Global Mining.

Chapter 820: Version Copy, Void Arena

Watching the opponent's tremors weaken and Yatnas's version steadily rise, Da Chun was basically certain he had won. After all, it involved over 140 million privilege points, a self-destructing wheelchair, and that crucial maneuver in between. But Da Chun needed to understand: was his action necessary?
"Yatenas, do you have time to talk?"

Yatnas: "The current version is receiving continuous upgrades, so feel free to talk when you have time."

Da Chun asked, "Just now, when we were about to collide, you were reminding me whether to self-destruct. What was your reason for that?"

Yatnas: "The opponent is extremely strong in close combat. There's no need to worry about monitoring on the field; I can define the timing and direction of detonating the crystal core."

Da Chun asked in surprise, "If I didn't have the self-destructing wheelchair, would I have definitely lost?"

Yatenas: "Not necessarily. I said before the war that I would intervene to some extent."

Da Chun became interested: "How will you get involved?"

Yatnas: "I would have an advantage if the user used a lot of privileges, but the process would be very slow."

Da Chun asked in surprise, "Wouldn't it have been faster if you had just told me to self-destruct my wheelchair as soon as you arrived?"

Yatnas: "There are many uncertainties. At the same time, the battle process between the user and the opponent is also a learning resource for me, which will make me more familiar with the performance of the clone."

Well, my battle was still meaningful. At least it allowed me to become familiar with the combat tactics of my own divine realm for the first time.

As they spoke, Yatnas upgraded all the way to version 1.80.

Yatnas said, "During the version upgrade, through analysis of the user's divine domain, it was discovered that the user's divine domain has been fused with the Forest Goddess divine domain skill of the Druid Elder class, but the Forest Goddess is not present. Does the user need to obtain the Forest Goddess?"

Da Chun was taken aback: "Where did this forest goddess come from?"

Yatnas said, "I copied the other party and that's how I got it. I'll act as the user's forest goddess."

Holy crap! Even though it's a good thing, but...

Da Chun found it hard to accept: "You mean, copy her spider form and become the forest goddess?"

Yatnas: "Yes. The current disadvantage is that her size is too large to move flexibly in the forest, and I cannot supply her with the space particle cannon. We can consider reducing her size, removing the particle cannon, and focusing on melee combat. Reducing her size will also make it easier for me to control her."

Da Chun carefully examined the woman's upper body, unsure whether it was distorted by the explosion or simply plain-looking. He then made his crucial request: "Could the human form be more attractive and have a better presence?"

Yatnas: "Appearance doesn't help improve combat power; on the contrary, it consumes extra resources..."

Da Chun exclaimed anxiously, "Looks are everything! It's worth the resources; at least we have to look like goddesses!"

Yatnas: "Do users request a goddess-like appearance template?"

Wow! She really can do that. Then let's make more requests.

Da Chun thought that he was still researching the sweet spring water for the new competition venue, and that he was bound to achieve results.

Da Chun added, "You need to have skills related to alcohol and beverages, like sweet spring water. Can you do that?"

Yatnas: "Goddess model, Dionysus template, is this what the user requested?"

Da Chun laughed: "Yes, yes, yes!"

—Aytnas 1.80Plus+ version notification: Data transfer, copying, and merging in progress; creating the Aytnas Forest Goddess of Wine version.

very good!

Then Da Chun saw the spider's body on the other side begin to scatter a large amount of light fragments that surged into his body and slowly blurred.

Just then, Da Chun suddenly felt that the vines in the main world heard crackling sounds of electricity.

Ok?
Da Chun immediately switched to the main world and saw that the server room where Man Teng was located was shaking. Not only that, but the floor of the room where Da Chun was located was also shaking a little.

This?
I won't ask about the Ten Elders; it's my mealtime now, so I'm pretending not to be online.

Da Chun switched back and asked, "Yatenas, there was a tremor in the ground outside the arena just now, what's going on?"

Yatnas said, "There should also be a similar-looking entity outside the arena, which is the carrier of the clone. Since I have defeated the clone and absorbed its data, that entity has lost control and may appear, but it is no longer the clone, and its skills are unknown."

Oh shit too!

I fought the arena boss in the arena, so there should be one in the main world too. I suspected there would be a boss in the server room when I was burrowing underground, and it seems there really is.

Yatenas continued, "Considering the uncertainty that the emergence of out-of-control entities will bring, we must hold on until I finish copying..."

For matters concerning the main world, we can only turn to the Ten Elders!
Da Chun switched back and asked anxiously in the Chamber of Commerce channel, "Elder? What's going on?"

