Lucelia stood there.
She seemed lost in thought.
The others stood by without interrupting her. Clearly, the treasure Lucelia possessed was no ordinary divine power.
Jason watched Alka from the side, his meaning self-evident.
"Don't worry. Once Lucelia figures it out, she'll tell you. I didn't see it fully just now," Alka said.
He had just paid special attention to the treasure Lucelia possessed.
Due to the powerful fluctuations during her grasp, and Alka not having fully observed it, he had only seen a glimpse.
Even this glimpse was enough to impress him.
At this moment, Lucelia seemed to come to her senses and looked at the others.
There was neither joy nor annoyance on her face; she simply scratched her head in confusion.
"It seems this treasure you've obtained is causing you some distress?" Sofia said, looking at her.
Lucilia nodded.
Then.
Before anyone could notice, Lusilia's body suddenly changed.
Her soul once again left her body, and the form she had previously constructed suddenly collapsed to the ground.
The soul that had appeared gradually faded before their eyes.
The moment the problem arose, Alka had already opened his eyes, perceiving the secret.
To investigate what had happened.
The moment her body collapsed, Matresa had already taken control of her body and immediately began to examine it.
"The soul is gone."
"It's nowhere to be found anywhere," Sofia said gravely, her silver energy sweeping around.
Lucilia vanished before their eyes.
"Is it... the treasure's ability?" Urulius asked uncertainly.
She seemed to have seen more than the others.
The golden light in Alka's eyes gradually faded, and her pupils returned to their normal state. She looked at the gazes of the crowd and nodded.
A smile broke out.
"Let's wait a moment. This is a—good thing."
With a wave of her hand, a row of sofas appeared around the group, and Alka sat down on one.
She acted unusually relaxed.
Seeing Alka's expression, they knew it wasn't a bad thing, and everyone felt relieved as they sat down and waited.
"By the way... your sofa."
Jason was about to ask when Juanlu, who was standing next to him, covered his mouth.
Looking at the two, Alka rolled his eyes and said, "It wasn't stolen. It was dragged from the small world."
"You should have seen it clearly this time," Sofia asked with a smile.
Alka nodded. "I did see it clearly. It's something truly remarkable. I hadn't considered it before."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lusilia, lying on the ground, wrapped in vines, suddenly gasped for air and opened her eyes.
It felt like someone suddenly awakened from a deep sleep.
"You're awake now. How are you feeling?" Matlisa, who was sitting nearby, asked immediately.
Lucilia waved her hand and, after a few breaths, returned to normal.
Malisa still checked everything, confirming it was alright, before nodding in relief to the others.
Julia frowned and suddenly asked, "Normally, shouldn't you enter the body as a spirit? Why did you awaken directly from it this time?"
She didn't doubt that the body was actually Lucelia's spirit; she simply felt something was different.
Arka then walked over, bent slightly, and hugged Lucelia tightly.
"Congratulations, congratulations, you're fully resurrected."
"Resurrected?" No one understood the question except the two of them.
Facing the crowd's confusion, Arka stared at Lucelia and smiled, "Explain it to us all."
Lucille's voice rang out, "You should know that my initial state was just a spirit, right?"
Everyone nodded.
That was indeed how Lucelia had been when they first knew her; it was Arka who had awakened her.
"My death wasn't a natural one. In my family, everyone is born with the ability to become a Toucher. The stronger and more gifted are able to master treasures.
I was the only one, due to my birth defect, unable to even leave my wheelchair.
At that time, my family didn't bully or look down on me, but I could clearly feel that they treated me as if I didn't exist."
"Back then, lonely, I began to immerse myself in the library, surrounded by books.
The more I read, the more I understood, and I kept reading. I don't know how long I read until I began to understand some books related to the soul."
At this point, Lucelia's face suddenly smiled.
"It may sound a bit conceited, but my innate flaw didn't hinder my talent. I soon discovered, through my soul's independent research, that this world was slightly different.
At least, it was different from the rare records and the ancient accounts in mythology.
At the time, I didn't realize the world was destroyed or anything like that. I only knew that souls were free in this world.
Using my talent, my body devoid of magic power, and materials capable of carrying magic, I constructed a soul formation.
But, still, due to my lack of magic, the formation became uncontrollable, and I died in this experiment."
Lucille shrugged at this point: "At least that's how it was for my family.
But after my death, the research was successful, and my soul was free. But because it's an ordinary soul, I can only temporarily reside in a stone capable of carrying and repairing souls."
