As soon as John appeared, the players around him all stood up and greeted him.

"Guild Leader, you’re here!"

"Guild Leader, with you here, we can finally relax."

"Guild Leader, please, you have to help us deal with the anomaly inside the World Tree!"

In their hearts, John was practically a savior. As long as he was here, any anomaly could be settled!

"Leave this place to me. Guard the outside and don’t let anyone else enter."

John gave a simple order, then his figure disappeared into the World Tree dungeon.

This time, he had already reached Level 150. He directly ignored the restriction of the upper layer and entered the upper space where the anomaly had occurred!

...

[You have entered the upper space of the World Tree ruin dungeon!]

What entered his sight was endless white light.

John closed his eyes and waited for quite a while before finally adapting to the intense brightness.

His gaze shifted slightly as he began to observe his surroundings.

Within the vast expanse of white light, there was an enormous staircase.

At the top of the staircase stood a throne. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

However, at this moment, the throne was empty. There was no figure sitting upon it.

John’s heart jolted. "Could the boss of this dungeon layer have already left the upper space on its own?"

According to his understanding of ruin dungeons, generally speaking, in order to clear a dungeon, one had to kill the core boss.

Only after the core boss died would he have a chance to obtain the Worldfall Ruins Token that controlled the entire ruin.

But right now, he could not see even the slightest trace of the ruin boss.

"What’s going on?"

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, John walked upward step by step.

Just as he was about to touch the throne—

Suddenly, a figure slowly began to appear upon it.

The figure wore a long green dress. Her cold green eyes were staring fixedly at him.

"Human, was it you who stole my authority?"

The woman’s voice was as cold as iron, filled with surging killing intent.

John stared at the person before him. She had green eyes, fair skin, and long emerald hair as soft and flowing as willow branches.

Her body was filled with an extremely terrifying divine power!

John threw a detection spell at her.

In an instant, her information appeared before his eyes.

[Lashir]（Final Boss of the World Tree）

[Level]: Level 150

[HP]: 939.39 million

[Skills]: Thousand-Fathom Azure Tree, Shadow of the Demonic Tree, Sea of the World Tree...

[Description]: The incarnation spirit of the World Tree, responsible for managing the World Tree on behalf of the gods.

However, as time passed and the gods withdrew, it gradually developed the desire to break free.

Because of this, it hid itself and chose to forcibly migrate the World Tree’s main body.

...

"Well, well. So you’re actually connected to the God Realm?"

John was somewhat surprised.

He had never expected to come into contact with clues related to the God Realm so quickly.

The God Realm.

It was a space located beyond the current world.

It was said that before entering the game Apocalypse, the Goddess of Light who had bestowed blessings upon all players resided within the God Realm.

If one wanted to enter the God Realm, they could only do so through a special encounter or by reaching Level 500.

Even in John’s previous life, only a mere handful of people had truly entered the God Realm.

As for the other players, they had not even come into contact with any clues regarding the God Realm.

And yet, right now, John had already encountered a clue connected to the God Realm so soon.

It truly shocked him for a moment.

However, who would have thought that in Lashir’s eyes, John’s expression instead became a sign of guilt?

Lashir crossed her arms and snorted coldly. "Judging by that look of yours, I’m guessing you don’t even know where the God Realm is, do you?

"Now, immediately return the authority of the middle and lower layers to me. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being impolite!"

John almost burst out laughing.

You’re just a Level 150 platinum-grade boss, and you want me to return the authority?

Are you even worthy?

John sneered. "I’m not interested in returning the authority. However, I am quite interested in making you my slave."

"What did you say?"

Lashir was in disbelief. She thought she had misheard him!

Since the day she was born, no living being had ever dared to speak to her like this.

John was the first in all of history!

In an instant, she flew into a rage. "You’re courting death!"

The next moment, a dazzling emerald light erupted.

This was a curse from her.

Any creature touched by this light would instantly lose the ability to move!

Their skin, flesh, and blood would all become wooden, until they completely transformed into a tree!

However, this light was essentially no different from a curse.

And since it was a curse, to John, who possessed Curse Resistance, it was equivalent to nonexistent!

He ignored the light entirely. Suddenly, a suit of wooden armor appeared over his body.

It was none other than the [Tree King Set] he had previously obtained from the middle and lower layers!

As a priest set, once John equipped it, his defense skyrocketed.

At the same time, he also gained a special skill.

[When a single instance of healing exceeds your own maximum damage value, an instant-kill effect will be triggered!

Note: Regardless of how much HP the enemy has, they will die instantly!]

This was the result produced after John awakened the SSS-rank talent of the priest class and perfectly matched it with the Tree King Set!

Its name was [Excessive Prosperity Leads to Decline].

One after another, the radiance of priest-class skills appeared around John.

Every flash of light represented an SSS-rank skill.

The amount of healing contained within the healing light gathered in John’s palm began to stack crazily.

1 million, 10 million... 100 million!

At this moment, the amount of healing John could unleash was still continuously rising.

This scene instantly shocked Lashir.

"You... You’re actually unaffected by me?"

She had originally thought that she had already assimilated John into a tree just now.

But when she turned to look, he was completely fine.

He was even continuously gathering power, as if preparing to release a major move.

"Damn it! Do you really think I don’t exist?"

Lashir watched as John completely ignored her and openly charged up his attack in front of her.

She was furious beyond measure. Her body instantly transformed.

An enormous, lush, and towering phantom of the World Tree appeared in her place.

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

Countless leaves and branches as sharp as blades descended, bombarding John’s body.

Yet they only scraped out bursts of sparks!

[-1（Forced damage）!]

[-1（Forced damage）!]

[-1（Forced damage）!]

The World Tree phantom transformed from Lashir trembled continuously. Clearly, she had never expected John’s defense value to be this absurdly exaggerated.

And right at that moment—

The healing amount John had stacked finally exceeded his maximum attack value.

"Go!"

John no longer hesitated. He directly pushed his palm forward.

Boom!

The enormous healing light blasted into the World Tree.

At first, Lashir was terrified, thinking it was some kind of terrifying attack.

However, the moment the healing light landed on her body, the World Tree felt every single cell in her body trembling and being reborn.

[+3.1698 billion!]

The World Tree was stunned for a brief moment.

Then, it let out a piercing laugh.

"Hahahahaha! You idiot! You actually took the initiative to heal me! You—ugh!"

Lashir’s mocking laughter came to an abrupt stop.

A black damage notification suddenly exploded out.

[Instant-death mechanism triggered. HP emptied!]

Lashir’s originally terrifyingly thick HP bar was instantly drained to the bottom!