Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 20 - Challenger Plan

[Player Count: 90]

Number of Primordial Traits Collected: 9

Today's Sacrifical Power Output from Players: 552 points

Average Monster Level Among Players: 5

Ownership of Domain Node: Imperial Tomb Village (The burial site of Emperor Zhao's last origins, possesses the Territory Characteristics of reshaping life and flesh)

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After reviewing today's earnings, a glow arose from the Primordial Altar beneath Qi Sheng's feet.

After a brief spatial distortion, he appeared in the bedroom of the real world.

Glancing at the calendar on the wall, he opened the window and switched to the Emperor's Omen Form, flying into the vast night.

After a long time, Qi Sheng appeared in front of a desolate graveyard.

This place was perennially untended, with many gravestones now covered in plant vines, nearby a city rail station was under construction.

Qi Sheng's steps halted in front of a gravestone.

The photo on the gravestone was blurred, and the inscribed text had also become mottled.

Gazing at the gravestone, Qi Sheng's expression was complex, and he eventually knelt heavily before it.

Maintaining the position for a long time, he stood up and began to repair the gravestone, memories flooding back during the process.

As a child, he always fantasized about possessing abilities beyond ordinary people, but at the moment he truly obtained them, he found himself shouldering a heavy mission.

It was when he crossed into Monster World at the age of 18.

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At that time, Monster World was in violent turmoil, with the Monster King Emperor Zhao disintegrating, various forces leaderless, plunging into a chaotic period of warlordism.

The war had continued for thousands of years before his arrival; all the forces once loyal to Emperor Zhao wanted to become the master of the new world.

Among them, four forces were the strongest.

They were Yan Ming, who controlled the Power of Space; Jiuyin, who controlled the Purification Power; Guidance, who controlled the Power of Decomposition; and Superdimension, who controlled the Power of Extracting All Things.

They were once the most loyal Servants of Emperor Zhao, and after the disintegration of Emperor Zhao, all believed that they were the most suitable successors, wanting to inherit the "Power of My Origin" buried in Imperial Tomb Village after Emperor Zhao's self-disintegration, to become the new Emperor Zhao.

But the arrival of the Horror Black Tide changed the already tense battle situation.

The Monster World was gradually corroded by the Black Tide Power, the environmental ecology was destroyed, and spatial rifts appeared in many parts of the world.

If this trend continued, Monster World would eventually be swallowed by the Black Tide.

The four great Servants eventually chose to unite against the Black Tide, fighting against the endless Evil Life.

The prolonged war gradually weakened the four great Servants, but the power of the Evil Spirits kept growing as the Black Tide continued to infiltrate the world, and the defeat became irreversible.

In the end, the four great Servants were forced by the Evil Spirits to retreat to the edge of Monster World, namely Imperial Tomb Village, where they cooperated to open the taboo seal and hid inside.

And Imperial Tomb Village is also the last piece of uninvaded holy land in the Monster World.

Originally, the four great Servants wanted to try and merge with Emperor Zhao's "Power of My Origin" to inherit the strength of Emperor Zhao, fighting the Black Tide again with the Emperor's Power.

But at the crucial moment, the Horror Black Tide struck again, enveloping Imperial Tomb Village.

It was at this point that he crossed into Monster World, getting sucked into the vortex of the Horror Black Tide, potentially facing death at any moment.

In a critical moment, it was the four great Servants who together repelled the Black Tide and incidentally rescued him back to Imperial Tomb Village.

This intervention left the already weak four great Servants even more weakened, their bodies also experiencing various problems in the process of combating the Black Tide.

Guidance also had its life form stripped at that time, turning into a Water Ball shape.

What the four great Servants did not expect was that they couldn't inherit the Myself Origin left by Emperor Zhao. Instead, it was inherited by him, a mortal who had transmigrated.

Qi Sheng still clearly remembers the complex expressions in the eyes of the four great Servants at the moment he inherited the Emperor's Power.

Anger, confusion, despair, reluctance, excitement... Various complex emotions intertwined, but ultimately all turned into peaceful acceptance.

