I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 535 Divine Advancement (4929)

If the surface-level Omni Castle is already amazing enough, then the doomsday bunker, which extends 150 meters underground and consists of a nearly 30-meter-long reinforced concrete honeycomb energy-absorbing structure, 5-centimeter-thick lead plates laid every 30 meters, a reinforced dome structure, blast-resistant shear walls, and more, is the true form of this estate spanning thousands of acres!
This is only the outer layer that serves as the nuclear protection layer. 150 meters underground, the innermost compartment alone is more than two meters thick, with the inner walls constructed using a double-layer steel plate sandwich and a concrete core.

The entire area is basically protected against electromagnetic pulses using Faraday cage-like lining structures.

Equipped with a high-efficiency HEPA filter, activated carbon purification, and an automatic carbon dioxide concentration monitoring system, the cabin features a closed-loop, full-area circulation design to ensure that the air inside the cabin remains unchanged for months.

A three-stage water supply system consisting of reverse osmosis, rainwater harvesting, and groundwater extraction.

A closed cultivation unit of over 500 square meters, capable of growing mushrooms, algae, potatoes, and insect protein cultivation.

Diesel reserves + closed-loop gas generators + remotely buried photovoltaic cells + underwater tidal power transmission lines...

A satellite monitoring and command center exceeding 300 square meters, built to Cold War-era communication standards…

A residential area of ​​nearly 2500 square meters, capable of housing more than 100 people...

Everything was designed to cope with the so-called apocalypse.

When that day comes, the people here can survive underground for years without supplies until the danger on the surface disappears.

One hundred and forty years ago, John Fremont, the "King of Kings" of the Omniscient Society and the Conqueror of California, donated this land to the Omniscient Society and began building this stronghold with the wealth he had plundered from the Mexicans.

The construction of Fort Omni was completed 90 years ago, with frequent interruptions. It was finally completed 90 years ago during the reign of Charles Adams III, the then "Great Sage," Minister of the Navy of the United States, Harvard lawyer, and the first president of Raytheon Company.

Over the following decades, through continuous renovations, this place has become the largest stronghold of the Omniscient Society in Mai, the de facto management center, and the residence of successive "Great Sages".

It was here that Fang Yu found John Adams Morgan, the current "Great Sage" of the Omniscient Society, who possessed the dual bloodlines of the Morgan and Adams families.

That's right, it's Morgan from Morgan Stanley.

The Morgan family is also related to the Adams family by marriage, and is itself a member of the "Boston Brahmins" led by the Adams family.

In fact, J.P. Morgan truly rose to prominence with the support of the Adams family.

In 3011, George Homans, the great saint at the time, grandson of Charles Adams II, and founder of behavioral sociology, proudly declared that even if a nuclear war broke out, this place would be the last pure land in the world.

The Omniscient Society believes that after the apocalypse, they will, with the support of the "Origin," restart human civilization from here, lead human evolution, and usher humanity into the next era.

After Fang Yu captured John Adams Morgan, he found a lot of information about the Omniscient Society here, and after reading it, he just grimaced.

That's so ridiculous and childish. And this guy calls himself a sociologist? He's just making things up.

When formulating the ASI development outline, Fang Yu once had Orange Model use "virtual divination" to conduct doomsday predictions.

In the event of nuclear annihilation, privately built small and medium-sized doomsday bunkers would be completely useless and could not guarantee human survival at all.

The main reason is population.

Small and medium-sized bunkers that can accommodate up to 3,000 people have too low a margin for error. Even if they survive the first wave of nuclear attacks, they are not enough to maintain the stable operation of the bunker base.

The Orange model has conducted over a million simulations of 328 apocalyptic scenarios, and all survival models with fewer than 3,000 survivors failed.

Especially for private bunkers, digging too shallow is useless, and digging too deep will cause the bunker's facilities to become ineffective within 180 days, and survivors may even be trapped underground to death.

