The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Gu Xu felt the surging power within his body and slowly exhaled.

The system notification in my mind gradually faded away.

He temporarily suppressed the new power belonging to [Divine Deprivation] within his body.

Then I pulled my wandering thoughts back.

The first stage of the third transformation mission has been successfully completed, and the three geniuses with divine abilities have all become nourishment for his advancement.

Everything went even more smoothly than expected.

Gu Xu turned around, his divine eyes fixed on the muddy puddle not far away.

There, Yuri of the Northern Alliance, the last mythical genius to enter the Silver Moon Realm this time, was slumped on the ground.

At this point, Yuri was completely plunged into despair.

As the most dazzling rising star in the Northern Alliance, he shoulders the glory of the nation and the expectations of countless people, wanting to shine brightly in the Silvermoon Realm.

But now, the giant axe has shattered, and the tendons and bones in his arms are broken.

He no longer had the strength to fight.

What devastated him even more was witnessing Gu Xu transform into an indescribable former ruler.

After witnessing firsthand the withered finger that represented the foundation of the beacon nation being brutally crushed, and the horrific scene of Caesar being swallowed whole by the abyss's gaping maw.

His rationality had completely vanished.

So much so that... they didn't even have the strength to stand up and run away.

He just kept shrinking back, rubbing his elbows in the mud, as if trying to squeeze himself into a crack in the ground.

"A monster..."

Yuri's lips trembled violently, and he could only utter these two words over and over again.

Gu Xu looked at him, his face showing no emotion.

In his divine state, his humanity is extremely compressed, leaving only absolute rationality and supreme divinity.

Whether the other person was dead or alive was like a roadside stone to him, unable to stir any emotion within him.

"die!"

Gu Xu spoke calmly, his strange, synthesized tone exploding directly in Yuri's mind.

Before the words were even finished, a thought subtly stirred within him.

A black tentacle hanging down from the enormous phantom behind him tore through the air like a bolt of lightning.

A dull thud of flesh tearing rang out.

The thick tentacles, like spears, pierced through Yuri's chest.

Yuri's once robust, bear-like body appeared incredibly fragile in the face of this power. His eyes widened suddenly, and he looked down at his chest, gushing blood from his mouth.

Nothing unexpected happened.

The Northern Alliance's strongest genius was left hanging in mid-air like a skewer of candied hawthorns, his life completely extinguished.

Just as Yuri breathed his last, the dark golden crystal core hanging on Gu Xu's chest—[Embers of Ragnarok]—suddenly burst forth with an extremely dazzling light.

The "Prisoner of the Gods" trait attached to this mythical-grade equipment was directly triggered.

On Yuri's massive corpse, a ball of light radiating an icy blue glow instantly emerged—his professional authority in ice.

The ball of light struggled in mid-air for less than half a second before being pulled away by a powerful suction force generated by the crystal core.

I was instantly immersed in it.

Gu Xu felt the temperature of the crystal core rise slightly, and the energy reserves contained within it became even thicker.

This thing can not only solve the time limit of his mission.

It can also continuously absorb the authority of those it kills to strengthen itself.

At this point, all the mythical geniuses from other countries who had entered the Silver Moon Realm had perished.

Apart from the Divine Xia Empire, the remaining sparks of other top powers were completely extinguished by Gu Xu alone in an extremely brutal manner.

Those ordinary foreign geniuses who survived by sheer luck while hiding in the distance have long since been driven insane by fear.

Some were frantically grabbing their hair and laughing stupidly on the ground, while others were kneeling on the ground and kowtowing desperately, as if they were worshipping an evil god.

Gu Xu couldn't be bothered with these worthless nobody.

Whether or not to kill them is no longer of any significance.

Of course, Gu Xu did not remove the divine state from his body.

He knew that now was not the time to relax.

Because he still had one last objective in his third job advancement quest—to kill the false god.

In this secret realm, the only being qualified to be called a "false god" is the remaining body hidden in the dark side of the Silver Moon.

Given the previous mission requirement of "the realm of calamity covering the Silver Moon Realm," he must maintain this peak condition to reach the top.

He brought the entire Silvermoon Mountain under his absolute control.

He turned his head and looked at the Sherlock Holmes team members not far behind him.

Lei Zhen, Qin Shuyao, Tie Shan, and the others were standing together in a group at this moment.

Although they were Gu Xu's compatriots and knew that Gu Xu was an ally, they were still in a difficult situation when faced with Gu Xu in this state.

They were still shivering and dared not approach.

Gu Xu glanced at them, and the suffocating sense of oppression lessened slightly.

He didn't waste any time with unnecessary words, simply issuing the order: "Follow me, to the top of the mountain."

After saying that, he turned around and took the first step.

The moat ahead, which had been severed by various rules and energies, posed no obstacle to Gu Xu at this moment.

He walked on the void as if on flat ground towards the dried-up river.

The turbulent spatial currents and icy river water around him, upon touching the calamity domain surrounding him, automatically dispersed to both sides as if melting snow.

They forcefully cleared a wide, smooth road for him.

Seeing this, Lei Zhen and the others gritted their teeth and followed.

They carefully followed the safety passage left by Gu Xu to cross the moat and officially embarked on the road to the main peak of Silver Moon Mountain.

Silvermoon Mountain was originally the most dangerous area in this secret realm, known as the meat grinder of geniuses.

According to previous intelligence, this place should be filled with various deadly array traps, as well as hordes of high-level monsters of level 60 and above.

Under normal circumstances, reaching the summit would be an extremely bloody battle that would come at a heavy price.

But today, the situation is completely different.

Gu Xu's enormous phantom and the sky-filling black mist directly enveloped the entire mountain climbing steps.

Those monsters hidden in the shadows, whether they were ferocious beasts lurking in the grass or giants lurking on the rock walls, didn't even have a chance to let out a roar.

As soon as they were touched by even a trace of Gu Xu's aura of calamity, their bodies would quickly rot as if they had encountered strong acid.

Even the bones were completely corroded away.

Those formations that were said to be able to trap geniuses were directly shattered into countless specks of light under the crushing force of the unreasonable high-dimensional rules of the ancient ruler.

The entire climbing process was as easy as taking a walk in my own backyard.

Before long, Gu Xu led everyone to the top of Silver Moon Mountain without any obstacles.

Before them stood a vast and magnificent palace.