Strength level, energy level.
If the forr is high, it greatly affects the individual’s constitution, while if the latter is high, everyone would beco a mage. There can be compensations between strength levels and energy levels, but extre imbalances may also occur.
The reason Zheng Yichen prefers such precise judgnts is that he takes into account the possibility of extre imbalances.
From his current personal feeling, his strength level should not be low, and his energy level shouldn’t be too low either. If an individual’s energy level is low, even if they go to a higher-level world and are adjusted by the environnt, they won’t sense much free energy. They would be just like ordinary people moving to a higher-level world—still ordinary people, at most able to carry an extra ten or twenty pounds.
A balanced state is good. At least being balanced allows one to adapt to various situations. Just in case one encounters a world where the strength level is unbearably low and the energy level incredibly high, he would be like a warrior who can’t unleash a flash of blade when swinging a fist—a world fix that utterly cripples him.
The strength level of this world isn’t low and it has an energy level as well. Zheng Yichen feels alright personally, but unfortunately, he currently doesn’t know any magic or other energy-based attacks. However, equipnt can make up for this.
The Sword of Hell, which he had obtained from the fishing rod, is now used as enhancent material. It doesn’t absorb his Life Force actively, but if he expends Life Force, he can still ignite Hellfire, which counts as a kind of magic attack.
"So where do I go next, whom do I kill? How many? Or am I to beco a guard for Dusk Cathedral, preventing so people from bringing certain things here?"
The long-haired prioress said, "There’s no need to guard Dusk Cathedral."
She briefed Zheng Yichen on what he needed to do in this world—deal with certain Alien Phenonon creatures in this world.
They are Alien Phenonon creatures, not extraordinary creatures. Extraordinary creatures are still those that exceed normal levels—Zheng Yichen is one, mutated creatures are, and even those unique to post-apocalyptic zombies are considered extraordinary creatures. Alien Phenonon creatures are sothing more special in this world.
Such creatures have beco the cancer of this world. Phenona are naturally short-lived, but the existence of Alien Phenonon creatures can stabilize these phenona and even allow them to expand. Once they reach a certain extent, they will trigger a ’collapse’.
It will cause the ’crystal barrier’ of this world and another to vanish. The weaker world would then beco a part of the stronger one.
"..." After hearing about the task he has to undertake, Zheng Yichen blinked in confusion and looked toward Prioress Tia, "I want to know, which is more cancerous—this kind of ’Devouring World’ or balancing resources leading to joint destruction?"
"It’s just a matter of which is worse; they are both cancers. Devouring won’t trigger mutual destruction but will cause collapses." Prioress Tia explained to Zheng Yichen the ultimate consequences of ’devouring’—comparable to a troubleso tenant who forcefully invaded their neighbor’s ho, beat them into submission, and then broke down the walls connecting the two hos.
Then the tenant says, ’See, now we both live in a house that’s twice as big.’ Unsatisfied, the tenant wanted an even larger house and continued the sa tactics with the neighbor’s neighbor. So neighbors got tempted and joined in on the action. Not content with breaching the partition walls of one floor, they started attacking the floors above and below.
In the end, the entire building was connected, but the structure suffered severe damage and couldn’t withstand the imnse pressure, leading to a complete collapse of the building.
After the building collapsed, it impacted the nearby structures. The sa goes for worlds destroyed by resource balancing—though the process of collapse is different, the result is quite similar.
Mador... these scrappy players...
"I understand the specifics now, but am I really capable of taking down those Alien Phenonon creatures? I think you guys could create so kind of panel to indicate the danger level of missions," he suggested.
"That can wait for later," Tia replied evenly. "Alien Phenonon creatures are still creatures."
"Alright, alright, where are they then?"
"Your phone." The short-haired nun reached out her hand to Zheng Yichen, who then handed her his phone. She pulled out a computer and uploaded a map for Zheng Yichen.
"...Wait, if those Alien Phenonon creatures are on the other side of the Earth, I’d have to find a way to get there, right?"
Zheng Yichen suddenly realized a serious problem. Apart from his legs, his only mode of transport was the motorcycle left at Dusk Cathedral—the fuel was sufficient, but riding that thing truly wouldn’t get him across half the planet, not to ntion the nun had already told Zheng Yichen that there was only one Dusk Cathedral in a world.
aning there’s no such thing as a teleportation service here.
"So cases are like that."
"But this is the apocalypse."
"You have six months."
