Chapter 370: Erza – A Game Created by Gods?
"Just keep doing your thing. Don't mind Anya!"
Cold sweat poured down Anya's back as she stiffly waved her arm, trying to indicate she was just passing through.
Kikyo asked softly, "Your name is Anya? Does the time at which we awaken reflect our strength?"
She had woken up first,
immediately sensing Esdeath stirring and launching an attack, followed by Erza engaging in battle.
It wasn't until the fight ended
that Anya finally wobbled awake—and didn't seem particularly bright.
Just as Kikyo thought that,
she noticed the pink-haired girl widen her eyes, as if somehow reacting to her inner thoughts.
Mind reading?
Intrigued, Kikyo kept observing Anya.
To her surprise, the girl suddenly started spinning in place while whistling innocently, giving off the exact opposite of what she claimed.
At that moment,
a line of dark text appeared in all four players' minds, followed by the opening of their stat panels.
[Kikyo]
Level: Lv.1 (1/100 EXP)
Stats: Strength 60, Agility 80, Constitution 5, Spirit 150
Skill: Shrine Maiden Lv.38
Equipment: None
…
While they reviewed their stats,
Fang Yi was also inside the Game Hub, examining the new batch of multiverse players.
"Though the cost to use Universal Invitations is steep, they're well worth it."
His gaze fell on the newly summoned players, and he nodded with satisfaction.
"Anya was a surprise… but the other three are all powerful beings with built-in lord-level templates."
Since the launch of the family system,
players had been using monthly invitations to recruit powerful subordinates.
While the numbers were high, quality players remained rare—most needed time and nurturing.
But the Universal Invitations specifically drew in high-reward or fate-blessed individuals,
making them immediate forces in the battle against the Corruption Continent.
For example,
the ruthless woman who had tried to kill the others upon awakening—she came from the world of Akame ga Kill.
That world was ruled by the Empire, a power that had prospered for a thousand years.
On the surface it seemed glorious,
but inside it was rotting, filled with demons in human skin, who oppressed the common folk without consequence.
And at the heart of that Empire's strength
were mystical weapons known as Teigu.
Because of the Teigu, even a decaying empire could remain invincible.
Esdeath
was the Empire's strongest general and main villain. She felt no sympathy, no compassion.
Raised on the ice plains,
she viewed the weak as prey to be slaughtered—only the strong deserved to live.
According to the flow of fate—
in other words, the main story—
a group called Night Raid, assassins loyal to the rebellion, would be blessed by fate and eventually slay her, toppling the Empire.
This way, the world's origin essence could be reclaimed and restructured.
Ascension—that's what most world consciousnesses sought.
The Pirate World, for example, once nurtured both Joy Boy and Imu,
but neither succeeded in breaking the cycle and evolving the world to Tier 2.
So the system shifted its resources toward new resistance forces.
Straw Hat Luffy wasn't some ultimate savior—he was just the best way to recover the massive points previously invested in the World Government.
The Demon Slayer World followed a similar path.
A large portion of its essence had been invested into Muzan Kibutsuji.
But since he failed to become the perfect being, the system then empowered the Demon Slayer Corps to kill him and reclaim that essence.
The Shinobi World was a special case.
The first blessed beings were the toads, snakes, and slugs—summoning beasts, basically.
Fang Yi had read from the now-submissive Shinobi World consciousness that it originally planned to evolve like the Inuyasha world.
But then,
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared and ruined everything—siphoning all the essence into the Divine Tree, dispersing it to humanity as chakra.
Ironically, the oppressed became the key to ascension.
Thus, Esdeath was fated to die—
no matter what choices she made, her destiny was death.
Even if she didn't love Tatsumi, even if she wiped out Night Raid,
the world would spawn a new rebellion. Her end was inevitable.
But now, she had become a new player in the Reincarnation Game.
Her fate had been severed.
"The game update has turned the Pirate and Shinobi newbie zones into full safe zones."
"New players must now level in open maps."
"But areas like Gran Forest, Sky Sea, and the outskirts of the Eternal Snow Mountain are already occupied by major factions."
Before Anya could ask, Fang Yi began explaining.
"Even the gentlest faction, like Navy HQ, will drive away solo players from elite or commander monster spawns. It's unavoidable."
Back when he played MMOs,
guilds would monopolize rare monster lairs—just to farm a few skill books or gear.
Now imagine if those monsters dropped actual reward points.
There was no way the top families and alliances wouldn't salivate over such resources.
"The Reincarnation Game is no longer in its early phase.
New Player Trials have been changed to Mission Realms."
"These are essentially counter-attack missions.
Failure may mean death.
They're much harder."
"But the rewards are just as big, helping new players fast-track their progress."
"Whether to attempt it is up to the players themselves."
These missions were a flexible version of "main god-style" tasks—
not mandatory, but required if one wanted to grow stronger.
Players would be graded from F to S rank based on how many corrupted monsters they killed and what tasks they completed—
with hefty reward points for higher grades.
Of course,
players like Esdeath, Erza, and Kikyo—who could already crush most veterans—didn't need such trials.
The trial was aimed at more typical newbies.
…
"Kill corrupted monsters to get reward points?"
"And you can exchange those for anything? This 'Reincarnation Game'..."
Erza's eyes widened,
her striking face full of disbelief.
It sounded way too good to be true.
Even Fairy Tail's third guild master,
Makarov—ranked among the top ten Holy Mages in all of Fiore—couldn't promise his guild members unlimited magic.
No—
not even if all ten Holy Mages combined their power could they create a game like this.
Not even the ancient, vanished dragons could.
Only gods could pull this off.
Erza took a deep breath and murmured,
"A game… created by gods?"
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