CHAPTER 706: CHAPTER 634: HUMANITY OF THE NEW WORLD

"Thunder God" Hansa Murphy, the strongest competitor in North America and the spiritual leader of the Hero Club, was among the very top of masters across the entire globe.

In the eyes of the audience, there were no more than a handful of competitors assured to firmly defeat Thunder God.

Apart from the Ancient Spirit Emperor, the rest were all in Green Shadow.

With Thunder God’s strength, he logically shouldn’t have been encountered around rank three hundred in the Heavenly Ladder.

"Thunder God hasn’t fought in the Heavenly Ladder before, he just started battling yesterday, and he’s been instant-killing all the way."

Someone in the know was speaking in the audience.

At that moment,

the originally only one-third filled seats burst into full occupancy in an instant, leaving no space empty; numerous spectators could only stand as "Wandering Souls" atop the seats to watch the battle.

It was even more lively than when Li Sheng live streamed.

And Thunder God wasn’t a streamer; he didn’t open any live streams, but Thunder God’s reputation was infinitely more resounding than Li Sheng’s.

These spectators all chose the paid viewership mode during Thunder God’s Heavenly Ladder battle.

The higher the ranking on the Heavenly Ladder, the higher the ticket cost.

This was also one of the sources of income for the high-ranking Heavenly Ladder experts—even if they had to split fifty-fifty with the platform, each battle still brought in considerable revenue—if it wasn’t for paid access, how many experts on the Heavenly Ladder would be willing to broadcast their combat situations to the outside world?

When "Thunder God" collided with "Golden Horned King," the audiences from the two rooms merged into one.

"His opponent is Thunder God, can Jiao Jiao win?"

A female fan in the audience seats showed a worried look.

Compared to Thunder God’s robust stature, ’Golden Horned King’ was still a child; the visual impact of them standing together in one scene was too great.

On his journey thus far, Golden Horned King had already proven his strength. Although his name was somewhat childish, he was eleven or twelve years old... perhaps he looked young but must have been about fourteen or fifteen years old, just right for attending the second year of middle school before the apocalypse!

Many spectators speculated that little Golden Horn had a level of the Transcendent Tier.

Not combat power, but the actual Transcendent Tier.

Unbelievable, but his combat record said it all.

"It’s a bit risky, Thunder God isn’t just any Transcendent; he is the strongest in North America.

Another powerful member of the Hero Club, ’Black Dragon’ Batak, ranks in the top hundred—the ’Thunder God’ is undoubtedly stronger than ’Black Dragon.’ But our Jiao Jiao is only losing out on youth. Give it a few years, no, just a few more months, and he will definitely be able to thrash ’Thunder God’!"

...

Atop the arena, Thunder God, who was seated cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were like the sea, with lightning flickering within them.

Being the spiritual leader of the Hero Club, his every move was closely watched by countless people.

The Hero Club’s headquarters had been connected to the network several months ago, and the various training facilities inside had left Thunder God in awe. He had to admit that with these facilities, both himself and all Awakeners within the Hero Club could improve at several times the speed.

However, he only practiced in "personal mode," occasionally battling against other Transcendents from the Hero Club.

Ranked matches, Heavenly Ladder—he didn’t want to fight, not because he didn’t want to, but because the name of Thunder God carried too much weight. Once he was defeated, it would deal a huge blow to the morale of the Hero Club.

Thunder God knew the stakes very well.

He knew that Green Shadow’s City Lord Tang and Ice Empress had not joined the Heavenly Ladder battles, but... on the leaderboard, existences like "Sword Saint" Kong, "Ghost Sword" Nancy... against these, no matter how he burst forth, he wouldn’t stand a chance.

"But I’ve hit a bottleneck now. The best way to break through is to experience life-and-death battles. The people from the Hero Club are no match for me; the opponents in ’personal mode’ are too familiar to me and hardly effective.

Only in Heavenly Ladder, here, I can find opponents that give me enough pressure."

