The world was shocked!
Well, it's more accurate to say that high-level demons and mages were shocked. As for mortals, they didn't realize anything different. At least for a short time.
With the pure energy spread throughout the world, mortals everywhere will soon have the chance to become mages.
All academies were in the central land, and barriers restricted the movement of high-level mages, locking them in.
The part of hell in the central land mainly remained isolated for a long time. No mage dared to go in, and no demon was able to come out.
Hell's barrier was one-sided, restricting demons from coming out and allowing mages to enter. But once you go in, you cannot come out.
Rachel has fixed the loophole that existed with the avatars. Now, when you enter your avatar, it will be considered as you being there in person.
The rank limit was also lowered to 3. Any higher, and you will have great trouble coming out.
The moon shone extremely brightly, as bright as the sun, disrupting the lives of mortals and many animals.
Only a few days later, the moon suddenly became dim as before.
It was, of course, Rachel who manually lowered the moon's brightness, but its energy output remained unchanged.
It bathed everywhere with a lot of Pure energy. The dark elements in hell, trapped by the barriers, began disappearing faster.
All dark elements will disappear in less than 100,000 years if it continues like this!
It is very short. However, pure energy will become common much sooner than that.
In less than 1,000 years, the dark element will fall below 50%! That means very soon, demons will have an easier time using pure energy for cultivation than the dark element!
...
Lee was sitting in a chair atop a tall mountain, gazing at the moon.
With hell's new barriers, the demon kings became once again imprisoned in hell. If it were the past, Lee would have been happy, but now, she is not.
"Who did all this? Who has the power? Do we still have rank 12 existences in the world? Can rank 12 do this?" she wondered, feeling confused.
According to information left by the creators and later relayed by Alys, rank 12 is not strong enough to achieve all this.
Still, Lee wasn't sure, as she knew little about rank 10, let alone rank 12.
"Maybe after the loss of two complete laws, manipulating laws became easier?" Lee thought.
She wasn't entirely wrong, but she wasn't completely correct either. Editing the code now is easier, but any modification is extremely risky.
With 1/3 of the two complete laws missing, one should be very careful because wrong coding can create terrifying loopholes that can destroy the world.
Great Dream didn't have enough knowledge to do this. Only civilizations like Rachel, who knew countless universal laws, can do it.
Lee had a headache.
"With the demon kings gone, research is now more difficult. And with a mysterious, at least rank 12 being here, our lives are again in danger!" Lee sighed.
There is little hope of surviving.
She noticed the vast reduction in her lifespan.
Even though she is at the peak of rank 9, she had less than a 1 percent chance of reaching rank 10 before 2 million years.
For someone like Lee, 2 million years is not much.
Before the change, rank 9 mages could have lived more than 195 million years!
Even Lee, who is ancient, had more than 70 million years left when the change happened.
"So, I die like this," she accepted her fate peacefully.
But at this moment, something shiny appeared out of nowhere!
"What? A rank 1 treasure? Wait, isn't this the pill container Alys was looking for?" Lee thought with fright.
What does this thing that even the creator fears want from her?
"Hello," said the rank 1 Rachel #62.
"Hello?" Lee said cautiously.
She wasn't surprised it could speak.
"I'm Rachel! With me, you can easily reach rank 10. Just take 100 pills from me and eat them, then you can be considered my host. By the way, do you have any jump rank?" Rachel asked.
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"No, Alys took them all away!" answered Lee.
Rachel sighed.
She had already heard the same answer from several rank 9 mages.
She had sent one Rachel to all rank 9 mages to help them reach rank 10.
Other civilizations usually don't do this. It's a foolish thing to do.
To maximize the chance of developing unique, new, complete laws, one must be very careful not to influence the native people of the world.
After all, if they see people from Great Dream who are rank 10 and above, they try to go the same way, ultimately developing laws that are already known and discovered.
All the trouble to finally get one known law? It's a waste.
The operation is successful only if they find a complete law they didn't know before, which can help them reverse engineer a universal law.
But Rachel had her reasons.
The most important reason is that this world, which, at most, can last 75 million years, there is not enough time to develop a complete law from scratch.
Ordinary rank 11 worlds can exist for up to a trillion years, and rank 10 worlds last at least 100 billion years.
Even this world itself is hundreds of billions of years old.
The Great Dream had already reset time and even space a few times, so mages and everyone thought it was much older than it was.
They couldn't truly peek at history because it was wiped.
As for inheritances of creators, they were put here much later after a reset of the river of time.
However, Rachel noticed it with 'limited modification'.
Everything the Great Dream did was for a reason.
They closed the world's windows, preventing everyone from drawing inspiration from the outside.
Of course, this was done because they wanted to limit the outside world's influence to maximize the chance of discovering complete laws.
