The Demon King is unfathomable

Chapter 285 Bloodstained Land

Power comparable to that of gods...

When Luo Yan saw this line in the log, there was obvious surprise in his eyes and he subconsciously held his breath.

The legend of the dragon hunter seems to be the key point in the cohesion of the Dragon God's divinity.

Or to put it another way -

The Dragon God Gutaf was placed on the throne by his believers only after he had endowed them with power.

"The prerequisite for obtaining power is to give power... But, if he was not a god at the time, how could he give power to believers?" Youyou, who was still confused and floating beside Luo Yan, couldn't help but whispered.

Luo Yan pondered for a while and spoke slowly.

"My guess is... maybe the two behaviors don't happen in a first-come-first-served order, but rather they happen at the same time."

"At the same time?"

Looking at Youyou with her head tilted in the mirror, Luo Yan nodded.

"Yes."

The Dragon God and his followers jointly wove together legends about dragon hunters and reward rules, and his followers believed that the rewarded power was bestowed by the Dragon God. These two things together completed a self-consistent system for distributing the power of faith, thus fulfilling the prerequisite for the birth of godhood.

Gather the thoughts of everyone in the name of God, and then distribute the fruits of creation in the name of God...the extraordinary power and the godhead that transcends the extraordinary are born together!

It turned out to be the case.

Luo Yan gradually understood the secret, his eyes became brighter, and he continued reading the contents of the diary.

Perhaps because he was also standing in the position of a god, after he tried to understand Gutaf's situation, he was able to understand more and more.

Because that is the optimal solution, or even the only solution——

If it were him, he would do the same.

"...I suddenly realized that as long as I can gain more believers and expand the territory of faith, my power will also become stronger."

"In that case, why should I insist that my followers must be those ugly hairless monkeys--"

"I can totally use my DNA to create a whole new species!"

Luo Yan could feel the excitement coming through the text.

At the same time, Captain Gutaf, whose mind was opened, completely gave up his original insistence and no longer restrained himself.

"...It's been more than 50 years, and the confidentiality period of the project is almost over. There is still no sign of the rescue team, and there is not even a signal. Maybe the Zeta Empire has forgotten me a long time ago, or maybe they haven't forgotten me, but the distance between us can no longer be measured in astronomical units. In this case...why should I still worry about whether it is illegal or not? Screw the uncivilized species protection regulations, I am now in emergency shelter! That's right, if I become a real god, I might be able to go home!"

"My inference is not without reason. Although the civilization level of this world is low, their use and understanding of the subspace far exceeds that of the most advanced scholars in the Zeta Empire. The fools at Research Station 111 are still figuring out how to send aircraft into the subspace. They can even use the subspace as a warehouse or even a physical teleportation portal!"

"In this way, I created the first species that was loyal to me. In order to make them better adapt to the environment of this planet, I made slight improvements to their scales and muscle fibers, allowing them to have complete minds while retaining the wildness of beasts, and giving them a stronger desire for territory and reproduction... This will make it easier for them to quickly expand their physical territory."

"The experiment was a success. With my help, these cute little guys quickly gave birth to the seeds of civilization. After realizing my existence, they immediately worshipped me as a god and obeyed my every instruction!"

"I must say that these naked little cuties are much more pleasing to my eyes than those hairless monkeys. It's like I'm back home. I even thought that if I could never go back, I would use the rest of my time to help these young children build their own civilization. Who knows, one day in the future, they might find the way home for me with their yearning for the Enlightenment and bring my relics back to my hometown."

"I gave them a name - Ankylosaurs, just like the name those rude natives gave me."

"Since I set foot on this strange planet, I have never been as ambitious as I am now. Under my guidance, they expanded their population and developed rapidly. In just fifty years, they replaced those hairless monkeys, spread their footprints across the entire continent, and even reached out to more distant worlds!"

The more distant world should refer to the ancient continent.

It took him a century to get out of the Novice Village. For a moment, Luo Yan didn't know whether to praise him for being cautious or to complain that he was too timid.

of course.

Considering that this planet is full of "aliens", it is understandable that Gutav is a bit cowardly. After all, this guy is not a time traveler like Lint Isaac, who not only integrated into this world as soon as he landed, but also became a member of the vested interests circle.

