In Tokyo, the dungeon master

Tokyo, night.

Today, Jinghua and Wanhua fought several battles in the dungeon. Wanhua, with her rapid-development familiar and innate talent, even has a slight possibility of advancing. Due to the different perception of time in the spirit world, Gu Meng is doing his best to catalyze their growth as quickly as possible.

In the lower and middle ranks, with the assistance of a powerful cultivator like Gu Meng, and possessing a special physique, the speed of improvement can sometimes be exceptionally fast.

The dark magic girl, having finished her transformation, went home. After her battle, she felt a sense of exhilaration, accompanied by guilt, similar to the post-coital euphoria.

Chiyuna didn't dare tell her mother that she seemed to have become a monster and couldn't suppress the thrill of fighting. Gu Meng, on the other hand, thought this mental state was okay and nothing to worry about.

As the saying goes, clouds follow the dragon, wind follows the tiger, and heroes of dragons and tigers soar proudly across the sky!

It's normal for a hero who answers the world's call before the apocalypse to have some quirks.

If any of the heroes he encountered in his past life had a bloodthirsty quirk, Gu Meng would have looked at them with more respect, because Gu Meng was also that kind of person.

However, he fought his way up to become a big shot and was able to control himself.

Shirakawa Keiji was a bit too normal. He wasn't a baka, nor was he an anime character, a lesbian, a chuunibyou, or a battle maniac... He couldn't play any of them, which made Gu Meng feel bored.

At this moment, he respectfully bowed to Gu Meng and said, "Ancestor, it seems that my men are being watched."

He paused, as if choosing his words carefully, or perhaps to confirm the accuracy of the information he had gathered, before continuing:

"I've received word that the Japanese police, as always, are incompetent and haven't found anything, but the FBI is making moves and is vaguely investigating related leads. What do you think... should we lay low for a while and wait it out?"

The Shirakawa family, as expected of a long-established conglomerate, has strong connections in both the legal and illegal worlds. They may not know the FBI, but they do know the Japanese police, who are subordinate to the FBI. Sometimes things go wrong because of the interconnectedness of different groups. The money the group sponsors the Metropolitan Police Department and various police stations every year is not wasted.

He specifically verified the source of the information three times. Those connections that were usually kept very secret were all sending the same message this time, without any ambiguity.

The FBI's involvement was even more unexpected than he had anticipated. He had thought it was just some insignificant small fry testing the waters, but he never expected it to attract such a powerful figure, and that they could find out so quickly that the Shirakawa family had a convoy that went there...

It was all his oversight. The ancestor's actions were definitely not wrong. When the ancestor left, he used magic to subtly erase the traces, which must have been because he noticed that he hadn't wiped them clean. He was reminding him, but he failed to understand the ancestor's true intentions and mistakenly thought that he was safe and sound and that everything was fine.

However, they forgot that even with suggestive magic, no one would pay attention to the Shirakawa family's actions. But this didn't really erase all surveillance. In modern society, with its advanced technology, it's inevitable that various detectable traces will remain.

If a skilled detective had eliminated the influence of suggestive magic and uncovered all the clues, it would be normal for them to sense something was amiss. It's just unexpected that it happened so quickly... It seems the FBI sent out their elite agents.

Shirakawa Keiji is overthinking this. The FBI isn't that powerful at all. If Ryuzaki Ryusei, who claims to be the world's greatest detective, hadn't been vacationing in Japan, they probably wouldn't have taken this kind of paranormal event to heart. They're still investigating all the so-called UFOs in the United States.

"There's no need to hide." Gu Meng's tone was completely calm, as if he had already seen through everything. "I'll just reinforce the hint a bit more. Besides, even if they find us, it's no big deal. At worst, we can sink the North American continent. Anyway, I don't like these Americans either."

Shirakawa Keiji leaned back slightly, thinking, "Is the patriarch really that ruthless? How many people will die?" He couldn't even tell if the patriarch was joking or serious.

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The solar system.

A near-Earth asteroid named Apophis.

Its name comes from Apophis, the Egyptian god of destruction and chaos, hence the asteroid is also known as the "God Destroyer".

This is an asteroid that orbits the sun and passes near Earth approximately every 7 years.

Shortly after its discovery in 2004, it was found that it posed a potential threat to Earth: its orbit intersected with Earth's orbit, meaning it could potentially collide with Earth.

According to initial estimates, if this asteroid were to collide with Earth, the energy would be equivalent to the simultaneous explosion of 10 billion tons of TNT, which is 20 times greater than the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated on Earth.

Perhaps because the end of the world is approaching and the stars are about to return to their positions, its trajectory has been slightly affected, and it may collide with the United States.

