The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 907 - 284: Land Stained with Blood

Luo Yan continued to read down the log.

As expected, he saw that anticipated turning point.

"...I miscalculated."

"I considered the problematic native beliefs on the 'Ancient Continent' and the 'Chosen Ones' derived from the native pantheon, and even prepared thoroughly for various circumstances, yet the situation here was still far more complex than I imagined."

"The Sky God, called 'Uranus,' can not only control the weather but also unleash unreasonable thunderbolts on a clear sky! Their believers are devout and unwavering, showing disdain for the miracles I displayed. To annihilate them physically comes at a great cost."

"If only my Conqueror research ship were still around, I might have found a way to eliminate them, but now, relying solely on the dwindling high-tech left in the landing pod suffices for trickery, yet gaining a strategic advantage is still too difficult!"

"And this is not the worst... What's worse is that the strength of the Armored Dragon Clan serving me is overwhelmingly crushed by the extraordinary powers of the natives on the Ancient Continent!"

"This situation persisted for quite some time, troubling me for long, until the fifth year of our journey on the Ancient Continent did I find the root cause from fragments of clues. The reason the Armored Dragon Clan's Extraordinary Power is so weak is because we overlooked a crucial clue in our research on Extraordinary Power — that is the strength of the 'soul'!"

Luo Yan roughly guessed what had happened.

The believers of the Dragon God were completely relying on buffs in combat, while the humans on the Aus Continent had already learned to use engravings and magic.

If Gutaf had brought over the Zeta Empire's warships, that would have been one thing, but mostly what he had were a bunch of primitive Lizardmen in their first reincarnation, naturally becoming fodder for the heroes of the Aus Continent, and perhaps even reincarnating to the other side.

This should have happened in the early days of the First Epoch.

If that guy had come a few hundred years earlier, arriving before the humans on the Aus Continent entered the "Mythical Era," perhaps the situation would have been better.

Luo Yan continued to read further, soon seeing Gutaf's reflections and summaries on his failure.

"...My research fell into a misconception from the start. I assumed that so-called Extraordinary Power was merely a kind of high-dimensional matter responding to neural signals, without realizing the interference of such high-dimensional matter is fundamentally not a neural signal! It is something beyond — even able to exist separate from the physical body, a 'pure consciousness'!"

"The natives on the Ancient Continent call it a 'soul'! They believe higher-level souls can harness more powerful Extraordinary Power, and to have stronger power in the next reincarnation, one must contribute their strength to the entity they worship."

"In addition to this, they invented methods to train Extraordinary Power through their long civilization process, able to develop it to the maximum extent, coalescing Divine power in the Thoughts of All, while also maximizing individual strength."

"It's laughable, whether reincarnation or soul, all these are things we scoffed at before we ventured into the starry sky. And that so-called cultivation... sounds more like a trick to fool people."

"Yet I can't laugh."

"Because those guys weren't boasting, they could recite spells to sweep away my Lizardman army, swing their swords to topple my city walls!"

"Although I can muster as much cannon fodder as I need, it doesn't change the fact that some of the unfaithful began to switch sides... and even got assimilated by the opposing Divines, becoming their servants."

"The indigenous Divines on the Gana Continent are akin to primitive worship and have not formed widely recognized religion or mythology. And the believers' Extraordinary Power mostly comes from their own creeds, lacking a widely agreed foundation for a 'cultivation method.'"

"My research fully inherits from the Prophets among those natives, equivalent to standing on the shoulders of dwarves. Our disadvantage lies not only in methods of using power but also in deeper theoretical understanding."

"Although I realized the problem in time, the current situation still leaves me helpless — because of the existence of the Netherworld, I cannot control the souls of the believers."

"That was part of the low-level code written long before I set foot on this planet, creatures with intelligence in this world can be reincarnated into the species they wish to become in the next life based on their subconscious identity recognition!"

"The natives of this world have too low an identification with 'Lizardmen', seeing us as 'sub-human', below Dwarves and Ogres, parallel to Ratmen and goblins. Instead, the 'Dragon Clan' I originally created is considered a powerful 'Fantasy Species', but they have to share a Rebirth Pool with Demon Beasts, and due to some historical issues, my relationship with them is not too harmonious, they revere me but do not like me."

"Because of these reasons, powerful souls rarely reincarnate on my side, and due to the relatively disadvantaged status and poor living conditions of Lizardmen, even if I elevate some powerful individuals, they would, at reincarnation, carry the Soul Level I granted them into the embrace of other Divines due to low identity recognition."