Chapter 8: Inside the ‘Sub-Primordial Starway Station’, Hunters Suffering Fatal Injuries Will Be Automatically Considered Defeated, World Merit Reset to Zero.
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Upon seeing the series of prompts, Su Xiao understood what was happening. In previous entries to derivative worlds, identity disguises or item disguises were free functions.
Due to the nature of the Primordial World, these functions are no longer free; instead, world merit must be obtained through combat.
Su Xiao had received a lot of information, but he was curious about one thing: how other contractors entered the Primordial World. Just as he was pondering this, a flood of new prompts appeared.
[Prompt: The World Merit Competition is about to begin.]
[After defeating a contractor, you will gain 1 to 5 World Merit points, depending on the contractor’s rank.]
[Prompt: A total of 76 contractors have used ‘Space Battlefield Honor Certificate (Third Rank)’ to enter this Primordial World.]
[Prompt: A total of 32 contractors have used ‘Primordial World Invitation Letter (Third Rank)’ to enter this world.]
[Detected that the Hunter has used the special item ‘Time-Space Coin (Legendary)’ to enter this Primordial World.]
[Judging…]
[The ‘Time-Space Coin (Legendary)’ contains a large amount of Space-Time Power, its value far exceeding that of ‘Space Battlefield Honor Certificate (Third Rank)’ and ‘Primordial World Invitation Letter (Third Rank)’. Balance mechanism activated.]
[Contractor compensated with 16,500 World Merit points.]
[World Merit Competition has begun.]
[Due to the imminent arrival at the unknown Primordial World, the derivative world communication platform has been opened early.]
[Derivative world communication platform nature changing… Changed to Primordial World communication platform.]
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This time, Su Xiao fully understood the situation. The general idea was that the Primordial World was special, so Reincarnation Paradise would no longer provide free services. This was only natural. The contractors entering this Primordial World all did so through various special means.
Among these special means, the Time-Space Coin was clearly a higher-tier method. In fact, this could be seen from the Time-Space Coin’s price of ???. Generally, items with such a price tag held extremely high value.
To put it simply, derivative worlds were ‘free opportunities to grow stronger’ provided by Reincarnation Paradise to contractors, while Primordial Worlds were ‘paid opportunities to grow stronger’.
Primordial Worlds were worlds that required ‘payment to enter’. Therefore, within a Primordial World, all of Reincarnation Paradise’s free mechanisms were shut down. To obtain functions like identity disguise, contractors first had to engage in a massive free-for-all.
The contractor who ultimately won would gain the most World Merit and thus secure a higher status within the Primordial World.
The current situation seemed somewhat special. The [Time-Space Coin] Su Xiao used was an item of extremely high rank within the Third Rank, releasing a vast amount of Space-Time Power. It was even possible that Reincarnation Paradise had taken a portion of it. Reincarnation Paradise always operated on the principle of equivalent exchange, hence the compensation.
If other contractors were currently at the starting line, then Su Xiao’s 16,500 World Merit points meant he wasn’t just winning at the start—he was born directly at the finish line. This was no longer a fair competition on the same stage.