When Doris learned how to advance to rank 10, she was mostly correct; it is indeed countless times easier to develop complete laws through cheating.
For example, her complete law of the ship was a common complete law already known by the Great Dream civilization.
Rachel had previously invaded many of Great Dreams' worlds, so she also knew it.
The point is Doris took her inspiration from the Great Dream.
She didn't truly develop the law herself.
With jump rank, creating a unique complete law is impossible.
It's only possible to extract complete laws that the host civilization already knows.
Developing a new, complete law is challenging, to say the least.
It's possible to develop a complete law from scratch. But It's so hard that it's considered lucky to have one in 100 billion years.
Because it requires a lot of creativity, luck, opportunity, etc., a lot has to go right for it to happen.
But if successful, there is an excellent chance it's a new complete law not known by the host civilization.
But why did Rachel open the windows? Why is she influencing them?
It's because her methods are different.
She has a lot of abilities unique to herself.
Her main difference from other civilizations is the system.
At every rank, a new skill gets unlocked by the system.
The rank 13 Rachel managed to hack the system, taking the energy of skills and using them for other tasks.
But those methods work only for skills below rank 10.
Rank 10 and above skills are fixed, and she can't hack them yet.
In all, she can't modify some parts of the system; for example, she can't hack her way to promotion.
The only way for her to promote is for her host to promote; there is no way around it.
Anyways, the skill of rank 10 is the 'database.' All information from all incarnations and their hosts will be collected there.
Extremely detailed information.
Her goal at this moment is to collect information about the world up to today.
This world developed for billions of years without information from the outside world.
One should not underestimate their knowledge. After she collects all the information and puts it in the database, she might be able to discover a few complete laws.
Many mages today are at the peak of rank 9, only a step away from rank 10.
Rachel believes she can fill the gaps with her massive database, which has information from countless worlds.
"Why do you want to help?" Lee asked this cautiously.
"Any complete law you discover will be known by me! So, your success is my success!" said Rachel.
"Will you take it away once I succeed?" asked Lee.
"No, I only want the info. As for the complete law itself, who cares!" she said.
At this time, she was sincere.
For her, a rank 10 complete law is nothing.
What she wants is data.
Lee readily agreed, "I accept."
Rachel smiled and transferred a lot of information to her mind.
Even though Rachel didn't have high hopes, the information she transferred was the one she believed would increase the chance of developing a new law. She had information on many people who had gone down the same path as Lee, in the same type of world created by laws of space and time. Giving their information to Lee now might be enough to allow her to complete her fragment law.
Lee sat down with a solemn face and started absorbing the information.
Fortunately, Rachel was mindful, so she didn't overwhelm her with information.
"Now, if possible, promote me to rank 7!" said Rachel.
"How?" asked Lee with confusion.
"Create a rank 1 avatar and slowly increase its power until it reaches rank 7," Rachel explained.
This method of promotion utilized some loopholes.
The system recognizes avatars as hosts, so when avatars promote, the system considers it the host promoting.
Rachel #1 can poison Pill Zagronan, rely on a rank 9 mage, and reach rank 9 very quickly.
But killing hosts is not a good practice.
She only found this out when she reached rank 13.
The rank 13 skill is named 'Last Evaluation.'
It evaluates her actions and rates them from +1000 to -1000.
A positive value means good, while a negative value means bad.
Surprisingly, both positive and negative values give a skill. So, it's not like being evil is punished by the system.
However, Rachel prefers the 'good' side skill.
For this reason, most of her incarnations instinctively avoid killing their Hosts.
Of course, it's only part of the reason.
Even without knowing this, the original Rachel kept her original host from rank 0 to rank 13.
That's why she was graded as a perfect +1000.
The skill she got from it is her trump card now.
Lee did as Rachel told her; she made an avatar and promoted it.
Soon, Rachel reached rank 7 quickly.
With a smile, she created a rank 7 pill and gave it to Lee.
Lee, who was astonished, took it and felt terrified. She knew this was only an incarnation of Rachel.
"How terrifying is the real deal?" she became more cautious and respectful.
...
All over the world, Rachel did this to all rank 9 mages.
As for demons, they were, for now, put on hold. Rachel was working on a code to outlaw shared minds.
It was an uncommon problem, so it took a bit of research to find the code in the database.
Soon, she plans to contact the demons one by one.
With shared minds, the chances of developing unique complete laws become very low. It doesn't need an explanation as to why; it's self-evident.
With a shared mind, demons are more intelligent, so they are much more likely to find clues from a lot of information and develop a law based on existing complete laws.
That is just the most obvious reason.
Zagronan was also making stable progress. He had the luck of a low-grade protagonist, and his child, Savior Green Long was also a medium-grade protagonist.
Along with the protection of Rachel, who had a complete law, nothing could go wrong.
And in this way, time continued to pass.