Earthstar World.
Countless people left their homes and discovered something unexpected.
"The big shots have all disappeared?"
Only after asking around did they discover that all beings at Planetary Level and above were gone.
Yet all their possessions had been left behind.
They seemed to have vanished without warning.
At first, out of habitual reverence, no one dared touch anything.
Later, some bold people chose to steal the items.
Then, as the thefts grew rampant, they were discovered, and the former lowest ranks of the various factions, who now maintained order,
also regarded the belongings left by the powerful as their own.
At first, order still held.
Until someone at the peak of Apprentice Level gained an insight and broke through to Planetary Level. A vortex appeared immediately,
swallowing them and vanishing.
"What happened?"
Many people witnessed it. Later, others could not hold back their breakthroughs, and the same thing happened.
They did not know whether those beings had been transported away or had simply died.
"Planetary Level machinery still works."
They discovered that living beings were affected, but inanimate objects-not just Planetary Level machinery, but seemingly even Universe Level and Domain Lord Level machinery-were unaffected.
However, being unable to break through meant their lifespans would be a few hundred years at most, making it difficult to reach the minimum thousand-year lifespan of Planetary Level.
In a small village, a group of people was gathering.
"To find out just what happened to the world, we have only one avenue left: the starry sky," the leader told the others.
In the world as it now stood, even the strongest were only at the peak of Apprentice Level, and there were more than ten million beings at that level. Naturally, "numbers" and "technology" had now become the mainstream.
"It's finally getting closer