And so, the apocalypse erupted in that world. Endless wails and screams echoed from the colliding worlds. As these worlds shattered, everything within them perished. In the midst of the destruction, some lifeforms that could survive outside their world tried to escape. However, they quickly realized their efforts were futile.
"So noisy!" The devouring force that emerged from the collision of these worlds trapped everything—the broken worlds, the wailing creatures, and the powerful beings attempting to flee. All were dragged into the vortex, into a massive, gaping abyssal maw. All sound and the catastrophic scene of destruction vanished.
"Speak. Why did you summon me?" A voice, the sound of chewing, echoed in the ears of the demon lords. The awakened Demon King, while savoring the "snack" that greeted him upon waking, asked his descendants, who had dared to disturb his slumber.
If these little ones who had awoken him didn't give him a good reason, he wouldn't mind adding them to his meal.
"Your Majesty, Demon King, it's like this..." Some of the demon lords who had never met the Demon King before were terrified at the sight of him devouring worlds. But those who had worked with him before stepped forward and explained why they had called upon him.
"Twenty-seven of my children have already fallen? What a pity!" The Seventh Demon King sighed slowly after hearing the report. The surrounding void trembled, and ripples in space and time became visible.
"Your Majesty, please take action and annihilate those three ignorant races, along with their worlds!"
"Hmm... A race capable of inflicting such damage on you may very well produce a being on par with me. I can't underestimate them. Give me their coordinates. I'll investigate first before making any decisions."
The Seventh Demon King showed no anger or rage upon hearing the report. Instead, he thoughtfully considered whether he might encounter an enemy of his own level if he took action. Although he wielded supreme power in the eyes of ordinary demon lords, he was extremely cautious. The higher you stand, the more you see. He knew the void was vast, and no matter how powerful one was, it demanded respect.
"Your Majesty, they are merely a race that hasn't even unified their own world cluster. It's impossible for them to produce an eternal being as great as you!" The Ghost Prison Demon Lord, after providing the coordinates of the Erathia world cluster, expressed his confusion. The more he understood the Demon King's power, the more awe he felt.
The Demon King ignored the ignorant demon lord. His dark eyes opened within the void, gazing toward the Erathia world cluster. Endless stretches of the void passed in his sight as he scanned across world after world, finally resting on a prosperous world cluster.
At the edge of this world cluster, he saw a group of powerful epic beings fighting his descendants. Even though his offspring had double the numbers of their opponents, they were barely holding their ground and were even starting to lose.
This embarrassing scene did not anger the Seventh Demon King. Such sights were not unfamiliar to him in his long life. In the vast void, some gifted races occasionally emerged, whose combat abilities far exceeded those of others at the same level.
These races were typically favored by great worlds and represented the elite of their worlds. The Demon King, however, was more curious about the world that could nurture such powerful beings than their current display of strength.
His gaze bypassed the battlefield and focused on the center of this world cluster, where a massive glowing orb emitted radiant light. This was the Great World of Erathia. Above it was another large glowing orb surrounded by a soft, milky-white halo—the Unbounded Celestial Realm.
Beneath the Great World of Erathia lay the Abyss, a bottomless pit composed of countless shattered worlds, nearly as large as the two great worlds above.
"What an interesting world structure!" The Demon King's curiosity grew as he observed the three peculiar worlds. It was his first time seeing such a unique setup.
"Hmm, strange!" As his gaze encompassed the entire Erathia world cluster, he noticed something unusual.
For such a prosperous world cluster, besides the three great worlds at its center, there were no other major worlds. It was as if all the cluster's essence had been funneled solely into those three.
"This isn't normal. Something must have happened to this world cluster before!" This was the Seventh Demon King's assessment. He found traces of other great worlds that had once existed in this cluster, suggesting that in ancient times, there had been far more great worlds than he currently saw, but they had been destroyed.
"Let me see what secrets lie within the central worlds of this cluster!" His focus ultimately fell on the Great World of Erathia. Despite the presence of the Unbounded Celestial Realm and the Abyss, both appeared to be derivatives meant to guard the core—Erathia itself.
As the Demon King used more of his immense power to peer into the Great World of Erathia, the world's protective barriers began to fade from his view, revealing a bustling and vast world.
At the center of this world was a vast continent, divided into ten prosperous nations. Surrounding the central continent was a wide ocean, dotted with twelve smaller continental plates.
"Interesting!" While the twelve smaller continents appeared ordinary to the residents of Erathia, the Demon King saw them differently.
As though time reversed, the vision of Erathia in the Demon King's mind began to shrink. The world's size diminished, and as it did, the twelve smaller continents also underwent a transformation.
Their landmasses shrank, and blood began to seep from them. Endless bones and shattered weapons appeared... Finally, in the Demon King's eyes, Erathia became a world encircled only by its central continent.
Where the twelve smaller continents once lay, there now stood twelve colossal heaps of corpses—piles of ancient gods and epics. Lightning and thunder ceaselessly struck these piles, reducing some epic remains to mere dirt and stone.
"A great world ascended through devouring epics!" The Seventh Demon King's eyes revealed admiration as he witnessed this scene, a world that had risen by consuming so many ancient gods and epics. It was the first time he had seen such a thing.
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As the Seventh Demon King spied on Erathia, the world began to respond in kind. The highest mountain on the central continent trembled, causing landslides and triggering earthquakes that spanned three empires.
In the boundless ocean, a vast undersea mountain range stretching tens of thousands of miles also began to shake. One by one, the undersea peaks collapsed and crumbled. As the water grew murky, beams of bright blue light emerged from the depths.
High above the sky, fierce winds gathered from all directions, forming an unprecedented superstorm. Within this storm, the shadow of a majestic bird began to take shape.
"Roar!" A deep, thunderous growl echoed. As the sound reverberated, an endless darkness spread. Even under the midday sun, three entire continents were plunged into darkness.
...
Amidst these worldwide phenomena, a pair of massive eyes opened once again over the Titan homeland. The sight of three suns in the sky reappeared. However, unlike last time, when the vision vanished as quickly as it came, this spectacle lingered.
...
"This great world is truly fascinating, having nurtured so many powerful beings to defend itself!" The Seventh Demon King laughed, indifferent to the phenomena his observation had triggered. After all, these defenders depended on their world to unleash their full strength. They posed no threat to him, separated by countless billions of light-years in the void.
But soon, the Demon King stopped laughing. From somewhere in that world, a pair of golden eyes slowly opened and met his gaze.
In an instant, the entire scene the Demon King had been observing vanished. His vision was filled with nothing but an endless ocean of golden lightning, leaving no trace of anything else.
At the same time, as the Demon King locked eyes with an Epic Titan, the demon lords around him were left in a daze. They had only seen the Demon King open his eyes as if to inspect something.
But then, gigantic bolts of golden lightning, as thick as mountain ranges, suddenly materialized out of nowhere, striking the black hole where the Demon King resided. As the lightning wove together, a colossal world of thunder took shape, enveloping the Seventh Demon King entirely.
"Your Majesty!"
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