Laura wore a bright, dazzling smile as she received cash from her most recent customer. Bidding them farewell, they walked out of the door and left her store with the sound of bells jingling.

Counting the money in her hand, she looked out of the glass panes to her side and stared at the setting sun.

“It’s already time for closing…” she mumbled and walked up to her door, flipping the sign from open to close.

Locking the door, she whistled lightly, and the bees and birds flying about began to gather in their respective areas. The bees entered the incomplete beehive in the corner of the room, while the birds nestled on the miniature trees placed at the left side of the store.

It’s like I’m creating a miniature forest. Laura smiled and walked to the second floor of her house.

As she walked up the stairs, the pair of cat and dog followed behind her and circled around her feet like protective guards.

“Aww, aren’t you two so cute?” she mumbled softly and sat in the middle of the living room. Crossing her legs on the floor, she breathed in deeply and a wave of space pulsated out of her body.

Willing her power to activate, she sealed the space of the living room and cut herself off from the rest of the world.

The pair of cat and dog stood to her side seriously, with their eyes shining brightly with sufficient intellect. Their bodies turned slightly transparent, with grass and pollen sprouting from their paws.

“You two, protect me carefully, okay? Mama’s about to undergo spirit-body cultivation right now,” Laura instructed her two monsters.

“Woof!”

“Meow!”

“Good.” She closed her eyes and her form turned half-incorporeal.

The moment she partially transformed herself into a Nature Spirit, she felt points of energy light up all across the entire city, with the densest accumulation of light being just below her.

In this strange half-spiritual state, she could extend out tendrils of her energy and touch those points of light, extracting the energy stored within them.

She first connected her spirit to the cluster of light below her, and multiple streams of warm energy began to flood into her spirit and her body.

Her eyes unconsciously turned green and her zenithral power began to activate on its own. The constant stream of solar energy was digested and transformed, fueling the evolution of both her spirit and body.

If she fully transformed herself into a Nature Spirit, all of the solar energy would have instead been funneled to the evolution of her spirit. Only by being half a Nature Spirit could she equally spread out the energy to progress both parts of herself.

Focusing all of her mental energy on gathering the solar energy stored within those clumps of light, her strength rapidly rose to whole new levels, with the fruits of her effort being devoured rapidly.

If I was still in the forest, I could have already spread my sunflowers to an entire forest and created a body rivaling Demigods in just a month. Unfortunately, I was handpicked by the big man himself to monitor this city.

That bastard, of all the avatars he could have picked, it just had to be me.

Although she complained, she still diligently ‘cultivated’ by absorbing the stored solar energy of her sunflowers in the city and rapidly evolved, increasing her strength for the incoming future.

…

“Thank you, thank you!” Poppy whispered with a grin and hastily grabbed the stacks of cash his customer gave him.

The man nodded his head and quickly turned around, disappearing off into the darkness of the alleys.

That’s my first customer of the night. Poppy whistled a merry tune as he casually placed the wads of cash in his pockets. He continued his stroll through the decrepit alleys of Insea City’s Right Isle with his piercing yellow eyes casually observing the area around him.

With the night rapidly approaching, all of the scum of society could finally begin revealing themselves. In that environment of degeneracy and vileness, his tiny little business could finally begin thriving.

It’s a bummer that Aegis is carefully monitoring all of the four gangs in the Right Isle though. If not for them, I could have just waltzed in and forcefully made one of the four leaders my slave and expanded from there.

Only by attracting one of the gang’s attention organically could I create a believable development. Once I’m inside their base though, the rest would be a breeze.

As the setting sun continued to disappear from the horizon and the darkness of the night began to descend, more and more of his customers started to appear as men and women wearing baggy clothes covering their faces approached him from the shadows.

They didn’t care about the hefty price of the drugs he sold and bought plenty of grams from him, skittering away like little rats afraid of being caught by others in their degenerate acts.

However, the peacefulness of his business was soon disrupted when a group of thugs approached him, encircling him in the middle.

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“Hmm?” Poppy looked at them with curious eyes.

“Hand over the drugs and you won’t get hurt,” the man that Poppy could only consider as the leader of the team threatened, flashing his knife at Poppy.

“Don’t think we won’t hurt you,” another one of them growled, raising a metallic crowbar.

“This…” Poppy sighed and flicked his hand forward. “Is so stupid.”

The man who first threatened Poppy by flashing his knife abruptly froze, and in the next moment, he collapsed to the ground.

The others watched with wide eyes, shocked by the sudden twist of events.

Poppy casually waved his hand, and one by one, all of them fell to the ground. From their nose and mouth, one can faintly see traces of blood leaking out, but strangely enough, none of the blood touched the floor and instead hovered in the air.

The last remaining one who tried to threaten Poppy stood still in the distance with their legs shivering profusely.

“Y-You’re a Super?!” he shouted loudly with a fear-stricken voice.

Never in his wildest imagination would he expect that a man selling drugs to be a Super, and a powerful one at that. All of the other supers he had seen from the four infamous gangs of the Right Isle weren’t as deadly as the man standing before him right now.

“Nah, I’m not a Super, I’m just your friendly neighborhood crack seller,” Poppy replied jokingly and willed the blood floating near the corpses around him to gather into a scarlet-red spear.

