Chương 61: Incredible Treasures
Point out any errors I made in the chapters, as I'm very lazy and sometimes can't be bothered to reread them. Also give your opinions on something I should change or add.
Note: I'm going to be straying off from the cannon information in this chapter, and creating my own concepts for some of the things in the rssg universe
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Curious about the sword's information, Feng used the Eyes of Truth on it. After nearly an entire minute, the identification process finally completed, and Feng extended his finger to check the sword's description.
However, as he attempted to tap on the sword to open its Attribute Panel, Feng felt his mind stagnate, and not just because of the intense pressure and Divine Might released from the sword. Feng could feel his very thoughts slowing down, while his Reaction Speed decreased as well.
Moreover, as it got closer to the sword, Feng's finger started slowing down as well, with its approaching speed falling so much it was practically inching forward.
The more Feng attempted to increase his speed and make contact with the blade, the more his entire being slowed down, with his thought process stagnating while his finger moved at a snail's pace.
This went on for an unknown amount of time, and just as Feng's mind was about to come to a complete halt, his finger finally touched the pale-white sword, the suppression on him disappearing as the sword's status window appeared. Shaking of the dizziness, Feng managed to inspect the sword's information at last.
[Destroyed Yog-Sothoth[1]]
A weapons once wielded by the God of Time, but ended up being destroyed and disappearing during the war between Primordial Gods after falling into a Space-Time Storm. Despite being damaged completely beyond repair with all of its parts unusable, Yog-Sothoth still possesses remnants of the power of time and can harness it to recover. Any player holding Yog-Sothoth will have their Reaction Speed decreased by 60%.
Yog-Sothoth can restore itself to Fragmented Divine Artifact rank by absorbing 20 Source of Time crystals and 10 God Crystals. (Current restoration: 0/30)
Passive Effect 1: Temporal Siphon
All creatures within a 50-yard radius of Yog-Sothoth's holder will have their Agility decreased by 1%, Movements Speed decreased by 2%, Attack Speed decreased by 2% and Reaction Speed decreased by 2%, all transferred to the holder. (Up to a maximum of 70 creatures can be affected)
Passive Effect 2: Chrono Ensnare
Any creatures or attacks that enter within a 5-yard radius of Yog-Sothoth's holder will have their speed reduced by 5%, the reduction increasing by 5% for every yard within the holder's proximity.
Drops upon death.
"It's destroyed?" Feng stared at the sword, which he originally thought was a top-tier Fragmented Divine Artifact, and instead of being angry or disappointed by the sword's condition, he was mostly confused.
With his current Luck, there was no way to receive a scrapped item like the current Yog-Sothoth, even if it could be recovered, unless the Main God's System judged it was a worthy item to appear in the Legendary Treasure Chest given the circumstances.
Though, after pondering over it for a moment, it was an acceptable result, and a fairly good one, considering the possibilities according to what Feng knew about Yog-Sothoth, a former Divine Artifact wielded by the God of Time.
As their rank increases, the power and capabilities of items increase exponentially as well, with the difference between each rank being much larger than the previous one. Grey Trash and Common rank equipment and weapons might at most provide some Defense or Attack Power to the wielder, but that is all;
Bronze rank items, on the other hand, would also give the wielder some basic attributes according to the item's type;
Iron rank items, along with providing much greater stats than Bronze items and of different types, would also possibly possess active skills, which made them much more powerful;
Secret-Silver rank items would bring a much greater boost in all aspects than Iron rank items, with their skills being much more versatile as well as having greater capabilities, as well as some having more than one;
Fine-Gold rank items, apart from being better than Secret-Silver rank items by all measures, with their skills being greater and more numerous, some could also possess passive skills, bringing much greater value;
Dark-Gold rank items, although not having some great difference in abilities, provided much greater benefits and capabilities than Fine-Gold items, with the difference between them being much wider than the difference in ranks between the rest of the lower-ranking items;
Though, the difference wasn't so wide that it was unsurpassable. However, after Dark-Gold rank, the difference between items' ranks was a difference in realms and much more obvious with each rank;
Epic rank items, with the attributes they gave being a much greater amount in comparison to Dark-Gold items which could increase along with the wielder as they level up to a certain level limit, as well as increasing the wielder's attributes in percentages as well, making their value many times greater, not to mention their skills would be more numerous and of different kinds with their power taking on a different form; there being a fundamental difference between Dark-Gold and Epic items;
Fragmented Legendary rank items, unlike Epic items, had no limit to how much they could level up, at least not at first glance, and could grow along with the wielder all the way from Level 0 to Level 200, the attributes they provided being leagues above Epic items in both growth and percentages, their various abilities of much greater power could allow the wielder to become nearly invincible and accomplish cross-tier kills during lower tiers, there being an even greater fundamental difference between Epic and Fragmented Legendary items;
Legendary rank items were even more powerful than Fragmented Legendary items, the difference between them being even greater than between Epic and Fragmented Legendary items, as aside from the boost in attributes and Physique being much greater, being capable of leveling up to even higher levels along with the wielder, their skills being much more powerful and of greater tiers, as well as allowing the wielder to fight against opponents of a higher tier, with even challenging Tier 6 players as a Tier 5 player being possible, Legendary items also had unique hidden abilities they provided to the user, with the most common one being Soul Annihilation; there being a vast fundamental difference between Fragmented Legendary and Legendary items.
Similarly, there is a fundamental difference between Legendary items and Fragmented Divine Artifacts as well, the items being on completely different realms with the difference in their power and capabilities being as large as the difference between Dark-Gold and Legendary items. This was due to Fragmented Divine Artifact being faintly able to control Laws and use their power. [2]
As for Divine Artifacts, their abilities were far greater even disregarding the large difference in attributes and stats they provided, as they could fully make use of the Law or Laws in them; with the difference in power between them and Fragmented Divine Artifacts being as large as the difference between Common rank items and Legendary items.
This was the insurmountable gap that made Divine Artifacts far superior than other items. Of course, there was also a large difference in strength between Divine Artifacts depending on the rank of the Laws they possessed and the standard of mastery at which they could be used.
