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Chapter 54: The Main Character

What is the sun? It's in the sky, appearing every morning, shining light upon the world.

The sun is the same as the moon; it's the initial place where time and space collided back when the world was made.

While the full moon appears when energy is out of order, the sun continuously emits energy, but not the pure energy mages use. It provides the energy necessary for the growth of plants.

Like the moon, the sun also only exists in the mage world.

The mage world is the main world. One cannot go from heaven to hell without passing through the mage world.

Unlike heaven and hell, which have fixed sizes, the mage world always expands. It will eventually be far larger than heaven and hell combined.

...

"Young master, please be careful," said Rufus, a servant who followed Alfred.

"Shut up!" said Alfred, who continued climbing a big tree.

Rufus was worried that the young master would hurt himself.

As Alfred was climbing, Allen arrived and shouted, "Come here!"

Alfred looked down and said, "Who are you?"

"I'm the main character who will slap you to death!" he said confidently.

"Don't be so obvious, damn it!" said Rachel, trying to hide as much as possible.

Allen was a 'main character.'

This is the term Rachel came up with. For some reason, the first-born children of all her hosts get a system and are transmigrators like her.

She found this out a while ago.

So, she planned and gave one of her incarnations to one of these 'main characters.'

And she is impressed!

Allen really looks like a main character! The luck around him is calm but may only be concealed because of her 'hidden in the mage world' ability.

As Rachel has observed so far, his luck is like the main characters in the novels.

She has encountered similar situations before.

For example, she once encountered a strange situation in hell while Zagronan was fighting someone.

Zagronan was trying to kill some demon, and suddenly, a higher rank appeared. As he tried to kill the higher-ranking demon, another even higher rank appeared.

At that time, she felt a lot of disturbance in the river of time.

"Does this world have main characters?" she asked herself.

She already set up many preparations to research this.

She relied heavily on her main body's 'limited modification' vision to conduct the research.

The vision can see a lot of things.

She noticed the system of the children of her hosts in this way.

But strangely, most of them had nowhere near Allen's luck.

"Luck doesn't seem to be related to the system. Children of my hosts get a system, but what about luck?" she thought.

A shout disturned her train of thought.

"You What?" shouted Alfred, dumbfounded by Allen's answer.

"The main character! The person who will eventually reach the top and conquer everything!" Allen looked at Alfred as if he were an idiot.

"Hahaha! You are even crazier than me! Hey, come and take him, then throw him in jail! Also, bring his sister; I want him to watch what I do to her," Alfred ordered Rufus, who was also his bodyguard.

Alfred took one of Allen's many sisters. Because he was the son of the Baron, the police didn't dare to arrest him.

Now, he was getting 'revenge'.

This was the backstory Rachel wanted Allen to have.

When he was born, Rachel poison-pilled his mother and arranged for Zag to steal him while disguising himself.

Eventually, Allen was placed in an orphanage with Rachel close to him, observing.

Just a while ago, his system 'activated'.

Rachel had no idea why the system took so long to activate.

The systems she observed until now were all activated from birth.

In this short time, he already reached rank 1 with the help of the system.

As for his sister, she was one of many who lived in an orphanage.

In this country, it's a tradition that children in orphanages are considered brothers and sisters. This is regarded as a positive tradition that can provide support in the absence of parents.

Allen smiled confidently and kicked the tree! The whole tree broke in one kick.

It was a big tree, but it was helpless in the face of a rank 1 being.

Alfred, climbing a tree in the middle of the castle for some inexplicable reason, crashed to the ground!

"Young master!" Rufus screamed and ran to Alfred's side.

Slap!

But before he could reach Alfred, Allen slapped him!

"+355 Rank 0 Slap Points!" the system sounded.

His system was the 'Face Slap' system. The more he slaps people in the face, the more points he can earn.

These points translated directly into strength.

In the last few weeks, he had slapped many beggars and unfortunate people and reached rank 1 two days ago.

He was not a rank 1 knight. Not a rank 1 mage either.

His path was weird and unconventional, just strengthening the body to the point it broke through, all with the brute force of the system.

Rufus was thrown far away, with all of his teeth shattered.

But Allen was not done. He ran to him and continued slapping.

"+190 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+98 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+55 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+21 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+0 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

When the points reached 0, he stopped.

Rufus's face was unrecognizable, and whether he survived was unknown.

Alfred, who saw all of this, felt terrified.

He was very drunk, but he became sober from fear when he saw this.

Before he could run away, Allen caught him and started slapping him.

"+5510 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+2100 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+677 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+97 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

"+0 Rank 0 Slap Points!"

Slapping 'young masters' would bring far more points.

Alfred became, like Rufus, unrecognizable.

"Now, the next part," Allen smiled.

There are a lot more people waiting to be slapped.

He added all the points to his physical strength.

"12,112 points added to physical strength," the system responded.

Immediately, he felt stronger.

"I feel stronger than before! At this rate, I will not take long to conquer the world!" Allen thought.

Rachel was impressed! The system was really powerful! Maybe too powerful!

...

The next day, the Baron sent several knights.

"Come out, Alfred!" the boss of the knights shouted.

"Look at these idiots! Can't you break the door?" shouted Allen, speechless.

The knight in charge was unwilling to break the door, as he would be responsible for replacing it.

Chain owned by a duke owned the building, so it's not like they can get away with it.

Allen sighed and got out voluntarily.

Then...

Slap!

After 10 seconds, all the knights were slapped into an unrecognizable state.

Allen added all the points to his physical strength and again felt the surging strength.

"This is too strong! My system is nowhere near this!" thought Rachel, who was envious.

...

A month later, the whole city was slapped by Allen.

He sat on a rock, looking at the sky.

"I'm the strongest!"

He punched the ground, and the radius of one kilometer shook.

"No, you're as strong as a rank 2 knight, which is incredible, considering you were a normal human two months ago, but far from invincible," Rachel said.

"Then, where are these mages you talk about?" asked Allen.

"I have no idea, but you have to get ready. Go and slap the entire continent to death, and hopefully, you can reach rank 7."

"Also, restrain yourself. Don't kill people. If they stay alive, you can create a 'slap farm.'"

Rachel invented a new term, and Allen nodded.

He also noticed that he would soon run out if he slapped everyone to death.

...

Allen did as Rachel said, but even after slapping everyone in the continent to death, he only managed to reach rank 4.

"Why is it so slow? Even after three months, I am only rank 4," he complained.

Rachel was left speechless by his ungratefulness.

"Where you are is not a continent but an island. Continents are far larger than this," she explained.

"Island? Girl, this is far larger than the entire earth!" he said.

He was originally from the earth.

"I'm going to arrange for you to go to a continent," Rachel stated.

"You?" Allen asked, surprised.

Then, a man with red clothes arrived. His pupils were light yellow, and he had a strange smile. A woman with long hair who was quite tall was also beside him.

"She is very hot," thought Allen.

"This is Zag, who will take you to a continent," Rachel said.

"How do you know him?" Allen asked suspiciously.

"They are NPCs I summoned. Don't worry about them."

Zagronan didn't speak; he took Allen and flew.

...

Rachel No. 1 was observing Allen through 'limited modification.'

"So much luck! Why is there so much luck concentrated on him? And the system... I feel like it's feeding on his luck, only turning some of it into strength and giving it back to him!" thought Rachel.

She was examining the system's codes.

"What is it? I feel like I can modify everything, but this system... I feel like it's exactly like my own system, unmodifiable. Do they really have the same origin? He was born by one of my hosts, so does his system come from my system?" She was pondering.

His luck was absolutely enormous, the most she had ever seen, but it was all hidden by her skill.

"Let's see what happens!" she thought.

...

Soon, they reached a continent. Zag dropped him somewhere and left.

From the moment Allen arrived, he began his path, slapping his way to the top.

From city to city, country to country, after one year, hundreds of countries were slapped to the ground by him. His efficiency of work was also increasing as he got stronger.

"He has already reached rank 5, but his luck is depleting rapidly!" Rachel thought.

The continent was vast, so this was not even a small part. With Rachel's persuasion, Allen continued, and after 5 years, he finally reached rank 6.

Rachel No. 206 also got promoted with him to rank 6.

"His luck is completely exhausted," Rachel was very disappointed.

Allen continued his slapping spree, but after his luck was exhausted, the system's points became much less, almost minuscule.

"Why did the damn system become so stingy? Rachel?" Allen asked.

"Now that you're strong, slapping these people only gives you a few points," Rachel made up an explanation.

