Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
In the darkness, he was falling to the abyss at the bottom of the sea!
After using up all his strength in the strike against the King of Nightmares, Ji Ye was dissected in the red light from the crimson eye. His body and soul were destroyed.
However, part of his consciousness still remained!
Still, the part of his consciousness was fading away too. He felt like he was a man who was sinking deeper and deeper in the sea. There was less and less sunlight in his eyes, and he was about to be devoured by the boundless darkness.
Ji Ye wasn’t really scared.
After all, he wouldn’t really die even if he got killed in the Land of Inheritance!
However, to be honest, he had a lot of mixed feelings. After learning the wonders of the Land of Inheritance, his goal was to become strong enough to revive his parents.
Therefore, at the beginning, he kept reminding himself that strengthening himself was a top priority.
Also, he should always ensure his own safety!
However, his attitude had changed at some point. Although he still kept strengthening himself, whenever he had to make a major decision, he always considered the overall interests of Dragon City, and he made decisions so that Dragon City could survive longer in the complicated environment and walk further on the Land of Inheritance.
For that purpose, he even sacrificed some of his own interests.
Although he kept telling himself that he was only investing in the settlement, and he could get more returns after the settlement was developed, he knew very clearly that the investment was too much.
This day’s battle was a perfect example.
Other people might not have a choice, but he was different.
At Transcendent Rank-8, he could’ve retreated even though he couldn’t defeat the King of Nightmares.
If he had left the continent for the vast sea, he could’ve survived in the Land of Inheritance with the wilderness survival skills he acquired before.
However, the idea to escape never once occurred to him.
In addition, before the last strike, nobody asked him to fight without reserve. He could’ve used 90% of his strength and protected himself from being killed with the remaining strength. Nobody would’ve questioned his devotion.
However, he didn’t hold back at all. He even burnt his body and soul in the attack.
It was because he knew very well that he only had one chance to kill the King of Nightmares. If he had failed to eliminate the enemy with 90% of his strength, everybody in the settlement would’ve felt desperate, and the King of Nightmares would’ve been restored quickly.
Having exhausted his power of providence, he couldn’t heal himself anymore!
Was it wrong that he didn’t follow his heart but devoted himself to an altruistic cause?
Or maybe he made that choice exactly by following his heart.
He had survived the wilderness far away from the human world, yet he posted videos on the Internet and sought attention. He was never really away from human society. Humans were social beings. Those who abandoned everything else and focused only on themselves were actually not “humans”.
However, not everybody would agree with that.
He wondered how the new settlement would treat him, the “Earth’s best gamer” who had lost all his strength, after his resurrection. Would they compliment his self-sacrifice on the surface while secretly mock him for being too stupid?
A lot of thoughts popped up in Ji Ye’s head very quickly.
He even saw a lot of pictures. Were they the flashbacks before death?
“City Master? Where’s the City Master?”
“City Master is gone! Is he dead?”
“He can’t be! The City Master must be alive!”
“How did this happen? I’m willing to trade my own life for City Master’s safe return.”
In the picture, on Dragon City’s continent that had been greatly destroyed by the intense collision, many heroes, who were wounded in the battle but gritted their teeth to fight and who never lowered their heads under the pressure of the King of Nightmares, seemed sorrowful.
Nie Xiaoqian, Lu Zhishen, Yan Qing, Gongsun Sheng, Nie Xiaoqian, Zhao Yun, and the others who were closest to Ji Ye had tears. Li Yuanba, who was always seen as a problematic young man, didn’t say anything, but he smashed his hammers out and killed a Transcendent alien that just flew to the sky. His bloodshot eyes indicated his heavy heart!
Even Cao Cao, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, Yang Zhi, Xin Qiji, and the other seasoned generals who were already used to casualties seemed grave too.
The ordinary folks cried out too.
For example, the original natives of the Twin Dragon Mount fort, saved by Ji Ye who slew the Black Serpent, all knelt under the lead of the old man named Human, and prayed for Ji Ye to survive. The kids that Ji Ye rescued from the Musical House settlement when it was about to be destroyed by the Magma Monsters were also weeping and playing a poignant song.
In Guobei County, the Fishing City, and other settlements, a million people were crying together. Their prayers gathered into a Transcendent power that was the opposite of what gave birth to the Nightmares!
