The creature was dark green all over, with a huge head. One eye took up 70% of the head. In addition, it had a pair of hands and a pair of feet. Although it was humanoid, it had no intelligence.
Upon seeing this thing, the traveler was so frightened that he turned and fled without thinking of anything else.
Afterwards, the traveler fled to the nearest city-state and described the monster to the law enforcement officers, who took it very seriously.
After all, the conversation between Qing and Shen has been passed down. Although people have never seen a demon, they firmly believe in its existence. Now that they hear of something like a demon, they dare not be careless in the slightest.
Two hundred soldiers, dressed in standard armor and carrying spears, headed towards the swamp with trepidation, expecting a fierce battle with demons. However, upon seeing the one-eyed creatures in the swamp unconsciously waving their limbs, they relaxed their guard.
After all, apart from looking ugly, this thing has no offensive power. Its huge eyeballs can not only be eaten, but also sold to other countries as a higher-level bargaining chip.
While the accompanying officials were assessing the value of this thing, little did they know that the creature before them had already gained some negative energy from the fear instilled in the traveler, and coupled with the unease of the two hundred soldiers on their march, the big-eyed monster already possessed a certain amount of negative energy.
It was this negligible negative energy, which was insignificant to any human superhuman, that caused the accompanying official to experience a momentary blurring of vision and a warm sensation in his nasal cavity the instant he locked eyes with the big-eyed monster.
Upon discovering this strange phenomenon, the soldier's expression immediately changed, and he shouted. Without regard for anything else, he quickly grabbed his spear and rushed forward, stabbing the large-eyed monster to death.
After that, the Big-Eyed Monster became a recorded monster in Filican, and in addition to its physical characteristics, its attack methods were also described:
Using eye contact as a medium, the mind is forcibly disrupted and intracranial pressure is increased... Experiments on death row inmates have shown that after five minutes of eye contact, the head of the person being stared at will explode.
This matter quickly became common knowledge, and amidst the negative emotions generated by people's fear, the entire Big-Eyed Monster race successfully ascended to the status of an extraordinary race.
Lilith was undoubtedly overjoyed to witness the birth of the first extraordinary race. Through this observation, she discovered that whether the species she had created could become an extraordinary species was related to the species' first contact with humans.
If the giant eye monsters were deemed harmless from the moment they came into contact with humans, then it would have been impossible for them to generate so much negative energy that would have been enough for the entire giant eye monster race to advance to the level of a superhuman race.
Based on this experience, Lilith began to imagine whether it was possible to create a creature that looked very powerful, so that people would immediately recognize it as extremely dangerous, thus turning it from a paper tiger into a real tiger.
But then, thinking about this, I suddenly realized something strange:
[Serpentine cats, giant spotted hyenas, and crocodiles are all extremely dangerous creatures to humans. If an unarmed ordinary person encounters these creatures, they are almost certainly dead. Why haven't they become superhuman beings?]
Lilith hadn't thought about this problem before, but after discovering the blind spot, she immediately realized that if this problem wasn't solved, the extraordinary system of the small world would have a serious bug.
To find the answer to the question, Lilith pondered for a long time and guessed the result:
The extraordinary system of the small world originates from negative energy, and for animals to become extraordinary species, humans need to generate negative energy towards that species.
Beasts were the creatures that should have become extraordinary species, but Lilith forgot that after humans acquired the spark of civilization, beasts were no longer a threat to humans.
In the grand scheme of history, ferocious beasts don't even occupy a single chapter. It is this confidence and arrogance that makes people forget the fear of being dominated by ferocious beasts. Without negative energy, ferocious beasts naturally cannot become an extraordinary species.
And what about the Big-Eyed Monster? It's a completely new species, everything about it is unknown, and the unknown is precisely what's most terrifying.
Chapter 171: The Birth of an Extraordinary Race
Since the discovery of the Big-Eyed Monster, sightings of new species have been increasing every year, but not every species can become an extraordinary race.
Just as Lilith thought, whether a new species could become an extraordinary race was related to that species' first contact with humans.
Lilith once designed a creature called the Mud Monster, which is a dark yellow, semi-transparent substance that can melt the creatures it devours.
In order to steer people toward her desired outcome, Lilith deliberately stuffed several human skeletons into the Mud Monster's body, intending to frighten them.
However, the first human to come into contact with the Mud Monster did not consider it a predator, but rather a scavenger. Given its slow movement, it could be used to process wet garbage or excrement.
When records of the Mud Monster were relayed back to humankind, people were simply intrigued by it and used it to keep the city clean.
