[2022/02/01·0:01 AM]
On the World Forum, over a thousand hot threads marked in red surged in popularity, instantly sweeping the hopage.
[(Hot) Sudden situation in the Ninth World: Organizers personally admit that Number Two Player Noel Agnini has special authority!?]
[(Hot) Bombshell! Organizers manifest as Blood Shadow in the ga instance!! Over a hundred million viewers flood into the live stream! Can the organizers really not intervene in the world ga? Are They the hosts, Observers, or the sword-clenching Judicators?]
[(Hot) Leading player ’Skywalker’ Clemi claims: Nonsensical, human players cannot possibly possess authority above the organizers. Ti Retrospection has long been scientifically disproven.]
[(Hot) New World Guild issues statent: Supporting Guild President Noel Agnini. The authority Noel has could very well be humanity’s ans of contending with the organizers.]
[(Hot) Could Noel Agnini beco humanity’s hope? Can he use the authority to lead humanity forward? Whose na will the ’Number One Player’ title fall to? Will the organizers punish Noel Agnini for exposing the authority? Major United Groups have yet to take a stand, and the event is still fernting, let us pray for the frontline Adventurer Players...]
[(Hot) Several Adventurer Players claim they have no special authority. Noel’s authority is an exception.]
[(Hot) Leading player Boris states he has a special authority, which is "being able to tell stories to Su Ming’an anyti, anywhere"...]
[...]
The tide of public opinion was rapidly forming, unstoppable like a hurricane.
The revealed special authority, the organizers appearing in the ga instance, and the involvent of the top-ranking players... These hot topics piled up, quickly creating a sweeping trend across the forum.
Over a hundred million people rushed into the live streams and the World Forum at the sa mont, and major organizations whirred into action like fully-powered machines, even waking up the writers and Casual Players who had entered dreamland.
"...No one wants to see this happen. Whether Number Two Player Noel Agnini’s heart is with humanity or with the high-dinsional beings, we don’t want the information that ’so people have special authority’ to blow up among humans. This ans a further division of human classes, all Adventurer Players may be suspected, and soone will always try to link them with the organizers..."
"At this stage, one in ten Adventurer Players remains, the ntal damage caused by Sanity values, making fewer and fewer frontline players. If high-dinsional beings that favor humanity have blessed so with this kind of ’authority,’ we should perhaps be thankful to these high-dinsional beings and those they have favored..."
The large-scale human self-help organization "United Watchers Group" quickly released a statent, so fast one might suspect it was pre-written. The poster, Abner, wrote tens of thousands of words, urging everyone not to target Adventurer Players, claiming that even with authority, they are still fighting for humanity.
However, skeptical voices soon erged.
Famous host Daisy, gesticulating wildly, exclaid on social dia: "We must consider one question—if those with authority are traitors to humanity, have they reached a deal with high-dinsional beings to obtain this authority in their hands. In the end, if they choose to turn against us with overly high weight in their Points progress bars, making it impossible to et the target—are we all not to be annihilated? This could be a conspiracy! A high-dinsional plot to infiltrate humanity, to make us lower our guard! It might be a trap with weighted importance!"
She cried out, her face full of worry.
In fact, Daisy’s concerns were not without reason; there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and wouldn’t there be a price to pay for receiving such ga-breaking authority from high-dinsional beings?
Blaming others is much easier than blaming oneself. Everyone fantasizes about being the protagonist, and now that they’ve realized that soone else, not them, has received a heavenly boon—the intense jealousy and anger burned through their hearts like flas.
Popular Casual Strear Jona spoke out: "I suspect, those who have always been ranked at the top, each one of them possesses such a special authority, otherwise it’s hard to explain why they are so powerful, why they can always crush other players."
Jona is an extrely beautiful high-profile strear, a forr international top star with countless fans, and her statent gained much approval. So used this to question Mizushima Kawa Sora during her live stream.
