Low Dimensional Game

by Stayrr

By accident, Lu Zhiyu found the entrance to a low-dimensional world, and thus began a totally different journey! Free to control everything in the low-dimensional game, Lu Zhiyu felt like a gamemaster, and even God.

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Chapter 33: Fear of Death

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As he grew older and closer to death, Ahenaten became increasingly fearful. He feared the feeling of growing weak and knew that death was creeping closer and closer. Recalling his glorious life, he did not want it to end just yet.

Ahenaten remembered the burly man he had encountered when he was young, the archangel Faross that had held his hand and told him he would one day become a king of mankind. He was the messenger of the gods that had given him his divine sword and godly powers, and the man who had bestowed him knowledge of the gods. Ahenaten wanted to meet the angel again. Even if he had to die, he wanted to go to the Divine Kingdom and become an immortal being like that angel!

He began commissioning many temples dedicated to the Goddess of light Maria. He became a pious believer, spending a large amount of time praying in front of the statue of Maria every day.

During the last two years of his life, he took all the gold he had accumulated and ordered the best sculptors in his kingdom to make a large statue of the goddess of light out of pure gold. He ordered his entire kingdom to begin building a temple more beautiful than his own palace. In addition, he announced the state religion as the Church of Light and became the most devoted believer.

Behind every statue of the Goddess of light was a statue of a messenger with a mask on his face and a staff in his hand. He was the archangel Faross under the Goddess of light who had given Ahenaten the prophecy and his powers many years ago.

Each temple was populated by many priests and priestesses in white robes, all serving the goddess. However, despite everything he did and all the prayers he said over the few years, the Golden King Ahenaten did not manage to meet the angel, until the night of his death!

Inside the huge palace, a great fire roared in the fireplace. A rug of rare white bear pelt lay on the ground. Ahenaten sat in his great chair with a glittering, gem-filled golden crown on his head.

His hair was all white, and his face full of wrinkles. Moreover, his eyes were murky with cataracts. At the moment, he was gently cleaning the divine sword the angel had given him. However, the man who had once heroically challenged the world no longer had the strength to wield that sword.

Ahenaten sighed. In the shadows, he saw a figure approaching him. Immediately, he looked up sharply. Part of him, despite his age, was still a king.

"Why do you want to see me, Ahenaten?"

Ahenaten saw the figure who was in a white robe and a white mask decorated with the sigil of the sun in front of him. Ahenaten's eyes widened when he saw the familiar person.

"It's you! Are you really here? Or am I dreaming?" His voice was hoarse, but he sounded very excited.

Lu Zhiyu stood in front of Ahenaten and stared at him, sighing in his heart. The young boy that time was already so old at the moment. Time waited for no one; even great kings were at its mercy. "Ahenaten, you've done well," he told him. "You are the first king of mankind. Your name will forever go down in history."

"That's not what I want!" Ahenaten protested loudly.

"That's not what you said back then," Lu Zhiyu said, puzzled. "You chose this path yourself, and you are a king now. You have everything you could have ever wanted: power, status, reputation, women, wealth. Why are you not satisfied?"

Ahenaten looked at Lu Zhiyu and pushed himself out of the chair shakily. With his eyes burning with enthusiasm, he stared at the young man before him, at his lean figure and strong hands. Time did not seem to have left any trace on Lu Zhiyu's body.

"But I will still die," he said. "I finally understand, now that I am old myself, that this is all only as transient as a fleeting cloud. Only you, and the gods, are eternal! I want to be like you as well; I want to live forever!"

Lu Zhiyu could not help laughing and said the exact same thing he did many years ago, "You're too greedy!"

Ahenaten took a step forward and roared angrily, "No. I did what you asked of me. It's time for you to reward me!"

"But we never asked you for anything," Lu Zhiyu shook his head and said. "You can determine your own fate, and you chose this path yourself. I once told you: the gods gave you life and land. They gave you wisdom, powerful abilities, and abundant food. Are those not sufficient to satisfy all your needs and desires?"

Lu Zhiyu looked at Ahenaten in his eyes. "The gods are not your servants. We gave you the ability to change your destiny. If you're not satisfied with it, you must do something to change it. You cannot blame the gods for it."

Lu Zhiyu sighed. "You never did anything for us; you did everything only for yourself. But greed has blinded you. Only the things that you cannot obtain are the best!"

"I can trade anything with you!" Ahenaten shouted at once. He danced around wildly and insanity filled his eyes. "Power, money, women, everything. I just want my youth back!"

"We gave you your everything," Lu Zhiyu said, smiling. "Are trying to trade with me using something that I gave you?"

Seeing no point in talking with the old king anymore, Lu Zhiyu turned and his figure rippled and disappeared.

Seeing this, Ahenaten lunged forward. "You cannot leave!" he roared wildly in his palace. "I finished the mission you gave me! You cannot do this! You owe me this much! You liars!"

He thrashed around in rage, grabbing and smashing everything around him. In the end, he fell onto the ground like a child. "Don't leave me! Don't leave…"

Hearing the loud noises inside, the guard posted outside the room hurried in to check on the king. When he entered the room, he saw the king lying on the ground. His eyes had already lost their focus, and he was clearly no longer breathing. In his arms, he was still holding tightly onto the sword he had received from the angel, while his cold, lifeless eyes were staring at the mural of a man giving a sword and a bag of seeds to a boy under the dying sunset.

"The king is dead!" the guard screamed in terror, hurrying out of the room.

The news of the king's death spread across the nation like wildfire. Soon, Ahenaten's son was coronated and took his place as the king, continuing his father's dynasty and legacy.

Lu Zhiyu had gone to see Ahenaten purely on a sudden whim. So many things had changed over the dozens of years. The flow of time was different for him, and this was the first time he had a real sense of that.

Ahenaten longed for immortality, but the only reason Lu Zhiyu had managed to retain his youth was because of the different flow of time. Ahenaten did not know that Lu Zhiyu was not immortal, either.

Nevertheless, seeing how weak Ahenaten was in the face of time had made Lu Zhiyu more afraid of death as well. "Can I really achieve immortality?" he questioned himself.

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Chapter 34: Elixir Of Life

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This was the second time Lu Zhiyu was trying to alter his body, and he was getting more practiced at it. The biggest difficulty when it came to creating the elixir of life was solved when the elves were created. The only thing left to do was experimenting with the elixir and trying to get the success rate as high as possible.

Lu Zhiyu injected the elixir into his body and immediately felt his body changing. He was experiencing an immense change straight from within his genes. However, it was different this time. He was changing his entire body, not just a specific part of his body, and thus this attempt was much more risky. The elixir was not directed at altering a specific organ in his body. Instead, the elixir was made to change the very genetic components of his body, turning his genetic makeup into something akin to the elves.

This transformation was much more difficult than the ones he tried out before. In the past, he could never even dream of attempting something like this. However, after experiencing many alterations to his body, Lu Zhiyu now had a greater understanding about the mysteries of the genes as well as what the building blocks of life entail. The skill that went into creating the elixir of life was the peak of Lu Zhiyu's abilities!

He felt pain coursing through his body, his nervous system then shut down. Lu Zhiyu quickly laid down in the pool of nutrition liquid and almost stopped breathing. The liquid in the nutrition pool would make sure that his body would receive proper nutrition during his transformation.

Lu Zhiyu noticed that he had become thinner when he came out of the nutrition pool. His entire body felt much lighter, and his senses were heightened. His eyesight became much sharper. He took one sniff of the air and seemed to be able to distinguish various different scents that were present in the room. He felt as though he had shed a layer of skin, and was now more closely connected to the world. He knew that this ability was due to the plant genes.

Lu Zhiyu stood up, then felt as though he could not stand stably by himself. He was still not used to the changes made to his body, and his movements were restricted. He stumbled out of the tub and sat down on a nearby wheelchair. He used his mind power and got one of the ant-people push him out of the lab. Lu Zhiyu only saw how he looked like in front of a mirror in the corner of the room. He had become skinnier and his skin was soft as silk. His features had become more defined. He had undergone a huge transformation. If he was described as handsome before, he might be able to topple nations with his appearance now. Sure, those words should be used to describe beautiful women, but Lu Zhiyu was so beautiful that he might be called a demon. Lu Zhiyu had not wanted to turn himself into an elf; this was only an unintended side effect of the elixir.

Lu Zhiyu stood up, feeling the vigor of youth. He cut himself on the arm with his nails purposefully. Even the bright red blood on his pale skin looked beautiful. But within a few seconds, the wound pulled itself together and healed. "I really have such powerful regenerative ability, and have inherited the powerful life force of plants. More importantly, my circulatory system and metabolism have become more comprehensive and harmonized. My heartbeats are stronger, the energy in my blood increased and became more pure. This blood can provide my brain with a better environment and energy, making my thoughts faster and more nimble!"

Lu Zhiyu felt for his body's vital signs. It was different from observing others. Observing himself was more delicate and accurate. Now, the most important thing:

"Sub-brain, estimate my lifespan based on my current body template!"

"Confirmed! Calculating!"

Lu Zhiyu saw the model of his body start to age in the simulation only after 900 years. His body approached its end after 1050 years in the simulation!

Lu Zhiyu was very excited. From this point on, he was no longer an ordinary human. Instead, he was now a true long-lived race. The human history was only a few thousand years. Every twenty years or so, a new generation of human could be born, yet Lu Zhiyu could live long enough to witness fifty generations. He now had a longer lifespan to achieve all of his goals and plans. He believed that with his thousand-year life, he would have no problem figuring out a way to extend his life to ten thousand, a hundred thousand or more years! In the end, even if the universe would be destroyed, Lu Zhiyu would still arrive at the eventual eternity. Even though Lu Zhiyu knew that it would not be that easy, but at this point, he knew he could continue to live on, at least until he was bored of living!

Lu Zhiyu sat on his wheelchair and went through his library. He recorded and organized all the information he had used for this experiment. After that, he checked on Yala again. The elves were still in their infancy, and were still under the ant-people's care.

After a few days, Lu Zhiyu gradually got more used to his body. He opened the dimensional door and returned to his home world. The light in his storage room was still on. It was still dark outside, and he could see the lights of other buildings near him. It had not been long on Earth, however, it had been more than a year that he spent in Maria's world.

Every time he came back, he felt strange, as if he was a stranger in his own world. It was more serious this time as Lu Zhiyu's appearance had undergone a huge change. He already had difficulties using his ID in the past, now that his appearance had become more exquisite, it might become even more challenging. He would also attract too much attention.

He also knew that he would need more money and resources in the future. He had ways of getting money, but his current identity was a major limiting factor. It was probably a good time for him to get rid of the identity of Lu Zhiyu and start a new one. He would have freedom afterwards. No one would be able to track his background and his past, and he would be freed to do whatever that he desired going forward!

But Lu Zhiyu found it hard to give up his identity and name that he had used for the past twenty plus years. It represented his past and experiences.There were also his friends and classmates. Thinking about Xia Fan, Wang Yi, Li Wei, Cai Jiajia and Xiao Le, Lu Zhiyu realized that he needed more determination to to give up his past. He would have to totally end all the connections he had. All families and friends would have to be disconnected and never be part of his life again. Emotionally, Lu Zhiyu was still a normal human-being, and he hadn't been able to give up his heart yet.

He made some dinner and watched the TV for a while, then took a shower. In the shower, he looked at himself in the mirror, at his foreign face. He touched his face, his beautifully exquisite face. He looked as though he was an angel that had descended from heaven, or an elf that had came from the forest. He might even be falling for himself.

"I have already become like this, I guess I don't really have a choice?"

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Chapter 35: New Identity

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Lu Zhiyu walked out from a police station in a small town in Nanyun County, Chuan Province. He had contacted a friend of his that was selling forged identities and procured a list of people who had died, but had not yet been recorded by the authorities. He highlighted a few men that was of the same age as him, then went to the cities they lived in to apply for a replacement national identification.

Lu Zhiyu's method was simple. All he had to do was slightly hypnotize the officers with his mind power to take his cues, and they would approve the application. After that, the officers took new photos of Lu Zhiyu, and issued him the replacement national identification and the household register.

He used his mind power to affect the optic nerves of the officers, then used his sub-brain to create an image that he wanted the officers to see and sent it directly into their optic nerves. Thus, whatever they were seeing through their eyes were all things that Lu Zhiyu wanted them to see. In the eyes of an average person, the method Lu Zhiyu had used was akin to the fabled illusory spells. The security footage here was only kept for half a year. It would be hard for anyone to check up on him if something were to happen in the future.

However, since he was on Earth, he did not have the power of travelling through space like he did in the Scroll of the World, unless he left a channeling array to summon a dimensional door in that place. He would have to travel like any other normal person. He created four new identities. Even though the identities would not hold up if anyone wanted to investigate them, they would be enough for now.

After that, he went to the bank and closed all of his old bank accounts. He then created bank cards under his new identities. Now Lu Zhiyu had four different identities, as well as a bank card under each of the identity.

After he got the new bank accounts, he entered a gold exchange store with a wooden crate. There were quite a few places one could exchange their gold for cash. Some jewellers would also provide such a service. Even some banks would buy gold from customers. But these shops usually had strict criterias on the purity of the gold, mostly asking for high purity gold. The one Lu Zhiyu went to was rather reputable and orthodox.

The gold Lu Zhiyu had was from Maria's World, a stock from the treasury of the City of Gold. While he had only spent two weeks on Earth, hundreds of years had passed in Maria's World. The Golden Dynasty had ended. The palace and the Temple of Light were gone and forgotten. Lu Zhiyu found the vaults from Ahenaten's time and took a part of the deposits, which were all gold bullions.

But these gold bullions were all refined using ancient methods, its purity not up to Earth's standards. But as long as Lu Zhiyu had control of Maria's World, it was easy for him to create gold.

A middle-aged man from the store checked the colour, the sound and measured the density of the gold using a machine. He assessed each piece of the gold bullions carefully and spoke to the manager quietly for a few minutes. The manager nodded and turned back to Lu Zhiyu, "This gold is not quite up to our standards, only being 90 percent pure, may I ask where did you get this gold? Sorry for the questions, but this is quite a large amount of gold. You've got more than 50 kilograms here!"

"It was passed down through my family," Lu Zhiyu said immediately. "It's been lying in my basement for years." The man nodded, "Oh! There should be no problems then. But since its purity is not quite up to our standard, we cannot pay you as much as normal…"

Lu Zhiyu said it was passed down through the family because he knew no one would question it or ask for a certificate. A lot of people had valuables inherited from their family, so there wouldn't be any certificates. He did not know of anybody who would not buy these things just because there was no certificate!

After a few rounds of back and forth with the manager, Lu Zhiyu managed to figure out what the best price the man would pay for them with his mind power and they finally agreed on a price that also met Lu Zhiyu's expectation. After they made the deal, Lu Zhiyu instantly said, "I have some more in my car. Since I'm here already, why don't I just sell it to you as well?"

The manager gaped, "How much more do you have?"

Lu Zhiyu said immediately, "Not much, about a hundred kilograms."

"Ah!"

After this deal, Lu Zhiyu went to several different cities, dividing up nearly a ton of gold then sold them under his four different identities and depositing the proceeds into his different bank accounts. After these deals were done, the money in his bank accounts totaled around two hundred and thirty million yuan.

This was the first time he had seen so much money. It did not feel difficult obtaining these riches. If not for fearing that he would attract too much attention, Lu Zhiyu would be able to produce a few more tons of gold. Since he owned Maria's World, gold, silver, and diamonds were like the grass by the side of the road, easily obtainable. Lu Zhiyu sold a ton of gold this time under his different identities. The most attention he would get would be amongst the circle of gold buyers. He would deposit a few million into his account at a time. It might be a large amount of money to an average person, but in the context of a nation, no one would take note of such a thing!

He picked an identity with the name Mu Tao and decided it would be his daily identity. According to the records, this person had graduated from a university in Shanghai. He spent some time studying overseas. He went missing during a tragic incident and his body was never found.

He was an art major and was a bit of a recluse without many friends. He studied oil painting overseas. As an art buff, his personality was not like an average person's. Lu Zhiyu had decided to use this identity for his daily life. The others would be used as backups when needed.

He used Mu Tao's identity to purchase a flight ticket to go back home. He needed to tie the ends regarding the identity of Lu Zhiyu. This way, whatever he did from now on would be independent from Lu Zhiyu and would not affect any of his family and friends.

With two hundred million in his possession, Lu Zhiyu felt his heart thump wildly. He told himself that he was practically a god that had created a world and can manipulate destinies, and that he should not be flustered by money. However, he still felt excited. This was the first time he'd ever possessed this much money. He had also created for himself four new identities, ready to erase his past. He felt like he was in a Hollywood movie. In the Scroll of the World, he could pretend he was only playing a video game, but here on Earth, in the real world, Lu Zhiyu's sense of belonging and feelings were on a completely different level!

On the plane, Lu Zhiyu felt anxious and excited at the same time. It was as though he had finally taken a true first step forward in long journey of his new life!

Once he got home, he saw that he had several calls from Xiao Le. He hadn't been showing up at the pet store lately, and Xiao Le had been very busy. As soon as he picked up, he heard Xiao Le's angry voice, "Boss, where have you been?"

Lu Zhiyu thought for a moment, then said, "Xiao Le, something came up. I might not be able to come to the store anytime soon."

Xiao Le said in shock, "What? Then what would happen to the store?"

"I don't think I have time for it," Lu Zhiyu said with a chuckle. "If you're interested, you can have the store. You have done a good job taking care of the store. To tell you the truth, I bought the store because I was bored and I wanted to find something to do. You have been doing most of the taking care of the store. It's been hard on you!"

"What?" Xiao Le said, shocked. "But I do not have…"

"You don't have to pay me," Lu Zhiyu said. "It's a gift, like I said. After all, I didn't spend too much on the store, and have broken even already. I don't need anything in the store, nor do I have the time. It's settled, Peng Xiaole, you are now the boss of the Cats and Dogs Pet Store. I trust you. I'll send you the contract later. I have to go now. I'll see you around!"

Peng Xiaole hung up the phone and looked at the store full of chatting customers and noisy animals, still confused about what had just happened. This store is mine now?

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Chapter 36: Around the World

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Lu Zhiyu sat in front of a bar in his hotel in London, wearing a newly made suit he had ordered. It was custom made by an old and famous shop frequented by the riches. He wanted to avoid wearing famous brands again because he was called "parvenu" with his luxury-branded outfit in Russia. He was wearing a very expensive watch that cost him fifteen thousand euros. Lu Zhiyu had spent one hundred and fifty thousand euros, or close to a million yuan. Even though he did not know why the watch was worth that much, it was expensive, and Lu Zhiyu just wanted to enjoy the feeling of spending money like water!

He had spent almost a month traveling the world. He had arrived first in London. When he was learning English at young age, the first book his mother bought him was Harry Potter, and he became very interested in England. Because of this, he made England and Scotland his first stops. He had toured every place that Harry Potter featured.

After that, he went to Seattle and experienced the captivating night scenes and sunrise, finally seeing the famous Space Needle for himself. He spent a few days in Las Vegas, spending most of his time in the casino. He first lost ten million dollars, and then won it all back with another ten million more, shocking his fellow gamblers.

After Vegas he headed to Kyoto and visited the famous shrines and witnessed the wonders of geisha performances. In the Maldives, he spent his days on the beach, swimming with the dolphins, getting massages, and dancing with the natives on the beach.

He also went to eastern Africa, watching the sunset from a hot air balloon in the Serengeti National Park. He went to admire the ancient architecture in Marrakesh. Then he went to Russia's Saint Petersburg and saw the ancient palaces, taking in the Russian architecture and artistic atmosphere!

On this trip, he could spend as much money as he wanted and had the time of his life. He only flew first class, lived in five star hotels and ordered the most expensive food and wine. He tipped extravagantly. He drove only luxury cars. He had pretty models accompany him on the yacht parties at sea. He finally knew what it was like to be rich. He did everything he could think of. He had done everything he wanted to do when he was poor. He let down his prudence as if he managed to free himself from the restraints he placed on himself in the past with his new identity.

Because of his long hair, coupled with his appearance, it was hard for someone to tell if he was male or female. Lu Zhiyu opted for a very energetic crew cut, but would often still be mistaken as a woman. For example, in the bar Lu Zhiyu was at now, there were still a good amount of men looking at him, making Lu Zhiyu rather unhappy.

"Anthony! You're back." Someone tapped Lu Zhiyu on the shoulder and called. Lu Zhiyu instantly turned and saw a foreign woman with dark hair sitting down next to him. She waved at the middle aged bartender, "Ayer, a glass of whiskey!"

The bartender shrugged his shoulders, "Coming right up!"

Lu Zhiyu turned to look at the beauty, "Zoe, you found me as soon as I got back. Also my name is not Anthony, you gave me the name, but I haven't accepted it yet!"

The woman was called Zoe Sharp, the manager of the hotel. Judging from her last name, she was likely much more than just a small hotel manager. Lu Zhiyu didn't want to get tangled up with someone like her. But she'd been constantly hovering around him ever since he moved into this hotel. She smiled at Lu Zhiyu and said, "Why won't you accept it, your chinese name is too hard to pronounce. What is it again? Something like… Mo Ao?"

Lu Zhiyu lifted a brow, "It's Mu Tao. Alright, you can just call me Anthony. Even though I think it makes me sound like a wizard or something."

Zoe looked at Lu Zhiyu, "How long are you going to stay this time?"

Lu Zhiyu thought for a moment, "I'm thinking about buying a house in London and staying here for the time being. Do you have any suggestions? I want a quieter, bigger house!"

Zoe said in surprise, "You're staying in London? That's great! I've told you, this is the best city in the world!"

Lu Zhiyu smiled, "Well, I think that this is a good place for a wizard to live in."

The two talked for a while, then Lu Zhiyu returned to his room. Lately, he felt his mind power had been quite unsettled, as though he was approaching a breakthrough. He had only come to that point once before, when his mind power reached seven Source Form units (SFU). That breakthrough had allowed him to start using his mind power on people and objects outside of himself.

Counting his time in the dimensional castle, he had spent several years practicing his mind power. Because of this, his mind power was much stronger now, reaching 127 SFU. When he used his mind power before this, he could only pick up very light objects, like plastic water cups. As he worked more on strengthening his power, he began to be able to move heavier things like books and water bottles. Now, he could easily use his mind to pick up bigger objects such as the wooden chairs and table in his hotel room. When he released his mind power, it could cover a larger area instead of being restricted to just a few feet around him.

He sat on his bed and closed his eyes with his mind power enveloping his body. He saw himself floating a few inches above the bed, suspended in the air. Lu Zhiyu opened his eyes and looked at himself, "I guess I can fly now!"

He took a few laps around the room and shook his head. "This won't do, flying is too slow. I would rather run!"

Lu Zhiyu landed on his bed. Over the days, Lu Zhiyu had felt as though his mind power had reached a bottleneck. He felt his mind power and his brain syncing. This weird phenomenon had attracted Lu Zhiyu's attention. He felt that something special would happen when he finally reached that stage. His mind power had a lot of uses he was just discovering, even though it wasn't at the supernatural level he was expecting yet. He was excited to see what this breakthrough held for him.

He closed his eyes, and with his mind power, immediately opened the door to the different dimensional spaces using the timeglass in his mind. He quickly entered the zero-dimension space and started meditating. He had already developed a system of how he liked to meditate. He had a set of experienced and very mature method. He could stabilize his mental structures within the zero-dimension space, and extract Source Form to strengthen his mind power to the largest extent. This was why it only took him a few years to reach the level he was currently at.

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Chapter 37: Deified Cells

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The Source Form flowed into Lu Zhiyu's mind structure, and he felt his mind power growing again. He could feel himself approaching his limit of his meditation, and he knew that if he kept going, he could become assimilated into this zero-dimension world. At this moment, Lu Zhiyu realized that he could not pull back his mind power. His mind power had an intense transformation in this unique space. All of his mind power clamored like water approaching the boiling point.

He felt his mind power and his consciousness melding together. As the two began fusing, every shred of his consciousness became imprinted with his mind power. It seemed like his mind power was enough to hold his mind. Before, even though he had his mind power, his mind, thoughts, and memories were still dependent on his brain. After breaking through into this stage, it seemed as though his mind power could store all of Lu Zhiyu's consciousness.