No one is afraid of a trash can. Without fear, there is no negative energy. Thus, the Mud Monster, which was envisioned as an extraordinary creature by Lilith, became a miserable garbage dump.
Fortunately, most of the creatures designed by Lilith caused quite a stir when they first appeared, thus becoming extraordinary races.
Lilith's experiment on "turning a paper tiger into a real tiger" was also successful. The reason was that she created a black dragon the size of a dog based on the image of the black dragon. According to its body structure, it would never be able to reach the length of the black dragon, which is forty meters long.
However, after this little dog dragon was discovered, sharp-eyed people immediately realized that this black dragon was very similar to the black dragon that fought against the second generation of King Iz.
In an instant, the fear of the mythical creature's return to the world generated a large amount of negative energy, causing the black dragon, which was no bigger than a small dog, to grow to over six meters in length within a year.
Lilith, who witnessed this scene firsthand, was amazed. After the paper tiger experiment was successful, the method of creating extraordinary species expanded from creating an ugly creature to make people afraid, to creating a paper tiger that looks powerful to make people afraid.
Although both are methods for creating extraordinary species, the latter doesn't make all the extraordinary species in the small world ugly. After all, it's meant to be made into a VR game and released on a gaming platform, and so many ugly monsters would make people have no desire to continue playing.
Speaking of games, Lilith thought of the AAA title she had been longing for, the one where she thought she was the protagonist. Although she hadn't been back in Tokyo from the United States for long, she was still curious about how far the game's development had progressed.
Pulling her thoughts back from the small world, Lilith took out her flip phone and dialed Amelia's number.
Almost the instant the phone rang, it was answered, and Amelia's voice came from the other end:
"Boss? You were looking for me?"
Lilith didn't say anything polite; she went straight to the point about the purpose of her call:
"Amelia, what stage is the game development at? I need to know the specifics."
Upon hearing this, Amelia responded without hesitation:
"It's still in the preparation stage, boss. What's wrong?"
"Still in the preparation stage?"
Lilith could hardly believe her ears. She couldn't believe that so much time had passed and the game hadn't even started development yet. Just how lax was this?
Lilith then immediately questioned:
"I've been gone for so long, and the game still hasn't even started development? This is outrageous! Amelia, I'm going to America to show those freeloaders what I'm capable of, and let them know who they've been wasting their time on..."
After saying that, Lilith prepared to leave, but just as she was about to take her first step, Amelia on the other end of the phone spoke weakly:
"Boss, didn't you just leave yesterday?"
"yesterday?"
Lilith was stunned, her foot, which she had just lifted, froze in mid-air. After thinking hard, she realized that it had indeed been yesterday that she had returned to Japan from the United States. The reason it felt like so much time had passed was because she had been accelerating time in the small world, which had made her less sensitive to the passage of time.
Upon realizing she had misunderstood Amelia, Lilith felt a little embarrassed, but this embarrassment quickly vanished. Concerned about the game's completion time, she asked:
"Amelia, do you know when the game will be finished? Is a month enough?"
After the question was raised, there was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone. Amelia was probably consulting with a professional and receiving a result before speaking.
"Boss, how could an excellent game be completed in just one month? Our game will take at least three years to develop, any shorter and it won't work."
"Huh? So slow?"
Lilith was somewhat incredulous, as she had only just realized that a AAA-level game would take so long to develop. Perhaps before the AAA game was even finished, Little World would already be available on gaming platforms as a VR game.
"I see……"
Lilith responded and then hung up the phone. Although she did have high expectations for the game, the long production time was enough to disappoint her.
After temporarily withdrawing her expectations for this game, Lilith refocused her attention on the small world. She originally thought that Amelia's game would be completed soon, and she had been rushing to meet the deadline in order to have both games released at the same time.
In retrospect, it was completely unnecessary. There was still plenty of time. In order to observe and influence the small world more closely, Lilith adjusted the time that had passed in the small world by a million times to a hundred times.
In the small world, people's movements, which were originally so fast that they were just afterimages, became clearer. Perhaps because the flow of time had slowed down, Lilith had to process less information in a short time, and she felt a sense of relief.
The small world continued to develop slowly, with new species being discovered one after another, and more and more extraordinary races emerging. Perhaps influenced by some Japanese Western fantasy works, Lilith always felt that something was missing from her small world.
The extraordinary races are all here, and so are the humans, but the classic races such as elves, orcs, and dwarves have not yet been born.
Lilith wasn't in a hurry, after all, the humans in the small world hadn't even lost their body hair yet, so they had plenty of time to create these races that only existed in stories.
Before creating these races, Lilith used her absolute control over the smaller worlds to first create four medium-sized islands in the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest corners of the continent.
