Ryu dropped a corpse from his hands, another worthless genius falling by the wayside, and yet another he didn't bother to turn into a Corpse Puppet.
Though the concentration of high-level geniuses was greater here, this wasn't enough for Ryu to take an interest in a person.
He either needed a powerful Dao Heart to care to turn them into a Summon, or they had to have an interesting enough path to be worthy of becoming a Corpse Puppet. He wanted sothing that stimulated both his anticipation for the future and his creative juices.
Ironically enough, the higher level these geniuses were, the more rigid the paths they followed. They almost felt like cookie-cutter creations spit out by their Ancestors, one after another, with hardly any variation between them.
In Ryu's eyes, these were probably the most pathetic sort of geniuses. They had probably received praise all their lives, but they had never done anything worth accomplishing on their own. They just followed the steps of those who ca before them.
Honestly speaking, this was actually an incredibly difficult thing to do. It took an extrely powerful lineage to be capable of doing this in the first place.
One of the things that should have been impossible to so easily pass along was comprehension, and yet these powers had managed to do it.
Maybe that also resulted in geniuses that were worthless in Ryu's eyes, but if you could pump out this sort of "genius" on a large scale, then it could at least build a foundation. Then, so long as you had one or two legitimate powerhouses from every generation…
You would truly be a force to be reckoned with.
Unfortunately, all this made Ryu's attempts at building his army slow down considerably as he entered this bloated middle region.
This place was probably supposed to be filled with the most danger, and Ryu certainly got into the most fights against those who very clearly overestimated themselves.
But, for Ryu…
I guess taking that route might also be possible. But I don't know how interested I am in it…
Ryu's thought was simple. Even if these geniuses were worthless in the grand sche, the thods used to raise them up might not necessarily be.
If he took one or two in as a Corpse Puppet, then he could reconstruct their foundations based on the thods used to allow them to reach their current heights in the first place.
Like that, he would actually have a legion for every power in existence, giving him the perfect counter option for them all.
Though it sounded like a good idea on paper, to Ryu it could pretty much be summarized in a single word…
diocrity.
What was the point? If his army was just stronger than all of those powers, then he wouldn't need to worry about it at all.
Ryu flicked his wrists, and the blood slid off his fingers like drizzling crimson slicking off a smooth blade. In an instant, it was as though he hadn't just had his claws knuckle-deep in a young man's skull.
Where are you all… A sinister light flashed in Ryu's eyes.
When this trial first began, Ryu had run into Young Mistress Nightly almost imdiately. This went to show that his Fate placent was actually quite poor, which made sense. He still needed ti to catch up to the amount of Fate these geniuses had been accumulating for a lifeti.
Funny enough, Ryu was actually much younger than most of them. In addition, there was also the elephant of his restricted Fate Star in the room as well.
Because of that, Ryu's seeding wasn't very good, so he should have run into more challenges than most to successfully beco a dark horse.
He had been looking forward to this, but since Young Mistress Nightly, he hadn't t another genius of that caliber.
Well, he had t Yeger Sun, but that didn't count because Yeger very clearly moved off his normal track as well. And Sarriel's situation spoke for itself.
Sothing weird was definitely going on.
It made sense for him to miss out on these geniuses while he was ssing around and hopping from Fate Barrier to Fate Barrier without thought for progressing forward.
But now that he was seriously moving forward again, he had yet to co across a comparable challenge.
Is it the Title Stele that adjusted things in real ti?
Or…
Outside interference, is it? Did I show off a little too much? Now you're afraid your little princes and princesses will suffer a loss?
Ryu shook his head.
Let's see just how long you can keep that up for.
Ryu took a step forward, entering another Ruin and clearing it in a matter of minutes. All this ti, he still hadn't forgotten to humiliate the Ruin Master Guild and their so-called rankers all the more.
It was even more impossible for them to hide from the likes of Ryu, and every terrifying loss they took was just yet another blow to their reputation.
Ryu continued to move as though he hadn't sensed sothing wrong at all. He slaughtered those he ca across, cleared Ruins, collected Quasi-Embryonic Qi, and crossed Fate Barriers.
At the sa ti, he passively studied his Embryonic Silk ridians, his thoughts drifting to it from ti to ti as he deduced new thods of use.
There was even a mont in there where he was pretty sure he found a thod even more potent than Hope's pregnancy pill.
Well, it would make his own seed more potent, that is. If this seed in particular was used to fertilize Hope's pill, then the results would actually be much more potent as well by extension.
Hm?
Ryu stepped through yet another Fate Barrier and felt yet another clear shift. The greenery was gone, as were the extre battlefields of hot and cold or various other elents as well.
This land was almost entirely flat. There was no escaping in this place.
And Ryu imdiately felt three auras lock onto him the mont he appeared.
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