Chapter 998 - Intersection of Past, Present, and Future (3) (2/2)

“I see. I think I understand why I appeared in this place now.”

Rhode nodded. It wasn’t hard to understand, just like the relationship between the phone signal and base station. The higher the rate of work of the base station, the larger the range of the phone signal and the easier for the phone signal to be connected. There would surely be a way to return since the Creator Dragons could freely exit to the outside world. In fact, Rhode didn’t transmigrate back to the real world. Instead, he was only here as a projection connected from the powerful signal of the signal tower. Moreover, this place also wasn’t in the real world and was more like an inside reflection.

“But the truth isn’t as simple as we imagined.”

The young sister, Jess, said with a depressed tone.

“If we pass through the Dimension Gate in our true bodies, we can indeed return to this world quickly. But without our energy source, the entire continent won’t be kept hidden and last long enough under the attack of Chaos. When that happens, the continent will be destroyed by Chaos, even if we found a solution to rescue it. The continent will turn into absolute Chaos. We can’t even time-travel back to the past and restart everything. For this reason we need to ensure the safety of Dragon Soul Continent. So… We abandoned our bodies and selected the dragon soul heirs to inherit our powers and maintain the continent, while we transmigrated to this world using our spirit.”

“Due to the space turbulence, there was a certain error in our arrival to this world. Arthur came first while we came after. We can’t maintain our form for too long as spirits, which is why we chose to live in humans of this world to live and grow like ordinary people.”

“Then, we discovered that even though this world was also full of Chaos, it wasn’t as compromised as our world.”

Arthur continued her words.

“Chaos in this world doesn’t have its own conscious and mind. It is simply a natural presence, while humans build their very own Order. Order has been destroyed time and time again, but was quickly rebuilt by them. We are deeply interested in this totally different civilization system, which was why we decided to conduct our research here to find a solution to rescue our world.”

“I understand what you meant.”

Rhode nodded to Arthur’s words. Then, he knitted his brows dubiously.

“But… what has this got to do with you guys making this game? Frankly, judging from your goal, you guys should be researching topics like nature, science, human philosophy, et cetera…”

No matter what it didn’t seem too reasonable or logical to relate game development and rescuing the world. The four of them looked at one another and smiled. Then, Serena said.

“In the beginning we had a deep interest in the game itself. Then, we were surprised that we could borrow the civilized technologies of this world to create an actual virtual-reality world. This was why we had this thought: If we could turn our world completely into comprehensive data and present it in the form of Order, would we stand a chance in resisting the attack of Chaos? For that we began our experiments, borrowing the civilization of this world and using our knowledge to create the game, the Dragon Soul Continent.”

Serena smiled.

“I think you may or may not have noticed the importance of Order. The most important thing to Order is the rules, Mr. Rhode. As a top player in the past, you should be aware of that. Even though the level of freedom in the Dragon Soul Continent is really high, there are a lot of rules and systems in place, right?”

“You’re right about that.”

Rhode nodded. No matter how real a game was known as, it wasn’t as though one was playing in ‘The Matrix'[1] and came up with a virtual-reality world to dominate the world. In the game—level, experience points, MP value of spiritual power, health, success rate of forging, et cetera—all of these could be presented by data. The data itself was the rule. One would level up after gaining experience points and the relationship between the mastery of skills and damage output were all fixed rules.

“Now that you’ve awakened dragon soul powers, you should have noticed that the dragon soul protection of this continent is really primitive, where Order can only be strengthened through the abstraction of spiritual powers from the dragons’ worshipers. But this isn’t enough. We imagined if the continent could be like this game, where several rules and concepts were merged with the continent as one, and everything had been turned into data by Order, we could use many different ways to abstract spiritual powers and strengthen Order. For instance, whenever people increase their strength, masteries and likabilities in one another, their every action will solidify the Order barrier of the continent, allowing it to display its formidable strength! This way, Chaos will not easily invade the Dragon Soul Continent anymore…”

Rhode’s expression changed slightly.

“So… what you meant was… you are trying to transfer the system of the online game into the real world of Dragon Soul Continent?”

[1] A 1999 science-fiction action film.