There was also a large difference in the strength of Laws, which were separated into Basic Laws, Intermediate Laws, Advanced Laws and Peak Laws[3]. There were also some other special Unranked Laws, whose strength depended solely on the mastery level a Divine Artifact is capable of, possibly being even weaker than Basic Laws or possibly being on par with Peak Laws.
Depending on the Law's rank and level of mastery it could be exhibited at, the capabilities of the Divine Artifact might only be on par with some of the more powerful Fragmented Divine Artifacts, not counting attributes, or it could be among the strongest items in the Universal God's Domain; as very few things could fight against Laws except for other Laws.
The only other items that could contend against Divine Artifact are a few rare Godly Relics. Godly Relics were different from other items. They were items that had existed since the birth of God's Domain and were not specifically categorized. As a result, Godly Relics could vary drastically in strength, with stronger ones being superior to even Divine Artifacts and weaker ones being inferior to even Legendary items.
Godly Relics that were capable of using a high-ranking Law or Laws, or some other special powers, could even surpass Divine Artifacts, depending on the rank and mastery of the Law they could use. But such Godly Relics were much rarer than Divine Artifacts, and even then, they only possessed abilities greater than some of the weaker Divine Artifacts with control over Basic Laws and Intermediate Laws or Advanced Laws with low mastery, while Godly Relics that could contend against the top-tier Divine Artifacts capable of using Peak Laws with high mastery only existed in legends.
It was also due to them possessing the power of Laws that upgrading items to Fragmented Divine Artifact and Divine Artifact rank was incredibly difficult, only being possible through some means that utilized the Advanced Law of Creation at a high level of mastery or the Law of Change; or possibly some other special Unranked Law at Full Mastery.
Unranked Laws were completely unpredictable, and there were instances across history of them not even being capable of going up against weak Basic Laws, as well as instances of even Advanced Laws being completely useless on them. One such example is the Gargantuan Void Leviathan, one of the Greater God's Domain's Twenty-Two Taboos, which possessed the Devouring Law at Full Mastery.
With it, the Gargantuan Void Leviathan could completely neutralize nearly any Advanced Law even at Full Mastery, only Peak Laws being a proper threat to it.
As such depending on the level of mastery, Divine Artifacts and Godly Relics with Unranked Laws could either be very mediocre or very extraordinary, as items capable of using Peak Laws were only a few dozen across the entire Universal God's Domain.
Though, there were also a few rare Divine Artifacts that didn't actually possess Laws, and instead either could use some other special powers, or had incredible brute force that could possibly contend against Laws. However, such Divine Artifacts were nearly as rare as ones with Peak Laws, while their strength varies across the strength level of the items; possibly being as strong as Fragmented Divine Artifacts or among the top-tier Divine Artifacts.
Aside from Fragmented Divine Artifacts, which were capable of faintly controlling Laws and using them in their abilities, and Divine Artifacts, which were capable of controlling and making complete use of their Laws in their abilities, there were also a few incredibly rare Legendary items that could use Laws to a small extent.
Although incomparable to the former two, some Legendary items which were as rare as a phoenix feather could make a faint use of Laws to strengthen the item's abilities, but the boost would be less than even Laws with the Basic Mastery standard. Regardless, it put them far above other Legendary items, and distinguished items like the Ten Great Legendary Weapons from regular Legendary Weapons aside from the attributes.
In fact, if a Legendary item could make some amount of use of a powerful Advanced Law, it could even possibly exhibit abilities surpassing Fragmented Divine Artifacts which possessed Basic Laws at low mastery.
It was this capability that allowed Icarus's Heart to possess such unimaginable abilities, even at Fragmented Legendary rank, as it could faintly make use of a Peak Law, the Law of Fate.
Due to the fact that very few items were capable of rivalling them, Fragmented Divine Artifacts and Divine Artifacts were coveted by all players, and even by Gods and Ancient Gods, as it gave them the opportunity to use the power of Laws that they normally weren't capable of using; especially for Gods and players that had no mastery over any Law.
As for Yog-Sothoth, which possessed the Law of Time, the strongest Advanced Law, its value was many times greater; especially when considering its former wielder. The God of Time was one of Universal God's Domain's Twelve Great Gods. While not a Primordial God, the God of Time was an existence superior to Primordial Gods.
The difference in strength between a regular God and an Ancient God was huge due to Ancient Gods having mastered a Law and integrating it into their Divine Body, creating a Superior Divine Body. In fact, the difference between them was like a difference of tiers, being even greater than the difference between Tier 5 and Tier 6 creatures, and it wouldn't be wrong to consider Ancient God level beings a tier higher than Tier 6 creatures, surpassing Tier 6. [4]
Meanwhile, the difference in strength between Ancient Gods and Primordial Gods was many times greater than the difference between regular and Ancient Gods, with Primordial Gods basically being a tier above Ancient Gods, as any random Primordial God would have at least one Law mastered to its limit and incorporated into its Superior Divine Body; while many would also have have Full Mastery over multiple Laws as well.
However, there were Primordial Gods and Primordial God level existences, such as the God Slayer, who surpassed most of the other creatures in God's Domain, attaining a higher level of strength than other Primordial Gods by gaining mastery over an element at the Half-step Rule standard.
Among them was the God of Time, although being an Ancient God due to only using the Law of Time at the Basic Mastery level to form a Superior Divine body, he had pushed his Mastery over time much further later on, reaching a level of Half-step Mastery over the Rule of Time; surpassing most Primordial Gods.
Being a weapon that the Time God had used during the war between Primordial Gods, Yog-Sothoth would naturally be capable of using the Law of Time at a high standard, most likely at the very limit of Laws. The suppression it previously gave off before Feng managed to identify it and open its Attribute Panel, becoming its holder, proved that. If a regular player had attempted to approach Yog-Sothoth at the time, they would have been frozen in time before they could even get within ten yards of the broken-down sword.
