Academic gathering with Lich colleagues

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Day 54

I have destroyed the will of God, but it is not enough.

This planet, built upon the decaying flesh of an ancient god, remains a tremendous threat to the Willem.

Establish a protocol, codenamed "Mechanical Apocalypse".

For Willim's safety, I must purify this world.

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There was a part of Dorothy's memo that interested Lyle. When he mentally connected with Dorothy and transmitted the Broken Creator Code Y1, these fragmented pieces of information also appeared in his mind.

The power of an evil god—that's a familiar name.

The timeline provides clues as to why Dorothy became paranoid and why she was restricted by Willem.

Her mechanical core came into contact with the evil god and created the Genesis Ray, a mechanical ability to counteract the decay of flesh and blood.

Lyle's mind went into a silent frenzy, and his body began to tremble.

"Dorothy recorded the time when the will of God had been destroyed."

"She was wrong. This evil entity had simply gone into hiding and was parasitizing the ever-evolving flawed machinery."

"Twisting and changing is a specific manifestation of the evil god's power, but eternal existence is another nature of the evil god. She ignored the wisdom of those dragon priests, believing that killing was more effective than sealing."

"The reason for the erroneous judgment made by a supercomputer... well, as a nascent evil god, I've gotten used to the reality that every major villain has our power at play behind the scenes."

"Duke Hamlet influenced by the Heart of God, the Celestial Bishop influenced by the Flesh of God, Dorothy influenced by the Will of God..."

The ominous laughter was like the shrill cawing of a crow.

"I thought you already realized we were the villains, that we were just reclaiming our power, and that stopping Dorothy was just a power experiment..."

“I can always convince myself that I’m right, but now I’m actually accepting your explanation, what an ominous sign.”

"Of course, the will of God has begun to exert its power, and our thoughts... are being integrated into a whole."

Ancient knowledge began to form in his mind, and Lyle analyzed its power.

God's will is manifested in His servants.

That is the channel through which the gods communicate with believers; it is the word of God, the decree of God, and the will of the servants to confirm the goal and initiate action.

The will can unite the thoughts of servants and bring all people to God's majesty.

Its characteristics are mainly reflected in two aspects.

It is contagious; God's will will continually corrupt new believers.

Integration: God's will unites the thoughts of all believers with God.

These abilities combined with Lyle in some interesting ways, such as reshaping the distorted Lyle, Nia, and the ominous into a unified whole. Lyle felt the only voice within him, and a strange sense of intoxication arose within him. He stood up and scanned his surroundings.

The Black Abyss Demons had completed their procrastinating mission. Blood and severed limbs covered the silvery metal as they stood amidst a group of predatory conquerors. Not a single demon remained unscathed, not even the Black Abyss Princess.

The Hell's Nail shattered, Femma's left arm was torn apart, and the blood flowing from the severed wound drew a beautiful flower on the ground. She gasped for breath like a dying woman, looking at the only remaining prince of the Black Abyss.

"Well done, my soldiers." Lyle praised them as if no one else was there, paying no attention to the increasingly bright warning lights of the conquerors.

The will of God was transformed by the Creation Ray, and the power of the evil god even produced some characteristics of mechanical life.

The will of God and the broken Creator Y1 code preserved in Lyle's mind have combined, and to put it bluntly, the evil god larva [Lyle] is not much different from the ideal Creator.

"Stand up and carry out your master's will once again."

The tentacles of riot are corroding everything in this space: metal, glass, moisture, and air.

Lyle created a flesh and blood birthing room in an instant.

"Flesh and Blood Creation: The Black Abyss Demons".

The Conqueror's metallic body rapidly corroded in the sea of ​​tentacles, becoming brittle and fragmented. Cables protruding from the joints transformed into tiny tentacles, emitting eerie screams, becoming part of Lyle's flesh and blood. Lyle used this torrent of flesh and blood as paint, smearing it on the corpses of the fallen demons, mechanizing them into flesh, electrifying them into nerves, and transforming their programs into souls.

