Let alone Lince mastering this Crystal Wall World himself, even if the True Game were to completely erode the rules of the Crystal Wall.

Then Lince would, without a doubt, be the biggest beneficiary, and could even wield the Power of Community-Level World Law.

But the formation of a World Community doesn’t happen overnight. It might take hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of years to reach a sufficient scale.

So, the most Lince could hope for from this world was for it to become the Star Empire’s main base of operations for the next stage.

Indeed.

With this world in his possession, and especially after the True Game completely controlled all the Crystal Wall’s rules,

Lince could even imagine the scene of a powerful entity entering this world only to be taken down by a Law similar to a ’Magicless Domain’.

So what if the Oakland Continent had Black Flame Creatures?

Perhaps this world could become their tomb.

Therefore, Lince felt that developing purely technological Power in this world had great potential.

So, how many years would the True Game need to completely erode the rules of this Crystal Wall World?

With a mere thought from Lince, the True Game quickly provided an answer.

According to its calculations, if the Power of five Demon Worlds, including the Crimson World, was invested to seize control of the Crystal Wall World’s rules, the True Game’s rough estimate was a minimum of around ten thousand years.

’Over ten thousand years?’

Lince found the figure a bit preposterous.

But then he thought about that fellow, the Blood God. He had spent at least ten million years growing in the Crimson World to reach his current state, and even then, he had failed to master all the rules of the Crystal Wall System.

This made it clear that the Law of the Crystal Wall was not so easily controlled.

It was only because the True Game was sufficiently mysterious and had the aid of other worlds; otherwise, forget ten thousand years—a million might not have been enough.

’Ten thousand years?’

It wasn’t long, but it wasn’t short either.

Besides, if the Star Empire continued to expand its territory and the True Game gained authority over more worlds,

that timeframe would surely be shortened considerably.

Thinking of it that way, Lince relaxed.

When all was said and done, the journey of Lince and the Star Empire had to continue.

’But what world should I conquer next?’

’Other than the Wizard World, it seems I have no other options, do I?’

But the Wizard World was a High-Demon World, a completely different beast from a Middle Demon World.

Lince could easily imagine that in such a world, the civilization he would have to face would likely be an existence spanning countless other worlds.

’Just me, a single Dragon, leading a bunch of small fry to fight a cabal of crafty old men?’

’That’s not a funny joke at all.’

’So, is the only thing left to do is go back to sleep?’

Lince sighed softly, but after a moment’s contemplation, he immediately used his authority to make the True Game change its strategy.

Instead of investing all its Power into eroding the rules of the Crystal Wall, the True Game should now focus its full effort on searching the Endless Star Sea for other civilized worlds.

It should also try to allocate more Energy toward increasing the strength of the Players.

’Hmm, the Crimson World still has quite a few rebellious remnants of the Blood Race. I can open up some new Player slots for that world.’

’I’ll just have the new Players from Blue Star throw themselves into hunting operations in that world.’

’Their path to advancement will be based on maintaining Order in that world and hunting the rebellious Blood Race.’

With that, Lince merely had to think it.

On Blue Star, a version update notification appeared: the True Game would open a new map in three days, along with an additional one million Player slots.

In any case, at Lince’s current level, he no longer concerned himself much with the affairs of the Blue Star Players.

He could just let the True Game handle the Blue Star Players according to its initial, fundamental rules.

He only needed to focus on the bigger picture.

’Most importantly, I still need to keep increasing my own strength.’

His current Power, comparable to that of a Dominator-level Deity, was clearly far from enough for him.

’Maybe I’ll set a small goal first... like growing to the size of a star?’

’The diameter of the Sun.’

’Just thinking about it makes it feel pretty far off.’

Even Lince himself didn’t know how long it would take.

Thinking of this, Lince became extremely interested in the Blood God’s Power.

It was an Ancient Life, after all.

’Even if I can’t integrate the Power stripped by the True Game into myself, I can still use it to cultivate my subordinates, can’t I?’

’Just like how I inherited the Power of the Ancient Dragon Race.’

’So, who would be a good candidate to cultivate with the Blood God’s Power?’

’Who wants to become a giant sea urchin, anyway?’

’A non-Human Race Player?’

Of course, that wasn’t the most critical issue.

The most critical issue was the True Game’s inheritance system: for a Player to perfectly inherit immense Power, they had to be cultivated through a systematic reward structure from the very beginning.

If a Player tried to inherit such Power midway through their Extraordinary path, or especially after surpassing the Saint Tier, it would become quite difficult, and they wouldn’t be able to maintain the purity of the inherited Power.

Lince felt helpless at this thought.

’I’ll shelve this for now.’

’After all, it will take five hundred years.’

’I’ll deal with it then. With that much time, I’ll have more than enough to select a few ’chosen’ Players from Blue Star to groom as candidates.’

With that, Lince quickly returned to the Karte World.

「Just outside the Star Sea of the Karte World.」

Lince met with the Deities who had reawakened during his recent slumber.

This group also included some New Gods—in other words, Players.