Sheila panicked: "A massive, powerful evil god has appeared. But don't panic, Master. The room you're in is quite sturdy, and the entrance is small; the monster can't get in. Let me finish this battle immediately and then investigate further..."

As they were speaking, a loud explosion occurred outside, followed by a mournful howl from the monster.

"President, I'm off."

All Da Chun could say was, "Elder, you must be extremely careful."

After all, she's one of the top ten. She and I gained over a million privilege points from leveling up and fighting the Sand Demon together. Adding that to what she already had, over two million shouldn't be a problem. We should be able to get it, right?

……

Top Ten Chat Group.

The anomaly intensified.

Samuel was shocked: "The monster is coming out, from the very center of the arena! My detector is off the charts, I can't even determine its strength!"

Sila was stunned: "Your reconnaissance device's limit is SSS+, that's off the charts?"

Michael was also taken aback: "Could it be at least a mid-level god?"

Metatron said, "If you absorbed the energy of the central control system in the previous version, you could become a mid-level god!"

Sila was full of energy: "I've stacked hundreds of layers of the Reaper's Scythe now, can I kill a mid-level god?"

Michael said, "Samuel, go to the arena and provoke it. Try to lure it away first and test its skills."

Samuel: "Roger!"

Samuel flew to the center of the arena and deployed the decoy interference device used to pull monsters onto the ground. The interference device then emitted an unpleasant noise and added ultrasonic waves.

The next moment, the ground in the center of the arena exploded like a bomb, sand pillars shot into the sky, and a spider the size of a truck leaped out.

Everyone was in an uproar!
It was already daylight, and the group could see the spider clearly. Its head had a female upper body, and there was a cannon in front of it.

Metatron was stunned: "It's the arena control system, the military spider-type combat robot R&D and design system Artenas, it's still here!"

Samuel exclaimed, "It looks like it's aiming a cannon at me!" "Run!!"

Samuel teleported away, and a red beam of light grazed the area, directly covering a large area of ​​airspace where Samuel had been standing.

Metatron exclaimed, "It's a bio-cannon! It has integrated the machine room defense cannon with its physical body, becoming a semi-mechanical biological entity. This also means that the cannon's energy supply surpasses ordinary fuel supply; bio-energy can also be used..."

Before the explanation was finished, the spider ignored Samuel's escape and climbed directly onto the arena stands, heading straight for the house where Da Chun was.

Xila was shocked: "Are you looking for Dachun? Why?"

Sariel replied without hesitation, "That's why I said Da Chun is up to no good!"

The next moment, the spider jumped down and landed directly outside the arena, right where Da Chun's house was. Then, the spider opened its pincer-shaped mouth and began to devour the pile of sand demon corpses on the ground!

The group of people were stunned once again!

Sariel was also stunned: "That's it? You came out all that way just to eat?"

Samuel then realized: "So it's so easy to lure it out; all you have to do is kill enough food."

Sariel said irritably, "Da Chun is in the next room. Let's poke him and wipe him out!"

Xila said urgently, "Don't die now! I'll send a message through the Chamber of Commerce channel."

Guild Channel [Elder Shelley]: Guild Master! A troll is eating corpses outside the room. Do not make any noise to disturb it!
Chamber of Commerce Channel [Chairman Dachun]: Understood, the head maid has also come back to hide!
Sila panicked: "Everyone, is there a solution?"

Metatron said, "The key is to determine whether it's a monster or an NPC. If it's part of the Yatenas system, then it's an NPC, which can be suppressed and killed using privilege points, or even subdued. That would mean we've obtained a system tool that allows us to access some administrator privileges within the game. How many privilege points does Sira have now?"

Sila immediately laughed: "260 million!"

The crowd erupted in uproar!
Samuel said, "I also have 80, and apart from getting the launch gift pack, I've basically never used it."

Metatron said, "Then we'll see if this monster is an NPC. We can let it eat first and see how it behaves after it's full."

Samuel said, "If it's an NPC, and we're determined to use our 300 million privileges to kill it, then the head maid's escape prevention value is not much, and Da Chun's existence is unnecessary. We can let him die in the chaos first, so that he doesn't get the system items after we kill him."

Xila said urgently, "There are still dozens of crystal cores on him! I need to trade away his crystal cores so he can die."

Samuel said irritably, "Compared to system tools, what are a few dozen crystal cores?"

