Setting Weaver

Two hours later, Bai Ge was home, not naked.

With his brain hole, he only needed to provide raw materials and pay a processing fee; clothes weren't difficult to make.

He tossed the burnt rags in his hands into the brain hole. After a little design, what came out was a short robe.

The robe was very short, as most of Bai Ge's clothes had been incinerated. The remaining material wasn't enough to make a complete robe.

Still, even like this, it was enough to get by for the night and cover his shame.

"I can't waste so much Energy like this anymore. I feel like a few seconds of superpower is a really bad deal..."

Up until now, due to insufficient Energy, the traits Bai Ge designed only lasted for a few seconds or minutes.

It was like a trial, just a taste and then it was gone.

If he could, Bai Ge would naturally want to solve the problem once and for all, directly adding a permanent abnormal trait to his body.

If he only had one chance, he felt he would choose eternal life.

"No... it's eternity!"

"Eternity in every sense of the word!"

This was almost Bai Ge's dream, or rather, one of humanity's dreams.

Perhaps this dream was a bit cliché, but Bai Ge truly thought so. Once a person achieved eternity, they would possess infinite possibilities.

With eternity, all other dreams would have endless time and energy to be achieved.

If possible, he hoped his sister could also...

"Thinking too much... Haha! Too far-fetched..."

This was originally an unrealistic dream, but Bai Ge knew that with his activated brain hole, he was qualified to pursue this dream.

However, it was still too far away, so he wouldn't consider it for now.

"How should I use such a large amount of electrical Energy?"

Bai Ge's first thought was to convert it into money... With money, he could obtain more Energy, and he didn't plan to steal electricity anymore.

"No, I already have ten million. Money isn't urgent. My top priority is... strengthening my Energy storage time."

The energy storage trait Bai Ge had previously realized lasted for one day.

More than half a day had already passed, and this trait would disappear tomorrow night.

"I need to extend it... after all, I'll rely on this ability to gain Energy in the future... until a better method is found."

After much thought, Bai Ge still felt that using electrical Energy was the best option for now.

This was because solar energy, after being weakened through multiple layers of transmission and then isolated by the magnetic field upon reaching Earth, was no longer strong. Furthermore, the area of light exposure was limited by the size of the person, making energy acquisition through this method very inefficient.

As for nuclear energy, it was not within his consideration for the time being; he couldn't obtain nuclear energy in a short period.

Therefore, electrical Energy was the most efficient and widespread.

"I'll make the Safe Electricity Storage trait a physiological characteristic of my Earthling body! Not a racial trait shared by all of humanity, but an... abnormal exception unique to the entire race!"

In fact, in the previous few instances, he had made the energy storage trait a physiological characteristic.

It was just more exceptional, existing only for a short time before quickly disappearing.

Now, Bai Ge intended to make it a permanent, commonly used trait without setting an expiration time.

It would be like the 'laws of nature' of eating and drinking for humans.

This way, he wouldn't have to calculate the trait's expiration time anymore.

The energy storage trait would become his permanent superpower.

"Success!"

After implanting the trait into his body and returning to reality, Bai Ge found that Energy had been consumed, which meant the trait had been acknowledged by reality.

"Huh? It only used 40%?"

Less than half of the Energy was consumed, which surprised Bai Ge greatly.

"It only took Energy equivalent to materializing ten thousand days to achieve permanence... Permanent traits don't seem to have as high a cost as I imagined."

"Then... I'll try to get teleportation too..."

Bai Ge set a trait for arbitrary teleportation, but it failed quickly.

He then changed it to teleportation within his field of vision, but that also failed.

"Why did it still fail?"

"Are there different levels of traits? How are they measured?"

Bai Ge didn't sleep that night, pondering and contemplating the 'mind of reality' all night.

It wasn't until dawn broke that he repeatedly experimented with trait editing, creating a bunch of minor traits, before he finally understood.

"So that's how it is, I understand now."

The abnormal traits designed by the brain hole were essentially being forced upon reality.

If taken out of thin air, reality might not acknowledge it, rendering the trait effectively nonexistent.

However, if Bai Ge paid a price, such as 'reality energy' or 'reality matter,' then reality would have no choice but to acknowledge it.

This is because reality's energy and matter belong to reality itself and cannot be refused. They cannot be conjured out of nothing; they must objectively exist.

In other words, any product of a brain hole that has a 'reality foundation' essentially forces reality to adapt.

Don't worry about the adaptability of the real world; it can adapt to almost anything.

The wondrous Danmu, having a material basis, was acknowledged.

The electricity storage trait, having an energy basis, was acknowledged.

At this moment, Bai Ge was akin to a virus or Trojan horse in the real world, capable of forcibly implanting anomalies into reality and making it grudgingly accept them.