Moreover, the higher the proportion of "elite groups" in the bunker, the lower the survival rate.

On the one hand, the elite group generally lacks practical skills and finds it difficult to repair and maintain the bunker.

On the other hand, the elite group is too smart.

Smart people prefer to use their brains rather than their hands. The more they use their brains, the more ideas they have. With more ideas, mutual trust decreases. With less trust, the foundation for consensus disappears.

With the foundation of consensus gone and no laws in this apocalyptic world, nothing is surprising.

However, this did not prevent it from becoming the most influential stronghold and de facto headquarters of the Omniscient Society.

After eliminating all the high-ranking members of the Omniscience Society who had gained extraordinary abilities by merging with Nabasu's flesh and blood, Fang Yu found most of the Omniscience Society's information here.

After giving the data to Yuzi, Fang Yu discovered that this place was not only invisible on satellite maps, but also did not require paying property taxes to the IRS!
This demonstrates the extent of the influence that the Omniscience Society had on the "deep government" of Mai.

However, the structure of the Omniscience Press is quite interesting.

The King of Kings is responsible for managing the organization, the Tyrant controls the violent apparatus of the Omniscient Society, and the Great Sage is a spiritual leader similar to the Pope.

All the Great Saints were of the Adams family bloodline.

It's not that Nabasu had much affection for the Adams family, but rather that old Adams had once signed a demon contract with Nabasu.

When Nabasu first awakened, he was not powerful. He mainly relied on killing one person at a time to harvest human spirituality, and he also had to avoid being discovered by humans, which was very inefficient.

To fix a bug, Nabasu can't absorb the spirit of all the dead; it must have killed them or been corrupted by them.

Even if you kill one person a day on average, you can only kill a little over three hundred people a year.

If it causes a sensation among people, it has to be moved to another location, which greatly affects efficiency.

Furthermore, Nabasu consumes death energy to use any of his supernatural abilities.

As a material plane, Blue Star is inherently unsuitable for Nabasu's survival, and the accumulation of death energy is extremely slow.

Nabasu could only use his demonic talent to absorb the traces of death energy from the material world using the spiritual energy he had collected, and sometimes he couldn't even make ends meet.

It was under these circumstances that Old Adams discovered Nabasu's secret, and by promising Nabasu ten times more spirituality, he made a demonic pact with Nabasu.

The contract requires Nabasu to select a representative from each generation of the Adams family to regularly sacrifice human spirituality for them.

In exchange, each representative can make three requests to Nabasu, not exceeding the limits of Nabasu's power. Once all three requests are fulfilled, Nabasu will harvest the spirituality of that representative and appoint the next representative.

At the same time, Nabasu would also grant this member of the Adams family certain extraordinary abilities by implanting his own flesh and blood into the representative.

In a sense, Nabasu was controlled by the Adams family.

Of course, objectively speaking, although sacrificing one's spirituality to the devil is immoral, Adams' control over Nabasu actually reduced the losses to human society.

After all, orderly harvesting is far better than disorderly destruction.

Nabasu himself didn't care about this.

It is a chaotic and evil creature with no interest in power in the material plane; every day here is torture for it.

All it wants is to return to the abyss, and it would be best if someone could handle these troubles for it.

The successive representatives of the Adams family thus became the "Great Sages" of the Omniscient Society.

As the Adams family continued to expand, some family members who belonged to the Adams family but did not bear the Adams surname began to become Great Saints.

Moreover, not every great sage is so rational as to be willing to dedicate everything to the Omniscient Society.

For example, after the first season, Constance Coolidge, who was designated as the Great Sage at the age of 17, resolutely refused to fulfill the responsibilities of the Great Sage, but readily accepted the rights and extraordinary abilities of the Great Sage.

To escape her duties as the Great Sage, Constance Coolidge even fled to the Great Zhou after her marriage, becoming a socialite in Xinhao and having countless lovers in the foreign circles there. It wasn't until the Japanese invasion that she fled to Paris, where she continued her promiscuous ways.

