Miscellaneous Affairs

Looking over the three black instance cards in his hand, Wang Zhifan found none of them particularly appealing. He had even less desire to touch the red instance cards for the time being, so he opened the forum on his phone to check the post where he was looking to buy special instances.

Two months had passed since he made the post. The newest replies were already ten days old, and its popularity had faded considerably.

"Red cards... green cards... yellow cards? Someone's even selling yellow cards? There are barely any black cards, and they won't provide detailed information either. Forget it. I'll deal with it later."

After browsing the post for a while, he quickly lost interest in contacting the sellers and switched to browsing the forum instead.

The moment he entered the Player Forum homepage, he saw heated discussions about the "World Battle." Some players believed it was an Ash Domain prank and should be ignored. Some thought it signaled Earthstar's imminent destruction. Others were eagerly looking forward to competing against players from other worlds. Opinions varied widely.

One post, written by a player marked as high-level, had received a great many replies. He wrote:

"Regarding the World Battle, I actually anticipated it long ago, because I found clues in several instance worlds. Those worlds were all on the verge of destruction. Evidence suggests that player groups had once existed there on a large scale before their downfall. In one of them, I even encountered a player claiming to be a survivor of that world. It was a silicon-based lifeform shaped like a huge club. At first, I thought it was just a machine..."

That player described his unusual experience in considerable detail. His words carried the sorrow of a civilization being destroyed, and Earthstar's players could not