Nothing like this had ever happened before. Fortunately, the voice spoke only one sentence, and that majestic presence vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
The suffocating pressure lifted, and everyone in the Royal Capital breathed a sigh of relief.
At the heart of the Royal Capital, King Prady XIV stood on the top floor of his chambers, his face grim. With his hands behind his back, he gripped his right wrist in his left hand and slowly curled his right hand into a fist.
Burdened by the Kingdom's endless affairs at home and abroad, Prady XIV had aged before his time. Now he stood straight, as though the weight on his shoulders had fallen away and he had regained the bearing of his youth.
"The Holy Light Church! That was a Divine Descent Ritual just now. Those damned zealots really think they're above the law. They dared to perform it in the Royal Capital! What do they take my Lorenzo Kingdom for?" Prady XIV muttered with a cold smile. Power surged around him, but he kept it contained within the room. If a Transcendent of Legendary Rank or Calamity Rank had been there, they would have been stunned to discover that Prady XIV had advanced to Calamity Rank.
He had only just crossed that threshold, and his power had yet to stabilize. But he was undeniably Calamity Rank. For now, only a handful of people in the entire Lorenzo Kingdom knew his secret.
Prady XIV's outlook had changed with his advancement. Things he had once considered overwhelming now seemed far less important.
The collusion between government officials and wealthy nobles. The Rune Federation's invasion and coercion. The impending loss of a Void World...
The moment he advanced to Calamity Rank, his life and soul seemed to ascend. Looking at