The reason she went to Da Zhou was that Mai Kingdom was under a prohibition on alcohol at the time, and Da Zhou was obviously more attractive to her, who loved banquets and revelry.

The real reason was that Nabasu never set foot in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so she had to hide there to avoid being caught by him. It wasn't until this woman arrived in Paris that Nabasu came knocking, revoking her Great Saint status, but he didn't kill her; instead, he preserved some of her extraordinary abilities.

According to Nabasu's confession, this woman was the only one in the Adams family that it didn't find repulsive.

Over its more than two-hundred-year history, the significance of Nabasu to the Omniscient Society has been constantly changing, gradually transforming from an initial deterrent force into a pure symbol used to maintain the members' faith.

After Fang Yu took over the place without hesitation, he replaced the entire management structure with artificial humans and large AI models.

D'Addario never imagined that this execution chamber, which looked exactly like the courthouse, was actually 150 meters underground!
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It worked!
Seeing that the desire and faith, though much weaker, were still flowing into the channel of faith and being transformed into spiritual power, Fang Yu clapped his hands excitedly.

Become!

Adding gated LONN loop layers and normalization layers to the God model indeed enables believers to continuously dedicate their desires and faith, rather than engaging in a one-off transaction!

Bound to the yoke, D'Addario kept his eyes closed, unconsciously chanting the mantra of Aizen Myō-ō, "ong hong xidi suoha." His whole body was red and he kept writhing, almost unconscious, but he never truly collapsed.

Controlling desires is indeed a more effective way to cultivate faith than satisfying them!
Previously, the God model satisfied believers' desires instantly by making the other party empty their magazine immediately. It seemed to solve the believers' problems in the most direct way, but the total value of the desires produced by faith was actually very low.

Fang Yu had some doubts at the time. Based on his actual experience, after a desire is satisfied, there will be a fairly long refractory period, and after it is satisfied, the threshold of desire will become higher and higher, and the speed at which desire grows will become slower and slower.

This will undoubtedly make it increasingly difficult to cultivate desire and faith, until eventually nothing can make the other party feel "excited", "fulfilled" and "satisfied".

At that point, the believer would be like a lithium battery that has been overcharged and is ultimately discarded.

Improperly discarded batteries will pollute the environment.

Most importantly, desire is a form of energy consumption; satisfying desire leads to "entropy increase," while restraint leads to "entropy decrease." What can feed back into the system is the structural order brought about by entropy decrease.

In other words, restraining desires will bring long-term results and lead to more desires and beliefs, while fully satisfying desires will actually reduce the total amount of desires a person generates.

For example, Leonardo DiCaprio, after being tormented and reworked for so long, now finds nothing interesting to do.

Not only has she stopped doing silver palming and dating, but she's now started studying Buddhism and even went to the Bay Area to attend a spiritual retreat.

Charlie Sheen went on a tirade, saying why she didn't have AIDS before she contracted it, and that if she had, she wouldn't have gotten it.

But now, by adding a "gated loop layer" and a "normalization layer" to the God model and then using residual connections to return desires, the logic of collecting desires and beliefs has been fundamentally changed.

Firstly, this method solves the problem of faith spilling out, as all desires enter the faith channel and participate in the cycle.

Secondly, after adding the gated loop layer, the God model no longer uses the method of letting believers enter a sage state to provide immediate feedback to believers.

Instead, it opens a small opening in the target's overflowing desires, allowing the desires to flow out slowly, reducing the degree of suffering the believer experiences due to unfulfilled desires, thereby prolonging the duration of the target's desires.

It's like a religious version of the swimming pool filling and draining problem.

Then, through normalization, this part of desire and belief is automatically transformed into spiritual power and fed back to Fang Yu.

Simply put, if the old response mode that directly empties the magazine could contribute 10 Faith Power to Fang Yu per second, it could only contribute for 3-5 seconds each time.

Each person can probably only contribute 50 units of faith power to Fang Yu per day.

