“You must be the one to avenge the lives of your loved ones with your own hands,” Vincent said, leading Akhenaten away from the hut. “I am only here to provide you guidance from the glorious Goddess of Light, Gaia.”
“But why won’t the gods kill off the evil wolf-men?” Akhenaten asked, clearly unsatisfied with Vincent’s answer. “Why did the gods watch the orcs killed my parents and my clansmen? How could gods who stood by and watched these things happen still be called gods?”
“What do you think gods are? Your servants?” Vincent turned back and looked at Akhenaten. “They gave you lives, intelligence and power. They also gave you lush lands and a world to explore. Do you still want them to watch over every second and every aspect of your lives? Fulfil your every wish and desire? You are too greedy!” Seeing that Akhenaten didn’t say anything in response, Vincent continued. “The
In the next few days, Vincent took Akhenaten to all the other few cities which the orcs had just built. He showed the boy the cities of the tigers and the leopards, which were designed like military bases. He also showed the boy the city of the foxes, which was the orcs’ largest center of commerce in the North. Then, Vincent took Akhenaten to visit the tribes of the dog-people and cat-people, which were still primitive and not yet cities.After that, he showed the boy the orcs’ farms and ranches, and told him that he could domesticate animals and raise crops too. Humans had been doing these as well, but because the South was filled with natural resources, they did not carry these processes out fully and also did not understand why they had to.In these few days, Akhenaten finally had a basic idea of how powerful the orcs were and how weak the humans were. The orcs were already an army equipped with weapons and civilization, while humans were only a group of wil
“Fetal movement undetectable. Signs of life undetectable!”“It’s not working… it failed again!”Vincent watched as the few lives that had just been born vanished before him, causing him to be very depressed. Genetically, there was nothing wrong; their life templates were complete and their designs were logical. He did not know why he kept failing over and over again.After he had begun the Immortality Gene Editing Plan, he had been trying to create an intelligent species with an extremely long lifespan. To achieve this, he had been adding sections of plant genes to existing genes of new humans.The self-repair abilities and vitality of plants far exceeded that of animals. Even if a plant was chopped up into a few pieces, as long as there were water and sunlight, it could grow out again. Whether it was underwater or on land, cold or hot, plants could be seen; they were even found in harsh environments such as dese
“What’s wrong?” Vincent asked.He had gone to the mall with Sophie and was having lunch with her, when he noticed that she looked like she wanted to say something but was holding back. Therefore, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Sophie.Sophie shook her head. “Nothing,” she said. “It’s just that every time I see you, it always feels like you have become a bit distant and unfamiliar, even though we have just met up not long ago.” Vincent knew that this was because he had been frequently entering the Scroll of Creation, where he would spend a few months each time. Whenever he met up with Sophie, only one day would have passed for her since their last date, but to Vincent, it would be a reunion after parting for a long time.“Doesn’t that make me seem more mysterious? I feel different every time!” Vincent remarked with a smile.Today, Sophie seemed to have lost her usual queen-like tem
On the bed, Phoebe clung onto Vincent’s back, her hands roaming over his lean muscles as if she was not willing to let him go. Vincent turned around and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. With their bodies touching, they stared into each other’s eyes.Phoebe grinned and said, “I kept having dreams about you after we were apart. Vincent, you’re a perfect lover to me!”“A lover? What do you mean?” Vincent immediately questioned.Phoebe smiled at once. “It means that you’re not a suitable husband or boyfriend for me. Whether it’s me, your Sophie, or your future girlfriends, we’ll all feel that you’re unreliable!”“…”Vincent suddenly remembered something. “Wait. I thought you said that your ex-boyfriend came back. So why are you here now?”Phoebe held out her right hand to show Vincent the ring on her slender finger. “That&rsqu
As he grew older and closer to death, Akhenaten became increasingly fearful. He feared the feeling of growing weak and knew that death was creeping closer and closer. Recalling his glorious life, he did not want it to end just yet.Akhenaten remembered the burly man he had encountered when he was young, the archangel Faros that had held his hand and told him he would one day become a king of mankind. He was the messenger of the gods that had given him his divine sword and godly powers, and the man who had bestowed him knowledge of the gods. Akhenaten wanted to meet the angel again. Even if he had to die, he wanted to go to the Divine Kingdom and become an immortal being like that angel!He began commissioning many temples dedicated to the Goddess of light Gaia. He became a pious believer, spending a large amount of time praying in front of the statue of Gaia every day.During the last two years of his life, he took all the gold he had accumulated and ordered the best sculptors in his
This was the second time Vincent was trying to alter his body, and he was getting more practiced at it. The biggest difficulty when it came to creating the elixir of life was solved when the elves were created. The only thing left to do was experimenting with the elixir and trying to get the success rate as high as possible.Vincent injected the elixir into his body and immediately felt his body changing. He was experiencing an immense change straight from within his genes. However, it was different this time. He was changing his entire body, not just a specific part of his body, and thus this attempt was much riskier. The elixir was not directed at altering a specific organ in his body. Instead, the elixir was made to change the very genetic components of his body, turning his genetic makeup into something akin to the elves.This transformation was much more difficult than the ones he tried out before. In the past, he could never even dream of attempting something lik
