Those time travelers that year

The main storyline of this world has been completely altered, and what struck the group most jarringly was the mention of "team battle" in the third major storyline change. This meant that their team had originally planned to conquer this world and make it their private domain. However, plans clearly don't always go as expected. The main god, for some unknown reason, not only pushed their world exploration progress to 5%, but also generously provided them with a bunch of enthusiastic 'colleagues' to help them conquer the world.

Now, the five members of the vanguard team had no time to rest and quickly gathered together to discuss this sudden turn of events. They knew their 'colleagues' perfectly well, and it was precisely because of this that they understood what the world would become if it were drawn into a team battle.

However, these unfortunate souls had no idea that the world would be drawn into the war...

However, they were fortunate in one respect: after reinforcing the spatial barrier of this world and severing the links between the main gods that had extended into it, Charles returned, intending to kill these guys and throw them all into the abyss to slowly dispose of their souls.

However, just as Charles was about to take action, he suddenly turned his gaze to the outer grid space of the world. There, new threads were extending from distant, unknown spacetime, attempting to break through the reinforced barrier.

"This is outrageous!"

300. Do you want to top up your account?

At this moment, Charles finally understood what it felt like to have his original world invaded by a large group of outsiders. And these outsiders were incredibly brazen, openly declaring their intention to invade. Even nations at war would find an excuse or reason, but this God Realm was just endless! In any case, Charles almost couldn't resist revealing himself immediately and unleashing a charged, flaming sword strike.

With a cold glance at the unsuspecting reincarnators who were rushing to their meeting, Xia Er secretly manipulated wisps of energy to leave marks on them. He would deal with these guys after dealing with the endless threads.

With a flicker, the space-warping Shar disappeared once again from the mirror dimension, leaving the reincarnators, unaware that this was their third brush with death, bewildered by the sudden change in their mission.

Beyond this world, those tiny threads, stretched infinitely long, extended from a distant, unknown spacetime, and immediately pierced the grid-like spatial barrier that had been reinforced by Sharl. However, this time there was no negligible resistance as before; instead, the entire outer space of the world transformed into an indestructible slab of reinforced concrete. Given enough time, the threads extended by the main god could indeed drill a hole here and connect the port to this world.

Unfortunately, this time the resistance was too strong. The supreme deity in a distant time and space immediately determined that it was indeed that A-level faith individual walking the path to a divine kingdom on earth, and had already succeeded partially. Otherwise, an individual from an A-level faith system born in this world could not possibly possess the authority to directly control the core rules of that world.

However, it is clearly a wonderful misunderstanding.

Because evil gods can corrupt and alter the core rules of a world, and what's more, this evil god happened to have obtained an identity card in this world before even starting his job...

This is why the main gods are unwilling to confront the evil gods. Without direct access to their Akasha records, a series of irreversible accidents can easily occur. Furthermore, evil gods are synonymous with unpredictability; some are even completely unaware of the specific reasons behind their actions. Evil gods with clear thinking are extremely rare. After all, the leader is practically insane, and power has fallen to a certain silver-haired figure. And because of his omniscience and omnipotence, the boring glowing bubble doesn't care about anything, having become merely a communication terminal, data terminal, mascot, and, for that silver-haired figure—a Pokémon.

In short, the Supreme God's judgment at this moment was clearly unexpected, because during its previous scans and observations, it had not detected any trace of interference from evil gods in this world. Even the Supreme God, with its powerful computational abilities, probably didn't anticipate that just moments before deciding to release the reincarnators, a newly born, adorable newcomer would return to this world… before it even had a chance to wreak havoc like any other evil god, before even undergoing any onboarding training. Meanwhile, a certain chibi penguin, who was conducting the onboarding training, happened to discover the Supreme God's abandonment of the reincarnators on the outer layer of this world. Then, with a voice like a chicken being slaughtered, it ran back. This clearly powerful fellow, however, stubbornly adhered to the cowardly spirit of "when in doubt, chicken out," and went back to fetch reinforcements.

If Tang Sanzang had been as 'sensible' as this penguin, he wouldn't have troubled the monkey with all the hardships and dangers on the journey to the West.

In short, once a misunderstanding occurs, many unexpected things can happen, and even the supreme deity cannot remain uninvolved. The interconnectedness of cause and effect is truly wondrous, and it's no wonder that even the most powerful beings in the seemingly invincible world of Eastern mythology are terrified of it.

