I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 612 - 332: World Overload, Catastrophic Coincidence

"Even the items in players’ hands can’t be recorded, that’s a bit of a big problem," Gu Shanhai furrowed his brows, looking solemn.

The ’big problem’ Gu Shanhai referred to might be related to ’The First Epoch’ reworking the whole world, giving Gu Shanhai the impression it wanted a major reshuffle of the entire world’s system.

Clearly, the previous adventurer system wasn’t profitable enough for ’The First Epoch.’

It made sense, too— the output from the adventurer system was simply too great, which meant expenditures were high. When costs rise, profits surely fall.

However, if that were indeed the case, there was also good news; there was no need to worry about the human beings in the entire adventurer world being disposed of like worn-out oxen.

’The First Epoch’ required a large population to serve as NPCs and managers.

"So, this is a process of formatting, it seems the server closure isn’t far off."

"It’s very likely to begin once we completely rid ourselves of the influence of the Great Ruins." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

It was now the sixteenth month of the Great Ruins, and according to Gu Shanhai’s estimation, there should be about eight months left— around the twenty-fourth month of the Great Ruins— before the entire Adventurer King world would be closed off.

Normally, by the middle or end of the twenty-third month of the Great Ruins, its influence would completely vanish.

The extra month was meant to give them time to settle accounts with players, who had contributions attached to them. These contributions could be exchanged for rewards with Gu Shanhai, though now all rewards had turned into random skills, and Gu Shanhai had rather ruthlessly tacked on an extra zero to the prices.

Originally, he planned to use a gacha system for rewards. For example, there was a one in ten million chance of drawing a Divine Favored Level skill from a hundred consecutive draws, a basic skill had a one in ten thousand chance in a hundred draws.

That’s right, a minimum of a hundred draws was required to start, nothing less allowed.

If you didn’t draw anything, there were no additional rewards— just a ’thank you for your patronage’ displayed on the machine, not even a real note handed over.

This matter was bound to cause player backlash, and might even lead ’The First Epoch’ to pay attention because of withheld rewards, forcing Gu Shanhai to honestly make the exchanges.

However, adding a zero wasn’t a big deal as long as Gu Shanhai didn’t truly scam the players to death; ’The First Epoch’ would turn a blind eye and wouldn’t care too much.

Many native NPC residents did the same thing; to ’The First Epoch,’ it simply wasn’t a big issue.

The wool comes from the sheep, these rewards came from the Adventurer King world, which indirectly belonged to ’The First Epoch,’ so Gu Shanhai’s actions could be seen as both training players and saving money for ’The First Epoch.’

"Things are likely to get busy now, all this trouble makes me feel like I’m at a big loss," Gu Shanhai said helplessly, his power progression was extremely slow due to these issues, almost like there had been none.

There were benefits, of course, not that there weren’t any. His own destiny had grown, especially since he stayed close to Rein, and with the blessings of life and fortune, if Gu Shanhai were to be semi-digitally quantified now, his luck would have already reached 3 points.

He certainly couldn’t compare to the protagonist, who started at 100 points, not to mention their respective hidden talents for increasing luck and destiny; even players who specialized in luck might not compare, but for Gu Shanhai, this was relatively safely acquired.

"After all this is over, I’ll need to find a way to develop Rein into a deity, otherwise it’s a pure loss."

What? He inherited the heritage of the God of Destiny’s End? That certainly couldn’t count, that was just breaking even.

"Also, I need to take the last chance to exchange things with players, especially Child Skill, to see if there are any other versions I can exchange with skill potions." Gu Shanhai had a good idea— using the world’s ledger to reap personal benefits.

How could the business of players be considered embezzlement? At most, it was a tiny bit of loss.

After all, what doesn’t have loss? Besides, he’s done so much without any reward; Gu Shanhai thought it fair to compensate himself a bit, otherwise all his hard work would be in vain.

"And then there’s... the civilization regression has been too severe lately," Gu Shanhai sighed at the thought, his expression turning bitter.

At least three thousand characters had vanished from writing, and the same was true of other technologies; language problems were also gradually becoming apparent.

Some would suddenly get stuck mid-speech, as if they had forgotten how to describe

Gu Shanhai estimated that by the time the server closed, the entire civilization would revert to a primitive state, except maybe Rein would be slightly better.

His Divine Power resisted part of the erosion, so he didn’t forget as much as the common people did, and with Gu Shanhai’s help, Rein was in an endless cycle of forgetting and relearning.

But it was only Rein; his influence on the entire civilization was minuscule— he couldn’t preserve the entire civilization alone.

So, he could only watch helplessly as the entire civilization regressed.

Rein’s wives were in the same situation, though they seemed more open-minded about it. What was forgotten was merely writing and language, not memories; if it couldn’t be solved, they simply went with the flow.