Chapter 336: Chapter336-Dominating the Top Spot
"Still first."
Seeing that he continued to occupy the top position on the rankings, the corners of John’s mouth curled upward slightly.
He did not immediately enter the fifth stage. Instead, he opened the rankings and examined the details.
[Trial Rankings]
[1st Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.82 seconds
...
[2nd Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.90 seconds
...
[3rd Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.92 seconds
...
[4th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.95 seconds
...
[5th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.96 seconds
...
[6th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.97 seconds
...
[7th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.98 seconds
...
[8th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 0.99 seconds
...
[9th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 2 seconds
...
[10th Place]
[Current Progress]: Fifth Stage
[Total Clear Time]: 3 seconds
...
The rankings displayed only the top ten participants.
John casually glanced over the list and discovered that every participant from first to tenth place had stopped at the fifth stage.
Moreover, the gaps among the highest-ranked competitors were only a hundredth of a second.
They were chasing him closely.
"It’s a pity I spent some time dealing with that God King-level opponent."
"Otherwise, they would never have caught up this far."
John muttered inwardly.
"Still, this shows that none of the powerhouses participating in this tournament are weak."
"Especially those ranked between second and seventh. Even a difference of only 0.01 seconds can create a considerable gap in placement."
"However, that does not mean these rankings are an authoritative measurement of strength."
"Every powerhouse specializes in different things."
John understood this perfectly.
Every High God possessed different strengths and weaknesses.
Such tiny differences in completion time did not prove much.
The rankings were interesting to look at, but they could not truly be used to judge combat strength.
John shook his head slightly before stepping through the gateway leading to the fifth stage.
The instant he entered, he saw that the God King-level enemies had already been waiting for him.
Unlike the previous stage, however, there were several thousand enemies this time!
Every single one was a Fifth-Order God King.
Their combined auras were so oppressive that they could almost suffocate a lesser being.
Boom!
The moment John appeared, the several thousand Fifth-Order God Kings reacted simultaneously.
They stepped forward as terrifying waves of Divine Sense swept toward him.
They intended to crush John to death with nothing more than their combined pressure!
"Hmph!"
John snorted coldly.
The next moment, the seemingly endless High God Source within his body surged forth.
Within only a few breaths, the High God Source covered his entire body like a thick suit of armor.
Thanks to the system, John could rapidly obtain enormous amounts of High God Source.
He had no need to worry about exhausting it.
Even if he wasted it purely for show, he would not feel the slightest pain.
Whoosh!
In the blink of an eye, John’s aura became as vast and immovable as a towering mountain.
No matter how dense or terrifying the combined pressure of several thousand God Kings became, it could no longer affect him.
John’s High God Source firmly blocked their God King-level pressure outside, preventing it from touching his body in the slightest.
The next moment, John raised his hand.
[Space-Time Law!]
[Endless Void Rifts!]
[All Things Fall Silent!]
[This Realm Shall Collapse!]
One High God-level ability after another erupted.
With a single thought from John, the space surrounding the thousands of God Kings was torn into countless fragments.
Dense Void Rifts spread outward like a colossal net, devouring all matter within their reach.
The moment the enormous web of spatial fractures formed, the bodies of the God Kings were swallowed within it.
John had also infused the attack with a portion of the Law of Time.
As a result, every engulfed God King was frozen in place.
Within the endless layers of spatial fractures, their bodies were gradually divided into particles smaller than even microscopic universes.
The enemies had already become invisible to the naked eye.
John rolled his neck.
"Annihilate."
"Great Heavenly Sound Art!"
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Terrifying sound waves swept across the battlefield once more.
The God Kings, who had already been divided into countless particles, were completely erased by the celestial sound.
At that moment, the imprints of all several thousand God Kings were thoroughly destroyed.
There was no possibility of restoration.
The next instant, another succession of notifications rang beside John’s ears.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have killed Fifth-Order God King-level powerhouses!]
[Obtained 1,038,128,948,912,409 EXP, 10,938,801,238,012 gold coins, and 10,380,124,812,841 Fame!]
[You have plundered 10,382,848,487,923,477 High God Source!]
[You have plundered God King-level items ×1,038!]
[You have obtained additional God King-level items ×1,181!]
[Congratulations! You have cleared the fifth stage!]
[Stage Evaluation: Perfect!]
[Current Ranking: 1st!]
[Notice: Please maintain your current position. The rewards obtained after each stage will change according to your ranking!]
[Total enemies killed throughout the first five stages: 5,129 God King-level enemies!]
[Obtained a total of 10,301,823,801,238 cubic units of Originstone!]
[The sixth stage is currently being generated. Please wait...]
As the final notification faded, John stretched lazily.
He opened the rankings and glanced at them.
His recorded completion time had actually fallen to 0.8 seconds.
It seemed that he had cleared the fifth stage so quickly that he had dragged his average completion time down even further.
He remained firmly in first place.
The second-ranked participant also appeared to have cleared the fifth stage, but their time had increased to two seconds.
After all, the farther one progressed, the stronger the enemies appearing within each stage became.
Naturally, the rewards also became increasingly generous.
Starting from the sixth stage, many participants without sufficient strength would be eliminated one after another as the gap between them widened.
Some might even face the risk of death.
It was foreseeable that many High Gods would choose to withdraw voluntarily.
...
Meanwhile—
In another corner of the trial space, Alvin of Evernight Palace suddenly attacked and killed the God King-level powerhouse before him.
He slowly exhaled.
"I finally cleared the fifth stage."
He then opened the rankings out of habit.
The next moment, Alvin’s pupils contracted sharply.
"How is this possible?"
"I’ve fallen to tenth place!"
Not long ago, he had still been ranked among the top three.
Only now did Alvin finally understand what it meant for there to always be someone greater and a heaven beyond the heavens.
The difference was far too enormous!
Alvin’s scalp tingled as cold sweat continuously seeped from his body.
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