Closer.
Closer.
Closer...
On the Deep Blue Civilization's Home Star, the players on the side that first caught sight of World Spine · Sun all raised their heads, looking toward a dazzling gleam of sunlight that had appeared in the extremely distant sky.
It had been over nine full years since the Godforsaken Game descended...
Apart from the first month, before the desolation began to spread, they had never seen the sun in all the time that followed.
And now, they finally saw the sun again!
According to what they had learned, that sun... was the "Land of Order" itself!
Having successfully completed its ascension, the Deep Blue Civilization was about to become part of the Land of Order!
And with their record of killing five World Spines before ascending, they ranked among the very best in the entire Land of Order, with the potential to stand alongside the Demon Civilization, the Angel Civilization, and the Fairy World in the future, or even become stronger!
Granted, when they were honest with themselves, their civilization's entire ascension process seemed to have had little to do with them...
It was entirely thanks to "Shadow 007" appearing that they had been led this far.
But that did nothing to diminish the pride welling up within them.
Especially for top powerhouses like Dance of the Moon and Wan Siqing, who had been to the Land of Order.
They understood profoundly just how many civilizations were competing in the Land of Order!
That was something players who had never visited the Land of Order could never truly appreciate... even if given a number, they would have no real sense of it.
Among these hundreds of millions of civilizations, they had become the fourth civilization to ascend by killing World Spines. How incredible was that?
Even