God of Mystery and Terror

Objectively speaking, Chiloo had no blood.

However, its three-dimensional manifestation could still extract a liquid substance similar to blood.

So, upon hearing this, Chiloo became a little scared.

What did Calamity want to do?

I just ate some garlic...

Besides, even the blood from my three-dimensional manifestation shouldn't be able to flow out.

But who made the Sovereign itself "logic"...

Seeing Chiloo dawdling, Tang Chuan's expression instantly cleared. He sidestepped and pulled it over.

"Chiloo!"

Chiloo let out a loud cry, feeling like it was being forced.

Ah, no, it was being forced...

Quintessa's figure projected itself, wearing a nurse's uniform. Her form shifted from a phantom to a solid, and she held a specially made instrument in her hand.

She looked at Chiloo with a smile and said, "There, there, it won't hurt."

"Chiloo!"

Whether it hurts or not is meaningless to me!

But why draw blood?

How much are they taking?

Tang Chuan placed it on the table and said, "We're just extracting a little attribute fragment. Look how scared you are, don't move around."

Quintessa stepped forward, and the tip of the instrument pierced Chiloo's surface tissue.

In an instant, she withdrew the instrument. Activating its Fantasy Attribute, the instrument collecting Chiloo's attribute information began to grow larger and harder.

It stopped only after transforming into a sci-fi device that emitted the sounds of precise operation.

Chiloo seemed a little unsatisfied.

That's it?

It was over before I even felt anything. Calamity, your tone just now was too scary.

Tang Chuan set Chiloo aside and said, "Go play, I need to do an experiment."

Ignoring Chiloo, Tang Chuan looked at the continuously operating instrument and asked Quintessa, "How long will it take?"

Quintessa showed a slight expression of strain. "The edges of the Origin Universe are already in turmoil, but Chiloo doesn't carry much of the Sovereign's aura. And we're only extracting from the weakest part of its three-dimensional manifestation. It's still possible to roughly extract its inheritance information... Done."

As soon as she finished speaking, the precision instrument turned into semi-transparent smoke and dissipated with a bang. A thumb-sized, exquisite oval vessel fell into Tang Chuan's hand.

Tang Chuan tossed the vessel in his hand and asked, "How many 'Alien Gods' can this create?"

Quintessa explained, "As long as there's enough divine power, any number will do. But Master is just doing an experiment, so creating two or three for now is enough."

Tang Chuan nodded, threw the vessel into the Cosmic Sandbox, and his eyes once again became vacant.

Cangmang Star.

Canglan Continent.

Under Tang Chuan's covert influence, civilization on this continent had grown wildly. Steam engines, firearms, and other such things gradually appeared.

However, this continent had no deities, and naturally, no faith. It was still in a stage of rule where multiple kingdoms were content with their own territories.

In fact, if it weren't for the need to create differences in faith, indirectly promote world progress, and make believers more devout, Tang Chuan wouldn't have wanted to create too many deities.

If he wanted to spread his teachings on this continent, he could have just sent people from the three churches on Canghuang Continent.

But there was no need for that at the moment. Tang Chuan wanted to conduct an experiment.

To verify if "fear" that directly struck the soul could trigger a stronger Power of Faith.

And to observe the small from the large, to get a general idea of Chiloo's true form.

Arriving at a kingdom on the edge of the Canglan Continent, Tang Chuan's projection descended into a deep, gloomy swamp within the kingdom.

It was deserted nearby. In the misty visibility, geothermal heat caused the swamp to bubble with mud.

The only living things were probably the crows cawing on the dry, black trees.

For some reason, Tang Chuan felt that the environment here, at least from a human perspective, was quite fitting for Chiloo's attributes.

He divided the oval vessel in his hand into three parts and placed one portion into the core of the hot swamp.

The moment it landed, the vessel's shell suddenly disintegrated.

From a semi-omniscient perspective, a mass of flesh, seemingly composed of several roughly spherical but irregular tissues clustered together, deformed slightly before responding to an unseen induction, attempting to surge towards Tang Chuan.

It was as if it were... looking for its mother?

However, Tang Chuan ruthlessly left only one sentence: "Wait until you grow up."

And then he suddenly departed.

The affinity it felt vanished, and the spherical meat mass seemed a bit lost, and… wronged.

Yet, within its nascent consciousness, it still remembered Tang Chuan's first and last words to it.

Grow up.

If I grow up, will we be able to meet again?

Yes, then I want to grow up quickly.

Gurgle gurgle…

The hot swamp bubbled, and the meat mass sank into it, beginning to devour everything that could help it grow.

In two other hidden and deep places on the Canglan Continent, Tang Chuan's figure manifested. After casting the remaining two organizations into them, his figure dissipated, returning to the God's Eye view.

Watching the three ignorant and naive meat masses begin to devour all the attributes around them that could help them grow, Tang Chuan did not choose to intervene. This time, he did not expend divine power to control the evolutionary direction of these three meat masses.

He let them develop completely freely.

Tang Chuan also wanted to see what forms they could grow into.

Of course, it wasn't that his influence was entirely absent.

These three little meat masses were derivatives of Chiloo, extracted by Quintessa through extremely convenient methods, and they naturally possessed the "affinity" attribute towards Tang Chuan.

Furthermore, Tang Chuan had also added "neutral," "loyal," and "semi-orderly" special traits to their potential attributes.

After all, he merely wanted to experiment whether fear had a catalytic effect on faith, or whether this ineffable god, compared to gods in the conventional sense, was more effective at harvesting the power of faith.

He didn't want them to cause destruction everywhere. If they weren't somewhat orderly, what if they messed up the social systems of the two continents?

"You shall be called the God of Mystery and Terror, representing mystery and horror?"

Whispering, Tang Chuan observed the three meat masses for a while longer before projecting his perspective to another Canghuang Continent.

Lately…

The power of faith provided has been a bit lacking. At this rate, it will take a long time to replenish the divine power consumed by the three treatment courses Quintessa arranged for him.

This was because the Eagle Empire ruled the continent, and the three great churches were in their prime, developing vigorously under the will of the three deities and the Sage.

With no worries about life or death, and no concerns about food or warmth, naturally, many devout believers had gradually become less devout. New believers found it even harder to increase their piety.

This wasn't something that could be erased by manifesting. Manifestation could harvest believers on a large scale, but on the current Canghuang Continent, everyone was a believer of the three deities; being otherwise would make one a freak.

To increase piety, it still depended on the societal form and environment of humanity itself.

Just like in the era of the stake and the Crusades, whether believers or so-called heretics were countless times more devout than they were now.

Although Tang Chuan did not want to provoke war and cause widespread suffering, could he create something to make the people of the Canghuang Continent become vigilant in times of peace?

The designated God of Mystery and Terror was still in its infancy. Seeing the ancient behemoths, Tang Chuan had a new idea.