CHAPTER 179: CHAPTER179-POWER OF GOD

A look of complete confusion spread across Malkar’s face.

He had no idea what Daniel’s words meant.

But before he could ask, a thunderous roar suddenly erupted from the deepest part of the abyss.

BOOM!

The explosion was deafening, shaking the very foundations of the abyss.

The shockwave of sound spread rapidly, reaching every dark corner of the infernal realm.

As the Emperor of the Abyss, Malkar possessed a unique authority—he could sense every fluctuation within this vast realm. And at the very moment the explosion occurred, he felt something... divine.

A terrifying, incomprehensible pressure swept through the depths of the abyss.

It was the power of a god.

The very breath of godhood itself was now rampaging through the abyss, tearing everything apart like a divine storm.

Under this apocalyptic onslaught, no abyss creature could escape.

And those already maddened abyss beasts?

They didn’t even stand a chance.

They were pulverized instantly—erased from existence.

Not even ashes remained.

For Malkar, who had at least some superficial understanding of the surface world, the concept of the "sun" was not unknown. He had heard of it, read of it, even felt distant echoes of its presence through the abyssal barriers.

But just moments ago... he saw it.

With his own eyes.

For the first time in his life, he saw the sun—and he saw it not in the sky of the surface world, but within the abyss itself.

...

Northern Border of the Human Realm.

The rumbling of the ground drew alarmed gasps from humans across the northern region. The tremors were widespread and unsettling. One by one, people turned toward the direction the quakes had come from—the abyss.

And then they saw it.

In the distant sky, rising over the edge of the abyss, was a blazing sphere of light.

A sun.

It was dazzling—far brighter than the sun they were used to seeing each day.

Among the crowd, a group of refugees who had narrowly escaped the devastation in the southern lands stared at this phenomenon with wide, terror-stricken eyes.

Because they recognized that sun.

It was the same horrifying force that had destroyed their homes not long ago.

Who would have thought that even the abyss—long believed to be untouchable—would be struck by the devastating might of the Primordial Core Weapon?

...

[Abyss]

Elsewhere, Charles had just left Sarko’s casino and conjured a teleportation gate.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared on the outer rim of the abyss.

But the moment he arrived, he felt it.

A monstrous power surging from the abyss’s deepest depths.

It was so overwhelming, so suffocating, that Charles suddenly felt... insignificant.

The sensation was eerily familiar—it was the same feeling he had when he once stood in the presence of the Luck Goddess.

That sensation could only come from one thing:

Godly power.

Instinctively, he began to pray.

"Oh great Lady Luck, it seems I’ve encountered a being even more insane than you."

"I am deeply curious though—just where is this man getting all these Primordial Core Weapons?"

"Oh great Lady Luck, the materials we gave to the Artists back then... shouldn’t be enough to craft so many weapons of this caliber, right?"

...

The catastrophic wave of divine energy finally began to fade.

And Daniel, as if waiting for the moment, appeared directly at the abyss’s deepest point.

From prior experience, he knew that a [New Life] wouldn’t be taken down easily.

Even if hit by the full force of a Primordial Core Weapon, the most it would suffer would be a 30% drop in HP.

After that, it would automatically enter a short period of invincibility.

And sure enough, right on cue, a system prompt appeared before his eyes:

[Special Quest: Star Upgrade Quest – Completed.]

Finally.

Daniel let out a long breath of relief and turned his attention to the current condition of the [New Life].

As expected, it had lost about 30% of its HP, but with no further attacks incoming, its health was already beginning to recover on its own.

In just a few minutes, it would return to full.

Feeling reassured, Daniel teleported into the Star Upgrade Hall, placing his hand on the Awakening Stone.

[You have completed Phase Two of the Star Upgrade Quest.]

[Would you like to submit the quest now?]

"Submit."

[Quest Reward: Recipe unlocked – Void Tower.]

Without hesitation, Daniel opened the God Rank Skill Compendium.

[Foundation of the Void Tower]

[Void Tower – Unique Building]

[Construction Requirement: Must be built atop an Infinite Divine Temple]

[Effect: All believers of the Infinite Divine Temple can accept quests and undergo Talent Star Upgrades within the Void Tower. Upon completion of the Star Upgrade Quest, their Talent grade can be upgraded (up to S-rank).]

Reading the detailed description, Daniel’s expression turned serious.

This Void Tower was even more powerful than he had expected.

While it didn’t directly benefit him all that much... for humanity as a whole, this was revolutionary.

Because under normal circumstances, once a person awakened their Talent, it was permanently fixed.

Very few could improve it through the Star Upgrade Quest, and those few always faced terrifying, often fatal challenges.

Even Daniel, with his monstrous power, had found it exceedingly difficult to complete such quests.

So for ordinary awakeners, attempting a Star Upgrade was essentially suicide.

But now, with the Void Tower, the rules had changed.

Radically.

It was now theoretically possible for all awakeners to reach S-rank Talent.

If this became reality, the strength of humanity would become unimaginable.

To put it into perspective, statistically only one in a million awakeners would awaken with an S-rank Talent naturally.

Even within the abyss, only a few hundred thousand S-rank creatures existed—and that’s with the abyss’s population vastly outnumbering humanity.

But now... with the Void Tower in place, all that changed.

Everything changed.

Excitement surging through him, Daniel then checked his newly unlocked God Rank Skills following the upgrade:

Shield of ReflectionBook of the FutureEffect of the Lucky OneDivine Sword Art

When his eyes landed on Divine Sword Art, Daniel blinked in surprise.

He immediately sensed something special about it—there was clearly some kind of synergy between this and his existing skill, [Shadow].

Driven by intuition, he opened the skill description.

And sure enough:

[Divine Sword Art: Multiplies the damage of all sword-type skills by 10x.]

"...What?"

Daniel stood frozen.

The effect was so blunt, so brutally simple—it stunned him.

If that description was accurate, then even [Shadow]—already one of his most devastating abilities—would deal ten times its usual damage?

That level of power was... absurd.

[Shadow] was already borderline overpowered. If its damage were multiplied by ten...

Daniel didn’t even dare to imagine what that might look like.

But before he could indulge too deeply in his daydream, reality came crashing back down like a bucket of cold water.

Because to unlock Divine Sword Art, he needed...

Another God Rank Skill Scroll.

"A God Rank Skill scroll... to create an even stronger God Rank Skill?"

Daniel could hardly believe it.

Was this some sort of endless nesting-doll trap?

"Forget it..." he muttered. "I can’t even craft a single God Rank Skill right now. Divine Sword Art will have to stay a fantasy... for now."

But just then—he remembered.

There was a God Rank Skill... one that he just so happened to need at this very moment.