These islands are quite far from the supercontinent, far enough that humans cannot set foot on them before they have the ability to sail the oceans, in order to protect any new races that may be born on these islands in the future.
After creating the island, Lilith randomly selected the northeastern island from the four islands and began to conceive of the race of elves.
Chapter 172: The Birth of an Elf
In most of the stories, the elves are not a race that reproduces naturally; their birth depends entirely on the Tree of Life, and they are naturally peace-loving and nature-loving.
In order to create the elf, Lilith specially infused a sapling with strong life energy. The next second, the sapling shot up from the ground with a "whoosh" and in no time, it became a towering tree with a diameter of ten meters and a height of eighty meters.
However, having only a giant tree is not enough. Lilith needs to find a way to make the tree give birth to elves, and Lilith's first idea is to let the elves be born as seeds or fruits of the giant tree.
This method was not difficult for Lilith. In order to discover the drawbacks of this method as soon as possible, Lilith immediately manipulated the Tree of Life to conceive an elf she remembered.
On a newly sprouted branch of the Tree of Life, a green bud emerged. Then, as if on fast-forward, the bud quickly grew to full size and bloomed. Inside, a green doll quietly curled up – this was the fairy.
Seeing that the Tree of Life had given birth to the first elf, Lilith observed it with great curiosity. However, unlike the newborn she had imagined that would cry and fuss, this elf did not cry or fuss after its birth, and did not even move.
Looking at the elf's green and incredibly tender skin, Lilith had a bad feeling. She reached out and the newborn elf appeared in her hand. She opened her mouth and bit down. With a crisp "crunch," her mouth was filled with slightly sweet juice.
"It tastes like fresh plant roots and stems, which is nice, but... this is totally a human-shaped fruit."
Looking at the humanoid fruit in her hand with half a head missing, Lilith quickly realized the problem: the thing in her hand was just a humanoid fruit and couldn't be considered an elf at all.
That's true, after all, this thing is essentially a plant, it would be strange if it could move. However, if you really want to make it move, there are ways.
In fact, plants are capable of movement. Their roots explore downwards, their trunks grow taller each year, and their vines entwine around objects. Plants are indeed mobile, but they move extremely slowly, often measured in hours or days.
Making the plants' movements visible to the naked eye is simple; all you need to do is accelerate their cell division. However, Lilith didn't know how many times the cell division rate would need to be increased to make the humanoid fruit in her hand look like a person, so she started an experiment.
First, there's the tenfold cell division speed. At this speed, the "elf" that gets bitten doesn't move at all; it's just like a fruit.
Then, with a cell division speed fifty times faster, Lilith finally noticed the difference. The "elf's" little hand was moving at a rate of one centimeter per hour, but it was still a stretch to make it look like a living thing.
Then there's the 100-fold increase in cell division speed. At this rate of cell division, the "elf's" movement speed reaches two centimeters per hour.
Then it increased five hundred times, five thousand times, ten thousand times... up to five hundred thousand times. The "elf" in Lilith's hand moved like a real baby. The gap on its head had already healed, and it was staring at Lilith with its green eyes.
Without crying or making a fuss, the plant's instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm was accelerated by 500,000 times, giving the "elf" quite extraordinary wisdom. This wisdom allowed it to know that crying in Lilith's arms would definitely lead to something bad happening.
So the baby elf stared quietly at Lilith, appearing incredibly well-behaved.
"Oh! It's done!"
Lilith cradled the elf baby in her arms, curiously examining the little green thing. Logically speaking, if an elf's cell division rate is accelerated by 500,000 times, its lifespan will also be shortened by 500,000 times.
However, the prototype of the Tree of Life that Lilith chose is a tree that reproduces asexually, a tree whose cells can divide without limit and which theoretically has an infinite lifespan.
As fruits born from the Tree of Life, elves also possess infinite lifespans; even if their lifespan is shortened by 500,000 times, their lifespan is still endless.
"Very good, it fits the long-lived setting of elves, but... elves in most works have a very good appearance, this green thing is not good-looking at all."
Lilith criticized the elf's appearance, then subtly manipulated it, concentrating all the chlorophyll from the elf's body into the hair on its head and editing the information in its genes to generate red pigment.
Because the red pigment is not dense and is relatively evenly distributed, the elf's skin color suddenly changed from green to pinkish-white, while her hair turned dark green due to the accumulation of chlorophyll.
In this way, the Elf race was finally created. To ensure the smooth development of the Elf race, Lilith directly stuffed a large amount of information into the brain of the Elf baby in her hands.
These messages include information about writing and language, as well as ideas about making bows and arrows and protecting nature and peace.
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