Thankfully, not only did Feng possess a powerful Physique, but he also had Resistance to Time thanks to all the means that gave him an increase in All Resistances; otherwise, he might have been screwed.
Even if destroyed, possessing such a weapon that could be fixed was much better than acquiring a Fragmented Divine Artifact rank sword with some weaker Law or a lower level of Mastery over it.
The only downside at first glance was its condition and necessities for Yog-Sothoth to recover its strength. If Feng was in the Greater God's Domain, obtaining the repair materials would at most take some effort and money to collect, but the material acquisition became a bit more complicated in an Elementary God's Domain.
Setting aside God Crystals which Feng had many ways of obtaining, Elemental Sources are much more difficult to obtain, especially ones with rare elements. Any Elemental Source was valued more than an Epic item; in fact, most people offered two Epic items for a single crystal. However, players almost never sold them.
The elemental Mana within Elemental Sources was even purer than Seven Luminaries Crystals, and these items had a wide variety of uses.
They could be used in forging, alchemy, engineering, magic arrays, and so on.
If one used an Elemental Source while crafting a weapon or equipment, said item would obtain the power within the Elemental Source. Not only would this strengthen the item's Attributes, but it would also carry a powerful Original Skill.
If one could produce an Epic Weapon or Equipment with an Origin Skill, its value would only be second to Fragmented Legendary items.
When Elemental Sources had made their appearance in the past, it had started a new era for Lifestyle players. That had been due to the various uses for these crystals. Elemental Sources could even help Lifestyle classes improve their abilities. Hence, a lot of changes had to happen to the game.
After the first Elemental Source had appeared in the game, the crystals became more common. If one were lucky, they could even obtain one from a Dark-Gold Treasure Chest.
At first, everyone would treat the Elemental Source as some kind of rare material, selling it for several hundred Gold a piece. By the time they realized its true value, they'd regret selling the items. Conversely, many large Guilds would make a huge profit from hoarding the Elemental Sources.
However, no Elemental Source has appeared yet, and probably won't for a while, making collecting a large amount impossible. In fact, both Zero Wing and Candlelight have yet to obtain any despite Feng ordering a search for them.
Though, even if they had found one, it wouldn't change much due to the type of Elemental Source Feng needed, a Source of Time. Unlike Elemental Sources for basic elements like the Four Major Elements, as well as some of the intermediate elements, obtaining Elemental Sources of advanced elements like the Three Supreme Elements was much more difficult; especially for the time element.
Elemental Sources of basic elements could appear in extreme environments with that element, but the necessary environment for an Elemental Source of an element like time was not only incredibly rare, not existing in his God's Domain where he could access at the moment, but was also incredibly dangerous.
Therefore, the only way Feng could obtain Sources of Time would be through Treasure Chests at Dark-Gold rank and above, or Elemental Treasure Boxes. However, the chances of obtaining any Elemental Source from Treasure Chests was very low, not to mention the extremely rare Source of Time.
Thankfully, Feng possessed the godly tool Icarus's Heart, which will allow him to collect enough Sources of Time to recover Yog-Sothoth to Fragmented Divine Artifact rank with a bit of time. In fact, Feng didn't even need to obtain all twenty Sources of Time through normal means, and only needed ten due to Elemental Sources counting as materials and Feng possessing the Philosopher's Stone.
With the alchemy treasure, Feng could use Elemental Cloning to clone ten Sources of Time into twenty and save himself some trouble.
Thinking about Elemental Cloning, Feng also wondered whether it was possible to also clone God Crystals, as they, too, are classified as materials. Feng had previously been too eager to repair the Holy Grail when he had obtained the two God Crystals, and had completely forgotten about Philosopher's Stone's new ability.
Since he no longer had any God Crystals on hand anymore, Feng will simply have to keep it in mind for now until he obtains more of them to try. Though, it would bring him many benefits if it was possible, as God Crystals had many uses, and repairing many items aside from Yog-Sothoth would also become much easier.
Though, when considering everything, Yog-Sothoth currently being in a Destroyed State was much more beneficial for Feng, as he most likely would not have been able to equip it due to equipment, and especially weapons, possessing tier requirements at Legendary rank and above.
Thus, the current situation was the most favorable one Feng could have asked for.
After refreshing all that information in his mind for no particular reason, Feng placed Yog-Sothoth on his back as if wielding a third sword. As placing it in his Spatial Bag would make it unusable, and holding it all the time would be troublesome, the sword's effects could still affect Feng if he brought it along with him this way.
Yog-Sothoth's abilities are very powerful and would be of great use to Feng, even with the 60% reduction to his Reaction Speed. After all, Feng didn't need his Reaction Speed to be ridiculously high for enemies weaker than him, while the Reaction Speed and other benefits he obtained from enemies that are stronger than him using Temporal Siphon would outweigh the loss.
Settling the matters with the Destroyed Yog-Sothoth, Feng took out the second of the three items he had obtained form the Legendary Treasure Chest, which was a Forging Design.
However, what appalled Feng was that, beyond his expectations, the Design was only for forging an Epic item. With his current Luck, the least Feng should be able to obtain from a Legendary Treasure Chest is a Fragmented Legendary Forging Design, with a Design for a Legendary item being more likely, and even a Design for a Fragmented Divine Artifact not being completely out of the question.
Yet, by some miracle, he had defied all odds and obtained an Epic ranked Forging Design. Though, when Feng saw the information for the Design, his previous shock and discontent was quickly turned into pleasant surprise and excitement.
[Levellume Capsule Forging Design]
Able to create an Epic-ranked Levellume Capsule, capable of storing 100,000,000 EXP.
With this item, Feng would no longer have to worry about his levels going way above for the things he needed, and he could just store his EXP until he was done doing what he needed to be at a lower level for before leveling up again, solving much of his troubles.
Moreover, this item could be repeatedly created with the Forging Design, making it possible for his guild members who were having the same problem to level up without any worries; as well as providing quick levels for low-level restored players that join in later on.
The only problem was the low amount of EXP that could be stored, as such an amount won't be much at higher levels, and they'd need to fill up a bunch of Levellume Capsules in order to see a difference; as well as the materials required for forging a Levellume Capsule, which were quite rare, but that would be mostly manageable.
