Chapter 964: Order, Authority, Firewall, and Resistance
The next day.
“Xiao Han is here! Xiao Han has arrived!”
“Wow~ Is Xiao Han finally here to oversee the Dream Demon Workshop?”
As soon as I and Sister Bai appeared here, I immediately noticed.
And we were greeted by the ten witches who had voluntarily stayed behind.
Although I didn’t come during the day, I still saw their eager gazes through my clones yesterday.
After all, the infrastructure of the Dream Workshop is now complete, and the most critical locations can only be operated by me, so they naturally want to finish this work as soon as possible.
With these ten witches here, I can indeed relax some of my original ideas.
For instance, at the start, I had planned to capture the raw materials, “Dream Demons,” using Soul Crystals as consumables to build dream mazes to trap incoming dream creatures.
Now, with the help of these witches, it’s actually quicker and easier for them to personally catch the Dream Demons.
After all, even if this involves large-scale production of Dream State Soul Material, it can’t consume a large number of Dream Demons all at once.
Moreover, currently, the Extraordinary Witches are the only ones who can conveniently transport Dream State Soul Material.
Considering that the Dream Demon Workshop is in the Expanding Realm, and Dream State Soul Material needs to be stored and transported in an environment of dream overlap, it’s quite inconvenient. The witches’ soul realms just happen to fulfill this need.
Now, the threshold for being a transporter is already the Extraordinary Witches; I must say, this is indeed absurd.
Of course, there could be a different perspective. Just like my Great Knowledge Seed needs to bloom in the Sea of Consciousness, Sister Witch subsequently developed the “Consciousness Crystal,” which not only carries the possibility of the Great Knowledge Seed blooming beyond life consciousness but also serves as a carrier for storing a large number of Great Knowledge Seeds.
Theoretically, Dream State Soul Material should also be possible.
Allowing Dream State Soul Material to have a real-world carrier, or… letting Dream State Soul Material cross the boundary of dream and reality!
This isn’t impossible; after all, stimulating Yu Lan and the others is just such a case. Although they returned as dream state souls, true Soul Material is not impossible either.
It’s just like how dream creatures can consume Soul Material from reality; dream creatures possess a very unique ability, which even they themselves are not aware of.
Crossing the boundary of dreams and reality!
And the result comes from either dream creatures themselves crossing the boundary of dreams or dream creatures serving as the medium for Soul Material to cross boundaries.
— Time, I seem to discover that the concept of Primordial Dream on this level is shrouded by too many unknowns.
Returning to the carrier for bearing and transporting Dream State Soul Material, this conceptualization is not merely a fantasy. Since there’s a valid route, the distance to “convenience” is merely a question of simplifying methods.
At this moment, after greeting these ten enthusiastic witches, I began to engage in manufacturing the devices.
Breaking down the techniques involved in the Purification Method into the most basic steps and then running these with devices is not a simple task.
It’s like how regular machine tools pursue precision; preparing Dream State Soul Material requires pursuing the unique, non-replicable techniques derived from Extraordinary Knowledge.
The contradiction here can be dissected to reveal that… the Purification Method cannot do without me, but what does it not do without?
Techniques.
What does the technique rely on to be completed?
Strength.
Can this strength be replicated?
No.
Then what can be replicated? Or rather, what does not require my subjective guidance?
Spell effects.
So now the logic is quite clear.
Using the permanent spell effects of Extraordinary Knowledge to deconstruct the techniques involved in the Purification Method.
This is not the assembly line I hope for; it is not a transferable technique.
Or from another perspective, this represents the nobility of a Great Spellbook!
Derived spells, techniques, and special effects resulting from a Great Spellbook can only be used by the one who controls the power itself; it’s a natural anti-theft version.
However, promoting it becomes quite a problem.
If it were another witch, perhaps it would never be a troubling issue for them?
But everyone has different pursuits, and witches are no exception.
