Darkness, falling, and the abyss at the bottom of the ocean!
Ji Ye sacrificed all his strength to perish together with the King of Nightmares. His body and soul were disintegrated by the red light from the crimson eye in the earth-shattering collision.
Only the last bit of his consciousness was preserved!
However, the consciousness was quickly fading away, like a man falling into a trench. There was less and less sunlight in his eyes, and he was about to be devoured by the boundless darkness.
Ji Ye wasn't really scared.
After all, dying on the Land of Inheritance wasn't a real death!
However, to be honest, he had mixed feelings. When he passed the beta test and learned the wonders of the Land of Inheritance, his goal for himself was to reach a high enough level to find a way to revive his parents.
Therefore, he had been telling himself that improving his strength was his top priority at the beginning.
Also, preserving his own life should be his top priority under any circumstances!
However, at some point in time, his mentality gradually changed. Although he still insisted on improving his own strength, whenever he needed to make a decision, he would subconsciously think from the standpoint of Dragon City as a whole. He would think about how to best maintain a survival base surrounded by powerful enemies and how to make Dragon City go further in the Land of Inheritance.
For that, he was even willing to sacrifice some of his personal interests.
Although he had been defending himself, saying that he wanted to invest some resources to develop the stronghold first, then he could get more returns from the development of the stronghold.
But in fact, he knew very well that he had to pay more than he could afford.
Especially after the battle today.
Other people might not have much of a choice, but he was different.
As a Transcendent Rank-8 being, he could've chosen to retreat even if he couldn't defeat the King of Nightmares.
He could've left the continent of Dragon City and gone to the vast ocean. With the abilities and capabilities that he had honed by surviving in the wilderness and challenging the limits, he could've survived on the Land of Inheritance.
However, the idea of running away didn't even occur to him.
Besides, nobody asked him to fight the King of Nightmares with 80% or 90% of his strength and use the rest of his strength to protect himself in case he died with the King of Nightmares. That was "doing his best" in the eyes of ordinary people!
In the end, he didn't hold back at all when he attacked, and he didn't even hesitate to burn his body and soul.
It was because he knew that he only had one chance to kill the King of Nightmares. If he failed to kill the King of Nightmares with 90% of his strength, everybody in the settlement would be devastated, and the King of Nightmares would recover quickly.
Now that he had exhausted his power of providence, he could no longer heal himself!
Was it right or wrong to sacrifice oneself for others and deviate from one's original "conscience"?
Or perhaps, the one who made this choice was his "true self".
Once upon a time, he thought that he had left the human world and was surviving alone in the wilderness. Yet, he still couldn't help but post videos online to follow and communicate with others. When had he ever truly left human society? "Humans" were actually creatures with social attributes. Those who completely abandoned everything and only cared about themselves could no longer be called "humans".
However, many people might not agree with this view.
He wondered how his new settlement would treat him, the best player on Earth who had lost his Transcendent power, after he was reborn. Would they praise him for sacrificing himself for mankind on the surface, but in fact, they would mock him for being too merciful?
A lot of thoughts popped up in Ji Ye's head after he was reborn.
He even saw many pictures. Perhaps, this was the legendary carousel before death!
"City Master! Where's City Master?"
"The City Master is gone. Has he been killed in the battle?"
"No, the City Master must be alive!"
"Why? I'm willing to trade my life for the City Master's safe return."
In the pictures was the continent of Dragon City, which had been devastated by the fierce battle. The earth had collapsed, and the rivers had shifted.
Many heroes, who were wounded in the battle but gritted their teeth to fight and didn't lower their heads in the face of the King of Nightmares' terrifying pressure, all looked devastated.
Ninth Uncle, Lu Zhishen, Yan Qing, Gongsun Sheng, Nie Xiaoqian, Zhao Yun, and the other people who were closest to Ji Ye all had tears in their eyes. Li Yuanba, who was regarded as a problematic young man, didn't say anything, but he threw his Red Gold War Hammers high and smashed a Transcendent alien that had just flown into the sky. His red eyes were enough to explain what he was thinking!
Even Cao Cao, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, Yang Zhi, and Xin Qiji, who had been through years of battles and death, looked rather gloomy!
The most common people, on the other hand, were crying aloud.
For example, the natives of the Twin Dragon Mount fort that Ji Ye saved after executing the Black Serpent all knelt on the ground under the lead of an old man named Hu Feng and prayed for Ji Ye's survival. The few musical instruments that Ji Ye saved from the Musical House settlement, which was betrayed by human beings and about to be destroyed by the Magma Monsters, were also wiping their tears and playing the music of "Nine Songs, Tragedy of a Nation".
There were also Guobei County, Dragon Gate Grotto, Fishing City … Millions of people were crying at the same time. Their prayers gathered and triggered a positive Transcendent power that was similar to the one that created the Nightmares but was the exact opposite!
