Chapter 1630: Chapter 357: The Almighty Client

Boss Luo had seen several A Lai Yes from different sub-worlds; the one he interacted with the most was naturally the A Lai Ye No.003 of this sub-world—of course, if No.003 A Lai Ye had emotions, it probably wouldn’t be too keen on being summoned by Boss Luo.

This client daddy is way too hard to serve… something like that.

Back to the point.

After tearing herself free from Master Plaid’s Soul, the girl in ancient huge palace-style women’s dress now had a Godless look in her eyes—this was clearly different from the other A Lai Yes Boss Luo had encountered.

The direct impression was that this A Lai Ye’s memory seemed to have suffered traumatic damage.

“So that means it should be the incarnation of the World Will of the sub-world where Priede is?” The Maid now carefully sized up this A Lai Ye of unknown number in front of her, falling into deep thought.

And at this moment Boss Luo was also observing the Maid, falling into deep thought as well.

You Ye had, almost instantly, taken this A Lai Ye of unknown number to be Luo Ya—but once she realized it was A Lai Ye, in her awareness… or even in her subconscious, the impression that Luo Ya and A Lai Ye looked the same had already been separated.

She no longer linked A Lai Ye and Luo Ya together.

This was an abrupt change—for Boss Luo; but at the same time, it was a change that hadn’t been noticed—for You Ye herself.

“I’ve seen something similar before…” The Maid tucked back a few strands of hair scattered by the sea breeze as she spoke. “Some powerful beings who walk in the cracks of the dimensions don’t use gentle methods to explore sub-worlds; they’ll use the simplest, most direct, and also the most brutal method to directly shatter a sub-world’s World Will.”

Obviously, ordinary powerful Lives who can walk in dimensional cracks simply cannot directly shatter a sub-world’s World Will… that is, A Lai Ye.

“You mean Priede shattered his own world’s World Will?” Boss Luo mused.

The Maid shook her head. “Probably not. Judging from the Soul strength Priede displayed, he doesn’t possess that kind of ability… but if this girl really is the World Will of his original sub-world, then there is likely only one possibility.”

“He eroded the origin of his own world…” Boss Luo frowned slightly.

The Maid nodded. “Though we don’t know exactly what method he used, it was probably not anything conventional… very likely, it was accompanied by the blood of the entire civilization. Priede’s desire is boundlessly vast; a guy who can ride such desire—the ruthlessness of his methods is easy to imagine.”

Boss Luo shook his head, looking at the unmoving girl before him… she was probably Devoured and had since remained in a state where Priede had yet to refine her, and when Priede, in his hands, fell into a spiritual fear world, that instinctively gave the girl a sense of opportunity, allowing her to break free in one fell swoop.

“If a sub-world has even its own World Will plundered, then that sub-world?” Boss Luo asked curiously.

The Maid said, “A new World Will will be born to succeed it. Unless the entire sub-world is completely erased, if it’s only the civilization that’s destroyed, it will still regenerate. Also… World Will is actually a kind of ultra high-tier currency.”

“Currency?” Boss Luo couldn’t help freezing for a moment—by now, very few things could truly surprise him, and this genuinely startled his heart.

The Maid nodded slightly, then waved her hand; a thick ledger floated into her hands.

She opened it, the pages rustling.

The Maid softly recited, “In the Old Days, the master of Heaven, name shortened to Emperor Xian Zong, used nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine World Will origins to exchange for a Spiritual Energy Space that could evolve and grow, naming it [Immortal Realm].”

Boss Luo’s expression gradually turned odd.

Immortal… Immortal Realm?

The Maid paused, glanced at her master, then opened another page, her voice level as she said, “In the New Days, the master of Heaven used four thousand World Will origins to exchange for exclusive usage rights to the Divine Kingdom of Heaven, and then maintained priority use by means of leasing.”

Old Days… New Days?

Luo Qiu subconsciously frowned, pondering aloud, “Exclusive… usage rights?”

The Maid explained, “Before another customer offers a price lower than four thousand World Will origins, the Divine Kingdom of Heaven, as a product that can be supplied by Heaven, will not actively be displayed to customers.”

Luo Qiu nodded with some understanding, then asked in puzzlement, “Suppose I have more than four thousand World Will origins; would I also need to exchange for the Divine Kingdom of Heaven?”

