The World Online - Chapter 1318

Chapter 1318: TWO Chapter 1318-Final system update

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Chapter 1318 – Final System Update

There was no such thing as regret in this world!

The Persian army that was in charge of escorting Ogedai’s forces back stopped a thousand meters away from the gates. Only a single general and a squadron of guards proceeded toward the city gate.

“Move!”

Wang Jian turned around and headed down the city wall.

Following which, the city gates were opened, and Wang Jian and his group walked out.

To ensure the safety of the hand over, the West Asia warzone had made sufficient preparation. Apart from the defending troops formed up at the city wall, there were many cannons in the nearby mountains.

They aimed to prevent the Persian Empire from trying anything funny.

Although the chances of such a thing happening was low, they had to guard against such a event.

“Hello!”

The Persian general greeted them first.

Wang Jian looked over to see an old general that was thin but tall. He was wearing full body armor and had an eye-catching yellow beard.

Based on their intel, this person was Xerxes, and he was the east border commander of the Persian Empire.

“Hello!”

Wang Jian nodded expressionlessly.

If nothing went wrong, the next time these two met, they would be enemies on the battlefield.

Xerxes seemed to understood that too. The two generals were sizing up one another, and the air permeated with killing intent.

“Sign the agreement!” Wang Jian opened his mouth and said.

Both sides had obtained permission from their respective Imperial Courts to sign the handing over agreement.

Xerxes asked, “Where is the ransom?”

In the agreement, the ransom column did not include a specific amount, which meant that Great Xia could give the Persian Empire any amount of Great Xia’s choosing.

Wang Jian smiled and took out a single gold coin. He acted solemn as he said, “Here!”

Looking at the gold coin, humiliation and anger flashed across Xerxes’s face. Great Xia setting the ransom amount at one gold was undoubtedly an insult to the Persian Empire.

After struggling for a moment, Xerxes held it in and expressionlessly took the coin and handed over a set of the agreement.

After Wang Jian signed it, the agreement would be effective immediately.

All the changes to Xerxes’s expression were caught by Wang Jian. His heart sank. This general’s experience and ability to swallow anger made Wang Jian even warier of this neighboring country.

The following matters were really simple.

Ogedai and his generals were handed over first and locked up in the jail in South City Pass. The remaining soldiers were handed over squadron by squadron and sent into the pass.

For safety’s sake, the entire process lasted for two days.

Every time the pass accepted a batch of prisoners, they would move them to the back to ensure the smooth passageway of the pass.

However, unbeknownst to outsiders, Ogedai died in jail that night. The one in charge of monitoring him was Wang Jian. Of course, Ouyang Shuo had instructed him to do so.

If not, no matter how bold Wang Jian was, he would not dare to take matters into his own hands.

Of the remaining soldiers, those with injuries were sent to the military doctors for treatment. After settling them down, some were directly sent back home while others were moved into the Xijiang or Xikang construction formations.

A single gold coin for 150 thousand strong young laborer, Great Xia had not lost out.

Through this move, the Imperial Court could also buy over the hearts of the Mongol people to a certain extent, killing two birds with one stone.

…

In the blink of an eye, winter arrived.

The global battlefield was silent, having entered a rare resting period.

Thanks to Great Xia’s interference, the Dawson Dynasty proceeded really slowly in the Mayan Battlefield. Prior to the resting period, they had basically made no progress, making Jack feel really depressed.

The European battlefield was still stuck in a precarious situation. In particular, the Great Xia firearms sent to the Ottoman Dynasty allowed the strong Ottoman race to hold off the pressure from the frontlines.

This winter was a really important one for the Ottoman Dynasty.

In Africa, the Bantu Dynasty was really aggressive, fighting a life or death battle with the Dawson Dynasty in the Angola region.

Now, it was up to the determination of the Bantu Dynasty.

Before the New Year, the Bantu Empire ordered a 20 million gold firearm deal from Great Xia. As such, one could see the massive ambitions of the Bantu Dynasty.

Although Ouyang Shuo was wary of them, he still accepted the deal in the end.