……

The portal extending from the Supreme God, with its shimmering threads, stretched out one after another from distant spacetime, relentlessly piercing the reinforced barrier. Even with artificial reinforcement, this world still couldn't prevent the Supreme God from connecting its portal to it. Soon, one of the threads broke through the spatial barrier and began attempting to extend in.

Upon returning, Charles, without hesitation, brandished his flaming sword, intending to repeat his previous actions and burn the thread. Suddenly, Charles paused, then vanished from the spot.

Without any obstruction, two more threads pierced through the outer barrier and extended into this world. By the time the fourth thread appeared, the outer spatial barrier had become even stronger, and even the Supreme God was unable to extend any more ports into this world without damaging it.

However, at this point, five reincarnation teams were sufficient. After all, the cost of sending five reincarnation teams into this world, plus the previous investment in connecting the port here, was already considerable. This wasn't a high-level world, and even if the main god wanted to incorporate this world into its own reincarnation world system, it didn't mean it had to engage in a loss-making business.

Soon, this extended into the main god's portal, sending four more reincarnators into this world. Then, the team battle mission for the reincarnators officially began.

Just as the main god sent in the other teams of reincarnators, in a demiplane on the outer edge of this world, Xia Er's figure appeared directly there. Just moments before, as he was about to dispose of the threads using the original method, someone suddenly sent him a long-distance telepathic communication, stopping him... But at that moment, Xia Er couldn't figure out how that telepathic communication had reached him.

Before he could even react, he was pulled by some irresistible force and uncontrollably transported through space. When he came to his senses, he found himself in this shattered demiplane world.

At first glance, Charles suspected that the main god had done something wrong...

But the next moment, a look of utter bewilderment appeared on his face.

Right in front of him, a silver-haired girl, about 1.5 meters tall, with an obviously illogical ahoge (a single strand of hair sticking up) on her head, dressed in a black maid outfit, was looking at Ciel with a smile that gave him a sense of impending doom.

Beside her, a series of shimmering...bubbles?! were floating.

With a loud bang! Charles felt as if a switch in his head had shattered, but nothing seemed to have happened. Just as he was bewildered, Charles felt something tugging at his trouser leg. When Charles looked down, he saw a black and white chibi penguin wearing a red scarf, holding his trouser leg with one wing.

"Hey! Hello there! Newbie!" Seeing Ciel looking over, the penguin's eyes instantly turned into two gleaming gold coins, then it cutely raised its wings to greet Ciel, saying, "Want to recharge to Super VIP and Diamond VIP?!"

For the first time ever, Charles felt as if his wallet had met its nemesis...

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301. The Second Batch of Reincarnators

Of course, once the rest of the reincarnation teams entered the world of the main god numbered SB-2333, without exception, the new team members all gave the middle finger to the sky the moment they saw the mission introduction, and cursed the entire family of the reincarnation center with all sorts of national curses.

However, this feeling was even worse for the vanguard team, as this was the second time they had started hurling insults.

Do you remember that certain hard rule among the 'Gods'? In team battles, the first team to enter the mission world is always the weakest on average. So, although, for various reasons, the Gods have lowered their guard and increased their intervention, sending in four new reincarnation teams whose average strength surpasses that of the vanguard team—including a B+ level enhancer—it's clear the Gods won't break their own established rules.

Similarly, in this mission world, the main god will enthusiastically announce the names of the teams joining the team battle to all teams. So at this moment, the five members of the vanguard team inevitably felt annoyed when they saw the name of a team called 'Demon Team' in the main god's prompt.

Unfortunately, there's no muscular saint here, and the main god here doesn't play with clones—it's pointless. If they really need more people, they can just pull them from other worlds. So, the team's name actually comes from a few hopelessly delusional kids who've watched Infinite XX. Apparently, after entering the reincarnation world, they felt it was too dangerous, and naming it the Central Continent Team was just a way to avoid having a muscular saint who only sabotages the team and a bespectacled, nerdy tech geek.

So they named their team the Demon Team, roughly meaning that before the final battle in their imagination, they would be the strongest in the reincarnation world! In short, the name these guys came up with seems to have some magic. Although they are not the strongest reincarnation team in the reincarnation space, they are at least not weak.

That B+ level guy was in their team, and their team had seven members in total: a B+ captain, a B vice-captain, and the rest were all C+ level. It could be said that they were the strongest team of all the reincarnation teams that entered this world. In fact, the giant orb that sent them in was hoping this team would find a way to kill the A-level boss. As for the others... just cannon fodder.

