Armipotent

Lunea furrowed her brow at first, "Shouldn't you know what it means to violate System's authority?"

Tang Shaoyang should know about the authority given to the God Rank. Unless Tang Shaoyang was not a God Rank. But that just did not make sense. How did he defeat her friends if he was still in Demi-God Rank?

"Should I know about it?" He furrowed his brows. It was just the same for him, confusing. Why would he ask if he knew what she meant?

Tang Shaoyang shook his head, "I know nothing you are talking about."

"You should know what I am talking about if you have reached Demi-God Rank!" Lunea subconsciously raised her voice. She did not want to believe that Tang Shaoyang was still Demi-God Rank.

"But I am not a God Rank. I am still Demi-God Rank," He took out an artifact from his trench coat. That was the artifact that blocked Detection. An improved version that dwarfs crafted from The Orin Continent, "Try use Detection on me now."

Lunea immediately used Detection. Her eyes widened in shock as the result came out. Her breathing roughed up, her chest heaved up and down. The pure disbelief on her face was quite funny to Tang Shaoyang.

Gracia who never saw Goddess Lunea's expression like this also could not help but use Detection on Tang Shaoyang. She had the same reaction as her Goddess.

"How!?"

That was the one word that Lunea uttered after a while. The ceiling between a God Rank and a Demi-God Rank was just too big. She was well aware of that. Especially when she peeked at The System.

The power gap between the two ranks was akin to Sky and Earth. So how was it possible? How did a Demi-God Rank kill a God Rank?

Her reaction was natural, not just because Tang Shaoyang killed Esteven. But Tang Shaoyang killed Esteven, The Clown God, with ease. It was not a narrow win, but a one-sided win. Tang Shaoyang must be a God Rank for that to happen.

"You have taken a peek at the System, and yet you are still surprised," Avyn commented from the side.

Lunea tried her best to calm down. She might have looked into the System, but there was nothing there that could beat the rank. What she saw was the available skills, dungeons, and list of classes.

That was a little authority the System gave to the God Rank. They were allowed to see the list of skills, techniques, artifacts, and classes. The list was supposed to help them as a guide. The advantage of the God Rank was to develop themselves, knowing the path they must take instead of going forward blindly.

It was just a list, it did not tell them which class was stronger, or which one was more powerful technique. They had seen them a long time before the game.

"If you know about that, why don't you explain them to me?" Tang Shaoyang turned to Avyn while squinting his eyes.

"Restriction! That's information that I can't give to you. One of the conditions for me to be an Archaic Spirit, can't spoil The Game and its features. You have to obtain that information by yourself. Just like what you do right now."

"You can ascend anytime, and you will find out about Authority anyway," Avyn explained. She had a lot of information about The Game in her memories. But she was not allowed to share The Game's content ahead. That was one of the conditions, the same conditions for other spirits.

Lunea had calmed down a little bit. She did not know what Avyn and Tang Shaoyang talked about. However, she had seen it with her eyes now that Tang Shaoyang was a Demi-God Rank. The Detection could not lie to her. She then started explaining about Authority.

Authority was just a bunch of lists and knowledge about The Game. Eight of them managed to ascend to God Rank naturally stumbled into the System and learned the knowledge within the Game.

Through that authority, they managed to awaken the System partially without entering the game. They set up everything, establishing the Radiant Temple. Their initial goal was to help humanity prepare for The Game.

A noble goal, but it gradually changed as they started to violate the Authority given to them. Giving out a class, bloodline, and artifact in the form of a blessing. Establishing themselves as a God.

They remained unpunished despite the violation because The Game had not yet started. The System did not have control over their world yet back then.

From the preparation, their goal changed to ruling the world. Not just their world, but many other worlds as well. They planned it by using the exploit of the System.

The reason for the System to give the God Rank the lists was for the God Ranks to perfect their class and technique, even choosing the right artifact that would be suitable for their technique. The list included the clue where they could find what they needed.

What they needed to complete their power was not in their world. Without The Game starting, they could not leave their world. Until they found an exploit where they could access the unavailable skills, techniques, and artifacts. It was as if they stumbled upon a treasure house where they could get anything they wanted.

Starting from that, the seven Gods had a change of heart completely. They wanted to be an actual God, becoming an omnipotent figure above The System. They wanted to control The System and become a God that controlled the universe.

Despite the System's warning about the exploit, they believed that they just needed to be strong enough until the System could not kill them. To achieve that, Lunea was the most important key to their plan.

They planned to take the most powerful skill, class, and technique forcefully from the System instead of using the clues to gain those things. They would be punished for doing that. Death was their punishment, but that was where Lunea became the key to their plan.

Lunea could resurrect them, and they would resurrect with a new set of skills, techniques, and classes. They wanted to get stronger until the System could not kill them anymore.

That was the reason why Lunea separated from the Radiant Temple. The last push for her to separate from the seven gods was Tang Shaoyang.

A player who came from another world with potential. He came from another world, so her friends could not touch him. She had watched Tang Shaoyang where he exceeded her expectations, again and again.

That was when she took the gamble and made an oath with Tang Shaoyang. And that was the reason why Clown God descended and tried to kill Tang Shaoyang before finally The System was awakened forcefully to start The Game.