"I didn't expect that my consciousness and mind power are starting to fuse together! The current strength of my mind power is strong enough to carry my consciousness?"

Before this, even though Lu Zhiyu possessed mind power, his will, thoughts, memories and feelings were all stored within his brain. His mind power was merely a sensory ability that was an extension of the brain. It did not represent Lu Zhiyu.

However, from now on, Lu Zhiyu could place his conciousness on his mind power, allowing his mind power to carry his thoughts and will. This was an idea in Lu Zhiyu's mind. It was just a possibility, but Lu Zhiyu had not began his experiments.

Once the change of his mind power was completed, he immediately retracted his mind power from the zero-dimension world and recovered to his original state.

Lu Zhiyu stood up. When he felt the change, he thought of a lot of things, especially the more important ramifications. If he could really store his will, personality and memories onto his mind power, then Lu Zhiyu would truly have stepped into a supernatural state and possess true supernatural power.

Normally, there was a limit to how much information a brain of a human being could hold. An average human's brain could only hold around five-hundred million books' worth of content. However, this also included everyday memories like images, sounds, the subconscious or the like. These things took up a large portion of a person's memory capacity! The brain was not infinite, and it couldn't hold infinite knowledge. There was also a 0.1 second lag between the brain firing a neuron and the information that was perceived. Human intelligence and the speed of the brain in processing information is also limited by this 0.1 second lag. There would be a 0.1 second wait everytime one deliberated a question.

If there was no limit to how much the brain could hold and the lag time between sensing and perception was decreased, boosting the speed of processing information to 0.001 seconds or even faster, that would mean that he could complete a day's worth of calculation and thinking in a just a minute. It would be a breakthrough in human intelligence.

This thought excited Lu Zhiyu, "How can I store my consciousness and will onto the mind power? A person's consciousness and memories are all stored within the brain. If I were to change anything for my consciousness, I would have to start with my brain. What if I imprint every cell in my brain with my mind power?"

He immediately began his work. He sent his mind power to infiltrate one of his brain cells and left an imprint. He could immediately feel the connection between this cell and his mind power. It was as if he could control the cell, and he could feel it even if it was out of his body.

"It's working!"

He could feel his mind power welling out from a nameless and magical spot, slowly infiltrating into his brain. It wasn't just entering the organ; it was entering each of the individual cells. He wanted to control his power, but found that he could not stop it. The mind power was like water rushing through a broken dam, and he could only watch it change his brain. He had changed his brain once before, dividing it into a main brain and a sub-brain, but this time it was completely different. He could sense the mind power permeating each cell, leaving an imprint on every cell's nucleus. He realized that this was not a bad thing, and he stopped trying to prevent the mind power from doing so. The mind power immediately began assimilating his brain. All the cells in his brain were infiltrated and imprinted by his mind power. It was as if his brain had been enveloped by a ball of clear water, and every single cell was cleansed by his mind power.

Physically speaking, there was no change made to the cells in his brain. However, from the mind power perspective, his entire brain now was imprinted with his mind power. Each of his brain cell was now merged into his mind power.

Lu Zhiyu could feel his brain was completed activated. Countless memories and emotions, thoughts, his personality, and even the sub-brain programming became one with his mind power. Lu Zhiyu called these cells the mind-power-activated cells, or deified cells for short. After his cells were deified, he could sense every single cell. If one day half of his brain got destroyed, he would still be able to fix it using the power of deified cells from other parts of the brain. This was not about controlling his cells. It was more about how every single cell represented his very will.

When all the cells were deified, Lu Zhiyu felt his brain rumble, as if something had exploded within the brain. He slipped into darkness. He saw that he had fallen into a strange and unknown dimension. He could see limitless information in the darkness. That was all of his memories, from the time when he was a child up until now. Lu Zhiyu raised his head to see a large silver hourglass floating in midair, and he himself became a figure of light, standing in the middle of this world.

"This is my mind power space, I can also call it my mind dimension. As for myself, this being of me is made up of pure mind power, or should I say that I have materialized my own soul? I might be the first person on Earth to fully materialize my soul!"

Lu Zhiyu acted immediately. The fusing of his mind power and brain had created a wonderful transformation. Lu Zhiyu shouted, "Sub-brain!"

"The sub-brain is awaiting orders!"

A translucent window appeared in front of him. Lu Zhiyu was elated to discover that not only was his normal brain deified, his sub-brain was also deified. The abilities of the sub-brain had also been brought over.

"Record the characteristics of the mind power and start developing and expanding the applications of the mind power!"

"Recording in progress!"

Lu Zhiyu smiled. Prior to this moment, the sub-brain could not feel mind power, nor could it document anything related to mind power neither. Lu Zhiyu was quite reactive when it came to the development of his mind power previously!

"Reorganize my memories. Categorize them along with all other information!"

"Set up a mind power information library!"

Lu Zhiyu could feel that his brain was working much faster, almost twice as fast as before. There was still a limit, but that was inevitable due to the limits of his cells, as well as the limits of his mind power. He knew that he would only get stronger from here, with the evolution of his cells and improvements of his mind power. His calculation speed would become faster and faster!

He jumped out of his bed, feeling as though he was wrapped by a spiritual glow and that he was now much smarter than before. His originally already captivating eyes seemed to be able to glow. He could tell that three people were walking by his room without using his mind power, a waiter, a man and a woman. He could also tell their height and weight through their footsteps. A man was upstairs watching soccer and a couple were taking a shower downstairs. He walked over to the window and pushed it open. He sniffed the air, and sensed through the humidity and pressure of the air, "It's going to rain at night, um…about five hours from now."

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Chapter 38: Elven Kingdom

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It had been almost eight hundred years since Lu Zhiyu left after creating the elves. The acceleration of time had also gradually decreased to about 4000 times that of normal. It had only been shy of two months on Earth, but in Maria's World, dozens of human dynasties had risen and fallen. Even the first generation of a long-lived species like the elves were entering their final years.

It had been almost fifteen hundred years since the birth of the orcs and twelve hundred since the birth of the humans. Over a thousand years of development, because of the large amounts of trade, coupled with the birth of religion and Bloodline Knights, the division between classes, as well as the rich and the poor, became wider. The civilizations also gradually went from a primordial era of cities and tribes to an era of nations. Countries of different sizes started to appear on the Alen continent. Throughout the constant separation and merges, the territories of the humans and orcs gradually expanded.

The two races expanded outward from the center of the continent. There were traces of humans and orcs on every corner of the continent. The humans and the orcs also developed more technologies as they moved from the age of tribes to the age of kingdoms and cities. Finally, iron slowly replaced copper. The two races also increased their rate of excavating mines, developing their own steel refineries.

Iron swords and armor were now used as weapons. Metal hoes, shovels and picks were now used for farming. Various powerful armies also started to appear, conquering the wilderness. These nations commanded a large amount of slaves to help gather iron ores. The world had officially entered the Iron Era from the Bronze Era!

More and more farms dotted the land, the skills of farmers improving. Artists were also thriving. Metal coins were becoming popular and heavily distributed. Lu Zhiyu watched everything unfold on the Alen continent through the Scroll of the World and was amazed. Right now, the civilizations on Alen resembled Earth's civilization at around 500 B.C.

Especially, the appearance of a large amount of Bloodline Knights, who had awakened the abilities in their genes, had created powerful families as well as religions. Their abilities were not limited to the abilities Lu Zhiyu had coded into their genes. Many abilities were also created due to the proliferation of sword techniques and the intermingling of their genes. A lot of powerful men and women even passed on their skills through their genes to their children.

What surprised Lu Zhiyu was that Bloodline Knights were even generated within the orc civilization. Over the thousand years, both races captured the other race to act as slaves. They fought with each other, and meanwhile the constant clashes and melding of cultures also produced decent number of mixed-bloods within the orc civilization, and allowed the creation of orc knights who could awakened their bloodline capabilities. In addition, some orcs also awakened the powers of ancient animals that dwelled within their genes. Since the orcs were generally stronger than the humans, the orc Bloodline Knights seemed to be even more powerful in battle!

Lu Zhiyu walked through the continent of Alen wearing a cloak, observing the transformations of the continent. The people were all wearing clothes, their clothing starting to develop various styles. In the different areas of the continent, people began developing different cultures, their cuisines also undergoing a transformation. There was the appearance of various artists, architects, sculptors, painters, musicians and even unique musical instruments. The orcs were behind in terms of cultural development. They were more adept in battle, material refinement as well as smithing technology.

Lu Zhiyu finally arrived at the edge of the ocean. Humans and orcs had settled near the ocean as well. They started to make simple boats and fish in the shallow parts of the sea, which was populated by the descendants of the fish Lu Zhiyu initially brought over. There were many different kinds of fish in the ocean now, including other creatures like coral, starfish and jellyfish. The only regret was that there were no large creatures in the ocean. The ocean was boundless, but without any large-sized creatures, Lu Zhiyu felt ocean did not live up to its name. How would it be called a fantasy world if there was no giant creatures or sea monsters?

Lu Zhiyu walked on the beach and watched the fishermen on the coast. "The humans and orcs are beginning to come into contact with the ocean. Perhaps in a few hundred, or a thousand years, they would start on their journey to conquer the sea!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at the ocean and creased his brows, "The ocean feels too boring. It would not be difficult or exciting to conquer!"

After finishing his observations on the transformation of Alen, Lu Zhiyu immediately went to Yala via a dimensional door. The once nameless rainforests now had its own name, the Forest of Life.

Elf was the lucky species that Lu Zhiyu had given most of his attention to. Compared to humans and orcs, elves were blessed with more advantages. They were born with naturally long lives, beautiful appearances and exceptional intelligence. Lu Zhiyu even gave them the feature of heredity through genes, a trait unique to humans. From all perspectives, other than the fact that it was harder for the elves to have children, they were a perfect species.

Nearly a hundred thousand elves resided in the Forest of Life. All of the elves lived in this forest without a worry in the world. Their exceptional intelligence and peaceful environment allowed them to develop a culture which was different from that of humans and orcs. They created an elegant language. They created a harp unique to the elves. Music became popular throughout the kingdom of elves. They had master sculptors and master painters, and they could create intricate elven longswords and arrows. One could see that the elves were a race that worshiped and loved art from all aspects of their lives.

Lately, however, the elves harmonious environment started to change. Fear was spreading throughout the world of elves. This was because their divine tree was showing signs of withering. The divine tree that had birthed countless elves, the divine tree that carried the elves' hope and faith, was entering its final years along with the first generations of elves. Ever since a few years ago, the Tree of Life had been unable to bear new elves. The elves were unable to stop, nor were they able to salvage this decline.

The elders had continued to investigate the reason for the withering of the Tree of Life, as well as a way to rescue it. They had tried many methods, continuously praying to the gods, but to no avail. Even though the tree still looked strong and healthy, but every single elf could feel that it was dying slowly. This led to countless agitated arguments between the elders. Losing the Tree of Life would be similar to every single elf losing a place that they could depend on spiritually.

The elves were originally divided into two parties. One party believed that the elves should forever stay in the forest and guard the Tree of Life, while the other party argued that they should expand and explore the outside world. Originally, the side that insisted on staying with the Tree of Life was more popular, but currently, the withering of the Tree of Life caused the clashes between two factions to intensify.

Lu Zhiyu walked into the forest. He spotted the elegant forms of several elves hiding among their treehouses with their bows and arrows, awaiting a prey. They coexisted with the forest, living within it, yet depended on each other. He walked past a large cluster of huts and through small villages before arriving at the capital city of the elven kingdom, Sylve. This was originally a valley, and had became a large forest. The elves had built their city around the holy lake and the Tree of Life.

The city was built into the cliff, half hidden by the lush forest. There were no walls to this city, and many buildings were carved straight out of the rock. The buildings and the trees were tangled together and formed a unique sight. Lu Zhiyu could see many bridges, fountains and spiral stairs. Behind the moat were unique towers and beautiful architectures, where lived lots of beautiful elves. They spent their days playing the harp, singing, and doing whatever their hearts desired. Their longevity and peaceful lives allowed them to have enough time to accomplish everything they wanted.

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Chapter 39: Lord of Natural Order

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Lu Zhiyu walked through Sylve, admiring the beautiful city. There were finely made statues everywhere on the street, and even the pavement had beautiful carvings on it. Every wooden building seemed to blend perfectly into nature. It was a city of forest and flowers.

The most impressive thing was the enormous tree that stood in the middle of the city. Its height had doubled since Lu Zhiyu had last seen it. The tree was like a pillar that held up the sky. The area around the Tree of Life and the lake was sectioned off. An altar was placed there, and it was considered a holy place by the elves.

Beside the lake, Lu Zhiyu stood under the Tree of Life and placed a hand on the tree trunk. Indeed, he could feel the tree starting to age slowly. What was surprising was that he could actually sense waves of consciousness in the tree, and moreover, it had a very powerful consciousness. This tree, a creature bearing both animal and plant genes, was sentient, though it had not yet gained sapience.

"Why can it develop consciousness without a brain? Maybe it was because of the elves' prayers, or perhaps its size had allowed it to become the entire forest's hive mind?"

Lu Zhiyu was sure that if he did not seal the path to the zero-dimensional space and forbid the creatures in Maria's World from extracting Source Form, the Tree of Life would have connected with the zero-dimensional space using its powerful consciousness. It would have evolved, just like the queen insects.

Unfortunately, the tree's consciousness was locked inside itself and it could not develop any mind power. Once the tree reached its maximum lifespan that Lu Zhiyu had set when he had created it, its consciousness would die with the tree.

Lu Zhiyu felt tempted. The tree had a powerful consciousness, but no mind power or intelligence. It could be a very good specimen available. After Lu Zhiyu had deified all of his brain cells, he had been wanting to create other deified creatures. This was one of the reasons he came back to Maria's World. Before he proceeded to do so, he wanted to check the changes in Maria's World first.

However, he also knew that it would be hard for ordinary creatures in Maria's World at the moment to achieve what he had achieved. Without a sufficiently powerful consciousness, one would not be able to extract and absorb the Source Form, so one's mind power would not be strong enough to allow a change in its quality. In that case, the creature could not leave any imprints in its cells. In addition, according to the sub-brain's calculations, unexpected outcomes may occur if Lu Zhiyu tried to forcefully deify any cells. Deification was not something that an ordinary person could experience!

"Sub-brain, record the tree's life template and all of its waves of consciousness," Lu Zhiyu ordered. "Develop the process of creating a deified life, and calculate its success rate!"

"Loading!"

"It will take up half of the operational capacity of the brain, and will take three days, five hours and forty three minutes to complete!"

"Confirm?"

"Yes!"

Lu Zhiyu had only wanted to inspect the changes in the world, and the tree was an unexpected discovery. He withdrew the hand he had placed on the Tree of Life. Then, he was just about to leave, when he suddenly felt someone approaching from behind.

"Who are you?"

Lu Zhiyu turned around and saw a middle-aged elf whose face had already begun to show signs of oldness. Because he had started aging, he must be one of the first generation of elves to be born. Lu Zhiyu realized that the elf was wearing a robe of the Council of Elders and wore a badge with three leaves on his chest.

"It's you!" Lu Zhiyu immediately recognized the old elf as the first elf born from the tree, the child he carried down all those years ago. In the blink of an eye, so much time had passed and the child was already old and dying. It was like Ahenaten all over again!

"Who are you?" the Elf President Mehare asked, staring at Lu Zhiyu in confusion. "No one can approach the tree without permission. Do you not know? Who are you…"

The elf suddenly paused and glanced at Lu Zhiyu's ears. "You're not an elf? Who are you? What's your race?"

The elves had always thought they were the only intelligent creatures in the world, and this was the first time an elf came in contact with a species other than themselves. Mehare seemed to be both excited and alarmed.

Lu Zhiyu looked at Mehare. "What's your name?" he asked in the elf language.

Mehare found this man very familiar. "Mehare," he said. "I'm the president of the Council of Elders."

Lu Zhiyu nodded, after which he glanced at roots of the tree. He sensed with his mind power that the ant-people he had left behind were buried under the altar after they had died.

"Don't go near it!"

Lu Zhiyu walked towards the altar. He turned his head and looked at Mehare. "You buried them here?"

Mehare looked at him, astonished. "How did you know?" he asked. "Impossible! Other than the oldest elders in the council, no one knows where those messengers of the God were buried, not even the early elves!"

Mehare asked in excitement, "Who exactly are you?"

"You're the first elf on this land, the first life born from the Tree of Life," Lu Zhiyu said with a light chuckle but did not explain. "You also have the closest connection to this tree. You can even sense its consciousness and presence, but it also tied you to this place!"

Lu Zhiyu continued, "The world is so vast. Why don't you go out and explore it?"

Mehare's eyes widened, recalling the man from his distant memories. "It's you!" he exclaimed. "You're actually here again, the all-powerful Lord of Natural Order! Did you come because you heard our prayers?"

Mehare's face was wet with tears. He lied down on his belly, kneeling in front of the Tree of Life and before Lu Zhiyu. "God, please, the Tree of Life is dying. You have to save the tree. We cannot lose it!"

"Why?" Lu Zhiyu asked, curious. "You do not need it. The tree's purpose was to create the elves, and it has fulfilled that purpose. Your kind is growing rapidly and is strong enough to sustain itself. The tree is no longer necessary. In fact, it has become a prison that keeps you here!"

Mehare straightened his body, but he was still kneeling on the ground. Looking at Lu Zhiyu, he said, "No, it is everything for us, and also our spiritual pillar. If we lose the tree, the kingdom of elves will be gone and we'll lose everything!"

"An end is just another beginning," Lu Zhiyu said, shaking his head. "It should not be the reason for you to keep yourselves hidden away. The tree's purpose is done. It can no longer give birth to any elves."

"Please…" Before Mehare could say anything else, Lu Zhiyu interrupted him.

"Saving the tree is only your own wish. You cannot represent all the elves," he asked. "There are many who want to explore the world out there. Can't you feel that?"

Lu Zhiyu held out his hand. At once, the consciousness of the Tree of Life was pulled out by his mighty mind power. It gushed towards Lu Zhiyu's hand continuously, eventually forming a figure made from light. Just like what he had guessed, the soul of the Tree of Life was naturally formed. On the spiritual level, it was a being very much like Lu Zhiyu. However, it did not have a brain or other organs that would allow it to think and have emotions. The soul was born from the Tree of Life, but the two were not closely connected.

Nevertheless, the soul did not have any intelligence or mind power, but rather only faint instincts and consciousness. It was indeed an interesting natural soul. Lu Zhiyu approached Mehare and handed him three emerald-green seeds. "These are seeds of the Tree of Life," he told the elf. "Whenever the elves are in danger, or you face an unsavable situation, you can plant a seed. A new Tree of Life will grow there and give your kind new life."

Mehare was so excited that he could hardly keep his body straight. He accepted the seeds gingerly, as if he was holding the most precious treasures in the world. "Thank you for your gift, Lord of Natural Order!"

When he raised his head, however, Lu Zhiyu was nowhere to be found. On the other hand, leaves began raining down around him. He looked up into the sky and realized that the enormous Tree of Life was aging suddenly, as if all of its life had been drained in an instant. All its leaves turned yellow and poured down onto the ground!

The leaves danced through the air, producing a spectacular, dream-like sight, and at the same time also lamenting the misery of death. All the elves sensed the change and looked at the dying tree!

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Chapter 40: Terrifying Deified Creatures

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Lu Zhiyu placed a sequoia tree in his lab and put the soul of the Tree of Life into the sequoia. Every day, he observed and examined the tree to understand more about the characteristics of souls.

At the moment, there was a fresh drop of blood in a test tube. It contained the deified cells which Lu Zhiyu had created, and he had been observing it carefully for a while now. They were his own cells, deified using the mind power he had obtained after a few days of meditation.

Ever since he had deified his brain and obtained the mind power space, the efficiency of his mediation had grown significantly. His mind power and consciousness had fused together to form his soul, which had a very stable structure. Now he could enter the zero-dimensional world for a long time without worrying about being assimilated.

Originally, increasing his mind power by one would take over ten days, and his mind power had only managed to reach 128 SFU after several years. Now, he could gain one SFU mind power increase in a day of meditation. As compared to the past, it was over ten times faster. Indeed, it was a major improvement!

Even so, Lu Zhiyu had calculated that it would take about 6400 SFU mind power to deify all of his cells. The cells in his brain only accounted for two percent of his whole body. With his current progress, it would take him at least seventeen years to deify all his cells and enter the next stage.

After some research, Lu Zhiyu now knew some characteristics of deified cells. One of them was that no changes would occur to the ordinary parts of a deified cell. The only difference was the deification. To be more precise, on the cellular level, the cell would have the characteristics of mind power and also Lu Zhiyu's spiritual imprint.

The second feature of a deified cell was that the cell was extremely invasive. Regardless of what organism the cell came into contact with, it would immediately start to corrode the cells of the organism, changing the organism's form closer to Lu Zhiyu's form.

The third thing he observed was that deified cells could be easily shaped and controlled. He could control and adjust his own deified cells freely. In this way, Lu Zhiyu could change his genes and strengthen himself according to his own imagination. He could even give himself various abilities that would otherwise only exist in legends!

When he first figured out these characteristics of deified cells, Lu Zhiyu was very excited. Such powerful plasticity and controllability… Once I understand the genetic template of some powerful creatures, I can actually turn into them. I can change myself into a dragon which can change its size and shape freely.

Lu Zhiyu thought about something else immediately. No, not just that. As long as I can understand the laws of nature, and understand how electricity and fire are formed, I can burn them onto my genes. In this way, I can possess various extraordinary abilities. It will not just be abilities from my physical body obtained via genetic inheritance. Instead, I can really control lightning, fire, metals, magnetism, gravity, and temperature!

Of course, normal cells would not be able to tolerate changes like this, but deified cells were not normal. He would be able to control his deified cells up to the smallest details, and adjust, strengthen, and modify them according to his will. Moreover, his strong restorative ability could also help him to endure such changes.

As long as his mind power was strong enough, he could truly be like a real god; he could change the laws of nature, control the elements, create massive destructions with the flip of his hand, and crush stars in just one punch.

He also knew that if he deified his entire body and became a totally deified creature, his body would no longer have any weaknesses. Even if most of his body was destroyed, as long as some of his cells managed to escape, he could revive. He could actually become an invincible, god-like being only heard in legends!

This was why Lu Zhiyu wanted to deify his entire body as soon as possible. Looking at the deified cells that he had created, Lu Zhiyu felt like he had just opened a Pandora's box.

Of course, he was still very far away from becoming a deified creature, and he would not be able to complete it anytime soon. Nevertheless, Lu Zhiyu could also start to try other things at the moment, or begin collecting information so that he would know what to do after getting deified.

Lu Zhiyu waved and summoned an ant-person who had been guarding at the doors into his lab. He hesitated for a second, after which he extracted the blood containing his deified cells with a needle and injected it into the ant-person.

Then, he opened the nutrient pool made from a freezer at the side and made the ant-person lie inside. He closed the tub off and began observing the changes to the ant-person attentively.

Immediately, Lu Zhiyu saw the body of the ant-person collapse. Then, its lean body began to expand. Lu Zhiyu could feel that the ant-person's cells were changing rapidly and drastically.

Lu Zhiyu's deified cells were assimilating the ant-person's entire body rapidly, affecting all its cells like radiation. The deified cells changed its cells and regrouped its genes. One drop of blood was all it took to completely change the ant-person.

Lu Zhiyu could feel his human genes and longevity genes assimilating the ant-person, turning it into a being that more closely resembled himself. The ant-person shrank in size, and muscles began growing around its joints. Its shell was slowly replaced by many muscles, and a layer of skin began developing over the newly-formed muscles.

"This is amazing. How can a drop of blood achieve this?" Lu Zhiyu muttered. "The invasiveness of deified cells is terrifying!" Lu Zhiyu could imagine that even if a real deified creature was dead, its corpse could still turn a barren piece of land into a hotbed for thousands of lives.

If the deified creature was powerful enough, maybe a person would be affected on the most fundamental level by just looking at the creature or being close to it. The person's form would also change towards that of the creature and become its spawn. In fact, he would never be able to escape its control. With such an ability, what could better describe the creature other than the word "demon?"

"Oh no!" Lu Zhiyu suddenly seemed to have felt something.

