The Threshold of the Unthinkable
The wind in the upper atmosphere struck his body like supersonic blades, but Rob didn't feel it. He had crossed that threshold long ago. He was no longer a man held together by muscles or bones.Now, he was condensed energy.Pure will in human form.He flew over the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound. Not out of urgency.But because he could.Behind him lay New York... or what was left of it. Ahead, more battle. More chaos. More darkness.And yet, for the first time, Rob felt no fear.
Reflection Between Skies
"Two years ago… I ran from an A-rank creature.""One year ago… I was helpless before an SS+ beast.""And today… I devoured it."
His voice carried no vanity. Only truth.
"The Rob from the past died when my family was killed.""The second Rob died when the system sent me back to the beginning.""And now… the third has been born."
His sword vibrated beside him. Not with hunger, but with recognition.
"Now I'm ready."
The Body That Defies the Universe
His aura was different. No longer just powerful… it was undefinable.The Survival System sensors automatically deactivated when trying to measure him.Alan and Maria's analyses reached only one conclusion:
"His energy is approaching the threshold of a level 2 lifeform."
That made him not just the strongest human on the planet—But an evolutionary anomaly… a direct threat to the level 2 creature attempting to colonize Earth for its resources.
Each time Rob devoured an SS+ creature, his understanding of space, combat, and his own ability expanded exponentially.He no longer climbed by steps.He ascended by dimensions.
The Voice That Waits
Mid-flight, something… flickered in his mind.A voice that wasn't a voice. A thought that wasn't his.
"How far will you go, Rob?""How far are you willing to break… so you don't break your loved ones?""What will you do… when devouring is no longer enough?"
Rob clenched his teeth.The enemy had spoken. Direct. Intimate.
"So you've sensed me.""Good.""Come for me."
Heading to the New Front
Rob changed direction. He confirmed that Egypt had the highest concentration of dimensional fractures.And he knew that's where he needed to go.Not just to save.But to answer the call of a greater war.One no longer between beasts and humans—But between species and planes of existence.
In the distance, the sky over Cairo was shattered.And toward it… flew the Guardian of Humanity.Not to resist.But to dominate.Where breath itself is decided.
Kenya – The Root of Rot
The air burned, but not because of the sun.It was the black toxin decomposing at a molecular level, rewriting life in its path.
Lee Ming was on his knees. His white robe had been torn.In front of him, the creature of infinite roots kept multiplying, creating deformed animals that screamed with human voices.
"It's not a beast…" he murmured. "It's a living idea. It's… an infection of the planet itself."
Beside him, Mohammed was bleeding from his nose, several of his arms broken. Each of his blows shattered entire trees, but the roots always returned.
"We need… to cut its core!" he roared, before collapsing to his knees.
Lee Ming raised his hands and conjured a miniature sun. He held it between his palms and compressed it until it burned blue.
"Hold on, brother."
With the last spark of his will, he hurled it at the heart of the creature.The pulsating core was consumed by the explosion.A collective scream erupted from every creature at once.And then… silence.
Mohammed fell unconscious.Lee Ming caught him before he hit the ground.
"We did it…"
Norway – Ice Against Existence
The void made it impossible to scream.But Thea and Nikolav no longer relied on sound.
In the midst of the white abyss, Thea channeled a spear of absolute ice—one that froze the quantum structure of everything it touched.
Nikolav had suffered heavy damage. His bones were cracked, his organs failing… but he remained standing.
"I've still… got enough for one last hit," he said with a broken smile.
The creature, an intangible ice serpent, tried to coil around them. But Nikolav hurled himself straight into the vortex that generated the distortion, grabbing it with his bare arms.
"NOW, THEA!!"
Thea screamed and hurled the spear.The weapon crossed the abyss, pierced through Nikolav's chest, and embedded itself into the creature's skull.
For a moment… the world was frozen.And then, all the ice collapsed into dust.
Silence After the Roar
On both fronts, there were no celebrations.Only ragged breaths.Exhausted bodies.And the brutal certainty that war was no metaphor.It was real.And it had only just begun.
The Reflection of What Should Not Be
The sky above Cairo was no longer a sky.It was a swirling mass of dark energy, with floating cracks that flashed red, black, and purple.
The entire desert seemed to breathe, but in pain—as if something had broken Earth's rules in that place.
Rob landed without a word.
In front of him, the creature had no fixed form.It was a mass of closed eyes, melted swords, limbs that appeared and vanished.But the most unsettling part… was its sword.A black blade, eerily similar to his own, vibrated in tune with his presence.
The Imperfect Echo
"What are you?" Rob asked, feeling déjà vu in his very bones.
The creature responded without a mouth, without a voice.
"I… am the replica. The mirror. The project. The experiment.""I too… devour."
And with a roar that shattered the ruins of the Nile, it launched itself at him.
The Duel of Realities
Rob activated Unstoppable Edge and Leap at the same time.Both moved like entities outside of time, striking between blinks.Each impact devoured part of the surroundings.Where one slashed, the other consumed.Where Rob sought to save, the creature only sought to replicate.
