"Already... developed this far..."
"Lord of Compassion·...%￥%...￥·(^▽^)·(•́へ•́╬)" murmured softly.
There was no anger or surprise in the deity's voice, only a faint wistfulness, like a seasoned chess player surveying changes on the board.
The deity slowly raised the palm that shimmered with endless compassionate radiance.
A power of "compassion," pure to the utmost yet paradoxically containing a certain mockery and malice, rapidly gathered and spun in that palm, becoming a ball of light like liquid starlight, swirling with the dual qualities of gentleness and eeriness.
For some reason, as this supreme judge occupying the 100th seat of the "Boundless Court" watched Zhou Heng calmly observing history in The Bystander Stance as though taking a cursory tour, an intuitive judgment born of the judge's magnificent power surfaced deep within.
Like an icy blade, that judgment pierced the deity's unruffled consciousness with cruel precision: perhaps, before long, this supreme judge seated above the "Boundless Court" would have to enter the fray personally and face "Zhou Heng," whose current level was only 300,001, yet who was cavorting ever more merrily across the deity's chessboard.
"Will it really come to that..."
The deity quietly asked this question.
The voice carried a barely perceptible gravity that even the deity had not noticed.
The deity's gaze seemed to pierce infinite space-time, falling upon a magnificent golden figure seated amid countless phantoms of "Heaven" in "Heaven Realm," the Eighth Chapter of the Fourth Expansion.
"Boundary Setting..."
"Do not... disappoint us."
"Your magnificent ten-concept-level form, that taboo skill specially requested from the 'Level Master,' those vast reserves backed by the entire 'Boundless Court' and the order of Eternity-you should not, and absolutely must not, lose to a human junior whose level is only 300,001..."
"Otherwise, this game... will truly become difficult to play..."
The murmurs echoed through the