126: Third Transformation! Trial Beyond Time and Space! (1)

“Next time… next time I’ll definitely win!”

Oriental Pride Snow truly wanted another battle, but she had more important matters at hand.

After the real-world account was created, the eternal system announcements could actually be sent directly.

She knew about the super update, the cross-realm event, and the national war.

She had thought that for something as important as a cross-realm event, the system would surely issue an announcement, but it had been silent.

However, the God Chosen who followed were able to cross the Eternal Night Sea and open a teleportation gate directly into the Empire.

It was only then that the system activated the cross-realm announcement, simultaneously enabling the national war and real-world account functionalities.

“See?”

“You’ve even caused anomalies in the real-world data!”

Oriental Pride Snow rolled her eyes and glared.

“What does a real-world anomaly have to do with me?” Lin Ye pulled her into his arms, a wicked smile playing on his lips: “Right now, I only care if I’ve fixed your anomalous data.”

Oriental Pride Snow’s beautiful eyes flickered, she really wanted to…

Hmm?

Before she could think, Lin Ye was already preparing to restart a round.

“Don’t…”

Oriental Pride Snow finally couldn’t resist, her voice weakening by three points, and she softly said: “If you don’t care about the national war, I do, especially now that all the Empire’s forces have been deployed towards Moon Shadow Kingdom.”

“Moreover…”

“The magic level of the West Continent has always surpassed that of the East Continent.”

“This isn’t about players, but the fundamental gap between the two sides is too vast. The number of Legendary Archmages over there is enormous, and their strength is formidable; even Law Sages are not a rare existence.”

“Actually, as early as the initial stages of the game’s launch, the two sides had several rounds of arguments because of this, but considering the Eternal Night Sea as an insurmountable chasm, there was no possibility of long-term contact, so it was left unresolved…”

Lin Ye vaguely remembered that there was a big commotion online back then.

“That’s not important.”

Lin Ye wouldn’t pay too much attention to the player factions of the West Continent, or the Magic Association; holding time and space meant standing on high ground, possessing absolute initiative.

“But there’s something important this time—that God!”

Oriental Pride Snow’s pupils constricted: “Oh right, there’s also God!”

In the Empire, let alone a God, even mythical-level existences were considered non-existent.

Whether it was the Sacred Light Kingdom in the West Continent or the Beast Tribes in the southern part of the East Continent, they all recognized deities, and there were many rumors of miracles.

But the NPCs just thought that way.

Imperial players didn’t care at first.

Gods?

No Gods?

Was there a big difference?

But now, when the God Chosen appeared, and when God personally opened a passage through the Eternal Night Sea, connecting the East and West Continents, anyone should understand that God was not just a concept, but a concrete existence.

This was truly somewhat terrifying, because the being you prayed to might truly be omnipotent.

“I’m not sure…”

After deep thought, Oriental Pride Snow shook her head slightly: “I haven’t collected any information about the God Lord; there’s nothing like that in the Empire.”

“From the NPC perspective, the two continents basically don’t communicate. I heard that within the Magic Association, there seem to be some methods to communicate, so our understanding of deities is almost zero!”

“This time, it was almost as if God personally intervened to open the passage. You say… is it possible that He came for you?”

Facing Oriental Pride Snow’s concerned gaze, Lin Ye couldn’t help but smile.

“You still care if I live or die?”

Oriental Pride Snow gave him a resentful glare: “Stop messing around, okay? Defeating you is my own business, but protecting you is my mission! I will never let personal feelings interfere with my mission!”

Hiss! The excuse you found… it’s simply perfect!

Lin Ye didn’t make things difficult for her.

“If you don’t know, then forget it. I’ll research it myself.”

Information about deities was something he absolutely had to grasp.

Avinia, the Queen… they might have information, but he mainly had to rely on Yi Yi.

As for whether it was targeting him, Lin Ye didn’t even need Yi Yi to give him a prophecy; he could smell danger from this series of God Chosen announcements.

“You just said that the Magic Associations of the East and West Continents can communicate, right?”

“Yes,” Oriental Pride Snow nodded.

“Then it’s easy to explain.”

Lin Ye preliminarily reached a conclusion in his mind.

“The Magic Association considers me a demon, the West Continent learned the news, and they’re very seriously trying to find a way to solve it, even notifying God, and then this God also happens to be a busybody, and actually took action?”

“Everyone scrambles for profit; unless God is a fool, there’s no reason for Him to be so bored, right?”

Lin Ye reconsidered.

If God was acting for profit, then besides the recently appeared God Chosen expanding His territory, what else was there?

God always had the ability to open passages but didn’t use it; He certainly wouldn’t do so just for a few more believers, or suddenly decide to start a divine war, right?

After all, there were no competitors for Him on the Empire’s side…

So, there must be other interests attracting God to make this decision.

Forgotten Land?

Eternal Empire?

Hmm… Lin Ye felt this was more likely.

Otherwise, why would He need to open a teleportation passage?

Since He opened it, it must be for Ex, or the Magic Association, the Temple, and others on the other side to participate in the battle.

Regardless of the reason, God Himself certainly couldn’t come, otherwise, it wouldn’t be so troublesome.

“Let’s enter the game.”

Lin Ye couldn’t find the answers to these questions in reality.

He put on his bathrobe and changed rooms.

Bai Shuya also brought Lin Ye a helmet.

“Don’t rush with soul binding for now; eternal is very dangerous, even more dangerous than reality!”

Bai Shuya nodded gravely: “I know. You shouldn’t bind either, after all, what you possess… is very dangerous!”

Lin Ye certainly wouldn’t bind; there was no need for it.

No matter what eternal was like, now that he had crossed realms, he still possessed SSS-grade talent in reality. Not invincible, but at least a T1 level existence, right?

And the more realms he crossed in the future, his strength would always continue to increase.

“Hiss!”

“No, wait!”

Lin Ye suddenly realized: “The Forgotten Land is too important!”

“If there’s no Star Tower, then the subsequent Eternal Empire quests will be almost impossible to carry out. Conversely, for God, something like the Forgotten Land also holds attraction.”

“The Emperor back then conquered the stars with the Star Tower.”

“Now that we’ve reached this stage, we can’t still think that the Emperor’s title of ‘Lord of the Stars’ was just symbolic, can we? We can’t still believe that the Emperor didn’t truly dominate those many stars, can we?”

Let alone the Emperor, even Lin Ye himself, after getting his hands on the Star Tower, even if it was still the lowest quality version, had already begun his path of conquest using the teleportation array function.

Think again, how terrifying would an Emperor with eternal life be if he obtained a conquest tool like the Star Tower?

Similarly, God also has eternal life, right?

God also needs territory, right?

So, God also needs the Star Tower, right?

Churches, aren’t they just another form of Star Tower?

Ultra-long-range communication, cross-realm items, various buildings…

Hiss? Aren’t these the same thing?

Lin Ye was certain. Ex, and the Lord of Sacred Light, were both coming for him, or rather, for the Forgotten Land.

Logging into eternal, Lin Ye’s first command was to pause the distribution of time-space keys.

“Boss Bai, I’ll transfer 1 billion to you. Immediately initiate war mobilization!”