Offer blocks to the end times

Senju watched everything with boredom. If it weren't for his suppression, the puppet guards would have already come out. But at this moment, Rem also chose a place. With a wave of her hand, the model floated up and then quickly grew larger and landed in the square in front of her. It was a semi-circular tiered grandstand, as if a large arena had been split in half and taken away.

The appearance of this structure caused the ground to tremble violently. The players on the other side stared in disbelief at the suddenly appearing gigantic building. Just how many mysterious items did these guys have? If they could drop them! Many of them were itching to try their luck.

"Alright, everyone, please take your seats. There will be rewards for all the players who came," Thousand Hands clapped his hands as he stood on the roof of the car. He came out while everyone was facing off, and the players who were shaken by the arena looked over.

Then they saw the person on the roof wave their hand, and several familiar lights shone from the cat-man who had stepped forward first. "This is... an upgrade?"

“That’s right, this is the experience I just collected,” Thousand Hands casually raised the crossbow in his hand. “My artifact, Greed and Desirelessness, can absorb players’ experience and then transfer that experience to other players. Of course, it can only absorb up to thirty levels of experience from one person, so don’t worry too much.”

"Damn it, that's my experience!" Demiquas stared intently at the cat-man, feeling his anger surge. How long had it taken him to reach level 90?! Now, almost twenty levels of experience had been swallowed up by someone else! He couldn't help but want to devour this cat.

The cat-man shook his head slightly at his hatred, "Oh dear, you've really gotten yourself into trouble, meow~"

“Well, even if we ignore this, they won’t let us go,” the white-robed mage next to him pushed up his glasses and looked Demiquas up and down. “Of course, he can’t stop us at his current level, he’s just a level 70 martial artist.”

His voice seemed a bit loud, and the players around Demiquas immediately looked at their former guild leader with strange eyes. A mere level 70, what right did he have to tell them what to do?!

This group originally ruled this place with violence. Now that the 'alpha wolf' was weak, the 'pack of wolves' below were naturally eyeing him covetously. Within seconds, the players around Demiquas scattered. They had gathered around him before out of fear, but now, who would be afraid of a player they could easily kill?!

As the situation calmed down, many players began to walk towards the building that had suddenly appeared. However, as they sat down, they found a box floating in front of them. Upon opening it, they found a mirror floating inside.

Everyone looked on in confusion, then realized that the mirror actually displayed a map, complete with numerous small dots of various colors. Clicking on the item names, they were all speechless. "A live map? Isn't this just a mini-map?!"

Of course, some people thought even deeper: "Who exactly is this 'god' who can recreate the game's minimap? Can we find a way back to the real world from him?"

Many people thought of this, and some even stood up to ask questions. To these questions, Qian Shou calmly replied, "I don't know." In Qian Shou's eyes, these "players" and the Earthlings are all the same, all the result of the Five Planets materializing a game. In essence, they are all illusions turned into reality, and there is no place to "go back" to.

Of course, although the essence is the same, the knowledge in their minds leads to vastly different results. The 'players' do not regard the 'earthlings' as equals.

Chapter 1894 Management Model

After asking a few questions, all the players fell silent. Such a powerful character, capable of altering the system, was now completely clueless, clearly concealing information. Even the players who had helped Rem were now looking at Senju with grim expressions.

Seeing everyone's silence, Senju shrugged. "Don't be like that. I'm not the god who created this world and brought you here. I'm just an ordinary transmigrator passing by."

"..." The players rolled their dead fish eyes. A transmigrator? Who here isn't a transmigrator? But one person had a sudden thought and deliberately said it, "Could it be, 'You're not a player from the Mythical Realm?!'"

"Mythical Realm? Is this your game?" Senju nodded, glancing at the white-robed mage named Shiroe who wore glasses. He casually made up a story. "I'm a player from the fully immersive virtual reality game YGGDRASIL. When the servers shut down, I had already reached god-level, and then somehow I ended up here. I've only been here for a day."

"Players from other games?!" The players were all dumbfounded. Thousand Hands then started explaining the settings of YGGDRASIL to them. Of course, he had actually seen these while reading books in the library of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

"You mean, you were still online when the server went down, and then you transported here with your equipment and strength?" The surrounding players felt extremely incomprehensible, but thinking about their own situation, it didn't seem so hard to understand, and then they were extremely disappointed.

