World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others

After acquiring the cheat code Huang Liang, no one could rival Du Ge, especially since he also had the even more powerful cheat codes of the Linyang Daily and Zodiac Fortunes.

The Zodiac Fortunes added a luck buff, and the Linyang Daily boosted everyone's fame and attributes.

The greatest weapon was Gao Ming. After attributing all the enemy-killing achievements to him, his terrifying swordsmanship became deeply ingrained in people's minds. The power of the Heavenly Spirit Sword Technique grew day by day. No one who had seen Sword Eighteen and fought against Gao Ming lived to see the next morning.

As more people witnessed the power of Sword Eighteen and Sword Nineteen, Gao Ming's reputation surpassed that of the Qinglan Sword Saint, becoming the foremost swordsman and earning the title of Yunyao Sword Immortal.

More and more swordsmanship grandmasters began to study the Heavenly Spirit Sword Technique, all eagerly hoping to one day witness Yunyao Immortal's Sword Domain, which they believed to be the ultimate realm of swordsmanship.

As more people discovered the benefits brought by Zodiac Fortunes, the Zodiac truly became a cultural phenomenon. Those who studied astronomy and star signs began to search the skies for the embodiments of the Zodiac...

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With various buffs enhancing him, the remaining time became garbage time.

Even though Marshal Guan Qiong of the Chu Kingdom had six Alien Star warriors under his command, including Fei Zhu, who was in the top ten, Du Ge easily defeated him.

Fei Zhu's keyword was "Imitation," and he had awakened the skill "Indistinguishable from the Real," which allowed him to instantly replicate all of his opponent's skills.

But when Leng Shi led his men to attack, Fei Zhu didn't even know how he died...

After eliminating the Alien Star warriors, Guan Qiong's Chu army lost its threat and was naturally incorporated into Du Ge's forces. With so many precedents, Guan Qiong didn't even put up symbolic resistance and simply surrendered.

After subduing Guan Qiong, the next targets were the King of Chu and Concubine Wu Tong.

Wu Tong had kept over twenty Alien Star warriors by her side. These twenty warriors had keywords like Calculation, Abstraction, Loneliness, Balance, and others, both good and bad.

They had defense, offense, and support, and combined with her charm, Wu Tong thought she could at least put up a fight against Du Ge. But she was instantly defeated in a single encounter.

She didn't even know how her meticulously crafted integrated defense was breached...

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No one could withstand two hits from Du Ge.

The simulation was too overpowered.

In a month's time,

Pei Ma'er, Wei Jiuchou, Fei Zhu, Wu Tong...

One by one, the top ten warriors were eliminated by Du Ge.

Except for Ma Shichun of the Beihai Kingdom, all the top ten positions were controlled by Du Ge's people.

Meng Chu, who had once squeezed into the top ten as a lieutenant general of the Beihai Kingdom, was completely pushed out by the little Huang Liang of Tianyan Star and never made a comeback. ř

During this period,

More people from Qi Yuan Star gathered around Du Ge.

Wang San's keyword in this battle was "Miserable," and his awakened skill was "Who's More Miserable Than Me," which could forcibly drag his opponent into a misery contest with him.

In solo combat, this was a useless skill, as it harmed both the enemy and himself, only effective against weaker opponents.

But in a team, it became a powerful single-target control skill. The monster he dragged into his misery could do nothing but wallow in misery, making it easy for others to take it down.

Thus,

Wang San was conferred the title of Heavenly Assistant Star, ascending to the ranks of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars.

The first to be brutally defeated by Du Ge in the simulation field, Feng Jiu and Xu Sheng, also returned to the team.

These unlucky kids had the keyword "Inferiority" in this battle, a completely useless keyword, and their awakened skill was "Self-Abandonment." When they felt like a pile of mud, others would avoid them.

This was a life-saving skill, useless in team battles, and Du Ge conferred them the title of Earth Waste Star.

There were others with keywords like Theft, Wandering, Fragility, Sobriety, and so on, all sorts of strange ones.

In the end, over thirty people from Qi Yuan Star gathered around Du Ge. Some had awakened skills, while others hadn't. Most of the keywords seemed to have no future potential.

They were the kind who could be killed by natives while walking on the road, so it was no wonder they didn't dare travel far to find Du Ge.

But since they were fellow Qi Yuan Star people, Du Ge couldn't just ignore them.

So, he placed them all in the army for training, leaving it to fate whether they could awaken their skills.

Now, with Gao Ming's boasting, Wang San's misery, Huang Liang's testing, Ge Zong's absurdity, and himself, Du Ge had enough power to sweep the world. Whether the others awakened skills or not didn't matter much to him.