The remaining ten witches are very proactive in assisting me, after all, what I’m working on is the core equipment made by hand!
Passing some items at the right time or lending a hand is quite necessary, even though… I could just use spells to pick them up directly.
Some witches even volunteered to help me create constant dream overlapping instruments.
For them, this is quite familiar; out of the ten witches, nine can manipulate related devices by hand.
Before the controlled Primordial Dream Laboratory appeared, they basically relied on such means for experimentation.
Don’t ask why they like devices; after all, devices don’t need distractions. Mastering spells requires a witch to maintain them, which naturally won’t do.
After finishing assembling the dream overlapping instrument, they also started to actively lure some dream creatures wandering in the shallow dream.
After all, even exceptional witches have their little thoughts~
When I complete the device, it will definitely require testing, and the opportunity for diligent dedication will likely arise~
At the current stage, the witches researching purification methods and Dream State Soul Material are simply in desperate need of materials. However, Dream State Soul Material is so limited that it truly can’t be bought even with money, and there’s nothing they can do about it.
…
Game World.
Immersed in the players outside the game, staring at the option labeled “World Bounty Task.”
This special gaming option seems to exist within a rumored game genre!
Those who saw this game icon never imagined they would encounter this kind of legendary situation… Could they be witnessing history?
After all, regardless of the rewards, participating alone could be a boastful asset.
As players entered the game out of curiosity, they were astonished to find that this game scene didn’t seem to be one of those hardcore, freely open-world task exploration games.
In the first moment, they saw countless pixelated simple yet enormous spaces stacked together.
The overall tone was dark, with numerous transparent glowing virtual pixels composing informational data that fell like raindrops from the infinite heights above, straight down to their feet.
Before they could fully assess the situation, the sounds of fierce battles and explosions filled their ears.
Unprepared, their entered game character completely vanished here.
Then, they were forcibly ejected from the game, with a message indicating their failure. Based on performance ratings, they had lost the qualification to enter the game again.
“Ah? No! What the hell is this ridiculous game from Infinite Group? What kind of big shots are fighting here?”
Meanwhile, similar scenes were continuously occurring in various private spaces within the game.
Many players had just entered the game and hadn’t even begun to savor the joy it brought before being instantly eliminated by the extreme intensity!
The world constructed of virtual pixels does not welcome the weak!
Virtual pixels.
This is the original power of the All Worlds Terminal and the most fundamental core authority.
Constructing the All Worlds Terminal and running its “terminal program” is carried through virtual pixels.
Initially, people in the game world discovered this power, tested it, and gradually understood, mastered, utilized, and rewrote it… ultimately…
A genius-like figure deconstructed it, then reconstructed it, defining it.
In the end, the terminal—the virtual space was birthed.
This should have been a name resonating through history, shining brightly, but the opposite is true.
This person’s name has completely vanished from history, and no one will remember him.
However, he left behind the All Worlds Terminal that blessed this world.
After all, leaving aside the order of this society, just speaking of this world.
Without external interference, this world would inevitably transform into a large world. Under the power of the All Worlds Terminal, worlds harvested by the game would become components of the game world community.
By that time, becoming a world community would allow the Earth Vein Nexus lock to be ignored, and the game’s harvesting of these small worlds would completely transform from harvesting Soul Material to an all-encompassing harvest!
The world’s three elements—resources, population, extraordinary skills, power systems, culture, thoughts, history…
All will be unified under the same world will.
But everything has no “if”; the real world is the same.
Historically, the All Worlds Terminal, which initially grasped virtual simulation power, touched the threshold of order, and virtual space was born.
Then, Dungeon Space also came into being, representing a bold application of pixel order.
Subsequently, Extraordinary Energy Pixels were also created, marking the birth of the power of the All Worlds Terminal to influence the real world!
With societal development, games built upon virtual pixels and Extraordinary Energy Pixels also emerged.
