novelraw Chapter 2 : Chapter 2
Chapter 2 : Chapter 2
Chapter 2
After Lanoss died, his soul drifted through the turbulence of time and space and arrived in this magic-oriented world.
Lanoss did not quite understand why his soul—originally from a technology-oriented world—had ended up in a realm governed by entirely different laws. However, the first plane he arrived at after drifting through the temporal storm happened to be the Pantheon. Fortunately, he was not erased as a bug. Instead, he obtained the Godhood of a Creator God.
“To find the coordinates only now… it’s already too late.”
When Lanoss first arrived in this world, he had always searched desperately for the coordinates of Blue Star.
But now that he had developed such deep feelings for the Norsevi Plane, he could never abandon this world and return to Blue Star.
Lanoss let out a quiet sigh and prepared to erase that coordinate. Yet just before he did so, an extremely bold idea suddenly surfaced in his mind.
【Fourth Calamity】
Once this bold thought appeared, it refused to fade away.
Blue Star was a technology-oriented plane. The souls originating from Blue Star carried technological laws with them. These laws could not be erased unless a god reached a level comparable to 【Universe】 or 【Chaos】 itself.
It was similar to how Lanoss had been granted the Creator Godhood by the fundamental laws of origin. Even the most powerful 【Supreme God】 in the Pantheon had never discovered that Lanoss’s soul was not native to this world.
Likewise, the souls of humans from Blue Star carried technological laws imprinted upon them.
The concept of “ready-made souls + bodies possessing only powerful combat ability = bug-level warriors capable of infinite resurrection” could become reality.
The souls of non-divine beings followed the laws of the world. Birth, aging, illness, and death were unavoidable. Even undead were governed by a system of “death laws.”
Trying to exploit such loopholes using local souls from the magic-oriented world was unrealistic. In fact, it would be extremely cruel. Every death would damage the soul. A soul without rank would become mentally broken after dying once, and after dying twice it would disappear completely.
However, using the souls from Blue Star to exploit the loophole would avoid this risk.
The laws embedded in their souls belonged to the technological side. When Lanoss used his power to cover their souls and bring them into this world, he was essentially forcing them to stay.
Once they died here, higher-order laws would immediately pull their souls back to Blue Star. Forget becoming mentally damaged—they would not even lose a layer of skin.
Raising a high-potential being from childhood until it became a usable combat force would normally take at least several hundred years.
But what if ready-made souls were paired with high-combat-power puppet bodies?
Wasn’t that exactly the Fourth Calamity?
Time is the most precious resource right now. Lanoss immediately began testing his hypothesis.
Anything involving souls required extreme caution—even for Lanoss. Therefore, the bodies of the players became the first objective that needed to be solved.
Lanoss opened the Creator God Auxiliary System.
This system had been created when he first became a Creator God. At that time he was a newborn deity, and even when his divine power was at full capacity it was pitifully small. Every drop had to be used carefully.
Later, as his divine power grew and his mastery over power increased, this system had rarely been used.
Now he was grateful that he had created such a convenient auxiliary system all those years ago. Otherwise, he would have to spend additional divine power just to construct one again.
The interface of the Creator God Auxiliary System was very simple. By entering requirements and potential values, it automatically calculated the estimated divine power required to create a lifeform.
Human 001
Level: 0 (Barrier-free up to level 200)
Mental Potential: 200
Bloodline Potential: 200
Light Element Potential: 200
Water Element Potential: 200
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Racial Potential: Legendary
More than a hundred attributes were analyzed. None of them fell below 180. It was a fully well-rounded and extremely powerful model.
Lanoss nodded in satisfaction.
Then the next second his expression collapsed.
Creating such a human requires 1000 points of divine power.
Lanoss: “……”
Hilarious. Even if he bet all his divine power, he could not create even a single person!
Not to mention that he still needed to keep some divine power in reserve for emergencies.
Lanoss scratched his hair, realizing that he had been thinking too idealistically. More than a thousand years ago, he possessed enormous accumulated resources. At that time, even creating a legendary race with an average potential of 200 was trivial.
Even mythical races with potential values reaching 2000 in every attribute would not have been a problem.
But now…His entire wealth amounted to only 100 divine powers.
“Since this is a game, then let’s design it like one.”
Even games required version updates.
Lanoss redesigned the template.
Human 002
Level: 0 (Barrier-free up to level 50)
Mental Potential: 50
Bloodline Potential: 50
Light Element Potential: 50
Water Element Potential: 50
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Racial Potential: Peak Intermediate
Required Divine Power: 20
The divine power requirement dropped drastically, but it was still unacceptable.
Too high.
Lanoss’s target budget was one divine power per body.
Suddenly, Lanoss realized something.
This was a game, not reality.
Games had class systems.
If that were the case—Human 003 (Mage Template)
Level: 0 (Magic-class barrier-free up to level 30)
Mental Potential: 30
Bloodline Potential: 1
Light Element Potential: 30
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Strength Potential: 10
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Racial Potential: Peak Beginner
Required Divine Power: 5
Human 004 (Warrior Template)
Level: 0 (Melee-class barrier-free up to level 30)
Mental Potential: 10
Bloodline Potential: 30
Light Element Potential: 1
…
Strength Potential: 30
…
Racial Potential: Peak Beginner
Required Divine Power: 5
Five divine powers for one body was already extremely economical.
