Perhaps constrained by the planet's limited resources, the robot legion had not, as Green had imagined, unleashed an overwhelming tide of Terminators to destroy the human world beyond all resistance.
Heavenly Net had created only a single Weird Crystal Terminator, seemingly already reaching its limit. Moreover, it appeared only on the rarest occasions, so humanity had yet to grasp the true level of the Weird Crystal Terminator's strength.
Even so, Heavenly Net had followed Green's original vision and become, in this rule-bound illusory world, a supreme rule on par with Green and the Dark Sacred Ancestor Wushi—the true god spoken of by lesser creatures, a Nether, a brand-new form of life born from qualitative transformation.
The planetary transformation project humanity had spent more than a thousand years completing was utterly destroyed by the war between robots and humans in just a few short years!
This scale of war was roughly akin to the apocalypse brought about by the Old Humans and Heavenly Net in the Cosmic Great World. By and large, humanity stood on the disadvantaged side, and that disadvantage would only continue to spread.
Unbelievably, even at such a life-or-death moment for humanity, the martial arts tournament was still held as scheduled.
Perhaps this was humanity's deepest yearning for evolution. The more apocalyptic the times became, the more superpowered beings faced mortal danger and suffered enormous casualties—but because of that, they also ushered in a golden age they had once never dared imagine. One S-rank superpowered being after another emerged, and the SSS-rank ability users seemed to glimpse a new summit once more.
Who could have imagined that all this had been brought about merely by the influence of one descended true god over a thousand years?
After two days of the martial arts tournament, a great many