"Creeak—"
The sound of the door being pushed open, with two people walking nearby. Qi Yuan vaguely realized he was dreaming.
He even saw himself in his field of vision...
The dream played out in fragments. In an instant, the observer's view shifted back to the self he had just seen. He took a notebook handed to him by someone and casually flipped through it.
[...Someone offered to buy out the orphanage, but I refused them. The city has allocations and subsidies, so we're not completely destitute yet...]
[...It's getting harder to secure sponsorships...
...I'm getting on in years and feeling less capable. I should find someone reliable to take over and look after the children...]
Although the content of the diary seemed incongruous, he didn't pay much attention to it, because he remembered his mother saying that the orphanage director was planning to move.
But...
Was it necessary to move overnight?
Where did they move to?
Why was the orphanage cleared out completely?
Why did the families around the orphanage move away so quickly...
These fleeting thoughts were suppressed by him, feeling in danger. He casually flipped to the last page of the diary.
[You like reading my diary that much?]
Before Qi Yuan could process the shock he felt at the time, the dream wouldn't stop for him.
In his hazy state of consciousness, he couldn't think deeply, and paused his investigation as the dream changed.
He saw an ancestral hall, with blurry figures around him, and voices of conversation constantly reaching his ears.
"Consecration?"
"That's right. Before the Fusion Zone descends, if we place these ancestral objects in advance, they can regain their glory by borrowing the power of the Fusion Zone."
The conversation continued, but the dream became fuzzy, and Qi Yuan couldn't hear clearly what was said, until the old man's voice sounded again.
"If a place is surrounded by Fusion Zones within a few years, with the Fusion Zones appearing in a state that encircles this place, there's a good chance that a Fusion Zone will appear there. We're quite lucky, it appeared after we guarded for a few months. Some have to guard for years before it appears."
His vision kept changing. Qi Yuan vaguely remembered in the dream that it seemed like the old man was introducing some object to him...
The soul-controlling bell was clear in front of him, and in his daze, he seemed to hear a few crisp bell sounds.
The bell sounds gradually faded away, changing into the device controlling monsters on the table...
The view pulled back, and he stood there bewildered, watching himself slowly walk to the monster-controlling device. The two people sitting on the sofa stood up to greet him, their faces full of confusion and expectation.
"...Nanwu Orphanage..."
...
Damn!
Qi Yuan woke up from his dream. He looked at the time; only ten minutes or so had passed.
Events from just over half a year ago felt like a lifetime ago. Qi Yuan hadn't expected them to be connected to the present.
C-level and above, even non-humanoid monsters would possess human characteristics (
As the clues connected, Qi Yuan had a very unsettling guess.
First, use psychic-controlled anomalous items to control humans, then establish connections and sign contracts. After the mental control permeates all the psychic power of the human, kill them.
Finally, wait for the Fusion Zone to descend and give birth to monsters.
Qi Yuan wasn't clear on what was needed for monsters to be born, but it likely included psychic remnants, which is why controllable monsters could be generated.
The contract established before becoming a monster would become the shackles binding them after the monster is born.
Someone had discovered the characteristics of the Fusion Zone a step ahead and used this feature to create their own monster weapons.
This was also the reason why the prophetic dream showed humans dying from mental control rather than directly transforming into monsters. Because monsters were born all over the world, it wasn't something someone of this level of power could accomplish. They could only borrow the rules of the Fusion Zone.
But this alone wasn't enough to make Qi Yuan feel uneasy. At worst, he'd have to work overtime to eliminate the pests harming the seedlings.
Since his three alter egos were certified as SSS-level, he had been transforming into his alter ego forms in his spare time to receive people's recognition. After breaking through with people's recognition, his strength wouldn't diminish again.
Interestingly, the third alter ego to have its strength certified was the High Priest, not the female avatar. People only had a vague concept of her and the organization's leader, which wasn't enough for certification.
So he let his avatars out, and in his spare time, he subtly hinted to the seedlings around him to share two videos more, maintaining the popularity of the mysterious organization, making sure that everyone who goes online could see it.
Therefore, with his SSS-level strength, he wasn't afraid of conspiracies and tricks. He could hammer as many monsters as came at him.
Sorry, but having overwhelming strength really does allow one to do whatever they want.
In terms of strength, he didn't think he would fail. After all, if the opponent also had SSS-level strength, why would they still be hiding? They could just fight directly.
Creating so many fancy weapons was just because their own strength wasn't enough, and they had to make up for it with numbers.
If the mastermind dared to show their face, he'd punch them one by one like little kids. It wasn't worth being overly cautious about.
What really made him feel uneasy was...
Qi Yuan reached into his spatial storage and took out a notebook, flipping to the page where he had fabricated the organization's background.
[Wanderer: Exists in the form of a consciousness entity, wandering in the cracks between worlds. Can establish the most basic connection with a world and briefly enter it to rest. When gaining the approval of a world's will, they can borrow power, and at the same time, the Wanderer can use the power of the cracks to cultivate and grow.]
[Co-prosperator: When a certain world is on the brink of collapse and needs help, the Wanderer can establish a deep connection with the world's will, feeding back their own power to the world while reincarnating as an intelligent being of that world. Once the world stabilizes, and the intelligent being who has become a Co-prosperator is born and regains part of their strength, they can again obtain power from the cracks between worlds, constantly cultivating, with the world and the Co-prosperator mutually nourishing each other and growing together.
Note: To prevent the leaders of both organizations from easily intervening, allowing subordinates to fight each other without higher-ups participating, a clause is added for Co-prosperators: they can unbind and revert to being a Wanderer.]
This was the carefully fabricated background of the mysterious organization that Qi Yuan had created. He had gone to the Zhang family and found that what the Zhang family patriarch said wasn't without reason.
With special domains like the Moon and Peach Blossom Spring, and the successful "consecration" of ancestral objects, he couldn't predict whether deities would awaken again, or if there would be another Investiture of the Gods?
So, Qi Yuan changed his persona overnight, binding himself unilaterally to the world, setting himself up as invincible in the world.
If you're going to do it, do it big!
Therefore, becoming a god was really just a small goal for him.
If by chance there really were beings transcending the world, his setting of being able to obtain power from the cracks between worlds could help him achieve self-sufficiency.
According to the setting, if the world suddenly became the property of some being, wouldn't that be a kind of NTR?
To make it easier for everyone to accept, the organization's leader must make great sacrifices for the world. Without him, there would be no current world. This way, even if people were resistant, as long as they didn't refuse to think about it, he could steadily gain power.
Even if someone wanted to backstab him, to let the world return to freedom, as long as they acknowledged his strength, they would still be his good chiv... no, seedlings.