"You'll know what happened after that."
After that, of course, she fell into the sea, drifting along it until she arrived at her home sea. By chance, it fell into Alka's hands, and Alka activated it through magic.
At this moment, Alka suddenly asked, "Do you find the current position of your souls awkward?"
At Alka's question, everyone nodded or shook their heads, but all expressed considerable doubt and confusion.
This was the same confusion Alka had encountered upon arriving in this world.
Back in his home sea, he had felt that the state of souls was somewhat strange.
Not his own soul, but those of ghosts and the like.
Too free.
The first time he had seen a soul was when he saw the mother in this body while praying to the Virgin Mary.
It was floating in a small boat on the River Styx.
It must have been on its way to reincarnation.
But now he knew it was also possible that they had arrived in the Virgin Mary's kingdom of God. After all, they were born believers on the home island.
But then Alka noticed something was amiss, whether it was Lucelia, or the souls bound to their locations by the power of the treasure, or other entities.
These souls possessed a strange state: they could stay or leave at will.
The only thing they needed to deal with was the distortion of their souls.
Without a carrier, souls generally remained within a certain range and could not stray too far.
They were also easily affected by their surroundings.
To travel too far without the aid of other forces, they only needed a carrier, which would affect the soul, causing distortion.
This was likely the original function of the Soul Doll, to mitigate the resulting distortion.
Later, Alka and his team refined it, eventually even creating a perfect body through their abilities.
This was essentially a different kind of resurrection.
Just like Lucelia. However, even then, Alka had a vague idea of the power of this technology, but they concealed it and didn't spread it.
Because this world is flawed.
And until yesterday, Lucelia mastered shaping, forging a perfect body of flesh and blood for herself.
She made her body and soul perfectly match, just like her former body.
But Alka knew.
The existence of this strange soul was truly bizarre. The only explanation was that the world had been destroyed, and the subsequent piecing together would inevitably have some problems.
Like the chaos of the Infinite Ocean.
Alka simply assumed that reincarnation would also have problems.
That's why most souls acted so freely, which was abnormal.
Later, through understanding...
For example, what they learned after reaching the sixth stage confirmed Alka's conjecture. After this world was destroyed and reshaped, even the souls of the living within it sometimes lost their grasp and were cast out.
Clearly, some form of reincarnation mechanism within this world was faulty.
Arkaka believed that, at least for the Four Gods, they must have their own methods of coping.
For example, Arkaka saw the vision of the Styx manifested by the Virgin Mary.
He also questioned Lucelia about her past, following his own thoughts.
Interestingly, he was the only one puzzled. Everyone else on the ship found Lucelia's condition, while strange, not incomprehensible.
This suggests that this state has persisted for far too long, likely having existed since the worlds were pieced together.
This world lacks a sufficiently robust reincarnation mechanism.
It's as if even a modicum of knowledge about the soul could allow one to remain.
The group of souls within the great library within his small world was the best evidence of this.
They didn't survive thanks to the power of the treasures, but rather the research of those soul scholars. The treasures merely provided the necessary energy.
After all, they had preserved so many souls in an instant, and they also guaranteed their immortality.
To this day, Alka still finds this a bit outrageous.
If there had been a treasure, or even a connection to it, it would have been easier to survive.
But Lusilia was different now.
Lusilia was as if reborn, a truly living person.
Others might not have seen it, but Alka's eyes could clearly detect the difference.
This wasn't just a living soul encased in a suitable body.
"The crown-level treasure I possess is the Reincarnation."
"This... this kind of thing can be mastered?" Ulrious asked, somewhat puzzled.
Because of her inherited memories, she held a greater reverence for the existence of reincarnation and the soul than anyone else.
Because in the golden age of the past, such power was far too powerful.
Unlike the current state of reincarnation's collapse.
"Although I'm also surprised, it was indeed exchanged for a crown-level treasure, and I gained control of it directly.
Very, very easily."
Lucelia said silently.
This is indeed a powerful ability, no matter how you look at it. At least in terms of its function and importance, it is far more important than Alka's crown-level treasure.
But therein lies the problem.
It's so important that it makes one wonder how anyone could possibly possess it. Shouldn't it belong to the world?
"Isn't that the equivalent of the God of Death? So, can you now kill anyone you wish?"
Jason suddenly asked.
He couldn't help but think of Alka, the ability to steal from anyone he wanted.
So, are all Crown-level items so outrageous?
Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Lucelia knew they had misunderstood. She waved her hand and said, "It's not that exaggerated. If you compare the period from a soul's death to its rebirth to a journey,
My abilities are at the very end, at the tail end.
Compared to the beginning, which is more focused on the concept of death, my combined abilities are more focused on rebirth."
Although Lucelia was explaining, everyone could only grasp the general idea. They truly didn't understand the specifics.
For example, they didn't necessarily know the exact process of death. It wasn't within their scope of research.
But at least they had a general idea.
The journey from a dead soul to rebirth is a very, very long journey. Lucelia, at this moment, was merely the caretaker of the latter part of this journey. This path can accommodate many gods.
Sofia looked at Lusilia and asked, "This must be a truly remarkable ability. It's perfectly compatible with your treasure, perfectly adapted to it, and even allowed you to be perfectly resurrected.
Then why do you seem so distressed?"
Sofia was puzzled.
This should be a cause for joy. For example, Alka, fully aware of the treasure's power, expressed joy for Lusilia.
"Because, because I'm busy,"
Lucilia suddenly said.
This left everyone stunned, completely unable to grasp her meaning.
"There's something wrong with this world's reincarnation cycle. Now that my treasures have been assembled, they can open the path to godhood.
This path to godhood is very smooth for me. If I'm willing, I might be able to ascend to godhood in less than a year."
"?"
Everyone was even more confused.
You didn't mention that just now.
Isn't that a good thing?
Lucille, the second to master the treasures, will be the first to ascend to godhood. One step, or many steps, ahead of everyone else.
The so-called path to godhood.
Simply put, it means fully integrating the divinity of one's six treasures within oneself, mastering their abilities and integrating them.
The six mutually compatible divinities will combine to bestow a powerful authority.
The combined divine authority condenses into godhood, allowing one to ascend to godhood.
And thus, a new god is born.
Starting from the eighth stage, both the soul and the body have met the standards.
At this point, as long as the six mutually compatible divinities have also met the standards, one can begin the journey.
Since each person's divinity differs and the desired outcome differs, the length of the path to godhood naturally varies.
But even a year is still an exaggeration.
"The absence of reincarnation, besides being caused by the world's fragmentation and reassembly, is also due to the slumber of the world's consciousness.
Though the former reincarnation still exists, it is riddled with flaws and extremely weak. Both the world and the souls yearning for rebirth await, yearning for the birth of someone who can restore this ability.
But the divine nature of reincarnation still exists within the world; it cannot escape on its own.
And now our
The exchange presented an opportunity, and it just so happened that I was the one being exchanged, a perfect match for this divine power.
Naturally, the divine power eagerly flew forth.
Due to the world's thirst, I only needed to devote myself now to repairing the cycle of reincarnation. Participating in it would naturally allow me to ascend to godhood with incredible speed.
Because my work requires me to constantly solidify my divine power, helping me to master it and deepen my understanding.
It even accelerates the process.
If it weren't for this necessary adaptation process, I might have become a reincarnation god right now. "
Lucelia said somewhat helplessly.
Everyone only needed to think carefully to realize what a massive workload this was.
How big is the Endless Sea?
We don't know the exact area, we only know it's huge.
Although they're all islands, there are countless lives on these islands.
A conservative estimate for humans alone is in the hundreds of millions.
And don't even count the four safer, more populated areas of the Four Gods Sea.
"The only consolation might be that the Four Gods Sea, with the largest population, can still function thanks to the Four Gods' construction, so I don't need to repair there for the time being."
The implication was that the Four Gods Sea's reincarnation still had problems, but compared to this area of the Endless Sea, it was at least better, though still not as bad.
"And... and just now, the Four Gods' voices echoed in my mind. They, they told me to move quickly. "
As she spoke, Lucelia's face inexplicably shifted to a state of both laughter and tears.
It seemed that not only the world, but even the Four Gods were anticipating the arrival of such a god.
Lucelia's arrival even delighted the Four Gods, who couldn't wait to urge her to work faster.
"Now that you mention it, it's clearly a good thing, so why does it feel so, uh... unpleasant?" Jason muttered silently.
The entire world was eagerly awaiting a reincarnation god who could work quickly.
When this god finally arrived...
The mess that needed to be cleaned up was overwhelming just thinking about it.
A truly enormous mess.
"Alas... I have to get busy."
Lucelia muttered silently. It was clearly a happy occasion.
But why?
Why couldn't she be happy?