The moment William stepped through the alloy door, the world seemed to be reset.
Before his eyes was no longer that meticulously decorated lounge, but an endless, pure white space.
Beneath his feet was nothingness, above his head was nothingness, and in every direction was nothingness, exactly like the system space before entering a dungeon.
The only difference was that a huge, translucent light curtain floated directly in front of him, emitting a soft fluorescent glow.
On the light curtain, the level area tiers from F to SSS were clearly divided.
But at this moment, most areas were in a grey locked state; only the F, E, and D level area tiers were lit up, emitting a faint golden light.
"Does this correspond to the Reincarnators' level cap..."
William muttered to himself.
In the Main God Game's level system, although Hunters and Reincarnators have different titles, the level classification is unified.
He had now advanced to D+ rank, so naturally, he could only challenge difficulties of D rank and below.
On the light curtain, the list of BOSSes in the D-rank area was dense, ranging from the Tyrant in Resident Evil, to the Xenomorph Queen in Alien, to various original fusion monsters, each marked with detailed combat data and challenge records.
William's gaze swept slowly over the list.
He was not the type of person who liked to shrink back. Since he wanted to test his strength, he naturally had to pick the strongest.
Therefore, his target was those top-tier BOSSes in the D-rank area.
Just as he was about to reach out and select one, a bustling sound of discussion suddenly came from around him.
William was slightly taken aback and tilted his ear to listen.
This virtual space was not completely independent; players could communicate with each other, and could even see the projections of other challengers.
At this moment, dozens of players were gathered not far from him, discussing something heatedly.
"Did you hear? Did you hear? Over in the E-rank area, there's an SSS-Rank Twin BOSS!"
"No kidding, this has already spread everywhere! Those two monsters are simply perverted; one has already grown to over thirty meters long, and one is over ten meters high, and it's said they are growing and evolving every single moment!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I heard that too. So far, no one has successfully challenged them. Those D-rank Hunters go in and can't even last three minutes before coming out."
"I don't know which pervert killed them; this data is just too ridiculous."
"This kind of infinitely growing monster is simply not something an SS-Rank Hunter can kill. Those Hunters with a D-rank rating couldn't pass either; at that time, their strength hadn't fully formed yet."
"Heh, I don't know if any SS-Rank Hunters could pass before, but now I'm sure that absolutely no Hunter with an SS-Level Talent rated at E-rank could kill this BOSS."
William listened to these discussions, his eyebrows slightly raised.
An SSS-Rank plot BOSS?
Killed by a Hunter rated at E-rank?
And infinitely growing?
A faint smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
To be able to create such a record at this stage, in the whole world, there's probably only one person.
His finger, which was originally preparing to point at the D-rank area, slowly retracted.
He turned around and walked directly to the option for the E-rank area on the light curtain.
A flash of white light, and the space shifted.
The next second, William appeared in another pure white space.
The light curtain in front of him was still floating, but the content on it was completely different; this was the exclusive BOSS list for the E-rank rating level.
Dense icons covered the entire light curtain.
William's gaze swept over them and discovered that most of them were faces he was familiar with.
The Resident Evil series accounted for nearly half, including the Tyrant, the Pursuer, various stage forms of the G-Virus, the Licker, and so on.
After all, this dungeon had the highest level cap, so the data left behind was naturally the richest.
There were also some classic BOSSes from other dungeons, such as the Xenomorph Queen, the Predator, and the giant Blood Python.
William scanned with his eyes.
For the current Hunters, these BOSSes no longer posed too much of a threat.
After all, the players' strength grew too fast, having long since surpassed the limits of ordinary humans.
His gaze moved up along the list.
The higher up it went, the greater the strength of the BOSS, the fewer the challenge attempts, and the rarer the clearance records.
Until the very top —
Two side-by-side icons floated quietly there.
Twin BOSS.
William's pupils shrank slightly.
The icon on the left was a behemoth over thirty meters long.
It had a body similar to a human's but twisted and deformed, with a right arm that had grown so huge it exceeded the wingspan of its body, muscles knotted, and veins bulging.
Eyes were embedded in its joint tissues.
That was G-William.
The product after the G-Virus eroded William Birkin, but this one in front of him had clearly undergone some sort of bizarre strengthening modification.
The icon on the right was even more exaggerated.
A Tyrant over ten meters tall, covered from head to toe in silver-white external bones, and behind it, it had even evolved a thick tail wrapped in external bones.
That was the specialized Tyrant modified by the Pursuer.
The corner of William's mouth twitched slightly.
On this Tyrant, what was clearly visible was a shoddy imitation of that set of silver-white external bones belonging to the Leader.
Although ugly, although ferocious, and although it revealed a sense of shoddy cheapness everywhere, the outline, the posture, and the external bone structure attempting to imitate the Leader were simply too obvious.
William stood in front of the light curtain, silent for three seconds.
Then, he smiled.
In that smile, there was helplessness, emotion, and a trace of faint pride.
"If I'm not mistaken,"
He muttered to himself, his voice so soft that only he could hear it.
"I think I should know who killed it."
William took a deep breath, his eyes becoming firm.
He stretched out his hand and pointed without hesitation at the Twin BOSS icon tied for first place.
[You have chosen to challenge: Twin BOSS (G-William Mutation — Specialized Tyrant · Pursuer)]
[Difficulty Rating: SSS-Rank (E-Rank Area Ceiling)]
[Current Clearance Rate: 0.00%]
[Confirm entry?]
"Confirm."
William's voice was calm, without a trace of trembling.
White light swallowed his vision.
At the last moment before his consciousness sank into the battlefield, a thought emerged in his mind.
Leader, although I will never be able to catch up with your footsteps.
But at least...
Let me feel what kind of enemy you once faced.
...