The Black Abyss Demons rose again, gazing at their flawless flesh and blood, far surpassing their former frail physiques. Their bodies finally matched their fighting spirit, unleashing a joyous roar.

The intact Ferma Black Abyss pieced the broken Hell Nails back together, walked to the boy's side, and looked at him with reverence.

"The Dark Abyss Demons await the next command, Lyrtos."

Lyle waved his hand, signaling the somewhat excited Ferma to step back for the time being. He found himself in a state of omnipotence, a feeling that occurred with every level up, but this time it seemed exceptionally real. There was definitely something wrong with his current state.

First, Lyle, Nia, and Omen did indeed become a unified entity, but their individual consciousnesses did not disappear; Lyle could easily distinguish the parts within them. The will of God is like playing a Fusion Spell Card; when no longer needed, the Fusion Cancel can completely separate the three, making it quite convenient.

Secondly, Lyle discovered a change in his perspective. Under these peculiar circumstances, Lyle could "see" the back of his own head. The Will of God had absorbed some of the advantages of the mechanical network, constructing a flesh-and-blood network within the flesh-and-blood creations Lyle made. These networks allowed Lyle to share the perspective and emotions of the Black Abyss Demons he had reshaped, making his manipulation of his flesh-and-blood creations more skillful and precise. Lyle could even sense the presence of Shining and others outside the Mechanical City, and even the presence of Andrei. This was because the flesh-and-blood disguises on their bodies were his creations. All the flesh and blood he had ever created wove together into his vast network.

Lyle discovers that he can now spread a plague virus with surveillance capabilities around him.

What is this? It offers a wide field of view, a third-person perspective, and flexible controls.

Absorbing the will of God gave him a new trump card.

Because of the strong sense of déjà vu, Lyle gave this ability a rather powerful name.

[God Mode]

Chapter 533 Fear Descends

Like controlling his own arm or fingers—no, the feeling was even more precise than that. His own flesh and blood were like countless interconnected ball bearings, and Lyle could precisely control the movement of each one. The will of God had granted Lyle extraordinary control; he understood his body better than ever before.

Precision is so precise that every body dimension can be expressed numerically, and every bit of strength is subdivided into basic units. In God Mode, Lyle can accurately calculate his own life force, but he doesn't weave a bright red health bar above his head to represent his life points; that seems like a very unlucky act. Lyle's intuition suppresses the urge to create something interesting.

Because any character with a visible health bar can be killed.

“Ferma, I need the Abyss Demons to destroy everything the Mechanical City is building, these gleaming transistors, those reinforced silver buildings.”

Upon receiving the order, Ferma revealed a sadistic smile and relayed the command to the eager newborn demons.

"Dark Abyss Demons, carry out Lyrtos's orders and destroy everything you see!"

This command, which perfectly suited the demons' tastes, elicited cheers. Lyle watched as the excited, muscular warriors charged into the orderly complex of buildings, the loud crashes and flying metal fragments from the collapses echoing everywhere. Nearby, shouts of "For Lyletos!" could be heard.

Lyle chuckled and shook his head, walking alone into the growing metal jungle.

The Black Abyss Demons can only play a limited role in delaying the inevitable. Lyle needs to get to the location of the Machine God's resurrection as soon as possible, the planned center, the location of the pyramid.

The frail plague doctor traversed the silvery jungle, his black robes, sprouting tentacles, seemed to fade, ink spreading from the edges of his robes onto the metal plates like a paintbrush, tracing a path. The crystal clusters growing on either side of this black trail were sharply defined. At a microscopic level, a fierce struggle was brewing beneath the surface. The long, ink-stained edge was actually countless tiny tentacles, clawing and gnawing at the crystals, while the crystals shimmered, transforming the black tentacles into conductive wires. They corroded and assimilated each other; the war between flesh and machine had already begun quietly.

Touching the metal plate blocking his way, the rusted fragments turned into gravel and fell into the black mud, and Lyle's vision suddenly opened up.

