Wosh.

A new treasure was being born in a fierce wind and stormy sky, accompanied by a glittering visual feast that should not be happening at this hour. A humanoid creature, unlike many other creatures, was watching this phenomenon without hiding, with an openly curious expression on its face.

The creature was surprised. Because natural treasure births were extremely rare. The vast majority of treasures were deliberately sent by the administrators and their senior moderators to specific locations, often in regions that had been too quiet for too long, in order to stir up rivalries and wars.

Natural treasures, on the other hand, could technically occur anywhere if enough mana accumulated – and that's a lot, even for him. But unlike treasures sent by administrators , which had an average value, natural treasures had a much wider range of values.

In any case, it was the first time he had witnessed the phenomenon of a natural treasure being formed, especially in a place like this, which by the standards of a planet like this was considered to be quite poor. Of course, the creature believed that the energy left behind by the two powerful beings that had accidentally drifted here and collided in the past had something to do with it.

And the creature was also interested in what it had been sent here for – how much valuable this treasure was worth. Unlike the fierce beasts that are now lurking to snatch the treasure, this creature was a great and proud moderator working under the administrators. (According to him...) And he had been sent here to make sure that the treasure that would arise from this natural treasure phenomenon was not something that would adversely affect the balance of power in the region.

In fact, when the creature received this mission and heard its contents, it found it ironic. Because the so-called "balance of power" for which he had been sent was something that had never been achieved on this planet, nor on many others. Because the purpose of the administrators was precisely to ensure that such a balance of power would never be achieved.

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The essence of this issue, which some of you may have wondered about, actually goes back to the foundation of this "planet" and even this universe. After the start of the "Great War", many divine beings, in need of new powerful beings, jointly decided to create a suitable universe. They then created countless planets – including the one on which this creature now resides – that were "suitable for training warriors". The gods' reason for creating these planets and even the universe was simple: to raise warrior creatures strong enough to use.

But even though they made the rules and laws of this universe accordingly, they later encountered an unintended problem – or, to be precise, an order – that thwarted this goal. In a sense, it was like an ecosystem. Certain species could only survive by eating certain species. And because this had become almost natural, the competitive environment they wanted was involuntarily diminished, and competition gave way to a deadly game of chase, as predators saw it as normal to be predator and preys saw it as normal to be prey.

At first the gods added the phenomena of treasure birth as a temporary solution. These treasures allowed the creatures that used or consumed them to leave their borders behind, to some extent disrupting the established predator-prey order. But that didn't last long, because this time a new order emerged.

The only significant change from the previous one- apart from the fact that the stronger hunters were joined by old preys who had acquired treasure and become stronger-was that the creatures living here understood the value of treasure and realized that they had to either compete for a newborn treasure or flee the area as fast as possible before other creatures came to compete for it.

Nevertheless, over time, as the number of strong predators and the strength of the survivors of those predators increased, there were fewer and fewer – if any exceptions – cases where the weak captured treasure and used it to become stronger. And the new order was for the strong to define their territories and exploit the prey and treasure there, while the weaker prey migrated from one hunter's territory to another hunter's territory at certain periods.

This system was able to produce strong beings, albeit in much smaller numbers than desired. But it was still far from the desired efficiency. Because at some point, the stronger hunters began to behave like weaker hunters and possible new competitors if the prey somehow consumed treasure. In other words, they immediately hunted the creatures that consumed these treasures while they were still not very strong and eliminated potential future competitors. And this further reduced the already low productivity, forcing the gods to look for a new solution.

But the gods could not focus much on this place because of the ongoing wars. Therefore, finding and implementing solutions was delayed. And eventually it was decided that a few of them would take turns taking care of this universe, while the rest would focus on the wars. Of course, those who focused on the wars would come and go here every now and then.

And all the while, new methods continued to be tried. And after many unsuccessful or incomplete methods, the current method has become the standard, except in places where experiments are still being done.

In short, it was a multifaceted system of many rungs with gods at the top – in a sense like a caste system – guided by an order of authority, and a network of systems covering a single planet connected to this system. These single planetary systems were organized by at least one administrator and many moderators, most of whom were chosen by the administrators.

The goal of the administrators was quite easy on paper, but quite difficult when it came to implementation: to ensure that a planet with no order and a lot of competition would stay that way for as long as possible. Although the gods were not completely opposed to a certain order, they decided to resort to such a way, inspired by a similar place, to make sure that this order would force those within it to compete and grow stronger.

