Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 182 - 156: Elegy of the Gods CG, The Oakland Continent’s Crisis

Chapter 182: Chapter 156: Elegy of the Gods CG, The Oakland Continent’s Crisis

What lay beyond the world of the Oakland Continent?

Lince learned the answer through his own actions.

After speaking with the Forest Giant Elephant, Lince had shot straight into the sky.

He flew directly upward until he broke free from the planet’s atmospheric pull.

Along the way, the True Game issued no warnings.

Just as he expected. In a world where the rules were completely controlled by the True Game, Lince, as a Player and even an Authority Holder, could enter and exit the planet without hindrance.

In fact, the moment Lince truly broke through the planet’s atmosphere...

...he even received a helpful tip from the True Game.

[Helpful Tip: Esteemed Cheater Sealer and Authority Holder, your destination is the Star Realm beyond the Oakland Continent, also known as outer space.]

[Here, you will come face to face with the greatest secret of the Deities in the Demon World. Please be mentally prepared, Player. You are about to witness the grandest sight of this world’s twilight of the gods.]

The information in the tip didn’t hinder Lince in any way.

In a mere instant, he appeared in outer space, completely shattering the Law that prevented mortal life from peeking into the Star Realm.

And so, the moment Lince floated above the planet’s surface, he witnessed an incredibly terrifying scene.

Just beyond the Oakland Planet, vast numbers of shattered floating islands were suspended in space.

Of course, besides the floating islands, there were also many things that resembled belts of fine, shattered meteorites.

These meteorite belts spread like a gray fog, densely covering the entire outer orbit of the Oakland Planet.

And there were a great many of these broken floating islands.

Some were only a hundred meters in diameter, but others exceeded ten kilometers.

In fact, on the side where Lince had emerged into outer space, he even discovered a ruined floating island with a diameter of thirty kilometers.

All the floating islands bore ruined structures, which at a glance were clearly the result of a terrifying battle.

And on the largest of these ruined floating islands, Lince could even see a raging Black Flame burning ceaselessly. Many of the buildings on that massive island, obscured by the Black Flame, were slowly collapsing.

[Divine Kingdoms shattered, Deities fallen.]

[Lament of the Deities CG now playing!]

Lince stared blankly at it all. At that very moment, his vision was suddenly pulled into another scene.

[From the first sprout of life underwater to the giant beasts of the Stone Age; from the first time life walked upright, the wheels of history rolled ever onward.]

[When the Deities raised their Divine Kingdoms into the Star Realm, when the dawn of civilization broke through the savage wilds, the great exploration began. However, this path was destined not to be a smooth one.]

On screen, a rapid montage like a history of evolution showed the historical progression of the Oakland Continent.

It also showed the appearance of the first of the Deities and the heart-shaking scene of countless living beings crying out in excitement.

But soon, everything changed after a mortal being, shrouded in light and shadow in the video, used an unstable Teleportation Array to open a path to an unknown world.

The Deities noticed the unknown portal. And when they, in their joy, began to gather and discuss exploring that unknown world, their lament was sealed.

The scene continued to fast-forward. Thirty-five of the first Deities of the Oakland Continent charged into that world of black mist through an even larger Star Road they opened themselves.

But soon, with another cut in the scene, only two Deities managed to escape back, mortally wounded.

And right after they fled back, a terrifying wave of Black Flame suddenly swept out from the other side of the Star Road toward the Star Realm of the Oakland Continent.

At that moment, it was as if the entire outer orbit of the Oakland Planet had been set ablaze by black fire, burning furiously!

Fortunately, ripples in the world’s laws prevented the Black Flame from raining down upon the mortal realm.

Then, terrifying Giant Dragons, hidden in light and shadow, appeared one after another. These Giant Dragons furiously cursed the Deities, but at the same time, they swiftly moved to stop the Black Flame from spreading further in the Star Realm of the Oakland Continent.

Finally, through the efforts of the Giant Dragons, all the Black Flame was purified.

Even the Star Realm Gate was sealed by several of the terrifying Giant Dragons.

The Deities were overjoyed, celebrating their survival after the catastrophe.

But in that moment, they also saw the looks of disappointment the Giant Dragons gave them.

No words could be heard, but the video showed the Deities, shrouded in light and shadow, revealing expressions of indignation or shame as they faced the Giant Dragons.

Then the scene changed again.

After an unknown amount of time, the gate to the Star Realm was opened once more!

And it was then that a horde of terrifying monsters shrouded in Black Flame swarmed out, relentlessly attacking the Floating Island Divine Kingdoms of the Deities in the Star Realm.

War erupted in an instant!

It was incredibly brutal. In just the few close-up shots Lince saw in the CG, at least a dozen Deities were devoured or killed by the terrifying Black Flame Creatures.

The situation was extremely dire. Even the Dragon Race participated in reinforcing the Deities from the very beginning.

But this time, the Dragon Race also suffered heavy casualties.

Although they still won, a terrifying giant palm suddenly reached out from the Star Realm at the end. The part that was visible alone exceeded a hundred kilometers in size!

With a single slap, it shattered one of the Deities’ Divine Kingdoms.

But soon, a satellite not far from the Oakland Continent in the video—that is, the Moon—suddenly moved!

It was the smaller of the Oakland Continent’s two moons that moved. No, to be precise, the moon that moved wasn’t a moon at all.

It was a Giant Dragon, curled up and sleeping in the Star Realm!!!