With the Book of Creation, however, the major downside could be slightly negated as well if Feng could upgrade the Design to Fragmented Legendary rank, increasing the amount of EXP that could be stored.
This was especially so with Feng's current Luck and Probability Manipulation, increasing the chances of the upgrade working and maximizing its capabilities by a huge amount. Feng now only had to wait for Blessing of Creation's cooldown to end after he had previously used it to upgrade the Advanced Light Stone Forging Design; but he should be able to make it just in time with the current duration of Divine Providence.
Afterwards, Feng stored the Levellume Capsule Forging Design and took out the final item obtained from the Legendary Treasure Chest.
A palm-sized, pure-white figurine with no features on it and merely resembling a human's figure appeared in Feng's hand. Inspecting it curiously, Feng wondered about the figurine's capabilities, as this was his first time seeing such an item.
[Ethereal Replicant Core] (Fragmented Divine Artifact Rank Item)
Active Skill 1: Parallel Existence
Creates a Perfect Clone of the user at the cost of Seven Luminaries Crystals, the clone containing all attributes, skills, titles, statuses and equipment of the user, while the equipment skills' cooldown is shared between the clone and user. The clone will remain in existence until its death or the user cancels Parallel Existence.
Cooldown: 30 days
Active Skill 2: Data Synthesis
Update the Perfect Clone with the user's current condition at the cost of Seven Luminaries Crystals, erasing the clone's differentiating information.
Cooldown: 3 minutes
Active Skill 3: Information Uptake
Gain any of the clone's new information.
Cooldown: 1 minute
Active Skill 4: Pocket Clone
Store the Perfect Clone into the Ethereal Replicant Core, being able to call it out at any time.
Cooldown: 12 hours
Feng's eyes practically shined when he saw the Ethereal Replicant Core's information. It was without a doubt an incredible item, and it could allow Feng to achieve the dream of every player in God's Domain.
Being at two places and doing two things at once!
With the Ethereal Replicant Core, Feng could do multiple tasks that only he could do at once, increasing his efficiency by a large margin, not to mention the help another him would bring during fights against powerful opponents. Since his equipment would be completely replicated, that means that both him and the clone could achieve Twofold Berserk at once, and he could even have the clone use Threefold Berserk if necessary while no longer being at risk of himself suffering a backlash.
The best part is that he could continuously update the clones information and continue to have it grow with him, even when he reached Tier 6, and obtain another apex combatant for the future.
Though, Feng guessed that the amount of Seven Luminaries Crystals he'd need to use up in order to upgrade the clone along with him to that level would be huge. Thankfully, Feng had obtained three million units of Seven Luminaries Crystals from the Forgotten Lands, so he'd definitely be able to last a while with them and could obtain more in the meantime.
However, constantly splitting his attention into controlling both his body and the clone would be troublesome and consume much of his Concentration, so Feng would most likely not be able to engage in high intensity fights along with the clone and be conservative with what they both do at the same time.
Nevertheless, it was still an incredible item that would bring Feng lots of benefits.
Curious about how many Seven Luminaries Crystals it would take to create a Perfect Clone and its capabilities, Feng unfurled a Return Scroll and teleported to White River City.
As he passed through the bustling streets, Feng could hear discussions over what had previously happened and the commotion Feng opening the Legendary Treasure Chest had caused. Ignoring the players, Feng soon arrived at the Bank and entered his Private Warehouse.
Taking out some Seven Luminaries Crystals from his collection, Feng chose to activate Parallel Existence.
System: Creating a Perfect Clone of the player Ye Feng will cost 500,000 units of Seven Luminaries Crystal. Do you wish to proceed?
"Huh?" Feng stared at the number, wondering if he was seeing things incorrectly, but even after rubbing his eyes, the system still showed that five hundred thousand Seven Luminaries Crystals were necessary.
With five hundred thousand Seven Luminaries Crystals, Feng could attempt to create ten Divine Bodies, or five Superior Divine Bodies, yet just that amount was necessary to create a Perfect Clone at Feng's current standard. He couldn't even begin to imagine how many units would be necessary once he reached higher tiers.
However, even with such a huge number, Feng gritted his teeth and confirmed the notification, reducing the amount of Seven Luminaries Crystals in his Private warehouse by a sixth.
When all was said and done, the clone was simply too valuable to Feng, not to mention that considering his current attributes, equipment, skills, titles, and everything else he possessed like Sharlyn's blessing, five hundred thousand units wasn't exactly too ridiculous of a price for a double of his.
Though, there was another large reason for why Feng needed the clone to exist, which was very critical to his continued playthrough without any interferences.
Something that could currently bring him troubles is the Green God Corporation.
Due to them running the God's Domain Feng currently resides in after obtaining it to nurture Earth's residents, although they don't know each of his moves and everything that's going on around him, Feng knew that they were capable of obtaining knowledge about the players in this God's Domain to a certain extent, and Feng had no doubt that he had already attracted their attention.
It wouldn't be surprising if they were currently investigating him after witnessing his performances and some of his character data, since, unlike God's Domain's various powers, the Green God Corporation knew a lot of stuff about God's Domain, and knew what the current players should and shouldn't be capable of.
Although his private information was mostly protected, it wouldn't take long before they figure out his identity and send someone knocking on his door in order to find out how he's capable of achieving what he has and the knowledge he possesses; not hesitating to use force in the process.
Feng's original plan was to try and throw them off while delaying revealing anything and increasing his Mental Strength to the Master standard as quickly as possible. If he could become a Mental Strength Master, Feng would be capable of exhibiting much more of his Soul Manipulation ability's power, and killing anyone below the Mental Strength Grandmaster standard wouldn't be too difficult with his standards.
After showing his power and that he wasn't someone easy to mess with, he'd delay some more in order to increase his Mental Strength even further after obtaining the Soul Orb and purifying it with the remaining of the Seven Treasures.