The scarlet spear then shot forward at blinding speeds, stabbing into the man and piercing through his chest, with his body shriveling up like a dried prune.

His body turned into sticks and bones, with no blood left underneath his skin.

Glancing at the corpses around him, he sighed and clenched his palm into a closed fist, and their blood uncontrollably gathered into a sphere in front of him. As the sphere condensed into a tiny ball, he opened his mouth wide and swallowed it whole.

The sphere of condensed blood flowed like a creamy soup in his mouth as he digested it swiftly, assimilating it into his own blood reserves.

The mere fact that I’m able to hide from the detection of Aegis’ radars is such a huge relief. Although more and more avatars going unnoticed is alarming them, in the short term, I can use abilities unhindered without getting caught.

And by the time they find a countermeasure to us being able to evade their radars, it would probably be too late by then.

Poppy grinned and continued on his merry way, with the corpses in the dark alley having mysteriously disappeared.

He burped, patting his stomach.

“What a glutton.”

…

Braun sat within the dark void of his pocket dimension, with his figure having turned all the more monstrous compared to before. The four pairs of spider-like legs protruding from his back twitched at rapid intensities, weaving strange, indistinct white lines in the air.

The symbols glowed brightly with an intense white light and clumped together to form motes of light. The motes of light were then wrapped in a layer of green threads before shooting off into a crack in the middle of the air, landing randomly somewhere in Dela.

As he continued to create more and more avatars to spread all throughout the country, he inspected the metaphysical space within his body where a gigantic green flame was sitting in the center.

Orbiting around the gigantic flame was an endless array of crystals, each of varying sizes, with the smallest one being at least a meter tall.

One of the largest crystals in the metaphysical space in his body was constantly fragmenting, with a tiny shard flying out of his body and fusing into the lumps of white light he constantly weaved. However, in the next moment, the green light suffusing from the green flame would cause the crystal to return to normal, returning it to its peak state.

It seems like Level 3 Cloning has reached its max. Braun opened his eyes and glanced at the floor in front of him.

On the floor, a strange web created out of illusory light shimmered with varying intensities. At times, it was dim. At times, it was bright.

This was his own man-made Artifact, an artifact with incomplete Level 4 crystals as its cores.

With the artifact, he could see interconnected visions of the future through the changes in the threads of the web. By constantly observing it, he could predict the future with heightened accuracy and allow his plans a slight bit of guaranteed success.

Moreover, since the avatar that owned the incomplete Level 4 crystal fused not just his divination-based abilities but also his luck-based abilities into it, Braun can even control luck to a certain extent.

With the ability to foresee the future and control luck, he was one step closer to formulating the Level 4 ability he wished to conceive.

If my guess is right, Destiny should encapsulate the domains of time and luck, along with concepts such as causality, probability, and fate obviously…

Braun continued to derive his own guesses regarding the secrets of Level 4 and beyond while preparing as much as he could. If he didn’t, then his failure is practically a guarantee.

In the face of powerful godlike entities that amounted to at least ten in total, he needed every little bit of power he could get his hands on before his eventual ascension.

Godhood. Braun smirked. It’s so close yet so far at the same time.

A single thread on the complex web suddenly glowed brighter in intensity, although the change was merely subtle. Taking a closer look at the thread that glowed slightly brighter, he could vaguely perceive a blurry image.

A pair of eyes, one white, one black, hovered in the air as flowers bloomed in the left eye and the four elements of the world in the right eye. Black and white light chaotically danced, engulfing the eyes in utter madness.

The thread then snapped, with the whole web seemingly affected by its breakage. More and more threads began to snap, and Braun hurriedly reinforced the incomplete Level 4 Artifact.

A torrent of green flames surged from his palm, illuminating the entirety of the dark void like how the bright sun in the sky would shine light upon the entire world.

His flames bathed the web in its mystical light and directly reinforced the source of the web’s power, the incomplete Level 4 crystal. Even though he was merely Level 3 right now, the accumulation of his, and all of his avatars’ progress has gathered to a terrifying degree.

By his estimations, if he wanted to right now, it wouldn’t take that much effort to create a whole batch of Level 4 weapons just by the sheer intensity of his flames, but sadly, his body wouldn’t be able to handle that strain.

His flames had grown far faster than what his flame’s conduit, his physical and spiritual vessel, could handle. If he were to release all of the flames in one go, he’d overexert himself and suffer a fatal backlash.

Thankfully, the web was just an incomplete Level 4 artifact.

Soon enough, it was restored to normal and appeared brand new, with no marks of the previous fright.

Braun sighed in relief before he began to reassess the image he saw moments ago.

It’s a lot sooner than I expected… Braun inwardly sighed and looked off into the distance.

There, a whole pile of junk was gathered into a small mound, with each being no different from the common household objects you’d find everywhere.

However, when he grabbed one and casually swung it, barely exerting any force, a terrifying burst of power was released, and a sharp blade of wind streaked across the empty space, colliding with the spatial boundary of the pocket dimension.

I wonder if all of these Level 4 weapons would be enough for that all-out war with Aegis.

999 avatars, 999 Level 4 weapons.

I’d be happy if at least 100 hundred of them could attempt ascension to Level 4 by then.

Braun returned to the middle of the pocket dimension and diligently produced more split souls, continuously increasing the number of avatars in Dela.

Just like that, a week had passed.