“Congratulations, Challenger, you have successfully completed the challenge! The instance will now close!”
The world before Lin Ye’s eyes began to crumble.
Oceans, warships, and islands all disintegrated into mosaic-like fragments.
The Challengers around him transformed into streaks of light, one by one, and vanished.
…
The next second, he was teleported back to his rented apartment.
Virtual and reality switched instantly; one moment he was on a stormy sea, the next he was in an empty room.
At the same time, lines of glowing text appeared before Lin Ye’s eyes.
“Brave Challenger, given that your score has reached 130 points, your level has been upgraded to LV1! We will announce this good news to the entire world.”
Immediately after, Lin Ye looked up towards the window.
Above the Sky Curtain of this world, lines of promotion information began to scroll.
That was the Sky Curtain’s unique global scrolling announcement.
“Congratulations to Challenger Will Smith on reaching LV1”
“Congratulations to Challenger Kim Jae-woo on reaching LV1”
“Congratulations to Challenger Lin Ye on reaching LV1”
…
Those large lines of text were blood-red and exceptionally striking!
Lin Ye’s name was prominently displayed, being announced to the entire world on the Sky Curtain.
“Your battlefield instance creation permission has been unlocked! You can now enter the Sky Curtain’s Genesis Space at any time to create instances.”
“Given that the Challenger has just upgraded to LV1, you are specially granted a 30-day challenge exemption. During these 30 days, you will not be pulled into any battlefield instances. Please dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to instance creation…”
“Challenge exemption?” Lin Ye began to ponder.
This function, to put it simply, was the Sky Curtain’s beginner protection.
The Sky Curtain has a mechanism where instance Designers can forcibly pull a fixed proportion of Challengers into their instances based on the instance’s required number of participants!
It’s similar to targeted selection.
In this world, only a minority have the opportunity to create instances; most are still low-level LV0 Challengers.
And Challengers who upgrade from LV0 to LV1 can still be demoted back to LV0 if their scores drop.
Those high-level instance Designers naturally don’t want too many of their kind in this world; the rarer they are, the more stable their position.
Therefore, Challengers who have just upgraded to LV1 become prime targets for these instance Designers.
Due to the Sky Curtain’s transparency, many newly promoted LV1s are forcibly pulled into one high-difficulty instance after another before they even begin creating their own instances.
They are demoted back to LV0 in the shortest possible time…
Some even lose repeatedly and are eventually erased by the Sky Curtain.
Over time, the Sky Curtain also discovered this problem. Such malicious competition among people greatly affected the number of instances in this world, so the Sky Curtain added this 30-day exemption mechanism.
During these thirty days, Challengers can focus on instance creation without any disturbance from other instance Designers.
However, this opportunity is only granted once. After thirty days, the beginner protection disappears, and Challengers will still be pulled into various instances, facing life-or-death trials.
So, for Lin Ye, these thirty days were a golden development period.
Within these thirty days, Lin Ye needed to design high-difficulty instances and create top-tier technology and military weapons within them.
Then, he would upgrade to LV2, unlocking the permission to bring weapons from his own instances into other instances.
…
“Thirty days are enough for me to develop.”
“What I need to do now is create my first battlefield instance as quickly as possible.”
Lin Ye pondered to himself.
He had transmigrated to this world without any cheat or system.
However… he didn’t need any cheat at all.
Because he possessed all the military knowledge from his previous life!
A military researcher from the 21st century, arriving on a planet equivalent to Earth’s World War I era, the knowledge in his mind was his greatest asset!
Any random weapon, brought back a hundred years, would be an overwhelming existence.
As for what kind of instance to create, for Lin Ye, there were simply too many choices.
He was a gaming enthusiast, having played countless games since childhood, especially war games.
VR Cop, Beach Head 2000, Half-Life…
But these small instances were too low-level; Lin Ye wasn’t interested.
This world was so cruel; if he was going to play, he would play big.
Lin Ye already had a goal in mind.
The Five Great Powers!
He decided to start by creating instances based on the Five Great Powers.
Due to the Sky Curtain, there was no concept of nations on Azure Star.
Naturally, there were no global hegemons like the British Empire, the US-Soviet Union, or the Dragon Kingdom from his previous life.
Lin Ye could directly bring the classic instances of the United Nations’ Five Great Powers from his previous life into the Sky Curtain’s Genesis Space and create them as instances.
Any single instance from the Five Great Powers would be an abnormal existence.
Afterward, Lin Ye could acquire a large number of points through these instances, upgrade to LV2, and freely bring weapons from his own instances into other instances.
Bringing the top-tier weapons of the Five Great Powers into this world, Lin Ye could be said to be invincible. Entering any instance afterward would be like using a Green Dragon Crescent Blade to kill a chicken.
Without further ado, the top priority now was to complete instance creation as soon as possible.
“Sky Curtain, I want to enter the Genesis Space!”
“Esteemed Mr. Lin Ye, you will now enter the independent instance design space, the Genesis Space.”
The Sky Curtain’s text reappeared, but this time, the address for Lin Ye had changed from “you” to “esteemed you.”
What a huge contrast!
It showed how noble instance Designers were in this world…
“In three seconds, you will enter the instance design area.”
“Three”
“Two”
“One”
…
The countdown ended, and a beam of light suddenly enveloped Lin Ye.
The world before his eyes began to invert. All the furnishings in the rented apartment disappeared again, and Lin Ye entered a state of chaos.
When he opened his eyes again, Lin Ye saw a vast, white world.
It was empty, with no discernible boundaries, a complete void.
At the same time, virtual operation buttons and 3D joysticks appeared before Lin Ye’s eyes.
The feeling was somewhat like the PS5 and Switch controllers he loved to play with in his previous life.
He tried operating the joystick twice, and the world before him shifted perspective, as if it had completely flipped over.
“So that’s how it is.”
Lin Ye understood everything now. The so-called Genesis Space was actually an infinitely large sandbox world.
Similar to the creative game from his previous life—Minecraft.
It was only blank now because there was nothing in his own Genesis Space yet.
Understanding the principle, Lin Ye took a deep breath. He was already impatient.
Given that the people of this world knew nothing about war,
They urgently needed a little shock from the Five Great Powers.
To let them experience what modern warfare was like.