The ant-person's body began to quickly collapse. Within a few seconds, the ant-person's body fell apart, turning into bloody lumps on the ground.

Lu Zhiyu raised his hand and many pinpricks of microscopic cells rose out of the ant-person's body, converging back into a drop of blood in the air.

Lu Zhiyu sighed, "I failed."

Just now, Lu Zhiyu could feel that his spiritual imprints in the deified cells were invading the ant-person's cells, but they were met with resistance. The fusion was unsuccessful, and it caused the ant-person's genes to fall apart.

Lu Zhiyu put the deified blood back into the test tube and sealed it off with a cork. Then, he sat on his chair and started thinking. Ant-people are not very intelligent, but they still have their own minds. It is only natural for their bodies to instinctively resist any foreign invasion.Therefore, there was a conflict with my spiritual imprints.

So this means that if I can find someone who will not resist my will at all, I can change him, on the most fundamental level, into a spawn that carries my bloodline… Why does this sound like creating a mad religious believer?

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Chapter 41: Settling Down

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"What do you think of this one?" a man in suit asked. He was standing beside Lu Zhiyu and his face was filled with a bright smile.

Lu Zhiyu inspected the villa before him carefully and walked around its huge yard. It was a townhouse in Kensington, London, and it was over three hundred square meters in size. The villa had six floors including the basement and was very secure because Kensington was filled with many rich people. The public transport around the house was also very convenient. In addition, there were plenty of facilities around the house.

After inspecting, Lu Zhiyu found out that most parts of the house were painted white with great attention to details. It had the elegance of European designs, and the furnishings inside were also very modernized. Moreover, the yard was huge and one could sunbathe or play in it to relax.

"I'll take it," he said with a nod. "How much?"

The man's smile immediately became more friendly. "The house originally costs nine million and three hundred thousand pounds, but since Ms. Sharp recommended you here, and the owner of this house is a friend of Mr. Sharp, you only need to pay nine million!"

Lu Zhiyu calculated and found out that it cost around eighty million yuan. He knew it was a very expensive villa, but he really liked it. Moreover, he was not so concerned with money anymore. He had just won ten million dollars in Vegas, and he could use that money for this home.

"Okay, I'll buy it" Lu Zhiyu nodded. "When can I move in?"

"Anytime that is good for you, of course," the agent said, bowing. "It is fully furnished and ready for its new owner. If you need any services, you can contact me as well. I'll settle everything for you!"

Being rich really was great. Lu Zhiyu could get anything he wanted at any time. After spending nine million pounds, he became the owner of the villa. He sat down on the couch in the living room and looked around. Sunlight came into the living room through a large window. The living room was combined with the second floor, so the room looked very high and spacious. At the center of the room, there was a staircase leading to the second floor.

Over the fireplace was a taxidermied deer head. In addition, there were many abstract paintings and embedded bookshelves on the walls, giving the room a unique taste. Lu Zhiyu had not even sat down for long when the doorbell rang. He looked in that direction and saw Zoe Sharp standing in front of her car. She was wearing a black dress and looked graceful and charming. Lu Zhiyu walked over and welcomed her into his house.

When Lu Zhiyu was traveling throughout the world, he had his sub-brain record down all the common languages in the language section. With the hints from his sub-brain, Lu Zhiyu had managed to learn those languages very quickly. "How did you know I chose this place? It seems like that agent is the spy you have placed here!"

Zoe said at once, "I'm here to give you the information you need. I asked a shipyard, and these are the models they provide. Take a look."

Lu Zhiyu thanked her and took the folder. He did not have many friends here, so without her, it would be very hard for him to get everything he needed.

Even though Zoe was interested in Lu Zhiyu, she was not the passionate type of woman. Furthermore, she had some background and was probably a troublemaker. Lu Zhiyu did not want to be tangled up with someone like her. Therefore, he kept his distance with her all the time. He quickly showed her the rooms, and the two only had a brief conversation before Zoe left.

"This one is too small!"

"Not this one."

"This one looks decent enough."

Because the mind power and deified blood Lu Zhiyu could use at the moment were too little, he had decided to go in another direction to find out the characteristics of deified creatures. First, he wanted to see if he could do something to change the soul of the Tree of Life into a deified creature.

Because such creatures were too dangerous, and the space inside the dimensional castle was too small, Lu Zhiyu decided to do his experiments on the seas in Maria's World. However, he needed a yacht so that it would be easier for him to go out to the sea and carry out his experiments. Clearly, he could not keep using his mind power to sustain himself on the sea, carry out experiments, and at the same time observe the creatures closely!

Apart from that, Lu Zhiyu also used another identity to order a set of professional medical equipment from Paul's Medical Equipment.

Previously, Lu Zhiyu had run through quite a lot of such equipment so he had chosen the cheapest supplies possible. However, this time, Lu Zhiyu planned to use only the best equipment available. He also talked with some people on the internet on how to build hibernation chambers and nutrition chambers. These things would be very useful in experiments involving changing and combining different live specimens, and they were also essential for Lu Zhiyu himself.

He was not one hundred percent certain whether he would succeed in building these chambers or not. At the moment, he had ordered some materials from Paul's Medical Equipment and several other companies, and would soon try to build them.

The hardest things to make were actually the nutrient and restoration fluids. Of course, he already had plenty of those on hand. When he was changing his own body, he had considered about similar problems. After all, during both modifications to his body, he had used nutrient fluids. Hence, Lu Zhiyu was quite confident that he would be able to build the seemingly high-tech nutrition and hibernation chambers.

He had already confirmed his order, but the items still needed time to be delivered. He felt that the logistics overseas was not as developed and timely as his own country. While waiting for the medical supplies, he decided to look at which yacht he would buy first.

It was not simple to purchase a yacht as there were many procedures. After Lu Zhiyu made his order, the factory would still need to spend time making the yacht perfect. After that, he would need to obtain a certificate of competency to actually operate the yacht and a place in the harbor to park the yacht.

More importantly, after browsing through the information he had just received from Zoe, he realized that most of the yachts were not actually ready for sale. From ordering to actually getting the yacht, Lu Zhiyu had to wait for half a year to one year. He really did not have that much time to wait!

"Forget it, if I have time to go through so much trouble, I might as well choose one at the pier and steal it. Anyway, I'm not going to operate it in this world!"

Lu Zhiyu finally decided to go to the seaside and choose one that he liked. However, because he did not know much about ships and also how to actually sail a yacht, he decided to do some research on the internet first.

Lu Zhiyu read about the descriptions of various yachts, as well as the precautions during saling. Looking at yachts of different models and sizes, and many other details about sailing, Lu Zhiyu realized that it was all quite complicated and was not something he could understand fully by reading a single book. In particular, some of the bigger yachts could not even be operated by just one person.

As Lu Zhiyu surfed the internet, his interest suddenly peaked when he saw something accidentally. At the instant he saw it, his eyes sparkled with excitement.

"Wow! This looks amazing. It'll be fantastic if I can get it!"

Lu Zhiyu enlarged the image with his mouse. On his screen, there was a picture of a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with the USA flag on it. Lu Zhiyu felt that this was the king of the seas and all men would want to possess it!

However, if he really stole this, the whole world would be stirred up. He lay his chin on his hand and thought carefully about whether he should do it. Even if he could not operate the carrier, it would still make a great base and laboratory on the sea. In the meantime, he could examine the carrier as he was very curious about such things, not to mention that it was nuclear-powered.

Should I do it? he thought.

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Chapter 42: Biological Chamber

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The Port of London was located along the banks of the River Thames to the southeast of London. Lu ZHiyu drove to the port in a brand new Range Rover Evoque, and he could see the London Bridge and the beautiful night scenery in the distance. This was an important arterial road of London. Ships were coming and going very frequently, and it was still very busy here despite the falling darkness.

From faraway, Lu Zhiyu could already see the liveliness of the port. There were still many ships out on the sea. In addition, there were also many ships docking, loading or unloading their cargos. Ships of various sizes packed the dock, creating a busy scene.

Lu Zhiyu walked around until he found where the medium-sized and small-sized ships were docked. The port was twisting and turning. Lu Zhiyu walked down a straight path and saw dozens of ships docked around. Among them, there were quite a few yachts!

This one looks good!

In the distance, Lu Zhiyu saw a yacht with three floors. It looked luxurious and extraordinary. With its white streamline body, it looked as elegant and graceful as a shuttle!

Lu Zhiyu did not go closer to the yacht and only looked at it, knowing that going any further would cause him to be caught by the security camera. He looked around a little bit more before turning to leave. Before he left, he took out a one pound coin from his pocket. Tossing it gently, the coin was pushed with his mind power onto the yacht that was a few hundred meters away. The coin rolled on the deck and eventually turned into a corner.

The coin had Lu Zhiyu's spiritual imprint on it. The channelling array for the dimensional door would be activated at dawn, bringing Lu Zhiyu the yacht that he had chosen!

Lu Zhiyu walked back to his car and left the harbor. He thought about stealing the aircraft carrier. Moreover, he even checked online for the harbors where the Nimitz-class carriers were docked and almost bought the ticket to go there!

However, after thinking about it, he still felt that this would be too crazy and there was also no point in stealing that kind of ship. He did not know how to operate it anyway, and it would very likely bring him unnecessary trouble he would not be able to deal with.

After Lu Zhiyu left, the night deepened. Suddenly, somewhere in the depths of the Port of London, air blurred and space folded. A yacht immediately vanished with it!

The next morning, a group of people were standing on the harbor, arguing. Everyone was discussing and making wild guesses about the weird incident that had occurred the night before.

A furious white, fat guy was standing there, cursing all the workers of the port. "Where's my White Shark?!" he roared. "I didn't pay you all that docking fees for you to lose it!"

"We apologize, Mr. Babo" the harbor worker said. "We looked up the security tape, but strangely, it seems that your yacht disappeared by itself during the night."

The man was clearly raging. "By itself? You're saying it grew wings and flew away? Do I look that stupid to you? I'll sue you; it must have been you all! You just wait, my lawyer will send all of you idiots into jail!"

On the other hand, at the moment, Lu Zhiyu was operating the yacht leisurely in his beach shorts. He had found the instruction manual and operation manual in the yacht and read over it carefully. Then, he immediately managed to sail the yacht according to the manuals.

Lu Zhiyu had to admit that it was a cool experience. It was a very large yacht with a lot of utilities and three floors. The bottom floor had the master room, a guest room, and a restroom. The middle floor contained the bridge, the deck, a living room, a kitchen, a karaoke room, and a video game room.

On the top floor there were the meeting room and a small bar. It seemed like the original owner was a businessman who liked to see his clients or have meetings on this yacht. Lu Zhiyu found a bottle of Hennessy which had been collected by the previous owner.

"Its color is beautiful. The wine looks crystal clear! Oh, I think it's made in the year 1865. How did this guy get it? Anyway, he hid it so well and was reluctant to drink it himself. Let me try!" Lu Zhiyu looked at the wine and realized that there was even a signature on the bottle.

Lu Zhiyu had sampled a lot of expensive liquor lately, but he really liked the color of the alcohol in front him at the moment. Moreover, this was something that one could not obtain by just money. He was curious how it tasted like. Lu Zhiyu walked onto the deck with that bottle of Hennessy and sat down. He set up a fishing rod and fished while eating some food leisurely.

After he got rid of his old identity, he felt the restraints he once had being lifted off. He could now do everything he wanted to without having to worry the way he used to. Under this new identity, he felt braver and freer.

He observed the creatures that swam across in the ocean quietly. As compared to Earth, the marine life in Maria's World was really monotonous. Without any major predators, some fish could reproduce unchecked, and it felt like they were going to occupy the world soon!

With this many fish around him, fishing was easy. Soon, Lu Zhiyu had an entire bucket of fish. He went through the bucket, looking for ones that would be fit for him to fuse with the soul he had and create a deified creature!

The medical supplies he had ordered, as well as the components needed to make the nutrition chamber, had arrived as well. Lu Zhiyu planned to assemble the nutrition chamber while looking for the life template he wanted. In the following period of time, Lu Zhiyu would be completing his Deified Creature Creation Plan!

The ocean in Maria's World was very peaceful. Lu Zhiyu spent the next several days on the sea in the yacht, looking for the creature he wanted. Whenever he looked out, he could only see the endless blue sky and ocean.

He took the time to alter the layout of the yacht and change the bottom level into a laboratory. At the same time, he also managed to create the biological chamber that he needed.

The biological chamber had combined the functions of both the nutrition chamber and the freezing chamber. It could provide the necessary nutrients to a growing life and at the same time freeze the biological activities in the organism. Thankfully, the generator on the yacht provided plenty of electricity.

Lu Zhiyu built two of those chambers in the yacht's laboratory. At the moment, they had already been completely installed in a cabin on the lowest floor. He also cleared out the unnecessary things in the cabin that used to be the entertainment room and installed a test-bed and many medical equipment. The entire room now seemed to be filled with coldness and lifelessness!

Lu Zhiyu stood in the lab and watched the biological chamber. After his modification, the biological chamber now looked like a glass pillar. This way, he could observe whatever creature he had placed in the chamber easily. The top and bottom of the chamber were metallic with a lot of wires and a panel.

He fished out a seahorse he had caught a few days ago and injected it with a sedative. Then, he opened the door and put it into the chamber. He wrapped the cords around the seahorse using his mind power and pressed a button. Nutrient fluid immediately began flowing into the chamber from the top and surrounded the seahorse. The seahorse closed its eyes and floated in the biological chamber.

Beep!

Lu Zhiyu saw the panel lit up, showing the life stats of the seahorse, including its body surface temperament, heart rate, and various others. Lu Zhiyu smiled, knowing that he had completed the biological chamber successfully.

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Chapter 43: Sakun

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Lu Zhiyu poured a test tube of blood plasma into the slot at the top of the biological chamber. He pressed a button and the blood was injected into the seahorse. A day later, the seahorse's consciousness and memories were wiped completely. Then, Lu Zhiyu tried to place the soul of the Tree of Life into the seahorse. However, the soul was met with strong resistance, and the seahorse died almost immediately!

As he extracted the soul of the Tree of Life, Lu Zhiyu found that the soul had been weakened as well. The soul, which had been pure and without any form of consciousness before, had become tainted by the seahorse's mind. As Lu Zhiyu observed it, he sensed some very chaotic and confusing waves of consciousness being emitted.

Lu Zhiyu tried the same thing with several different kinds of sea creatures and failed every time. The contamination of the once-pure soul was becoming increasingly severe. Lu Zhiyu knew that if he kept failing, the soul would fall apart.

"Sigh. It's such a waste, but I have no other choices. I don't know anything yet, and my research about souls is not sufficient either. I'll just take the soul as the price to pay for learning!"

"Why does this keep happening… Why will there be resistance? I have wiped their consciousnesses and memories!" Previously, Lu Zhiyu had also tried plants and those did not work as well. At the moment, when he gathered all his results, he realized that the problem might not just be the consciousness of the organism resisting the soul.

He paused the experiment because he knew that it would be useless to keep trying until he found a solution to this problem. Lu Zhiyu paced up and down the laboratory anxiously and thought about the problem for quite a while. "Maybe it's not just the resistance from its consciousness. In addition, the organism is also resisting other minds from controlling its body on the genetic level. It's just like when I first modified an organism!"

"Should I try to create a deified creature from the embryo?"

Lu Zhiyu immediately began his plan. This time, he chose a squid. Instead of putting it into the biological chamber, he placed it in an aquarium, ready to breed the first generation of deified creatures.

He picked one of the eggs the squid had laid and placed the soul of the Tree of Life into the egg. Just like what he had guessed, the fusion was successfully, and Lu Zhiyu was elated by this. It was like the soul of the Tree of Life was being reincarnated into a new life.

Lu Zhiyu activated the creature's consciousness and opened up the path into the zero-dimensional world, guiding it to extract the Source Form in the space. As expected, the creature which had a powerful soul skipped the first few steps which Lu Zhiyu had spent years to complete.

It started as a simple soul, but it quickly developed its own mind power. The strong structure of its soul allowed the creature to stay longer in the zero-dimensional world, so that it could extract more Source Form. Its mind power grew rapidly, often several SFU every day.

Using an analogy, Lu Zhiyu was like a fully-filled bucket which was trying to expand its volume all the time. On the other hand, the creature was like an empty bucket which only needed to fill itself up!

Lu Zhiyu could feel that the originally pure soul was slowly transforming into mind power. When it turned into pure mind power, it had 150 SFU of mind power, which already surpassed Lu Zhiyu!

When the transformation was complete, Lu Zhiyu noticed that the white egg containing the soul was invaded by its mind power and its cells were deified. Lu Zhiyu watched the creature hatch from the egg.

A strange, grey creature resembling a young squid appeared in the biological chamber. As soon as it was born, the creature began rapidly draining the nutritions in the biological chamber and grew rapidly. In a minute, it grew into a black squid the size of a human head.

By this time, it had used up all of its mind power and reached its limits. Unlike Lu Zhiyu, however, its entire body was made up of deified cells. It might be much smaller and looked very unassuming, but its nature was very different from Lu Zhiyu. It was a true deified creature!

As soon as it finished growing, Lu Zhiyu and the creature stared at each other across the glass of the chamber. The creature seemed to be very angry, and its mind was very chaotic. At once, it began smashing against the wall of the biological chamber. However, the wall was extremely strong. The creature might have been deified, but it did not know how to change its own genes. It only possessed the immortality and plasticity of deified creatures.

"Do you want to come out?" Lu Zhiyu asked, staring at the creature inside the chamber in amusement.

"Sakun!"

"Sakun!"

At the instant when Lu Zhiyu looked at the creature, he realized that its appearance started changing. It actually imitated Lu Zhiyu and quickly developed vocal cords. Then, it started making meaningless, weird shrieks at Lu Zhiyu. Its voice was very ear-piercing and dragged.

Lu Zhiyu felt the creature's mind and found that it did not have a dominant personality. In addition, its consciousness was in chaos. There seemed to be dozens of consciousness within the creature's mind, fighting for dominance. It did not even know how to control itself!

The voice and the mimicking were also done unconsciously and did not mean anything. Lu Zhiyu frowned. This was not what he had expected, but he indeed managed to create the first deified creature.

"Why is it like this? It should be that the soul has been contaminated because I have failed the fusion multiple times."

"I'll call you Sakun then," Lu Zhiyu said. Since this was the sound the creature first made, Lu Zhiyu would name it after this. Even though it did not have a complete personality and intelligence, Sakun was truly a superior lifeform.

After the successful creation of a deified creature, Lu Zhiyu would also start trying to change his own genes. He wanted his life template to become one which really had extraordinary powers. Lu Zhiyu decided to call such a high-level life template a mythical creature template. He changed the name from deified creatures, but it was appropriate anyway. These beings were no different from the creatures in legends!

Lu Zhiyu did not know how to do it yet. After all, he had never seen such a superior lifeform before. He could only try and explore based on his own imagination.

Sakun, the first deified creature he had created, was a perfect sample for him to try. For Sakun, he could create the life template of a superior lifeform. He could use the plasticity of deified creatures to create a truly extraordinary life!

Lu Zhiyu smiled as Sakun. It looked small and frail, but its nature was so different from ordinary organisms. As long as it could obtain the life template of mythical creatures, its power would increase significantly.

"How should I do it?" Lu Zhiyu started thinking. "Clearly I cannot use the ones I have designed in the past. They will only open up the normal powers of the body."

Normal creatures might be considered as powerful after obtaining more strength, speed, god-like perspective, dynamic vision, or obtaining the powerful sword skills or memories from their ancestors. However, these were really useless for a deified creature. In other words, these powers would not make full use of the plasticity of deified cells!

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What is supernatural power?

That was the question that had been bothering Lu Zhiyu for a long time. To him, this kind of creatures shouldn't be limited to be able to control only its own body. They should be able to interfere with the world and lives around it using mind power as well. This was what a real supernatural creature should be able to do and how mind power should really be used.

This required a lot of knowledge about rules of the world. Temperature would be an example. What was temperature? General speaking, temperature was a physical quantity that expressed how warm or cold an object was. But on microscopic level, it measured how violently particles vibrated or moved. According to the kinetic theory, temperature represented the average kinetic energy of the constituent particles. Temperature was a result of the thermal motion of a large amount of particles collectively.

Lu Zhiyu thought that a mythical creature would be able to detect the speed of the particles. For creatures on his level, it would be very difficult to control particles. There were simply too many of particles. How powerful would the mind power had to be in order to control so many particles at the same time?

Lu Zhiyu thought maybe there were other ways to control temperatures. There was no need to increase or decrease the speed of all of the particles. As long as the mind power was able to push or change the momentum and speed up the movements for the particles within a small area, the impact would be extended to the other areas and thus increase the temperatures without any limits. The stronger the mind power was, the temperature of the larger area could be impacted. And vice versa, stopping some particles could cause the other particles to slow down and the temperature to drop. The more powerful the mind, the larger the area could be impacted. A strong mind could lower or increase temperature indefinitely.

Lu Zhiyu was excited by this idea. He felt that he was getting closer and closer to developing his first template. He looked at Sakun, who was still lurching around in the life chamber and shrieking, radiating chaotic messages with its mind. It of course did not know how to control anything yet, but Lu Zhiyu did, and that was enough.

Lu Zhiyu needed to develop a genetic template that could carry the code for controlling temperature. He could then insert it into Sakun's genetic codes and turn it into a mythical creature that could control the temperature. If it worked, it would become a natural thing for Sakun and Sakun didn't have to know the theory behind it.

"It seems like I am the only one who could alter the genes. Without the ability to change genes, even if one could use the mind power to handle atom, they still would not be able to make specific modifications to the genes, let alone creating life templates!"

"For the other mythical creatures, their mind power couldn't change their own genes either. If they wanted to evolve, the only path would be to seek out other mythical creatures' genes and fuse the two genes, or to adjust their genes based on the genes from other mythical creatures."

Lu Zhiyu finally realized just how powerful the ability to transmit messages really was. It might appear very weak because it would only convey messages and modify messages. This was not something that had direct physical impact. However, to Lu Zhiyu, it was an invaluable power.

He took Sakun to the dimensional castle for a few months and began developing the mythical creature template for Sakun. Sakun was based off of an octopus and could control temperature. He named the template Zero Degree Sea Monster. He took deified cells from Sakun and began experimenting. He found that when he tried to prod the cells with his mind power, the cells resisted him. As soon as he made contact, Lu Zhiyu could feel the conciousness of Sakun was trying to interfere him. Lu Zhiyu did not want to fight against it, knowing that the only part of him that was deified was his brain, while the rest of him was still normal. He did not want to risk getting assimilated by Sakun's mind. If he came into contact with Sakun's cells, the cells may invade his own.

He remembered that he had some of Sakun's undeified cells, but he immediately pushed the thought away. Those normal cells couldn't handle a mythical creature's template and would be crashed instantly.

Seeing no other way, Lu Zhiyu used the mind power to convey his friendly intentions to Sakun, asking it to let down its guards. He built a large pool in the castle so Sakun could have a place to swim and play. He also tried to show his friendliness by feeding Sakun every day. Maybe Sakun could feel his friendliness, or maybe the conflicting minds drove Sakun to madness. Slowly, Sakun's mind stopped resisting him.

Once that happened, with his mind power, Lu Zhiyu reached into Sakun and found its genes. Like Lu Zhiyu, after becoming a mythical creature, most of genes from Sakun's ancestors were eliminated, and only the necessary genes were left behind. Lu Zhiyu took the advantage of this time, and imprinted the Zero Degree Sea Monster template into Sakun's life template. Then he immediately withdrew. Lu Zhiyu extracted one drop of blood from himself. He could see that the blood he placed on the template began to change drastically.

He injected the blood into Sakun's body and saw that its body changed drastically as well. Its head became narrower, and its tentacles grew longer. Its skin and organs were all changing as the cells realigned themselves, and formed its special organs and hardened shell. It became the dark, beautiful sea monster Lu Zhiyu wanted.

It worked!

The monster looked exactly like what Lu Zhiyu had designed. Dark, hardened skin and a fluid body structure. It looked beautiful, and its body was even harder! Sakun swam around in the pool, smashing into the wall of the pool, leaving large holes on the stone wall. However, these hits did not harm the body at all. The shell on Sakun's body was almost as hard as titanium. Lu Zhiyu was very satisfied with Sakun's appearance, but he still hadn't seen the most important part.

