Although the Earth's existence is extremely powerful, for the God of Destruction, destroying it is also possible, just by utilizing certain mechanisms of this universe, like toppling dominoes, creating extreme matter and letting that matter destroy on its own.

The Earth's gravity and degenerate pressure slowly return, but that piece of stone has already turned into a black hole. With the return of the laws of the universe, the black hole starts to further destroy the Earth.

The black hole rapidly sinks towards the core of the Earth, and during the sinking process, the surrounding matter is subjected to gravity and gets pulled into it.

The more matter the black hole consumes, the bigger its mass becomes, and the stronger its gravity becomes, thus expanding the range of its influence. Small variables increase one by one until they reach values that overwhelm the world.

The Earth's tectonic plates emit cries of agony.

Mountains collapse, the ground splits, tsunamis occur.

NASA's real-time satellite captures this extremely shocking and terrifying scene:

The Earth seems to have turned into a huge piece of kneaded clay, with one area (City S in China) violently sinking, reaching a depth 150 times that of the Mariana Trench, equivalent to one-fifth of the Earth's radius.

The sunken area, with City S as its center, extends to the entire Asia.

Not even the air can escape the black hole's consumption. Due to atmospheric pressure, super typhoons of magnitude 12 or above sweep across Asia, accompanied by earthquakes of over magnitude 10 caused by drastic plate movements. In just a few minutes, Asia has completely vanished.

With the disappearance of Asia, the Earth's shape becomes even flatter, and super earthquakes erupt worldwide. At this moment, the black hole finally sinks deep into the core of the Earth. Magma erupts from the severely distorted upper mantle, violently meeting with the raging seawater, generating steam and dust that shoot up into the atmosphere.

The Earth's volume gradually decreases until it becomes invisible to the naked eye. The 7 billion humans, countless plants and animals, all cultural heritage, including the Horror Novel Web, everything is compressed into an endless singularity, plummeting into an abyss without pain or sorrow.

Velley stands in the emptiness, looking towards the direction where the Earth disappeared, against the backdrop of the starry sky and the radiance of the sun, and smiles. He laughs at his helplessness, at his failure, and at the humans he failed to understand.

"I don't want to destroy the world, but I can no longer bring a better ending to this world," he says faintly.

Since he cannot change it, then he will destroy it, at least destruction is an ending.

【You have failed.】

Suddenly, a cold and familiar voice comes from behind Velley; he has confronted the owner of that voice numerous times before.

The surroundings dim, and the starry sky unknowingly disappears.

Velley slowly turns around and looks at the enigmatic presence - the little black figure.

In the world of authors, the little black figure is the spokesperson of the Horror Novel Web. Every time you enter the customer service center, you can see it. Authors who haven't updated for a long time will be pushed by it to update, and if the little black figure comes to you on its own, then it means you are not far from death.

Therefore, it also has the title of "The Reaper of Demands for Updates."

"Aren't you supposed to be buried in the black hole along with the Earth?" Velley asks, puzzled.

In the face of Velley's question, the little black figure doesn't answer, only saying coldly.

【It is highly unreasonable for the Earth to be consumed by a black hole of Planck scale. Correction is needed.】

【Searching author data...】

【Located: "Hawking Radiation Theory" proposed by human author Stephen William Hawking.

Correction: Virtual particles continuously being created and annihilated in the Dirac Sea, separation of positive and negative particles, black holes spontaneously capturing antiparticles, loss of mass and energy by black holes, outer manifestation as particles escaping event horizon, black hole evaporation.】

【Correction successful.】

"What... what are you talking about?" Velley asks blankly.

【Do you know the meaning of the universe? This is its meaning. The universe is constantly correcting itself, making itself more reasonable through countless corrections.】

Hahaha, is that so? What is the so-called standard of reason? Is it reasonable as long as it aligns with your interests? Why impose your standards on this world?

Velley says loudly, "Destruction is the true meaning of the universe."

"The universe will eventually move towards destruction, sinking into true darkness amidst complete silence!"

The little black creature did not respond, and its figure twisted and faded, disappearing in front of Velley.

As the little black creature disappeared, Velley's emotions gradually calmed down, and he began to think about his current situation.

"Where am I now? An alternate dimension? Or the remains of Earth after its destruction?"

He looked around and found himself in a gloomy and dark space.

Grey space, grey mist.

Empty, distant.

Rows of tightly closed doors were densely arranged on the black walls in the distance.

Why are there so many doors here?

He couldn't help but walk forward.

Halfway through, a table and two chairs appeared in the mist. One of the chairs was occupied by a similarly grey figure, while the other chair was empty, seemingly prepared specifically for Velley.

