Chapter 559 - 397: Endless Star Sea

Chapter 559: Chapter 397: Endless Star Sea

Rather than calling them Deities controlled by Isaac, it would be more accurate to say they were Deities he had *created*!

The moment this thought surfaced, Moens’s heart skipped a beat.

There are two kinds of God Creation. The first is from folklore, telling of a supreme Creator God who first created the world, then created the other gods to manage it for Him. The other is the God Creation experiment, a practice that has been sealed away among Wizards.

The term "God Creation" usually refers to the latter. The former is a tale that circulates only among some mortals; any Transcendent with a lick of sense knows better than to believe it. After all, the Deities themselves would never invent a father figure to place above them for no good reason.

Of course, since this legend also involves the Concept of world creation, no Deity dares to claim the title. Doing so would not only offend the other Deities, but it would also attract that pack of mad dogs—the ancient Mad Witches.

You see, Wizards have ridiculously long lifespans. In fact, since the dawn of Wizardry as an Extraordinary Power, not a single Tier Three High-level Wizard has been known to die of natural causes. They almost all meet a violent end.

Assassinated for revenge, killed in a conflict, or caught in the crossfire of a battle between titans...

In short, there are many ways to die, but the most common is in an experiment gone wrong.

Yet among all these ways to die, natural death is conspicuously absent.

Therefore, despite the extremely high mortality rate among Mad Witches, over such a vast stretch of time, a few prodigies always manage to survive to the very end. The creator of the Gate of Legends, for example. That individual went further than any other Mad Witch and even came to protect their kind.

Those guys aren’t quiet because they’ve turned over a new leaf. Gambling is an addiction; once you’ve tasted reward without effort, it’s incredibly hard to stop. They’re no different. It’s just that, for them, most Outer Gods hold little value anymore, so they simply ignore them.

But if you were to go and get yourself the exceedingly rare World Creation Authority...

...then they would definitely take an interest.

Thus, with the deliberate guidance of the gods, the tale of the Creator God—never factual to begin with—failed to gain widespread traction. It only persists today because a few Legendary Mages, leveraging their unique characteristics, have attempted to grasp the related powers.

And the God Creation Moens was thinking of now was precisely the former!

The God Creation of a Creator God!

Only that could explain this group of abnormal Deities under Isaac’s control...

Moens mulled over the legends surrounding Isaac for a moment before shaking his head in resignation, abandoning the line of thought.

’It’s no use...’

’The guy’s advancement is just too fast. Forget a Self-Legend—even the fairy tales he wrote, which are said to be quite interesting, haven’t fully circulated. Their reach is decent, but it’s clearly not enough to support a Tier Four.’

’For a Legendary Mage, even a Mad Witch, this is highly abnormal. The advancement of a Legendary Mage requires rituals, for both major and minor promotions.’

’If you’re lucky, find the right rituals quickly, and write a compelling story, you’ll advance rapidly. But if you’re unlucky, your advancement will be agonizingly slow, no matter how good your stories are.’

’But Isaac exists outside this system. His Level has just skyrocketed!’

’On the Observation side of things, in terms of Power of Faith, he’s been advancing the moment he scrapes past the minimum threshold...’

’And the root cause of all this...’

Moens glanced at Avin, who stood nearby. ’...is thanks to this kid...’

After a bout of fruitless brainstorming, Moens could only marvel at Isaac’s world-shaking talent and audacity. He then went to attend to his own research.

Although the recent experiment had gone very smoothly with ideal results, it had also exposed several issues, many of which required urgent solutions.

Furthermore, he needed to hurry and prepare for the next Star Creation experiment. It would still be on the scale of a satellite, but this time, not only would it be far from Brurel, he would also attempt to guide it toward Star Divinity.

The latter part was easy to understand; to gather more comprehensive data and complete the Great Arcane Art: Star Creation, this aspect had to be brought under control.

As for the former, it was a last-minute decision.

According to the original plan, the next several satellites were supposed to be placed in different orbits above Brurel. But plans change. He hadn’t anticipated that a single satellite could cause such massive climatic and geological shifts on Brurel.

If he added a few more...

...Brurel might actually face an apocalypse. He, Moens, was an Arcanist, not a Mad Witch; he wasn’t *that* crazy.

Arcanists were highly efficient. Just one week later, before the data from the previous experiment had even been fully processed, a new Star Creation experiment was already underway.

This was possible, however, because the next few experiments already had their procedures designed and didn’t require the new data yet, allowing them to be conducted in quick succession.

Time passed quickly. A month went by, and the sky above Brurel now had one moon and four dazzling new stars.

Yes, dazzling stars!

This was another point of divergence from Isaac’s past life. In his previous world, only stars like the Sun produced their own light. Other celestial bodies, including planets and moons, did not; they merely reflected sunlight.

But this Magic World was different. Here, even "dead" planets that weren’t Star Gods would emit light in the Void.

Isaac was still searching for the specific reason, a task he had to undertake alone. Moens lacked the necessary context; to him, a celestial body emitting light was perfectly normal. It would only be worthy of his research if that light possessed some special power.

So, did this light have power?

It certainly did, but it was the power of a Star God...

Moens couldn’t research it—at least not yet. At Isaac’s instigation, a report on the matter had been submitted, but whether it would be approved...

Moens, for his part, was pessimistic. If the research team’s structure was still the same as before, the application might not be approved instantly, but it would have a hundred percent chance of passing. It would just be a matter of time.

But now...

With Isaac on board, whose reputation for madness was widespread, things were different. Moens had pushed against strong opposition to get Isaac on his team in the first place. As a result, any research proposal related to Deities was likely to get completely stonewalled.

So, in this area, Isaac could only rely on his own research.

Unlike Moens, however, Isaac was quite confident about the application. His preliminary analysis of the starlight had revealed a very distinct difference between the Power of Star God inherent in a celestial body and the Power of a Star God deity.

Although he hadn’t yet pinpointed the exact nature of the difference, Isaac’s intuition told him it was related to the fundamental reason a celestial body becomes a Star God.

He believed the reviewers at the Truth Association would be sharp enough to notice this as well. And once they did, the related experiment would inevitably be approved, and perhaps with less resistance than expected.

This was because Star Gods were almost all Evil Gods, and Evil Gods, lacking Divine Authority, were not a protected class.

It would just take a little time, as the reviewers would need to mentally prepare themselves...

In the Antarctic Research Camp, Isaac, a monocle perched on his nose, stared intently at a Divine Fragment in his hand. Both within the Divine Fragment and across the surface of his lens, streams of data invisible to the naked eye scrolled by at a frantic pace.

The monocle was a gift from Moens. It was the latest Arcanist invention, designed to improve a Wizard’s data processing efficiency. Tests showed it provided at least a three- to four-fold increase!

To put that in perspective, the brains of powerful Casters were already comparable to the computers of Isaac’s past life, their data processing capabilities immense. To multiply that by three or four was simply terrifying.

However, that was just a secondary feature. The device’s primary function was to optimize Magic Models.

Based on its built-in data, it could provide several optimization plans for a given Magic Model, a feature that was incredibly useful for Arcanists.

For Isaac, however, it was merely so-so. Only the secondary function was of any real interest to him, as he was a Legendary Mage, and the device could only optimize the Magic Models of Arcane Arts.

As for the Divine Fragment, Isaac had fashioned it into a replica based on the monocle’s abilities. It was, however, relatively weaker, as Divinity remained difficult to process, and the related techniques needed further optimization...