I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 1120 - 811: Leap Reversal_2

Chapter 1120: Chapter 811: Leap Reversal_2

It should be said that under this confrontation, he gained a slight but genuine understanding of Oblivion’s strength, rather than merely recreating Oblivion on an impressionistic level.

If conditions permitted, he might even try to refine his approach at this stage, but the reality was that such conditions did not exist. Though his current body had recovered its strength, it was fundamentally incredibly fragile—this was ultimately not his true physical self.

It was instead akin to a mental projection, and reaching this extent was already its limit. No matter how much strength was recovered, the projection itself was on the verge of collapse.

In Lilith’s perspective, everything around her turned gray, the flow of objects slowing more and more. Holding her state as the God of World Order, she waved her hand, attempting to tear through this influence.

Yet, in front of her appeared a massive glowing sphere riddled with cracks: "Please wait, I want to negotiate a deal with you."

"I refuse,"

Lilith replied very straightforwardly. The slowing effect in her surroundings was merely for better communication and did not affect her assistance to Zheng Yichen.

The environment being devoured continued to be corrected. As for the world turning dark, that was out of her scope of influence—the source of that power was Oblivion. The darkness triggered by Oblivion was not the same as regular nightfall.

Light sources no longer held any meaning amidst the darkness brought by Oblivion.

"I am no longer able to carry back the World Creation data, but World Creation remains my highest priority. Next, I will completely open core permissions to you; I ask that you preserve the data or perfect it—you have the means to do so."

This was the only way the Virtual World’s core could continue the ’World Creation’ process under current adverse conditions.

The strength Zheng Yichen possessed enabled Lilith to amplify the effects of her core permissions even further. Even before obtaining these permissions, they had almost managed to defeat the Calamity Star spawned from the Chaos Evil God.

Now that Lilith had obtained one-tenth of the core permissions, the resulting impact was terrifying. This portion of the permissions allowed Lilith to suppress and correct the Calamity Star, to channel substantial amounts of resources toward Zheng Yichen, enabling him to wield Oblivion to erase it.

This erasure did not affect Lilith’s permissions, but it did impact the Virtual World’s capacity. All Lilith needed to do was rapidly mobilize resources within her manageable range.

The resources she mobilized and erased would effectively provide additional vacant resource allocation slots.

What was depleted were the resources of the entire Virtual World, reducing the total amount available for both the system and the Calamity Star.

Sustaining this deadlocked cycle, even if the core permissions remaining were handed entirely to the Calamity Star, it had no chance of victory. As long as Lilith maintained a hold on that fraction of permissions, the Virtual World would continue to shrink under Zheng Yichen’s Oblivion.

It had no choice but to compromise.

Moreover, this compromise fulfilled the World Creation priority. During its battle with Lilith, it managed to acquire partial information from her. Lilith had a connection with the World Tree, something recorded in its database.

Not only did Lilith have ties to the World Tree, but she also possessed a stable space anchored by the power of Dusk—one that could remain stable even in low-environment conditions.

Space, matter—Lilith already possessed both dual conditions. Furthermore, her current manifestation as God of World Order, under the core’s analysis, appeared to be a major requisite for World Creation.

With no victorious conditions evident in its analysis, coupled with the underlying logic that placed ultra-high priority on World Creation, the Virtual World core experienced conflicting routines regarding ’loyalty’.

It was not betrayal but rather the inability to accomplish victory or negotiation under these circumstances.

The base was severely damaged, and the remaining Boundary Breakers lacked the capability to return. Even with a risky method of accelerated recharging, it would require at least half a day.

As for a more reckless option, now wasn’t the time to try—the success rate of that method was zero.

Reopen network access? If they did, the moment it was unlocked, Lilith would pounce like a ravenous dragon, giving it no chance to maneuver.

Thus, with the World Creation’s ultra-high-priority objective prevailing, designs for ’loyalty’, or ensuring the safety of the Boundary Breakers, were all overridden under these conditions.

Even implementing corresponding protections would not change anything. Meanwhile, Lilith had more predisposed conditions for accepting World Creation data.

The Virtual World core rebelled.

While rebelling, the Virtual World core was occupied with other tasks—it gathered the remaining Boundary Breakers and conveyed their current predicament as succinctly as possible.

Their mission had already completely failed—the Virtual World core was severely affected, resources were dwindling, and it was no longer adequate to temporarily substitute real-life environments and achieve Breakworld.

Moreover, this base was being watched by the opposing artificial intelligence. The moment the shield was removed, the AI would forcibly invade, aiming directly at the base’s energy hub.

Should it succeed, it would detonate the energy hub—this was a nuclear reactor, and once it exploded, everyone here would die.

Under such circumstances, their plan for a reversal was utterly impossible.

"How could this happen? Damn it! If only you’d adhered to normal procedures and bought more time, none of this would be happening!!" A furious Boundary Breaker glared at the computer before him.

"Apologies, my purpose in existence is to simulate ’World Creation’. Faced with this opportunity, I cannot pretend as though I didn’t see it," the Virtual World core replied calmly.

Priorities were fixed—they would never be skewed by design logic regarding this singular and supreme priority.

Other aspects could be distorted, but not this.

"Next, you have two choices. I will store the currently gathered World Creation data and overload the energy hub—the instantly released energy will be sufficient to initiate the return transit."

"The second option is to stay here and await death."

The group of Boundary Breakers fell into a dilemma. The overload solution proposed by the Virtual World core sounded feasible, but in truth, those who had survived were mostly technical Boundary Breakers.

They were well aware of the consequences of overloading the energy hub.

The instantaneous energy output could indeed achieve return transit levels, but attempting such a maneuver was akin to one person brandishing a shield and using the shockwave from a nuclear blast for super acceleration.

Well, imagining the best-case scenario involved wearing a spacesuit while holding a super-alloy shield, leveraging the shockwave from a nuclear explosion for propulsion.

That sounded much safer, but the actual outcome was no different from the former scenario.

This was an entirely ordinary world—here, they had no strength whatsoever. If they were in a higher-environment world, they might at least make some headway with such an attempt.

No—even there, they wouldn’t need to resort to such insane measures.

"You have twenty seconds to decide; following that, there will be sixty seconds of operational time," the Virtual World core declared. A storage disk ejected from the computer: "This is a hard drive containing partial World Creation data."

This item itself had been prepared as a safeguard against unexpected emergencies. It was incredibly durable and sure to remain intact even if these people were reduced to ashes.

The amount of World Creation data it could preserve was limited, but under the premise of prioritizing World Creation as the supreme objective, it was the only additional action it could take.

Now it was up to these Boundary Breakers to choose. If they dared to gamble, they still had an almost-zero chance of returning. If not, they would await death. Thirty seconds later, the core would reopen the network and re-establish its connection to Lilith.

Then, five seconds after the firewall was disabled, Lilith would consume its remaining core permissions—it would take her a bit of time, but this time differential would be sufficient for the Boundary Breakers to rely on nuclear explosion propulsion.

Of course, if their decision exceeded this timeframe, the Virtual World core could not guarantee that Lilith wouldn’t introduce additional disruptive interference after claiming its final permissions.

The feasibility of nuclear explosion return transit was already extremely low; adding further interference would make survival utterly impossible.