Guild Wars Chapter 1093 Update 3 Begins 1

｢Boundless System-wide Announcent

Welco to Update 3 of Boundless!

A few changes have been made to the core system to enhance gaplay while so new chanics have been introduced. Please check the changelog below to verify;

- Event Generation

- Item Projection

- Player Forums

- Genetic Compatibility

- Tier 3 Realism

- World Expansion (Mapped Zones increased)

- Item Limitation

- Resource Stat Quantification - Level 1

- Marriage System opened.｣

Upon re-entering Boundless the next day, every player in the world saw this nu before them. However, only the Evil Trio could fully understand the effects and ramifications of all these things in full.

There was once a ti where they feared the effects of reincarnation and disrupting the tiline, but they had long dispersed that fear and had begun to strut about with confidence.

That lack of fear and respect towards the butterfly effect directly led to this consequence.

More than half of these new features were from future Updates!

However, the Evil Trio were not bothered. Even before they reached 100%, Draco had long theorized that they would have gone to the sci-fi world by the ti Update 3 or 4 ca about.

For now, it was ti to assess the specific changes and see how they differed from their mory.

The first was Event Generation. This was sothing from Update 6, when players had reached the minimum threshold of Rank 5 and could display a healthy amount of power and wealth.

At the ti, the players had beco so strong that there was no easy way for them to level up anymore. Despite their power, they were mostly land-locked like the NPCs and couldn't conquer the seas like the current Umbra could, despite their power.

So how were they supposed to level up with competition higher and competent enemies scarcer?

Say hello to Event Generation!

It was nothing complex, basically the literal aning when you first looked at it. It was the ability for a competent player, upon satisfying so conditions, to make the AI generate an event that would be either on an Area, Continent, or World level!

We had already seen such a thing in action when Elle had hosted her livestream in the Demon Realm and when Draco had punished all the impudent Rank 7s who had attacked the Vita Kingdom.

The conditions to fulfill were not harsh, but they were not easy. There were two ways one could generate an Event and each of them had required different things from the player involved.

The first type was free generation. This was where a player generated and Event with no cost to their person, the AI bore all the cost and provided the rewards.

The requirents for this were stringent. One had to be in the Top 100 of the Universal Rankings to even be qualified to generate even a basic Area Event. The Top 50 were able to generate a Continent Event and only the Top 10 could generate a World Event.

That wasn't all, one also had to have partaken in an interesting event or caused sothing of interest that the AI could bounce off to generate the Event. It had to be sothing exemplary and really worthwhile.

The second type was paid generation, which was basically what Elle had done. A player who was in any of the Area, Continental and World Leaderboards could announce an Event that was sponsored by them. As for the Events type, that would be related to the leaderboard they were on.

This one was straight forward and very rare in the previous tiline. However, given the monetary situation of the playerbase in this tiline it would likely be far more frequent.

Event Generation had been important in the previous tiline for many reasons, but in this one, it was just sothing of interest. Umbra were about to conquer and unify the world, what was the point of such things?

The next thing was a much loved feature from Update 4. It was sothing that had initially taken the world by storm in the previous tiline, and the Evil Trio were sure it would do the sa in this one.

Item Projection!

This was sothing that was experintal technology in even CERN, but the AI casually unveiled it and blew the world away. It was basically the ability to project items from reality into the ga, and items from the ga into reality.

The introduction of Item Projection was what led to the talks of Boundless becoming the second world of humanity in the previous tiline. Before that, and even in this tiline, everyone had treated it as just the latest VR simulator that could be used to do various things like have sex, train warriors and so other things.

But even then, most people and companies did not invest much except to take advantage of the 4x ti dilation. National armies trained their troops in Boundless loosely, but apart from that they were not really invested into the world itself.

They knew Boundless was valuable, but if you asked them, many wouldn't even know the basic info of that world. It was just a tool really, and the only companies that invested in it where entertainnt companies that made use of the Interdiary Trade Center to make money.

But Item Projection changed everything. Now, resources from the ga could be ejected into reality! This ant that Boundless could be 'mined' for resources, and we all knew that in this world, the two most important things were energy and resources.

What was crazy was that Boundless' resources would never run out like the real world, so it was like discovering a dungeon that could give out a chest at the end endlessly for adventurers!

Boundless alone could completely solve all of Earth's resource issues leading to a revitalization of the planet!

It could propel humanity 200 years or more into the future if used well, not to ntion that even a basic piece of grass in Boundless from so random field contained bit of Worldly Energy as it had been nourished by the world.

Even common rice from Boundless was superior to the best rice on Earth! If done well, Worldly Energy could be generated on Earth!

