"A Divine Spirit?! That's impossible!"

While the "irredeemable murderers" hid in their tunnels watching the ranking, countless others across the kingdom were just as intently keeping a close eye on what fate awaited them.

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In Montphera, one of the ten major cities of the Gospel Kingdom.

Like Azura, Montphera had completed its second-layer expansion, with inverted skyscrapers standing in dense formation. Unlike other cities, however, Montphera's second layer was not a public urban space. It was private territory belonging entirely to the elite families.

A single family here owned nearly five hundred thousand hectares of private land. Through the sheer power of Miracles, the private estate contained entire ecosystems, including lush forests, pristine pools, winter snowscapes, shifting lava fields, ancient graveyards, seas of clouds, and even miniature versions of hell itself. 

The most absurd creation was the so-called Sea of Knowledge of Montphera, a mist-shrouded sea at the center of the garden where...