Chapter 186: Godly Authority
Chapter 186: Godly Authority
I stepped through the floating golden doorway.
The chaotic distorted gravity of the Temporal Void vanished instantly. I stood in absolute perfect silence. Strata 10 was not a dungeon floor. It was a massive silent control room.
The floor and the towering walls were forged entirely from pristine white starmetal. There were no torches. The colossal chamber was illuminated completely by billions of floating holographic runes.
It was the raw living leyline code of the entire planet.
I looked around the room in absolute awe. My newly evolved kinetic perception allowed me to perfectly read the chaotic streams of data.
I saw the digital flowing rivers representing the Azure Sea. I saw the pulsing magical roots tethering the Beastman Continent to the earth.
The Zenith Academy architects had not built this room. They had simply discovered the planetary engine and built their primitive school on top of its exhaust vent.
The glowing holographic code suddenly violently shifted.
The floating blue runes detached from their orbital paths. They swarmed into the direct center of the massive room. The code rapidly condensed and merged together.
A towering ethereal figure slowly materialized from the data.
It had no face. It had no gender. It was forged entirely of pure condensed planetary mana.
It was the Planetary Will. The living consciousness of the world.
It did not draw a weapon. It did not roar. It simply raised its glowing ethereal hand and pointed a single finger directly at my chest plate.
The spiritual pressure of an entire world crashed down onto my shoulders.
My S-Grade Hive Chitin armor did not dent. The attack completely bypassed physical reality. The immense pressure slammed directly into my mind.
I gasped loudly. My heavy brass boots cracked the pristine starmetal floor as the sheer conceptual weight of millions of living souls tried to completely crush my consciousness.
"Submit to the earth," the Planetary Will echoed. The terrifying voice reverberated directly inside my skull.
"You are a mortal construct. You are a microscopic anomaly. You are bound by the dirt."
I dropped to one knee.
The psychic agony was absolute. The entity was trying to erase my ego. It was trying to dissolve my Sovereign mind back into the ambient mana of the Labyrinth.
But I was not a simple mortal construct. I was the Forge.
I ignited my Sovereign core. I unsealed the absolute maximum capacity of my Domination Aura. I pushed my six thousand points of raw willpower aggressively against the mental weight of the world.
"I do not submit to the dirt," I growled. Blood dripped slowly from my nose behind my glowing red visor. I planted my heavy brass boot onto the floor and forced myself upward.
"I pave over it."
I channeled the pure white Flame of Life and the pitch black Flame of Death simultaneously. The contrasting conceptual magic flooded my brain.
The absolute contradiction of supreme healing and supreme destruction created an infinite loop of spiritual energy inside my skull.
My red aura violently expanded. It crashed against the blue holographic light of the room.
I forced myself entirely back onto my feet. I stood perfectly tall under the weight of the world. The towering ethereal figure trembled.
The absolute unyielding authority of my dynasty was actively overwhelming the planetary logic. I did not just want to survive the planet. I wanted to own it.
I took a heavy thunderous step forward. The pristine white starmetal buckled beneath my tread.
I reached out and grabbed the glowing throat of the Planetary Will.
"I am the Apex," I roared.
I squeezed my thick green fingers and completely crushed its ethereal neck.
The Planetary Will shattered into a massive blinding shockwave of golden code. The billions of runes did not return to their orbital paths.
They flooded directly into my chest plate. The ancient admin rights of the world violently merged with my biological core.
The System interface erupted in a blinding apocalyptic red.
DING!
[System Alert: The Planetary Will has been subjugated.]
[Ultimate Title Acquired: Godly Authority.]
[Administrator Privileges Unlocked. The absolute planetary shield is under your direct control.]
[The Level 100 mortal cap is officially abolished.]
The golden code burned through my veins. The physical transformation was completely terrifying. My scarred green skin darkened into an indestructible cosmic shade.
My heavy brass gauntlets fused perfectly with my Sovereign biology becoming living indestructible metal. My Sovereign core violently expanded until it felt like a burning sun sitting inside my chest.
DING!
[Sovereign Core Evolution: You are now Level 205.]
I stood in the center of the silent room. The holographic leylines were gone. The room was empty.
My mental processing speed transcended physical reality. I closed my eyes. I could literally feel every single heartbeat on the surface of the planet.
I could feel Ramona, Lysandra, Kaelith, Anise and Nyssa breathing softly in the capital. I could feel their unborn heirs feeding on my new cosmic strength.
I shifted my absolute perception to the East. I could perfectly see the human Pope cowering inside his grand cathedral. He was kneeling behind his Level 100 Absolute Divine Shield.
With my new Level 205 Godly Authority the Pope’s ultimate defense looked like a fragile soap bubble.
I opened my glowing red eyes. I looked directly up at the pristine starmetal ceiling.
With my administrator privileges I could clearly see the invisible cosmic barrier wrapping around the planet.
It was the absolute ceiling built by the ancient architects to lock the heavenly Gods out of the mortal realm. It was the very thing keeping the Pope from executing his final desperate summoning ritual.
If I marched East right now I could easily slaughter the Pope. But that would not cure the disease. I needed to eradicate the source of the holy indoctrination entirely.
I raised my right fist.
The Flame of Death wrapped around my knuckles. It was no longer a simple pitch black fire. It was a massive blinding cosmic inferno. It radiated the conceptual power to kill immortal entities.
I punched directly upward.
The massive kinetic conceptual force shot through the starmetal ceiling. It traveled flawlessly through all ten floors of the Great Iron Labyrinth. It erupted from the muddy surface of the earth and slammed directly into the invisible sky.
CRACK.
A deafening cataclysmic sound echoed across the entire globe. The sheer volume knocked millions of people on the surface straight to their knees.
The sky violently shattered. Millions of jagged invisible cracks spiderwebbed across the atmosphere. The planetary barrier shattered into fragile blue glass and dissolved into the freezing upper atmosphere.
The cosmic limit was permanently destroyed.
I lowered my fist. A jagged terrifying smile formed behind my red visor.
The heavens were officially open. The Pope’s God could finally hear him.
Let them come.