Chapter 364: Steel Earth (1/2)
Xi Wei was neither omnipotent nor omniscient despite being a god. He could not keep an eye on border wastelands, let alone be aware that a giant was heading towards the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN) from twelve thousand kilometers away.
That was why he was simply pleased that the Players secured the key to enter the fourth stratum… and therefore did not hesitate to whisk it away and replicate it with a counterfeit for Edward with his divine power. …The heck you looking yet? Never seen a god exploiting his followers?
That being said, Xi Wei’s action was a type of protection towards Edward’s group from a certain point of view.
After all, the key itself was tailored to each high elf, one of the greatest supernatural races there were. Even first-rate Players like Edward’s group would have a tremendous gap in power compared to them, and something bad could happen if they used the key recklessly.
As the race who could utilize Mystery-a power connected to divine power, it was hard to guarantee that such an item would not affect the user’s soul.
And to Xi Wei, it was fine if his believer’s body was directly destroyed. On the other hand, not even he could help them if their soul was distorted or instantly crushed.
“Still, high elf technology is really unbelievable…”
After getting the pass and seizing the opportunity to take control of Dark Sky Stratum, Xi Wei understood the place somewhat even though it had been inscrutable before.
At first, he had assumed that Dark Sky was a sealed space that separates Deep Wall and Steel Earth. But once he took control of the third stratum, he realized that it was a spatial fragment separated from the world—there was no escape no matter how one wandered if anyone inside could not find the key!
It was very likely that this spatial fragment belonged to a shadow plane, with the high elves processing it into a reflection of the Elven SIN. It thereby acts as a cover, keeping every observation method ‘inside the world’ from seeing through the inner strata of the Elven SIN.
“Normally, almost all observation would fail to look inside the Elven SIN, and even the God Eye of divine beings could only see things in the mortal realm, with their followers acting as beacons. Otherwise, they would have to spend a lot of divine power to observe from worlds beyond or be blocked by Dark Sky…”
Xi Wei couldn’t help gasping in awe. “With such class of talent that surpasses human intelligence and technology of processing planes, the high elves’ magitek levels would probably not lose out to the gnomes who invented god-killing ships…”
And there was no telling if it was that talent that led to the extinction of high elves, or if they had sensed the gods’ malice, and only then spend their talent in building the SIN in a fight to the death against the divine.
Since the God of Games of that age had recently died at the time while Xi Wei (and his predecessor) were yet to be born, he simply didn’t know what happened between the high elves and the gods of that era.
Either way, they became despondent like the punished gnomes, losing their heart to stride towards the future.
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