The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 369 - 258: Endurance King

Chapter 369: Chapter 258: Endurance King

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"A year ago, we first came into contact with Supernatural Power during a case of missing children, one involving a child who disappeared into thin air after eating a piece of chocolate. His parents witnessed the event with their own eyes, and the home surveillance captured the entire process clearly.

In the face of irrefutable evidence, the FBI’s top brass acted swiftly, secretly establishing a special task force to deeply investigate all factors within the incident and to study this kind of Supernatural Power.

The piece of chocolate naturally became an object of research, except at first the researchers didn’t detect anything abnormal about the chocolate, and various tests showed it was a regular, commonplace piece of chocolate.

It was not until researchers fed a small piece of chocolate to a lab rat that the supernatural phenomenon occurred again, causing the petite rodent to vanish instantly.

Having confirmed that the supernatural event was triggered by the chocolate, the task force extensively collected the same brand of chocolate for research and began investigating the manufacturer of the chocolate, but encountered significant trouble.

They searched the entire world and could not find this so-called Reagan Food Processing, yet the snack products from this company were amply available on the shelves of many shopping malls and supermarkets across the America Continent, and there was a wide variety.

Faced with questioning, supermarket staffs uniformly showed confusion and bewilderment, without exception stating that they had never heard of Reagan Food Processing, nor had they ever stocked their products.

When agents brought the staff to the shelves and pointed out the Reagan-branded snacks to them, their emotions turned to shock, perplexity, and disbelief, insisting that they clearly remembered the shelves being stocked with well-known snacks—evidence that could be found in the purchase records, or viewed in the surveillance footage.

Therefore, the agents began to review the store’s surveillance videos. As the staff said, at first, the shelves were stocked with normal snacks; but as soon as the staff turned away, those items immediately changed to Reagan-branded snacks, and the staff seemed oblivious to the change, not sensing anything amiss.

Clearly, their perception had been interfered with... no, to be precise, the perception of all of us had been interfered with.

This supernatural incident had such a vast reach that the FBI knew they could not resolve it on their own and prepared to report the matter to the President. It was at this time that Colonel Edward appeared before us, explaining everything."

"In fact, the invasion by Reagan snacks occurred even earlier than we had imagined, and the affected area was not just the America Continent but all around the world, with the number of missing persons so large it was incalculable.

We were constantly being interfered with by abnormal forces in our perception, never noticing this situation; even if someone disappeared in front of a crowd, others would ignore it due to disrupted cognition.

It wasn’t until an abnormal item’s effect from a battle between the Two Realms United Group and the factory spilled into our world that stripped away the cognitive interference carried by the snacks that we were able to ’wake up’ and for the first time notice the abnormal events triggered by the snacks.

That brief convergence of worlds left behind a Shuttle Array from the Two Realms United Group in our world. Later, after discussion by the higher-ups of the Alliance, they decided to inform us of the truth, to unite all the forces that could be united to resist the factory, and so Colonel Edward was dispatched to make contact.

In this way, our world joined the Alliance, and the Two Realms United Group became the Three Realms United Group."

The officer from the "Third Realm" finished his narrative.

Zhou Yuan nodded faintly, now understanding everything.

The Three Realms United Group is an alliance formed by three parallel worlds, all of which had experienced factory invasions; the "Third Realm" was the one most deeply eroded, and it didn’t have Supernatural Power indigenously. Without external assistance, the entire world would sooner or later be consumed by the factory.

The First Realm and the Second Realm possessed Supernatural Power, with native Supernatural Organizations, and thus became aware of the factory’s invasion. The First Realm, whose Combat Power was off the charts, managed to follow the medium all the way to the factory’s doorstep and utilized the factory’s travel capabilities to reach the Second and Third Realms, uniting to fight the factory together.

As for the Transcendent Power mastered by the Three Realms Alliance, it primarily revolved around talismans, Magic, and rituals; powerful individual beings were extremely rare, considered nothing short of a phoenix feather or a unicorn horn.

Their style of war involved affixing talismans to tanks, bombers, missiles, and bullets, inscribing them with rituals, and enchanting them, to make them extraordinary weapons of lethal force that ordinary people could operate, with killing feats against Rank 5 extraordinary persons proving the depth of their mastery in this technique.

Even by today’s standards, it was an excellent system of power, though with a bit of a low ceiling, but it could prove very effective in warfare.

"Mr. Zhou Yuan, how do you intend to deal with this factory?" asked the spokesperson for the legions at this time.

"Destroy it," Zhou Yuan answered without hesitation.

After some contemplation, the spokesperson said, "To destroy it directly seems too much of a waste; the travel abilities this factory possesses should also be extremely precious in this world, shouldn’t they?"

"Oh?" Zhou Yuan looked at him with a meaningful expression, "The Three Realms Alliance might as well speak frankly."

"Cough... The truth is, our presence here is all thanks to having stolen the factory’s travel ability. If the factory is destroyed, we will no longer be able to travel across planes, which is not the outcome we want to see."

