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    1 Septillion years: The moment Pandora reached this grand age milestone, all of time seemed to freeze for an instant. Harkath, Gaia, the Void Emperor, and anyone else in the Infinite World—all at once, every single one of them froze in ce.


    One might have assumed that someone asked them ''English or Spanish'' but that simply wasn''t the case. The truth was that the major evolution of a Mortal World to an Immortal World was one that paused and rewrote absolutely everything from the previous dimensional timeline.


    Think of a software update for a phone and then take that to the global level—this was what was happening to Pandora at this very moment in time.


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    After a brief period thatsted both an instant and an eternity, Pandora itself underwent a qualitative change that sent the entire world spiraling into a field of the unknown. Upon taking countless megaparsecs to a dimension not meant to be a part of Pandora, something beyond the scope of God opened its singr, infinitely-sized eyeball.


    It enveloped even the outside Hell''s Paradise and the higher Immortal Realms in its unfathomable gaze, putting everything under the whim of its existence.


    However, with a bright sh of crimson-colored light, the matter that made up Pandora was zorped back to its original ce on the timeline of Infinity.


    After arriving back in the Infinite World, Pandora went from a world of varying biomes and habitats to something that truly exhibited the epitome of coalescence. It put the entire world in a state of utter respelendance as the organic atmosphere transformed into something fantastical—into something alien.


    Everything that Harkath and the races built up for countless years was erased, instead reced with a nk state—one might even call it a fresh start.


    When Azmodeus and the rest came back to their senses, they were all weed with the sight of andscape that went above and beyond in terms of surrealism. It possessed the beauty of an immortal painting and passively exuded an ambience of superior aspects of existence, Pandora had improved to a level that couldn''t be described in mere words…


    "Well, I have no clue what in the hell just happened to me, but considering that this ce has evolved into some form of Immortal World, I will take it upon myself to look at my system interface."


    After opening up just the Infinite World part of his system interface, a bright blue and golden light shed in front of Azmodeus.


    BLING!


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    {[Infinite Immortal World:]}


    {[World Ruler: None]}


    [World Age: <0.1 Immortal Years]


    [Area width: <0.1 Immortal Land Plot] → [Grows in ordance with the strength of its residences.]


    [Upgrade Requirements: The Core of a Lowest-Level Immortal ne]


    [Rank of Residents: Primitive Mortal Lifeforms → Single-celled Organisms, Primitive Insects, Bugs, Small Birds, Fish, Large Birds, Dolphins, Large Fish, Monkeys, Large Reptiles, etc…]


    [Advanced Mortal Lifeforms → Magma Fish, Lava T-Rex''s, Fire Birds, Obsidian Devourers, etc…]


    [Low Spiritual Lifeforms → Humans, Sea Leviathans, Lava Wyrms, World Eaters, Krakens, Embryonic Dragons, etc…]


    [High Spiritual Lifeforms → High-Humans, High-Elves, High Orcs, High-Goblins, High-Beast People, True Dragons, Qilins, Kunpengs, Etc…]


    [Low Ascendant Lifeforms → Lord-Humans, Lord-Elves, Lord-Orcs, Lord-Goblins, Lord-Beast People, Lord Dragons, Lord Qilins, Lord Kunpengs, Etc…]


    [High Ascendant Lifeforms → Water Zealot, Nature Zealot, Ice Zealot, Fire Zealot, Acid Zealot, Aero Zealot, Fire Spirit Gods, Water Spirit Gods, Lordlings, Spiritlings, Ultra Terrerformers, Gorgon Nephelim, Super Elemental Elites, Elven Gods, Omega Fire Goblins, Super Ascendant Sonics]


    [Divine Lifeforms → sma Deity (Harkath''s Disciple and Inheritor), Gravity Chairmen, Overseers of the North, Jurisdiction Bncers of the South, Rulers of the Boundless Expanse, Great Gods of the Fourth Dimension, Hegemonies of the Infinite Dimensions]


    [Cosmic Lifeforms → Countless Higher Existences of Pandora]


    [Pseudo Immortal Lifeforms → Harkath, The Forgotten Divine Emperor, The Herald of the Crimson God of Old, The Void Emperor, Gaia, and a few million others.]


    [True Immortal Lifeforms → None] (All Lifeforms have the opportunity to immediately advance into being Immortal Lifeforms, though their strength will be dependent on their strength before evolving into Immortal Lifeforms)


    [Time Dtion → 1:10,000,000,000]


    [Qi Density → ''1,000,000,000x'' that of the outside world] (Only applies for Mortal Level energy and below) →[Continue upgrading in order to encroach upon the Qi Density of a higher ne of existence.]


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    "Ahh… ''Only applies for Mortal Level energy and below'', huh?"


    This was all Azmodeus needed to know in order to understand that things would begin changing once he ascended past Hell''s Paradise and reached an actual Immortal ne.


    Speaking of Hell''s Paradise, some rather interesting things have urred with the other half of Azmodeus''s existence…


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    In and riddled with craters, red on all sides, and rife with the smell of iron from all directions, there stood a man with long raven ck hair. While standing in ce like a sword of the heavens, he made his overwhelming presence known atop a pile of 3rd Order High-Multiversal Realm Demon corpses.


    "Why do you look like a human, possess the aura of a Demonstar, and kill our kind!?"


    Shouting from below the pile of bodies, Demonstar #12 was forced to watch the demon-like human devour the essence of all his demon beasts. Completely and utterly baffled by the sight before him, he could do nothing but kneel and wait for the monster to speak.


    And speak the monster did, saying, "You are a Demonstar… Hmm… Sorry, but I think I may or may not have killed all your pets…" Pointing down at the massive Immortal Demonspawn corpses piled beneath him, Azmodeus made it seem like he simplymitted a little oopsie…


    Well, in reality, he really did do a little oopsie. After all, from the get-go, he had no idea that the Immortal Demonspawn he killed were the pets of a Demonstar. If he knew that information beforehand, then there were better ways to go about killing them. For example, an borate trap could''ve beenid down—one that would''ve lured in more than just a single Demonstar.


    "Anyway, since you are the only one here, I guess I will just take care of you and make the others annoyed enough toe out of hiding."


    If anyone else said these oundish things, then they would surely beughed and sneered at. However, upon staring into the piercing, demonic gaze on the monster''s face, Demonstar Belphegor trembled in fear, understanding that everything he said would be exactly what would happen…


    ...….