I am the Executioner Dragon, but a cute mod

Even if the great flood lasted so long that the food on the ark ran out, people could still go to sea to catch fish and eat. Water could be obtained by collecting rainwater or distilling seawater.

However, water is far more dangerous than land. Most specialized species are located in the ocean, and the ocean, due to its water density, can support a greater number of organisms. These deep-sea giants spread all over the world along with this great flood.

So, while waiting for the land to emerge from the water, the lonely ark drifting on the surface of the water was often attacked by various sea monsters.

Among these colossal beasts were a 180-meter-long sperm whale with tusks three meters long, a 200-meter-long megalodon weighing a staggering 80,000 tons, as well as Leviathan mesei, a prehistoric giant saltwater crocodile, and other terrifying behemoths capable of easily capsizing the Ark.

Fortunately, Qing was stationed on the ark. Whenever the sea became turbulent, he would leap into the water to search for any potential threats. If there were none, all was well; if there were...

Qing would erupt with high-temperature flames on the seabed, enough to evaporate the seawater, and wield his one-armed spear covered in flames.

Most of the ocean predators could not withstand this attack; they either died on the spot or fled in panic with their broken bodies.

Qing initially thought the attacks by these giant sea monsters were just a coincidence, but little did he know that it was still the result of Lilith's manipulation.

For Lilith, the Great Flood was merely a means to elevate her status; her true purpose was to create an environment where Qing could fight against the giant sea monsters.

Although the ocean behemoth's combat power is lower than that of the black dragon, its ocean home ground and enormous size pose a significant challenge to Qing's endurance.

Lilith thought Qing would survive this ordeal as before, but unexpectedly, he died in an attack by a group of Sitoni primitive killer whales.

It wasn't a death in battle. With Qing's strength, he could easily kill any of the Sitony Orca Specialized species present. However, the Sitony Orca Specialized species is different from other deep-sea giants. They are highly social, have extremely high intelligence, and are skilled in group tactics.

Unable to defeat Qing head-on, they resorted to maneuvering against it.

Qing was ultimately just a mortal. Even though he had become a demigod in Iz's eyes and possessed a powerful physique, he could only engage in high-intensity combat in the sea for about half an hour.

Under the delaying tactics of a group of Sitony's primitive killer whales, Qing died, drowning.

The Iz people, who were observing the battle from the deck of the Ark, were stunned. They could not believe that their king had died in such an ordinary battle. There was no earth-shattering event, no landslides or tsunamis. He had simply died in a battle that was nothing out of the ordinary for him.

Because of a momentary oversight.

On the deck, the historian who had been ordered by Qing to record the great flood for posterity was equally heartbroken. He held a carving knife and carved on the fish bones:

[The second King Iz, incredibly brave, drowned on the fortieth day of the Great Flood while protecting the ark from the sirens' attack...]

Outside the world, Lilith was also somewhat saddened after seeing Qing die, because she really hadn't expected Qing to die here.

However, this made Lilith realize that Qing's true nature had never changed from beginning to end, which was to protect. He was born to protect and died to protect, so he died a worthy death.

Most importantly, Qing's experiences being passed down to future generations will greatly enhance the value of this world, which can be considered an unexpected achievement of Lilith's experimental goals.

From this point on, Lilith decided to officially begin intervening in the development of this world. The previous experiments were just minor skirmishes. If she did nothing next, the development of this world would probably be no different from reality, and it might even forget about the supernatural system over time.

After all, once technology develops, specialized species will no longer pose a threat to humanity. To make this world more like a supernatural world, we need to create some supernatural creatures.

But here's the problem: the supernatural system in the small world is a system for the brave. Humans can replicate the supernatural powers they gain by overcoming fear, so how can animals use this process to achieve supernatural powers?

Lilith began to use her super brain, which told her that she could directly bypass the supernatural system of the small world to create supernatural beings, but the consequence of this was that the existence of supernatural beings would be very incongruous.

Lilith didn't even need a second before abandoning that option. Almost simultaneously, she thought of the system of spirits and sorcerers in the world of sorcery.

Although both sides have the same source of power, their systems are different and cannot affect each other. Lilith thinks that this aspect can be used as a reference when designing the extraordinary creatures in the small world.

In the small world, humans need to undergo trials of courage to acquire extraordinary power in order to neutralize negative energy through the hope they gain. So, can wild beasts directly absorb negative energy?

Lilith thought this method was very feasible, so she began to try to make the beasts directly absorb negative energy and become extraordinary beings.

Meanwhile, in the small world, because Qing had died, the Ark, now without protection, was in an extremely dangerous environment. They were terrified, fearing that the giant sea monsters would destroy the Ark and cause anyone inside to drown.

