"The King Deshret… also fell long ago."
Greater Lord Rukkhadevata spoke with a hint of heaviness.
"It's all because he stubbornly insisted on researching that so-called 'forbidden knowledge,' turning himself into that state!"
Upon hearing that the King Deshret had already fallen, the Goddess of Flowers found herself with no one left to direct her anger at, and could only mutter in indignation.
Then she turned her gaze toward Nolan.
"By the way, you're the one who awakened me from my eternal slumber, right? Thank you. From now on, as long as you don't ask me to do anything that harms the world, I'll listen to you."
[The Goddess of Flowers, Nabu Malikata Has Developed Good Feelings Toward You. Obtained 780 Affection Points. Current Affection Level: Lv.4 (180/400)]
Seeing the affection prompt appear, Nolan chuckled softly.
"Don't worry. I won't make you do anything bad."
As Heroic Spirits summoned by him, their souls were spiritually attuned to his own. When he issued commands through mental power, they would follow them to a certain extent.
That said, if they truly disliked an order, they could still choose to ignore it—though the sensation of being urged to carry out the command would persist.
It was like lying in bed at night playing games on your phone, telling yourself you'd play for just a few minutes. When the time came, you still couldn't put it down, and before you knew it, you'd stayed up far too late.
(T/N: Just one more episode then I'll sleep & welp after that episode its fking morning!)
With strong enough willpower, one could resist the urge, but eventually there would be a moment of weakness, and you'd end up compromising with yourself.
Nolan hadn't summoned the Goddess of Flowers and the others with the intention of making them work for him anyway. His main purpose was simply to make up for the regrets of the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, Ei, and the others.
"That's good, then," the Goddess of Flowers nodded.
She also understood that someone who could walk alongside her close friends was unlikely to be a bad person.
Next, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata prepared to tell the Goddess of Flowers about everything that had happened over the years, and to personally take her to see the changes in Sumeru.
The same was true on Ei's side—she also planned to tell Mikoshi Chiyo and Sasayuri about the events of the past years.
After all, as close friends reunited after so long, there was a great deal to talk about.
Nolan did not involve himself further. After bidding farewell to Nahida, the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and the Goddess of Flowers, he returned to the Wonderland Space.
There was still some time before noon. He checked his character panel and, judging by the rate of his cultivation progress, he would reach level 150 at around two in the afternoon.
Since he had nothing better to do, Nolan once again went to the Sea of Quanta, searching for the eleventh world bubble to speed up his growth.
Under the effect of the Drifter of the Imaginary Sea specialty, as expected, he successfully located the eleventh world bubble.
Unfortunately, it was an empty one, containing nothing at all.
Nolan fused this world bubble with the one that had already undergone nine previous fusions—this time making it the tenth. He could see that the "world membrane" of the bubble had grown slightly thicker once more.
For now, he could still enter it directly to explore. Perhaps once the world membrane thickened to a certain extent, direct entry would no longer be possible.
At that point, he might need to rely on spatial traversal abilities.
If it thickened even further and the space within the world bubble became extremely stable, even spatial traversal might no longer be able to penetrate it.
When that happened, only Interstellar Travel would allow entry.
That, however, was a good thing. It would prevent outsiders from invading at will—after all, Nolan did not believe that, within the near-infinite Sea of Quanta, he was the only one who could come here.
With these thoughts in mind, Nolan continued his search for the twelfth world bubble.
This time it took a bit longer—around twenty minutes—to find the eleventh world bubble. Fortunately, this world bubble did contain life.
However, after spending less than two minutes exploring it, Nolan regretfully discovered that although life existed there, it consisted only of dinosaurs without intelligence.
It was basically impossible for them to cultivate the Accursed Moon Power. Without intelligence, they couldn't even become aware of such a concept.
Still, life was life. After being merged into the "Assembled Continent," they could at least help enrich species diversity.
After spending a few minutes successfully fusing this world bubble, Nolan continued searching for the twelfth one.
This time, it also took more than ten minutes to locate.
And his luck was good—the twelfth world bubble he found also contained life, and this time it was intelligent life.
They lived in the deep sea, possessing handsome human upper bodies, while their lower halves were fish tails. They looked exactly like the mermaids from fairy tales.
Nolan conducted a brief investigation.
He found that these mermaids lived in exceptionally favorable conditions in the deep sea and had virtually no natural enemies. Although there were many deep-sea leviathans, those creatures lacked intelligence. Not only could they not threaten the mermaids, they had instead been domesticated through magic that allowed the mermaids to command them.
As a result, the population of mermaids in this world bubble was quite large. Using mental perception, Nolan estimated that their numbers were no fewer than two hundred million!
Naturally, this delighted Nolan—the more people, the better.
Unfortunately, although this world bubble was fairly large—about the size of a continent—its resources were still limited. Two hundred million was essentially the equilibrium point for their population.
Once merged into the "Assembled Continent" world bubble, with new resources available, the number of mermaids would likely explode.
That was, of course, assuming they didn't come into conflict with the other races of the Assembled Continent.
With the Accursed Moon Power, which only those with good intentions could cultivate, the future strongest experts of the Assembled Continent would, at the very least, all be good people.
So the probability of peaceful coexistence was quite high.
Still, no matter how ideal things sounded, accidents were always possible. After all, the Assembled Continent had more than just the Accursed Moon cultivation system.
If some extraordinarily talented villain were to rise using another system and dominate the ages, it wouldn't be impossible.
It felt like, before these races began interacting with one another, personnel would need to be arranged to guide and manage the situation.
As Nolan pondered this, he had already successfully fused the twelfth world bubble into the Assembled Continent world bubble.
Even though the mermaids lived in the deep sea, the light of the Accursed Moon could still easily shine down upon them. As a result, after only a few minutes,
Nolan saw the rate at which he gained cultivation progress per second skyrocket once again—from having dropped to just over five thousand, it surged straight past thirty thousand.
After all, no one ever felt they had too much power. In every race, there were always countless people with ambition and resolve.
Feeling that the timing was about right, Nolan returned to the Wonderland Space. Half an hour later,
he felt as though his body and soul had been tempered tens of thousands of times, rapidly undergoing a profound transformation.
His soul became far more condensed, and his physical strength increased by an enormous margin as well!
Lv.150 (123,145 → 30,000+/600,000,000)
Opening his character panel, it was just as expected—he had advanced to level 150. In only a few seconds, he had already gained over a hundred thousand points of cultivation progress.
(End of Chapter)
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