I’m below the water surface again.
A terrible silence with nothing to do.
But this time I don’t need to just wait for opportunities with nothing to do. Because there are lots of memories to organize until then.
First, I obtained two summoning methods.
Yasle’s method.
Supreme Leader Tongcheon’s method.
Yasle’s method is to build an altar, kill a large number of sacrifices there, and summon a god into a vessel.
The advantage is that the caster doesn’t need any special abilities. To match the ‘rank’, which is a kind of cost, you just need to kill a lot. It means there’s no case of putting in memories but not being able to summon because of insufficient qualifications.
The disadvantage is that you need to choose a vessel. So you need an eye that can choose and a vessel in that era.
Since the method of choosing is included when inserting Yasle’s memories, choosing itself isn’t a problem. The problem is that it’s so picky that Yasle had to wait over ten years for a vessel to be born and grow.
If you compromise on that vessel, you fail.
No, in Yasle’s memories, you only need sacrifices corresponding to high rank to call a god. But the problem is that simple high rank can’t contain me.
That’s why it failed.
It’s too difficult that finding a vessel is purely luck.
Second, the Great Kraken’s method.
The advantage is you don’t need to care about the vessel.
At first I thought I could enter because it was a child of a harvester, but looking at the Great Kraken’s memories, that’s not it. It takes at least 10 years minimum, 20 years on average to raise, but if raised properly, you can forcibly create a vessel that accepts a god.
Also, being able to obtain the special abilities that individual had is a characteristic of sacrifices made by the Great Kraken’s method.
Moreover, you don’t need to care about the person chanting the spell, or ‘caster’ for short. If doing it alone, you need to be at least at the level of the Great Kraken’s top subordinate, but you can split the chanting among several people like when the Moon Emperor Hall summoned me.
The disadvantage is it needs an enormous scale of time, money, and manpower. To make the vessel, you need to confine them in a special room from babyhood and keep feeding them special medicines to continuously modify their body.
And since there’s a high chance casters will die from the burden during chanting, it’s recommended to prepare five times the number of people chanting. And there’s also the problem of how to insert the chant into the casters.
There’s not enough time to put it all into one person.
I compared the pros and cons.
Overall, the Great Kraken’s completeness is higher.
Though it’s a bit much to compare with someone who once completely conquered humans and a world.
Additionally, based on the Great Kraken, disadvantages aren’t disadvantages. It means you can get it if you try.
The spirit of solving with money what can be solved with money.
But it’s too difficult for harvester candidates who have nothing they can do except despair when driven into a corner.
People who have fallen that far basically have personalities damaged to the level of rags, so it’s almost impossible to run stably like Tis even if given power.
In the end, Yasle’s side is easier to use.
No. Strictly speaking, there are three methods.
Directly going up using a harvester’s descendant as a sacrifice. This doesn’t connect the whole body, just part of it with above.
The problem is there’s a minor issue that I can’t perceive there to go up unless it’s the moment the harvester is with that descendant.
Phew.
It’s really hard to go up from the bottom. Really.
But I gained a lot besides that in the second world.
First, One Stroke Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.
All harvesters can use it.
Heavenly Demon compressed the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique to the extreme and put it into one stroke. Sa Mabaek actually used the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique perfectly with just the One Stroke Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.
So…
Huh?
Why is it remaining as a memory? Heavenly Demon was after becoming a harvester then, so memories don’t remain. The memories I watched from his perspective remain.
So I can’t understand what that person understood. There’s no way the technique called One Stroke Heavenly Demon Divine Technique would remain as a memory when used…
It’s good because it’s shorter than Eunjae’s Heavenly Demon Divine Technique!
I was lucky!
Next is Soo-oh Heart Technique Choseol.
I’m not sure about this one.
I gave this to Sa Mabaek along with the One Stroke Heavenly Demon Divine Technique, but there’s no trace of using it. There was never a time when it snowed after using a slash.
I don’t know why this remains as a memory inside me too, but.
It seems I don’t have a forgetting function, so there will probably be a time to use it someday.
And next I organize my abilities.
Or functions, as they’re also called.
First, I can push myself into people who touch me.
If this is too powerful, the place where that harvester is physically explodes.
Light falling to where I am.
It seems the physical address doesn’t change for this. I’ll express it in an easy-to-understand way.
In the faded man’s memories, there’s people entering dreams.
And you can enter deeper dreams in dreams, and if you go down too far, you reach the bottom.
The person’s body is in that place but their mind went down to a deep place.
Like that, the person’s body is in that place but the light came down to a deep place.
To where I am.
The world is a glass bottle, and it seems to fall entirely to where I am when it breaks. But actually it seems only the light falls, not the body.
But when the first world broke, all living things fell to me…
I’m not sure about this yet. Even the Great Kraken and Primordial Heavenly Lord didn’t know light falls.
And the second ability.
