Infinite Gods Reign Supreme

Chapter 19 - The Vessel of Divinity
Lex saw Professor S again—when she saw him, the stranger of Asian descent was sitting on an ice rock by the sea, feeding penguins. Beside him lay a crystal skull that looked like an art piece. But Lex only glanced at the skull a couple more times before feeling dizzy.

She didn't dare look again.

She tried hard to stay alert.

Not long ago, when she mentioned in the base commander's office that "a stranger came in with me, and you gave him a top-secret document," the commander initially looked incredulous, but his expression changed drastically after inspecting the filing cabinet. She was immediately escorted out and placed in a rest room under the protection of guards. After that, alarm bells rang and footsteps sounded.

Lex initially believed the base commander genuinely trusted her and actually attempted to capture the stranger capable of distorting human perception. However, it wasn't until hours later, when she was released from house arrest and the base broadcast announced the spy's capture, that she realized the commander had interpreted her warning as an implication that a spy was stealing classified documents.

Correction was useless. She realized one thing—she had once again encountered an abnormal phenomenon that exceeded the boundaries of human cognition, and this time, she should remain calm.

“We meet again, Dr. Wood.” Professor Si nodded to her and tossed a small piece of cured meat into the penguin colony. The upright little creatures immediately hopped and scurried together, making clucking and squawking noises.

“Professor Si.” She took a deep breath. “You seem to have had a good time?”

“Not bad.” The stranger from the East nodded, tossing more cured meat toward the penguins not far away. “You look troubled, Professor Wood.”

“…Just some trivial matters.” Lex shook his head slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then tentatively asked, “Are you also…from somewhere else? Like those hunters, those Predators?”

She saw the professor seem to nod, but then again, he didn't. He neither confirmed nor denied it.

He didn't answer her.

But he reached out and threw a small pendant at Lex.

The pendant looked very familiar; Lex was certain she had seen this style of necklace somewhere before. She instinctively opened the cover, and the half-body photograph inside made her eyes widen.

Is...is it him?
She felt as if she were back in that dark ruin, back on that precipice. She watched helplessly as her companion was snatched away by the alien. And shortly after, she was forced to raise her pistol and shoot a bullet into the heart of her companion, who was being parasitized by the alien.

“Dr. Sebastian…”

She still remembers her companion's final warning.

They must not go to the ground... They must not reach the ground! Move!

She hadn't shed a tear then, but now she couldn't help but cry. She clutched the pendant tightly to her chest, letting the tears soak her eyes.

"I've cleaned up the underground area, and it's basically no longer dangerous. Of course, there's some damage, but it shouldn't affect your archaeological excavation."

He rose from the ice rock and walked toward the edge of the polar day. It was already early September, and the boundary between dawn and dusk was already blurred.

"Thank you! Professor Si, thank you for letting him rest in peace!"

Lex shouted loudly at his receding figure. His steps seemed to pause briefly, and then his silhouette blurred as he waved goodbye.

Perhaps it was just his imagination, but before he disappeared, Lex seemed to see a surge of loneliness in his departing figure.

he's gone.

She never saw him again.

..............................

When Si Ming returned to the Main God Square, exactly one second had passed. He lightly carried the crystal-colored skull in his hand and placed it on the open-air desk he had redeemed.

He leaned back in his executive chair and sat down. He exhaled silently, then relaxed his mind.

The adventure of returning has come to an end. All objectives have been achieved, and all spoils have been obtained. However, the resources consumed in this operation were not as many as expected.

The firearms were all reusable, and the prepared scrolls and heavy firepower had not been fully utilized. The corpse of the burrowing demon worm, which he had purchased at great expense, was also kept intact and was now resting peacefully in the summoning space along with the skeleton soldiers he had prepared and the battle-qi wind wolf.

The harvest was plentiful, and no mistakes were made. The Night Battle Qi, the Necromantic Aura, and even the genetic lock of that level itself had been significantly enhanced. Furthermore, he had acquired a considerable sum of money.

"...Still being stingy."

Si Ming vaguely remembered that in the third generation of the original text, when some unlucky soul brought the divinity of death from the cycle of reincarnation back to the main god space, the main god even gave that person an extra side quest reward of A. However, when it came to himself, he received nothing at all.

Those with connections can't compare.

The faint dissatisfaction that surfaced in his mind was quickly and silently extinguished.