Sila retorted irritably, "What if it's not an NPC? Besides, the system tool doesn't have attribute descriptions; only we recognize it. Da Chun certainly doesn't, and his professional team behind him has never seen it either. I just need to say I'll have someone research it, and he'll naturally give it to me..."

Samuel sighed, "If we're not NPCs, our privileges are invalid, and we can't win!"

Metatron said, "It's become semi-mechanized; it can eat itself into becoming an NPC even if it's not one..."

Michael: "Let's observe first."

……

At this moment, Da Chun's heart pounded wildly upon receiving the reminder from Sheila.

Even without her reminder, Da Chun heard a loud creaking sound outside the room. Da Chun hadn't seen what the monster outside looked like. If it really looked like the one in the arena, how could it eat the corpses of those giant monsters outside? It couldn't possibly be that tiny humanoid creature with vines stuffing up its belly, could it?

In short, time crawled by, each second feeling like an eternity. However, I believe the Ten Elders have a solution.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened to Yatnas this time.

—Athena's 1.80Plus+ version notification: Congratulations! I have completely copied the cloned version and upgraded it to version 1.90Plus+. I have gained complete control of the central control center, and the Divine Domain skill "Forest Goddess of Wine" is now customized. The Arc Barrier has been upgraded to the Arc Domain.

—System notification: You have ended your match and exited the arena. Due to the current imperfections in the arena mechanism, you are currently unable to receive match rewards. You can wait for a future update to the arena to receive compensation.

—Ayatnas 1.90Plus+ version prompt: Now absorbing the electric arc energy of the central control room to strengthen the user's divinity and divine realm. Does the user agree?

Holy crap, they've put in so much effort and it's only version 1.9? Does that mean the new arena is version 2.0?
In short, upgrading is fine.

Da Chun was excited: "Does that mean I can now absorb all the energy from that huge underground arc?"

Yatnas: "We can only do what we can. It is estimated that the user's godhood can be upgraded to a mid-level god."

Da Chun exclaimed excitedly, "Okay, let's do what we can!"

Yatnas: "Absorption begins, arc field protection activated."

As he spoke, another electric membrane enveloped Da Chun's vines, and the current from the underground machine room barrier surged into Da Chun's divine realm along the membrane. Da Chun's entire divine realm was filled with electric light—no, it was liquid plasma... Wait, Da Chun saw a jet-black spider goddess in the middle of the forest!
Her size had decreased considerably, from a large truck to a small sedan, and her entire body exuded the black sheen of a top-of-the-line luxury car—this woman's body was oily and shiny—Holy crap! How could her body be so robust, like a muscular woman competing in an aerobics competition! Of course, her face was indeed beautiful, an angelic face with devilish muscles!

Da Chun still couldn't accept it: "Yatenas, why does she have so many muscles?"

Yatnas: "Only in this way can we meet the template of combining beauty and fine wine. If you are not satisfied, users can try to train themselves. It is also a possible growth direction to drink until you have a beer belly."

What the hell!

Da Chun exclaimed anxiously, "It's perfect right now!"

Then Da Chun remembered something important: "Now that we've defeated the old version, can I still continue competing? I want to go to the Void Arena."

Yatnas: "Yes, but the game energy needs to be paid for by the user."

Da Chun hurriedly asked, "Does energy refer to the electricity we absorb?"

Yatnas: "It can also requisition the energy of other divine realms."

The others mean Ellen's energy? That won't do, we've already tripled your supply for two-line operations.

Da Chun said, "Let's use this much electricity."

"Now, please enter the competition venue."

Da Chun clicked on the old arena icon again, and this time, sure enough, a match scene selection interface appeared, which was still a bit rougher than the current new arena interface.

Choose the Void Arena.

The game interface suddenly went black, the blackness distorting and shaking, and Da Chun felt as if he were flying in the void. This feeling was all too familiar; it was the same feeling he had experienced when he entered and exited the Raven Master's Legacy room in the Dragon Sleep Temple in his soul form, which had taken several minutes to teleport back then.

So what now?
Da Chun switched back to the main world, and the plasma in the divine realm turned into lightning again. The consumption of resources in the arena was indeed high, but this was playing by the rules of the creator god!
Da Chun returned to the game interface and waited for about a minute before a bright spot suddenly appeared on the dark screen.

This is?

"Yatenas, take me to the light!"

"Roger that!"

Spring is approaching, and I see a floating asteroid emitting a metallic glow. The glow comes from an airship on it—Holy crap! It's the airship that Celia, the Ugly Queen, and Tifa the robot Tifana belong to!

(End of this chapter)