From his previous life, Feng already knew all of the Treasures' locations or methods to obtain them, with three of them being on the Eastern Continent;
The Treasure of Time being in the possesion of Countess Katie Green;
The Treasure of Water being in the possession of Flame Horn City's, one of the Fire Dragon Empire's top eight cities, Magistrate Krobidi;
And the Treasure of Space being in the possession of Glory Empire's emperor;
While two of the Seven treasures were on the Western Continent[5];
The Treasure of Earth having been found by a guild on the Western Continent called Shadow Vengeance in the previous timeline and Feng finding out about its method of acquisition after asking;
And the Treasure of Wind having originally been found by Fire and the other after much effort in one of the Western Continent's Ruins;
While the Treasure of Illusion and Treasure of Fire were currently in the hands of a Demon God and Evil God respectively, but Feng knew how to obtain both through other players, and would only take some time to collect all seven.
Though, even if Feng could fight them off in the real world, without absolute strength, it wouldn't prevent the Green God Corporation from wanting to find out his secrets, and they'd attempt to cause trouble with the Zero Wing in real life and use the amount of authority they have over God's Domain to make things difficult for him.
It was because of him knowing that it would be impossible to properly do what he wanted and continue with his preparations for the Greater God's Domain without properly taking over both Earth in the real world with his strength as well as God's Domain without the Green God's Corporation's interference, while also not being able to simply massacre everyone due to him still needing them until he got to the Greater World, that Feng needed Sharlyn; as she possessed some authority over this God's Domain along with the Scholar and that guy sealed under the Fire Dragon Empire.
If Feng could get rid of the those two guys, he could take complete control over this God's Domain along with Sharlyn, which was something he had been unable to do in his previous life, causing him a great amount of trouble once the Scholar returned later on like the cockroach that he is.
However, if he were to create a Perfect Clone using the Ethereal Replicant Core, things would change.
Creating an artificial player, the Green God Corporation would have no knowledge of it in their database, and would have no information on the player, so their natural assumption to a mysterious and powerful player suddenly appearing in their God's Domain, possessing knowledge the current players of their God's Domain should have no access to and achieving impossible to things would be that a player from the Greater God's Domain had somehow managed to appear here; and was creating a guild using the native players.
After seeing Zero Wing and its members making rapid progress, along with Shi Feng in the real world who acted as the Acting Guild Leader, their suspicions would be confirmed and they'd have to tread with caution while trying to figure out who the mysterious player is through their means in the Greater God's Domain and what his intentions are.
Either way, it would be able to buy Feng four to five months, which will be enough to accomplish his goals and become strong enough for the Green God Corporation's opinion to no longer matter.
Thus, even at such a high cost, the Perfect Clone's overall value was worth it.
As Feng clicked on 'Yes', he was asked to design the clone and name it. After thinking for a moment, he changed the clone's default look of Ye Feng to Black Flame's, naming the clone by the Guild Leader of Zero Wing's name as well.
The palm-sized figurine in his hand changed, its features turning into a miniature Black Flame, while a white light exited the Ethereal Replicant Core and took the shape of a human.
A moment later, the light subsided, revealing an expressionless middle-aged man with pitch-black hair and eyes, wearing pitch-black armor while garbed with a cloak.
Staring at the person in front of him, Feng became stunned when he sensed the other's existence, as well as his own senses. Feng didn't feel like he was splitting his attention to the clone's existence at all, and it was functioning independently.
Instead of saying that he was splitting his brain into two in order to control his own body and the clone's, it felt more like he possessed two brains at once, both functioning and working separately from each other in charge of a body each, yet being connected and relaying information to one another at the same time.
It was an incredibly weird feeling of existing in two places at the same time and not being able to tell the difference that Feng had never experienced before. After all, even when using a doppelganger or creating a clone or using a projection of himself through anything, Feng could always feel that there was only one of him with one conscience controlling every him at once.
But this was much different.
Feng felt almost like he possessed two consciences at once, with both existing and functioning to control a body, yet both being him with him sensing what both were doing and thinking. Almost like there were two Fengs at once, both being the same yet different at the same time.
"Bruh, quit staring at me like an idiot." A cold voice snapped Feng out of his daze, and he focused on the clone which had spoken out while giving him an annoyed look. Black Flame[6] had been standing there for a bit now waiting for this other self of his to say something, but the guy just kept staring ahead into space like a dolt, causing Black Flame's patience to run thin.
"I'm not your bruh, bro. And you've got one hell of an attitude for a clone." Feng became speechless upon hearing his own clone insult him, especially when he hadn't controlled it to say anything; confirming Feng's previous suspicions of the clone having an independent thought process.
"I'm not a clone," Black Flame said matter-of-factly without any change in expression "You're the clone."
"The fuck?!" Feng's confusion grew even more after hearing Black Flame's counter, the other him saying it in such a convincing manner Feng almost believed him for a second, before he waved the Ethereal Replicant Core in front of the clone, which currently looked like a miniature Black Flame, saying "You're the clone! Otherwise, I wouldn't be the one holding this."
This time, Black Flame didn't respond immediately as he stared at the figurine, seemingly questioning his existence, before closing his eyes and answering in a defying manner "You just took it from me, trying to pretend like you're the original. Own up and give it to me, you clone."
"Bruh." Feng didn't even know how to respond to that, not believing that Black Flame would not be willing to admit he was a clone, and instead come up with some excuse. Well, that's what he gets for having such a shitty personality, which was copied by the clone along with his memories.
Thus, the argument of who was a clone and who was the original between these two intelligent beings continued for nearly half an hour, before Black Flame finally begrudgingly accepted that there was a chance of him maybe being a clone, while Feng experienced the full extent of the Ethereal Replicant Core's wonders.
The Fragmented Divine Artifact was actually capable of creating a complete and perfect replica of himself, with his complete memories and personality, making a second him. It was far greater than what Feng had originally imagined.
Though, there were some difficulties as well with how perfect the Ethereal Replicant Core's replica is, as Feng discovered that he wasn't the easiest person to get along with. If another person had created a Perfect Clone of themselves, even if the clone wasn't immediately agreeable, they'd soon realize their existence as a clone and accept it, working together to benefit the original body as much as possible.
