Chapter 435 - Changes (1/2)

”Well... smack my cock and call me a bitch...”

Nik muttered as he felt his vision swim for a moment. It just wasn't him, but also Klas. In fact, in some manner, Klas was more affected by updates. It was good that all his partners, aside from Klas, were currently getting settled into the estate. Since the girls had grown too much in number, Shen Xiu just decided to put many empty rooms of the place to some use and restricted others from cramming Nik's suite.

”I can't smack your cock... but sure, you're a bitch,” Asmodeus' voice echoed within his head when Ray's chat popped open in front of him.

[Are you fucking seeing this?]

Instantly, Brian's chat popped in front of him, too.

[Did the paradise get high?]

[Give me a minute, you two... we all need it.]

Nik swiped the messages away and focused on the tab describing the updates itself.

[Patience is always appreciated. The areas of updates are as follows:]

Before Nik went through the update log, he felt his codex disappear. Seeing Klas's scowl, her codex must have disappeared, too.

[• The assistance provided by the core will be dissolved alongside all the materials created within the paradise with the same effects. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• Host's rank-up quests will now take place within the war frontier. The longer the rank-up quest is delayed, the longer the time to survive within the frontier. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• All the respective guilds will effectively be dissolved and turned into a team with various levels based on the ranks. All these teams come under the regulation of the guild formed by the system and the missions will pay-out contribution points. Only contribution points can be used to access the guild store. The page for the guild and various missions will also be added to the interface of the paradise. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• Promotion quests to increase the quality of talents would cease effective at this moment. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• The pain reliever function while increasing the stats is henceforth removed. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• To assist in completing the missions, a spatial transporter has been attached to the paradise space. The use of contribution points, CP, in short, is required. Focus on this point to expand the clause.

• Various points including— System Origin, Status Points, Skill Points, Contribution Points— can now act as an independent currency.

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The list of updates was quite long but only these truly affected Nik. Aside from the last one, all the previous updates only pulled a bad taste from his mouth. With the removal of evolution codex, Nik could not hope to access his evolution atlas. This effectively cut away one path of improvement. The war-frontier was even worse... it was literally a layered battle space where all the hosts from different paradises fought against each other. The contribution points served to add the hassle of buying important items like [Pardon], good thing that he had already purchased another one before leaving.

Nik didn't even know that [Talents] could be upgraded. Even so, another path of improvement had been cut off. He wasn't a power guy, but improvement served the basis of survival. He didn't have any profession that could act like a mission reliever where he only has to do specified things within the paradise to earn his keep. And finally, the removal of the pain reliever didn't directly affect Nik, but it still annoyed him greatly.

”Lapis, Dia, Bort, Yellow... they all can't evolve...” Klas's pained voice rang beside him. Nik sighed deeply. To Klas, the rank-up quests also grew quite hard. After all, with the objective of completing the missions, Klas had already held her rank-up by quite a few travels. After a bit of deliberation, Nik had finally discussed the situation of Klas and her thoughts about continuing to travel. She, of course, wished to continue this sort of adventure. The benefits were great enough to bet one's life and Nik... felt himself agreeing internally. That day, Klas had discontinued her membership with the top guild— The Absolute— and became a rogue host.

”Hey, it'll be fine... System isn't the only way we can evolve,” Nik whispered as Klas slumped back on the bed and whispered, ”Master, it isn't the solution, but the time. Anyway, I have long stopped stewing over things I cannot affect. Let's continue... we should probably share our secrets already. I don't want to hide anything from master.”

As Nik and Klas showed each other their status screen and observed their strengths and weaknesses, the other hosts, including rank 9, could barely contain their rage.

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