Chapter 1839 The Difference Between "World Fragments" and "Upgrading the World Level&

Chapter 1839 The Difference Between "World Fragments" and "Upgrading the World Level", Kazuma Sato Challenges Hikigaya
In Su Yunqing's understanding, "world fragments" are a higher-level, condensed collection of world rules, containing the rule information and primordial energy of a certain extinct or broken world.

For the world itself, absorbing these fragments is like annexing small territories, which not only increases its size but also allows it to acquire the "world origin" of other worlds, making itself stronger and richer.

For individuals with sufficient strength, world fragments are an even greater source of nourishment.

Depending on the size of the fragment and the completeness of the rules it contains, world fragments of different sizes contain different values.

However, in her view, there is essentially no difference between world fragments and upgrading the world level.

After all, as the world level increases, more rules and world origins will appear out of thin air.

Therefore, she was puzzled by Bai Xuan's statement that it was "more suitable".

Is there anything more suitable? Aren't they all the same?

The Child of Nature: "That is not the case."

Child of Nature: "Raising the world's level is like making a tree taller and thicker; it's an accumulation of 'quantity'."

The Child of Nature: "The fusion of world fragments, especially those containing information about the world's rules, is like grafting new branches onto a tree, introducing new tree species characteristics; it is an expansion of 'quality' and the sowing of 'possibilities'."

The Child of Nature: "For my current state of being, the latter is far more valuable than the former."

"World Fragments" and "Upgrading the World Level" may seem similar, since both ultimately improve the world itself, but they are fundamentally different.

"Raising the world's level" is essentially an endogenous growth that unleashes the world's own potential.

Just like mining one's own mineral deposits, all new rules and origins stem from the world's inherent foundation and framework, representing a strengthening and expansion of the existing system.

Its growth trajectory and potential are largely determined by the world itself.

The fusion of world fragments is an exogenous evolution that introduces external rules; the fragments originate from other extinct or different worlds, and the rule information they contain is "heterogeneous" knowledge that the current world does not originally possess.

The fusion of these elements is not merely a simple addition of energy, but rather the introduction of entirely new "possibilities" and "variables" into the world. It is like injecting revolutionary interdisciplinary theories into the existing knowledge system, which is expected to give rise to new rules and phenomena that transcend the original framework, and even guide the world to evolve in a completely new direction.

Of course, this is only the most idealized result.

In the actual process of integration, the information about otherworldly rules contained within the world fragments is more of a "reference sample".

These rules and imprints from other worlds often react negatively to the foundations of the native world, making them difficult to directly and completely replicate and apply.

What truly plays a decisive supporting role in the world's growth is the purest and most easily absorbed fundamental energy of the world contained within the fragments.

Moreover, world fragments provide a way to truly integrate the rules of another world into one's own world.

Although Bai Xuan can travel to other worlds through chat groups and comprehend them using his status as the "Son of the Heavens," it is almost impossible for him to directly "package" these rules and bring them back to take root and grow in the foundation of his own world.

The rule system of each world is a product of its unique spatiotemporal background and evolutionary history, and has strong exclusivity and environmental dependence.

World fragments, on the other hand, are like specially made "rule carriers" or "grafted branches." They have been processed in some way, making it possible for the heterogeneous rule information they contain to be slowly analyzed, absorbed, and even undergo benign mutations by the native world.

Normal "world fragments" don't have this effect; it's just that the chat group does it.

An ordinary group owner: "."

An ordinary group owner: "I don't understand, but whatever, in the end it's all about increasing world level."

An ordinary group owner said, "There's no need to know so much."

Su Yunqing looked at it for a while and then shook her head. Although she understood part of it, she only understood part of it and didn't understand the rest.

But it doesn't matter, since the world level has still been raised in the end.

The two rewards are actually not that different.

Child of Nature: "."

The richest man in the lighthouse: "."

The Magician Under the Moonlight: "."

A genius among loners: "."

Boil Daigo into soup: "."

Kazuma the Head-Dog: "Although I didn't understand it either, is this a valid interpretation?"

