Chapter 1910: Server Upgrade: Epsilon
As soon as the gods were no longer in view, the people managed to get back their breaths as they held it for far too long. They were either too engrossed or too afraid of the fight that was happening in the heavens above them. The Gods of Pandemonium had literally fought another godlike entity from another universe.
The players that were able to witness the fight and even those that streamed the fight against the light goddesses were able to capture everything. They were able to glimpse at the true bodies of all the gods of Pandemonium. Although some were faraway from view, they were able to see their outlines which showed just how much gods there are in the universe.
The most amazing thing that happened is the fusion of the Twin Gods via a strange shard of cosmic energy. The Twin Gods formed into a being called the Demiurge which looked incredibly cool and graceful at the same time. The players that managed to see the outline even started to paint the form of what they saw from the Demiurge.
Some painted a veil of pure darkness that resembled the death energy while some created a version of a vined armor. Although each have their own interpretation of the Demiurge, they were able to see the core of the being that was born from the fusion of the twin gods. A core was present in the body of the Demiurge which had an interstellar galaxy inside of it.
What the players do not know is that the Demiurge does not look the same to all those that have gazed upon it. To those that know of the Twin Gods and is of a good soul, they would see the Demiurge like a godlike entity that combines life and death. To the ones that bring harm to the world like the evil gods, they would see the Demiurge as a being of pure destruction that would erase their existence.
[Attention all players! There will be a server update for the next 72 hours real time.]
[The game will be shut down for the next 72 hours.]
[All players will be logged out of the game in 10 minutes.]
[Players that are inside dungeons will be able to save their progress and continue after logging back into the game. (As long as they are not in battle with bosses)]
[Players that are in battle with bosses will automatically defeat the boss and clear their respective quest or dungeon, but the rewards taken from the boss will be randomized.]
After the sudden show of gods fighting in the skies above, numerous system messages popped up for all of the players. The next server wide update is about to commence and told the players to make sure that their progress is done. Adrian is also one of those players as he could see the Tree of Life and Death intertwine once again to reform its body. He was about to ask the Tree of Life and Death what the shard in its body was, but the game immediately froze.
[You will now be logged out in 10 seconds.]
Adrian's gaming pod opened up as well as his sisters and cousins. All of them looked worn down as they fought as soon as they dove in the game. The sudden return back to the real world made them sleepy as all of them slept which made them skip dinner. The nagging of the parents came the morning after as all of them were too hungry by the time that breakfast arrived the next morning.
Adrian and his family spent leisure time with their extended family. Since the game was upgrading for three days, he and his cousins managed to look around the ancestral home and found other things to enjoy. Adrian was able to enjoy the last days of his stay in their ancestral home before going back home. He also learned of the personalities of all his cousins and other family members.
"Thank you for being warm to us, grandpa." Adrian stated.
"Yes, thank you very much." Mina added.
"Well... come and give your grandpa a goodbye hug then." Adrian's grandfather stated as he hugged him and Mina.
"We have to go now but make sure to always keep in touch." Adrian's mother stated as she has finally softened up to her father.
"And you! Make sure to make my little girl happy or else that neck of yours will go rolling down." Adrian's grandfather stated to Adrian's father.
"Dad! Do not joke around like that." Adrian's mother stated.
"I do not think that he was joking, honey." Adrian's father mumbled as he has learned some things upon staying for a long time here in his wife's ancestral home.
"Just make sure that she is happy and healthy. That is all that I am going to require of you." Adrian's grandfather stated as he looked softly at Adrian's parents.
"I will even to my last breath." Adrian's father stated as he shook the hand of Adrian's grandfather.
"Bye!" Adrian and his family stated as they entered the van and returned back home.
In the headquarters of Atlas, all of the employees could be seen checking all of the data needed for the next server update. This was a server update and not a patch as there was too much that happened. The employees were monitoring everything that happened during the fight with the Goddess of Light Luminaria.
They were making sure that every possible scenario would happen, but they always prayed that one scenario does not come to pass. But it seems that they were unlucky because the scenario that they did not want to happen has come. The Goddess of Light Luminaria truly died due to the Chosen Nephilim bypassing her divine soul.
If the Chosen Nephilim was not captured and taken hostage, the Goddess of Light Luminaria would have only descended via a created body. She would be much easier to defeat without the death of numerous demigods and mortals. The descent of the true body of the Goddess of Light Luminaria was the start of the events that the Atlas employees dreaded.
The descent of numerous gods also made their hearts beat fast as that is not a scenario they wanted to happen as well. The descent of numerous gods meant that the Goddess of Light Luminaria would fight with all that she has. The High Gods in the game are not controlled or rather they were independent of the game developers since they became like that independently.
The AI that controlled the High Gods are very intelligent as they have thousands of years' worth of story data embedded into them. The developers could intervene somewhat via a third party, but they could never control a High God or those above that rank. The developers actually prayed that the Goddess of Light Luminaria would escape and recover her strength.
Unfortunately for the developers, the Goddess of Light Luminaria refined her entire divine realm which led her to not even escaping. The battle would have ended if she just quietly accepted the fate of being sealed back into her divine realm, but she did not. She heard the prayers of the mortals thanking other gods in sealing her back and what a terrible goddess she was.
The Goddess of Light Luminaria became mad which the developers used as a term for AI becoming unpredictable. In the end, the Goddess of Light Luminaria was killed due to her anger and pride. Due to the true death of the Goddess of Light Luminaria, the Dark Goddess of Light Zehirete emerged from her dead body.
The Dark Goddess of Light Zehirete should have been another powerful boss monster if she was given another year feeding from the faith that the Goddess of Light Luminaria acquired. The Dark Goddess of Light Zehirete would have devoured the Goddess of Light Luminaria or fused with her to create a powerful goddess of light hybrid that will become an ultimate boss that will destroy the world barrier permanently.
The destruction of the world barrier would have prompted the next server update with another code instead of the one now. The Server Upgrade: Epsilon pertains to the coming of the Primordial Beasts as they have risen from the world. It also pertains to the other worlds slowly fusing to the main world. The already large main world is now expanding tenfold due to the sudden appearance of the god they call A.
"To think that Server Upgrade: Epsilon actually happened. This would make the world even more harsh for players as they are no longer just sharing the world with gods but also the Primordial Beasts." The head developer stated but he was weirdly happy.
"Please do not smile just because your creations are now rising. It has already become tiring for all of us to cope up with all the updates that would happen in three days. The overtime is already killing my soul even though my wallet is becoming fat." The sub lead developer stated as he tried chewing on the takeout that he ordered while he worked.