Su Ming’an took a look; the other two conditions were simple, but what is this "personal alliance residence"?
The World Ga seems to be constantly updating. At the end of the Sixth World, there was an official pinned post on the world forum titled [World Ga Version 0.03 Updated], introducing features like "Secondary Profession Player Cap Opened" and "Main Interface Layout Adjustnts." Now, it seems the version has been updated again.
He opened the world forum and saw at the top of the forum, sure enough, there was an official pinned post.
...
[World Ga Version 0.04 Updated]
[1. The "World Ga Arena" will be open to all players on February 9th. Players can voluntarily participate in 1v1 battles in the arena for ranking. After each world instance ends, arena rankings will be settled and rewards distributed.
2. The cap for secondary profession players has been raised to level seven.
3. "Alliance" has been opened. Players can form alliances of five or more, but no more than a thousand mbers. The alliance is positioned between a "guild" and a "team," having the high degree of freedom like a guild and the high level of trust like a team. Players can choose to ally with or oppose other alliances. Players can build and develop their alliances within the "Alliance Residence," including constructing buildings like "Shops," "Secondary Profession Advancent Zones," "Small Brawling Arenas," and "United Living Areas."
4. More special identities have been unlocked; players are encouraged to explore further information themselves.
5. ...]
Su Ming’an looked for a while, and only the first and third points were relevant to him.
The alliance is positioned between a guild and a team, representing a new player grouping model.
But upon deeper reflection, alliances can be considered a new ans to categorize humans anew. It separates humans from collectives into guilds, and further divides them into alliances. This segregation thod, however, is perfectly justified, so no one finds issue with it. After all, forming an alliance is welcod by all; who wouldn’t want to bring their friends and family together to form a small, familiar group?
Guilds have too many and too varied mbership, often numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, and in Su Ming’an’s Lighthouse Guild, so twenty thousand people barely know each other. But the current alliance function subtly provides a further place for people to gather. They naturally form isolated small groups.
Also, the "World Ga Arena" is very intriguing. Its opening ti is the day after tomorrow, with specific rules yet to be announced.
"Player Duels..." Su Ming’an closed the interface.
Overall, the gains from the Ninth World were significant. Beyond the soaring experience and occupation levels, besides the upgrade of the watch Du, he also obtained a wheelchair, a chanical ring from Lin Guang, and a series of equipnt.
Purple-grade equipnt: Ring of Ti, capable of reversing the ti of the surrounding environnt.
Purple-grade pet: chanical Fla Bird, capable of precise guidance in high-altitude environnts, like a remote reconnaissance aircraft.
Red-level equipnt: Hand of Redemption, capable of copying Noel’s Puppet Threads skill, broadening Su Ming’an’s abilities into the soul domain.
As for other equipnt, such as the bow obtained by Su Rin, Tretiya’s silk top hat, and the purple-grade floating cannon that can challenge levels, they each have their roles.
Su Ming’an plans to find a place to modify the wheelchair into a piece of equipnt that can be flexibly used. As for Lin Guang’s chanical ring, its use is still unclear, but it contains part of the program stream Lin Guang T-0321, which may prove useful in the future.
His biggest gain is quite possibly the enhancent in the [chanics, Biochemistry, Artificial Intelligence] domains. He can completely modify the chanical wheelchair without a secondary profession player. The chanical fla bird was also created by him. Additionally, he made over a hundred bullets using materials from the Central City laboratory, saving a substantial amount of points.
Even if mbers of the World Independence Association call him to attend a technology seminar, his level is above theirs. This is the impartiality of the World Ga regarding "technology"; even though what he learned was adjusted after returning, his level is far above that of Zhai Star Humans.
If given the chance, he would like to go to the World Independence Association to assist the scholars there. They are researchers with great dedication, only focused on technology. Su Ming’an respects their efforts.
While he was pondering, a communication ca through.
[Lu Likalpos has sent you a communication invitation.]
[Accept/Decline?]
Su Ming’an accepted it, and Lu was shown on the screen.
While resting, Lu’s temperant appeared calr, with sea-blue hair damply hanging beside his ears, collar loose, as if freshly showered.
"Sorry, I thought you would’ve contacted Noel and Lv Shu at this ti. So I waited a bit before calling you." Lu said.
