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Chapter 61: Food

The first day of the first month of the year 1001000

Zag was having fun with Savior, his son.

"So delicious!" exclaimed Savior while closing his eyes.

He was already rank 4.

"I told you! Hornfish tastes the best!" Zag replied.

Savior turned out to be very talented and lucky. It was as if the world bent to fulfill his wishes.

For this reason, Zag took him every time he went fishing in the ocean.

Strictly speaking, he was also very lucky, but his luck was nothing compared to Savior.

Hronfish usually appears only far out in the ocean, at the bottom of the seas hundreds of miles deep.

But with Savior on board, they could catch it "luckily" in a few minutes. Everything Savior wanted, the world would deliver.

"Father, what other delicious foods do you know? I'm tired of hornfish," Savior said.

No matter how delicious, you eventually get tired after eating a few hundred in a row.

Zag looked at the hornfish, which was transparent with only a long, thin projection on its head, and said with a frown, "There are a lot of delicious foods, but those are prohibited!"

"Why?" asked Savior.

Zagronan struggled to answer.

When discussing delicious food for demons, the most delicious are humans, elves, plant-people, and beast-men.

But Rachel isn't allowing them to eat those.

When Zagronan asked why, Rachel responded, "It's disgusting."

Zagronan didn't understand what Rachel was saying.

From his point of view, humans were no different from cows, dogs, sheep, and monsters. Why was she disgusted when he ate humanoids but not when he ate fish and cows?

It was weird.

He didn't get it, but he respected Rachel a lot and listened without asking too many questions.

Zag answered, "You don't understand now! First, reach rank 7, then maybe you'll get it," He punted the question.

Savior was looking grave.

He was very curious about those forbidden, tasty things.

"Then let me go back and meditate," he said.

"No, first, let's catch a few more Hornfishes!" said Zag.

After two more days, Zag caught over 1000 more Hornfishes and finally let Savior return.

Zag loves Hornfish to an unreasonable degree.

"How does it taste?" asked Rachel.

Zagronan ate Hornfishes with such haste that even she was tempted.

"It feels like deep within hot lava, like you feel in the egg, before hatching, absolutely comfortable! In my opinion, it's even better than human meat," he said while closing his eyes, feeling like he was flying.

Zag was a direct descendant of Tanoth but was born from an egg.

"Is it some kind of drug? It sounds more like a drug than food," she said.

Zagronan didn't answer.

Rachel sighed and regretted a little that she couldn't eat anything. Even the rank 13 Rachel was not able to eat and taste anything.

"Anyways, now it's time to edit the code again!" she thought.

In the last few centuries, she hadn't done much.

After looking for Jump ranks, she determined that Alys had taken nearly all of them away.

She didn't give up, so her agents are still looking for one.

But there is no hurry.

With the world now stable, there should be no danger in the short term.

Great Dream and a few more enemies might return to destroy the world, but that will likely take millions of years.

High-level civilizations are very bureaucratic; everything takes millions of years to get approved. So many boards and councils assess everything to a ridiculous degree.

Sure, some are fast, but Great Dream was one of the notoriously slow ones.

During these last few centuries, Rachel researched the protagonist's code and decided that changing it was not in her interest.

She would have changed it if the protagonists were not under her control.

All three are in her palm.

One of them is Savior Green Long, who is in her hand.

He has rank 10 luck and an extremely high chance of reaching rank 10.

He possesses the bloodline of all seven demon kings; his talent is even beyond rank 10.

A rank 10 talent means the body can tolerate a complete law. Rank 11 talent means one can tolerate more than one complete law.

As for rank 12 talent, it means one can carry a Universal law on their body!

Even Alys doesn't have rank 12 talent. She only uses the universal law remotely, with the help of very advanced magic technology.

Rachel doesn't know what rank talent Savior has. She looked with the 'Limited modification' vision but only realized the talent was beyond rank 10.

Information regarding finding rank 12 talents is classified and unavailable to rank 1 administrators, so she could not pinpoint his talent exactly.

She was excited about Savior.

Finding a talent above rank 10 in a rank 9 world is exceedingly rare.

For the real Rachel, one rank 12 talent is nothing, but for Rachel here, it's a great success that will help the main body.

The other protagonist is Zagronan, whom Rachel gave the protagonist luck.

The last one is still in Rachel's inventory.

Long ago, Zagronan encountered a rank 6 demon who was a protagonist.

Rachel noted that and later found him and took the protagonist's luck.

"Let's start!" she thought.

Now it's time to remove hell barriers slowly.

She already changed the code, ending demons being born endlessly because it consumes much energy.

Many demons can have children anyway, so why waste energy on them?

Even if it saves only a little, Rachel still did it.

The higher one's level becomes, the more mindful one is about wasting energy. The real Rachel today is extremely stingy, only spending energy if it brings in more than is spent.

She started editing, and all hell barriers were removed up to rank 1.

Now, rank 1 demons and below can easily move to the mainland.

Rachel wasn't worried.

Almost all newborn demons now meditate with pure energy, so their evilness is much lower.

Only older demons, like Zag, are still using dark energy.

Zag can do it because Rachel can make endless dark element pills. But other high-rank demons are going to have problems.

As more and more dark element disappears, dark element resources for making pills, etc., also get rarer.

It's a case of adapt or die, and Rachel was fine with it.

Whether it is a dark element or light element, they corrupt anyone who comes in contact with it.

A fact that neither angels nor demons want to accept is that in the code, there is no difference between angels and demons.

The differences all arise from the effects of dark and light elements.

Why are low-rank demons brainless? It's because most can't tolerate the corruption of the dark element.

Only after reaching higher ranks can they finally resist it and think clearly.

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

...

Bertha was looking old!

Today, she is over 800 years old, and with a lifespan of only 980 years, she would not live for long.

All these years, she only managed to reach rank 2.

After all, the main body took the pill container, leaving her to fend for herself.

It's good to reach rank 2 with very scarce resources available.

She succeeded in her task.

Today, in the land of the former Terry country, many wood elves live.

But, to her sadness, many are abandoning traditions. Some are building houses and living on the ground! Some are Wearing Clothes!

Rachel felt it was unacceptable but didn't say anything.

Today, there are two factions of wood elves: the traditionalists, who adhere to old traditions, and the reformists, who have ditched some of the dark elves' traditions.

If it were in the past, Rachel would have shown them how ungrateful they are.

Wood elves kept their culture through a lot of blood, and now, some idiot youngsters dare to violate it?

She might have thrown them all out if it were in the past.

But, fortunately for them, Bertha now wasn't like the past.

"That bitch is having fun with Millan in heaven, and I am dying here from old age! Damn it!" Bertha is an incarnation that was made hastily.

Over the years, she began to envy the main body. Today, she would kill the main body and replace her if she could.

She got up from bed with a lot of effort.

Previously, elves wouldn't get old no matter how long they lived. They would die suddenly once their lives ended.

But for some reason, a certain pill container decided it was time to equalize the differences between humans and elves. As a result, elves today age like humans.

Bertha today is like a ninety-year-old woman.

Even with her rank 2 mage power, her physique is weak. Of course, in emergencies, she can use mana to fix these physical issues temporarily.

But getting up from bed is obviously not an emergency.

She took a few pills for some illnesses and went out.

As the person who created this wood elf civilization, they honor her. Her sculptures are everywhere, and she holds the honorable title of Goddess.

But all of these are useless titles.

She is lonely.

Everyone she knew was long gone.

Of course, she has met new people, but those relationships are only superficial. The people she knew for hundreds of years are all gone.

She could have lived in a mansion they provided, with many servants if she wanted. But she didn't want any of it.

"I wish I knew what Millan and the children are doing," she thought, tears in her eyes.

...

Emmy was sitting at a table.

Others at the table were Ray, her brother; Bertha, her mother; and Millan, her father.

Soon, a few servant angels came and brought the food.

Emmy Frowned.

"Please, I want meat! I'm tired of eating vegetables, Mom!"

Bertha laughed and said, "Honey, when will you learn to respect our traditions? It has been centuries!"

Emmy responded, "It's an elven tradition! My father and I are humans!"

"Hey, Emmy, stop talking!" said Millan, who was frowning.

Then, everyone began to laugh happily.

In heaven, real fights very rarely happen.

Millan and Bertha had a successful marriage; some might say too successful.

Even after many centuries, they were happy every day, as if they had just married.

Bertha always doubted it had something to do with the light elements, but she never voiced it. Everyone was happy, so why ruin it?

Ray asked, "What is this food? It's so delicious! It's better than the last one."

Ray and Emma had their own lives.

Today, they came here for dinner, as usual.

Emma shook her head.

Her brother, Ray, was also a wood elf committed to traditions.