Kazuma and the human-headed dog: "Never mind, I'll go collect my reward first."

Kazuma: "I wonder how much my stats will improve if I change my class to [Destiny Thief]."

Kazuma Sato is very much looking forward to the increase in strength after changing his job to [Destiny Thief].

Although he joined the chat group and was not in danger of dying, not dying did not mean he was not in danger.

In fact, if Aqua hadn't been more reliable than the memory instance, and if he hadn't already seen the plot, his time travel this time wouldn't have been much safer than the memory instance.

Even so, he was in danger several times.

Moreover, Aqua has been acting increasingly strange lately, and it feels like she'll soon become the "despicable" Aqua from the memory arc, making his sense of security weaker and weaker.

Both logically and emotionally, he needs to become stronger so that he won't need other group members to save him someday.

He had asked around, and although the chat group had initiated rescue missions more than once, they were either due to time travelers or changes in the world, but never because of teammates messing things up.

He didn't want to be the first one in the chat group.

Xia Shizi: "I advise you not to have too high expectations in this regard."

Kasumigaoka Utaha reminded him after seeing Sato Kazuma's words.

Kazuma and the human-headed dog: "???"

Kazuma and the human-headed dog: "Why?"

Kazuma Sato asked, somewhat puzzled.

Xia Shizi: "Because I have also changed jobs, the improvement in physical fitness is not much, only a few times. It's mainly about ability."

Kasumi: "Although my strength has improved a lot since then, it's impossible to achieve a significant increase. It mainly depends on the development of my profession."

Kasumi: "But you are better off than me, because your world can become stronger through leveling up, while I can only rely on comprehension."

Kasumi Shiko: "Your strength will improve much faster than mine."

When Kasumigaoka Utaha mentioned this, a hint of envy unconsciously crept into her tone.

The purpose of the [Job Inheritance Scroll] is simply to allow you to change jobs. However, changing jobs mainly involves changes in your abilities and will not directly increase your power by many times.

While there has been some improvement in physical fitness, it's only by a few times or even dozens of times; a significant improvement is impossible.

This is true.

To improve one's skills, the key lies in further developing one's professional abilities.

As a profession in the game, development naturally involves gaining experience by defeating monsters and completing quests to level up.

However, for Kasumigaoka Utaha, her everyday world does not have so-called "monsters" or "quest systems," so she cannot accumulate experience through battles and completing quests like a game character.

She can only rely on "cultivation" and "meditation" to improve her strength through daily accumulation, understanding, and in-depth exploration of her own abilities.

Although the chat group offers a way to "buy" experience points directly, it requires too many points, and it's not worth spending so many points to level up for her at the moment.

Unlike Kazuma Sato, the world he inhabits, "Konosuba," is a highly game-like alternate world with a complete "leveling up by defeating monsters" system.

The wilderness is teeming with monsters of all shapes and sizes, from weak to strong.

More importantly, his [Destiny Thief] class is inherently linked to "danger" and "luck," meaning that the more high-risk battles and events he participates in, the better he can fit the class's characteristics and grow rapidly in adventures through skills such as [Luck Stealing] and [Probability Distortion].

His rate of improvement far surpasses hers.

Kazuma and the human-headed dog: "Physical abilities increased several times to dozens of times?"

Human Head Dog and True: "To be honest, this improvement is already exaggerated."

Kazuma Sato looked at Utaha Kasumigaoka's words and said with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

A prodigy among loners: "In a pure game, it would be an exaggeration, but in a chat group, it's obviously a bit low."

A prodigy among loners: "The greatest advantage of this profession is its potential for growth."

Kazuma and Headdog: "After I collect my rewards, how about we go to the virtual battle arena for a fight?"

Kazuma the Head-Dog: "By the way, you must have been in battle before, right?"

Kazuma Sato said to Hachiman Hikigaya with some interest.

They were considered to be at the bottom of the chat group. Now that he has obtained this profession, Hachiman Hikigaya has also gained a lot of points because of his transmigration to his own world and bought a lot of things.

