His second swing destroyed hundreds of tentacles.

"But none of you say you are trying."

The number of Dead Men coming in was now too great, it was like a wave, an endless wave that would never stop. Jaehwan changed his stance. He thrust his sword forward. It wasn't a normal or strong stab. It was the extreme of all stabs, powerful enough to even distort s.p.a.ce.

The world shook at the energy, and the ground trembled.

Heintz looked on in shock.

'I-impossible.'

The sudden giant ray of light destroyed hundreds of Half Dead Men, turning them into dust. They couldn't even scream.

[Way of the Wave]

The man stabbed again and again, against a never-ending wave. And it became a Way.

Heintz ran, just like all the other Dead Men. When the light overwhelmed him, he felt his life disappearing. At that moment, he was in a different world.

The world that Jaehwan saw.

'Is this his unique world?'

There were countless corpses and a giant eye in the sky. When Heintz looked at the eye, the eye looked back. The giant eye watched over everything in the world.

The Truth of the World.

Heintz realized what that eye symbolized, what that man was fighting for. Heintz was shocked, and found hope.

If I didn't give up.

If I was still the Righteous.

Would I be on the same path, following this man's dream?

Those were his last thoughts in his dying moment.

"Just a bit longer…"

And then, the world faded.

"…You monster. You just destroyed Manticore's thousands of years of history."

Chunghuh spoke as he watched the attack penetrating into the inner keep in the distance.

"I should call it a [World Stab] now."

"Cut the nonsense and let's move."

"It's not nonsense! How did you do that just now?"

Chunghuh clearly saw that the place where the stab touched distorted into his unique world. Chunghuh never saw anyone, not even from the 4th or 5th step Awakeners from [Rupture] use such skills.

"I just did it with all my might."

The world was destroyed just because of that? Chunghuh frowned, but Jaehwan was not lying. At least it was his most powerful attack. However, Jaehwan wasn't satisfied.

'It is powerful….'

Jaehwan had stabbed continuously even after he got out of the Tower. But after a while, he realized more stabs didn't mean anything to him now.

'More stabs won't make me grow.'

His thoughts became concrete as he heard information about Awakening from Chunghuh, and by helping Cayman onto the path of being Awakened.

'There should be a next step.'

Chunghuh had mentioned that there were people who had advanced from the 3rd step, but he didn't know how. Jaehwan tried hard to find a clue on how to get there while they trained, but he just couldn't get it.

"At least it will be easy. I think the Golden Sky leader got hit by that attack too. I don't feel any power that equals a Lesser General…. Are you okay?"

Jaehwan shook his head. "It's okay. I can do it a few more times."

Jaehwan spoke as he walked forward. Then, they stopped as a voice came from the front.

"Oh, I guess I'm too late."

A woman appeared through a distorted portal. She had pink hair with horns, and a black tank top.

"…What a sight. What did you do to scare those Half Dead Men?"

Chunghuh became pale.

Dimensional Interference.

There were a lot of skills that allowed one to disappear or jump into s.p.a.ce, but distorting s.p.a.ce itself was not even in the list of Top-Grade Skills. This was only considering the skills of 'Top-Grade'. There were skills that were more powerful than that.

Special-Grade Skill – Warp

Chunghuh knew the only race who knew how to use this skill. He had seen it multiple times, 900 years ago.