Glorious God Throne

Chapter-heading">Glorious God Throne - Extra 2

“Welcome to the Nightmare Game.”

At night, as the familiar system prompt appeared before their eyes, countless people’s consciousness sank into the depths of the Nightmare Ocean, being assigned to various nightmare instances.

Upon logging into the instance, task prompts appeared along with various messages on the system panel.

Players who were already accustomed to the Nightmare Game rules skillfully operated their controls, beginning their daily routine of farming instances for points.

Of course, in this era where extraordinaries flourished and powerful extraordinary individuals were revered and worshiped, players who clearly understood who they owed their current lifestyle to didn’t forget to express their regular gratitude to the creator of the Nightmare Game – the White King, who was acclaimed as the source of mystery.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Without the experience accumulated through countless rounds in the Nightmare Game, many novice extraordinaries would certainly not be so skilled when facing dangerous Anomalous Zones monsters during real-world missions, and wouldn’t be able to avoid rookie mistakes – in reality, they wouldn’t get a second chance if they made a mistake.

As for ordinary people who couldn’t even qualify as extraordinaries under today’s increasingly strict standards for extraordinary certification, they were even more grateful for the Nightmare Game.

With their strength, they couldn’t leave the Safe Zones to conduct dangerous exploration missions to earn contribution points. As for other less dangerous tasks within the Safe Zones, they were highly competitive, with intense pressure for opportunities.

Fortunately, the Nightmare Game’s existence gave these people a chance to earn points through farming instances, and the points in the Nightmare Game were, to some extent, an even harder currency than contribution points in the Safe Zones.

Although everyone had to mandatorily participate in real-world tasks of varying difficulty and complete nightmare tasks at night, there was a natural division between the strong and weak. The strong mainly cleared monsters in reality, explored Anomalous Zones, transformed their homeland, and completed real-world tasks. The weak spent more time farming instances in the Nightmare Game to earn points and complete nightmare tasks.

As more people used points to transfer extraordinary systems from nightmare instances into reality, unlocking new extraordinary abilities, this world’s extraordinary system became increasingly rich and diverse.

Because of this, they sincerely thanked the “White King” who created the Nightmare Game.

They couldn’t imagine what an enormous project it must have been to replicate historical projections of infinite worlds, craft them into these exquisite nightmare instances, and project everyone’s consciousness into them!

And what a generous, merciful, and powerful god that being must be, willing to do so much for humanity!

Of course, the truth was quite different.

If one thought Bai Yi’s intention in using creator privileges to modify the system and open the Nightmare Game for public testing was simply to give humans a place to hone their skills and gain experience, to provide a way for the weak who couldn’t earn contribution points in reality to survive by earning game points… that would be far too naive.

From the beginning, Bai Yi’s plan was to make everyone in the world his workers, farming instances on his behalf.

The essence of nightmare fragment instances was the remains of dead worlds. Resolving the obsessions within them would yield rewards from the world remnants, including nightmare crystals, game points, and fragments of the Principle of All Things, which were essentially the Source power of worlds.

Source power was the highest level of power in this universe sea, virtually omnipotent. It could accelerate Bai Yi’s growth, whether in evolving his Principle of All Things, helping him ascend, or stabilizing this world being eroded by the Return to the Void.

It could be said that Bai Yi’s world-saving plan was built on harvesting vast amounts of Source power.

Palmer had harvested one world’s Source power just to preserve himself, but Bai Yi aimed to save the entire world while perfecting his own Principle of All Things and increasing his power. This meant he needed countless times more Source power than Palmer did.

Even destroying the entire world containing the Blue Star wouldn’t be enough!

So, he had to turn their attention to other worlds.

In the depths of the Nightmare Ocean lay infinite worlds that, though long dead and turned to remnants, still retained Source power.

Although the Source power that could be provided by each dead world’s remnants was less than one billionth of what it had when alive, the accumulated Source power from infinite world remnants was still an unimaginably vast energy.

Using the Principles of All Things from infinite worlds to perfect his own, gathering hope fragments from infinite worlds into one body, using the power of infinite worlds to stabilize the last world being eroded by the Return to the Void… this was Bai Yi’s plan.

And what he lacked most was time.