Allen shook his head.

The explanation didn't make sense.

"Hey, I have a pill that can help with it," said Rachel.

He had already taken many pills from Rachel, so he nodded and ate the pill, which looked very enticing.

Then, he melted! He died by a poisoned pill!

Even if you want to look at it from a moral perspective, Allen had killed countless harmless people for nothing but 'slap points,' so nobody felt bad about his death.

For Rachel, killing hosts was uncomfortable, but she had no choice.

Over the years, Allen had become increasingly suspicious, with system points and the increase of his strength being the only things distracting him.

He would have soon gotten frustrated and out of control with no system points coming.

Zagronan arrived, picked up Rachel No. 206, and disappeared.

Chapter 55: Rank 1 Administrative Access

Rachel now has two rank 6 bodies, one her main body and the other incarnation number 206.

"But it doesn't make that big of a difference without reaching rank 7," she thought.

She can make rank 6 pills, but even with them, reaching rank 7 will take at least 1000 years. Rank 7 is no joke, with most unable to reach it even after hundreds of thousands of years.

"If I can get a rank 7 jump rank!" she was eager for it.

She had already mobilized all her hosts to look for it, but it was too rare, with low-ranking hosts having no chance of finding it.

Currently, her highest-ranked clone is the God of Fate. There is also a rank 8 demon and another rank 6 mage. The rest are all below rank 6.

"I need another rank 9 host, but who? Who can I trust?"

Everyone is looking for her, so it's hard to trust anyone.

She started mobilizing all her incarnations, rank 4 and above, using reflection to predict how to find another rank 9 clone.

...

The God of Secrets took out a pill container he had recently found.

"One rank 7 jump rank and I promise to help you beyond your imagination," said a rank 1 Rachel incarnation.

The God of Secrets' expression was grave.

Dyer has warned them many times that the world is about to end. God of Secrets himself couldn't confirm this, but he felt Dyer had no reason to lie like this.

"What are you?" the God of Secrets asked.

Like all other gods, he sent one clone to the mage world, so he knew that one of the creators was looking for this pill container like crazy.

He had found one 'accidentally' but kept it a secret. His life might be over if she found out, but he was willing to take the risk.

A note near the container said he must consume 100 pills to communicate with it.

He risked it, taking out exactly 100 pills and swallowing them. It all happened a few hours ago.

"I'm the one who will save this world from the cruel Creators! Please, give me the rank 7 jump rank!" she begged.

The God of Secrets sighed. He had already decided to give it.

He knows much more than other gods as someone who carries the secret treasure. After all, being close to something like that brings some benefits. The other gods might think that what the creator wants is holy and mindlessly follow it, but he knows better.

Dyer is most likely correct, and the world is about to end.

He firmly took out a rank 7 jump rank.

Rachel became extremely happy.

"If you give me a rank 8 jump rank..." Before she could finish, the God of Secrets interrupted.

"All rank 8 jump ranks have been used to create the fundamental laws of space formations. I doubt that even one exists in heaven," he said.

"Why do you waste such valuable things on formations?" Rachel was frustrated.

The God of Space shook his head and said, "You are wrong! Giving them to angels to use is a mistake. Just ten rank 8 jump ranks are enough for a rank 9 space formation! What would you prefer more: a rank 9 space formation that protects heaven or some rank 8 angels who can only die when an invasion occurs? Already, there are more than 1000 rank 8 angels in heaven, but even all combined cannot break a rank 9 space formation!"

"I prefer the rank 8 angels! Please collect all jump ranks that appear for me. I will pay you back with more than you can dream!" Rachel begged.

She was getting used to begging.

"In pursuit of strength, even begging is acceptable!" she thought.

"Now what?" the God of Secrets looked at the 'jump rank' in his hand.

"Give it to a rank 6 angel and place it in a specific location," she said.

She had already checked it many times and was sure God of Secrets would not betray her. She even checked with 'limited modification' and was confident that the river of time had not been tampered with.

God of Secrets nodded.

...

Zagronan was beyond amazed.

"With this, I can become a demon noble!" his eyes shone. He dreamed of becoming a prince of hell, but even being a demon Baron was no small deal.

"Change your appearance again! This time, make it seem more normal," Rachel said in dissatisfaction.

She instructed Zagronan and Lana to hide their looks to conceal her traces. They did, but the appearances they chose were too eye-catching.

Lana went for a stunning and attention-grabbing look, while Zagronan appeared as if he came right out of a supervillain movie.

Zagronan, who was initially unwilling, reluctantly nodded.

"Now, take that jump rank!" said Rachel.

She didn't want to waste any more time and risk something happening.

Zagronan threw it into his mouth and swallowed it.

His dark elements increased, and its quality reached rank 7 almost immediately!

"I'm finally a demon Baron!" he felt like it was a dream.

Rachel didn't answer.

"Rachel?" he asked in doubt.

Rachel was in shock.

The new skill, ' Rank 1 Administrative Access,' contained unbelievable information.

"So, I'm just an incarnation!" she smiled bitterly.

In the information, she discovered that the real Rachel is a rank 13 entity.

"So, it turns out the system is even more mysterious!"

Rachel looked for it in the database and realized that the real Rachel did not make the system.

"As for what it is, I don't have access to know," she was disappointed.

Rank 1 administrative access was a big deal! Only Rachel's incarnations can obtain it, and it has many abilities, like complete control of the local system.

Until today, she couldn't communicate or control the system at all, but this changed with administrative access.

"System inventory!" Rachel called.

The system responded for the first time since she got it.

"System inventory has – x1 complete law of 'ship,' x1 low-grade protagonist luck."

"Yeah, the complete law that I always overlooked," she thought.

With administrative access, she learned all about complete laws at a glance.

"To think I had it all along and still struggled for a rank 7 jump rank! If I had known it sooner, I could have gotten all the jump ranks I wanted from the mages, but now…" she sighed.

The situation is dangerous; If she does something that big, she will be discovered.

Real Rachel is a rank 13 entity with many worlds and incarnations, with control of many universal laws.

She should be much stronger than the 'Great Dream' civilization.

But her attention is on the whole universe. She does not have any spare power to come and help Rachel here.

The whole point of an incarnation is to relieve the burden of the main body. If the real body has to help every small incarnation, she might as well disband them and do everything herself.

"I'm on my own." She thought.

"This low-grade protagonist luck can be useful!"

Low-grade protagonist luck can help someone reach rank 9.

As for why Allen's luck was exhausted with rank 6, it's because the system stole almost all of it.

"So, the gods, rank 9 mages, and demon kings were at one point protagonists," she thought.

The laws of the world choose Everyone who becomes a rank 9.

The 'Great Dream' civilization is a control freak, so giving everyone an equal opportunity to reach it is not their style.

In the end, the purpose of the world is to collect complete laws, not to provide opportunities to people.

The database contained a lot of information about the 'Great Dream.'

"according to this, the Great Dream will either erase me or reset the world." She thought, feeling the danger.

They usually don't do this because resetting the world is not cost-effective.

They usually contact the invading force for compensation and abandon the world.

The primary protection of every world is the entry; when the entry gets breached, it's already too late. Furthermore, resetting the world will create bad blood between the two civilizations.

One may think invading already makes the two enemies, but this is wrong.

For High-ranking civilizations, there is no enemy or allies.

Everyone can be both enemies and allies at the same time, but there are still certain norms that apply.

It is basically like this: If I infiltrate your world, just leave it, and I compensate; if You infiltrate my world, I Leave, and you give me compensation.

However, Rachel does not Create any worlds; all she is doing is infiltration, and she is excellent at it.

She steals other civilization's worlds with her infiltration ability, causing great trouble for them.

So, All other forces banded together to expel her to prevent her from getting stronger. For this reason, even if it costs more, they will reset the world in the face of Rachel.

"I don't have much time! I should reach rank 10 to be completely safe!"

"I should find out who in hell is a protagonist," Rachel thought. She knew hell had also a protagonist.

With two low-grade Protagonist's luck, Zag has a chance at rank 10.

Then she ordered, "Add 'low-grade protagonist luck' to Zagronan."

She needs to reach a higher rank as soon as possible.

Her only way of promotion is for her hosts to get promoted.

It is true even for the main body of Rachel!

An Iron rule of the system that even the rank 13 Rachel couldn't change.

For Rachel here, The administrative authority increases with each promotion, so promotion is crucial.

More authority means more energy!

"With rank 1 authority, I can control my share of energy!" she thought.