In a daze, Ji Ye, whose consciousness was about to completely dissipate, sensed a message in his head.
["For the sake of your race and civilization, you decided to perish together with a powerful enemy, fulfilling the hidden advancement condition of the 'Emperor Dao Dragon Contract' talent. Your 'Emperor Dao Dragon Contract' talent has been upgraded to the Inherited grade. You've gained a new feature: you can be resurrected in the belief of your contracted creature. "]
["Do you want to use this feature?"]
So that's how it is. Is this the origin of the "Inherited" Talent Skill?
"But I used up all my contribution points when I contracted a lot of heroes. I don't have any power of providence to use talent skills at this moment."
In his daze, Ji Ye didn't forget to complain.
["You've killed the King of Nightmares (Transcendent Rank-8, Legendary). EXP gained: 992000. Honor gained: 72029. Rare Honor gained: 5,534!"]
However, at this moment, a new piece of information popped up in his head.
It turned out that the King of Nightmares, who had perished together with his enemy, had completely lost its consciousness and was judged dead.
Splash!
The moment he executed the King of Nightmares, Ji Ye's quota of power of providence, which had been used up, was quickly replenished like a flood.
In the end, not only did it return to the time before the battle, it even exceeded it.
Then, time and space seemed to have been reversed, and a tremendous amount of power of providence gathered into a golden ball of light, which constructed a human figure just like when a hero was summoned!
"Ah, it's the City Master!"
"The City Master! The City Master is still alive!"
"Since he's really alive, our prayers have been answered!"
Seeing the man in the sky, cheers and cheers echoed from the continent of Dragon City, Chidragon, and the other countries on Earth.
Ji Ye, whose body had been completely reforged, looked down from the sky and saw that more than half of the people were ecstatic with tears on their faces. That was already the highest praise and reward for him.
Ji Ye realized that it wouldn't be a big deal even if he died in the battle, because every one of those people would summon him back to Dragon City with their "resurrection" quota after the settlement reached the Legendary level, just like what he did to Chu Yin.
"He's still alive."
"We don't have a chance anymore!"
"I don't want my soul to be destroyed! I'm willing to surrender!"
After Ji Ye was resurrected, the remaining aliens were inevitably desperate. Their morale hit rock bottom, and some of them even surrendered like the dragons.
"Kill them all!"
"Spare no one!"
"Avenge our dead brothers!"
However, almost half of the human beings had died in this battle. How could human beings accept the surrender of the aliens with such deep hatred? They simply charged forward under the lead of the heroes who had improved their combat ability with Ji Ye's power thanks to the Emperor's Dragon Contract!
"The Sand Nation settlement is here to help!"
"The Forest Nation settlement is here to help!"
At this moment, the few remaining settlements didn't hesitate anymore. Maybe it was because they could finally spare some time from their own battles, or maybe they just wanted to help.
At this point, there was no doubt that Dragon City would advance into the Legendary level.
Bam!
When the last Transcendent lich was hit by Qin Yueyu's mini Golden Crow Nuclear Arrow, the battle ended when the reinforcements from Lion Kingdom were almost killed.
["Your settlement has passed the advancement test. The settlement core has been upgraded to Legendary."]
"Roar!"
An enormous amount of yellow light melted into the Golden Dragon of Providence, making it rise to the sky in excitement and roar.
As it roared, a large number of aliens' bodies began to disintegrate into the power of providence that fused into the land of Dragon City. In the blink of an eye, mountains, rivers, and lakes were formed. The small land that Dragon City was on began to expand, more than doubling in size. Its total area was already comparable to that of a small country on Earth.
["Your settlement has obtained an exclusive Mythical heavy weapon, the Twenty-Four Histories!"]
After part of the power of providence was melted, it formed a huge Epic Stone Gate that floated above the altar and was engraved with totems and texts of different dynasties.
[24 Histories]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-9]
[Rarity: Mythical]
[Description: It can create an illusion based on history. After you enter it and become friends with the heroes, you can summon them to Dragon City at the cost of the power of providence!]
As expected of a Mythical item, it could summon heroes directly.
It must be noted that the 24 Histories recorded the Chidragon civilization from the Three Emperors to the end of the Ming Dynasty. Also, the players were all modern people, and they had inherited the modern culture as much as possible.
It was safe to say that Dragon City had protected Chidragon's own civilization with this divine artifact. They deserved to be called heroes and ancestors!
If the reward only excited the Chinese people …
The next reward made people all over the world excited.
["The civilization you belong to has received a new batch of invitations to the Land of Inheritance: 960709. The invitations will be announced in three days. In seven days, they will all arrive at Dragon City!"]
The news was also announced on Earth, and it was cheered by the whole world.
After all, it meant that there were one million more invitations for the Doomsday Tickets, and they all corresponded to the Legendary Dragon City settlements!
Apart from the random allocation of places, there was a huge difference in the number of participants.
