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

To put it bluntly, the surging army of the Forbidden Water Tribe will mercilessly devour every coastal city.

Countless ordinary people will be torn apart by the monster.

Those legion commanders who were just scrambling to get on the list to join the Calamity Army will die on the battlefield in that fierce defense battle.

Li Qinghong's Vermilion Bird Flame will be completely extinguished in the cold seawater, and Ouyang Shan's roar will be swallowed by the abyss.

Even Brother Zhao Yuanlong will be reduced to fragments so small that not even a corpse can remain.

Heavy casualties—this is not a phrase that can be lightly glossed over in a battle report; rather, it represents countless nameless tombstones stained with blood and tears.

Even if he had managed to regain the pieces of the puzzle and the power he once had at that time.

But it is absolutely impossible to bring back those precious lives that have already been lost.

Moreover, this is just the beginning.

Next, in order to quell the full-scale outbreak of the Izumo Ghost Realm, he would inevitably be dragged into that bottomless quagmire by the Izumo Ghost Embryo and would be unable to spare any attention.

Just when you are being held back, the higher-dimensional secret realm will descend upon Earth like a doomsday judgment.

There will only be one outcome: the complete fall of Earth and the near-extinction of civilization.

Everything he cherished—the prosperity of Longjing, the strict but protective old men in the command headquarters, and his comrades-in-arms like Su Qiong and Jiang Shu, whom he could entrust with his life—would all turn to ashes in that catastrophe.

The feeling of despair—watching the world crumble before your eyes and being powerless to stop it—just flashed through my mind.

This made Gu Xu feel a tightness in his chest.

"call--"

Gu Xu shook his head violently, exhaled a long breath, and rubbed his cheeks hard, trying to drive those terrible images out of his mind.

"fortunately."

He silently murmured those two words in his heart, feeling incredibly fortunate.

Fortunately, this time, he managed to forcefully turn the gears of fate back onto the right track with his own hands.

The tragedy did not occur.

There would have been no devastation in the East China Sea, no tragic sacrifices by familiar comrades, and no complete fall of the Blue Star.

Everything is still fine, and there is still much to be done.

But the feeling of relief only lasted a few seconds before Gu Xu's mood turned heavy again.

He was a clear-headed person; he knew that changing the timeline did not mean that a perfect ending had been achieved once and for all.

Since he escaped the original disaster, it means that the river of fate will surely create more intense and unpredictable ripples in the unknown distance because of his forceful intervention.

A butterfly can cause a storm simply by flapping its wings.

What's more, he had actually pulled an entire timeline back.

The enemies we are destined to face in the future are those unspeakable beings that are still lurking in the depths of the starry sky, or even in higher dimensions, silently watching this place.

Those guys will definitely be more terrifying, more bizarre, and more difficult to deal with than the monsters in the original timeline.

Your enemies will not stop because of your good fortune; they will only hone their fangs in the shadows.

The thought of that guillotine hanging over his head sent Gu Xu's sense of urgency soaring like a rocket.

He knew very well that the establishment of the Blue Star Alliance was just a superficial unity; in order to truly survive the invasion of higher dimensions, holding meetings would be useless.

They can only rely on their hard fists and unreasonable strength.

"No, I can't stay here any longer. I need to become stronger!"

Gu Xu muttered something to himself, then sat up straight.

"Open the panel."

He silently recited it in his heart, and as his words fell.

Gu Xu quickly moved past the levels that were stuck and those basic attributes, and placed them on his second-to-last talent.

[Talent 2: Servant of Calamity (Conceptual Level): You can summon your absolute servants from the endless river of time. Current summonable quantity: 6.]

"Finally, I can summon again? Great! Let me see which powerful being is the sixth Servant of Calamity!"

"Summon, servant of calamity!"

[Instruction confirmed...]

[Establishing a mysterious high-dimensional connection...]

[Link successful...]

[In response to the sixth call of the Lord of Calamity, a usurper who once dragged those high in the clouds into the mire during Ragnarok is slowly crossing the dimensional barriers, approaching your call...]

Gu Xu silently recited the command in his mind.

The sunlight streaming through the gaps in the curtains in the ward suddenly stopped moving.

The fine dust particles that were originally dancing in the air seemed to have been paused and frozen in mid-air.

The birds that had been chirping so sweetly just moments before were now hovering in mid-air, wings outstretched.

Even the swaying of leaves in the wind was frozen in time.

At this moment, time seemed to have stopped turning completely by some irresistible force.

"I'm Superpowered? What... what's going on?"

However, before Gu Xu could even marvel at this exaggerated entrance that seemed to freeze time, he was left speechless.

An oppressive feeling, which made even the Lord of Calamity feel breathless, suddenly crashed down on him from above without warning!

At that very moment, it wasn't just this small intensive care unit that was affected.

The entire Divine Sherman, and even the entire sky of Earth.

Suddenly, without warning, it went dark!

One second it was bright and sunny, the next a dark curtain of darkness forcibly pulled the sky over the entire world.

It was as if the whole world had been plunged into eternal night.

"Holy crap! What... what's going on?"

"It's...it's already so dark?"

"Where's the sun? Why has the sun disappeared?"

"I can't see anything at all?"

Unsurprisingly, the whole world was once again plunged into uproar.

However, this is not over yet.

Immediately afterwards...

"Click—"

A terrifying cracking sound, as if the very backbone of the universe had been broken, exploded in the minds of every human on Earth, causing their bodies to tremble involuntarily.

Countless people looked up, gazing in the direction from which the sound came.

A shocking discovery!

Above the blue sky, directly above Longjing, a terrifying chasm tens of thousands of meters long was forcibly torn open!

However, this time, there was no void turbulence or colorful energy storm in the crack.

Inside that crack, there was only pitch blackness, and... clusters of eerie, burning green phosphorescent flames that exuded a chilling aura and the scent of death.

"clatter--"

"clatter--"

"clatter--"

Before long, a deep, muffled yet incredibly clear sound of horses' hooves came from the depths of the crevice.

The sound was so loud that it seemed to transcend all space and distance, directly reaching the ears of every living being on Earth!

With each sound, the entire world, from ordinary people to professionals who have successfully changed careers, and even those high-ranking saints and demigods, is affected.

They felt as if their breath had stopped and their blood had frozen.