Offer blocks to the end times

“This doesn’t count as cheating,” Yukari Yakumo stretched her body, her aura slowly concealing itself. “After all, I said I would use all the power of Gensokyo.”

“That’s true,” Senju nodded, then reminded her, “but don’t underestimate White Demon; she’s hiding quite a bit of strength.”

“Of course I know all that,” Yakumo Yukari chuckled, covering her mouth. “I probably know more details than Lady Senju, but White Demon has no idea about my abilities.”

"Is that so? But that little girl leader is so pitiful, having to run into you at the very beginning," Senju shook her head helplessly, while Yakumo Yukari showed no remorse. "Well, they brought this situation on themselves anyway. Since they used so many lives as bargaining chips, they should have been prepared to be put on the scales. Besides, the current situation is better than her losing to the Demon King and being wiped out."

That would be a much better outcome. If all else fails, we can have her join our alliance.

"Whatever, you handle it. I'm just observing this time," Senju shook his head slightly, then remembered that demon king, whom he didn't even know. "By the way, what kind of demon king did we capture today?"

Chapter 980 Yakumo Yukari vs. White Demon

"It's that girl in the spotted dress. She calls herself Pest, but she's got quite a background," Yukari Yakumo explained softly. "She's the representative of the Black Death that ravaged the West and killed tens of millions of people. But she claims to have caused the deaths of eighty million people. Am I mistaken? There weren't that many."

“Uh,” Senju shuddered. This was a major plague and disaster in history, although it had little to do with the East. “Is it okay to leave her at home?! We should deal with her quickly to prevent a plague outbreak.”

“No problem,” Yukari Yakumo shook her head. “She is now completely under the control of Gensokyo and will no longer cause a plague.”

"But I still feel something's off..." Senju scratched his arm. It seemed he needed to investigate these people thoroughly before making contact, otherwise it would be too dangerous. "By the way, where are the other two?"

"The two of them disappeared with the failure of that Gift Game. They were just demons summoned from the Ratcatcher's story," Yakumo Yukari shook her head slightly, then looked at Senju. "By the way, Lady Senju, could you fight me so I can get used to this power?"

“Okay, I’ve been wanting to see that too,” Senju nodded, then the two clapped their hands and created a huge gap space, where they began to fight.

Of course, the two didn't really fight; they just tested each other a little. However, in the end, Yukari Yakumo had a slight advantage. Her use of power far surpassed Senju's, and Senju learned a lot from her.

The next day arrived quickly, and the arena was once again filled with people. However, this time the referees were two rabbits, Black Rabbit and Reisen. Reisen was clearly forced into this role, and she was on the verge of tears as she listened to the shouts around her. Black Rabbit, on the other hand, held her hand and taught her various refereeing rules.

"Hello everyone, welcome back to the arena! It's so good to see you all again after yesterday's commotion," Black Rabbit shouted excitedly on the field, then pointed to Reisen next to her, "Please look over here, everyone. This is also one of our fellow Moon Rabbits, Reisen Udongein Inaba, who belongs to the community 'Gensokyo'!"

"Hello everyone, I'm Reisen," Reisen waved to everyone as if she were about to cry, and the atmosphere in the audience immediately exploded. "Oh, oh, oh, she's from Gensokyo! She looks so beautiful, and she's a noblewoman from the Little Garden! I can't believe I can see two of them at the same time, this is so satisfying!"

"By the way, can you see under this little garden noble's skirt?! Everyone, take a look!"

"You can really see it! It's XX's panties!"

"Wow!" Reisen cried out in despair, but Black Rabbit encouraged her with an innocent look, "Don't worry, it'll be fine."

"As everyone knows, thanks to everyone in Gensokyo, we were able to defeat the Demon King yesterday. So today, Lady White Demon will be conducting a trial for the community of Gensokyo. If you pass the trial, there will be a super mysterious prize!"

Black Rabbit shouted loudly, and Reisen quickly learned from her and joined in, "Today's contestant is Lady Yakumo Yukari, the leader of Gensokyo!"

As they shouted, a spatial rift appeared on the stage, and Yukari Yakumo stepped out from it. "Hello everyone, I am Yukari Yakumo, the leader of the community 'Gensokyo,' and I am seventeen years old!"

"Tch," those around who knew Yukari Yakumo silently complained, and then the two rabbits shouted, "And the other one going on stage is the ruler of the East District, the celestial spirit of the night and the sun, Lord White Demon!"

"Oh~" The surrounding sounds became somewhat subdued, after all, White Yaksha's performance yesterday had disappointed many people.

"Are you alone? Aren't the others going to participate?" White Demon looked at Yakumo Yukari to the side. Yakumo Yukari nodded. "That's right, but Lady White Demon, you'd better be careful. I'm not alone."