Suddenly, Sakun jumped out of the pool and shrieked at him. Lu Zhiyu felt a strong wave of mind power slamming into him. He knew that Sakun had used its power. He summoned his own mind power to protect himself from being affected. The temperature in the room rose significantly as the water in the pool reached a temperature so high it caused a small explosion in the room. The temperature was high enough to heat the rocks. The temperature in the entire floor was raised a few hundred degrees and ordinary human would not be able to survive.

However, Lu Zhiyu walked out from the steam. The power he gave to Sakun, he himself of course would also use. Although Lu Zhiyu didn't imprint the power into his deified cells, and it was troublesome for him to use such power, he had only needed to balance the temperature around himself, so it was not a problem. Afterall, Sakun would not be able to harm Lu Zhiyu.

Sakun waved its tentacles around, and the ground its tentacles touched froze over. In the blink of an eye, the boiling room was turned into ice land.

Lu Zhiyu smiled, satisfied with Sakun's power. "Not bad, not bad. This is what a mythical creature should be!"

Right now, Sakun was still young, and it was already very powerful. It would only grow more powerful as it matured mentally and grew physically. One day, it would be able to do things that were only heard of in legends, such as boiling the ocean or freezing an entire continent. Of course, that day was still tens, hundreds or even thousands years away!

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Chapter 45: Changes in the Sea

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"Sakun… Sakun…"

"Boom!"

"Rumble!"

Sakun was ramming into the stone wall, continuously launching attacks while controlling its power, manically trying to escape from its underground water dungeon. As it used its power, the water in the dungeon evaporated again and again, but fresh water kept flowing into the cell.

Lu Zhiyu observed Sakun in its prison from a fist-sized small window above. It had been a while since he sent Sakun into the water dungeon using a dimensional door. Lu Zhiyu had been trying to find out the limits of Sakun's power. "Right now, the highest temperature Sakun could control was 783 degrees Celsius. The lowest was negative 70 degrees Celsius."

Sakun discovered where Lu Zhiyu was and began launching its attacks toward Lu Zhiyu furiously. However, Lu Zhiyu was the one that gave Sakun his power. All he needed to do was control the particles in his surrounding area with his own mind power. Sakun controlled its body using its mind power and charged continuously around the water dungeon, as if it did not know what fatigue was!

Lu Zhiyu was slightly disappointed, "Indeed, the life template was too simple, the power too simplistic. There are too many restraints. But it was mostly because Sakun didn't have intelligence and did not know how to use its own power optimally."

However, Sakun was only harmless to Lu Zhiyu. With its ability to control temperature and its powerful mind power, it would be able to destroy several seaside villages and kill thousands of people with little trouble. Its sturdy shell and powerful regenerative abilities also allowed it to ignore most attacks. If it were to barge into a city, it would spell disaster to the average person!

After observing it for a while, Lu Zhiyu had basically uncovered all the secrets regarding Sakun. He released Sakun into the southern sea and followed it in his ship.

Even though Sakun could fly, it could not leave the water for extended periods of time and spent most of its time submerged. It was rare for Sakun to leave the water. After Lu Zhiyu spent a few days observing its swim patterns, he completely shifted his attention away from it. Once it got away from Lu Zhiyu and his tortures, Sakun disappeared into the sea of Maria's World.

Sakun was the first mythical creature in Maria's World, a creature that could truly control its supernatural abilities. It did not have predators, nor did it have any opponents in the ocean. It became the unparalleled king of the ocean. Because of its chaotic consciousness, it was like a wild beast, merely charging along around the world. What Lu Zhiyu did not expect was that Sakun would begin to pollute other creatures living in the ocean.

Unlike Lu Zhiyu, Sakun didn't care to control or restrain its deified cells. Even if the cells somehow got out, Sakun didn't try to collect them. It often ran into rocks under the ocean or islands and injured itself. The cells that it released while it was injured flowed continually into the ocean. Many creatures that came in contact with the cells started to mutate due to the deified cells. Larger creatures started appearing in the sea. They were called sea monsters, while Sakun was heralded as a god of the sea.

While Sakun was roaming the oceans, its spawn were called the Children of the Sea. There were large octopi, squid, and even jellyfish that could release freezing vapors explosively. There were also missile-like fish, their bodies massive beyond comparison. They could move tens of meters with a single stroke.

Sakun was much smaller than most of the sea monsters, but Sakun could easily lower or increase temperature within hundreds of meters around itself. It could turn a person's body to ash, or freeze it into an ice sculpture. It didn't matter how big it was. To an average person, it was god, a god that they could not fight against.

Even the Children of the Sea were impossible to defend against for an ordinary human. These Children of the Sea would also spawn a large amount of offspring. After a few decades, any large sea monsters could be considered to be Sakun's children. Some of these sea monsters had inherited some of Sakun's abilities through the small amount of Sakun's Blood within them. Some could freeze things, others could use fire. Some had strong skin while others were very large.

While outside the ocean, people on the continent of Alen were growing more fascinated by the ocean, as they caught more and more fish from the ocean. The mysteries of the ocean attracted more and more fishermen and explorers from Alen.

More nations appeared on Alen. After a thousand years, both humans and orcs had developed their own nations and gave birth to various cultures and civilization. The two races had gradually spread their areas of influence throughout a large portion of Alen, and now set their sights on the vast ocean.

The boundless ocean was rather romantic to man. There was fear in the unknown, but there were also fantasies. Other than the harvests brought about by the fishermen, people discovered that by sailing, they could easily reach northern nations from the south.

From the practical point of view, trading using land routes would mean that one had to traverse countless mountains and pass through many different nations. The taxes and tolls along the way was enough dampen the excitement of the trade. But the ocean was different. It could save them a large amount of money and time.

When the first explorer returned carrying precious spices, animal pelts, plants, herb and other items and made a fortune, more people flocked to the ocean and kickstarted using sea routes for trade.

Fleets of ships began heading into the ocean, carrying wealth and hope. For a time, the ocean became the world's hope. Nothing made more money than going on a journey to sea. If one was lucky enough to discovering a safe sea route previously unknown, they would be able to elevate the status of their family.

Merchants, nobles, peasants, even slaves and government officials all began heading toward the sea. Harbors sprang up everywhere, and seaside villages expanded and grew into cities, cargo filling their piers. This growth in sea trade also led to a growth in the shipbuilding industry. People used their experiences from sailing and improved upon the simplest wooden boats, creating ships with masts. At first, the masts couldn't move and the ship required oars. Soon, ships with moveable masts were created as well, allowing ships to steer forward despite the wind blowing from the other direction.

Currently, there were ships that were thirty meters long, six to eight meters wide, large enough to carry sixty tons of cargo across the ocean. People piloted these ships across the seas, but they still couldn't completely conquer the ocean. Whenever a fleet sailed into a dangerous area or got caught in a storm, there was still the risk of the entire fleet sinking.

And as people ventured even further into the ocean, they encountered the deepest nightmares in their memories!

A fleet sailed on the peaceful ocean. The strong, study ships had three masts. Even if they got caught in a storm or a small tsunami, the ships should have been able to survive. This fleet belonged to the Luhmann Kingdom's Rosa d'Oro family.

The captain Shorde stood on the deck, watching the peaceful sea. There was no sign of any storm today. Everything was going very well, and Shorde was in a good mood. Days at sea could get very boring. There were no women, nor were there any leisure activities. His sailors were playing card games popular amongst the humans on Alen. The game was called Sailor's Cards, since the person who invented the game was a sailor.

Most of the crew were playing cards and drinking on the deck. Some sailors on duty were scrubbing the deck and checking the masts. Soon, it would be lunch time. The kitchen was busy playing cards. The people on the fleet were like a small community.

A bored sailor who was standing on deck suddenly perked up at the sight of a dark shadow in the water. He rubbed his balding head and asked curiously, "What is that?"

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Chapter 46: Children of the Sea

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As the ship drew closer, the sailor immediately saw the giant dark shadow under the water and shouted in panic, "There seems to be a rock up ahead!"

The call startled everyone, and more sailors appeared on the deck, searching the open water for hidden rocks. The captain hurried to the front of the ship. "That is impossible, this is a very safe route! We have sailed this route many times! How can there be rocks all of a sudden?"

Even so, they saw the dark shadow under the water slowly grow larger. A circular black area gradually appeared from under the water. Confusion filled the minds of everyone present, "What is that?"

Boom! The water exploded as a large head rose up from the ocean into the sailors' view. A huge black octopus erupted from under the ocean, its long tentacles immediately entangling the ship. The large suction cups on its tentacles were terrifying to look at it.

"My God, what is that?!"

"Goddess Maria above, what kind of monster is that?!"

"Help!"

"Mummy!"

The sailors gaped as they watched the huge tentacles grab their ship, tilting their ship toward the bottom of the ocean. Sailors stumbled across the deck, being flung this way and that by the octopus's force. A chorus of screams and cries rose from the ship.

Shorde lost his footing and was sent flying out the deck toward the monster. The octopus opened its pitch black mouth, and Shrode saw the flickering flames within it. Shorde slipped into a daze, and could only mutter one word, "Monster!"

The fire sprang forth, instantly igniting the ship and incinerating Shorde. The other ships in the fleet attempted to get away, but they were all easily capsized by the octopus.

After this incident, more and more fleets began running into the Children of the Sea. Sometimes it was giant octopi, sometimes it was massive whales, other times it was large sharks with hard head capsules that could destroy a ship simply by ramming into it. Each of these creatures were enormous, and not something an average humans could deal with.

The further the ship went into the ocean, the more likely it was to run into these creatures. These creatures were massive and rarely appeared near the land or shallow waters. But their presence became a great obstacle for sea trading and put a large dent in the merchants' and nobles' income.

People began employing Bloodline Knights to deal with them. But even the Bloodline Knights were unable to kill them. The powers from their bloodline could cause great damage to the monsters, as could large crossbows, but it couldn't kill them. After all, these Children of the Sea were creatures that could use supernatural powers.

These monsters were like gods. Some could spew fire, others could instantly freeze a large area of the ocean. Some had the ability to let out strange sounds that could put sailors to sleep. Each one of them possessed a powerful vitality and sturdy skin. Some monsters even formed groups, swimming in certain areas of the ocean, patrolling their deep-sea territories. None of the fleets and Bloodline Knights that set out to kill these creatures had ever returned. Even the most powerful warrior seemed powerless in front of these monsters. The ocean once again descended into darkness. People gave these creatures the name Children of the Sea.

Other than the various natural disasters, seafarers were now faced with an unavoidable obstacle. The deep sea became something humans couldn't, nor dare, venture into.

—

After creating Sakun, Lu Zhiyu began thinking about working on himself again. However, he wasn't planning on making a mythical creature template for himself. He could only try adding some special power to his own genes. In that respect, he was more like the creatures who were affected by Sakun's blood. Without deifying his entire body, he wasn't a deified creature and was full of weakness. But he could not rush things. Forcefully trying to use a mythical creature template on himself would cause a large amount of his cells and genes to crumble. Lu Zhiyu did not want to just exist as a brain.

Deifying his entire body would only take seventeen years. It had already been a year, and he could afford to wait. Plus, he could use this time to consider what kind of mythical creature template he wanted. The first thing he considered were weaknesses of a mythical creature and ways to kill one. So far, it looked like mythical creatures were highly modifiable and immortal. They could continue becoming more powerful indefinitely and their potential was limitless. But were they really that perfect, that invincible?

"As long as I cannot kill all of a mythical creature's deified cells in one attack, then it would not die. It would then have a chance to be reborn!" Lu Zhiyu shook his head. This was easier said than done. It was very likely that the mythical creature would have a clan of other creatures it had affected, intentional or not. There would definitely have been other life forms that were assimilated unintentionally by the mythical creature, or fused with its deified cells. These creatures were all spawns of the mythical creature. Even if the main body were to be killed, the mythical creatures would be able to be reborn from the body of their spawns. In order to kill completely the mythical creature, one would have to kill not only the mythical creature itself, but also all of its spawns in order to prevent it from being reborn. Otherwise, given enough time, they would be able to return once again!

"They sure lived up to their name as mythical creatures!"

He spent a long time thinking of a weakness and couldn't think of any. It sure was congruent with Lu Zhiyu's expectations of a higher order being.

"So what is the most important thing to a mythical creature? What is the core of their existence?"

Lu Zhiyu had decided to approach the question from another angle. The time he spent experimenting on Sakun had increased his understanding about souls, mind power and the existence of deified cells.

The soul was the purest form of consciousness and thought. It could be fused with the Source Form to become mind power. Mind power, in some sense, was the product of the fusion of the soul and Source Form. Deified cells were then the product of fusing mind power and cells. The most important thing to a mythical creature should be its consciousness and thought. Lu Zhiyu immediately wondered if there was a way to skip past the mind power and deified cells and directly attack a mythical creature's consciousness and thought.

"Thought in itself is a form of power. Would I be able to develop this kind of power for my mythical creature template and become a mythical creature that could control thought and consciousness!"

Thought and consciousness, in some sense, was a collection of information. It was the carrier of the soul and mind. Lu Zhiyu immediately formed a connection with how he created the mind dimension after he deified the cells in his brain. That was the palace that stored his will and collection of information!

Lu Zhiyu felt that he could change his deified cells and strengthen his mind dimension through that, transforming it into a more powerful space of consciousness. This way, no matter how powerful a mythical creature was, he would be able to disregard its powerful mind power, deified cells and genetic ability and drag its consciousness and thoughts into his own consciousness space.

In his realm, Lu Zhiyu would have various ways of erasing their consciousness. As long as their consciousness was completely erased, the mythical creature would not be able to resurrect itself no matter how power its mind power and deified cells were. It would, in essence, be dead, similar to how a human could become brain dead. Their bodies would not have died, but existentially speaking, it would have died!

Of course, a method like this was very dangerous. Lu Zhiyu had only considered one angle and still needed a few experiments to figure out what exactly he had to do. However, he knew that if he succeeded, even mythical creatures could be completely killed. This was also beneficial because it alerted him of his own weakness, in case someone else tried to do the same thing to him in the future. Lu Zhiyu got to work immediately.

"I should make use of my mental talent, the ability to transmit thought. This would have a great effect on the creation and guidance of a mind dimension!"

In Lu Zhiyu's eyes, a person's consciousness and thoughts were all information. The dream world he wanted to construct was a world made up completely of information. But this space would exist within him. It would be a mind world that was rooted within his deified cells.

If Lu Zhiyu wanted to construct a world like this, his deified cells must have the ability to control and alter information. He would then be able to control and guide the consciousness space through his cells!

"I'll call it the dream world, a space made up completely of consciousness and information!" Lu Zhiyu had made the decision.

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"Assimilate!"

"Copy the genes!"

Lu Zhiyu could sense that after he set up the templates in the first cell, the rest of his deified brain cells were loading the power for controlling information. As the deified cells finished loading, Lu Zhiyu felt a change in his mind space. His control over his power was completely different now. His cells could now handle a large amount of information at any given time, and he could change or alter his entire mind space whenever he felt like it. At this point, it no longer felt appropriate to call the space his "mind space" anymore. This was the "dream space" he had aimed to create.

Lu Zhiyu stood in his dream space. This space was pitch black and directionless. There was nothing around him, not even time existed in this realm. A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately saw the space changing with the passing of the thought. He could see land starting to form under his feet. Everywhere he swept his gaze, buildings began to slowly appear within his dream space. Gradually, a small ancient village appeared before him. Lu Zhiyu looked at the sky. A crimson moon entered his field of vision. There was finally light in this world, but this crimson moon made the small village look strange and eerie.

Lu Zhiyu felt that it would be difficult to continue creating things within this space. Currently, his mind power was already at its limit at which it could control information. If he wanted to expand the dream space and make it more vivid and lifelike, he would need more mind power.

"It is indeed possible to create a world made purely out of information. The dream space, I did it!"

Lu Zhiyu was excited by the sight of his success. Even though this dream world he created was very tiny and made up of only information, completely different from Maria's World which he created in the past. A comparison could not be made between the two. However, this was the first time he had created something without getting outside help. This world was completely his own. He knew how he created it, he knew its logic, structure, as well as every detail about this world inside out. This was not a world that was to be controlled using the Scroll of the World and his authority over it. This world meant something completely different to him.

Lu Zhiyu walked through the small village in the dream world. The town was completely empty and sat quietly under the night sky. This was an ancient village, with old wooden buildings along a single dirt-packed road. The dirt road was the only road in the entire village, the rest of the ground were all small yards that belonged to the houses. There was a dilapidated inn, a smithy, and a grocery store. Inside the smithy, there were all the tools that were commonly found in real smithies, like farming tools and knives. The grocery store was stocked full with groceries needed by a populated village. The inn's kitchen was fully stocked with food and drinks, its wine cellar filled with barrels of different kinds of alcohol.

But there was no one in this world. This was Lu Zhiyu's dream world, a world that he had just created. He walked around the dream world alone, observing the world. The ground felt solid under his feet, and the buildings looked like they could be found in a real town. The food and drinks resembled the real world's as well. He had created everything based on information he could find in the real world. Even though they were not real, but speaking from the perspective of information, they are the same as real. In this world, one could never differentiate the boundaries between what's real and what's not.

"It's a little boring and too small, but since this could work, it means that my guesses and ideas were not wrong. I am on the right path!"

Lu Zhiyu walked as his deliberated, "There are many things I could improve on. As of now, the deified cells could only load information. I still have to develop it into an ability that could affect the outside world. I also have to have the ability to drag other intelligent beings into this dream world. Otherwise a dream world like that would not have too much of an effect!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately committed his thoughts into memory. His genes could not merely have the ability to control information, it also had to assimilate information, to assimilate and pull others into his own dream world without them noticing. It was hard to guard against an attack on the information level.

Lu Zhiyu left the dream world, his consciousness once again controlling his body. He stood up in the library of the dimensional castle and started to design the genes needed to assimilate information and loaded these genes onto himself. This way, Lu Zhiyu's ability to control dreams was basically complete. It was the first supernatural power he had.

However, this was merely the first step. There was still a long journey ahead of him. Adding gene segments one by one would eventually form a perfect life template. Lu Zhiyu would like to find a way to create his own mythical creature life template.

—

Lu Zhiyu had spent a few months in the Scroll of the World creating Sakun. After that, he spent a few months observing and recording its movements. This took about a year to complete. After he released Sakun, he spent another year developing the genes that could allow him to control information, from experimenting with cells that could control dreams to its refinement. In the blink of an eye, he had spent almost two years in Maria's World.

He was reading when he suddenly closed his eyes. The world around him darkened, and he sensed six ant-people within a two hundred meter radius from him.

"Dream world, activate!"

Lu Zhiyu saw a wave of information spread across the castle. His mind power swelled and dragged the consciousness of the six ant-people into his dream world.

A few white dots appeared in the small village under the crimson moon. The white dots wandered the streets, confused. The ant-people's minds were very weak, and they could not assume a physical shape in the dream world. Lu Zhiyu could sense that they were rather confused. The ant-people did not have much intelligence and did not near what fear was. They were simply lost as to why they suddenly appeared here. Lu Zhiyu shut off the dream world and released the ant-people's consciousness back into their own bodies.

Lu Zhiyu stood. It looked like the supernatural powers he had developed, the control of his dream, was rather successful. However, that was only toward the ant-people in the castle. He needed something more powerful to experiment on.

"The flow of time seemed to have decreased again!"

Ever since he created Sakun, the difference in the flow of time between the real world and Maria's World had been impacted. The world seemed to be more complete now. Lu Zhiyu could sense that the once 4000 times acceleration has now decreased to just shy of 3000 times. One day in the real world was only about eight years in the world of Maria now under the influence of the acceleration of time.

Lu Zhiyu did not expect the presence of mythical creatures like Sakun to affect Maria's World so much. He hadn't paid much attention to Maria's World lately. When he checked on the world, he discovered that the sea was filled with sea monsters and large sea creatures. A large reason for their creation was because of Sakun.

Lu Zhiyu was prepared to set out and capture Sakun. He wanted to test his new ability and see if he could deal with a mythical creature using his dream world the way he had intended.

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Chapter 48: Swirl

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Lu Zhiyu arrived on the southern sea, looking for traces of Sakun. He knew the whereabouts of the creature using the Scroll of the World, but he did not want to capture it with a dimensional door. He wanted to catch it off guard and see if he could draw it into his dream world.

His boat shimmered and disappeared. He used the dimensional door to teleport himself hundreds of miles and reappeared in another area of the ocean. Lu Zhiyu immediately discovered Sakun. It was currently playing under the ocean, boiling the area of ocean hundreds of meters around himself. A layer of dead fish floated on the water, and Sakun began feasting happily. Water vapor hung over the ocean, covering the world in a layer of mist. The water of the ocean was bubbling. Lu Zhiyu approached Sakun slowly on his boat. Sakun did not notice anything!

Lu Zhiyu found that Sakun was five to six times bigger than the last time he saw the creature. Sakun now looked about half as tall as a full grown person. It was a lot of growth for two years' time. It looked like Sakun had drawn a lot of Source Form from the zero-degree dimension to fuel its growth. This was another reason why Lu Zhiyu wanted to catch Sakun again. He had originally opened up the zero-degree dimension to Sakun. Now, he needed to get Sakun back. If he was going to open the dimension up again, he would definitely set a limit to how much Source Form one could draw from it.

Sakun seemed to have felt something, it felt Lu Zhiyu's presence. He turned and saw Lu Zhiyu approaching quickly on the white boat. Sakun was furious and wanted to activate its ability, but it was too late by then.

"Dream world, activate!"

Lu Zhiyu locked in on Sakun. Sakun could immediately feel its world changing. A large pulling force and information was continuously assimilating its consciousness, dragging it into Lu Zhiyu's dream world.

Sakun resisted with all its might, but it was useless. It had already failed the moment Lu Zhiyu locked in on its consciousness. If it had some sort of warning beforehand, Sakun might have been able to escape from Lu Zhiyu. However, it was caught off guard and couldn't do anything but enter Lu Zhiyu's world.

Sakun entered the dream world, turning into a giant squid. It began manically attacking everything in this world. As the small town got destroyed, the dream world collapsed. Sakun's mind collapsed alongside the dream world. The dream world began to regenerate and rebuild. The world was restored, and parts of Sakun's mind seemed to have been assimilated into this world. The form of its soul seemed to have changed. Sakun began attacking it once again.

This cycle of destruction and death happened over and over again, until finally the creature's consciousness was completely assimilated by the dream world. In the end, Sakun's form was also gradually interfered with Lu Zhiyu's information, turning it into a middle aged man. It no longer had its chaotic thoughts and its anger. Sakun wandered the streets of the town aimlessly, confused and unsure of what to do.

Suddenly, Sakun saw the smithy by the road. A mysterious force drew him in. He picked up a hammer, turned on the bellows and began to work as any normal blacksmith would. It seemed to have become a puppet, a part of the dream world. It had become a blacksmith whilst being lost within the small village. Its consciousness had become a part of the information within the dream world.

Lu Zhiyu shot up into a sitting position in his boat. He was sweating and panting. What he just did was more dangerous than he had expected. Lu Zhiyu had done battle with Sakun in his dream world. He had almost failed, and Sakun had almost successfully escaped the dream world. If Sakun really had successfully escaped, the dream world would truly have shattered and Lu Zhiyu's mind would have taken a great hit. But in the end, Sakun was not able to continue to fight, its consciousness assimilated into the dream world. Lu Zhiyu also realized that his own soul had grown more powerful after he had assimilated Sakun's consciousness. However, it would take several years to completely assimilate Sakun's consciousness. The dream world would slowly wear away Sakun's consciousness imprint. Even though it looked like a dangerous and laborious process, but once done, Lu Zhiyu's mind power would instantly be boosted by at least seven to eight hundred SFU, equivalent to two years of meditation.

Meanwhile, all of the Children of Sea all sensed the loss of Sakun. They felt it through Sakun's blood in their bodies. They lifted their heads, letting out a chorus of shrieks, as if they had lost something important. The Sakun's Blood in their bodies had lost its master. They have gained full freedom, truly becoming Children of the Sea. Without Sakun, some sort of restraint was removed from them. Maybe one day one of them could gather enough of Sakun's deified blood and become the new God of the Sea.