In another two months,

Du Ge completed the unification of Chongming Kingdom and Qingwu Kingdom. Luo Shuang became the rightful queen, exterminating Duke Dingguo's family and avenging her father and brothers.

While the generals were on expeditions to reclaim lost territories, Du Ge led Huang Liang and others on a thousand-mile raid straight to Beihai Kingdom, eliminating Ma Shichun and Lieutenant General Meng Chu, along with a group of people from Proxima Star gathered around them.

To be precise, Ma Shichun wasn't eliminated but was given the same treatment Du Ge had arranged for Wu Chang, chained and suppressed at the bottom of a well.

Ma Shichun's keyword was likely related to Livelihood or Reputation, and he had created a derivative item—the Umbrella of the People.

It could gather the willpower of the public, making him immortal and indestructible as long as the willpower remained.

Unfortunately, immortality without attack or defense skills was useless in war. After his wings were clipped, he was at Du Ge's mercy.

All Du Ge needed to do was slowly erode Ma Shichun's influence over Beihai Kingdom, and his immortality would naturally lose its effect.

After suppressing Ma Shichun, the King of Beihai decisively chose to submit to Luo Shuang.

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In just over four months, Luo Shuang unified the various kingdoms, becoming the most powerful empress in history, her might shaking the world...

At this time,

There were fewer than two hundred Alien Star warriors left.

But these people were like water merging into the sea, impossible for Du Ge to find no matter what methods he used.

Clearly, after realizing Du Ge was invincible, most chose to save their lives, surviving as long as they could.

Even though Du Ge had gathered all the surviving people from Qi Yuan Star around him, none had skills related to scouting.

Finding a few dozen people hiding among billions was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Since they were determined to hide, Du Ge decided not to look for them. Instead, he used the Zodiac Fortunes and the Alien Star warriors gathered around him to launch a grand campaign to restore Livelihood in Qingwu Kingdom, advancing scientific research and martial arts.

He still had one skill left to unlock in his trend; why rush back to Qi Yuan Star? Enjoying life here was just as good.

When fighting Wei Jiuchou, Wei Jiuchou displayed his talent as a fire mage, but his fire magic was far inferior to Du Ge's Power of Poseidon. It might have great destructive power against ordinary people.

But against Alien Star warriors with strong regenerative abilities, it was like scratching an itch.

Using magic to fight a grandmaster was impossible, which was why magic was inferior to martial arts in this world...

However, with the Zodiac Fortunes' boost, the research on magic by mages advanced rapidly, and martial arts grandmasters also progressed daily, each stepping into the realm of grandmasters.

The first to become a grandmaster was the imperial teacher Chen Su. His Way of Nature emphasized merging with nature, lacking significant offensive power, but after becoming a grandmaster, he could summon wind and rain, call forth thunder and lightning, showing signs of transforming into a terrestrial immortal.

As for the Qinglan Sword Saint, after secretly observing Yunyao's Heavenly Spirit Sword Technique several times, he actually deduced Sword Twenty-Three...

And Huangfu Yue, the first female general under Luo Shuang, relying on her fanatical obsession with Du Ge, also awakened the grandmaster's path in two months. With a single spear thrust, flowers bloomed everywhere, and no one could protect their rear under her spear.

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Another two months passed.

Du Ge, who had been racking his brains to write Zodiac Fortunes every day, finally awakened the second skill of his trend:

Power of Faith: Those who follow the trend you set will provide you with the power of faith.

As soon as the skill emerged, Du Ge felt a dramatic change in his mental power.

It was as if the mental power of many people was converging toward him from all directions.

In an instant, his mental power jumped from over four hundred thousand to over a million.

His divine sense's coverage area rapidly expanded to one city, then two cities, and continued to spread every moment.

Wherever his divine sense covered, he could hear the chirping of birds and the whispers of people clearly.

Without even trying to distinguish, Du Ge could accurately pinpoint the direction of the sounds.

Faith turned into divinity!

At that moment, Du Ge was astonished by this skill. If he continued to promote Zodiac Fortunes, those hidden Alien Star warriors would eventually be exposed unless they never spoke or revealed their extraordinary behavior.

But Pan-Universal Entertainment didn't give Du Ge the chance to wield his divine power.

As soon as Du Ge's consciousness covered half the planet, they decisively ended the Alien Star Battlefield and sent everyone back.

The top ten spots were fixed.

The odds for Wu Chang and Huang Liang had dropped to the lowest, and no gamblers were willing to bet anymore. Continuing the Alien Star Battlefield was meaningless.