"Hmph, how arrogant," White Demon snorted coldly, and with a slight wave of her hand, a piece of parchment fell from the sky into Yakumo Yukari's hand.

Looking at the contents of the Gift Game on the parchment, Yukari Yakumo nodded. "On behalf of Gensokyo, I agree. Lady White Demon, we can begin anytime."

“Then let’s use this venue this time,” White Yaksha clapped his hands, and the two were teleported to a starry sky, where the audience watched their battle through several huge floating images on the stage.

The two initially engaged in close combat, and the surrounding audience cheered as they watched the fierce duel unfold. However, after a while, the two distanced themselves from each other, neither gaining an advantage in the close-quarters battle.

White Demon's fist was imbued with immense power and scorching heat, while Yakumo Yukari's was imbued with the ability to tear space and cause instant death. However, after the two had been hammering each other for a while, they realized that the other's body was completely unharmed, and they also felt that this was unsportsmanlike.

Next up was the light cannon battle. The scene was indeed spectacular, but Senju seemed a bit lazy. Were the two inside in cahoots?

Ah, there it displayed its power so freely, leaving the people around it in awe.

After defeating the last one, White Yaksha used his clearing skill again - Simulated Solar Prominence, "Be careful, as long as you can withstand this attack, you will win!"

Yakumo Shimi smiled slightly. She wasn't thinking about defeating the White Demon yet; this situation was perfect. A small bronze bell appeared in her hand, and after gently shaking it, the bell shattered. However, it still emitted a sound wave that neutralized the pure white wind.

"Thank you for showing mercy, Lady White Demon," Yukari Yakumo said with a smile. White Demon's expression, however, was not good, and she was greatly shocked. "It was actually a one-time simulated creation map?! Who is behind her?!"

"Alright, this counts as your victory. Don't disappoint me next time," White Demon shook his head, and then the two appeared on the arena. Black Rabbit, who was there, excitedly shouted, "Just as everyone saw, the two of you have given us a wonderful show! Yakumo Yukari, the leader of Gensokyo, has perfectly passed White Demon's trial and won a mysterious prize. This prize will be personally awarded by the leader of the Fire Dragon, Sandra Terdrek, at the end of the Fire Dragon Birth Festival. Please look forward to it!"

"Oh oh oh!!!" The surrounding audience cheered. The two on stage bowed slightly and then disappeared instantly. After Black Rabbit livened up the atmosphere for a bit, the match was officially over.

Chapter 981 Challenge

"Senju, what exactly is Yakumo Yukari's background?" After teleporting to the viewing platform, White Yaksha immediately asked Senju, who was rubbing her fingers together. "Well..."

Seeing Senju's blatant attempt to extort money, Shiroyasha was speechless. However, as a member of the business community, she naturally understood the importance of intelligence, especially since it involved someone else betraying the intelligence of her subordinates.

"Never mind," Yakumo Yukari waved her hand, thinking that she would have other rulers of the North District test her strength. In any case, it didn't matter who won in the end, as it would resolve the current division in the North District.

The rest of the celebration lost its charm. The people of the Fire Dragon were naturally listless, and some of the communities that had come to visit and participate in the competition were scared away. After staying there for two or three days, the Thousand Hands realized that the celebration was not very interesting, so they left.

It is said that at the end of the festival, Sandra handed over the position of the floor ruler, which had been passed down for countless generations of fire dragons, to Yakumo Yukari. This caused a sensation. However, the community here felt that it was better for Yakumo Yukari to become the floor ruler, so there was no major fluctuation. Although an old man caused trouble in the middle, before he could do anything, he was knocked unconscious by Yagokoro Eirin and taken back to get medical treatment.

Furthermore, Rimuru caused some trouble in the middle. He contacted Senju and said that he was going to find a girlfriend and wanted Senju to give him some time off. Senju looked at the girl in the crystal ball on his head and asked him about it. He then learned that it was a divination he had asked someone to help him find out that there was a destined person waiting for him in another world!

Senju figured he couldn't stop his subordinates from falling in love, so he agreed. After all, Rimuru was fine, and Ainz and the others were helping to stabilize the world.

Senju originally wanted to go and take a look, but at this time he suddenly received bad news from his subordinates. Senju had no choice but to give up this trip. After all, according to his subordinates, hundreds of communities had jointly requested a gift competition from Senju, citing the irregularity of the 'Senju' alliance's upgrade.

"Tch, just jealousy and resentment," Senju said speechlessly as she saw Rimuru off, then teleported back to the Little Garden world before returning to headquarters.