"You don't understand what you carry inside," Rob said between strikes."You don't devour by will… you do it because you were designed to imitate."
"Then… what makes me different from you?""Don't you also devour… out of fear of losing what you love?"
Rob paused for a second.And that second almost killed him.
The Decision
The creature took advantage of the pause and pierced Rob's shoulder with its black sword.But there was no blood.There was fire.
Rob gritted his teeth. Then he smiled.
"The difference between you and me… is that you devour by command.""And I devour… by choice."
He activated the advanced form of World Devourer.
His sword shattered into a thousand floating fragments. Each one sliced through space and energy simultaneously.
With an upward motion, he sent them all into the creature's core—and devoured it from within.
The Purge
The creature screamed like a child realizing it was never real.The sky's vortex collapsed.The desert cracked open…and then rebuilt itself.
Rob fell to his knees, exhausted.But in his chest… something pulsed stronger than ever.
From the sky, a cloud of ashes rained over Egypt.And Rob, now stronger than ever, looked at his own sword…and silently asked:
"How much more will I have to devour……before I become what I swore to destroy?"
The Fracture in the Law
Osaka – Alex's Battle
Alex walked over the shattered remains of the crystalline dragon.His final summon had been a conceptual antimatter projectile: an impossible spear forged from remnants of memories from his past life.
"I'm not as strong as Rob…""But I learned from him that the impossible can be shattered with conviction."
With the enemy destroyed, Alex dropped to his knees.But he smiled.
"One less…"
Egypt – The Aftermath
Hana held Ali's arm; both were covered in sacred dust.
"The creature vanished," she whispered. "But the damage it left behind won't fade."
The sky over Cairo still bore dimensional scars.One rift remained open… pulsing as if something wanted to cross from the other side.
Norway and Kenya – Retreating Alive
Lee Ming carried Mohammed's unconscious body.Thea dragged Nikolav with the help of an ice support.
All four… alive.All four… transformed.
Gathering of Guardians
From different parts of the world, the survivors connected with Rob.The hologram showed exhausted faces, wounded ones, some with tears… but all still standing.
"We won…" Thea said, barely believing it."We survived," added Ali."But something changed," Alan interrupted from La Paz. "The system is… mutating."
He projected lines of code.
Where the Survival System once had structured signatures, there were now new lines, unregistered, written with non-human logic.
PROTOCOL ALTERED: BASE STRUCTURE UNDER REVIEWNEW VARIABLES DETECTEDAUTHOR UNKNOWN
Rob's Revelation
Rob closed his eyes.
"It's rewriting the system. From within. Like a parasite."
Victoria, present in the room, whispered:
"What if it doesn't just want to destroy us…?""What if it wants to take control of the human evolutionary process… through the system itself?"
Rob nodded.
"Then… it's not enough to win battles.""We have to cut out the enemy's root."
And that meant only one thing:finding it.
While the Guardians rested for the first time in days, the sky above a remote part of the planet began to glow in dark hues.A rift, invisible to human eyes, opened.And something… began to cross.
This war was no longer just about Earth.It was a war over what defines reality itself.
The Roar of Yesterday
The night seemed peaceful.On the surface.
But beyond Earth's atmosphere, a faceless figure pounded the walls of its dimension with growing fury.The images projected before it showed something that should never have happened:A human… evolving on his own.
"He wasn't supposed to get this far.""Not without me.""Not without my permission."
Space around it trembled.And then, it made its decision.
"I will send it."
A cage opened.From it emerged a massive figure, covered in jet-black fur, with golden eyes like dying suns—and a presence that seemed to weigh tons even from another dimension.
The Andean Puma.
The Roar That Crossed Planes
The entire planet didn't hear it.But Rob did.
From his room in La Paz, he opened his eyes wide.
"No…"
His hands trembled. Not from fear… but from memory.That creature…That beast…Was the one that killed him in his past life.The end of his hope. The limit of his strength. The prison of his soul.
But now… it would be different.
Decision
Rob stood. His sword floated to his side, as if it too had felt the call.Victoria approached, concerned.
"What was that?"
Rob responded with eyes burning in dark energy.
"The past… has returned so I can destroy it."
He walked to the command room.
"I'm going alone," he announced.
Alex tried to stop him. Thea frowned. Alan and Maria protested.But Rob didn't move.
"If I don't break these chains with my own hands… I'll never be free.""I'll never protect everyone.""And I'll never… reach the next level."
"And what are you hoping to achieve?" Nikolav asked.
"To become… an SS-level existence.""Not for power.""But to be ready… for what comes next."
While the world slept, the Puma descended through the skies of South America.And Rob, now without chains, without fear, and without doubt, walked toward his most brutal battle yet.Not to survive.Not to win.But to free himself.
And when the gods tremble…it's because a human has decided to become more than legend.
[End of Chapter 37 – When the Gods Tremble]