Chapter 527 - The End of the World War, A New Version

[You have received the Super Trait Crystal: Law of Surrender (Familiars fused with this trait will transform into law-bound lifeforms, becoming part of the world’s rules. After surrendering, if the enemy continues to attack, they will suffer backlash from the world’s rules and divine retribution.]

After defeating the Ice Emperor, Lu Ran was quite looking forward to the traits his familiars might drop.

But why is it another surrender-related trait? Did the Ice Emperor become some sort of surrender-themed pillar? But what is up with this final trait...? Rules...? It actually involved the world’s rules!

As far as Lu Ran knew, the only law-bound lifeforms he was aware of were the superiors of the Divine Deer, the Four Supreme Divine Dragons. They were the embodiments of the rules of life, death, time, and space. And now, the Ice Emperor had dropped a trait that involved rules for him.

Lu Ran was speechless.

Limitless City, you’re something else.

𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

For a moment, he really couldn’t decide who to give this to.

Should I give it to the cat? Or train a new law-bound familiar?

Lu Ran glanced at the Stellar Moon crowd. As expected, the remaining nine people all gave up the fight, no longer struggling pointlessly. However, only the Ice Emperor dropped a trait upon being defeated a second time. It was perhaps because he was Stellar Moon’s MVP.

According to the rules of the World War, only the first defeat guaranteed a 100% trait drop. The probability for subsequent defeats wasn’t mentioned by Limitless City, and sure enough, his other opponents didn’t drop anything, denying Lu Ran the chance to farm resources.

[The second round of the World War has ended.]

[Winner: Blue Planet.]

[Congratulations to Blue Planet for achieving a final victory with a score of 2:0.]

[Now announcing the penalties for Stellar Moon’s defeat: Limitless City downgrade]

[Penalty 1: The teleportation square will be closed. From now on, different regions of Stellar Moon’s Limitless City can no longer connect via spatial teleportation and can only be accessed through corresponding real-world locations.]

[Penalty 2: The drop rate for resources in all types and levels of secret realms will be reduced by 20%.]

[Penalty 3: The crystal coin cost for major infrastructure and services will increase by 20%.]

[Penalty 4: The safe zone area in Stellar Moon’s Limitless City will be reduced by 50%, and a monster siege mechanism will be added. Beastmasters’ exclusive rooms, shops, and guild bases may be damaged by invading supernatural creatures and will require crystal coins to repair.]

[Penalty 5: The safe zone restrictions in Stellar Moon’s Limitless City will be lifted. Beastmasters can now be killed by other beastmasters or siege monsters in safe zones, and patrol beasts will disappear.]

“Damn it, NO!”

The defeat sent Stellar Moon’s beastmasters into utter despair. They had thought their Limitless City was already a lower level compared to Blue Planet’s and couldn’t possibly get much worse. But now, with these five penalties announced, whether they were spectators on-site or watching from Stellar Moon’s Limitless City, they all let out cries of hopelessness. This was no joke.

As for the beastmasters from Blue Planet, they were equally horrified. The last two penalties were terrifying. Thankfully, Blue Planet had won. Otherwise, they couldn’t imagine how they’d survive in Limitless City afterward.

“I’m so fucking done!” someone in the Stellar Moon crowd screamed in anguish. “My luck is already terrible. I can’t even get decent drops, no matter how much I grind. Now it’s even worse.”

“I’m the one who’s truly hopeless. I pissed off a major guild, and now they can kill me inside Limitless City?”

“We’re finished...”

“Wait a minute. That bastard, Lu Ran from Blue Planet, came to Stellar Moon before, right? That means there’s a way to get to Blue Planet from Stellar Moon. If Stellar Moon’s Limitless City is downgraded, but Blue Planet’s isn’t, maybe we can sneak over to Blue Planet and just use their Limitless City from now on.”

“

Huh?

But how do we get there...?”

The scene descended into chaos. Until...

[Now announcing the privileges granted to the winning side.]

The rewards from the World War were the real prize. Both Blue Planet and Stellar Moon fell silent again. Even though they hadn’t fought much and it was mostly a formality, Shi Zhen and the others were still excited.

[Five Poisons Saintess, Blue Planet’s Psychic Queen, Snow Maiden, Medusa Queen, Demon King, Drought Demon, Xia Witch, Gu Qingyi, and Retiring After This have been appointed as secondary administrators of Blue Planet’s Limitless City, with the following authorities.]

[Privilege 1: The crystal coin cost for major infrastructure and services is reduced to 0.]

[Privilege 2: Granted the authority to issue initial black contract cards, allowing non-beastmaster humans on Blue Planet to enter Limitless City. Quota: 1 card per day, stackable.]

[Privilege 3: Granted the Administrator’s Eye, allowing the holder to locate a beastmaster’s real-world geographical position via their Limitless City ID. The target’s Limitless City permissions must be lower than the holder’s.]

