The 1st Step of World Master

Even I consumed countless resources to climb the peak of the Lord-Class as soon as possible. I had one slight advantage, which was the realization of my Path and method of how to condense the Arcane Crest from my Path, and that was already set in stone.

So, the only thing that I lacked in reaching a higher Tier was the energy that I lacked.

However, fortunately, with how many treasures and resources we had before I gave my order, it was not really a problem to cultivate my Godhood Index to the peak, together with my Demonic-God Force.

In the end, after one year, I was able to reach the limit of Tier 11 after consuming approximately 20% of the entire treasures, and that was consumption alone because I was trying to reach Exarch Rank as soon as possible to have at least some power against the Void Insect Swarm.

My second Godhood was still developing, and it didn't show the slightest change. However, for now, my focus was on different things.

"Father, can we go, then?"

Sirzechs asked me as I kept daydreaming while staring from the balcony of my chambers in the Imperial Palace.

"Yes."

I answered as we went to the secret room, underneath the Imperial Place, in the deepest parts of the Imperial Dungeons, where the Sealed Gate to the Planar Core was located.

This place was always guarded by one Tier 11 Elder and a whole bunch of Tier 10 Custodians and other experts because this could be said to be the lifeblood of the Chthonian Empire of the Baator.

Custodians were one of the military forces with the greatest rise in strength during this one year, as several Tier 10 and tens of Tier 9 experts rose among them.

But that was understandable because the new method that didn't focus on the Law was introduced, making it easier for the general populace to reach higher Tiers, albeit at the price of lower combat prowess.

But that was okey, for those who didn't have an aptitude for Law Comprehension. Sirzechs remained outside as I entered the Gate and appeared on the long narrow path, which seemed endless.

I waved my right hand as a glowing crest appeared on the back of my hand, as the path cleared out, and I entered the place where the Planar Core was located.

There were countless inscriptions and runes all around the Planar Core, which was laid down by me to have a better refinement and evolutionary process.

I took out Atiesh while striking it down, directly at the eye of the formation, as all of the inscriptions and runes all around the several kilometers in this huge vast space lit up in shining blue light. At the same time, I started chanting the activation chant.

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Astral Boundary, Central Star Region, Outside of the Canghzi Plane.

Canghzi Plane was one of the oldest planes in existence, just its size alone was comparable to several tens or hundreds of galaxies, but right now, such an enormous place was devoid of any life.

Aside from some unscrupulous civilizations that were hiding somewhere there, and Chthonains deemed them useless, so they left them to their fate.

Fleets of the Chthonian Empire of the Baator were outside of the Canghzi Plane, as they were observing the Plane with great importance.

Especially for the high-ranking officials or members of the Noble Houses, they knew what was happening after the Plane started shaking and Dawn Pillars shone in blue light.

The Planar Refinement has started.

Not only on the Canghzi Plane but across several tens of planes all around the Astral Boundary, including the Wind God Plane or Heavenly Plane, or other Secondary or Primary Grade 2 Plane, everything was being refined at the same time.

And, of course, being used as an evolutionary material for the Baator so that it could evolve into a Grade 1 Plane.

On the top of an Adjudicator-Class Juggernaut Capital Ship, Lord Admiral Orlock, together with several other people, including Lord Generals Ragnar or Feng Xiu from the Imperialis Militarum, were observing the Planar Refinement as it was just starting.

There were even some members of the Imperial House, as Vali and his wives Rias, Kuroka, and Latia were present.

Out of nowhere, a powerful tremor ran through the entire Canghzi Plane as it broke apart into several enormous chunks of the landmass, from which all of them started disintegrating into pure energy particles, which were devoured into a spatial crack that appeared high above the Canghzi Plane.

All people on the Voidships, in the safe distance away from the Canghzi Plane, could observe how some species that were left on the Canghzi Plane, especially the Dulans or other ones who were hiding or even some warlocks that managed to somehow survive by hiding into forgotten corners of the Cnaghzi Plane, were attempting to escape the Plane, into the stars.

But it was futile.

The suction force of the spatial crack, which was devouring everything greedily, was something that not even Tier 11 entities could ignore and leave unscathed.

So all people that were attempting to escape, especially the Tier 10 who were even some distance from the Canghzi Plane already, were immediately drawn back and disintegrated like the rest of the Plane while screaming and pleading for mercy or help.

This entire process took several hours until the entire landmass of the Canghzi Plane was completely devoured, and only the Planar Core remained, which contained most of the energy.

Suddenly the spatial crack enlarged itself several times as the wave of crimson energy shot from the spatial crack towards the Planar Core of the Canghzi Plane, creating cracks upon cracks on it.

When the crack appeared on the Planar Core, the energy from it started leaving at an alarming speed and being devoured by the spatial crack high above.

And as time went on, the light of the Planar Core was diminished until it completely died down and turned to dust, which was devoured by the spatial crack too.

This was the moment that signaled the end of the Grade 1 Plane, home of the Warlocks, the Canghzi Plane.