With this elf as a guide, Lilith believed that the elf race would develop as she had envisioned. After throwing the first elf back into the small world, she stopped paying attention to it and instead turned her attention to the islands in the southeast of the continent.

On this island, Lilith wanted to create a race of half-orcs, the kind of race that animal-eared girls in anime and novels belong to, as do dog-headed people and donkey-headed people.

The creation of the orc race was not as crude as that of the elves. Lilith directly isolated the island, giving the animals a condition that forced them to walk upright.

There are two methods, one for carnivores and one for herbivores. First, let's talk about herbivores. The environment is made so that low shrubs and grasses cannot be sustained. Their only food source is giant vines that are ten meters high.

In order to feed, herbivores will force themselves to raise their forelimbs to increase their height. Over time, the structure of the organism's pelvis changes, from temporary standing to permanent standing. Since the forelimbs no longer bear weight, they evolve into flexible hands.

Lilith thought that the evolution of herbivores would be easy to complete, but when she actually tried it, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years of evolution did not make these creatures walk upright. Instead, they became giraffe-like creatures, stretching their necks out to reach food growing high up.

Undeterred by the failure of the first experiment, Lilith destroyed all the "giraffes" and began a new round of experiments.

However, this experiment did not last for hundreds of millions of years. In the hundred thousandth year, the animals formed a unique social system. In order to get food, they would stack themselves into a meat ladder like a human pyramid, and then the creature on top would pick the branches, leaves and fruits.

This evolutionary direction was not to Lilith's liking. Although these animals were very likely to emerge from a completely different system from humans, Lilith still eliminated them and instead started the third experiment.

Chapter 173: Orcs and Dwarves

As the saying goes, "Third time's the charm," and in the third experiment, the herbivores finally began to walk upright. The evolution of the half-human, half-animal species had officially taken its first step, and the next step was to get the carnivores to walk upright.

To make carnivores walk upright, you only need to apply survival pressure to them, just like you would to herbivores, forcing them to walk upright because they would die if they didn't, and they wouldn't be able to catch food if they didn't.

So Lilith changed the island's terrain again, turning it into a grassland where sharp, long grasses over two meters tall grew. Because of the obstructed view, the four-legged carnivores had to stand up straight like Homon to find prey.

To avoid being scratched on the legs and abdomen by sharp, long grass, the freed forelimbs can be used to part the grass and reduce the damage to the body. These conditions enable carnivores to walk upright.

Lilith then conducted her first experiment. With the time accelerated, she could clearly see all the changes. Initially, the predators did stand upright as Lilith had imagined in order to gain a wider field of vision, but they did not walk upright.

Their way of dealing with the sharp, long grass is to increase the thickness of their skin and flesh to resist the sharp edges of the grass leaves. This is a reasonable evolutionary approach, but they did not evolve in the way Lilith had imagined.

And the consequence of this was that they were ruthlessly eliminated by Lilith, who then began the second experiment.

However, the second experiment was even worse than the first. The predators no longer stood to observe the prey's movements. Instead, after acquiring thicker fur, they gained a more sensitive sense of smell.

This keen sense of smell can almost replace the function of the eyes, helping predators quickly distinguish the scent of prey from that of food, and even track and catch prey by the scent left behind by the prey.

This was a successful evolution, but it meant nothing to Lilith. After eliminating all the carnivores on the island, Lilith started the experiment again.

Unfortunately, even though the third experiment on bipedalism of herbivores was successful, the experiment on bipedalism of carnivores failed five times.

"What's going on? Why is the experiment failing so quickly? Am I using the wrong method?"

After five failures, Lilith began to doubt herself. In order to make the experiment successful, she changed the island's environment again, transforming it into a year-round shallow wetland.

In the water, there are countless leeches and gnats. Walking on four legs here makes one vulnerable to attacks from these small creatures, which is the first reason why predators walk upright.

Secondly, there are no prey creatures in shallow water for predators to eat. Water birds and small mammals live in trees, which would also prompt predators to walk upright in order to catch these creatures.

Having set up such an environment, Lilith immediately released carnivores, but the first experiment was a huge disappointment, because the predators couldn't catch any prey at all, and instead turned their fangs on their own kind. After several years, all the predators died.

Lilith was unconvinced and immediately began another experiment, but no matter how she conducted the experiment, she could not successfully achieve the goal of making carnivores walk upright.

Compared to adapting to their environment, carnivores are more likely to seek out suitable environments, so their evolutionary effects are far weaker than those of herbivores.

Having reached this point, Lilith had no choice but to directly use her abilities to create a group of carnivorous orcs. She was reluctant to do so, since she believed that elves born from trees were a pipe dream, which is why she chose to intervene directly. However, orcs could clearly allow animals to evolve naturally in specific environments, so Lilith did not want to use her power.