"This is probably our first face-to-face conversation," the figure spoke, and for some reason, Velley instantly recognized him as Xu Fang.

Velley instinctively looked down at his hand.

Illusory, transparent, about to dissipate at any moment.

"So, does that mean I'm already dead?" he asked bitterly.

"Yes, you are dead, otherwise I wouldn't appear in front of you," Xu Fang pronounced Velley's death. "So, how should I address you? Velley? Chairman? Or... the God of Destruction?"

"You have already seen my memories, yes, I am both Velley and the God of Destruction. However, in this world where Earth is located, there is no magic, no gods. I am just a life form from another dimension. The Horror Novel Web refers to us beings from different dimensions as 'foreigners.'"

Velley smiled and sat in front of Xu Fang. "As a failure, may I ask if I have the qualification to inquire how you managed to defeat me step by step?"

"What do you want to ask, Chairman?"

"First question, how did you create the 'invisible bomb'? You increased the entropy of the bomb to a very high degree without damaging its internal structure. This is something only I can do. Why can you do it too?"

The bomb that detonated in the K organization's base left a deep impression on Velley. If it were replaced by someone else from the society, they would probably have been killed instantly.

"I didn't make the invisible bomb," Xu Fang shook his head.

"Then who did?"

Xu Fang pointed at Velley.

"Me?" Velley was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized. He couldn't help but laugh in resignation. "Other than brilliance, I can't find any other adjectives."

Velley had previously launched a destructive attack on the owner of the envelope, thinking that the sender was Xu Fang, but he didn't expect it to be just an ordinary person.

Before the destructive attack arrived, Xu Fang had prepared a batch of bombs and collected some tissue samples from the sender. He mixed them into the explosives according to different proportions.

Some of the explosives were destroyed due to excessive entropy increase, but another part remained in a "transparent" form. Xu Fang, who obtained the invisible bombs, sent them to various places in the Twisted Realm. The bombs were equipped with GPS positioning systems, which could locate the detonation points.

As long as the bomb exploded, it meant there was an author nearby, because authors triggered the invisible mode of the bombs. Utilizing this characteristic, Xu Fang discovered the location of the society in Dralump Castle and deduced their possible cooperation with the K organization.

"Second question, how did you establish contact with the traitor in the society? Our radar has been monitoring the surroundings, including ourselves. If the traitor wanted to contact you..."

"I think you have misunderstood," Xu Fang interrupted Velley, saying, "Molan did indeed betray the society, but she never contacted me from the beginning to the end. Perhaps she didn't think I could defeat you, so she had no intention of joining me."

"...The All-Seeing Eye," Velley muttered to himself. "So it's like this, it's all the organization's doing. Molan has already become a member of the All-Seeing Eye. But how did you manage to know my movements? And how did you free yourself from the influence of the controller?"

"I exploited a loophole in the Controller's positioning mechanism. It can only locate the author but not 'objects related to the author', like the empty shell duplicate I created. It's just an object that is not within the Controller's line of sight, and I can use it as a duplicate. I can remotely inject memories into the empty shell and let it become a new independent-thinking entity."

Velley nodded and said, "I understand. You guessed that I would take a plane to save time, so you set up surveillance along the way from Drumburg to Boston. When you found out that I was leaving, you had individuals uncontrolled by the Controller attack me. You even guessed that I would come back and prepared high-level weapons to try to kill me."

"Yes, those weapons were modified from the museum's antiques. They have a long history and shouldn't be underestimated."

"But how did your true self disappear from the Controller's surveillance? We have unlimited resurrection items, so even after resurrection, we can still monitor you."

Xu Fang said, "I backed up and erased the Association's relevant memories, and then set up traps. Unfortunately, due to your divination, my first trap was useless."

After Molan resurrected, she left behind important items - the hair of Kana, Josiah, Anri, Nagi, Gerald, and Emily.

To guard against the Chairman's devastating attacks, Molan secretly collected the hair of all Association members as "amulets". If she was really being pursued by the Association, these hair could save her life. Due to the fear of accidentally harming other Association members, the Chairman might hesitate.

Later, she found out the Chairman "died" and thought that Xu Fang had killed him, so she left behind these hair.

For some reason, they eventually ended up in Xu Fang's hands and were made into bullets.

"If I had known you were the author of 'The Menace System', I should have targeted Xu Tong first. I thought you were only intimidating Trump to increase your popularity, but I didn't realize you completed the task of 'The Menace System' and obtained cards to deal with me." Velley shook his head self-deprecatingly.

7k, alongside Velley, were ranked as the "five authors you can't afford to provoke". 7k not only was a "reality genre author", but also created "The Menace System" and the monsters similar to Horror Novel Web.

