[Challenge Countdown: eleven months, twenty-three days, eight hours, twenty-two minutes, forty-seven seconds.] [Divine Court Ninth Layer Opening Countdown: five thousand four hundred twenty-nine years, eleven months, twenty-three days, eight hours, twenty-two minutes, forty-seven seconds.]
Less than a year remained until [Challenge Day].
An Kai could hardly wait.
He wanted to leave the [Divine Court Ninth Layer: Divine Court Resolution Center]. There were far too many things waiting for him to do.
Wayne's death, for instance.
A year earlier, Wayne had exhausted his lifespan and reached the end of his life. After devoting his entire life to Goodness Home, he had finally earned his rest.
Strangely, An Kai could not locate his true spirit with [Summoning].
In the end, An Kai concluded that finding Wayne's true spirit would be difficult unless he returned to Goodness Home.
After losing Wayne, changes had still arisen in Goodness Home, despite all the meticulous arrangements Wayne had made before his death.
The first involved the three great Abyss races: goblins, Green Demons, and orcs. Due to negligence by Goodness Home's guards, some had been released outside Goodness Home. Then, amid the trivial matters that followed, everyone had forgotten that these members of the three great Abyss races had gone outside.
In less than a year, the three great Abyss races had used their tremendous reproductive ability to become the three most populous races in the Divine Realm.
Goblins, Green Demons, and orcs were practically everywhere throughout the Divine Realm.
Like a swarm of locusts, wherever they went, there was hardly room for any other living beings.
This was just one of the changes in Goodness Home.
Other changes had all emerged after Wayne's death.
The chain reaction caused by Wayne's death continued to unfold.
All of this required An Kai to return and