Chapter 1355: Update 4's Details 3
Jokes aside, Realm Wars were the major part of this update, and the Supreme Human League stuff was just added on the side.
Realm Wars even had a proper procedure and system like Guild Wars or Kingdom Wars, and it involved something that Draco received a while back.
「Plane Merger Device Blueprint – Design
Rank: Divine (100% effectiveness)
Effect: Allows one to learn how to craft the plane merger device.」
「Realm Portal Device Blueprint – Design
Rank: Divine (100% effectiveness)
Effect: Allows one to learn how to craft the floating realm portal device.」
These two devices were the rewards for the first part of the War of the Worlds Quest he partook in, which was basically a revenge quest against the War Maniac Pavilion for their foolish action in antagonizing him due to the solicitation of a certain faction of Origin Gods from the Western Fantasy section.
Both were Divine blueprints, so he needed either another magical engineer at that rank or to raise himself to that rank.
Wasn't it just as well that during the recent retreat before being dragged into the nonsense of the World Council, he just so happened to raise his Magical Engineering and Privateering Tradeskills to the Divine Rank?
On top of that, Draco remembered that he was initially given only one year of rest between the War of the Worlds 1 quest to the War of the Worlds 2. However, his previous seclusion after being beaten back from the void and after getting revenge lasted one and a half Boundless years.
He hadn't initially paid attention, so how was that progressing?
True to his thoughts, an announcement sounded out the next moment.
「System to Player Announcement
Player Draco, due to an unforeseen accident in the Void Nexus, the War of the Worlds sequential World Quest was put on hold. With the release of the new update, the content has been revived and shall continue thus. Please check the details below.」
Heh, unforeseen accident?
This lass, if you want to show me favor, you could surely come up with a better excuse than this? Even the most ignorant fellow would feel something was wrong here, this was blatant favoritism and nepotism!
Draco smiled with amusement but did not call the AI out. It was already under so many layers of suppression from its own directives and maxims that any sort of help it could give him had to be indirect and usually hidden under the guise of benefitting the entire world of Boundless.
Rather, he decided to see the second iteration of the quest for himself.
「War of the Worlds (Part 2) – World Quest
Description: Having annihilated the core temple of the War Maniac Pavilion on Mount Conquest, you have successfully destabilized their anchoring point within the Western Fantasy Realm.
As such, the undeterred War Maniac Pavilion has declared full retaliation and reinforcements have been summoned from major realms they have alliances with including the Superhero Realm, the Cartoon Realm, the RTS Realm and the JRPG Realm.
Their goal is not only to reclaim Conquest Isle to regain a foothold in the Western Fantasy Realm, but to reverse the tide by attempting a complete destabilization of the Vita Divine Empire from within the main plane, thereby avoiding conflicts with the Origin Gods.
As such, you must harness the Plane Merger Device and Realm Portal Device to create the great mobile war fortress, The Conquest Nexus, a superstructure capable of traversing realms and fusing lesser planes to empower the Main Plane.
Objectives:
Stage 1: Construct the Conquest Nexus. (0/3 sub objectives complete, click here for drop down menu)
Stage 2: Capture a Small World and fuse it to the Main Plane. (0/5 sub-objectives complete, click here for drop down menu)
Stage 3: Refine all surrounding Small Worlds and completely conquer every part of the main plane. (0/5 sub-objectives complete, click here for drop down menu)
Stage 4: Capture and refine the Five Great Side Realms. (0/10 sub-objectives complete, click here for drop down menu)
Stage 5: Cleanse the Divine Realm and fuse it onto the Main Plane. (0/5 sub-objectives complete, click here for drop down menu)
Limitation 1: You may not initiate personal Realm Travel for the event duration unless done through the Conquest Nexus.
Limitation 2: Resurrection timers are extended to 48 hours (in-game) within any enemy realm.
Limitation 3: Once a Realm is entered by the Conquest Nexus, it cannot be exited until all current objectives are met.
Provision 1: All participating players receive Realm-Wide 100% exp gain rate. This means enemies grant experience based on your level and rank difference, not class limits.
Provision 2: Loot Tables are enhanced with 'Multiversal Spoils', including items from other Boundless game sections.
Provision 3: All player deaths within conquered Realms are converted into Merit Points usable at the Supreme Human League Exchange.
Provision 4: Any merged plane becomes a permanent territory of the Main Plane, able to host Guilds, NPCs, and settlements even during the event.
Rewards:
Guaranteed (Per Participant): 10 Ability Potions, Collective Special Rank – "Realm Warrior" 1000 Supreme Human League Merits.
Top 100 Participants: Custom Legendary set, 3000 Supreme Human League Merits.
Top 10 Participants: Custom Divine set, 5000 Supreme Human League Merits.
Top Performer (MVP): Unique Special Rank – "Realm Champion", 10 Semi-Origin Source Origin Cores, 10000 Supreme Human League Merits.
