The Era of Gods - Chapter 354

Chapter 354: Chapter 354: The Power of the Minor Judgment Skill
 

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This is an extremely special world, not only because the military has sent out more than one exploration team, but also because many civilian forces, as well as other forces from the human main world, have all discovered and dispatched a large number of exploration teams. Even the super divine realm civilizations of the Nightmare World and the Soul Race were competing for it.

In addition to humans, there are three super divine realm civilizations competing for this world.

Although so many forces have discovered it and the human four major forces have descended countless Descenders, at this time in the assessment of Gaia Will, it is still in the pioneering stage.

And Gaia Will has already made it clear that the evaluation of this world has been raised by one level on the original basis.

This means that if he can establish a faith area in this world, he will receive unimaginable World Origin Force feedback.

Of course, these aren’t the main point right now; the focus is what exactly is the resource evaluation of this world that has reached five stars plus and is clearly demanded by Gaia Will?

Normally, five-star resources are already the highest, and five-star plus is generally special resources in the current Crystal Wall Universe that are identified by Gaia Will as in demand. Throughout the many thousands of years of human history, worlds rated as five-star plus could be counted on one hand.

For example, the famed Toriel Multiverse was rated five-star plus because its mainstream system is the same as the Human Main World. If it could be conquered and integrated into the Main World, serving as a force system of the same origin, the essential origin of the Human World would skyrocket, and naturally, Gaia Will would be much stronger. This would be enough for humans to surpass the original wills of other divine realm civilizations in one fell swoop, such as Nightmare’s Will.

Unfortunately, the Toriel Multiverse is too strong. Inside, there are existences comparable to the great divine power no less than those in the Human World, such as the Endless Abyss Will, the Seven Hell Lord, ancient gods from the ancient times, and some terrifying existences hidden in the chaotic time-space river, not to mention the presence of Ao, the Spokesperson for the Crystal Wall Will. Even if humans invested the entire world’s strength in an invasion, they wouldn’t be able to win.

Considering the value of the Toriel Multiverse to the human divine realm civilization, and then looking at the evaluation of this world.

Lin Xiao fell into deep thought, feeling an itch in his heart.

It was clear that Gaia Will placed great importance on this world. If he could make some breakthrough progress in this world, like damaging the Nightmare node and establishing a Gaia node in the Nightmare World, given this world’s evaluation, he would definitely win Gaia Will’s favor and have a certain chance of obtaining the identity of Gaia’s Son.

Even if he couldn’t achieve that, the rewards would surely be a surprise.

But then thinking about the dangers of this world, Lin Xiao fell silent for a long time and couldn’t make up his mind, eventually he simply clapped his hands and shook his head:

“Let’s see how things go first, and then ask the teacher!”

After carefully reviewing the information sent by Xie Yufei, he noticed that the military mission was not only to kill three equally-ranked Children of Nightmare; this was just a part of the military mission. The other part of the mission was for him to establish a Parish after collecting resources, assisting the subsequent descending military members in establishing an outpost base in that world with clear resource targets.

The mission was not difficult as long as he could establish a faith area successfully, these resources were nothing to worry about.

The challenge lay in how to open up a stable faith area amidst the rejection of the will of the native world, the hostility and interference of the natives, and the sabotage by the Children of Nightmare, who were also competitors. This was the real difficulty.

Like him, as a pioneer who just descended, he would not have the support of a Clan. In the beginning, only one Incarnation would descend alone, preaching by himself, forcefully snatching the territory of faith from the local sects.

If he descended into a small plane without many strong beings, it would be fine, but if he immediately descended into a large plane with deities, the difficulty would soar to levels that could make you doubt life itself.

Although he hasn’t made a choice yet, he needed to start preparing for the mission in advance.

He first shared this news with his class teacher, Jin Sisi, who understood and offered a suggestion:

“If you have time, you can play a game for a few days to try it out.”

Lin Xiao responded with a question mark, but Jin Sisi did not explain further, only saying:

“You’ll know once you try.”

“Asking me to play a game…”

Feeling doubtful, he downloaded a game called (Different Domain Survival), and once he read the introduction, he immediately understood why his teacher had told him to play.

This was a virtual simulation game of survival in different domains, simulating the conditions of Sons of Divine Realm descending into various different domains. He wasn’t sure if it was specially developed for explorers like them, but the content was incredibly rich, almost simulating tens of thousands of different domain situations, with difficulty levels ranging from one star to the highest five-star plus. The player’s strength would also continue to grow as they explored and acquired resources and treasures.

The game had two modes: single-player simulation and online.

He, of course, didn’t have the time to play online leisurely, so he opted for single-player simulation.

The single-player simulation offered starting from scratch and playing slowly, as well as setting different starting conditions and initial maps from the beginning, including descending in True God mode from the start.

