Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 395 - 50: The Inside Story of the Three Gods, Blue Star’s Affairs

The Cosmic Game: an evolutionary game from a mysterious civilization.

No one knows its specific purpose.

However, judging from the experiences of Cangxing’s many Players, the game’s ostensible purpose is actually quite simple.

Namely, to spread faith in great beings across all the worlds and civilizations within the game.

The God of All Machines, the Mother of All Things, and the God of Thousand Faces.

These are the three greatest Deities within the Cosmic Game.

Of course, in Hasting Cole’s view, spreading faith was just one of the Cosmic Game’s many purposes.

This was clear from the game’s progression.

The Cosmic Game usually expanded by attacking or tempting other civilizations into its territory.

However, at times, the game’s content also included civil wars.

What this ’civil war’ entailed was also easy to understand.

It simply meant that the factions of the three great Deities within the Cosmic Game would occasionally erupt into conflict.

For instance, if one had to assign an allegiance to Cangxing, it undoubtedly belonged to the God of All Machines’ faction.

The Sinful God that Cheng Hua had become was a Subordinate God directly under the God of All Machines.

If a civil war ever broke out in the Cosmic Game,

Cheng Hua, along with all the other Players from Cangxing, would have to fight as Warriors for the God of All Machines, slaughtering Players from the other two divine factions.

From this perspective, the relationship between the Three Gods in the Cosmic Game was not as harmonious or simple as it appeared on the surface.

Of course, Hasting Cole also suspected that this so-called factional slaughter could be entirely for the amusement of the Three Gods.

After all, Deities had an abundance of time; it wasn’t impossible that they started these conflicts out of sheer boredom.

He also couldn’t rule out the suspicion that this was all a form of ’Cultivating Gu’.

But whatever the reason, as members of the Cosmic Game’s domain, the humans of Cangxing had no choice.

The two of them talked for a long time on the empty floor.

And the more Cheng Hua learned, the more shocked he became.

He even felt a creeping dread in the pit of his stomach.

Because, compared to the True Game, the current Cosmic Game was on a much grander scale.

In Cangxing’s more than one hundred years of history with the game, Hasting Cole alone knew of at least thirty civilizations that Players had encountered.

Among those, Cangxing’s Players had the ’fortune’ to encounter or learn of eighteen civilizations that were completely annihilated by the Cosmic Game—entire planets wiped from existence.

This highlighted just how fortunate Cangxing had been to be selected as a "Cosmic Game marketing hub" planet during the game’s expansion.

On this topic, the person Hasting Cole mentioned most in his conversation with Cheng Hua was a man known as the Great Shepherd.

Because of the Great Shepherd, Cangxing’s original civilization had collapsed.

But in exchange, at the very moment the Cosmic Game officially expanded to their world, Cangxing was able to preserve its Eco-Cities and even gain the privilege of becoming a marketing hub planet.

Life on a marketing hub planet was not necessarily ideal.

But at least Cangxing had not descended into total chaos, nor had it been completely "harvested" by the Cosmic Game.

In fact, on planets that became marketing hubs, the rulers of the Eco-Cities, people like him, received unimaginable benefits.

Cheng Hua was finally beginning to understand why the rules of the True Game had been unable to achieve their Descent in this world.

Setting aside the question of whether the True Game’s Power could even compare to that of the Cosmic Game,

judging by what the Cosmic Game had revealed, any confidence Cheng Hua previously held in the True Game had now completely crumbled.

Forget everything else.

The so-called God of All Machines alone could create a Sinful God with such ease.

’Could such a being be weak?’

’The Chief of the True Game, the Dragon God, is undeniably strong, but can the Dragon Race who serve as his Vassals achieve Ascension to Divinity so easily?’

Obviously not.

But Cheng Hua also knew that different Deities wielded different authorities.

A powerful Ability to create subordinates did not necessarily translate to immense combat strength.

But no matter how you looked at it, the fundamental power of a being like the God of All Machines had to be countless times greater than that of an ordinary Deity.

And that wasn’t even mentioning the two other beings in this game who were at least on the same level of existence.

He recalled the mission prompt from the True Game.

’Just... stay alive?’

When their conversation paused, Cheng Hua fell completely silent.

However, Hasting Cole seemed to notice Cheng Hua’s heavy mood.

He immediately offered some words of comfort.

"Feeling the pressure now that you know all this about the Cosmic Game, are you?"

"But you needn’t worry so much, Mr. Cheng Hua."

"After all, you are the first ’Divine Son’ on Cangxing to earn the favor of the God of All Machines during your very first contact with the Cosmic Game."

"With the Power of a Divine Son and the favor of the God of All Machines, your progress in the game will undoubtedly be countless times better than others."

Cheng Hua looked directly at Hasting Cole and nodded.

"I hope so."

Seeing Cheng Hua’s response, a glint appeared in Hasting Cole’s eyes as he smiled again.

"It most certainly will."

"By the way, Mr. Cheng Hua, since we’ve come this far, I’ll stop beating around the bush."

"I would like to invite you to become the honorary vice president of Giant Technology. Would you be interested?"

Cheng Hua frowned, looking Hasting Cole straight in the eye.

"Honorary Vice President?"

"That position should come with a great deal of authority in the Eco-City, correct? So what’s the price?"

Hasting Cole smiled and waved his hand dismissively.

"Authority within the Eco-City is nothing special."

"For a man like you, Mr. Cheng Hua, a small world like Cangxing is hardly enough to contain you."

"This is really just a small proposal on my part."