But reality is often contrary to expectations. The evolution of carnivorous animals into orcs has been slow to materialize, so Lilith has to personally modify their pelvis and spine, and enable their forelimbs to grasp.

After successfully creating both herbivorous and carnivorous orcs, Lilith restored the island to its original state and released the orcs onto it.

But another unexpected event occurred: the carnivorous orcs did not consider the herbivorous orcs to be their kind, and the herbivorous orcs did not accept the carnivorous orcs either. As a result, the two sides automatically split into two camps, seemingly destined to become mortal enemies.

"What a nuisance, they still think they're animals."

Seeing this, Lilith rolled her eyes. In order to prevent carnivorous and herbivorous orcs from killing each other, she implanted a special mechanism into the orc race's genes.

If an orc harms or kills one of its own kind, the [Death by Shame] mechanism will be triggered, which will cause severe feelings of shame and guilt, triggering a stress response in the body, and in severe cases, even death.

Now, the orc race, which had previously been developing into mortal enemies, suddenly became the most harmonious and friendly race in the small world. Seeing the orcs developing harmoniously, Lilith nodded in satisfaction and turned her attention to the next island.

The next island is located in the southwest of the continent. In Lilith's eyes, this island has abundant mineral resources. Because in many stories, dwarves are always a race that is good at forging metals, Lilith decided to create dwarves on this island.

The creation of dwarves is quite simple: first, create a human, compress their body to seventy centimeters, and dwarves are born.

In order to give the dwarves advanced metal smelting skills, Lilith also implanted knowledge about metal smelting and tool forging into the minds of the first few dwarves.

The dwarf race was thus created, albeit hastily. After all, Lilith had little interest in dwarves; in most stories, this race consists of NPCs or background characters, primarily serving to provide adult boys and girls.

After dealing with the dwarves, Lilith turned her attention to the northwest of the continent, the last remaining empty island.

To be honest, Lilith didn't know which race to put on this island. After all, there are only a few races in fantasy stories. As for the final ownership of this island, Lilith had three choices: winged people, mermaids, and demons.

The winged beings have wings on their backs and can fly, dominating the skies. However, Lilith felt that the winged beings' appearance was too similar to that of angels. Angels are subordinates of this one and only God, and it would be troublesome if other races misunderstood them, so she ruled them out.

Mermaids, with human bodies and fish tails, mostly conform to human aesthetic standards of females. But to be honest, the mermaid race has no real need to exist. If mermaids are helpful in exploring the ocean, the ocean is now dominated by specialized species. Mermaids can at most swim in shallow waters and don't play a significant role.

And what about the demons? As the villains in most stories, they have horns on their heads, a bunch of bat-like wings on their backs, and some even have a tail. They look similar to demons and do similar things. They can be said to be the most useful of the three races.

With this in mind, Lilith made a decision, and in the end, the island created the demon race.

Chapter 174: Boring, I want to see rivers of blood.

Do races that are inherently evil really exist in the world? In Lilith's opinion, such races do not exist.

If that's the case, then how do we make the demons the natural villains in this small world? The answer is simple: arrogance.

When Lilith created the demon race, she directly altered the neural network of the demons' brains, so that demons had a mental imprint in their minds from birth.

Demons are the highest race in this world; all other races are inferior beings.

This is the content of the thought imprint: absolute arrogance, absolute pride. Arrogance, as the first of the seven deadly sins, is the origin of all evil and the essence of original sin.

With their arrogance, the demons will be the most evil race in the small world. Lilith can already foresee that when the demon fleet lands on other islands or the supercontinent, war will break out because of their absolute arrogance.

After completing the creation of these four races, Lilith was quite satisfied. She put her hands on her hips and looked down at the five races that were developing steadily in the small world.

Among them, humans are undoubtedly the most powerful, leading by a wide margin in terms of population, military strength, and the number of superhumans. However, the apes are divided into four camps, and their power is also divided into four parts.

"That's not bad. It prevents other races from being enslaved because of the vast difference in strength when they land on the continent."

Lilith decided not to interfere in human affairs any further and instead quietly observed the development of the five races.

Five minutes later.

"I'm so bored..."

Lilith stared listlessly at the slowly developing little world, feeling more bored than ever before. After giving up interfering with the little world, the five races developed peacefully, and everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, each fulfilling their duties.

While that's not bad, it's ridiculously boring. There's no war or disaster in the world, so boring that it makes you want to kill yourself.

Suddenly, Lilith had an idea to make the small world more interesting. Her eyes lit up, and she used her powers to project the following message into the minds of all the ape-men across the continent:

"Unify all ape-man settlements and you will receive a reward from the gods."

