Just as the entire Apocalypse Forum descended into chaos and wailing over the coming apocalypse, a new system notification rang in every online player's ears like a Divine Oracle.
[Global Server Announcement: The World Origin Consciousness has awakened. To resist a World-Ending Tier Calamity, the special rules for the [World Guardian War] have been activated!] [Special Rule One: World Blessing. All players participating in the [World Guardian War] in the North American War Zone will receive "World Blessing." While under this effect, all player attacks will carry the "World Will" attribute and deal True Damage to the World-Ending Tier entity [Source of Gluttony · Glato].] [Special Rule Two: United We Stand. The strength of "World Blessing" will change in real time according to the total number of players participating in the defense. The more players join, the stronger the blessing and the greater its suppression of [Source of Gluttony · Glato].] [Special Rule Three: Boundless Merit Points. While under "World Blessing," any damage players deal to [Source of Gluttony · Glato] will be converted into vast amounts of Merit Points. Killing lesser creatures spawned by his acts of devouring will also award Merit Points.]
The string of announcements hit the nearly boiling cauldron of despair like a shot of adrenaline.
On the Apocalypse Forum, the flood of wails and curses came to a strange, one-second halt.
Then the posts exploded again—more frantic than before, but with an entirely different tone!
[What the hell? Am I seeing this right? Is this... an official cheat code?!]
[True Damage! True Damage against a World-Ending Tier boss! Has the Main God gone crazy, or have I?]
[United We Stand? So the more of us there are, the stronger we get? Brothers, stop running! Get your asses to North America! We're not