Although the person opposite is very strong and can create various gadgets, they seem practically useless. No matter how strong they are, without any clues to get back...

They don't even deserve their attention.

However, Shiroe, who was standing next to her, seriously asked YGGDRASIL about things related to reality, and finally nodded, "It seems that the world you live in is not the same as the world we live in."

"Well, it's probably a parallel world. When I first arrived here, I thought this was Earth thousands of years in the future. Of course, after seeing you all, I knew something was wrong," Senju shrugged slightly, then looked around. "However, there are still so many humans here. Let's rebuild human civilization. And with the help of magic, recovery should be quick."

“That’s right, but before that, we must restore order to the city,” Shiroe pushed up her glasses, looking wise. “By the way, Senju, you can create many items, I wonder if you can repair facilities? Like teleportation portals or something.”

"Teleportation portal? Isn't that a skill? Why does it need to be repaired?" Senju asked in confusion. Shiro waved her hand and said, "It's not a player's skill anymore. It's a device like a teleportation stone that connects various towns in the game."

"Oh, so that's what's broken," Senju nodded to show he understood, then looked around. "I'll go take a look after we finish discussing this over here."

"Let the players discuss it themselves?" Shiroe glanced at the players around her and shook her head. "If they could come up with something, Susukino wouldn't have been in such chaos before. However, if you were in charge here, it's possible that peace could be restored."

"Uh, I'm not good at management, nor do I want to," Thousand Hands shook his head slightly, looking at the chaotic players below. "This is really a troublesome matter. It would be better if my guildmates were here."

"And who is this?" Shiroe looked at Rem standing to the side. Rem was expressionless and calm, after all, she often listened to Senju's nonsense. "I am Master's battle maid Rem. When the game became reality, I also became real."

After giving Rem a thumbs up, Senju said to Shiroe, who was looking puzzled, "Rem is a super character I designed using points given by the system when I reached God level. According to the level calculation here, Rem is about level 200."

"Level 200!" Even though Senju had reduced Rem's level by tenfold, Shiroe still felt a pang of pain in her teeth. The current maximum level was only 90, and now someone was throwing around a level 200 character—was this some kind of torture? "So, Senju, what level are you?"

Thousand Hands raised a finger, "Level 1000."

"Cough cough cough," the others were immediately flustered. Even the warrior who hadn't said a word broke down. "What level did you say you were? Level 1000? Did I hear that right?!"

“That’s right,” Senju shrugged, while the others were deeply shocked, muttering ‘How is that possible?’ Senju explained slightly, “Of course it’s about spending money, and besides that, it’s about studying all sorts of knowledge in the game. The magic knowledge in it is very difficult. It took me more than ten years to get to this level.”

"Uh..." Everyone was speechless for a moment. Miracles happen when you spend money. You can't mess with those who spend money. After chatting for a while, the topic returned to the main point. Shiroe clearly told Senju that if no one suppressed the situation, order could not be restored. After all, there was only one strongest guild here, and that guild was bad. Senju thought he was right.

"Is that so? It seems we're going to be city lords for a while, Rem," Senju shrugged slightly as he looked at the noisy crowd below. Rem didn't seem to mind, though she thought to herself, "Master, why bother with the lives of these people? One order from you and this world will be completely conquered."

"Well, don't rush, just watch from here and nurture your civilization," Senju replied in telepathy, then looked at the still restless players around him, "Alright, let's start from here, quiet down!"

As she spoke calmly, Senju slightly activated her Conqueror's Haki, and all the players instantly felt a powerful pressure. Looking at their stats, they saw an additional debuff, 'Shocked', which reduced their attack by 90%, defense by 80%, and all attributes by 70%. Everyone immediately fell silent in fear.

As for the Earthlings, they were completely knocked out the moment the domineering aura appeared. Thousand Hands slowly floated into the air. "From today onwards, Susukino will return to normal order. Let's discuss what policies to implement. My dictatorship, or your shared governance? Choose one!"

"Dictatorship? Co-governance?" After a long silence, someone finally called out in confusion. Thousand Hands replied briefly, "That's right, the literal meaning, everyone understands, right? Dictatorship means I manage this place and no one is allowed to disagree; co-governance means everyone forms a joint meeting to manage this city."

