Raising all of humanity: Starting with a backyard pool world

Chapter 8 [The Whispers of the Creator]

Xu stood outside the eco-box, his consciousness immersed in the world of "Antheril".

Katz, the first life form, is displaying its innate miracle.

It lives like a living organism, eating, drinking, and excreting.

Its capabilities are also at play, deconstructing and reconstructing everything.

However, Xu was not satisfied either, because Katz was too pure and lacked his own wisdom, even though he had developed a sense of self.

When hungry, it breaks down the nearest food.

Once you're full, you randomly rearrange and combine the information in your body to create some meaningless new things.

It's like a child who owns the world's most advanced 3D printer but only knows how to use it to print clay.

This ability is certainly powerful, but it lacks direction and goals, and is incapable of dealing with complex problems.

It will only stagnate and repeat itself at a low level.

The evolution of civilization has stagnated.

"This won't do." Xu Ye pulled himself out of the eco-box, his eyes becoming deep.

"A tool that only knows how to devour and replicate has too limited potential. What I need is not a tool, but an 'apostle' who can understand and execute my will, a 'hero' who knows how to solve problems."

He needs guidance and education.

But for someone like Kars, directly imparting knowledge would be tantamount to stifling the possibility of his growth.

"You can't 'feed' them; you have to 'test' them."

He needs a difficult problem, one that Katz's current instincts absolutely cannot solve, to force it and ignite its spark of wisdom.

My thoughts drifted back to the abandoned mine I had explored a few days ago.

There, he found a special ore.

It has an extremely high density and an unbelievably stable internal structure, as if it were a miniature system of physical rules.

"This is it." If this were an anime, perhaps Xu Ye's face would be shadowed and a light bulb would be on his head.

Humans are least afraid of getting tired when they are doing bad things.

Inside the cave, Katz completed yet another meaningless creation, and was in a state similar to being well-fed, well-hydrated, and soundly asleep.

Suddenly, a fist-sized, jet-black, angular crystal appeared out of thin air in the center of the cave and then quietly fell down.

"Thump."

This was a completely incomprehensible scene for Kazna's still nascent independent consciousness.

Without origin or process, an object simply transcended all the physical laws it could perceive and descended upon it.

Question: Is there a God beyond this world?

The seeds of transcendent existence are sown at this moment.

Kaz woke up.

It curiously flowed to the black crystal.

Is this food given by "God"?

Following its instincts, it extends its liquid metal body, attempting to envelop and decompose the crystal.

However, the energy contained within the crystal itself blasted Katz away.

"Buzz—"

Katz's body was thrown out and crashed into a rock wall in the distance.

Its silvery-white body even became unstable for a moment due to the impact, and its shape became slightly scattered.

the first time.

This was the first time since Katz's birth that he had tasted the flavor of "frustration".

It somewhat bewilderedly reformed its form, the purple light at its core flickering in confusion.

I don't believe in superstitions.

It charged forward again, this time mobilizing even more energy, enveloping the enemy faster, and demonstrating a stronger intent to decompose.

The result was the same.

Even worse.

The repulsive force became even stronger, directly causing countless tiny cracks to appear on its body.

It tried again and again.

To impact it at an even higher speed.

Use even stronger force to wrap it.

They even tried to drill into the gaps in the crystal with part of their body.

Without exception, they were all rejected by that indestructible internal structure.

After dozens of failures, Katz finally stopped.

It stopped making blind physical contact and instead hovered not far from the crystal, lost in thought.

For the first time since its inception, it has encountered a problem that instinct cannot solve.

Its primal genetic memory tells it to devour and decompose, but reality presents it with an insurmountable wall.

Time passed slowly, second by second, inside the cave.

What may seem like only a few minutes to outsiders could be years, or even decades, in Katz's world.

Finally, something different appeared.

A faint ripple began to appear on the surface of Katz's body.

It is analyzing.

Analyze the energy resonance that repeatedly deflects it, and determine its frequency and pattern.

This is a leap forward.

It's a shift from "I need to break it" to "I need to understand it".

Kaz hovered there, conducting research, repeatedly testing, calibrating, and synchronizing the energy ripples on his body surface with the resonant frequency inside the crystal.

At a certain moment, a perfect match was found.

Suddenly, Kaz's entire body emitted a deep hum that was perfectly synchronized with the crystal.

It ejected ripples, and perhaps it hit the mark, because the crystal disintegrated and peeled away layer by layer because of this wave, exposing the core.

Wisdom triumphed over brute force.

Kaz flowed forward, absorbing all the particles that had crystallized, completely devouring them.

In an instant, its flowing body seemed to be illuminated from within.

The purple light at the core was as bright as the singularity at the beginning of the universe.

Its silvery-white body became refined and translucent, very beautiful, truly beautiful to Xu Ye.

Outside the eco-box, Xu smiled with satisfaction.

This is exactly what he wanted to see.

He mobilized the primordial spores once again.

This time, he extracted a wisp of golden spore, no longer simply using the spore for catalysis, but allowing the spore to share his power, even if it was only a tiny bit.

That spore is equivalent to carrying Xu Ye as part of the sovereign authority of creation.

Like a drop of divine blood, it slowly pierced through space, dripped into the cavern, and hovered in front of Kars, who had just completed his evolution.

Kaz discovered that this wisp of golden spore contained supreme goodwill and boundless potential.

That was a blessing after the trial...

It stepped forward and merged its core with that drop of golden divine blood.

A massive amount of more information about restructuring and creation flooded into my consciousness.

The rate of decomposition of matter has increased several times.

The precision of the recombinant material has been improved by... several orders of magnitude!

Evolution is complete.

The brand-new Katz floats in the center of the cave.

For the first time, it projected its incredibly powerful newborn individual consciousness onto the Moonlight Well and even beyond the world.

They turned to that unknown, great being who bestowed trials and blessings.

Deep within its consciousness, there was a hint of... a longing for more "divine pronouncements".

[Antheraea Era: Kaz, receiving authority from a creator outside the world, shares that authority within the world and ascends to godhood.]