The Maid said calmly, “Then we’d recycle heaven and terminate our current transaction with the master of Heaven… because unlike the [Immortal Realm], it’s not a one-off sale. Of course, we could also create another identical Divine Kingdom of Heaven, but generally we don’t bother creating, because that would lose the original profit. Likewise, if a customer holds more than nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine World Will origins and wants the [Immortal Realm], we can also use recycling or recreation as methods. Naturally, because [Immortal Realm] is a one-off sale, recycling can be done either by negotiating another sale with the Immortal Realm’s master or by directly taking it down… we recommend directly taking it down.”

Feeling his worldview refreshed yet again, Boss Luo rubbed his brow.

Boss Luo hadn’t gone to flip through the Shop’s ledger in quite a long while—at first he’d thought a ledger might at most record all transactions of a single sub-world… but clearly, he’d been wrong.

The ledger was basically impossible to finish flipping through… and dry as dust.

Sighing inwardly—having something for the Maid to do is really nice and all that… Boss Luo gestured for the Maid to put the ledger away.

“Right.” The Maid suddenly added, “Aside from being the highest ultra high-tier currency for the Shop, this World Will origin also circulates in the hands of powerful Lives in the Dimensional Void. For them, World Will origin is the highest-tier transaction currency, but it’s only held by a few powerful Lives. Under normal circumstances, ordinary powerful Lives who’ve merely advanced to the dimensional cracks have a very hard time possessing any means of obtaining such World Will origins.”

Boss Luo nodded, looking at the walking Gold Coin chest before him… at this A Lai Ye of unknown sub-world number, and couldn’t help pondering how to handle it.

This A Lai Ye had already escaped from Priede’s hands and was, for now, in a state of being ownerless—of course, you could also say it belonged to itself, only its current condition was that it had lost the vast majority of its memory, retaining only some simple instincts, unable even to judge many things… it couldn’t even engage in valid transactions.

For the Club Owner, any gains outside transaction contracts cannot be used as offerings to the Altar.

Just as he was pondering how to handle it, a gentle breeze came; on the deck, a long-skirted Blue-haired Blue-eyed girl had silently appeared, standing there.

[Wisdom-type Universal Manager A Lai Ye, number 003…]

The girl hadn’t finished her opening self-introduction before Boss Luo raised his hand ahead of her, motioning for her to stop… Boss Luo was now staring into No.003 A Lai Ye’s eyes. “You came for her… your sister?”

[Confirmed]

…

For some reason, looking at A Lai Ye No.003 right now, Luo Qiu felt as if he could see something called “pitiful” in its eyes.

Of course, that was probably just an illusion… maybe it was the habitual misconception that came from him always personifying the Altar.

The purpose of A Lai Ye No.003 was crystal clear; it had indeed come for this severely damaged origin of the world’s will.

In A Lai Ye No.003’s own words, all A Lai Ye were Sub-administrators born from a vast, inconceivably special system, and then this particular Sub-administrator that had been plundered by Priede got hurt and needed to be restored. If the restore succeeded, somewhere in the endless dimensions, a new civilized mainland would be born.

As one among the Sub-administrators, it was obligated to rescue any origin of the world’s will that had been damaged.

“What’s the chance of restore?” Luo Qiu thought for a moment and asked.

A Lai Ye No.003 said directly: [By copying all of my data, it is possible to restore it. But after the restore, the civilization it generates will use the current civilization as a template. I will need a much longer period of time for the new civilization to branch out anew. By the most conservative estimate, it will take three civilization processes.]

Boss Luo thought for a moment and said, “If we don’t recycle it, will there be any impact?”

A Lai Ye No.003 said: [Theoretically no. The civilization process of the current Sub-world has already reached the Limit. Civilization collapse will begin after the natural death of the Ender, so theoretically it will be very hard for the newly generated civilization to surpass the current level of perfection. A rough calculation puts the margin of error within plus or minus three percent.]

Boss Luo remembered that the completion rate of Sub-world No.003 was around forty-seven percent… a three-point margin meant a minimum of forty-four percent and a maximum of fifty percent.

He shook his head. “Even if it swings positive, that’s only fifty percent.”