Considering the reproduction rate of the Lizardmen, assimilation of a continent in fifty years is considered normal.

However, this guy must have met with a setback in the Ancient Continent. After all, judging from the results, the lizardmen there were living in a miserable state. They could only live in land that was completely unwanted by humans. They could not integrate into either Hell or the surface, and their situation was even worse than that of the goblins.

Luo Yan continued to read along the log.

As expected, he saw the expected turn.

“…I miscalculated.”

"I took into account the potentially troublesome beliefs of the Ancient Continent and the 'Chosen Ones' derived from the native pantheon, and even made adequate response plans for different situations. However, the situation here is still more complicated than I could have imagined."

"The sky god named Uranus can not only control the weather, but can also send down irrational thunder in a cloudless sky! Their followers are devout and firm in their faith, and they disdain the miracles I have shown. And if you want to destroy them physically, you will have to pay a huge price."

"If my Conqueror research ship was still there, I might be able to get rid of them. But now, with the little bit of high-tech left in the landing module, it's enough to play tricks, but it's still too difficult to gain a strategic advantage!"

"And this is not the worst... What's worse is that the Ankylosaurs who serve me are greatly outclassed by the natives of the Ancient Continent in terms of the strength of their supernatural powers!"

"This situation existed for quite a long time and troubled me for quite a long time. It was not until the fifth year after we set foot on the Ancient Continent that I found the reason from a few clues. The reason why the supernatural power of the Ankylosaur family is weak is because we ignored a crucial clue in our research on supernatural power - that is the power of the 'soul'!"

Luo Yan roughly guessed what happened.

The followers of the Dragon God fought entirely with BUFFs, while the humans on the continent of Os had already learned to use inscriptions and magic.

It would be fine if Gutaf brought the Zeta Empire's warships over, but most of what he had were a group of primitive lizardmen who were reincarnated for the first time. Naturally, they would be used as experience by the heroes on the Aos continent, and they might even be reincarnated to the other side.

This should have happened in the early First Age.

If that guy had come a few hundred years earlier, before the humans of the continent of Os entered the "Mythological Age", perhaps the situation would have been better.

Luo Yan continued to read and soon saw Gutaf's reflection and summary of his failure.

"...My research has been in misunderstanding since the beginning. I preconceived that the so-called supernatural power is just a high-dimensional substance that can respond to nerve signals, but I didn't realize that interfering with this high-dimensional substance is not a nerve signal at all! It is something higher than that - a 'pure consciousness' that can even exist apart from the body!"

"The natives of the ancient continent call it 'soul'! They believe that higher-level souls can harness more powerful supernatural powers, and if they want to have stronger power in the next reincarnation, they must contribute their own power to the existence they believe in."

"In addition, they have also invented methods to train extraordinary powers in the long process of civilization. They can maximize the development of extraordinary powers. While gathering the thoughts of everyone to condense the godhood, they also develop the power of individuals to the extreme."

"It's funny to say that both reincarnation and soul are things we have scoffed at before we set foot in the starry sky. And that cultivation... sounds more like a trick to fool people."

“But I couldn’t laugh.”

"Because those guys weren't bragging. They could wipe out my army of lizardmen with just a few spells and cut down my city walls with just a few swings of their swords!"

"Although I have as many cannon fodder as I want, some of them with weak faith are starting to defect... and are even assimilated by the opposing gods and become their servants."

"The indigenous gods on the Janna continent are all similar to primitive worship, and have not formed a religion or even mythology in the broad sense. The extraordinary powers of their believers mostly come from their own beliefs, and there is no set of 'cultivation methods' based on broad consensus."

"My research is entirely inherited from those prophets among the natives, which is equivalent to standing on the shoulders of dwarfs. Our backwardness lies not only in the way we use our power, but also in the deeper theories."

"Although I realized the problem in time, the current situation still leaves me helpless - because of the existence of Hades, I cannot control the whereabouts of the believers' souls."

"That was the underlying code that was written long before I set foot on this planet. The sentient creatures in this world can reincarnate into the species they want to be in the next life based on their subconscious identity!"