Sounds great right? Heh, of course, there was a price to pay though.

Just like using a 3D printer, you needed materials to do it. However materializing from Boundless did not use any materials and only required a special tool sold separately.

So what was the cost? Obviously energy!

You, the player, wanting to send anything into Boundless or out of Boundless required energy, sending sothing out required exponentially more energy than to send sothing in.

Hmm, why does this sound familiar? Using energy to create sothing?

…

Wait a minute, wasn't that the final stage of Refinent??

Gasp!

Well… Refinent was the path undertaken by Norma and while she was a great being in the world of Boundless because of it, one shouldn't forget that she was ultimately a character created by the AI's subroutine, so it was obvious that it would have the full grasp of the ability.

Item Projection was not just scanning and creating, but actual transportation! To be able to do this, one could imagine the kind of energy it would cost the AI to do.

However, apart from its special relationship with Draco would the AI be so kind? Of course not! Players had to bear 90% of the energy cost while it only bore 10%, so you had to find a suitable amount of energy to materialize.

Of course, the only type of energy people had access to currently was electrical. You could be sure that various power grids were about to go down in the next few days!

Demand for energy was going to skyrocket so high that energy suppliers would be full of fear. After all, almost the entire world would be breathing down their necks to provide sufficient energy so rather than a blessing, it was more of a calamity for them.

Item Projection was also sothing that Eva personally hated because it was the reason for their downfall! Shangtian had only identified Draco's ideneity because he had gotten so of his blood from the ga and materialized it in reality.

His goal was to find so way to use it to take down his old rival in Darkrow, so imagine his pleasant surprise when it reacted with the blood of the Lucifer Lineage won who they had trapped as birthing slaves.

Not to ntion, it didn't just resonate, but it had literally suppressed them to the point where they couldn't easily move. At that point, how could Shangtian not understand everything?

That night, Shangtian had been in a daze the entire ti because he couldn't understand how fate could play with people like this.

The third new feature was the Player Forums, the first authentic Update 3 additions from the previous tiline. One thing many players had complained about with Boundless since launch day was the lack of in-ga forums.

It had made the exchange of information very difficult. After all, nobody got ti to scroll through all the chat logs!

Now with this, it should beco easier for players to chat and exchange information. It was not as good as having sothing like a chat system which had an area, continental or world chat where they could type in real ti, but forums were the next best thing.

After the forums was naturally Genetic Compatibility.

Ptui, what naturally??

What the fuck, where did this special feature from Update 5 co from?!

The Evil Trio were stunned. Naturally, they didn't do sothing as banal as watch the news, so they did not see the announcent of the pods being released when the Update ca out.

However, seeing genetic compatibility here, they could already ascertain the fact. Once they saw it, the faces of the Evil Trio beca hard and full of solemnity.

After all, while the average player might beco excited at the idea that they could finally have children with NPCs or their fellow players, the Evil Trio knew that things would spiral out of control.

By now, many players and guilds had already started settlents around the mapped zones, beginning their path of dominance. Yeah Vita Kingdom existed, but that was extrely high end and did not affect the operation of the average player's settlent.

But these settlents, no matter how rich or how strong the guild who owned them was, could not upgrade even if they had the thod to because they lacked one thing: population!

Everybody had their own ho or territory in which they had lived since the new millennia began, so why should they move to your ramshackle settlent?

Even if the terms you offered were good, there were too many uncertainties, not to ntion that there were hundreds of thousands of other player settlents competing with you.

In truth, this shouldn't have been a problem. With the reproduction rate of humans, the mapped zones should have beco long congested beyond reason and the new settlents would welco people flooding in crazily from afar.

However, the now extinct demon race had kindly lent their help in eliminating the overpopulation problems of the human race, so every 1000 years, the weeds would be uprooted.

Since the demons wept through the entire land at that ti, all the established kingdoms and empire would fall and beco history. This paved the way for new territories and settlents to rise through the gaps and beco the new rulers.

This would have been the perfect ti for these player settlents to appear and sweep the world. However, they rather appeared at the tail end of the millennium, when the next culling was supposed to happen and the world had already settled down.

It was no wonder they would suffer such a thing.

At this ti, the players previously did not have genetic compatibility, so it wasn't a problem. The most they could do was buy or capture NPCs to have them copulate and give birth to make residents.

However, now that they could also spawn kids, why go through so much hassle? Now they too could join in the fun and speed up the process by making as many NPCs pregnant to give birth, consent be damned.

And then, they would beco enlightened and realize that they didn't necessarily have to limit themselves to only NPCs, now did they?

The eyes of a certain few fellows would flicker with maliciousness as they gazed at their fellow players, realizing that an even better option was right next to them!