Chapter 443: Second Phase Of The World Update

Regardless of what Zayne thought of himself as, most people in Terra were already grateful for the Nine Rules of Order that he had established, let alone his timely intervention that prevented more people from dying in that zombie tide.

Except for those who were truly ungrateful white-eyed wolves, most people were convinced of his actions. If he were to create a faction, most people would definitely pursue becoming a member of his faction, and its scale would far surpass Henry and Alan’s Going Home Club.

Unfortunately, Zayne’s intentions weren’t that noble. He only did it since he could, but it was also the most convenient way to put everyone in debt, thereby no longer posing a threat to him and Jade.

In fact, the Loan Shark’s Ledger had proven to be more of use to him than the Death Papyrus. After all, the times he had used the Loan Shark’s Ledger were countless times more than when he had used the Death Papyrus.

It was to the point that he had made the Loan Shark’s Ledger one of his soul-bound artifacts, allowing it to grow alongside his power rank and Spirit attribute.

With his Loan Shark’s Ledger currently at Initial Divine-grade, those Terrans could forget about reneging on their debts. It could be said that due to the huge favor they owed to him for saving their lives, they were pretty much his slaves now at that point.

The only difference was that he had no interest in interacting with them. He had only placed a time bomb within them just to detonate it if they were to ever become his enemy.

Otherwise, in most cases, he wouldn’t make use of it, and they wouldn’t feel as if something within them had changed.

’It’s truly interesting that even the World Will has been fooled into thinking I’m that great. Or maybe, it is aware of what my intentions are, but it couldn’t care less.’

’After all, it should have already verified that despite my power being this high, I’m still a Terran at my core. Since I’m a Terran, then no matter what things I do, as long as it doesn’t disrupt the purpose of the Monthly Apocalypse World Update Era, then the World Will of Terra will have no reason to deal with me.’

’In fact, I even feel like it placed great importance on the Perfection Ranking compared to the Top Survivor Ranking. Due to my milestones achieved in the Perfection Ranking while ranking at Top 1, the World Will might have even favored me compared to the rest of the Terrans.’

To test that out, Zayne used Hint Prompt again. But due to how vague it was, it took him countless attempts before he got the Hint Prompt he needed.

{Hint Prompt: The World Will has indeed shown favor to you, but it is what you deserved and is also within the rules. Moreover, its favoritism is different from the favoritism of living beings, so do not mistake it for that. Whether the World Will’s favoritism will benefit you or not will depend on the situation.}

Receiving that Hint Prompt, Zayne could at least confirm that the World Will hadn’t gone hostile on him.

Moreover, with his power rank, it was impossible for him not to detect malice and hostility directed towards him. Since the World Will didn’t target him, he naturally wouldn’t bother with it.

After making the decision to keep his New Identity: Hidden Guardian Of The Forbidden Zone instead of drawing a new one, Zayne soon received a notification sound from the World Will.

-Ding!

[Your New Identity in the Perpetual Darkness World is as follows: Hidden Guardian Of The Forbidden Zone]

[When all Terrans have chosen their New Identities, the second phase of the World Update will commence, which will be the world update that will reflect the changes brought by everyone’s New Identities.]

[Five minutes from now, the world will enter its second phase of World Update.]

Hearing the World Will’s announcement, Zayne couldn’t help but comment, "I didn’t expect there’d be two phases in the World Update."

"After all, I might have woken up late when the entire world had updated to the Zombie Apocalypse World Update Theme, but there wasn’t any second phase world update due to everyone retaining their current identities."

Listening to Zayne’s comment, Jade chuckled, "Whenever I recall it, I can’t help but be surprised that darling had overslept for something as crucial as this."

"Although, at that time, I was awake when the zombies started appearing out of nowhere. But that Cultist of The One had intentionally delayed the world announcement, which caused the deaths of a lot of people who didn’t expect the zombies to suddenly appear out of nowhere."

"It had even caused me to be bitten by a zombie even with the assistance of Kyle and the others in the college."

"However, it’s hard to regret it, especially when it’s the reason that the two of us had met in the Main World Terra."

Zayne and Jade continued chatting with each other to pass the time. After all, there were still five minutes left before the Second Phase of the World Update would start, probably due to the World Will waiting for others to finalize their New Identities.

The two of them might not have redrawn their New Identities, but other Terran Top Survivors who weren’t satisfied with their first drawn identity had drawn another one.

While Zayne and Jade were chatting, Zayne had asked what Jade’s New Identity was after he explained his, to which she answered:

"My New Identity isn’t much different from darling’s. Yours was called the Hidden Guardian Of The Forbidden Zone. But in my case, it’s merely just the Forbidden Zone Master."

"As the Forbidden Zone Master, I would also be teleported later to that Forbidden Zone assigned to me. But I didn’t care much about what my identity would be since it wouldn’t affect the two of us much."

"After all, if we wanted to monopolize all the forbidden zones, no one could stop us."