In the live broadcast, Mizushima Kawa Sora was engaged in fierce battle on the field. A black hole-like arc expanded around her, and ordinary soldiers could not step within three ters of her. Her expression was stern, and her twin black ponytails fluttered high in the wind and snow. The Black Blade in her hand obliterated hundreds of ters in an instant, leaving behind a terrifying scar like lightning on the red ground.
Seeing the topic of her live broadcast room, Mizushima Kawa Sora sneered,
"Authority? Ridiculous!"
"If Noel has authority, that’s his business, it has nothing to do with . Every bit of my strength was earned by my own hands. I have never begged or extended my hand to anyone for every mission I took, for every Point I earned; it was all struggled for in life-and-death situations, all earned by risking death and the madness of danger to the fullest—If you people are worried, then beco Adventurer Players and take your place, instead of slapping a label on everyone, which is disgusting!"
"I’ve never felt ashad of the ga’s unfairness or my identity as a human; I could never join higher-dinsional beings just to survive in this lifeti! You don’t bla ordinary Players for being too weak but bla Adventurer Players for being too strong? Soone said that Intelligence has created the gap between people, and they are right. I have seen clearly the difference in Intelligence among you, so people are as stupid as pigs, and so are even worse than pigs and dogs!"
As soon as her words were out, many imdiately moved the discussion to the World forum, causing a major uproar.
All sorts of opinions erged, and the forum fell into intense debate.
Among them, many spoke righteously, saying "Noel is the hope of mankind, we are willing to trust him." Others believed, "There are only eight months left for the World ga, if we don’t believe in Noel, then mankind will hardly have a future," and soone said, "A blonde shota is absolute justice, I’ll always like legal-aged shotas, so I’ll support him" and so on...
Indeed, most people supported Noel, and Daisy and others were just a worried minority. Even if so were envious, people were still more inclined to believe that Noel belonged to the side of mankind.
More and more people started paying attention to this matter.
Soon, so influential individuals also joined in.
Kailuosa, a volunteer of the United Group, spoke out in support of Noel, "The situation in the live broadcast proved that the Organizers and Noel Agnini are in opposition. They are in panic over the revelation of this authority, and they even want to punish him. This ans that Noel Agnini very likely stands on the human side, and we should not turn our weapons against our own hero."
Chen Jiang, the vice-chairman of the Union Governnt’s Skill Compilation Committee, said, "If people are worried, they should step down to fight for chances for humanity, instead of posturing from a moral high ground, venting their aningless jealousy and anger. Moreover, I believe in the concept of the ’Chosen One’. There’s an old saying in Dragon Country—Heaven bestows great responsibilities upon this person. Noel Agnini is the hero of our apocalyptic era, and it’s Heaven that has given him the chance to save us."
Kore from Gran Victoria Tech said, "Humanity’s future will not be halted by anything. We need to embody the spirit of unity, rather than lose our senses amidst anger and jealousy."
Lu Chunjiang from the Human Self-Salvation Research Group said, "The fight between civilization and apocalypse is extrely difficult. We have only one the—to survive, to live on at any cost. The authority that Noel Agnini possesses is one of the few chances humanity has to strike back."
High-ranking Player Derek said, "I trust in Noel’s character; he will lead us forward."
High-ranking Player Flora said, "Even if possessing authority, it is still the individual ability of an Adventurer Player—it doesn’t need to be split off."
High-ranking Player Lin Yin said, "FML, a bunch of internet trolls just know how to diss your own people; truly effing stupid, you all should be shoved into a cesspool."
"..."
Discussions, argunts, making plans, giving orders over the phone, joint etings...
So thought themselves superior to Adventurer Players, judging them; others were envious, venting their rage like rabid dogs; so contemplated deeply, believing this to be an opportunity for mankind; others penned long articles by the thousands of words, questioning the possibility of Ti Retrospection.
An escalating storm swept over the skies of humanity. The United Group held ergency etings day and night. Countless people awoke from their dreams.
This night, a billion humans endured a sleepless night.
