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

However, Gu Xu was not angry at this harmless address; instead, he chuckled softly.

"hehe……"

But there was no warmth in that laughter; instead, it was like ice flowers forming on a window in winter, spreading quietly in the silence.

It made the surrounding air feel bone-chilling.

The next moment, Gu Xu spoke again leisurely: "I'm very happy that you would use such a form of address to praise me!"

"Although you're not the first person to say this, since you've praised me so much, wouldn't it be a waste of your vehement accusations if I didn't deliver some results in this devilish job?"

"So... today I'm not only going to kill you, but I'm also going to make your people pay the price for your arrogance."

"Now... please open your eyes and look carefully."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Xu casually snapped his fingers in the air with his free left hand.

"Smack."

A crisp sound exploded in the silent, black mist space, sounding particularly abrupt.

The next moment, the thick, swirling dark purple mist around them suddenly boiled, as if stirred by an invisible hand, twisting and stretching, and gradually thinning and becoming translucent.

The dark curtain that had originally isolated everything had transformed into a one-way mirror, and behind the mirror was the space they were currently in.

On the other side of the mirror lay the ruined Jade Palace.

Elonnis was held by the neck by Gu Xu and forced to raise his head to look at the scene in front of him.

However, just that one glance sent chills down his spine.

Because, at this moment, all that remained of the once magnificent Jade Palace in his sight was ruins, a scene of desolation and decay.

The enormous World Tree used to construct the Emerald Palace was also severed in half by the boundless black mist.

The once lush green leaves have long since turned yellow and are devoid of life.

On that vast ruin, countless elves stood or lay quietly.

They did not die, and many of them were not even injured.

But they were frozen in place, like insects sealed in amber, their faces still bearing the terror and bewilderment of the previous second, or the ferocity of battle.

Time seemed to have stood still for them, making them eternal.

However, this tragic scene did not last long, because in the next moment, this eternal scene shattered instantly.

Time, which had been stagnant, began to flow through them in an extremely strange way.

The bodies of those elves began to change under the extremely rapid flow of time.

This change was not a bloody mess or the collapse of everything, but rather the elves' bodies began to become transparent, like a watercolor painting gradually spreading with clear water.

The life-forming substances of the elves are being extracted bit by bit, then silently merging into the black mist that envelops them.

However, what's chilling is that their facial expressions didn't change at all, or rather, he didn't even have the chance to feel any pain.

It's just being "erased".

It was erased from this world, bit by bit.

This process was like a silent plague, quickly spreading among all the elves.

One vibrant life after another was dismantled before Elonnis's eyes, ultimately disappearing silently from the spot.

Clearly, the impact of this scene was too much for Elonnis to handle.

"No...don't..."

He murmured softly, his body trembling, his eyes wide open, and green tears of blood streaming from the corners of his eyes.

He wanted to close his eyes, to escape this hellish scene.

But Gu Xu's power held him firmly in place, forcing him to watch and endure the torture of witnessing the extinction of his entire race.

"Old man, did you see that?"

Gu Xu's voice rang out again, like a whisper from the abyss: "This is the path you chose, this... this is the fate of you invaders."

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The moment the words fell, an even more piercing scream came from Elonnis's mouth once more.

At that moment, he completely lost his mind.

The cry contained the despair of a collapsing faith, the excruciating pain of watching one's tribe perish helplessly, and a deep-seated, overwhelming hatred for the young man before them.

"I'm going to kill you... I'm going to kill you!!"

"You damned barbarian from Shenxia!"

"I'll skin you alive, pull out your tendons... I'll tear you to pieces! You'll suffer a horrible death!!"

Elonnis cursed hysterically, each word uttered with the last of his strength.

Faced with Elonnis's vulgar and vicious curses.

Gu Xu's smile didn't fade at all; in fact, the corners of his mouth curved even wider.

But the Lord of Calamity's oppressive aura poured out without reservation at this moment, so much so that the surrounding black mist seemed to sense its master's killing intent, instantly boiling and condensing.

"Cursing me to hell? That's a bit aggressive, isn't it?"

Gu Xu's voice deepened, and the fingers gripping Elonnis's neck tightened little by little: "But unfortunately... I am the master of Hell."

"And you... have successfully entered hell!"

The moment he finished speaking, Gu Xu's five fingers suddenly clenched.

"Click."

With a crisp, clean crack, all of Elonnis's curses and roars came to an abrupt halt.

Those eyes, filled with resentment and despair, suddenly bulged outwards, staring intently at Gu Xu, as if trying to forever imprint that face on his soon-to-dissipate soul.

His body convulsed violently twice, his life completely cleansed.

Seeing this, Gu Xu released his grip.

The body of the high priest, who had once been high above and ruled over the fate of the entire elven race, fell silently into the black mist below, like a tattered sack.

The corpse didn't even have time to hit the ground before it was completely swallowed up by the swirling dark purple mist, as if it had never existed.

Gu Xu watched all this with a cold eye, as if the person he had just killed was not the ruler of the Elven race.

It was an ant at my feet.

At the very second that Elonnis's life was completely extinguished, that familiar system notification sound exploded deep within his mind.

[Notification: A change in the objective status of the fifth job advancement quest has been detected.]

[Mission Objective 1: Defeat Elonnis, the High Priest of the Dimensional Familiar of the Emerald Court. (Completed!)]

[Task progress updated.]

[Current Mission Name: The Ancient Reign (God-level)]

[Mission Objective 2: Defeat the Devouring God Clan army advancing towards the Starfall Rift and devour the Devouring God Clan's agent—Munedimi. (0/1)]

[Mission Objective 3: Seize the authority of Zogra, the Lord of Devouring Dimensions. (0/1)]