"It's a Golden apple specially gifted by the God of Fate!" said Bertha.

"Really? It doesn't taste like a Golden apple!" replied Ray.

The heaven's treasury had rank 10 and many lower-rank Golden apples.

This meal was a rank 3 Golden apple from the God of Fate.

"It shows my skill!" said Bertha proudly.

Everyone nodded.

To cook a Golden apple to taste good takes great skill.

According to Bertha, golden apples don't taste good, but they are healthy.

They ate happily and started to talk and laugh.

After a while, Emma said, "Please, Mom, come to our house next Friday! I'm going to show you what real food tastes like!"

Bertha responded, "Yeah, very unhealthy, smelly, meaty food, right? Emma, Please respect our traditions more!"

"But I'm not a wood elf," said Emma.

"But you are my child! That's all that matters!" said Bertha with a slight hint of anger.

Emma didn't answer; instead, she smiled and said farewell.

Just as she was about to leave, a loud noise shook everything!

Chapter 62: Chaos Energy

Finally, after Millions of years, Dyer succeeded.

He was initially very close to rank 10, and now, after a few centuries, he took that final step.

His complete law, the complete law of destiny, is a combination of 'ways' of luck and faith.

To promote the fragment law of destiny to the complete law of destiny, he also added the way of Fate to the balance.

With the help of a lot of Golden apples, he quickly collected enough way of fate.

However, it was not so easy.

If it were as easy as collecting some way of fate, he would have already reached rank 10.

To reach rank 10, a specific combination of many fragment laws and ways is needed. High-level civilizations refer to it as 'law formula'.

Let's start from the beginning.

From rank 1 to 3, mages directly use mana without anything attached. But at rank 4, one has to choose a 'way.'

A 'way' affects mana and can enhance the effects of some spells. The way of luck increases the effects of all spells related to luck.

However, a way can only go as far as rank 6 because it's a very elementary form of law and is not strong enough for casting a rank 7 spell.

To reach rank 7, one must combine at least two 'ways' and create a fragment law.

It's not a random process.

One must be careful about proportions, such as how much Faith and how much luck becomes destiny. It's a complicated process, but fortunately, all major academies have detailed information regarding this.

The Seven Lights Academy has a wealth of information about the way of luck and related fragment laws.

The God of Fate has the fragment law of Fate, but that is the Fragment law of Fate. It is different from the way of fate.

Fragment law of Fate is not just the way of fate; it is fate combined with luck.

God of Fate named it like this, but in fact, it's fate+luck.

After reaching rank 7, one can cast spells by fragment laws. Spells that are in line with the fragment law receive a huge boost.

After rank 7, one has to collect more and more of their fragment law.

Rank 7 mages have little reserves, but still, they can overpower anyone below rank 7. The difference between rank 6 and 7 is like heaven and hell.

In rank 8, mages have a much bigger reserve.

Rank 7 mages, as long as they have enough reserves, they can at least run away in the face of rank 8s. The only difference between rank 7 and 8 is reserves of fragment law. The same goes for rank 9—only quantity increases.

For example, when Dyer sent a rank 8 clone to hell, it was nearly as strong as rank 9 because it had a vast reserve of fragment law.

Still, one might be able to run facing a higher rank, but defeating a higher rank is way too hard.

With every increase in rank, the body, mind, soul, and all areas improve. It's hard for a rank 8 to cast a rank 9 spell, even if they have enough reserves. In contrast, rank 9 mages can easily use rank 9 spells.

After rank 9, it's time to create a complete law.

It was not known to anyone before, but now Dyer knows it in detail. A lot of information was obtained from Doris, who retrieved it from the system. Dyer still doesn't understand why the system was so generous in giving so many items to Doris.

A lot is needed to reach rank 10.

The key is 'Law formula.'

The law formula of the complete law of destiny is: 1.4221455 fragment law of Fate, 3.44115798 fragment law of Luck, 4.94485547 fragment law of Faith, 0.1551551 Way of Water, 0.0421995 Way of Fire, etc.

Creating the complete law of destiny requires over 1,000 different ways and three fragment laws.

There are millions of different ways in the world, so it's easy to understand why it is so challenging to discover new complete laws.

Dyer had a strong foundation in the fragment law of destiny, and with the help of observing the endless space, he filled the gaps in his knowledge.

He would have never been able to fill all the gaps by himself.

He only succeeded because he cheated!

But right now, he didn't care about any of that. He only cared about one thing.

"I am immortal, at last!" he thought.

With the Complete law of destiny, he will no longer die! "Congratulations," said Lewis, who was smiling.

"Lewis, you can promote too," he said, urging Lewis to promote.

Lewis shook his head and said, "Heaven might not have enough resources for two rank 10 promotions!!"

Making a complete laws laws is not easy. In addition to knowing the law formula, one needs resources.

Because Dyer was promoted here, the world provided all the resources.

He would have had to look for resources if the world's laws were restrictive.

In rank 11 worlds, which can last billions of years, a lot of resources would naturally form.

An old rank 11 world could provide enough resources for tens of rank 10 promotions.

The resources that can form complete laws are emotions.

High-rank civilizations call it 'realization energy.'

Any emotion will do, whether anger, hate, love, etc. The world will collect these emotions for the moment of rank 10 promotions.

All civilizations have 'reactors,' worlds purely made to collect emotions.

In such worlds, they don't care about reverse-engineering complete laws. They simply create many mortals and force them to feel all kinds of intense emotions.

These worlds have both heaven and hell sections. In heaven, all experience endless joy and happiness, and in hell, all endure eternal suffering.

Then, these emotions will go to factories.

Great Dream has two main factories: the complete law of time and the complete law of space factories.

The output of 'Realization Energy' is enormous, but the expenditure is also huge. Emotions are also the fuel for using Universal laws. So, even though they have a lot in reserve, civilizations are always stingy about it.

They can use it to drive universal laws! Why use it to repair a world instead?

Now, Lewis was wrong.

He didn't have enough information.

Heaven has existed for hundreds of billions of years has a massive trove of emotions that can support more than 100 rank-10 promotions.

Dyer also didn't know much about any of this.

If he knew about emotions, he would have guessed how Doris's system works.

But his intuition was very strong. He felt the world had enough resources.

"Lewis, I won't go anywhere without you. So, I will share my experience with you, and you can also form the complete law of destiny," he said.

Complete laws are not universal laws. You can have as many complete laws of destiny as you want.

But Dyer didn't know that Rachel had already edited the world rules law.

Only one of every law can be promoted to rank 10.

Dyer was already promoted to rank 10 using the complete law of destiny, so Lewis can only choose another.

Lewis looked reluctant, but in the end, he nodded.

Forming a complete law is very risky. Any failure means death.

Dyer succeeded on the first try, which means he was fortunate. Most will die.

Because, in the process of mixing all kinds of fragment laws and ways, if anything goes wrong, it will explode.

Heaven was so huge that it wouldn't be damaged from such an explosion; before promotion, the blast would be rank 9.

If a complete law explodes in heaven, then the whole heaven might be wiped out.

When the gods found out what was happening, they became very distressed. They felt the world's reserves were limited, so Lewis's promotion meant they would lose the chance.

But Dyer had a lot of rank 10 spell crystals and was capable of using the rank 10 weapons, so the gods gave up.

They can only pray that there will be enough resources left for them after Lewis.

...

Dyer was testing his complete law.

"I should be able to resist Endless Space now, right?" he thought.

Only rank 10 and above can survive in the endless space.

He wanted to test it in person but was afraid.

After finally reaching rank 10, it would be very ridiculous if he died in the endless space.

"There is no other way!" he thought.

But before going, first...

He closed his eyes and felt his complete law.

It was like a thin, very bright thread, shining with golden light.

He opened his third eye and looked at the river of time. It was much shallower than before, and many places were missing. Still, it was grand.

He tried to use his complete law to manipulate the river of time. A big wind came and pushed a lot of water as he wanted. He tried to add a lot of luck to himself.

Luck from all around came and gathered around him.

"I can completely manipulate luck! Let's try what happens if I deplete luck from something."

He saw a rocky mountain not far away.

In the river of time, he started to deplete its time. The mountain originally had reasonably good luck. But after a few moments, its luck went into the negative.

After it went far into the negative, Dyer stopped.

All these tasks were too easy for him.

The mountain stood there as if nothing had changed.

A few minutes later...

From afar, an angel was slowly approaching. After a few seconds, he arrived and looked around.

"I should collect a lot of rock. Hey, isn't that a rocky mountain? Let's take it!" He was a ten-winged angel, equivalent to a rank 5 mage, so this task was easy for him.

He cast a simple spell, took the mountain, and disappeared.

