The Monster is Coming

Chapter 20 Challenger Program

[Number of players: 90]

Number of Contained Primordial Properties: 9
Players' daily output of sacrifice power: 552 points

Average Monster Level per Player: 5
Domain node: Emperor's Tomb Village (the place where the last trace of Emperor's origin is buried, with the territory rule characteristics of reshaping life and flesh)
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After checking today's earnings, the Origin Altar under Qi Sheng's feet began to glow.

After a brief space distortion, he appeared in the bedroom of the real world.

After glancing at the calendar hanging on the wall, he opened the window, switched to Emperor Omen form, and flew into the night.

After a long time, Qi Sheng appeared in front of a deserted cemetery.

This place has been unattended for many years, and many tombstones are covered with vines. There is a city rail station under construction nearby.

Qi Sheng stopped in front of a tombstone.

The photo on the tombstone has become blurred and the words engraved on it have become mottled.

Looking at the tombstone, Qi Sheng had a complicated expression, and finally he knelt in front of the tombstone and kowtowed heavily.

After maintaining the posture for a long time, he stood up and began to repair the tombstone, during which time the past came flooding back to his mind.

When he was a child, he always fantasized about having abilities beyond ordinary people, but the moment he really had them, he found that he had been burdened with a heavy mission.

He was 18 years old when he traveled through the monster world.

The monster world at that time was in great turmoil. The monster king, Emperor Zhao, self-decomposed, and all forces were leaderless, falling into a chaotic period of division among warlords.

The war had been going on for thousands of years before his arrival, and the forces that once served Teizou all wanted to become the masters of the new world.

Among them, four forces are the most powerful.

They are Yan Ming, who controls the power of space, Jiu Yin, who controls the power of purification, Zhidui, who controls the power of analysis, and Chaowei, who controls the power of extraction of all things.

They were once the most loyal servants of Emperor Zhao. After Emperor Zhao disintegrated, they all believed that they were the best successors of Emperor Zhao. They wanted to inherit the "power of solid origin" buried in Emperor Tomb Village after Emperor Zhao self-decomposed and become the new Emperor Zhao.

But the arrival of the terrifying black tide changed the originally tense melee situation.

The monster world was gradually corroded by the power of the black tide, the environmental ecology was destroyed, and space rifts appeared in many places in the world.

If this trend continues, the monster world will eventually be swallowed up by the black tide.

The four great servants finally decided to join forces to fight against the black tide and fight against the endless evil lives.

The long war has made the four servants increasingly weak, but the power of evil is increasing as the black tide infiltrates the world, and the defeat is irreversible.

Eventually, the four great servants were forced back by evil spirits to the edge of the monster world, which is the Dizhong Village where Emperor Zhao left behind to consolidate his origin. They worked together to open the forbidden seal and hide inside.

The Tezuka Village is also the last piece of pure land in the monster world that has not yet fallen.

The four great servants originally wanted to try to integrate the Emperor's origin of self-solidification, inherit the power of the Emperor, and use the power of the Emperor to fight the Black Tide again.

But at the critical moment, the terrifying black tide struck again and enveloped Dizhong Village.

It was at this point in time that he traveled to the monster world and was sucked into the terrifying black tide vortex, facing the possibility of death at any time.

At the critical moment, it was the four great servants who joined forces to repel the black tide and rescued him back to Teizuka Village.

This attack made the already weak four servants even weaker, and their bodies also developed problems to varying degrees in the process of fighting against the black tide.

It was at that time that the guidance was stripped of its life form and turned into a water ball.

What the four great servants did not expect was that they were unable to inherit the source of self-solidity left by Emperor Zhao, but he, a mortal who traveled through time, inherited the honor they had pursued all their lives.

Qi Sheng still clearly remembered the complicated looks in the eyes of his four servants when he inherited the power of the Emperor.

Anger, confusion, despair, unwillingness, excitement... all kinds of complex emotions intertwined, but in the end, they all turned into calm acceptance. Four figures knelt before him, swore allegiance to him, and served him as his servants for eternity.

