Chapter 307: World Eater Rune

"However, will just the two of us be enough?"

Seeing the text on the mission item stating a maximum party size of five, Hawkeye asked.

In the past, he certainly wouldn't have asked; as long as it could make his Jiangdian stronger, there would be no need for hesitation.

But,

Hongfa Xiangkesi was the leader of the Adventurer Guild,

having established it with great difficulty by stepping on the heads of the Marine Headquarters; if Xiangkesi were to die with him in another world,

the Adventurer Guild, having lost its protection, would be a fat piece of meat coveted by everyone.

"The Counterattack Mission is very special."

Xiangkesi shook his head and said, "The difficulty of the Main Quest is adjusted according to the number of people in the team. The more people who enter, the higher the mission difficulty, and vice versa."

This was information told to him by players who had conducted Counterattack Missions and successfully survived.

Moreover,

having continuously hunted monsters during this period, the Adventurer Headquarters could also scrape together a few Resurrection Coins, so even if the mission failed, they could still be resurrected.

Hum.

Ripples appeared in the air, spreading like water waves, and finally transformed into a portal emitting a faint halo.

After Xiangkesi and Beikeman settled the affairs of the Adventurer Guild, they stepped into the portal with Hawkeye and disappeared.

"Will this really work, Master?"

A Fu felt uncertain and asked with some trepidation.

She still preferred the previous method of steady, step-by-step occupation of the Polluted World, where players used their absolute numerical advantage to crush the Pollution Monsters.

The current mode,

of actively dispatching players to resolve pollution, was too dangerous.

Fang Yi looked at the anxious white-haired loli and smiled: "The method of nibbling away, while highly stable, results in a very slow growth rate for players."

Players from the Pirate World and the ninja world were able to rapidly grow into Tier 2 lifeforms precisely because their original worlds had abundant foundations, allowing them to exchange for and purchase various Tier 1 game abilities.

This greatly accelerated the speed at which players hunted Tier 1 pollutants.

However, after reaching Tier 2, this speed would slow down because the world's foundation was insufficient to support the players' model of first purchasing equipment to strengthen themselves and then hunting Tier 2 monsters.

In the entire ninja world, most of the origin essence could only condense a single pair of Tier 2 Rinnegan.

The Pirate World hadn't even seen a Tier 2 item yet.

"If we continue with the previous model, the pollution forces will soon notice the existence of the Samsara Game."

Fang Yi took a deep breath.

The Tier 1 monsters that were hunted previously would not be taken seriously by the Polluted World,

but the Tier 2 Pollution Sources that needed to be hunted later were not the kind of cannon fodder that could be ignored, even on the Polluted Continent.

Once a large number went missing and were hunted by players, the upper echelons of the pollution would notice something was wrong.

By then, if the players' strength hadn't grown, they might be wiped out entirely.

A Fu asked skeptically: "But, Master, aren't you afraid of being discovered by dispatching players to shuttle into other worlds so recklessly?"

This kind of mode, similar to Samsara travelers, was also very easily detected by pollution forces.

"Do you think my Reward Points are spent in vain?"

Fang Yi laughed, though his eyes showed a hint of heartache.

He raised his hand, and a strange Rune appeared within the space of the Samsara Game, shining brightly like the sun.

【World Eater Rune (Tier 2)】: Can intercept the time origin of a world and transform it into a brand-new derivative world.

The short text description left A Fu stunned on the spot.

She didn't understand the ability of this Rune, but as the consciousness of the Samsara World, she could sense that this Rune actually contained a full five hundred million Reward Points.

A single Rune consumed all the origin essence from two worlds during this period, as well as all the pollution hunted by the players. A Fu stammered: "Master, have you gone mad?"

Fang Yi vigorously rubbed her head, messing up her white hair, and said: "I haven't gone mad; this is the key to countering the Polluted Continent."

Although this Rune is expensive, it is worth the price.

It is also the core that allows for the issuance of Counterattack Missions.

If a world being swallowed by pollution is like a complete lump of clay, this Rune can silently steal a small part of this clay and then transform it into a derivative world.

A derivative world can only be considered a segment of a false world.

It is like a closed segment of time, constantly repeating a fixed plot, cycling over and over, until someone can break this segment of time.

When players are teleported into a derivative world and complete the Main Quest, they are clearing the pollutants within that derivative world.

The reason the World Eater Rune is so expensive is that the pollution killed by players in the derivative world will weaken the real Pollution Monsters in the main world.

As more and more players accept Counterattack Missions and kill the pollution monsters in the derivative world countless times, the pollution in the main world will also be infinitely weakened until it is finally fragile.

"There's such a way to play?"

A Fu widened her eyes in shock.

She had opposed it because there was a precedent of a Main God-style resistance army that was destroyed after being detected by the Polluted Continent due to their constant shuttling between worlds.

Because constant teleportation meant a high probability of exposing coordinates; before the Samsara travelers could grow, the coordinates were already brightly exposed to the Polluted Continent.

But the Counterattack Missions issued by her Master,

while seemingly a Samsara traveler and infinite-style mode, are actually still a sneaky nibbling, and the probability of being discovered is very small.

By the time the polluted world reacts, it will already be too late.

What is this feeling of thinking it's despicable while also feeling that her Master is so amazing?

In the past,

it was always the World Consciousness guarding against the Polluted Continent, and new pollution methods would appear, to avoid being occupied by the other side.

Now, unexpectedly, the situation has reversed; his own master's underhanded tricks are endless, and to this day, the Polluted Continent has yet to discover them.

Thinking of this, A Fu feels a bit embarrassed, yet he cannot help but puff out his chest.

He feels honored by association.

【Entered the 【Wind and Cloud】 world, language module loaded, beginning mission search.】

World Tier: Tier 2

Mission Description: Xiong Ba, the leader of the Under Heaven Society who is favored by destiny, attempts to annex the entire Wind and Cloud Continent; to this end, he dispatches powerful society members to fight in all directions, and Huo Jiazhuang is merely a small pebble blocking Xiong Ba's path as he devours the world.

Main Quest: Prevent the Huo Jiazhuang tragedy (Requirement: protect Huo Jiazhuang for three days, with at least five direct descendants of the Huo family surviving).

Mission Reward: 100,000 Reward Points, 2,000 Contribution Points. "A Martial Arts world, is it?"

Looking at the content of the mission description, Shanks knits his brows tightly.

Countless game exchanges have already made it roughly clear to the players the different attributes of other worlds: there are magical worlds capable of controlling Magic, technological worlds, and Martial Arts worlds like the one the two are currently in.

"In other words, what we need to face is no longer monsters, but those humans from another world?"

"Let's check the Otherworld Shop first."

Shanks opens the shop impatiently.

After the version update, it was changed so that every otherworld has an exclusive shop, selling equipment and items from that world.

If players want to purchase corresponding items, they must first complete the Counterattack Mission of that world to obtain Contribution Points before they can make a purchase.

This has led to complaints from some players.

But for Shanks, this also equates to a series of unknown adventures.

A game interface pops up.

【Otherworld Shop (Wind and Cloud)】.

(End of this chapter)