Miss Ke Family's Apotheosis
(Note: Although the book consistently uses the terms "Omen" and "Weird Tale," the actual Weird Tale in other worlds may not be self-identified in this way. They may be called gods, demons, or something else. Just get the gist of it.)
According to the definition of the Infinite City, the Miss Ke Family is undoubtedly an Acquired Supernatural Tale.
Her life as a human being was short and painful. She was born into a family that believed in the Fang Cult. Her parents listened to the pope's words and burned her alive. Ironically, because of the Fang Cult's propaganda, she was considered to have been cleansed of her sins by fire and ascended to heaven. However, because of that brief but intense belief, she was transformed into a weak and easily destroyed Acquired Supernatural Tale.
As time went by, her original human traits were completely forgotten with the death of her parents, and in the minds of countless Fang Cult, she became a figurehead similar to "a servant of the gods in heaven."
This period of Fang Cult was officially suppressed.
Having lost her Source of Faith, her struggles to survive were no different from those of the Void in the Infinite City. In fact, due to the lack of logistical support, her life was even worse than that of the Void in the Infinite City.
Furthermore, due to a lack of knowledge, or perhaps because she absorbed too much of the fanaticism of the Fang Cult, she even went so far as to hunt other Weird Tale during that period, surviving by directly devouring Weird Tale.
Or rather, those Weird Tale without the Infinite City and its related knowledge, faced with imminent death, will ultimately all walk this path destined for madness.
Thus, naturally, the Weird Tale devoured and merged with each other, transforming into Omen, and then hunted more Weird Tale. The weaker Weird Tale were devoured, while the powerful Weird Tale hunted Omen, only to be corrupted and become new Omen.
No one knows what happened afterward; the only certainty is that in the end, only an Omen remained in this world.
It's not that the Weird Tale that have been swallowed up cannot be resurrected, but rather that those Supernatural Tale Itself have already been imbued with Omen.
As Omen of all the strange Weird Tale in this world, it exists in a twisted and indescribable way. It is the world's mortal enemy, a monster in the shadows, a destroyer of civilization, and the embodiment of the world's malevolent Evil God...
Humans have given it many names, and these names are also sorting out the chaotic and disordered cognition within the Omen.
Finally, one day, the Omen came to light.
The chaotic cognition was unified, and a myth called the God of Chaos was thus formed. Chaos became her inherent attribute, and madness became the authority she was given.
Thus, the moment this understanding became widespread, the Omen transformed back into Weird Tale.
And the will that awakens within this Weird Tale.
She is the Miss Ke Family.
She didn't even know whether she was a child from the sacrificial Fang Cult family, an aggregate of divine servants preached by the Fang Cult, or a collection of all the Weird Tale in this world, a convergence of endless malice.
Sometimes, she even doubted that she was not actually the acquired consciousness of the Acquired Supernatural Tale remained in the Omen, but merely a fictional personality created for this "Innate Supernatural Tale" by writers who unintentionally added romanticism when creating myths. But in any case, she was the ultimate resurrected one, the Faceless God of Chaos, the embodiment of Cannot Be Named malice.
(Similar to how the popularity of the Konami culture caused Nyarlathotep, a chaotic Omen, to become a disordered Weird Tale in terms of its setting, and then the popularity of Nyarlathotep led to the birth of Nyarlathotep's consciousness in the irrational 'Innate Supernatural Tale' Nyarlathotep.)
Then, she destroyed the world.
That's not entirely accurate. To be precise, it was to avoid another Omen of chaos that the world was restarted using their authority.
Then, through covert guidance, they build faith and maintain their own existence.
Then, restart again.
The Miss Ke Family can clearly remember each of her reboots--
Sometimes, it is because humans are too prejudiced that errors in their beliefs begin to distort their minds.
Sometimes, it's because she's attributed to sudden natural disasters that she has gained the passive power to attract them.
Sometimes, it's simply that humanity begins to form alliances in an attempt to launch a magnificent rebellion against her, the one and only God.