The system they set up had two strong characteristics: to facilitate the strengthening of the creatures to which it was attached and to force them to become stronger. The system was fair in this sense. It offered each creature an opportunity in return for their efforts to become stronger, but not being crushed by those who took advantage of this opportunity depended on striving to become stronger and making personal investments to become stronger. In other words, it was imperative to constantly strive to become stronger in order to survive.

And this was exactly what the gods who created it wanted. But some of the gods didn't think even that was enough and made some additions that encouraged and even forced more competition in their sphere. And this was one of the planets where these additions were made.

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Let's rewind time a little bit to get a better grip on the beginning of events.

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In a kind of security control room with hundreds of blue colored screens of different sizes, each of which seemed to float in the air, a humanoid but majestic creature wearing a uniform that matched the theme of the room was asleep.

Each of the screens projected quite different areas. On one of the screens, a dense forest, dozens of meters thick, with trees of any color that you could find if you searched for a while; dozens of meters thick, with dense trees whose height should be given in kilometers, offered an unexpectedly quiet and tranquil and exquisite view. On another screen were images of strange creatures, some of them resembling both sea and land creatures, which could easily be said to be larger than islands found on small and medium-sized planets, wandering in shoals of too many members to count in a vast ocean, often trying to escape and sometimes attacking the much larger creatures that dwarfed them. In another corner of the room, on a giant screen, some kind of gigantic cave, which claimed dense forest to be at most a moss on a rock and vast ocean seemingly most an a puddle , stood out with a might that would have made them say it was impossible if they could see it.

But the slumbering humanoid creature paid no attention to these screens, as if to emphasize that the landscapes here were not even worth looking at. Until....

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING....

A screen smaller than most of the others suddenly turned red and began to blare loudly, almost like an annoying alarm. The creature woke with a start and, after blinking a few times and glaring angrily at the screen that had dared to interrupt his sleep, he immediately sent it to the people working under him, those who dealt with the area indicated by the screen, without even looking at the contents of the alarm. Then he fell asleep again instantly, as if he wanted to return to the beautiful dream that had been interrupted.

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DZZZ DZZZ DZZZ DZZZ DZZZ

A humanoid creature was floating in the air, resting with its eyes closed in a comfortable chaise-like armchair, when it received a call and sat up to see who had sent it and why. But what he was expecting was certainly not a new mission from an urgent call. Still, unlike the mighty creature from before, this creature would have been especially happy to take on such an interesting mission. He eagerly began to get ready to leave, but his mind was more on the mission he had received.

~Mission

~Category: Urgent!

~Content: An unexpected treasure birth phenomenon has been discovered in your district "B-3176-K13" by the administrator XXXX himself. You have been asked to prepare a report on whether this treasure is a threat to the stability of the order in that region and other surrounding regions, and to distribute this report to the surrounding regions. You must reach this region as soon as possible and report your arrival. I know you're on vacation, but hurry up, this mission has been issued by the administrator XXXX himself, so it must be very important. So the sooner you start preparing your report the better it will be for you.

The creature had indeed been on vacation for some time, but normally he would have been back at work soon anyway. So it didn't take long to prepare. Then he returned to his area of responsibility using teleportation, the most practical and safe way to travel on this huge planet. And soon he was on his way to the phenomenon he had to report, at a speed that could easily lap any supersonic airplane.

As for why he didn't teleport there directly, teleportation – especially long-range teleportation – was actually quite limited in this universe. After all, creatures with teleportation could easily escape from those without it, and that was something the gods who created this place did not want. But at the same time, after this system was set up, the administrators and moderators who worked under them had difficulty in getting from one place to another, so they set up another system in which those who were considered authorized could teleport to certain places. Of course, this teleportation system could not be used by native creatures and could only be used in a limited way by moderators. In other words, only the administrators could use these devices in their true value.

After more than a few hours of travel, the creature was very happy to see that the phenomenon was not yet over, in fact it continued to grow stronger. Because he was actually more interested in the phenomenon than in the report he was going to write. And in fact he had been observing the lights of the phenomenon for at least 4 hours, and the powerful storm for almost the last 2 hours. He had not actually slowed down his speed, but he was not flying at full speed. On the contrary, for the last 3.5 hours he was more careful to fly enjoying the scenery.

At first, when he saw the first lights of the phenomenon, he thought he was almost there, so he started to move forward, maintaining his speed but at the same time taking some short notes. However, when he realized that the phenomenon was in fact getting stronger and bigger, he did something he would not normally do and reduced his speed by almost half and concentrated on making serious observations while continuing. Of course, the part of him that likes to observe such fantastic sights also played a part in this.

After hours of travel, the humanoid creature arrived at the center of the phenomenon. He noticed creatures lurking around, too brave to run away. However, it was not the lurking creatures that caused the humanoid to turn its attention to them, but the realization of how weak the lurking creatures were. They were actually relatively strong in this area, but in the end this was only a lower-middle Tier 1 area.