What they didn't know was that after Qing's death, Lilith, in order to prevent the sea monsters from destroying the seeds of the new world, directly instigated the hatred of the Citoni Primal Orca pods towards the Iz people and had them protect the Ark from attacks by other specialized sea creatures.

But the Iz people were unaware of this and lived in constant fear until, a hundred days later, the floodwaters receded, revealing the summit of the highest mountain on the continent, where the ark docked.

Another hundred days passed, and the floodwaters receded completely, revealing the devastated land below. The Iz people originally wanted to return directly to the land, but after more than two hundred days of being soaked by the flood, the land had become muddy and impassable. When you stepped on it, half of your body would sink into it, making it impossible to stand.

So the Iz people continued to wait, and sixty days later, the earth finally dried up, and moss and tenacious vegetation grew on its surface.

Only at this moment did the people of Iz release the various creatures imprisoned inside the ark. They left the ark and stood on land again after three hundred days, their eyes welling up with tears.

Chapter 169: Fantasy Creature Ideas

After the Great Flood, 99 percent of life on the continent perished. The creatures that emerged from the Ark had ample space to survive and thrived in the new world.

The Iz people were not idle either; instead, they established new city-states. To ensure their future food supply, the Iz people specifically selected animals such as cattle, sheep, and chickens to help them reproduce.

Because the creatures brought to the Ark were originally in pairs, one male and one female, in the New World, carnivores always preyed on herbivores, which led to the extinction of many herbivores, but this was something that could not be helped.

Time passed unnoticed during the reconstruction, and only when a town of considerable size stood on the riverbank did the lives of the Iz people gradually get back on track.

Life took root and sprouted anew on this land, and a desolate continent was revitalized. However, this process was not yet enough to attract Lilith's attention, as she was currently pondering how to create truly extraordinary beings.

In the small world, negative emotions people have about a certain creature or concept will generate negative energy. However, this negative energy does not become a cursed spirit like the cursed power in the world of sorcery. Instead, it waits for someone to dispel people's fears and then absorb this negative energy under the influence of hope, thus becoming an extraordinary being.

If negative energy generated by people towards something is directly transferred to an object, could it create cursed objects or similar supernatural beings? What impact would this have on people acquiring supernatural powers?

Lilith was unsure, so she began to experiment.

During their three-hundred-day drift, the Iz people accumulated a great deal of fear of the sea monsters, and then mobilized this energy to forcibly inject it into the body of one of the sea monsters.

As soon as the action was taken, the giant sea monster immediately showed abnormal behavior, becoming restless and gradually developing self-harm tendencies, eventually crashing its head into the reef and dying.

As Lilith watched the carcass of the ocean behemoth slowly sink to the bottom of the sea, surrounded by a mist of blood, her doubts deepened:

[What's going on? If forcibly injecting negative energy into a living organism causes this kind of side effect, then isn't the idea of ​​creating superhuman beings just nonsense?]

Lilith wouldn't give up so easily; after failing once, she immediately began searching for the problem:

[It must be due to different natures. Just like when Qing killed the honey badger, it dispelled people's fear of honey badgers. Only in this case did it absorb the negative energy born from the honey badger and become a superhuman. Different negative energies should have different masters...]

With this in mind, Lilith immediately began to try. First, she extracted the fear of the Citoni Primitive Killer Whale Specialized Species from the large amount of negative energy. Then, she captured a Citoni Primitive Killer Whale Specialized Species and stuffed that part of the negative energy into its body.

The next second, something amazing happened.

Although the body of the Citoni original killer whale variant did not grow exponentially larger, its muscle density increased significantly, and its eyes, which already occasionally flashed with intelligence, were filled with more human emotions.

Lilith's experiment was a success. With the help of the original killer whale specialization, Sitoni successfully absorbed negative energy and became the first non-human creature to gain extraordinary power.

"Great!"

Feeling the power of the Nassotoni primitive killer whale specialization far surpassing that of other killer whales, Lilith couldn't help but cheer. Now that this method had been proven effective, the next step was simply to consider how to make those creatures absorb their share of negative energy autonomously.

First, people are usually afraid of a creature because that creature is likely to harm them. If we design an extremely ugly creature, so ugly that people will immediately generate negative energy the moment they see it, then this passively generated negative energy might be easier to absorb than actively acquired negative energy.

With that in mind, Lilith immediately took action. First, she found a cow about to give birth and kneaded the normally growing fetus in her womb until it was grotesquely shaped. Then she began to observe it.

The cow was about to give birth, and to ensure a smooth delivery, the Iz people who raised the cow stood by, uttering words of blessing.

However, when the deformed calf with a single eye and three-lobed lips appeared before him, the Iz man stood there dumbfounded. It was the first time he had ever seen such a bizarre creature. He was puzzled, confused, and even felt a sense of disgust because the thing was beyond his comprehension.

