"Hmmm, are you trying to say you're a deeper enemy than we thought you were?" The red-haired man said with a huff, bringing attention back to Ryuk, who calmly shook his head.
"No, I'm not insinuating that. What I want you to understand is that I have been through that portal, and within it, I have learned quite a few things and also monumentally increased my strength."
"If I may ask, MadWhite, what was my power level when I left for the portal?" Ryuk asked, turning his attention to MadWhite, who furrowed his eyebrows before responding.
"Around the Core Stage of the Plane of Ascension?" MadWhite asked, as the elders furrowed their eyebrows.
"I came out of the portal just a week ago, and a few seconds later, I called up MadWhite, who revealed to me that the human army had been sent to war with the Knulls and asked for my help to stop them in any way I can."
"Just as you all have guessed by now, I was the one who closed up the portal."
"But I'm curious, my cultivation is only at the Initial Plane of Dominion."
"Aren't you all suspicious as to how a kid closed a Knull gate within just a few minutes and also busted MadWhite out of one of the most secure prisons in the world?"
"In fact, even rumored to possess MadWhite's own power level, which is obviously at the Cataclysm Stage, while he himself is only at the Initial Plane of Dominion?" Ryuk asked them, as the leaders' eyes furrowed, scanning Ryuk's cultivation base, and in the next instant, their eyes widened in shock.
"Impossible! He's only at the Initial Plane of Dominion!? In fact, he just broke through revently too? How?!" The red-haired man asked in shock, a vein popping on his head from anger, as the other leaders also had their eyes wide in pure shock.
They knew well, they might have just gotten their hands on a kid who had even more horrifying potential than MadWhite, and this was enough to send the red-haired titan into a vein-popping rage.
He had just managed to gain a first victory against MadWhite, and now, there was another monster lying in wait.
"Of course, I'm not saying this to make you all fear my power or my potential, whatever it may be, or to make you think there's another headache on the level of my mentor to deal with," Ryuk said, turning to the red-haired man, whose eyes flashed.
"I'm saying this for you to understand something very important."
"When I left for the portal, I had a power level of the Core Stage of the Plane of Ascension, and mind you, I was 16 at that time. That is a pretty average cultivation level for a 16-year-old, is it not?"
"I mean, I know I am very far from being the number one when it comes to cultivation as long as I can remember. Your various family geniuses had a cultivation base higher than mine."
"Yet, on entering the cultivation ruin, and in six months' time, or to be more believable to you all, in two years' time, I've reached a power level of the Cataclysm Stage?"
"Is my point enough to show how high-level this Cultivation Ruin that I entered is?" Ryuk asked them, as they all looked at each other.
A cultivation portal that can take an average talented kid from the Plane of Ascension to the Cataclysm Stage in a matter of two years is at a never-before-heard level.
Even top-ranked interdimensional gates cannot drop a lot that will take an initial stage expert to the Cataclysm Stage.
That means, whatever cultivation ruin this boy must have gone into, it must have been pretty out of this world.
"Your point is well understood, such a cultivation ruin is truly out of the world..." The dwarf man in the room said what was in the leaders' hearts, as Ryuk nodded.
"But then, strength wasn't the only thing I gained in that ruin..." He said, as silence unconsciously covered the room, and all of the leaders absolutely had their attention on him, same from MadWhite.
For truly, he also didn't know what the hell Ryuk had gotten into in that portal. But now he was saying he didn't just grow strong, he also gained something else?
What else could it be?
It was the same question through the minds of the people.
"I gained something better than power itself."
"What is it!" The red-haired man said, his curiosity driving him insane, and Ryuk didn't delay much.
"A being?" MadWhite was the first to ask.
"Yes, a being, the one who created the entire Cultivation Ruin!" He replied calmly slamming the truth into their heads, but he continued.
"And as you all may know, even a Cataclysm Stage expert may not be able to build a city with their elements, let alone an entire cultivation ruin, so you all can guess what the cultivation level of the being who created that entire cultivation ruin is..."
"The Eternity Stage! You found a being at the Eternity Stage!?" The werewolf man said in shock, but then they all tensed as Ryuk slowly shook his head.
"I didn't just find her, I brought her back to Endearth!"
SCREEEEEECCCCCCCCHHHHH
Shockwaves undulated powerfully from the noise as the holographic panel of the leaders screeched, a sign that they must have all unconsciously lost control of their power, while beneath MadWhite, the floor cracked into nothing as he shot up to his feet in shock, his eyes widening in terror.
An Eternity Stage being had been brought to Endearth! That was more horrifying news than the Knulls attacking at all.
"What did you say you just did, Ryuk!?" MadWhite asked as he unconsciously walked toward Ryuk, grabbing him tightly by the shoulders under the shocked silence of the leaders and the representatives, who were all lying at the end of the room, their eyes also widening in shock.
"Tell me, Ryuk. Tell me you're just bluffing!?" he asked, the exact same thing that was on the minds of the leaders, as their hearts unconsciously began pounding loudly.
But then, Ryuk replied.
"I'm not, MadWhite. I truly brought her in."