There's no point in dwelling on things that are meaningless. He then closed his eyes, ceasing all his internal review, summarization, correction, and reflection.

The square fell silent instantly. On the vast, pure white earth, only his rhythmic breathing and steady heartbeat remained. This was what it meant to close one's eyes and meditate, and in this tomb-like silence, time flowed by silently.

One minute, two minutes. One hour, two hours.

His eyes opened again, his vision sharpening once more. The lingering melancholy and boredom vanished without a trace with this brief moment of self-adjustment. Then, he reached out and placed his palm on the crystal skull.

"I can feel it."

The divinity of death hovers silently within the crystal skull. It is no longer active, yet it still possesses a vast, restrained power. Only those who embody death are qualified to approach it. And in the silence, all the dark battle qi within Si Ming's body transforms once more into death qi, quietly flowing down into the deepest part of the crystal skull.

It does exist.

He encountered it.

then……

"...So it really doesn't work."

Can't do it.

The necromantic aura did indeed make contact with the divinity of death, but it failed to budge this great power in the slightest. It was like trying to tear apart fine steel with cotton pliers; the insufficiently refined necromantic aura could only futilely smash into the structure of the divinity of death.

He is too weak.

To devour the nature of a god, one must at least possess godlike power. And if one does not possess godlike power, then one should at least possess a godlike physical body.

He didn't have any of that, so he couldn't effectively absorb or even control it. After all, even in the third generation of the original, some unlucky soul blessed with destiny had to rely on the S-level Four Symbols, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams Formation obtained through group exchange to ensure that his physical body wouldn't be burst by the divinity sealed within him. Furthermore, he needed the assistance of a near-saint level expert to successfully refine the sealed death divinity when unlocking the third-tier gene lock.

He didn't have that much money, and he didn't have any teammates willing to send him money to help him in a critical moment. So, he knew he had to choose another option.

"God." Si Ming raised his head and looked at the golden sphere of light hanging in the sky. "I want to use the power to create humans."

The Reincarnator possesses the authority to create beings. By paying 500 reward points, the holder can create a being with no more than 200 points in any single attribute, who is completely loyal to the creator. This authority can be exercised an unlimited number of times, but the first creation before each 500 reward point payment requires no cost.

— [Currently processing...]

The divine light descended. A vast and intricate creation interface appeared before Si Ming's eyes. He could create any human-like body shape and appearance according to his own will. The divine god also provided an auxiliary function to directly extract templates for fine-tuning, so that those who were not good at character creation would not feel overwhelmed by a bunch of sliding parameters.

But that's not the point. The point is the function that creating humans can serve.

Since Si Ming is not yet able to control the divinity of death with his current level, then he should find a way to give this divinity of death a will that obeys him, so that the divinity will actively cooperate with his actions!

and so--

"God, I want to add this divine essence of death as material to the creation of humankind."

He received a reply immediately.

— [Processing... This operation cannot be completed. The physical body used to create this human form cannot contain the divine raw materials of death provided by the reincarnator.]

No. Then let's try adding more money.

"How many attribute points are needed to create a human being to bear divinity?"

Reincarnators can exchange 10 to 1 for enhancements to their six-dimensional attributes. Of course, the same applies to creating humans.

— [Calculation in progress... 4000 points of cell activity and 4000 points of intelligence are required to meet the minimum requirements for bearing the divinity of death.]

It's a bit pricey, but it's very good.

This shows that this path is entirely feasible, and the problems with basic attributes can always be circumvented in this cycle of reincarnation using items or bloodlines.

An exchange option caught Si Ming's eye. It was one of the methods he had used to verify the essence of the Night Battle Qi, and it might play a crucial role in this.

—【Divine Possession Constitution—derived from 'pan-mythology,' the exchanger will gain the characteristic of easily receiving the power of external deities, demons, and other higher beings. Simultaneously, their aptitude as a ritual sacrifice will be greatly enhanced. When performing any ritual that communicates with higher powers, if the exchanger acts as the presiding officer or the sacrifice, the success rate of the ritual will be greatly increased.】

—[To redeem this enhancement, you need to complete one B-rank side quest and earn 6000 reward points. Before redeeming this enhancement, the recipient must possess the bloodline and absolute purity of power.]

"God, if I were to exchange for the 'Divine Spirit Descent Physique' enhancement for my created beings, would it be possible to add the death divinity I possess during creation?"

— [Calculation in progress... This operation is available.]

It works!

(End of this chapter)