Shen Sui quickly opened the Dueling Device.

Holy crap, I want to see who's gone crazy and suddenly wants to destroy the world.

This kind of plot that you only see in over-the-top anime, Shen Sui would not want to miss it.

[The world consciousness is anxiously explaining to you the crisis it's facing.]

[This all needs to be explained starting from the Natural Holy Tree.]

Natural Holy Tree?

Shen Sui remembered, Freymia's adopted daughter Aina left the Elf Forest to search for the Magic Guidebook "Blind Hatred" to remove the negative state of the Natural Holy Tree, heading to the destroyed City of Sin.

But what's the relation of this matter to world destruction?

["Boundary-breaking Worm! It's a Boundary-breaking Worm!" The world consciousness spread its arms, using all its knowledge to try and illustrate the danger of the Boundary-breaking Worm to Shen Sui.]

Seeing the Boundary-breaking Worm, Shen Sui paused for a brief moment.

Not that he didn't recognize the Boundary-breaking Worm, after all, it's a well-known creature in the "Dawn Link" game.

But in the game setting, the Boundary-breaking Worm was never a native creature of Dawn Continent.

They weren't considered Otherworld visitors either.

This strange worm is born in the cavities between different worlds, enjoying gnawing on world barriers.

They generally have a carapace sturdy enough to deflect spatial rifts and mandibles that can chew through anything in existence. Even without powerful Extraordinary Power, these two traits alone make most Extraordinaries unable to deal with them.

In "Dawn Link," the Boundary-breaking Worm appears in the Boundary Worm Disaster DLC and does not belong to the core game content.

Shen Sui wasn't surprised they appeared in the real world. After all, the presence of cavities between at least thirty-four known different worlds, capable of birthing Boundary-breaking Worms, is quite a logical matter.

With this perspective, Shen Sui understood why this silly little girl was so anxious.

Boundary-breaking Worms truly can destroy a world.

They bite through the world's barriers, causing two unrelated worlds to come into direct contact, resulting in direct rule clashes.

And that's not all.

When the number of Boundary-breaking Worms grows to a certain level, they'll spontaneously gather, and from this convergence, a world-destroying extraordinarily powerful being is born: the Broken Boundary Empress.

The Broken Boundary Empress, one of the rare Level Seventeen super bosses in the entire "Dawn Link" core + external legends + all DLCs.

When she first appeared, she even had those long-retired old players crying out in complaint.

Damn it, this boss actually requires you to think.

What? You say this boss is hard? Maybe for newcomers, but for veterans, just look at my stacked Five Elements buff and tell me, who is the real big boss?

But considering the mighty existence of Level Seventeen, the usual AFK and insta-kill strategies aren't going to cut it anymore. Better put your own hands to work, study how to parry, how to stun, and how to time your invincibility frames.

Of course, if you don't want to study, that's fine too, you can just slowly wear them down with the Blood Lock Buff, though the win might not look as stylish.

So, if there's no challenge in battling the boss, why do players buy this DLC?

Besides collecting everything, a large part of the player base buys the DLC just for the Broken Boundary Empress.

The Insect Lady!

This is the most canonical Insect Lady!

Beautiful and powerful, you can even tame her as your Magic Pet after defeating her.

Not many people can resist such a temptation.

When Shen Sui saw the Boundary-breaking Worm on Dawn Continent, his first thought was of the Broken Boundary Empress.

I'm not sure where the Broken Boundary Empress I tamed in my save file went after disappearing, because she wasn't included in the catalog of conquerable female characters, Shen Sui always forgot about this Insect Lady's existence.

Shen Sui's second thought was whether he could seize this opportunity to gain another powerful Follower Card.

Thinking this way, Shen Sui sent a message through the Dueling Device, offering some comfort to the silly little girl.

However....

Then, after Shen Sui agreed to help, this silly little girl just assumed that Shen Sui would handle everything, and happily ran off.

Holy crap!

This is your world!

Aren't you going to show a little more concern?

What if I mess up? Are you just going to watch the world be destroyed?

Watching this silly little girl's behavior, Shen Sui was fuming. No wonder the gods were able to steal her powers; with such a hands-off attitude, I'd want to steal something from her powers myself.

Since he'd already looked at the Dueling Device, Shen Sui also proceeded to check Alice's records.

After Qishala's Soul Card was activated, Shen Sui's Dueling Device showed a Qishala homepage. He could switch between the two Soul Cards' views using a toggle button.

But over on Qishala's side, whether it was because her strength was too overwhelming or because her temperament is too steady, or perhaps the Dragon Race hasn't cooked up any trouble, these past few days have yielded nothing but a Queen of Dragons form, not providing Shen Sui any new Life Card output.

Yet Shen Sui didn't feel much about it; that's the norm for most people's Soul Cards, Alice is the unusual one.

Just like how Xinyuan Tanchun, having the Isabella Soul Card, is still just a Level Six Life Card Master, even though she has acquired a Level Seven Life Card Master's abilities, that's mostly due to her grinding on the professional battlefield for three or four years.

Isabella, although reliable as Soul Cards go, often accompanying Xinyuan Tanchun to different cemeteries, occasionally brings some output.

[Under Aina's guidance, Alice landed on the outskirts of the Elf Forest.]

[Initially, as a Holy Child Elf, Aina could have directly returned to the Elf Race's location, but because she brought along a group of outsiders, she had to act as an introducer, bringing Alice through the Elf Race's layered outer defenses.]

[Unlike the isolated Dragon Island, the Elf Forest is in the heart of Dawn Continent, making complete seclusion unrealistic.]

[For this reason, the Elf Race has laid out very tight defenses around the Elf Forest to prevent outsiders from entering the elf kingdom without an elf's introduction.]

[Yet today seemed a bit odd.]

[After they entered the Elf Forest, they didn't encounter any questioning at all and walked unimpeded into the heart of the Elf Forest.]

[Aina furrowed her brow questioningly, "That's strange, Yadi and the others usually patrol this area daily, why haven't we seen them for days?"]

[Alice also sensed something wasn't right.]

[Suddenly, a shadow sprang out of the nearby dense forest, lunging straight for Alice's face.]

[Alice reacted quickly, instinctively casting a Fireball.]

[However, the fireball dissipated into sparks the moment it touched the opponent.]

[In the light of the fireball, the group finally saw the attacker's face clearly.]

[It was a giant insect with a bizarre carapace and sharp mandibles.]

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