He came to this understanding because Bai Ge discovered a pattern.

"Traits with a basis in reality are more easily acknowledged, meaning they come at a lower cost."

"Conversely, those that are pure nonsense or even self-contradictory come at an extremely high cost."

If he had to establish a rough standard, Bai Ge had, for now, considered six levels from highest to lowest.

Self-contradictory traits had the most absurd cost.

Those that contradicted existing laws of reality, and were also absolute, were next.

Contradictory, but not absolute, were even lower.

Not contradictory with existing laws of reality, but absolute, had a low cost.

Not contradictory and not absolute, had an even lower cost.

And those already existing in reality were the cheapest.

These six levels each also had two categories: 'general reality universal' and 'individual anomaly.'

According to Bai Ge's experiments, the electricity storage trait fell into the cheapest, sixth level.

Reality already possessed this trait; it wasn't fictional.

At most, the method of its appearance was somewhat unusual, but the universe is vast, and there were always creatures that found 'this is quite realistic.'

"The electricity storage trait actually exists in reality... like an electric eel? No... it's different. Electric eels have a muscle structure issue, whereas my cells themselves are special..."

"Forget it, the universe is vast and full of wonders. Even if you told me there was an alien whose cells naturally stored a large amount of electrical energy, I'd believe it. And I'm just making this creature's trait appear abnormally in my Earthling body. Everything else is normal... this is the cheapest."

Bai Ge understood one thing: Earth is Earth, but reality is reality. The real world is not limited to Earth.

The universe is incredibly vast; perhaps in some distant corner, there exist bizarre laws unimaginable to Earthlings.

Humanity is too small; what is known is insignificant.

Furthermore, one of the metrics for these six levels was 'absoluteness.'

This was something Bai Ge discovered accidentally.

Because he had previously created a Universal Unlock Passcode, the setting had emphasized 'any' lock.

So, while researching, Bai Ge wanted to test settings like 'absolute,' 'forceful,' 'any,' 'all,' and 'regardless.'

He added a trait to himself called '100% Two Birds with One Stone.'

And it actually worked.

When using this ability to throw an object, it would absolutely hit two birds...

Whether it killed them or not was another matter... but it would definitely hit them!

Even if there wasn't a single bird within several miles, the stone in Bai Ge's hand would forcibly fly far away to find two birds and hit them...

It sounded absurd, even violating Newton's three laws of motion...

But so what? Bai Ge activated the trait for half a minute. Within that time frame, he could hit them however he wanted.

Fancy 'two birds with one stone,' he could hit them no matter what...

It could be said that during this half-minute, with every stone Bai Ge threw, Newton's coffin lid couldn't hold him down.

This was actually quite similar to the 'Universal Unlock Passcode.'

No matter what kind of lock it was, as long as it was a lock, Bai Ge's single passcode would automatically open it.

Bai Ge called this type of anomalous trait an 'Absolute Trait.'

And a trait that applied universally across the cosmos, not limited to Bai Ge, where anyone saying a related command could achieve it, like an objective law... was called a 'Universal Trait.'

In one night, Bai Ge exhausted the electricity he had painstakingly stolen, earning himself a permanent Absolute Trait and several Temporary Absolute Traits.

As for Universal Traits, he didn't achieve any...

The Temporary Traits quickly disappeared, leaving only the permanent Absolute Trait, which was 'Absolute Trait: Calm Command.'

The so-called Calm Command meant that by silently reciting the word "calm," one's mind would become extremely rational, a paragon of human composure, unable to lose its cool due to external stimuli.

In essence, it was a state that everyone could achieve to some extent, differing only in duration. It was a very realistic trait, which is why Bai Ge had enough energy to permanently bestow it upon himself.

Using the command, Bai Ge could control this state, unlike others who were easily influenced by external factors. He could turn it off when he wanted, making it extremely convenient.

A Calm Command, if it didn't have 'Absolute' added, would definitely be much cheaper than 'Cellular Safe Electricity Storage'.

After all, the universe is vast, and there are certainly beings capable of self-controlling their emotions and mindset, even beings who are naturally 'unfeeling and unrighteous'.

Overall, this is more realistic than traits like '100% Two Birds with One Stone', '100% Three Birds One Stone', 'Forced Strike Through Obstacles', 'Absolute Defense Counterattack', 'Stare and Get Pregnant', and so on.

If all these seemingly unscientific and unrealistic traits could be realized...

Deep within Bai Ge's heart, a great ambition for 'Absolute Eternity' was born.

"What I'm creating isn't superpowers, but settings, rules, objective definitions themselves..."

"Perhaps one day, I'll be able to overturn the universe with a single word, alter reality with a single thought."

"To become a... Setting Weaver of reality."