"The natives of this world have a very low level of recognition for 'Lizardmen'. In their eyes, we are classified as 'sub-humans', lower than dwarves and ogres, and on par with ratmen and goblins. On the contrary, the 'Dragon Tribe' that I originally created is considered a powerful 'fantasy species', but it has to share the same reincarnation pool with Warcraft, and due to some historical issues, my relationship with them is not very harmonious. They respect me but don't like me."

"Due to the above reasons, powerful souls will hardly be reincarnated into my world. And due to the relatively inferior status and poor living conditions of the Lizardmen, even if I promote some powerful individuals, when they are reincarnated, they will be too low in identity and will take the soul level I bestowed on them into the arms of other gods."

"For the gods, this rule is simply too unfair! Every reincarnation is a harvest, and the weak gods will only become weaker and weaker in a vicious cycle!"

"I can only adjust my strategy and cultivate more powerful creatures with minds, trying to regain the advantage from a technological perspective! For example, the Wind Howlers who can fly, the Tide Tribe who can dive... I even included chameleons in my palette as a backup option to counter the disadvantage of soul level!"

"Besides that, I started trying to repair my relationship with the dragons and change my strategy of exterminating them... Anyway, the low-level creatures I enlightened are already everywhere, so this little bit is not a big deal, right? At worst, I can slowly deal with them after I unify this planet. Also, since that incident, I have been a vegetarian for many years."

When seeing this, Youyou finally couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

"Why is this guy so hostile to dragons...Aren't those dragons his children after all?"

Luo Yan thought for a moment and said.

"Maybe because it's a meat lizard."

This is actually not difficult to understand.

Humans and pigs are both mammals, and their genetic similarity is said to be as high as 98%, while the difference in appearance is probably not as big as the difference between lizardmen and dragons. He can accept monkeys learning to speak, but if the pigs at the dinner table suddenly speak human language one day, he would probably be disgusted.

Of course.

When Mr. Gutaf wrote this diary, he had obviously begun to let himself go and his moral standards had seriously declined.

Due to his disadvantage in supernatural powers, he did not think about why the Ankylosaurs had such a low sense of identity with themselves. Instead, he stubbornly embarked on the path of using great force to create miracles - using more and richer genetic codes and the ruthless power from the Zeta civilization to violently bombard the ecosystem of this planet.

This mode of thinking is quite consistent with Gutaf's personal identity and background. All signs show that he is a "special skills expert from a highly developed and atomized material world." He has strong professional skills and scientific literacy, but after leaving the bee colony, he is like a headless fly, doing stupid things without considering the consequences.

Luo Yan was not polite in his evaluation of him. Anyway, this guy's bones were probably in his hands, so there was no way he would jump out and hit him.

Although this person suddenly realized the existence of the soul, he had never actually looked at it, nor had he listened to the demands of the souls born from his own hands. Just like before, he just treated them as a kind of resource, ore, prop - or "thing", to conduct academic research.

However, perhaps because they were both villains, Luo Yan found that he could unexpectedly empathize with this guy, even more than he could with his whimsical fellow countryman Lint Isaac.

He also had very high moral standards at the beginning, but after living in hell for a long time, he gradually adapted to the local customs.

of course.

Empathy does not equal approval.

As for his own people, whether they are goblins, humans or lizardmen, Luo Yan would considerately let them choose for themselves which posture they prefer to be violently penetrated.

"...Gene technology is only a temporary solution. If I want to gain stronger supernatural powers, I still have to find a way to get rid of that Hades. Otherwise, the chosen ones I have spent so much effort to cultivate will eventually be taken away by reincarnation. Even if I can extend their lifespan, I can't avoid their accidental losses in war and growth."

"From this moment on, I began to realize that the authority of reincarnation must be in my own hands. Before that, I must be as cautious as possible in placing my bets, ensuring that every bit of faith is used on worthy believers... such as those dragons."

"By the way, they finally recognized my identity as their father and returned to my arms...except for some stubborn ones."

"In the battle of faith with Uranus, the Ankylosaurs finally gained the upper hand... Although some subspecies of lizardmen defected, we still have a greater advantage overall. The only thing that makes it difficult for me is that the power of my number one enemy, Hades, is too strong!"