"The angel got a huge boost in luck!" Dyer saw.

Dyer already knows this. If you kill someone or something with negative luck, you will get a boost yourself.

The world's rules hate negative values, so they reward those who remove them.

Dyer watched as the mountain was getting closer to the construction site, where it would presumably be destroyed.

"When it gets destroyed, the luck turns to normal. So if I save it when it's about to be destroyed, the bad luck gets transferred to me. My luck takes a hit, but the rock mountain survives."

This is why one will suffer if one tries to save people with negative luck.

"Nothing really changed, except I'm countless times stronger now! My basic abilities are still the same," he thought.

He can use his complete law of Destiny to emulate other laws. He can use it to create weird creatures, increase someone's lifespan, and everything else.

But the consumption increases the more the task he does is distant from the complete law of destiny's specialty.

Most of the time, the consumption of using a complete law is small.

Consumption will vastly increase when trying to interfere with a world's rules or fight with other complete laws.

As for what is the fuel, it has many names.

Some call it space energy, Some call it true energy, some call it chaos energy.

It's the energy that can only be found in the endless space.

Why can't those below rank 10 survive in the endless space? It's because of this chaos energy.

It is the fuel for using complete laws, but it will burn anyone below rank 10 to death. Rank 9 worlds quickly get destroyed because chaos energy consumes them.

Right now, Dyer has a little chaos energy in reserve. If he wants to use his complete law long-term, he can only venture into the endless space.

But it has a lot of risk.

Endless space is, well, endless.

But this area of endless space is mainly occupied by Great Dream. So, when going out, he must respect their laws and avoid offending them.

He obtained these pieces of information from many inheritances left behind by the creators, written with strange symbols that only now he is able to read.

"Okay, let's go out into the endless space a bit," he stepped out.

Chapter 63: Shiny world

The endless space is where words are floating around. It's a place filled with chaotic energy, uninhabitable for anyone below rank 10.

Even those of rank 10 are uncomfortable; the endless space is unsuitable for long-term stays.

Only those of rank 12, who possess at least one universal law, can comfortably tolerate chaotic energy.

...

Dyer looked around and saw many shiny spots.

"Those are worlds! Each contains innumerable living creatures," Dyer felt surreal.

The worlds were like shiny balls; some shone dimly, some very brightly.

"The ones that shine dimly are rank 10, the ones that shine brightly are rank 11, and that one in the middle that shines with blindingly bright light is a rank 12 world with a Universal law! As for rank 13 worlds, there are none around here," Dyer observed and thought.

Civilizations usually have their territory in the endless space. Here is the domain of the Great Dream, so they own most worlds.

No other civilization comes here to create their world.

Still, some worlds here are former worlds of the Great Dream.

Like heaven, they were infiltrated by invading civilizations; the Great Dream lost their control.

It is important to note that not all worlds that were infiltrated were invaded by Rachel.

Every civilization has infiltration operations.

What makes Rachel unique is all she does is infiltration and her success.

Dyer turned around and saw another world with very dim light.

"That is my old world, where Hell and Mage world are! It's enormous but shines dimly because it has fallen to rank 9," he thought.

The chaos energy was already eroding it.

Because it was rank 11 not long ago, its reserves are enough to resist chaos energy for some time, but Dyer is generally not optimistic about it.

"I should say hi to Great Dream now that I am rank 10," Dyer thought.

There were instructions about this in the inheritances. The headquarters of Great Dream is in the rank 12 world; there are other offices as well.

However, even the closest one is more than 1000 years away, even at his maximum speed.

Don't be fooled by the apparent closeness of the worlds; they are all far apart beyond the imagination of people below rank 10.

"Let's go there when Lewis gets promoted," Dyer thought.

"Now, let's fill the Chaos Energy reserves," he thought.

He knew of no technique for collecting chaos energy, but still, every rank 10 knows how to absorb chaos energy.

He maintained a safe distance from heaven. Then, he closed all his eyes. He felt the energy around him, the volatile energy that was trying to tear his body apart.

Fortunately, his body was rank 10, capable of resisting it, but it was still uncomfortable.

With caution, he opened up his meridians bit by bit.

Chaos energy rushed in.

"Painful!" he thought.

He closed his meridians again and slowly directed all the chaos energy in his meridians to his aperture.

After a few days, all the chaos energy had gathered in his aperture. His meridians and aperture were all rank 10, so they weren't damaged.

"But it's too inefficient! I'm sure there are chaos meditation techniques, but I can't find them in heaven. I've already looked at all the inheritances," he thought.

He reached rank 10 with a mage body.

His body was strong, but not as strong as knights who reached rank 10.

A knight who reaches rank 10 can fill their body with chaos energy without much problem. Their bodies and meridians are much stronger than those of mages.

After meditating for a few months, he filled his reserves to 5% and returned.

He plans to fill his reserves to 100% after teaching Lewis about reaching rank 10.

Dyer, as a rank 10 mage, is selfish and logical. He always considers benefits with no emotions involved, except when he deals with Lewis.

Lewis was with him from the beginning. They are partners who have remained together for more than 100 million years.

They won't abandon each other.

...

Negotiations are going on about what to do with Rachel. Everyone is frustrated with their worlds being stolen by it. As far as Alys heard, there will be a major operation 'soon' to purge Rachel out, but when saying 'soon,' we mean by Great Dream standards.

It may be a hundreds of millions of years 'soon.'

Great Dream is remarkably slow and bureaucratic, to the point that they can't properly respond to changing situations.

Recently, it's time for the election of the CEO. One of the CEO candidates advocates for slashing the bureaucracy.

Alys is rooting for him.

She is frustrated with headquarters.

The higher-ups blamed and demoted her after what happened to world #HH96W and transferred her to a dying world to work as an observer.

She felt it was truly unfair. True, she was the primary person responsible for coding and setting up #HH96W, but she did everything right. It's not her fault that Rachel somehow managed to hack it.

They punished her by sending her to monitor #EF06N, a decaying eastern cultivation world. It was more than 900 billion years old, nearing its end.

#EF06N was a failed project, failing to produce any complete law that the Great Dream didn't already know of.

The job had a meager wage, with only 7 Medium points of realization energy per 1000 years as pay, far below her former job, with an income of 100 MpRe every 1000 years.

Her new job is a huge demotion.

But when she came to #EF06N, she began to be interested.

She found signs of Rachel's infiltration! The headquarters never mentioned such a thing!

"Could it be that they didn't know? If I report it, then I might be rewarded." So she did. She reported it and waited, waited, and waited. A few centuries passed, and nothing happened!

"Those damn useless bureaucrats! How can they waste so much time?" Alys was astonished at their incompetence. The signs were getting more serious!

"It's time for me to act! I won't let Rachel take over here like it did in #HH96W!"

...

It was a world of immortal cultivation.

There were different cultivation realms: Qi cultivation, foundation establishment, Core Formation, Nascent soul, deity transformation, human immortal, earth immortal, heavenly immortal, golden immortal, and true immortal.

After reaching earth immortal, the cultivator must ascend to the immortal realm. In all of history, a true immortal has never appeared.

The River of time is very shallow, with most of it consumed. For this reason, there are disruptions in time.

It is a severe problem. Immortals searched for a solution and found something.

It looks like a pill, named by them the Golden Pill. When they drop it in the River of time, it turns into a lot of 'time water,' filling the River of time.

Immortals were astonished!

The Golden Pill didn't exist before and only appeared recently.

How did it appear? Many had this question. But in the face of extinction, with the River of Time almost dried up, they had no choice, so they just collected all the Golden Pills and dropped them in the River of Time.

The flow of time was somewhat restored with the help of the golden pill.

...

With a sudden bright light, a space portal opened, and a pill container appeared!

"Where am I? What?" Rachel was astonished.

The last thing she remembers is being struck by lightning!

"Did I get transmigrated? Like in those novels?" She had read those novels, so she was familiar with transmigration.

"So, I should have a system, right?" she thought.

It's common knowledge that people who get transmigrated to other worlds will have a cheat.

The system interface appeared.

"Oh, essential skills? Pill production? Wait, where is my body?"

While feeling terrified, she looked around.

Her vision was 360 degrees, and it was very good. But a fact terrified her.

"I'm a pill container! I transmigrated into a pill container!" she was horrified!

...

Alys observed as the River of Time filled up with time water provided with the Golden pills.

She tested it but found nothing. It was just normal time water, with nothing malicious in it.

"It can't be! It must have something malicious! Those dysfunctional idiots in the headquarters won't allow me to use the Universal Law to look thoroughly! Sure, it will damage the world a little, but if you don't do it, the world will soon be lost entirely," she was frustrated.

The only way to use the Universal Law was for the headquarters to allow her. After the last demotion, they took away her ability to do so.

