Back at the apartment, Aurelius and Fluffball still had not finished their game.
Caelum leaned over for a look and found that Fluffball had only two pawns and a king left.
On Aurelius’s side, one pawn had already reached the far end and was closing in on Fluffball’s king. Two knights and two rooks were still watching from the side.
Facing that board, Fluffball could only tremble.
Caelum had planned to rest for a few days before entering the next game, but unexpectedly, the game terminal brought up the game interface by itself. It was promoting a new game to every player.
"Hm?"
Caelum was rather surprised.
This was the first time he had seen such a thing.
When he saw that it was a brand new game he had never encountered before, curiosity led him into the game’s main page.
"Old Gods?"
He glanced at the release time.
It had gone online just now.
Caelum did not quite understand why the game system would actively promote this game.
In truth, this had a great deal to do with Caelum.
It was precisely because he had invaded the hostile system in Legend of the Empire that the game system had found an opening.
At the time, the hostile system had been busy dealing with Caelum.
The game system seized that chance and locked onto one of the hostile system’s worlds.
The current promotion was a call for players to enter that locked world and fight for it.
Not only Caelum.
Every player received this promotion screen.
Of course, this was a normal series game world. Caelum had just come out of Legend of the Empire, so the special series had entered cooldown again.
Since it was a game promotion, the reward was naturally extremely generous.
Otherwise, how could it attract players into this game?
Once again, the game system put up a Wishing Star.
Most importantly, players entering this game did not need to obtain final victory this time.
Every player who survived until the end would receive a Wishing Star, a reward that could grant any wish within a single universe.
"What is going on?"
Guy was left wide eyed.
This was the first time he had ever seen the game system act so generous, and because of that, he became hesitant instead.
"Something is wrong."
"Mm."
Derek nodded in agreement.
"The richer the reward, the higher the difficulty of the game world. A Wishing Star is not that easy to get."
"Then what do you mean?"
"We might as well try."
With the game system promoting it so heavily, Old Gods, a game that had only just gone online, was pushed straight into the popular rankings.
The players went crazy.
The reward was a Wishing Star.
And every player who lived until the end could obtain one.
How could anyone miss such a good opportunity?
A large number of players immediately chose to enter the game.
Naturally, the four major guilds would not miss this chance to rise to the sky in one step. Each decided to use the full strength of the guild to clear Old Gods.
At the core meeting of the AXN and AXF99 guilds, the other members all looked toward Derek and Guy at the same time.
Their gazes were full of unease.
Derek shrugged.
Guy rolled his eyes in irritation.
Although the two of them had successfully cleared their suspicion as the Double Calamities of World Collapse with the previous game, their records were far too messy. If they really had to enter the same game as these two, the others still felt extremely unsettled.
One after another, they prayed silently in their hearts.
Heavens above, please let there be no world collapse plot this time.
From the generous reward, Caelum also realized that this might be an extremely difficult game world.
His interest rose at once.
What value did this world have that made the game system so willing to hand out rewards without restraint?
Thinking to this point, he paused.
Then he realized the answer.
For the game system to pay such a price, it was very likely trying to seize a world from the hostile system.
Because it needed players as anchors to lock onto the world, it used the Wishing Star as bait and asked the players entering the game to survive until the end as much as possible.
Caelum understood.
"That makes sense."
This was no ordinary game journey.
It was the game system’s revenge action, returning tooth for tooth and eye for eye.
Since the hostile system could invade this side, the game system could naturally invade the other side and seize control of its worlds.
In other words, this was another game world connected to the hostile system.
In that case, Caelum had to enter.
He truly wanted to know what would happen if he caught the hostile system, the game system, and the special ability system all in one net, seizing the authority of all three.
Would he leap straight into becoming the supreme ruler of the infinite story worlds?
Or would he learn the essence and truth of the infinite story worlds?
This was a question Caelum had always wanted to understand.
Most important of all.
Where had the three systems come from?
With that curiosity, Caelum chose to enter the game.
Game: Old Gods
Enter game
White light flashed.
Caelum vanished and entered the game world.
Since it had only just gone online, there was no information about it on the game forum yet.
All Caelum could learn from the game introduction was that this was a large open world game.
Beyond that, he knew nothing.
He entered the game.
Deep night.
Thick clouds covered the moonlight. The flat stone paved road was slick with water, as if a heavy rain had just passed.
This was Caelum’s starting point.
He stood alone on a pitch black street.
On both sides were somewhat old Western style buildings.
He wore a black suit, almost blending into the night.
The game introduction began.
The embodiments of cosmic rules wander among the stars. The stars are their paths, and They are the ultimate existences of this world and this universe.
They are ancient, eternal, indescribable...
Twisted, mad, chaotic, without order.
Knowledge is poison.
Madness is the cure.
The whispers beside your ear are where everything begins.
Search.
A great secret is hidden in the darkness of this world.
...
Player: Caelum
Sanity: 90
Sequence: None
Stage: Zero
...
The meaning of the introduction was unclear.
Caelum could not obtain much information about this world from it. He could only roughly understand that this world seemed to contain certain beings that were far beyond the standard and impossible to describe.
From the attribute panel, Sanity seemed to have a maximum of 100.
The lower the Sanity, the closer one was to madness.
Caelum’s Sanity of 90 was considered very high.
As for Sequence and Stage, the attribute panel did not give much explanation.
Caelum guessed they should be related to this world’s power system.
If he wanted more information, he could only explore on his own.
Caelum looked down at his suit.
In his hand was a black briefcase.
He opened it and found a letter, an old notebook, and several strange little items inside.