"Interesting."
Beneath the Crystal Tree, Lu PingAn looked at its massive trunk, then at himself in the "Mirror," and smiled.
Yet Lu PingAn in the Mirror gave a mysterious smile as well. Then he raised his middle finger.
"Pfft, that really is so like you." Big Cat was quite delighted, only for the Lu PingAn in the Mirror to give her the middle finger too.
Virtual Personality Lu PingAn: He was you, but you were not him.
Back when Lu PingAn had seen the "Virtual Personality Secret Realm Manager" in the Courtyard, he now possessed one himself.
He could sense that the controller of the Courtyard within the Mirror was himself, yet not himself. "He" was merely a part of Lu PingAn.
Is this what it feels like for Your Excellency Xiu Yi? No, I don't have her level. She connects across multiple dimensions, while this is merely my "division."
Now that Lu PingAn was already Rank Eight, he himself had become a gathering mass of immense contamination. He could materially divide his own "Kingdom of God." As materialized "solidified, ordered contamination," he naturally met the minimum standard for division.
A part of him had completely fused into this region. It was part of the Courtyard, and also part of Lu PingAn's essence.
A Kingdom of God on Earth—and Lu Mouren's clone within it was also a part of himself. This meant that even if Lu PingAn left Earth, this "secret realm" could still operate.
At that moment, Lu PingAn also possessed the essence of a "deity."
"...This is a strategic asset capable of changing the world."
Previously, the fact that large numbers of soldiers had been sent to Mercury 42 to become Professionals had already demonstrated the power of Lu PingAn's ability.
Now that this power, which should not