Each system branch in each world will receive a certain amount of energy from the true Rachel. Below rank 7, it appears as a new skill compatible with the rules of the host world.

With this energy, she can make pills or predict the future.

Rachel number 1 is the main incarnation in this world, so she can control all other rachels who are here.

"After this, I'm no longer defenseless!" she thought.

She can change the system as much as she wants, as long as it stays within the energy that the main Rachel assigned to her and it doesn't break a few core rules of the system.

She began the modification process, knowing how to do it instinctively.

Every Rachel incarnation received a specific allocated energy from the main Rachel. However, Rachel No. 1, as the main incarnation in this world, could also modify their energy.

"Let's give the ability to talk to hosts to rank 0," she thought.

Doing this would consume energy.

She could request more energy, but it was unlikely to be approved. So, she decided to take a part of her energy allotment and give it to all other incarnations, granting them the ability to communicate with their hosts in rank 1.

She took the energy allocated for rank 1's 'talk to host' and repurposed it for telepathy.

All along, she had wholly lacked the ability to communicate with anyone except her hosts.

With this change, she could now talk to others.

Telepathy was a more complex skill, so she had to pay for it from her own energy allocation.

"Now, let's take back the extra 'hidden in heaven, earth, and hell' skills!"

She had received this skill every time she reached rank 5, but there was no need for it. For example, one 'hidden in hell' could protect all. All extra 'hidden' skills were deactivated with her modifications, and their energy allotments began pouring toward her.

"Regarding the skills, I should think about it deeply. Let's stop for now!" she thought.

...

"It's done!" said Rachel No. 50, who was with the God of Secrets.

"Now what?" he asked, waiting for some benefit from Rachel.

"You like secrets, don't you? I can offer you some information as an advance payment!" she smiled.

Then, a wave of information entered the God of Secrets' mind.

The God of Secrets closed his eyes, and after 5 minutes, he opened them with horror. "So it's true! The world is ending!"

Rachel sent information about how 'Great Dream' deals with its worlds once they become dysfunctional. It was, of course, on purpose, intending to push the God of Secrets into using the secret weapon.

That's right, Rachel even knows about the secret weapon! Because the secret weapon was placed here by Rachel, not the creators.

Even 'jump ranks' were here because Rachel put them. She places them in her target worlds.

They were in the shape of pills, as Rachel's style was like this. The reason she couldn't create 'jump ranks,' even though they really sounded and looked like pills, was that the main system specifically banned it.

Remaking them would cost a lot of energy, so it was prohibited.

'Jump ranks' are nodes for sending information and energy directly to the infiltrated worlds.

The natives think they help set up formations, using them to create space formations, and in the process, create a loophole for Rachel to enter.

It is just one of her methods.

Some of her tactics also got patched, but she is constantly researching and looking for new ways to hack the worlds. It is a simplified version of what is happening.

These are secrets only known to administrators. In this world, only Rachel No. 1 knows about these.

"Yeah, they will soon reset everything!" she said.

The God of Secrets sat down, his legs powerless. He had lived for more than 100 million years; even thinking about true death was terrifying to him.

"Let's use the secret weapon!" he took it out.

Chapter 56: Destroy

The secret weapon.

Found more than 100 million years ago, the gods were so afraid that they handed it to the god of secrets, who, in turn, hid it in a place not known by anyone.

It can do many things, but its true potential lies in its one-time use ability: 'tear off.'

'Tear off' is what made them terrified. As long as it gets activated, heaven would be torn off from the mage world and hell, becoming an independent world!

Many gods, like the god of kindness, joy, goodness, and the skies, were against anything that went against the creators' wishes.

For this reason, God of Secrets was hesitant about whether to seek a vote. The law requires him to ask for a vote, but he would definitely be outvoted.

The gods of magic, war, and Calculations might vote for him, but the Gods of Connections, Kindness, Joy, Goodness, and Sea would most likely vote against him.

God of skies is a tossup.

With those five against, the best outcome is 5-5, which the side god of kindness votes prevails.

"It's a matter of life and death; I can't act dumb here!" he thought.

He took a deep breath and pulled out the secret weapon.

It was shaped like an old bronze coin, appearing quite ordinary, as powerful treasures often do.

Ironically, as treasures become stronger, their appearance becomes more commonplace.

"To use its ultimate ability, you must break it!" he recalled the instructions.

He had already made up his mind, so without hesitation, he broke it.

With the support of the space formations in heaven, the heavens broke off!

...

"Great!" thought Alys, who had received permission to use more powerful methods that might cause some damage to the world.

But suddenly, everything shook violently!

"What's going on?" she thought.

She cast a rank 12 spell to observe.

As a result of this spell, tremendous pressure was placed on the world's laws, but there was no noticeable damage.

"Where is heaven?" she looked with astonishment. It was as if it didn't exist!

Heaven, with its space and tributary of time, disappeared!

Alys swallowed her saliva.

"This is bad! Terrible! They should have reset the world when they had the chance!" She cursed the headquarters.

With heaven gone, she is unsure whether reset is even possible anymore.

She contacted the headquarters and reported everything. "What? Heaven split off and is gone?" Oll was greatly surprised.

This situation never happened in other worlds infected by Rachel.

"Yeah, what should I do?"

Oll sighed and answered, "Leave! That world is no longer worth the effort!"

From the beginning, resetting the world was not worth it.

Everything has costs, and the total cost of resetting the world would be more than it earns. Because in resets, you cannot truly fix a world's loopholes; you can only patch them.

Usually, the patches would be enough to keep out outsiders, but nowadays, with Rachel, it's a foolish thing to do.

They were obligated to eliminate Rachel even if it cost more. But still, they were reluctant.

Sure, it costs more, but it also damages Rachel.

If everyone did it, then Rachel would lose and will not be able to get stronger.

But, in secret, many civilizations were unwilling to accept higher costs.

With heaven gone, Great Dream now has a good excuse not to reset.

Reset means restoring the original setting. How can you do it when a big chunk is missing? Fixing it would cost far more than creating a new world from scratch.

As for destroying it, they will eventually do it, with help from others.

They can't destroy it in a way that makes debris. It needs to be done carefully. There are many treaties about this.

If they are not careful, the debris in the open space might collide with worlds. Then, more debris would be created and, in turn, hit more worlds.

It's a grave matter that everyone is careful about.

"Sir, Rachel will take over the world if I leave! Please allow me to purge her before leaving!" she said.

"No!" answered Oll.

Purging the world with high-rank spells risks destabilizing it to the point it might be destroyed.

"But collect samples. I want to know how Rachel infiltrated the world," Oll added.

Destroying the world must be done carefully, but collecting samples is acceptable if it doesn't damage the laws too much.

Oll isn't worried this one world makes Rachel any stronger.

She already controls countless rank 12 worlds, so one weak, crippled rank 11 world makes no difference.

"Yes," Alys didn't insist anymore.

The call ended.

"Damn!" she was upset.

...

Bertha looked around with a nostalgic expression.

"I'm finally back!" she thought.

She arrived where the wood elves used to be, but they were gone! A city built by humans now stood in its place!

"What?" she thought, with rage.

...

Terry country was in its most prosperous stage!

Many years ago, they finally invaded the Wood Elf territory and expelled everyone. With their Humans' superior weapons, the Wood Elves were quickly defeated, with all their warriors dying.

A lot changed after that incident that year.

The Wood Elves began to be seen as savages—dirty, naked, and wild. After the battle, Soldiers from Terry's country forced them to wear clothes, but the overwhelming majority chose to die rather than wear clothes. After countless casualties, Terry country finally decided that Wood elves were too different from the human population, so they were all deported.

As for where they went, no one cared.

The people of Terry's country would not have accepted this treatment of non-humans if it wasn't for that incident many years ago.

After that incident, the Great Terry Party won a few elections in a row and decided that elections were pointless.

The people have chosen them a few times in a Row, so why waste money on elections? Now, Terry's country is a dictatorship that doesn't care about the short-term wishes of its people.

Instead, it plans carefully with the help of 'experts' about really long-term goals that are good for the country.

The situation in the country is excellent! It's more prosperous than ever, with people appearing happy, loyal, and obedient. Sometimes, a few might get corrupted by non-human propaganda, but they will be caught and executed to maintain societal order.

For the Greater Good.

As for the backward non-humans, after expelling the wood elves, the leadership of Terry Country decided that the non-humans were too incompatible with society.

Typically, they would have deported them, but it just so happened that Terry's country was short of a cheap workforce, so they enslaved them all.

