Chapter Seven: Prayer Weaver!
2016-02-14
Author: Floating Tower
Gods often resemble supercomputers.
This is because they need to maintain spiritual connections with tens of thousands of believers. Although this is aided by the “Faith Network” within the Magic Network, the foundational burden borne by the gods remains colossal. Moreover, this also requires consideration of the believers’ promotions, the granting of Divine Techniques, feedback from faith, and so on. Every sincere prayer from a priest is a connection to the divine network; through the sublimation of spirit and faith, the priest can receive more power bestowed by the deity, thus mastering more advanced Divine Techniques.
Wizards learn spells relying on themselves, while priests master Divine Techniques entirely granted by the gods.
No learning is necessary.
As long as the standards of the deities are met, several Divine Techniques can be mastered overnight. Their learning merely involves a more flexible use and understanding of these Divine Techniques, unlike wizards, who analyze the constructions of these techniques in depth.
Soren is like a supercomputer.
Most of his computational power is devoted to maintaining connections with the Faith Network. This relies on the mysterious data streams in his mind; otherwise, just processing the prayers of the believers would be enough to numb his mind. It is precisely because of this that many gods take opportunities to slack off over long periods as they are truly tired of personally handling the prayers of their followers every day. Soren’s capacity resembles that of a super-intelligent AI network, where unimportant requests in the believers’ prayers are entirely handled by data, only alerting him to other significant matters.
For instance, the death of a zealot.
In divine form, the god can perceive the power of the laws, and when Soren activates his divine form, it can essentially be understood as temporarily disconnecting processing capacity from the Faith Network to focus on other more important areas.
There’s no choice.
Sometimes maintaining the Faith Network is truly burdensome, but any deity cannot completely abandon it.
—”Divine Form!”
In the form of a saint, he is unable to create life; when Soren activates data simulation, he immediately consumes Divine Power Value to enter into the divine template.
In an instant, his vision perceives dimensions and space, also deciphering the genetic dendrite mutations within the coward demon.
—“Distant Submerged Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Quasai Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Succubus Mutation [Repelled]!”
—“Frenzied Combat Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Furo Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Robust Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“High-level Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Flame Demon Mutation [Insufficient Potential]!”
—“Temptation Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Judgement Soul Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Six-armed Serpent Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
—“Assassin Demon Mutation [Activatable]!”
Accompanied by a crazed flow of data, a genetic tree established on the coward demon form takes shape in Soren’s vision, where the most basic structure of the entire genetic tree is the coward demon form. Each progression requires more power, which can come from other demons or the killing experience bestowed by Soren. Normal demon promotions are typically granted power by higher-level demons, or occur through gradually accumulating power through killing.
Soren’s limit of activating the genetic tree is the “Assassin Demon” and “Six-armed Serpent Demon.”
Above legend, the “Balroth Demon” is outside the scope of the genetic tree and should exceed the power limit of Soren’s divine template; thus, a boost in his Divine Power level might be needed to activate it.
Souls possess characteristics.
Some souls resonate very well with certain demon forms, while others reject certain demon forms entirely.
The current believer’s soul has high compatibility; aside from the “Succubus” form being repelled, other demon forms seem possible. This is a soul seed with potential, which Soren can directly promote to a high-level demon.
But this is not what Soren desires.
He needs to create not demons, but a Prayer Weaver for the future Divine Kingdom, based on the foundation of the demon genetic tree.
Soren will not venture to the higher dimensions.
Thus, the genetic trees of angel forms, beast forms, or treant forms unearthed by the upper dimension Celestial Race are not within his considerations, and there is currently no way to obtain them.
The reincarnation characteristic of the soul must resonate with the laws of the dimensions.
“Prayer Weavers must be humanoid beings.”
First, Soren identifies the first element; the resident composition in his Divine Kingdom should not include beasts, treants, monsters, constructs, or other life forms.
The God of the Hunt, being a wise beast himself, has many believers reincarnate as beasts within his divine realm.
The “Untamed Wilds” dimension is composed mostly of beasts.
Since it must be humanoid, some demon forms can be excluded; Soren’s gaze finally rests on the less potent “Flame Demon” form.
This is a good seed of power.
“Attempt to activate the Flame Demon form!”
The demon avatar approached the blood pool, using sharp nails to cut open its palm. A drop of blood essence belonging to the Flame Demon is injected into the flesh before him.
The form begins to change!
Soren’s killing experience is consumed at an astonishing speed while the flesh rapidly transforms into a humanoid shape. At the same time, flames burn around the body.
“I do not need a Flame Demon.”
“The Flame Demon is just a foundational form!… Must integrate the characteristics of a Prayer Weaver!…”
A glimmer of golden divine brilliance appears in Soren’s pupils; accompanied by the consumption of Divine Power Value, he also floats into the air, instantly activating his Divine Power.
—“Change Form!”
The flesh before him gradually undergoes transformation. Bones, veins, and skin are converted under the influence of divine power; it feels as if he’s creating a person out of thin air, with Soren using the demon avatar as the standard to modify the reincarnating body before him.
A solid skeletal framework.
Standing around two meters tall, with a humanoid face, it possesses some demon characteristics, dark red demon skin, and demon tattoos resembling those of Flame Demons.
The demon genetic presence is powerfully mutable.
What Soren is currently doing is guiding it with divine power to change as much as possible towards the direction he wants; however, some aspects still arise from the demon genetics, and even if he forces distortions, it can only bring about negative consequences.
Finally.
After expending a significant amount of killing experience and Divine Power Value, a body emerges, standing two meters tall, with dark red skin, facial contours somewhat resembling an elf, demonic horns on the head, and a protruding fleshy tumor on the spine, resembling the demon avatar by about seventy to eighty percent.
The tumor is an incomplete manifestation of demon wings.
The feet are parts Soren was unable to guide, resembling hooves like those of sheep or cattle, while other parts are very similar to the demon avatar.
It has taken shape.
The first Prayer Weaver form created by Soren using Divine Power has taken form after resonating with the laws of the Bottomless Abyss.
Now it remains to see whether the believer’s soul can integrate into it.
………………(To be continued ~^~)