After returning to the Alliance headquarters, the Thousand Hands began to review the documents related to the Gift Games. These documents explained the common reason for their participation in the Gift Games: the Thousand Hands Alliance had not advanced according to the regulations, so they wanted to test whether the Thousand Hands Alliance was qualified to remain on the fourth level.

Thousand Hands carefully examined the so-called upgrade rules attached to it. From the seventh level to the sixth level, one needs to pass the test of the hierarchy ruler. To reach the fifth level, one needs to take in three communities located on the sixth level. To reach the fourth level, one needs to hold a blessing competition with more than one hundred communities participating.

"So there's such a rule?" Senju grumbled to himself, not caring about it at all. But after doing some careful calculations, Senju realized that he was only missing the final gift game of the Hundred Families Community, and this opportunity was just right.

However, after looking at them, Senju realized that they were all from the fourth level of the community. They all seemed to be quite strong, but the gift competitions they proposed were all over the place. Senju found that he couldn't handle them all, so he decided to design his own gift game.

After thinking for a while, Senju designed a gift game called "One Hundred Floors Above and Below the Sky". Simply put, it combines the floating city of Aincrad with the Orario dungeon, with one hundred floors above and one hundred floors below. Only by fighting your way from the first floor to the one hundredth floor can you win.

Of course, various items and money will drop during this process. The higher the level, the more rewards you will receive, but you will not lose experience. If you are defeated by a monster, you will be teleported back to the first level, but all your equipment will disappear.

Inside, the Thousand Hands will provide various potions and items. For a small amount of money, you can have a decent set of equipment. And if you give up the challenge, you can leave with the items and money. Of course, the Thousand Hands also thoughtfully provides...

They offer a resurrection service, but the price is a bit high.

After making some initial designs, the Thousand Hands submitted a request to the Central Authority to design the game venue. They quickly received a reply stating that the Thousand Hands Alliance could freely set up the venue on its territory without interference from the Central Authority.

The so-called non-intervention means neither stopping nor helping, but simply allowing the Thousand Hands to set up the venue. As for the size of the venue, it depends on the strength of the Thousand Hands.

Thousand Hands first found a large piece of land. Speaking of which, this land is really vast. Although it is the fourth level, the land occupied by Thousand Hands is the size of several cities. After Thousand Hands marked out a large piece of land, he directly recreated Orario's underground city and skyscraper. The Orario on the ground is completely operated by puppets, mainly selling various weapons, potions and ordinary food.

The first sixty levels of the dungeon were created according to Senju's memories. Since he didn't know what was after the sixtieth level, Senju put some puppets of the Skywing species and Dragon Spirit species inside, with the number increasing in sequence.

After drawing the magic circle there and building a resurrection point, Thousand Hands began to create monsters. However, even copying was troublesome, since Thousand Hands thought that there were hundreds of millions of monsters on the last floor, and only by completely killing all of these monsters would the final boss, which gathered the power of hundreds of millions of monsters, appear.

After thinking for a while, he made monster eggs of the Skywing and Dragon Spirit species, and then installed monster cages in the dungeon. Finally, Thousand Hands sped up the dungeon. One minute outside was equivalent to thousands of years inside. Looking inside, it had completely changed. Not only were there monsters of the Dragon Spirit and Skywing species, but also many other powerful monsters of unknown species.

Next, Thousand Hands borrowed the Floating City and placed it on the Tower of Babel. Then, he used the laws of the Sky City to cover the laws of the Underground City, so that the monsters inside would also drop equipment and people could be resurrected.

He took out a whole bunch of random props, copied them, and then stored them in a special space as a reward.

Next, Senju and Kayaba Akihiko discussed what level the prices of the items inside should be set at. After discussing for a while, they raised the prices of the items inside by a large margin. However, they also introduced a more expensive food system, where eating high-grade ingredients could strengthen the body and improve spiritual power.

After the wonder was built, Senju sent people everywhere to send out invitations. In addition to the more than one hundred communities that had taken on the challenge, he also randomly sent one hundred invitations to the Little Garden, inviting one hundred lucky communities to participate in the game.

Chapter 982 The Malice of a Thousand Eyes

The Gift Game: One Hundred Layers Above and Below Heaven.

Game organizer: Qian Shou.

Participants: Players who enter the floating city and the dungeon.

Victory condition: Clear 100 floors.

Failure conditions: If you fail to clear 100 floors, you give up the challenge. Death does not count as failure, and you can revive.

Competition Rewards: 1. Killing monsters will earn you money and items. You can leave the competition with the items you have obtained after paying a certain price. The community that clears 100 floors will receive ten artifact rewards.

Second, the arena offers items, potions, and attribute-enhancing foods for sale, with high-level ingredients that can improve one's spirit level.