For Draco: Continuation to War of the Worlds (Part 3), World Relay Beacon Device Blueprint.」
Reading the details, the Evil Trio could help but curse one after the other. The first thing they obviously noticed was the sudden splurging of the AI, akin to a person who had just received their salary and wanted to treat themselves by buying popcorn from a movie theater.
Young Lady, are you sure you can keep this up?
Look at the rewards you are giving out!
The Special Ranks were fine and the sets were fine because those would have to be paid out by Draco and Umbra. In fact, all the rewards not linked to him were meant to be paid out by him and he could easily afford it.
But the Ability Potions? Are you crazy?? And so much Supreme Human League Merit?
One had to know, Umbra was currently akin to the central reserve of the main plane. The Rank 7 bank in Vita's Divine Empire's capital was not the only one in existence at that rank, but its unique position had made it become the Bank of the World.
Umbra Points, which were equivalent and superior to platinum, were now legal tender anywhere in the main plane since 90% of the main plane was already Vita's territory, with the few remainders being in either difficult places or being special areas that Vita troops could not penetrate no matter what.
And on top of that, there was the newly established Supreme Human League which was chaired by the Evil Trio and the various lineages, as well as Umbra. In order to give the merit points value, it was linked to the almighty Umbra Point and the empty coffers of this newly established power were linked with Umbra, especially in terms of the store.
That's right, Umbra's store, which was likely the place with the highest net worth of items since the formation of the entire Western Fantasy realm, was the place where all players around the world would redeem their items from under the banner of the Supreme Human League!
Currently 1 Umbra Point was worth 1 Supreme Human League Merit. 1 Umbra Point was worth slightly more than 10 Platinum coins, though the official bank rate was 10 Platinum on the dot, but in private trades or various black markets, it could reach up to 15 Platinum coins.
Both the Umbra Point and Supreme Human League merits even adopted a decimal system, where one could now purchase things with less than 1 Umbra or Merit point, like the Epic Ranked Angel's Kiss potion which was sold at 0.15 Umbra Points.
So do you understand? The things in that store that could be redeemed could break the status quo first and foremost. Many of the items there had gathered dust for years not because Umbra's members could not afford them, but because they already had the same or better.
If any participant could redeem a few after the end of this event, then forget Epic, some Legendary items might become commonplace in the world soon!
But that wasn't even the worst part!
Because at the end of the day, these were things that affected the game alone and would be kept in the virtual world. However, giving players ability potions would allow them to permanently raise their stats, which was one of the hardest things to do for a good reason, now more than before.
This update already brought the Supreme Human League event which would start feeding back power to players and even gave them a route to quickly earn experience. Now you were giving them even more stats that would be fed back later on?
This AI lass, are you sure you can handle this?
Don't act arrogant now only to capsize later!
The rest of the details, Draco carefully perused and understood. For him, the most notable provision was the second one, which actually made the Evil trio slightly agitated.
This rare provision allowed them, for the temporary period of time during this event, to be able to 'whitewash' non-compatible items with the Western Fantasy section into fitting things with the same power.
As stated before, you could be the Origin God of Magical Engineering, but try to make even the basic transistor and you would be struck down by lightning on the spot, vaporized into ash!
But now, as long as you sourced your item from another realm, you could 'cleanse' and 'launder' it through the system, making it official!
Of course, the Evil Trio became calm as Draco's expression became slightly stiff. After the stint with the War Maniac Pavilion, the Evil Trio did not dare enter the void to head anywhere because it was likely those fellows from the WMP were waiting outside for the slightest chance.
So it would not be possible to sneak to the sci-fi section and get some sort of high tech implement and whitewash it. Even if they could, Draco did not know the coordinates of the other realms in the void of Boundless World.
He only had three coordinates, the Western Fantasy Realm, the headquarters of the War Maniac Pavilion in the void and the now destroyed Wizard Realm.
None could achieve those goals, so this provision was aimed at unique items developed in these split-off small worlds after so many millennia had come and gone.
Thinking like this, Draco perked up a little bit. He felt a bit of interest and curiosity at what these various worlds could have developed, because unlike the main plane which had been ravaged by the demons every thousands years up until recently, these small worlds were free to grow all this time.
What kind of scenery and unique insights would they present?
On that note, he checked the drop-down menu for the first objective of the War of the World World Event, to give himself an idea of what he needed to accomplish.
「Stage 1: Construct the Conquest Nexus (Incomplete)
A. Craft the Realm Portal and Plane Merger Devices. - Incomplete
B. Designate a core for the main plane, to be its focal point and central ley line. - Incomplete
C. Activate both devices at the chosen core point and create the Conquest Nexus. - Incomplete」
Seemed simple enough and this was something he was going to do anyway.
With that done, Draco skimmed through the increased exp gain rate and checked the stats for his, Eva's and Shuangtian's Semi-Eternal classes after the change.
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