The Three Realms Alliance was well aware that their world was but a mere corner of a much broader universe, and they did not want to give up this rare opportunity.

"Mr. Zhou Yuan, may we sit down and talk?"

The posture of the spokesperson lowered a bit, knowing full well the strength of Zhou Yuan was plain for all to see; if he wished to destroy the factory, the Three Realms United Group would not be able to stop him.

Zhou Yuan had been waiting for just this proposal, yet he still maintained his authoritative demeanor, calmly saying, "That depends on whether you can offer conditions compelling enough for me."

He had already made up his mind to develop religion in these three worlds; with the assistance of the local officials, it would certainly be much more convenient.

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Three hours later.

After a friendly discussion, both parties signed a contract.

Zhou Yuan divided three Divine Power incarnations to enter the three worlds and spread the religious faith, and the official governments agreed to help him perform miracles in front of the people, making him a true god walking upon the earth.

And the only one at that!

These worlds were devoid of gods; even the First Realm, with the highest Combat Power, had only a handful of Middle Rank extraordinary persons, whose means were utterly incomparable to Zhou Yuan, who had become a Divine Creature.

The mere ability to grant regeneration of severed limbs was enough for him to attain Divine Enthronement.

When the time came, ascending to divinity through faith was merely a matter of time.

As part of the exchange, Zhou Yuan was to leave the factory behind, enabling the Three Realms United Group to retain the ability to travel between planes.

This was an utterly disproportionate contract, but there was no helping it, given that Zhou Yuan held control over the factory.

Once everything was ready, Zhou Yuan split himself into three avatars of Divine Power, accompanying the armies of the Three Realms United Group back to their respective worlds.

What followed was a period of waiting for development.

Suddenly, Zhou Yuan had a thought, and the next second, the Soul Chasing Life Stealing Sword sliced through the void and returned, quietly circling around him.

Reagan had been utterly killed.

"Fang Qing couldn’t help but become a bit odd herself, "Chased him for over three hours to finish him off? Hats off to the legendary endurance king."

Zhou Yuan paid no mind; he was exerting all his effort to relocate the factory to the Dark Plane. Thankfully, he had Divine Power to assist him, or else it simply wouldn’t fit.

With the disappearance of the factory, the area of the Spirit World became a void and Zhou Yuan didn’t linger, immediately leaving with Fang Qing.

Not long after, numerous figures appeared in the Spirit World, attracted by the factory workers who had fled. They were there for a spectacle, but unfortunately, the event was already over.

Half an hour later, a news story titled "Mass Poisoning by the Holy Crow Church" had gone viral, with dozens of victims emotionally denouncing the despicable deeds of the Holy Crow Church, sparking widespread online discussion.

The Holy Crow Church responded promptly, stating that the incident was not the work of their personnel, urging not to throw all the dirt on them, and claiming that the truth was actually like this...

—Zhou Yuan had long used his Divine Power Mark to contact the Holy Crow Church to take in the workers who had fled the factory, considering that a significant number of them were ordinary people who would definitely be dead after spending time in the Spirit World.

With these witnesses, the evil facade of Reagan Food Processing Factory was thoroughly unveiled, and the situation instantly flipped. The party responsible for the poisoning was hailed as a "hero who, despite his crude methods, had saved countless lives," and the Holy Crow Church’s reputation got a boost as well.

The accusers posting complaints online were exposed as international fugitives with notorious records, leading to a barrage of criticism from netizens.

As the mastermind behind the incident, Zhou Yuan was completely unaware of this. He was in the process of renovating the factory.

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[Quest "Evil Factory" completed]

[Quest Evaluation: S (Experience and Star Coin rewards increased to 150%)]

[Comment: A perfect Wallace moment, goodbye, all jet fighters!]

[Quest Reward 1: Experience Points *22500]

[Quest Reward 2: Star Coins *525000]

[Quest Reward 3: Random Quality Item Chest *1]

[LV64→LV70!]

[Experience: 3450/3500]

[Allocatable Attribute Points: 6]

"Six levels at once, feels awesome."

Zhou Yuan immediately rubbed his hands together, time to open the chest!

This time it was a random quality item chest; let’s see if his luck was in!

A flash of light.

[Name: Twenty-sided Dice]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Effect: The dice roll provides all-around strengthening to the roller, with 1 being a critical failure and 20 being a critical success. (Note: A critical failure will not result in strengthening and will instead cause the roller to enter a brief period of weakness; a critical success will increase the strengthening multiplier to 25 times.)]

[Cost: 3000 Spiritual Value.]

[Note: God does roll dice.]

"Hisss..."

Zhou Yuan took a sharp breath. A critical success strength increase of 25 times!

He did have the effect of the "One Shot Into Soul" title!

With the two combined, he could achieve a critical success every time, too transcendent for words!

"Fortune’s favor at last, I’ve finally struck it lucky."

Zhou Yuan hummed a tune excitedly, and at that moment, he had an even bolder idea—

—to transform the factory into... a Myriad Realms Transfer Station!