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Last Embryo Volume 4 Chapter 3 Part 1

Translator: DarkHeartedAlchemist

–2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority’s First Round Gift Game 『The Lost Continent of Atlantis』–

※ Conditions for obtaining a Sun Authority:

① Voluntary transfer between participants (including the results of smaller competitions conducted between the participants throughout the duration of the main Gift Game).

② Fulfilling the conditions required for clearing the Gift Game described in the appendix to the attached map of the Lost Continent.

③ Furthermore, Sun Authority may be awarded to those who conduct themselves in the appropriate manner throughout the course of the Gift Game.

④ (To be disclosed to the Players at a later date)

※ Prohibitions and Restrictions to be adhered to throughout the course of the Gift Game:

① All of the participating Players and parties associated with them are forbidden from leaving or escaping form The Lost Continent of Atlantis before the 『Lost Continent』 Gift Game reaches its intended conclusion.

② In order to leave The Lost Continent of Atlantis properly, Players are required to either solve the mystery of the Lost Continent or clear the victory conditions.

③  While on the Lost Continent, Players are forbidden from killing other Players.

※ Rules regarding the landing order upon arrival on the Lost Continent:

① Person or party that won the most Exhibition Gift Games conducted onboard of the Giant Spirit Train 『Sun Thousand』 while on the way to the Lost Continent of Atlantis can freely choose where they wish to embark from the Giant Spirit Train.

② Upon landing on the Lost Continent, Players are required to spend two weeks, which is the designated period of 『The Lost Continent’s』 Gift Game, at their own discretion and risk

※『Lost Continent of Atlantis’』 Gift Game victory conditions:

Following the guidance of the overlapping stars, find the old hero and discover the mystery of the Chief God’s declaration

Signed by the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority’s Organizational Committee, *Seal*

A deafening silence has befallen the entire Giant Spirit Train. The only things that could be heard were the sounds of the pieces of parchment rubbing against one another as the Players were looking over the rules which were being added to them in real time along with Shiroyasha’s words, the sound of the wind howling across the halls of the Great Spirit Train and the sounds of the waves of the sea clashing against the sandy shores in the distance. What is especially worthy of note is that the participants themselves were not the only ones who were reading through the rules. Organizers, investors, Sponsors and even the more prominent of the spectators were also doing the same, all for the purpose of getting a closer glimpse of what the first round of the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority was holding in store for them.

Saigo Homura and his friends were also going through the rules of the Gift game that was about to commence the moment they were going to land in Atlantis while relocating themselves to an observational terrace outside of the wagon where the Observation Lounge was located. While spreading her fan in the middle of the stage, Shiroyasha, 『The Demon Lord of the White Night』 opened up her fan while laughing heartily.

『Everyone, I am sure that the tensions among you must be pretty high right now, so in the first place allow me to apologize for making the mood such an overly serious one, so in order to make the atmosphere a little less stiff, allow me to share a little something with you! You see, the thing is, the Gift Game you are about to take part in is not all about the rules written down on your Geass Rolls!』

『YES! Just like Lady Shiroyasha mentioned just now, rules written on the Geass Rolls are not all this current Gift Game is going to be about, so with that in mind, allow this Kuro Usagi here to gently walk you through the special rules that are going to be in effect for the first round of the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority!』

Kuro Usagi announced that with her rabbit ears all perked up. Taking the Geass Roll passed onto her by Shiroyasha, she showed it to the Laplace Eyes so that everyone who watched could see it and pointed at the five sun marks added to the bottom right corner of the Geass Roll.

『As I am sure most if not all of you are already aware, for this War for the Sun’s Authority Players are not the only ones who are involved with it. This time, various supporting Communities are involved in the organizational matters as well, and these Communities are called 『Sponsors』 respectively. These five sun marks at the bottom of your Geass Rolls are related to those 『Sponsors』!』

Supporting Communities. . . when Kuro Usagi mentioned them, a substantial amount of people gathered in the Observation Lounge began to laugh and snicker as if they just heard something funny.

Ever since its first installment has been conducted in the past, the War for the Sun’s Authority has been one of the greatest competitions in which all kinds of Spirits, Celestial Spirits, Gods and Dragons fought against each other in a battle to prove their absolute supremacy and dominance over all the other races. If the old tales are to be believed, then the War for the Sun’s Authority, the one where ultimately Shiroyasha was the one who emerged victorious from it was so intense that it crushed the old stars and created entirely new ones, altered the shape of both Little Garden and the Outer World and finally brought harmony to both of them as those two worlds continued to turn peacefully ever since. But since at the time when it was first conducted the concept of a Gift Game did not exist yet, the scale of the battles that took place during it was immeasurably greater and far more destructive and dangerous in comparison to what Little Garden has to offer nowadays, so everybody who was involved in it understood that if a conflict of such a scale were to happen again when both worlds achieved relative stability, that hard-fought stability found definitely end up getting disrupted, throwing the efforts of hose who did their best to achieve it out the window and into the thrash.

So in order to ensure that something like that will not happen again, one of the things that has been proposed as a countermeasure was the division of the participants between 『Players』 and 『Sponsors』.

『The Demon Lord of the White Night』 laughed once more while shaking her fan around her face.

『A proxy war in which Gods, Demons and Buddhas act as 『Sponsors』 to their chosen human beings. . . that is what the division into 『Players』 and 『Sponsors』 was supposed to achieve, but with the way it was originally intended, it would mean that 『Sponsors』 would have nothing to actually do in the war itself, leaving them to only watch and die of boredom while doing so, and trust me, you do not want to know what some of those guys – myself included, by the way – are capable of doing whenever we have to entertain ourselves to drive the boredom away. Sooo, in order to do something with that pesky little problem, I have come up with this very special system!』

『YES! As all of the Players are surely aware, 『Sponsors』 who take part in the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority are all Gods, Demons or Buddhas, the power of whom is unparalleled not only in the Outer World, but in Little Garden as well! That is why, for the Duration of the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority alone, these esteemed 『Sponsors』 shall be given a special privilege. . . the authority of a 『Guest Master』!』

When that new and unfamiliar term was introduced by Kuro Usagi, the eyes and ears of everyone onboard of the Giant Spirit Train turned towards her, giving her the undivided attention of all the passengers.

The authority of a 『Guest Master』. . . as Kuro Usagi went on to explain, that would be ability to temporarily borrow the power of the 『Sponsors』: famous Gods, Buddhas and Demons onto the Players they have chosen to ally themselves with, or the privilege of summoning those all-powerful beings who would normally have no way of standing in the limelight or to influence the Gift Games in any other tangible way into the fray so that they could turn the tide of the Game into the Advantage of their Players. If they really intended to implement such a system here, then it would be a total game-changer, because with the help of their 『Sponsor』, even the weakest and unassuming of the Players would be able to survive even the worst predicaments possible.