Alex left Starlight Base without ceremony.He didn't use a fighter jet or a transport vessel. He didn't announce his departure to the guards or coordinate with the command center. He simply folded space around himself and stepped into the void between moments, his space law honed by three thousand years of climbing the Beast God staircase carrying him across vast distances in the blink of an eye. One moment he was standing in the polished corridors of the base. The next, he was somewhere else entirely.The Stargate stretched before him like a wound that refused to heal. It was a vast wilderness of corrupted zones and ancient ruins, a place where the desperate came to hide and the wicked came to hunt. The monster surge had ended, but the landscape still bore the scars of a century of war. Blackened stone crunched beneath his boots. Twisted forests reached toward the artificial sky like the fingers of dead men. The bones of creatures that had died in the final battles lay scattered acr

The figure, the Illusion Immortal King of the cult stared at Alex with open confusion. According to the cult's intelligence, Alex Roshar was supposed to be in the Immortal realm, or perhaps the Immortal General realm at most. But this person had broken through his illusion with casual ease. That should have been impossible for someone of that level."How did you see through my illusion?" the figure demanded, its voice echoing strangely in the silent canyon. "I have spent centuries perfecting this technique. Even Immortal Kings have fallen to my illusions without ever realizing they were trapped."Alex didn't answer immediately. He was studying the figure, assessing its strength, its position, and its likely escape routes. The Illusion Immortal King was a powerful mid stage Immortal King realm by the feel of it, though not as refined as his mother realm. But it was still an Immortal King. Still dangerous to let him escape."I could ask you the same question," Alex said finally. "What i

The slaughter began immediately.Alex moved through the pocket dimension like a force of nature, his sword blazing with fire law as he cut through the monster horde with brutal efficiency. Law realm beasts fell in droves, their corrupted bodies dissolving into ash under the heat of his blade. Domain realm creatures scattered and fled, but Alex's space law trapped them, folding reality around them and crushing them into nothingness. Immortal-level predators tried to fight back, their claws and fangs seeking his flesh, but Alex's spatial perception let him anticipate every attack and counter with lethal precision.[Picked up 15,000 Attribute Points.][Picked up 22,000 Attribute Points.][Picked up 18,000 Attribute Points.]The system notifications flickered through his consciousness, but Alex barely noticed them. His focus was on the hunt, the rhythm of strike and retreat, the flow of combat, the satisfaction of cleansing corruption from the world. The monsters were weak compared to t

Five figures stood in a rough circle at the center of the dimension, their massive forms silhouetted against a backdrop of pulsing dark energy. Each one radiated the unmistakable aura of a peak Immortal King, their corrupted power pressing against Alex's senses like a physical weight. They were monsters twisted by centuries of exposure to the dark energy that saturated this dimension but their eyes held a glimmer of something that Alex hadn't expected to see.‘Intelligence.’“Five peak Immortal Kings,” Alex thought, his hand moving instinctively to his sword. “In the entire hundred worlds, there are barely three hundred beings at this level. And here, in a hidden pocket dimension, there are five. Five. All of them monsters. All of them are corrupted.”He studied them carefully, assessing their strength, their positions, and their likely attack patterns. The monsters were massive, each one easily thirty feet tall, their bodies covered in armored scales that gleamed with dark energy.

Alex felt a chill run down his spine. A prophecy. Someone had known that he would come here and had known that he would face these five creatures and emerge victorious. But who? And why?"Whose voice was it?" he asked, his grey eyes narrowing.But the monsters didn't answer. They didn't know. They had never seen the being who had spoken to them, had never been able to trace the source of the prophecy. It had simply appeared in their minds, a whisper in the darkness, and then vanished.“ The universe will,” Alex thought. It must be the Universe will. Or perhaps the other being who is the original breeder of these monsters in the hundred worlds.”He shook his head. The answer would come in time. For now, he had a decision to make."Looks like I have to visit the oracle," he murmured. "She was asking for me to visit her anyway. Let's see if she has a solution for your problem."He looked at the five Immortal Kings, his grey eyes meeting each of their burning gazes in turn. "For now, I'll