Meanwhile, Ashoka surprised Ouyang Shuo. Who knows what Ashoka was planning with the India battlefield, but he did not throw the one million war prisoners onto the battlefield after redeeming them.

It was like the one million troops had not even appeared.

There would definitely be a good show in the India battlefield next year.

12th month, 25th day, the westerner’s Christmas arrived. On the America and European battlefields, the soldiers spent an unforgettable Christmas in the trenches.

After Christmas, the 8th year of Gaia came to an end.

Gaia 8th year, 12th month, 30th day, a System Notification sounded out across the world.

“World Notification: Earth Online has run for 8 years, and the game will now go through its ninth and final system update, effective immediately. As for the specifics, please check the official forums.”

…

The moment this notification sounded out, the world fell totally silent.

Unknowingly, the game had passed its 8th anniversary. Every yearly update had been a huge event that affected the whole world.

Some of the updates had massive consequences.

No one had expected that this would be the final system update. This also meant that in the 9th year of Gaia, 10th year of Gaia, and even in the foreseeable future, there would be no rule changes.

It seemed that Gaia was trying to reduce its interference with the game world.

Imperial Capital.

Ouyang Shuo shook off the random thoughts in his head and logged onto the official forums to check out the system update.

1. Removing system update.

From today on, regardless of the achievements of the players, Gaia will not publish any System Notifications. The relevant achievements will only be posted online.

This was also a crucial step toward the game world becoming real.

The System Notification was convenient, but it gave players the impression that Gaia was everywhere and could control the information that everyone received.

This was not a good experience.

The privacy of the players needed to be sufficiently protected.

When needed, the relevant notices would appear as messages or emails on the communication compass for players to read; that would also be quite convenient.

2. Removing a portion of the teleportation formations.

From today on, each game region (the region specified at the start), can only keep one teleportation formation.

With Great Xia and China as an example, if Ouyang Shuo chose to keep the formation in the Capital City, the nine imperial cities would all lose their teleportation formations.

This had a relatively great influence on Great Xia.

The only part that made Ouyang Shuo feel relieved was that most of the teleportation formations overseas could be kept. If not, huge problems would crop up given the vast territory of Great Xia.

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Chapter 1319: TWO Chapter 1319-Gendaya continent

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Chapter 1319 – Gendaya Continent

The reduction in the number of teleportation formations affected dynasties with large territories like Great Xia, Dawson, and Romanov the most.

It would shortly cause a lot of inconvenience.

This was the only good news for Great Xia.

Gaia reduced the number of teleportation formations because of industrialization progression.

Along with the rise of railroads, transportation would soon welcome a swift development phase. Provided one constructed perfect railroads and pathways, the effects of the teleportation formation reduction would be greatly mitigated.

In the future, Gaia might even remove all the teleportation formations.

Apart from reducing the number of teleportation formations, Gaia also greatly increased the cost. Every person teleported would cost 500 gold, a truly sky-high price.

Such a price basically correlated to the function of the teleportation formation.

From now on, it was more or less impossible for an army to move through the teleportation formations. After all, just think about it, teleporting 100 thousand troops would use up to five million gold.

That was only the trip there.

Taking into account the return trip as well, even the rich Great Xia would not be able to afford it.

In the future, the teleportation formations would only be used by a few people under special circumstances. For example, Ouyang Shuo while he was touring foreign territories.

Of course, the number of people following him would be greatly reduced; otherwise, the expenditure would also be sky-high.

3. Stopping the provision of gold.

Within the global landscape, apart from the Ashoka Dynasty, there were no more NPC dynasties. Compared to before, the ratio of system gold coins compared to gold coins production was getting smaller and smaller.

The main source of growth in global gold coin scale came from the gold mines around the world.

For example, the 20 million gold that the Bantu Dynasty paid to Great Xia for firearms came from the South Africa region gold mines. Otherwise, they would not be able to create such high value with just the tax returns of the Bantu Dynasty.