But it was not the limit.
Considering how much players loved to get themselves killed, it was impossible to know how many times they might die in a month. Even giving them a lifespan of one month was already a waste.
If a hardcore player somehow managed not to die even once, that was fine. If they reached the level cap of 30 within one month, they could naturally switch to a new body with higher potential.
With a maximum lifespan of one month, the divine power cost dropped immediately to 1.
Lanoss was still not satisfied.
Since this was an all-ages virtual reality game, anything involving explicit sexual content had to be completely forbidden.
To eliminate the possibility of sexual harassment at its root—Male and female genders would exist only as differences in body shape.
Reproductive organs would be removed entirely.
Reproductive ability has always been a major factor affecting racial potential. This single adjustment immediately reduced the required divine power to 0.15.
Lanoss thought further and lowered the upper limit of pain perception to 30% of the average human level.
For ordinary creatures, a lack of clear pain perception could be a fatal flaw.
But for beings that were themselves a natural disaster, it would become the perfect weapon of war.
This adjustment reduced the cost again.
0.1 divine power.
One body for 0.1 divine power sounded economical.
But for Lanoss, it was still somewhat expensive.
For a Creator God, creating life was as simple as breathing or drinking water.
But even creating life required divine power.
As for Lanoss’s current divine power…
Lanoss checked.
100 / 100000
With such a small amount of divine power, everything was inconvenient.
There were only two ways to restore divine power.
The first was through the faith of believers.
The second was meditation—extracting energy from Chaos and refining it into divine power.
The energy within Chaos was also magic power, but of far higher purity. Compared to divine power, its purity was slightly lower.
However, for all beings below the level of gods—even demigods—the power within Chaos would cause their bodies to explode.
But Lanoss’s godhood was shattered, and his divine body had only just reformed.
His body’s strength was weaker than that of a demigod.
Thus, the option of drawing power from Chaos was completely blocked.
The creatures of the Norsevi Plane unquestionably believed in Lanoss.
But the plane had been devastated beyond recognition. The total number of living beings in the entire world did not even exceed ten million.
Although these creatures provided faith power every day, the conversion into divine power was extremely limited due to the small population and ruined world.
He gained only about ten divine powers per day.
Not enough.
Nowhere near enough.
A determined glint flashed in Lanoss’s eyes.
Since safe methods were impossible, then he would take a dangerous shortcut.
Since his godhood was already shattered, there was no point pursuing perfection anymore.
Long ago, Lanoss had once imagined transforming the world’s magic into a network.
Unfortunately, he had never found a suitable server carrier.
But now…His shattered godhood could serve as the perfect storage and transfer medium for magical power.
As the highest magical construct second only to the fundamental laws, the theoretical capacity of godhood was 【infinite】.
In other words, if godhood became the server, it would never experience lag or overload.
Even if too many users logged in at once or issued too many commands, the server would never collapse.
The probability of overload was permanently fixed at 【0】.
It was simply the perfect server.
Moreover, the shattered state of the godhood was also a crucial condition.
A thousand years ago, Lanoss had self-destructed his godhood while destroying the Demon Gods.
Fragments of that godhood had scattered across every inch of this plane.
Godhood was the collection of a god’s power, and naturally carried strong divine will.
In a sense, the entire world could now be considered part of his godhood.
Once the godhood became the server, the omnipresent magic power would become the most convenient network.
It could connect all terminals accessing the network while simultaneously serving as an energy source.
Simply put, as long as enough magic power existed, the Fourth Calamity could function as terminals capable of casting various spells.
They would also act as generators.
And produce even more magic power.
Of course, this meant that Lanoss needed to increase the players’ magical affinity.
The cost immediately rose from 0.1 to 0.2.
Lanoss felt his heart ache.
But early investment was necessary.
Once players reached higher levels, their “power generation” ability would also increase.
The magic power generated would be split evenly.
This way, players could sustain themselves while producing excess magic power to make the world flourish again.
Combat strength was also easy to solve.
After establishing the magic network, Lanoss would directly link his own talent with the players.
Player talent = (Lanoss + 0) / 2
Although Lanoss was a Creator God without any particularly specialized strengths, that weakness was only relative to Rule Gods.
For all living beings, the talent of a god was overwhelmingly superior.
It approached 【infinity】.
Infinity divided by two was still infinity.
This meant that no matter what skill was given to players, they could learn it instantly.
For other gods, such a thing would be completely impossible.
It would be considered a provocation against divine authority.
But Lanoss did not care.
The godhood serving as the server was his own.
In a sense, the godhood was him. And he was the godhood.
His authority over the entire magic network and the godhood was absolute.
All theoretical conditions had been prepared.
Now the most important part remained, Hardware.
The body issue was solved.
Next came testing the feasibility of summoning players.
Lanoss created a new body for himself and secretly slipped into Blue Star while avoiding detection by its laws.
Using his own soul, he conducted experiments.
After confirming that it caused no harm, he immediately began preparing the early development work for the full-dive game 《Legend》.
Although the Norsevi Plane had been created by Lanoss himself, his current power allowed him to control only a very small area.
He searched within his sea of consciousness before finally selecting the region that would serve as the starting village for the first batch of players.
Then he issued a divine oracle.