However, the Dark Demon Lord was not entirely unscathed. The world's shell, which was strong enough to resist void erosion, was inherently very close to the Lord's nature.
The Dark Demon, who had forcibly broken through the world's shell, now had its ferocious blood claws covered in dense, porcelain-like cracks.
Golden lightning bolts continuously struck the world's invader from the edges of the world's fissures, preventing further rampant destruction by the demonic claws.
"Ahhh! World!! How dare you reject me?!"
The ferocious giant claw waved in the sky, widening the fissures further. From the edges of the fissures, streams of dark red rivers surged in.
The dark red rivers flowed wantonly across the sky. Wherever they passed, shrunken scarlet blood eyes and ferocious arms continuously sprouted.
"Hahaha!! Let it all be destroyed!!!"
As the giant claw swung, the entire planet trembled.
Mountains shattered, rivers reversed their flow, and oceans churned!
The world's lamentations at this moment had almost become tangible. A natural, irrepressible sorrow welled up in the hearts of all beings born of this world.
The surviving creatures, consumed by sorrow and panic, completely lost the ability to think.
Only Long Niang, a Domain-level being, remembered Chen Luo's command, protecting the land below with her domain power pushed to its absolute limit.
The majestic dragon suddenly spat out a mouthful of icy blue blood, but she paid it no mind.
She merely raised her slender dragon neck and looked worriedly towards the sky between heaven and earth, at that tiny human figure:
"Master..."
As the giant claw intruded and wreaked havoc,
Thunder, lightning, torrential rain, gales,
And streams of dark red blood rivers left from the sky made the world appear like the end times.
But in this apocalyptic world,
There was a figure, flapping the light and dark wings behind him,
Wielding a glazed flame spear, silently soaring towards the sky against the disaster.
There was no retreat!
Only a fight to the death!
[Warning!!! Void Lord-level creature detected attempting to breach the first act's game world!!]
[Underlying rules have been violated!!!]
In the void, a piece of information, unobservable by anyone, flashed rapidly.
The next moment, before Chen Luo, who was preparing to face death, the system panel suddenly popped up.
Time was accelerated to its extreme. Everything before Chen Luo's eyes seemed to freeze, while on the system panel, new prompts continuously refreshed.
[Warning! High-level lifeform "Dark Demon Lord" is disrupting game progress!! You are ordered to leave immediately!!!]
[....]
["Dark Demon Lord" refuses to respond. According to underlying rules! The Doomsday Game's correction force is activated!]
[Player Chen Luo, as the strongest player in the tenth world of this Doomsday Game, the Doomsday Game now issues you a Source-level mission!]
[Shatter the Void]
[Difficulty]: Source-level
[Content]:
The system will forcibly activate its correction force one instant after deep void time, expelling the Dark Demon Lord from the world.
However, due to time flow differences between different layers, this action will consume ten minutes of the tenth world's time.
You must resist the Dark Demon Lord's invasion with all your might within the next ten minutes, maintaining the integrity of the tenth world as much as possible!
Saving your world is also saving yourself.
Please believe, the purpose of the Doomsday Game is not to bring about the end.
[Mission Assistance]: Domain Culmination (limited to the duration of this mission)
[Mission Reward]: One Qualification!
[Mission Assistance is being issued!]
The system's supreme power accelerated Chen Luo's thoughts to their limit. He couldn't even mobilize a single bit of energy within him, and everything outside had almost come to a standstill.
After the prompt finished, the world returned to its original state.
In the sky, the giant claw, exuding demonic might, continued to mercilessly destroy the world before it.
And Chen Luo, who was charging to his death, was silently frozen in mid-air.
But in the sky, a vast river of blood, mixed with boundless blood eyes and demonic claws, poured directly towards Chen Luo!
"Human!! I will skin you alive and drain your blood!"
"I will place your soul at the bottom of the void! And torment you for ten thousand years!!!!"
The frenzied demonic voice instilled immense fear in the hearts of all who heard it.
Phantoms of death and pain continuously appeared before people's eyes.
If not for Long Niang protecting Great Yan with her domain power, most people would have died instantly upon hearing this curse!
The Ice Dragon spat out another mouthful of icy blue blood, and cracks quietly spread across its crystalline dragon body, which resembled a work of art.
But she was more concerned about the figure frozen in the sky.
Upon seeing the descending river of blood, Long Niang's expression changed, and she directly flapped her wings and lunged towards Chen Luo:
"Master!!!"
...
When Chen Luo fought with Long Niang, he had inscribed himself in the void, opening his own domain.
The nascent domain was only a hundred meters square. Due to Chen Luo's strength attribute, it was a golden expanse.
Compared to Long Niang's boundless Dragon Slumber Domain, Chen Luo's domain was extremely small, not even having awakened its true name.
However, due to its excessively powerful foundation, the moment Chen Luo stepped into the domain, the surge of power was already enough to crush Long Niang.
But this power was so insignificant compared to the giant hand in the sky.
Thus, Chen Luo could only advance with a death-defying resolve.
However, everything changed the instant the system prompt was completed.
Chen Luo's body froze in mid-air, but in the void, the domain he had opened underwent earth-shattering changes!
[Mission Assistance activated! Race Foundation-level skill "Future Self" of Heavenly Character Number Seven is activated!]
[With the Future Self, mend this world's collapse!]
[Within ten minutes! Player Chen Luo is forcibly elevated to Domain Limit!]
The originally hundred-meter square domain began to expand frantically, and dense golden domain power, almost solidified, continuously emerged.
The river of blood falling from the sky was about to engulf Chen Luo.
The anxious Long Niang directly threw herself forward, intending to shield Chen Luo with her body.
But as Long Niang flew beneath Chen Luo!
Dong...
A muffled heartbeat suddenly sounded between heaven and earth.
In an instant, the roaring sounds of wind, thunder, rain, and lightning were all suppressed.
In Long Niang's astonished gaze, a gentle voice entered her ears:
"Don't worry,"
"Leave everything from now on to me."
Boom!!!
From the giant dragon's head, a pillar of crimson light suddenly shot into the sky.
A grand voice echoed in everyone's ears, as if proclaiming the birth of an ultimate expert to this world:
"Domain Expansion!"
"Heaven and Earth!!"
"I Alone Am Honored!!!"
The towering pillar of crimson light instantly annihilated the descending river of blood in a single moment.
As infinite domain power surged into his body, the Blood Qi martial art of the race foundation level seemed to be truly activated!
The edge of the pillar of light, where the Blood Qi surged, was tinged with an indestructible golden nature!
Wherever the pillar of light passed, all evil was eliminated!
"Insignificant ant!!!!" Amidst a resentful roar, the cracked blood claw fiercely clawed towards the crimson pillar of light!
Boom!!!
Boundless radiance erupted! The world turned into daylight at this moment!
When Long Niang regained her sight, she saw the giant hand retreat for ten thousand feet,
And the towering pillar of light slowly dissipated.
A new figure walked out from the pillar of light.
A head of crimson hair extended to his waist, and dark red armor encased the man's lower body.
His exposed upper body, with its lean muscles, was covered in ferocious scars.
The scars were proof of countless bloody battles and near-death experiences,
And they were his medals.
The man's resolute face bore a faint resemblance to Chen Luo's.
But this resolute face, though still handsome, was no longer that of the young boy he once was.
Years and hardships had granted him greater strength, but they had also taken away his cherished homeland.
This was—the Future Self!
Chen Luo raised a pair of crimson eyes and extended his right hand, pointing to the sky!
"For the next ten minutes!"
"I'll blow you up!"