140: I'm bored and I'm out for a walk, the abyss of bones

The very next second, identical prompt messages suddenly appeared before everyone’s eyes:

“New Era Game World”

“Seamless Update Imminent”

“Update Complete”

“Current Version: 2.0”

“New Content Includes:”

“1. Profession system officially open! Players can choose one of five basic professions: Warrior, Mage, Priest, Assassin, and Archer.”

“2. Skill tree system launched—each profession will have a unique growth path and exclusive skill branches.”

“3. Novice protection mechanism activated! Abyss monsters will have their strength divided by level.”

“4. Real-time ranking function enabled, global player strength rankings are now at your fingertips, making competition among powerhouses more transparent.”

“5. Guild creation function unlocked! Just pay 1000 gold coins to establish your own guild and gather companions to dominate together!”

“6. Equipment enhancement gameplay introduced! By collecting specific materials, you can further improve equipment attributes, making your character even stronger.”

“7. Dungeon challenge mode unlocked! Abyss Rift dungeons will refresh periodically, waiting for brave warriors to explore, with generous rewards waiting for you!”

“8. Life professions make their debut! Blacksmith, Alchemist, Enchanter, and many other auxiliary professions are waiting to be discovered, providing more possibilities for your adventure.”

“9. Trading market fully open! Players can freely exchange items, making resource circulation more convenient and efficient.”

The moment the update announcement ended, the entire Blue Star seemed to boil over.

People gathered in the city center squares, looking up at the giant holographic projection floating in the sky, which displayed the latest global level rankings:

“Blue Star Level Rankings (Real-time Update)”

“1. Disaster King (Lv.1999)”

“2. Azure Dragon (Lv.1299)”

“3. White Tiger (Lv.1299)”

“4. Vermilion Bird (Lv.1299)”

“...”

“99. Su Yun (Lv.569)”

“100. Ember Sky Son (Lv.456)”

“...”

Looking at these numbers that didn't seem human, all players couldn't help but glance down at their own single-digit levels on their panels.

“Holy crap!”

“Are we really from the same planet?”

“Does the gap really need to be this huge?”

“...”

At this moment, in a corner of Tokyo, Japan, Blood Skyhawk stared at his mere Lv.99 and then at the levels on the ranking list.

He sighed.

“Huh?”

“Wait a minute!”

“No, something’s wrong.”

Blood Skyhawk seemed to suddenly snap back to reality, his eyes instantly becoming blank as he stared at the 99th place on the ranking list.

“This... could it be the same name?”

“That shouldn’t be possible, right?”

He turned to look at the person next to him, who was excitedly fiddling with the newly appeared game panel, completely immersed.

Blood Skyhawk shook his head, secretly pondering:

“We’ve been through so much, life and death, during this time, and he still understood Su Yun’s strength quite well.”

“Although that guy occasionally spoke like a jinx, his actual strength was indeed mediocre.”

“So, it’s most likely just a coincidence of names!”

“After all, with so many people on Blue Star, the probability of encountering the same name isn’t low.”

“...”

Time flew by, and another month passed.

“Five missing one! Who wants to fill in as a Priest? The more healing, the better!”

“Windless Guild is recruiting! Our Guild Leader is Song Wu, a core member of the Calamity Court! Don’t miss out! As long as you reach Lv.30 and pay ten gold coins, you can join our guild!”

“Northern Heavenly City has been invaded by the Skull Abyss again, urgently needing a large number of Mages and Archers for support! Come and sign up quickly!”

Su Yi had been lying at home for a whole month, feeling utterly bored, so he decided to go out and find some fun to relieve his boredom.

He was still holding a pure white Creation Book in his hand, for no other reason than that everyone in the world was playing this game now, and everyone had received a book or a piece of equipment like a weapon.

If he went out empty-handed, he would seem out of place, so he simply took out the Creation Book and temporarily used it as his weapon.

Incidentally, he also wanted to see how his modified Blue Star was performing.

Currently, the situation looked good.

More importantly, during this time, volunteers had discovered three new planets, contributing nearly 2 million Prestige Points to him in total.

His total Prestige had now broken the 4 million mark!

However, he was also somewhat puzzled: why had the system still not announced the conditions for collecting the next stage?

Was the Iridescent tier the end?

Were there no new functions for fusion?

Or were there higher tiers waiting to be unlocked?

These were all still unknowns.

But on second thought, there was no harm in accumulating more anyway; what if there were subsequent surprises?

Unlike Prestige, the growth rate of Energy Points seemed to have slowed down considerably recently.

Of course, the so-called “slow” was only relative.

Recently, a new refresh message would only pop up every few minutes or so.

However, the content of these refreshes all came from the Magic World, and updates from their side were not included.

Moreover, the quality of each refresh was quite high; basically, every appearance was a golden material, accompanied by several million Energy Points!

During this time, Su Yi collected while having Flowing Light help him calculate the data.

After ruling out all impossible scenarios, he found that there seemed to be only one reasonable explanation—these were all collected by the Lord of the End.

But the question was, how did the Lord of the End do it?

Given his strength, he shouldn't be this powerful.

Did he obtain some kind of fortuitous encounter that allowed his abilities to rapidly improve?

Or perhaps...

Had the Lord of the End been taken over by some Abyss Dominator?

The one acting in the Magic World was not his clone at all, but that Abyss Dominator using his own clone to substitute, yet these Energy Points were still attributed to the Lord of the End.

Although Su Yi didn't know the exact situation, he knew one thing:

No matter who did it, these Energy Points truly belonged to him, and it wasn’t a system bug.

Since that was the case, what was there to hesitate about?

During this time, he simply used all his Energy Points for draws.

However, the results were a bit disappointing.

He didn't know if it was bad luck this time, but so many Energy Points only yielded nine Iridescent rewards.

As Su Yi walked aimlessly through the streets, pondering these questions, a young man wearing a baseball cap suddenly stopped him.

“Hey, brother, interested in joining our Starmourn Team?”

The young man patted his chest and said enthusiastically,

“We already have three Lv.35 big shots on our team, just missing a healer!”

Su Yi raised an eyebrow slightly, looking with interest at the player who called himself Little Knife of Starmourn Team.

A translucent level indicator floated above his head: Lv.28.

“How do you know I’m a healer?” Su Yi asked, somewhat puzzled.