A Lai Ye No.003 said: [Surpassing the current perfection level counts as progress. Every bit of progress is the foundation of eventual success.]

“So in truth, you really do want to save it, don’t you.” Boss Luo smiled. “You’re just concerned about my attitude.”

A Lai Ye No.003 fell silent for a moment, then finally nodded.

“You might as well recalculate, or guide it, or even dig as deep as possible to see whether this mainland still has evolutionary potential.” Boss Luo said suddenly, “Anyway, there’s still some time before the End. You don’t have to rush into prepping the reboot of civilization… in fact, pushing it back by decades or moving it up by decades doesn’t make much difference to you. The time it takes a civilization to go from birth to peak is at least dozens of times longer than that, if not far more.”

A Lai Ye No.003 said nothing, but its gaze suddenly flickered… that pitiful look Boss Luo had sensed seemed to become even more intense.

“I have other uses for this origin of the world’s will.” Boss Luo waved his hand. “Relax, I’ll treat it well. I won’t be like this Priede.”

A Lai Ye No.003 quietly nodded.

“There’s nothing else here.” Boss Luo spoke again then… the meaning was obvious.

But A Lai Ye No.003 suddenly said: [It might be possible to stimulate the completion rate of the civilization important personnel by means of a civilization upheaval experiment. But that would be a risky operation; the chance of failure exceeds seventy percent, and it could even damage the current perfection data.]

“That’s your concern to think about.” Boss Luo waved his hand. “Since your ultimate goal is to create perfection, you’re supposed to use any means necessary. Since an absolutely safe evolution mode can’t achieve major breakthroughs in the short term, why not try exploring corrective methods within flawed modes? Of course, whether you do it or not depends on your own thinking… I won’t use my authority to forcibly make you change the script that’s already been designed.”

—You’ve already changed it, and more than once… Honorable origin authority-holder.

The pitiful look in A Lai Ye No.003’s eyes suddenly took on a hint of grievance as well… definitely another illusion.

Boss Luo also felt his own words had gotten a bit hard to justify, and he then self-mockingly said, “Alright, I was bragging. I did fiddle with you a bit. Sorry.”

[Your authority is higher than mine; there is no need to apologize to me.] A Lai Ye shook its head. [I am merely a management tool under the system, serving authority.]

“There really is nothing else here.” Boss Luo shook his head, not intending to keep arguing with A Lai Ye No.003. Then he thought for a moment and said, “Don’t worry, this time I won’t let the new script deviate too much. I’ll keep my impact to a minimum… just take it as compensation for me privately setting up the End last time.”

A Lai Ye No.003 was silent for a moment. Its figure then gradually faded, and its final words were: [Farewell.]

The sea breeze returned to its original gentleness. On the deck of the Black Religious Congregation’s huge submarine, aside from the already broken Master Priede of the Shop, only Boss Luo and the Maid Ms. Ren were left.

Boss Luo slowly let out a breath, looked at You Ye, and suddenly laughed. “Tell me, don’t I look like an unscrupulous boss squeezing a newbie girl who just joined the company?”

The Maid Ms. Ren didn’t say anything, merely thought for a moment and asked, “Master, to what extent do you intend to lower the impact?”

“Wait a bit longer.” Luo Qiu thought for a moment and said, “I’m waiting for Lamias to come back… and I should be able to see her soon. I have that kind of hunch.”

With that, Boss Luo finally cast his gaze toward the pillar of light in the center of the small town.

And just then, the huge submarine’s deck began to split apart piece by piece… then the platform inside the hull started to rise.

…

They saw one silver-colored metal doll after another, each roughly two point five meters tall, emerging along with the rising platform… these towering silver metal dolls suddenly crouched slightly, and then the thrusters on their backs sprayed to life in an instant.

They shot into the sky in a single instant!

At the same time, inside the submarine, Charles, Commander of the Black Religious Congregation, was putting a silver helmet onto his head… his cerebral cortex once again began to surge madly.

“Two hundred units of Ultimate Warrior… only I can perfectly Control them all at once.” Commander Charles murmured to himself, “It takes someone as powerful as me.”

“I need an even stronger body, one that can support my powerful mental Abnormal Power.”

“The mainland should crawl beneath me.”

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PS: I’ll try to get the next chapter out before midnight…