Chapter 361: Returning to the Domain of the Gods, Breaking Through to Late-Stage God-King!
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With such an immense hoard of Divine Power points, if the Weapon God-King had simply turtled up and laid low for a bit longer, he definitely would have had enough metrics to advance into the late stage of the God-King Realm.
But now, his hard-earned reserves had completely funded Seito's rapid progression.
[Name: Seito]
[Divine Title: Space God-King]
[Rank: Mid-stage God-King Realm] (Note: Pre-breakthrough stats)
[Divine Spark: Spatial Divine Spark]
[Talent: Spatial Mastery]
[Divine Power Required for Breakthrough: 340,000,000 / 200,000,000]
[Skills: Speed Dimension (Exclusive), Spatial Teleportation (Exclusive), Spatial Phase-Step (Exclusive), Spatial Dragon's Roar (Exclusive), Spatial Dragon's Breath (Exclusive), Dimensional Slash (Exclusive)...]
[Weapon: Spatial Suit (God-King)]
Reviewing his system panel one final time, Seito activated his transport sequence and vanished from the God-King Star Sector.
The 61st–70th Floors: The Domain of the Gods, Planet Earth.
Japan, Chiba City.
Materializing back inside his apartment, Seito pulled up his social interface to scan his unread messages. While he was locked in combat with the Weapon God-King, a large number of notifications had pinged his system.
Opening the core Fatui executive chat channel, Seito smoothly transmitted a message.
[Seito: Hey everyone, what's going on?]
[Maple: Seito-kun! Where did you run off to just now?]
[Seito: I went up to investigate the God-King Star Sector to get a baseline map of the local landscape. More importantly... I'm about to trigger my breakthrough to the late stage of the God-King Realm!]
Seeing Seito's sudden status update, a wave of shock rippled through the group chat. They hadn't expected him to actually breach the ceiling into the God-King Star Sector so casually, much less secure enough resources to trigger another immediate upgrade track.
[Kirukiru Amou: Where are you right now?]
[Seito: At home. No need to teleport over to my coordinates for now; I'm heading up into the open void in a few minutes to finalize the breakthrough.]
Seito intended to take a brief moment to catch his breath before setting out. After all, stepping into the late stage of the God-King Realm was an absolute priority.
The group shared a few more casual exchanges before closing their respective interfaces to let him focus.
Meanwhile, back in the Central Region of the God-King Star Sector...
"What?! Sub-space anomaly detected?!"
Across the expansive continent, numerous ancient rulers froze in absolute shock as their tracking arrays refreshed.
"This is... the Weapon God-King's life signature has cut to zero?!"
"How could a powerhouse like the Weapon God-King fall so rapidly? Why didn't our scouter arrays register a single shred of kinetic feedback?"
"Could it be the same entity from earlier?"
"The same one? You mean..."
"Exactly! The unknown stealth killer who has been systematically hunting down our subordinate gods!"
"Curse him! If I ever map his coordinates, I'll make sure his character data is permanently erased!"
A wave of furious chatter erupted across the local God-King network, every single ruler grinding their teeth in pure rage while their vigilance skyrocketed. To silently execute a prominent figure like the Weapon God-King right under their noses proved that the killer's parameters were terrifyingly high! The perpetrator was definitively an expert sitting at the mid-stage of the God-King Realm or higher!
Faced with this invisible threat, a significant portion of the early and mid-stage God-Kings came to a collective tactical decision: turtle up and hide immediately! They refused to step out of their domains until this rogue element finally made a high-profile entrance, or until the peak-tier rulers managed to pinpoint his exact coordinate track.
Back with Seito...
Rocketing straight up into the open vacuum of the lower cosmos, Seito sat cross-legged in the silent void, initiating his breakthrough sequence. He completely drained his active Divine Power pool, dumping the metrics straight into his core tracking line!
BOOM!
RUMBLE!!!
A staggering 200 million Divine Power points flooded into his Divine Spark, causing Seito's aura to detonate outward with world-crushing force. Sensing the massive kinetic wave, he immediately concentrated his willpower to forcefully restrain his energy leakage. After all, the raw parameter density of a late-stage God-King was far too immense!
