94: Chapter 94 The Invincible Demon Pillars...

"Lev, you old thief!" A-Dai gritted her teeth fiercely in the live stream, and the chat was instantly flooded with "Kill, kill, kill" and "Give us back our Director."

"What a terrifying expression. However, welcome nonetheless."

Lev stopped, elegantly took off his top hat, and performed a hypocritical gentleman's bow in front of his chest.

"Welcome to the City of Void, where there is no time and no life, frozen at the end of the world—the Grand Temple of Time."

He raised his head, his inverted pupils filled with condescending pity and mockery:

"It is truly impressive that you were able to survive like insects in the seven Singularities until today. As a reward for your boring perseverance, I have specifically come out to welcome you."

Mash held her cross-shaped great shield tightly, gritting her teeth: "Professor Lev... no, Demon God Flauros! Your evil deeds of incinerating human history will end here today!"

"End? Hahaha! How arrogant! Mash, and this last Master, you don't understand the situation at all!"

Lev laughed wildly, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.

He suddenly spread his arms, his voice echoing through the void of the entire temple: "Do you think that by crossing seven Singularities, you have earned the right to stand on equal footing with us?"

"Give up! Open your eyes and see clearly what this temple really is!"

Before A-Dai and Mash could react, Lev's body suddenly expanded and twisted.

Accompanied by a nauseating sound of tearing flesh, his human shell collapsed instantly, transforming into a giant demonic pillar of flesh as large as the Tower of Babel, its surface covered with scarlet eyeballs and pulsating, disgusting tumors!

Immediately after, a loud "Boom—" echoed.

The entire space let out a groan of unbearable strain!

"This temple itself is a universe formed by the bodies of us seventy-two Demon God Pillars connecting and interlocking with each other!"

In A-Dai's horrified gaze, the void in all directions of the temple seemed to be torn apart by invisible giant hands.

One, two, ten... a full seventy-two equally massive Demon God Pillars descended from the cracks in the void with a boom!

Thousands of scarlet eyeballs stared fixedly at A-Dai and Mash at the same moment!

The mere pressure brought by their assembly made A-Dai feel difficulty breathing in the VR pod, and the hairs on her body stood on end!

"In this temple, our Saint Graphs are integrated! As long as the throne is not destroyed, we are infinite!"

"You are [absolutely unable] to reach the throne; now let me prove it to you..."

Along with Lev's arrogant laughter, the black bars at the top and bottom of the cutscene faded away instantly.

Immediately, a piercing system alarm sounded in their ears, and all players were forcibly pulled into the tactical sandbox interface.

However, before the players could habitually check the terrain, enemy count, and other relevant information for this level, the system's cold red warning text hit like a heavy hammer, instantly covering everyone's retinas!

[Warning! Unrivaled, ultra-high magic concentration calamity entity detected!]

[Hostile Target: Seventy-two Demon God Pillars (Integrated Saint Graph)]

[HP: 30,000,000!]

Silence, deathly silence.

Whether it was PD, who was ready to show off his skills, A-Dai, who was eager to try, or the tens of thousands of viewers in the live stream, everyone was stunned as they looked at the terrifying HP bar spanning the entire top of the interface.

"Three... thirty million?!" PD rubbed his eyes in disbelief, thinking he had miscounted the zeros.

In traditional levels, encountering a boss with over a hundred thousand HP was already enough to make players cough up blood. Now the system was telling him that this group of disgusting, wide-eyed flesh pillars in front of him had a full thirty million HP?!

"How is this playable?! Even if I pay-to-win until the earth cracks, and work every Servant to death on the field, I wouldn't be able to scratch a single layer of this HP bar! Is Old Thief Gu crazy?!"

In the live stream, the feeling of despair spread like a plague.

What was even more chilling was that the system didn't give the players any chance to act at all!

PD instinctively tried to drag the Servant icons at the bottom to deploy them, only to find that the entire Heroic Spirit formation bar was in a grey "unselectable" state.

The Cost in the bottom right corner was not only stuck at a glaring "0", but even the Master skills and the three Command Spells were all displayed as [System Not Responding].

This was a fully automatic story sequence level that completely stripped the player of control!

On the tactical sandbox, a piercing alarm sounded frantically.

The Demon God Pillar that Lev had transformed into did not need to move along a fixed route like a normal boss; he simply stood in place, and the thousands of scarlet eyeballs on his body lit up with destructive red light simultaneously.

Countless red warning lines representing "Lock-on" instantly covered every tile on the map!

"It is over, the last dregs of human history. There is nowhere to run, and no room to resist!" Lev's declaration, layered with the fanatical voices of countless Demon Gods, roared through the temple like a massive, tangible wave of sound.

Along with Lev's hysterical laughter, the seventy-two Demon God Pillars launched their attacks simultaneously.

The integrated, indiscriminate, full-coverage magic barrage poured down like a cosmic storm!

Facing this unrivaled desperate situation, the system forcibly and automatically deployed the only defensive Heroic Spirit on the front-most tile of the position—Mash Kyrielight.

"Senpai, please hide behind me!"

The pink-haired girl gritted her teeth tightly and slammed the cross-shaped great shield in her hand heavily in front of the position.

Without the player needing to click manually, Mash's portrait frame automatically lit up with the dazzling light of a skill activation.

"Even if it's just for one second... I must protect Senpai!"

Accompanied by the girl's heartbreaking cry, the pale blue magic barrier shook violently under the indiscriminate full-screen light beam attack, and the HP bar representing Mash's life plummeted like a diver, hitting the bottom in the blink of an eye.

Through the ultra-realistic sensory feedback of the gaming pod, all players could clearly feel the earth trembling, and could even hear the groan of Mash's bones as they endured extreme pressure, and see the blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.

"Mash! Don't worry about me, get back!"

A-Dai cried until her voice went hoarse in the live stream. She frantically poked at the Master skills in the bottom right corner of the screen, trying to heal Mash even a little, but the cold "Unable to use" sound from the system cut at her heart like a dull knife.

And PD, who was usually so arrogant, could only watch helplessly as the fragile pink-haired junior stood alone at the front on the screen, while his own pride-and-joy maxed-out roster couldn't do a damn thing in the face of this scripted death.

An unprecedented, soul-striking sense of powerlessness instantly engulfed him.

Boom—!

As the last sliver of the HP bar was wiped out, the barrier shattered completely. A-Dai closed her eyes in despair.

However, in the very last second before human history was about to be completely severed...

A dazzling streak of golden light pierced through from the void of the starry sea and, with an unstoppable momentum, tore through the encirclement of the Demon God Pillars!