Infinite Fighting

Chapter 196: Planning the World Tree Seed

Delga City.

As the capital of Logan Kingdom, one of the seven countries in the Arcane Federation, it is built quite luxuriously.

The shadow of supernatural power can be seen in basically all kinds of buildings.

Especially the huge palace.

The height has exceeded 700 meters.

It's not that it can't be higher, but it's probably meaningless so they didn't build any higher.

Of course, compared with the original Four Poles Realm Floating City, it is still far behind.

It can't be compared with the Supreme City.

However, considering the relatively backward technology, it is already quite good.

After the star ship was shrunk, it was carried by Dugu Yunfeng, and the people on board also rested temporarily inside the star ship.

Zhang Ji, Balder and Dugu Yunfeng were preparing to enter the city.

There are guards wearing full body armor outside the city. They are quite powerful and are at the master level.

To be a guard in the royal city, one must have some skills.

Balder flashed a golden business card.

That is the identity certificate only available to the Honorary Committee of the Alchemists Guild, and also a Master-level Alchemist.

There is no online information query system here. After confirming the authenticity, they did not stop the three people and respectfully allowed them to enter the city.

Zhang Ji's mind was slightly outward-looking, and he easily acquired a large amount of information. He felt as relaxed as if he was traveling.

With his current strength, there are indeed very few things in this world that can pose a threat to him.

Although there are super S-level demigods, most of them are not in this space, but in the divine realm opened up by the demigods. They do not interfere with anything mundane.

They are all playing proxy wars, and ordinary people don’t even know whether gods exist or not.

No one wants to break this balance.

After all, demigods are also gods. If they really fight each other in the Lan'er world, a large number of intelligent lives will be destroyed.

Their efficiency in gaining faith will also be greatly reduced.

Before the establishment of an independent kingdom of God, the gods of the belief system always attach great importance to their believers.

But there are exceptions.

If they are really pushed to the limit, they will have to fight, and it doesn't matter how many believers die.

Balder also has property in this place, and it is not small, but a rather luxurious manor with quite a lot of servants maintaining it.

Zhang Ji and Dugu Yunfeng entered here in a carriage.

After entering the castle of the manor, Balder gave an order and the kitchen began to get busy.

Zhang Ji was not in a hurry. Enjoying the local culture and customs was one of the purposes of his visit.

"This is a sweet sauce and unicorn meat. And this is a drink I brewed myself. I call it [No Return]."

After the things were brought up, Balder dismissed the servants and personally served Zhang Ji and Dugu Yunfeng.

Dugu Yunfeng's expression didn't change much. He ate in a very serious manner. He just listened to Balder's introduction without saying much.

As for Zhang Ji, his eyes were full of nostalgia.

It brought back memories of when I first played the game.

How many magic crystals did it cost to eat these things for one meal?

It should take at least twenty blue magic crystals, right?
However, he did not dwell on the past and finished his meal quickly.

Then Zhang Ji said to Balder, "You sit down too."

"Your Majesty, Your Mercy," Balder said.

"Your arrival at the Origin Star was a misunderstanding, but it was also a blessing in disguise. Working for me will not be worse than if you work alone. I know you have the ambition to become a legend, which is good. Next, there is something I need you to do." Zhang Ji said, "If you succeed, I can promise to give you agency rights in part of this world."

"Balder Morton, at the command of the Supreme!"

Upon hearing this, Balder could hardly suppress the joy in his eyes. He quickly got up from his seat, knelt on one knee, and expressed his loyalty to Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji didn't care about his wrong etiquette and said directly: "You will be in charge of the negotiations with the Logan Kingdom. To ensure that things go smoothly, I will let the Holy King Dugu accompany you. In addition, please help me find the location of the ruins of the capital of the ancient Suya Empire."

"Suya Empire?"

Balder felt somewhat familiar with it, and then he seemed to have thought of something, and a ripple of emotion arose in his heart.

However, he remained calm on the surface and nodded in agreement to Zhang Ji.

After letting Dugu Yunfeng and Balder leave, Zhang Ji looked into the distance in the room of the castle.

The Suya Empire was a great empire in ancient times that almost ruled the world.

They did something huge.

