Dolocab High School, graduating class.
The hustle and bustle of the discussion was endless, the voices of people outside the window, and occasional cheers, which stimulated the excitement of the students.
Today is the first day of high school students to open up the field, choose the dependents, and officially become a demigod. In a span of thirty days, a student must be able to light an ember of the divine fire, open up a domain, and create a civilization of familiar dependents in order to continue studying and pursue a college degree.
Awakening month! And the first day of this time in the life of a person is the most important, for it concerns their future.
Gaia is a super world, and people conceived in this world are born gods.
As a super world, the world's suppression rules for the creatures in it are also extremely powerful.
Although everyone has the body of a God, ordinary life is no different from ordinary people.
"Pay attention, you will spark the divine fire and open up the domain soon!"
The class adviser Lito Dalipe walked into the class, holding a stack of paper in his hand, and handing it over to the students in the first row.
"Each one will pass it to the one behind, and please fill in the information after getting the paper."
Seeing everyone got it, Lito continued: "The dependent familiars must be considered carefully."
Everyone took the paper and started to fill it out with enthusiastically.
It's nothing more than some basic information. For the respective dependent familiars, they have considered it early, and it is naturally very fast to write.
But Chollo Gallardo was briefly entangled, mainly because of the information in his status screen contains details of his past life, one which he has long left behind.
"Name: Sly Marbo"
"Title: One Man Army"
"Faith: 0"
"Rules: none"
"Domain: none"
"Homeworld: Catachan"
"Property: Ork species card (Light and Shadow Ork), Tyranid species card (Emperor of Blades symbiote)
Species compatibility
Ork: 54% greenskin, 39% firstborn, 25% ogre, 11% mushroom
Tyranid: 14% snakes, 13% beetles, 12% locusts, 11% (too many species to mention)..... 7% mushroom
The two affiliated cards are the two sides of the same card he accidentally acquired in his past life, the reminder of the grimdark hellscape of Warhammer Universe.
Coincidentally, the two species card interestingly, has an intersecting compatibility with mushrooms.
And buying a mushroom card from the school's partners...only costs 10,000 pesos. With the national government's 100,000 pesos national budget for each aspiring god, he can get as much as 10 times the resources.
After thinking for a while, seeing people successively handed in their information until he was the only one left, he finally made his decision and filled in mushrooms.
After handing in the information, Chollo was relieved.
What about mushrooms, anyway, in his past life, mushrooms did saved his sorry life countless times.
Since he was the last to submit the information, Lito saw the information of Chollo's dependent familiars at a glance.
Mushroom?
"Chollo, are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"
"That's right, sir. It's really mushrooms."
"Well, I hope you do great in the future."
As the class adviser, Lito naturally knew Chollo's family situation. He didn't say much, but took all the students to the school field.
When they came to the school field, there was a lot of voices, and the children who successfully opened up a part of the domain are being praised by their parents, but there are those who failed to accomplish anything at the first day, who then became a source of disappointment, and some were even yelled at by their parents.
There is a saying, "not all who succeed the first day become supreme gods, but all supreme gods succeed the first day". You can see how important this day is to the students and their parents.
Seeing this scene, Chollo swept through the crowd a few times, searching for his parents. Seeing they didn't come, they should be working hard again.
As they were lined up, Chollo's thoughts wandered far as he looked into the sky, his memory remembering the times he had fought the Orks and Tyranids in the past.
In fact, he wasn't really sure with the thought of bringing the Orks and Tyranids into this world. Not to mention his Orks and Tyranids card looked to be different from his past knowledge of them.
The Orks and Tyranids from his past life are two of the strongest races in Warhammer 40k.
For the Orks, the meaning of life is to fight. If there is no enemy to fight against, they will start fighting amongst themselves. In other words, they live to fight and fight to live.
For the Tyranids, the meaning of their existence is to devour and reproduce. They travel across galaxies in massive splinter fleets, searching for biomass to create more of their kind.
While thinking about it, Chollo's attention was captured by someone, so he came back to his senses.
"Instead of raising mushrooms, sell your domain to me instead."
He saw a proud young man with colorful, dyed hair in front of him. At first sight, he was not a good person.
"...."
Chollo, although more mellow than what he had been back then, still has the demeanor of the best of the best guardsman in all of Warhammer, someone who stands out amongst the already legendary Catachan Devils. It's good enough that he's not bullying you, but then again, life is so good that you have to come and pick on the guy most likely to kick ass without taking names eleven out of ten times. Chollo's already sharp gaze turned sharper, wiping the smugness off from the other guy's face.
Stolen novel; please report.
"Ahhhh... Okay.. umm, I'll take that as a no.... Anyways, I was just asking. You don't have to be all gungho about it."
"Roll!!"