However, neither of them had ever fought in a virtual battle arena.

This time it feels like a good opportunity to give it a try.

A genius among loners: "How could I not have fought?"

A genius among loners: "But are you serious?"

A prodigy among loners: "My current strength is no weaker than Gojo Satoru's."

A prodigy among loners: "The [Celestial Thief] profession only increases your physical attributes several times over; it doesn't directly boost your strength by a large margin."

A prodigy among loners: "Are you sure you want to come with me to the virtual battle arena?"

Kazuma Sato wanted to go to the virtual battle arena with him, and Hachiman Hikigaya naturally wouldn't refuse.

However, his current strength is not weak.

With his "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" that can kill everything, as well as the "jutsu" and "taijutsu" he bought from the chat group, his strength can be said to be no less than that of Gojo Satoru, the strongest modern jutsu master in his world.

If Kazuma Sato's reward wasn't something that could be developed, but rather something that directly granted him immense power, then he felt there was nothing wrong with this battle. But Kazuma Sato's reward was a "game profession" that could be developed.

Kasumigaoka Utaha also said that at most she could only improve her physical attributes by several to dozens of times, and that was under the condition that her own strength was relatively weak. Her overall strength might not necessarily improve by much.

In this situation, would Kazuma Sato fight him?

Is he serious?

Kazuma and the human-headed dog: "???"

Kazuma the Headless Dog: "You don't actually think I'm weak, do you?"

Kazuma: "Do you really think that with Aqua being a normal person and me only having Huihui and Darkness, two abnormal people, around me, I wouldn't be able to earn enough points to exchange for the items I want?"

Kazuma: "Let's put it this way, my points aren't necessarily much less than yours."

Kazuma the Headdog: "You should worry about yourself."

Sato Kazuma also expressed his dissatisfaction after seeing Hikigaya Hachiman's words.

Just kidding, who is he? It's Kazuma Sato.

Having seen the memory copy, having made a prepared trip to another world, and with Aqua, his biggest trouble, now a normal person and a chat group, how could he possibly live the same life in the other world as in the memory copy?

He's collected a lot of points, right?

Although much of it was used to buy drinks for Aqua, armor for Darkness, a staff for Huihui, and the most expensive food, he spent a considerable amount on himself.

Don't be fooled by his seemingly lackluster performance in the transmigrator mission, where he only relied on "stealing" skills. In reality, he's quite strong; it's just that the transmigrator was too powerful for him to handle.

But can Hachiman Hikigaya compare to a time traveler?
With his current strength, plus the class bonuses and skills of the [Destiny Thief], and the enhancements he received from the [Enlightenment Function] with his remaining points, he felt that defeating Hachiman Hikigaya was a sure thing.

So instead of worrying about him, you should worry about yourself.

A prodigy among loners: "While that makes some sense, why does it sound like the combined negative buffs from Huihui and Darkness aren't as strong as Aqua's?"

A genius among loners: "And if we're talking about abnormal people, you are too, right?"

A genius among loners: "But since you've said that, I'm relieved."

A prodigy among loners: "After you collect your reward, we'll go to the virtual battle arena for a fight."

In the past, it was Loki, Shendu, Uchiha Madara, and Marquis Voban who went to the virtual battle arena. Hachiman Hikigaya had never been there before, and he didn't know what it was like inside.

He was still somewhat curious about it.

I'll take advantage of this battle with Kazuma Sato to go in and have a look, and experience it for myself.

An ordinary group owner: "Hachiman Hikigaya vs. Kazuma Sato?"

An ordinary group owner: "This is an unexpected development, but it sounds quite interesting."

An ordinary group owner: "This is going to be more exciting than Loki and Marquis Voban."

An ordinary group admin: "I voted for Kazuma Sato, what do you guys say?"

Su Yunqing was very interested in this and directly voted for Sato Kazuma.

Although theoretically Hachiman Hikigaya should be stronger, considering Kazuma Sato's luck, Su Yunqing felt that Kazuma Sato had a greater chance of winning.

(End of this chapter)