Wang Xiaoming, having retracted his wings and minimized his presence, trailed behind them, successfully blending into their group.
He followed them, hoping to glean some information, but they were solely focused on their journey, remaining silent. This left Wang Xiaoming frustrated, with no choice but to observe their destination.
Finally, after thirty minutes, they arrived at a city gate beneath a towering wall. Inside the gate lay bustling streets. Wang Xiaoming, upon seeing the streets, immediately abandoned the silent group and entered the city alone.
The moment Wang Xiaoming stepped through the gate, a surge of power enveloped him.
This sudden force stunned him.
It wasn't meant to control or attack him, but to directly enhance him. Wang Xiaoming felt capable of defeating his former self several times over with just one hand!
What was this overwhelming sensation of power!?
Just as Wang Xiaoming marveled at this unexpected windfall, the silent group finally spoke.
"Hurry, we're going to miss the Grace Game! We must win this time."
The leader whispered to the group.
"For our Community!"
The group echoed in unison.
"For our Community!"
They passed by Wang Xiaoming, and he finally understood the nature of this world.
344. Wang Xiaoming is going to save his Vampire Wife!
Hakoniwa! From the light novel 'Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?'
Hakoniwa, or Box Garden, is a stage created to provide amusement and enjoyment for Gift holders with immense power.
Originally, it was a divinely created world, the Third Cosmological Observation, built to guide the proper development of the outside world. Because the God Species and Human History are interdependent, the destruction of humanity would lead to the destruction of the Hakoniwa world.
In the Hakoniwa world, the definition of a 'nation' is a common term for 'Super-Large Community'. Although the Hakoniwa world has a clear 'end of the world', its surface area is said to be vast enough to rival a star, supported by a massive central axis called the 'World Axis' that runs through the entire Hakoniwa.
Of course, this is a simplified introduction to Hakoniwa.
Here's a more direct explanation.
Hakoniwa—a paradise for Asura Gods and Buddhas!
This is what Black Rabbit said to the main trio in the first episode of the anime.
However, Black Rabbit omitted one crucial detail: this paradise for Asura Gods and Buddhas is also a hell for humanity!
This world divides power into several tiers, starting with the overpowered single digits, then the All Authority domain of the double digits, extremely rare and powerful individuals. Next are the triple digits in the Omnipotent Domain, mostly gods. Then comes the limit reachable by humans, the four-digit Star Shattering level, followed by the five-digit Crust Piercing level, the six-digit City Destroying level, and finally, the trash-tier ordinary level.
This classification reveals what humanity faces. Here, the absence of power is the original sin. The so-called Grace Games indicate that everything you possess, all your power, is a Grace. What is a Grace? It's power bestowed upon you by the Asura Gods and Buddhas, hence the name.
As for the claim that Grace Games level the playing field between the strong and the weak, allowing the weak to defeat the strong through wisdom, that's just what the Asura Gods and Buddhas tell humans.
Humans can indeed use Grace Games to defeat some formidable opponents, but only if the opponent isn't a true monster!
Against genuine monsters, humans must sacrifice their lives, piling them up to defeat the enemy.
When those true monsters flip the table and exchange lives, all of humanity will die.
Initially, when Hakoniwa was created, it was said that the God Species and Human Species were interdependent, and the destruction of humanity would lead to the destruction of Hakoniwa.
In reality, the God Community established Hakoniwa for experimentation, without consulting humanity. They used it to study whether human faith birthed gods or whether gods guided human evolution. This research essentially treated humanity as test subjects, and the God Community's research direction was fixed from the start: to study the possibility of gods guiding human evolution, because they could not acknowledge that gods existed because of humans.
The most interesting thing is that the God Community created Hakoniwa and used it as a testing ground, but it was always humanity being tested.
Especially during the so-called Last Trials of Humanity.
The Last Trials of Humanity are derived from great demons or evil gods in mythology, possessing powerful special attacks against the gods. Due to predetermined fate, the God Community cannot kill them; only humans can.
Therefore, the God Community cultivates human heroes to kill the Last Trials of Humanity.
Ironically, the Last Trials of Humanity are actually aimed at the God Community, but it is humanity that suffers. Moreover, if humanity fails to overcome the trials, Human History will be destroyed.