But this fucker spent an entire half an hour arguing with him and not being willing to accept that he was a clone, under Feng's control and his thoughts being readable by the original, even though he had realized the truth of his existence from the moment he opened his eyes.
After all, it wasn't too difficult for Black Flame to confirm whether he was a clone or the original simply by inspecting a few things. However, he had been unwilling to accept and admit what he was despite knowing it deep down due to inheriting Feng's personality and his refusal to be under someone else's control.
Only after a while of arguing and realizing that Feng wasn't going to accept any negotiations to act as equals did Black Flame finally take a step back, knowing they couldn't waste any more time on this while having Divine Providence active.
After experimenting for a while and checking with Black Flame, Feng also confirmed the Ethereal Replicant Core's limits. Black Flame indeed possessed all of his attributes; skills, which they could both use independently; titles, with them being able to equip a different one at the same time and achieve the effects of both; his equipment, both of them gaining the attributes and effects of all of them along with the effects of passive skills, while their equipment's active skills shared cooldowns; and even things like his Forging Genius and the Purple Stigmata; his quests, both finished and uncompleted, and even the curse on him.
However, there were also three things that Black Flame hadn't replicated from him, the first being the items in his bags. Although Black Flame possessed the same bags as himself, along with the Spatial Bag, all seven of them were completely empty.
Though that was understandable, and the Ethereal Replicant Core would truly be too overpowered if it was able to replicate the items in his bags as well. The only thing was that Black Flame didn't possess the Demon Mask like Feng and couldn't change his appearance, but that wasn't a problem, as there were multiple Disguise Tools among the many Epic and Fragmented Legendary items Feng had obtained from the Treasure Chests.
The second thing Black Flame didn't possess were the souls stored inside of the Pandemonium Lashblade. None of the souls Feng had previously collected were in the cloned Demon Sword, and Black Flame's soul count was 0/50. Though, this wasn't too bad of a thing, as it allowed Feng to store fifty extra souls.
As for the third thing the Ethereal Replicant Core wasn't able to replicate, it was Sharlyn's complete Full Blessing. Although Black Flame still had all the attributes and benefits from the Full Blessing, the Creation Goddess's Blessing was different, as it was classified as a regular Blessing instead of a Full Blessing.
[Creation Goddess's Blessing] (Divine Blessing)
Creating with any Subclass success rate increased by 20%
Proficiency has a 50% chance to increase by 5 extra points
All items created will have their Attributes increased
There is a fixed chance to increase a created item's rank by one, up to a maximum of Legendary Rank.
Creation Element Authority +1
Ignore Levels +60
For every increase in five Levels, all Attributes of player will increase by 20 points, in addition to receiving 40 Free Attribute Points
Attacks you deal to all beings affiliated with Darkness will have a 200% increase in damage
You will possess status equal to a Count in every territory ruled by non Dark Powers.
Seeing the information Black Flame had shared with him over a message after they added each other as friends, which was equally weird to have yourself as a friend, but Feng used the chance to transfer all of the contacts and friends of his identity as Black Flame to Black Flame, while keeping Ye Feng's for himself, Feng realized that there were limits to the Ethereal Replicant Core's power as well; with it not being able to replicate the power of a Full Blessing, though Black Flame still possessed the wings Feng had inherited from Sharlyn, only slightly smaller and much weaker.
It was also not able to copy a hidden benefit of Sharlyn's Full Blessing.
A faint blue glow appeared in Feng's eyes as he gazed at Black Flame, who was replaced with a floating blue fireball. Black Flame's Immortal Soul was the same as Feng's, but with a hidden element missing. Inside of Black Flame's Immortal Soul, apart from all the blue soul energy, there was a pure-white portion of the soul that gave off a sacred and divine feeling. This was the Blessing.
Feng's Immortal Soul, on the other hand, except for possessing all the blue soul energy and the pure-white portion which was bigger than Black Flame's, also possessed something else. Inside of the pure-white portion of Feng's soul, a figure stood. A small, chibi version of Sharlyn resided inside of Feng's immortal Soul.
The Chibi Sharlyn simply stood there unmoving with her eyes closed, radiating an incredibly holy aura.
When he had first spotted the Chibi Sharlyn after obtaining Sharlyn's Full Blessing, Feng had been momentarily stunned, not knowing that there was now a small version of Sharlyn living in his Immortal Soul. After asking Sharlyn about it, she explained that the Chibi Sharlyn served as proof of him possessing her Full Blessing, and that the chibi girl was a small part of her God Factor that resided in his Immortal Soul and protected it.
It was an unexpected benefit that surprised Feng, but it seemed like the Ethereal Replicant Core had been unable to copy it to Black Flame.
Apart from those factors, Black Flame was basically another Feng. He completely classified as a player and had his own system separate from Feng's, having the same options in the Main God's System's usage as other players; with the only exception being a log out button.
While testing out the Ethereal Replicant Core's functions, Feng also discovered a few interesting things about how the clone functions. Although Black Flame could unequip his equipment and weapons, as well as replace them with others, he was unable to take out or trade the copied items. If he reversed the situation to himself copying original equipment from Black Flame, the same situation applied to himself as well.
After spending some Seven Luminaries Crystals for experimentation, using Elemental Cloning to copy them beforehand, Feng tested out the limits of how much he could take advantage of the Ethereal Replicant Core's incredible abilities.
Another thing that Feng discovered Black Flame was incapable of using was his Soul Manipulation ability. Though, since that wasn't a part of Feng's God's Domain character, it made sense Black Flame was unable to use it; but if Feng were to take control of the clone's body, then he would be capable of using his ability regardless, so it was more of a conscience thing.
Now came the time to ponder on how to use the clone to maximize the opportunities he could take advantage of. Though, Feng didn't have to think for long on what role Black Flame should play and what he needed to do at the moment.
