Armipotent

Fight to strive was the right word to describe what the players needed to do in the dimensional tower. Like the system told them during the World Congress, the dimensional tower was a place for the players to get resources. Those resources were not the ore or herbs kind of stuff, but the thing he could buy from the System.

The profession building or the special building was one of the many example resources. It was not something they could get easily from Earth. He got the smithy facility from the reward, but he got that from the special event. He did not exactly remember the event, but he got one from the event. Then he found another facility, the Alchemist Facility, when he visited the hospital.

The Tang Empire had two facilities in total, but that was it. The empire could not build any special building afterward, but it was different in the Dimensional Tower. He could buy that type of facility and build it in his territory in the starter city. Of course, resources such as rare herbs and rare ores are also the attraction of the Dimensional Tower.

There was no need for the empire to wait for the special event or explore more territories to find more facilities. They could buy those kinds of facilities with game coins, but the game coin was not the only thing they needed. Authority had a similar system as the level, so the players must increase their level of authority to buy certain things.

The reason Tang Shaoyang could not build the special building and profession building was that his Authority was level 0. He needed to increase his authority to unlock the building.

Tang Shaoyang fell on his butt, looking up at the stone ceiling. His brain was mushed by the overwhelming new information in his head. Of course, there was also information about how to increase his authority in his head.

There were many ways to increase Authority, easy to understand but not so easy to do. First, the players or a faction could increase their authority by killing the players and killing each other. Killing one player would give one Authority Point, and to reach level 1 Authority, one needed one thousand points. That meant the player or a faction needed to kill one thousand people.

Simple, but not so easy to do as it would lead to a war between worlds because the faction did not get the point by killing the players from the same worlds. It would be easy if the other worlds were like Earth, where the power was split between many factions. It would be hard if Tang Shaoyang had to fight The Giteron Dynasty, who managed to conquer their world.

It would be hard for Tang Shaoyang and his empire because there might be a chance that a faction from his world would side with a faction from the other world. Mindlessly declaring war against the other worlds was not the best move to increase Authority.

The second way to increase Authority was to kill the natives or monsters of this world on the eleventh floor. Each individual had the same value as one player, one point for killing one living being. It seemed the best way to increase the level of authority, but there were still other ways to increase Authority.

The third way to finish the quest that the System issued in the System Hall. Just like a mercenary, the players were doing some work for the system in exchange for the Game Coin and Authority Point.

The fourth way, the unique one, was that the native could also issue a quest for the players or the faction for Game Coin and Authority Point. Killing each other was not the effective way since it did not reward them with Game Coin, but that was the simplest way to obtain Authority.

Tang Shaoyang sat before the glowing cube and finally understood what Reinar meant that he would have a rough time. He made a fatal blunder, a blunder where he announced to everyone who waited in front of the gate that this was the first time for his world to enter the eleventh floor of the Dimensional Tower.

This Sky Tower was Mellanainia's fourth dimensional tower, meaning they had experienced three more dimensional towers than this. There was no need for Tang Shaoyang to think hard that Mellanainia had more advantages than Earth because Mellanainia had more resources; their understanding of magic might be more advanced than Earth because Mellanainia got the Magic Tower in the previous dimensional tower.

Tang Shaoyang shook his head as he realized his first dimensional tower experience might be doomed. The people from the other worlds might drool over him and his people. They would regard the Earth as the source for the Authority Point.

[Don't get those things in your head. You still need to find out how strong they are first and plan your next move. This was not their first dimensional, yet they still chose the Sky Tower. There's a chance that the other worlds send their weak force to train them, or else why would they choose to summon the second lowest level tower instead of a higher rank tower?]

Tang Shaoyang paused and thought about what Zara had said. What she said made sense. There was a chance that the other worlds might send their weak force to explore the tower because he would do so if he was in their shoes. Zara's words encouraged him; his first dimensional tower first run was not hopeless.

"Guess we have a lot of work to do," Tang Shaoyang stood up and checked the glowing cube once more. He had not checked the shop in the System Hall yet, so he wanted to know what was available for him in the shop.

[Shop 0]

"I don't have much to check, I guess," Tang Shaoyang easily understood the meaning of the number next to the shop. It was the level of his Authority.

[Shop 0]

1. One trip teleportation (Earth) — 1,000,000 Game Coins

2. Portal Gate (Earth) — 100,000,000 Game Coins

3. (Locked)

"It's fortunate that I haven't stored my coins yet," He checked how much GC he had in him, and he had an astronomical figure, 474,467,421 GC. That was the total of his coins from killing monsters on the ninth and tenth floors of the dimensional tower.

[Are you sure you want to buy Portal Gate (Earth)?]

Tang Shaoyang tapped yes, and the system told him that the portal gate was already in his inventory. He did not bother to check it because the system would not prank with such a thing. He then returned to the main menu. After taking the introduction, there was only one menu now, [Shop].

"Wait a minute. I thought the System can issue quests for the players, so where do I find the quest?" Tang Shaoyang realized that there was one missing menu, the quest board.

It was as if the system heard his confusion, the system cleared his confusion.

[The Quest Board will open once the Starter City's protection expires! The Starter City's protection will expire in 24 hours after the players from four different worlds have arrived in the Starter City!]

"Four worlds, huh?" Tang Shaoyang recalled his conversation with Reinar. The players from Allurion should have arrived earlier than him, meaning the players from the three worlds had arrived if the System counted him since he was the only player from Earth.

"Allurion is in the southwest, which means the fourth world is in the southeast. I guess I will have to check whether the four worlds have gathered."

After getting all the clues from the System Hall, Tang Shaoyang turned around and left. His next destination was the southeast region. If the four worlds had gathered in the Starter City, he must return and make some preparation for the main event.

Tang Shaoyang got out of the System Hall, then he noticed there were two groups downstairs. He could tell they were from different groups because of the distance between them.

The group on his left comprised three elves and three beastmen, and the group on his right comprised five people. He assumed they were humans because he could not see their features. The one in the front wore a long white robe and hood to cover the face, and the four were wearing white armor with helmets, so he was not sure if they were humans or other races.

Tang Shaoyang stopped in the middle of the stairs and looked back. He thought these two groups were waiting for someone else, but then he realized that he was the only one in the Administrative Building.

'They are waiting for me,' He quickly picked up the clue that these people had business with him. He descended the stairs, and sure enough, the lion-head beastmen approached him first.

"Welcome to the Starter City," The lion-beastmen put a straight face and greeted him, "My name is Ivert, and we are from The Allurion Federation."

Tang Shaoyang nodded, acknowledging the beastmen, "My name is Tang Shaoyang of Earth. Do you need something from me?" At the same time, he secretly peeked at the other group. The second group seemed to have no intention of coming forward as they remained in the same spot.

"The Council send us to…." Ivert paused for a moment and changed his sentences midway, "I heard you are a scout from Earth. We are sent by the council to send an invite for the players from Earth to a meeting. The meeting is to talk about cooperation, so I hope you can send the message to your leader. We will talk in detail twenty hours from now in the Administrative Building."