"What on earth is going on?!" Captain Wu was thoroughly exasperated. "The Demon Team! Damn, those chuunibyou..."

"Forget it! Let's play it safe!" Old Wang patted Old Wu on the shoulder and said, "At least we can try to contact the other three teams. I think they have the same idea... One B-rank player is enough to wipe out a mission team, let alone another B+ guy. Unless that hidden boss appears, none of us are a match for them!"

This statement resonated deeply with the other three members of the team.

"Alright! Those self-important, chuunibyou (delusional) characters in the Demon Team will definitely join the heretical camp and then follow the traditional formula to fight against the religious camp!" Rubbing his head, Old Wu said, "...In short, we're lucky that we don't have to face that A-level boss. In that case, we might as well... just stay in the secular camp. Although we can't farm points with our abilities, at least our safety is guaranteed."

"That's all we can do!"

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Actually, the members of the Vanguard Squad, along with the other three teams, didn't need to fear the Demon Squad. Although among the five squads that entered this world, the Demon Squad was the strongest in terms of both individual combat power and average skill level, it was precisely because of this... perhaps due to the law of cause and effect, that after Sharl failed to stop the Main God from launching the second wave of reincarnators, the Demon Squad, which the Main God had placed high hopes on and was specifically designed to deal with that A-rank boss, unfortunately landed near a count's territory...

The title of this earldom is 'Grete'.

Fate is truly a mysterious thing!

Although Ciel was dragged to onboarding training by his superiors and might have to face a penguin's sales pitch (pyramid scheme)... at least, Ciel used his connection with Medea to directly package and copy what he knew and pass it on to the Princess of the Age of Gods, who had been distracted for a long time because of certain things.

Of course, after receiving the message from Ciel, Princess Kamishiro, having regained her senses, immediately realized what was happening...

What kind of gods are these? Reincarnators? Outsiders? In short, Princess Kamishiro's first reaction upon seeing them was that these guys were nothing but locusts, and her second reaction was to crush them with a single wave of her hand. Incidentally, Sharl also transferred control of some other bosses to Princess Kamishiro. After all, in the main world, where Sharl had usurped GM privileges and had prior experience using them, he could easily use those privileges to launch surprise attacks at will.

Then, the command authority over all seven bosses—the Balrog, the Wanderer, the Black Wolf, the Tumor Tree, the Street Dance Crew, the Dragon Hunter Armor, and even the newly forged Giant King—was directly handed over to Medea by Sharl.

At this time, the massive barrier that had taken a year to complete and covered the entire Earl's territory immediately detected the outsider's information and transmitted it back after the main god's protective shield disappeared.

Although this team, like any seasoned veteran, immediately began employing various defensive, counter-surveillance, and counter-prophecy measures after the battle… it was all to no avail. Their spellcasting skills were not weakened, and with someone's help, they not only gained fully materialized soul bodies but also activated the divinity of the second-generation sun god from Greek mythology within their souls. In terms of spellcasting ability, this princess from the Age of Gods completely overwhelmed the spellcasters in the demon squad.

Not to mention, the spellcasters enhanced through the God's Enhancement program are all of the inflated level. While their combat power is formidable, when it comes to other domains, well…

"These are the locusts?" Through the magical mirror, Princess Kamishiro, inside the magic workshop, watched those who thought they were safe just because they had activated invisibility fields and counter-reconnaissance and counter-prophecy. "...Are their spellcasters idiots? They can't even conceal their magical fluctuations. It's not a spell chain, but several spells are overlapping. Even without using prophecy or reconnaissance spells, a qualified spellcaster would be able to see the problem caused by the overlapping of multiple spells!" Of course, the qualified spellcasters Princess Kamishiro was referring to were probably those legendary figures, spellcasters with the characteristics of the main god, enhanced by the main god. Even if their power reached legendary levels, they would probably be doomed in a one-on-one fight against those old foxes.

"Alright! Since they're pests, let's get rid of them!"

"Your sister needs to prepare breakfast for the master tomorrow. Tonight, you'll have to lead the way in cleaning up these pests!"

“Yes, Your Highness!” Behind her, Atia bowed slightly to Princess Kamishiro, then disappeared into a cloud of mist. When she reappeared, she was already outside the city.

From the darkness, an entire knightly order emerged and followed behind her...

302. Demon Squad

The Demon Team is a relatively elite team within the reincarnation space controlled by this main god. "Elite" refers to the absence of A-level and S-level enhancements. Of course, these two types of enhancements are quite significant at the reincarnation center, representing a considerable expense even for the main god. Therefore, it's understandable that a team has two B-level members, one of whom is even B+.

