Arcueid Brunestud

That familiar feeling was back!

It was the feeling every newly awakened Transcendent had experienced when they first entered the old training space and got brutally beaten by the rookie training mode!

Back then, the rookie Operators had been abused in every possible way by their own "past lives," beaten so badly they questioned their existence. Usually, it took multiple training sessions before they improved, and eventually, through all that abuse, they surpassed themselves and developed the illusion that they "had made it."

As their strength increased and they gained more real-world experience in operations against Mystery, their continued victories gradually gave the Transcendent Operators a sense of overconfidence.

Naturally, although Mystery still held an overwhelming advantage in reality, the Operators did not know that. Nor had they encountered truly invincible enemies. Since they kept winning battle after battle against Mystery, it was impossible for them not to get cocky.

After all, not everyone was like Su Yun, with the permissions granted by the World Consciousness as a cheat.

Therefore, to prevent the Operators' inflated egos from causing irreparable consequences, Su Yun, as Archbishop of Destiny, had to use practical action to push that swelling mentality back down.

Yes, this was Su Yun's profound love for his Operators!

And so, the Operators who had been preparing to show off their skills in the newly Ascension Sanctuary found themselves blocked right at their spawn point and slaughtered in all manner of ways for an entire night—after every party wipe, everyone would return to their initial state and begin the challenge anew without pause, allowing the Operators to fully experience a seamless, premium-grade gaming experience of getting beaten up.

Of course, the Operators did not simply sit around and wait to die. Once they recognized the enemy's strength, they immediately began working