I can create harvesters if I recite the contract text and the other person agrees.
If the other person agrees, it’s done when I push myself into their light. Then I can obtain the warmth of those the harvester killed directly or indirectly.
This is the core component for my warmth harvesting.
If they kill others while alive, I obtain warmth.
If it’s one or two people, it might come in occasionally. But what if that accumulates over time? And what if the number is large?
An enormous amount will come in at every moment.
But I can’t push too many into one world. When the number grew too large, suddenly the world broke and all living beings in the first world fell to me.
There was heat rather than warmth, but that was only for a short moment.
In the end, it was just a moment of ecstasy.
It’s better to obtain steadily than receive all at once.
Let’s return to the story.
The mechanism of obtaining warmth seems to be related to the act of killing somehow.
If the harvester is the leader of a group, and orders that group to battle, the warmth of those killed by the group comes to me.
In that sense, Tis wasn’t a good harvester. But in terms of total warmth, she has the most except for the Great Kraken.
So I’ll only choose people with high positions to contract.
And using the fact that I can contract with that person wherever they are when I recite the contract text, only recite the contract text to the next generation to become harvesters.
I plan to create such a system.
Then humans will live trampling on the weak as they wish, so warmth will steadily come in.
Hehe.
I look forward to the next world.
Now, and the third ability.
Those who attack to kill me become connected to me.
I originally found this out in the first world, but I learned how to apply it in the second world.
I’ll think about that later, let’s organize the basics first.
I can steal warmth if hit.
But it’s close to a counterattack technique, so I have the disadvantage of not being able to steal warmth if the opponent doesn’t attack.
Plus one more.
Even if they attack, there’s no connection if the opponent doesn’t intend to kill. The Primordial Heavenly Lord’s first attack was like that. I wondered if gravity attacks didn’t work, but the second was fine.
If they attack with the intention of killing me, no matter what attack it is, they become connected to me, and I can rob their warmth.
Then their light shrinks black, and their body loses shape and twists. They change like humans attacked by monsters that mutate humans appearing in SF works.
They feel cold like me, and attack the light in front of them with only instinct, losing reason.
Because light has warmth, to obtain it.
But they’ll never obtain warmth.
Because they’re connected to me, I obtain all warmth.
However, this mutation is completely random, so that thing that mocked me and took its own life was very smart. At least its intelligence increased more than its twisted form before, a wild feline animal.
So I tried not to use it on living opponents at all.
But I learned another method.
This is used together with the fourth ability.
Reality manipulation.
It seems like an enormous cheat, and it is a cheat.
But the limitations are also big.
If I create an object that doesn’t exist in that world, the world can’t withstand it and breaks.
If I create an object too detached from reality, the world can’t withstand it and breaks.
Changing things that exist in this world to other things that exist in this world, like changing torn clothes to clean clothes or stone to gold, doesn’t crack the world.
But if I create something that doesn’t exist, like filling an empty jar with water, it cracks.
If I tried to fill an empty swimming pool with water, the world would break.
I seem very heavy, so the world breaks when I push myself in.
It’s quite usable, but a technique that seems like the world will break if used too much.
It’s not that strange if you say manipulating reality.
But when this technique meets the third ability, it exerts a unique power.
Monsters. Or bizarre entities.
In the case of bizarre entities where rumors existed first rather than the body being created first, and they were created following those rumors.
If they attack me and have their warmth stolen, they become randomly mutating lumps of meat just the same. But if I forcibly push myself into where the blackened shrunken light is and twist reality to change it into a tool.
The light turns to dust and flies away, and a tool with functions derived from rumors is created.
The lamp emitting blue light was like that.
If you do the same to people, they’ll probably just become objects. But if there’s something that can replace those rumors, you can make them into tools that contain that.
Since Choseol contained me, I expected it would be possible if it was a person, and it turned out as expected when I tried.
I’ll be able to use it well in the next world.
In game terms, it’s like gaining a tool crafting function.
And fifth.
Or a derivative of the third.
When the light of a target connected by attacking me was sufficiently large and enormous.
I can forcibly push myself in and move.
Although light and body disappear with each action.
The Great Kraken disappeared like that too.
When his warmth was stolen, his light shrank black and his body mutated. At that time, I pushed myself in through the connection created by touching him, and moved him according to my will.
Additionally, the blackened shrunken light and body disappeared together through that connection.
Maybe.
If I practice a lot, I might be able to do it with creatures with small light too. If that happens, I won’t need to be toyed with like last time.
After confirming my abilities, I examine the countless memories obtained from the second world.
Especially the Great Kraken and Primordial Heavenly Lord.
Because they have lots of techniques I’ve never even imagined!
While going over memories like that, I look up at the calm sea surface without a single wave.
Occasionally contracting with light falling to the bottom, and infusing power and knowledge.
Until someday someone pulls me up.