Lu Zhiyu was elated. Triumphing over and completely killing Sakun had showed him exactly how powerful his dream world was. Sakun was relatively weak, basically a simplified version of a mythical creature that Lu Zhiyu had created. It was a mythical creature born by shrinking its body size and reducing the number of deified cells needed. In terms of mind power, it was only about equal to Lu Zhiyu's.

However, fundamentally, it was still a mythical creature. Even another mythical creature of the same level would have a hard time trying to completely kill it. But Lu Zhiyu had managed to do it despite not being a mythical creature himself!

"It looks like the consciousness and the soul are indeed the only weaknesses of a mythical creature. I'm lucky that I have noticed this early and have become aware of this weakness. Otherwise, I would not be able to survive in the future when someone uses this against me!"

He walked onto the deck and waved his hand. A meter long black squid appeared under the ocean, the surface of its body coated with a metallic glow.

"This is a treasure!"

That was Sakun's body. Even though it had lost its consciousness, Sakun's body was still alive, the cells in its body were still alive. Sakun was technically 'alive'. This was a full body of deified cells owned by a mythical creature. If Lu Zhiyu allowed the body to dissolve into the ocean, it could affect thousands of creatures.

Slowly, the mist over the sea dispersed. The water began to return to its normal temperature and the entire ocean calmed down. Through the thinning mist, Lu Zhiyu saw a shadow. It was long and continuous and looked like a large land mass.

"Didn't realize I was so close to this place," Lu Zhiyu said to himself. He approached the land with the boat. This was the first time he had approached this part of the world.

This was a miraculous island called Swirl. It looked like an island, but it was big enough to be called a continent.

Swirl was much smaller than Alen and Yala. It was only about a tenth the size of Alen. The island looked like a circle of land surrounding a large lake. The lake was connected directly into the ocean. It was a very interesting landscape, an uncanny workmanship by the nature. But Lu Zhiyu didn't have anything to do with it, and it had formed naturally.

"There should be no life sentient creatures here yet, only plants and a large amount of bugs. Even animals are a rare sight here!" Lu Zhiyu observed the island the moment he set foot on it. When he saw the giant saltwater lake in the middle, he felt that it was no different from the ocean—there was no end!

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Chapter 49: Mermaids

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Because of how useful the biological chambers were, Lu Zhiyu returned to Earth to order more components. After four days, the materials finally arrived. He took them back to Maria's World and finished assembling them.

Lu Zhiyu's laboratory changed significantly again. The room was now filled with standing biological chambers, various medical equipment, drawings of genetic templates, and a freezing chamber filled with many labelled genetic samples. It really looked like the kind of laboratory only an alien would have!

Lu Zhiyu put Sakun's deified body in one of the smaller biological chambers. He had forbidden the ant-people from approaching the particular biological chamber. Even though it had lost its consciousness and only the instincts of its physical body remained, it was still very dangerous.

On the other hand, in another larger chamber was a more beautiful creature. It was the result of his experiments for the past few days. Inside the biological chamber, there was a beautiful woman with long, sky-blue hair that fell down to her waist. From the waist down, she had a slender fish tail which was two meters long.

She was as charming as a fairy, and her facial features were delicate and pure. Her eyelashes trembled as if she was about to open her eyes at any moment. She was a mermaid. Below her cheeks were two tattoo-like blue lines. They were the gills that would allow her to survive underwater.

"Indeed! As long as an organism doesn't resist the will of the deified creature, it would be assimilated!"

Sakun had dispersed its cells all over the ocean. As he wandered about, his deified cells had caused countless sea creatures to explode, until finally the Children of the Sea were created. After some experiments, Lu Zhiyu confirmed his hypothesis.

Lu Zhiyu used a human template and added fish genes onto it, after which he mixed in some of Sakun's blood. This was the first spawn of a mythical creature that he had created. In some sense, the mermaid in the biological chamber could be considered as a deity, a descendant of a god-like creature, although from Lu Zhiyu's point of view, it was a bit low to be a deity as Sakun's descendant and not classy at all. Nevertheless, even though Sakun was not the coolest of mythical creatures, it was still a real god-like being to a normal person!

In any case, the mermaid was truly an extraordinary life. It could be considered as the first extraordinary intelligent being.

Lu Zhiyu walked one round around the mermaid, inspecting it carefully. Then, he nodded in satisfaction with the perfect life template that he had created. "I do have some artistic cells in me. With them around, this world will finally have some taste of magic. It's so ugly to only fight with swords in close-range combats!"

Suddenly, the mermaid submerged in the nutrient fluid in the biological chamber opened her eyes and stared right at Lu Zhiyu, who was startled by her sudden movement. "What's happening? Didn't I inject a sedative… Oh right! She has just received Sakun's blood and sedatives are clearly no longer effective."

The mermaid who had just woken up still had a lot of tubes attached to her. She had opened her intelligent eyes and stared at the world around her curiously. She was like a newborn baby, observing the world outside as well as Lu Zhiyu.

Waah!

She started crying in the biological chamber like a baby. She pressed her hands against the glass wall and stared at Lu Zhiyu with her huge eyes. This caused Lu Zhiyu to feel somehow uncomfortable!

Lu Zhiyu and the mermaid stared at each other and he actually did not know what to do. This was the first time he made eye contact with an intelligent lifeform in a biological chamber, and he felt very awkward!

Lu Zhiyu activated his dream space and waved his hand gently. The mermaid slowly lowered her eyelids under his influence and fell back asleep. Then, he moved on to create around a dozen more mermaids. Lu Zhiyu only stopped after the process had used up about half of Sakun's deified cells.

The mermaids were born and would grow up completely in the biological chambers. Lu Zhiyu only had to provide them with enough nutrient fluid for them to grow from infancy all the way to maturity.

In particular, after he injected Sakun's blood into them, he used his dream space to guide them so that their instincts would not resist the invading cells. The deified cells were able to catalyze their growth, allowing these mermaids to grow from babies into adults in a few days!

Soon, around a dozen sleeping mermaids with tubes attached to them floated in the cold biological chambers in the laboratory. The whole room seemed to be filled with evilness. In addition, Lu Zhiyu who was wearing a white coat looked like a doctor in stories who was doing some evil research!

"I thought I'd be a good guy," he said, amused by his own thoughts.

He walked in front of every mermaid, checking their body conditions and health statuses. He paid close attention to how well the deified cells were assimilating into these mermaids, making sure that there were no signs of any resistance or backfiring.

"Specimen number two, deified cell assimilation rate at 42%. Her ability should be control of fire."

"…"

"Specimen number five, deified cell assimilation rate at 37%. Her ability should be charming sound waves!"

The mermaids had inherited Sakun's abilities, but only some of them. It depended on what abilities they had obtained when they were being fused with Sakun's blood.

Some could control fire, while others could control ice. Some had power over water, or the ability Charm, which was an ability formed from the fusion of Sakun's mind power and the charming appearances and voices of the mermaids.

Out of all these mermaids, specimen number one showed the highest rate of assimilation, which was over 70%, and was the most powerful. She had most of Sakun's abilities, especially those that could control temperature, though she was not as powerful as Sakun in terms of the ranges of the abilities.

Sakun could easily evaporate all the water within hundreds of meters, or freeze it into ice. After some training, the mermaid could at most affect the region up to twenty or thirty meters away from her.

After checking the conditions of the mermaids, as well as the assimilation of deified cells, Lu Zhiyu released the mermaids into the large, saltwater lake which was connected to the ocean on the Swirl Continent. This was the place he had chosen for these mermaids. From now on, the Swirl Continent would belong to the mermaids, the first extraordinary intelligent race to be born on Maria's World!

After Lu Zhiyu removed the seals he had placed on the mermaids' minds, they immediately woke up. They surfaced from the water and looked at the scene over the lake, taking their first view of Maria's World.

White clouds dotted the clear, blue sky above them, and the lake stretched out infinitely. In the distance, lush forests rose in rank, and seabirds flew across the sky occasionally. The mermaids gazed at the outside world like a group of newborn babies, curious about everything

The only one who looked confused was number one. This world was different from what she saw just now. She still remembered the strange, cold box she was in, and the weird man staring at her outside.

However, she almost immediately left her confusion behind. In comparison, this new world around her was so much more interesting than the previous one. The colorful Maria's World, fresh air, and vast waters were enough for her to forget what had happened.

The mermaids played in the beautiful lake like sprites of water. They danced amongst the waves and explored the floor of the lake. Then, they swam along the side of the lake, heading towards the unknown distance!

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Chapter 50: Mansion

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Zoe had invited Lu Zhiyu to an upper-class party in London. The party was held in a mansion just on the outskirts of the city. Lu Zhiyu had accepted her invitation because he had spent a few years in Maria's World, doing nothing but experimenting with different creatures. When he first came back to the real world, he couldn't quite remember how to interact with others and even his facial expressions were unnatural.

He felt that if he kept doing this to himself, he would forget how to act like a proper human being, so he wanted to take this opportunity to get away from his experiments a little and relax. He was also very curious about the British upper-class. He had only seen such parties in movies, and he wanted to see what a real one was like.

After changing into a nice suit, he drove out to the outskirts of the city. As he drove toward the mansion, he used the time to enjoy the view along the way and took a deep breaths of the fresh country air. At one time, London was one of the most heavily polluted cities in the world but now, there was no sign of pollution in the country. The air was fresh and the surroundings were clean and beautiful.

As he approached the mansion, he could see a large building standing alone at the foot of the mountain, there were no other buildings around the mansion and its grounds. When he arrived at the mansion, he saw that many people had arrived already. Getting out of his car, he took out his invitation.

A few guards stood at the gate. They checked his invitation and allowed him inside. The grass in the garden was neatly trimmed and a variety of trees and flowers adorned the garden as well as fountains and statues of angels. A few gardeners were still working in the garden, taking care of the plants.

Even though the garden looked very new, the mansion itself looked like a castle and appeared very old. It was clear that the owner of this mansion was not only rich, but also came from a privileged background.

He entered the mansion through a pair of glass doors and saw a large group of people already gathered inside. As soon as he walked in, the attention of the room turned to him. The good looks his genes had blessed him with made him the center of attention wherever he went, and this place was no exception. Everyone was looking at him, curious about who he was. A young woman wearing a black dress smiled at him as she walked over.

She held out her hand and said, "I've never seen you here before. I'm Lisa."

"Anthony," Lu Zhiyu said with a smile. "Nice to meet you."

"No offense intended," Lisa said after they shook hands. "But are you a man, sir?"

Lu Zhiyu frowned a little, then nodded. By then, there was a small crowd had gathered around them. Everyone was looking at him, curious. Seeing his response, Lisa's eyes widened. "You are indeed very handsome," she said. "Dare I say, even women would be jealous!"

"Thank you," Lu Zhiyu said awkwardly. Suddenly, someone grabbed Lu Zhiyu's hand. He turned and saw Zoe standing behind him.

"This is my friend, Lisa," Zoe said with a smile. "I have to talk to him about something." Lisa frowned, but she didn't say anything as she turned to leave.

Zoe led Lu Zhiyu to a corner on the left side of the room. The two found a red couch and sat down. Immediately, a server came over with some champagne and snacks and Lu Zhiyu and Zoe each took a flute. They clinked their glasses and Zoe asked, "You came alone? Didn't you bring a date?"

"I don't know a lot of people here," Lu Zhiyu said, shaking his head. "I just wanted to know what your parties are like."

Zoe glanced at him as if she found his words hard to believe. "Oh my God, you're not…gay, are you?"

Zoe looked at him as if confirming something. Lu Zhiyu waved his hands frantically and said, "No, no, no. Don't make such jokes, Zoe. They're not funny."

"Alright," Zoe said with a small smile and nodded. She grabbed his hand and said, "Then I will be your date tonight. Promise me you'll dance with me?"

"I'm not a good dancer, though," Lu Zhiyu said with a shrug. "I might step on your feet."

Zoe smiled. "Don't worry," she said with a small wave. "Come on. I want to introduce you to someone."

In the middle of the room was a thin man with a small beard. He was very slender, but he looked very energetic and proud and seemed to be a good friend of Zoe's. As Zoe walked over with Lu Zhiyu, he first waved at her, then glanced curiously at him. After Zoe introduced Lu Zhiyu to him, he smiled and said, "Greetings, Mr. Anthony. I'm Charles Andrew. Welcome to my party."

"The honor is all mine," Lu Zhiyu said, shaking hands with him.

The party was more fun than Lu Zhiyu expected. Charles had hired a professional band, and the band performed some very interesting and unique music. Amidst the elegant music, the moon rose and its light poured into the room through the large windows. The entire mansion was lit up for the party and the attendees in suits and elegant gowns danced together under the mingling party light. The atmosphere made one feel like they had been transported to the Middle Ages.

Lu Zhiyu walked onto the dance floor with Zoe, who unexpectedly tugged him into a waltz. The two waltzed across the floor with such ease that the dancers around them stopped to glance at them. When the song ended, the two concluded their dance with a professional pose and applause erupted around them. Zoe looked at him with a wide smile, her cheeks flushed. "I thought you said you couldn't dance," she said. "You were being modest, weren't you?"

Lu Zhiyu grinned mysteriously. Of course, he wouldn't tell Zoe that although he had never danced the waltz before, he did have his sub-brain do some research about dancing. That, combined with his absolute control over his own body and attention to detail, made it easy to learn how to dance and pretend that he had been learning it since he was young.

After talking for a few more minutes after leaving the dance floor, Lu Zhiyu said, "I'll be fine. You don't have to stay with me the entire time. I think I'll walk around a little. I'm pretty interested in this castle."

Lu Zhiyu knew the reason Zoe came to this party was to network and expand her connections. She was the daughter of a businessman and had several siblings. If she wanted her family business and more resources, she would have to fight for it. She needed more friends and more people who knew her face and name. This was why this party was so important to her.

Lu Zhiyu walked through the hallway of the castle alone, looking at all the paintings in the hall. The paintings showed the previous owners of this mansion, and there were brief descriptions about each one of them under their portraits as well as some descriptions of the castle's history and some of the important events that had taken place there. This mansion had a long history, and Lu Zhiyu was very interested by it.

"That's my grandfather," a voice said as Lu Zhiyu stared at a painting of an old man. He turned and saw Charles standing behind him. "He was a devoted Christian," Charles said.

"Do you believe in God, Mr. Andrew?" Lu Zhiyu asked, curious.

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Chapter 51: Invitation

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Charles smiled mysteriously. "My beliefs are… slightly different from my grandfather's. I would like to tell you more, if you're interested."

"Of course," Lu Zhiyu said earnestly with a nod. "I am very interested."

"Do you believe in the blood race?" Charles asked in a hushed whisper.

"Vampires?" Lu Zhiyu said, surprised.

There was a difference between these words, so Charles shook his head. "No, the blood race!"

Lu Zhiyu narrowed his eyes. Charles's questions had made him very curious. He glanced at Charles. "There are many legends about the the blood race," he said. "One can go as far back as thousands of years ago, to the Mesopotamian civilization. There are records of them in ancient Jewish texts and from the Roman Empire. Some say they are descendants of Cain, the first murderer according to the Bible, who murdered his brother due to jealousy. Others say they came from Judah or the Wallachian ruler Vlad Dracula."

He paused for a moment. "Ever since the middle ages, the Catholic Church has issued several decrees regarding the blood race, acting as if the blood race was a great enemy. This seemed to validate their existence. It was as if these blood-sucking creatures had been hidden among humans for centuries." Lu Zhiyu paused, then said, "Of course, no one knows whether that's real or not. These are all rumors and legends passed down through generations. No one has actually met them before. It's just a legend!"

Charles shook his head. "No, it's not just a legend. If you are willing, I can show you a whole different world."

"Really?" Lu Zhiyu asked, intrigued. "I am very interested."

The two exchanged their business cards and Charles disappeared with a mysterious smile while Lu Zhiyu frowned. He was certain that Charles was a normal man without any form of special abilities. However, he had probed at Charles's mind and found out some of the information that Charles was talking about.

Charles was a loyal member of a cult called the Vatican Clan. He joined this cult when he was still attending college and became an official member of it after he graduated. There were many famous people in the cult. There were several wealthy businessmen and politicians, as well as scientists and artists. There were even some actors and famous authors among the cult's members. This cult clearly wielded very significant influence.

There also seemed to be some mysterious and powerful forces and people behind this cult. Charles' memory also contained some miraculous events. Did these supernatural forces and powers really exist on Earth?

But then he remembered the Scroll of the World, and he became even more interested. He wanted to learn more about this cult.

As for why Charles invited him, Lu Zhiyu was interested too. It seemed that the appearance of members was very important to this cult. All the members were very beautiful humans. The more beautiful one was, the more likely they were to be invited to join the cult. It was as if only attractive beings fit the requirement for the blood race!

This was why Charles had approached Lu Zhiyu. He looked at the card Charles had given him. Even though Charles didn't say anything when he left, Lu Zhiyu knew that his name would be on the list next time the cult gathered for a meeting. Lu Zhiyu decided that he would join the next meeting. He was set on discovering what was up with this cult.

After leaving the manor, he and Charles spent some time chatting together. Zoe looked at the two of them with an even stranger expression on her face as if she'd determined Lu Zhiyu's sexual orientation.

"Anthony, did you keep rejecting me because you really do like men?" As Lu Zhiyu was about to drive away from the mansion, Zoe suddenly squeezed into the passenger seat.

"Of course not," Lu Zhiyu said. "He just told me some interesting things."

Zoe frowned. "He's not inviting you into some cult, is he?"

Lu Zhiyu didn't expect Zoe to know about the cult as well. "You know about it too?" he asked, surprised.

Zoe shook her head. "Not much," she said. "But Charles and my brother went to the same university, so I know a little about things. I just want to tell you not to get in too deep."

"Is it dangerous?" Lu Zhiyu asked.

"I don't know," Zoe said with a shrug. "But these cults are always so mysterious and private. You can't be recognized officially and you must hide yourself. Why hide if there's nothing wrong? You should at least be cautious."

The two stayed in the car and chatted for a bit longer before Zoe bade him goodbye and slipped away. She got into her own car with a professional chauffeur-bodyguard who escorted her away.

Lu Zhiyu thought about Zoe's words. He thought that even if it was dangerous, it wouldn't really be a threat to him. Of course, he would still be careful because he wasn't sure what was hiding under the surface of this world.

Speaking of Zoe, she'd seemed interested in Lu Zhiyu all this time, but she never initiated anything. She seemed like a hard-to-get woman and was a strong and independent woman in reality!

He sat in his car for a bit longer, then drove away from the mansion. This party had been very interesting and it helped revitalize him. Humans were indeed social animals. All sorts of psychological problems would appear after being separated for too long!

Once he got back to his house, he spent some time watching TV before returning to the dimensional castle. Another dozen of years had passed since he left, but the ant-people had kept the castle tidy. Lu Zhiyu didn't need to rest for energy now, but he still had the habit of sleeping. Resting his mind could help adjust his state.

Ever since he developed supernatural creatures, he began planning his next move. He wanted to open up the path to the zero-dimensional space, so that the supernatural creatures could flourish in Maria's World. He wanted to use Maria's World as a testing ground for these organisms.

He was only one man and have limited speed and energy. He would sometimes make mistakes or have loopholes in his thoughts. If he got more people to do the same thing as him, he could progress much faster and more efficiently. Other people might even point out the correct path for him.

George Bernard Shaw had once said, "You have an apple and I have an apple. If we trade, we still only have one apple each. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we trade, we will each have two ideas!"

This was how knowledge was. Lu Zhiyu could receive knowledge discovered by others without having to steal them. This was a mutually-beneficial thing.

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Chapter 52: Magic Network

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"What should I call a group of people who make discovering supernatural forces their goal? They almost sound like wizards or something!"

Lu Zhiyu decided that he would name this civilization system. Yes, he considered this a civilization system because once the usage of mind power and deified cells was spread, it could form a culture that wouldn't be inferior to the scientific and technological system.

He wanted to call it the Magician civilization, but that sounded too exclusionary and mysterious. In the end, he decided to use the name Wizard civilization.

The first step would be opening up a path to the zero-dimensional space throughout the entire Maria's World. But instead of letting it be freely open, he would adopt an indirect method.

He prepared to construct a passage from the one-dimensional space and use it as a requirement to access the Source Form from the zero-dimensional space. When the strength of a person's mind met the requirement, he or she would be able to connect to the one-dimensional passage, through which one could absorb the Source Form in the zero-dimensional space to strengthen their mind power.

"Let's call it the Magic Network. Sixty percent of the Source Form a person draws from the zero-dimensional space using the Magic Network would come to me. The person will only receive forty percent of that. This can also be a means for me to harvest Source Form!"

Lu Zhiyu's Source Form in the hourglass had grown significantly. After a thousand years of collecting Source Form, the measure had increased from 129 units to 1363 units. At the beginning, the first two hundred years only yielded less than a hundred units' worth of Source Form. The growth rate had become faster and faster. Now, every year would yield about eight or nine units worth of Source Form.

Admittedly, a normal organism contained very little Source Form. Lu Zhiyu had gathered several hundred scales of Source Form from the insect queens. The amount of Source Form a normal life contained was minuscule compared to an insect queen.

Following his own thoughts, Lu Zhiyu used the Scroll of the World to revise some of the rules in the one-dimensional space from there, covering the entire Maria's World with the one-dimensional passages. And because it was an overlapping of a lower dimensional world, unless one could detect the dimensions, neither humans nor supernatural creatures could sense the changes!

Lu Zhiyu could feel the secret passages of the network appear one after another, expanding across Maria's World. He could also feel his Source Form slowly being drained by this process, like water flowing out. It was shocking.

He knew that it would take a lot of Source Form to create a network that covered the entire world, but he did not expect this. Creating Maria's World had only used about 1000 units of Source Form, but the consumption now was even more than that.

Of course, he had used material energy from the outer universe when creating Maria's World. Lu Zhiyu's own Source Form was mostly used to change the rules and convert the material energy into a world. Now, he was using his own Source Form to create paths that would bear and extract the Source Form to build a supernatural network.

However, this network was only for transporting energy. To take the Source Form from the providing zero-dimensional space, it required the organism to have a conscious mind. There was no other way to extract Source Form.

Thus, Lu Zhiyu was only setting up a framework so far. Afterwards, the other supernatural creatures must connect to the Magic Network to extract the Source Form and allow Lu Zhiyu to get some "toll fees."

As the network spread bit by bit, he found that the Source Form he had collected had been reduced to less than 1000 units. More than 1000 years of hard work had been reduced to nothing in an instant.

Because the network didn't cover his castle, he decided that he would go check on the world itself. Before going down himself, he used the Scroll of the World to check what had been happening and what had changed in Maria's World.

On the elfin continent, the overpopulation of elves placed a strain on the Forest of Life. The realm of the elves became divided due to this problem. Two Elders, originally members of the council, took a seed of the Tree of Life. Together with those who were willing to follow them, they left the Forest of Life. They began exploring Yala and looking for a new place to settle down and call home.

On Alen, the humans and orcs were still locked in never-ending conflicts. There had been several wars. However, this fighting increased the exchange of culture, and both human and orcs civilization was growing stronger. The vast continent was home to many different styles of life and cultures. Many different groups and countries formed in both human and orc civilizations as well.

There were multiple large human kingdoms, like the Batko Empire in the desert, the Mara Kingdom in the forests, the Tuten Dynasty to the east, the Lumen Kingdom that came to power through sea trade, and the most powerful Crete Empire in the heart of the land. There were also smaller kingdoms and duchies between these large kingdoms. These smaller nations made alliances with the larger kingdoms and formed a pyramid of power.

Among these nations, the Crete Empire was not the most powerful but had the strongest military. It occupied the plain in the center of the continent where human civilization began. Thus, it was considered to be the purest bloodline, and its ruling dynasty was referred to as the Iron Dynasty.

Since Ahenaten's Golden Dynasty, there were multiple wars that divided the empire he created. These empires were broken up and united over and over again. The Crete Empire was the fourth to unite all the small kingdoms. Before that, there was also the Silver Dynasty, called the Pyroris Empire, and the Copper Dynasty, called the Tylen Empire.

The Crete Empire started about a hundred years ago, when the middle plain was fractured into dozens of nations. Elliot I of the Crete Empire had defeated the Nossos Kingdom, the Fatu Kingdom, the Nia Kingdom, the Caslot Federation, and various other nations to unite the plains.

