Chapter 859 Return Part Two (1/2)
Soon, intelligent life was molded, one after another.
On the magma island, pure elementals appeared. With burning winds and light, veins of fiery light without fixed form and only faint radiance weaved through the magma: their shapes were different and not of the same species, but their remarkably similar habits made them appear identical. At the same time, massive draconic lizards with heavy shells appeared over the mouth of volcanos alongside serpentine creatures with runic scales.
Unlike the other beasts, the eyes of these creatures glinted with the illumination of intelligence. Now, however, they were in a state of brief blankness—what Joshua remolded were not individuals from bygone civilizations, but heroic spirits, given form once again through the memories of their entire civilization. They had no personal memories or emotion, but a crude collective consciousness although they were much more alike to genuine lifeforms.
In the single instant they had been created, the unlimited memories of creatures over thousands of years appeared in their minds. Raging waves stormed in their minds as an unquenchable thirst appeared by their mouths. They would not know where that bizarre vigor inside them came from, nor the reason for it.
Beams began to shoot out from the silver star and stabbed into the many obelisks, each shade solidifying and growing the heroic spirits of civilizations.
Still, as things were turning out great, Joshua suddenly made a dull grunt at the center of the world.
With a rumble as if the limit was reached, many mental organs attached outwardly reddened and melted from the excessive heat as silver mist puffed out from around it, billowing piles of smoke. More than that, the fixed central server inside the silver star also emitted something akin to a wail, with the star itself flashing in static as if from a bad connection.
”…It seems that my ability is not enough to conjure that many prototypes of intelligent life.”
Joshua could not help but frown as he felt each of his mental organs breaking one after another. He knew that such was his limit.
If it were ordinary sentient creatures, Joshua could have created a nation's population instantly—it was not extreme for him to create an entire race alone. Moreover, the warrior could create normal flora and fauna that had no intelligence and undemanding in details across long distances over the Void, projecting them to fill multiple different worlds like before.
However, what he was creating from world memories were not mundane intelligent individual, but heroic spirits composed of unlimited memories and knowledge. These individuals might not be able to apply the knowledge and martial skills in their memories, but they possess infinite possibilities and were actual representations of their own worlds, prototypes of intelligence.
In Joshua's plan for the future, when the abilities of the heroic spirits take shape, Joshua would dump those intelligent beings out of his world so that they would find a world suitable for themselves in the Void. They would act from that point, creating their own Adam and Eve before leading them in their comeback to the galactic stage.
They had that potential, and are aware of each error their civilization made… as the priest Ned Ransome had said back on Earth, if everyone in this world could live again, half of them would be great humans—there were only occasions where failures brought forth realization.
One way or the other, Joshua gave them form as if conjuring little worlds. However, his ability may not be able to succeed with a single stride to provide all his spawns with actual form.
”…This is quite enough. Reviving too much on one go would leave my own world in shambles and broken energy circulations as well…”
Inhaling deeply, Joshua restored his mental organs and central servers, shaking his head before looking below at the land and islands around him.
The progress of creating prototypes of intelligent creatures was hence paused, with warrior deciding to revive more species after his world enlarged. Additionally, Joshua would naturally be responsible for them since he had decided to awaken all of them—however, it was unnecessary to put them on a single pile even when they live in similar environments since he could do better.
Over the nine floating islands and the silver continent on the bottom, the creatures on the first level—the magma island had mostly gained form. There were fewer species on the continent and the other islands, especially the continent that was allocated form certain species of special attributes, where an aerial jellyfish that lived in thunderclouds wafted over it.
That creature was a species that lived in a marine world filled with raging thunderstorms and communicated with electromagnetic signals. The magnetic field and incessant thunder over the entire were their source of vitality and energy, and those fine conditions allowed them to develop an extremely advanced magical civilization.
But as civilization progressed, the jellyfishes attempted to inscribe magical runes upon the planet's atmosphere to create an eternal environment of augmented electromagnetism. It was such a grand plan of world alteration that it left all their efforts in vain—each of them imagined that their diligence in the construction would make things go smooth, but it instead perpetually altered the global electromagnetic cycles to the point that the ecosystem which once sustained them collapse, and they thus went extinct.
Now, the clumsily charming jellyfish were sparking with bolts in the lightning ocean created especially for them and played with the bolts. They may be the finest designer of electromagnetism in the galaxy that even pure elementals would not compare in terms of mana control, with the runic tentacles they evolved especially.
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As Joshua surveyed the world inside his body and minutely adjusted the positions of various species in his world, divine radiances of six different colors transcended the multitude of Abyss, following the Great Mana Tide's power into the former Abyssal Paradise.
”There.”
The violet light was the first to discover the trail of that world and pointed towards the bottom of the Vortex, a turbulent zone of black and white. At that, the other six divine lights made a beeline for the direction she pointed.
”The form of the Vortex of Creation had already taken shape,” the blue divine light said as it arrived at the turbulent zone. ”There is even the old dimensional pressure—while it wouldn't compare to the previous state or the Chaos condensation before, the pressure meant that everything is on the right track.”
”It's a matter of time for the Vortex of Creation to be restored.” The steel-grey divine light replied. ”And yet time is our greatest issue.”
By observing the Multiverse, the gods had long since discovered a path of darkness in other galaxies beyond this one. It was the sign that multiple Evil Gods were advancing together, a trail of destruction they left after devouring the stars, with their path clearly leading to the Lost Galaxy where Mycroft was.
It was estimated that incalculable ranks of Evil Gods would come one after another in four to five decades, and they would have to prepare sufficiently before that.
”We are revived, and our foes are returning. They would attack even more viciously this time, but at least it would not be as sudden as it was before.”
The pure-white divine light said calmly. ”If it's a direct confrontation and not an ambush, we would have been pulled into such a difficult battle before.”
”But there would be far more enemies this time.” The pale golden divine radiance pointed out. ”While they would not have the support of demonic legions from the Abyss and there won't be unreasonable class of Evil Gods such as Fertility, we won't have the Sage's support this time.”
”Which is why we are putting our hopes and wagers upon that person.”
The pale-emerald godly radiance descended in a spiral, shaping into a patterned line that darted at the silver world. ”If our mentor achieved the objective he set before he left in four to five decades, the Evil Gods would fall without a fight,” he said quietly but steadily, ”but if he didn't and this one becomes another being of that caliber, it would be just another Final Battle.”
”Indeed,” the other five divine beings laughed silently. ”It's just another Final Battle.”
”And if we die this time, it would probably be eternal.”
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In the silver world, Joshua sensed the familiar divine forces approaching.
He heard the God of Reformation and Conservation speaking to him.
”Let us hasten away, Joshua.”