Chapter 66

"Rip—!"

An invisible giant hand tore a gash across the sky.

This black gash stretched for several li,

towering over the clouds and the sunset-painted crimson sky.

Viewing it up close,

watching it tear the sky, its length seemed not merely several li, but reaching straight to the boundless horizon.

The black rift gradually swelled, growing wider,

like the gates of hell slowly opening.

The sunset red in the sky grew deeper, a profound crimson,

and against the dark rift, it looked as if dyed in blood.

【New Lord's Seven-Day Heavenly Protection Period has ended.】

【Your Lord Crystal has lost its invincible state.】

【A monster tide is approaching; please defend your Lord Crystal.】

【Pass the monster tide trial, and you may become a formal Lord, affiliated with—The Myriad Realms Battlefield, 11520th Session.】

【Detection: Your territory is too powerful; matched with the highest-scale monster tide—「Calamity Grade」.】

【Warning: The pass rate for the「Calamity Grade」monster tide is extremely low; please consider withdrawing.】

【Before your Lord Crystal is breached, you may choose at any time to abandon becoming a Lord and return to the normal world.】

【Once the Lord Crystal is shattered, the Lord's soul will return to its original body, and you will no longer possess the 'resurrection' ability.】

【Withdrawing does not mean failure; it is merely reverence for death.】

A long string of information flooded the projection screen of the Lord Terminal,

but Su Yu merely glanced at it casually before turning his gaze back to the rift in the sky.

Countless monsters surged out from within,

like a waterfall.

【Monster tide, officially begins!】

【「Calamity Grade」monster tide trial: Prevent the 'Calamity' from descending!】

……

"Brothers, the monster tide has started."

"Uh, a third of the classmates have already left the group."

"After clearing this, let's gather on Blue Star when we have time!"

"Keep going, let's encourage each other!"

"Keep going, let's encourage each other!"

In the class group on the Lord Terminal, everyone cheered each other on,

comforting themselves that they were not the only ones facing the monster tide,

that countless others, like them, were uniting their hearts and strength,

……

Unnamed Territory,

a new Lord commanded his troops, watching for monster attacks.

Over a hundred monsters suddenly appeared in the forest,

surging toward the territory.

There were goblins, orcs, gnomes, carrion beasts...

Watching them besiege the walls,

he was sweating profusely in his anxiety.

A lowest-scale「Ghost Wolf」Grade disaster tide filled him with despair.

……

Unnamed Territory,

new Lord Xu Meng trembled as he placed his hand on the Lord Crystal.

Not long ago, he had lost three griffins in succession, and even a hero had fallen.

He lacked the confidence to pass the monster tide.

Just as he prepared to use the Lord Crystal to teleport back to Blue Star,

he suddenly remembered his parents,

remembered their expectant gazes,

remembered the effort of his hard study through the cold window for over a decade.

He remembered the youth under the dim night light, who had memorized the school-taught 【1000 Methods for Famous Teachers to Start】 until it was second nature.

He remembered the dream of attempting to change his fate...

Xu Meng's pupils trembled; finally, he gritted his teeth,

turned, mounted a griffin, commanded the sole remaining squad of griffins, and charged into the monster tide.

"Kill!!!"

Arrows whistled, the walls teetered on the brink of collapse,

and he advanced without looking back, like a warrior marching to his death.