The clone will be Black Flame, the Guild Leader of Zero Wing who remained an emotionless powerhouse taking care of the guild and guarding it as well as doing all the tedious tasks Feng was too lazy for, while Feng will be Ye Feng, Zero Wing's Honorary Elder who was himself and did whatever the fuck he wanted to.
This way, Feng could leave all of his responsibilities of being a Guild Leader to the clone and allow himself time to do all the tasks only he could do without being burdened with having to carry a guild.
Such an arrangement would also benefit Feng's mental health.
After spending more than a century in the Mysterious Space, fighting, killing and doing whatever he wanted without any restrictions, Feng naturally had some troubles readjusting to his life as a Guild Leader with responsibilities after exiting it.
A part of him knew that there were millions of people relying and counting on him, and that he had to remain the emotionless, calm and composed Guild Leader Black Flame who shouldered all the pressure and protected Zero Wing; while a part of him was screaming to return to being the free Feng who did whatever he wanted and slaughtered whoever he wanted without any of the troublesome burdens around him.
Enduring the encouragement and temptation of the little angel and devil on his shoulders respectively, Feng strode through life trying to keep himself together.
But, eventually, he broke.
The strain of controlling his emotions and desires while trying to remain the image of a Guild Leader that he needed to be caused Feng to develop a minor split personality disorder, sometimes being able to switch from being fully composed to completely enraged, or to easy-going, or to emotionless, or to stressed on the verge of a mental breakdown, or to relaxed like everything was fine; the change happening in a split second with no prior warning.
No amount of mental potions or medicine managed to help him either, and Feng could only attempt to learn how to control his erratic condition to the best of his abilities by choosing which personality to be at what time; but that was of minimal help as well.
Now, however, Feng didn't have to worry about that anymore.
Black Flame could be the personality Feng needs to be for the guild while he remains his easy-going self and does things as he pleases.
Considering the things he currently needed to get done, Feng actually had Black Flame go forge Intermediate Mana Armor kits. Although there were many things which required to get done, right now, the most benefit Black Flame could achieve for Feng was to create a huge number of Intermediate Mana Armor Kits.
Even though Feng had previously created a large number of the kits, after he places them for sale across God's Domain and with all the powers wishing to purchase them, the number would just be a drop in the ocean.
Although Feng had known this, he had been too busy and didn't have the time to forge more, which would definitely decrease the profit he could make off the kits. With the addition of Black Flame, though, the problem would be solved.
After giving Black Flame a few items he should have as well as some items and Designs for Melancholic to spread out to the Lifestyle Players, Feng sent his clone off. Melancholic will be able to distribute the various Lifestyle Designs and Recipes according to their value to the unrestored and restored members, as well as which ones to save for later on. She could also decide how to distribute the equipment for Lifestyle Players in order to increase Candlelight Trading Firm's production ability.
However, Feng kept the Levellume Capsule Forging Design on himself for now, planning to first try to upgrade it before giving it to Cocoa. Although he could also learn the Design himself, he was always busy with other stuff, while Zero Wing's restored members would constantly be needing them, so allowing Cocoa to create the EXP storages will be the most beneficial.
Though, he did call up Melancholic and had her add the materials necessary for the Levellume Capsules' production to the list of materials he had previously given her. Even if the materials change if he manages to upgrade the Design, they should still be similar to some extent, and there will be a use for any extra that are obtained.
Feng then spent some time pondering how to maximize his profits during this duration of six digit Luck. Going around killing powerful bosses and getting a bunch of loot is the most obvious course of action and what Feng intended to do, but he also had to question if there was anything else; resulting in some things coming to Feng's mind.
Calling Fire, Feng had her gathered the Main Force so that they could quickly raid the powerful Mythic monsters without Feng having to go all out, and also having just her come to his Private Warehouse for something else.
In the meantime, Feng went through all the items he had obtained from the Treasure Chests. Although he had already inspected them all, Feng had been in a rush at the time, and didn't consider all the ways he could use them, merely inspecting them with a glance and noting if they'll be useful or not.
Now he finally had an opportunity to go through his spoils properly. There were many interesting items among them, and Feng singled out some of the best equipment and weapons to give to the members of Zero Wing's Main Force in order to increase their proficiency in both the upcoming raid on monsters during Divine Providence's duration as well as for future tasks.
After all, Feng used the strongest players among the guild to accomplish many tasks for him and take care of things he didn't have time for, along with going around God's Domain to collect rare treasures for the guild; not to mention most of these players would be Zero Wing's foundation. Naturally, Feng had to outfit them properly since he already had plenty of spare items to give out.
Of course, he wouldn't give away the items for free, but would allow the players to pay using Contribution Points over time, since there was no way any of them would have enough for this many Fragmented Legendary and Epic items.
With the entire Main Force fully equipped with Fragmented Legendary equipment and weapons, they'll be fully capable of raiding a large number of Mythic monsters even without Feng; but Feng naturally wasn't planning on wasting his time with his current amount of Luck raiding weak monsters, and would instead bring the Main Force along to kill creatures even he wasn't able to defeat alone with his current power.
While going through the many items, Feng found quite a few of useful items and tools that could assist them during the upcoming raids, and some that would bring great benefits to the guild overtime, but there was one item that caught his attention.
[Spectral Animacell] (Tool, Fragmented Legendary Rank Item)
An orb capable of storing the soul of any defeated Tier 4 creature with its strength completely preserved. The user can summon the slain creature to fight for and be under the user's control. If the summoned creature dies, its soul inside of the Spectral Animacell will shatter and disappear.
To others, the ball made of white crystals in Feng's hand would at most be useful for obtaining a powerful Tier 4 helper after slaying some Mythic monster, serving as a permanent reusable Tier 4 Summoning Scroll, but to Feng, it could allow him to achieve something else which greatly increased the tool's value to him.
A blue glow appeared in Feng's eyes as he unsheathed the Pandemonium Lashblade. From his vision, Feng could see a bunch of fireballs with their sizes decreased grouped up together where the Pandemonium Lashblade's guard is; there being a total of 41 souls of various colors.
