Mystery: Becoming a Creator Through the Doorway

Chapter 72 New Uses of the Small World

An Ruowang could sense that "Midnight Rose" seemed to like him very much.

Indeed, it would be abnormal if she didn't like a creator in reserve who coexisted with her and became the soil that nurtured and nourished her.

Do I eat the original Creator to nourish you?

An Ruowang seemed lost in thought.

Because of this fondness, he can now command almost all of its abilities as if they were his own, as if he had truly become a "Night Watchman" of the Sleepless Path Sequence 4.

Dark realms, entwined roots, spirit-driven, soul-soothing, nightmares—those abilities that originally required digestion, role-playing, advancement, and long-term refinement to master, now seemed like innate instincts to him.

Moreover, because "Midnight Rose" possesses certain characteristics of being alive, An Ruowang doesn't even need to pay for spiritual energy when using its abilities.

This is practically free stuff.

But An Ruowang did not indulge in this feeling of being "loved".

Even so, he still wanted to try to drive away the "Midnight Rose".

He could let the "Midnight Rose" take root and coexist with him, but in any case, he must maintain absolute control over himself.

Thoughts raced, and the small world activated its defense mode. An invisible will transformed into power, sweeping out like white blood cells, precisely targeting the roots connected to its bloodline, determined to expel them all.

An Ruowang could sense that "Midnight Rose's" instincts shrank back in the face of that power, like a weak kitten.

During this process, he could detach her at any time, or even crush her directly with the size of a small world, like a hundred-ton king, shattering her instinctive intelligence.

The Universiade is here! Hakimi has nowhere to hide!

"Midnight Rose" was completely unaware of what had happened.

She kept sending vague, instinctive responses to An Ruowang, "Danger, run!" Just like a mother would instinctively grab her child's hand and hug him tightly when she encounters danger, wanting to run with him.

Upon seeing this, An Ruowang stopped the small world's defense mode.

This little gadget is quite endearing, which made him feel a little guilty.

When they encountered danger, they actually called out to me, wanting to take me with them as they ran.

Are you a mother too?

Whether she genuinely liked him or couldn't bear to part with him, this reaction was still better than wanting to drain him dry or abandoning him and running away. It made An Ruowang feel better.

He slowly withdrew that supreme will, and it returned to silence.

"Midnight Rose" seemed to have sensed the danger had receded, and relaxed again, continuing to quietly take root inside him.

An Ruowang looked down at the slightly trembling rose in her palm.

She seemed to sense his gaze, and her petals opened and closed slightly, as if in response.

With a thought, "Midnight Rose" slowly sank into his palm and disappeared into his body like a mud ox sinking into the sea.

Feeling the faint pulse within her body, connected to a life, An Ruowang felt something was off.

Hmm, it feels like my body is filled with her, uh, or more like he's pregnant?

噫。

An Ruowang shook off her random thoughts and began to carefully examine the new changes in the small world.

Because he had always used the small world to consume extraordinary characteristics and had not used it to contact living people or any living creatures, An Ruowang did not notice this change.

After all, in his heart, the small world was more like his own sanctuary, a world that belonged only to him, his private territory, so it was best if there were no outsiders there.

This time, because he made contact with the "Midnight Rose," which possesses living characteristics, through his small world, he seems to have discovered a new ability of the small world—

He seems to be able to acquire the extraordinary characteristics of other life forms by imprinting them with an assimilative mark.

No, it's not just about extraordinary characteristics, but about gaining full ownership and control over that life.

To explain it in a way that better reflects the realities of the world, it might be more like a form of "pollution" from the past.

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Taking "Midnight Rose" as an example, in the process of assimilating and polluting it, An Ruowang was able to continuously digest and acquire the characteristics of the sleepless pathway until he obtained everything about "Midnight Rose" by extracting its essence.

After this process is completed, it may be like an Outer God accepting the extraordinary qualities offered by believers and then bestowing those qualities upon his own believers.

In this way, he can both grant himself the power of the Night Path and allow the sacrificed to retain their original abilities while they are still alive.

However, once assimilation is complete, An Ruowang can actually take away "Midnight Rose's" characteristics at any time, and control everything about her, since she has already been devoured.

If this power of assimilation and contamination were used to digest extraordinary characteristics—

That is to use the power of the small world to directly confront the original spiritual imprint in the extraordinary characteristics, eroding and forcibly erasing it.

To give an analogy, An Ruowang's previous digestion was like eating raw meat. He relied on his basic digestive ability and his own initiative (playing and internal struggle) to reduce the resistance of extraordinary characteristics and finally complete the digestion.

Now, this force of pollution and assimilation is like stir-frying vegetables and grilling meat.

It processes raw meat into more easily digestible cooked food, allowing An Ruowang to complete his promotion without the need for processing or digestion.

However, just as cooking food requires burning fire and consuming energy, this kind of pollution and assimilation is not without its costs, requiring the consumption of the small world's power.

The small world is currently growing slowly on its own, relying on its own power. Using the power that the small world is meant to develop for this kind of thing is like making children work to earn money instead of studying. In a sense, it is mortgaging the future—referring to child labor in the Victorian era.

No, not necessarily.

Small worlds consume special characteristics and can also expand and grow.

As long as the return on assimilating the extraordinary characteristics of pollution is higher than the small world growing on its own using this power, this is something that can be done, which is equivalent to using war to sustain war.

Have I really become an invader and an extraterrestrial demon?

An Ruowang snapped out of her thoughts and prepared to use "Midnight Rose" to test the new use of the small world and calculate the rate of return on investment.

In fact, even if the return is not high, he can sometimes spread this pollution at a loss.

By simply repackaging this pollution and assimilation, it can be transformed into a "health product" that helps extraordinary individuals digest and improve, and balance the pollution of the past.

As long as An Ruowang does not actively exert influence, this pollution is beneficial to the extraordinary, allowing An Ruowang to gather all the pathways in a more peaceful and discreet manner.

Just like the Goddess of the Night, she did invest in An Ruowang, so it wouldn't be right for him to repay kindness with enmity and kill her just to collect all the resources, right?

In this way, he would transform from a highly aggressive aggressor into a covert economic colonizer.