For over thirty years, the trading fleets on the sea were affected by the "Children of the Sea." Because of this, no ship was willing to venture into the deep sea. At times, a single safe passage could cause internal conflicts in a small kingdom.

Lu Zhiyu wanted to check out the sea when he was distracted by movements in the valley. He refocused the Scroll of the World, curious. Many workers were working in a valley, digging for something. The entire mountain seemed to have been upended.

Finally, one of the slaves dug too deeply and the ground beneath him collapsed. He fell in immediately. People looked down and saw a circular point. The slave happened to have fallen right on top and was killed.

A man dressed as a noble walked over. A few guards pushed aside the bystanders. The man lay on the ground, looking down. He immediately recognized the designs on the rocks inside.

"This is it! I recognize this style of architecture! This is the Golden Dynasty's marking. And that sigil of the sun is from the legends. Apparently it's the mark of God's blessing to them! We found it! After such a long time, we finally found it!" The man was so excited that he was practically shaking.

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"Hurry up, open it!"

"Everyone start working on this, now!"

No one cared that one slave had died. As soon as the body of the slave who fell in was retrieved, it was tossed aside. All the workers were redirected to the hole in the ground and resumed digging. Soon they found a large domed building. However, they found that their progress was stalled by a large rock that blocked the entire entrance.

A Bloodline Knight appeared. He stopped before the rock, holding a hammer almost as tall as he was. Using his power, he swung the hammer and shattered the rock. After the dust settled, the entrance was revealed to everyone. The knight opened the gate, revealing a world where no one had set foot in a thousand years. A winding staircase leading down into the mountains appeared.

"Prepare yourselves," ordered the middle-aged nobleman that was in charge, Viscount Tena.

Everyone quickly prepared themselves for the descent. After an hour, the soldiers that were supposed to descend into the mountains stood in front of the gate, waiting for further orders.

"Where are the torches?!"

"You! Go first!" the nobleman roared. His guards drew their swords and pointed them at the slave shaking in fear. Seeing no other choices, the slave grabbed a torch and began his descent. His footsteps echoed in the dark, empty hall. Seeing that there was no danger, the soldiers and the nobleman began following the slave.

Suddenly, the slave who was leading the way stepped on air. He fell into a trap and was impaled by a spear. The soldier behind him was knocked off of the staircase by a large rock that rolled out of another hidden trap.

"A trap!"

"This is the curse of the Golden King!" one of the workers cried. "We can't do this!"

"We are offending the gods!"

The nobleman raised his sword and cut down one of the screaming slaves. "There's no curse!" he bellowed. "Those are all false rumors! You belong to my family and I am your lord! You will all follow my orders!"

Surrounded by a dozen trained knights and three awakened Bloodline Knights, the slaves couldn't do anything to defy the viscount's orders. They kept going, triggering more traps along the way. They pressed on at the expense of human lives. Once in a while, screams of slaves who stumbled into traps would echo in the dark, dank mountain. At the bottom of the stairway was a long hallway.

"Look!" someone called. "There's something on the wall!"

Tena took a torch and inspected the hallway they were in. Under the flickering light of the torch, he saw that the walls of the hallway were covered in murals, depicting different people and events. He studied them, his fingers grazing the walls lightly.

"I can't believe it." He turned to his men and announced loudly, "This isn't just a grave from the Golden Dynasty! This is the grave of King Ahenaten! The first king of men!"

Everyone stared at the murals in shock. To them, Ahenaten belonged to the early history, to the legends and songs and epics. Seeing history unfolding right in front of them made these men very excited.

Tena led his men deeper down the hall. "Look, these depict scenes of the Golden Dynasty. The Battle of Red River Plain, the foundation of his empire, him slaying the Orc King Costa, and…"

He saw a statue of a god. It had a mask with the sigil of the sun and he was giving a young boy a sword and a bag of seeds. Everyone gasped at this.

Tena gripped the torch in shock. "So it's true? The Golden King really did meet a god. This is the Sword of the King from the legends. According to legends, Ahenaten's family had the golden bloodline given by this God–Archangel Faross!"

He stared at the God in the murals in a daze. A beat later, he finally turned around. "Hurry, let's go! If the legends are true, the Sword of the King must be somewhere in here! According to legend, the reason the Golden Dynasty fell was because Ahenaten took the Sword of the King into his tomb. Whoever finds the sword will unite the Alen Continent and be the true king of the world!"

The group pressed on through several chambers full of traps until they finally reached where Ahenaten was laid to rest. The moment that the gate was opened and the torches' light touched the room, everyone was blinded by a flash of golden light.

"It's gold!"

"This is all gold!"

"So much gold!"

Tena laughed maniacally, his heart pounding in his chest. Since his grandfather's generation, his family had dedicated themselves to finding this tomb. After all these years, he had finally found the hidden treasures of the Golden Dynasty.

"Hurry, light all the candles!"

When the candles were lit and the entire chamber was illuminated, everyone gaped. Platinum, silver, and diamonds and crystals of all colors covered the entire room.

The most eye-catching was the coffin on a raised platform in the center of the room. It was made completely out of gold with hundreds of colorful gems. The opulent designs and golden shine stole their breaths.

The people waded through the gold coins. Their feet seemed to sink into the treasure; some As even seemed to slip right into their boots. Everyone stared at the treasure with gaping mouths, their thoughts completely taken by the treasure.

Instead of looking at the treasure around him, Tena was staring at the coffin. He ran right up to it. "Go, open it."

"Are you sure, my lord?" one of the men asked. "This is the Golden King's coffin. He'd interacted with God before. Do we really want to open it? Wouldn't that be…"

Tena didn't care. He just wanted to verify if the legendary Sword of the King really existed. "I said, open it" he roared.

The knights glanced at each other, then walked up to the coffin and opened it. Inside was an old man wearing a golden mask. He held a longsword in his hands. Even after thousands of years, the body still looked alive.

Fear creeped into everyone's hearts. Especially since they were in a dark underground tunnel, the strange atmosphere ate away at them. As soon as outside air touched the body, it slowly weathered and turned to smoke.

This made everyone even more fearful, but Tena did not notice that at all. "What are you scared of? He's dead. What can he do?"

Tena stared at the sword. "It really is here, the legendary sword given by the gods!"

He picked it up and slid the sword from the elegant golden sheath. White light flashed in everyone's vision. He struck his guard's sword with it. The guard's sword snapped in half, but the sword in his hand didn't even have a nick.

Tena laughed heartily. "It really is the Sword of the King, a sword from the gods. Even after thousands of years, it is still sturdy, white, and sharp, as if it had just been forged. I can't believe it's in my hands now!"

Suddenly, another thing in the coffin drew his attention. He didn't know what it was, but if it was important enough to be buried with Ahenaten, then it must be something as powerful as the sword. It might be at the same level as the Sword of the King.

What kind of treasure can it be that was as powerful as the sword? The sword was a gift from the gods, so had Ahenaten been gifted with something else from the gods too?

In addition to Tena, this thought also hit every other person in the chamber.

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Chapter 54: He Who Drinks the Blood of God

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Viscount Tena reached into the coffin and grabbed the gemstone peeking out. Everyone was attracted by it. This gemstone shone with a bright, golden light. Under the torches' light, it looked almost like a small piece of sunlight. What was even more stunning, however, was that there was some red substance rippling in the middle of the gemstone.

"What is this?" Tena wondered out loud.

Suddenly, a beam of light projected from the gemstone onto the wall. Everyone in the room jumped, their eyes following the beam of light. A film appeared on the wall. It was a scene of a plain under the sunset with a rushing river. A young boy knelt before a man wearing a mask and glowing with white light. The masked man gave a sword and a pouch to the boy.

Everyone in the room held their breath. They knew that they were watching a depiction of the moment the Golden King Ahenaten received a revelation from God one thousand years ago. The scene was right before their eyes.

Even though there were no words accompanying this projection, everyone knew what it meant. They could sense the God's language. It was a mysterious and strange feeling. Seeing Ahenaten take the sword, everyone knew that he would then build the first human empire and become a great king. Even today, his bloodline was one of the most powerful in the world.

However, the projection did not end there. Viscount Tena saw the God pick up a stone and drop some blood onto it. The stone turned into the golden gemstone Tena was holding in his hand.

The God's lips moved. The film was silent, but a line resounded in everyone's minds. He who drinks the blood of God will become a descendant of God, and will wield the power of Almighty!

This utterance crashed in everyone's minds like a crack of thunder. Everyone's breathing quickened. Only this sentence remained in their minds.

He who drinks the blood of God will become a descendant of God!

The Bloodline Knight behind Tena was the first to make his move. He raised his sword and brought it down over Tena's head. Tena raised the Sword of the King and blocked the attack. "Sova!" he spat angrily, "How dare you betray me! Everyone, take this traitor down! In the name of the Tena family!"

He activated his bloodline power and his hereditary swordsmanship skills—the Storming Blades—and began fighting with the Bloodline Knight, Sova.

While fighting, Sova turned and called, "What are you waiting for? Kill him and everything is ours! The sword, the blood, all the treasure in the room! It's all ours! Why are you still working for him? Don't you want to have the power of God?"

Sova's words resonated with the Bloodline Knights and the other knights in the room. These men came forward and joined the fight against the viscount. The slaves began stuffing their pockets with the treasure and making a run to the exit.

The fight between slaves and guards, between the viscount and his knights turned the underground tomb into a living hell. Cries and screams echoed in the empty chambers. The treasures and promise of power were more than enough to wake the deepest desire and greed within everyone in that chamber.

Viscount Tena fought three of the Bloodline Knights and was finally slain by his own men, with two swords piercing his chest. After his death, the remaining knights began fighting amongst themselves for the divine blood.

Blood soaked into the ground, and bodies began piling up amidst the treasure. In the end, the final victor was Sova, the Bloodline Knight who'd first attacked Tena.

He had taken a dozen injuries and was covered in blood. However, with the resilient bloodline power he had awakened, he survived his injuries. He could keep his mind clear even in a situation like this.

Sova grabbed the Sword of the King and pried the gemstone out of Tena's hand. His blood-covered hands bloodied the gemstone as well. His eyes filled with greed. His entire being seemed to drown in the gemstone's beauty.

"You're mine, hahaha! You're mine. I'm the ultimate victor, the one chosen by gods!"

He stumbled out of the chamber with the sword as his support and began making his way outside, leaving a long trail of bloody footprints behind him. He soon disappeared in the underground tunnels.

But just as he about to make it out of the underground tomb, he forced his head up and saw a rock flying towards him, as well as a dirty yet excited face.

The rocks came until Sova's features were like ground meat and he'd stopped breathing. There were two slaves. One grabbed the Sword of the King and the other took the gemstone from Sova's body. After that, they made a run for it along the forest path, trying to get out of the mountain range.

Lu Zhiyu appeared in the tomb. Looking at the bodies in the tomb and the gold on the ground, he found it ironic. He didn't understand why these ordinary people existed.

After he found out that these people were looking for Ahenaten's tomb, he put his own blood into a gemstone and placed it in Ahenaten's tomb. He wanted to release his deified cells into the world through these people's hands. However, he did not expect for greed and desire to fill these people's hearts and shed blood due to this.

Of course, this had served its purpose, which was to take his deified cells out to create its own spawn. He hadn't deified his entire body or created his own mythical template yet, but this would be good preparation for later.

Without a unique mythical template, his cells could only create his spawn. He couldn't use them for his reincarnations. Only someone with a unique mythical template could influence the life form of other organisms by their own and alter them to become the same organism as itself.

It was alright though. He could get ready beforehand and establish his spawn. Some ten years later, when he completed the template, he could then use his deified cells to influence and assimilate them.

Lu Zhiyu had done plenty of experiments on Sakun, and he had figured out how to create spawn for a mythical creature when he was creating the mermaids. He was confident that he knew what he was doing.

As he was walking through the tomb, he wondered who would get his blood. His power wasn't just any normal power. Anyone that received it could achieve great things with his power.

He walked up the platform in the chamber to Ahenaten's coffin. He looked at the empty coffin and felt a sudden rush of sadness. In the blink of an eye, it had been over a thousand years already since Ahenaten had died. Even the first generation of elves that he had created were dying now.

Lu Zhiyu still remembered clearly how Ahenaten had begged him for immortality the night of his death. He sighed and sat down on the edge of the coffin, watching the mural on the walls and the flickering shadows under the candleholders. He suddenly felt very empty, as if he had just lost something very important.

"Ah!"

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Chapter 55: The Church

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A few days later, another group of knights entered Bull Mountain Range. They were heavily armored, wearing cloaks and carrying swords. Each of them bore the sigil of the sun on their cloaks.

An old man wearing a long dark red cardinal robe walked out of the group of people surrounding him and into the tomb. He immediately saw the bodies littered on the ground and the empty golden coffin. The underground tomb was in chaos.

A few filthy slaves were tossed in front of the red-robed cardinal. A few knights carried forward a few gold coins along with some gold and silver wares, among which was the mask worn by the Golden King.

The red-robed cardinal looked at the items and nodded. If the slaves weren't trying to sell these items, they wouldn't have discovered this place. The cardinal looked at the kneeling slaves, "Did you find these here?"

The slaves were trembling. Before them was one of the ten red-robed cardinal of the Church of Light. The number of people in such a high position can be counted with the two hands. His name was widely spread within the Alen continent. Even the emperor of the Crete Empire would have to treat a red-robed cardinal of the Church of Light with respect.

Normally, the slaves would never have the opportunity to meet a person like the cardinal, who claimed to be people closest to God; not to mention get the opportunity to talk to them. But at this moment, there was only fear in their hearts.

One of the knights put a sword to a slave's neck and said, "Speak!"

The slave could not handle the pressure and shouted, "I'll speak. We're Viscount Tena's slaves. We entered the Bull Forest a few months ago. Over these few months, we have always been following the master's orders and excavating here. At first, we did not know the reason for what we were doing, but later we found out that the Viscount was searching for the tomb of the Golden Dynasty!"

The cardinal nodded. This was information he already knew. The Tena family was the master of this area, but the Bull Forest was not under their control. They have already violated the laws of the empire, but that was not the red-robed cardinal cared about.

"What did you see here, tell me everything!" Even the red-robed cardinal was at awe of the large amount of treasures before him. But he appeared collected. He was not a small noble by the countryside that have never witnessed such a scene!

The slave continued with a shaky voice, "That day, we excavated a pit and discovered this place. There were many traps along the way, and many of us died. But the master continued commanding us to go forward. We opened the door and found this room. We found the coffin of the Golden King!"

"Get to the point. What else did you discover?" a priest wearing a black robe standing behind the cardinal asked hurriedly.

The cardinal turned his head and stared at his subordinate, causing him to retreat in embarrassment, "You need not hurry, take your time."

The slave nodded, "Viscount Tena said we should open the coffin, but Lord Sova objected, saying God would curse us. After all, this is the tomb of the Golden King. But that didn't stop Lord Tena. They then opened the coffin."

At this point, the slave's eyes revealed an expression of extreme fear, " Back then, the Golden King seemed to be alive. He did not seem dead. But after we opened the coffin, he disappeared like a ghost!"

"Then, then they were all struck by a curse they started killing each other. They killed each other manically!" The slave was immensely frightened as he recalled the scene.

The cardinal frowned. "What did they find in the coffin?"

The worker thought about it and said, "First, they found a sword. They said it was a divine sword given to them by the God. It still had a cold glow, able to slice a knight's sword into half with a strike. It was still shiny as snow despite being in the tomb for over a thousand years!"

His words shocked everyone present, including the knights of the Church. Everyone had a longing and excited expression, "It is the Sword of the King. God has given us the authority of the king and had chosen the emperor. It must be a true divine weapon since it was found here!"

The red-robed cardinal was very excited. A divine weapon that had been gifted to them by God could truly represent the orthodoxy of the Church of Light. They had to obtain it. That was the whole reason why they had come here in the first place. If he was successful, it was highly possible that he would take the position as the next leader of the Church.

At this moment, the red-robed cardinal suddenly remembered something, "You said they first found the sword. What else did they find?"

The slave realized that he had chosen the wrong words, his gaze wavering. The red-robed cardinal's voice became stern, "Speak!"

Nervously, the slave shouted immediately, "They found… ichor!"

The atmosphere instantly became quiet. The cardinal shivered as he asked, "What?"

The slave quickly continued, "They later found a golden gemstone in the coffin. There was ichor sealed within. When they took the gemstone out, a picture was instantly projected onto the wall. It was a picture of a scene that happened a thousand years ago, the scene of God giving the Golden King his divine mission. Back then, God did not only give the Golden King his divine sword and seeds. He also gave him ichor. God told the Golden King…he said…!"

"What did he say?" the cardinal could not help but grab tightly on the shoulder of the slave. He did not care if the slave was filthy anymore.

The slave shivered as he said, his voice becoming shriller because of his fear, "God said, 'he who drinks the blood of God will become a descendant of God, and will wield the power of my Almighty!'"

The red-robed cardinal reacted immediately. He shouted manically, "Kill all of them, kill all of them, as well as all who knows about this. Leave no one alive, kill all of them!"

"No you cannot do this! We did everything you said!"

"Oh Goddess Maria above, you'll face the punishment of God…"

"Spare me, don't kill me!"

The knights charged forward and killed all of the slaves. The heavy atmosphere made breathing difficult. Some time later, the red-robed cardinal finally collected himself, "Send a message back to the Church. This is top secret, no one here is to speak a word of this. Anyone who speaks a word of this will be hunted by the Church of Light for the rest of his life!"

"Also, lead the knights of the Church and find all the slaves that were here back then. We must find the sword and the ichor!"

"The rest of you are not to leave this place. Seal this place. Do not allow anyone to enter or leave the Bull Mountain Range!"

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Chapter 56: Stormy Developments

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Although the Church of Light tried its best to hide the information, news still began to spread. There were not just one or two slaves that escaped that day. The rest of the escaped slaves had leaked the news.

The rumor that the tomb of the Golden King was discovered in the Bull Mountain Range quickly spread through the entire Crete empire, as well as into many of the neighboring countries. But, an even more mysterious and terrifying piece of news was hidden within the rumor.

The capital of the Crete empire, Virginia, also known as the Lion City, had its palace situated around the center-north side of the city. Though it was not the wealthiest city on the continent, it was the cultural center of humanity, as it was the city with the richest cultural history.

This could be seen from the architecture of the city, as well as the clothing of the inhabitants, population density, and trade activity. It was a lively, bustling city, with sophisticated laws and institutions. Most of the people lived above the poverty line. Even so, it had a hidden dark side—slums and a large number of slave districts.

The palace of Virginia was a towering and magnificent structure of white marble. It was the culmination of the efforts of all of the Cretan craftsmen, over three generations, and was built upon the foundations of the original Crete empire palace. It took several decades to complete the palace.

A youth carried a sword in hand and walked straight into the palace. He put down his sword at the door and headed toward the deeper parts of the palace. He walked past the opulent corridors and palace garden to a small yard. One could see a middle aged man taking a rest and sipping on milk tea in the building beside him.

"Your Majesty!"

A youth stepped forward and greeted the Emperor. Emperor Elliot VII put down the book in his hand and glanced at the youth, "Earl Ivens, why have you come visit me today?"

Earl Ivens peered at the book in the Emperor's hand and raised his head, "Your Majesty, is that the Epic of Totle?"

Elliot VII nodded his head. "The Epic of Totle records information on many ancient civilizations. We have much to learn from it, especially on the topic of the rise and fall of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze dynasties!"

Ivens immediately replied, "Then, does Your Majesty remember Ahenaten?"

Elliot VII broke into laughter. "Golden King Ahenaten, the first recorded ruler in history, the great hero who brought humanity into an era of civilization? No one would forget him!"

Elliot VII frowned. "Why did you mention the Golden King? Also, surely you must have some official matters to discuss with me today?"

Earl Ivens immediately replied, "Your Majesty, today, the matter I am here to report has direct relations with him. Your Majesty, the tomb of Golden King Ahenaten was discovered in the Bull Mountain Range of Castro Province. Viscount Tena excavated the tomb of the Golden King and stole the Sword of the King from the tomb. Your Majesty, the fabled Sword of the King has reappeared. Currently, Cardinal Hodap of the Church of Light has already headed to Castro Province and sealed the Bull Mountain Range. Should we also take action!"

Elliot VII frowned, unamused. "It is only a sword. We cannot take all of the words of legend as absolute truth. If the Church of Light desires it, they can have it. However, for Viscount Tena to dare commit such an act, he has thrown the face of all the nobles. He must be punished!"

Earl Ivens said immediately, "Viscount Tena is already dead. All of his Bloodline Knights and warriors killed each other inside the tomb, as if they were under a curse. Only a few slaves managed to make it out alive. One of them has the Sword of the King, and we have been tracking him with all of our power. Currently, we have located him in a small town of Castro Province, and we are fighting the Church over custody of the captive. But, that is not the most important part. We have heard of an even more important news from the slave!"

Elliot VII was intrigued, immediately asking, "What news?"

Earl Ivens drew in a long breath. "In the coffin of Ahenaten, they discovered ichor, the blood of God. According to the legends, when Ahenaten received the prophecy from the angel Faross, the angel sealed a drop of ichor into a gem and gave it to the Golden King. It was by using this power bestowed by God that the Golden King managed to defeat the orcs and unite humanity! According to the slave, at the time, they could see a film that was recorded within the gem, depicting the Golden King's receiving the prophecy from God. They saw the appearance of God, as well as his message!"

"What did he say?"

"He who drinks the blood of God will become a descendant of God, and will wield the power of the Almighty!"

Elliot VII clenched his hands, as his pupils dilating. "Bring me that slave at all costs!"

Ivens was thrilled. Hadn't he come to impress the Emperor? If he could succeed in this task, he could gain the favor of the Emperor and improve his status, "So what about the Church of Light?"

Elliot VII waved his hand. "Ignore them. This is a matter of the Crete empire, so the Church of Light cannot interfere!"

Ivens left immediately, leaping into action. Other than the Church of Light and the Emperor of Crete, every noble family and hidden power of the underworld also received this intel and began acting at once.

The news of the ichor spread like wildfire, especially the words of the prophecy: "He who drinks the blood of God will become a descendant of God, and will wield the power of the Almighty!"

The public was enraptured. Everyone wanted to become the descendant of God, turning themselves completely into the messenger of God. They also wanted to wield the power of the Almighty! During that time, legends about the ichor and epics of the Golden King were exaggerated indefinitely. Even the children in the countryside were singing the words of the prophecy.

The news had even spread to neighboring countries, their allies within the Crete Empire taking action. There were numerous attempts of robbery when the forces of the Crete empire were transporting the Sword of the King back to the capital, Lion City. Countless people acted in the shadows. Even the armies in the frontier began secretly moving their forces, with countless eyes directed at the little province in the Crete empire.

Within these stormy developments, news concerning the slave by the name of Mark caught everyone's attention. It was reported that he was the one who took the ichor from the tomb of the Golden King. The province of Castro was turned upside down in pursuit of him.

Meanwhile, in a rural village in the mountains of Castro, a large group of sheeps were grazing on the green grass. A girl, who appeared to be around 12 years old, was herding a large group of sheep. She was a slave of the lord. She was dressed in a torn rag that hardly qualified as clothing. Many spots on the rag had been mended, but it was kept very clean. With slightly dark skin and a face full of freckles, she exuded the youthful aura of a maiden!

As the sun began setting and the last rays of twilight fell on the mountainside, the sheeps started to call. It was like a beautiful rustic painting. But, at that moment, a man drenched in blood crawled out from the foot of the hill.

"Kelly! Kelly!"

She looked up, as she was counting the sheep on her way home, only to discover the the figure of her father Mark. She saw that Mark had a large sword wound, and appeared to be on the verge of death!

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Chapter 57: Blood of God

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Kelly cupped her mouth in shock. She threw down the whip in her hands and hugged her father Mark, "Father, what happened?"

Kelly was crying. She saw the blood on her hand, her voice sour, "Why… why… are you covered in blood?"

Mark had wanted to sell the gemstone with the ichor. All he asked for was a thousand gold. With the money, he could escape his identity as a slave and take his daughter away from this life of servitude. He could buy a large piece of land and an identity as a free citizen, forever freeing himself from the shackles of a slave. From then on, he could perhaps become a merchant, or a craftsman.That way, his children and grandchildren would never have to become a slave.