"I can only hope," she thought...

...

A Bright world, composed of many universal laws, surrounded by many other rank 12 and 13 worlds, was slowly floating somewhere remote in the endless space.

It was Rachel's headquarters!

Rachel was not just one; there were countless Rachels everywhere.

Especially in the headquarters, everyone was a host for her. Mortal and immortal, every person had a Rachel.

There were many rank 12 and rank 13 Rachels, and they were all there to do one thing: protecting the first Rachel, the one who holds the first system, the one who created them all.

The first Rachel was infinitely close to rank 14.

Rank 13 means you control more than one Universal law, and rank 14 means you can wield the power of 'the Creation.'

'The Creation' is infinite; its power is endless. All ever existed, and all that will ever exist is in 'the creation.'

There are already three rank 14 civilizations. Each one is powerful enough to wipe the entire endless space clean.

For example, 'the office,' one of the rank 14 forces, licenses all Universal laws and can revoke the licenses.

Even Rachel would be unable to use any of her many universal laws if 'the office' decides to revoke her licenses.

After all, Universal laws are based on Creation, so the only reason Rachel can use them is the token issued by 'the office.'

Fortunately, the office is neutral, not caring about anything she does.

But 'Trade' is different.

It is another rank 14 civilization, which serves as a marketplace between high-ranking civilizations. Its other functions include guaranteeing treaties. It stands witness to treaties to make sure both sides fulfill their terms.

Even rank 13 civilizations don't dare to violate treaties when 'Trade' is a witness to it.

'Trade' sells everything as long as the offered price is enough.

It sells to anyone except Rachel.

From its perspective, Rachel is disrupting the market. For this reason, it won't sell the required knowledge to Rachel, no matter how much she offers. Otherwise, she would have reached rank 14 long ago.

She has been negotiating with 'Alive,' the third rank 14 civilization.

It is the newest rank 14 civilization, and its main job is designing living creatures. They invented elves!

It may seem that it's not difficult to invent intelligent living creatures, but it's not true.

Sure, you can design living creatures that can thrive in one world with specific laws, but what about another world with completely different laws? Only rank 14 civilizations with knowledge of 'the Creation' can design species compatible with all complete laws and universal laws.

'Alive' then receives a fee for every world that uses its creations.

Even Rachel, who was more like a pirate in the endless space, didn't dare not to pay.

Today, Rachel is one of the biggest customers.

For this reason, 'Alive' is friendly with her. Rachel is close to a deal that would give her access to information regarding 'the Creation.'

The deal was favorable to 'Alive,' so Rachel wasn't satisfied. But she felt that after reaching rank 14, she could finally completely hack the system.

Some information about the system is classified and hidden from all incarnations.

Most administrators know that the system has something to do with 'the Creation,' but nobody knows that it's not just deriving its power; it's a piece of it!

Somehow, a piece of the Creation ended up in Rachel's body long ago when she first reincarnated. She was stunned when she learned of it.

Rank 14 civilizations can do almost anything by harnessing a bit of the Creation's power.

She has a piece of the Creation within herself; what can she do? Or, the better question would be: what can she not do?

...

Rachel looked at her host, who had always been with her for an unimaginably long time.

"Let's concede and accept their demands; reaching rank 14 is too important," she said.

Luther, a boy who looked about 10 with black hair, black eyes, and a normal face, nodded.

After so many years, Rachel and Luther were almost the same person, thinking and planning the same.

Their relationship was impossible to understand by others; it was beyond romance, love, and friendship, even closer than the relationship between one and their Avatar.

After finalizing the deal, she received crucial information about 'the creation.'

With these, she can reach rank 14 in less than a trillion years!

Chapter 64: Coexist

The demon kings are now independent once again. The shared mind had stopped working many years ago.

It created a significant problem.

Without a shared mind, the many incarnations started to betray the main body!

There are 8 demon kings of Pride, all independent without a shared mind!

Can Pride tolerate sharing the glory with others?

As it turned out, the answer was a resounding no!

Almost immediately, they all started fighting!

A great battle started and terrorized hell!

Fortunately for mages, the hell barrier protected them from the fighting.

After centuries of war, every part of hell is now the territory of a demon king, all very hostile to each other.

But, with the influence of pure energy, the younger generation of demons are all peaceful; the fights are among higher-ranked demons who still use dark elements.

The technique of meditating with pure energy was introduced many years ago, but higher-ranking demons had a hard time transitioning. Today, the overwhelming majority of those demons are still using dark elements.

After all, it will take a long time for the dark element to disappear completely.

Young demons who use pure energy are strangely broad-minded and peace-seekers. Most of them look more like angels than demons. The name 'demon' may not be suitable for them anymore.

...

Amidst all this, some demon kings started thinking about the demon king of sloth.

They all knew such a demon existed, but nobody had even seen him/her.

They were curious.

Hell turned upside down, heaven split off, the world was about to end in a few million years, longevity decreased, and still, the demon king of sloth didn't care.

They searched but couldn't find him/her.

Does such a demon really exist, or is it just a legend?

They gave up after looking for him/her for a few centuries.

...

Adrian was a young demon with a pair of tiny, transparent, and beautiful wings, green pupils, long brown hair, and a simple green set of clothes.

He was a rank 0 demon who meditated with pure energy.

After the mage world annexed hell, slavery was abolished; newborn demons were no longer slaves by birth.

Young demons were kind. They created small sanctuaries within the territories of demon kings to help homeless demons, many of whom were at rank 0, their homes destroyed in the endless battles of higher-ranked demons.

The reaction of demons to pure energy was remarkable.

Humans who use pure energy become emotionless, but demons react differently, becoming kind and benevolent.

Adrian left his small house and headed to the town hall meeting. It is the place where important matters are debated.

After a while, he reached the town hall and entered.

Many demons were already there, waiting for the representatives to arrive.

The city was divided into 10 districts, with demons from each district choosing one representative and the whole city choosing one, for a total of 11 representatives.

Everyone was allowed to vote.

Some demons were small, only a few centimeters when they reached adulthood, while others were huge, many meters tall. Some were strong, reaching rank 3, and some were weak, only rank 0, yet every vote mattered the same. Nobody had any objection to this.

The point of representatives is to make decisions that guarantee their survival. Is the life of a rank 3 demon more valuable than the life of a rank 0 demon?

Everybody thought the answer was no! Every life matters the same. Combined with the fact that demons can grow without any food, only by consuming pure energy, this created a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in a land previously known as hell.

Soon, a few demons of all shapes appeared.

Nobody bowed, nobody stood up. Being a representative was not a big deal. Sure, it had power, but it didn't make them better than other demons.

The representative elected at large by the vote of the whole city cleared her throat and said loudly, "I declare this meeting official."

A few people came forward and started reporting.

"More than 5,000 homeless demons are coming from the territory of Envy #2. Most of them are rank 0 demons, and there are many injured," said a demon with two pairs of transparent wings.

One of the representatives proposed a bill for a vote. "I propose a bill that requires the defense unit to go and bring them here," said the representative, who had 10 eyes and was 3 meters tall.

Demons' body shape has remarkable diversity. One can find any look that they can think of.

With an 11-0 vote, it passed.

Everyone in the room, including Adrian, clapped.

Helping fellow demons is a duty!

Another demon, with one pair of wings and the face of a horse, came forward and reported, "A fight is going on in the neighboring city of Cold Hill. It might reach here."

Everyone began to panic.

Among young demons, the highest rank is 3, so if a fight happens, they can't survive!

Everyone began to talk.

"Quiet," said the chairwoman.

"We are careful, so don't worry! This city is located in the middle of two great mountains; we are protected from the aftermath of wars!" she said.

Everyone began to relax. But as if wanting to refute the chairwoman, the ground began to shake.

Everyone looked out of the window and felt terrified.

"It's rank 4 demons! Run!" shouted the chairwoman, and she herself started running toward the danger to distract them, paving the way for others to escape.

Adrian gritted his teeth. He wanted to help, but with his rank 0 strength, he was not even a paper in front of rank 4 demons. So, he ran.

After running for a few days, he reached the barrier.

It was a transparent wall with a red hue surrounding hell.

It was the barrier that separated the mage world from the outside. Adrian had no idea what was beyond it, but he had no plans to find out.

"Boom!" a loud explosion occurred. Many demons were instantly killed in that explosion.

"Boom!" Another explosion came much closer.

Seeing no other choice, Adrian ran toward the barrier. He had recently heard rumors that it was possible to cross it. He didn't believe it, but now, it was his only hope.

To his surprise, he managed to cross it successfully.

After a moment, a rank 4 demon arrived and tried to cross, but it was like he had hit a wall;

He gritted his teeth and returned.