"Yes." Su Ming’an responded. Lu’s timing for communication was just right, not affecting his contact with Lv Shu and Noel, nor his rest. Each of Lu’s actions takes others’ feelings into sincere consideration.
Seeing Su Ming’an constantly staring at him, Lu explained with a smile, "I have the habit of showering upon returning to the Main God World. Although a digitalized body doesn’t need cleaning, I believe a proper return to life is essential... By the way, Su Ming’an, did you see the information about the alliance residence?"
"I saw it." Su Ming’an said.
"The alliance residence has opened, and the Peak Alliance, being the first nominally established alliance, needs to hold a formal founding ceremony." Lu said. "I just watched your final conversation with Dawn through a recorded live broadcast, and the amount of information was imnse. Thus, people’s attention is currently focused on the top-ranking players."
Su Ming’an glanced at the clock, twelve minutes past midnight.
"You act quickly; I heard watching videos while showering can easily lead to choking on water." Su Ming’an said.
Lu paused for a mont before realizing Su Ming’an was joking with him. He laughed, "That’s great, it seems your spirit is still in good shape."
Su Ming’an: "... Yes."
"Currently, forum mbers are constantly discussing nas of top-ranking players. It just so happens that we have two full perfect clear players in our alliance. I think we need to disclose a cooperation agreent and live stream the entire alliance founding ceremony. We need to let people know that our goal is to maintain humanity’s order, just like Nightti Nine Thrones in the Ruined World." Lu said, "This is a natural advertisent. Coincidentally, people are astonished by the selflessness of Nightti Nine Thrones, we can draw parallels with them, letting people associate us with the Nine Thrones."
"Understood." Su Ming’an nodded, Lu’s decision was clever: "When will the ceremony be?"
"The timing is flexible; it’s all up to you." Lu said, "The intermission this ti isn’t limited to three days. Just like during the Sixth World, we have to wait until all players return before starting the three-day break. So, we still have a period of rest."
Su Ming’an previously learned through comnts that this ti the player’s return timing was inconsistent; so returned in fewer than twenty days, while others exceeded twenty days. Mizushima Kawa Sora returned early, and there are still players who haven’t co back.
"You can rest well first, then handle alliance matters." Lu said.
"No need, you set a ti, and I’ll go." Su Ming’an said.
"You are our Alliance Hierarch." Lu chuckled, "With your current complexion, going to livestream the alliance founding ceremony, I’m afraid those viewers would curse us for overworking you, not letting you rest."
Su Ming’an subconsciously touched his eye sockets, unsure whether he appeared hollow-eyed or not.
"I will adjust as quickly as possible." Su Ming’an said.
"No need to use ’adjust,’ as you Dragon Country folks say, is there a saying that everything can be resolved by eating dumplings? It seems that whenever there’s a problem, you can all co together to eat dumplings. Whether it’s a couple’s quarrel, work troubles, or differences between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law." Lu said.
Su Ming’an recalled there seed to be such a saying. Lu’s knowledge of Dragon Country Culture proved unexpectedly broad, even encompassing family relationship issues.
"Coincidentally, I heard Noel wants to treat you all to a belated New Year celebration." Lu said, "Mind if Luna and I add two pairs of chopsticks?"
Su Ming’an said, "No problem."
"Ah, that’s great." Lu seed to finally get the result he wanted, clasped his hands and smiled, "I will definitely arrive on ti."
Su Ming’an vaguely sensed that this seed to be Lu’s real purpose.
"I won’t disturb your rest." Lu said, "After you rest, send the ti and place. We’ll talk about the alliance matters then."
"...okay."
Su Ming’an waited for three seconds, Lu’s face was still on the screen, smiling at him, as if waiting for him to hang up first.
Only then did Su Ming’an actively press the hang-up button and end the communication.
The screen turned black, Su Ming’an glanced again at the chat box, Noel and Lv Shu still hadn’t responded.
He put on his disguise, covered himself with black mist, and pushed open the door.
[Please select your district.]
[District 16589, confird.]
District 16589 is a lower-ranked district, mostly inhabited by people from Dragon Country. The house Su Ming’an once bought was in this district.
