When the black boots touched the ground, its solid state suddenly transformed into liquid. They tried to drag the tall figure down into eternal darkness.
"…" Kilenc moved slightly. He easily escaped the liquid ground with a simple movement. This was an unstable terrain condition, often occurring in alternate dimensions, especially in areas with high or unusually fluctuating dimensional energy. This was nothing new, and Kilenc could handle it as if he were performing activities in his own home.
After stepping into the fluctuating area, dozens of S-level dimensional monsters lunged at Kilenc as if specifically ordered to deal with him. Kilenc paid no attention to them. He was too lazy to even glance. With just a slight draw of his pitch-black sword from its sheath,
The next moment, a melodious sound suddenly echoed. Explosions occurred continuously without stopping. Fragments of organs and green blood scattered everywhere before the dimensional monsters regenerated. The solid ground then turned liquid, absorbing all the S-level monster remains underground, transforming them into nutrients to nourish itself.
Unstable terrain wasn't just a danger to humans. Even dimensional monsters residing in this area, if not careful, could unknowingly fall victim. And because of that, Kilenc was able to clean up those trying to attack him thoroughly, without needing to exert any effort.
"Releasing such energy. How foolish and arrogant. Do you think you're a bonfire luring moths to their death?" Kilenc stared directly at the origin of the fluctuating area. He shook his head slightly before emitting a terrifyingly cold voice.
"You don't know your place. You don't know the vastness of the sky or the depth of the earth." Initially, Kilenc was not in a hurry to deal with the problem himself. He wanted Selene and Ling Lian to confront the Land Ruler with everything they had before he stepped in to help when everything was about to end.
However… some arrogant dimensional creature dared to send a direct challenge to him while he was in a good mood cooking. Kilenc's mood changed instantly. He wasn't emotionless from the start. If anything…
Kilenc was a being whose emotions and desires expanded dozens, hundreds of times beyond those of humans. Therefore, he wouldn't ignore a challenge that felt like an insult to him and intended to directly teach the other party a lesson.
Even though Kilenc was cautious, and everything was under his plan, Kilenc was not the type of person who liked to hide in the shadows. He was ready to reveal himself and handle everything with his own hands. Kilenc had immense pride and arrogance, far greater than any human or any dimensional creature. It was so high it couldn't be described in words.
Could it be his weakness? Kilenc didn't care about that at all. How could it be his weakness when the other party didn't even qualify as his opponent? Kilenc always believed in his own strength. Weakness was merely a fabricated word created by the weak. For someone with absolute strength and power like him, weakness was meaningless, utterly insignificant.
Kilenc walked unhurriedly, yet his speed was very fast. His feet took one step at a time, but in no time, his figure had already disappeared thousands of meters away. Along the way, dimensional creatures couldn't even be a nuisance to Kilenc. When they began to attack, Kilenc's figure had already vanished, before blood mist diffused and scattered organ fragments became mere fertilizer for the ground.
Not only S-level or lower dimensional monsters tried to attack Kilenc, but also Catastrophe-level dimensional monsters. Although not many of them. And yes, of course, their condition was no different from the lower-level dimensional monsters before. Kilenc dealt with them easily. Their powerful regeneration ability was of no use in the fight. No, it would be more accurate to call it a one-sided slaughter.
It didn't matter how well their bodies could regenerate. For Kilenc, who could directly sever and crush spirits, they were like pigs waiting to be slaughtered. Kilenc didn't even use his true strength. What Kilenc used was the maximum limit a human could possess, along with the organization's technology. That was all. Dimensional monsters below the Collapse level were too weak. They were no different from ants that could be stepped on without feeling their significance.
Humanity didn't survive to become the Federation it is today by luck. In fact, even without Kilenc, humans could still resist the dimensional invasion until the very end. Kilenc's appearance merely accelerated humanity's development and reduced the damage suffered.
Excluding the existence of dimensional gods, the strength of humans was not weak at all. The strongest among their species had a minimum strength level equivalent to what Kilenc was currently using. What truly threatened humans now were only Collapse-level and above, and other humans themselves.
But of course, humanity's strength ceiling was still too low if they intended to fight dimensional gods. Nowadays, dimensional invasions were merely a form of entertainment for the dimensional gods. Similar to playing chess, they weren't serious about it at all.
Just the descent of a dimensional god to Earth alone would destroy the entire world. Earth was not a suitable place for beings like dimensional gods. It could not contain and bear what dimensional gods were.
However, even if the dimensional gods weren't serious about descending to Earth, Kilenc wasn't so careless as to allow the other party to destroy his efforts in one go. For that reason, in the past, Kilenc initiated the Cell Protocol project. Nowadays, even if dimensional gods desired it, they couldn't easily descend to Earth.
The fact that dimensional gods couldn't appear at will made Kilenc relax and play his game much more easily. He didn't need to constantly monitor dimensional gods. Those things were boring. They couldn't compare to monitoring humans who shined brightly.
Kilenc didn't care about ordinary humans. But for humans with qualities he admired, Kilenc already considered those humans his own. And Kilenc had a strong sense of possessiveness. No one could touch what belonged to him. No one could take what belonged to him. Anyone with such thoughts, Kilenc guaranteed that their lives afterward would not proceed well.
What belonged to him, only Kilenc could do whatever he pleased with it. No matter how much he played until it broke, or transformed it into what he desired. Others were not the same. Not even a tiny speck of a fingernail or a single cell. If Kilenc didn't allow it, they would suffer for the rest of their lives.