That is to imitate the true God of the past, recreate the world into a kingdom of God, and hold a ceremony to ascend to the godhood.

The king of Suya, known as the God-Emperor, is the core of this ceremony.

But they failed.

And it triggered a disaster that almost destroyed the world.

A lot of information about it has been concealed in history, perhaps someone deliberately buried it.

All I know is that at that moment, it seemed as if a god was really born, but ultimately it failed because it was missing something.

However, the Suya Empire left behind two things.

Two very special things.

The first item is the seed of the world tree.

Although the quality of this seed is only (Legendary).

But its upper limit is extremely high. A complete world tree, a true (mythical) pinnacle creation, can help stabilize the operation of a world and allow it to complete its own cycle.

The second thing is the core of the kingdom of God.

The God Emperor actually did create the Kingdom of God, but his ascension to the Kingdom of God failed.

It was not because of lack of faith, but because he broke a taboo, destroyed the hometown of the previous true god, and killed his clan, so when he ascended, he attracted his attention.

The cross-dimensional attack directly destroyed the kingdom of God. The world tree was burned to ashes by the divine fire and eventually turned into seeds.

Although the kingdom of God was destroyed, its core remained.

It still retains some functions and can operate on its own, collect faith, purify it, and transform it into energy to nourish the deity's body.

It's just not as powerful as it used to be.

The seeds of the World Tree are easy to find. Zhang Ji should be able to dig them up if he finds the ruins of the Kingdom of God, the capital of the Suya Empire.

However, the core of the Kingdom of God is not easy to obtain.

It is in the hands of the Lord of Entropy, one of the eight super S-level demigods in this world. To be more precise, he is also called the "Demigod of Light".

The identity of the Lord of Entropy is also complicated.

This is also an antique that has lived for many tens of thousands of years.

He was a demigod of light from ancient times, bringing hope and light, and serving as a means of healing, etc. Through his incarnation, he founded the Holy Silver Theocracy, and his name at the time was Elvy Gloria.

It was not until he obtained the body of the God-Emperor that had not been completely destroyed, as well as the core of the Kingdom of God, and studied the history, that this man developed other ambitions.

He wants to emulate the God Emperor and become a true god.

Of course, he was also worried about suffering the same fate as the God Emperor, so he did this matter very secretly, and only left an incarnation called the Lord of Entropy inside the Crown of Sin Thorns organization in the Lan'er world to handle the matter.

He also modified the path to becoming a god, and reversely analyzed the path of collecting faiths, upholding the kingdom of God, and becoming a god.

Faith is hope and worship.

But after reverse analysis, he developed a reversed faith collection model.

First give believers hope, then break that hope and recover a hundred times the despair of faith.

The concentration of this power of desperate faith is much stronger than ordinary faith, so even if he has fewer believers, he can generate more faith, and it will not cause fluctuations in faith and will hardly be noticed by other demigods.

His bright divinity was also distorted by his faith and went to extremes.

Behind hope is endless despair.

Then there is the path of exalting the Kingdom of God.

To become the true God and exalt the kingdom of God actually means to separate the kingdom of God from the world and make it independent from the void. In this way, the gods will have the ability to obtain energy independently in the void and no longer rely on the world.

Officially upgraded to become a great void creature.

The Lord of Entropy no longer intends to exalt the Kingdom of God.

He planned to use the core of the kingdom of God to corrode the entire Lan'er world and turn this world directly into his kingdom of God.

In this way, there is no need to separate or grow, and one can directly obtain a complete world as the kingdom of God.

He doesn't have to worry about failure.

The whole model can be summarized as follows.

He secretly collected faiths, then used the flesh of the God Emperor to perform an incarnation ceremony to obtain a divine body, and used the power of despair to corrupt the entire world, turning the entire world into his kingdom of God.

That’s right, this is the main storyline of Lan’er World.

The Lord of Entropy is also the intended villain boss.

It is the player's job to stop him from corrupting the world and becoming a god.

He is still an ultimate mechanic monster with three stages.

In this 100-man raid, if you don’t have S-rank, you are not even qualified to be cannon fodder.

However, Zhang Ji had no views or opinions on his way of collecting faith and his means of corrupting the world to become his own kingdom of God, and he did not comment on whether it was right or wrong.