In that time period, when it hadn’t reached the capability to invade other worlds, the All Worlds Terminal only allowed playing virtual games. At that time, it wasn’t called this name but was referred to as the “Game Terminal.”
And during a “chance” occurrence, under the push of the world’s will, fortune was discovered. At that time, the concept of fortune hadn’t yet formed; it was simply a special concept without an official name.
However, because of the combination of fortune and the All Worlds Terminal, from then on…
The Game Terminal became the “All Worlds Terminal.”
World fortune became “game qualification.”
Extraordinary Knowledge became the “Technology Core.”
Within the virtual space.
Thousands of players faced a task prompt that appeared.
“Kill the virtual world boss, Catastrophe Witch!”
This is a limited challenge dungeon; to the players, this merely serves as a virtual battlefield for Infinite Group to test the new boss.
However, the vast majority of players here do not know that those powerful “big shots” around them are not players but game architects participating in the battle under the guise of players!
Because only they know, “this is not a game,” and the terrifying figure standing before them is not a fake boss.
She is a thorough invader!
An invader of the All Worlds Terminal, a virtual entity intercepted by this “firewall.”
The so-called time limit is the final deadline generated by game architects based on the invasion information that was not intercepted.
If the limit is exceeded or the firewall’s blockade line is forcibly breached, it would mean their authority has been utterly compromised!
And the consequences stemming from this situation… are incalculable.
At this moment, they can even foresee the high council’s disappointment in them afterward, and their good days will be completely over!
At this moment, the focus shifts to my perspective.
When I attempted to invade the All Worlds Terminal, I was already prepared to handle various positional situations.
But when I used this special clone as an anchor, clashing my field order against the All Worlds Terminal, I crashed into this magical space with the consciousness of order.
In just an instant, I understood what this was through the interference of order.
This is a virtual space constructed upon another form of order, a very peculiar space that can connect with life consciousness.
At first, I wasn’t quite sure what situation I was facing until I encountered an opponent. Only then did I realize what kind of battle I was up against!
This is an abstract confrontation projected into the virtual space.
Simply based on my clone as an anchor for order, I could not possibly compete with the All Worlds Terminal itself.
So I didn’t choose to resist head-on; instead, I invaded and conducted a surprise attack.
Thus, after “adapting” to the virtual, I instinctively began to develop a desire to explore this place.
This feeling excited me, reminiscent of when I first experienced dream overlap.
Once I confirmed that the opponent hadn’t cleared me from virtual space using a fundamental power, I knew… the confrontation had begun.
Faced with those players entering continuously, initially, I borrowed the power of my order to construct extraordinary rules simulating reality in the virtual space, then countered the opponents with spells.
Clearly, this method proved effective.
However, as the number of players surged to an infinite extent, under the pressure of their enormous numbers, I saw— a brand new way.
Here is the virtual space, the home ground constructed by the order of the All Worlds Terminal!
This power does not belong to anyone.
In other words: they do not wield power; they possess authority and home ground.
What this means is… although I do not have the same authority as game architects, does the home ground advantage?
That definitely doesn’t mean the advantage belongs to anyone~
When it comes to understanding order and rules, I wouldn’t dare claim invincibility, but facing ordinary people who treat it as a game… I am absolutely certain to win!
The All Worlds is entirely “masterless” order; even wielding authority does not ultimately allow for the agility of the individual.
So since you can use it, I can too!
Isn’t it just about discovering order, recognizing order, deconstructing order, and utilizing order to manipulate how players operate? I can do that!
And I only need… the simplest authority to leverage small against large.
Spells work like that; constructing extraordinary laws with knowledge in tandem with runes and spells, transforming disorder into order, even the most basic Fireball Spell stirs the extraordinary.
As for obtaining the authority of the All Worlds Terminal… the most basic authority is actually quite simple.
Game devices are not the foundational authority granted by the All Worlds Terminal?
For this reason, the resistance force in the game world can utilize this method to steal authority and acquire the power to break restrictions.
