Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich Chapter 454 - Three Layers

Chapter 454: Three Layers

Translator: imperfectluck

In the year FT 1, dawn of the new generation, the Chaos and Order Factions t a new challenger for the first ti in the eternal Holy War. When the River Styx’s waters of reincarnation started flowing towards an unknown dinsion, the entire Cycle of Reincarnation had been broken.

This was no vague statent. It ant that the Cycle of Reincarnation had concretely been broken. The River Styx’s flow restrained all the souls within it, but once that restraint was broken, countless souls suddenly obtained freedom.

So of those who died in battle between the years FT 1 and FT 4 were the luckiest. The old Cycle of Reincarnation had been broken, and the new Cycle of Reincarnation was still immature. A few people were able to reincarnate without the River Styx as their souls directly ford into new lives without having their mories wiped. These individuals were able to begin new lives with their past lives’ mories fully intact, aning that they had a trendous advantage from the very start.

However, others that died in battle that year the unluckiest of all. Although the River Styx restrained the souls within it, it was also a chanism for protecting the fragile soul that had lost its physical body and life. Without the River Styx’s protection, powerful netherworld gusts would easily destroy the weaker souls. Only the most fortunate and most stubborn of souls were able to successfully reincarnate, mories intact and all. Although it was impossible to calculate the success rate of those who reincarnated with mories intact, when considering the trendous number of deaths vs. the new population born afterward, it had to be less than one percent.

And even for the few that successfully reincarnated, they obtained far too many mory fragnts from the still immature Cycle of Reincarnation, which ant that most of them had to deal with chaotic mories and multiple personalities as a result. The few “heaven-blessed” who retained their full sense of “self” were less than ten percent of those who reincarnated successfully.

But since there was a bug in the system, there would always be those who benefited from such a bug. And of course, there were “cheaters” who intentionally made use of such a bug in order to benefit.

Those who acted the swiftest to take advantage of this bug was the Ayer Faction... I suppose I should call them the Hell Faction now. This was because this bug was sothing that we created intentionally in the first place. With my typical habits, how could I possibly let go of such an excellent opportunity? Everything had been planned from the very start.

The Halls of Valhalla that housed heroic spirits and God Envoys also fell down to Hell together with the Hell Faction’s Divine Kingdoms. It was now ti for these powerful heroic spirits to make their own choice as well. That was because Halls of Valhalla were a special byproduct of Order from the Source of Order. Without the Order Faction’s support, it would be quite difficult for ordinary Gods to maintain heroic spirits.

The heroic spirits had only two choices. One was to enter Hell together with the Divine Kingdom, beco truly dead, and thus beco a mber of Hell. However, entering Hell was easy enough, but exiting would be quite difficult. The other choice would be to enter reincarnation by taking advantage of the immature new Cycle of Reincarnation.

That’s right, that’s the loophole that I and our faction took advantage of. From a certain standpoint, heroic spirits were like a physical byproduct of the soul, as well as a “special form” for dead spirits. Naturally, they could still be reincarnated if they wished.

Unlike those who died naturally and had extrely low chances of preserving their mories fully intact, heroic spirits had far stronger souls. Their own heroic spirit bodies already had the ability to protect their soul from the Cycle of Reincarnation, so their reincarnation success rate was one hundred percent.

These newborns destined to grow up in the Holy War now possessed their forr mories, experiences, and techniques as heroes. They now also once again possessed actual physical bodies with the power of evolution. As long as they didn’t die on the way, they were destined to far succeed their original power levels in their first lives.

Of course, being reincarnated still ant starting over from the very beginning. There would still be problems such as the clash between the new and old personality. Before they “awakened” into becoming “heroes”, they would still have a long path ahead of them before they matured. Yet, these heroic seedlings were now spread throughout the entire world, destined to sprout during this Holy War.

“...Perhaps this can finally make up for the fact that there are no ga players... who were the strongest army in the latter half of the Holy War. Just think about it, for ordinary mortals with such difficulties, perhaps your next-door neighbor’s child is actually a famous forr emperor or so great dragon and demon-slaying hero. These mortals that beca heroes have beco mortals again, so they’ll naturally fight again for the sake of the mortals’ future. One hero is more than capable of protecting an entire town or changing the course of an entire battle. Each hero can lead an entire squadron. They’ll be far more useful than heroic spirits, who can only act as fighters that are unable to improve their power level.”

That was how I convinced the Gods of the Hell Faction to allow their own heroic spirits and God Envoys to choose for themselves. Most of the heroic spirits chose to enter reincarnation... the future generation would eventually call them the “heaven-blessed” individuals.