After all, this main god didn't provide any so-called gene-lock cheat codes to the reincarnators; it was simply a "you pay, I deliver" model. Therefore, even if the reincarnators couldn't fully master the enhancements after receiving them, it wasn't the main god's problem. This wasn't surprising; it was common to see reincarnators who had exchanged for mutated vampire bloodlines unable to summon bats, and those who had exchanged for werewolf bloodlines unable to transform except under a full moon.

Besides these, there are those who redeemed martial arts manuals but couldn't understand them, and those who redeemed cultivation templates but couldn't even perform the simplest sword control technique...

Therefore, among reincarnators, a level of evaluation refers to whether one can fully master the enhancement of that level. A C-level enhancement is one that can be perfectly mastered; otherwise, it is not C-level. C- indicates that one can master the enhancement of that level, but has not yet fully mastered all aspects of it. C+ is easier to understand: it means complete mastery, and one can adjust it based on their own abilities, achieving 200% of their actual combat performance.

Of course, the level is not necessarily fixed. If you can't withstand a nuclear bomb, a camel of a lower level than you holding a nuclear bomb and shouting Ahura Akbar can also kill you.

However, in a world where the power of purely technological weapons is limited, nuclear bombs are probably no better than kicks! This makes the small, portable, and easy-to-clean nuclear bombs that these reincarnators spontaneously prepared in vain.

However, in that case, everyone will have to rely on their raw strength. Among the five teams, the Demon Squad is undoubtedly the strongest in terms of raw strength, and it can even be said that they have a win rate of over 70% even when taking on four opponents at once.

By the way, since the author was too lazy to come up with names for these guys who are about to die, we'll just use numbers 1 through 7 to describe them.

Number 1, the captain of the Demon Squad, has enhanced his mutated vampire bloodline. Well, he's a guy whose drug use is unclear. Although he hasn't been able to develop black flames on his own, let alone create the Primal Darkness: The End of the Universe, though he's always wanted to. Besides enhancing his vampire bloodline, he also enhanced his demon transformation skill and exchanged for the Shadow Whip, Chaos Claw, Void Sword, Skull Belt, etc... In keeping with the God of War's pirated style, all of these weapons are fakes, but with this series of equipment and enhancements, those who don't know better might already recognize him as the former vampire hunter, the later Shadow King, Count Dracula! Rating: B+;

Number 2, the vice-captain of the Demon Squad, possesses enhanced angelic and demonic hybrid blood. Unfortunately, despite the intervention of the Supreme God, he failed to awaken as a Nephalem. He was instead transformed into a Nephalem through the Supreme God's modifications, though his potential is actually no less than that of a Nephalem. After all, in the Darksiders universe, the four Knights of the Apocalypse combined are a formidable force against both angels and demons. In addition, he possesses a set of Abyss Armor, the Chaos Devourer, and the Trembling Gauntlets. Of course, anything from the Supreme God is bound to be a fake… plus, this guy has a Nightmare Beast he acquired from the Heroes of Might and Magic V universe… It seems these reincarnators are completely addicted to cosplay! Rating: B;

We won't go into too much detail about the next three through seven. One of them is an Ice Mage, another is a Saint Seiya, one is a traditional magician, one is a High Templar, and the last one is Wang Dachui, oops, I mean, the enhanced version of Dachui from Overwatch.

In any case, this team is far superior to the vanguard team in both quality and personnel composition. This means that this team still has a chance to weaken and kill the A-level boss through a series of schemes and tricks. The prerequisite is that they arrive somewhere else, not here. In short, after the shield protecting the main god disappeared, these guys were exposed. Although they intended to infiltrate the city to gather intelligence first, they immediately sensed that something was amiss.

That night, though it was a pitch-black night without stars or moon, a bright moon suddenly appeared in the sky, radiating a pure white light that sent chills down the spines of the demon team's reincarnators. Apart from that, the once brightly lit city was now eerily quiet, as if not a trace of human society had vanished.

"Warning! We're ambushed!" The senior orthodox mage in the team shouted first through the mental link. "...This isn't the real world, it's an alternate world superimposed on reality. Damn it, why does this world have something like Silent Hill..." The mage's shout immediately put the others on high alert. Everyone knew what Silent Hill was; in fact, these guys had experienced that world themselves and been chased and forced to flee. So, hearing the words "Silent Hill" made the demon team members uneasy.

