The Game of Global Mining

Very soon, all the members of the group were settled, and in the end Chun was personally arranged by Maria into a luxurious suite.

— System Prompt: You have obtained the mansion bonus of Holy Dragon Sanatorium, your Attributes are temporarily increased by 30%! You additionally receive the Dragon God’s Power bonus, current bonus progress: 0.1%

Holy Shit! A mansion, and another terrifying mansion bonus like this! And there’s even another bonus progress bar! This setup really lives up to a Divine War!

Maria blinked as she left: "Good night!"

Then she vanished with a teleport.

Uh... Originally, for the sake of the progress bar, I just wanted to quietly AFK, but if we don’t make things clear I’ll feel uneasy at night. So what "good night" really means is—like we agreed, I teleport too!

Chun took out the badge and teleported!

The scene changed, and Chun appeared in the middle of a mansion’s grand hall.

Maria was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, waiting. In that posture, her little skirt curtain couldn’t cover her curves at all.

But that wasn’t the point. The point was—the progress bar was still there?

Maria smiled: "I live just upstairs from you. So sleeping here with me is the same thing!"

Ah!

Maria stood up: "Let’s go, we’ll go to the bathroom together, we’ll wash while we talk!"

Holy... Although... but... you really are a fake fake Angel, huh?

Chun wiped sweat: "My lady, this... doesn’t seem very appropriate..."

But Maria had already started undressing on her own, stepped into the bath, and sighed: "You have a huge amount of Dragon Soul aura on you. Once the Dragon God sees it, he’ll ask you for it. Will you give it or not? Of course, the Dragon God will also give you very good rewards, whose value should far exceed these incomplete Dragon Souls."

Holy Shit! In front of a god, my tiny little collection has zero secrets, huh? Honestly, when I was absorbing Dragon Souls before, I never even thought I’d have a day where I could enter Black Dragon City, so all I had in my head was ninja-looting. And now I’ve actually entered Dragon City...

Chun hesitated: "All my skills rely on these Dragon Souls. I actually don’t want to give them up."

Maria waved her hand, and the bathwater turned into a mass of pink, creamy slime: "Then come down, I’ll cast Power of Illusion on you to help you fuse them, and cover them up a bit, and at the same time increase your strength."

Chun said in surprise: "Fuse?"

"Yeah, they’re all remnant souls, their consciousness is incomplete, not easy to use. They need their consciousness unified."

Fine, anyway in this game I’ve already become... publicly-owned by everyone and their mom, so let’s do it. This time it’s with a female boss...

— System Prompt: FBl Warning...

Maria wrapped her arms tightly around Chun’s neck and took a deep breath: "Don’t be too stressed. I’m actually not completely the same ’me’. Simply put, a thousand years ago, both the Dragon Race and the Divine Race had their eyes on Void Eden. In the end both sides pressured each other too hard, the Dragon Race suffered losses and invited the Demon Race to change the situation, but that completely infuriated the Divine Race. As a result, not only was Eden destroyed, it directly erupted into a three-race war. The Gods fell, the world was destroyed, the losses were immeasurable. After that battle, all three sides were very regretful. It’s precisely this tangled regretful intent and fragments of Divine Soul consciousness that formed this world. So, your mission is to fight out a different ending, one that leaves everyone a bit less regretful and miserable. Of course, even if you fail, it still counts as witnessing the history from a thousand years ago."

Only then did Chun understand: "So, my lady is the reinforcements invited by the Dragon Race?"

Maria smiled: "Once you step out that door, you can call me ’my lady’, I won’t nitpick. But at this moment, what should you call me?"

Chun broke into a sweat: "Dear!"

Maria shook her head and gave a cute hum: "Wrong!"

Chun sweated even more! Actually, he’d already thought of it at the time—Mary is her Clone, and also the unregistered wife who was gifted to me, so the relationship between me and her is—

"Dear wifey!"

Only then did Maria smile and give Chun a peck: "Let’s have a child!"

Holy Shit!!! That escalation is wild, okay. Even though I’m pretty awesome already, I’m still far from god level, I’m not worthy of you!

Maria continued: "That’s right, the Dragon Race really took a beating and suffered heavy losses. I’m part of the first batch of reinforcements responsible for logistics and healing. If the Dragon Race is still at a disadvantage when the battle starts tomorrow, the Dragon God will invite Demon Race reinforcements, and then the ending will be almost impossible to change. So we can only rely on you hero teams to give it a shot."

Me... I show up and it’s straight into a Divine War? The kind with nukes flying everywhere?

Wait! Chun suddenly remembered the point-farming method used by those two big bosses Michael and Uriel—they went out one ship at a time. Why? Obviously because they were afraid that if they moved too hard they’d overturn the table and cause another tragic mutual destruction!

Chun asked: "So the idea is, no other units are to be deployed, only us meritorious hero teams go up and challenge them to duels and small-scale team fights. If they don’t dare accept, we retreat while mocking them, which doesn’t really count as us taking a loss. If our small teams win, the effect is even better?"

Maria laughed: "Not bad, that’s a good approach! Then, tonight time is precious, let’s focus on having... uh, on fusing power together!"

Uh, having...

All of a sudden, Chun’s scalp went numb! If the first time she said "have a child" was just talking big, then this second time cutting the sentence halfway through probably wasn’t just bragging anymore. She’s a relatively reliable god, would she just talk nonsense? Or is this really triggering a "have a child" storyline?

Assuming that if we really do have a child, this is a thousand years in the past! When I go back, will there suddenly be a thousand-year-old child calling me dad? And will this kid be an Angel, or an Earth Flame Illusion Spirit Element, or some kind of hybrid... huh?

Wait! There’s already an Earth Lotus calling me father!

In that instant, Chun’s brain blue-screened!

Assume there’s a possibility that Earth Lotus calling me father actually isn’t the leader’s surveillance-rope trick, but... real!!

Then this time-travel-a-thousand-years plotline is actually loading and patching the logic of Earth Lotus’s birth through a "have a child" event?

Even though she was taken out from the purple mire by the leader, that can be explained as her being a Flower Spirit seed that had been sleeping for a thousand years! For a Flower Spirit to be born, it needs a thousand years, okay? The Four Flower Gods in the City Beauty’s bedroom went through a thousand years and still can’t talk, apparently.

So Earth Lotus being a thousand years old is logically sound!

Then comes the most important key! Who is Maria?

Earth Mother??

When we were repairing the Earth Mother Divine Hall, Earth Lotus also respectfully addressed Earth Mother as "Mother God"!

Which means—

If we really do have a child, and that child is Earth Lotus, then Maria’s identity is Earth Mother!!! Back then, the reason I once thought she was a fake Angel was that no Angel would dare to use the name "Holy Mother" as their own name. But if she’s Earth Mother disguised as a fake Angel, then that’s fully justified!

If Maria is Earth Mother, then from the moment I entered the first layer of Hell trials, I’d already been valued and taken care of by her! Then I kept running into her from time to time... She’s an AI on the same level as the Emperor, omnipresent!

But once I think of that little heifer...

Once I think of Grandma Oak’s kindly face...

And once I look at the mosaic in front of me...

Chun’s mindset shook, his heartbeat went erratic, his head spun; he totally couldn’t process any of this...