with fiercely burning light.
His heart, which had not beaten violently for countless ages, now pounded wildly, thump, thump, thump. He