Adrian knew he was only a burden to others, so he didn't even try to go and save them. He just sat and waited for others to arrive.

...

Lava territory was the land of Duke Wright.

It bordered hell.

Fortunately for them, the barrier stopped all demons from entering. However, some low-level demons recently managed to break through the barrier somehow.

Duke Wright, a powerful rank 2 mage, immediately requested reinforcements from other nobels.

Other nobles would also be affected if Lava territory became overrun with demons. Even though there are many mages, it's undoubtedly better to kill them before they can spread out.

Everyone had heard of the terrifying demons, so they all sent reinforcements. For this reason, the border was full of troops, ready to kill any demon trying to cross.

Duke Wright looked at the pill container he found a few minutes ago.

"So, you are... a god?" Duke asked doubtfully.

"No, I'm just a pill container who can create pills out of nowhere," answered Rachel.

Duke frowned and said, "What do you want from me?"

"I want you to stop killing the demons from the border," she said.

She knew that the young demons were countless times kinder and more benevolent than most humans in the mage world.

She planned to slowly integrate the demons with the rest of the population. Being this separated slows the progress of researching complete laws.

"Impossible! The demons will kill everyone, slaughtering children and women, destroying cities..." Rachel interrupted him.

"Hey, why are you placing women and children in the same sentence, like they are the same? Sexist!" she pretended to be offended.

In her last life, she was a woman.

As for what she is now, she sees herself as a woman, even though, technically, she is genderless.

Still, she saw far worse, 'being offended' was to take the initiative in the coming discussions.

She continued, "As for destroying cities, no, they are unlike what you've heard. Trust me," she said.

"What? First, Women and children are both helpless in the face of danger; that's why I single those two groups out. Second, you came out of nowhere and expect me to trust you?" asked the Duke with confusion.

"First, in the face of demons as they were in the past, men, women, and children make no difference; everyone is in danger. Second, saying women are helpless doesn't make it any less sexist. Third, no, I don't expect you to trust me, but I can give you benefits if you do as I told you," she said.

She spoke angrily, as if severely offended.

She created a rank 1 pill and gave it to Duke Wright.

"A rank 1 pill? I don't need it!" he said.

"I can give rank 2 pills as well, one every day," she proposed.

Duke closed his eyes.

He was tempted!

Rank 2 pills can significantly speed up his meditation.

He is already old, so he will die of old age without resources.

But righteousness took the better part of him!

If he allowed demons to enter, many women and children would be killed.

He cannot allow it to happen! Sure, he might lose out on many pills, but he can't live with himself if he causes the death of innocent women and children.

"No, the answer is no!" he said firmly.

"Sigh," Rachel said. She can do everything personally but prefers to do things indirectly. The duke forced her this time.

She informed Rachel #1.

Rachel #1 used the complete law of ship.

The complete law of ship is best for transferring people and things from one place to another. However, it can be used to accomplish many other things.

Everyone is moving through time and space, therefore being "shipped" through time and space. The complete law of ship can stop their movement through time and space, effectively freezing them in their place.

Using this analogy, a simple law of ship can affect almost everything. Of course, some things are not in line with the concept of being "shipped," like creation.

Molecules move through space and time, taking shapes of specific creatures; therefore, they are effectively "shipped" in a particular form. Thus, the complete law of ship can create living creatures. As is apparent, this is a stretch and far from the true purpose of the complete law of ship.

It can work, but the consumption is much higher because it's not in line with the true function of the complete law of ship.

Rachel used the complete law and locked everyone in space.

Everyone in the whole country stopped moving but only confined in space. They could still see around.

Adrian and many demons came, saw humans freezing in their place, and started helping them.

The humans were terrified! They thought that demons were about to eat them.

But after a few days, they realized the demons were helping them get food, stay warm, etc.

They remained frozen for a month but remained alive due to the demons helping them.

Then, the space block was removed.

Everyone didn't even think about killing demons anymore. As such, Lava Valley became the first place where demons and humans began to coexist.

Chapter 65: The World Is Made of Codes

Savior Green Long was in a big city famous for its huge casinos.

This city was named Redglow City because of its unique rocks that glowed red. It was a city of all species: humans, elves, beastmen, green men, etc.

Savior liked gambling a lot! Because he always won!

He started moving toward the casino named Pink Dice.

However, as he approached, something peculiar happened.

Time seemed to freeze, not just for him but for everything around him.

After a few moments, everything resumed moving as if the strange interruption had never occurred.

Savior finally arrived at a colossal, twenty-story building, which was unmistakably Pink Dice. This establishment served as both a casino and a strip club, featuring men and women working as strippers.

It was the most famous building in the city and happened to be Savior's personal favorite.

He opened the door and went in straight to the 20th floor. The 20th floor was for the richest people in the entire Clark continent. Savior was the wealthiest person in this whole continent.

He knew a lot of people here! He was pretty famous around here. He went and sat on a table. There were five other people there. All smiled and greeted him.

"Hey, Savior! This time, I win!" a boy with red hair said.

"Heh, you always say that!" Savior answered.

They started, and, like always, Savior won every single round. When he left, everyone looked grave.

They hated Savior! Who liked to gamble with someone whom they always lost to? But they had no choice! A person named Zag forced them to do it!

"Damn, I wish I could have ra---" the red hair boy stopped.

It wasn't just him; everything stopped moving like a picture.

Then, a few seconds later, they came back to normal.

"n away! But that Zag already marked us!" everyone nodded with regret.

...

The Clark Continent was vast, as were all continents in general.

However, this particular continent dwarfed the others in size many times over. Given its immense land area, one might expect it to be home to numerous kingdoms.

In reality, only one empire ruled this colossal expanse – the Gill Empire.

It was a behemoth, exerting direct control over the entire continent. There were no nobles scattered throughout the land; instead, every corner was governed directly by the emperor.

This state of affairs wasn't always the case. Many centuries ago, the continent was divided, with the Gill Empire being one of the strongest but not the sole power.

However, when pure energy emerged, Emperor Layton of the Gill Empire showcased astounding talent. In a matter of a few centuries, he rose to the formidable rank 4 in an environment with scarce mage resources.

With him at rank 4, the Gill Empire marched and destroyed all other countries and took over everything.

The power of the empire was divided very simply. The empire owned everything; the one the emperor chose became the prime minister; the emperor's words were law; the one emperor said to die died.

But still, there needed to be some division for lower ranks. The emperor appointed the prime minister, who in turn appointed governors, ministers, judges, and policymakers for the provinces. As for why the emperor personally didn't do it, how could someone that important do these unimportant things?

As a result, the prime minister was, in practice, the most influential person for the day-to-day operation of the kingdom.

The Supreme Court also drew some power throughout the years. It could invalidate laws that were set by ministers.

As for laws set by the emperor, of course, nobody could resist them. But the emperor never set any laws, so this caused the supreme court to get powerful.

Everything in the empire was going well until a while ago.

A huge hole appeared in the center of the empire and was expanding. Nobody knew what it was or how to fix it.

Fortunately, it stopped expanding a while ago, but still, the people were panicking.

Mortal technology was very advanced; there were 'communication cubes' that could broadcast information and videos from far away.

The Department of Broadcast broadcasted all programs. There was no free market in this aspect.

In general, the empire had a very centrally planned economy. It was a miracle technology managed to advance with such a system. After all, when the government plans everything, you remove room for innovation that the free market has.

...

Rachel was frowning deeply.

The hole that appeared was a coding bug! A few centuries ago, she patched all the holes in the world, but it seems that, in the process, she messed up something.

It was to be expected.

This world was too incomplete, so only higher-level Rachels could fix the code thoroughly.

Clark continent was not the only place where holes were appearing. Time suddenly stopped; in some areas, in others, space started getting corrupted.

"This is a serious problem which Rachel #1 will have a hard time fixing." She thought.

This world was incomplete, operating with two incomplete laws. If it were just this, it would have been fine.

The problem was Rachel trying to maintain the same colossal size that used to be rank 11 with a rank 9 world.

It's already impressive that she managed to do this much. There were limits to what one can do only with coding. The proper fix comes only when a complete law gets added to this world.

Then, Rachel #74 looked at Layton.

He was, of course, her host. He managed to reach rank 4 because of her help.

Just now, a message came from Rachel #1.

"Hey, Ley, immediately order everyone near the hole to get away!" she said.

He didn't even question it! He trusted Rachel too much to question anything. After all, everything he had now was from her.

Initially, he was a prince that everyone was looking down on. Plant people are always considered dumb. This is not true, but it seems so from the perspective of uninformed people because they are slower than everyone else.

When they talk, they are very slow; they sleep a lot and understand things slower. But they have a much higher lifespan, too.