During this system update, Gaia totally blocked system gold coin production. From now on, be it the imperial cities, the player quest rewards, or the lord rewards, gold rewards would not be given.

Not only that, but Gaia even blocked the channel of changing gold from the gold mines to gold coins.

Hence, on the global scale, the overall gold coin amount would not increase. For example, Great Xia’s move of turning gold coins into gold bricks would greatly reduce the amount of gold.

However, along with the industrialization wave hitting, the amount of global goods would increase explosively. During the trading process, gold coins would be sorely required.

If not, the value of gold coins would not continue to increase.

On the global scale, the value of gold coins would be uncertain for a period.

To adapt to this situation, the various dynasties needed to push out their own currencies. With that, gold coins, or rather gold, would only be used to measure value but not be the direct currency used in trading.

A new currency system would have to be created.

Of course, for the future period of time, the price of gold would still be an important consideration of the currency.

In the 8th year of Gaia that just had ended, considering the differences in global trade, Great Xia had wrapped up 200 million gold from the overseas dynasties. Along with the amount of gold it had stored, Great Xia became the dynasty with the highest amount of gold storage.

Rough estimates placed 35% of the world’s gold in Great Xia.

As a result, Great Xia held the greatest speaking power in future gold prices. If they gained the power to set the price of gold, that would be even more amazing.

Apart from that, Great Xia was also the first dynasty to establish a complete currency system.

The Great Xia currency had been used in all aspects of the Empire, exchanged in the daily expenditure of the people. As a result, the uncertainty in gold prices had the smallest influence on Great Xia.

Apart from Great Xia, the Indian Empire, Bantu Empire, and Dawson Empire all used their unique gold storages to become the biggest winners in this battle of gold.

In comparison, the various European dynasties were facing a tough situation.

4. Permanently banning nuclear technology.

Along with the second industrial revolution technology tree being unlocked, atomic bombs, thermonuclear weapons, and the like were inevitable. After all, there were no technical bottlenecks.

The power of those weapons was not something Gaia wanted to see.

In the Federation era, nuclear weapons had all been destroyed; only the usage of nuclear energy remained.

Gaia prohibited nuclear technology due to such considerations. With the threat of nuclear technology, it would be difficult for the game world to truly achieve peace.

War would never disappear from the game.

5. Opening up the Gendaya Continent.

The Gendaya Civilization was the only one out of the four that had not been released.

Legends had it that the Gendaya Continent was a continent that rose up from the sea after an underwater volcano explosion 96,200 years ago.

The current ocean region connecting Africa and South America was where this continent should have been.

The Gendaya Continent designed by Gaia. Apart from being the last unreleased map, it was also the base of the beasts. Beasts and monsters roamed this continent, and it was a 100% model of Planet Hope.

To the dynasties, this was not a good place to go.

Furthermore, the global chaos period had not ended yet, so no one would possibly want to try their luck.

However, Ouyang Shuo had a lot of interest in this. He was prepared to create an exploration team to proceed there to take a look.

Having intel of the Gendaya Continent would mean having information regarding Planet Hope.

Nothing else could compare to that.

There were only five points to the last system update.

Looking at this, Ouyang Shuo felt that Gaia was washing its hands off the matter, not wanting to interfere in the game world. The only aspect that showed its presence was probably the moving achievement value.

This year, Great Xia’s territory had increased one again. However, the quality of its development was more important, which brought with it an explosive growth for Ouyang Shuo.

Currently, his achievement value was 50 million, more than three times of last year. Now, he was halfway to the S rank permission level.

If he continued to develop at such a rate, Ouyang Shuo could be the first person to achieve S rank.

Unbeknownst to Ouyang Shuo and the other players, along with the published updates, the NPC world was also having a round of ‘updates’.

After this round of updates, Gaia’s Mother god image would be wiped from the NPCs. In their memories, the presence of the Mother god would be just a legend.

Gaia was giving the NPCs their freedom.

From now on, the game world would be truly like a real world.

There were tens of thousands of worlds, and not only physical plains were real worlds. A virtual world like the game world built on data was also a proper world.

Its essence was no different.