The game's sudden update and the appearance of the mysterious pendulum threw ordinary players into a brief panic as well, but they soon calmed down. If the sky fell, the Arbiters and leader Monarchs would hold it up.
Godly Game players in every world were also looking for solutions. Worlds with a little more accumulated wealth, such as Zelan, pooled the World Fragments their leaders had saved to put together a World Skill.
If one world could not gather enough, they could turn to worlds already connected through an Invasion Sequence to make up the difference. But in those cases, it was difficult... the hatred born of war was hard to dispel.
No one knew how long this third version would last. It seemed they no longer had a future, yet it also seemed they had infinite possibilities.
And so players soon came up with a new approach: connecting their own worlds to worlds that possessed World Skills through invasion.
This was much easier. All they needed was an [Invasion Sequence] and an empty upstream slot in the other world's Invasion Sequence.
Every [Invasion Sequence] listed on the exchange sold out instantly.
Every few hours, a game announcement would sound, notifying everyone that one world had invaded another.
But players soon discovered the limit as well: no more than six worlds could be connected along a single Invasion Sequence.
Yu Xunge had already prepared for Mistblade and Song Gui to come looking for her. After all, Mistblade's departure meant Zelan had lost its only World Skill. As long as Zelan invaded Zai Jiu again and joined its Invasion Sequence, it could share Mistblade's World Skill. Once the pendulum's impacts ended, Yu Xunge could use her previous method to bring Zai Jiu back to the River of Time.
She had already