Although the other True Gods eventually learned about this loophole and attempted to have their heroic spirits take advantage of this loophole as well, the new Cycle of Reincarnation had matured already and fixed the loophole. Very few not from the Hell Faction succeeded in abusing this loophole. This maneuver from the Hell Faction was destined to leave a great influence on history.

That was because these heroes had already proved themselves in the past with their heroic deeds, rather than being “ga player heroes” who could only grow through endless failures. Now that these heroes had a new chance at starting over again, they would be far superior to ga players who only received their strength through “infinite lives with endless saving and loading”, in both willpower and personal ability.

Just to give one example, if a dragonslayer hero reincarnated, it would probably take only two decades before the dragons would have a huge problem to deal with. Each generation typically only had one hero, but this upcoming generation would have countless heroes in it. So things were destined to change because of this.

More than ten Divine Kingdoms descended into the new dinsion of Hell. However, most of the Divine Kingdoms didn’t enter Hell itself, but actually began to orbit the plane instead. That was because Hell was a country for the dead, so how could the living possibly survive within it?

Once the new dinsion of Hell fully matured, all existences not powerful enough to ignore dinsional wills would all instantly be transford into the dead within Hell, including even all Gods not at the Main God level. If our Hell Faction Gods left their Divine Kingdoms within Hell, then the dinsional law of death would invade their Divine Kingdoms and corrupt them with death.

“The Gods of the country of the dead can only be Gods that are already dead.”

Of course, while most of the Hell Faction Gods chose to avoid becoming the dead, there were a total of five Gods that voluntarily chose to beco dead Guardian Gods of the new Hell.

The God of Fate Catio already rged his entire Divine Kingdom into the land of Hell. As one of the top-ranked Gods in the Hell Faction, he made his choice to beco one of the core mbers and elites of the new Hell.

Mary, the Goddess of Shield Dwarves, also joined her Divine Kingdom together with Hell. She had made a promise to Ayer to beco one of the Guardian Gods of Hell.

Three other Gods also joined Hell as according to their agreents to begin their new “jobs”.

As for the Hell Faction Gods who didn’t join their Divine Kingdoms together with Hell, they were still going to beco part of the divine Hell Faction. Of course, these Gods wouldn’t belong only to Hell.

As an extension on top of the plane of Hell, the other Gods’ Divine Kingdoms were all combining to transform into a paradise in the void. This new Divine Kingdom would be the “Heaven” according to Wumianzhe’s divine laws, a paradise for the kind and innocent. The other Hell Faction Gods would beco the Guardian Gods of the new Heaven.

In between the newly-born Heaven and Hell was no longer a space as simple as the void. Part of the Ghostwind Plains acted as the core where the first Titans and Supre Immorial Dragons from the first generation were now busily working. As existences capable of surviving even in the void, they were so of the strongest existences throughout all the planes. But right now, they were simply construction workers.

So of them were busily applying dinsional coordinates to the shattered ground, which would make it more convenient for stabilization and teleportation. So of them were busily gathering dinsional shards together, while others were going through the void and creating new dinsional coordinates. So were acting to protect the weaker, ordinary lifeforms. The Titans and dragons all worked hard for the sake of themselves and their own species’ future.

And after the new Heaven Gods settled down, the Titans and dragons would be going over there to assist as well.

In my blueprint, this would beco a tri-layered dinsion. The top dinsion would be Heaven, where the Heaven Gods and the kind and innocent would reside. The middle dinsion would be my “Land of Spring”, my equivalent of Purgatory where mortals and animals would reside while awaiting their next reincarnation. The Titans and dragons would beco the guardians of the Land of Spring. And, the lowest dinsion was naturally the most important one in my plan, Hell.

Under the influence of my Four Elental Towers, the entire dinsion was now rearranging and trisecting itself. However, if you asured the amount of nutrition that I gave Heaven and the Land of Spring as a unit of one, then the amount of nutrition I provided to Hell would be more than one hundred.

That was because the other two dinsional layers were only temporary add-ons to Hell so that the entirety of this Hell could begin to work as it was intended to. The true add-on for Hell would be the entire mortal plane of Eich, which ant that Hell’s capabilities and energy level requirents would naturally have to be more than one hundred tis more than Heaven and the Land of Spring. [TL note: so does this an that Roland feels that more than 100x the number of people will go to Hell compared to the Land of Spring (Purgatory) and Heaven combined...?]

