Hermes: "Taichi, send up the information you've gathered."
Hermes: "Especially the information regarding the Instances."
Intense interest was revealed in Hermes' eyes.
The Myriad Worlds always managed to produce unique things that surprised him.
Now.
The thing Yagami Taichi encountered seemed quite interesting, didn't it?
Yagami Taichi: "According to the information I've gathered, this world was originally just an unremarkable 21st-century parallel Earth world."
Yagami Taichi: "The anomaly occurred ten years ago."
Yagami Taichi: "That was the era later known as the Instance Descent Era. Countless works that were originally just history, unofficial histories, legends, myths, and even some extremely classic and highly-acclaimed creations, all transformed into Instances, descending upon the real world."
Lumine: "Instances descending upon reality? This setting sounds very familiar!"
Lumine: "I recall there's an anime world setting called [Re:CREATORS] that seems quite similar to what Taichi described?"
Hermes: "It is indeed somewhat similar, both featuring the concept of pulling the illusory into reality."
After a brief thought, he realized that it wasn't just that; it was also somewhat similar to the power of the rat talisman that Lü Dongbin possessed.
And the Remembrance Path.
Hermes suspected that Remembrance · Fuli might also be able to accomplish this.
Yagami Taichi: "I don't know the situation regarding the anime world setting the Admin mentioned."
Yagami Taichi: "But the existence of Instances is truly miraculous!"
Yagami Taichi: "And before an Instance merges with reality, if a [Player] can clear these Instances in advance, they not only gain great benefits, but the merging of the Instance and reality can also avoid a violent conflict between them."
Yagami Taichi: "If the Instance cannot be cleared, the consequences are naturally catastrophic!"
The members of the Chat Group quietly looked at the information Yagami Taichi sent, each falling into deep contemplation.
This world... is very interesting!
Of course, whether it was catastrophic or not, most of the group members didn't actually care much.
Even Yagami Taichi only showed concern because the situation might affect Yagami Hikari.
The key point was the reward for clearing the Instances!
It lived up to Yagami Taichi's description of the rewards being extremely generous.
The most fundamental and important reward was an item named the source of instances.
It was a universal energy source; strengthening the body, healing injuries, compensating for deficiencies, and raising skill levels were its most basic uses.
The most crucial use of the source of instances was its method for increasing [Rank] levels!
According to information extracted by WarGreymon from some extremely secretive websites, [Rank] represented your [Position] in this world.
When [Rank] broke the boundary between the [Mortal] and the [Divine], it meant that the individual naturally transformed into a deity!
Of course, the rewards for clearing the Instances did not stop there.
Substantial rewards, such as knowledge, skills, and equipment... all treasures existing within the Instances could potentially be given as rewards to the [Players].
Besides these, there was also an extremely rare and important reward—legend!
When a player achieved unparalleled great deeds in an Instance, these deeds would transform into legend.
The preciousness of this legend had an unparalleled effect.
Because.
If you wanted to use the source of instances to increase your own [Rank], there were no other prerequisites initially, but once you reached a certain level, corresponding legend requirements would appear.
If your legend was insufficient, even if you poured in massive amounts of the source of instances, you would be firmly stuck at that boundary.
The most typical examples were the three watersheds: Transcendent, Legendary, and Mythical.
If you wanted to be promoted to a world-recognized [Transcendent], you needed at least 1 point of legend.
Of course, even if you didn't have legend, it wouldn't prevent you from improving your strength.
However, the corresponding benefits would not be available to you.
For instance, Instances would unlock unique permissions for certified [Transcendent] players, such as the ability to insert an Instance identity.
Furthermore, without the [Transcendent] certification, the world would not grant you life level advancement, world favor, or foundational potential... none of these would be available!
In other words, a so-called Transcendent without certification was a 'whiteboard' Transcendent.
In contrast, other certified [Transcendent] individuals would have [Rare], [Elite], [Legendary], and [BOSS] templates applied to them!
It was universally acknowledged that a 'whiteboard' Transcendent could never possess the potential to advance to [Legendary], let alone [Mythical].
This predicament of severed advancement wasn't because the world restricted your progress, but because... you fundamentally lacked the potential!
If you don't even have the potential, how could you advance?
Everyone was a weak, useless person living in the 21st century; they didn't have so-called Transcendent potential within them, nor did they have an amazing ancestor who left them an inheritance... The environment everyone lived in before was just a purely physical world devoid of magic.
At the very beginning of your gestation and birth, the possibility of you walking the Transcendent Path was never considered.
In this situation, the fact that you could advance to Transcendent due to the Instances was already thanks to abundant resources. If you want to advance further?
Think for yourself, do you have the innate conditions for that?
And the function of legend did not end there.
For example, if a player achieved a certain feat in an Instance, such as becoming the emperor of a nation, and they wished to remain the emperor of that nation after the Instance merged with reality, the requirements for legend were extremely strict.
If you only became emperor through a trick, such as plotting a usurpation.
If you didn't fight your way through with blade and gun, creating legends and being worshipped by countless subjects who viewed you as the legitimate ruler... in this case, even if you became emperor, you would not gain legend.
Without legend, you couldn't expend the source of instances to solidify the [Emperor] identity.
Once this Instance completely descended upon reality, your emperor identity would naturally vanish, and the subsequent events of this Instance would have no relation whatsoever to you, the former [Emperor]!
Hermes fell into contemplation.
Yagami Taichi's information gave him a great surprise.
It seemed that this so-called source of instances was very similar to his philosophers stone, being maximized in terms of versatility.
But Hermes could keenly sense the difference between the two.
The philosophers stone seemed far less versatile than the source of instances.
At the very least, Hermes' philosophers stone couldn't instantly raise his physical strength just by slapping it.
Nor could it directly increase his skill level.
And it certainly couldn't explicitly raise his own [Rank]!
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