Of course, with their current enhanced strength, they could probably easily storm into and out of Silent Hill three times over. However, the fact that this situation has arisen in a world that shouldn't be connected to them is hardly a good sign.

"Be careful, everyone! The mage is getting us out of here!" Team leader Number 1 ordered.

"...No!" The mage, covered in sweat, hurriedly replied, "...This is not an unclaimed otherworld. This thing that has enveloped us, something like Silent Hill, has a controller...Damn it, the other party is at least a veteran of the Forgotten Realms legendary level."

A seasoned veteran of Faerûn—these battle-hardened elites all know what's going on. Heaven help us; among all the worlds, the legendary mages of the D&D series are among the most shameless. Not every mage enjoys setting up traps at every turn in their own home, with a constant barrage of maze spells, otherworldly banishment, dimensional expulsion, interdimensional teleportation, malicious polymorphing, and other deadly things. And then there are the extremely rare, perverse individuals—can you imagine, that the traps aren't the kind of magic that obliterates you, but rather come from a pink book?!

Especially those super old hands who have lived on Faerûn for thousands of years, outliving even some of the gods.

Every reincarnator who goes to Faerûn, especially those who try to farm these seasoned veterans, doesn't end up in a good way...

So now it seems he's met his match in a seasoned veteran of Faerûn, which is quite a challenge for this magician who was brought to maturity by the Supreme God.

However, the members of the demon squad quickly ran out of time to complain about their useless magic books, because after a cloud of white mist, a whole squad of fully armed people had surrounded them...

303. On How to Kill Insects

Triangular steel helmets, dual-wielding greatswords and daggers, and beneath their silver-gray armor, exposed markings that resembled flames. Torn cloaks billowed in the wind. This was an army surviving countless battles; though only about thirty men, they exuded the aura of a thousand troops. This was not a metaphor, but a fact, for they truly were comparable to a massive army.

Of course, this design also instilled a strong sense of malice in the vigilant demon squad members—the malice of 'Dear player, I'm your father.' But what was most disgusting wasn't that. At that moment, these sharp-eyed demon squad members all noticed that, without exception, each knight had a semi-transparent bottle hanging from their waist, filled with a liquid shimmering with a golden-red light—an Elemental Bottle…

This doesn't look like one of those bosses that doesn't drink potions and just stupidly fights the player. Instead, it's an NPC controlled by a well-organized AI that shamelessly drinks HP potions!

In this situation, the members of the demon squad wouldn't be foolish enough to negotiate with these obviously ill-intentioned individuals. After all, in this predicament, no matter how high your negotiation skills are, it's useless; a mind control spell would be far more effective. Unfortunately, the high-ranking Templar in the squad sheepishly expressed his helplessness via the mental link: "These guys' willpower is simply incredible. I could argue that their mental seas are completely chaotic and they're insane, but what's with that explosively unwavering willpower? Damn it, these guys are immune to any mental interference. Even if a powerful god brought their divine kingdom to brainwash them around the clock, it wouldn't work..."

Faced with these guys who are immune to any mental interference, all control, suggestion, and even illusion are utterly useless. An uninformed person might mistake them for a bunch of puppets. However, these guys all possess intelligence, and at least in terms of discipline and teamwork, the demon squad is completely at a disadvantage.

Immediately afterward, the mage in the team, who seemed to have become useless under these circumstances, started shouting again in the mental communication, "It's one thing that these guys aren't affected by mind interference, but why are even curse spells completely ineffective?!" The spellcaster of the demon squad wasn't the vanguard's Vengeful Flame + Alchemist output-enhancing spellcaster. On the contrary, although he was an unqualified spellcaster created by the main god's enhancement, with a large number of points, this guy still managed to exchange for a wide range of spells, and could be considered a qualified mage.

This mage is proficient in a wide range of spells, including single-target, area-of-effect, illusion, curses, and rituals. Normally, when faced with a large number of enemies, the mage would either use a single Temptation spell or various curse spells to weaken them to a pulp.

However, this time, all curse spells failed completely, leaving no trace.

At that very moment, a series of magical lights flashed back onto the knights. Strength enhancement, speed enhancement, resistance to fire, resistance to ice, resistance to lightning, resistance to sound waves, resistance to strong acid... These were enhancement spells. Countless magical lights blinded the eyes of all the reincarnators present. This was a comprehensive and flawless enhancement. Even enhancement spells that should have conflicted with each other showed no signs of conflict at this moment. Instead, they superimposed on each other, amplifying their effects.