"Those guys are simply the projection of the stubborn spirit of all living things on this land. If we want to destroy them, we must completely eradicate the stubborn old idea that 'everything is equal in the face of death'. It is too difficult to rely on my own strength. Perhaps I should find an ally..."

This ally is probably Saint Sith.

The Dragon God is not overly stigmatized in the Oss Empire, and even the word "dragon" is a relatively neutral term, probably because of this reason.

To this day, there are still many adventurers on the continent of Os who practice the power of "Qi" of the Dragon God Sect, but they do not worship the Dragon God.

"What would you do if it were you? How would you defeat the God of the Underworld?" Youyou asked curiously.

"I?"

Luo Yan smiled faintly and said casually.

"I don't think there is any meaning in defeating death. The fall of Hades is definitely a disaster for this world. Even... the undead all over this land, the dead with nowhere to go, and even the constant threats from Chaos and Hell are probably the punishment of karma for those rats a thousand years ago."

Having said this, he paused and continued.

"Of course, if we must defeat him... Saint Sis has actually already written down the standard answer, and I would probably do the same."

The method is not very complicated.

Taking advantage of people's short-sightedness, ignorance, and fear of death, they promised people that they would not have to die if death was eliminated, and then they would change the Book of Holy Scriptures after they won.

This is the optimal solution that has been tested by the history of this planet. If you want to be invincible, you have to use everything you can and then talk about the future after you win.

The log has entered its climax.

Gutav finally found a way out of the impasse.

What happened next was very similar to what Luo Yan had seen in the history textbook of Demon King Academy, except that this was from the perspective of the "enemy ally".

The Dragon God Gutaf probably exaggerated the historical role of the Ankylosaurs in ending the First Era, but it is also possible that both the Oss Empire and Hell tacitly erased the contributions of these reptiles from the book because of their own practical needs.

"...The plan went smoothly. The emperor of the Os Empire was very interested in my dragon, especially the idea of ​​riding on its neck. In addition to the dragon's own help, the guy also gathered the faith of countless people by conquering the dragon... Everything was just like what happened on the Janna continent."

"Yes, I got mixed up with those hairless monkeys again. I don't hate them that much, because they are not on my menu, and I have seen them in the zoo. When I conquer this world, I will consider giving them a reserved area to recuperate and to facilitate my research. After all, the Ankylosaurs are descendants of the Zeta Empire, and my children will eventually return to the material side."

"We cooperate closely in the military field, and I helped the Os Empire open up new shipping routes in the economy. Although the navigation technology in this world is not well developed, and I can't build those primitive ships, all of this is not a problem in the face of biotechnology. Especially now that I not only have flying dragons, but also some flying subspecies of lizards, I can just use a hot air balloon to push them over."

"Relying on the wealth of the three continents, the Os Empire quickly rose. We make up for each other's shortcomings... Those monkeys that control holy light lack offensiveness, while the Ankylosaurs can do everything except extraordinary power. They can use their holy light spells to increase various states for us and help the warriors of the Ankylosaurs charge on the battlefield."

"The first one to be conquered was Uranus, then Mother Earth, and that Ocean God... and finally the Underworld God Hagen, who is also the most difficult to deal with. Because we not only want to conquer them, but also to completely destroy them!"

"However, just as our coalition forces were advancing triumphantly, something unexpected happened on the front line—"

"My landing capsule, which has been silent for who knows how long, suddenly detected a strong subspace jump signal!"

"At the time, I thought that the Zeta Empire's rescue team had finally found me, and I was so scared that I hid myself. But I soon discovered that things were worse than I thought."

"They were a group of half-human beings who suddenly appeared in a massacred city, standing on a pile of corpses. Like carrion-eating fungi, they spread rapidly with the corrupted rebels, chanting the name of Calmandes and occupying a province of the empire. They claimed that they would burn this miserable world with fire and bring a true end to suffering and death!"

"This is undoubtedly a severe challenge for the Oss Empire, which also claims to eliminate death. Fortunately, the emperor of the empire is nearby. Under the protection of Saint Sith, he personally took action and quickly put out the ominous flames."

"I breathed a sigh of relief, but soon I realized that everything was just the beginning. Less than a year later, the fluctuations in the warp came again, and this time it was in the heart of the empire, and it was silent."