Su Ming’an pushed open the door, and a strong festive atmosphere hit him. Fireworks and New Year goods were being sold by the street, and the air was filled with the scent of barbecue and plum sauce. Looking around, there are n and won everywhere shopping.
Cold snowflakes brushed against his cheeks, lting on his shoulders and neck.
People saw Su Ming’an, his face covered by black mist, slightly stepped back, and went around him.
"Boom!"
Brilliant fireworks blood in the night sky, one more magnificent than the other. Snowflakes danced with the winter wind, and rainbow-like ribbons floated under the eaves.
Su Ming’an’s vision blurred for a mont. In that instant, he almost thought he was back in Doomsday City’s Fuyuan Festival. Residents gathered around the fireplace for warmth, cooking sweet potato porridge. A beige-haired Arbiter with a gun smiled back at him while leading the way.
[Teacher.]
Red lips were glamorous, creating beauty with a smile.
He blinked, and the next mont, all that was left in front of him were the distant streets and desolate snow scenery.
Countless unfamiliar faces brushed past him.
Perhaps due to more adventurer players recently returning to the Main God World, and with the live broadcast rooms of high-popularity players like Su Ming’an and Noel already closed, casual players started to go out for New Year, making every district seem quite lively.
"—Selling chanical products! Firearms, wristwatches, low-grade AI! Produced in the Ruined World, quality guaranteed!"
"—Selling notebooks! Qianze House notebooks! Top-ranked player Yamada Machiichi quality certification, taboo passwords, definitely good stuff, various kinds, whatever top-ranked players want! So peripherals buy three bundles for one!"
"—Virtual system architecture has been updated with Ninth World collection! Whether it’s Doomsday City landscape, Dawn War battleground, City of asurent modern cityscape, all have been restored! Even without going down, you can now experience new adventures firsthand, co try it out!"
"—Mom, I want baked sweet potato!"
"—It’s being bought for you, eat, eat the big one!"
"—Where did Edward go?! Why can’t I see his new posts, old Ed! old Ed! Ah!!!"
"..."
Players continue to live endlessly and never stop joking.
Su Ming’an even saw a mighty procession holding black-and-white photos of Edward, these young people blowing trumpets and throwing candies and red flowers to the side, not sure what they were playing.
"Congratulations, congratulations, Edward’s funeral will be held tomorrow, everyone must co and support." A young person shouted.
"What the heck? The United Group didn’t say Edward died." Soone nearby said.
"Impossible, if he’s not dead I will stand on my head and eat Lv Shu. Otherwise, why hasn’t he appeared for so long?" Soone in the team imdiately retorted.
"Why should my husband be eaten by you?" A big man in the team was unhappy.
"Anyway, please show support! We’re holding a cyber funeral for Edward imdiately! Prevent him from rebirth as a dead person! Our Lighthouse Sect Leader personally killed him, he can’t revive! Long live Su Ming’an!!" The young person shouted, and the people behind imdiately raised the flag, on which the word [Lighthouse] was written with flamboyant strokes, the flagpole even carried LED colorful lights.
They frantically waved the flag, the colorful lights flashed continuously, so dazzling that Su Ming’an, who was so close, couldn’t keep his eyes open.
Su Ming’an: "..."
He sotis couldn’t quite understand the way young people’s minds work nowadays.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead as he passed people, heading towards the villa district.
The environnt gradually beca quiet from the bustle, many middle-aged people gathered together playing mahjong. The sound of "eat" and "pong" was endless.
Su Ming’an walked past the dim street lights, heading toward his villa, until he stood outside the garden fence.
Lv Shu is his follower, after returning to the Main God World, followers appear in Su Ming’an’s villa. If Lv Shu really returned, Su Ming’an could see him here.
Su Ming’an pushed open the fence gate, walked inside, passing roses and lilies, petals intertwined and tangled, softly sounding like silky fabric.
Suddenly, he saw a butterfly resting on the gate, sitting there like a drop of blood.
"...Little Hong?" Su Ming’an couldn’t quite recognize if this was Lv Shu’s butterfly, they all seed the sa to him.
Until a "click" sound ca from the door beside him, he turned his head–
Blurry snow swirled in front of his eyes, like scattered apricot blossoms.
A white-haired young man in hanfu stood quietly inside the door, with a mantis perched on his shoulder.
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