Chapter 206 205. Spawning Grounds.

DING

['Spawning grounds' has been added.]

RUMBLE (4x)

A tremor, less violent than the previous one, cruised through the sectors, the Elven Kingdom, and the Dwarven Kingdom.

The Elven and Dwarven Kingdoms had little trouble with the new changes because they were used to living 'with' the world and had grown accustomed to the mana cruising through their kingdoms, which were already dense, and the sudden increase in it caused drastic changes, but the damage was far less.

Dwarves, who were efficient in using fire and earth attributes, employed mana to make their underground facilities sturdier.

While the elves, who were the most efficient in using all natural attributes, stood their ground, that was also the first time all the attributes included in the 'world energy' revealed themselves. All naturally attributed mana, divinity, and even demonic energy cruised through it; elves, who are far more sensitive to the world's energy, went berserk, but they were held still by the "King" and "Queen" of the Elven Kingdom before they could even do anything in their berserker state.

And the tremor that happened just now brought forth a ton of colosseums all around, and the Elven Kingdom got two new 'spawning grounds.'

The Dwarven kingdom got two new underground spawning grounds; they too were shaped like a Colosseum but were underground, which was the only difference between the two in the Dwarven kingdom and the Elven kingdom.

Every sector of the human domain had a new Colosseum, and because the Colosseum protruded through the ground, a lot, like really a lot, of damage was done. Again, humans died; every human seemed to be on the edge of losing their minds and going berserk, and when the Colosseum had completely protruded out through the ground and halted together with everything and everyone near it, absolute silence descended upon the human domain.

CRA-CRACK (5x)

The debris that fell from the corners of the massive Colosseums broke the silence that descended upon them, but not a single one of them opened their mouths and continued to stare at the massive structures in a daze.

DING

['Spawning grounds' will begin to 'store' monsters.]

[The structures, landscapes, terrains, environments, designs, traps, and monsters, inside the spawning grounds will change at random.]

[The 'Gate' which is used as the entrance of the spawning grounds, will change the locations at random.]

[The players can enter the spawning grounds as individuals and teams.]

[Different modes are added to the spawning grounds.]

[Hard, very hard, and impossible modes have been added.]

['Tokens' can be used to enter the spawning grounds.]

[Orange tokens, red tokens, and black tokens, are used accordingly to the mode the player wants to enter.]

(AN: Tokens are mentioned in chapter 57: [Level])

"...."

A slew of new system notification windows floated in mid-air in the sky, but no one noticed as they continued to stare in a daze at the massive structures and pool of blood nearby. They soon woke up and walked around, dazed, in search of their families or, hopefully, their remains.

Everything the humans had built was brought down in a day. Why? Even they didn't understand until they abruptly remembered the system notification, which said that these were the consequences for ignoring the system quest. They shuddered at the revelation, but they couldn't help but despise every powerhouse, which prevented them from even attempting to reduce the number of living. And then they abruptly remembered the user named "Unknown," who had killed approximately a million lives by himself, and all of those who remembered that fact halted and shuddered for a brief moment.

The exact number of lives this user named Unknown reaped were 847,838.

***

After a week later.

People were living in tents and took shelter underneath the broken buildings, and even under the piled up debris, while the powerhouses began to clean up the sectors they were a part of first. They were already accustomed to the guilds function which was newly introduced by the system, that gave people protection against the monsters.

[Wave (level 2) commencing in: 21D: 05H: 43M: 22S]

The system notification window floated in mid-air and showed the players the exact time on the small rectangular-shaped window in front of which never disappeared; it simply continued to float in front of them, but they learned to move it horizontally, out of their sights, and place it somewhere in front of them because they didn't want to mess with the system quest ever again, and though they knew that the notification wasn't a quest, they didn't dare ignore it.

*

And after another week had passed.

The human race had regained its footing, though slightly. They had bought a guild building of the lowest quality and sheltered in it. Since the guild buildings were of the lowest quality, the players had to hunt daily to keep themselves safe.

Guild buildings came in grades; lowest, low, mid, high, and highest qualities, and the lowest guild building cost them 300 AP; the cost increased by twofold at each other rank. Lowest – 300 AP, low- 600 AP, mid- 1200 AP, high- 2400 AP, and highest- 4800 AP. There was another guild building which was ranked 'supreme' which cost a whopping 10,000 AP.

The total number of people who survived the level 1 Wave was 3,004,470,884. Approximately 25% of the humans in the human domain had perished in a single day; the craziest thing that happened was the survival reward given by the system.

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[Wave (level 1) survival rewards.]

[1. Complete recovery.]

[2. Level increase by 1]

[3. 1x Token (spawning grounds)]

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Yes, that was it. Nothing more, nothing less.

***

(AN: First person POV)

An attractive white-haired man stood atop the Colosseum's most prominent corner and stared down at the humans, who were roaming around the ruins like ants. Yes, the spawning grounds or the Colosseum were THAT large.

"....its quite a scene, if I have to be honest." I mumbled while looking down at the ruined Sector Five.

'Erebus. Pyre.' I muttered in my mind, and Erebus walked out of a thick black portal-like hue, majestically, while Pyre materialised in front of me, even more majestically than Erebus. Seeing the two beings appear so majestically, I, too, wanted to change... I.... don't think so, but whatever.

POOF

And, of course, Erebus turned small with a 'poof' and climbed up on my back before slumping comfortably on my head with Pyre slumped on his head.

"Should we go on a ride?" I looked up at them and asked with a smirk.

"Meooowwww...." Erebus meowed lazily, yawning.

[PIII....] Surprisingly, Pyre gave a similar reaction, which was quite surprising because he would always be ready for some action, somewhat similar to me.

"What the hell? Aren't you guys bored?" I asked and pouted, slightly.

"...."

[....]

"At least don't ignore me, you crazy basta*ds." I grumbled and glanced back at the ground.

'What should I do now...' I pondered about it quite seriously; it was a problem whenever there was nothing to do. I had checked on everybody: the uncharted, main characters, subordinates...

"Ah, I had all most forgotten about them." I grinned widely as I remembered something I had forgotten to do.

[I need more 'royal blood.'] I telepathically sent a message to a certain someone.