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Chapter 103 - A new era has begun!

Chapter 103 - A new era has begun!

As Jiang Chen expected, there was a pinned announcement on the homepage of the official forums.

[Warning: All players are advised to avoid the ruins of the ancient Dreamland City for now. We are investigating the matter and have temporarily classified this unknown force as a transdimensional power.]

"Investigating the matter... temporarily classified as transdimensional power? I almost believed it..."

Jiang Chen wore a faint, mocking smile.

He knew that the officials hadn't told the whole truth.

According to various signs that emerged later, the officials had long known that certain powers in [Gods] could affect reality.

In other words, the officials were fully aware of this "transdimensional power."

Even the fact that player attributes could be transferred to reality was only gradually revealed later.

The decision-makers were worried that an immediate revelation would cause social unrest.

"Gradual disclosure, indeed a prudent approach."

Jiang Chen murmured softly and then clicked on the announcement.

He saw three video links inside.

The first video was the game recording of the "Adventurers' Home" guild exploring the ruins of the ancient Dreamland City.

In the footage, forty to fifty people were walking through the snow-covered ruins.

Suddenly, the dozen or so people at the front froze in place, as if they had been immobilized.

A transparent bubble enveloped them, reflecting rainbow-colored light.

When others approached to investigate, they too were trapped in bubbles, frozen in place.

The second video was a compilation of several clips.

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In the footage, people in the real world were found in an abnormal state by their friends and family while wearing gaming helmets, seemingly asleep.

No matter how much they were called, they wouldn't wake up.

Some even called an ambulance...

Then came the third video.

In the footage, the guild leader of "Adventurers' Home" had already woken up.

"Hello everyone, I'm Ze Rui, the guild leader of 'Adventurers' Home.' Thank you all for your concern. I have good news: half an hour ago, all our guild members woke up and are in perfect health."

Facing the camera, Ze Rui continued, "Everyone is curious about what happened. Here is the video we recorded during our sleep. See for yourselves."

The scene then shifted back to the game.

Ze Rui and his dozen or so guild members were standing on a clean, flat surface.

In front of them were floating, peculiar buildings, resembling a sky city, looking particularly surreal.

Before long, while still in shock, Ze Rui received a system prompt.

[You are affected by the power of dreams and have entered a dream created by the Lord of Dreams. Dream duration: 20 minutes.]

[Hint 1: Find the flaw in the dream or wait for the dream duration to end to leave the dream.]

[Hint 2: Dream duration is related to level; the higher the level, the shorter the dream duration.]

"Guild leader, we can't log off, just like in combat!"

"Brothers, my dream duration is 30 minutes. How long is yours?"

"Mine is 25 minutes. Are we really going to be stuck here that long?"

Guild members voiced various concerns.

"Don't panic, let's find the flaw in the dream together!"

Ze Rui shouted.

Then, the group began exploring the sky city.

Some explored the ground, while others climbed floating stairs to the buildings.

However, they found nothing.

After 20 minutes, Ze Rui's vision changed.

He was back in the snow-covered ruins.

Beside him, two guild members of the same level had also woken up.

The transparent bubbles around them had disappeared.

...

After watching the videos, Jiang Chen quickly skimmed through the announcement but didn't find what he was looking for.

"Could it be that leveling up to 20 was too fast, and the officials weren't ready?"

Jiang Chen muttered to himself in confusion.

He exited the announcement and browsed the forums for a while.

He found that the hottest posts on the homepage were all discussions about "transdimensional power," "affecting reality," and "dreams."

The only unrelated hot post was about him.

[Shocking: The first national server Priest single-handedly sweeps through major guilds!]

Jiang Chen glanced at the content, which was a video of him previously in the Scarlet Flame Ancient Land, where he had instantly killed members of other guilds.

However, this post was almost at the bottom of the homepage.

Its popularity was far less than the discussions about "transdimensional power."

Jiang Chen then browsed other posts for a while.

At one in the morning, just as he was about to log off the forums, he saw a new announcement on the homepage.

"I knew they'd have to give some notice!"

Jiang Chen smiled slightly and clicked on the announcement.

[Maintenance Announcement: Dear players, after our investigation, we have determined that transdimensional power is a normal phenomenon in the game.

To avoid players encountering unknown dangers, we will issue danger warnings in areas where transdimensional power may appear in the game. Please explore the game with caution.

Therefore, 'Gods' will undergo global synchronized maintenance from 8 AM to 10 AM today. You will not be able to log into the game during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.]

"10 AM... not too bad, it won't affect my trip to the Dreamland Secret Realm."

After seeing the information he wanted, Jiang Chen closed the forums.

He browsed other platforms for a while.

Just like in his previous life, the topic of "transdimensional power" had already topped the trending lists on all platforms!

After all, a game affecting reality was truly a groundbreaking event!

Many bigwigs from other industries and people who usually didn't care about games had keenly noticed that [Gods] was different from other games.

This led to more and more people wanting to enter the game.

"With the revelation of transdimensional power, giants from all walks of life, both in the open and in the shadows, will want to get involved in the game."

Jiang Chen's expression turned slightly serious as he murmured, "A new era has begun!"