After all, for the savage non-humans, helping the great humans should be considered an honor, according to a speech by the prime minister.

By the way, to prevent further trouble and corruption, they castrated all non-human men. As for women, they could still be used to give birth to human children.

The human children born to non-human mothers were placed in state-run orphanages.

From a young age, they were trained with the excellent skills of Terry's country and became highly productive members of society once they grew up.

Many of the 'experts' today were born to non-human mothers.

These days, the military of Terry's country is powerful. They can crush any external or internal enemy, making it the strongest military power among all nations.

While the economic power might not be as strong as in the past, the military is the only thing that matters to the proud people of Terry's country.

Everything was going great, except for a few issues like drought, people dying from hunger and thirst, widespread famine, broken infrastructure, and some children not knowing how to read.

...

Bertha was crying.

She was not the crying type, but now, she was extremely sad.

"It's my fault!" she felt very guilty.

She quickly found out what happened to the Wood Elves.

Her first reaction was to look for those who were deported. She might not have been this sad if she found them, but what she learned broke her.

They were all killed almost immediately once they left Terry's country. There's no need to say who did it.

Maybe the leaders of Terry's country felt it was unwise to let the people they had just destroyed go, fearing they might return for revenge later.

So, they killed them in secret.

From their perspective, it was a necessary evil.

Ordinary citizens might not be farsighted enough to realize it, but the higher-ups knew better. They were wiser, capable of going about things without regard for morals or right and wrong.

According to the higher-ups of Terry country, morals would make a country weak.

But Bertha didn't think they were wise.

They couldn't have been more stupid.

"I'll rip you to pieces!" she gritted her teeth.

She is a rank 5 Knight and a rank 3 mage! For her, it's not hard to destroy the entire continent.

She would have never done this if it were before. She has never killed anyone, even till today. But now, she can only see blood.

She jumped and disappeared, heading first toward the city built in the Wood Elves' forest.

...

Wood City was a newly built city. It was prosperous like all cities in Terry's kingdom, with only half of the population being homeless.

Over two-thirds of the population had at least one meal Per Day! The Mayor took great pride in this accomplishment. According to Him, most people in surrounding countries are dying of hunger.

Most people were born recently, and books were destroyed, so ordinary people could not know whether it was true. But how could the Mayor lie? It seemed impossible!

Everyone who suggested such a thing was made an example of.

Doubting those in power was not a crime, but stating it aloud and causing chaos in the country was.

Don't get it wrong.

Terry's country had freedom of speech.

If you wanted to say something, you could do so in the privacy of your home. However, outside of your home, you had to be responsible.

According to the Minister of Free Speech, this was called "responsible speech," the highest and best form of free speech.

In some savage countries, people could say anything they wanted out loud and cause chaos, making people's lives difficult, according to a famous speech by the Minister of Free Speech.

Everyone was going about their wonderful lives, but suddenly, the ground shook!

Then, a shout rang out: "Bastards!" Followed by the loud sounds of buildings being destroyed.

The police were dispatched, but no one who went there returned.

Many people began to run, but most sought shelter in their houses.

These people had no idea what a Wood Elf was, so they had no clue who might be attacking.

Some thought it might be one of those savage countries, so they began arming themselves, ready to fight.

After a few moments, Bertha reached the city center.

Now, she had a choice: to kill all or not to harm the innocent.

She chose an option in between.

"Everyone, if you want to live, run!" she shouted in the language of Terry's country.

It was so loud that all the windows in the nearby buildings nearly broke.

She then moved around and shouted, ensuring that everyone heard her. It was to give everyone an opportunity. If they didn't take it, they could only blame themselves.

This city must be destroyed, even worse, reduced to rubble. It's the ancestral land of the Wood Elves and must remain undeveloped as the Wood Elves wanted.

Although, right now, Bertha wanted to 'undevelop' the entire Terry Kingdom.

After a few hours, she began.

Her strength was beyond imagination, with even mountains unable to withstand her punches. Just imagine what happened to a shaky building.

Boom!

After just half an hour, the entire city was reduced to rubble.

It was unknown how many had died and how many had managed to escape.

Allowing them to run was already something humans had denied the Wood Elves, so Bertha didn't have a shred of sadness for those who had lost their homes or, worse, their lives.

She deeply believed in taking revenge, and this was only the beginning!

Chapter 57: Revenge

Terry country used to be the strongest nation regarding economic power and technology.

But that was in the past.

Nowadays, the country has declined significantly.

Its military strength is much weaker, with most weapons not adequately maintained. Its economic power has plummeted, and it's mostly isolated from other countries.

The fall of Terry country is an unusual event.

With the people being immortal, one would expect them to be wiser than to allow such a thing to happen. However, being older doesn't necessarily mean being more intelligent.

After the wood elf attack, the entire nation felt humiliated, and the fact that its people were immortal exacerbated the situation.

Fewer young people mean more power for older individuals, who will remember their humiliation and vote accordingly.

They continued to elect 'Great Terry' without paying attention to their undemocratic tendencies. Eventually, 'Great Terry' accumulated enough power to dispense with elections altogether.

After that, many people protested but were all killed by the army, which was entirely controlled by 'Great Terry.'

Then, Great Terry began changing policies.

The goal of these policy changes was to increase the death rate of the people, essentially killing their citizens.

However, they tried to target only the brave and outspoken ones.

This way, those who remained were more obedient.

One of the policy changes was related to who could have children.

Only those loyal to 'Great Terry' and non-humans, whose children would be raised by the country and adequately brainwashed, were allowed to have children.

It also provides an additional incentive for people to be obedient.

Today, those in power enjoy amazing lives at the expense of the poor.

One of these individuals is Steve Green, who holds the position of prime minister.

While the title "prime minister" sounds strong, in reality, he doesn't wield that much power.

The power is dispersed and relatively decentralized. The actual

power is in the hands of the 12 marquises of the country, all of whom are over 100 years old.

They are the ones who select the prime minister.

...

Steve Green in a government building in Green City, the new capital of Terry country.

"What?" he shouted.

Just a few moments ago, someone came and reported the destruction of Wood City.

"You said one person did it? Is it her?" he thought with fear.

That year, when Bertha attacked, he was a member of parliament.

He could never forget her power.

They were so terrified that they waited twenty years before daring to invade the Wood Elves.

"We are finished!" he almost cried.

Then, immediately, he took a lot of gold, and with a few servants and guards, he ran away!

...

Bertha moved from city to city, destroying and reducing them to rubble, one after another.

It was her revenge.

"Bertha, please don't! These people are innocent!" said Rachel.

"They may not be directly responsible, but they are not innocent! Being silent in the face of evil is a sin!" she replied.

In her view, merely standing by had contributed to the destruction of the Wood Elves.

She planned to destroy these cities and then explore the continent. The continent is vast, and she believes other Wood Elves must exist.

She would find them and bring them here to revive Wood Elves to their former glory.

But...

"Bertha, a very important matter is happening! Immediately go to heaven!" said Rachel, who had received advance notice of what was happening.

"What? I want revenge! How can I leave?" Bertha said, not even thinking of leaving.

"You will forever lose the chance to see Milan and your children if you stay here! You don't have much time!" Rachel said.

"What do you mean?" Bertha asked with confusion.

"Heaven is going to be inaccessible forever in about a minute! We should go now!" Rachel urged.

Bertha struggled, but faced with the possibility of not seeing her children, she decided to do both.

She cast an incarnation spell, placed a rank 1 incarnation here, and left for heaven.

Rank 1 incarnation is the best she can do at the moment. It's an incarnation independent of her, able to operate independently.

A few seconds later, the world shook, and heaven split off. Bertha's incarnation looked on with amazement.

"Something big happened! I don't know what, but my main body may never come back! I should be careful now!" she thought.

Before, she was at rank 5, so she didn't need to be careful, but now, with only rank 1, it's not entirely impossible for mortal weapons to kill her.

...

Her speed in destroying cities had decreased, but still, it only took her a day to destroy a normal-sized city.

City after city, she finally reached the capital, Green City!

By the time Bertha reached the city, the higher-ups had all fled.

After all, they could live forever, so why risk death by staying?

As for ordinary people, most had run away, with only those too poor to move remaining.

When Bertha saw this, she thought, "This revenge isn't very satisfying. I'm just killing poor humans while those guilty have long run away! But still, this city must be destroyed to make way for a Wood Elf civilization. Let's force them out and destroy the city."

This time, she took her time to ensure that everyone had left the city before leveling it. Still, with their homes destroyed, their chances of survival were small.