Upon hearing this, everyone from the king handling state affairs in the palace and the ministers offering advice to the villagers in the fields and the children playing in the streets showed a look of astonishment.

All ape-men today, regardless of their faction, worship a single deity, the one who conveyed the "Great Flood" to Qing—Lilith.

In this belief system, Qing is ranked below Lilith, and is God's most valiant and loving messenger, who is also worshipped by many.

Now, the oracle has appeared in the minds of every ape-man, and who knows what kind of conflict will erupt among those who believe in the god.

“This is going to be fun!” Lilith chuckled, then took out her phone and went to a food delivery platform called “Demae-kan”. She ordered an eel rice bowl, tempura, sukiyaki, steak and a glass of lemonade. After changing the delivery address to “Ryousei-miya”, she skillfully clicked to pay.

How can we proceed without delicious food in the face of the grand drama unfolding within humanity?

Lilith looked at the small world, wondering which of the four forces would make the first move. Just as she was lost in thought, her phone, which she had just put back, suddenly rang.

Lilith answered the phone and heard a mature voice on the other end:

"Excuse me, is this Miss Amelia? Your delivery has arrived, please come and pick it up."

Upon hearing this, Lilith was taken aback. She wasn't shocked that the other person was named Amelia. In fact, ever since experiencing the cyberbullying storm in the last world, she had been using the name Amelia on all social media platforms.

To my surprise, my food delivery arrived so quickly, not long after I placed the order.

"So fast! Don't spill my sukiyaki!"

With a skeptical mind, Lilith walked towards the barrier's exit, poked her head out from inside the barrier, and saw a familiar figure outside.

It was a man with short, messy hair, wearing a training uniform, and a highly recognizable scar on the corner of his mouth. It was none other than Fu Heishen'er.

However, Fuhesh was holding a wooden box, which, despite being tightly packed, still gave Lilith a pleasant aroma.

"It's you? How did you start delivering food?" Lilith recognized Fuheishen, after all, she had met him once when she came to the Star Palace.

Hearing Lilith's question, Fuheshen smiled helplessly. The reason he was delivering takeout was, of course, because Lilith had stormed into the Star Palace, and the higher-ups in the sorcery world thought he had done a poor job and dismissed him.

Without a job, his meager savings were far from enough to support Fuhei Shen's high consumption. Continuing to be an assassin was no longer an option, especially since his son, Fuhei Hui, had already been promoted to a government job, and as a father, he couldn't let him down.

After careful consideration, Fuheshen finally chose to deliver food. At his speed, he could earn about five million a month delivering food. Although it wasn't much, it would be enough if he saved.

Fuhesh didn't tell Lilith why he had lost his position as a bodyguard for the Rising Star Palace; they weren't close to begin with. So he said:

"boy."

Lilith didn't ask any further questions. After taking the wooden box from Fuheshen'er's hand, she thanked him and turned back to the barrier.

Back at the small world sandbox, Lilith opened the wooden box and placed the food inside one by one beside her.

Although the enticing aroma made Lilith swallow hard, she resisted the urge to eat it. Instead, she gradually accelerated the time in the small world until the first conflict between the four major human settlements broke out. Only then did she happily take a sip of lemonade, pick up an eel, and take a bite...

In the small world, ever since Lilith left those words in the minds of all humans across the continent, the four forces that were originally in harmony have gradually become strange.

First, there's Philican. As early as when they discovered the Big-Eyed Monsters, in order to eliminate the threat of these extraordinary races, they expanded their army, making their military strength arguably superior to the other three kingdoms.

However, the conflict has been delayed because the neighboring northern country of "Wallska" has the vast majority of superhumans left over from the Great Flood. Because of the longevity of superhumans, even though the leaders have changed several times, these superhumans are still in their prime.

The southern nation of Serania is no ordinary country either. Although they do not have a powerful army or any superhumans left over from the Great Flood, they have found another path to becoming superhumans since the emergence of superhuman races.

That is to kill and eat extraordinary races, so that one can perfectly inherit their energy and become an extraordinary being. Although the strength is not as great as the "Brave Advancement Ritual", the advantage is that it can be replicated in large quantities.

The Western nation of "Vistra" is the weakest of the four major powers. It has neither a powerful army, nor any superhumans left over from the Great Flood Era, nor any replicable or new path to becoming a superhuman.

Avistra seemed to know that he was almost the weakest target, and in order to protect himself or deter others, he claimed that after Qing's death, he had found the spear that burned with eternal flames.

Although the veracity of the news was unknown, no one dared to be the first to test it, resulting in a prolonged stalemate among the four forces.

Chapter 175: The White Dragon

The conflict stemmed from Filikan's extensive experiments in order to obtain the technology for mass-producing superhumans in Serania.

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