Chapter 31
"I have a task for you."
Li Mu looked at Snape. "I need you to brew a potion that can strengthen human skin as quickly as possible. Don't worry about how rare the ingredients are. I only have one requirement: the stronger the effect, the better."
Snape glanced at Lily. Though grieving over Dumbledore's death, he nodded without hesitation.
"Borgin and Burkes will provide you with whatever help you need."
With that, Li Mu Apparated away.
Now that he had assigned all the tasks, there was no need for him to handle everything personally.
While Snape brewed the potion, Li Mu had time to consider how to deal with the Alien Races in this world.
At Spark Academy, there was a course devoted to the relationship between humans and Alien Races.
The very first lesson made one thing clear: humans and Alien Races could only ever conquer or destroy each other.
Many students had found this strange. There were good and bad people, and good and bad members of Alien Races. Wasn't it wrong to treat all Alien Races as enemies without distinction? Couldn't humans live in peace with them instead of conquering or destroying them?
The teacher hadn't answered. He'd simply shown them a large collection of photos and videos.
Some depicted humans slaughtering one another, some showed humans massacring Alien Races, and still others showed Alien Races killing humans.
From these, the teachers at Spark Academy drew several conclusions.
Even humans would turn on one another for ambition, profit, and other reasons, making true unity impossible.
How much less likely, then, was it for humans and Alien Races to have no disagreements? In the early days, the Human Race had formed friendly relations with quite a few Alien Races. Thanks to cordial exchanges between their leaders, the Human Race and those groups had even enjoyed several centuries of close relations.
Yet if humans fought among themselves, it was even less likely that humans and Alien Races could avoid all conflict.
Even when two races were generally on friendly terms, relations between some humans and members of the other race could still be terrible.
Then, one day, the ruling class of an Alien Race that had enjoyed close relations with the Human Race changed.
The new rulers were at odds with the Human Race and deeply resentful of it. The period of close relations ended at once. Under the new rulers' influence, what had been friendly exchanges turned into enmity in just a few years. In the end, the two sides fought a brutal war, and the Human Race suffered countless casualties.
There were many, many incidents like this. Eventually, the Human Race reached a conclusion.
Whether the Human Race and an Alien Race could live in peace depended entirely on the ruling class.
If the rulers changed their attitude, war could break out at any moment.
And war always brought casualties, and casualties bred hatred. What's more, Spark World had devoured many inhabited planets across the universe. The aliens who fled to Spark World were naturally hostile toward humans, and there had even been many cases of aliens pretending to befriend humans, only to stab them in the back at a crucial moment.
After countless bloody lessons and innumerable wars against Alien Races, the hawkish and hard-line factions gradually rose to power within the Human Race.
In the end, humans completely changed their approach to Alien Races: they would either be subjugated or utterly destroyed.
It was like humans raising cattle and sheep. If those animals suddenly gained intelligence, humans wouldn't give up meat and become vegetarians. So the humans and Alien Races of Spark World all followed the universe's Dark Jungle Law.
Since it was impossible to know whether an Alien Race would become an enemy in the future, the only way was to strike first: submit or be destroyed.
Humans would never give Alien Races the chance to grow. Even a weak, friendly group could become a formidable new enemy once it had grown powerful. So humans chose to conquer or destroy Alien Races while they were still weak.
That was why Li Mu had shown no mercy when destroying the Dementors and Giants.
Dementors fed on human happiness. There was no point in conquering a race like that.
The same went for Giants. Giants could have children with humans, and in the eyes of the Human Race in Spark World, that was a sin in itself.
Spark World forbade humans from having offspring with Alien Races. Anyone who broke this rule had to pay an astronomical fine. Their Half-blood children weren't recognized as members of the Human Race, either. To enforce this, humans had even used a powerful Spark Artifact of unknown origin to ensure that Half-blood children could never awaken an Innate Spark.
If Half-blood children could awaken an Innate Spark, Alien Races would have no idea how many of them they might create in their bid to gain control of such power.
Though this rule seemed harsh, it ensured that Alien Races couldn't abduct humans and force them to bear Half-blood children.
After careful consideration, Li Mu decided which Alien Races he would conquer.
House-elves could stay. They were an Alien Race that the human Wizards of this world had successfully domesticated.
Goblins could stay, too. Their alchemy was quite advanced, and they could make excellent craftsmen. Although their appearance wasn't to his taste, he was willing to let them remain—provided that he tightened his control over them and made it impossible for Goblins to rebel against humans in the future.
There were also other Alien Races worth keeping, such as Werewolves, Leprechauns, and Flower Fairies.
But the rest—Trolls, Merpeople, Centaurs, Acromantulas, Boggarts, Gnomes, and Ghouls—were either ugly or hostile toward humans, and had little value besides. They could all be turned into HuoZhong Source Power to increase his strength.
With his plan in place, Li Mu Apparated to a valley in a remote, uninhabited mountain range.
His Wizard Bloodline had reached LV9, but the highest level of any spell he knew was only LV6.
Not every spell needed to reach LV9, but practical ones like the Killing Curse, Imperius Curse, Fiendfyre, Iron Skin Charm, Illusionary Body Curse, Vanishment Charm, Polymorph Spell, and Repair Spell all had to be raised to LV9.
He also needed to further hone his Wandless Casting and nonverbal spellcasting techniques.
Several days passed in the blink of an eye, and the valley had undergone a tremendous transformation.
All the plants that had been in the way had been burned to ashes by Fiendfyre.
The boulders in the way had first been smashed into rubble by the physical force of the Killing Curse. Then, using the power of the Polymorph Spell, he'd transformed the rubble into tiny houses, flowers, and plants. In the end, they formed a miniature town.
Though the buildings were tiny, they had been enchanted with the Vanishment Charm.
Anyone who came close could live in the houses of this miniature town—even a Giant.
That wasn't all. The town was also full of Miniature Humans.
They were divided into two sides and fought to the death throughout the town.
Every one of them could use simple magic, such as the Iron Skin Charm, Illusionary Body Curse, and Polymorph Spell. They cast them just like real Wizards. The only difference was that when these little people died in battle, they all turned into pebbles.
Li Mu hovered in the air, looking down at the town, which was about the size of a basketball court. He constantly used his own Magic Power to keep everything running smoothly.
He had created this miniature town through magic.
Then he used it to practice his spellcasting techniques.
In just a few days, his main spells had already reached LV7.
With the Elder Wand boosting them by two levels, they were already close to the ceiling of this world.
If he advanced one more level to LV10, then, for example, the Polymorph Spell would let him create living creatures that truly existed. They would have trouble reproducing, but they would indeed be alive and able to exist permanently. That was the highest level of the Polymorph Spell recorded in this world.
But that wasn't his limit. At most, he could reach LV10 plus the Elder Wand's boost.
By then, it might even be possible for the Polymorph Spell to create life that could reproduce.
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