But now, in this way, only 0.5 faith power can be obtained per second, but the duration is hundreds of times longer than before.

Look at Daddario, it's been more than three hours already. If measured by the numbers from before, that's equivalent to contributing 9600 Faith Power!
A difference of 192 times!

Of course, this is also because Daddario's current situation is rather special.

After all, not everyone is lucky enough to be personally "taught" by the god of desire.

If it were an ordinary believer, their desire to contribute faith within the same time unit should be between one-fifth and one-eighth of Daddario's current level.

That's at least a 20-fold difference!
Compared to the original divine model in the Aizen Myōō statue, the modified "divine model" has increased production efficiency by more than a hundred times!
No wonder, this is nothing more than a "wild" model of God that has formed on its own due to the faith projection of believers. It cannot truly receive feedback from the faith, so naturally it has no opportunity to improve itself.

This is analogous to the difference between a small handicraft workshop and mass production on an assembly line.

The only drawback of this method is that believers must personally chant the corresponding incantations or mantras for the "unification layer" in the model of God to transform desire and faith into absorbable spiritual power.

If they are not chanted, faith cannot be transformed into spiritual power. It can only be temporarily transformed into divinity to avoid waste.

But it's good, these past few months, I've been just a little short of breaking through to 2 units of divinity, so I can see what changes will occur after the breakthrough.

Fang Yu opened his sea of ​​consciousness, and the 40,000 faith channels that had been severed in order to modify the "model of God" reconnected to the model of God like tentacles, vibrating loudly.

A massive amount of desire and faith roared into the model of the gods. After being cleansed and processed by the model of the gods, these desires and faiths were then steadily injected into the divine crystals through the link between the model of the gods and the divine crystals.

The divine crystal, which was already at a critical point, began to shine brightly in Fang Yu's sea of ​​consciousness!

1.999857, 1.999861, 1.999865...

In Fang Yu's perception, as the divine value increased, the divine crystallization became more and more perfect.

1.999987, 1.999995...

2.00000001!

The instant the value of divinity crossed 2, an invisible force, centered on Fang Yu, spread outwards like ripples on the surface of water.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

The candles on the candlesticks on the four walls were not extinguished by this force; instead, the flames surged, and the originally rather gloomy execution room was instantly illuminated as if it were daytime!
Is this the change that occurs after divinity reaches 2 units?
Fang Yu had never felt such a heartfelt sense of comfort.

He felt like a paralyzed person who had been asleep for many years, who had suddenly regained the strength of his limbs.

The body was still the same body, but for the first time, Fang Yu realized that he truly "possessed" it.

Even though his physical strength hadn't increased, his life essence hadn't changed, and his mental strength was still 22 units, he still knew that his strength had increased.

It was an indescribable sense of "fit," as if there was a thin membrane between the soul and flesh, but now that membrane had disappeared.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, golden light wafted, as if something deeper was quietly being reconstructed.

As the reconstruction progresses, one's control over one's own body becomes increasingly perfect.

With just a thought, one can freely control their heart rate, blood pressure, metabolism, digestive system, and immune system...

Even if Goku had mastered Ultra Instinct, it wouldn't be anything special, would it?
But why is this happening?

Yes, it's spirituality!
To be precise, my spirituality has never been so closely and smoothly integrated with my body as it is now!
After divine ascension, is it the spirituality that is affected?

Yes, those gods were originally legendary mages who had entered the astral plane, which is a spiritual world. It makes sense that their spirituality would gain some benefits after their divinity was enhanced.

But what exactly has changed in my spirituality?
The shapes are indeed different, but I can't quite put my finger on what the differences are.

I'll ask the pomelo in a bit and see if it knows.

However, we still need to go to Lorraine again to interrogate that Nabasu.

In order for believers to achieve mass spiritual enhancement through chanting mantras...

What could be more suitable to exploit than a mysterious organization like the Omniscient Society?

(End of this chapter)