When astronomers observe this, they will likely be horrified, and astronomy will cease to exist.

Tokyo.

Gu Meng looked up at the night sky and tried to calculate the time when the stars would return to their positions. The moment his spirit sensed danger, he stopped looking at the stars and lowered his head to ponder.

There seemed to be a star whose trajectory was a bit off... Never mind, it's not important, I need to think about my own things first.

As is well known, the three Egyptian God cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! are based on ancient Egyptian mythology, and the cards are also based on ancient Egyptian stone tablets. Therefore, Zorc, the great evil god in Gu Meng's mind, also shares the same origin as the ancient Egyptian evil god.

Apep, also known as Apophis, is a god in ancient Egyptian mythology who symbolizes chaos and darkness. He is the twin brother and mortal enemy of the sun god Ra, and his aim is to overturn the cosmic order and plunge the world into eternal night.

As the ruler of the "Seventh Kingdom" of the underworld, he launches an attack every night when the Sun Ship passes through the underworld, engaging in an eternal struggle with Ra and attempting to devour the Sun Disc above Ra's head.

Its power originates from the dark energy of the resentment of sinners in hell. In Egyptian mythology, Apophis existed before the Ennead system and is a symbol of pure evil in their belief system.

Also known as the "Dark Serpent" or the "World Besieger," it is the embodiment of darkness, destruction, and chaos. Although Apophis will always be defeated by the light, it can never be completely destroyed, because there is an eternal struggle between order and chaos.

Where there is justice, there is evil. If Apophis is regarded as "all evil in this world", then all beings that oppose him are liberated.

This concept of good and evil being two sides of the same coin is reflected in Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity. Gu Meng's original tree of life is both positive and negative, as are his great merits and great sins, virtues and torments.

In his next mission, Gu Meng was determined to ascend to the fourth rank in one step. Naturally, he needed to create a suitable and sufficiently evil opponent, and he needed more infamy. He was already disappointed with the incompetent Shinichi Utsunomiya. He took some ancient and extraordinary items from this world from the Guiyi Cult and decided to cause trouble on his own.

Gu Meng has arrived at the depths of an old dock in Tokyo Bay where countless crimes have occurred. This place is the number one crime scene in all of Tokyo. Through Gu Meng's dark ritual, it can be temporarily transformed into a symbolic entity of "all the sins of Tokyo".

In the center of the cracked cement ground, a dark red summoning circle, as red as congealed blood, was carved. Gu Meng stood on the eye of the circle, holding a stone slab, his esoteric Buddhist robes from his previous life reappearing.

He lowered his eyes slightly, a cold smile curving his lips.

"Indeed, there are many good things in this world... Even though it's just a fragment, the power it symbolizes is still above the severing of past karma. The complete version is probably close to the high-sequence extraordinary item of the Unforgettable level. It is probably the treasure of some cult in ancient Egypt."

Gu Mengcong Guiyi Sect obtained an ancient stone slab, which was far superior to that pirated Yasakani no Magatama; it was a genuine thousand-year-old evil artifact.

The incomplete runes recorded on it summon the dark god Apophis, and are also part of the Guiyi Sect's magical knowledge.

It is no longer enough to show glory in this era, because Gu Meng's dark power has only briefly bloomed and has not yet truly opened the dungeon. Gu Meng naturally did not intend to consume a huge amount of magic power to forcibly control it, but rather to use it as a symbol to gather the evil thoughts of mankind and to use it as "all the evil in this world".

As the end of the world approaches, the success rate of such evil arts will greatly increase. Even low-sequence techniques could create terrible crises in forbidden experiments, let alone Gu Meng.

The moment he began to inscribe the summoning circle, he felt an ancient tremor, the remnant of a long-gone evil god, faint and illusory yet carrying a suffocating pressure.

Now, the summoning circle began to emit a scarlet light, and the runes wriggled like living things—Apophis had long since perished and would never be reborn.

Zorc is merely an evil god in Gu Meng's perception, not the real one.

But he can still use this lingering sense of existence to transform the fake into the real.

Gu Meng raised his hand and formed a complex hand seal. A deep incantation flowed from his throat, and dark purple magic spread along the runes of the summoning circle. The air in the entire old dock instantly became thick and icy. The streetlights in the distance began to flicker wildly, and finally went out with a "sizzle," leaving only the scarlet light of the summoning circle to illuminate Gu Meng's cold profile.

If an ordinary person saw this, they certainly wouldn't recognize that this was the savior diligently leveling up to save the world; they might even mistake Gu Meng for some kind of great demon.