The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

All fifty gates built on the respective floors attacked the headquarters of the outer members at the same time. An army of units swarmed through the gates.

The outer members had been relaxing and were caught off guard. The executives, section chiefs, and the rest couldn’t fight off the invasion alone. Having no other choice, MacArthur called the other directors to join him in wiping out the invaders.

They charged into the fray, but more and more units poured out from the gates. There were even some World life forms to occupy the directors, preventing them from aiding the other units or influencing the battlefield.

The units attacked and destroyed everything in sight. This was an unprecedented crisis for the entire outer members. It was the invasion of the Divine Civilization. They couldn’t face this on their own.

“All members, heed my command,” MacArthur bellowed between puffs of his smoke pipe. “Request backup from other civilizations to stop the invasion of the Divine Civilization!”

The Heaven Stair Challenge had made their civilization famous. Many other civilizations had also benefited greatly from the challenge. Thus, when they heard the Heaven Stair Civilization was in trouble, they didn’t even bother to check the identity of the invaders before lending their aid.

They swiftly regretted this the moment they were transported over. This was a battle of hundreds of trillions of units! It was far beyond the scale they had expected.

When they tried to return, they discovered that MacArthur had intentionally set the gate to be a one-way gate. They couldn’t go back!

The outer life forms had been tricked into participating in a war. Hundreds of millions of units perished every second. The Law of the Heaven Stair Civilization turned their corpses into energy to nurture the others.

A single Law Tree absorbed a huge portion of this energy, and a fruit filled with Law swiftly matured. Once matured, a complete Law could be extracted from the fruit.

Complete Laws were a precious resource for the outer members. They could receive a fairly good reward for submitting it to the inner members. Unfortunately, MacArthur didn’t have the time to check the fruit. He had his hands full figuring out how to deal with this threat.

If he succeeded, he would gain a merit that no other outer member had accomplished to date. There was a good chance the inner members would accept him as a result.

If he failed, he would be destroyed alongside the other outer members. In fact, that would actually be a favorable outcome, as there were punishments worse than death for the inner members.

Meanwhile, Han Wu had also transported himself to the headquarters of the outer members. His units attacked enemies they could find to earn him points.

Han Wu could sense the intense powers of Death and War here. As he had the Death and War Aspect, these energies were essentially fine meals ready to be eaten. There was no need to hesitate!

He formed the Death Avatar and War Avatar to pull in all of the energy within a hundred km radius. A tornado of energy formed, with them in the eye. They grew at a rapid pace as they absorbed the energy.

In three minutes, the two avatars reached the Earthsunder rank, and after ten, they reached the Heavenrender rank. At the one-hour mark, the faint form of a Divine Ring appeared behind them.

However, Han Wu still wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to push himself further. Creating the Conversion Avatar, he positioned it behind the War Avatar and Death Avatar to absorb and convert the extra energy, which was then fed back to Han Wu.

Han Wu then created more avatars to absorb their corresponding energies. He wanted all of his avatars to be on the edge of becoming World life forms.

Steely and the other powerful units guarded the avatars from ambush.

The war lasted three days. Han Wu spent its entirety absorbing energy. By the time the energies of War and Death subsided, Han Wu’s avatars had all reached the edge of a World life form. Moreover, this was keeping in mind that they had previously been condensed once in the Heaven Stair Challenge already.

It was time to return! Hundreds of avatars returned to his body, and he became whole again. Their absorbed energies—hundreds of times stronger than a Heavenrender life form—converged into one body.

Han Wu didn’t even feel the bottleneck, surging effortlessly into the World rank. A Microcosm was born in his body and merged with his divine realm.

The powers of the Microcosm were higher than his divine realm. Normally, a World life form from the Divine Civilization would require the blessing of the Will of the Divine Civilization as they ascended to help merge the two.

But Han Wu didn’t need that. The immense energy in his body was more than enough. It took him less than an hour to merge his divine realm and the Microcosm into one.

His divine realm changed after merging. It had transformed from a continent to a planet. Unexpectedly, it had actually shrunk a little, though the overall power had increased.

With this, Han Wu would no longer need to worry about storing powerful items like Angel Elixirs anymore. The heightened power of his divine realm also meant his units could grow faster.

There was even a higher chance for him to gain rarer mutations of his units. As he finished merging his divine realm with the Microcosm, his Divine Ring appeared behind his back.

He could sense that his Divine Ring was vastly different from the norm. Others’ Divine Rings typically had only one trait: accelerating their energy absorption rate, amplifying certain aspects of their powers, or having some unique effect.

However, Han Wu’s Divine Ring had all three. It could accelerate the rate of his energy absorption by a hundredfold, amplify some of his abilities and skills by 500%, and also appeared to have a unique effect, the details of which he would have to look into later.

He also learned the name of his Divine Ring: the World Ring! It encompassed everything in this world!