[Notice: The Demon Progenitor wishes to make a deal with you.]

[Deal Content: Become corrupted by the Demon Progenitor, and He will help you eliminate all internal enemies within the demon race!]

Outside, John had waited for a long time, yet nothing had happened.

All he received was this sudden notification popping up before him.

His gaze shifted slightly.

"The Demon Progenitor wants to make a deal with me?"

His expression became strange.

John had waited for so long because he wanted to see what kind of great commotion that eye could create.

Yet in the end, it had actually come to recruit him.

He sneered and decisively refused.

"A lowly race like the demon race should stop trying to associate itself with me.

"Roll as far away as you can."

As a member of the human race, he would not give this so-called god of the demon race even the slightest bit of respect.

[You have refused the Demon Progenitor’s invitation. He is furious.]

[The gaze left upon you has begun corrupting your soul!]

In the next moment, John suddenly felt something slightly strange happening to his body.

He let out a soft sound of surprise and lowered his eyes toward his arm.

The arm that had originally been completely bare was now beginning to show large patches of demonic patterns.

These demonic patterns seemed alive, constantly writhing across his skin.

[Current Corruption Progress: 2%]

[Once corruption is complete, your body will be controlled by the Demon Progenitor half of the time.]

"There’s even a trick like this?"

The corners of John’s mouth curled upward, yet there was not the slightest trace of panic on his face.

In his eyes, this so-called Demon Progenitor was nothing more than a joke.

Just a lingering gaze left on his body, and it wanted to fight him for control of his flesh?

"Ridiculous!"

John snorted coldly.

In the next moment, he switched into priest form.

In only an instant, a beam of holy light descended from the sky and landed on him.

For this light, he had used the Divine Class Points he had accumulated earlier.

Divine Class Points could strengthen skills, allowing those skills to gain a buff imbued with divine radiance.

So what if you, the Demon Progenitor, are a god?

I also have methods to counter gods.

As the priest’s holy light enhanced by Divine Class Points descended, the demonic patterns on John’s body began to fade away across a large area.

[The Demon Progenitor’s gaze has been expelled by you!]

As the notification rang out, John felt his body return to normal.

That rough, sticky, sluggish sensation vanished completely.

John shook his hand.

"And here I thought waiting so long would let me see what kind of methods you had.

"In the end, that was all."

The next moment, his gaze landed on the remaining players in Demon Lord’s City below.

"Since your so-called Demon Progenitor isn’t powerful enough, I’ll just have to vent my anger on all of you."

In the next instant, the Divine Wrath that John had been building up for so long erupted instantly.

He and his clones poured down like a flood of blood-red light.

They directly locked onto the tens of millions of demon race players still remaining and suddenly launched their attack!

To him, the tens of millions of Zone 3 players below were no different from a swarm of insects.

The next moment.

Countless throwing knives suddenly descended.

With the stacked layers of Divine Wrath, the damage of every single throwing knife had reached tens of millions.

"Break!"

Boom!

More than a thousand throwing knives carrying explosive damage crashed down at once.

Demon Lord’s City trembled violently, letting out a deafening boom.

Countless rays of crimson light refracted outward, covering the figures of tens of millions of Zone 3 players.

Under the explosive damage, the HP of these Zone 3 players instantly hit rock bottom.

Large amounts of white light appeared.

After these players died, they were also reincarnated into other human main cities.

...

[You have been slain by Zone 5 player John through his reflective-damage talent. Your level has dropped by twenty levels!]

[Death Punishment: All attributes reduced by half, all skills erased and invalidated, and all equipment on your body lost!]

[Your demon race-exclusive identity qualification has been completely revoked!]

[All gold coins on your person have been emptied, and you now bear a massive debt of 391.2 billion gold coins!]

[Please repay your debt as soon as possible. Only then will normal access to your wallet be restored!]

...

At this moment, this group of players who had been killed later by John also experienced the feeling of having all their items plundered while being saddled with a sky-high debt.

Once they came back to their senses, every one of them turned deathly pale and collapsed to the ground.

Countless wails rang out across the various human main cities.

They had never imagined that the punishment for failure would be this severe!

...

As the existence who had slaughtered tens of millions of players in an instant, John was nearly deafened by the notifications ringing beside his ears.

[You have killed Zone 3 player "Klor," plundering 1,000,000 EXP and 130,000 gold coins!]

[You have plundered the S-rank skill Demon Race Heart!]

[You have plundered the A-rank equipment Demonic Halberd!]

[You have slain Zone 2 player "Lorne," seizing 1,800,000 EXP and 270,000 gold coins!]

[You have seized the SS-rank talent Purgatory Bloodline!]

[You have seized the S-rank equipment Nether Shadow Longsword!]

[You have killed...]

John looked expressionlessly at the empty Demon Lord’s City.

To him, these players were nothing more than numbers.

Something that could be erased with a casual wave of his hand naturally could not stir any emotional fluctuation in him.

At this moment, he could sense that the only thing in the city that still posed a threat—or rather, the only thing that still had a presence—was the City Lord Mansion.

John waved his hand, signaling for the Zone 5 players below to stay where they were.

Immediately afterward, his clones vanished one after another.

In the end, only John’s main body remained.

His figure landed outside the City Lord Mansion, and then he walked inside step by step.

Before he could fully approach, a figure appeared at the entrance.

"Stop right there."

Aroka gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging.

Facing this figure that resembled a demon god, his heart was filled with both rage and fear.

He looked at John and said with extreme unwillingness, "John, I admit that you are very strong. So strong that even the Demon Progenitor could do nothing to you.

"But you have also underestimated the strength of our Zone 3.

"You actually dare to charge into this place alone? Do you know that the power here is stronger than all the Zone 3 players you just killed combined?

"So, John, die!"

As soon as his words fell, an enormous black figure appeared behind him.

It was none other than the demon dragon that had been conserving its strength for so long.

This demon dragon had hidden itself from beginning to end.

Now, it had finally appeared and was ready to make its move.

Its body actually turned strangely liquid-like, merging into Aroka’s figure in front of it.

The dragon and the human actually fused into one.

Aroka’s body and mind began to grow rapidly, becoming tall and powerful.

A pair of dragon wings sprouted from his back.

From beginning to end, John did not stop them.

He merely watched silently.

At the same time, he casually threw a Detection spell over.

The panel before him that belonged to Aroka was changing rapidly.

The other party’s Magic Attack, Physical Attack, magic resistance, and physical resistance were all soaring at an alarming speed.

At the same time, even his level began to climb gradually.

Level 100.

Level 200.

...

Level 350!

It actually skyrocketed all the way to Level 350 before finally stopping.

Only then did John finally raise his brows slightly.

"So you can even raise your level through this method? Interesting."

The corners of his mouth curled upward.

"The Demon Progenitor just now didn’t let me enjoy myself. Killing tens of millions of players didn’t feel satisfying either.

"I hope you’ll be a qualified opponent."

As soon as he finished speaking, John lightly stomped his foot.

The entire City Lord Mansion instantly collapsed into dust.

The final battle had finally arrived!