The golden spatial rift opened by the enslaved Galactic Arbitrators did not lead to a simple planet or star system.
It tore straight through the dimensional fabric, depositing Ethan Reed’s twenty-mile black dreadnought into the Central Sanctuary of the Cosmic Council. A timeless realm where colossal diamond spires floated in a sea of pure, liquid starlight.
Sitting upon twelve towering crystalline thrones at the center of the sanctuary were the Level 200 Cosmic Councilors—the oldest, most powerful entities in existence, who had governed the birth and death of galaxies since the beginning of time.
"The Arbitrators... they have been subverted?!" one Councilor roared, his body composed of blinding solar fire, his diamond throne cracking under his sudden panic.
"Ethan Reed!" the Chief Councilor, a being wrapped in ancient nebular mist, bellowed down from his throne. "You have crossed into the sacred domain! Your presence here violates the primeval boundaries! You cannot defeat the Council; we are the very pillars of this reality!"
Ethan stood at the front deck of his dreadnought, his dark-matter trench coat completely calm against the liquid starlight.
His base attributes sat at a staggering 250,000+. He looked up at the twelve supreme rulers of the universe and casually raised his right hand.
"Pillars of this reality?" Ethan murmured, a cold, mocking smirk playing on his lips. "Then it’s a good thing I brought my own hammers."
Ethan didn’t give them a chance to cast a single spell. He snapped his fingers, activating his absolute universal law: Genesis & Apocalypse.
SNAP.
An invisible, catastrophic wave of translucent white cosmic mana rippled across the sanctuary. In a fraction of a millisecond, the twelve diamond thrones violently shattered into dust.
The twelve Level 200 Cosmic Councilors let out a collective, horrified shriek as their ancient, galaxy-spanning mana pools were instantly deleted, their immortal bodies collapsing onto the floating spires as fragile, powerless old entities.
The Chief Councilor clutched his chest, his nebular mist evaporating into thin air, leaving him gasping for breath on the smooth stone. "How... how can a native from a Tier-1 backwater planet possess the law of absolute deletion... This universe shouldn’t contain this level of energy..."
"You are right," Ethan said, casually walking down through the empty air, his boots leaving faint, dark purple ripples in the liquid starlight. "This universe shouldn’t. Because this universe belongs to me now."
He stopped right in front of the floating central pillar of the sanctuary—a massive, spinning crystalline sphere that contained the Heart of the Universe (Rank-SSS Cosmic Core). Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
This core was the central processing unit of the entire reality matrix, managing the space, time, and destiny of every star system in Ethan’s home universe.
Ethan casually reached out and placed his hand on the pristine, glowing core.
[DING! Detecting Rank-SSS Core Material: The Heart of the Universe.]
[Processing transaction under Universal Sovereign Network rules...]
[Triggering Return Multiplier... Calculating... CONGRATULATIONS! You have triggered the maximum capped 10,000x Multiplier!]
[Warning: The scale of this transaction has exceeded the data limitations of the Local Reality Matrix!]
[Initiating System Paradigm Shift... Upgrading System Core...]
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The entire sanctuary—and the entire universe outside it—violently shuddered.
The crystalline sphere in Ethan’s hand did not just glow; it violently fractured, its light expanding into a blinding, infinite kaleidoscope of colors that tore the sky completely open.
The blue system screen in Ethan’s vision fractured and reassembled into a deep, starless crimson interface that vibrated with a terrifying, multi-dimensional resonance.
[System Upgrade Successful! The 10,000x Return System has evolved into: The Multiverse Sovereign Protocol!]
[Local Universe Status: 100% Conquered and Consolidated.]
[New Feature Unlocked: Multiverse Gifting! Host can now gift, invest, or sacrifice entire conquered UNIVERSES to entities in higher dimensional planes to trigger a 10,000x Multiverse Return!] New chapters come out on novelping.com first.
[Host Status Screen Updated — Multiverse Sovereign Tier:]
•—Name: Ethan Reed
•—Level: 100 -> Multiverse Rank-1 (Boundaries of Reality Shattered!)
•—Base Attributes: 250,000 -> 10,000,000+ (Ten Million raw physical and conceptual force!)
•—Ultimate Law Unlocked:Dimensional Rewrite (You can now create, erase, or merge entire parallel timelines and dimensional planes at will).
Ethan stood in the center of the blinding light, his pupils completely dissolving into an infinite maze of spinning, multi-colored galaxies.
His physical body was no longer composed of common atoms; he was a living anchor for the multiverse. At ten million base attributes, a single casual thought from Ethan could collapse a parallel timeline.
He looked through the newly opened rifts in the sanctuary sky. Beyond his home universe lay an endless, infinite ocean of dark space—the Great Void.
Floating within that ocean were billions of glowing, bubble-like structures, each one an entirely separate, parallel universe running on different timelines, different magics, and different laws of physics.
Some universes were ruled by high-tech cybernetic gods. Some were dominated by ancient, primordial magic dragons. Others were dark, dying rifts ruled by abyssal lords.
Cassandra Vance stepped through a spatial ripple, her dark silver cosmic armor pulsing with the light of a thousand frozen galaxies as she stopped beside him.
Her silver eyes reflected the infinite multiverse. "My Lord... the Council has fallen. But those rifts... what are those?"
"Those are our next targets, Cassandra," Ethan whispered, a slow, fiercely sharp smile spreading across his face as he looked out into the endless, multi-dimensional expanse.
The F-Rank delivery boy who had been mocked by his classmates had started by gifting a single piece of stale rye bread in a dusty slum apartment. Now, he held the power to gift entire universes to trigger a ten-million-fold return.
The local galaxy was already a done deal. The game hadn’t ended—it had just expanded onto an infinite stage.