"Now, let's travel through the continent to find Wood Elves," she thought.

Bertha is different from before.

Being with Milan, a human, and even having a human child, she doesn't harbor any hate toward humans.

But she cares deeply about Wood Elf culture.

Wood Elves's villages were destroyed because of what she did. She must rebuild them; otherwise, she can't live with herself.

...

John's kingdom used to be the second-strongest country on the continent. After the fall of Terry country, it became the strongest country in all aspects.

They were fortunate.

King Arthur Johns was highly competent, and he happened to be the king when everyone became immortal.

With him in charge, without any worries about the next successor, the kingdom began to prosper.

There are advantages and disadvantages when people are immortal.

The advantages include that everyone gets better and better at their work, eventually becoming experts.

The country can be much more productive with everyone working and no need to care for children and seniors.

When everyone became immortal, older people gradually turned young again.

Children also stop aging when they mature, so today, everyone is young.

However, it doesn't mean everyone is healthy.

If you eat unhealthy food every day, you will still die. Diseases, food poisoning, accidents, and many other factors can lead to people's deaths.

People won't die of old age.

What does It mean?

Every time a cell divides, the resulting cells are imperfect.

These imperfect divisions accumulate throughout life; eventually, cells become so damaged that they can't divide anymore. That is when organs begin to fail.

That is what longevity means.

Immortality means that now, cells divide perfectly, so in a perfect environment, one can live forever.

People do still die; it's just that they live far longer than they would otherwise. If one is careful about what one eats and does, living for thousands of years is possible.

But eventually, toxins will build up to the point where one dies. There are ways to solve this, such as if mortal technology advances to the point where they can cleanse the body or with spells that mages cast.

For a country, there are disadvantages to its population living forever or for a very long time.

One is that only the body changes and the brain stays the same.

What is the point of life?

Many have this question.

The answer is simple: It's an opportunity to pursue your goals.

So, if one has a goal, people don't want to die, and they work hard.

But most people you see don't have any goals.

People get tired after living for hundreds of years and working every day.

Many people may want to commit suicide from living too long.

Mages solve this problem with spells, and the pure energy removes emotions.

But it's a big problem for a mortal country.

Also, people living for a long time means that new ideas rarely come to society.

Also, there are no low-skilled workers.

John's kingdom has addressed this shortcoming to some extent. They've made significant investments in technology to fill the roles of low-skilled workers.

...

In a room filled with numerous artworks, a man sat on an elegant throne, listening to a woman with red hair.

"Allow them in!" ordered Arthur.

"Your Majesty! We need to adjust our childbirth policies if we allow them in!" Erika, the First Minister, said.

The land of John's kingdom is limited, so if they allow new people in, they must restrict childbirth further.

Childbirth control used to be a matter of personal decisions, but now, every country strictly controls how many children can be born.

As countries become more technologically advanced, the birth rate naturally comes down.

But when every child can live up to hundreds of years, even if people with the ability to give birth have one child per century, it's still more than the replacement rate.

After everyone became immortal, it didn't fix the problem of menopause. Women who had experienced it didn't get fertile again after they became younger. So, all those who were born before that day are infertile today.

However, girls born after that day don't experience menopause at all.

It means people over a hundred years old can get pregnant.

Scientists researched this and realized it's because new eggs are created throughout the lives of women born after that day.

This is unlike Women born before that day, who have a limited number of eggs already there from birth.

The people coming from Terry's kingdom are nearly all young, born after that day, which means most would be fertile for their entire lives.

As the death rate in John's country is much lower, they should be cautious about the number of newborns.

"Do it as appropriate. We cannot reject them, Erika. They have nowhere else to go." said Arthur.

Today, rejecting people from Terry's country is no different from personally causing their deaths.

With Terry's country destroyed, no one is left to control pests persistently. Without pest control, insects will take over, making any farming impossible.

Erika nodded.

"I just hope that the Wood Elves don't come here," said Arthur with worry.

"We haven't heard from her for a few months, so she is probably gone," said Erika.

Arthur nodded.

...

With the destruction of Terry's country, most of its population fled to other countries. Bertha also killed many in the process of 'undeveloping' the land.

Almost all countries rejected the people of Terry country, except John's kingdom, which accepted most of those who arrived.

This revenge by Bertha can be considered a failure.

Most of the people who were responsible took a lot of gold and fled. With her rank 1 power, she was unable to find them.

All she accomplished was killing many innocent humans and clearing the land for future Wood Elf settlements.

She started traveling the continent to find Wood Elves and rebuild what was lost.

As for the real Bertha, she was far away in heaven.

...

Dyer was examining the river of time.

"It's perfectly separated, without any flaw! Heaven is now a complete world!" he thought.

The secret weapon amazed him. He didn't expect it to be so perfect.

"With the danger of destruction finally off my shoulders, now I can finally think of reaching rank 10!"

With his many rank 10 spell crystals, he is not afraid of the gods!

He doesn't want to fight the gods.

It would be best if everyone could help to research rank 10.

but if needed, Dyer does have the power to suppress the gods.

With the resources of heaven and the knowledge he obtained from Doris, he finally sees hope in reaching rank 10.

chapter 58: Savior Green Long

God of Fate was elated!

A while ago, Dyer, along with all the gods, save for a few, formed an alliance to find a way to advance to rank 10.

Since then, Dyer has shared a lot of information with them.

This information was invaluable for the God of Fate.

With that information, God of fate can now predict the future again.

Speaking of the River of Time, not much has changed on the surface since Heaven became independent.

Heaven was vast beyond imagination; it wasn't like they lacked land.

Progressing to rank 10 is no more difficult now than when the world was whole. Heaven was a weak rank 11 in the past, but today, it dropped to 10.

"Logically, it should have dropped to rank 9 because, with only a third of the complete laws of time and space, the world doesn't even possess one complete law. However, the secret weapon mixed the laws of time and space and somehow created a single rank 10 complete law, named the 'Complete Law of Spacetime."

God of Fate today has learned a lot from Rachel, mostly grand information like the strength of the world.

With this one complete law, Heaven became stable and can safely exist for hundreds of millions of years.

What's even better is that controlling a rank 10 world is much easier now. It's possible to change the world's rules to some extent.

Like longevity.

Longevity is not a rule of the world.

But its functions are indistinguishable.

When the world was whole, Original Duty made it so that lifespan became unlimited; however, not long after, it became finite again for mages.

Longevity is something that cannot change. Deterioration of cells and mana over time is inevitable.

That is unless you can affect the river of time.

In the past, there was no way to do it.

even rank 9 mages were helpless to stop it.

But now, Both protector and Original duty have disappeared completely.

The river of time has now returned to its completely neutral state.

Its setting remained what it was before, but now, it's possible to manipulate it.

It's not just the river of time.

World laws also became manipulatable.

It is no longer like the past when the laws were set in stone, with no possibility of changing them.

After the secret weapon reshuffled the world, not much changed on the surface, but deep inside, everything changed.

"All of this makes exploring the path to rank 10 much easier. For example, we can open up the world just a bit to peek outside. You must look outside the world to create a new, complete law. You can reach the edge of rank 10 without information from the outside, but the final step is impossible." These pieces of information were mostly from Dyer.

When Heaven was attached to Hell and the main world, manipulating the world's laws was something one couldn't even dream about, making it next to impossible to look outside the world.

For mages who want to reach rank 10, Heaven is now a much more welcoming place.

Along with the information that the God of Fate received from Rachel, he was very pleased these days.

He has the hope of rank 10!

However, not all gods were happy.

The Gods of Kindness, Joy, and Goodness were especially angry. They were the leaders of the 'Righteous' wing of the gods, who respected the creator's will above all else.

What the God of Secrets had done is diametrically opposed to the Creators' wishes.

They put forth a proposal to the Wisdom Council, calling for Heaven to reattach to the main world and Hell again. Whatever that means.

Everyone knows it's beyond the power of rank 9.

Still, the vote passed by 5-5, with the God of Kindness in favor.

The Executive Council was dead-set against it.

Its role is to carry out all that the Wisdom Council says, but this time, what they proposed was literally impossible.

So, the dispute was taken to the Council of Gods, who struck down the Wisdom Council's proposal.

The Wisdom Council passed several more laws, one about punishing the God of Secrets, another about abolishing the Executive Council, and yet another about expelling the Gods of Secrets and Magic from the Wisdom Council.

All passed by 5-5 votes!

But the Executive Council challenged them all, and the Council of Gods struck them all down.