I pledge to abide by the above rules and to hold this Gift competition in the name of honor, banner, and game organizers.

'Thousand Hands' Seal.

Over the next few days, Thousand Hands continued to improve the game venue, and several communities under his command sent people to provide support. Thousand Hands assigned tasks to each of them.

A few days later, the participants began to arrive one after another. While they were amazed by the grandeur of the venue, the first thing they faced was that they needed to spend money on food and lodging.

Those large communities didn't care at all. After figuring out the rules, they started to strategize, thinking of quickly breaking through the hundredth floor, making 'Thousand Hands' lose face, and defeating the alliance.

However, in the game, there was a hidden GM, Kayaba Akihiko, who adjusted the difficulty of the monsters. Senju, on the other hand, was leisurely every day, and often heard news of some community being wiped out. A month passed like this, and Senju was speechless to find that some community members had become his subordinates because of the resurrection debts, and no one mentioned the matter of 'Senju' being promoted illegally.

Of course, many people who tasted success here not only improved their spiritual level but also obtained rare items and made a fortune. They then began to promote the reputation of this place. However, later on, those who wanted to participate in the competition had to pay a fee.

The items inside are very popular, but the rules set by the Thousand Hands prohibit them from taking the items out. Many people have spent more than ten times the price to take the items out. Of course, that's the price of ordinary items. High-level items such as resurrection stones, transfer stones, health potions, and mana potions cost hundreds of times more, and these items are in short supply.

However, just as things were getting really good here, White Yaksha came over. This time, she didn't come in her personal capacity, but in the name of 'Thousand Eyes' to cooperate with Thousand Hands.

"What?! You want the in-game currency to be changed to 'Thousand Eyes' issued currency?!" Thousand Hands stared wide-eyed at White Yaksha in disbelief. Although Thousand Hands didn't understand much about finance, he knew that it was extremely wrong for his country to use another country's currency. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"Well, I know it's not good, but I had to come because of orders from above," Bai said.

Yaksha spoke casually, seemingly unconcerned, "And in return, your alliance can fly the banner of two goddesses."

"Um, can I take this as a provocation?" Senju looked at Shiroyasha strangely. "Why am I hanging the banner of two goddesses? Am I weaker than those two goddesses?"

“Well, you are indeed weaker than them,” White Yaksha said seriously from the side. “Although you can defeat me, I have sealed most of my power now, while those two goddesses are stronger than I was in my prime.”

"Is that so?" Senju said in silence for a moment. "In that match, how much of your power did you actually use?"

"Well, I probably used about 60% of my full strength that time," White Yaksha said after doing some calculations. "But those two goddesses were defeated when I was at my strongest, and they are even stronger."

Senju closed his eyes and began to calculate. He seemed to have used 30% of his strength that time, which was perfectly fine. However, according to the rules here, although he was ranked in the top tier, his strength seemed insufficient. If he were to face those two goddesses, he would probably be no match for them. It seemed that he had to step up his efforts to improve his strength. "Phew, let me think about it for a few days."

“Alright then,” White Yaksha nodded. “I will come again in three days.”

"Three days," Senju sighed. He had originally planned to develop things peacefully here, but it seemed that he had no choice but to cause trouble. He hoped that he could make it in time, otherwise he would have no choice but to run away.

Watching White Yaksha leave, Thousand Hands clapped his hands, and several community leaders under his command were teleported over. He explained the situation and then gave them some portals connecting to the floating city, telling them to prepare for the worst.

However, the people from the Time-Space Research Institute and Academy City stepped forward and spoke of their research findings, saying that although the gods here are powerful, there are still ways to deal with those who represent the rules.

For example, the White Demon was originally the manifestation of the Celestial Movement Theory, but when people realized the falsity of the Celestial Movement Theory, her spiritual status immediately dropped, and she became the White Night Demon King. Then, after people understood the phenomenon of the polar white night, she fell to become the star spirit of the sun. If she were to be analyzed again and the truth about the sun were spread throughout the entire Little Garden, her spiritual status would probably drop another step.

Senju flipped through the collected materials, which did indeed contain similar records, but the statements were that White Yaksha was defeated by so-and-so, and that his spirit level was lowered, which Senju didn't quite believe.

Furthermore, Senju felt that as a former Demon King and the final trial of a former human, White Yaksha was not as weak as she appeared on the surface, and she should have the ability to recover to her full strength.

Thousand Hands asked the researchers about the specific methods, but they said it was just a theory and further experiments were needed to prove it. They needed to provide some famous deity test subjects, preferably deities that were personifications of phenomena that had been disproven in history.

After making a slight complaint, Senju gave them the data he had collected, telling them to study it carefully and then seek cooperation with other communities to see if they could develop reverse engineering.