Child of Destiny

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While everyone was still busy arguing with one another about the upcoming collision between the Empyrean Talons and the Gods’ Paradise at the Grand Finals of the United Cup, the World Gaming Organization had suddenly dropped a huge bomb on everyone.

On the day right before the Grand Finals, they announced the next expansion pack of the game.

Game Announcement: The Game «Destiny’s Fate» Online will be undergoing another major update!

Patch Expansion: Descent of the Thousand Worlds.

The player base was suddenly taken aback by the sudden announcement, which also aroused quite a lot of suspicion.

The players had yet to fully explore the Awakened Continent since the last expansion of the game, which was mostly because of the low number of experts who were capable of reaching this second continent.

Aside from the top experts of the game, most of the mainstream players were unable to pass the trials set by the Mysterious Instructors, much less clearing the Tier 3 Promotion Quests.

The majority of the Awakened Continent had not been fully explored yet, which confused most of the players about the upcoming update.

On the other hand, those who were already aware of this sudden expansion remained calm and focused on the patch notes instead.

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“So, it comes!” said Shin as he saw the expansion name – Descent of the Thousand Worlds.

In the previous patch, the World Metamorphosis further enhanced the realistic function of the game, especially the special combat states that the players had discovered.

This then led the true experts to clear their promotion quests and break through to Tier 3 Class.

As for this ‘Descent of the Thousand Worlds’, the game seemed to be focusing on the sudden flood of experts from the real world. They seemed to be taking advantage of the huge influx of players to ‘release’ the ‘trapped’ Beta Testers from the other realms.

The sudden entry of the Void Manifestation Martial Artists, Rulers Realm Mentalists, and Swordmasters from the real world alongside the release of the Beta Testers would greatly affect the balance of the game, making it even more chaotic.

Shin and the others felt such a huge change would greatly affect the current state of the game.

Even the top gods of the game felt a huge pressure coming from the upcoming patch, making them crazily prepare for the upcoming change.

Continuing to read the rest of the patch notes, Shin and the others realized that the so-called Descent of the Thousand Worlds was not that simple.

Based on the background of the patch, the huge Demonic Gate at the Dark Cloud Kingdom had started to affect the membrane or canopy that was protecting the Atlas World, leading to other dimensions to connect a portal into it and descend to the world.

Fortunately, opening these portals was not that easy. The players had to meet certain requirements and complete a series of quests before these portals were opened.

The so-called portal gates were numerous and scattered in every part of the world, so the players needed to explore every corner of the first and second continents before they could even find them.

Aside from gaining access to the resources of different dimensions, the players could also find a lot of benefits by exploring the other side of each portal.

Not only could the creatures and beings from the other side portal descend into the Atlas World, but the players could also do the same to those mysterious realms.

This seemed to be a give and take for both sides, but it would not be that easy.

Those creatures and races from foreign realms were slightly more powerful than the average players of the game.

It was mentioned that the Beta Testers who were waiting for this opportunity had halted their advancement due to the restrictions of the game. Unless they reached the main world (main servers), they were unable to continue leveling up and progress in the game.

Regardless, the average level of these Beta Testers was quite high. The weakest among them were at least Level 200, while the strongest were between Level 250 and Level 260.

It was a piece of common knowledge for everyone that leveling up from Level 150 and up was much harder compared to those below the Tier 3 Mark, so learning that the Beta Testers were at least Level 200 shocked almost everyone.

Even an idiot knew that it was not a good idea to open these portals unless they reached such levels, or else they would be overwhelmed by those people from the other side of the dimensional gates.

New Realms, new opportunities – this was the major slogan of the upcoming patch.

The players could convert into new races, new classes, new abilities, and such after exploring those foreign realms, which greatly enhanced their strengths before coming back to the Atlas World.

This was one of the categories of the realms that the players could explore. Such dimensions would be called the ‘Land of Opportunities’.

Among these realms, the largest and most anticipated would be the realms connected to Hell.

That’s right! The same Hell that was already connected to the Atlas World.

This major realm – the Hell – was just a cluster of multiple ‘smaller’ realms that formed a whole new system.

The only realms that would be released were as follows:

The Infernal Realm – the Land of Blazing Demons. It was a world filled with flames, where sinful souls were also burned for eternity.

The Nether Realm – the Land of Extreme Coldness. It was the extreme opposite of the Infernal Realm and hosted the True Ice and Frost and was filled with Dark and Yin Energy, which froze the sinful souls and sealed them forever.

The Bug Realm – the home of Bug Demons. As suggested, it was a land filled with bug-type demons. It was also the realm that was currently connected to the Atlas World.

These were the three ‘minor’ realms that were released for this patch. The others were yet to be released unless the players found them early.