Through repeated restarts, some lasting hundreds of years and others only a few decades, she gradually developed an effective strategy to drag everything into dreams, allowing faith and cognition to take place within the dream world.
Once this architecture emerged, a series of benefits based on it also became apparent.
A restart will not wipe out all previous progress.
Humans don't easily go extinct.
Most importantly, human development in dreams never stops, which allows her to always have new experiences and a completely new life.
Until...
Something unclean has entered my house!
It's one thing to mess with the world framework you've worked so hard to build, but to steal your own beliefs is another!
She could tolerate it if it was just stealing faith, after all, she knew how hard life was in the ghost Weird Tale. It was rare to meet a new kindred spirit, and it was understandable that he was naive. After she changed the framework back, she could share some with this kindred spirit.
The problem is, this thing is a damn mess that corrupts faith (referring to the black ball)!
What a dirty belief!
Too much contact with that thing can become Omen!
She doesn't know how many years it took her to escape the Omen state by chance; does this thing even know what it's doing?!
"So that's why you're so weak?"
As Feng Xue listened to the Miss Ke Family's account, she stroked her chin and posed a probing question. The Miss Ke Family, who had finally managed to calm down, immediately bristled and retorted:
"I'm not weak at all! I just haven't used my world-destroying power!"
"But even if you use your world-destroying power, you still can't kill me!"
Feng Xue confidently curled his lip. He had been wondering why a master of supernatural Weird Tale who could come up with such a process had such a small Supernatural Tale Fire. Now he understood. It turned out that this master was not a master who cultivated multiple worlds at all, but an ouroboros that kept restarting in one world!
But thinking about it, it makes sense. Even if the Tower of Babel wanted to force PvP in the Weird Tale above the 50th floor, it wouldn't be necessary to unleash a multiverse powerhouse on the 60th floor.
It's purely that Feng Xue is overthinking things.
Thinking this to herself, Feng Xue was actually amused and reached out to grab the hand of the Miss Ke Family.
Upon seeing this, the Miss Ke Family immediately shrank back, avoiding Feng Xue's "grab," and said warily:
What do you want to do?
"I'm not one to take advantage of others. I'll give you half of this world's faith, and in return, I'll give you a wider world. Come on, Come Home With Me..."
"Don't want!"
I've mentioned the Acquired Supernatural Tale before, but to avoid the possibility of King Crimson, I'll repeat it here.
Regardless of whether it's innate or acquired, the creation of Weird Tale actually requires two conditions: first, core data, or settings; and second, sufficient knowledge.
For acquired Acquired Supernatural Tale, the core "data" is a recently deceased living person. This is because the data information of a living person is complex and complete enough to bypass the "setting paradox" of Innate Supernatural Tale (a detailed setting leads to numerous branches, while a simple setting is too vague and requires more "knowledge" to fill in). However, it is best if this living person has just died, because the longer they have been dead, the more distorted our understanding of them becomes. After a certain period of time, they become indistinguishable from a completely fictional person. Just like the modern Guan Yu and the historical Guan Yu, the difference is bound to be enormous. In fact, once everyone who actually saw him is dead, our understanding of him is basically just fiction.
As for [knowledge], it ultimately comes down to quality. It either needs to be substantial and satisfying, or it needs to be of exceptional quality. The more people who have knowledge, the greater the quantity will be, and the deeper the knowledge of those who have knowledge, the higher the quality will be.
The ancient Fire God and thunder gods mentioned earlier belong to the type where the number of people who knew about them was small (from one or two tribes), but the intensity of their knowledge was high due to the awe and fear of ancient humans. Cain, on the other hand, belongs to the type where the number of people who knew about him was extremely large, but the intensity of their knowledge was not high.
The Miss Ke Family in the book clearly belongs to the former category, that is, she was born because the person had just died and the Fang Cult had a deep understanding of her. However, this resulted in her having little Combat Power when she was born, just like those ancient Fire God mentioned before.