Daniel was still sitting under the tree.
His eyes were calmly fixed on the empty space in front of him, but his mind was analyzing every single word of the old man with unnatural speed.
"The destruction of this world..."
"If back then there had been someone like you..."
"That being..."
For the first time in a long while, the silence in his mind was slightly broken.
Because the old man didn’t speak like someone who had only seen the future, but rather like a being who had experienced those events.
And that only increased Daniel’s doubt. That old man had clearly recognized his true identity.
But how? How did he know who he was? How did he know this world would be destroyed? Is that the power of a divine being?
If his guess was correct, that old man must be a being at the level of a False God. So can a False God have that much power?
Can he see the future and experience it before it even happens?
"Now I understand why the Mother System forced all false gods of the Celestial Domain to ascend. If my guess is right, then they are truly very powerful."
But if they can really see the future, then the only false god remaining in the Celestial Domain should know about its future as well, shouldn’t he?
"Or maybe my guess is wrong? If so, then how did that old man know about the future? And how could he practically look inside my inner world?"
"Maybe I was mistaken and he is above a divine being? A true god?" Daniel muttered to himself.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have enough information to confirm any of his guesses.
"After returning to the Celestial Domain, I need to talk to Uncle Dragon." The only way to confirm his guess was to find out whether false gods can see the future or not.
But if they truly have such abilities, then how powerful are true gods? Can they travel through time?
But before he could think more about this, Daniel’s eyes suddenly turned golden.
His divine sense activated, and the world expanded in an instant.
His sight passed through this desolate ruin, crossed the cracked mountains.
And then he saw something that surprised even him for a moment.
An army.
No... this was something beyond an army. The entire desolate ruin was surrounded from every direction.
As far as his divine sense extended, the only thing visible was a legion. The sky was covered with massive magical ships.
Floating fortresses hovering hundreds of meters above the ground, with golden runes on their hulls shining like stars.
On the ground, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of warriors stood in massive formations.
The banners of the Holy Empire fluttered in the wind. White-robed knights, grand mages, and war priests.
And thousands of elite warriors whose presence alone could shake a city.
But that wasn’t all. Daniel’s eyes narrowed slightly, because he saw something far more dangerous.
Arrays. Thousands of massive arrays covered the entire region. On the mountains, underground, and in the sky.
Massive luminous threads like golden chains had locked down the entire area.
Mana lock, law suppression, space blockade, slowed soul and body regeneration.
Even the transfer of energy between the world’s laws was affected. These arrays were not built to destroy him.
But to weaken something they no longer considered human.
"So they finally decided." A very faint smile settled on Daniel’s lips.
He realized that this time, the Holy Empire had come to war much more prepared than before.
And then his gaze went to another part of the encirclement.
The Elves.
Thousands of elves in silver armor stood under the sky.
Cold faces, long ears, and white bows made from the branches of ancient trees.
The mana around them was calm, but that calmness gave a sense of death.
Each of their arrows targeted not just the body, but the soul.
Behind them, massive moving trees and ancient forest creatures could be seen, their very presence putting heavy pressure on the environment.
But even they seemed small compared to the beings in the sky.
The Dragons. Hundreds of dragons covered the sky. Some were so massive that their shadows fell on the mountains.
Their wings created storms, their scales shone under the sunlight.
And the ancient runes carved on their bodies bent the space around them.
Some breathed fire, some floated among the mana clouds.
And some just watched in silence, like hunters waiting for the final command.
And at the center of all these forces, the Sky Knights Guard.
The most elite army of the temple. Thousands of high-level warriors in white and gold armor, whose surrounding mana was even uniform and synchronized.
They were not just an army, but a machine built to hunt apocalyptic creatures.
Daniel watched everything in silence for a few seconds. The entire continent had moved.
The Elves.
The Dragons.
The Holy Empire.
The Sky Guard.
Powers that had kept their distance from each other for centuries were now gathered in one place.
All for just one person. And the strangest part was that Daniel was actually a little excited.
He knew a little about the history of these groups from Elisira’s words, especially about the Holy Knights and the Sky Knights Guard.
Both of them are the most elite human armies of the entire continent. In fact, they were trained and mentored to fight in the final battle against that monster that had destroyed two continents.
And the Elves and Dragons, the two superior races. Of course, in this world, humans are considered the superior race because they have a connection with the gods.
All of them had come for him.
Then suddenly, the space in the sky changed. Four massive presences rose from among the armies.
Their pressure was so heavy that even the massive arrays around trembled for a moment.
A wave of mana covered the entire region, and four beings appeared in four different directions of the sky.
The first was an elf woman. Her long silver hair floated in the wind, and her emerald eyes were fixed on Daniel like two cold blades.
Her attire looked more like a royal battle robe than armor.
And in her hand was a white bow that even the tree’s roots reacted to.
Her presence was calm, but that calmness gave a sense of death.
On the other side of the sky, the clouds suddenly parted, and something massive descended from the heart of a storm.
A roar that shook the entire region. A massive black dragon, its golden eyes shining like two suns in the darkness, its wings covering the sky.
But a moment later, its body began to change. Bones condensed, scales retracted.
And that massive monster transformed into a tall man with black hair, dragon horns, and huge wings.
Even in human form, his presence felt more like a natural disaster than a living being.
The third was a man in full white and gold armor. No explosion of mana, no show of power, but his very presence made the space around him heavier.
As if the world unconsciously recognized him.
A long sword was strapped to his waist, and his cold eyes were locked directly on Daniel.
The strongest holy sword, the commander of the Sky Guard, the greatest warrior under the Divine Prophet’s command.
And the last was a blind old woman.
Hundreds of golden magic circles floated behind her, each connected to thousands of arrays across the region.
She hadn’t even opened her eyes, but her presence seemed the most dangerous.
Because Daniel immediately understood that all those massive suppression chains and all the arrays were her work.
Four commanders from four different directions in the sky looked at Daniel.
And behind them stood the greatest army this world had ever seen.
But even now, caution could be seen in their gazes, because they had heard the story of Walterk.
And they knew that the being standing before them was the same monster that had erased one of the top ten Eternal Warriors in a single strike.
But even Walterk and his entire army would stand no chance against this army; it would only be a matter of seconds until they were destroyed.
A heavy silence covered the entire ruin. The wind wound through the tree’s massive roots.
"So this is the monster we came for? Looks more like an ant than a monster." A powerful voice echoed across the sky.