Chapter 99: Please...

[WARNING. WARNING]

[TEMPORAL ACCELERATION ABRUPTLY STOPPED]

[UNORTHODOX PLAYER DETECTED]

[FOREIGN PLANET DETECTED]

[USE OF ANY SKILLS THAT DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE WORLD IS NOW PROHIBITED]

[INVASION STARTED]

[FIRST INTERACTION WITH A PLAYER]

Several red windows suddenly appeared in front of Liam. The casual speed-up he had been using was nowhere to be seen, replaced by multiple warnings that made him instinctively jump out of his body.

"WHAT? WHAT?! What is happening?! An Unorthodox Player invaded?"

He quickly used the skill that allowed him to see everything happening across his planet. The moment his vision expanded, Liam saw the world he had spent hundreds of years watching reduced to something almost unrecognizable.

Tall buildings were in ruins, cities and towns had been destroyed, and countless dead bodies covered the ground. He saw the faces of his creations filled with hopelessness, with some of them even praying to him as they desperately searched for a miracle.

Then he saw the giant black portal hanging in the sky. Hundreds of towering creatures continued emerging from it, while thousands of smaller black entities spread across the land, constantly killing his creations without giving them a chance to resist.

The five prodigies were no longer prodigies.

They had been killed.

The powerful demonic forces were not strong at all against these creatures. The werewolves had hidden as they always did, while the griffons remained in the mountains, avoiding the conflict instead of fighting.

Instinctively, Liam searched for the hope of the world.

The artifact bearers.

His vision immediately found King Valadin, only for Liam to witness the Beastman King being killed in a single attack. The other artifact bearers were hiding in fear, while the mages and warriors who were supposed to protect the world were already dead.

Everything was dead.

The survivors had been forced to hide on an island, desperately escaping the destruction spreading across the planet. Liam stared at them for several seconds, and the hopelessness slowly began consuming him because he had spent years upon years watching these people live.

"Right... the Pantheons. They must have done something."

A small trace of hope appeared in his eyes as he searched for them. To his horror, he found eight individuals floating in the sky, fighting a gigantic towering monster that was several times larger than the already enormous creature with multiple claws.

Liam quickly compared it to Zillagod.

It was not even a comparison. Zillagod was merely dust in front of this monster.

The eight individuals were the seven Pantheons, including Akira. They floated in the sky, unleashing multiple attacks that could destroy a city on their own, but every single attack was completely pointless against the creature.

Then, in an instant, they were wiped out.

A powerful attack struck them directly, sending their bodies plunging toward the ground. Liam saw everything through his Omnipresent skill, unable to look away as one after another, they fell.

The Pantheons were dead.

Liam descended deep into the planet, and for the first time in hundreds of years, he allowed himself to cry. Tears burst from his eyes as all the emotions he had suppressed finally came rushing out.

"THE PANTHEONS ARE DEAD! EVERYONE IS DEAD! THE WHOLE PLANET IS DESTROYED! AND WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?!"

"I WAS BEING TOO NAIVE! I THOUGHT I WAS STRONGER THAN GOD! I THOUGHT I COULD DO ALL THINGS!" Liam screamed, his voice trembling with rage and despair. "I DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO CARE ABOUT THE UPCOMING DISASTER! I WAS BEING A FOOL!"

"WHAT SHOULD I DO?! I’M NEXT! WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?!"

"I KNOW IT’S MY FAULT! I KNOW I’M FUCKING DUMB! I SHOULDN’T HAVE LET THE SENSE OF A NEW LIFE GET OVER ME!"

"FUCKKKKK!"

His voice echoed through the depths of the planet before finally fading away. Liam remained there, trembling, with his tears continuing to fall as the only thought that remained in his mind was the same one that had already consumed everything else.

"Dead... everyone is dead."

He slowly raised his head, his eyes still filled with tears. "There... might be something somewhere. Somewhere... think, Liam, think."

He quickly began formulating a plan, remembering everything he had obtained since the beginning. "Right... right... I have some skills. Consciousness Override... Atmospheric Scanner..." He continued murmuring the names of his abilities, desperately searching for something that could change the situation.

But even Liam knew there was nothing.

There was no skill that could reverse everything that had happened.

"Right! The Chatroom!" His eyes suddenly widened as a final thought entered his mind. "Dr. Diagnosis is smart... I know he might have something."

A faint glitter of hope appeared in his eyes, almost like a maniac who had bet all of his money, lost everything, and was now desperately placing his final coin on one last gamble.

[LYNX: I CAN’T! I CAN’T DEFEND ALL OF THIS!]

[LYNX: PLEASE HELP ME!]

[DR. DIAGNOSIS: I CAN’T... I CAN’T... ALL MY COUNCIL IS DEAD WHEN I SENT

THEM TO X_X.]

[LYNX: I THINK I’M DEAD... GOODBYE.]

[PLAYER 1253: LYNX DISCONNECTED.]

[PLAYER 9251: DR. DIAGNOSIS DISCONNECTED.]

Liam stared at the final messages, his eyes widening as horror slowly replaced the little hope he had left. His mind refused to accept what he was seeing.

"What... disconnected? Surely they can’t be dead, right? They can’t be... there is no way."

RED RINGS: ARE Y’ALL OKAY?! ARE YOU GUYS GETTING INVADED RIGHT NOW AS WELL?! WHAT HAPPENED? I THOUGHT X_X IS THE ONLY ONE GETTING INVADED. HOW COME WE DIDN’T DETECT MULTIPLE UNORTHODOX PLAYERS?

Liam stared at the message, barely able to process it. Then X_X responded.

X_X: Enjoying my present?

"Present?!" Liam’s eyes widened further. "What is he saying... is he the only one that survived?"

Before he could understand what was happening, another notification appeared.

PLANET 1241 CONNECTED

QWERTY: THE POINTS.... THEY ARE SOOOO DELICIOUS!!

Liam stared at the unfamiliar name.

"QWERTY? Who is that? Is he another member? But why did he join this late?"

Another message immediately appeared.

X_X: Should we do it? I bet he is worth a lot.

Liam’s expression froze.

"Wha..."