Finally, Kilenc arrived at the center of the fluctuating area, the place where the Land Ruler existed. He looked around while walking slowly. This place was full of uncertainty and chaos, whether it was the temperature, weather, terrain, and more.
The sky roared continuously. Lightning struck the ground periodically. It also rained, but the temperature here was very hot, so many raindrops evaporated and transformed into steam, dispersing in the air.
Every step created a warped space. The air fractured into gaps, revealing darkness within. Anyone who fell into those rifts would never return. It was a place filled with countless chaos and inhabited by beings superior to dimensional creatures. Chaotic beings—those were things that even Collapse-level monsters dared not meddle with.
Not to mention Collapse-level monsters, even dimensional gods who stood above dimensions and time, could only compare to some chaotic beings. With the chaotic environments they inhabited, chaotic beings had no weaknesses and practically no definition of death. They didn't have the same regeneration abilities as dimensional monsters, yet what was called death never existed for them.
It wasn't that dimensional gods were weaker or anything. They just couldn't completely deal with chaotic beings. It was very difficult to make their existence disappear. Some dimensional gods could do so, but dimensional gods were all selfish beings and always considered benefits and drawbacks first. Therefore, they wouldn't do anything useless or unprofitable.
"I'm here. Are you ready to face the consequences of your actions?" Kilenc pulled the sword sheath from his waist. At the same time, his gaze fixed on the tall mountain of corpses ahead. On that mountain sat a dilapidated but sturdy golden throne, majestically inviting people to conquer and sit upon it.
A tall, large creature sat cross-legged, calmly awaiting Kilenc's appearance. Its demeanor showed no concern for his arrival whatsoever. This Land Ruler's form resembled a human. However, its body was not carbon-based like a human's. It had no hair, no mouth, nothing at all. There was only a single five-sided red eye in the center of its stark white chest, the same color as its entire body.
The five-sided eye moved strangely before glaring terrifyingly at Kilenc. It stared as if it desired to swallow him whole. Its eyes almost bulged out. Dark red lines appeared in its already red eyes. Blood slowly flowed uncontrollably.
Such strange characteristics didn't draw any interest from the Land Ruler on the throne. It remained sitting cross-legged, awaiting Kilenc's next move, wanting to know how this young man would confront it.
"I must tell you this first…" Kilenc unsheathed his black sword. Then, he suddenly swung forward with moderate force. "I don't like anyone who doesn't know their place sitting above me."
With Kilenc's simple swing, the mountain of corpse fragments, resembling a trophy, was destroyed into dust. The already dilapidated golden throne quickly developed cracks. A cracking sound… followed by its disintegration into dust, like the mountain before it.
The Land Ruler was unharmed. With its ten-meter tall body, it slowly stood up before brushing off the dirty dust from its stark white body with a large hand. Its five-sided eye rotated rapidly before stopping on Kilenc's figure. Suddenly, he felt as if countless eyes were staring at him from the darkness.
"…" Kilenc looked around. He didn't see a single staring eye. However, the feeling of being stared at never disappeared. Kilenc didn't pay much attention. He stepped forward, preparing to attack the other party again.
But… as his body moved, a red light flashed through his vision. A sound of something being sliced echoed. Kilenc's gaze was colder than before. He looked at his left arm and found it was no longer there. Crimson blood flowed out, pooling on the wet ground.
"Not bad. You still have something there." Kilenc said softly. He moved again, and a red light flashed through his vision just like last time. However, the result was different from before. Kilenc's body was not injured at all. His severed arm was now in his right hand.
"Hurry up and use everything you have, before you can never use them again." Kilenc reattached his left arm. The wound began to connect at high speed. In less than a second, the bleeding stopped. The flesh that was torn apart had now healed without a trace.
"You… human who disrespects the Supreme God. Let us lead you to eternal mercy." A voice from an unknown source echoed throughout the white area. It was a strange voice, yet it carried a sacred aura, compelling obedience that couldn't be refused. In an instant, everything suddenly turned stark white.
Kilenc was not alarmed at all. He reached down to pull his black sword from the sheath at his waist again. Of course, with his movement, red light lines cut through, aiming to slice Kilenc into pieces. Unfortunately, after the first time, the red light lines could no longer create wounds on Kilenc.
His finger snap echoed throughout the stark white area. A layered space, far beyond human comprehension, appeared, revealing what had previously never existed. Thousands of crimson eyes stared at Kilenc without blinking even for a fraction of a second, with blood continuously flowing from them.
The red light lines were well-calculated attacks using thousands of eyes. For an ordinary human, there was no way to deal with abilities existing in higher dimensional layers. And even S-levels like Selene and Ling Lian couldn't do so either. The only humans in the current era who could somewhat handle this Land Ruler were only a few of the strongest humans in the Federation.
"The merciful one is not you, but me." Kilenc spoke forward unhurriedly with the black sword in his hand. The red light lines attacked him, but they could only create small wounds on Kilenc's body. Those small wounds, before he even realized it, had healed completely.
The Land Ruler was still a Collapse-level dimensional creature, and it had received the essence of divine power from a dimensional god. It was not alarmed or afraid whatsoever. The hexagonal eye in the middle of its chest stared, waiting for Kilenc to move closer, closing the distance with every second.