Lin Xiao set his starting condition according to his own strength and then chose a random map with a four and a half-star difficulty level to descend.

This was a virtually real game, with the online part intended for ordinary people to play in reality. The part he was playing now was created for professionals.

It was almost identical to reality, descending in the form of an Incarnation.

And there were several types of Incarnations, including powerful Divine Incarnations, Incarnations that carried only a small amount of strength, and weak Incarnations that did not carry any strength and were merely equivalent to a strong human.

This was because some world wills were quite hostile to outsiders; if the descending Incarnation carried too much power, it would be easily sensed and targeted.

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The weakest Incarnation, without any additional Strength, is specifically designed for harsh situations. The advantage is that they are not easy to detect. As long as one can keep a low profile in the early stages and slowly adapt to the world’s rules, it is possible to gradually unleash one’s power.

The downside, needless to say, is that the Incarnation is too weak, and the world it descends into is far too dangerous. It’s very easy to simply perish without even having the chance to survive.

For his first attempt, Lin Xiao’s Descender was one of those Incarnations that carried only a small amount of Strength.

After a not-too-long transmission, the simulated Incarnation arrived on a not-too-large island, with its will sensing nothing but the sea within its range.

However, before he had a chance to inspect the island, he was met with overwhelming malice.

The world’s will had discovered him.

Then, numerous poisonous snakes and insects on the island made a suicidal assault on him, and in the sea, waves rose without wind, creating towering surf that swept across the tiny island.

And then it was game over.

After the first failed descent, Lin Xiao felt rueful.

Although it was a game, this was all a simulation of reality, which means the situation he just faced could definitely happen in the real world.

He paused for a moment, reset the options he had chosen before, and changed the Incarnation to a strong human with no Strength, and descended again.

This time, he did not draw the attention of the world’s will. He was still on the same island as before, and after walking around the tiny island, the dense population of poisonous snakes and insects did not target him.

But even though he had not been discovered or targeted, he was an outsider to this world, feeling completely out of place. No matter what he did, everything felt like it was being rejected by the world.

To put it plainly, whatever he did seemed cursed, with an unknown amount of negative luck.

On this vast and desolate island where he had not even seen a single large beast, he managed to survive only half an hour before being bitten seven times by snakes and stung sixteen times by poisonous insects, eventually dying from an accumulation of poison.

“Damn, is it this hard just to survive?”

He repeatedly tried to descend, enduring the ordeal over fifty times. Finally, after struggling countless times against the island’s poisonous snakes and insects, he collected enough materials to build a large raft to leave the island, only to drown when the raft capsized halfway through his escape.

He did not continue with further attempts but instead changed up other descending conditions to try his luck.

After several attempts, Lin Xiao began to lose interest as his mind kept drifting back to the information he had seen about the fifth world.

“How toxic!”

He knew it was extremely dangerous, but he couldn’t help but think about it, fascinated by that world.

It was not just the rewards that attracted him but also the situation of that world.

From the information he had obtained so far, this world was incredibly intriguing. It was a world with a unique and complete power system called Totems, which had certain similarities to the Faith Enthronement system of the Human Divine Realm civilization. Lin Xiao speculated that it might be this system that had sparked the competition among the Gaia Will, the Nightmare’s Will, and the Soul Race.

The Sons of God realm plunder resources, deities plunder faith, and the world’s will plunders history and civilization.

“This is so frustrating!”

He didn’t feel like continuing the game.

Lin Xiao simply exited the game and sent a message to Jin Sisi, sharing his dilemma with her.

She only replied with one sentence:

“Wait for me.”

Less than ten seconds later, a golden light descended from the ceiling of the room, and Jin Sisi landed an Incarnation directly. Her thick Armor concealed her stunning beauty and attractive figure.

Her gaze fell on his face, and she said in a deep voice,

“I’m aware of the world you mentioned. Lustrous University has organized an Exploration team to investigate it. Because of the high difficulty, I did not recommend it to you. But since you now know about it, I will give you a detailed introduction.”

“This world has been discovered for quite some time, at least for over a hundred years, but it was not until ten years ago that someone managed to secure a foothold there, and since then information started to trickle in.”

“In the following ten years, no less than a million Sons of God realm descended, including the four major forces, the military, academics, civilians, and so on, but they mostly never returned. To this day, fewer than a hundred have successfully secured a footing.”

“Over more than a decade of exploration, it has been found that the Nightmare World and the Soul Race, two Divine Realm civilizations, are also conquering that world. However, due to invasions by multiple Divine Realm civilizations, this world’s hostility towards outsiders is unprecedented, making invasions increasingly challenging. In the past, it was possible to descend with Incarnations to sneak in, but a year ago, one could only descend as Incarnations devoid of any Strength, which has greatly added to the danger and difficulty.”

“In the past year, not a single Descender has been successful. The military and academies are now researching new methods of descent,