These three realms were the main target of the players from the Evil Faction, mainly the Demonic and Corrupted Players. Such places would be a paradise for them.

If the Evil Faction had these Hell Realms, then the players from the Righteous Faction had the Spirit Realms.

As the name suggested, it was a realm filled with spirits, most likely Elemental Spirits.

That’s right, Elemental Spirits.

In this realm, players with different races, such as Transcendent, Ascended, and Epic Races, could enter these Spirit Realms with one purpose only. It was a chance to form a contract with an Elemental Spirit.

The players were confused about these Elemental Spirits at first, but when they read the description about them, they could not help but go crazy.

These Elemental Spirits were one of the Trump Cards of players with Transcendent Race and Class!

Thinking about the special ‘forms’ that the top gods of the game have during their battles, such as Battle God Sickarius, Dragon God Siegfried, War God Simba, Martial God Ashura, Sword God Zero, the players could not help but fantasize about themselves gaining such forms.

Unfortunately, every player could only form a contract with a single Elemental from these Spirit Realms, regardless of whether they were Transcendent or not.

It was a pity, but the people understood the reason behind this. It was because it would be a cheat if those Transcendent Beings could form multiple contacts within the Spirit Realms.

Given the advantages that they had over the other beings, they could form an unlimited number of Elemental Spirits if they entered these Spirit Realms. Thus, everyone was only given a single contract.

However, it was more than enough for these players. After all, the Ascended Beings and Epic Races already had their Ascended Abilities and Extraordinary Powers, respectively, that could match the Elemental Spirit Possessions of Transcendent Beings. Having an extra card was already a huge boost to them.

It was kind of ‘unfair’ for Transcendent Beings, but they also understood the logic behind the restrictions. Moreover, they already had a lot of advantages over the others, so there was no point in complaining about it.

But the other benefits of these Spirit Realms for everyone were the opportunity to further evolve their contracted Elemental Spirits after staying in these realms for a certain period. So long as they completed the necessary requirements and quests related to those Elementals, then they could proceed to the evolution process.

Of course, it was also quite obvious that such quests would be very challenging to clear. After all, Elemental Spirits were already broken trump cards, so it was only reasonable to have such strict and difficult requirements.

In the end, these realms still became a ‘hidden’ boost for Transcendent Beings due to this special feature.

The next realm category was called the ‘Land in the Sky’.

The realms related to this category were filled with flying mounts. That was right, flying mounts. The game company was finally releasing the flying mounts as a mainstream mount for players.

The Awakened Continent was very huge, so huge that it was almost impossible to explore.

The distance between the cities and the hunting grounds was quite huge, making it hard for the players to explore different maps and such.

The return scrolls and such were quite expensive, making it much harder for the players.

Their pets, which could also be used as mounts, so long as they fit the requirements, were quite helpful.

However, it was still hard to explore such a vast land with just these land mounts alone.

With the release of these flying mounts, the exploration of the Awakened Continent would progress much faster than ever.

The transport of goods and materials would be much easier as well.

These realms made everyone very excited. But the most excited of them all were the huge guilds, who found it extremely greedy for these realms.

Not only could these guilds and organizations make the transport of their goods much easier, but they could also expand their military forces in the air with the help of these flying mounts.

If there were realms related to the flying mounts, then there should be realms related to water as well. The ‘Land of the Depths’ was the next category, which would be filled with aquatic mounts that could help the players explore the sea and ocean.

Seeing these two realm categories, Shin could not help but frown deeply as he found it troublesome for the arrangements that they had made.

Shin and Shiella had established the secret guild, Deicide, as an elite group specializing in aerial strife, aquatic battles, and jungle warfare. The members of these guilds were soldiers or cadets from the military who specialized in these three areas.

Their races also specialized in such battles, just like the Winged Race, Ocean Naga, and Beastmen, which were complemented with respective classes.

With the addition of the Flying Mounts and Aquatic Mounts, Shin felt that the advantage of this guild over the others would greatly reduce.

But at the same time, he also felt that it was a great opportunity for them. So long as they acquired more Flying and Aquatic Mounts to arm these forces, their advantages would further enhance exponentially.

He felt that he had to remind Shiella to let Deicide focus on these realms rather than the others.

As for the realms where the Beta Testers were ‘trapped’, they were scattered across these countless realms.

After reading through the entire patch notes, Shin could not help but sigh. He felt that this upcoming patch would be either a blessing or a disaster, depending on which perspective they looked from.

His first guess about the upcoming expansion was right, particularly the exploration of the other realms.

Fortunately, he had already made some arrangements at the Dark Cloud Kingdom, which would help them when the time came.

But all of it needed to be set aside for the time being since they had to focus on their upcoming match for now.

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