Life Game In Other World
Chapter 492: The 8th Official Task Settlement (Vote for Monthly Tickets on This Major - )

Chapter 492: Chapter 492: The 8th Official Task Settlement (Vote for Monthly Tickets on This Major Chapter)

[The "King of Nightfall" character card is cooling down (Cooldown time remaining: 1 Copy World)]

He Ao’s gaze retracted from the grayed-out character card.

He vaguely remembered that during the Copy World, after using the King of Nightfall, he could continue to use it, but the cost for the second use had become two Exchange Stars.

However, after the Copy World ended, the character card entered a cooldown state where it couldn’t be used.

A cooldown time of "1 Copy World" means that I can’t use this card in the next Copy World?

Does this imply that the system’s ability to "revive" past characters cannot be frequently employed?

Since the actual time each Copy World takes isn’t long, could all uses of the same character card within one Copy World be considered as one?

And the time between two Copy Worlds is already long enough, so they can’t be combined.

From this viewpoint, the cooldown time for the character cards seems more like a usage limit, a restriction on high-frequency use.

When an ability or item has an unusable cooldown period, there are often two possible reasons:

The first is an internal reason, such as needing to recharge, during which period it can’t be used – this is not tenable.

The second is an external reason, such as being constrained by some rules or external forces, during that time "it cannot be done".

He Ao first thought that the cooldown time of the character card was unlikely to be due to internal reasons such as requiring a recharge because this doesn’t explain why, within a Copy World, it is possible to use the character cards multiple times without cooldown, of course, this possibility can’t be dismissed either.

However, He Ao tended more towards the cooldown of the character cards being due to external reasons.

The soul is a sensitive matter; a person repeatedly "dying and coming back to life", doing sit-ups in a coffin, might persuade the people around, but what about those entities that are not "people"?

The Copy World is filled with all kinds of strange beings, and it is not beyond possibility that some could perceive these fluctuations in the souls.

Using the character card multiple times within the same Copy World might be because the impact has already been made, and the effect of doing it once or many times in the short term is the same.

A drop of black ink in a mixture of colorful inks, adding more ink within this doesn’t make much difference.

But if there’s a long enough time between, the new drop of ink falls to an adjacent spot. Amidst the colorful chaos, two adjacent black entities are easily noticed.

Therefore, it’s necessary to extend the time further, separate the drops of ink, blend them with other colors, which then become harder to detect.

Yet, these are just He Ao’s current speculations. He has too few character cards, and too few instances of using them; the margin for error in his guesses is still too large.

He also realizes that with the upgrade of his game permissions, new functions that the system has opened may have started to connect with some higher-level matters.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart for the moment, He Ao’s eyes linger on the character card interface.

The character card interface retained its original appearance, with a background of card silhouettes facing away from He Ao in the distance, while several huge character cards were lined up closer to him.

From left to right, the first was Joey’s [Primeval Flame], the second was Vian’s [King of Nightfall], and the third was Nell’s [Usurper].

He Ao’s gaze moved to the end.

There, the fourth card had appeared, a card with its back facing He Ao.

He Ao did not access the character card interface to check the status of the [King of Nightfall] card but to confirm something.

At the end of this Copy World, Pete’s body had actually collapsed under the strain of the Strengthening Potion and Night Walk; it was only He Ao’s use of the Life Elixir that barely kept him alive.

Once the mission ended and He Ao left, Pete’s body would definitely not remain intact and would most likely disintegrate immediately.

Therefore, it was not possible for Pete to be kept alive in a cultivation tank by Roger, like Vian.

But in a world where Divine Beings and Transcendent powers exist, nothing is absolute.

As he watched, the card that was facing away from him slowly turned around.

The backdrop of this card was a pure white space, a branch laden with green leaves stretched from beyond the background into the space, occupying the top third of the scene.

Below this branch, there floated a figure shrouded in a faint white glow.

He Ao turned his attention to the annotation below.

[Saint]

It was somewhat unexpected, yet it also lay within the realm of possibilities that He Ao had anticipated.

The trade with the Life Goddess did not include this item.

He summoned the Life Goddess to Limen City, offering the Fountain of Youth in exchange for the Life Goddess’s support in establishing a medical college for the Nolanka Group.

Aside from the medical consortium, the only other place in the Federation with a significant number of top doctors was the Life Goddess Church, so cooperating with the Life Goddess Church was the best choice when it was not possible to acquire top doctors through normal channels.