This is an even more bizarre setting than Goetia's desire to incinerate Human Order.
When the Last Trial of Humanity, the Three-Headed Dragon Azi Dahaka, prepared to destroy Hakoniwa, the God Community deemed Hakoniwa hopeless and prepared to abandon it, build a new one, and start over.
This action shows that the claim that the Last Trials of Humanity cannot be defeated and Human History will be destroyed is unreliable.
They are simply afraid to face those so-called Godslayers of the Last Trials of Humanity themselves!
After establishing Hakoniwa, the God Community linked many worlds through it. These evil gods could also enter Hakoniwa. Once inside, the unique convergence ability of the Hakoniwa world would make these evil gods incredibly powerful, to the point where the God Community could not oppose them, so they simply let humanity deal with them.
What is true capitalism? Making humans cooperate with their research, making humans sell their blood and lives for them, and when humans are about to fail, simply replacing them with another batch and starting over, while the humans being experimented on must be grateful to the God Community researching them.
Humans in Hakoniwa fight to the death, only to secure a place to live. As for the upper echelons, they have nothing to do with humans.
Indeed, some in the God Community are more compassionate and kind to humans, but more often, they indifferently watch humans, these test subjects, put on various performances before them.
This is the essence of the Hakoniwa world!
"So, I've really come to a terrible world."
Feeling the surging power within him and recalling information about this world, Wang Xiaoming couldn't help but sigh.
"Xiaoming, what's wrong?"
Est, deep within his soul, sensed Wang Xiaoming's emotional fluctuations and curiously asked him.
"It's nothing, just lamenting how rotten this world is."
"Rotten?"
Est didn't quite understand Wang Xiaoming's meaning.
"That's right, this world is completely rotten!"
Wang Xiaoming wore a mocking smile.
"Written as paradise, read as hell, isn't that rotten?"
"Est doesn't understand."
"Este doesn't need to understand; we just need to do our thing," Wang Xiaoming reassured Este in his heart.
"Yes, Este is Xiaoming's sword, only listening to Xiaoming's will," Este responded with perfect cooperation.
"Now, let's first see what time this is."
Looking back at the city gate, outside the city gate was a forest. According to the setting of Little Garden, this should be the Eastern District of Little Garden. The Northern District is a Gobi Desert, the Southern District is a tropical rainforest and swamp, and the Western District is a ruin. The Eastern District is much better, with fertile land and forests. This is also the area where the protagonists' community is located.
Confirming his location, Wang Xiaoming walked into the city and came to a café with a catgirl waitress. He reached out and stopped the catgirl who was clearing coffee cups.
"Excuse me for disturbing you."
Seeing someone stopping her, the catgirl looked up in confusion, seeing a golden-haired handsome guy in knight armor. Wang Xiaoming had a bright smile on his face, which, combined with his golden hair, gave people a warmth like the sun. The catgirl immediately blushed and bowed her head in salute.
"Um, is there anything I can help you with?"
"I just came down from the upper levels and got lost. May I ask where this is?"
Wang Xiaoming pretended to be lost, while also giving himself a false identity as a big shot from an upper-level community. According to his strength, he was indeed considered a person from the upper levels, at least many times stronger than the people in this outer border area.
"So you're a big shot from the upper levels, meow!" The catgirl immediately became respectful after learning Wang Xiaoming's identity as an upper-level big shot.
"This is the Outer Gate 210530 of the Eastern District, meow."
What place was that again?
Wang Xiaoming was stunned by the numbers. When watching the anime and reading the novel, who knew what these numbers were?
Okay, let's just ask the important question directly.
"Do you know a community called No Name?"
"Um... Sir, logically speaking, all communities that have had their flags taken away are No Name. I don't know which one you're talking about, meow?"
"Um..."
Wang Xiaoming was a little embarrassed and summarized his words again.
"Have you heard of a No Name community with a rabbit? The rabbit's name is Black Rabbit."
"Oh!! I know that one, I know it, meow!" The catgirl nodded immediately, indicating that she knew.
"Can you tell me about them in detail, such as whether they have had any new members join recently?"
