After Qin Siyang vanished into the ruins, the Safe Zone continued to function under its new order.
Time was an unfeeling thing. It never paused for even a moment because some hero had fallen, but flowed on, second by second.
Like a river surging onward, ceaselessly through day and night.
Occasionally, fleeting silhouettes swept across the endless towering ridges outside the Safe Zone.
Every one of them belonged to someone exceptionally powerful.
These days, only high-level ability users who had broken through the Origin Sequence were permitted by the Safe Zone to explore such places and hunt gods.
Bang!
A figure suddenly burst out of the ground, where countless small gods lurked.
A ring of dazzling golden ripples erupted along with him.
The instant the light spread, the small gods around him, which had been about to pounce, seemed to sense a being far beyond their reach. They prostrated themselves around him in utter submission.
"Awesome!!!"
An exclamation in Korean burst from the figure's lips.
"I did it! I finally did it!!"
"Shit... I did it! I finally got it to work!!"
"Not only can I make these brainless small gods mistake me for a large god, now I can even make them worship any random lousy rock as a god!"
"Every god around here is running around under my command now. Wherever I point, they have to attack! This is awesome!!"
Quan Taibin waved his arms and stamped his feet in excitement, unable to resist throwing back his head and laughing.
But as he laughed, the joy in his eyes slowly faded, replaced by boundless sorrow.
"Damn it... if only Qin were still here... how wonderful that would be."
He grabbed a fistful of his tangled hair in frustration, then slapped himself. "It's all this stupid brain of mine's