The content of the trade did not include proselytizing, at least the Life Goddess Church could not preach publicly.

Making a deal with an Evil God was inherently a very dangerous matter. Utilizing Eve, He Ao collected many data concerning the Life Goddess, and from that information, the Life Goddess seemed to be a Divine Being that tended to abide by "sacred contracts".

And compared to the God of Knowledge and the God of Chaos, the Life Goddess was somewhat more "gentle".

The mission of the Life Goddess Church was to continuously sow life, hence there was no record of the Life Goddess Church causing any particularly great disasters.

Of course, to say that the Life Goddess was a "good deity" would be somewhat idealistic.

If it weren’t for the fact that He Ao made an agreement with the Life Goddess not to harm the residents of Limen City, and the Fountain of Youth indeed had a substantial capacity, He Ao thought that the Life Goddess wouldn’t mind randomly taking away some "lucky ones" and draining them dry.

Working with an Evil God was essentially dealing with the devil, but in such an environment, it was necessary to utilize some unorthodox forces to break the current stalemate.

He Ao also retained some means to restrain the Life Goddess Church.

His gaze once again focused on that [Saint] card.

This card was not part of his trade with the Life Goddess; it seemed like the Life Goddess had used some method to maintain Pete’s state of life, even going so far as to transform Pete into some sort of "follower".

But regardless of the situation, the trouble behind this card was no less than the one with Nell’s [Usurper], because using this card would inevitably create some strong connection with the Life Goddess.

The close scrutiny of a Divine Being aligned with life was not easy to endure.

Judging from the tainted murmurs that entered He Ao’s mind during the sacrifice ritual, the contamination carried by the Life Goddess would not be mild.

This card was currently beyond He Ao’s capacity to handle.

And as He Ao expected, this card was also gray, like the [Usurper], and he could not exchange it yet.

However, this card made He Ao think of some other things. Since Pete could survive in the form of a ’Saint’, did that mean the other ’Saints’ of the Life Goddess Church were also ’alive’ in some way?

If the followers of the Life Goddess were like this, what about the followers of other Divine Beings?

Now was not the time to contemplate this.

Shaking his head, He Ao dispelled the doubts in his mind and closed the character card interface.

He didn’t have a single Exchange Star right now, so looking was futile.

As the character card interface closed, some text began to appear within He Ao’s view.

[Task evaluation is being calculated...]

This was the first task settlement after the evaluation system upgrade.

He Ao was still curious about it.

After all, he had already experienced the other two changes from the system upgrade: ’increased task difficulty’ and ’character card function’.

Only the upgrade to the evaluation system had not yet been experienced. The grade for this task evaluation had also changed from ’S’ to star levels.

The words in his vision quickly changed,

[Main quest evaluation is being settled...]

[Main quest evaluation: ★★★☆]

[Congratulations on completing the main quest]

[Other task evaluations will be settled soon, please wait...]

Three and a half stars for the main quest evaluation.

`This star rating system seems to roughly correspond to the previous speculation that an S is equivalent to one star.

Does three and a half stars equate to the previous SSS+?

However, He Ao keenly noticed that the current evaluation rule of the system first assesses the main tasks, and only after their completion, does it continue to evaluate other tasks.

Is the completion of the main task standard of three stars indicative that, if the main task fails or scores below three stars, the subsequent process is forfeited?

And there would be no rewards?

The system had implied during a previous upgrade that if a task is not completed but survival is ensured, there will be no task rewards.

What then are the evaluation rules for main tasks?

The previous main tasks increased their rating based on the difficulty He Ao faced and the impact achieved; is it the same now?

However, practically speaking, the task reward this time is higher than the last one.

...

As He Ao pondered, he continued to watch as the text in his field of vision changed.

[Evaluating your side task ratings...]

[Side Task Rating: ★★★☆]

Three and a half stars for the side tasks as well.

If looking at the previous standards for side task ratings, side tasks are about the impact caused to opposing forces.

An SSS rating used to imply an impact effective across the entire Federation.

This time the opposing force was likely Stars Pharma, with an impact that probably spanned the entire Federation, though there might have been additional factors contributing to that half-star increase in the rating.

[Evaluating your hidden task rating...]

[Hidden Task Rating: ★★★★★]

Hmm?

[Creating your comprehensive evaluation interface, please wait.]

A pale purple box appeared in He Ao’s field of vision.