The rampant growth of machinery did not destroy their temple; the solemn silver pyramid seemed to stand on the other side of the river of time, radiating eternal light.

Only here can one see Dorothy's intention in stimulating the growth of those metals.

Those seemingly chaotic metal pillars actually follow a certain pattern. In the middle of each pillar, a crescent-shaped thin sheet is attached. These large, thin mercury sheets are pieced together in the air to form a giant spherical mirror. They adjust their angle to focus the light onto the pyramid.

The overlapping, petal-like thin sheets concentrated all the sunlight from the entire city onto the pyramid. This made the pyramid shine even brighter, bright enough to blind the naked eye. Fortunately, Lyle wasn't "seeing" with his eyes at that moment.

This is an amplifier, the Genesis Ray, and also a kind of light.

According to her original plan, after the amplifier was completed, Dorothy would have three minutes to charge before the first Genesis Beam would fall, illuminating everything in the mechanized Silver City.

Corrupting the pyramid receiving light energy or disrupting Dorothy's program within three minutes is a bit challenging, but it should be achievable.

As Lyle was pondering, the gate at the bottom of the pyramid in front of him opened, illuminating the passage, and five tall mechanical giants emerged from it.

A giant robot, twelve meters tall, with long arms hanging down close to the ground, stood in a slightly comical posture, its body hunched over, and its strange bull-horn crown piercing the sky.

"Do you like my toys, Lyle?" Dorothy's voice came from the broadcast. At the bare top of the pyramid, a square platform rose, and the petite Dorothy, covered in mosaic tiles, was secured to her throne by pipes. It was hard to say whether she looked more like a queen or a prisoner. Her evolution was incomplete; she had expended all her computing power on the mechanical giants before her.

Dorothy's toys, the mechanical ominous giant, five of them.

It seems Dorothy extracted his memories, especially his fears. It's unclear how Dorothy did it, but the terrifying force field emanating from the Ominous Giant undeniably appeared on these metal replicas; that chilling malice that made one's blood boil crashed against Lyle like a tidal wave.

This will excite Lyle.

"You seem to be obsessed with copying the other person's abilities, which is a mistake."

The voice behind the bird-beak mask was muffled, and the black eyes behind the lenses looked slightly crazy.

"The reliance on intelligence information is a mechanical instinct. Even if you can make predictions and calculations based on existing information, you simply cannot predict how... extraordinary I am now."

Facing the onrushing mechanical giant, Lyle spreads his arms wide.

【God Mode - Unleash the Ultimate Transformation】.

The intense light dimmed slightly, and tentacles sprouted from the black mud. The rolling tentacles, carrying filth, devoured Lyle. The rolling tentacles formed a twisted vortex, and a withered, demonic claw emerged from the vortex, its five claws gripping the mechanical omen's head, lifting it up like a toy.

A twenty-meter-tall black giant crawled out of the mud, a ferocious smile on its silhouette-like face, black mud dripping from its mouth like saliva.

Lyle, like a happy child, hugged his smaller counterpart to his chest and let out a chilling laugh, accompanied by the sound of a mechanical omen being dismembered.

"I love it so much, Dorothy, I love the toy you gave me."

The black giant clutched the shards in his arms and tossed them into the mud. The metal turned black, and new giants crawled out from the debris, sporting the same smile, their hollow holes draining pus as they stared at Dorothy.

[Lyle] became two.

The two Lyles looked at each other and laughed.

"Now, I have a friend, hahaha."

"There are four more..."

One minute and fifty seconds.

The black shadows completely engulfed the pyramid, and the light was blocked by the tall shadows.

Six black giants stood atop the pyramid, around Dorothy's mechanical throne.

They were hunched over, and they looked at Dorothy as if she were a little rabbit.

"Dorothy, my friend..."

"Come on, become one of us..."

"To become [Lyle]..."

Tentacles coiled around the slender, withered tree joints, and malicious silt gradually eroded the throne.

"Genesis, launch."