There are three rank 14 civilizations in the world.
Rachel sealed the office; the market sells advanced products suitable for ranks 12 and 13. And, the last one, Alive.
Alive is one of the three rank 14 civilizations in the universe and focuses mainly on living creatures.
They sell living species with different cultures.
For example, modern culture or medieval culture.
Once bought, it's nearly impossible to change.
Modern humans will remain within a specific range. At their least advanced, they will at least have a telephone, and at most advanced, they will be on the path of artificial intelligence but will not go further than some basic AI.
They are locked to this stage by Alive. Alive is a rank 14 civilization, and its work is flawless; if it designs its products that way, they will remain that way.
But what happens, for example, if a human with modern culture marries a human with medieval culture?
The answer is simple: the child would be of modern culture.
More advanced cultures always absorb the more traditional cultures. That's why if a group with medieval culture and another with modern culture live in the same place, the medieval group will eventually disappear, assimilating into the modern group.
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After a few months, Rob returned home.
"I have to think of a way," he sighed.
Doing surgery once in a while is temporary; he must become a supernatural creature like Alex III.
Over the years, he has amassed a lot of power. Now, he is the strongest in the world.
Theoretically, it should be easy to use state media to convince people, making them believe he is a ghost.
The state media is under the control of the World Alliance. It is entirely controlled by Rob's appointees and only spreads the news he wants.
The only media allowed to operate is the official government media.
Rob couldn't allow anyone else to have a voice. They might say things he doesn't approve of.
Thousands of years ago, when he was the president of UISEC, he let independent media operate as long as they didn't criticize him. But that was him acting immature.
The flow of information is very important. Humans are not as intelligent as it may seem.
Many lack the intellectual curiosity to look beyond television or surface-level news websites. And those who do have the intellectual curiosity to do it don't have the time.
To earn money, people must work at least 9 hours per day; that does not include time for food, bathroom, etc. After work and sleep, most will be left with around 4 hours of free time.
Also, even though weekends are holidays, most still work even on weekends.
If one has 4 hours, would they use it to look at some news website to look for the 'truth'? Of course not!
Controlling the surface-level media is the key to controlling the people.
With experience, Rob realized one other critical lesson.
The time when humans lived in tribes never ended. They still live in tribes; it's just that the modern tribes are not geographical or blood-related. Political parties, for example, are a tribe.
Using this is the key to control.
He could make two parties with different colors and, with him controlling both from behind, keep everyone busy while he remains in the shadows.
Even though the world alliance now controls everything, on a surface level, elections are always held.
Of course, no matter who wins, nothing will ever change.
The political parties are all controlled by him and other billionaires just to keep the people's resentment at a controllable level.
If things are getting worse, once in a while, throw someone in jail as a show of fighting corruption. It's really not difficult.
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Another one of his experiences over thousands of years was the cult of personality.
Humans like to believe in things. Doubt and uncertainty are unsettling to all humans.
Whether it's belief in specific things or specific people, most have something they believe in. By exploiting it, one can more easily rule over the masses.
In short, using all kinds of tricks and lots of technology, even in a society so unequal, they still control billions of people without any problem.
But one thing modern humans are bad at is believing in the supernatural.
It would be tough to make so many believe he is a ghost. But he has no other choice.
People must believe him; otherwise, he will eventually die.
But even with all of the power, even with his position, it isn't easy. "Still, I must try!" he thought with a sigh.
He would die if he didn't try to become a supernatural creature.
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Zagronan has been doing the mail delivery task for tens of thousands of years now.
He had saved a lot of contribution points.
Contribution points of the anti-Rachel alliance are the most valuable in the universe; they are de facto currency.
In the past, the currency has been units of energy.
It had regional differences, but generally, there have been five units.
First, the tiny energy package; it is like change money.
One tiny energy package has enough energy to operate the 'time' complete law in a particular state for 1000 years.
Of course, when used in battles, it would run out far sooner, maybe not even last a day.
The medium energy package is enough to maintain the complete law of time for a million years.
The enormous energy package is enough to maintain the time complete law for 1 billion years.
The universal energy package has enough energy to operate the time universal law for 1 hour.