In Lilith's observation, this negative emotion successfully gave birth to a weak negative energy, and as soon as this negative energy appeared, it naturally flowed into the body of the deformed creature.

Upon seeing this, Lilith's eyes lit up:

"Success!"

I didn't expect to succeed on my first try. After all, luck is only a very small factor in doing experiments; the results are mostly obtained through a large number of experiments.

To ensure that this experiment was not a coincidence, Lilith began to search for the reasons for its success.

After thinking for a while, I quickly found a vivid analogy: the negative energy gained by harming people is an asset, while the negative energy gained from an ugly and frightening appearance is interest.

The assets don't belong to you, but the interest truly belongs to you.

After reaching this conclusion, Lilith didn't sit still. She immediately created several ugly races and released them into the small world. Since the small world had lost too many lives due to the flood, what she did could be considered as enriching the biodiversity.

However, after Lilith finished this task, when she wanted to see how far the Iz people had rebuilt, she was surprised to find that a tall tower had suddenly appeared on the ground.

Lilith didn't know what the Iz people's purpose was in building the tower, but the story of building a tower after the Great Flood seemed somewhat familiar.

To find the source of this sense of déjà vu, Lilith sat down at her computer and began searching. Soon, she found stories about the Tower of Babel:

[Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.]

This is the original text of the story, which specifically notes that the people's construction of the Tower of Babel was an act of arrogance and a desire to deify themselves. In the story, God scattered the people throughout the world and changed their languages, at which point they stopped building.

Although Lilith felt that the Iz people did not necessarily build the tower out of arrogance or a desire to become gods, the fact that people all over the world live together and speak the same language means that the world is indeed not very diverse.

So Lilith, following the example in the story, scattered the Iz people all over the world and made them speak different languages.

Then, Lilith accelerated the flow of time a million times, requiring people to build a world with different cultures and countries, thus unfolding the next part of the storyline...

Chapter 170: The Birth of the Big-Eyed Monster

With time accelerated a million times, thirty-one seconds in the world of sorcery is equivalent to one year in a small world, five minutes is equivalent to ten years in a small world, and one hour is equivalent to one hundred and twenty years in a small world.

When Lilith distributed the Iz people throughout the world and disrupted their languages, she did not inform anyone. At first, people were terrified in the face of this sudden disaster.

Human beings are so resilient. Even in panic, they quickly band together for warmth. As for the language barrier, the writing system invented by our ancestors came in handy.

The people of Iz have many different opinions about this strange event, but the majority of them agree on the following view:

After the great flood, the world was too desolate. The gods wanted life to spread across the entire continent again, so they scattered people to different corners of the world.

As for why the gods would disrupt people's language, no one has been able to give a reasonable explanation yet. After all, who could guess that this was just Lilith's whim?

In the days that followed, the people of Iz searched for their companions who had been scattered around the world, and gradually, they formed groups of varying sizes.

Having companions to help you is always better than going it alone.

Just two years later, the Iz people, who had been scattered around the world, were divided into four different large settlements, located in the east, west, south, and north respectively, without disturbing each other and developing independently.

Due to differences in their living environments, the four settlements, which originally shared a common origin, began to develop their own distinct lifestyles.

The terrain in the east is mostly plains with a dense network of rivers. The Iz people living here mostly rely on farming and fishing for a living, and the population is relatively dense.

The western part of the country is mostly desert terrain. The Iz people who live here endure high temperatures all year round. Their means of livelihood depends on the melting snow and ice from the high plateau mountains, which converge into rivers, and the oasis farming or animal husbandry that are nourished by these rivers.

The south is mostly hilly and mountainous with large river flows, so the people here make a living by paddy fields and fishing. Because of the heavy rains in summer, they built stilt houses to prevent their houses from getting damp.

In the north, snow falls year-round, and the ground is frozen as hard as stone, making crop cultivation a luxury. Food sources are fishing or hunting.

The four settlements lived peacefully until sixty years had passed when they first discovered each other's existence.

Sixty years is a long time for ape-men, long enough for the experience of building the ark and leading countless lives through the great flood to become history, long enough for four settlements that were once close friends and relatives to become strangers to each other.

Fortunately, the four settlements did not break out into conflict at the beginning. They each got what they needed and traded things they did not have in their own settlements.

For a time, the four settlements developed harmoniously, a situation that continued until the extraordinary creature later named the "Big-Eyed Monster" was discovered.

The site of the discovery was in the territory of a southern settlement that called itself Felix Campania, or simply Felix Campania, meaning a land of plenty.

In a remote swamp in Filican, a traveler got lost and stumbled upon a group of creatures wriggling in the mud.