(This chapter is an extra for Chapters 100–119 set in the Survival World. A reader has long requested this extra, so I've written it ahead of schedule in response. For those who don't enjoy Survival World extras, feel free to skip this chapter. Thank you for your support.)
At this moment, in a hidden laboratory on the distant planet Toska, Professor Julia's team was selecting the next world for their survival game.
When they detected that a world in a remote galaxy was undergoing an apocalyptic catastrophe, they quickly launched their upgraded Frozen Wasteland Survival Game into that world once again.
Meanwhile, trillions of light years away in Longguo (Dragon Country), the people were still reeling from a ten-year-long apocalypse. With planetary resources nearly exhausted, ordinary citizens could barely scrape by, and even powerful ability-users were beginning to live in dire straits.
Then, without warning, all able-bodied young adults received a notification at the same time: an invitation to participate in the "Frozen Wasteland Survival Game." At first, people thought it was a ray of hope.
After all, inside this survival world, they could obtain supplies—they no longer had to scavenge for expired food or drink filtered rainwater that still smelled foul.
But the longer they spent in the game, the more the people of Longguo began to realize its malicious intent.
During the end-of-month arena battles, more survivors died in just a single month than had perished in several years of the apocalypse.
In an attempt to protect their own interests, Longguo's ability-users quickly formed a Survival Alliance, hoping to uncover the mastermind behind the game. Unfortunately, their technology and abilities lagged too far behind. They were monitored, recorded, and ultimately crushed—the fledgling alliance swiftly disbanded.
A large number of Longguo ability-users were captured by Professor Julia's team and secretly smuggled back to Toska, into the team's private lab.
Back during those arena battles, the research team had already noticed the unusual physiology of the ability-users. When Professor Julia saw them wielding elemental powers—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—his eyes gleamed with bloodshot fervor. He wanted nothing more than to teleport them all in immediately for genetic testing.
However, considering the astronomical cost of teleportation, he had no choice but to hold back his grand ambition of capturing every ability-user.
Instead, he quietly reduced the difficulty and frequency of the survival game to increase the number of live test subjects and hasten results in his quest to overcome the Toskan genetic limitations.
The abducted ability-users endured inhumane torment daily. As the experiments progressed, many Longguo citizens perished under the various cruel tests. Only a few high-level ability-users survived by laying low and waiting for the right opportunity.
Finally, that opportunity came.
A civil uprising broke out on Toska—ordinary citizens had grown tired of being exploited by the ruling elite and began to revolt.
At the same time, Professor Julia's team prepared to flee and relocate their experiments to a war-free zone, thus relaxing their surveillance over the ability-users.
That was when a spatial-type ability-user from Longguo seized the moment. Using his newly mastered spatial cutting skill, he sent the entire research team straight to hell. He then led the remaining survivors in escaping the horrific facility.
Before leaving, a fire-type ability-user made sure to burn the wicked lab to the ground, burying all its dark secrets in flames.
To survive on this unfamiliar planet, the Longguo ability-users gathered a group of ordinary Toskan citizens and organized them to join the fight against the ruling elite.
After five years of internal struggle, the Longguo ability-users conquered the entire Toskan territory and established a new Dragon Country Star Domain.
Once peace was restored, they dispatched space fleets to search for other survivors and struggling citizens still trapped back on Earth.
Later, when the situation stabilized, the Dragon Country Star Domain also sent aid fleets to rescue those from other planets who had once suffered under the tyranny of the survival game. Sadly, many didn't live long enough to be saved.
In this new Dragon Country Star Domain, the leadership did not pursue authoritarian rule. All races lived together in harmony, power was decentralized, and national laws were revised.
The very first law declared:
It is strictly forbidden to interfere with the progress of other planets through survival games or conduct human experimentation. Violators will be sentenced to immediate execution.
In the blink of an eye, the formerly cold and oppressive planet Toska became a harmonious world where people lived together in love and mutual support. The native inhabitants were deeply grateful to their new leaders for driving away the once-arrogant nobles.
As for those nobles who once watched the game broadcasts from on high, most were thrown into prison for life, never to be released.
The few who managed to escape were left to wander the treacherous cosmos, living out their days as fugitives in the vast and perilous void.