Just a novel website already had authors complaining, but 7k created a system.

Who would dare to provoke them?

"So, you used The Menace System to kill me?"

The first step was to use specially crafted bullets to kill all the Association members and eliminate Velley's resurrection effect.

The second step was to trigger The Menace System's card and let the system deal with the Chairman.

The third step was to handle the aftermath with Horror Novel Web and prevent the destruction of the Earth.

It was a series of interconnected actions that manipulated everyone, including the novel website, in order to kill the Chairman.

Even though Velley stood against Xu Fang, he couldn't help but applaud.

"No, the system didn't actually kill you. It was Horror Novel Web that truly killed you."

"The novel website... it's a case of 'what builds you up also brings you down.'" Velley smiled wryly. "How did you know my pen name? I never told anyone."

"I guessed."

It was an answer that left Velley speechless, but he could only believe it. The loser didn't have the right to question.

Velley raised his hand and looked at his fading body, saying softly, "Can you make me a cup of tea?"

"I can't guarantee the taste."

Taking the tea cup handed by Xu Fang, Velley took a sip and after a while, he said, "It's not as tasty as the tea Emily brewed."

"I tried my best to be a good host, after all, you're the second guest here."

"The first guest is Gust, right?"

"No, it's not."

Velley was about to ask further when suddenly, the tea cup fell to the ground, and the cup and tea turned into a puddle of mist, disappearing without a trace.

"My hand... it's gone."

He realized that his time was running out.

"Time is not enough accurate to say, because he has long been dead. What stands before Xu Fang right now is just a memory of him. Because the obsession is so deep, Velley's memory can still function for a moment. But memory is ultimately just memory, and in the end, Velley - the God of Destruction, will completely disappear.

The destroyer will eventually be destroyed.

From the author's perspective, Velley lost gracefully. But his wishes and ideals are far from being fulfilled.

"Xu Fang, can you obtain my power? If not, it doesn't matter. With your abilities, it would be easy for you to rule the world. I hope you can realize my ideals: to make people forever happy, to prevent tragedies from happening, to make decay disappear forever, and to let the will of destruction live on forever."

"Um...I don't quite understand your logic. In the Desolate Spirit Continent, you slaughtered countless lives, causing misery for the people. And here, you almost destroyed the Earth yourself. Don't you find that contradictory?"

"When the body begins to decay, in order to maintain health, one must cut away the rotten flesh. Transformation often comes with pain. Human joys and sorrows do not align, what aligns is only pain. Therefore, only by making people feel pain can they truly appreciate the value of happiness. What I destroy is not humanity, but their unhappiness. When an absolutely happy world comes, I can depart with all the sadness."

This guy's "chuunibyou" is definitely higher than Gussy's... Xu Fang resisted the urge to ridicule and said, "If you want to create an absolutely happy world, it is impossible. To make one person happy, you must sacrifice the happiness of another person as a price. Turning tragedy into happiness can only lead to a dead end. Your actions bring nothing but disaster, and cannot change anything."

Velley said sternly, "This is sophistry!"

"I am not engaging in sophistry, I am just expressing the thoughts in your mind. God of Destruction, you have long known that your ideals are ephemeral, but you simply refuse to admit it. If you admit it, you will find that besides destruction, you have nothing. You want to change, but you cannot break free from this dead end. So, you can only use this distorted obsession to prove your worth as a god, and to give yourself meaning..."

"What should I do then? What should humanity do?!" the God of Destruction asked.

"Regarding this question, a great person in the 19th century had already provided an answer. What people need is not to destroy the source of tragedy, but to strive to make the world better and ultimately establish a society without exploitation and oppression. Of course, tragedies will still exist, and people cannot avoid aging and death. But only with the presence of sadness can happiness be defined. The foundation of joy is sadness. Without sadness, there can be no happiness."

"Not destruction, but construction... Haha, hahaha..." Velley echoed Xu Fang's words gently and burst into laughter. In the midst of his laughter, his image faded away.

The God of Destruction is completely dead.

In the world that gave birth to the God of Destruction, the laws and the Earth are completely different. From the divine beings to the reptiles, they are all bound by "obsession" and spend their entire lives searching for the meaning of their existence. Without meaning, there is no value in existence. If they cannot find meaning, they can only deceive themselves and struggle their entire lives in the shadow called "meaning."

At the moment of death, did the God of Destruction understand his own meaning?

Xu Fang didn't know, he just felt ashamed.

Velley's ideals were distorted and wrong, but they can still be considered lofty goals. Compared to him, Xu Fang felt somewhat inadequate. In reality, he only wanted to be a lazy person."