"Heh," the players rolled their eyes. Was there even a choice? While some thought dictatorship was appealing, the vast majority didn't want to be slaves. "We choose co-governance!"

Chapter 1895 Going Crazy for Food

"Co-governance, huh? What a pity," Senju sighed with a smile. Everyone shuddered, as if they had dodged a deadly crisis. In fact, Senju saw several players who had just been killed by Rem and were now resurrected. Their souls had weakened by an almost imperceptible amount, which made Senju very curious. It seemed that the resurrection here was not perfect.

He's very interested in where those weakened souls went. Could it be that his Dragon Balls are collecting them? But that's unlikely.

Once you return to your own world, the underworld is filled with the memories and soul fragments of countless lost souls, so why bother coming here!

While the crowd below was clamoring about how to manage this place, Thousand Hands summoned the Five Stars again, but it didn't respond. Shaking its head, Thousand Hands didn't know what the Five Stars' plans were here. Now it could only rely on its intuition and nurture the light of civilization here.

The people below were arguing amongst themselves. Senju looked at the others beside him and said, "Shiroe, aren't you going to join in? You're level 90 players, after all."

“A pro player, huh?” Shiroe chuckled weakly, adjusting her glasses. “We need to go back to Akihabara; that’s our base. If you can fix the portal, things will be much easier going back and forth. Otherwise, it takes a lot of time to travel back and forth.”

“Is that so?” Senju nodded. “But even if it’s not fixed, there’s still a way to communicate. We can make a special magic train. In the game I’m on, there’s a magic engineering system that’s used to build magic railways, super battleships, airships and the like.”

“Hmm, that sounds really grand,” Shiroe said with a slight sigh. Senju nodded. “Back in our area, the number one guild, ‘Wings of Glory,’ is based in a massive floating city that can support millions of players and NPCs. It even has all sorts of exclusive dungeons.”

"Sounds amazing, hmm... Sniff, what's that smell?!" While they were chatting, the warrior Naotsugu suddenly sniffed, and the petite ninja Akatsuki, who hadn't said a word until now, drooled. "It smells like barbecue!"

The group looked to the side and saw Rem had taken out a grill and was making skewers. The cat-man Nyanta and the maid Serara were helping out, and the smell of the grilled meat was coming from there.

And as Rem sprinkled in the spices, an enticing aroma filled the air. Suddenly, the surroundings fell silent. A quick glance around revealed many players staring blankly with their mouths half-open, before exclaiming, "It's...it smells like barbecue! It smells like real food! So fragrant, so fragrant!"

"?" Thousand Hands was puzzled by everyone's reaction. It was one thing for the Earthlings who ate bland food, but why were you players, who had tasted all sorts of delicacies, getting so excited? He waved his hand, using a light shield to block the players rushing towards him, then looked at the three people who were also drooling. "What's wrong with you guys?"

"This, this is barbecue, right? This is barbecue, right?" The once cool girl was now drooling so much she couldn't stop, her demeanor had completely changed. Senju nodded inexplicably, "That's right, it's barbecue, Rem's special, try it."

"Mmm-hmm-hmm!" The girl nodded frantically, and Rem came over carrying a plate of grilled meat. "Please enjoy."

But these three immediately started eating, devouring the meat and exclaiming, "This is real meat! The richness, the aroma, the perfect saltiness! I'm so happy!"

"Gulp~" A collective sound of swallowing filled the air, followed by a group of red-eyed players scratching at the walls like zombies outside, shouting, "Give us some too, give us some, let me taste it!"

"Uh..." Senju was speechless, but Nyanta next to her saw it very clearly. "It's probably because the synthesized food has no taste. People who have experienced heaven fall into hell and only then do they know how precious heaven is. When they were eating tasteless food, everyone was so irritable. So they went crazy after smelling the real food. Besides, Rem's cooking skills are just too good. It made them completely go crazy."

"Is that so? To put it simply, their mouths were so bland that they went crazy when they encountered something incredibly delicious," Senju said, rubbing her forehead helplessly. "Speaking of which, synthesized food really doesn't have much flavor, but with Rem around, I didn't pay much attention."

