Chapter 716: Chapter 347 Winning Broadcast, Regional Barrier! (Two in One) _2 "This plan, after all, was proposed by someone else for us to follow. If they can achieve such a feat, so can we. He is Chinese, and Chinese people have always been magnanimous. Regarding these one hundred children who don’t know anything, I expect Chen Mo wouldn’t harbor serious resentment." Markus felt that this matter should be relatively easy to handle. If they were to accept the enemy’s fifth-transition professionals, it would certainly provoke dissatisfaction among the people of their entire Star System. After all, those fifth-transition professionals were, to varying degrees, stained with the blood of their Star System’s people. But innocent children didn’t pose such a significant problem. Once Jiang Yun had chosen one hundred innocent children in the Yongming Star System, the Base Administrator of the Solar System promptly received one hundred citizenship applications. After consulting with the three Alliance Hierarchs, he decided to approve them. Soon, Jiang Yun secretly brought the one hundred children back to the Solar System. All these children were orphans. Jiang Yun had specifically chosen them this way to ensure their emotional ties to the people from their original communities were weaker. After bringing these one hundred children back, the three Alliance Hierarchs immediately placed relevant marks on each of them, allowing their movements to be tracked with tools. They then dispersed the children among various orphanages on Earth. Since the children were sent directly by the Alliance Hierarchs, the orphanage administrators, despite not knowing the full situation, still took them in and educated them as they would normal children from Earth. By the time Jiang Yun and his group had finished all this, Chen Mo and his team had already occupied most of the Divine Domain. Meanwhile, within the core territory of the Yongming Star System, many people were anxiously asking their Star System’s leadership if they had any strategies to change the current situation. However, they never received an answer. Clearly, they had already arrived at the answer themselves: in the face of absolute power, no amount of cunning was useful. What other methods could there possibly be? 「Quite some time passed again.」 Finally, the Solar System successfully occupied more than ninety percent of the Divine Domain in the First Area, where both they and the Yongming Star System were located. As they completed this occupation, The Heavenly Path’s Hint and the sound of the great path resonated simultaneously. "Congratulations to the Solar System for successfully conquering more than ninety percent of the Divine Domain in the First Area, becoming the victor in the competition against the Yongming Star System! "As a special reward, the Solar System’s range will be doubled, the volume of its existing Life Planets will be doubled, one of its uninhabited planets will be transformed into an environment suitable for life, the lifespan of its star will be doubled, and the star’s energy will be distributed evenly across the planets suitable for life. "All fifth-transition or higher members of the Solar System will each receive an additional 100 points of Divine Power as a reward." Who would have thought there would be such significant benefits for the Solar System after winning? As people across the globe listened to the reward broadcast, they felt faint tremors from the ground. The sun in the sky seemed to suddenly recede slightly, yet the temperature remained unchanged, which felt rather magical. The sound of the great path continued. "The Second Area of the Tower of Eternity’s First Floor is officially open to the Solar System. Within the Second Area, higher-tier Eternity Class Abilities will become available. In the Second Area, you will face new challenges. "However, before entering the Second Area, you must first breach the regional barrier. "The more Star Systems that meet the conditions to open their corresponding Second Area, the lower the difficulty of breaching the regional barrier will be." The regional barrier was the key obstruction preventing Large Star Systems from entering the Second Area. This was also why many Large Star Systems, despite having won their wars in their own First Area, continued to linger there. The regional barrier blocked them, making it impossible for them to enter the Second Area. The difficulty of breaching this regional barrier decreased the more Star Systems qualified to enter their respective Second Areas. For instance, the difficulty of breaching the regional barrier corresponding to the Solar System’s Second Area had already been continuously decreasing as, one by one, other Star Systems met the qualification requirements. Initially, the first Star System to unify its First Area faced a state of complete despair when confronted with that incredibly difficult-to-breach regional barrier. After assessing the barrier’s strength, they lost all interest in attempting to conquer it and instead began to patiently wait for more Star Systems to gain the opportunity to enter the Second Area. Subsequently, as more and more Star Systems completed the unification of their First Areas, the strength of the regional barrier gradually decreased. It had diminished to a point where one could finally see a glimmer of hope for breaching it, but it remained quite difficult. Now, with the Solar System gaining qualification to enter the Second Area, the regional barrier had finally weakened once more, making breaching it slightly easier. Previously, those other Star Systems had been analyzing that if no new Star System unified its First Area and qualified for the Second Area, they might need another hundred years to breach the regional barrier at its then-current strength. But now, with the barrier’s strength weakening again, a hundred years would no longer be necessary; they estimated it could be breached in about a year. Breaching the regional barrier involved no complex skills; it simply relied on each professional’s attributes to "excavate" through it. The strength of the regional barrier would decrease substantially, even exponentially, with each additional Star System that emerged victorious in its First Area.