However, he was betrayed. He was stabbed from the back while he escaped in a fluster through the window. After a simple bandage, he spent an entire day trying to reach his daughter at the village, as the partner that betrayed him knew where his daughter was. He had to reach this place faster than him!

Kelly helped her father into her dilapidated house as she chased the sheeps into their pen. There were not many things in the house, not even a bed. There was only a rug on the ground.

Kelly got her father to sit on the rug. Mark leaned on the wall, unable to stop coughing, "No, Kelly, we have to leave immediately!"

Kelly immediately said, "Why? We're slaves, it'll be hard for us to survive even if we escaped from this place. We have no land, and nobody would take us in!"

Mark smiled, "It's alright. We have this."

Mark took out a golden gemstone from his robes. There was a drop of golden-red blood suspended in the gemstone. Mark instantly revealed a smitten look. Kelly asked out of curiosity, "A gemstone, how beautiful. Father, where did you get that? You didn't steal the leader's item, did you?"

Mark shook his head, "No, not just a gemstone. It's ichor. No one is worthy enough to own it. The nobles, even the emperor, would become the descendent of God and inherit his power if they drank the ichor inside!"

"Cough! Cough! Unfortunately, I do not know how to open it and could only think of ways to sell it. Kelly, we'd never have to be slaves again. We can have a rich, free life. I can marry you off to a respectable person, and not keep you here to shepherd sheeps, then be violated by those filthy people!"

"That's my biggest wish. Unfortunately, your mother's dead, killed by those nobles. I really want our family to live happily together and have a piece of land to our name!"

Suddenly, there were noises outside. Mark was worried, immediately propping himself up against the wall. He looked through the window and saw a group of soldiers on horses, heading toward the small hut. The person that betrayed him had changed into a set of presentable clothes and riding on a horse, giving the group directions to this place!

Mark was very flustered, his expression that of shock, "They're here! They're here! Kelly, run quickly. Jump out from the window at the back and hide. Don't come out, no matter what!"

Kelly instantly hugged her father, "No, father, let us run together!"

Mark shook his head, "No, my injuries are too serious. I cannot run much father. Oh, yes, take this. Run, and do not look back!"

Mark stuffed the gemstone with the ichor into Kelly's hand, then pushed her out of the window. Mark blocked the window no matter how much Kelly cried. Soon after, the noise outside the window stopped, while the sounds coming from out the door became louder and louder. Mark wiped his tears. At this moment, he saw the door to the hut being kicked open. A few soldiers burst into the room, quickly suppressing Mark and dragging him out the hut to the front of a knight. The armored noble youth lowered his head and looked at Mark, then tilted his head.

Another man immediately came forward and searched Mark. Mark spat on him. "Ian, you traitor!"

Ian kicked him onto the ground, "In front of money, be it you or me, friendship is worth nothing!"

Ian searched Mark but found nothing. His expression changed, "You clearly had it with you, where did you hide it. Wait, where is your daughter?"

Mark laughed, "She's long gone. You'll never find the ichor. You despicable people, The ichor landing in your hands is simply polluting the ichor!"

The young nobleman leapt off his horse, slowly drawing his sword with his gloved hand, "A slave like you dare to kill a nobleman, betray his master and steal a holy treasure bestowed by the God. Mark, your name has even reached the ears of the emperor. You may be a slave, but I will give you the honor of dying at the hand of a nobleman!"

"I curse…"

Mark had not completed his sentence when his throat was pierced by the sword. He slumped to the ground, dead. The nobleman wiped down his thin sword, "Search the area, she couldn't have gone far. Capture her immediately!"

Soon after, a few knights riding horses followed the tracks and found Kelly in a wheat field under the mountain. Kelly screamed as she was being dragged back to her hut by the shoulder. She then saw her father's corpse thrown to the side, pinned on a wooden stake!

"Father!"

Kelly had a dazed expression, "Father?"

But Mark could no longer answer her. His lifeless eyes looking on the ground like a dead fish's. His head hung low, his entire body pinned on a wooden stake, as if a broken puppet.

The nobleman walked up to her. "A sheep shepherd? You sure are a despicable slave. Where's the ichor? Hand it over. How can a person with dirty blood flowing in their body handle an item bestowed by God!"

But Kelly could not hear anything now, her gaze fixed on her father's corpse. She suddenly felt that her world had turned gray, her consciousness seemed to have floated into the sky.

"Father's dead? Why did such a thing happen?"

"Oh God? Is this real? Why must they do that. God, why do you tolerate the existence of such evil, why do you not punish them?"

The nobleman was furious at Kelly's unresponsiveness. But he saw the gemstone from the corner of his eye!

"It is indeed in your hands, hand it over!"

The young noble was greedy and lustful. He extended his hand, wanting to snatch the gemstone away from Kelly's hands. Suddenly, the gemstone Kelly was grabbing tightly onto started to release a golden glow. It released an intense light into the night sky. The ichor in the gemstone pulsed, then flowed into Kelly's body!

Everyone was shocked when they saw Kelly floating into the air. She was undergoing an intense transformation. Deified cells are flooding into her body, but she did not appear to be resisting the changes. Her entire being was starting to fuse with the ichor. Her skin started to change, her appearance becoming more exquisite. Her figure became more slender. But the changes in her internal organs and brain were even more intense.

Outside of Maria's World, Lu Zhiyu, who was flipping through books about the humans within Maria's World in the library of his dimensional castle, could also sense this scene. He instantly stood up. It was as though he could sense Kelly despite them being in separate worlds!

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"Someone has already activated the ichor crystal and assimilated the deified cells!"

The condition for activation Lu Zhiyu designed was very simple. As long as the user had a strong wish and no resistance to the process, cell assimilation would be achieved. The assimilation by the defied cells went beyond introducing the cells into the body. The deified cells would reconstruct the living organism and consume a large amount of energy. But the defied cells Lu Zhiyu modified contains a large amount of energy within themselves, so it was sufficient to complete a full body transformation!

Everyone stared at Kelly, who was floating in the air as she currently influenced by the mind power within the cells in the ichor. She transformed from an average looking girl into a maiden with fine, ethereal features and waist-length raven hair.

The young noble gaped, as if he was witnessing a miracle. He stared at the young girl floating in the air, "How, how is this possible? God and miracles actually exist!"

Everyone retreated in shock. Ian, the comrade that had betrayed Mark, fell to the ground, "Impossible, it was real? How could this be real?"

The young noble awoke from his shock and began screaming wildly, "Quick, kill her, kill her!"

All of his knights hesitated in stepping forward. After seeing this scene, which was akin to witnessing the descent of God, all of them acquired a sense of reverence for the young girl. "Sir, we can't, she just received the attention of God!"

The young noble roared in fury, panicked. "You just killed her father. If we leave her, we all will perish, so hurry up and kill her!"

Egged on by the young noble, a few soldiers charged toward the young girl. They pulled out their longswords and sliced toward the young girl. At this moment, Kelly suddenly opened her eyes, peering at them with fathomless black pupils and an air of condescension, as if she stood above them with the coldness of the divine!

In that moment she opened her eyes, all of the longswords coming at Kelly came to a halt. As her gaze moved, a few of the soldiers discovered that they had completely lost control over their bodies, as they now turned their longswords toward their own necks!

"What's happening? I can't move!"

"My hand, what's going on? I can't control my hand!"

"Oh God, what's going on?"

Slowly, those soldiers each slit their own throats, killing themselves under the moonlight, with helpless eyes that were drowned in despair. Everyone felt a chill go down their spines, their legs buckling under them. This sort of power was far beyond their imaginations, and could only be attributed to the realm of the divine or the devil!

After witnessing this chilling scene, all of the people present were trembling. Immediately, someone could not stand the pressure any longer, and tried to run. But, within a few steps, he fell to the ground, his eyes losing their luster!

"Run, everyone, run!"

"This is not the power of God, but the power of the Devil! It's a demon!"

The girl swept her gaze over the others. All of those in her line of sight froze, before slowly drawing their longswords and slitting their own throats. Dozens of soldiers and knights, including seven Bloodline Knights, died at the same time. Their bloodline powers were worthless in the face of the power of the divine!

"Forgive me, I have sinned, but I did not kill your father!"

"Spare me!"

The young noble collapsed to the ground, unable to believe the scene of carnage unfolding before his eyes, as dozens of people commited suicide simultaneously, their lives ebbing away beneath the new light of the rising moon and the dancing light of the torch in front of the wooden hut.

"How is this possible?"

"This? This is the power of God?"

The dark haired girl approached the noble, the moon shining behind her back, dragging out her long shadow. The young noble lifted his head in a daze, like a frightened child.

"Don't—don't come any closer! You can't kill me, I am…I am…"

The noble shrieked with a feminine squeal, only to discover that his body was no longer under his control. He was being manipulated into lifting his hands to his throat, and then strangling himself, as if he had been caught by the claws of the devil. As the force continuously increased, he strangled himself to death!

Kelly only came to her senses as she was watching the agonizing death of the young noble, whose face had turned blue and purple, like a demon. Instantly, she freed herself from the supernatural state she was in, only to discover, to her utter shock, the corpses littered on the ground around her.

She then saw her father's body, nailed upon the wooden pole. She sprung to him, held him in a tight embrace, and wailed loudly, "Father!"

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The next morning, the devastation of the scene was discovered by the locals. Utterly traumatized, Kelly was still hugging the body of her father. The hillside that was covered by the carcasses of the soldiers and knights she had slaughtered. Such a scene was like the descent of the devil. No one dared to approach her!

In the afternoon, a team of Temple Knights rushed over, led by Cardinal Hodap. In the Bull Mountain Range, the Temple Knights were facing off against the emperor's troops. Though the Church had stated their authority over the Golden King's tomb, due to the presence of divine relics, the Church was facing immense pressure and would not be able to hold out much longer!

Since the Crete empire had obtained the Sword of the King first, the Church of Light had lost the initiative. But, to their great fortune, Hodap had discovered news about the location of the ichor, only to find that the ichor had already been consumed!

The Church of Light had already predicted this scenario. No matter who it was, as long as they possessed the bloodline of God, the Church would recognize them as a saint or a saintess. As such, the Church would be able to act as the mouthpiece of God here in this world. Thus, Hodap had to be the first to find the Saintess. The Saintess must belong to the Church of Light!

As Hodap dismounted by the hill, he saw the corpses of those who had committed suicide, including the entire squad of knights and Bloodline Knights. They had all died without the slightest signs of resistance. It chilled him to the bones. He couldn't feel the slightest warmth even though the sun shined upon him.

Hodap turned his eyes to the beautiful maiden, who was clutching the body of a man up on the slope. Though she was drenched in blood and dressed in dirty rags, her exquisite appearance and goddess-like demeanor made the spectators feel as though they were witnessing the descent of an angel!

Hodap knew that this must be the Saintess, as no ordinary women could ever achieve that level of beauty. In fact, Hodap had never encountered any woman of such unearthly beauty. Though her body had yet to fully mature, she already possessed an allure that could topple nations. The entire squad dismounted and knelt to the ground. Hodap went to the forefront, bowing before Kelly.

"Cardinal Hodap of the Church of Light Crete Empire East Division greets Your Holiness. Saintess, we have come to receive you!"

Kelly lifted her head and looked at the crowd in a daze. She discovered that she could read their very thoughts, from each of their minds. It would only take a single thought on her part to deprive them of control over their bodies. They would not be able to resist her in the slightest. This was the power she had received from the ichor, the power granted to her by God!

"The Church of Light? Is that the place closest to God?"

Kelly stood up. Though her small stature did not even reach Hodap's chest, in the face of this black haired maiden with unearthly beauty and unfathomable powers standing amongst a pile of dead bodies, Hodap felt a tendril of fear.

Kelly raised her head, "Are you all afraid of me? Am I not the messenger of God? Why are you afraid of me?"

Hodap looked into Kelly's eyes. He felt that those bewitching black eyes seemed to see into the depths of his very soul, and he could not help but take a step backward. "God, this is truly the power of the divine!"

Looking around, all of the haughty Temple Knights, who could each rival ten men alone, were trembling before the young girl. It was as if those black eyes had the magical power to instil fear

Kelly murmured, "It turns out that all of these men have hearts that are tainted by such filth and foolishness!"

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Chapter 59: Kingdom of the Church of Light

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In the 136th Year of Iron, the Church of Light changed its calendar to the Years of Holy Light. This year, the Church officially declared itself to be the representative of God, and its position was solidified by the presence of the Saintess. The Pope and the Saintess were both seen as messengers of God. The Church's power expanded exponentially. By then, it had begun to control even more human kingdoms and even affected the kingdoms of the orcs as well. The Church's power began to overshadow the monarchy. The Saintess's supernatural power and status as a descendant of God were more than enough to convince the human rulers and noblemen of the Church's legitimacy.

In the 3rd Year of Holy Light, Crete Empire's Elliot VII renounced the Church of Light. Saintess Kelly led an army into his capital and easily captured the emperor without any casualties or actual conflict. They removed him from power, announced him as a heretic, and executed him publicly. After that, they crowned his nephew as the new king, Elliot VIII. Fearing the powerful influence of the Church, other monarchs and noblemen allied themselves against the Church.

In the 5th Year of Holy Light, the Church Knights defeated the united army of Luhmann and Mara Kingdoms in the city of Rus, forcing the two kingdoms to bow before the Church's power. The two kings were also forced to go to the Church to receive its blessing and coronation. The Church also had the rights to station troops in these kingdoms, monitor their activities, and collect taxes from their people.

After that, the numerous human kingdoms in and around the central province began to follow the Church's orders, and the Church reigned supreme. Abdications and the passing of the crown could only be carried out by attending the Church's ceremony. Events like coronations had to be performed in front of the Pope and the Saintess of the Church in order to be legitimate. The Church had the rights to remove any king or governmental official from power. It also had the power to preach anywhere in any kingdoms, and the kings could not reject them with any reason!

That same year, the Church built the Kingdom of the Church of Light, and the city of Rus was renamed as St. Sarl. The kingdom covered the entire Bull Mountain Range and most parts of the Castro Province of the Crete Empire. In addition, several cities of Luhmann and Mara Kingdoms, as well as two smaller nations, also joined the new kingdom. This marked the height of the Church's power and reputation. More than half of the human kingdoms were under the Church's control.

At the same time, the Church also denounced all other religions and formed organizations to capture any heretics. In this name, it captured many people who tried to resist the Church. It also created a special organization consisting of many Judges of Light who would monitor the activities of all the kingdoms and spy on their internal intel. The Church's power seemed to be at its peak, and no one could object to it. No one, not even kings, noblemen, and Bloodline Knights, could fight against the Church's ruling!

Delmatina was located within Luhmann Kingdom and covered mostly by forests and mountains. It was where Luhmann Kingdom's most ancient mountains were located. Surrounding the mountain ranges was a huge, primal forest. Due to the tall trees, the landscape within the forests was dark and unpredictable, and it was filled with many swamps. The heavy fog common in this forest and the treacherous terrain made traveling there almost impossible. Many explorers had disappeared into this forest, leaving numerous horror stories behind. Therefore, the place was also known as the Black Forest.

Lu Zhiyu placed his newly constructed insect nest in the depths of the Dark Forest, on a lonely cliffside that was very difficult to access. He had reconstructed this insect nest, turning it into an organism with an independent mind. Then, he assumed control over this new organism through his dream space. This was the only intact insect nest left over after the deaths of the insect queens. He had wiped away the insects' spiritual imprints and assumed full control over it.

From then on, this insect nest which once represented the height of the insects' biotechnology belonged to Lu Zhiyu. The most important thing was that this nest would act as a life-generating machine. As long as he had control over it, he could design any form of life and place the template into the nest. The organism would just grow out of the nest!

Previously, he had to go through all the trouble of breeding the embryos, finding a suitable mother, and helping the mother to deliver the organisms. Before he had the biological chambers, he even had to raise them up slowly. Now, as long as he could provide a complete template, the nest would return him with a fully mature organism!

This was almost like entering an industrialized civilization from a primitive one. The insect nest was like a processing plant for living things. As long as it had sufficient energy and compounds, it could work continuously!

After the reconstruction, the nest appeared as a black circular ball that was over ten meters tall. It had a very strong outer shell that would allow it to stand even after receiving significant damage.

After Lu Zhiyu had turned the nest into an organism, he had originally wanted to call it Life One. After a while, he abandoned that name and renamed it Gaia, which meant the mother of earth and life!

Gaia had basic intelligence, and Lu Zhiyu even used the sub-brain's template on it, turning it into something akin to a large organic computer. Any organism born from Gaia would always be under its control.

Since the beginning of the Years of Holy Light, Lu Zhiyu had been meditating a lot and trying to create a mythical creature template at the same time. From then to now, five years had passed, and he was progressing smoothly, especially now that he had finally assimilated Sakun's soul into his dream space. This act boosted his mind power significantly. At the moment, Lu Zhiyu had 4203 SFU of mind power. He only needed another five years to deify his entire body.

So far, however, he had not succeeded in creating the mythical creature templates. Most of his attempts had ended in failure, even though according to his sub-brain's calculations the life templates were complete and stable.

In addition, Lu Zhiyu did not have any mythical creature specimens to experiment on. Clearly, he would not experiment on himself. Until he was completely certain that the procedure was safe and perfect, he would not risk his own life. Only after he tried the experiment on other organisms and was confident enough, he would do it to himself.

Lu Zhiyu tried to recreate the soul of the Tree of Life a few times but failed as well. He found that forming a soul was not as easy as he thought it would be. It seemed to be closely related to the power of faith only heard in stories. However, Lu Zhiyu still could not feel the so-called power of faith. It was a fundamental power, one that was related to the basic laws governing the universe and formation of awarenesses of living beings. At the moment, he could not yet understand something so arcane.

Therefore, Lu Zhiyu had taken a step back and begun working on magical beasts. These so-called magical beasts were effectively spawns of mythical creatures. However, Lu Zhiyu was planning to use Sakun's deified cells. After modifying them suitably, he would turn ordinary organisms into magical beasts. Because Sakun was dead, these beasts would not be bound by Sakun's life imprint. Furthermore, Sakun's original life template in its deified cells would also be changed, so these beasts would be nothing like the Children of the Sea!

Lu Zhiyu had decided to call them magical beasts, but he had yet to create any. Because the dimensional castle was not an appropriate place to create them, Lu Zhiyu had decided to move his laboratory to the Black Forest. He would create magical beasts and carry out experiments on them in order to complete his mythical creature template. At the meantime, he would realize his Wizard Civilization Creation Plan!

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Chapter 60: Constructing the Wizard Tower

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"Gaia, create 1,000 second-generation ant-people. Then, load the artificial intelligence and the smithing template!"

"Sub-brain, transmit the smithing template!"

"Received! Loading complete!"

"Received!"

Lu Zhiyu watched as the black steel ball started squirming and the valves creaked open, one by one, releasing the steam inside. Like a beehive, ant-people were continuously produced from within then stood in formation on the black peak of this unnamed mountain. The mountain was barren, completely treeless. As far as the eye could see, the mountain range was formed only by empty ridges.

The shape of the ant-people had changed. The second generation of ant-people appeared to be even stronger than before, and they were much shorter. Their glossy carapaces made them seem like black armored warriors, exhibiting a complete deviation from the usual appearances of ants and insects.

Their hands had also become deft and agile, with fingers capable of delicate manipulations, like human hands. They had also gained simple vocal cords, though this only gave them the ability to reply with stilted, pre-programmed responses. As such, any content outside of the character recognition template was beyond their abilities. But most importantly, their lifespans were extended.

The ant-people put good use to the large amount of tools that Lu Zhiyu had brought. Under Gaia's control, 1,000 ant-people divided up the labor, then began working according to Lu Zhiyu's designs—flattening the ground, excavating rocks, logging trees, and collecting materials.

Lu Zhiyu had placed Gaia in the black forest, on top of this unnamed peak, in order to create his own wizard tower. Using this location as a base, he wished to recruit apprentice wizards in Maria's World, and then begin disseminating the art of witchcraft.

Since Lu Zhiyu had already expended so many resources in developing a magic network, of course, he wished to utilize it as soon as possible. According to Lu Zhiyu's plans, he would build a wizard tower, just like those in fantasy novels. In the future, hordes of wizarding apprentices would come to this mountain, and they would walk out with the knowledge of how the magic network worked, as well as having their mind power awakened.

These wizard apprentices would then gradually expand the study of witchcraft and explore new ways to use mind power, thus paving Lu Zhiyu's path towards evolution by collectively gathering knowledge and creating a great wizard civilization. This would be much faster than Lu Zhiyu carrying out research alone. To be honest, Lu Zhiyu had hit a wall at this point on his journey, and wasn't sure how to proceed!

Lu Ziyu knew that it was far too difficult for him to understand the intricate workings of mind power on his own. What this required was a civilization and millions of people dedicated to pooling their wisdom to pave a path to knowledge!

After placing Gaia within the black forest, Lu Zhiyu returned to the dimensional castle. In order to construct the wizard tower, he compiled a list of all the people with strong mind powers with no limitations to age, barring those far too old. He also included the criteria of having strong learning abilities and vivid imaginations, unrestrained by rigid conventions.

Only this kind of person fit Lu Zhiyu's definition of a wizard. For this first batch of students, Lu Zhiyu didn't limit his list to the human race alone, but also included elves and orcs. As for the mermaid race, the numbers were very low at the moment and additionally, they were, by nature, spawn. However, Lu Zhiyu had other plans for them!

Lu Zhiyu found his ship, anchored in a cove on an island. Several decades had already passed, so the ship had long since become rusted and unusable. Lu Zhiyu had barely had the opportunity to use it, and yet it was already out of commision!

"No no, even if it wasn't broken beyond repair, this still will not do. I must find another ship, this one is far too small!"

Lu Zhiyu wanted to take a ship and sail the seas between the Yala and Alen continents, recruiting apprentices along the way, then journeying to the black forest by sea, before heading straight to the wizard tower. He wanted to buy a ship, or to commission one from a human shipyard. After all, the construction of the wizard tower and its accompanying structures would take a few months.

"Currently, they have only constructed barges for seafaring. In the deep seas of Maria's World, sailing in those boats is still relatively dangerous, especially with Saqun's descendants roaming the oceans. Without me aboard, the ship is sure to sink under the attack of all those large sea monsters. And it would be impossible for me to go personally every time!"

Lu Zhiyu found this very problematic, but getting a ship from the real world would be even more troublesome. A round trip wouldn't be a matter of decades, centuries would have passed by the time he returned.

"Wooden ship? if I can create magical beasts, why can't I create a magical reinforced ship? I can create a ship which is a supernatural being by life alchemy. I can start off with a plant, with it cells deified, then give its life template the shape of a boat. It would be programmed with enhanced speed, and would even have the power of flight!"

As he thought of reinforcing beasts with magic, of course, he had also considered reinforcing plants with magic but he had not created any magical beasts yet. As for plants, there was even less to say there. He had never considered the incredible idea of creating a ship with deified cells through alchemy!

Sometimes, breakthroughs in human intelligence were the products of these flashes of inspiration. Lu Zhiyu believed that his idea was very practical, so he returned immediately to the dimensional castle to prepare for this project. As he did so, he pulled out the Scroll of the World to search for possible wizard apprentices throughout all of Maria's World.

Lu Zhiyu combined the genes of the iron birch with the genes of the Tree of Life, creating the ideal seed for his ship. He then buried the seed within the black forest to form the embryo of his life alchemy ship.

Every day, Lu Zhiyu poured his mind power into forming the tree for the ship. Because the seed inherited the lifeforce and the development speed of the Tree of Life, the ship tree reached full maturity in a few months.

Due to Lu Zhiyu's interference, the shape of the tree was extremely strange. It grew horizontally, with continually reinforcing cells, like cancer cells. Then the body of a gigantic ship grew from the trunk of the tree!

With a width of almost 40 meters and a height of 20 meters, the ship had a huge cavernous space inside. The outer skin of the tree was white, with a host of wild branches jutting out. Lu Zhiyu had never seen a tree with such a bizarre appearance before.

Lu Zhiyu brought a dozen ant-people with axes to the tree and commanded, "Go, cut it down for me!"

