Chapter 996: Decisions in the Game World
In the game world.
While various calculations and conflicts are happening in the main world, subtle changes are also taking place quietly within the game world.
The first thing is the clones that have been disseminated, which have confirmed the entire territorial imaging of the game world for me.
Through the Earth Vein Identification Technique, the final integration has been completed, accurately creating a three-dimensional map of this world.
This includes but is not limited to the branches of the Infinite Group’s All Worlds Terminal located throughout the world.
The residential area for high-end advanced players.
Additionally, it includes the headquarters of the All Worlds Terminal and the infinite energy source, constructed from three Void Rifts that stretch across the heavens and the earth.
Such discoveries have laid a foundation.
That is, I possess the ability to negotiate with the Supreme Council at any time!
However, the scheming of the main world has not yet achieved dominance; the rapid conquest of the game world will only make those from the Extraordinary Academy more vigilant.
Furthermore, this world cannot be directly used to repair the main world. Premature negotiations will only allow everyone to suffer in the depths of tribulation.
I admit that the game-dominated world is rotten and decaying, but the pain of overthrowing it can plunge them into irretrievable calamity!
Ultimately, to sum it up… it’s not yet time.
And now in the city where Igr resides, with the efforts of the Real Protection Association and the bravest players seeking to experiment, some have already joined this reality game.
However, operating a city is not a simple task. The most basic problem of supplying game currency and essential food is enough to stump all resistance forces.
But now, under the early layout of my plant technology, the president of the Real Protection Association, Dawn, although everything isn’t yet on track, has seen infinite hope in the rise of plant technology in establishing infrastructure in the real world—the promotion of various plant technology products, including food production lines, and fresh vegetables! Fruits!
These are all things they have never eaten before!
They have only experienced these in the game world, but after finishing in the game world, what they face in reality are just the dry food meant to fill their hunger or nutritional fluids.
Long-term lack of food intake has weakened the taste and digestive systems of the people in the game world to some extent.
Thus, many got sick from the new food promotions, leading to some negative social impacts, but this situation was quickly soothed…
Indeed, wild boars cannot handle fine rice.
To ensure that the city on Igr’s land can sustain itself in reality, they also need their own currency to build a medium for transactions within real life.
If everything is established on game currency, then how is that different from handing the lifeblood of the city to the Supreme Council?
Naturally, to confirm the value of the currency, it also requires a fundamental anchor for the issued currency.
Initially, there was hope that food could serve as an equivalent, since food is a basic survival necessity and stable food production is equivalent to the value of currency.
However, this shortsighted decision was quickly discarded, as that value is merely a disguised version of an ant’s worth.
And do items with intrinsic value exist in the game world? Are they recognized?
Gold, silver, extraordinary materials, extraordinary energy…
These common equivalents are not entirely applicable in the game world.
In the end, the Real Protection Association decided to link the newly issued “Hardwood Coins” to the power authority of the Power Network, setting thresholds for permissions to avoid boundless cash redemption operations.
This approach also has the benefit of framework limits within the Power Network, minimizing the chance of resistance.
Because the wealthier individuals are less likely to want the Power Network and the Wanlian Main Network Tree to collapse.
At least in times of difficulty, strength can coalesce into a lifeline.
Of course, this framework seems somewhat “petty” and overly idealistic.
But from my vantage point at the highest level, I see clearly: the typical gamer’s mindset, where money represents ability, represents power, represents authority, represents status.
The concept of gaming’s influence on this world is indeed beyond my expectations.
Yet I still agreed to this framework.
Someone has to take risks for the success of this world, don’t they?
From my higher vantage point, I understand very well that the game world is ultimately just a world; I bear no costs for trial and error, while they face irretrievable consequences once they make mistakes.
Thus, any decision they make appears to me as a grand gamble, requiring a determination far beyond my imagination.
In this game world, it seems that someone is truly dedicating everything to ensure the survival of this realm.
At this moment, I stand on the night view platform of the Catastrophe Witch Tower, fiddling with a Hardwood Coin.
The last time I saw this Hardwood Coin was back in that small world, but as that world transformed into a part of the Expanding Realm, the Hardwood Coin has since become just a historical relic.
Perhaps there are still some Hardwood Coin collectibles in the Expanding Realm, but it is no longer a currency of value.
The advantages of the Hardwood Coin are quite clear—at least its counterfeiting resistance is top-notch, a byproduct unique to plant technology; and now it has become the medium linking the city on Igr’s land with the Power Network.
The development of the Power Network and the root network has also enabled online payments and online transactions to flourish.
This leap isn’t very large.
In the game world, players have long become accustomed to this payment model.
One could say that this form of payment isn’t an advancement but rather reduces the burden of reality.
The hardwood coin bank in the city where Igr is located has also been established, right beneath the Catastrophe Witch Tower.
I can see it just by looking down; no one dares to have any thoughts about it.
With a prompt sound, I snapped back to reality from this observation.
Immediately after, an ethereal figure manifested before me.
As Dawn has matured in the application of the Great Knowledge Seed, he now typically contacts me in this non-contact manner.
And I have also moved further away from the view of the entire city where Igr is located.
The efforts are largely held by the regulators of the Power Network, as well as the extraordinary, armed personnel.
And the Catastrophe Witch has mostly become a symbol, introduced into the corners of the city on Igr’s land.
“Is it quiet?” I asked.
“Yes, Lady Witch, we received a secret message from Monroe in the Beran Issuer Settlement Area; he hopes to meet you there,” Dawn replied concisely.
“The Beran Issuer Settlement Area…” I repeated the place, corresponding to the map gathered by my clones.
