The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

Almost at the same time.

Deep within the lair, three figures with distinct auras converged at the same spot.

A shadow stretched across the ground, coalescing into the image of a handsome and elegant man dressed in a well-tailored tuxedo, a faint smile playing on his lips.

[Shadow Stalker - Rhodes]

[Level: Lord]

Combat Power: 95536

Combat Rank: A

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Accompanied by a teeth-grinding rustling sound.

A withered old woman with a huge venomous sac on her back and slender spider legs on her lower body crawled out from another passage.

Mona, the Plague Witch

[Level: Lord]

Combat Power: 94143

Combat Rank: A

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Finally, there were heavy footsteps.

"Thump...thump...thump..."

Every step caused the ground, made of living flesh and blood, to tremble.

A mobile mountain of flesh, pieced together from countless biological remains and metal, slowly squeezed into this space, its surface constantly oozing highly corrosive digestive fluids.

A group of little creatures lived in the holes on his back, playing and frolicking in the highly corrosive liquid.

The Forger – A Giant

[Level: Lord]

Combat Power: 127730

Combat Rating: A+

Sensing that their life connection with their companions, Xingmi and Tia, had been completely severed, they were summoned here by the Queen.

The enormous creature let out a low roar, seemingly expressing its dissatisfaction and anxiety.

Mona forced an extremely ugly smile onto her wrinkled face, her voice sharp and sarcastic.

"Xingmi and Tia are dead."

"They were just scouting that so-called safe zone, and they died there."

She paused for a moment, then turned her cloudy eyes toward Rhodes.

"With their skills, why did they die?"

Rhodes adjusted his bow tie with an elegant movement, as if he were attending a dinner party rather than discussing the death of his comrade.

"Dead, that's it, Mona, who are you questioning?"

"question?"

Mona laughed, and the tumor on her back throbbed violently.

"I just find it laughable! Two lords, lost in a tiny place, barely the size of a palm. Don't you think it's a joke, Rhodes?"

"Or do you think their deaths were deserved?"

Rod finally stopped what he was doing. He turned around, his handsome face still bearing a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

"I only care about the result; the process is something only the weak need to worry about."

"you!"

Mona was trembling with rage and was about to explode when the enormous figure beside her let out another deafening roar.

"Those two stupid pieces of trash can't even handle this little thing."

"If I had been sent in the first place, this situation would never have happened!"

"It won't happen! It won't happen!" The little guy behind the huge man echoed his words.

The giant lost patience with their arguments; it craved devouring and fighting, not pointless conversation.

Just then, a will as vast as the sea descended.

The peristalsis of the entire nest came to a standstill.

Rhodes, Mona, and Pangran, three arrogant lord-level monsters, all fell silent in that instant, bowing their heads in a respectful manner.

That was the will of the Weaver Queen Agnes.

Without a word, a message or a picture was directly imprinted in their minds.

That was the last image the little spider sent back.

A figure in black robes.

He held a huge bone shield, its surface covered with countless agonizing and contorted faces, as if imprisoning thousands of dead souls.

"Warden - Rock Bones".

Mona blurted out the name.

In the scene, Pan Gu appears and severely injures Xing Mi and Tia.

This forced Xingmi and Tia to flee without stopping.

But what defeated Xingmi and Tia was a barely perceptible gray aura.

The appearance of that gray aura seemed to mark the end of all colors in the world, the graveyard of light and heat.

It drifted away very slowly, so slowly that Rhodes and the others could clearly see every minute trace of it.

However, Xingmi and Tia, two powerful lord-level beings, seemed to dare not touch them in the slightest.

In the footage, they witnessed firsthand the unprecedented fear displayed on Xingmi and Tia's faces.

The Empress's will receded like the tide, but the aftershocks still shook the three lord-level monsters to their core.

That's the end of the video.

Inside the nest, there was a deathly silence.

Pang Ran's heavy breathing disappeared.

After a long silence, Mona's dry and distorted scream shattered the stillness.

"authority......"

"That is the power of the authority of death!"

Her voice no longer carried the shock and anger of before, but a trembling mix of extreme greed and jealousy.

Rhodes' body stiffened slightly.

He had always maintained a perfect image, but at this moment, there was a slight, unnatural twitch on his handsome face.

authority!

That's the key to entering S-class!

It is the control over the fundamental power of the world, which transcends all skills and energy!

These lords, no matter how strong or powerful they are, are essentially just using energy.

Authority, on the other hand, is the power to set the rules!

As shown in the previous footage, the Bone doesn't even need to use a huge amount of energy.

With just a trace of authority, the two lords of equal rank were powerless to resist.

This is the insurmountable gap between Class A and Class S!

Having control over something, even just a little bit, is like having one foot in the door of S-class status.

Its true strength will far surpass any other being of the same level!

No wonder, no wonder Xingmi and Tia lost so badly.

They did not lose to strength, but to the suppression of their social status.

"But what right does a mere watchdog have to grant him the power of death?!"

Rhodes muttered to himself, his elegant voice tinged with undisguised jealousy for the first time.

He boasted that he was the Queen's top hunter, far surpassing Xingmi and Tia in both wisdom and strength.

Even so, he was still so far from the threshold of "power" that there was not a glimmer of hope.

And Pan Gu has actually mastered this power!

The fact that Boreas was able to obtain the authority of death was definitely done by Ainz Ooal Gown, who did not hesitate to weaken his own power to brand him with the authority of death.

But why should he, Pan Gu, be able to?

In the Endless Bone Domain, there are clearly many people stronger than Pan Gu!

But why him?!

"..."

Thinking of this, Rhodes glanced at Pang Ran beside him with a hint of jealousy.

This idiot is the same; he's clearly very ordinary, even incredibly stupid.

But he just happened to win the Queen's favor...

In terms of loyalty to the Empress alone, he is no less than Pang Ran!

But the Queen just can't see that; she only likes this idiot!