Mina’s voice rang out from within: "Do you see it? This is the latest War Magic Statue. By using parallel blade Spiritual Crystal technology, we’ve linked together ten thousand Spiritual Crystals, each one solidified from an Ash Core. One Spiritual Crystal can provide a stable Spiritual Energy output of one thousand kiloticks, so our maximum Spiritual Energy output is!"

Boom!

Ten million kiloticks of Spiritual Power Burst erupted, like a localized storm being torn open. Though this was ordinary, weak Spiritual Energy, its might could not be underestimated.

As the War Magic Statues entered the battle, the Monarchs’ advantage expanded swiftly. Though the War Magic Statues moved clumsily, with a single, monotonous mode of attack, and the Field supplied by Source Material was not stable enough, they possessed utterly overwhelming defensive power. The madmen’s attacks did nothing to them, not even forcing them back half a step.

Whereas the War Magic Statues could easily knock them from the walls.

Rod stood like a mountain, unmoving, calmly overlooking the battlefield. His heart seemed still as a dead lake, yet his hands were clenched tight.

This was the seed he had planted. In this instant, the new path had already sprouted and leafed, growing toward the height of a towering tree.

Heh!

Humanity is not without hope!

As long as you give me enough time, I will hew out a road through this darkness!

Rod gazed into the distance. Space was already warping, heaven and earth turning leaden and dim. Black Fog rolled, converging toward some unseen origin, while more gray-white tides surged toward the Royal City.

But it was useless.

Derivatives were, in the end, derivatives. Even with the blessing of their original body, they could not run rampant beneath the Holy Fire.

This supreme power that safeguarded humanity now radiated boundless might, weakening them from the deepest roots, leaving them fragile and unable to withstand a single blow.

The only thing that could contend with this power was that incomparably colossal existence.

"It’s coming!"

Iyeta’s voice came to his ear.

The White Tower had already clearly observed the presence of the Human Demon’s true body; it was now very close to the Royal City.

Boom!

With a muffled crash as if from the Void itself, an unimaginably vast gray-white halo entered their sight.

It was so immense, tens of thousands of times larger than those madmen, like a planet wreathed in a halo drawing near to them.

"That’s the Human Demon’s Mad Crown!"

In the Dream Realm, the Book of Knowledge shouted.

"During this time, its Awakening has advanced yet another step!"

Beneath the halo, every madman’s Mad Crown was linked to it. Terrifying Pollution and power of madness were transmitted through that connection.

But the power of the Holy Fire stopped it. The Royal City’s walls blocked it, preventing its rampage.

Boom!

Another heaven-shaking, earth-rending muffled roar. That colossal halo stretching hundreds of thousands of yards drew closer, and a gargantuan, abyssal silhouette appeared within Rod’s sight.

Compared to when it was in the graveyard, the Human Demon had grown even more colossal. Clotted, abyssal masses riddled its body, and dead flesh like black clouds stretched along its form.

Woooo! 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The Human Demon loosed a desolate, drawn-out howl, as if it pierced through heaven and earth, piercing through the Three Realms.

With that vast wail, an unprecedented, ultra-Strong power surged forth. It was like Spiritual Energy, yet also like a Field, bearing incomparable might. In Rod’s perception, it was like a boundless black ocean, as though the next heartbeat would see it drown the world.

A cold, suffocating pressure spread upward; the Souls of all present were suppressed.

But in the next instant, flames soared skyward, and blazing golden radiance pierced heaven and earth.

An unimaginably huge burning figure rose from within the Royal City. A searing, brilliant aura spread outward, holding back that icy tide.

"King!"

At that moment, numberless people cried out his name; at that moment, numberless people wept hot tears.

That blazing figure was their sun, their limitless conflagration. Only when he appeared did the world truly possess light and warmth.

Woooo!

The Human Demon unleashed an even greater roar, violent darkness boiling up over its body and swallowing its entire form.

In the next heartbeat, the Human Demon abruptly appeared before the city wall. Its enormous Mad Crown rammed into the city interior, and one of its arms struck the wall. The "Wall of Sighs," which had suffered countless attacks from madmen without the slightest damage, collapsed in an instant. Shattered stone exploded, flying in all directions at unimaginable speed.

At the same time, the burning giant figure appeared before the Human Demon. Two unprecedentedly Strong existences began their first clash.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Heaven and earth bellowed. It was as if the world could not bear the weight of these two overwhelmingly Strong beings. At the instant their Fields collided, even the Sea of Source heaved in tsunamis.

Light and dark drowned the world in a single breath; the entire Three Realms seemed to turn into only black and white.

At the moment of impact, the ultra-Strong Spiritual Energy tore the earth asunder, and a tsunami of Spiritual Energy crashed toward them.