Vincent walked out from a police station in a small town in Nanyang County, Chuang Province. He had contacted a friend of his that was selling forged identities and procured a list of people who had died, but had not yet been recorded by the authorities. He highlighted a few men that was of the same age as him, then went to the cities they lived in to apply for a replacement national identification.Vincent’s method was simple. All he had to do was slightly hypnotize the officers with his mind power to take his cues, and they would approve the application. After that, the officers took new photos of Vincent and issued him the replacement national identification and the household register.He used his mind power to affect the optic nerves of the officers, then used his sub-brain to create an image that he wanted the officers to see and sent it directly into their optic nerves. Thus, whatever they were seeing through their eyes were all things that Vincent wanted t
Vincent sat in front of a bar in his hotel in London, wearing a newly made suit he had ordered. It was custom made by an old and famous shop frequented by the riches. He wanted to avoid wearing famous brands again because he was called “parvenu” with his luxury-branded outfit in Russia. He was wearing a very expensive watch that cost him fifteen thousand euros. Vincent had spent one hundred and fifty thousand euros, or close to a million yuan. Even though he did not know why the watch was worth that much, it was expensive, and Vincent just wanted to enjoy the feeling of spending money like water!He had spent almost a month traveling the world. He had arrived first in London. When he was learning English at young age, the first book his mother bought him was Harry Potter, and he became very interested in England. Because of this, he made England and Scotland his first stops. He had toured every place that Harry Potter featured.After that, he
Because of how useful the biological chambers were, Vincent returned to Earth to order more components. After four days, the materials finally arrived. He took them back to Gaia’s World and finished assembling them.Vincent’s laboratory changed significantly again. The room was now filled with standing biological chambers, various medical equipment, drawings of genetic templates, and a freezing chamber filled with many labelled genetic samples. It really looked like the kind of laboratory only an alien would have!Vincent put Sakuma’s deified body in one of the smaller biological chambers. He had forbidden the ant-people from approaching the particular biological chamber. Even though it had lost its consciousness and only the instincts of its physical body remained, it was still very dangerous.On the other hand, in another larger chamber was a more beautiful creature. It was the result of his experiments for the past few days. Inside the biolo
Vincent arrived on the southern sea, looking for traces of Sakuma. He knew the whereabouts of the creature using the Scroll of the World, but he did not want to capture it with a dimensional door. He wanted to catch it off guard and see if he could draw it into his dream world.His boat shimmered and disappeared. He used the dimensional door to teleport himself hundreds of miles and reappeared in another area of the ocean. Vincent immediately discovered Sakuma. It was currently playing under the ocean, boiling the area of ocean hundreds of meters around himself. A layer of dead fish floated on the water, and Sakuma began feasting happily. Water vapor hung over the ocean, covering the world in a layer of mist. The water of the ocean was bubbling. Vincent approached Sakuma slowly on his boat. Sakuma did not notice anything!Vincent found that Sakuma was five to six times bigger than the last time he saw the creature. Sakuma now looked about half as tall as a full-grown p
“Assimilate!”“Copy the genes!”Vincent could sense that after he set up the templates in the first cell, the rest of his deified brain cells were loading the power for controlling information. As the deified cells finished loading, Vincent felt a change in his mind space. His control over his power was completely different now. His cells could now handle a large amount of information at any given time, and he could change or alter his entire mind space whenever he felt like it. At this point, it no longer felt appropriate to call the space his “mind space” anymore. This was the “dream space” he had aimed to create.Vincent stood in his dream space. This space was pitch black and directionless. There was nothing around him, not even time existed in this realm. A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately saw the space changing with the passing of the thought. He could see land starting to form under his f
As the ship drew closer, the sailor immediately saw the giant dark shadow under the water and shouted in panic, “There seems to be a rock up ahead!”The call startled everyone, and more sailors appeared on the deck, searching the open water for hidden rocks. The captain hurried to the front of the ship. “That is impossible, this is a very safe route! We have sailed this route many times! How can there be rocks all of a sudden?”Even so, they saw the dark shadow under the water slowly grow larger. A circular black area gradually appeared from under the water. Confusion filled the minds of everyone present, “What is that?”Boom! The water exploded as a large head rose up from the ocean into the sailors’ view. A huge black octopus erupted from under the ocean, its long tentacles immediately entangling the ship. The large suction cups on its tentacles were terrifying to look at it.“My God, what is that?!”
