The Road Ahead

The battle ended even faster than Isaac had expected. The magic eyes containing the authority of an ancient evil god were far more powerful than he had imagined. Especially when used together—one to strip defenses, the other to deal damage—their efficiency was astonishingly high!

In just a few moves, the aberration was completely dismembered by Isaac, reduced to chunks of flesh floating silently in the air.

Caesar: "Th-this is... over?"

After the battle ended, Caesar flew back with Rona. Looking at the chaotic battlefield, his expression was complicated. Although Gerard was dead, Caesar did not feel the satisfaction of having finally avenged a great wrong.

Because throughout the entire revenge, he had barely contributed anything. The killing move he had prepared for Gerard had not even had the chance to be used before the battle was over.

This left Caesar, who had prepared for revenge for years, with the stifling frustration of throwing all his strength into a wad of cotton.

On the other side, although Isaac had personally killed his enemy, he felt much the same. He had prepared for this battle for a very long time, even fleecing the Outer Gods several times. Yet in the end...

Aside from the trouble of tracking Gerard down, he had barely used any of his other methods. The magic eyes that had swept through the battle were things he had acquired before.

Looking at the chunks of corpse floating in the air and feeling the faint emptiness in his heart, Isaac frowned slightly. Although this battle had gone exceptionally smoothly, it had also exposed quite a few problems of his own.

For example, while he had many methods and all of them were powerful, there were not many he could truly use in battle. Against weaker enemies, he could use the Infinite Magic Power of the Dimension World to drive the Magic Cannons and achieve absolute firepower suppression. Against ordinary enemies, he could rely on Authority Spells. Against opponents that were too strong, he had his two authority magic eyes, whose suppressive power was terrifying.

Of course, that did not mean the powers and knowledge he had obtained from the Outer Gods and legends were useless. Those abilities and knowledge had all become part of his foundation, and they might prove useful at any time in his future research.

It was just that—

The reasoning was sound, but did that not mean the abilities he had risked his life to trade for from the Outer Gods had lost their meaning?

In fact, this was a problem many Mad Witches encountered after reaching a certain stage of growth. As their own power steadily increased, the power or knowledge they had traded for from the Outer Gods would gradually fail to keep pace with them—too good to discard, too bland to keep.

Normally, Mad Witches only encountered this at the fourth tier. After all, for wizards at the fourth tier, the fifth tier—becoming a demigod comparable to a god—was already close. And if they possessed a Floating City, that distance would be even shorter.

Under such circumstances, it was normal for the little bit of power traded from the Outer Gods to fall behind. Yet Isaac was encountering this at the third tier, which was not exactly normal. However, his methods of trading with the Outer Gods were somewhat different from those of others, so it was not strange for this stage to arrive early.

But there was one thing Isaac had in common with the other Mad Witches: they were not satisfied with the status quo!

After experiencing that explosive rate of progress in the early stages, the vast majority of Mad Witches could never go back to slowly researching and accumulating power like ordinary wizards. Gamblers were all like that.

Thus, aside from a very small number of Mad Witches who continued to maintain ordinary trades steadily, most would begin taking bigger steps—entering the Mysterious Void like Isaac and scavenging power from the Outer Gods.

Isaac also wanted to take bigger steps, but he faced a problem. When ordinary Mad Witches took larger strides, they seized power from the Outer Gods. But Isaac was already doing that. How was he supposed to take an even bigger step?

So he needed to think carefully about what to do next.

After glancing over the battlefield, Isaac casually waved his hand. Black mist swept forth, collecting all of the aberration's remains into the Dimension World. Although the Outer God power within it had been ruined beyond recognition by the Illusion Authority and the Twisted Authority, many traces still remained, giving it great research value.

Finally, Isaac's gaze fell upon the corpse floating on the surface of the Star Sea, and his eyes widened in surprise. A God Corpse...

And the corpse of a Star God!

This thing—

Where had it come from?

Isaac was greatly surprised. If they had encountered the corpse of a Star God elsewhere in the Endless Sea, it would have been quite normal. After all, the Endless Sea was the creation of a Great Wizard and a newly born great miracle. Whether it was a God Corpse or a godhead, neither would have been unusual.

But this was the Star Sea!

After numerous Star Gods had fallen, their corpses had fused together to create it. Here, Star God godheads could exist, but Star God corpses could not. Within this Star Sea, the special magnetic field would dissolve the corpses of Star Gods.

Just like now, the God Corpse soaking in the Star Sea was being affected by its magnetic field. If not for the special spell protecting the corpse's surface, it likely would have melted away already.

However—

"Why do I feel like... even without that, this thing still wouldn't dissolve?" Isaac stroked his chin as he looked at the Star God corpse floating in the sea. It was only a guess, but he felt he was probably right.

Otherwise, there was no explaining why those two had left this thing here.

This damned Star Sea did not look like a place where one could conduct experiments in peace, especially experiments involving a Star God's corpse. There were far too many variables.

Unless they simply had no way to move it.

"What should we do with this thing?"

At that moment, Caesar flew over to Isaac with Rona. Looking at the God Corpse below, he asked solemnly.

Though he did not understand spells, as one blessed by a god, he knew a little about what was happening to this God Corpse.

This thing—

Was crossing the boundary between life and death!

Simply put, this Star God was being resurrected!

Resurrecting a dead god—the most dangerous and forbidden God-Making Experiment in witchcraft!

Because after a god was resurrected, They would not be grateful merely because you had revived Them. On the contrary, They would spare no effort to kill you!

This was because returning from death to life, especially for a lifeform on the level of a god, seriously violated the laws of the world. And gods were, in a sense, incarnations of those laws. Unless They wished to fall into becoming an Outer God, They would inevitably attack the caster.

That was why Caesar was worried. If Isaac became interested in resurrecting a Star God, things would become dangerous!

Fortunately, although Isaac was interested in God-Making Experiments, he had no interest in such a crude one.

Yes, crude!

In Isaac's eyes, Gerard and the other man's God-Making Experiment was crude beyond belief. Compared to Caesar, Isaac could see much more.

For example, they would not personally carry out the final step of the resurrection process. Instead, they would transfer it elsewhere through other means. That way, once the Star God revived, the one It would kill would not be them.

They had truly gotten their hands on a god's gratitude!

In addition, there should have been some other tricks involved to safeguard their interests.

But Isaac still had no interest whatsoever. In the end, this was merely resurrecting a god, not creating one. And they had no means of controlling that god.

That alone was enough to leave Isaac completely uninterested!