If Bai Yi relied solely on farming instances himself to collect Source power, achieving his goal would undoubtedly take an impossibly long time – could this world being eroded by the Return to the Void wait that long?

Therefore, Bai Yi thought:

Since the ultimate goal was to save this world and let all beings escape their fate of destruction, then as the objects of their salvation, shouldn’t everyone make a contribution?

Only those who contributed would have the right to enjoy the final victory and reach the future of the new world with them.

Thus, the Nightmare Game opened for public testing worldwide.

Everyone who cleared instances in the Nightmare Game was essentially power-leveling for Bai Yi. The rewards from resolving obsessions immediately fell into Bai Yi’s hands.

And the reward points were actually issued by Bai Yi.

Unlike the game points Bai Yi originally obtained through the system which were essentially hope fragments, the reward points players received were essentially meaningless virtual currency.

It was Bai Yi who gave them value, allowing players to exchange them for game items, real resources, and submit applications for Bai Yi to use his Principle of All Things to grant them permission to use certain extraordinary powers in reality.

Compare this to Bai Yi before obtaining the system – even after seventeen years of nightmares and resolving countless nightmare worlds’ obsessions, he couldn’t bring items or powers from nightmares into reality.

These players were the same. Without the Principle of All Things that could turn fantasy into reality, clearing however many nightmare instances would be useless.

Only Bai Yi, who solely possessed this Principle of All Things, could transform the Source power rewards from all players clearing instances into real, tangible power, thus constantly growing stronger.

So it was confirmed – the players were all power-leveling tools.

…..

Time flew by. Several generations of humans who had experienced the apocalyptic disaster had died, and newborns of the new era could only hear about the appearance of that beautiful world from their parents.

They had never left the vicinity of Safe Zones since birth, and entering the Nightmare Game every night was as natural as eating. They couldn’t understand what life was like before without the Nightmare Game.

Instead, the Nightmare Game had become their life.

This night, many people entered the Nightmare Game as usual, drifting among endless stellar fragments in the depths of the Nightmare Ocean.

That boundless Nightmare Ocean was silent, with countless world remnants floating within it as stellar fragments. Above the dark, deep ocean was a sky full of stars.

As more and more extraordinary systems from other worlds were revived and manifested in the real world by Bai Yi using the Principle of All Things, more and more stars appeared in this sky.

One bright star after another adorned the previously empty sky, gorgeous starlight illuminating the black sea surface. A figure stood lightly on the sea surface, starlight illuminating their silhouette, endless stellar radiance surrounding their body.

The youth standing on the sea surface had their eyes closed, thick eyelashes gently resting on their lower eyelids, their temperament appearing quiet and harmless.

Mist denser than starlight drifted around.

Infinite worlds’ Source power transformed into dense mist, seeping up from the deepest parts of the sea floor, from those stellar fragments gleaming with starlight, drifting upward like fog, finally rising from the sea surface and pervading this entire nightmare world.

Centered on Bai Yi, the mist and starlight seemed to condense into a vortex, the profound energy being analyzed, extracted, and absorbed bit by bit, causing the aura around him to continuously rise.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

A presence more profound and distant than all things in heaven and earth flashed through his pupils for an instant, making one momentarily think he had transformed into the eternal, unchanging starry sky.

This feeling lasted only for a moment. The next second, Bai Yi blinked lightly and looked down.

His gaze effortlessly penetrated the Nightmare Ocean, seeing those countless stellar fragments that were essentially world remnants.

Scene after scene naturally appeared before his eyes – these were scenes of numerous players striving to clear instances.

Bai Yi immediately smiled with satisfaction.

“Looks like everyone is working hard, isn’t that wonderful!”

…Of course, he also heard many players expressing thanks to Lord White King. A certain GM immediately sneakily used their GM privileges to add a tiny bit of luck buff to these players who spoke the plain truth, to commend their honesty.

Casually falling backward, Bai Yi lay on the sea surface with a leisurely expression, the countless stars instantly falling into his view.

“Mmhmm, what honest and adorable players~”

The Rhythm of All Things passively received the continuous stream of praise and gratitude, and he shamelessly nodded and accepted it.

Creator of the miraculous Nightmare Game, leader guiding all beings toward an infinite hopeful future, savior of all humanity…

“Eh hey, that’s definitely talking about me!”