Luckily for the other guy, Chollo had no plans to beat him, as he walked into the virtual reality building for it was his class' turn to enter.
"Cardo, why are you making trouble for no reason?"
Someone beside the scared youth asked puzzledly.
"That boy's dad is an employee at my dad's company, and guess what I just heard?"
Cardo held his hand and gossipped: "When I came out just now, I heard Sir Lito and Maam Dolores conversation, saying that Chollo, chose mushrooms as his dependent familiars. Do you dare to believe it? He wants to raise mushrooms, hahahaha. "
Cardo lowered his voice. When he said this, everyone around him couldn't bear to not laugh. The toughest kid of their batch, actually chose mushrooms? Really a case of all brawn, no brains, the students snickered.
On the other hand, Chollo's classmate blushed with anger and shame. As the top class of the school, they have a name to uphold, and they don't want other people to think bad of them.
A few people stared unbelievably at Cardo as they entered the building, but more looked disdainfully at Chollo's back.
When they entered the building, there were fifty virtual pods arranged side by side.
Lito called their names and motioned them to move to a virtual pod.
When Chollo and a classmate's name was called, the girl refused to use the virtual pod beside his, so Lito called another student, which also refused. Finally, Lito just let Chollo by himself, with no one using the virtual pods beside his. Luckily for Lito, the class had three vacancies, only 47 students all in all, instead of the 50 people in other classes.
His classmates regarded Chollo as the plague, and no one wanted to be beside him.
Seeing this situation, Lito almost gave a lecture to help Chollo out, but in the end he didn't say anything, just shooked his head silently.
After all, Chollo who chose mushrooms, has given up hope in the eyes of others.
Mushrooms are just a kind of fungus, not even plants. How can they provide faith?
Without faith, even the divine fire cannot be ignited, and there is no future to talk about.
"Chollo, it is estimated that he intends to sell mushrooms in the future and live as a vendor."
Lito and a teacher beside him thought so.
When his classmates ignored him because of his choice of familiars, Chollo smiled self-deprecatingly.
He entered a VR pod, and layed on his back. At the moment when the machine was covered, he glanced at the door with a low eye. Outside the door was the clear blue sky and the school field with a sea of students.
"Maybe, this is what people really are. In the past, I thought that people just became like that due to the circumstances, but even here, where all people live in peace and have divinity, they still look at me with those same old eyes, that same old gaze. Whatever, at least I'm not gonna be fighting all the time. I'm not all about that life anymore."
The murmur was not heard by anyone, and no one knew, the Realm of Chaos, homeworld of the Great Waaagh, will officially be created at this moment. But before all that foreshadowing, he must first open up the aforementioned domain, so he picked a room at random, and soon, after initializing, entered the virtual hall where he will be indoctrinated by an assessor with the origin of the world.
~Inside the virtual space, in a random room used for the opening up of students' domains~
(Basically, the pod allows students who haven't got a divinity yet to have the capability of a god)
(God's can open the domain without pods, students/quasideities and demigods need the pod)
"I'm so nervous. I'm about to open up the domain. I hope I can graduate successfully this time!"
"Yes, I hope that in this year's graduation project, I can design a qualified Transcendent world as my domain.
"Don't be delusional, among the students who graduate every year, very few can fulfill the requirements!"
"But if I only design an ordinary world, then I can only work hard after graduation, so I'm going to fight this time."
"Wow, why are your requirements so high? I'm different. I just hope to graduate smoothly."
"Hahaha, you've postponed your graduation for five years, right? I've suspected you several times because you took a fancy to the teacher and didn't want to leave!"
"Hey, it's true love, I tell you!"
On the hall of the virtual room, a group of high school seniors in their teens are chatting about their upcoming graduation project.
Among them, Chollo is a little different.
He didn't look nervous, nor did he have any anxiety. The Warhammer universe has thrown everything his way once, and he has survived through all that using merely his wits and will power. Nothing can faze him anymore.
He was like a bystander, quietly watching everything in front of him.
"Alas, it's been nineteen years since I came here without realizing it."
Chollo sighed silently.
Nineteen years ago, Chollo traversed to this place from Warhammer.
During this time, Chollo has worked hard to figure out the real situation of this world.
First of all, this is a world where everyone can ignite a divine fire and have their own unique domain.
In this world, whether a person is capable or not is closely related to his domain.
Of course, the situation of one's own domain will also determine each person's future development.
Those who own the Transcendent world as the domain are destined to become superiors and elites from all walks of life.
And those who can only design the ordinary world are treated much worse. This is why he was looked down upon due to his choice of familiars. Can a god who chose mushrooms dare to create an extraordinary world? People are just like that sometimes, they like to stick to their prejudice.