Ji Ye, in his dizziness, was about to fall into eternal sleep when he detected a new message in his head.
[“For your species and civilization, you were determined to sacrifice yourself to kill a formidable enemy. You’ve met the hidden requirement for the Emperor’s Dragon Contract’s advancement. Your Emperor’s Dragon Contract talent has been upgraded to the Inherited level. New feature: You can be resurrected with the faith of your contracted creatures.”
[“Would you like to use this function?”]
So, that was how “Inherited” talent skills came from?
“But I used up my ‘contribution’ when I contracted those heroes. I don’t have any power of providence left to use talent skills.”
In his dizziness, Ji Ye didn’t forget to cavil.
[“You’ve killed the King of Nightmares (Transcendent Rank-8, Legendary. EXP gained: 992,000. Honor gained: 72,029. Rare Honor earned: 5,534!”]
However, exactly at this moment, a new piece of information popped up in his head.
The King of Nightmares had completely lost its consciousness and was deemed dead.
Splash!
The moment he executed the King of Nightmares, Ji Ye’s quota of power of providence, which had been used up, was quickly restored.
In the end, he had even more power of providence than he did before the battle.
After that, time and space seemed to be flowing reversely in the sky, and a tremendous power of providence congregated into a golden shape of a human as if a hero were being summoned!
“Ah, the City Master!”
“The City Master is still alive!”
“He’s truly alive! Our prayer worked!”
Seeing the person in the sky, everybody in Dragon City, Chidragon, and other countries on Earth cheered with joy.
Ji Ye, whose body had been fully reforged, looked down at the excitement and the tears of joy on the faces of the people down below. It was already the best reward for himself.
Ji Ye had a new epiphany, which was that it wouldn’t have mattered even if he had died, because every one of those people would’ve brought him back to Dragon City with the invitation they would acquire from this Legendary advancement test, just like how he brought Chu Yin back in the past.
“He’s still alive!”
“We don’t stand a chance!”
“I don’t want to be permanently gone! I would like to surrender!”
After Ji Ye was resurrected, the remaining aliens were inevitably caught in desperation. Their morale hit rock bottom, and some attempted to surrender like what the dragons did in the past.
“Kill them all!”
“No mercy!”
“Avenge our dead brothers!”
However, half of the humans in the battle had been killed by those aliens, and there was no way that humans would accept their surrender. They simply charged at them under the lead of the heroes who were enhanced by Ji Ye’s power through the Emperor’s Dragon Contract!
“The State of Sand settlement is here to help!”
“The State of Forest settlement is here to help!”
At this moment, the remaining settlements didn’t hesitate to fight any longer, maybe because they had finished their own battles, or maybe because they wanted Dragon City to remember their favor.
With everything coming to this point, Dragon City’s advancement was already certain.
Bam!
When the last Transcendent lich was hit by a mini nuclear bomb arrow, almost killing several reinforcing players from another settlement, the battle was finally over.
[“Your settlement has successfully passed the advancement test. The settlement core has been upgraded to the Legendary level.”]
“Roar!”
A tremendous amount of yellow light melted into the Dragons of Providence, making them soar to the sky excitedly and roar.
After the roar, the bodies of the aliens fell apart into the power of providence and melted into the land. Mountains, rivers, and lakes were appearing. The continent was also expanding until it was twice as big as before and the size of a small country on Earth.
[“Your settlement has acquired a special Mythological heavy treasure, Collection of 24 History Records!”]
When some of the power of providence was absorbed, it formed enormous stone gates that belonged to different dynasties above the altar.
[Collection of 24 History Records]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-9]
[Rarity: Mythological]
[Description: This can create illusions that are based on real history. If you travel in them and make friends with the heroes in them, you may summon them to Dragon City at the cost of the power of providence!]
This Mythological item could directly summon heroes.
The Collection of 24 History Records kept a record of the Chidragon civilization from the primordial times to the end of the Ming Dynasty. Also, the players came from the modern time and knew the modern culture.
It was safe to say that Dragon City was already able to protect Chidragon’s civilization with this treasure. Its heroes and ancestors would never be forgotten!
That reward only excited the natives of Chidragon.
However, what came next excited everybody in the world.
[“Headcount of your civilization’s next batch of players to the Land of Inheritance: 5,607. Their names will be announced in three days, and they will all arrive at Dragon City in seven days!”]
