Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 139: Prime Alchemy
Human soul, emotions, thoughts, will...all kinds of life energy will return to nothingness and chaos after death.

The opportunity for eternal life bestowed by the stars on human beings is to materialize these intangible life energies into the most original essence - self-element.

After praying for eternal life, every time a human dies, he or she is not annihilated in the true sense, but turns into an ego element that wanders in the world and exists in another form.

The ego energy that permeates the world is actually the souls of the dead. Every bit of ego contains the thoughts and consciousness of different dead people.

The reason why human life is short is that everyone is an independent and fragile individual. Everyone has a spiritual barrier with others, which leads to crime, violence, lies, deception... these deformed products that make the group more vulnerable.

If we could gather endless ego elements, aggregate all human thoughts and consciousness, and merge different minds and souls into an extremely powerful individual.

Then all disputes and violence will cease to exist.

Then the new existence that gathers countless human life energies and encompasses endless consciousness will be eternal and immortal.

Only such an existence deserves to be called an immortal god!

Compared to Him, the so-called "angels" are just lowly and pitiful inferior lives.

While studying the flesh and blood of gods, Geppetto discovered the ultimate secret of how this star bestowed upon humans the chance of eternal life, and he also found the entrance and direction to this path to eternal life.

He called this path to eternal life - Ascension!
This discovery made Gipetto ecstatic. The genius alchemist invested all his enthusiasm and energy into the great plan of allowing the entire human race to ascend.

If the ascension plan can succeed, then it will not be difficult to resurrect his son Carlo, or even the dead all over the world.

Although they will not exist in the form of flesh and blood, they can obtain eternal life in another form.

Under Simon's supervision, Geppetto was ostensibly manufacturing a power heart to become a god, but in fact he was carrying out intensive research on ascension.

However, even if the ultimate secret of immortality is deciphered, the difficulty of the ascension plan is still beyond imagination.

Geppetto repeatedly tried to use alchemy to gather a large amount of ego element, but all he got were pieces of ego element crystals.

Even though he was the most outstanding alchemist in the world, faced with hopeless failures time and time again, he began to doubt whether his abilities were too limited.

However, Geppetto never gave up his ascension plan. After countless failures, he summed up the two most critical reasons for the failure.

If he can overcome these two problems, he will be able to complete his ascension plan.

The first difficulty is that the total amount of self-element currently aggregated is too small to achieve qualitative change through quantitative change, so the only output of aggregation can be pieces of self-element crystals, rather than a complete joint consciousness body.

In order to solve the first problem, Geppetto claimed to Simon that the ritual of becoming a god would consume an immeasurable amount of ego.

With Simon's tacit approval, he set off a puppet riot, massacred all humans in Kratt City, and used death to turn them back into their most essential essence - ego element.

Geppetto felt no pity or guilt for this. In his opinion, these sacrifices were justified. In fact, they could not even be called sacrifices, but gifts.

Because as long as the ascension plan goes smoothly, all dead humans will gain eternal life. What else could this be but a gift?
In order to completely conceal the truth from Simon and to avoid arousing suspicion from the head alchemist who was under house arrest and controlling him, Geppetto personally designed the ego element absorption device, which is now the strange device on the top of the round tower.

Simon can use this device to better absorb ego elements to complete the so-called god-making ceremony.

Of course, this device has another more important function, which is to gather the scattered ego elements to achieve the ascension plan!
So, the first problem is half solved... yes, only half solved.

At the cost of all the human lives in Kratt City, Geppetto can gain immeasurable ego-element, but the ultimate secret of immortality is to gather hundreds of millions of humans into a united consciousness.

I have gained a lot of self-esteem now, but it is still far from enough to achieve my goal.

If possible, Geppetto would definitely slaughter all humans in the world to meet the requirements of the ascension plan.

But now mechanical dolls are only prevalent on the Krat Island, and even if Geppetto wants to destroy other places, it will be difficult to do so.

According to Geppetto's calculations, with the current stock of ego elements in Krat City, it can barely produce a very fragile joint consciousness.

This joint consciousness is far from being able to achieve immortality, and it is even difficult to stabilize its own form. Soon after it is aggregated, it will disintegrate and dissipate on its own, and once again transform into self-elements that wander freely in the world.

At this point, the unsolvable second half of the first problem evolved into the second problem.

Geppetto's ability cannot destroy the whole world, so he can only solve the problem from the unstable joint consciousness.