The God of Kindness called it a power grab and condemned them, but there was nothing she could do.

The Council of Gods has the final say in every dispute.

Usually, it doesn't reach this point, but the situation isn't normal.

All of the Wisdom Council's proposals were dangerous, with the possibility of causing a civil war, so the Council of Gods took a liberal view of their powers and struck them down.

After this, the powers of the Council of Gods would be much greater than in the past.

The God of Kindness, the strongest God and the leader of the Righteous wing gave up. She never even considered rebellion.

They weren't righteous just for show.

Rebelling is the furthest thing from the wishes of the creators.

More importantly, they didn't have any excuse.

Everyone agrees that the Council of Gods has the power to do all it did.

So, the 'righteous' wing stopped cooperating completely and stayed silent.

"I'm looking forward to seeing you reach rank 10," said Rachel, who was happy.

This world is swimming in Rachel's spy devices, so if anyone succeeds, Rachel will know.

There is no need to steal the complete law. Only its information is enough.

Because Rachel reshaped this world, she can observe every detail.

The God of Fate complained, "I helped you a lot! I want more information!"

"Sure!" said Rachel, and began to provide important information for reaching rank 10.

...

The mage world.

"Perhaps this world can remain for another 10 million years or so," thought Rachel #1.

This world is no longer a rank 11; it's only a rank 9 world with no complete law.

Such a world needs maintenance, or it will be destroyed. However, Rachel has a complete law in her hand.

She can save the world anytime she wishes.

"The plan was a big success!" she thought.

She no longer controls any of the incarnations that are in Heaven.

All are now controlled by Rachel #2, who is in Bertha's hand.

It's a significant blow to Rachel #1, but she isn't sad.

"That operation will most likely result in the main body gaining a few complete laws! What is there to be sad about?" Her purpose is to serve the main body. Everything is about helping the main body.

There is no selfishness in Rachel's incarnations.

One part of the reason is the incarnation technique, which is a rank 13 spell based on the universal law of Incarnations.

The other part is her personality.

One question: If you could make an incarnation out of yourself, who would know everything you know, would you dare to do it?

You can only do it if you completely trust yourself, trust yourself that you will never be tempted to replace yourself.

If I'm an incarnation and see my body, I might think, 'Why should he/she be the real body? Why not me?'"

Most people would eventually think of that. Then, the Incarnation killing the main body and taking his/her place is possible.

This is why the incarnation technique is very dangerous.

But Rachel can confidently say she won't do it.

From the beginning, she was a special person with very high self-trust.

The reason incarnations don't have access to full memory is simply the fear that they might be hacked.

Without this concern, she would have allowed incarnations complete access because she trusts herself.

Even the main Rachel, the rank 13 one, is willing to swap places with any incarnation today without hesitation. As long as one survives, all is good.

...

"I want to go back to Hell!" said Zagronan.

"Not now! That elf girl is still here!" Rachel was frustrated with her.

Hell is now one with the mage world, but it's still not truly integrated. It still has a lot of dark elements and is recognizable as Hell. It would take a long time for the moon to purify it.

With her here, Rachel is really limited.

As long as the elf girl leaves, Rachel will become lord over this world.

With control of the rank 10 complete law, she can find as many jump ranks as she wants. Maybe she can find a rank 9 jump rank and reach the peak in one swoop.

"I'm bored, Rachel. I feel like I've lost all my edge as a demon," Zag complained.

"Don't worry, you have edges all over. Just go around the continent, mess around all you want, and wait for that damn elf to leave. After that, I can even promote you to rank 9!" she said.

"Rank 9? Like my father? How is it possible?" asked Zagronan.

"Yeah, like your father," answered Rachel.

Just at this moment, Lana came with a baby in her hand.

"Zag, our newest baby has royal blood!" said Lana, with visible happiness.

Zag and Lana had children once every few weeks. Unfortunately for them, none were royal, so Lana just ate them all.

Zagronan looked and smiled.

"Great! Now, we have 4 royal children!"

There were 3 in Hell, too, but Zag had no idea if they were alive.

As a proud demon, Lana was not worried about them. Even if you were to say they died to her now, she might regret not eating them when he had the time.

But Zag did care.

One reason he wanted to return was to check on them.

"I wonder what happened to that pig head," Zag wondered, missing him a tiny bit.

Rachel was looking indifferent, but then her expression changed.

Just now, she had checked the child's luck with 'limited modification' vision and was shocked.

"Why is it so strong? How is it possible?" she thought.

This child's luck was as strong as a medium protagonist's luck!

"Hey, Lana! His hair is green! Let's name him Little Green," suggested Zagronan, who was feeling creative.

"No, look, his penis is large from birth! Let's call him Long!" suggested Lana.

"Okay, just call him Green Long!" they compromised.

Rachel almost felt like she would throw up blood when she watched how they named the protagonist with rank 10 luck.

"Hey, name him something more classy!" Rachel intervened.

"Like what?" asked Zag.

"Like Savior, or Hero, something grand," she suggested.

To be honest, Rachel wasn't good at naming either.

"As his aunt, I will respect your wish," said Zag.

"Hey, Lana, let's name him Savior Green Long," he suggested.

Lana nodded.

So, it was decided.

The baby born with the potential of rank 10 was named:

Savior Green Long...

...

The Demon King of Sloth lay asleep in some underground cave in Hell.

He looked surprisingly human; if you were to see him, you wouldn't be able to detect him as a demon.

Then, he opened his eyes.

"A child? Why do I have a descendant?" As far as he knew, he never had a sexual relationship with any female, be it human, demon, etc.

Who would waste time on such an act when you can sleep instead? Only crazy people!

"Maybe when I was asleep?" he thought.

"Who cares…" Wasting precious time thinking when you can sleep is idiotic.

His eyes closed again, and he entered deep sleep.

...

Alys looked at the River of Time.

It was a mess, with a big chunk missing. With the River of Time in such disarray, the world would collapse sooner or later.

"But still, they won't let me investigate thoroughly."

She recently gained permission to perform spells that wouldn't seriously damage the world.

However, in the current situation, any rank 12 spell might cause its collapse.

For example, she dared not use the rank 12 'luck observation' spell to at least find the protagonists.

"Sigh, let's just find the 'jump ranks' and return."

After her investigations, she realized something unnatural: Jump rank!

There's no such thing in the Great Dream's settings. It doesn't take a genius to realize it must have something to do with Rachel.

So, she decided to mobilize the Demon Kings, look for as many as possible, and then return.

Staying in this ruined world is a waste of time.

Chapter 59: 'Improving' the Code

Corey was sad.

Alys, that evil woman, told him that he would soon taken to another world.

Corey didn't like it here at all.

He had suffered from the moment of his birth. He always disliked it here.

But still, here is definitely better than anywhere Alys will take him.

He wanted to run, but he failed.

He used everything, including his system, which is now mostly broken thanks to the continuous hacking by that woman.

He tried many times, but that woman always found him.

"I don't know what I did to deserve this!" he thought. He wasn't a bad person.

On Earth, he died while saving the life of a child.

Before his death by truck-sama, his life was great.

He is not like your typical transmigrator who doesn't have any family.

"I wish I could return." he thought with longing.

With this thought, he continued lying down on his bed, depressed.

He had given up and didn't care anymore.

"If I'm going to die, so be it. Maybe I will be reborn again," he thought, then took a 'space' pill and crushed it.

Then, he snorted it up.

A 'space' pill is basically like meth in the mage world. That's right, to cope with all his problems, Corey is now a demon junkie.

...

Red was learning how to fly. He was outside, above a tall mountain.

These days, his mother was away most of the time. The demon kings called all dragons, ordering them to look for something.

After hell merged with the mage world, it slowly began losing its dark energy, and pure energy began appearing.

It started harming demons after the first few decades.

Fortunately, the demon kings released a new meditation technique based on pure energy. Red also learned it and can now use pure energy for meditation.

Dragons are mostly immune to the corruption of the dark element, so they are not evil by nature. As for how they react to pure energy, nobody knows.

"Just jump! Even if you crash to the ground, with your physique, you will be fine!" said Rachel.

Red struggled.

Even though he is a dragon, he is afraid of heights.

After a lot of struggling, he finally gave up.

"Aren't you a dragon? How is it possible for you to fear heights?" Rachel asked in astonishment.

"I'm talented in other areas," said Red, while hiding his shame.

"Never mind. Don't you want a child? You are hundreds of years old. Go and mate," said Rachel.

Dragons are a unique race that can mate with all other races.

