Candlelight flared to life. A man wearing a savage mask looked at the pages before him, a glint of icy severity flashing through his eyes.
"Another rebel has appeared."
"The universe has its inherent rules. Anyone who changes those rules must be killed!"
With a wave of his hand, the pages shot onto a bookshelf. Every page on that shelf recorded incidents of people altering the rules of the universe.
Most of them had already been identified and erased.
Thud, thud, thud... He slowly walked outside. As he moved, the candles within the great hall lit up one by one, and before long, the entire hall blazed with light.
This was the Inspection Hall's summons signal.
Every inspector who saw it immediately set aside what they were doing and headed for the Inspection Hall.
Spatial passages appeared one after another as inspectors gathered from every corner of the universe.
By the time the man stepped out of the hall, dozens of black-robed figures were already standing outside.
The instant he emerged, they immediately dropped to their knees. "Greetings, Hall Master!"
The man swept his gaze around and said in a deep voice, "Someone has been discovered secretly altering the rules of the universe. Go investigate at once. If you find them, immediately kill every living being connected to them!"
"The rules must never be changed!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Go!" With a wave from the Inspection Hall Master, nearly everyone scattered in all directions, entering spatial passages to begin investigating in secret.
There were no leads. They only knew that someone had changed the rules of the universe; they did not know where it had happened, who had done it, or even whether the culprit was human.
However, every force with a World Lord Realm expert fell within the scope of their