Four figures kneeled before him, swearing loyalty to him and serving him as Servants for eternity.

And he also took on the obsession of the four great Servants, vowing to use the mighty power of Emperor Zhao to save the Monster World and dispel the endless Horror Black Tide.

In the years that followed, he first merged with the Myself Origin of Emperor Zhao and slept for 300 years.

Then, under the guidance of the four great Servants, he underwent a hundred years of cognitive learning, teaching him to understand the various abilities of Emperor Zhao and the matters of the Monster World.

But to become a true Emperor God, he still needed to leave Imperial Tomb Village to explore the Monster World and recover the lost Primordial Power of Emperor Zhao.

This process was exceedingly difficult because, apart from having the Myself Origin of Emperor Zhao, he had no other power enhancements, and the Emperor's Power could not be strengthened through any cultivation methods; only collection could grant him power.

At that time, his strength was just slightly stronger than the weakest creatures in the Monster World. Coupled with the rampant Evil Spirits outside, it was difficult for him to progress.

The attraction of Emperor Zhao's Myself Origin to Evil Spirits was immense; the four great Servants believed that if discovered by higher Evil Spirits, it would inevitably lead to disaster, so each time he went out, he had to continuously consume sacrificial power to mask the aura of Emperor Zhao.

Every outing was a substantial expenditure of sacrificial power.

During this period, he collected the Eagle-headed Demon, the stone-statue ghost, and the Black Armored Snake, gradually improving his strength.

However, this pace was still too slow in the eyes of the four great Servants. The sacrificial power spent on each outing far exceeded the benefits brought by hunting and collecting, and they had already infused the last of their divine power into Imperial Tomb Village to prevent it from being destroyed by the Black Tide, unable to provide any combat support for him.

At this rate, by the time he became strong enough, Imperial Tomb Village would fall due to the exhaustion of its sacrificial power.

Just as the four great Servants felt hopeless about the future, Qi Sheng proposed an idea.

This plan was the embryonic form of the Challenger System, also known as the player recruitment plan.

The four great Servants each possessed different Rule Powers.

He had the one in charge of the Power of Information, Guidance, create a data-based system within the Challenger System, which allowed Challengers to read data information of the objects seen in the Monster World.

He let Yan Ming, who controls the Power of Space, craft a recruitment system that could guide Challengers from different worlds into Monster World, and also send back their consciousness when Challengers chose to exit.

He tasked Jiuyin, who holds the Purification Power, with creating the Purification System, which could heal the mental trauma suffered by Challengers in Monster World, or other various negative states.

He assigned Superdimension, who wields the Power of Extracting All Things, to devise the Growth System, which could help players refine the Life Power of dead monsters and integrate it into the players' bodies, becoming part of their strength.

These four systems combined, along with the Territory Characteristics of "Life Reshaping" in Imperial Tomb Village, made the recruitment of players feasible.

To achieve this purpose, the four great Servants spent 50 years continually perfecting and revising, and finally, the Challenger System was completed.

At that time, the sacrificial pool of Imperial Tomb Village had only about ten million sacrificial power left, capable of sustaining the village for another ten years at most, and the maintenance cost was increasing along with the intensity of the Black Tide, from an initial 500 sacrificial power a day to 1000 sacrificial power a day.

The four great Servants gave him the choice, and he also made a decision.

To bet the remaining sacrificial power on a future, letting Yan Ming burn sacrificial power to use the Power of Space to search for other Plane Worlds, looking to recruit life forms that could become Challengers.

During the years of interdimensional search, Qi Sheng's consciousness always followed close by Yan Ming.

During this time, he saw countless Plane Worlds being corroded and devoured by the Horror Black Tide, everything withered, with only numerous Evil Spirits roaming freely.

Just when the sacrificial power was about to run out, Qi Sheng saw a familiar place.

It was a blue planet.

As the image of the planet was enlarged, although it had many changes compared to his memory, he could still confirm.

This was his former homeland.

At that moment, Qi Sheng smiled very happily.

He knew he had succeeded; the Challenger System had finally found its place to be put to use.