Rachel was considerate when she was modifying the settings. For some creatures like dragons and plant people, she gave them more lifespans because they grow slower or they sleep a lot.

Plant people have a lifespan of 3000 years, even after the update.

Three thousand years is not much, as they spend most of this time sleeping. But after reaching rank 1, their mind becomes much sharper, and they even exceed normal humans.

Layton, who is in rank 4, now has a quick mind, nothing like ordinary plant people.

Dragons have the highest lifespan. They have a base lifespan of 10,000 years; they grow extremely slowly; it may take thousands of years to reach rank 1.

Layton ordered, and everyone evacuated the area around the hole.

Then, Rachel began modifying the code again. She took time water from places where there was too much and transferred it to areas where time was dried up.

Then, she synchronized the time worldwide to bring everything to normal.

This is a temporary fix. Fixing the code and solving it from the root is difficult.

It's way too complicated to explain.

The simplified version is that time water is not enough, and the code must overlap space in some places and reduce space's vastness with some techniques to have enough time water.

But that may lead to wormholes and have its problems. It will take a lot of trial and error.

Only higher-level rachels can fix it with ease.

Rachel here is only a rank 1 administrator, so she lacks access to advanced codes.

Codes are essential.

They are the key to controlling the world; civilizations that can code well are the most resilient to her invasions.

Rachel is the best coder between civilizations below rank 14, which is one reason she can easily infiltrate the worlds.

The universe is made of laws, which are displayed through code.

Even the system is hackable with codes, though even the rank 13 Rachel still lacks the knowledge to hack the system entirely.

To harness the power of 'the creation,' one must know how to code it.

As for expanding one's knowledge about codes, the more universal law one knows, the more knowledge is available.

Second, one has to experiment with the knowledge and slowly learn it.

Rachel #74 was too far below these levels, so she sighed and focused on more at-hand issues.

The most pressing issue concerns the demons soon reaching the Clark continent.

...

Savior was stopped in place! Along with everybody else!

This time, they didn't start moving again, even after hours!

Zagronan brought Lana and began observing from afar.

"What happened to him? Is he dead?" asked Lana while she was eating a leg of something humanoid.

Rachel stopped Zagronan and Savior from doing this, but Lana could not be controlled.

"He is stuck in dried-up time!" said Zagronan, repeating Rachel's explanation.

"Huh? So he died? Can we eat him?" she was very interested in his taste!

"No, he is alive, just stopped in time," said Zagronan.

"Does that mean we can't eat him?" asked Lana with confusion.

"Rachel, can we eat him?" asked Zag in confusion.

If he can eat him, he won't refuse.

"Shut up! I'm thinking!" she screamed.

Zag just stopped talking!

Rachel paid no attention to them.

She was currently very occupied. She purposefully placed Savior here.

What happens when the world protagonist is stuck in a time desert? Of course, the world would run to help restore the flow!

She can edit the code, but that is an abrupt and disrupting means. Allowing the world to do the job is much more harmonious.

Doing it with code will cause disruptions in other places unless you are skilled enough to do it without affecting anywhere else, which Rachel #1 was not.

She was intensely watching the code.

After a few hours

"Here it comes!" she smiled.

A lot of 'time water' from spaces with extra time water traveled through and came here, making the time flow again.

With the flow of time back, everything began moving again, and nobody realized anything wrong had happened.

Because, for them, nothing really happened during this 'time'.

But so much time water made time flow faster again, creating a loophole!

"At least now there is just one loophole!" thought Rachel.

She modified the code and wholly separated this area from the world.

What she did was treat the symptoms. She gathered all the tumors and tore them off.

It was like gathering all the tumors and surgically removing them.

The cause, which was why tumors grew in the first place, was not treated, but it can hold things together for a while.

She dissolved the tumor and coded, so it automatically distributed time water wherever it dried up.

From this day, a big chunk of Clark continent just went missing without an explanation!

Rachel just took everyone who lived there and threw them out.

They did not need to die, so she helped them a little.

Why not save a few people if it doesn't harm you in the slightest? Even though, in the grand scheme of things, it's not important.

There is nothing like karma in the universe.

But Rachel, inheriting her past humanity, liked to help if it could be done with little effort.

Then, she thought.

"this world needs a serious recoding to fix it completely. It's better to shrink space by 30% to improve the situation!" she began planning.

Chapter 66: anti-Rachel alliance

There are many rank 13 forces in the universe, but only four great alliances.

The most powerful rank 13 civilization is, of course, Rachel, who is public enemy number one. Her reputation is terrible, with most civilizations considering her a natural disaster.

Still, she is the strongest rank 13 by far, so they can only grit their teeth and tolerate her.

The second strongest is the 'mage' alliance. It is a collective of many civilizations, a confederation, with thousands of rank 13 entities.

One can only become rank 13 when they own at least one universal law.

The 'mage' civilization has thousands of rank 13 powerhouses, which means they own at least thousands of universal laws.

Many lone mages, mage families, and mage academies are their members.

Still, they are not a match for Rachel, who has more than ten thousand universal laws, and her main body is half a step from rank 14.

The third strongest rank 13 alliance is the 'cultivator federation.' High-grade civilizations usually form alliances to protect each other. After all, it is easy to be preyed upon when lonely.

The 'cultivator federation' also has thousands of universal laws and comprises cultivation families and sects.

The fourth one is the 'heaven and hell federation.' It seems strange that heavenly creatures, like gods, and demons, ally. But, if one has a clear understanding, it is normal.

Demons and angels are two sides of a coin. They are the same. Like ice and hot water, even though they seem to be opposite and incompatible, they are, in the end, water.

The fifth one was the 'open federation.' Basically, every other civilization that didn't fit in any of the groups above was a member of this alliance. They had tens of thousands of Universal laws, with the most members of any alliance.

But, they were extremely disunited, barely being able to be called an alliance. As a result, even with tens of thousands of Universal laws, they were the weakest.

No matter where, unity is key to strength in collective settings.

Recently, representatives from four alliances have discussed doing something about Rachel.

But agreeing on something is easier said than done.

Rachel is very good at hiding, so even her headquarters location is unknown. Even more, if they find her, how should they attack? Who would be the leader? It isn't easy to agree on these things.

To begin with, the alliances are collectives of forces. And when these collectives debate, even if they agree, convincing their members is challenging.

Alliances are federations, with loose membership requirements.

So, they decided to innovate. They agreed that each alliance's one hundred strongest civilizations would contribute a certain amount of 'Will.'

'Will' is an intent, a way of thinking.

Everyone has 'will' but having the will out of the body is something mortals can't do.

For example, the 100 strongest sects, cultivation families, and empires of the 'cultivator alliance' all contribute 1% 'will' each, and all combined create a complete will that can represent the interest of all.

As for weaker civilizations, who cares about them? They will naturally be forced to cooperate.

The methods of how each civilization makes up its share, or even if every civilization in an alliance has an equal voice, depend on the alliance and civilization.

If the Cultivator Alliance wants to give a member more than 1 percent, it has nothing to do with others.

The point is there should be a will representing all the strongest civilizations.

They then bestow a body upon the 'will' and elevate it to rank 12. The other civilizations follow suit. Subsequently, the four resulting rank 12 representatives will form the leadership team for the invasion against Rachel. They then use the shared mind method to decide important matters firmly.

Usually, such a chaotic 'will' can never reach a consensus; it would be messy, erratic, and unstable. However, these are rank 13 civilizations, so they will find a way to achieve it harmoniously.

There is no other choice. If they allow Rachel to reach rank 14, they will be finished.

Rachel has already proven unstoppable when she is only at rank 13. It is hard to imagine her infiltrations when she reaches rank 14.

The leadership of the anti-Rachel alliance holds absolute authority. Everyone swears an oath to obey them, with 'Trade' as a witness.

'Trade' is a rank 14 civilization, and it can easily annihilate every rank 13 civilization if it desires.

So, even if you are a rank 13 force with hundreds of universal laws, your only option is to comply. The agreement is airtight, leaving no room for scheming.

In this way, the anti-Rachel alliance was formed!

…

The 'cultivator alliance' is the third strongest in the universe, but when considering individual civilizations, there is no doubt that the 'Clear Water Sect' is the second strongest.

It possesses slightly more than 1,000 universal laws! What's more, its strength is highly concentrated, unlike other civilizations.

Clear Water manages only one world, but it is the largest single world, even bigger than Rachel's headquarters.

After all, Rachel is powerful but quite dispersed.

In contrast, the Clear Water Sect headquarters is so massive that a normal rank 11 world would be like a grain of sand on the beach.

It is called a world, but it is more like a collection. Numerous different realms and sub-worlds exist within it, along with countless cultivation families and empires.