This is quite an interesting location.
According to the message, it is a rift that resembles an impassable chasm.
One side points towards the Infinite Group’s All Worlds Terminal headquarters’ Infinite Energy Perpetual Motion Machine, while the other extends to the edge of the continent, right to the deep sea.
Thus, the rift theoretically forms a breathtaking scene of seawater flooding the sky.
However, from the perspective of my clones who like to have fun, it was discovered that it has already become a garbage processing area.
On either side of this fissure settlement area, similar to Igr, are surface cities. The cities are exceptionally developed, and the resultant garbage is processed here.
The Beran Issuer Settlement Area sees a fixed time for garbage dumping every day.
I originally thought that people living here were suffering greatly… but in the end, they actually live more comfortably than those in more chaotic areas and fissure settlement areas.
They have lived like cockroaches.
Even those garbage bins are having brawls, giving rise to professional scavengers.
The more I think about these scenes, the more they multiply, until I no longer wish to recall them.
“Are you sure Monroe wants to meet me there?” I asked.
Monroe, the spiritual leader of the Real Protection Association, I can be summoned here, and he is indeed indispensable.
Theoretically, since he presided over the transformation of the city on Igr’s land, it is indeed strange that he doesn’t dare to appear in this city.
Perhaps he didn’t even anticipate that I would use such a thunderous means to take over this city?
Moreover, the branch in this city likely wouldn’t listen to him anymore.
With the framework of the Power Network established, paired with the linkage of the Hardwood Coin, this influence has effectively tilted towards me.
Will Monroe, this spiritual leader, agree?
I’m uncertain; if he is an idealistic warrior fighting to overthrow this corrupt world, I wouldn’t mind meeting him upon invitation.
After all, being able to become the spiritual leader of the Real Protection Association and the association’s president is no small matter.
Either he is a fated savior, or it is… haha…
But in any case, according to my understanding, isn’t this how the Child of Fortune is utilized?
If I meet him and he is not the Child of Fortune, then I will have to suspect something.
However, one more thing worries me… this game world treats the fortune of this world as a medium for character creation.
Does the will of this world really have the capital to interfere using fortune?
No matter what, ignoring the corruption of the game world, just based on the accumulation and development of this world, it is about to become a grand world with numerous world clusters.
They possess means of utilizing fortune, thus fortune is held in people’s hands.
In such a case, how could the Child of Fortune, born of destiny, emerge?
At this moment, Dawn hastily opened up, “Yes, but our means of communication with the other side is limited; we can only receive fragmented encrypted messages.”
After all, information in the game world cannot bypass the Terminal, and they wouldn’t dare to use the products of the All Worlds Terminal to establish contact.
“No need for this messy stuff anymore; I will go in person, and things will clarify,” I said.
“Huh? You… Lady Witch, you want to go in person? This! This is completely unnecessary! This is just a setup by that old Monroe…”
“What’s the rush?” I interrupted Dawn. “I know there are problems; even if there are none this time, there will be problems. Do you think I would die?”
“Lady Witch has extraordinary power! How could she possibly die!” Dawn quickly realized, understanding that the Lady Witch before him was merely one among many clones; how could she die?
Thinking of this, he settled down internally.
“Good to know. That guy Monroe likely has problems…” As I said this, my voice paused, and I looked at Dawn.
“Lady Witch! If you have any orders, I will definitely carry them out!” Dawn sincerely declared.
“What do you think… how long can you support the city on Igr’s land without me showing myself?”
“What? You… ah… you plan to step back?” After a moment of shock, Dawn tentatively asked.
“Everyone in the city on Igr’s land already knows that the Catastrophe Witch Tower houses a Lady Witch who protects them. I have rarely appeared before them, whether I am there or not essentially makes no difference.”
“But… without your presence, if the All Worlds Terminal sends forces to the city on Igr’s land suddenly, those non-powered armed individuals from the Power Network would likely suffer heavy casualties…”
“What if they know I haven’t died… just that I’m not in this Catastrophe Witch Tower?” I continued.
Currently, only the higher-ups of the Real Protection Association, the Supreme Council, the Wizard Apprentices, and the Outsiders keep track of my situation.
The people of the city on Igr will never know anything; they will only see me in this tower, continually existing.
“In that case… they may be apprehensive… no! They should be even more fearful! Once you’re in the city on Igr’s land, you can be anywhere in this world!” Dawn quickly understood this point.
“Yes… this time I will have a meeting with that old Monroe; if he has problems, I will likely die there. The branch here will not know the true situation; you quickly take over all my legacy and continue to wield the association under my name.”
“This… what is the deeper meaning of this maneuver?” Dawn hesitated before cautiously inquiring.
“Ah… if I am not in charge, can you act more recklessly and indiscriminately seize control of the association? Afterward, you will inherit my legacy, and you will be their version of the Catastrophe Witch, coupled with the help of those Outsiders who were created from my clones; you should be able to hold your position without issue.”
“I will definitely not let Lady Witch down!” Dawn immediately expressed his stance.
“This is a test; without the true Real Protection Association of the Catastrophe Witch, what you have is the genuine and pure resistance force of your world, at least on the surface.”
“Then… the All Worlds Terminal…”
“They need to send the advance team. I’ll send both their characters and players away, and they will know that I haven’t truly died, but I think they would prefer to see the Catastrophe Witch appear to have perished on the surface,” I explained.
But in reality, information from the main world will certainly be transmitted to the game world, and those Wizard Apprentices will likely understand that my real body hasn’t arrived; thus, losing a clone is meaningless.
