The Novel’s Villain-Chapter 176
51. Gift (2)
The New World Universe expanded The Maze. However, though currently a huge topic of discussion, it was only a small part of its actual universe.
When an official announcement about it was made, the players couldn’t help but get excited. Articles speculating what other worlds would be added in the future began to pop out as well. It wouldn’t be strange no matter what form the new ones appeared in, at least, considering they were now playing in outer space.
Since the New World Universe launched, the number of people traveling around the globe had declined sharply. After all, it was way more fun to go out into space and look at a giant gas planet than to visit a tourist attraction.
What the vast universe had to offer could never be found on any one planet. That made even just mining exciting.
Several large corporations had already posted job offers revolving around that activity, with some of them even providing huge mining boats. As a result, ships bearing companies’ trademarks and logos had become common.
If there was one trend among players these days, it was finding new planets and setting up landmarks that symbolized each country. Hence, whenever coordinates of new solar systems were released, everyone jumped into exploring it.
It was the era of pioneering the grand universe.
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