"I sent an envoy to inform my allies in the name of prophecy, but the emperor did not trust me... and this laid the groundwork for the subsequent disaster. A guy who called himself the Mad Talker started a rebellion in the empire and almost took down the capital of the empire. This was the closest we came to failure. The emperor was forced to move the capital and set up a tribunal in the church."

"To be honest, what scares me is not the gains and losses on the battlefield. Whether it is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of deaths, it is just a number to me. What really scares me is... I don't seem to be the only outsider in this land."

"I can feel a pair of eyes in the dark watching this land. It seems to be an existence from a higher dimension, or it may come from the nothingness outside the dimension... In short, it is invisible and intangible, but it is everywhere, weaving all causes and effects and correcting all deviations."

"I expressed my concerns to my allies, but they didn't take it seriously, saying that there was nothing to worry about. Similar things have happened over the past thousand years, especially when major events happened in the Ancient Continent. They even gave the four frequent visitors a name, 'Chaos', which means the gods outside the domain."

"This is the stupidity of primitive people. Their eyes can only see the ground below them, but not the starry sky above their heads. They have never thought about what a group of spiritualists with the power of intergalactic expeditions means to these natives who have difficulty crossing continents and don't even know that the earth under their feet is a sphere?"

"The water behind this planet may be deeper than I thought. If my guess is correct, those extraterritorial gods called Chaos have already colonized several star systems! They are just like the Zeta Empire, except that they don't rely on science and technology that emphasizes efficiency and output, but on the completely unreasonable power of the mind! At the same time, their ideas for colonizing other planets may be different from ours... They focus more on spiritual shaping and enlightenment."

"This seems to be the only reasonable explanation. Otherwise, why do they clearly have the ability to set foot on this land, but stop at the right time again and again?"

"It's obvious that their interests are not physical conquest, at least not now! What they really want to do is to make the course of history conform to their expectations and ensure that the movement trajectories of the 'chess pieces' on this planet do not deviate from the trajectory they envisioned!"

"I seem to have provoked a rather troublesome existence. If those 'higher civilizations' discover me, I will definitely be dissected!"

"I told the natives my conjecture... or prophecy, and tried to persuade them to stop, but those ignorant guys said I was crazy. They didn't know anything about the underworld god, the master of reincarnation... all of this is no longer important. They are just animals in the zoo, chess pieces on the chessboard. If they were a little more sober, they would know that the best solution is to escape from this cage completely, rather than becoming the monkey king in the tree!"

"I can't die with them. I can only implement the final plan 17 - before everything is irreversible, erase all traces of our existence and retreat to the Janna continent!"

“I am honored that I succeeded.”

The log ends here.

Attached to the bottom of the log was a detailed plan for Plan 17, but Luo Yan could guess what was written inside without even clicking on it.

But since he was already there, he still clicked on it and took a quick look.

Just as he guessed, the so-called Plan 17 was a way out that the "Dragon God" Gutaf left for himself - when a life-threatening situation occurred, the Ankylosaur clan would completely abandon all interests on the Ancient Continent, withdraw completely to the Janna Continent, and activate the "Great Barrier" to isolate the entire continent from this planet.

Using the warp to cut off a piece of land from a complete planet... This is undoubtedly a crazy plan.

You could see he was terrified.

And his brain is a little bit abnormal.

Assuming that the advanced civilization he imagined really existed, and this planet was indeed a zoo or pig farm of that advanced civilization...what basis did he have to think that "being the monkey king in the tree" was more dangerous than "tearing a crack in the cage".

Luo Yan remembered that he had heard from Miranda or someone else that Novel, the "strange fog" representing lies and conspiracies, was the embodiment of knowledge and conspiracy, and the source of madness and fantasy... His favorite objects of corruption were mad wizards and scholars pursuing forbidden knowledge.

In his opinion, Gutaf was highly similar to this portrait, especially in the second half of the diary, where every stroke of those ordinary words was bloody and terrifying upon closer inspection.

If you use a knife to forcibly cut two pieces of meat that are grown together, blood will gush out from every blood vessel.

This guy……

I'm afraid he has gone astray.

(End of this chapter)