Rumble

"What’s happening?" Eleanor shouted as she felt the entire cave start to shake.

Victor’s eyes widened when he saw a familiar notification appear before him.

[Ding Dong]

[Emergency Player Notification]

Every player still logged into the game paused what they were doing and looked at the notification.

[Mana is rapidly surging across the entire planet]

[All conditions have been met for the evolution of the planet to the second stage]

[The planet has started to evolve]

[The planet’s surface area will increase by 10x]

[The strength cap will increase]

[The evolution will take 7 days to complete]

[During this time, beasts will become mindless and continuously attack human territories]

[All players will be forcibly logged out and cannot enter the game]

[After the evolution finishes, players can enter the game with their real bodies, and Dungeons will start appearing on Earth]

There was tense silence before players in the game broke out into an uproar, and all social media, news outlets, and player forums began buzzing with discussions.

’Fuck.’ Victor, who had read the notification, cursed inwardly and looked around. He saw the girls panicking as they did not know what was happening, and the notification was only visible to players. He hurriedly opened the chat, and sure enough, many people were panicking while others were looking forward to it.

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Noobjoke77: Hey, hey, this isn’t a joke, right?

NoobMaster69: Doesn’t seem like it. How can we enter the game with our real bodies?

Lustgamer6789: Who cares if that is real? Maybe I can buy female slaves and enjoy them with my real body. Sure, the 100% realistic settings are good, but doing it with a real body is even better.

GamerGod123: Damn, pervert. I just wonder how the government is going to deal with Dungeons if this is true.

Animegamer78: I think they should create a system like the Guild System from a certain anime.

BusinessBoss919: If Dungeons appear in the real world like the game mentioned, I think it will shake the entire global economy. Just think about it—Dungeons mean more discovered land, which means access to more resources. In my opinion, the mining industry and new companies that dismantle and sell monster corpses will rise rapidly.

Cosmictheories64: Maybe the game isn’t a game at all, but a different planet that we can visit through the game system.

Conspiracy77777: Actually, that makes sense.

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Victor’s expression darkened slightly when he saw that some of them were hoping they could travel with their real bodies once Dungeons appeared. Sure, they were right—it would become a source of resources, but that was only at the beginning. Later, Earth itself would also undergo evolution, and not only monsters, but the game world itself would merge together with reality. Many countries would vanish, causing millions of deaths. Especially on Earth, guilds would rise into colossal powers rivaling entire kingdoms.

"Damn, this event should not have happened this early. Could this be a butterfly effect?" Victor said in a low voice, his face darkening. Before his regression, the evolution of the world had happened much later. Honestly, the reason he was trying to grow stronger and upgrade his army was largely because of this.

After the evolution occurred, many human kingdoms perished, while those who were smart rose to prominence. Even some knight families who awakened new bloodlines formed powerful empires on the planet. This had been the case for every planet that evolved.

The most dangerous threat was not the humans who grew stronger, but the magical beasts, which gained human-like intelligence, formed their own monster empires, and attacked human kingdoms and settlements.

Rumble

Rumble

Tremor

Victor snapped out of his thoughts when he felt the entire cave begin to shake violently.

"Everyone, quickly leave the cave! It’s going to collapse any moment!" Victor said hurriedly as everyone nodded and quickly rushed out of the cave, though not before he freed the other women in cages who had only recently been brought by Jack and Ronald.

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As they stepped outside, the ground was shaking even harder, and the cave had collapsed completely.

"What the hell is going on today?" Eleanor cursed, trying to keep herself from falling to the ground.

Rumble— Rumble—

As seconds passed, the ground started shaking even more fiercely, and the women began falling over.

"Ahhh!"

Their panicked screams rang throughout every corner of the area.

Cra... Crack.

Just when Eleanor thought things couldn’t get any worse, her ears twitched as she heard the sound of something tearing apart.

Slowly lifting her head, Eleanor’s pupils instantly dilated as she watched the sky tear apart and a massive rift appear overhead.

Before she could even finish her sentence, the crack in the sky widened further, and suddenly, the mana in the air thickened considerably.

Instantly, the pores of her body opened up, and her body started greedily absorbing the mana in the air. She felt as though some kind of shackle had shattered within her body.

Normally, she would’ve been delighted by this development; however, she was anything but happy.

"Hey, do you know what’s happening?" Eleanor asked Victor, who didn’t reply and kept staring at the sky with a frown.

"It’s happening exactly like last time," Victor muttered as he watched more cracks appear in the sky, mana pouring out from them and filling the entire atmosphere. This was done by the Akashic Record, which was feeding the planet with mana to make it evolve.

"Ahhhhh!"

Victor turned his gaze from the sky and looked at the woman who had just screamed.

Victor looked around, and his pupils constricted when he saw the scene as he muttered, "I almost forgot about this."

"What the hell are these? How can these corpses still move?" Amber’s eyes widened in shock as she looked at the goblin corpses, which had started twitching and slowly rising to their feet. They seemed like puppets controlled by invisible strings, but what shocked her most was that she could feel they were much stronger than when they had been alive.