The Alliance Under Heaven's Ferocious Momentum-Who Said the Game Had to Be Conquered? Seven Days Were Rest Time

The Alliance Under Heaven had developed with astonishing momentum over the final hundred thousand years.

At first, it had merely been the five Saints steadily subduing factions and setting up a framework. But as footage of the Ark of Life rising from the previous flood spread repeatedly across the forums, more and more players joined the Alliance Under Heaven.

Especially the veteran players who had personally witnessed the Ark rise. They needed no persuasion at all; as soon as the flood receded, they proactively came knocking and asked to join.

By the final few years before the World-Destroying Flood descended, the Alliance Under Heaven could already command hundreds of billions of players.

Hundreds of billions of people drilled the Ark Formation beneath Divine Mountain every day. From above, the entire wilderness was carpeted with densely packed figures, like a moving forest growing from the earth.

Some lay at the bottom of the ship, some lay on their sides as ribs, some sprawled at the deck positions, while others stood around the perimeter to coordinate and fill vacancies.

Commands traveled down level by level through the Alliance Under Heaven's voice channels. Hundreds of billions of figures moved at once with an orderliness never before seen in the game world, leaving even onlooking players with numb scalps.

Day and night, the Alliance Under Heaven's players drilled beneath Divine Mountain.

They tried to form an ark with their bodies, repeatedly testing how many layers of people should make up the hull, what angle the ribs should lie at, how high the bow should rise, and how narrow the stern should taper.

Every detail had been deduced and tested countless times. Even the direction from which waves would strike during the flood had been factored in.

Some specifically simulated wave impacts, standing high up