"I don't think anyone has joined, right?" The catgirl tilted her head.
"I heard that they were attacked by a Demon Lord before, so they lost the name of their community. Later, they always wanted to recruit some new people, but no one was willing to join them, meow."
"Um, I understand."
There are no new people yet, which means the plot hasn't started yet, but it has still become No Name, which means it has already been attacked by the Demon Lord, so the time point is before the plot starts. As for how long before it starts, it is not clear.
Since that's the case.
"Then, do you know the community Perseus?" Wang Xiaoming asked again.
"Perseus? I know, that's also a six-digit community, oh! It should have been a higher rank, but it has recently dropped to six digits."
Perseus, commonly known as Palxius, is the community established by the hero Palxius in Greek mythology. The community has a large number of gifts from Greek mythology. From the perspective of the community's ability, when the hero led, it was considered a mid-level community. Their personal combat power may not be very strong, even reaching the six-digit level, but the gifts they have are powerful enough.
Of course, the leader of the community still has a certain ability. His combat power can be regarded as reaching the six-digit level. Coupled with the special gifts he has, even a four-digit number will have a chance to overturn in his hands.
Unfortunately, this generation of leaders has become a guy who lives on gifts. He himself clearly has good talent, but he relies entirely on gifts to live his life.
Or rather, this is the norm for the people at the bottom. Fighting relies too much on gifts, rather than one's own strength.
After all, in this Little Garden world, even if the humans at the bottom train hard, they can't beat a gift from the other side, so it's better to lie down and fight with gifts.
This generation of Perseus leaders is a typical example, so the Perseus he led has dropped from the mid-level five digits to the lower-level six digits.
Then, Perseus, who had only recently arrived at the lower level, was targeted by Wang Xiaoming again.
Just because they have Wang Xiaoming's vampire wife in their hands.
Perseus's station is naturally impossible to be at the border of Little Garden. Even if it has dropped from a mid-level community to a lower-level community, their foundation is extremely deep. The community's station is located in the lower-level area close to the mid-level.
It took Wang Xiaoming a lot of time to rush over from the outer gate.
Although there is a boundary gate specially used for rushing, it is built based on the gift of the Halloween Queen, but the boundary gate actually costs money!
For Wang Xiaoming, who would never spend money if he could get something for free, this was unacceptable, and he didn't want to leave any traces at the boundary gate, so he directly flew all the way over with Somersault Cloud.
345. Little Garden recognizes multiple spiritualities
Perseus, the community created by the former Greek hero Palxius, has a large number of gifts from Greek mythology. From the perspective of the community's ability, when the hero led, it was considered a mid-level community. Their personal combat power may not be very strong, even reaching the six-digit level, but the gifts they have are powerful enough.
Of course, the leader of the community still has a certain ability. His combat power can be regarded as reaching the six-digit level. Coupled with the special gifts he has, even a four-digit number will have a chance to overturn in his hands.
Unfortunately, this generation of leaders has become a guy who lives on gifts. He himself clearly has good talent, but he relies entirely on gifts to live his life.
Or rather, this is the norm for the people at the bottom. Fighting relies too much on gifts, rather than one's own strength.
After all, in this Little Garden world, even if the humans at the bottom train hard, they can't beat a gift from the other side, so it's better to lie down and fight with gifts.
This generation of Perseus leaders is a typical example, so the Perseus he led has dropped from the mid-level five digits to the lower-level six digits.
Then, Perseus, who had only recently arrived at the lower level, was targeted by Wang Xiaoming again.
Just because they have Wang Xiaoming's vampire wife in their hands.
Perseus's station is naturally impossible to be at the border of Little Garden. Even if it has dropped from a mid-level community to a lower-level community, their foundation is extremely deep. The community's station is located in the lower-level area close to the mid-level.
It took Wang Xiaoming a lot of time to rush over from the outer gate.
Although there is a boundary gate specially used for rushing, it is built based on the gift of the Halloween Queen, but the boundary gate actually costs money!
For Wang Xiaoming, who would never spend money if he could get something for free, this was unacceptable, and he didn't want to leave any traces at the boundary gate, so he directly flew all the way over with Somersault Cloud.
