He stood up and went upstairs.
The first thing he did after returning to his room was to set up trigger-type space magic traps.
Three early-warning spells.
Three trigger-type teleportation spells.
Then three instant-death spells.
Afterward, he pulled out a scroll and warped the entire second floor's space.
Only once all this was complete did Taro finally lie back down on the bed.
The next second, he summoned his personal information interface.
"Alright, let's start with race."
He looked at the plus sign behind the race module.
When Taro willed it, he clicked on it.
In an instant, a string of detailed pages opened before his eyes.
[Current races: Archangel LV.15, Virtue LV.10, Seraph LV.5, Holy Heaven LV.5, Empyrean LV.5.]
[Available races to add: Root Elemental Lifeform (Nibelungen), Lowest-tier Elemental Lifeform (No. 187 Lifeform "Slime"), High-tier Demon Gods (Fire Rat, Star Conch, Spirit Ape, Golden Roc)…]
In just under a single week, aside from "Above the Heavens," almost every common race that could be considered top-tier in Teyvat was already in his list.
At the very top stood the Root Elemental Lifeform extracted from Nibelungen, an existence comparable to the "Primordial One" above the heavens.
The rest he had obtained from Yingda and Zhongli.
Unfortunately, the Abyss was a will, not a concrete race.
Creatures polluted by Abyssal power—whether slimes or hilichurls—still retained their original race.
Otherwise, he really would have liked to enrich his lineup with Abyssal races.
"The World Tree was able to give birth to the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Nahida, so maybe the witch Alice as well?"
Taro shook his head and threw away the distracting thought.
No need to guess about things he hadn't obtained yet.
He would just visit again later.
Now—
[Ding. Add race: Root Elemental Lifeform?]
"Yes. This time I'll go all-in!"
This time, Taro didn't hesitate.
[Race adding… Current race cap exceeded… Race level allocation complete. Root Elemental Lifeform LV.1 added!]
[Ding. Eligible for exception upgrade: Seraph LV.5, Holy Heaven LV.5, Empyrean LV.5. Proceed?]
"…Huh?"
Taro froze. His gaze went slack, staring at the prompt.
Wait, really?
He thought only he himself could break the rules, unrestricted by the game system.
But even in-game races could break the rules?
What's a surprise?
This is a surprise.
This is a f***ing surprise!!!
Important things must be said three times.
"I can ascend again?"
"Break it for me!"
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Taro agreed without hesitation.
[Ding. Race exception process initiated… Race exception in progress…]
[Ding. Root unified… Race compatibility perfect. (Root Merge triggered!)]
[Ding. Root insufficient…]
[Ding. Sacrifice races Archangel LV.15, Virtue LV.10 to enable Root Merge?]
Taro fell silent, considering what this prompt meant for him.
Sacrifice two races to perform a merge?
Unheard of.
"Yes!"
Once again, he went all-in.
All-in, betting everything on supreme wisdom!
[Ding. Races Archangel LV.15, Virtue LV.10 sacrificed. Exception complete. Acquired special race: Supreme God LV.1!]
The moment the system sound rang out, all the former races faded from the page.
Only one remained: the newly obtained special root race—Supreme God.
"Supreme God… huh?"
"Forty total levels of races, merged into one level of Supreme God?"
Taro frowned in shock.
In YGGDRASIL, the measure of a race's strength wasn't its name, nor its leveling difficulty.
Some races that sounded grand were actually trash: harsh to acquire, harsh to upgrade, yet useless in function, strategy, and even combat power.
Surely he hadn't drawn that?
Impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
In the field of going all-in, he had never lost.
"Calm down. Calm down."
Rubbing his cheeks, Taro began to feel for changes within himself.
Race change in the game had no physical effect.
But this was reality.
There had to be changes.
With focused thought, he felt it clearly—the faint but distinct transformation surging inside him.
When he clenched his five fingers, a special power gathered in his palm.
"Miné Elemental Power"… the power only Teyvat's ancient dragons could wield.
No doubt, this was the change brought by the newly added Root Elemental Lifeform.
He had never had any "Miné" elemental power before.
"Race passive? Or racial trait?"
"If that's the case, then the skill module should also shift accordingly."
"Also… this power doesn't seem to come with any draconic authority…"
"…Deal with that later."
Discarding stray thoughts, Taro lifted his left hand.
A glow of holy light and flame appeared together.
"The races were sacrificed… but are their racial abilities retained?"
"Or consolidated into the Supreme God?"
"If it's the latter, then this race is anything but weak."
According to YGGDRASIL mechanics, only higher races could override lower ones.
There was no such thing as "the weak defeating the strong."
Among level-100 players, without world items,
A character fully stacked with high-tier races and advanced jobs was an insurmountable wall.
Just like his special class [World Champion].
Even against elite squads, as long as the opponent lacked another World Champion, without world items they could never easily bring him down.
That was the absolute suppression of high jobs and high races.
If Supreme God could seamlessly unify all his former races, then its value was beyond question.
"As I said, going all-in is supreme wisdom."
"This time, I profited big."
All his earlier worries melted away.
Only joy remained.
He had won again.
(End of Chapter)
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