[Privilege 4: Unlocked the advanced facility, Administrator Store, where rare items like Treasure amplification cards and Epic amplification cards can be purchased with equivalent crystal coins.]

[Privilege 5: Secondary administrators have secondary law enforcement authority and can directly eliminate violators within safe zones.]

When comparing the penalties they received and the authorities the winners from Blue Planet received, several of Stellar Moon’s contestants couldn’t help but drool with envy, especially Bai Lu, Death Gun, and Kongkong Yi.

Kongkong Yi was almost in tears. What she coveted most was the chance to buy Epic amplification cards. Additionally, the daily contract card issuance authority would be a hot commodity in Stellar Moon, where such cards were nonexistent.

Even those who barely fought received such impressive privileges. People could only imagine how overpowered the super admin privilege granted to Lu Ran, the MVP of this World War, must be. However, even after waiting for a long time, no announcement about Lu Ran’s super permissions came.

[Pedestrian A has become the Super Administrator of Stellar Moon’s and Blue Planet’s Limitless City. Super admin privilege has been granted.]

Perhaps the super admin privilege was too extraordinary, as only Lu Ran was told their contents.

[You have received Limitless City’s super admin privilege. Super admin privilege includes all secondary administrator permissions, with additional privileges.]

[Privilege 1: The Super Administrator can grant access to Limitless City to transcendent species other than human beastmasters, but these species can only use basic facilities and cannot enter secret realms. Quota: 1 per month, stackable.]

[Privilege 2: The Super Administrator can enter designated timeline or world-based ascension realms. If they die in the ascension realm, they will not really die but will return to their state before entering.]

[Privilege 3: After entering an ascension realm, the Super Administrator can trigger hidden Legendary missions in addition to ascension missions. Upon completing a Legendary mission, the Super Administrator can resurrect a historical projection they’ve interacted with within the current ascension realm. Note: The resurrected historical projection must already be deceased in reality.]

[Privilege 4: For newcomers granted initial contract cards by the Super Administrator, the Super Administrator can specify their ascension realm’s world, timeline, and missions, and can personally provide mission rewards. The Super Administrator also has the privilege to revoke granted access to Limitless City.]

[Privilege 5: The Super Administrator’s entry and exit from Limitless City will have the highest authority. Unless the challenger’s power exceeds Limitless City’s, they cannot prevent the Super Administrator from teleporting in or accessing items in the administrator’s personal space.]

Damn...

The flood of privileges left Lu Ran dazzled. And this didn’t even seem to be the limit of Limitless City’s capabilities.

[The special event, World War, has concluded.]

[Now proceeding with the fourth update...]

[Unlocking special themes:

1 - Global Cataclysm

2 - Return of the Dead]

[Global Cataclysm: Effective immediately, bosses from Common, Advanced, Hard, Hell, and Legendary difficulty secret realms may randomly spawn as phantoms in human cities across Stellar Moon and Blue Planet, invading human nations. Whether transcendent creatures native to the planet, ordinary humans, or beastmasters, those killed by phantom creatures will die for real.]

“What the hell?”

As expected, after the World War event concluded, Limitless City launched a new update. However, compared to previous updates like the Spiritual Energy Revival or World War, this Global Cataclysm update left beastmasters’ jaws open.

Can’t we all just get along? Is Limitless City good or evil?

This Global Cataclysm was practically undermining the foundations of Blue Planet and Stellar Moon.

Lu Ran’s expression also changed as he suddenly realized something.

Could my dreams have been about Limitless City dropping bosses into human cities all over the place?

For powerhouses like Lu Ran, this Global Cataclysm version would have little impact. However, even though it was the era of beastmasters, ordinary people still made up the majority of Blue Planet’s population. If level 70 or 80 bosses entered human cities, a few skills could wipe out an entire city, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands or even millions of defenseless people.

Under these circumstances, it was impossible to tell what Limitless City was trying to achieve. National beastmaster organizations would likely face immense pressure, as they’d have to figure out how to protect ordinary people around the clock.

However, before the higher-ups could even process this, Limitless City announced another related event. And this one shocked beastmasters even more than the previous one.

[Return of the Dead: Since the arrival of Limitless City, over a million beastmasters have died and had their accounts deactivated. However, they have not actually died but are undergoing trials for resurrection. Through relentless effort, some of the deceased have reached the final trial and grown stronger.

[Effective immediately, the deceased may be matched as hostile beastmasters with living beastmasters in the same ascension realm, where they can obtain a final resurrection trial mission. The objective of these missions is to hinder the living from completing their ascension missions.]

The announcement of Global Cataclysm and Return of the Dead made many forget about the World War. Who didn’t have a friend or family member who died as a beastmaster? Now, seeing that these people might have a chance to return, many were stunned. Even if their resurrection missions screwed over the living...

Many in the audience, including Lu Ran’s mentor Jiang Dou, had their eyes gleaming with hope.

“Will my dream come true? Can Jiang Man reach the final resurrection trial?”