Master of Kaidan-Chapter 552: The Most Core Power is Often Very Plain

Entry: Work City

Tags: [Work], [Infinite], [Survival], [Cycle], [Period], [Money], [Majority]

Description: To survive in society, money is an indispensable resource. Possessing money is equivalent to having everything. The means of acquiring resources is known as "work." Earning rewards through labor is a perfectly legitimate behavior, but for most people, work itself is not easy.

This is an industrial city transitioning into a commercial city, offering vast career opportunities and employment prospects. Whether as a programmer, a grey-collar worker, a fast-food restaurant employee, or a convenience store cashier, decent rewards can be earned. However, it is important to note that the cost of living here is not low.

Power: [Assimilation]

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"Tsk, the quality is far inferior to that of the ’School Hell’!" Feng Xue frowned, inspecting the city model spanning more than twenty square meters in front of him.

After conquering School Hell, he immediately shifted his attention to other high-difficulty levels listed on the bulletin board. However, after discovering the core of this level and following the same method, the Phantom Kaidan he obtained did not satisfy him.

Not only did it only have one [Assimilation] Power, lacking coercion, but even though there were factories and farms within, the output was merely pseudo artifacts usable only within the city. Although adding some True Object materials could produce True Objects, the probability of generating a Phantom was extremely low, and the production was unstable.

If there was a notable advantage, it was that it solved the purpose of Feng Xue’s visit to this world. Although it lacked in Power, similar to the existence of school rules in School Hell, Work City possesses special rules inherent to being a Phantom.

In this "city," everything necessary for life needed to consume "money." The necessities of life were accumulated over time. Initially, these were the classic necessities of food, clothing, housing, and transportation. However, over time, the people in the city would gradually be influenced by the Assimilation Power, becoming increasingly reliant on the city. By then, even the air they breathed and the life span they survived would need to be purchased. Of course, this also meant that as long as one had enough money, one could purchase these explicitly priced items in the city.

Correspondingly, there were also places similar to pawnshops in this city, where individuals could pledge certain abilities to obtain some money. The things pledged would not disappear and could be redeemed at any time by paying double the amount.

It was through this mechanism that Feng Xue pledged the "possibility of his descendants being born." Regardless of how much money he wagered, as long as he did not redeem this ability, no descendants would be born.

However, this mechanism did not have [Phantom Transformation] Power. Thus, the offers presented by companies lacked any coercive force, making it impossible to capture people this way, although escaping was significantly more difficult than in School Hell.

Just as it’s easy to skip school, but hard to escape the fate of a worker unless one can truly sever external dependencies, escaping the work hell is tough.

"Is it because there isn’t enough data?" Feng Xue placed Work City, which he had anointed as "Work Hell," inside School Hell, starting to summarize the issues therein.

In essence, there was no decisive difference between Feng Xue’s work experience and learning experience in School Hell. But Work Hell was larger in scale, with a larger NPC population. Except for the lack of Phantom output, it surpassed School Hell in every aspect.

As for Phantoms, Feng Xue felt it was related to nature itself. Things in school inherently possessed high added value. A test paper for a student meant more than just a form of assessment.

According to Kaidan’s theory, the more intense and concentrated the cognition, the easier it was to become a Phantom or Kaidan. Every test paper a student completed carried whether they would be criticized or rewarded, whether there was progress, and whether their efforts were justified or not, among a series of thoughts. However, workers’ tools evidently only carried the purpose of "making money," and transactions in turn were the core capability of Work Hell.

If there was no essential difference between the two levels, the only difference lay in the substantial amount of Black Ball Feng Xue invested when constructing School Hell. These Black Balls directly allowed School Hell to skip the accumulation phase, achieving a much more Powerful state.

"However, from the characteristics of Work Hell, its similarity to Infinite City exceeded that of School Hell. From this perspective, Infinite City, by nature, should be confirmed to have the characteristics of Phantom and Kaidan. The only problem was, why did Infinite City contain this exceptional building, the Tower of Babylon?"

Feng Xue transformed School Hell into a business card holder style and slipped it into his pocket but suddenly paused. He gazed at the city model in the cardholder, attempting to issue the command for School Hell to assimilate Work Hell.

Inevitably, it failed because the two seemed to exist in entirely different planes. Even if Work City’s main body successfully entered the interior of School Hell, assimilation couldn’t be completed.

"Is it because the Phantomification of the Kaidan was inherently exclusive, or was it for other reasons? But Infinite City clearly had the special building, the Tower of Babylon! Wasn’t it an independent Phantomified Kaidan?"

That Infinite City could open gateways across the real world wasn’t something Hard to Understand. With a bit of manipulation, both Work Hell and School Hell could accomplish similar feats, but the Tower of Babylon’s ability to connect to other worlds was ridiculously Outrageous. Feng Xue found it hard to fathom what sort of cognition could give birth to such a ...

Um, wait a minute!

Feng Xue’s face suddenly darkened, for he seemed to have thought of the reason —

The core label of Infinite City was not something like "kakuriyo," or "subspace," but rather "a place where garbage piled up"! Precisely because it gathered thoughts from Eastern Country people, like "now only garbage would go to that broken place," "it’s full of garbage people," it forged Infinite City’s Power to collect various "garbage information."

Coupled with the seemingly universal [Assimilation] ability of this Phantomized Kaidan, it could continually assimilate other world’s garbage, gradually bestowing it with ports and compatibility of other worlds. Ultimately, what propelled the birth of the inner sect of the Tower of Babylon was likely those doors leading to the Real World.

People in the real world didn’t know Infinite City was merely a real world’s supplemental Kaidan. After receiving messages from a few returning individuals, the real-world authorities naturally assumed it was an Otherworld and that its connection to the real world was two alternate worlds’ connection.

Thus, Infinite City, inherently possessing coordinates, compatibility, and channels, obtained the ability to open gates. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Feng Xue felt a strange expression overcome him. Who could have thought that the dignified Infinite City’s survival was fundamentally based on collecting garbage?

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