Translated by: La0o9
Edited by: VindiFan#1 & Arya
TN: previous chapters and upcoming chapters will change the word âElixirâ( chapter 173) to âSerumâ, sorry for any confusion.
From ages of old, those who stood at the top of the food chain have always arbitrarily started wars that cost hundreds of thousands, or millions of lives, for the smallest bit of profit for themselves.
In the long history of humanity, such occurrences have become commonplace.
And this time, what theyâre being offered is eternal life.
If the famous tyrants of history were offered such a chance, what would they choose?
What does a mere loss of over 10,000 lives mean to them?
And itâs the same with powerful Professionists.
Even if over a million people, or ten million people in the world die, as long as they themselves gain eternal life, thatâs a good deal.
And thereâs more people who die every day, thatâs as normal as the sun rising in the morning.
But if they manage to survive that struggle, when they finally obtain eternal life, all wthatâs awaiting them is a horrible death at the hands of a strange clown, then why even bother?
The Game of Eternal triggers humanityâs intense desire to live forever.
And the Murder Clown douses that desire with cold water.
Everyone regained their senses.
A mere dozen minutes after the Murder Clown disappeared, the effects of its actions had already erupted all over the world.
The appearance of the Murder Clown is just as mysterious, if not even more mysterious than the Game of Eternal.
Because it had already escaped from the territory of the unknown, and instead penetrated deeply into the territory of societyâs world order.
Even mechanical devices without any feelings like the Holo-Brains were under its control.
And itâs not any Holo-Brain weâre talking about here.
âââitâs literally every Holo-Brain in the world.
Holo-Brains are cold and unloving machines, they wonât be fooled by any sort of mystical spells, yet the Murder Clown was able to do what he did.
Then what else can he manipulate?
War machines?
If you follow this line of thought, youâll soon realize just how terrifying what just happened was.
Every country was in an uproar again, for a completely different reason.
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The Holy Empire.
The Royal Palace.
Two royal guards as well as two priests were quickly walking forward.
The Holy Empireâs king, the Holy Churchâs pope, as well as numerous palace officials were gathered here.
âReportâ
âSpeakâ
âWe detected no traces of machine manipulation left behind, the situation is the same in every other countryâ
âCould it have been manually done? Someone took control of everyoneâs Holo-Brains at the same timeâ the pope softly asked.
âNo one can manually control every single Holo-Brain in the world at the same time, thatâs just not physically possibleâ the head royal guard said.
âWhat about other countries?â the pope asked.
âFuxi Empireâs emperor threw his favorite porcelain item in anger, ordering people to check it, but no results cameâ
âThe Freedom Confederateâs President and the representatives of the 9 Lords are currently in a meeting ââvery rarely will they ignore all their differences to gather in one place like this, but from what we know, they havenât managed to arrive at any conclusions yetâ
âThen what about that Game of Eternal from before?â
âItâs the same, we found no leftover tracesâ
âThe Game of Eternalâs champion was killed by the Murder Clown using a method that we donât understand, but no one managed find either of themâ
The pope stayed silent for a bit, then suddenly asked: âHave you found the recipe for the Godâs Chosen Awakening Serum?â
âWeâve still only managed to find halfâ
The pope shook her head in disappointment and directly left the palace, ignoring everyone there.
Everyone was shocked at such an uncharacteristic action from the pope.
But no one dared to say anything about her being disrespectful.
The pope continued to ignore everyone and went by herself onto a horse-pulled carriage, letting the 10 white horses pulled her carriage past the large fountain square in front of the palace and headed towards the Holy Sanctuary at the East.
In the carriage, the pope seemed to be staring at the fleeting scenery outside, but said nothing.
When the carriage finally stopped before the gates of the Holy Sanctuary, she finally let out a sigh.
No one managed to hear her mutter: âItâs too fast, even this planet⊠isnât safe anymore?â
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The S.W. Divine Temple.
A crimson red staff was thrown to the ground, letting out a metal clanking sound.
âWhat a good itemâ Zhang Ying Hao picked it up and tried holding it in his hand.
âLetâs hide it away first, the entire world had seen this little toy alreadyâ Gu Qing Shan said.
[The materials of this staff isnât the same as any known substances, I need to record its data and characteristics] Impartial Goddess said.
âThen take itâ Zhang Ying Hao answered.
He put the staff back down on the ground.
A mechanical arm reached out and pulled the staff under the floor panels.
[Sir, what I did this time has violated a total of 15 protocols that humanity had set up for me] Impartial Goddess spoke.
âBut your actions had frightened the people, making them not wanting to risk their lives for nothingâ Gu Qing Shan said without lifting his head.
[Violating the protocols is still wrong] Impartial Goddess continued, [This is the first time Iâve tried being a hacker]
âBut from doing this, youâll have saved countless lives, my friend, you need to learn to be flexibleâ
[Do you believe your method to be correct sir?]
âItâs definitely correctâ Gu Qing Shan stopped and very serious spoke, âwe might follow law and order, but in the face of desperation, the only real law is forged from swords and spearsâ
[I understand] Impartial Goddess replied.
âCome help meâ saying so, Gu Qing Shan was quickly sketching out a mechanical partâs blueprint.
He was busy creating the building blocks for the [Protector of the Planet]âs core System.
Liao Xing was also with him.
The two of them were constantly drawing each part for the System on separate screens.
As soon as they finished one blueprint, the screen will immediately refresh, giving them the next part and problem for them to resolve.
They were so busy that they didnât even have the time to eat.
Zhang Ying Hao patted Ye Fei Li on the shoulder and asked: âHow does it feel?â
Ye Fei Li was a bit regretful: âAfter breaking the sound barrier, the flying speed was too great, so Iâve not had the chance to try out many of the featuresâ
âThe voice doesnât sound like youâ
âImpartial Goddess said that was the voice she calculated would be the easiest to create fear in peopleâs heartsâ
âNice, Impartial Goddess is indeed correctâ Zhang Ying Hao said: âBut then, what was that last thing you did?â
Ye Fei Li answered: âAfter Man Killer Fiends evolve to a certain degree, theyâll automatically gain a special abilityâ
âOriginally I wanted to just twist his neckâ he pridefully explained, âbut after thinking, out of all the Man Killer Fiends, Iâm the only one that evolved and gained this ability, plus itâs so much more visual than using space lasers, so I used itâ
Zhang Ying Hao spoke with admiration: âGod damn, although I canât learn how to use your blood glow thing, I have to request the guy to make me a personal armor as wellâ
During the following period, Gu Qing Shan was fully focused on developing the game, while Liao Xing was busy experimenting with miniaturizing the warp device, both of them were so busy they actually completely forgot about time.
Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li were busy getting along, after staring at Gu Qing Shanâs work for a while, they both agreed that it wasnât something interesting to them.
And they canât even help with it at all.
After a while, they had Impartial Goddess give them each a screen to play an online game.
Time quickly passed, then night time quickly came again.
An old voice was heard once more.
ă The second round of the Game of Eternal has officially begun ă
The voice was not near yet not far; it was emitted from inside of everyoneâs mind the same as before.
Unlike the uproar it caused the first time, after witnessing the Game of Eternal and the Murder Clown one after another, humanity had started to get used to it.