“Sakuma… Sakuma…”“Boom!”“Rumble!”Sakuma was ramming into the stone wall, continuously launching attacks while controlling its power, manically trying to escape from its underground water dungeon. As it used its power, the water in the dungeon evaporated again and again, but fresh water kept flowing into the cell.Vincent observed Sakuma in its prison from a fist-sized small window above. It had been a while since he sent Sakuma into the water dungeon using a dimensional door. Vincent had been trying to find out the limits of Sakuma’s power. “Right now, the highest temperature Sakuma could control was 783 degrees Celsius. The lowest was negative 70 degrees Celsius.”Sakuma discovered where Vincent was and began launching its attacks toward Vincent furiously. However, Vincent was the one that gave Sakuma his power. All he needed to do was control the particles in his surrounding a
What is supernatural power?That was the question that had been bothering Vincent for a long time. To him, this kind ofcreatures shouldn’t be limited to be able to control only its own body. They should be able to interfere with the world and lives around it using mind power as well. This was what a real supernatural creature should be able to do and how mind power should really be used.This required a lot of knowledge about rules of the world. Temperature would be an example. What was temperature? General speaking, temperature was a physical quantity that expressed how warm or cold an object was. But on microscopic level,it measured how violently particles vibrated or moved. According to the kinetic theory, temperature represented the average kinetic energy of the constituent particles. Temperature was a result of the thermal motion of a large number of particles collectively.Vincent thought that a mythical creature would be able to detect t
Vincent poured a test tube of blood plasma into the slot at the top of the biological chamber. He pressed a button and the blood was injected into the seahorse. A day later, the seahorse’s consciousness and memories were wiped completely. Then, Vincent tried to place the soul of the Tree of Life into the seahorse. However, the soul was met with strong resistance, and the seahorse died almost immediately!As he extracted the soul of the Tree of Life, Vincent found that the soul had been weakened as well. The soul, which had been pure and without any form of consciousness before, had become tainted by the seahorse’s mind. As Vincent observed it, he sensed some very chaotic and confusing waves of consciousness being emitted.Vincent tried the same thing with several different kinds of sea creatures and failed every time. The contamination of the once-pure soul was becoming increasingly severe. Vincent knew that if he kept failing, the soul would fall apart.
The Port of London was located along the banks of the River Thames to the southeast of London. Vincent drove to the port in a brand-new Range Rover Evoque, and he could see the London Bridge and the beautiful night scenery in the distance. This was an important arterial road of London. Ships were coming and going very frequently, and it was still very busy here despite the falling darkness.From faraway, Vincent could already see the liveliness of the port. There were still many ships out on the sea. In addition, there were also many ships docking, loading or unloading their cargos. Ships of various sizes packed the dock, creating a busy scene.Vincent walked around until he found where the medium-sized and small-sized ships were docked. The port was twisting and turning. Vincent walked down a straight path and saw dozens of ships docked around. Among them, there were quite a few yachts!This one look good!In the distance, Vincent saw a yacht with three
“What do you think of this one?” a man in suit asked. He was standing beside Vincent and his face was filled with a bright smile.Vincent inspected the villa before him carefully and walked around its huge yard. It was a townhouse in Kensington, London, and it was over three hundred square meters in size. The villa had six floors including the basement and was very secure because Kensington was filled with many rich people. The public transport around the house was also very convenient. In addition, there were plenty of facilities around the house.After inspecting, Vincent found out that most parts of the house were painted white with great attention to details. It had the elegance of European designs, and the furnishings inside were also very modernized. Moreover, the yard was huge and one could sunbathe or play in it to relax.“I’ll take it,” he said with a nod. “How much?”The man’s smile immediately became more friendly. “The house originally costs nine million and three hundred