The ant-people began chopping at the trunk of the bizarre tree, removing all of the branches. Peng-peng-peng! Lu Zhiyu saw the embryo of the large seafaring ship wrapped within white bark begin to emerge. It was a completely natural process, with no manmade points of connection. From the outside, the silhouette of the ship looked like a bullet.

At this point, the tree had not died yet as the powerful life-force of the plant continued to sustain its life but the life alchemy ship's embryo was already completed. Lu Zhiyu then began preparing for the second step of the process, the reinforcement of this life alchemy ship!

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Chapter 61: Life Alchemy Ship

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Lu Zhiyu had already finished preparing the deified cells he needed for the life alchemy ship. He used some animal genes alongside plant genes in the life template. This ship was a combination of plant and animal genes.

Using his mind power, he rose into the air and jumped onto the top of the broadside of the ship, from where he could saw a hole in the middle that led directly to the cabin below. Lu Zhiyu opened up a dimensional door and took this ship to the ocean. The ship splashed into the water and floated calmly.

He retrieved the deified cells and poured them onto the deck. The small puddle of blood dropped onto the deck and seemed to have its own life. It started wriggling and went for the inside of the plant cells.

Lu Zhiyu could immediately feel the drastic changes in the ship. The blood triggered a series of drastic chain reactions in the plant cells. He could see the white outer shell of the ship grow quickly, covering any signs of the cut recently made to the ship. At the end of the ship, two propellers appeared. The deck wriggled as well, becoming more refined.

Even more strangely, two eyes appeared on the front of the ship, as well as a mouth full of sharp teeth. It was as if a plant had become a carnivore and could hunt prey! It didn't have to rely solely on water and sunlight anymore. It could also hunt other organisms in the ocean. At the same time, the ship's weak instincts from the plant genes were rapidly developing to the level of intelligence of a normal animal.

Lu Zhiyu opened up his dream space and dragged the mind of the ship into the dream space. He wanted to assimilate the ship's mind. This ship was born from magic, but its mind was far off from Sakun's mind. Because of this, it only took a few moments for Lu Zhiyu's dream space to completely assimilate the ship.

Then he walked into the cabin of the ship. It was completely empty, with no walls to divide it into rooms. He reached the front of the ship.

There, he poured another test tube of blood onto the ship and immediately a large volume of blood with deified cells flowed out. To create this life alchemy ship, he'd really sacrificed a lot. Not much of the deified cells from Sakun remained. A few more experiments and it would all be gone. The blood pooled on the ground started to erode the wooden deck at once, forming a small brain-like lump on the ground.

Lu Zhiyu put the mind of the ship he had assimilated into the lump and it responded immediately as if it had been activated, "Intelligent sub-brain II, await orders!"

Then he immediately ordered, "Take control of the life alchemy ship! Set my authority as the highest!"

"Completed!"

"Sub-brain I, transfer the first model of the SS Eternity alchemy ship!"

"Sub-brain II, accept it! Construction started!"

Originally, Lu Zhiyu wanted to use his own deified cells to build this ship. However, he soon discovered that was not possible. All deified cell templates would automatically synchronize, meaning that if he used his own cells, his life template would become a ship. He didn't want this to lead to his body breaking down and becoming a ship. He would become a laughingstock!

However, using Sakun's cells meant that he did not own the ship and couldn't control it. If the ship decided to override his orders, he couldn't do anything about it. He had to use his dream space to control the ship by assimilating its mind and transforming it into another sub-brain to control the ship. This way, the ship became a sub-brain that was independent from Lu Zhiyu's body. Its life template was independent from him, as well. It was like a computer that existed apart from him. Its growth wouldn't be limited by Lu Zhiyu's mind power level and could grow as it would naturally do.

Lu Zhiyu had originally wanted to use Sakun's soul to control this second sub-brain, turning the ship into a real mythical alchemical ship under his control. However, it would be hard to extract Sakun's soul, as he had already completely assimilated the soul. Extracting it would mean that his mind power strength would decrease a lot, and he did not want that to happen.

SS Eternal began its first reconstruction mission under the command of sub-brain II. The ship utilized its plant cells and began generating energy using the sunlight it gathered and the water from the ocean, which were then stored in the plant cells.

The entire ship was changing again. Lu Zhiyu could see that where sub-brain II was located before was now covered by wood, the sub-brain itself sinking deep into the bowels of the ship. The hole under his feet was soon filled up.

The empty cabin was sectioned off into three floors, with an additional floor over the deck. However, there were no sails on this ship. The windows on the wall turned into round pores. They were like an animal's shell but transparent. One could see through them.

The bottom level was the control room. This level included the living space Lu Zhiyu designed for himself and a storage unit. The second level contained the guest quarters, with almost three dozen small bedrooms and ten larger bedrooms. There were also numerous bathrooms.

The first level contained a large dining room, a library, and a small bar. There was also a meeting room, a living room, and some entertainment rooms. The topmost level was meant mostly for viewing the sea and relaxing.

Lu Zhiyu walked up the newly formed stairs, inspecting the alchemy ship's insides. Just as he had predicted, the ship's wood had inherited the iron birch's traits. It was very strong, and several more times durable than iron. With a structure like this, even if the ship was caught in a storm, it would be very hard to sink.

Right now, the inside of the ship was still empty, since it had just finished constructing itself. There were no furnishings in any of the rooms. Other than the rooms that had grown windows on the walls, the rest of the rooms, the hallways, and the staircases were all left with no lighting. This would be taken care of later.

Lu Zhiyu walked onto the deck and saw the propellers were spinning very quickly, pushing the ship to sail over the calm sea surface smoothly. The white tree bark covered the entire ship and looked like he had just given the ship a new coat of paint. The eyes on the bow were like two large floodlights, but they moved occasionally, letting everyone know that they were not just decorations.

The mouth was open, catching any fish unfortunate enough to be near. Instead of a ship, this was more like a huge beast in the sea. Lu Zhiyu had added two abilities to the life template. One was to control the water flow so it could make a quick getaway if something happened.

He tested it. In ordinary situations, the speed was at eighteen knots. In this era, no ship could catch up to it. If the water flow control was activated, the ship could reach thirty knots.

It wasn't just a ship though. After standing a while on the deck, Lu Zhiyu returned to the cabin. Then the cabin doors closed tightly and the ship started sinking, going under the sea surface to the bottom of the sea!

This could also become a submarine. Lu Zhiyu returned to the command room. He could see the front through the ship's eyes. The two eyes on the ship could serve as lights to be used to observe the front.

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Chapter 62: Wind Ravens

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Lu Zhiyu piloted the SS Eternity along the ocean floor. This was Lu Zhiyu's first time exploring the ocean floor. He saw sea creatures of all sizes, passing through the tides, as large schools of fish glided in every direction amongst the teeming sway of the seaweed, the coral reefs, and all sorts of strange sea monsters!

Among all these creatures, Lu Zhiyu also encountered some descendants of the Children of the Sea. Though they did not have deified cells or special abilities, they carried on the large body type characteristics of the Children of the Sea!

These creatures seemed to be able to detect the threat of the SS Eternity. One of the monsters that looked like a large starfish approached the SS Eternity with its humongous suction cups.

As Lu Zhiyu saw the huge maw approaching, the throat of the monster began changing immediately. Extremely strong vibrations spread from its mouth until the ocean seemed to be shaking. The starfish was torn beyond recognition by the sonic vibrations, turning into ground meat!

This was the second ability of the SS Eternity: sonic vibration. This was a skill that Lu Zhiyu had only recently developed. Though he had been contemplating it for a long time, he had only devised a working model within the last few months!

Lu Zhiyu was glued to the windows, looking outside at the magnificence of the fantastical sea floor as the SS Eternity cruised through the deep sea. Lu Zhiyu had loved Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a child. Right now, Lu Zhiyu was enjoying that undersea adventure in real life!

As the ship sailed swiftly through the depths of the sea, Lu Zhiyu gazed, enchanted by the scenery. Finally, Lu Zhiyu steered the SS Eternity back to land on the shores of the Black Forest.

Yet, the shoreline of the Black Forest was lined by imposing cliffs. Lu Zhiyu's SS Eternity could dive into the sea, but it did not yet have the ability to fly, so it could only stop there for now.

Lu Zhiyu had equipped the SS Eternity with sub-brain II, which Lu Zhiyu had renamed as SS Eternity itself. He gave the SS Eternity the command to remain there and await further orders.

Afterwards, Lu Zhiyu went through the dimensional door into the depths of the Black Forest. By now, the wizard tower was almost completed. Within these past few months, not only had the main body of Lu Zhiyu's wizard tower been completed, but the castle surrounding the wizard tower was also also approaching completion.

At the moment, the densely wooded chain of dark mountains, without a single spot of greenery, looked like the territory of a demon. Jutting out from the craggy rocks was a white castle. It spread across half the mountain with a neat path leading to the foot of the mountain.

At the summit, a colossal black tower rose into the clouds. The wizard tower featured twelve levels, each of epic proportions. The castle on the hill was meant to act as the students' dormitory, while the tower was to be used for classes, experiments, and reading. Within the tower, Lu Zhiyu had already organized all sorts of study materials in Phinks, the most common human language.

Organized into neatly printed books, with over a thousand years' worth of rare tomes from the ancient human and orc dynasties and the knowledge of the elves, the library was stocked with all of the knowledge necessary to broaden the worldviews of the wizard apprentices.

Lu Zhiyu was certain that no one could rival his collection within the entire Alen Continent. It was a full two floors with mountains of books that people could get lost in if they weren't careful!

Lu Zhiyu's lounge and laboratory were located at the very top of the tower. Its construction and decoration had already been completed. The walls were decorated with art pieces from all over Maria's World, the floor was carpeted and and he had installed a lion head fireplace by the stained glass windows. However, when Lu Zhiyu opened the windows, he saw the sky covered by a large flock of ravens that were circling above the entire mountain range.The eerie croaks of the ravens seemed especially sinister in the fading glow of twilight.

This was the product of several months of Lu Zhiyu's hard work: the first magical beast, the wind raven. There was a reason why he made them. Lu Zhiyu implanted an affinity for mankind, as well as loyalty within their genes. Like the dogs on Earth, they were also a lifeform that was close to humanity by nature, and a useful creature that would follow the commands of humans!

The wind ravens were fairly intelligent and had the ability of the wind scythe. Lu Zhiyu had originally wanted to give them the power to control air currents, but since that was from the template of mythical creatures, it was weakened when placed upon a magical beast. As such, their ability ended up being the compression of air currents into highly pressurized blades of wind.

However, the power of the ability was still impressive. A single hit was enough to split a large tree in half. If it was aimed at the average person, they would be completely unable to resist it.

Lu Zhiyu trained the wind ravens using his dream space and taught them how to talk. In a sense, they were equal in intelligence with human beings. Currently, they resided in a nest on the precipice of Lu Zhiyu's tower.

"Hello Anthony!" a wind raven larger than the rest greeted, as it landed on Lu Zhiyu's window.

Lu Zhiyu nodded. "Hello Blackjack!"

Blackjack nodded. "Thank you for providing a nest for us. It is wonderfully warm and comfortable. My children and I all like it very much!"

Lu Zhiyu shrugged his shoulders. "That is wonderful. Blackjack, I need the help of the wind ravens with a task!"

Blackjack thumped its chest as it hopped on the windowsill. It was remarkable how a black raven could convey such rich expressions through vivid motions, just like humans. It replied solemnly, "Definitely, what task do you speak of?"

Lu Zhiyu immediately replied, "I wish for you to deliver letters to a few special individuals!"

Within the last half year, Lu Zhiyu had finalized the list of the first batch of wizard apprentices with around two hundred individuals. But by Lu Zhiyu's estimates, he would be lucky if a hundred of them actually showed up in the end. Currently, no one knew of the existence of wizards and witchcraft within the entirety of Maria's World.

There were people of all sorts of backgrounds on the list, but most of them were from relatively good backgrounds. Lu Zhiyu required at least a basic level of education from them. They would have to be literate, at the very least, with extraordinary minds.

Within these people, there were the children of lesser nobles, the heirs of merchants, and some sons of smiths. There were also a few adults and slaves that Lu Zhiyu thought highly of. In addition to the human kingdom, there were also people from the kingdoms of the orcs and the elves of Yala continent!

Lu Zhiyu had prepared the acceptance letters for the apprentices with simple introductions to the origin and existences of wizards and the significance of the wizard tower. If they chose to accept, they could tell the wind ravens. The ravens would notify the SS Eternity, which would then go fetch the apprentices!

Each person on the list had a chance to completely change their fate by embarking on a journey to search for the path of truth. Whether they would grasp this opportunity or not would depend on their individual choices!

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"Those going to Alen for postal service in the human kingdoms, gather before me!"

Lu Zhiyu stood in the castle, holding a stack of letters. Many wind ravens flew around the room and perched on the ground, the lights, windows, and tables. The entire place was as noisy as a market!

The wind ravens were all talking like humans. Each one also had a small satchel as if they were mailmen.

"That's me! Out of the way."

"Hey, I think I'm going to the humans!"

"Not me. I deliver to the orcs!"

"I heard some are going to the elves. I want to know what the elves look like!"

Seeing that the situation was out of control, Blackjack raised his voice and called, "Everyone be quiet!"

The chattering quieted down. All the ravens stood straight without daring to say anything. Blackjack nodded. "Now you're only allowed to speak if called on. Those going to the humans, come to the table," he said with authority.

A whole row of ravens stepped forward. Lu Zhiyu grabbed the letters and gave them to the ravens. He had already picked the ravens and had used the dream space to send their targets and specific location to their minds. Now, Lu Zhiyu only had to give the letters to them!

"Leves Bicto of Luhmann Kingdom," Lu Zhiyu called.

A wind raven immediately jumped out. "Me, me!"

Lu Zhiyu patted its head and the raven happily puffed up its chest. Their genes made them feel kinship to humans and loyalty to their owners. Lu Zhiyu put the letter into its satchel and then read the next name. One after another, all the letters for the human kingdoms were sent out.

Lu Zhiyu stood and smiled. "Thank you for your hard work, wind ravens. Bring back our apprentices."

"We will complete the task!" the wind ravens said in unison. Then they flew away, circling around the tower once before flying towards their destinations. The closest was the Luhmann Kingdom while the furthest was the Tuten Dynasty.

Lu Zhiyu then moved on to the letters that would be sent to the orcs. "Those for the Alen Continent and orcs, come before me!"

He waved his hand and a circular dimensional door appeared in the room. The wind ravens all flew through the door. They arrived at the orc kingdom and spread out. Lu Zhiyu sent out the 200 letters one by one, ensuring that the wind ravens could send them to the targets.

Suddenly, Lu Zhiyu heard the sound of the bells outside the castle. The sound was graceful and melodious. Lu Zhiyu walked out and saw the huge bell on the tower ringing, indicating it was noon.

"It's twelve o'clock. I should go check how SS Eternal's furnishing is going."

The sub-brain I in his mind immediately reminded him of the plan and tasks for today. In order to use his time efficiently and combine his work and thoughts, he'd designed a task. Whenever it was time, the sub-brain I would remind him.

The list was very long and already reached into the next year. Looking at it, Lu Zhiyu realized that he actually had so many things to do. His efficiency had increased, but living this kind of planned life was like being a robot.

After he inspected the ship, Lu Zhiyu assigned a dozen ant-people to be the crewmen. However, their brains were simpler so they could only perform simple conversations. The ship didn't need the ant-men to take care of though. They only had to take care of the wizard apprentices!

He then checked the entire wizard tower. By now, most of the construction, both inside and out, was already finished.

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For the next few days, other than working on his experiments and waiting for the wind raves to return, he also bought some obedient slaves. After all, the ant-men weren't suffice. Many things still required humans, such as buying groceries and everyday items. He also needed humans to take care of the apprentices.

In Lu Zhiyu' plan, he would not allow the slaves to leave the tower. He could even allow them to learn witchcraft, but they wouldn't be allowed to leave. They had to stay in one area of the wizard tower forever.

Lu Zhiyu didn't have to worry about them escaping either. The slaves all had brands and no escaped slaves from any country would have a happy ending. On the other hand, they wouldn't have to worry about daily essentials here and the work wasn't heavy either. It was practically a job they couldn't be fired from. For a slave, nothing could be better than the life Lu Zhiyu gave them!

In addition, the slaves he'd bought were all in families. Maybe one could escape, but the entire family couldn't. Furthermore, the entire Maria's World belonged to Lu Zhiyu. Where could these guys run to?

He also created a new kind of camelids. Rather than supernatural creatures, they were just regular camelids. They looked like the alpacas. However, their fur was golden and they looked quite powerful, so he called them goldpacas.

These goldpacas were very strong and could carry more things than most creatures. They were very fast as well. The goldpacas' hooves also allowed them to easily traverse more difficult terrains.

He built a pen under the mountains and had a few slaves take care of these goldpacas. Lu Zhiyu patted the goldpacas' necks. These guys were very gentle and stared at Lu Zhiyu with their funny eyes. For some reason, they made him want to laugh!

"Master, I'm going to buy supplies down the mountain. This is the list you said earlier. Please check it!"

The middle aged man behind Lu Zhiyu kept his head bowed, not daring to look. This was the only slave that Lu Zhiyu bought that could read Phinks. His name was Sargon and had the Tuten Dynasty's lineage. Lu Zhiyu placed him in charge of the slaves and he was doing quite a good job. Everything was orderly.

At first, the slaves were terrified by the ant-people Lu Zhiyu had placed in the tower. They all thought Lu Zhiyu was a demon from the legends. After all, this was deep in the Black Forest, he had such an eerie castle, and commanded a bunch of beasts. They even thought that Lu Zhiyu ate humans and had bought them to eat!

However, Sargon had comforted them and brought order to them. He'd even discussed with Lu Zhiyu, making him satisfied.

"Sargon, good job. You can take a dozen of the goldpacas and some helpers. Depart now and return soon!" Lu Zhiyu told Sargon.

The black forest was very large and would take a long time to travel through. Even if one was familiar with the geography and paths, it would still take at least ten days. The entire trip would need around 20 days. The goldpacas were the only possible forms of transportation.

"Yes, Master! I will hurry back!"

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Chapter 64: Invitation

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Early the next morning, Sargon bade his wife and daughter farewell and set out with two slaves and a few ant-people. Each of them, including the ant-people, were wrapped up tightly in gray cloaks.

Lu Zhiyu returned to the castle, entered into the main hall, and pressed a switch by the fireplace, which opened a secret passageway within a side wall. After lighting a torch, Lu Zhiyu followed the steps downward. After descending quite some distance, he came into a large underground cavern, which seemed to be some sort of a relay point.

There were four tunnels that were visible from this location, each leading off into the distance. Lu Zhiyu had used the Source Form to create this sturdy tunnel here after initially choosing the Black Forest as the location for the wizard tower.

Lu Zhiyu chose a tunnel leading to the south. It was laid with track, like an ancient mining tunnel. Along the tracks, parked by its side, was a modified train-like mine cart.

Lu Zhiyu had began designing the tracks ever since the initial construction of the wizard tower began. It had taken half a year and only one route was completed. The other three routes were still awaiting construction. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent Sargon and the others out on the goldpacas.

As soon as Lu Zhiyu got on the cart and closed the door, the cart started speeding into the darkness at a breakneck pace, bouncing down the bumpy tracks. The ride was quite terrifying and exhilarating, feeling almost like a rollercoaster, as the cart sped along in the darkness.

Two hours later, Lu Zhiyu finally arrived at his destination. He got out of the cart, left the tracks, and pushed away a hidden rock. As the rock rolled away, rays of light from the outside flooded in.

"Not bad. That mining cart is quite interesting after all."

Lu Zhiyu stepped outside and saw a canyon with a river flowing through it. He followed a muddy riverbank out the canyon. He was met with the SS Eterntiy anchored by the seaside. Its white exterior and bullet-like silhouette gave it a sense of modern beauty.

As he embarked on the SS Eternity, he discovered that there had already been many changes on board. All of the displays inside were already set up, and around ten ant-people crew members were already busy completing the finishing touches.

The bookshelves in the library were filled, and the bar was stocked with an ice bucket and exquisite glassware. The tables in the dining room and furnishings in the kitchen were ready, and the storage cabin was filled with food and water. The SS Eternity could desalinate sea water for its drinkable water store, and the cellar was equipped with an auto-cooling function to preserve food for longer periods of time.

There were four beds, two long tables, and a large closet in every room, similar to the style of a college dormitory. Overall, it looked pretty decent. Lu Zhiyu nodded with approval. After confirming the conditions within the rooms, he went to the control room at the bottom of the ship in order to set their navigation route.

The first stop for the SS Eternity was Luhmann Kingdom. On the way, a few in-land wizard apprentices would be picked up by the shores of some of the larger rivers, before the ship continued heading off toward the land of the orcs and crossing the oceans for the Yala continent of the elves!

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Bohr was a doctor, who owned his own clinic in the city of Masta. Bohr's father and grandfather were both doctors before him, so their family was quite well-known in the city. Bohr had inherited the clinic at the age of 19 due to an outbreak of the plague the previous year. Though Bohr's father had managed to contain the outbreak of the epidemic, he still had caught the disease himself, and later succumbed to the affliction.

As such, Bohr still felt quite lost in life. Doctors were priceless commodities to human civilization at this point in time, so medical knowledge was usually closely guarded within family lines. Due to the value of such knowledge, it was kept under tight wraps!

Hence, Bohr only had some basic herbal knowledge to cure colds and fevers, as well as limited skills to treat minor wounds, such as bandaging, and staunching blood flow with simple coagulants. Even so, he had garnered a reputation as being a famous doctor in the region, so even nobles would come to him for treatment!

Ever since taking over the clinic, Bohr had encountered too many diseases beyond his understanding, each with no traceable source. Other than that, what was even more terrifying, was the continued existence of the plague! Although Bohr had read numerous volumes of medical books, diligently recorded every case study, filled his home with resources and spent all waking hours agonizing over these questions, the cure still remained elusive!

Bohr rejected the notion that illness was God's punishment and their curse upon mankind. Instead, Bohr believed that disease originated from within the human body. Hence, as long as the source of the disease could be identified, it could be resolved. Yet, in this era, where diagnoses were based on experience and inherited knowledge for classifications, there were often misdiagnoses, so Bohr did not yet have a good solution!

At this time, a black raven appeared in the sky, circling a few times around Masta, before slowly descending onto a flag post on top of the roof of Bohr's clinic.

Bohr was closing up the clinic, preparing to go home after a long day at work, when he saw a strange raven staring at him. It had disconcertingly clever eyes, conveying emotions just like human eyes. Bohr shivered.

"Go away, and stay away from my clinic!"

Ravens were a symbol of death. In fact, they were called heralds of the reaper. As the owner of a clinic, Bohr was uneasy about such superstitions. The raven completely ignored him and continued with its staring. Bohr was quite disturbed, and ran away in a hurry.

The raven murmured to itself, "Yes, it's him. I finally found him. This man must be Bohr Kelermo!"

Bohr returned home and made himself some potato soup. Then he started to read from his bookshelf while recording the symptoms of his patients of the day. Sometimes, the same disease would have different symptoms while different diseases would have similar symptoms. They would require different treatments. Bohr thought that for his treatment, he could create a tonic in order to cure the coughing symptoms of lung disease.

Bohr recorded his thoughts, while consulting his books under the light of an oil lamp. Slowly, night descended. Just then, a thump came upon his door.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

"Thump, thump, thump!"

Bohr put on a jacket and walked toward the entrance while saying, "Who is it? It's late, is anything wrong?"

At that time, a strange, raspy croak drifted through the door. "Open the door, I come bringing a letter!"

Bohr was quite puzzled. A letter? Who would write a letter to him? Also, what sort of courier would deliver a letter at this hour? Bohr pushed the door open. Cold wind rushed in through the entrance and Bohr shivered, looking around. There was no one there!

"Eh? No one's here!"

"I'm right over here. You have such big eyes, but you can't see me?"

Bohr peered down, seeing now that the voice originated from the strange raven, the exact same one that he had seen on the roof of his clinic! Bohr's mouth fell open!

"Boom!"

Bohr slammed the door shut. He broke into a cold sweat as he leaned against the door. "Heck, by Maria's name! What did I just see? A talking raven!"

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