That’s because they must have failed to clear the stage.

“…..”

I cleared the hard difficulty of level fourteen 5,000 times. Naturally, the 2nd through 6th places would have cleared it more than 5,000 times, and So-hyang would have cleared it 10,000 times. Even if the rest were not top-tier players like us, they would have cleared the stage a dozen times, or at least a few times at the least.

Obviously, the “additional clears” were established because there were ordinary players who died without doing anything. As my thoughts wandered, a worrying question suddenly came to mind.

“Will the additional clears act to cancel the Death Procession in the highest difficulty as well?”

Probably not.

“What? Why?”

Ares suddenly intervened. I asked back, and Ares proceeded with an explanation.

I’ve never faced the End Project personally, but I have experienced quite a few battles with the Unnamed. There is no way a guy like the End Project has an ability to resurrect people. Resurrection is literally the opposite of an apocalypse’ nature.

“But we had countless players come back to life until now, right?”

That was simply negating the events that occurred in the separate worlds. The deaths of the players would have ‘never happened’. But something...