Xiao shouted incoherently, her mouth stuffed full of barbecue meat. She meant that the people outside should be stopped, but unfortunately, her frantic attempts to stuff barbecue meat into her mouth were not convincing at all.

"Tsk, so many people, looks like I'll have to do it myself," Senju shook his head slightly. Of course, he meant cooking. But Rem stopped him, "Master, they're not worth your time. I learned how to cook quickly in Totsuki. Give me two minutes, and I'll make food for everyone."

“Alright,” Senju nodded, watching Rem’s performance, and then he saw Rem clasp her hands together, “Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!”

"Snap~" With a flash of white mist, one Rem turned into a thousand Rem, and each Rem used a summoning jutsu to summon ingredients and utensils. These were stuffed in her little space. In less than a minute, Rem had prepared thousands of dishes, but the quality was very average. It seemed that she hadn't put any effort into it and was just doing it perfunctorily.

Even so, when the dishes fell into the hands of the surrounding players, they still ate with tears streaming down their faces. Many of them burst into tears in the end. They now felt that dictatorship was good, as long as they were provided with such delicious food every day!

Gradually, Senju understood. It was amazing that modern people, accustomed to all kinds of flavored food, hadn't gone mad when they arrived in a place where they could only eat tasteless food. After being reintroduced to normal food, they finally went insane. After all, even Rem's 'normal food' tasted better than real normal food.

More than ten times.

Seeing the excited crowd, Senju felt that the violent atmosphere here had weakened by more than 50%. It really is true that food can change the world. Rem, who had reunited, continued to grill meat for Senju, and also prepared some for the five people next to her. After all, these people had protected her and she had some goodwill towards them.

"How did you make this barbecue? It's so delicious! Is this a unique dish in your game? I'm so happy!" Akatsuki exclaimed as she munched on the barbecue, but Shiroe, who was also munching on barbecue, shook her head. "It shouldn't be. Senju-sama just said the food was tasteless. And, class president, do you know something? You didn't seem excited at all just now!"

Chapter 1896 The Real Deception

“Well, I do have some understanding of cooking,” Nyanta said with a smile, glancing at Senju, who shrugged. “Actually, I don’t understand why so many people are so stupid. If the food you’re making doesn’t taste good, just use regular cooking methods.”

“But we’ve tried, and all we’ve made are weird things that are inedible,” Naotsugu said, as he placed a skewer of meat on the fire. The skewer turned into a wriggling object and then disappeared. “Like this, it’s impossible to succeed.”

"That's right, that's right, we're not idiots, we've tried them all!" The people around him nodded in agreement. Senju was surprised for a moment, glanced at everyone's information, and then nodded. "It's probably because your cooking skills aren't good enough. Only players whose secondary profession is chef can make normal dishes using ordinary cooking methods. It seems that this world is indeed lacking some cooking rules. We need to fill in some gaps in the rules."

"Complete the laws?" Shiroe was somewhat surprised. Senju nodded. "After completing the laws of cooking, anyone can cook using normal methods. However, it requires some research. Fortunately, I also trained well at Totsuki Culinary Academy, and my chef level is extremely high."

"I see, that's really impressive. I'm looking forward to it, but how do we complete the laws?" Shiroe pushed up his glasses. What he had just heard reminded him of other side jobs, but after listening to Senju's words, he saw an opportunity to break free from the system's constraints.

Thousand Hands shrugged. "Completing the laws is very complicated. I don't have many Eternal Serpent Rings. Honestly, this side is neither game-like nor realistic enough. It keeps swaying between the two sides. To fix one side, you have to eliminate the other."

"Hehe," Shiroe chuckled dryly. She was just bragging about her cooking skills, why did she suddenly become a prop?! Is this guy even reliable? "What kind of prop is this Eternal Serpent Ring you mentioned?"

"Ah, that's a world-class item that can change the rules of the game world. I tried it out a bit, and it can change the rules of this world too," Senju explained briefly, and the others next to him felt a bit of a toothache. "An item that can change the rules of the world? The game company is really something else, they actually dare to release such an item!"