The news was published on Earth too and received cheers globally.
After all, it meant that a million people had been granted access to the Ark. Also, they would all go to Dragon City, which had already become Legendary.
Apart from them, the players and natives whose contribution ranked top ten thousand in the advancement test, just like last time, received some invitations.
It was not hard to imagine the mad competitions over the invitations on Earth.
After all, during the Transcendent advancement test, nobody was aware of the Great Darkness yet.
Also, a lot of settlements were qualified to reach the Transcendent level, so the prices of invitations had been dropping all the time.
However, considering the difficulty of the Legendary advancement test that Dragon City was faced with, no more than ten settlements from Earth could likely pass it.
More importantly, after Dragon City’s advancement, all the settlements that helped Dragon City received a notification.
If the players didn’t have enough Rare Honor, they couldn’t be directly reborn in Dragon City, but they could still receive some “revival openings” based on their performance in the battle.
Clearly, the restrictions of the Legendary settlement caught them unprepared. The settlements who never really contributed to the battle were greatly shocked!
Of course, the Legendary settlements had more differences from the Transcendent ones.
One of the differences was that the members of Dragon City could exchange Rare Honor for invitations. One invitation cost a hundred points of Rare Honor.
That wasn’t expensive. Killing one Extraordinary alien meant a reward of one to ten points of Rare Honor, and killing a Transcendent alien would give a hundred points. Dragon City had gained more than a million points of Rare Honor from the advancement test…
However, such exchange was not unlimited.
It was because every Legendary continent had a maximal capacity that depended on its power of providence.
Therefore, the invitations that were available were limited too.
Under such circumstances, the members of the settlement could only pay Rare Honor for invitations in the order of their contributions to the settlement.
After the advancement, Dragon City’s continent had a maximum capacity of five million people.
The number was certainly not large. It was not even enough to accommodate all the players on Earth. That was also the reason for Dragon City’s “migration restriction”.
Fortunately, the Battlefield of Providence would be fully opened soon, and the Legendary settlements could compete with other species over the power of providence and Rare Honor without getting anyone killed.
If human beings were strong enough, they could win enough power of providence to accommodate ten million, a hundred million, and even all human beings!
When the news spread to Earth, the gloom of the Great Darkness was greatly eased. People told each other the news and cheered. They were more excited than they were at the most grandeur of festivals.
The collapsed social order was more or less restored with the help of the settlements that had a chance to become Legendary!
Of course, not everybody was cheering. Some people were inevitably sad.
For example, the people of Sandia who saw their future best player being blown up.
Or the people of One Piece settlement that had always ranked first but ran into the King of Nightmares when it was on a rampage. They had been killed before they even showed up!
Well, actually, the other people in the One Piece settlement weren’t too sad.
It was because when the remaining players in the settlement saw that the previous leaders died, they were too busy fighting among themselves for power to feel sad at this moment.
The only country where everybody was sad was Kolea.
At this moment, every household was crying, and people were mourning their stars on the forum.
“Their last settlement has just been destroyed, which means they don’t have a single settlement next. All their players must be reborn in our country or other countries. We all know that the natives of those people aren’t always friendly to them…
“More importantly, based on the rules, this country will never get any headcount of players in the future.
“Let’s hope that they will not claim that Dragon City is theirs!”
Everybody believed that Chidragon would not end in the same way as long as Dragon City still stood.
Apart from the rewards for the settlement, Ji Ye’s personal rewards were actually more significant.
[“You’ve led your settlement to accomplish the Legendary advancement test. Based on your comprehensive performance, your rating has been upgraded to Quasi Mythological.”]
[“You have received an opportunity to build your special Mythological equipment and a special Mythological skill… You have received a chance to propose a request to the Land of Inheritance, including but not limited to bringing anyone back to life.”]
The rewards were rather dazzling.
However, Ji Ye’s attention was caught to “bringing anyone back to life”. He thought of his parents immediately.
However, he hesitated for a moment.
At this moment, he had already realized that the people revived on the Land of Inheritance were actually conscious “clones” that were made based on everyone’s impressions.
Ji Ye found it hard to make a decision, so he left it aside for now!
[“Your City of Humans Card has been upgraded to ‘Quasi King’!”]
In the end, Ji Ye looked at the last piece of information.
With his current rating, he should be qualified to learn more information from the City of Humans.
