Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 769 - 374: The Real Endpoint Event, The Choice to Rewrite the Outcome_1
[’Evil Origin Nucleus’ (Special Tool) can be used in four ways...]
[1. Sacrifice, requires the Shell’s quality to reach ’Mythical Level’, and the Shell’s level to reach ’Level 100’. Effect is unknown.]
[2. Consume, requires the Shell’s quality to reach ’Mythical+ Level’, and the Shell’s level to reach ’Level 130’. Effect is unknown.]
[3. Merge, requires the Shell’s quality to reach ’Immortal Level’, and the Shell’s level to reach ’Level 180’. Effect is unknown.]
[4. Destroy, requires Shell’s quality to reach ’Immortal+ Level’, and the Shell’s level to reach ’Level 250’. Effect is unknown.]
[No matter how you choose to use this tool, the Shell will irreversibly enter the ’decline’ state until it is removed from the Shell column.]
"Hmm? Above the class of Mythical Level, is it termed as ’Immortal Level’?"
Upon seeing the last line of the item description, Lin Xun’s pupils contracted suddenly.
He remembered Flandre saying that using this nucleus would come at a great cost, but he didn’t expect the cost to be the removal of the Shell!
He quickly opened the Shell panel to check the attributes.
The quality of Flandre’s Shell was Mythical+ Level, and the level was as high as 128.
What was odd was that even though the compatibility of the Shell had surpassed 100 percent, the game hadn’t shown any sign of breaking this limit, and the Shell’s quality still remained at the Mythical+ Level.
"Does it require a higher compatibility boost to break through the original Shell quality for the half-deity or deity Shells?"
He recalled the text of the ’End point event’ that was prompted when he first entered the ninth layer of the Holy Nest.
A litany of conjectures sprang to his mind.
Lin Xun attempted to materialize Flandre’s Shell in reality.
[Are you sure you want to materialize this Shell?]
[Materializing this Shell will be considered an act of interrupting the progress of the endpoint event. You will not be able to actively control the Shell for subsequent plots until the end-point event is over!]
[And you will not receive any rewards or evaluation in the endpoint event!]
There were only two explanations for such a text.
The first is that the game in the Underworld simply does not allow the apostle to obtain rewards and shells beyond the current difficulty level under these circumstances.
Flandre’s Shell was destined to be the sacrificial victim of the ’Evil Origin Nucleus’.
That’s why they don’t allow the apostle to interrupt the endpoint event, to exit the Chapter and materialize the Shell.
It was because these weren’t the deserved rewards for the Apostle.
If the Apostle tried to leave the Chapter with Flandre’s Shell, the game would even continue to push the subsequent events in the form of a default plot, making it seem like the Apostle was watching a cutscene, but they would not be able to control the Shell.
In the cutscene, the Underworld game would most certainly take the cost of Flandre’s body, use the ’Evil Origin Nucleus’, and continue until the end-point event was finished, and the Chapter ends.
The second explanation, however, made Lin Xun feel a chill in his spine.
All Chapters in the game world, such as the Blood Suns, can be played repeatedly.
It’s not about a single player replaying the Chapter, but the Apostles as a group can replay it.
Some people might get stuck in Chapter 323 and quit halfway, some might skip crazily to clear the Chapter with the lowest rating, some might not even encounter the hidden plot and only get an S rating at best even after clearing it.
Most of the endings achieved are different, but no matter what, it indicates that the ’Book of Salvation’ is just a game, and the Chapters in it are not real stories.
Or rather, they are not stories that are happening in real-time!
It’s like a game that’s been set up a long time ago, all endings are predetermined, the ending that each move and each choice of the Apostle achieves, they are all written in the game’s text. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
But the explanation Lin Xun came up with this time completely overturned the above conclusions!
The special endpoint event that was happening before him felt like the Apostle had jumped out of the pre-set plot, out of the ’simulation’ that the group of Apostles kept experiencing, thoroughly rewriting the original possible endings.
It’s like experiencing it firsthand!
How could the main character of the plot quit halfway?
The Underworld game, not even sparing using various stringent restrictions, restricting the Apostle from interrupting the endpoint event, it’s because all of this is... a real-time event!
Lin Xun stared intently at the description of the ’Evil Origin Nucleus’, trying to analyze more information from it.
The item has four ways to use it: sacrifice, consume, merge, destroy, with each option triggering an ’unknown’ effect, further proving that the game couldn’t predict the direction of the events happening.
He has stepped out of the game’s original framework, turning the mock rehearsals of the false script into real events. The choice is in his hands!
"This means... Flandre is really dead..."
The quality and level of Flandre’s Shell can only meet one usage method - Sacrifice.
While Consume has sufficient Shell quality, it is two levels short, resulting in the option appearing in gray indicating it cannot be selected.
As for the merge option, it not only requires an Immortal level of Shell quality but also needs a Shell level of 150. Flandre’s Shell doesn’t meet these requirements, let alone the subsequent Destroy option.
"Multiple-choice question, huh?"
Just by looking at the word ’Sacrifice’, it’s obvious that the result triggered by this option is unlikely to be good.
Sacrifice is a sacrifice to whom, the Wet Nurse? The Firefly? Or... the Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit?!
No matter who it’s sacrificed to, the outcome is not what he wants.
"I still have a glimmer of hope!"