In any case, for anyone with ambition, one must complete their own graduation project to open up a domain and graduate from high school and enter college.
And starting content of the graduation project is naturally to design an independent world as their own domain!
While the others were chatting.
A powerful voice resounded throughout the virtual hall.
"Ladies and gentlemen, be quiet!"
Everyone immediately quieted down and looked up at the rostrum on the virtual hall.
On the rostrum, there stood a middle-aged man, overlooking the crowd.
This man is an assessor of the Department of Education, none of the people know him personally, but they all know, that in order to be an assessor, one must be a real high god! That's a big man. A really successful person in the flesh, though not as successful as a supreme god, but even so, he only works hard for a month, dispensing resources the students need for their graduation, and has free time for himself the rest of the year, yet still gets to rake in the dough. A big enough man indeed.
Assessor Manny Suarez looked around and found that there were no more whispers, so he finally continued.
"Sirs and Maams, finally, after three years of study, although some seem to have more than four years, hmm, intriguing. Well, anyways, for the next month or so, you will be nearing the finish line of high school, but I have to congratulate you all in advance for I am not as strict as the other assessors, so welcome to the real world, fellow future gods."
Manny greeted them while also taking a gander at a corner of the hall. In this place, several of the students who looked older than the others and had postponed their graduation immediately began to tremble.
"In short, after so many years of study, I believe that you have fully mastered the theory and knowledge of designing various worlds!"
"And today, all your hard work will be rewarded!"
Hearing this, the students including Chollo immediately lit up.
Finally, it is time for them to open up the domain and become one step closer to god.
"Now, all of you will obtain the feeling of my divine fire."
"Starting today, we will keep meeting here for one month, during which you must complete your own graduation project step by step and build a world of your own!"
"I wish you all a successful graduation in advance!"
After speaking, Manny stretched his hand out and enveloped all the students present with his divine energy.
"Diffuse your will, feel my energy, use it as tinder and then feed the fire!"
"The energy of the body is fuel, the darkness that you see is oxygen, and your will is the fire!"
In an instant, the endless violent energy immediately swept the entire playground!
After seeing this scene, Chollo immediately closed his eyes.
The next second.
Chollo found that in the sea of his own mind, a golden light was quietly burning.
The sea of mind that was originally shrouded in endless darkness was gradually illuminated by this ray of light.
Although the area irradiated by this ray of light is very limited, it still lights up a corner of the sea of his mind!
It can be said that from this moment on, the entire sea of mind has gradually begun to fluctuate.
"The first spark of divine fire!"
Chollo thought excitedly.
From the moment the divine fire first took aflame, Chollo began to gradually transcend to demigod from quasi-deity status.
The more powerful the fire, the stronger the ability.
And if you want the divine fire to flourish, then Chollo must build up his own divine domain, and spend his energy to perfect it!
It can be said that divine fire and the domain are a pair of lovers that promote each other.
Next step is the establishment of the Domain.
"Next, the students who ignited the first spark, come to the dispensing area, and get your supply of world origin from my assistant!"
Manny said after seeing that most students successfully lit the fire.
"Before you receive the origin of the world, you need to first declare the type of world you want to build!"
After that, Manny left, leaving the students, a few of which are still searching for that first spark.
"Wow, this fire is lit!"
"Yeayuh, but then we need to register the type of world you want to build! Wanna go together?"
"Bet!"
"I've already thought about it. I'm going to build a low-magic wizarding world this time, and try to touch the threshold of the Transcendent world by the way."
The wizarding world is a type of world that is easier to become a Transcendent world.
The only threshold for it to change from the ordinary world to the Transcendent world is to find a way to successfully transform the origin of the world into various magical abilities in the process of world design, and let the creatures of this world master this power.
"Ah, you are going to try the Transcendent world, I don't care, I haven't even thought about whether to design a technological civilization or an alien beast civilization."
Technological civilization and alien beast civilization are two different ordinary worlds, which do not belong to the type of Transcendent world.
But the advantage of building these two worlds is that it is easy to design, and it is easy to meet the graduation requirements.
Among them, the route of scientific and technological civilization is to climb science and technology, and use the origin of the world to improve the level of science and technology in this world.
The alien beast civilization is simpler, directly integrating the origin of the world into this world, allowing various alien beasts to complete the evolution, become stronger, and break through the world's upper limit.
"That's right, hey, it's Chollo. You still looking ripped af man"
The students who were talking about the type of domain approached Chollo and asked with concern.
"What type of Domain are you going to design, tho?"
Hearing this, Chollo thought a little before telling them about it. Since he started with mushrooms already, it's better to go all the way and create his own version of the Immaterium.
Chollo actually had an idea from the tales of old hunters back in Catachan.
"I'm going to start from scratch and design a brand new type of domain!"