Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Of course, should Players no longer wish to adventure in the Underground City, they would be subject to a screening by the executives of the Empire’s Divine Favorers Association, a group composed of Players like ’Sweet Little Cookie’ and ’Logical Genius’.

From there, Players could apply to become imperial soldiers, government officials, or even Lords of the Nobility.

In short, the Star Empire had opened a privileged backdoor for the Players, the so-called Divine Favored.

However, Lince had also instructed the few people he trusted that the supervision of Players must be as strict as it was in the real world.

Lince didn’t care if they were inactive or chose to be freeloaders.

But if they dared to cause trouble within the Empire or incite any major disturbances, such Players would receive one warning. A second offense would result in their Player status being revoked. For those whose status couldn’t be revoked, killing them would serve the same purpose.

After all, in the Game World, the only real advantage Players had over the natives was their rapid growth rate.

In other respects, there really wasn’t much difference between them and the natives.

Therefore, as long as the Players understood this, most of them would naturally behave themselves.

Not to mention, this was the personal domain of Lince, the Chief Player. Causing trouble here was nothing short of courting death.

Furthermore, Lince had the entire Dragon Race as his powerful backing in the mortal world.

No matter how fast non-Dragon Race Players leveled up in the early stages, they were like helpless chicks waiting to be slaughtered when facing the Dragon Race.

What’s more, once the Laws of the Karte Continent were completely subsumed by the True Game, Lince would gain even greater authority to restrict the Players’ actions.

After all, Lince now even had the authority to designate who was qualified for Ascension to Divinity, so Players couldn’t expect to achieve it casually.

So, in a world with Deities, the Dragon Race, and Lince himself as the Chief, he never worried about the Players getting out of line.

As for the matter of opening a backdoor for the Players...

Ultimately, Lince was only interested in the Players’ rapid growth potential before they reached the Saint Tier.

After all, they could serve as the backbone of his forces for conquering other worlds.

And so, back when the Empire was founded on the Karte Continent...

Over a period of more than 470 days there, only four Inference Days—a mere forty days—had passed in reality.

Currently, the extra seventy-odd days that had passed on the Karte Continent fell within yet another of the Players’ Inference Days.

And in those forty days, the civil war on Green Saturn had only just recently erupted.

The Blue Star Alliance had already entered the fray, while the first, second, and third waves of Players were still fighting fiercely alongside the Insect Race Imperial Clan.

In short, the current situation was utterly chaotic.

After all, the four Insect Races directly descended from the four Insect Deities controlled over sixty percent of the Insect People forces and clans loyal to them.

Therefore, knowing that Lince, an unknown Deity, would likely be unable to intervene in the Mortal War,

these Insect People were engaged in a desperate, life-or-death struggle.

Many among the Insect Race on the side of the Insect Race Imperial Clan were worried about this intense war, while for the Blue Star Alliance, it was considered a trial by fire.

The only ones excited by this situation were the Players.

After all, they earned points for killing Insect People, and they could constantly resurrect to increase their Power.

If they weren’t happy, who would be?

In short, for the Players from Blue Star, this was a rare and glorious feast.

Another point worth mentioning was that...

after the third wave of Players—those not native to Green Saturn—completed five Inference Days, the True Game opened the Green Saturn campaign instance to them as well.

In short, all the Players from Blue Star were currently immersed in this rare frenzy.

The Blue Star Alliance was even more proactive, taking measures to prevent heavy casualties among innocent human soldiers on the Exotic Star.

For the Otherworld war being waged by the Players, the Human Alliance provided guns and artillery, and even taught them how to operate vehicles like missile launchers.

In short, the Human Alliance was continuously shipping munitions to Green Saturn.

From artillery to aircraft.

They even prepared nuclear bombs for the Players.

In short, the campaign was being fought with incredible intensity.

And just as the war between Blue Star and Green Saturn was raging, Lince had already begun his journey toward the Sun, over a hundred million kilometers away from the Karte Planet.

That’s right.

Without the various growth-assisting rewards from the True Game,

Lince now had to grow methodically, step by step.

Therefore, as the Dragon of Space and Fiery Sun, traveling near the Sun to meditate and absorb its Energy for growth had become an essential part of his path.

A distance of a hundred million kilometers was nothing to the current Lince.

Using the Power of Space, his speed was now immense. Even without performing long-distance Space Travel, he could move by instinct, in a warp-like shuttle between the dimensions of the Material Realm and Subspace.

And so, in less than thirty Karte days, Lince had arrived in the outer regions of the Sun.

Compared to the Sun, Lince’s one-thousand-kilometer-long physical body was no different than a strand of hair—in fact, it was even less conspicuous.

Merely gazing upon the Sun, Lince felt a profound sense of his own insignificance.

Every solar flare that erupted from the Sun’s surface released terrifying Energy that seemed to cause massive tremors in Space itself. The visual impact on Lince was immense.

Witnessing it all, Lince was left breathless with awe.

Ultimately, however, Lince did not forget his purpose.

He chose a weak point in the fabric of Space near the Sun’s surface to create a habitat in Subspace.

With that, the entire Giant Dragon submerged into Subspace, leaving only a narrow rift on the Sun’s surface in the Material Realm.

Then, closing his eyes, he used his instinctual, inherited power to draw the Sun’s Energy into Subspace as fine threads. Lince then entered a deep slumber, half-asleep and half-awake.

At this point,

Lince had, in fact, become completely detached from the mortal world and even from the humans of Blue Star.

His perception of time had entered the realm of long-lived species, and his Power had stepped into the Divine Realm.

He was no longer ordinary.

He had become a true mythological being.

Therefore, by the time Lince awoke again, many years—perhaps even centuries—might have passed on Blue Star and the Karte Continent.

At this point, Lince’s journey as a Player was more or less complete.

Next, as the Dragon God, Lince would lead the Human Race of Blue Star—and indeed, the two worlds under his command—to begin a new era.