The core of the kingdom of God is what Zhang Ji wants.

But I don’t really want to.

Compared to the World Tree's seeds, this is a much cleaner item.

The Kingdom of God core is not that useful.

That thing has a back-up plan, the God Emperor didn't die completely.

The third stage of the Lord of Entropy is for the God Emperor to revive the top account, and then beat up the other seven demigods and a group of players.

Whoever obtains the core of the Kingdom of God will be bewitched by the remaining consciousness of the God Emperor, and gradually degenerate into an existence with only the obsession of becoming a true God.

So rather than saying that the Lord of Entropy is planning to become a true God, it is better to say that the God Emperor is using the Lord of Entropy's name to do his own thing.

The former god of light has now become distorted.

Zhang Ji does not think that he currently has the ability to resist the remaining consciousness of the God-Emperor. He also feels that it will be difficult to defeat the Lord of Entropy. With his current strength, it feels like he can only fight a few moves with an ordinary demigod. If he wants to fight against the Lord of Entropy or even defeat him, he will need at least three or four (Legendary) Fighting Crystals.

Therefore, his temporary desire for the core of the Kingdom of God was not very strong.

Just get the World Tree Seed.

We’ll talk about the core of the Kingdom of God in the future.

Holy Silver Theocracy.

This is a country full of faith.

Almost every city has churches and towers belonging to different gods.

Of course, although they are called gods, in fact they are all demigods, not true gods that have escaped the limitations of the world.

Their beliefs are found throughout Lan'er, but they are most numerous here.

Rusty Moon Monastery.

This is a charitable organization spread throughout the Holy Silver Empire. It was created by the former Pope Elvi Gloria. The god they believe in is the God of Light.

At this moment, in a monastery in the capital of the Theocracy, workers who were digging magic crystal ore were praying here. Long-term underground digging and lack of protection caused their lungs to be filled with magic crystal ore powder, which brought them a disease called "crystallized lung disease."

As long as you continue mining, your lungs will completely solidify into crystals.

Only the priests of the Rust Moon Monastery can use magic to temporarily relieve these symptoms for them.

However, it is only a temporary relief, and it will erupt more violently afterwards.

The praying workers looked at the statue of the God of Light, coughing from time to time, longing for His mercy.

A nun couldn't bear it, so she came forward and cast a spell on him.

The white light shone down, and the workers' expressions became comfortable.

His symptoms were temporarily relieved.

"Please don't do this kind of work anymore. If you continue like this, even divine magic won't be able to completely heal you." said the nun.

The worker smiled bitterly, shook his head, said thank you, and then turned and left.

It's not that he doesn't know the dangers involved, but only the salary from this job can allow his family to live a decent life.

Nearby, another worker who was praying was also receiving divine healing from a priest, but his reaction was not comfort but pain.

All the symptoms that were relieved by the magic broke out, and all the pain emerged in an instant, but he would not die. Time seemed to become extremely slow at this moment, and he clearly felt every detail of his lungs turning into crystals.

Breathing became more and more uncomfortable, and the figures of his family members appeared in his mind. He did not want to die yet, so the light of the magic shone even more, but it was of no avail. He fell from hope to despair, and invisibly, his faith changed. It turned from a hundred times stronger than the original faith in light into a dark faith mixed with despair and disappeared into the void.

He suffered in pain for a long time and finally died.

It would be fine if it couldn't be cured at the beginning, but the divine power could cure part of it, giving hope. However, in the end it was found that everything was in vain. This was the most desperate thing.

Gaining hope, and then step by step falling into despair, this process is the most common scene that the priests and nuns in the Rusty Moon Monastery have seen.

They showed compassion and reluctance on their faces, but there was nothing they could do.

We can only use our own means to alleviate and dissuade the situation as much as possible.

at the same time.

In the underground secret room of Rusty Moon Monastery.

A figure shrouded in darkness felt the desperate faith that kept gathering, and a hint of satisfaction appeared on his face.

His mind moved slightly, and a pitch-black spherical crystal appeared in front of him. That sphere was the core of the kingdom of God, but there were many defects on it. Now, under the repair of the power of faith, it has gradually become perfect.

"It's almost there, it won't be long"

(End of this chapter)