And now, a large amount of the River Styx had flowed within Hell, bringing along a countless number of souls. A new Cycle of Reincarnation would absolutely be required, and the entire system of Hell had to be activated now. None of us had any path of retreat.

And, it was the sa for our enemies. They also had no more path of retreat!

The dinsional walls of Hell had now been established. Leaving this plane was now directly equivalent to jumping into the void. The rate of survival in the unknown void, even for Main Gods, would be less than 0.001%. And once Hell finished forming in its entirety, this entire world would embrace the dinsional law of death. Although the Main God level existences would likely be able to remain alive in Hell despite the dinsional law, it was a certainty that they would lose a significant amount of power by having to fight the dinsional law. And, all of their subordinates and squadrons would absolutely die to the dinsional law.

Looking at it from the Chaos and Order Main Gods’ standpoint, the best possible result for them would naturally be to destroy us all, after which they could take over this still incomplete dinsion. They would then wait for the two major factions to slowly locate this dinsion in the void and provide them a path of return several decades later, and receive a hefty paynt from the Source of Order or the will of the Chaos Abyss afterwards.

And since these Main Gods were all willing to co here, they must have realized beforehand that it would be almost impossible for them to return. In that case, the only possible course of action for them was quite obvious – whoever stood in the end would be victorious!

Warhorns sounded as nurous Dinsional Doors sounded. However, this ti it wasn’t enemies that arrived.

Heroic spirits started walking out of the Dinsional Doors. The black tower of Death and the white tower of Ice were both glowing as the Hades Mist provided these “dead spirits” with even more power. The gift of Ice also gave them powerful physical bodies.

Indeed, the heroic spirits in the Hell Faction’s Divine Kingdoms had two major choices they could choose from. One was to start over again after reincarnation, and the second was to appear like this and beco a part of Hell. They would fight for the sake of the mortals’ Heaven and Hell.

It was now ti to go all-out in the battle. The Hell Gods wouldn’t possibly hold anything back here. If it wasn’t for the fact that they were busy stabilizing the new dinsion of Heaven, they would have likely sent divine incarnations containing a majority of their power here, despite the fact that it would be impossible to get their incarnations back with the dinsional law of death here.

“It would seem that this will be a difficult battle of attrition.”

I was still rather dissatisfied with the three glowing towers before , even if the black and white towers were now playing the role of important strategic objectives.

Even these strengthened heroic spirits would be dispatched by a single attack in front of Main God level existences. Even if they were capable of endlessly reviving... would endlessly reviving ants be capable of killing a tyrannosaurus rex?

As for the gold tower of Holy Light, it was acting in the sa capabilities as the concept of Ti, one of the two most important dinsional coordinates which represented the order of existence for all existences living and nonliving... To use simpler phrasing, Ti represented a one-track direction, the constant progress of all existences.

People would grow old. Machines would age. It was impossible to turn ti backwards. That was the impression that mortals had of the Concept of Ti. No matter if mortals were happy or sad, their Ti would always progress forward. And in the new dinsion of Hell, Holy Light also represented this always forward-progressing direction.

“Our Holy Light is now completely separate from the God of Holy Light. Our Holy Light represents the Concept of Salvation.”

That’s right, that was the direction for Holy Light in Hell. Criminals and villains would be locked up and tortured in Hell. Yet, torturing them for eternity wasn’t the final goal. The goal was for them to be punished a suitable amount for their cris so that they, too, may receive salvation. Once an individual was punished sufficiently for their cris while alive, that would wash away all their sins. Only then would they be able to enter the Cycle of Reincarnation after being cleansed of their sins. This would be a warning to all the living to do more kind acts and perform less heinous deeds.

And, the result of the chosen direction for Holy Light in Hell was naturally that mortals and souls in Hell would all receive salvation. This was naturally the most important function of Hell, and it would have wondrous effects and uses after Hell ford in its entirety. But right now...

“No matter how bright you are, it’s still useless.”

On the current battlefield, this Holy Light of Salvation was basically completely useless against those Main God level existences! In fact, its cleansing properties weren’t even as effective as the large light bulb incarnation not far away.

“It would seem that it will all depend on the Tower of Law.”

This silver tower was still inactive, as if it was gathering energy. And only I knew that if “Salvation” was Hell’s direction and final goal, “Law” would be the thod to achieve this goal. It could be said that present everywhere in the future Hell would be a land filled with Law.

And, this Tower of Law that was about to be ignited would beco the true core of the entirety of Hell.

At the top of the Tower of Law, Wumianzhe had finally completed his final preparations. Hell was about to start a new chapter.