"Well, that's a total rip-off. The twenty strongest items disappear after one use, even though it costs millions to get just one," Thousand Hands shrugged, then started counting on his fingers. "The World Will can grow infinitely stronger; the Saint-Slaying Spear can completely delete a player's data; the Light Wheel of Goodness works on people in the world with insufficient justice points; the Five Elements can modify everyone's system attributes; the World Tree Seed can change races, and there are a whole bunch of other things like the Blade of Hundreds of Millions, the God of Supporting the Sky, and the Beauty That Could Topple Kingdoms."

"It can actually delete player data? Such an item!" Everyone was shocked by the power of the Saint-Slaying Spear. In this world, wouldn't it completely wipe out the players?! Thousand Hands shrugged. It didn't say that it was a 'mutual destruction spear'. The user's data would also be deleted. Of course, Thousand Hands didn't need to worry. "That's why it's also called a super pay-to-win item. As long as you pay enough, the game company doesn't mind erasing player data."

"Uh, so true," everyone grumbled. They believed it so easily. After all, it's a game company, all about making money. They even use world-changing items to rip people off, so what's a little data deletion? They were intimidated by Senju's words. Death wasn't a threat before, but when real death was imminent, everyone chickened out.

Thousand Hands continued, "However, using this is a bit wasteful. The best way is to use the premium item Meteor Ring to seal the resurrection ability, and then kill it. That would be more economical."

Hearing the 'threat' from above, the people eating broke out in a sweat. They now seemed to have been 'purified,' and everyone was very harmonious and kind.

"You all continue discussing the co-governance, I'll go check the portal," Senju said casually, standing up as everyone suddenly fell silent. He then went with Shiroe and the others to find the portal. The others resumed their enthusiastic discussion about co-governance, temporarily forgetting the threat from this 'god'—they absolutely couldn't let him interfere!

Riding in the dragon carriage, the group arrived at the portal to Susukino. However, the portal in this game was not a regular square or round door, but a complex-looking device surrounded by snow.

“Magic metal, huh?” Thousand Hands waved his hand, blowing away the surrounding snow, and tapped the structure over there, nodding in approval. The magic system here is quite complete. That makes things much more convenient. After all, if it were just set up as ‘a portal,’ restoring the portal’s function would be more troublesome.

With eyes closed, the power of the Thousand Hands extended in, and then sensed...

We arrived at the bottom of the portal, which connected to the massive magical source beneath the city. However, for a very simple reason, the teleportation array wasn't activated.

"Can this be repaired?" Shiro asked from the side. Senju shrugged. "It's not broken, so there's no point in talking about repairing it. It just doesn't have enough magic power to turn on, so of course it's unusable."

"Is that all?" Shiroe asked in surprise, while Naotsugu beside her was very curious. "Do your skills from the game work here too?"

“Well, the principles are all the same, and the sensing skills are fine too. I instinctively understand the state of this facility,” Senju shrugged slightly. “Besides, these are keyboard-era games. We’re playing perfectly immersive virtual games. It’s like being a magician in another world. I feel super comfortable here.”

“Virtual games, ah, I’m so envious,” Naotsugu said helplessly. Senju shrugged slightly. “Actually, the first virtual game was terrifying. The administrator locked the offline option, and forcibly removing the helmet meant death. By the way, dying once in the game would microwave your brain. In that game, several thousand out of ten thousand players died.”

"Uh..." The people nearby felt a chill run down their spines. The virtual game was a bit too terrifying. "Isn't that even more dangerous than what we're doing now?"

"So, I'm not surprised at all by the current situation. Let's see what happens next," Thousand Hands shrugged, then reached out and a wand appeared in his hand. He tapped the ground, and the floor below, which was carved with various magical patterns, floated up, revealing a complex magic circle underneath. It was all made of mithril, but only a part of it.

Continuing to peel back the stone slabs, the group soon saw the core of the teleportation array: a complex sphere resting calmly in the center of the array. "So it really is due to insufficient energy. How can we replenish its energy?"

Chapter 1897 The Guild That Will Inevitably Become a Dictator

“This is very difficult. It requires a lot of magic power to officially activate,” Senju said calmly, poking at the core. Then he looked around. “It’s about the same amount of magic power needed to maintain the city’s barrier and the guard system. If we stop supplying those two things, the magic circle below the city can provide enough energy for the teleportation array. But that would be putting the cart before the horse.”