Using his ability, Feng grabbed one of the souls, a pitch-black one, with his soul energy and dragged it out of the Chain Sword before guiding it towards the Spectral Animacell. When the pitch-black soul radiating a demonic and evil aura made contact with the Spectral Animacell, it was instantly absorbed, causing the crystal ball's white interior to turn murky black.
Activating the Spectral Animacell, a dark beam exited it and flew a couple of yards away from Feng before taking on a human shape.
Moments later, a beautiful young girl with her hair composed of violet curls tied into two long ponytails appeared from the dark mist. Despite the girl having an incredibly beautiful face that could match Sharlyn's, the daggers in her blood-red eyes as she glared fiercely at Feng made her look extremely ferocious.
This was none other than Celestina, the Primordial Demon God whose soul fragment had originally been within the Pandemonium Lashblade before Feng obtained it and used his Soul Manipulation ability to imprison her inside of the Reaper Profound Inheritance, leaving her trapped inside of her own sword, after she had attempted to take over his body.
Out of all of the souls currently stored inside of the Pandemonium Lashblade, Celestina was definitely the strongest, and by a large margin. Although Anubis and the Moon-Howling Silver Wolf were fairly strong as well, they were only Grand Lords at the moment, placing them merely at the Peak of Tier 3 and having the combat power of Tier 4; not to mention that their souls were damaged by the Destruction Soul Fire when Feng killed them.
The Orc King Tresik was fairly strong as well, surpassing the two wolves, but he still fell short by a large amount when compared to Celestina even before his soul was similarly damaged by Feng when he was killed.
Being a fragmented of a Primordial Demon God's soul, Celestina was far more powerful than other Tier 4 creatures, her Life Rating surpassing that of a Dragon's, while her combat standards and control over Mana would surpass any Tier 4 NPC's or creature's that Feng could find probably even in the Greater God's Domain, let alone in this God's Domain.
Another option would have been the Mutant Mechanical Slayer, but considering the nature of Mutants and their ability to resist the system, its behavior would have been unpredictable and Feng didn't know if he would be able to control it. Not to mention that the amount of time and resources he'd need to invest into helping it reach a similar level of strength as Celestina would have been very high and not something Feng could do at the moment or had the time for.
Thus, Celestina became his only and best option. Though, she was full of troubles as well.
If Feng had placed another soul of the ones he had stored in the Pandemonium Lashblade into the Spectral Animacell, or killed another monster and immediately had the Fragmented Legendary Tool collect it, there would be no problems, as most souls didn't possess the memories of their physical bodies, and even if they did, they would be murky and not much remaining, so it was impossible for the creatures summoned to hold a grudge against Feng and they would simply obey his commands through the Spectral Animacell.
However, it was a different situation for Celestina, as she already has all of her memories from when she was a Primordial Demon God, and the ones from her previous encounter with Feng.
Considering that Feng had ruined her plan to reincarnate as well as trapped her inside of her own sword for a few days now, leaving her pissed off but with nothing to vent her anger on, their current relationship wasn't at all a good one, somehow being even worse than when they had met in his previous life.
At that time, there was still room for negotiations since they were no longer at odds with each other after Celestina had managed to completely reincarnate and stopped her forces from bothering Feng's God's Domain, and they even had common enemies such as Aza, allowing them to work and fight together.
Feng was hoping to talk to Celestina and make a deal with her in this timeline as well despite the current situation, however...
"Die, you damn human."
Celestina clearly wasn't intending to have a peaceful conversation over a cup of tea with Feng, as she pointed her finger at the human in front of her, a huge amount of Mana gathering around it and instantly forming a pitch-black Magic Array.
Tier 4 Curse, Demonic Vortex!
A cone of purplish-black flames shot out of the Magic Array and flew at Feng. Despite the incoming danger which possessed power at the Tier 5 standard, Feng showed no signs of worry as he merely snapped his fingers.
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1. Idea for sword's name and some of its abilities come partially from Lovecraft.
2. I figured that there should be a distinction between items at Legendary rank and above, and this was the first thing that came to mind, while also finding a way to incorporate Laws, which LOC seemed to have made as very important but also wasn't using and including properly for some reason.
3. I know LOC came up with something called Goddess Laws, but I'm not yet sure if that's for Laws of a rank above Advanced Laws or if it was a Law utilized by a Goddess from what I understood, but in either case, it doesn't matter, since it's stupid and I won't be using it.
If it's the first case, it's stupid because why the fuck could he not be consistent for once in his life and use the same system as always to rank things, and if it's the second case, then it's even worse as I find the entire concept stupid, so I'm really hoping that I just misunderstood something and that's it's the former.
The fuck does Goddess-ranked even mean?
Also, I know Intermediate Laws had never been stated to exist in rssg, and most likely do not, but I added them anyway for Laws that seem stronger than Basic ones but not strong enough for being an Advanced Law.
As for Unranked Laws which I came up with, those were Laws that didn't suit any rank.
4. LOC recently started world building for beyond Tier 6, but I've always figured that Ancient Gods were already beyond Tier 6 for some reason, as it didn't make much sense to me to include Gods, Ancient Gods and Primordial Gods all in the same group while having such a large difference in strength between them, so it actually came as a surprise when it was revealed that they were apparently all mostly Tier 6 and some Primordial God existences beyond Tier 6, while not making a clear distinction between them and their strength; and Ancient God rank kind of just getting skipped without any explanation on what it actually is.
Either way, I decided to go along with my previous thoughts and plans anyway, since they make much more sense to me.
5. LOC never stated their specific location or that the Treasure of Wind was on the Western Continent, only saying that it was found by Fire and the others, but thought it would be weird for four of the treasures to be on the Eastern Continent and only one on the Western, while the final two also appear on the Eastern through other means, so decided on the Wind one to have been found on the Western Continent as well to keep things a bit more equal.
6. From now on, I'll refer to the clone as Black Flame to not cause any confusion in the context of him speaking and doing things, and I'll call him Ye Feng if he's disguised as Ye Feng, while Feng will remain Feng no matter his look, and I'll just specify his appearance beforehand.
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