This isn't a souls-like game at all.

Bao Xia was slightly stunned when he heard this. These words were not unfamiliar to him, on the contrary, they sounded somewhat familiar.

Before graduating from the academy and joining the Knights of All Creatures, he interned at the Imperial Audit Bureau.

Because of his outstanding abilities, he has participated in several formal incident investigations.

During one of his investigations, he went deep into an unusual cave and encountered a monster deep inside that was later named "Chimera".

It was a ferocious monster with many subhuman and non-human limbs, and its flesh and blood organs were almost entirely made up of different life forms.

Fortunately, the "Chimera" only has a ferocious appearance, but its strength is just like its body, which is made up of various pieces and poses no threat at all.

Although Bao Xia solved it effortlessly, the alien's terrifying and twisted body left a deep impression on him.

Later, he learned the origin of "Chimera".

That is artificial life developed and created by a cult organization called "Ascendance" with the support of a faction of the Sons of Cyber ​​that was expelled from the empire.

"You mean, you've also tried to explore taboos and create new life out of thin air?"

Bao Xia stared at the little goblin on Ye Yiyi's shoulder and couldn't help but ask.

"This is indeed a taboo for us little fairies..."

Yudena looked embarrassed and lowered her head, staring at the corner of the clothes she was fiddling with in her hands.

"After all, as spirits of nature, we are naturally resistant to this kind of unnatural life..."

"Just for you fairies?"

Baoxia grasped the key words in the other person's words.

"Yes."

Yudenna nodded, then turned to look at Ye Yiyi who was listening quietly.

"To the nations ruled by the kings, even unnatural, forbidden life forms are not considered aliens. They are no different from other human races, non-human races, and us fairies. We are all simply the king's subjects."

"The King's people..."

After hearing this, Bao Xia also subconsciously looked at Ye Yiyi with a dazed look in his eyes.

No matter what race you are, there is no difference, we are all just the king's people?

Even the forbidden artificial life is like this?

He couldn't help but think of the chimera hiding at the bottom of the cave.

Even though the Rodno Empire had abolished slavery for many years, discrimination against subhumans and non-human races still existed.

The notorious human supremacist organization "Ascendance" hunts down large numbers of subhumans and non-humans to create "Chimera", which is a product born out of this racial discrimination.

But in the land countries ten thousand years ago, not to mention other races different from humans, even forbidden creatures could live freely in the world as the king's subjects.

Bao Xia just imagined that scene and felt it was like a dream.

"..."

Ye Yiyi felt a lot of psychological pressure when these two guys looked at her with such inexplicable respect.

Damn it, I told you I’m not the king anymore.

It’s not my credit that the nations on earth have eliminated racial differences!

Could you please stop looking at me like that?

"Does the World-Destroying Zerg create life?"

Ye Yiyi suddenly interrupted, trying to change the subject.

"It seems not, Your Highness."

Yudenna guessed what Ye Yiyi meant and shook her head with some regret.

"Yudnana didn't sense any resistance or disharmony in those insects. They were naturally bred life forms and had nothing to do with the creation of life."

"In other words, they aren't biological weapons created in a laboratory?"

Ye Yiyi pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Once one possibility is ruled out, the origin of the world-destroying Zerg becomes clear.

Like other life forms here, they come from deep space.

"But Master Fairy, speaking of which..."

Bao Xia suppressed the excitement in her heart and asked respectfully.

"Since artificial life forms are no different from those of other species in the lands under the king's rule, why is a laboratory dedicated to the creation of life still needed here?"

"Because not all created life possesses wisdom and intellect."

Yudenana scratched her head. "In fact, apart from the high-level skilled slaves, most of the life forms created on the border are alien life forms born from the influence of the magic-polluted environment."

"Wait a minute?"

Ye Yiyi was suddenly stunned.

"High-level Skilled Slaves... You mean the Skilled Slaves with the name 'Seat'? Are they all created beings?"

"Isn't this natural, Your Highness?"

Yudenna looked at him in confusion, as if she didn't understand why Ye Yiyi was so surprised.

"All these intelligent skillful servants are life forms created by His Majesty the Skillful God."

"what?"

Bao Xia looked back and forth at the two of them, his expression confused and bewildered.

Ancient slaves... also possess wisdom?

Are they not merely tools of a machinery?

Ye Yiyi lowered her eyes and fell into deep thought.

This answer from Yudena solved a question that had puzzled him for a long time, but it was not really a question.

When he first crossed over, he first met the fairy Lilylu and the high-level skilled slave Rusty Mountain in the weapons exhibition hall.

When he took Lilylu to talk to Rusty Mountain, the little fairy showed signs of unwillingness to contact Rusty Mountain, and even showed some resistance.

