I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 616 - 334: A New Era Called Anomaly

On the last day of the twenty-fourth month in the great ruins, all the players disappeared, and the entire world stabilized along with them.

The world successfully shrugged off the influence of the great ruins.

"I almost worked myself to death. How’s the cost analysis coming along?" Gu Shanhai asked.

In this last month, players frantically exchanged and settled accounts, with rumors that the server would be closed for a hundred years.

For beings of longevity, a hundred years might be fleeting, but for the players, it essentially meant the server was closed.

After a hundred years, they naturally wouldn’t return to this world because the world might not keep pace with them.

Gu Shanhai also took this opportunity to collect nearly one hundred thousand Child Skill and Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt manuals. It seemed like a lot, but in actuality, it wasn’t, considering collecting one hundred thousand manuals from ten billion players was still too few.

Gu Shanhai estimated that in the coming years, he would continuously need to improve his Child Skill and Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt. With so many types of manuals, integrating them wouldn’t be easy.

However, correspondingly, the limits of his Child Skill and Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt would skyrocket, even allowing him, a cultivator, to excel in martial arts.

"We just finished tallying up. Luckily, you reduced the rewards earlier, teacher, otherwise even surviving the winter would be a problem," Rein said tiredly.

He was not only physically exhausted, but mentally as well.

The entire civilization had regressed to primitive times, comparable to not even being able to start a fire, and needed to be rebuilt from scratch.

It was only because his rate of decline slowed down after he reconnected to the network that he hadn’t turned into a complete primitive.

Unfortunately, this was just a slowdown, not immunity.

Without a solution, he too would become primitive, a primitive with the power of a Saint.

That’s why he needed to consider the problem of surviving the winter.

"Is it that serious? How many people are left?" Gu Shanhai asked again.

"Currently, only seventy million are left. The disaster caused by the disaster sundial led to a significant decrease in population, and the trend is still declining; next month, there might only be fifty million left," Rein sighed with a tired heart.

Two years ago, the world of Adventure King had at least ninety billion people, but due to two years of influence from the great ruins and continuous disasters triggered by the disaster sundial and other anomalies, now only seventy million remained. Even if just a number, it was chilling for Rein.

Even with such a reduced population, Rein was troubled over the resources needed to make it through the winter. The resources spent saving the world by the players were truly overwhelming for the entire world.

This was understandable, as they had supported hundreds of billions of Transcendents, and even the wealthiest would be drained eventually. During the peak times in Adventure King’s world, the number of adventurers never exceeded ten million, and ninety billion supporting ten million was why it was so affluent. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Most adventurers were non-productive, with only a small portion in life-sustaining professions, but even those in life-sustaining professions were essentially dependents.

"It’s also fortunate that primitives haven’t devolved but have only lost civilization; otherwise, our problems would be even bigger," Gu Shanhai felt somewhat relieved.

Although the indigenous people had become almost like primitives, their intelligence and other aspects were still intact; they were just in a very strange state.

It was as if there was no difference from before, except they lost language, writing, tools, and technology, an ironic situation that made Gu Shanhai both cry and laugh.

"We can only delay temporarily; we need to quickly identify the anomalies restricting our civilization’s development. Although we’ve confirmed that the other party can only weaken us to this extent, we’ll never advance if we don’t solve it," Rein spoke calmly.

In recent months, apart from the disaster sundial discovered by Gu Shanhai, there have been more and more anomalies appearing, making the entire world extremely eerie.

"Can’t find them, can you handle it?" Gu Shanhai spread his hands; right now, in the entire world, only the two of them had a chance to solve it, but the problem was that they couldn’t find it.

If it could be found, Gu Shanhai was still willing to take a gamble.

"I plan to ascend to a divine being, teacher. What do you think?" Rein also made up his mind.

This meant he couldn’t find it either, so he had to level up, as for asking Gu Shanhai, that wasn’t reliable. If it could be found, they wouldn’t have waited until now.

"If you’re asking my opinion, then of course I’ll just sit back and watch," Gu Shanhai certainly had no objections, but he also said, "But now is not the right time."

"Not the right time? Do you have a plan, teacher?" Rein asked curiously.

"I plan to add some of my own elements to this world to ensure your successful ascension."

"You know, this world’s attitude towards all of us is ambiguous, as can be seen from these anomalies—they don’t favor you or me but still want you to maintain the entire world."

"Do you think that’s reasonable?"

"It’s not reasonable, plus, you know very well what the situation with gods is, they’ve become a thing of the past. Now, the mainstream are these anomalies, and for you, an obsolete remnant, to become a god, let alone whether the anomalies would prevent it, the world may not even be able to accommodate you."

Gu Shanhai wasn’t scaremongering, but it was the truth; with each new era, new leaders emerge, and the world might tolerate two crippled Saints like Gu Shanhai and Rein, but it definitely couldn’t allow a true deity to exist.