And in the Ninth World—at the very eye of the hurricane, where millions of eyes were fixed—
Beneath the cara lens, the golden-haired youth straightened his hat, displaying a smile, unperturbed by the chaos.
His golden hair lifted slightly, like the brilliant feathers of the Phoenix from the Xi Country legend, coated with a tallic, sharp luster. His expression was as vibrant as the rising sun, showing not the slightest fear.
He stood amid layers upon layers of Blood Shadows, arms raised forward as if he were flapping a pair of invisible wings at his sides, as if about to take off into the sky—
Dozens of Blood Shadows with a grave presence surrounded him, yet Noel Agnini was like a bird flying toward the sky, singing high into the heavens.
"Whom shall I ask to restore my keenness, to demonstrate to those who love how to stand
"I once played lodies for seas of blooming flowers, now I’m afraid I might co to loathe the music..."
He said he would wait until he had finished singing this song.
The High-Dinsional beings also didn’t stop him but silently waited for him to finish his song.
This scene appeared incredibly eerie, like a group of silent believers surrounding the sacrificial offering on the altar, where the offering sang with abandon, as if he was the deity to be revered.
In this scene, people sensed a hint of the divine.
It was as if there was a person, battling against a deity vastly different from the essence of his human life, with the free posture of his singing that felt jarringly absurd, as if imrsed in an unreal dream.
In fact, the one who had brought things to this state—was Noel, with the pure intelligence belonging to humanity. Other than that, he had no extraordinary ability or authority that went beyond the human realm.
—Intelligence was his only authority.
Su Ming’an stood at the edge of the valley, like a lucid observer. He had never seen humans beco so fervent. They claid they wanted to establish the "Agnes Church," to make Noel Agnini, the holder of authority, the new deity for humanity. With a system comprised of faith, energy, and authority, they were pushing Noel into the position of a glorious god.
[Noel Agnini holds authority, he’s the deity of humans, it’s the mandate of the era.]
[Nun Kalant has divined the Prophecy that Noel Agnini will lead humans to defeat the High Dinsions.]
[Kaxiu from the Inca Country has declared a shift in faith, to embrace the doctrines of the New World.]
[Archaeology experts have further penetrated the mysteries of the Mayan civilization’s frescoes, believing there will be a Savior beyond human capabilities in the apocalyptic age; Noel Agnini fits this requirent.]
[Soone proclaid that the ancient paintings of the Inca civilization had already predicted the birth of Noel Agnini...]
[...]
The fervor of the masses suffused an even more terrifying enthusiasm. Once unleashed, it would be like an unstoppable avalanche.
Humans, oppressed for too long under High-Dinsional rule, had once seen themselves as toys devoid of dignity. But now, they suddenly discovered—that among them, there was soone who could face the High-Dinsionals as an equal, and might even reverse their ti.
Tis of turmoil are conducive to the consolidation of faith. Noel Agnini’s displayed authority, just like Yasa Acto who erged in the Ruined World, catapulted him into the status of a "deity" in the eyes of the people.
"..."
Su Ming’an watched silently as Noel sang, until the song ended, like a play approaching its finale. A dark shadow crawled onto Su Ming’an’s shoulder, curling its fluffy tail—it was the long-lost Little Love:
"I sll the scent of destruction ..."
All eyes converged here, and the valley beca a stage for the world in the truest sense.
The golden-haired youth lowered his arms, facing these Blood Shadows, and spoke:
"Deities, I understand what you want to ask.
"It’s a pity, I have no authority."
...
[Your denial is aningless.] Like the tolling of a great bell, the vague words ford clear anings in people’s minds.
"Was it wrong for to have guessed the five passwords, to not allow a genius-like brain?" Noel said with a smile.
...
[...] The Blood Shadows made no sound, but the pressure grew heavier, almost preventing Noel from raising his head.
...
"I have no authority," Noel said, head bowed, speaking slowly:
"How will you prove that I’ve [violated the rules]? Deities."
"Show ."
...
...
[The Lamb ca and took the scroll from the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. When He had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense,]
[which are the prayers of God’s people.]
...
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