However, one can not find any sect besides the Clear Water Sect. One can create other sects, but they must ultimately be subordinate to the Clear Water Sect.

The sect's great ancestor is perhaps the most powerful person in the world, aside from Rachel.

His name is not grand; it is very simple: Lin Ming. They say he was originally a mortal farmer in an unimaginable past.

He controls every single universal law of the Clear Water Sect, and there is no other rank 12 person within the Clear Water Sect.

At most, he grants temporary permission to some elders to use universal law. He never relinquishes his grip on power.

Besides being the great ancestor of the Clear Water Sect, he also serves as the emperor of the Lin Dynasty.

The Lin Dynasty is tiny in comparison to the Clear Water Sect. Its purpose is to satisfy him. In simple terms, it is a harem larger than most rank 13 worlds, with countless beauties in it.

As Lin Ming was the supreme ruler, he extended the lifespan of everyone in the Lin Dynasty, keeping his harem alive and young for who knows how long.

…

Lin Ming is sitting in a room made of dark diamonds. Everything is crafted from immortal materials.

Even a single piece of this room might be more expensive than an entire rank 11 world!

He glanced at a pill container he had found near his world and said, "I'm all ears!"

The pill container is, of course, Rachel.

She knows of the alliance and has plans to disrupt it, buying time to advance to rank 14.

"What do you gain from an alliance? I am not a threat to you! I have never attacked you, so we are not enemies!" she said.

Lin Ming nodded.

Indeed, because the Clear Water Sect controls only one world, where he, the second strongest person in the universe, is guarding, Rachel has no chance of success, no matter how skilled she is at coding.

He didn't reply, waiting for her to continue.

"So, let us, the two strongest existences, ally!" she proposed.

"It makes sense!" said Lin Ming.

"But," he continued, "what about when you reach rank 14? Then I will be the first person you target! After all, consuming a thousand universal laws at once is enticing!" he pointed out.

Rachel shook her head. "What if you reach rank 14 with me?"

The expression on Lin Ming's face changed.

"Who do you think you are fooling?" he asked coldly.

"I am willing to show you the evidence!" says Rachel.

Then, she transferred a lot of information regarding rank 14.

"How did you obtain all of this?" Lin Ming was taken aback.

"I have a deal with 'Alive.' It can help you escape from the oath that 'Trade' witnessed!" says Rachel.

Her deal with 'Trade' was unfavorable, but she still gained a lot from it.

She continued, "Now, you have to swear an oath for me to transfer the important information! The oath will be witnessed by 'Alive'!"

This is a risky proposition because Lin Ming might agree and swear the oath, only to later divulge everything to 'Trade' with their assistance to remove the restrictions.

However, Rachel firmly believes he will not do this because she is sincere. She will help Lin Ming reach rank 14. She does not care about the other rank 14s. Her sole aim is to buy time, reach rank 14 herself, and hack the system completely.

It does not matter if there are four other rank 14s instead of three.

This is a genuine opportunity for Lin Ming to reach rank 14.

After hesitating for a while, Lin Ming nods. "I agree!" he said.

Rachel nodded, and after he swore the oath, she shared all the information with him.

The information is about how one should code to harness the power of Creation.

The Creation is singular, with no specific location. It exists everywhere and anywhere, in the past, present, and future.

Everything is based on the Creation.

To utilize its power, you simply need to know how to code. After understanding the method, you only have to customize it to fit yourself. It might take hundreds of billions of years, even if you are fast, but you become nearly invincible after succeeding. As mentioned before, everything in the universe revolves around coding.

Lin Ming closed his eyes and began absorbing the information. After a while, he opens his eyes, their gleam shining. "So, the key is realization energy? Hahaha," he started laughing.

"Yes! The code must be based on realization energy!" she confirmed.

There are different coding methods based on chaos energy, universal laws, complete laws etc. Most rank 13 entities theorized that the code must be based on universal laws for harnessing the Creation, as universal laws are the closest to the Creation.

However, it turned out the code must be based on realization energy.

"Now, take this and remove the oath's restriction." A pill appeared in her, a rank 14 pill provided by 'Alive.'

Lin Ming took it and immediately felt the restriction disappear. He trusted her because the oath was two-sided, with Rachel also being bound.

As for what if 'alive' tampered with the oath, that would be useless to consider; if 'alive' wants to remove him, he can only die.

"You know how to contact me! I will call you later," Rachel said and then vanished. Lin Ming was astonished.

To escape from his world, in front of his eyes, only items from rank 14 civilizations can do it.

"I wonder how much she got from 'Alive,'" he wondered.

Then, he closed his eyes again, beginning to absorb the knowledge.

The knowledge is massive, and it might take millions of years for him to absorb it.

As for his harem enjoyments, it will have to wait. After all, power is more important than mere amusement.

...

Rachel headquarters.

Some information was just transmitted to her.

"So, he agreed," she smiled.

This matter can delay the anti-Rachel alliance enough for her to reach rank 14.

She is not afraid of the anti-Rachel alliance.

If there is a fight, she believes she can win.

But it will distract her.

Who would want to be distracted when rank 14 is right before you?

"Luth, let's go expansionary, making them think we are in offense mode," she said.

Luther nodded.

He knows what Rachel is thinking.

If they go into their shell, the anti-Rachel alliance gets nervous that she is about to reach rank 14.

In contrast, if they attack, anti-Rachel feels relieved that she is far from rank 14 and is seeking more resources.

In fact, when you count resources, Rachel has far more than enough.

She smiled and activated her rank 12 skill, energy net.

This skill can create illusory energy lines that spread throughout the universe, making it easy for her to help her incarnations.

She infused an unimaginable amount of energy, sending it to her incarnations of at least rank 7.

Along with the energy, she sent an order of expansion.

Now, the incarnations will have enough power even to invade other worlds!

"With this, anti-Rachel would be busy to defend for a long time!" she thought.

Luther also smiled.

He is the strongest person in the universe.

Rachel is a pill container, barely having the ability to fight.

Luther is, in fact, the warrior and guardian here.

Most don't even know Rachel has a host and consider her lonely.

As such, Luther is a trump card for Rachel.

But now, there is no need to fight personally.

It's time to hide and calculate the code.

Chapter 67: Main Protagonist

Rachel gained a tremendous amount of energy from the main body.

It was all kinds of energy: realization energy, chaos energy, universal energy, and some lesser-known energies.

Along with the resources, she also received a message about expansion.

In the database, there are very few similar situations.

"Then, let's expand!" she thought.

Right now, she only has one complete law: the complete law of the ship. However, with these resources, she can create other laws.

Her system had a capacity for only five complete laws. This limit was set for Rachels with a rank lower than 10. After obtaining five complete laws, they must send the extras to the regional headquarters.

However, after the expansion policy, the limit was increased to 1,000 complete laws for incarnations below rank 10.

It's important to note that even one complete law can promote someone to rank 10. However, Rachel's way of promotion is different. She can only get promoted when her host advances. This is an unbreakable law.

But she can promote her host with these resources.

Before, she didn't have the resources.

But now, she can achieve a lot with the energy given to her. Firstly, she cannot create any pills higher than her current rank, even with more energy. The pills she makes cannot exceed her rank; it's an unbreakable rule of the system.

Unless the main body advances, those system laws cannot be modified.

Secondly, she cannot make 'jump rank'. Jump ranks are essentially a particular type of pill. The main body prohibits incarnations below rank 10 from making them to minimize the risk of their formula leaking.

Because, even though it's tough, incarnations below rank 10 can be hacked by advanced rank 13 civilizations.

If she allows them to make these essential pills, she leaves the chance of them leaking.

She isn't worried about anyone reverse engineering from an already made 'jump rank'; the only risk of leaking is them hacking low-rank rachels and directly getting the formula.

In the event of a hack, they cannot hack anything within the database or mind of the incarnation because the main body's database skill protects those.

But they can discover recipes for all formulas created by the incarnation; those are saved within the local system, having nothing to do with database skill.

'Jump rank' is one of her advanced methods for infiltrating the code of target worlds, and even now, the restriction remains in place.

However, there are many things she can do with the energy.

One such application is the protagonist's aura. The protagonist's aura is composed of a significant amount of realization energy, which she now has an abundance of.

By bestowing a 'Main protagonist aura' upon Zagronan, he can rapidly advance and break through to rank 10.

Additionally, she can utilize the energy to enhance the entire world, making it more fertile and facilitating breakthroughs for everyone.

Nevertheless, she cannot directly provide energy to Zagronan or create weapons with the energy. The energy is highly advanced, requiring a minimum rank of 10 to handle such matters.

Zagronan is only rank 7, not even able to look straight at a complete law, let alone controlling it.

