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It started to rain. Black clouds began to fill the sky.

“Why is it raining all of a sudden?”

“Did the weather forecast get it wrong again?”

Muttering such things, they looked up at the sky.

It was dark.

The clouds covered the sun. That was natural.

But this rain, these clouds filling the sky, felt strange.

‘Something’s off.’

It didn’t feel right.

Something was definitely wrong.

It felt like something was terribly wrong.

Rain falls. That in itself is not strange. But it felt ominous.

Rain fell. A student looked up at the sky and finally noticed something strange.

‘Why is it so dark?’

Even if clouds covered the sun, it shouldn’t be this dark.

Like the pitch-black night.

As if the sun had disappeared.

This place descended into darkness without a single point of light.

No, even the night wouldn’t be this dark.

The dark clouds that covered the sky and the sun seemed to trap the world as if stealing all the light.

Rain was falling.

It poured endlessly. Droplets fell.

It wasn’t transparent rain.

It was pitch-black rain.

As if contaminated, the black rain began to pour down heavily.

Yoo Eunchae looked up at the sky.

‘What is this?’

Her eyes were trembling.

Her body shivered involuntarily.

《The logic of the world (S) settles into the mind.》
《The All-Seeing Eye (S) is shutting down.》
《Warning! Do not look at those clouds!!》
The system window was raging fiercely.

As if it was trying to protect her.

《An impossible event has occurred.》
《The system protests to ???. Universe!?@%#@!^!!^@》
《User is advised to leave immediately.》
‘What, what is this?’

The system started glitching.

Soon, it turned red and started beeping.

Nothing had changed for her.

The traits she had built and the perks she had gained upon coming to this world were still ingrained in her body.

However.

It was extremely ominous.

Had the system window ever done this before?

When she was in America.

The system had issued warnings. But it had never warned like this. It had never warned that merely being here was dangerous.

Thud.

Rain began to fall. Pitch-black rain.

It was falling so heavily that it was visible to the naked eye, as if a hurricane were brewing.

“What, what is this rain!”

“Everyone, be careful! Don’t get caught in this rain!!”

Voices were shouting from all directions, as if to say that this rain was extremely dangerous.

And Yoo Eunchae knew why.

‘No way.’

A black rain that never stopped.

She knew what this phenomenon was.

‘The mana…’

Was dispersing.

Han Seojin said that this place was where the spirit veins passed.

Mana was incredibly abundant.

He said that just being here was better than taking elixirs regularly.

The spirit veins were dispersing. Every time the black rain touched, the mana on the ground was scattering.

Mana was becoming clouds, and the dark clouds that seemed to block all light were growing.

Yoo Eunchae looked up at the distant sea.

And there, it looked as if the sea was spiraling upwards, a vortex phenomenon was being observed.

“Why…”

She recognized this phenomenon.

The edge of the world.

She had seen it once.

A scene where countless transcendents had died came to mind.

They literally grounded the transcendents to dust.

The Demon King.

The faithful minions of the demon god who sought to annihilate humanity.

Roar!!

A phenomenon was occurring.

Countless waterspouts were forming.

Black, pitch-black storms were raging.

As if to proclaim the end of the world.

“…!!”

It was when I was burning all the true ancestors.

A sense of foreboding was converging on one side.

I stared in that direction.

‘This is.’

A very ominous energy was felt from one side.

Ominous.

Sinister.

As if gathering those words together to create something.

My senses were warning me that going there would be dangerous.

‘When was it?’

I had felt this feeling once before.

It was when I was slaughtering all the dark mages.

They had done something while I was away.

At that time, I thought I had stopped it.

Nothing had happened immediately.

Three months.

For about three months, I monitored them, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Still, I had a bad feeling. Something felt off.

So I marked the place so I could move there at any time.

Then I returned to the empire.

I conducted a study upon entering the empire.

I gathered all resources from across the empire.

If this existed, the empire would gain a scientific prowess several dimensions higher.

There was a lot at stake.

I was quite desperate back then.

More than any other time in my life.

Anyway, just as I was about to start the experiment.

He appeared.

The Insect Dragon King.

That damned bastard.

‘The problem is…’

I felt the same sensation from one side.

And I trusted my senses a lot.

‘If that’s the case.’

It meant that thing had resurrected.

“You can handle the bases of the other True Ancestors, right?”

“Huh? Yes, I can manage it.”

“Then handle it on your own…”

I was about to say handle it.

But was this the right thing?

‘With the means I have now.’

Could I stop her?

I thought of Sora Kwon, the principal.

Killing her would be a simple matter.

I could implement my manifestation at the cost of permanent damage.

‘But that thing won’t be just that easy.’