As long as the joint consciousness body can survive for a long time, every time a human dies and new ego elements are produced, the joint consciousness body can absorb the ego elements and continue to grow stronger.

This united consciousness can even actively influence the thinking and will of the human race, causing them to engage in large-scale wars. When the entire world is destroyed, the united consciousness will naturally grow to its peak and become an eternal and immortal existence.

But the question is, how can we make this extremely fragile joint consciousness continue to exist in the world?
Geppetto is indeed the most outstanding alchemist in the world. With his natural talent, he quickly found a solution.

The reason why the united consciousness is fragile is that it is just a pure consciousness, just like the human soul is extremely fragile without a body.

As long as a physical body is created for this joint consciousness to provide a shelter for the fragile consciousness, it will be able to remain stable for a long time.

Once the consciousness absorbs a large amount of ego elements and becomes strong enough, it can discard the body that will eventually decay and become a truly eternal being.

The physical body that carries the consciousness also needs to have extreme strength that is difficult for flesh and blood creatures to achieve.

What body could be more durable than a robot?
Geppetto gathered all the precious materials he could find and transformed Carlo's body into the 'Nameless Doll', which is undoubtedly the strongest doll.

It has no self-awareness and is equivalent to a cold machine. It is also the best carrier of the joint consciousness body.

At this point, the plan to gather all the human consciousness in Krat City and carry it in the body of a mechanical puppet has finally been formed.

The ascension plan thus evolved into mechanical ascension!

"I see... Then, Mr. Geppetto, is there a leader in the joint consciousness?"

Li Nanke lowered his head and remained silent for a long time before asking, as if he was shocked by this great plan and was in a daze for a long time.

Geppetto didn't notice that Li Nanke put one hand into his pocket, his eyes were slightly closed, his teeth were clenched, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead, as if he was enduring some pain.

He sneered: "I know what you are thinking."

"You must think that the purpose of my painstaking efforts to implement this plan is to make myself the leader of the united consciousness and sacrifice all mankind to gain eternal life, right?"

“Oh, whether it’s you, Simon, or everyone else, you have all been sinking in this dirty world for a long time, so lowly that you always speculate on the hearts of others with the most malicious prejudice... This is the fundamental reason why I want all human beings to merge and ascend!”

Geppetto raised his head, looking through the ego aggregation device on the top of the round tower, and looked at the endless sky covered with dark clouds.

"I will not become the leader, nor do I want to become the leader of the united consciousness. When the Mechanical Ascension Plan succeeds, each of us will be in His consciousness, a part of Him, and equally existent."

"At that time, all human beings will be one body and one mind."

"There has never been an eternal paradise in this world without intrigue and deception, where the strong prey on the weak. But after the stars responded to our prayers, and after I, Geppetto, brought mechanical ascension to all mankind... it now exists!"

"This is what they call...others are hell, and self is heaven!"

Li Nanke suddenly opened his eyes.

A new substance appeared in his spiritual world, in the shape of a pentagram.

Li Nanke's heartbeat sounded like thunder in his ears, and a powerful force surged out from the depths of his mind.

This was not physical strength, but a powerful spiritual force from the soul. It was as if a new world opened up before his eyes, and every detail became extremely clear, including the howling wind on the round tower, the chirping of insects in the distant woods, and even the trajectory of every dust particle in the air.

His mental strength surged like a tide, pushing his consciousness to a whole new level.

Li Nanke felt that his mind resonated with everything around him, as if he could sense that all things were made up of the most basic elemental particles.

He can analyze the composition and properties of these elemental particles, control the arrangement and combination of elemental particles, and transform everything. Stone can be turned into metal, and gravel can be turned into diamond...

【Main substance: Alchemy】

[Subordinate: Humanity]

[Rank: 2th rank]

[Level: 0/30]

[Details: Alchemy is to reorganize worthless things into valuable items through understanding, decomposition, reconstruction, imitation, catalysis, and acceleration of matter! The 'Alchemy' main substance will enable you to gradually understand alchemical knowledge, perceive the elemental particle composition of specific things, and use alchemical formulas, alchemical formations, alchemical experiments and other means to create a series of alchemical items. ]

[As the level of this main substance increases, your alchemy attainments will also continue to improve! 】

【Note: 'Big Brother' is prohibited! 】

The mastery of the main substance "alchemy" not only restored Li Nanke's exhausted mental power, but also greatly increased the total limit of his mental power.

Not only that, the arrival of the main substance of 'alchemy' even restored the balance that was on the verge of collapse due to animality to normal levels in an instant.