A momentary win or loss was not important; once he made a breakthrough to become a Second Tier Expert, it wasn’t impossible to win back!

"However, I must at least push my Heavenly Ladder score into the top twenty to encounter strong enough opponents... I’m only at three hundred now; the higher up the ladder, the longer the wait for battles, perhaps it will take quite a few days to reach my goal...

Now I’ve also started encountering Transcendent Tier opponents, learning through analogies. Perhaps I shouldn’t win so decisively; there are things to learn from other Transcendents."

The battle countdown appeared high in the sky of the arena.

10...

9...

Thunder God’s expression gradually became solemn; he suddenly realized that the child opposite him was not an ordinary Transcendent.

His danger sense kept alerting him.

"Good, no matter who you are, I hope you can give me the pressure to break through."

The moment the countdown ended, Thunder God pushed out his hand, and streaks of Thunder Light gathered at his palm, thrusting out a deep blue colored Thunder Wave.

Boom!

The shockwave exploded.

A substantive ripple spread through the air.

The Thunder God’s eyelids twitched as Thunder Arc danced on his limbs, enveloping his body.

He darted like a beam of light to the left, leaving an afterimage that was instantly pierced by a golden light column one meter thick.

The golden light column struck directly on the protective screen in front of the spectator seats, creating waves of blasts that spread out. Inside the entire arena, gold and purple-blue energy light overflowed, and even those at the Awakening Tier Perfection couldn’t make out what had happened.

Using his Perception, the Thunder God locked onto his opponent’s position, and the ultimate lightning crackled out.

Above and below, he sealed off everything.

A net of lightning descended, and intricate Thunder Patterns emerged on his skin, turning him into a brightly glowing ball of lightning that shot out like light itself.

Boom!

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

An extreme sense of crisis enveloped him, and his pupils suddenly constricted.

Among the omnipresent lightning, he thought he saw a massive phantom figure.

A single horn, dual wings.

The lightning was easily crushed, and in the next instant, his consciousness darkened, and he was already in his personal space.

"I... lost?"

At that moment, he felt as though he was facing a primeval ferocious beast.

The Thunder God didn’t understand why he had such a thought, given that the opponent looked like an innocuous little boy.

But he had lost, utterly and completely.

His face was a picture of bitterness.

Even if the little boy might be a Second Tier Transcendent, he shouldn’t have been without any power to resist.

For the first time, the Thunder God felt his own weakness.

Apart from the Ancient Spirit Emperor and a few from Green Shadow, someone else could pin him down and rub his face in the dirt.

"Who exactly is he?"

The Thunder God frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly flipped open his battle record.

Before today, his record was all wins. The only defeat was a bright red color, particularly glaring.

"ID Golden Horned King?"

He clicked on the opponent’s account, which contained very little information. The battle record only started today.

All the age information displayed question marks, only the identity column was labeled as "a member of a special combat group from Green Shadow."

The Thunder God: "??!"

Another unknown master has emerged from Green Shadow!

Why say another?

...

While the Thunder God battled the Single-Horned Giant Beast, GM Tang Yu, like a ghost, hovered high above, overlooking the scene.

The identity information of the Single-Horned Giant Beast was also manually added by him.

The Thunder God from the Hero Club was probably taking a significant hit right now, considering he went from a self-proclaimed top five or six expert globally, to being crushed by a random passer-by.

Feeling helpless was normal.

But if you ask him, the Thunder God really didn’t need to be too concerned. After all, in the future, he would be surpassed by more and more people, and his ranking would continue to drop.

"Ding—"

A notification sounded in his mind, and Tang Yu’s consciousness instantly left the Spirit Space and returned to the Lord’s castle.

It was Fani who called him; she had been exploring the new world opposite of Sky Blue Star for some time now, currently very distant from several Sub-territories.

A message took several hours to transmit to his mind.

He opened it and couldn’t help revealing a look of surprise.

"A new world... and there are humans there!"