Emerald City, Central Pyramid.
The carnage outside did not disturb the silence within the archives.
Unlike the fighting on the front lines, this was the battlefield of research-oriented players.
Someone on the History Book, wearing white gloves, carefully read a newly restored Hepa parchment while a group of historian players from the Titan Research Society gathered around him.
"Found it."
Someone on the History Book's voice was somewhat hoarse. "About that 'black rain,' and the source that destroyed the Hepa Civilization."
He projected a passage from the epic he had found:
"That day, the sky split open like a wound."
"It was neither a virus nor a natural disaster."
"It was malice from the depths of the stars—the evil deity known as the Calamity of Extinction, casting a 'poison spear' at our Father God."
"Those worms are manifestations of divine power. Mortals must not touch gods. To touch them is blasphemy, and blasphemy is death."
As the players looked at the name—Calamity of Extinction—they felt it sounded like some ultimate boss's codename.
But in a higher dimension beyond their perception, the truth was far more terrifying than the game's text.
The players had no idea what they were facing, just as they had felt nothing when they saw the Photonic Bacteria Clan's historical records of the Formless Eclipse.
Chaos Titan Gu Yuan's life level had reached the universe's Twelfth Rank. He was a supreme existence capable of destroying stars with a flick of his finger and devouring galaxies.
Even though he was severely injured, his Magic Heart sealed, and in an extremely weakened state, he still possessed the strength of the Tenth Rank. His kinfolk—the players—still possessed potential beyond mortal imagination.
And this so-called Calamity of Extinction was no ordinary enemy.
It was an Eleventh-Rank true god!
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