Then the humanoid creature suddenly realized why it was paying attention to these weaklings that it normally wouldn't even look at for a second: such natural treasure birth phenomena often occur in the upper 3rd levels, and in some exceptional cases in the 2nd level regions as well. But even he had only seen a natural treasure appear in a Level 1 region in one or two places in very old records.

Then he remembered an incident that happened a few years ago that he thought might have caused this: two powerful hunters of Level 7 were fighting and at some point they had fallen here for a very short time. Of course, with the intervention of him and some other moderators, they were immediately removed from this area. And the damage they had caused was immediately corrected as it was already very small except for the first impact.

But perhaps in that brief moment these hunters had triggered the birth of a new treasure a few years earlier. And the director XXXX had recognized this and entrusted him with this important task. After all, a treasure caused by hunters in a level 7 region could drastically change the order of a level 1 region.

While the humanoid creature was taking notes and drawing his own conclusions, hours passed and the phenomenon was nearing its end. All the while, the power and influence of the phenomenon continued to grow exponentially. But in the end, with a giant explosion, the phenomenon ended as abruptly as it had begun.

The humanoid creature excitedly moved to a favorable angle to examine the treasure that had been born. But for a moment he did not know what to think when he saw the treasure. But what happened in the next few seconds would undoubtedly surprise both him and the other lurking creatures in the vicinity.

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A few seconds before the treasure phenomenon ended, a giant golden bird like a peregrine falcon was looking greedily and impatiently at the treasure about to be born from the tree where it was camouflaged. Already weaker than most of the hunters in the area, it had taken a great risk by coming here – to grab this treasure. And he was both ravenously hungry and bored from standing still for hours, camouflaged to avoid being seen by other hunters.

But he realized that the right moment was only a few seconds away. So he was ready to dive in before the phenomenon was over, and then to grab the treasure and run away. And he closed his eyes. He waited and waited and finally experienced the explosion. Finally he felt the effect weakening and realized that the moment was right. And it dived towards the treasure with a speed and precision not expected of a creature of this size.

The bird opened its eyes only after halfway. And in fact it felt the same emotion as the other creatures watching: astonishment. Because what emerged at the end of this phenomenon, which lasted for hours, was not a treasure, but a furry creature that looked like a strange little wolf. (Actually a fox, but they don't know that because it is a species that doesn't exist in this universe. ) And it looked more like a living creature than some kind of statue. Part of the bird was angry, had he risked his life for this, waiting here for hours?

The bird's goal was actually to get a good treasure, to get strong, and when strong enough, to fly freely in the sky, without having to be on guard against any other creature. Because of this feathered thing, he was almost caught and hunted several times before he could achieve this dream.

But eventually he calmed himself down. Maybe it was just a strange-looking treasure, or a tasty little snack. But he knew that his top priority was to escape from this area as fast as possible. So he adjusted himself and changed his course slightly so that he would not be noticed unless he paid close attention. He was going to grab this thing by the part of its neck similar to the neck of a wolf or a tiger. If it was alive, he would break its neck; if not, with his strong grip, he would immediately take the treasure away. But he was unaware that his hasty plan would be his undoing.

Just as the bird was about to grab the treasure, he could see the other creatures around him moving too. But he only mocked their futile efforts coldly, the treasure was already his. Did they really think they were faster than him? The bird had made its hasty move not because it was slow, but because it was not sure that it would be able to get to the treasure in a place like this if somehow its path to it was blocked. But now it had the treasure in its claws... ....

Before he knew it, the bird's neck had been cut by a claw. But this claw belonged not to another predator, but to the creature born of the treasure phenomenon. With this event, the environment became such that predators, already wary of each other, no longer dared to act carelessly. There was no sound in the area, except for the sound of the bird being devoured by the creature born from the treasure.

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Meanwhile, the humanoid creature moderator was focusing on something else. Before him stood a creature that, as far as he knew, did not exist in this universe. Yet he was sure that this creature was strong and would grow stronger. So he decided to put a bounty on that newborn creature, even though it was probably premature to do so. Of course, knowing that when a creature is given a reward, it will receive some increase in strength and intelligence in return, he didn't feel any guilt after giving it the reward.

And in fact, since his mission, which had kept him here for hours, was over and the fascinating view of the phenomenon was gone, he didn't pay any more attention to the here and left, after all, he could find a creature he had put a reward on at any time. So the moderator flew back to where he had come from, not realizing that he had just triggered countless events that this creature would cause in the future.