He also took on the obsessions of the four great servants, and promised to use the power of the Emperor to save the monster world and dispel the endless black tide of terror.

In the years that followed, he first merged with the Emperor's Omen to consolidate his origin and then fell into a deep sleep for 300 years.

Afterwards, he underwent a hundred years of cognitive learning under the guidance of his four great servants, who taught him to understand the various abilities of Emperor Omen and the things in the monster world.

But in order to become a true Emperor God, he still needs to go out of Emperor Tomb Village, explore the monster world, and collect the lost primordial power of Emperor.

However, this process is extremely difficult. Apart from possessing the Emperor's Omen to strengthen his own origin, he has no other power to bless him. The Emperor's Omen cannot be strengthened through any practice method. Only by containing it can he gain power.

At the time, his strength was only slightly stronger than the weakest creature in the monster world. In addition, with the evil rampant outside, his growth was difficult.

The self-centered nature of the Emperor's Omen is extremely attractive to evil spirits. The four great servants believe that being discovered by higher-level evil spirits will inevitably bring disaster, so every time he goes out, he needs to continuously consume sacrificial power to cover up the aura of the Emperor's Omen on his body.

Every time I go out, it costs a lot of money.

During this period, he took in eagle-headed monsters, gargoyles, and black-armored snakes, and his strength gradually increased.

But this speed was still too slow in the eyes of the four great servants. The sacrificial energy expended each time they went out was far higher than the benefits brought by hunting and sheltering. Moreover, they had already injected their remaining divine power into the Emperor's Tomb Village to protect it from being destroyed by the black tide, and could not provide him with any help in terms of combat power.

At this rate, before he becomes strong enough, Teizuka Village will fall due to the exhaustion of ritual power.

Just when the four servants were feeling hopeless about the future, Qi Sheng came up with an idea.

This plan is the prototype of the Challenger Plan, which is also a player recruitment plan.

The four great servants all possess different rules and powers.

He used the guidance of the one who controls the power of information to create a digitized system in the Challenger Project, which allows challengers to read data information about the things they see in the monster world.

Let Yan Ming, who controls the power of space, create a guidance system. This system can guide challengers from different worlds into the monster world, and can also send the challenger's consciousness back when the challenger chooses to quit.

Jiuyin, who holds the power of purification, created a purification system that can purify the challenger's mental trauma or other negative states suffered in the monster world.

The super dimension that controls the power to extract all things has created a growth system that can help players extract the life force of dead monsters, integrate it into the player's body, and become a part of the player's strength.

The combination of these four systems, plus the territory characteristic of Dizhong Village, "Life Reshaping", makes the player recruitment plan feasible.

In order to achieve this goal, the four great servants spent 50 years continuously improving and modifying the system, and finally the Challenger System was completed.

At that time, there were only more than 1000 million sacrificial powers left in the sacrificial power pool of Dizhong Village, which could only maintain the operation of Dizhong Village for ten years at most. Moreover, the maintenance consumption was still increasing with the rising intensity of the black tide, from the initial 500 sacrificial powers a day to 1000 sacrificial powers a day.

The four servants gave him the choice, and he made the decision.

Use the remaining sacrificial power to gamble on the future, let Yan Ming burn the sacrificial power, and use the power of space to search other planes of life to find lives that can be recruited to become challengers.

During the years of cross-space searching, Qi Sheng's consciousness always followed Yan Ming.

During this time, he saw countless planes of the world that were corroded and devoured by the terrifying black tide. All things were withering, and only countless evil spirits were rampant between heaven and earth.

Just when the sacrificial power was about to run out, Qi Sheng saw a familiar place.

That is a blue planet.

When the image on the planet was enlarged, although there were many changes compared to his memory, he could still be sure.

This was his former home.

At that moment, Qi Sheng smiled happily.

He knew he had succeeded, that the Challenger program had finally found its place.

　The National Day holiday is over~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)