The players and natives who made the top ten thousand contribution points in the advancement test this time were also given invitations, just like the last time when they advanced to the Transcendent level.
It was not hard to imagine how crazily the invitations would be raised on Earth.
After all, nobody knew about the Great Darkness when the settlements advanced to the Transcendent level in the last round.
Also, there were a lot of settlements that could advance to the Transcendent level. Therefore, except for some rich people who bought some invitations at the beginning, the price of the invitations became lower and lower.
However, based on the difficulty of the Legendary advancement test that Dragon City was facing, there was no doubt that less than ten settlements on Earth would be able to make it to the Legendary level.
More importantly, as Dragon City advanced, all the settlements that went to Dragon City to help received a notification.
It was that the normal players wouldn't be able to be reincarnated into Dragon City if they didn't have enough Rare Honor. However, they would be able to be reincarnated based on their performance in the battle.
Obviously, the Legendary settlement restriction, which was similar to the settlement restriction in the top cities on Earth, caught many people off guard. Some settlements that only wanted to take advantage of Dragon City but didn't contribute much in the battle felt that it was a bolt from the blue!
Of course, Legendary settlements had their own differences from Transcendent settlements.
The members of Dragon City could exchange their Rare Honor for invitations, and each invitation would cost 100 Rare Honor.
The invitations weren't very expensive. Killing an Extraordinary alien in the battle could earn one to ten Rare Honor points, and killing a Transcendent alien could earn around 100 Rare Honor points. In the advancement test alone, Dragon City had earned more than a million Rare Honor points …
However, there was a limit to the exchange.
It was because every Legendary continent had a limit on the number of people it could accommodate based on its power of providence.
Therefore, there was a limit on the number of invitations that could be purchased.
In such a case, the number of invitations that could be purchased with Rare Honor would be determined according to the ranking of the settlement's contribution.
After the advancement, the Dragon's Continent, where Dragon City was located, could accommodate five million people.
That was obviously not a large number. It wasn't even enough to accommodate all the players on Earth. That was probably the reason for the settlement restriction in Dragon City.
Fortunately, the Battlefield of Providence would be fully opened soon. The Legendary settlements could compete for the power of providence and Rare Honor with other species in a way that wouldn't result in casualties.
As long as human beings were strong enough, the power of providence they won would be enough for them to gain ten million, a hundred million … or even all the human beings in the world!
When the news reached Earth, the Great Darkness that had been looming over Earth was mostly gone. People spread the news and cheered. It was ten times more joyous than the grandest festival in any country.
The social order that had collapsed in the first place was also stabilized and recovered thanks to the intervention of the settlements of players that were about to reach the Legendary level, led by Dragon City!
Of course, not everyone was cheering. It was inevitable that people from some countries were a little sad.
For example, the people of Sandia, who watched the future best player on Earth, being blown up.
Another example was the country of Sakura, which was ranked first, but decided to reinforce Dragon City at the last moment, only to run into the King of Nightmares, which had gone all out. The settlement of Seafarer was wiped out before it even showed up!
Well, wait. Seafarer's settlement wasn't that sad.
It was because after seeing the power of the management of a dozen settlements through the livestream, the remaining players in Seafarer's settlement tried to rope in the forces such as the Celestial Dragons, the Marine Headquarters, the Four Emperors, and the Seven Warlords of the Sea. They were caught in a civil war.
At this moment, few people had the time to be sad.
The only people who were really crying were probably the people of Korea.
At this time, every household in the country was crying, and the forums were filled with "Oppa, Unnie …"
"The last stronghold of Samsung has just been destroyed … In other words, there are no strongholds left in their country. All the players will probably be reincarnated in our country, Sakura Country, or North Korea … You should know that these countries don't have a good relationship with the people of Samsung."
"More importantly, according to the current rules, Samsung won't be able to add any new players in the future."
"I'm just afraid that they'll claim that Dragon City belongs to them in the future!"
Everybody believed that Chidragon would be able to avoid Samsung's fate as long as Dragon City existed.
Apart from the rewards of the settlement, the personal rewards that Ji Ye received were even more meaningful.
["You've led your settlement to complete the Legendary test. Based on your comprehensive performance in all the previous phases, your rating has been upgraded to Quasi Mythological."]
["You've been given a chance to build your own exclusive Mythological equipment and a unique Mythological skill … You've been given a chance to make a request to the Land of Inheritance, including but not limited to the resurrection of living beings."]
There were so many rewards that it was too much to take in.
However, the word "resurrection" attracted Ji Ye's attention. He immediately recalled his parents' faces.
However, he was hesitant.
It was because he had realized that the people resurrected on the Land of Inheritance were actually "clones" with real self-awareness based on everybody's impression of them.
Ji Ye couldn't make a decision right away, so he simply left it aside for now!
["Your City of Humans Card has been upgraded to Quasi King!"]
Then, Ji Ye looked at the last message.
With his current rating, he should be qualified to get more information from the City of Humans.
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