It seems unbelievable, but even insects can give birth to dragon children. Only, they would be infertile and short-lived.

Only humanoids and demons can give birth to hybrid dragons who can reproduce.

Red's face got even redder, and he didn't answer.

Rachel smiled and continued persuading. She wasn't going to give up until Red became a father.

...

Rachel #1 was concentrating on the symbols.

"Very interesting! I feel like I can change everything I want!" she thought.

After becoming a rank 1 administrator, a lot of information about 'limited modification' became available to her.

Combined with her instinct, she can now 'edit' the code to some extent.

Before, she did just random things, so the results would be uncertain.

For example, removing hell's barrier was an accident.

Now, she can purposefully edit the code.

Aside from editing, she can perfectly read the code.

For example, the medium-level protagonist's luck is a last-ditch effort by the world to save itself. The world will be saved once the protagonist makes another rank 10 complete law.

It's all done by the code, which, in turn, is made by the great dream.

All is in the code.

"Editing it is difficult, especially with that damn elf girl here!" Rachel thought.

With her here, anything she does might expose her location.

If exposed, she might not be able to escape unless the main body helps.

But that's not on the table. So, she just decided to wait.

...

Alys collected all the 'jump ranks' she found in hell and the mage world and left with Corey and Tom.

With her and Tom gone, mages breathed a sigh of relief.

As for demons, they had a shared mind and were under Alys's control. Still, the shared mind was very uneasy about Alys, so it also felt relieved when she left.

After all, the shared mind is a combination of all demon kings, so it was even more distrustful of others than mages.

Interestingly, with 6 sins and the minds of two gods and one mage combined in the shared mind, it had some sort of balance.

Its calculation ability was very powerful, allowing it to analyze everything from every angle.

Nothing happened after Alys left.

Everyone knew the world was in danger of destruction, so they weren't in the mood for a fight.

Instead, the demons invited mages to join the shared mind to find a way to fix the world. The mages refused.

The shared mind is not bad in theory but is a massive weakness in practice.

For a hostile force, controlling the shared mind means controlling everyone.

Nobody wants to be controlled like this.

Nonetheless, they started cooperating on research about the world.

Everyone wants to reach rank 10.

It's best first to find a way to advance, then talk and fight about who's turn to advance.

Fighting over it now is fighting over a theoretical thing, which is very irrational.

...

Rachel finally sighed with relief!

Alys finally left.

She took most jump ranks in the world, but Rachel still hoped she might have missed some.

Jump ranks are directly from Rachel's main body. They are sent only when she wants to infiltrate a world.

Anyone who uses them can be considered a helper to her.

Now, this world is already breached and almost owned by Rachel.

So, there would be no more jump rank coming to this world.

Still, jump rank is no longer as needed as before.

With 'Limited Modification,' she can start her plans.

Over these years, she has learned a lot more about the codes. She now understands it's impossible to fix the world completely only by improving the code.

Time and space are both incomplete.

A considerable amount of resources are required to fix those things, and there's no way to avoid it.

In theory, it is possible to fuse time and space and make the complete law of spacetime, but it would require a lot of resources, which she doesn't have.

Eventually, if this world is worth it, the real Rachel will send the required resources, but she is usually stingy.

Very rarely she invests heavily in a world.

With only local resources here, Rachel's options are limited.

But there are some interesting opinions.

It's possible to patch the holes by only improving the code. There are many advantages to this.

The Great Dream would not be able to enter again, and the world's lifespan would be extended to 50 million years, among other benefits.

It is only possible because Rachel has many more universal laws under her control. The Great Dream couldn't do it with only one Universal law it possesses.

Every universal law is a massive breakthrough.

Even knowledge of them alone can significantly improve the coding ability of civilizations.

Like here, Rachel isn't using any of the universal laws directly.

That would cost too much.

She is only using the knowledge about them to improve the code.

After all, universal laws are the same throughout the universe. Knowledge about them can be used to accomplish many things.

"Let's start," she thought.

After many modifications, she managed to patch all the holes in the world. After losing heaven, the world had many holes.

These were the main reasons the world's life is so short, only 10 million years.

Now, with the holes repaired, the world can survive for up to 50 million years before it runs out of energy.

After all, it is now a rank 9 world, which needs external support.

In fact, 50 million years for a rank 9 world is impressive.

Usually, rank 9 worlds without support in the endless space may only survive a few hundred years.

The main reason is resisting the endless space outside costs a lot of energy.

This world was a rank 11 world a while ago, so, of course, its reserves are much more.

Then she continued.

She brought hell to the same dimension as the mage world and merged it directly with it.

Previously, the mage world and hell existed in different dimensions.

There was no hell barrier, but it was still impossible to just walk to hell.

Now, to travel, one no longer needs treasures for dimensional travel.

Then, Rachel divided the world into five main areas: the south, the west, the east, the north, and the center.

She erected great barriers between each to prevent high-level mages from traveling freely.

She also adjusted the concentration of pure energy, allocating 35 percent to the central land and 15 percent each to the south, north, west, and east.

The remaining 5 percent were placed in some secret realms.

The code previously concentrated all the energy on specific areas, but Rachel changed it.

She also increased the energy output of the moon by more than 1000 percent!

It costs a lot, but it was not that high compared to resisting endless space. It decreased the life of the world by 5 million years.

As for hell, its land was distributed among all areas.

Although the most significant portion of hell was in the south, all the other areas also had their share of hell.

To stop demons from killing all mortal humans, she placed a temporary barrier between hell and the mortal continents until demons broke free from the influence of dark elements.

Then, she started changing the settings of the river of time and space.

With code, controlling space and time fundamental laws is very simple.

First, she stopped space from expanding and even made it contract.

Then, she modified the river of time to bring back longevity; this time, it was much more strict.

It was because she wanted to reduce expenditure.

Mortal humans can live up to 110 years, while elves can live 330.

Even if one is careful, after 110 years, the cells become too damaged and can't divide anymore.

She also decreased the lifespans of animals and insects to what they were before.

But the most significant change came for mages' lifespans.

Before, rank 1 mages were allowed to live up to 500 years.

Now, she drastically reduced it to 200 years! With this change, mages must innovate and find better ways.

The lifespans of demons were also aligned with those of mages. Now, a rank 1 demon can only live up to 200 years, much, much less than 5000 years before.

Rank 2 mages can live up to 650 years, rank 3 up to 2100 years, rank 4 can live up to 7000 years, rank 5 up to 20000 years, rank 6 up to 65000, rank 7 up to 200000, rank 8 up to 650000, and rank 9 mages can live up to 2 million years.

After the end of their lifespan, their energy would decay, and they would die.

She didn't count how long everyone lived until now to avoid effectively killing everyone instantly.

All start from 0.

this will reduce the world's burden a lot.

The world's most significant cost of internal operations was not mortal population.

It was the cost of high-level mages.

With this short lifespan, she predicts the world will last at least 70 million years, maybe 75.

As for rank 10, it's the realm of immortality.

You have a complete law and can even live in the endless space outside the world. In rank 10, one is no longer bound by the laws of a world. You can live as long as you survive or don't lose your complete law.

Rachel also opened up many space channels, allowing everyone to see outside the world.

With all these changes, she smiled.

She can only hope to find a jump rank for her advancement.

If there is none, she has no choice but to wait for Zag to advance normally.

She didn't make an exception for Zagronan's lifespan.

When coding the world's laws, an exception like this will likely destabilize things.

But she is not worried.

With her providing endless rank 7 pills, If Zagronan fails, nobody can succeed.

'improving' the code

Chapter 60: Lee

The world was shocked!

Well, it's more accurate to say that high-level demons and mages were shocked. As for mortals, they didn't realize anything different. At least for a short time.

With the pure energy spread throughout the world, mortals everywhere will soon have the chance to become mages.

All academies were in the central land, and barriers restricted the movement of high-level mages, locking them in.

The part of hell in the central land mainly remained isolated for a long time. No mage dared to go in, and no demon was able to come out.

Hell's barrier was one-sided, restricting demons from coming out and allowing mages to enter. But once you go in, you cannot come out.

Rachel has fixed the loophole that existed with the avatars. Now, when you enter your avatar, it will be considered as you being there in person.

The rank limit was also lowered to 3. Any higher, and you will have great trouble coming out.

The moon shone extremely brightly, as bright as the sun, disrupting the lives of mortals and many animals.

Only a few days later, the moon suddenly became dim as before.

It was, of course, Rachel who manually lowered the moon's brightness, but its energy output remained unchanged.