Sitting peacefully in the void, Seito focused his consciousness entirely on the violet Divine Spark spinning frantically inside his mind. The crystal devoured the incoming sea of points like an absolute black hole.
After an indeterminate period, the massive pool of points was thoroughly synthesized by his core.
Seito's baseline metrics began a steep, vertical climb!
BOOM!
A few seconds later, the bottleneck shattered cleanly! The vital energy and blood within his vessels roared like a thundering, unstoppable river!
At this exact microsecond, he had officially ascended into a late-stage God-King!
"Not bad at all," Seito muttered, rising smoothly to his feet as he measured the changes inside his material body. A satisfied smile spread across his face as he reviewed his updated stat profile:
[Name: Seito]
[Divine Title: Space God-King]
[Rank: Late-stage God-King Realm]
[Divine Spark: Spatial Divine Spark]
[Talent: Spatial Mastery]
[Divine Power Required for Breakthrough: 140,000,000 / 1,000,000,000]
[Skills: Speed Dimension (Exclusive), Spatial Teleportation (Exclusive), Spatial Phase-Step (Exclusive), Spatial Dragon's Roar (Exclusive), Spatial Dragon's Breath (Exclusive), Dimensional Slash (Exclusive)...]
[Weapon: Spatial Suit (God-King)]
To breach the final ceiling into the peak of the God-King Realm, his next upgrade track required a staggering 1 billion Divine Power points! He couldn't even begin to comprehend how many points the system matrix would demand once he tried to transition from a peak God-King into a true, omniscient Main God. It was bound to be an astronomical sum.
"The core objective remains the same: find a way to rapidly farm these metrics," Seito thought, rubbing his chin.
Though his current combat strength was immense, it still wasn't enough for him to carelessly challenge the entire continent. Walking the high-tier floors required absolute calculations and extreme caution.
With his blueprint locked in, his silhouette blurred, vanishing cleanly from the lower cosmos.
Re-entering the God-King Star Sector, Seito materialized right back inside the rolling mountain range he had departed from earlier. Scanning the local perimeter to ensure no tracking arrays were active, he used a precise spatial phase-step to slip deep inside a hidden cavern.
The moment his boots touched the cavern floor, he ignited his core divine energy track.
"Mirror Space!"
Hum, hum, hum~~
Six massive spatial mirrors materialized in a flawless circle around his coordinates, and six distinct reflections smoothly stepped out from the glass.
"Prime body, we're heading out to begin the rotation," one of the clones stated calmly.
"Mhm. Prioritize stealth and caution above all else. Remember to keep your masks firmly equipped," Seito nodded, offering his instructions.
His basic strategy was mathematically airtight. At their current level, unless they ran face-first into an ancient late-stage God-King or an absolute peak-tier monster, these reflections were practically unkillable. Using his clones to continuously roam the floor allowed him to systematically farm low-tier gods and independent God-Kings while keeping his true physical form entirely off the grid. The absolute microsecond his point pool hit the 1 billion threshold and unlocked his peak God-King parameters, he would have the systemic leverage to completely dominate the entire sector!
The six spatial clones wasted no more syllables on words, dissolving into separate tracking vectors as they teleported out of the cavern.
Watching them depart, Seito let out a relaxed chuckle. Now, all that was left to do was sit back and wait for the harvest metrics to pour in. With that final thought, he executed a spatial return sequence, flying straight back down toward the Planet.
By the time his boots touched down inside his bedroom, the Planet had already transitioned deep into its nighttime cycle—after all, his prolonged duel against the Weapon God-King had taken a considerable chunk of time.
As he stepped out into the main living quarters, he found Kirukiru Amou, Kanade Tachibana, and the rest of the girls waiting up for him.
"You're back," Kirukiru Amou said, her eyes softening as she tracked his arrival.
"Yeah," Seito nodded gently.
"Tomorrow evening, make sure you give us a full briefing regarding the layout of the God-King Star Sector," she added with a warm smile.
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