Giving This World a Little Shock from the Five Permanent Members

[Congratulations, challenger, on completing the challenge! The dungeon will soon close!]

The world before Lin Ye's eyes began to crumble.

The ocean, the ships, the islands—all of them broke apart into mosaic-like fragments.

The challengers around him turned into light and shadow one by one and vanished.

The next second, he was back in his rented apartment.

Virtuality and reality switched in an instant. One moment he had been on the surging sea; now he was in an empty room.

At the same time, lines of glowing text appeared before Lin Ye's eyes.

[Brave challenger, as your score has reached 130 points, you have been promoted to LV1! We will announce this good news to the entire world.]

Lin Ye immediately looked up and out the window.

At that moment, strings of promotion announcements began scrolling across the dome above the world.

They were global scrolling messages unique to the Firmament.

[Congratulations to challenger Will Smith on his promotion to LV1]

[Congratulations to challenger Kim Jae-woo on his promotion to LV1]

[Congratulations to challenger Lin Ye on his promotion to LV1]

The lines of large text were blood-red and impossible to miss!

Lin Ye's name was right there among them, being announced to the whole world above the dome.

[Your battlefield dungeon creation privileges have been unlocked! You may now enter the Firmament's Creation Space to create dungeons at any time.]

[As you have just been promoted to LV1, you have been granted a special 30-day challenge exemption. During these 30 days, you will not be pulled into any battlefield dungeon. Please devote yourself fully to dungeon creation...]

"Challenge exemption?" Lin Ye began to ponder.

To put it plainly, this feature was the Firmament's beginner protection.

The Firmament had a mechanism that allowed dungeon creators to forcibly pull certain challengers into their dungeons, in proportion to the dungeon's player count!

It was similar to targeted selection.

In this world, only a minority had the chance to create dungeons. Most were Level 0 challengers at the bottom of society.

And if challengers who had risen from Level 0 to LV1 lost points, they would still be knocked back down to Level 0.

Those high-level Dungeon Designers naturally didn't want too many of their own kind in this world. The rarer they were, the more securely they stood.

So challengers who had just been promoted to LV1 became the primary targets of these Dungeon Designers' attention.

Because the Firmament made their promotions public, many newly promoted LV1s were forcibly pulled into one high-difficulty dungeon after another before they could even begin making their own.

They dropped back to Level 0 in the shortest possible time...

Some even lost again and again, until the Firmament ultimately erased them.

In time, the Firmament also noticed the problem. This malicious struggle between people greatly affected the number of dungeons in the world, so it added the 30-day exemption mechanism.

During those thirty days, challengers could concentrate on creating dungeons without being disturbed by any Dungeon Designer.

But this opportunity only came once. After thirty days, the beginner protection would disappear, and challengers would still be pulled into all sorts of dungeons, facing trials of life and death.

So for Lin Ye, these thirty days were a golden period for development.

During those thirty days, Lin Ye had to design high-difficulty dungeons and create the most advanced technology and military weapons within them.

Then he had to reach Level 2 and unlock the privilege of taking weapons from his own dungeons into other dungeons.

Thirty days is enough time for me to develop.

What I need to do now is create my first battlefield dungeon as quickly as possible.

Lin Ye pondered in silence.

He hadn't gotten a cheat or any kind of system when he transmigrated to this world.

But... he didn't need a cheat at all.

Because he possessed all the military knowledge from his previous life!

For a military researcher from the twenty-first century of a later age, arriving on a planet equivalent to Earth during World War I, the knowledge in his head was the greatest cheat of all!

Take just about any weapon back to an era a hundred years earlier, and it could be said to be overwhelmingly powerful.

As for creating dungeons and the like, Lin Ye actually had far too many options to choose from.

He was a game fan and had played far too many games since childhood, especially countless war games.

Virtua Cop, Beach Head, Half-Life...

But these little dungeons were all too low-level. Lin Ye couldn't be bothered to choose them.

This world was so cruel that if he was going to play, he would play big.

Lin Ye already had a target in mind.

The Five Permanent Members!

He decided to start by creating a dungeon based on the Five Permanent Members.

Because of the Firmament, there was no concept of countries on Azure Star.

Naturally, there were no Earth hegemons like the British Empire, the United States and Soviet Union, or Dragon Country from his previous life.

Lin Ye could take the classic dungeons of the United Nations' Five Permanent Members from his previous life, move them directly into the Firmament's Creation Space, and turn them into dungeons.

Pick any one of the Five Permanent Members' dungeons, and it would basically be a monstrosity.

Afterward, Lin Ye could use the dungeons to earn a huge number of points, reach Level 2, and freely take weapons from his own dungeons into others.

With the Five Permanent Members' top weapons in this world, Lin Ye could be said to be invincible. After that, entering any dungeon would be like using the Green Dragon Crescent Blade to kill a chicken.

There was no time to lose. His first priority now was to finish creating a dungeon as soon as possible.

"Firmament, I want to enter the Creation Space!"

[Dear Mr. Lin Ye, you are about to enter the independent dungeon design space, the Creation Space.]

The Firmament's text appeared again, but this time it had changed from an informal form of "you" to a respectful one when addressing Lin Ye.

What an enormous contrast!

It showed just how highly esteemed Dungeon Designers were in this world...

[You will enter the dungeon design area in three seconds.]

[Three]

[Two]

[One]

When the countdown ended, a beam of light suddenly enveloped Lin Ye.

The world before his eyes began to turn upside down. Everything in his rented apartment vanished once more, and Lin Ye entered a sea of chaos.

When Lin Ye opened his eyes again, a vast white world lay before him.

It was completely empty, with no boundaries in sight—a total void.

At the same time, virtual control buttons and 3D joysticks appeared one after another before Lin Ye's eyes.

It felt a little like the PS5 and Switch controllers he had loved using in his previous life.

He tried moving the joystick a couple of times, and the view of the world before him shifted with it, as though the whole thing had flipped over.

"So that's how it works."

Now Lin Ye understood everything. The so-called Divine Creation Space was actually an infinitely large sandbox world.

It was similar to the creation game from his previous life—Minecraft.

Only, because there was nothing in the Divine Creation Space that currently belonged to him, it was completely blank.

Having understood the principle behind it, Lin Ye took a deep breath. He could hardly wait.

Given that the people of this world knew nothing about war,

they were in urgent need of a little shock from the Five Permanent Members,

to let them experience what modern warfare was.