[Main Task Rating:

You have excellently completed a difficult and formidable main task. Your sharp investigation uncovered the truth behind the Fountain of Youth, and ingeniously you used the power of its enemies to destroy it.

You employed masterful tactics to diffuse a crisis capable of devastating a city, ensuring that a metropolis with a population of millions was spared from a great disaster, without a single fatality.

Your wisdom is astounding, your courage commands respect, and your kindness is praised by all.]

[Main Task Rating: ★★★☆]

[Main Task Rewards Exchange Star: ★]

[Side Task Rating:

In this task, you encountered the opposition of a top ten Federation conglomerate, with pressure from Stars Pharma creating obstacles at every turn.

However, you successfully leveraged the needs of various forces to find a breakthrough in a perilous situation, dealing a significant blow to the centuries-old Stars Pharma conglomerate.

In the turmoil you orchestrated, you skillfully seized the opportunity to establish the only medical college in nearly two hundred years to be recognized by multiple cities, securing its capacity for continuous operation.

Your name will be carried into the history of the Federation with this school, and your ideals will mark the lives of these students.]

[Side Task Rating: ★★★☆]

[Side Task Rewards Exchange Star: ★]

[Hidden Task Rating:

You fulfilled a father’s most straightforward and sincere wish.

You altered the destiny your child was born into.

You also changed the destinies that many children were born into.

The fledglings now have their own sky.]

[Hidden Task Rating: ★★★★★]

[Hidden Task Rewards Exchange Star: ★★]

[Your Composite Task Rating: ★★★☆]

[Your Composite Task Rewards Exchange Stars: ★★★★]

He Ao’s gaze lingered on the hidden task rating.

Five stars, the highest rating.

Although it makes sense for a hidden task to have a high rating, this instant maxing out seemed a bit too much.

The evaluation’s wording is simple, but refined. The first two sentences summarize Pete’s wish: to change Ennie’s destiny.

Without He Ao, Ennie would probably have dropped out of high school to look for a job as a waitress in a fast-food restaurant or as a cleaner in a cheap hotel that couldn’t afford a full set of cleaning robots.

These jobs are mostly temporary, paid by the hour, allowing employers to reduce the expense of purchasing corporate health insurance for their employees.

These jobs are exhausting and poorly paid, often requiring two or three jobs just to pay rent and sustain oneself.

In such high-intensity work, it is impossible not to develop health issues.

And without medical insurance, or only possessing the cheapest medical insurance, these illnesses are enough for medical conglomerates to take away all of Ennie’s savings, or even to burden her with crippling debt.

Of course, Ennie no longer has to face such a fate.

However, He Ao felt that just for this, the rating wouldn’t directly jump to five stars; four stars would already be good.

What likely granted the hidden task such a high rating was the final phrase, ’changed the destinies that many children were born into.’

Has He Ao changed the destinies of some people? Yes, in Kaye City, in Rock City, even in Dawn City.

But these were not accomplished by He Ao alone in this instance; they are the result of multiple tasks accumulated over time.

So, the system is actually starting to partially settle the rewards for this cumulative impact?

He Ao pushed down the thoughts welling up in his mind.

The data he currently had was still too sparse.

Moreover, as this cumulative impact builds, it could influence not just hidden tasks, but possibly main and side tasks as well.

He Ao looked up, scanning over the evaluation of the side task.

Through this evaluation, he roughly understood that the additional half-star awarded in the side task rating was likely contributed by Qiming Medical College.

The three and a half stars for the main task were probably the combined result of difficulty and impact.

The system’s assessments were previously divided into four parts, with the main task evaluated in two separate aspects.

But now the total evaluation only had three parts, with the two aspects of the main task evaluation merged into one.

Even though the main task’s two parts were merged, it is likely that the weight accorded to it remains high.

According to the principle of equal distribution, three and a half stars for the main task, three and a half stars for the side task, five stars for the hidden task.

If everyone’s task evaluations carried equal weight, then the overall rating should be four stars, but the actual comprehensive rating was three and a half stars.

This indicates that the task with the lower rating carries a higher weight, which is most likely the main task.

However, although the comprehensive evaluation was only three and a half stars, the system awarded four Exchange Stars. The relationship between the overall task evaluation and Exchange Stars differs from He Ao’s prior assumptions; the Exchange Stars are actually based on each task’s individual context.

After analyzing all the task situations, the text in He Ao’s field of vision changed once more.

[Calculating your task rewards]