The civilizations capable of creating universal packages are high-level rank 13s or rank 14s.
The most valuable energy package is called a concentrated energy bomb.
It's so concentrated that even with all the technology of a high-grade civilization, it can explode if not careful.
It has enough energy to maintain a universal law for a year.
Universal laws shall not be underestimated.
If one puts all the complete laws on one side and a single universal law on the other, the side with one universal law wins easily. The fight is like bubbles and diamonds.
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Zagronan scratched his head.
Sitting on his throne in the hell, he sighed.
True hell, the world he created has progressed a lot.
His last formation has produced lots of different demon species.
Divine species, the species demons have evolved from, are very adaptable. That's why even though there are all kinds of big and small demons, they are the same species.
Demons are divine species that dark elements have corrupted.
He closed his eyes and sighed again.
After thousands of years of work, he is no closer to rank 14 than when he was just born.
Rank 12 is so hard that it makes one desperate.
"Rachel, help me reach rank 12!" he asked.
"I can't!" she rejected without hesitation.
"Why? You are ranked 13, so it should not be that hard for you!" he said.
"First of all, I am rank 11 like you! My main body is rank 13, but she is busy now," she said.
"You have lots of universal laws! Allow me to use one of the universal laws; I can do what you want and have the same power as rank 12 demons," he said in desperation.
At the rate he moves, he has no chance of creating a universal law even after a trillion years.
Universal laws are decoded using complete law, but most of the 'easy' universal laws have already been registered.
Only the most complicated and much more complex universal laws are free now.
That is just the first issue.
The next issue is that the office is sealed.
It should be said that all university law tokens are produced by the office, so now, besides all other difficulties, he has to find a way to get past the issue of having no token.
It's nearly impossible for someone like him to have a universal law.
Universal laws can only be used by the person or force it is registered to. That means that if a universal law has been registered to the name of Rachel, nobody else can use it.
But Rachel has registered her universal laws as 'Rachel,' a force comprising many people, not a single person.
That's why anyone in the 'Rachel' force can use universal laws.
As Rachel, the force's leader, she has control of all universal laws but can allow her subordinates to use them themselves.
The conditions are not complex. One does not need to have a rank 12 body to be able to wield the power of universal laws.
If Rachel allows it, she can grant permission to anyone to wield universal laws.
The person wielding universal laws can even be a mortal. To begin with, for a rank 12, the difference between a mortal and a rank 11 is negligible. If a rank 11 can use it, a mortal can also use it.
With Rachel's token, a mortal can, in one moment, become one of the strongest in the universe!
But the energy needed for it still must be provided by her.
Rank 12s using other people's universal laws are usually weaker than original rank 12s because original rank 12s have a much more skillful way of controlling universal laws.
A universal law can be lent to endless people. So, even if Rachel lends her universal law to 100 people, she can still use it herself without a problem.
However, using universal laws is exceptionally costly. Lending the universal law will increase the cost even more. There is no point in doing it.
"Let me see what I can do!" Rachel reluctantly said.
She likes to see Zagronan getting a universal law token from the main body. She knows Zagronan the best, and her intuition tells her that Zagronan having a universal law token would benefit the main body.
But the matter is not important enough for her to contact the main body. All incarnations have direct ways of reaching the main body, but they are careful to use only when the matter is truly important.
So, she contacted the regional headquarters and requested a universal law for Zagronan.
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In the regional headquarters, a Rachel incarnation listened seriously.
After some consideration, she decided to issue a token.
Rank 13 Rachel incarnations can issue universal law tokens when the main body is busy. Now, the main body is busy trying to reach rank 14.
Rachel incarnation in headquarters herself didn't think Zagronan was special. But she trusted her fellow incarnation's views.
Rachel incarnations aren't selfish; they don't have any ambitions. They only and only think of the best for the main body.
Even though she, as the rank 13 incarnation in headquarters, didn't believe Zagronan to be special, with another incarnation vouching for him, she, of course, would issue a token.
In any case, at the moment, Rachel doesn't lack energy.
Then, she started looking at the available universal laws.
The list is classified, so she can not let the rank 11 incarnations see them and choose one.