Alliance

Biodata

Society and Government

The Alliance governs a world that unified early and has enjoyed long-lasting peace. Its public welfare includes free education through university, job assignments after graduation, orphan care and support for vulnerable citizens 1.

• Population: Ren Man tells Ren Yi that there are no humans in the Alliance. Its citizens are weirds of many different forms, although children are raised believing they are human 4 5.
• Core principles: The Alliance identifies “world, rules, and survival” as the center of its principles and instructs citizens not to question its decisions 5.
• Families: The Alliance calls the family its basic unit. Its rules prohibit citizens from abandoning, replacing, damaging or creating replicas of family members 5.
• Weird Accounts: Citizens must protect their accounts and must not casually discard, conceal, devour or alter them. If an account name changes on its own, its owner must stop and wait for rescue 5.
• Public conduct: Citizens must avoid displaying behavior or abilities that exceed the Human Cognition Threshold too much, report children with apparent cognitive abnormalities to Alliance staff, and keep tools, food and portals out of public areas 9.

Education and Awakening

The Alliance presents the Major Assignment Test as a brainwave-based assessment that recommends a student’s university major; students are not forced to accept its recommendation. The test uses a deep-sleep pod and also serves as an awakening ceremony, after which unawakened “children” become weird “younglings” 1 2 5.

• Schools: Doctor Lin says the Alliance has one actual school, attended by all 2,726 children in Ren Yi’s year. Other schools were initially empty shells used to fool children and were later allocated for use as Instances 10.
• Record ceremony: All 2,726 children in Ren Yi’s ceremony awakened successfully. Alliance One reported that a Heartmare presided over it using an Emotional Guidance Method intended to reduce the risk of energy backlash 5.
• Youngling priority: Children and younglings receive the Alliance’s highest priority. Unauthorized attempts to alter, prematurely awaken or independently cultivate a youngling’s abilities are serious violations 5.
• First seven days: Guidelines tell newly awakened younglings to stay close to family, learn to maintain a form within human cognition, and avoid facing mirrors or bodies of water alone 6.
• Energy supply: The Alliance generally collects energy crystals to provide younglings with their first food, although it had few crystals suited to Ren Yi’s positive-emotion diet 12 14.

Anomalous Being Classification

The Alliance ranks anomalous beings from F to S according to their danger, considering factors such as their rules, abilities and range of influence. Ghost Net assesses them against a unified standard 8.

F-, E- and D-rank beings are collectively classified as younglings 8.

World Harvesting

The Alliance harvests other worlds for energy. An Alliance-certified guide explains that its members use Instances and auxiliary rules to fulfill the world-destroying conditions of powerful anomalous beings called Calamities. They contend with a target world’s defenses until a stable entrance opens for a Calamity; once it descends, the world may be kept for harvesting or annihilated 8.

The guide claims that the Alliance’s former world was destroyed in a catastrophe resembling the awakening ceremony’s final vision. Ren Yi wonders whether this account is true or a carefully packaged Alliance story 8.

• Instance revenue: In Ren Yi and Lu Zihan’s first Instance, the Alliance takes 20% of the energy, while the administrators divide the remainder 23.
• Instance locations: Pasture Hunt-type Instances can operate within the Alliance, but a large-scale Instance summons used for an invasion cannot. The Lu Family Courtyard operates inside a high-level ghost’s Instance space 43.
• Energy crystals: Energy Crystallizations are also a special currency among Instance bosses 43.

Special Harvest Plan No. 37

After a failed operation and the cost of resurrections contributed to an energy shortage, the Alliance approved a comprehensive harvest of the Three-City World, designated a Pasture. Registration was limited to legal guardians with fully developed Instances and the younglings in their care 24.

Ren Yi joined the operation with Lu Qing and Lu Zihan. After participating in the Lu Family Courtyard Instance, he descended into the Three-City World, where Ghost Net announced a seven-day Calamity countdown 24 26 46.