It was like riding a horse towards a cliff and having to watch oneself fall into the abyss, but Alchemy pulled the reins at the critical moment, not only stopping the horse from falling to pieces, but also riding the horse back to a safe area.

"Ok?"

Geppetto was stunned and looked at Li Nanke up and down in disbelief.

As the most outstanding alchemist, he felt that the young man in front of him had silently mastered the same extraordinary power as him.

Even if this came from the fact that the alchemist's power was still extremely shallow and he could only be considered an alchemy apprentice at best, how could someone who did not have the talent for alchemy suddenly become an alchemist?

Geppetto thought for a moment, then smiled and shook his head.

The tracker named Black Rabbit hides too many secrets that he cannot understand, and the other party is unwilling to open up to him.

But it doesn’t matter, once Black Rabbit joins the plan and becomes part of the joint consciousness, he will know everything.

At this time, Li Nanke's mental strength has been fully restored. He can fully exert his powerful strength. Naturally, he is not afraid of anything. He smiled and said:
"Mr. Geppetto, your plan is great, and you are not the villain I originally imagined."

"From your perspective, if mechanical ascension can really succeed, it would be nothing short of a miracle of creation. Although the price is the sacrifice of the flesh of all mankind, what is gained in return is the eternal continuation of the entire race."

"But I don't think you can create a heaven. The united consciousness... may be the most horrible hell."

"Therefore I will not join your plan, and I refuse to become part of the unified consciousness."

The smile on Geppetto's face slowly faded.

He stretched out his hand, and blue energy threads rippled and swayed between his fingers.

The controlled nameless puppet grasped the sword in both hands and assumed a fighting stance.

"I'm afraid that not only will you not join my plan, but you will also try every possible way to stop me?"

"good."

Li Nanke threw down the giant sword of Thunder Judgment, and a ferocious hammer wrapped in blood-red thorns appeared in his hand.

A raging flame ignited from the war hammer, and the hot flames surged and majestically.

After obtaining the essence of 'alchemy', he already understood that alchemists themselves actually had little combat power. This professional school was more inclined to assist in logistics, and their main ability was to create various alchemical props.

Geppetto has little combat power, and the enemy's strength is all concentrated on the nameless puppet.

He stared at the nameless puppet in front of him. Although the opponent was the most powerful mechanical puppet made by Geppetto, Li Nanke was confident that he could defeat him in a one-on-one situation.

Moreover, the current situation is not just one-on-one.

The awakened puppet boy picked up the giant sword of Thunder Judgment. He looked at Li Nanke, then at Geppetto, and then stood firmly beside the boss.

Driven by the ego, the giant sword was covered with surging electric light, and the crackling sound of violent electric current covered the entire giant sword.

After the massive infusion of ego essence during the deification ceremony, Pinocchio's power heart was also strengthened a lot. Even without the war machine, his strength was no less than that of Romeo, the puppet king.

Gippetto had a complicated look on his face, and he sighed and asked, "Carlo, are you sure you want to stand on his side?"

The puppet boy was stabbed in the back by Li Nanke, losing power and falling into a coma.

Pinocchio thought he was dead, but unexpectedly he was resurrected miraculously and became even more powerful after his resurrection.

Now he finally understood why Li Nanke had asked in advance whether he trusted him.

Because that fake death that seemed like a betrayal and backstab could make him stronger.

The boss asked me to trust him, it was all for my own good, but I started to doubt him unnecessarily...

Pinocchio felt a little ashamed, and his hands holding the giant sword became more firm.

"I'm not Carlo, I'm Pinocchio."

"I know you are my creator, Geppetto, but I don't know you well. You are the enemy of the Boss, which means you are my enemy!"

Li Nanke touched the puppet boy's head and felt a sense of filial piety.

The situation now is two against one. If the original battle still had some suspense about the outcome, now he is sure to win.

As long as you defeat the nameless puppet and kill Geppetto to stop the mechanical ascension plan, you can complete the final node.

"It's time to end everything..."

Suddenly, the azure blue butterfly that had been hidden for a long time reappeared.

The butterfly fluttered its wings quickly on his shoulder, and Sophia said anxiously:

"Mr. Black Rabbit, hurry up, you can't defeat Geppetto."

"Haven't you always wanted to know how to become the master of Puppet P? You have completed the commission, and now I tell you... Geppetto's alchemical glove can control all puppets."

"Puppet P, Romeo, and the nameless puppet, they will all become your enemies!"

(End of this chapter)