It bathed everywhere with a lot of Pure energy. The dark elements in hell, trapped by the barriers, began disappearing faster.

All dark elements will disappear in less than 100,000 years if it continues like this!

It is very short. However, pure energy will become common much sooner than that.

In less than 1,000 years, the dark element will fall below 50%! That means very soon, demons will have an easier time using pure energy for cultivation than the dark element!

...

Lee was sitting in a chair atop a tall mountain, gazing at the moon.

With hell's new barriers, the demon kings became once again imprisoned in hell. If it were the past, Lee would have been happy, but now, she is not.

"Who did all this? Who has the power? Do we still have rank 12 existences in the world? Can rank 12 do this?" she wondered, feeling confused.

According to information left by the creators and later relayed by Alys, rank 12 is not strong enough to achieve all this.

Still, Lee wasn't sure, as she knew little about rank 10, let alone rank 12.

"Maybe after the loss of two complete laws, manipulating laws became easier?" Lee thought.

She wasn't entirely wrong, but she wasn't completely correct either. Editing the code now is easier, but any modification is extremely risky.

With 1/3 of the two complete laws missing, one should be very careful because wrong coding can create terrifying loopholes that can destroy the world.

Great Dream didn't have enough knowledge to do this. Only civilizations like Rachel, who knew countless universal laws, can do it.

Lee had a headache.

"With the demon kings gone, research is now more difficult. And with a mysterious, at least rank 12 being here, our lives are again in danger!" Lee sighed.

There is little hope of surviving.

She noticed the vast reduction in her lifespan.

Even though she is at the peak of rank 9, she had less than a 1 percent chance of reaching rank 10 before 2 million years.

For someone like Lee, 2 million years is not much.

Before the change, rank 9 mages could have lived more than 195 million years!

Even Lee, who is ancient, had more than 70 million years left when the change happened.

"So, I die like this," she accepted her fate peacefully.

But at this moment, something shiny appeared out of nowhere!

"What? A rank 1 treasure? Wait, isn't this the pill container Alys was looking for?" Lee thought with fright.

What does this thing that even the creator fears want from her?

"Hello," said the rank 1 Rachel #62.

"Hello?" Lee said cautiously.

She wasn't surprised it could speak.

"I'm Rachel! With me, you can easily reach rank 10. Just take 100 pills from me and eat them, then you can be considered my host. By the way, do you have any jump rank?" Rachel asked.

"No, Alys took them all away!" answered Lee.

Rachel sighed.

She had already heard the same answer from several rank 9 mages.

She had sent one Rachel to all rank 9 mages to help them reach rank 10.

Other civilizations usually don't do this. It's a foolish thing to do.

To maximize the chance of developing unique, new, complete laws, one must be very careful not to influence the native people of the world.

After all, if they see people from Great Dream who are rank 10 and above, they try to go the same way, ultimately developing laws that are already known and discovered.

All the trouble to finally get one known law? It's a waste.

The operation is successful only if they find a complete law they didn't know before, which can help them reverse engineer a universal law.

But Rachel had her reasons.

The most important reason is that this world, which, at most, can last 75 million years, there is not enough time to develop a complete law from scratch.

Ordinary rank 11 worlds can exist for up to a trillion years, and rank 10 worlds last at least 100 billion years.

Even this world itself is hundreds of billions of years old.

The Great Dream had already reset time and even space a few times, so mages and everyone thought it was much older than it was.

They couldn't truly peek at history because it was wiped.

As for inheritances of creators, they were put here much later after a reset of the river of time.

However, Rachel noticed it with 'limited modification'.

Everything the Great Dream did was for a reason.

They closed the world's windows, preventing everyone from drawing inspiration from the outside.

Of course, this was done because they wanted to limit the outside world's influence to maximize the chance of discovering complete laws.

When Doris learned how to advance to rank 10, she was mostly correct; it is indeed countless times easier to develop complete laws through cheating.

For example, her complete law of the ship was a common complete law already known by the Great Dream civilization.

Rachel had previously invaded many of Great Dreams' worlds, so she also knew it.

The point is Doris took her inspiration from the Great Dream.

She didn't truly develop the law herself.

With jump rank, creating a unique complete law is impossible.

It's only possible to extract complete laws that the host civilization already knows.

Developing a new, complete law is challenging, to say the least.

It's possible to develop a complete law from scratch. But It's so hard that it's considered lucky to have one in 100 billion years.

Because it requires a lot of creativity, luck, opportunity, etc., a lot has to go right for it to happen.

But if successful, there is an excellent chance it's a new complete law not known by the host civilization.

But why did Rachel open the windows? Why is she influencing them?

It's because her methods are different.

She has a lot of abilities unique to herself.

Her main difference from other civilizations is the system.

At every rank, a new skill gets unlocked by the system.

The rank 13 Rachel managed to hack the system, taking the energy of skills and using them for other tasks.

But those methods work only for skills below rank 10.

Rank 10 and above skills are fixed, and she can't hack them yet.

In all, she can't modify some parts of the system; for example, she can't hack her way to promotion.

The only way for her to promote is for her host to promote; there is no way around it.

Anyways, the skill of rank 10 is the 'database.' All information from all incarnations and their hosts will be collected there.

Extremely detailed information.

Her goal at this moment is to collect information about the world up to today.

This world developed for billions of years without information from the outside world.

One should not underestimate their knowledge. After she collects all the information and puts it in the database, she might be able to discover a few complete laws.

Many mages today are at the peak of rank 9, only a step away from rank 10.

Rachel believes she can fill the gaps with her massive database, which has information from countless worlds.

"Why do you want to help?" Lee asked this cautiously.

"Any complete law you discover will be known by me! So, your success is my success!" said Rachel.

"Will you take it away once I succeed?" asked Lee.

"No, I only want the info. As for the complete law itself, who cares!" she said.

At this time, she was sincere.

For her, a rank 10 complete law is nothing.

What she wants is data.

Lee readily agreed, "I accept."

Rachel smiled and transferred a lot of information to her mind.

Even though Rachel didn't have high hopes, the information she transferred was the one she believed would increase the chance of developing a new law. She had information on many people who had gone down the same path as Lee, in the same type of world created by laws of space and time. Giving their information to Lee now might be enough to allow her to complete her fragment law.

Lee sat down with a solemn face and started absorbing the information.

Fortunately, Rachel was mindful, so she didn't overwhelm her with information.

"Now, if possible, promote me to rank 7!" said Rachel.

"How?" asked Lee with confusion.

"Create a rank 1 avatar and slowly increase its power until it reaches rank 7," Rachel explained.

This method of promotion utilized some loopholes.

The system recognizes avatars as hosts, so when avatars promote, the system considers it the host promoting.

Rachel #1 can poison Pill Zagronan, rely on a rank 9 mage, and reach rank 9 very quickly.

But killing hosts is not a good practice.

She only found this out when she reached rank 13.

The rank 13 skill is named 'Last Evaluation.'

It evaluates her actions and rates them from +1000 to -1000.

A positive value means good, while a negative value means bad.

Surprisingly, both positive and negative values give a skill. So, it's not like being evil is punished by the system.

However, Rachel prefers the 'good' side skill.

For this reason, most of her incarnations instinctively avoid killing their Hosts.

Of course, it's only part of the reason.

Even without knowing this, the original Rachel kept her original host from rank 0 to rank 13.

That's why she was graded as a perfect +1000.

The skill she got from it is her trump card now.

Lee did as Rachel told her; she made an avatar and promoted it.

Soon, Rachel reached rank 7 quickly.

With a smile, she created a rank 7 pill and gave it to Lee.

Lee, who was astonished, took it and felt terrified. She knew this was only an incarnation of Rachel.

"How terrifying is the real deal?" she became more cautious and respectful.

...

All over the world, Rachel did this to all rank 9 mages.

As for demons, they were, for now, put on hold. Rachel was working on a code to outlaw shared minds.

It was an uncommon problem, so it took a bit of research to find the code in the database.

Soon, she plans to contact the demons one by one.

With shared minds, the chances of developing unique complete laws become very low. It doesn't need an explanation as to why; it's self-evident.

With a shared mind, demons are more intelligent, so they are much more likely to find clues from a lot of information and develop a law based on existing complete laws.

That is just the most obvious reason.

Zagronan was also making stable progress. He had the luck of a low-grade protagonist, and his child, Savior Green Long was also a medium-grade protagonist.

Along with the protection of Rachel, who had a complete law, nothing could go wrong.

And in this way, time continued to pass.

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