An unimaginably colossal Ancient Giant Dragon appeared!!!

The Space of the Star Realm trembled. Soon after, the terrifying Giant Dragon could be seen crushing both the Star Gate and the giant Black Flame palm with a single swipe.

At the same time, this terrifying Giant Dragon looked down upon the remaining Deities, its gaze even more indifferent and disappointed.

And in the next moment, the terrifying Giant Dragon vanished from the planet’s periphery along with a ripple in Space.

Simultaneously, the scene shifted again, and the terrifying Giant Dragon appeared in a misty, black world.

The scene, shrouded in black, was a top-down view that looked just like the Solar System.

The moment the Giant Dragon entered this world, this star system, it was immediately attacked by a large number of Black Flame monsters, including quite a few terrifying Black Flame figures.

During the battle, more terrifying Giant Dragons even appeared and joined the war.

But just as the war reached its peak, at a moment before the CG had finished playing, the camera suddenly cut away.

The area of the sea where Dragon Island had been on the map... in a sudden instant, Dragon Island vanished from the map.

As Dragon Island disappeared from the map, the CG then showed a scene of a giant crater being filled by rushing seawater.

With Dragon Island gone, the CG moved to its final scene: the one Lince had seen before, where the Deities used their own Divine Bodies to block a small Star Gate that had been opened once again.

The CG finally ended.

Lince’s consciousness returned to his body.

The entire process seemed to last only for a single breath, but having seen the CG, Lince was now completely and utterly shaken.

’An opponent of this level... even the Dragon Race fled at the height of their power?’

’Is this a joke? Such a huge spectacle? That was a Giant Dragon as massive as the Moon!’

Lince took a deep breath.

His scalp tingled with dread.

’An enemy like that... they’re not going to come back again, are they?’

’After all, based on the CG, the enemy—whether passively or actively—has already struck with terrifying Power three times!’

’The Deities fell more than three thousand years ago.’

’According to Amos, the Dragon Race left eight thousand years ago, and the Deities completely severed their connection to the mortal world five thousand years after the Dragons left.’

’Time after time, the enemy seems to be opening the gates faster and faster!’

Lince did his best to sort out the timeline.

The first time the Deities fought against the otherworldly force, it was because some mortal accidentally discovered the world on the other side through a Space Transmission Array.

Following the unstable aura, the Deities opened a Star Road to the unknown world, and then disaster struck!

This also likely corresponded to the period when Void Magic Crystals vanished from the continent.

’Just as I thought. Everything unreasonable on the Oakland Continent happened for a reason.’

’Mortals act recklessly, and the Deities act recklessly too.’

’They should have at least confirmed if there was danger on the other side of the Star Road first.’

’To throw more than thirty Deities over there on their very first contact with an outside world... they really were arrogant and conceited.’

But now, Lince felt he was in a bit of trouble too.

Although, in the CG from the last twilight of the gods, the Deities had said in a dialogue that by sacrificing their own lives, they could sever the enemy’s means of anchoring to the Oakland Continent where the Deities resided.

’But is that a sure thing?’

’No, Lince wouldn’t dare to be complacent. After all, from the looks of it, the Dragon Race seems to have already failed catastrophically.’

’Otherwise, why would the entire Dragon Race have run away?’

’So, what gives the True Game the confidence to take over the mess on the Oakland Continent?’

Lince was genuinely worried that the True Game would end up leading the ’Imperial Army’ to the real world—to Blue Star’s territory.

’Is it a "go crazy or go home" situation? Is the True Game trying to seize the opportunity on the Oakland Continent to face this challenge head-on?’

’As for picking up this bargain... Lince was speechless.’

Moreover, Lince discovered that these Deities of the Oakland Continent were quite tight-lipped.

Throughout the entire process, the mortal beings had no idea any of this was happening.

In the several conflicts, it was always the Deities and their Demigod attendants who stood on the front lines of the battlefield.

Saint Tier experts didn’t even have the right to participate!

But those Demigods had it rough, too. It seemed they were all wiped out during the second surprise attack by the Black Flame Creatures. If not for the Dragon Race’s final intervention—specifically, the one by the Space Dragon that Lince already knew about—the Black Flame Creatures might have slaughtered every divine being on the Oakland Continent during that second attack.

’This kind of thing is just unbelievably troublesome!’

The more Lince learned, the greater the pressure he felt.

After all, he was now the tallest person who had to hold up the sky if it fell. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

This trip to the Star Realm... Lince was even starting to think it would have been better not to have come.

Given the current situation in the Star Realm, looking at the floating islands burning with Black Flame, Lince didn’t hesitate for a second before turning around and heading back into the Oakland Continent.

’This is not something I can explore right now.’

’At the very least, I’ll have to wait until after my Ascension to Divinity to investigate further.’

Right now, Lince was filled with speechless gravity.

’Such a massive problem... no wonder the Players of the True Game are advancing so quickly.’

’And I even received the most attention and benefits. As expected, everything comes at a price.’

’It seems that in the end, everyone will be forced into a corner. We’ll have no choice but to bite the bullet and charge ahead. Otherwise, if the Oakland Continent falls, there’s no telling what kind of mess the True Game might create.’

’I hope that day comes as late as possible. I have to hurry up with the conquest of the Karte Continent!’

His mind heavy with worry, Lince’s figure flickered and vanished completely from the Oakland Continent.