The Global Council and the Five Spectra

Within the virtual realm under the jurisdiction of the Great Xia State Administration, there were two institutions: the Virtual Realm Administration and the Virtual Realm Conquest Bureau.

Beyond that, wild special ability users could also step in. Handling the virtual realm within the country wasn’t a major problem.

But smaller nations weren’t so fortunate.

Forget suppressing their own virtual realms, they’d be lucky if they weren’t wiped out by them.

So to help them,

the world’s three strongest nations, Great Xia, Eagle Country, and Bear Country, took the lead in establishing the Global Current World Council.

Abbreviated as the Globe Council.

It specialized in managing virtual realm descent events worldwide.

If a small country truly lacked the capacity to handle its own virtual realm, it could apply to the Globe Council for aid.

Other member states with spare capacity would then send assistance.

Of course, aid didn’t come without a price.

Once assistance was requested, the virtual realm that descended within that small country would become the property of other nations.

None of its internal resource output would belong to that country anymore.

“So that’s how it is…”

Huang Xiu nodded in understanding. From this detail page, there were hyperlinks leading to the Globe Council’s official website.

But since the Globe Council was too far removed from her, she had no intention of learning more for now.

So she exited and clicked into the forum section she’d been eager to check out.

“I used to be an old-timer on Tieba. Let me see what this forum is about.”

Huang Xiu muttered. The soft white glow of the computer screen painted her face pale.

The forum interface looked somewhat similar to Tieba.

It was subdivided into many sections, some by province, some by institution.

There were even sections by rank.

For instance, one section restricted access based on strength, requiring at least the Gold rank to enter.

“Let’s check the regional section first.”

Huang Xiu clicked into the forum section for Cloudtop Province.

Cloudtop was a large province, and accordingly this section was big, with plenty of posts.

She selected the most popular posts, and then… Huang Xiu was completely stunned.

Because the most popular post was actually about her!

[Hot · An S-rank beauty appears at the Cloudtop Province re-examination, once in a decade; her score is actually, !]

“As expected, whether it’s special ability users or regular people, forums are all the same. I shouldn’t have had high expectations.”

Huang Xiu sighed speechlessly but still clicked in. She wanted to see what the poster had to say.

[This post is paid content. Please pay five yuan to unlock.]

“Damn! Miss Xiuxiu is triggered!

They’re riding on her popularity, yet she hasn’t asked for portrait rights or copyright fees.

And they still want her to pay! Honestly, what can be endured can’t be endured!

And… looking at the thousand replies in the post, tears of envy flowed from her mouth.

Five yuan unlock, a thousand replies means five thousand yuan!

One post for five thousand yuan! That’s faster than robbery!

No way, this bastard who makes money off me and doesn’t share… wait, damages my reputation, I absolutely can’t let him off.”

Huang Xiu wiped her drool and looked at the poster’s username, Great Xia’s Top Detective.

“If you’re ruthless, don’t blame me for being unjust!” She moved her little hand to the mouse and clicked the report button.

In the report field, she filled in the reason: violation of portrait rights.

She didn’t know who reviewed the Void Network behind the scenes, but right after she reported,

the entire post vanished.

“Good, good.”

Miss Xiuxiu hummed a triumphant little tune and casually refreshed the page.

She planned to take a look and then exit.

But a new post popped up.

[New · Shocking! The once-in-a-decade S-rank beauty from Cloudtop actually reported me for this reason!]

[This post is paid content. Please pay 2.5 yuan to unlock.]

“2.5 yuan? Hmph!”

“You bastard!” Huang Xiu squeezed the mouse until it creaked. “Don’t let me find out who you are!”

She tried reporting again, but this time it had no effect.

Fuming, Huang Xiu directly exited the Cloudtop Province section and opened the forum’s general chat section.

Great Xia had a total population of 1.3 billion.

Even if only one in ten thousand was a special ability user, the nationwide number wasn’t small.

And even if only a fraction of those users hung around the forum, it was a spectacular sight.

New posts sprang up like mushrooms after rain; Huang Xiu couldn’t keep up.

She had to focus on the top posts and hot posts.

The top posts were mostly introductory guides, helping special ability users new to the real world understand the current world.

Crucially, these posts were free!

And that was exactly what Huang Xiu needed right now.

She carefully read all the guides and quickly gained a basic understanding of special ability users and the current world.

“There are actually five lineages for special ability users?” Huang Xiu exclaimed in wonder, looking like she’d learned something new.

According to the guides, before modern society, research on special ability users was relatively shallow.

They were roughly divided into four types based on ability category:

Control type, Enhancement type, Creation type, and Special type.

This classification was very unscientific. Take Huang Xiu herself for example.

Her [All-Encompassing] ability possessed traits of both Control and Creation types.

Not to mention others with even more unique abilities, there were even special ability users who exhibited traits of all four types.

Later, as people’s understanding of special ability users and the virtual realm deepened,

based on the different characteristics of virtual realm creatures, the spirit defects of special ability users themselves, ability types, and the five basic emotions,

they reclassified special ability users into five lineages:

Bright Sun, representing courage, exploration, ambition, positivity, etc.;

White Tower, representing desire, insatiable greed, and longing;

Fear Skeleton, representing fear, disgust, and cowardice;

Warm Moon, representing love, kindness, and all that is friendly;

and Abyss, representing rage, madness, and aggression.

Of course, this five-lineage division wasn’t absolute. For instance, Bright Sun was actually related to White Tower.

After all, ambition itself is a kind of desire.

But compared to the crude ability-based classification, the five lineages were clearly much more accurate.

One could even determine the type of hidden spirit defects a special ability user might have through lineage classification.

“So which lineage am I?”

Lineage classification was a precise job, generally only institutions could determine it accurately.

But that didn’t stop Huang Xiu from guessing her own lineage in advance.

After all, she knew herself well enough.

First, she was smart, brave, confident, ambitious, and helpful, and second, she had a strong sense of responsibility.

So!

“I must be a Bright Sun lineage special ability user!” Huang Xiu smacked her lips smugly.

Among the five lineages, she immediately took a liking to Bright Sun.

Compared to the others, this lineage seemed tailor-made for the protagonist.

All its representations were positive and optimistic.

“Hey, what’s this?” Huang Xiu clicked into a hot post and immediately saw something interesting.

[As of May 5, 2016, the global unified update: the latest Current World Hundred Heroes Ranking!]