That damned bastard was not just at that level.

In my second life, I was truly strong.

The time when I was the Heaven-Surrendering Martial Emperor who killed any transcendent bastard in one blow.

And the Purple Tower Master who gained enlightenment and obtained three rings.

Those two were equal.

If they were to fight, the Heaven-Surrendering Martial Emperor would definitely win.

‘The owner of the Purple Magic Tower, who possessed all the resources of the empire, is similar to the Heaven-Surrendering Martial Emperor.’

This was the conclusion I had reached.

Right now, I had two circles.

However, in reality, it was as if I had only created one circle.

In less than a year, I had become stronger.

Truly stronger.

This might be the first time I had become this strong in all my lifetimes combined.

‘But on the flip side.’

That’s all there was to it.

In less than a year, I have achieved a lot, but in other words, it meant I was being compared to the first year of other lifetimes.

“Did something happen?”

“It seems something terrifying has happened.”

‘Did I get complacent?’

I thought I had room to relax.

No matter how I thought about it, it was about that guy’s resurrection.

To resurrect someone of that caliber, just how much would need to be sacrificed?

He must have made quite a few sacrifices.

Perhaps he might have been resurrected in a weakened state.

‘But.’

The problem was that it didn’t matter to him.

The power given to him by the demon god.

Greed.

It was truly annoying.

Though it was said to be consumable, he could greatly amplify his power.

He devoured the surrounding mana, turning it into massive demonic qi.

Even that alone was annoying, but he was also a master of black magic.

At the end of my second life, before I gained enlightenment, he was at a level similar to mine.

How would he move?

The answer was simple.

The place where he could amplify his power the most.

‘Spirit vein.’

He would turn all the mana there into his own power.

If so, he could accumulate tremendous power in an instant.

‘I can buy some time.’

Neo Seunghwa.

And Kwon Sora.

They must have left something behind.

Maybe those on the border might cross over.

The reason they were on the border was to stop enemies from invading from outside.

If transcendents came over, we could buy quite a bit of time.

‘The problem is.’

In the worst-case scenario, a half-baked guy could appear and give him magic power.

‘I hope that situation doesn’t happen.’

I hoped such a situation didn’t occur.

“…We will handle the True Ancestors. Is there any part where you need assistance?”

“Yes.”

“First, can you tell us the destination and what kind of support is needed?”

I looked at Jung Gaeun.

Despite the sudden situation, her ability to handle it was quite outstanding.

“The destination is the academy. Support as much as possible.”

“As much as possible?”

“Yes, something out of the ordinary has appeared.”

“By your standards?”

“Yeah.”

It’s something out of the ordinary.

Even the Heaven-Surrendering Martial Emperor in his prime couldn’t kill him in one go.

“Please hurry as much as you can.”

“Yes, understood.”

Boundary.

A conceptual space created to block external invasions.

The area of this space was immense.

It’s similar in size to the United States.

It was a battlefield created by the gods of a world that has already perished.

There were transcendent beings there.

There were gods there.

[A Demon King has descended.]

At someone’s words, silence fell.

Someone responded in a tone of disbelief.

[Is that possible? There can’t be such resources in the mortal world.]

[Is it an incomplete descent? If so, even a decent country could stop it.]

[If it can be stopped, it will be. If a country is prepared to face destruction, that is.]

[Is that the reason you gathered us all? We should be stopping them quickly instead of this.]

Everyone gave a bitter smile at someone’s complaint.

Recently, the two entities causing chaos, Heavenly Demon and Duke of Extermination.

Their power had slightly waned trying to stop those two.

It was being talked about among the transcendents.

Rather than stopping them, some suggested temporarily sending them to the mortal world.

[Then let’s send those two.]

[Now you’re just saying it’s your turn. Do you know what will happen to the surface if we send them?]

[Ha, let’s be clear. Aren’t we stopping them because others might turn against us if we let them go?]

[Come on, don’t fight. Anyway, those two need karma to be sent, and they haven’t gathered enough.]

[They’ve spent it all as soon as they gathered it.]

[The fact that the two of them squandered everything to find something was significant, but anyway, we can’t send those two. If we make an exception to the rule, later on, others might want to become exceptions too.]

A meeting of transcendents and gods.

They reached a conclusion.

[You know the one who came recently? The one who transcended to avenge her family. Let’s send her.]

[Her karma is sufficient.]

[Come to think of it, did she want to destroy the Iron-Blood Sword Clan? What kind of family is that, for transcendents and gods to be so intent on it?]

[Recently, they said he conducted human experiments on his eldest son.]

[Well, then let’s go with her.]

And those at the Boundary began to intervene.