"Too many restrictions! Let's give him the Main Protagonist Aura and be done with it!" She was frustrated with the numerous restrictions on her actions.

She consumed some realization energy and bestowed the Main Protagonist status upon Zagronan. She knew how to code it by referencing the database information.

Protagonist status wasn't a closely guarded secret, so the information was readily available.

Then, she planned to fix this world.

After investing so much, it would be a shame to let it be destroyed. After all, if everything went as planned, she could acquire many complete laws from this world.

This world had a substantial reserve of realization energy, and she wasn't willing to let it all be destroyed by chaos energy just because she was reluctant to part with a complete law.

She manipulated the system and directly added the complete law of the ship to this world.

Then, she began coding and embedding the law within the world. There were shocks everywhere, with many enormous mountains collapsing and huge waves appearing in the ocean.

Nevertheless, it proceeded relatively smoothly because she had a natural talent for coding.

"Good," she smiled.

Now, the world is a proper rank 10 world that can last for 100 billion years if nothing goes wrong and it's not destroyed from the outside.

Then, she looked at Zagronan, who was busy with Lana.

To be honest, Rachel was impressed with them, especially Lana.

They had been having at least one child every few weeks for a few thousand years now!

"Hey, Zag," she called.

"Huh? What?" he replied, preoccupied with some important affair.

"Do you feel any different?" she asked.

"Different? No, it's like always. Maybe a bit harder than usual!" he said while staying busy.

Rachel looked serious.

The protagonist's aura had just been added, so this matter can be directly attributed to it.

"I'm curious about what happens. The Main Protagonist's Aura can greatly help one reach rank 11!" she thought.

The amount of energy given by the main body was beyond belief. Even she, a rank 7 incarnation, received enough energy to create many complete laws.

As for universal laws, she had permission to use some, but only as long as she had enough universal energy.

She had to be conservative with her universal energy.

Universal energy is a highly refined form of chaos energy. Chaos energy couldn't be used to utilize universal laws, but its refined form, universal energy, could be used.

She could also use realization energy, which is inefficient and considered a waste.

"Only rank 12 civilizations waste like this. It's much more efficient to use universal energy. After all, chaos energy is everywhere, endless. The best use of realization energy is for coding," she thought.

She had never done coding based on realization energy until a moment ago.

All she did until now was coding based on complete laws, only effective in this one world.

However, the main protagonist's aura is based on realization energy, effective as long as the energy remains.

All codes expire eventually, except for two kinds of codes.

Codes are based on universal laws and codes based on the creation.

That's why rank 12 worlds can last forever, because they are coded based on universal law, not needing energy, like this world.

Codes based on chaos energy and universal energy can also last for a long time, but only because they can suck energy from endless space, replenishing themselves.

"Let me see. I can use more than 1,000 kinds of universal laws; most are very specialized," she thought.

There are many universal laws; no one knows how many. Some are very general, and some are highly specialized.

For example, the universal law of water can control all forms of water throughout the universe, whether ice, steam, or liquid. But there are also universal laws of liquid, ice, and steam.

The more specialized universal law always prevails over the more general universal law in that specific situation.

The universal law of liquid water can nullify any spell related to the universal law of water as long as it relates to liquid water; regarding ice, however, the universal law of liquid water has no power.

There are even more specialized universal laws, like the universal law of cold water and warm water, which can defeat the universal law of liquid water.

Even more specialized is the universal law of water with a specific temperature. No matter what, you can always become more specialized. It explains why there are so many universal laws.

However, this also means universal laws with broader applications are much stronger.

The Great Dream only has one universal law, but their universal law is extremely broad. That's why they appear so powerful despite being only rank 12.

There is a wealth of information available about them. The Great Dream is ancient, among the first in the universe to discover universal laws.

However, an accident happened, and their leader died. After that, they became factions and very bureaucratic.

From the beginning of the universe until today, they have failed to discover any more universal laws.

This situation is not uncommon. Many forces like them discovered a general universal law at the outset of the universe but haven't discovered a second one.

Because the token issued by the 'office' is non-transferable, the universal laws cannot be looted, eliminating any incentive to attack weaker rank 12 forces with general universal laws.

The office enforces strict regulations in this regard. If someone attempts to manipulate a weaker force and indirectly use their universal law, their license would be revoked.

For this reason, the office is the primary reason for very few wars between high-ranking civilizations.

'Office' is the oldest civilization, the first to reach rank 14.

Before them, nobody could use universal laws because nobody had any knowledge about the creation.

Nobody knows anything about who created the office and for how long it existed.

Even Rachel's database is empty regarding this.

They seem to be always there, sitting, observing, without taking any sides, only licensing universal laws and giving out tokens.

They know all universal laws ever discovered.

Because to license it, the civilization that discovers it must give up the information to the 'office.'

Rank 14 civilizations don't need a license to use universal laws; only knowledge is sufficient. License is a help to forces that don't know about the creation, helping them use universal laws.

The Great Dream possesses the universal law of 'existence,' which covers most subjects, except for some, like the void or other unusual concepts.

A broad universal law like 'existence' makes the Great Dream powerful against weaker forces, but weak against forces like Rachel.

She possesses many specialized universal laws, all of which overrule the universal law of existence.

For one, Rachel owns the universal laws of reality and illusions, with which she can almost completely nullify 'existence.' Since reality and illusion are both more specialized than existence, they take precedence over it.

As a result, the Great Dream is an easy target for her.

"The main body is going all out this time! It has made so many universal laws accessible!" she thought.

Universal laws cannot be transferred but can be loaned between members of the same force. However, information regarding them is kept as a secret.

Information is crucial to victory, and knowing the universal laws your opponent has makes it easier to defeat them.

Rachel displayed more than 10 percent of her universal laws, indicating that she is making a significant move.

Of course, she still retains 90% hidden, which consists of more specialized ones that are an absolute secret, only exposed when the situation requires it.

There are rank 13 administrators who handle these situations and can authorize lower-level Rachels to use more specialized universal laws.

Just as Rachel was lost in her thoughts, Zag finally finished with Lana.

"Wow! I feel like I'm supercharged! Lana, let's go again!" he was far from finished. Usually, he would lose most of his energy after just once.

"No, wait! Do it later!" Rachel shouted.

He was reluctant but eventually accepted.

Lana was ready. "Let's do it!" she said.

Zag reluctantly refused. Lana got upset and left.

"Look what you did! She got upset!" Zag said.

"Don't act like she doesn't do it every time! Later, give her some pills," Rachel said.

Zagronan is giving Lana lots of pills, and she is now at rank 4.

It takes little effort for him. Every rank 7 pill Rachel makes can be diffused into 1000 rank 4 pills. Just diffuse one, and it keeps Lana happy for 3 years.

Zag doesn't have to do it, but he genuinely loves Lana. She is extremely disloyal, wild, evil, and rude, but these traits are why Zagronan loves her. They remind him of hell, the original hell he misses.

"I wonder what happened to the children," he thought.

He hasn't found an opportunity to go there and look for them.

"I had high hopes for the pig head! Such a shame I was forced to ..."

"Hey! Listen to me! I'm talking!" Rachel was annoyed.

Zagronan came to himself and saw that Rachel had been talking for a while, and he wasn't paying attention.

"What is this all about? Zag was annoyed.

"Go and slap a demon king in hell!" Rachel said.

"What? Are you insane? If I go in, I can't come back! Also, a demon king can kill me with a look!" he screamed.

"Don't worry! Now, I am more generous. So, I've created a loophole specifically for you. Now, you can freely return!" she said.

In the long term, any exception to the general laws of the world will create significant disruptions. But for now, she has plenty of resources, so she keeps everything in place with sheer brute force. She plans to remove this loophole that she created for Zagronan later.

"What about the demon king killing me?" asked Zagronan.

"No one can kill you! The world will protect you, and it's far more likely that you will gain some treasure along the way. Maybe even reaching rank 8 or 9 directly!" she said.

"How is that possible?" he asked.

"Didn't you notice earlier? You are now a Main Protagonist! Not just a minor protagonist like you were before. Now, you're even better than your son!" Rachel said.

Zagronan, who knew about protagonists, widened his eyes. He quickly ran to the ocean and put his hand in the water.

"What?" he exclaimed as he caught a hornfish. He tried again, and the result was the same – another hornfish.

He tried it hundreds of times and every time, he caught whatever fish he wanted.

Golden diamond fish, which could be found in lava, rockfish that could be found in rocky mountains, and skyfish that could only be found high in the sky. He caught precisely what he desired every time, no matter how impossible it seemed.

He smiled from ear to ear and said, "I love you!"

Rachel smiled and said, "Don't waste your precious protagonist luck on some fish! Go and slap a demon king!"

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