Riots Rising, Correcting All Things

"Sister, tell me... do gods exist in this world?"

Tu Shan Hong Hong suddenly asked this question. As the Alliance Leader of the Monster Union, the strongest fox demon Tu Shan had ever seen, and the most powerful leader in the history of the Union, her strength had long since reached the heavens.

Currently, her power had reached a realm where it could not be increased even by a fraction.

In the terms used by the Eastern Continent, she had encountered a bottleneck.

If she could not break through this bottleneck, then for the rest of her life, her strength would never grow again.

Now that the new rankings had reached the thirties, experts capable of heavily wounding demon gods had already appeared.

This also implicitly revealed a piece of information.

The realm she could not reach likely truly existed in this world, and the number of people who had achieved it was perhaps not small.

"Sister, I don't know."

"In the Eastern Continent, we are already the most formidable monsters. The Old Celestial Master in the Central Continent is certainly not a god. Spirit Blade Mountain... perhaps one can become a god by cultivating to a certain realm and ascending, but that seems to be called an Immortal, not a god."

Tu Shan Ya Ya analyzed it this way. She could see her sister's anxiety. Having been the most outstanding since childhood, whether in beauty, wisdom, or strength, she had always far surpassed her peers.

As the Combat Power Ranking was gradually made public, she could no longer maintain her previous composure.

Now that her sister was asking this question...

Tu Shan Ya Ya felt that the day her sister appeared on the ranking was probably not far off.

...

Eastern Island, the overseas Academy City.

Inside a windowless building.

In a life-support device four meters in diameter and ten meters long, made of special glass and filled with red liquid, a silver-haired man with a strange, neutral beauty was suspended upside down.

He was Aleister Crowley, ranked thirty-ninth on the Combat Power Ranking.

Inside the culture tube, he frowned. The Combat Power Ranking had exposed his secrets, which seriously interfered with the execution of his plans.

"Warning, warning. Academy City currently has four hundred and eight locations experiencing riots. Outside Academy City, thirteen unknown forces are attacking structures."

The computer's Q&A auxiliary thinking AI continuously issued warnings. Based on information transmitted from countless UNDERLINE cables spread throughout Academy City, the city had fallen into a state of complete loss of control.

Angry students poured into the streets, attacking the Anti-Skill and Judgment members. They protested everywhere, demanding an explanation from the General Superintendent.

The forces manipulating these students were extremely complex. Besides external magic factions, a large portion consisted of other members of the Board of Directors.

They could not believe that the entire scientific city was founded not for some noble scientific hope, but purely for Aleister's personal goals.

And he himself was no scientific sage, but a terrifying figure who could sacrifice the innocent, even his own wife and child, for his experiments.

Inside the windowless building, the computer AI continuously reported the internal situation of Academy City.

"District 1, District 3, District 4, District 5, District 8, District 10, District 16, and District 17 have been completely occupied by rioting students."

"District 2, District 6, District 7, District 9, and District 15 are under heavy attack."

"According to observations, Level 5 'Gemstone' Sogiita Gunha, Level 5 'Mental Out' Shokuhou Misaki, Level 5 'Meltdowner' Mugino Shizuri, Level 5 'Railgun' Misaka Mikoto, and Level 5 'Accelerator' have all joined the riots."

"According to observations, members of 'Necessarius,' the 'Priestess of the Amakusa Catholics,' and the currently ninth-ranked Saint, Kanzaki Kaori, are breaking through the outer robotic defense network."

"According to observations, members of 'God's Right Seat'—'Fiamma of the Right,' 'Terra of the Left,' 'Vento of the Front,' and 'Acqua of the Back'—are rapidly approaching."

"According to observations, approximately twenty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-one magicians worldwide are heading toward Academy City."

"Warning, the fifth shielding barrier has been destroyed. Activating the fourth shielding barrier."

"Warning, the fourth shielding barrier has been destroyed. Activating the third shielding barrier."

"Warning, the third shielding barrier has been destroyed. Activating the second shielding barrier."

"Warning, the second shielding barrier has been destroyed. Activating the final defense barrier."

Aleister moved. After an unknown number of years waiting in the life-support device, he finally acted.

The special glass shattered, and the dark red liquid flowed out as he returned to this world in his original form.

For so many years, the reason he hid in the life-support device, besides wanting to minimize the loss of life force to the maximum extent, was primarily to prevent his own magic from leaking out, making the outside world believe that the greatest magician of a century ago had long since vanished into the dust of history.

But when the Combat Power Ranking exposed everything, people all over the world already knew his identity.

Hiding no longer had any meaning.

He chose to step forward and face the siege of nearly all experts from both sides. With only the last layer of the defense barrier remaining, he calmly summoned his strangely shaped silver staff—the "Blasting Rod."

"It is time to correct the errors brought about by the ranking."

The staff in his hand tapped lightly. Behind every existence in Academy City whose combat power exceeded Level 3, an avatar of Aleister appeared.

These avatars mercilessly used various types of correction magic aimed at different enemies, forcibly altering their memories, repairing the damage caused by the riots, and returning everything to the state it was in before the Combat Power Ranking appeared.

Regardless of success or failure, all his actions were directed toward the same goal, undisturbed by surface emotions, looking directly at the essence according to the laws of the existing world.

Aleister Crowley would not be constrained by success, failure, gain, loss, glory, or shame.

If the final result could reach the direction he anticipated, then everything in his eyes was the same.

...

Eastern Island, Kyoto.

The Investigation Division received a large amount of information; many forces in the world were heading toward the overseas island of "Academy City."

They sensed that a terrifying war was about to break out.

The King's Palace.

Kokujoji Daikaku, the Golden King, had a solemn expression. He had received the report.

After the information on the ranking was published, the overseas island of "Academy City" had experienced the largest riot in its history.

He worried that this riot might affect other Eastern regions.

However.

When he received the next piece of news.

His entire body froze in shock, his face filled with disbelief.