"I an it’s the apocalypse, there are no ans of transportation. Even if there are Alien Phenonon creatures on the other side of the planet, it wouldn’t work for even if you gave a year!" Zheng Yichen raised his voice, not an issue of whether or not to do the job, but simply that the conditions were not permitting.
The long-haired nun said to Zheng Yichen, "I’m just saying that so situations are like that, but that’s not the case here."
The short-haired nun handed the cell phone to Zheng Yichen, who blinked as he looked at the map on it, "Oh, it’s fine..."
The map marked many places. Starting from the Dusk Cathedral, the farthest place was just over a thousand kiloters away—asured in a straight line.
"There’s still navigation after the apocalypse?" Zheng Yichen found it unbelievable.
"It’s not a normal navigation."
Zheng Yichen understood. It must be so mysterious power of the Dusk Cathedral.
Not needing to run to the far side of the planet, Zheng Yichen felt relieved. He put away the cell phone in his hand, "I even thought you were just ssing around, having such special powers yet still needing soone to solve so problems."
"The nature of existence determines behavior," Prioress Tia didn’t explain too much about that aspect to Zheng Yichen.
Zheng Yichen didn’t ask further but switched the topic, "Then what about you? Since the Dusk Cathedral has regular employees, what kind of beings are you?"
This was sothing that Zheng Yichen had been curious about for a long ti.
"You can think of us as people the world does not need."
"Sigh, can’t you just explain it clearly..." Zheng Yichen shook his head, took out a notebook from the locker, left so information in it, and placed it in the most visible spot inside the locker. This item was specifically for communicating with Katrina from Hazy City, stating that he could not communicate through this thod for the ti being.
"And where is the garage here?"
The short-haired nun led Zheng Yichen to the garage of the Dusk Cathedral. It was spotlessly clean, with nothing inside except for Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle. The fuel he had prepared was also there, but considering the overall journey, it might not be enough. He would still need to collect so gasoline elsewhere.
After a simple planning of the journey, Zheng Yichen rode out of the garage, "No need to see off!"
What followed was his itinerary. Looking at the navigation map on his smartphone, which worked despite there being no signal, it even marked his location as if precision positioning was enabled while he was on the move.
However, the route map was another story, feeling sowhat like a mischievous navigation system, not because of the map, but because the terrain of the world was problematic, with many facilities lacking maintenance from years of neglect, buildings collapsed under the rampant growth of plants and the erosion of ti, and the original roads had disappeared.
"How long has this world’s apocalypse lasted?" Zheng Yichen looked at so traces on the abandoned streets, and being in such an environnt, he couldn’t help feeling a bit more lonely.
There were hardly any skeletons to be seen, but the marks left on the concrete of the street were still quite clear, with evident tracks on the ground where treads had passed.
The traces of bombardnt on the broken walls were visible, and as Zheng Yichen rummaged through a pile of ruins, he actually found so remaining bones. These bones were of higher quality, and despite the passage of a long ti, they still felt substantial when held, unlike so bones exposed in the air that would crumble at a touch.
This wasn’t the skeleton of an ordinary human. Zheng Yichen tapped it with the fishing rod he held, and it emitted a sound of tal clashing against concrete—the quality of these bones was indeed high.
Discarding the cracked skeleton, Zheng Yichen continued on towards his first destination, which was about two hundred kiloters from the Dusk Cathedral... Tsk, two hundred kiloters!
Moreover, many roads were no longer passable, sotis requiring him to carry his motorcycle, a feat that would have been impossible for him in Hazy City, yet in this world, carrying a motorcycle through so areas was not so difficult.
The desolation along the way made Zheng Yichen wonder if all life in this world had gone extinct. He hardly saw any insects on the road, and the plants were withered.
On a mountain ring road, Zheng Yichen stopped halfway up the mountain and read through a magazine he held. The magazine was in full color but had faded significantly over ti, although the content was still clear.
Besides this magazine, he had also found many sealed books in the bookstores of the cities he passed through, but even more books had disappeared.
He wondered if they had been collected by soone, or if in this post-apocalyptic world, they had been taken as fuel due to a lack of it.
Nevertheless, the preserved books were enough for him to pass the ti on the road and to broadly understand what this world was like.
According to the world situation from Katrina’s side, along with the information provided by Hunter Arno, it seed that many worlds had minor differences but were mostly similar; the differences were in the ’intensity’ and the era, with different intensities leading to different developnts.
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