Later he asked Lilylu about this matter, but she didn't answer and just glossed over it.

Thinking back to that incident now, Ye Yiyi suddenly understood why the little goblin resisted Rusty Mountain.

"So, it's because the existence of high-level skill slaves themselves makes the little goblins feel resistant?"

Alice had also talked to him about the root cause of the other type of alien life that Yudenna mentioned, which was created due to magical pollution.

Thinking of this, he asked.

"Yudenana, the environment you mentioned is contaminated by magical substances. Could it be that the source is the shit left by the ancient bordering people?"

Yudenna's face turned pale. She glanced at Baoxia, who looked confused, and quickly argued.

"Your Highness, please don't speak so harshly! It's the excrement and various household waste that are causing the pollution!"

It wasn't so much an argument, but she didn't deny it.

Ye Yiyi also glanced at Bao Xia who was shocked, and silently looked away.

"So, fundamentally speaking, most of the life on the border, aside from the skilled slaves, was born from shit."

"ah!"

Yudena felt that all the nations had lost face and fainted from the smell of shit.

But this is not a joke or a mockery, it is true.

While people in the era of the land nations enjoyed the convenience brought by the king's magic, they also had to bear the price that came with it.

According to zoologist Alice, the feces of the ancient border people contain the toxins of the king's magic, which cannot participate in the natural cycle and therefore pollutes the land.

From the birth of the first king until the time of Alice, when ten kings coexisted, 74.8% of species on the border had become extinct.

This data comes from Alice when she was still a zoologist, and is highly credible.

But what she didn't say at the time was that as life became extinct and the toxic environment spread, new life was born.

These "created lives," which can also be called artificial life in a certain sense, are the subject of research in this laboratory.

Thinking of this, Ye Yiyi stopped and looked up at the plaque hanging high above the metal door in front of him.

"The Creation of Life Laboratory."

Yudenna raised her head, whispered the words on the plaque, and shrank back behind Ye Yiyi's ear.

"The magic of the kings is both a miracle of nature and a curse... This is what the goblin sage once recorded in the code..."

The goblin pressed against his earlobe, mumbling in confusion.

"Your Highness, what exactly do you mean by this private statement?"

"I don't know, because I'm not the king yet."

Ye Yiyi answered in a low voice. He took out a round object from behind him and pressed it against the door, watching it stretch out its metal limbs and crawl away, opening the door that had been sealed for ten thousand years.

"hiss!"

"Bang! Clang!!"

As the door opened, the loud noise that was isolated behind the door came from the gap along with the bright firelight.

Ye Yiyi narrowed his eyes, grabbed Bao Xiahou's collar before she could react, and rushed towards the wall next to the door with his body suspended in the air.

"boom!!"

The next moment, bright flames swept out from the door and turned into a raging sea of ​​fire rushing out.

"So intense?"

Bao Xia watched the flames melt the earth into magma, and his heart trembled, and the vertical eye on his forehead closed subconsciously.

"Wait! Why is there that flame of revenge again!"

"Bang, bang, bang..."

A strange metallic collision sound came from behind the door, and a tall black shadow flew out and embedded itself deeply in the stone wall opposite the gate.

"Choke Warrior..."

Ye Yiyi looked up and saw that the four-armed giant insect's shell had melted all over, and its four thick arms were all bent and broken, with white liquid like molten iron flowing out from the wounds all over its body.

"..."

The Strangling Warrior struggled to raise his head, but the next moment his neck completely melted into molten iron, and his one-horned head fell into the magma pool below.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The sea of ​​fire transformed from the vengeful heavenly fire disappeared, and the strange sound rang out again. The earth trembled slightly, as if some giant creature was crawling on the ground.

Ye Yiyi carried the pale-faced Bao Xia Piao to the door. Looking behind the door, he saw a huge, burning white creature climbing up the metal tower. Its pointed tail, formed by countless suspended steel rings, disappeared into the corridor on the upper floor.

"Did you see anything?"

He looked down at Bao Xia in his hand.

"No……"

The silver-haired handsome boy covered his forehead and shook his head repeatedly, "My eyes just now... couldn't open..."

"I see! Your Highness!"

Yudena's eyes widened and she shouted:

"That's a caliper! It's the alien life form contained in Research Area 4!"

"earthworm?"

Ye Yiyi frowned slightly. "That thing's tail alone is almost as big as the stone-gold earth dragon I've seen. Are you sure it's just an ordinary earthworm?"

"Earth dragon? No, no, that's not a dragon, Your Highness! It's the creation of the mineral-loving earthworm, a magical creature composed purely of matter!"

"A magical life form composed of ruler matter?"

Ye Yiyi was suddenly stunned.

"Ruler…are you sure? Is it the ruler of the fantasy element?"