Facing the Apocalypse with My Other Selves
Chapter 662 - 367: Shen Yu’s Extraordinary Advancement! (Part 2)
Within a few decades, the structure of the entire world had significantly changed over a dozen times.
Almost every time, it was due to the destruction of powerful adventurers or adventurer factions.
Under such circumstances, one could imagine people’s lives.
However, recently, everyone gradually noticed that the mortality rate of tasks began to decrease, and items for resurrection or immunity to erasure became more common and cheaper.
Correspondingly, the task rewards increased.
Even if the difficulty of tasks didn’t change much, the decrease in mortality and increase in rewards effectively made tasks easier.
With these changes becoming increasingly clear and sparking discussions among small worlds and adventurers, the phenomenon was that more and more people, unwilling to remain ordinary, joined the High Tower and became adventurers.
And this change was naturally orchestrated by the Association.
The reason they did this was simple: they wanted to rapidly increase civilization’s power.
This also enhanced the Association’s power and, more importantly, when the Association saved the world from an apocalypse, the amount of Gray Mist harvested would significantly increase.
This is one of the rules of Gray Mist Space.
Human-made population creation can’t increase the amount of Gray Mist harvested, but enhancing individual power can increase the harvest amount when facing danger.
This has always been one of the core reasons for Shen Yu’s efforts in strengthening civilization.
With the Association’s increasing control of the Tower World, another pivotal version enhancement is coming soon.
— Shen Yu’s own promotion!
Yes, the High Tower of this world can easily cultivate the Twelfth Stage, surpassing all of Shen Yu’s formidable powers, naturally able to directly enhance Shen Yu’s Extraordinary Level.
Without even needing to use Gray Mist.
And the enhancement for Shen Yu equates to enhancement for all of Shen Yu.
Even if some Shen Yu with a soul ratio below one ten-thousandth can’t reach the same realm, they can still achieve the life-level enhancement.
However, this realm breakthrough personally felt somewhat ordinary to Shen Yu.
"Simply put, it means being able to accommodate and create complete laws for an entire world." Shen Yu experienced the new level after promotion and transformation, "The previous speculations can be verified; Pangu of the Primordial World is also at this level."
Pangu’s opening of the heavens marked the beginning of the Primordial World.
Regarding Pangu’s death and transformation into the world, looking back now, it seems somewhat false.
Just creating a lower-tier world wouldn’t be enough for such an existence to perish.
It’s likely that an avatar or some power was left behind, transforming into the world’s entirety, accelerating world development, then leaving.
This level of existence has already surpassed the limits of usual world barriers.
In other words, if someone in a world can reach this level, they can likely leave the world and enter All Heavens.
The reason for likely, not definite, is naturally because there are some special barriers.
For example, the Tower World at the moment.
After reaching this level, the connection between many Shen Yu and the Celestial Dao Tree became tighter.
Thus, they can more clearly perceive that the Extraordinary Rules of this world were specially manufactured.
Manufacturing began from a very ancient period.
"This isn’t truly the Twelfth Stage of the All Heavens Simulation World." Wizard Shen Yu voiced the sentiments of all Shen Yu.
"Indeed." Shen Yu nodded slightly, "Those newly born worlds, possessing powerful and special Extraordinary Rules, weren’t naturally born but were intentionally nurtured during precise calculations by the High Tower."
The gap between the two is immense.
It’s akin to pure nature versus an artificially manufactured environment.
Due to the lack of microorganisms capable of decomposing leaves, such microorganisms were deliberately generated and introduced into the environment.
It’s approximately this feeling.
And once detached from the High Tower’s intervention, the world can no longer birth powerful and special Extraordinary Worlds.
Even the Extraordinary Systems within all worlds were designed by the High Tower, lacking the "miraculous creativity" that those true All Heavens possess.
This greatly eased the tension of many Shen Yu.
Because it’s proof that the Tower World isn’t as powerful as initially thought.
Similarly, the crisis capable of causing absolute destruction to the Tower World may also not be as strong as initially envisioned.
All in all, having reached this point, what’s left is to watch how events unfold.
Three hundred years have already passed in half.
The Association’s control over the Tower World has reached ninety percent ahead of schedule.
However, the remaining ten percent is the most difficult part.
The first resolution must address the Tower World’s own consciousness.
This is a lengthy process because this consciousness, akin to playing hide and seek with the Association, dispersed its consciousness information among the remaining ten percent, requiring the Association to accurately locate each part without leaving a trace.
Only if not a single bit is left can the Association achieve full control of the Tower World.
And this remaining speck would become the breakthrough point for outside invaders.
After all, when the Association invades formidable worlds, it excels at breaking through these uncontrolled gaps, silently permeating.
Generally speaking, achieving one hundred percent control is very difficult.
This means true absolute control, including the autonomous change of the world and laws part.
Even the true Creator God finds it challenging.
There’s no way to be certain whether complete control is achieved.
But for the Association possessing Gray Mist Space, it’s not impossible.
They simply use Gray Mist for defect check and patching, and even after ensuring absolute control, use Gray Mist to handle unexpected changes in the laws, continually update, upgrade, and fill loopholes.
If it weren’t for this, many Shen Yu of the Association wouldn’t have the confidence to achieve one hundred percent.
Regardless, with only thirteen years until the crisis outbreak, the Association has finally achieved complete control over the Tower World!
"We only have thirteen years to set things up." Shen Yu sternly said while gazing at the entire Tower World, "Then proceed to the next step, first evacuate all personnel below the Realm of Eternal Life."
Indeed, this is one of the quick methods to harvest Gray Mist when facing an apocalyptic crisis.
No matter the crisis, evacuation, isolating danger always saves a portion.
Unfortunately, it’s impossible to evacuate everyone, or even the very powerful individuals.
Civilization and laws are correlated, and without enough quantity and strength of Extraordinaries, laws become incredibly fragile.
Furthermore, evacuating too many would increase the causal connections on this population.
It would vastly reduce the difficulty for others to locate these people within the vast All Heavens.
Even the consumption for the Association to search using Gray Mist would be greatly reduced.
This undoubtedly transfers danger to other worlds.
All these reasons and considerations delayed the Association’s decision to evacuate the weak until now.
They are the most numerous, have the greatest future potential, but at present, their impact is minimal.
With over three hundred years of planning, the Tower World is already under the Association’s control, with no longer any so-called thirteen factions, solely one dominant ruling force, directly named the High Tower Adventurer Association, above every small world, small faction, and small regime.