Chapter 21
Amid the cries and roars, watching his people swept away by the flood one after another, their fates unknown, a raging fire ignited in his heart.
The light on Tiga's body began to fade, revealing his original dark form once again.
Masses of dark light drifted out of the dead citizens of the Ultra Empire and merged into Dark Tiga.
Those lights were filled with malice, death, and hatred, and were also the life destinies of everyone in their entire Ultra Civilization!
At this moment, Zoffy was the only one left in the entire Ultra Civilization. He alone represented the whole Ultra Civilization.
The Divine Rank of the entire Aote civilization also gathered in Zoffy.
But that Divine Rank was filled with hatred and malice toward God, which was why it had taken this form.
Zoffy's body, which had already been like a lamp running out of oil, filled with vitality once again under the impact of those energies.
However, Zoffy was not the only one who gained Divine Rank. Su Mo did too.
Although he was not a member of the Ultra Civilization, he was its creator, so when Zoffy gained Divine Rank, Su Mo's Divine Rank rose as well.
However, because he was the creator of the Ultra Civilization and also the creator of this universe, the emotions carried by that Divine Rank could not contaminate Su Mo and would be washed away directly by the entire universe.
In all those previous world destructions, pretty much everyone had died after a single round of great floods or giant meteorites, so nothing like this had appeared. Honestly, this was Su Mo's first time seeing this stuff.
Just as Su Mo wanted to keep studying what this thing was, he also felt his Divine Rank rise.
Although he was still somewhat curious about what those black things were, it did not matter anymore.
Inside this little universe, as long as nothing beyond its specifications appeared, he was invincible.
He would check this round's gains first.
Name: Su Mo Sex: Male Divine Rank: 3.61 (current Divine Rank: 3.14) Creation Level: 1
Su Mo frowned at the mere 0.12 increase in his Divine Rank. Wait, the Ultra Civilization was already this strong, and it was still only a level-one civilization?
They'd fucking fought their way into space!
They were fucking about to colonize other planets!
Sure, they hadn't successfully colonized an alien planet, but wasn't that because I stopped them?
With their strength, they were already fully capable of colonizing alien planets!
Were the civilization-level certification standards really this strict?
As long as they hadn't colonized another planet, they could only count as a level-one civilization?
But that wasn't right. Even if their colonization hadn't succeeded, their strength alone should have put them at the pinnacle of level one!
That should've been worth at least 0.19 Divine Rank!
Destroying a civilization at level one or below yielded, at most, a little over 0.1 Divine Rank, never more than 0.2.
But a level-two civilization yielded at least 0.4 Divine Rank, level three yielded 0.9, and level nine could reach 8.1!
The calculation was actually just like the multiplication table. If he could destroy a level-eight civilization, Su Mo's Divine Rank could soar straight to level nine!
But there was also one civilization-related point: once a civilization exceeded level six, it was no longer bound by its universe.
At that point, they could already travel freely between universes.
Moreover, by the time a level-six civilization appeared, Su Mo's Creator God level would be at least five.
When a level-five Creation God wanted to raise his Divine Rank, the Divine Rank gained from destroying civilizations would be reduced to one-fifth.
Thinking about this, Su Mo had no idea when his Divine Rank would reach level nine.
Shaking his head and tossing those still-distant matters out of his mind, Su Mo prepared to start the next civilization.
Then Su Mo was about to activate time acceleration directly, wash away the history of the Ultra Civilization, and start the next civilization.
But just then, he noticed something. Everyone in the Ultra Civilization should have been dead, and his Divine Rank had already risen, so why had this Dark Tiga not fallen yet?
The next instant, he saw Dark Tiga's severed leg enveloped by the dark lights he had seen earlier. Soon, a leg condensed from energy reappeared.
His eyes, which normally shone with light even though he was called Dark Tiga, now turned as black as ink.
"God, you deserve to die!"
With that deep roar from Zoffy, Dark Tiga shot into the sky and straight into space.
Su Mo froze at the sight before suddenly blurting out, "What the fuck is this?!"
He had already been about to wrap things up after unleashing the world-ending flood.
After all, Zoffy had already been a lamp running out of oil by then. Even if he could survive a little longer than the others inside Tiga, it would only have been a little while longer.
Once he activated time acceleration, it would really have been no more than a moment.
But he had never expected this guy could pull something like this!
What the fuck was going on?!
Wait, if this guy wasn't dead, didn't that mean I'd only received half the Divine Rank earlier?!
The other half was in this guy. He carried half the entire civilization's Divine Rank, which was why this had happened!
That was fucking possible too?!
But weren't you going way too fucking high-magic?!
This was a technological world!
Your civilization had always researched technology!
Look at yourself now. What part of you still looked remotely technological?!
While Su Mo was still thinking this, Zoffy had already piloted Dark Tiga into the starry sky.
Su Mo simply stood there quietly, looking at Dark Tiga before him, who was only the size of an ant. Pitch-black all over and trailing black mist, he really did look much like an ant.
Zoffy raised his pitch-black eyes and likewise looked at this terrifying being, whose body was infinitely vast, its limits beyond a single glance.
Merely standing there quietly, he exerted boundless pressure on him.
An inexplicable fear rose from the depths of his heart. It was the instinctive fear a low-Divine-Rank creature felt when facing a high-Divine-Rank life-form.
There was also the immense pressure of facing his own Creator God, his maker!
Su Mo quietly watched this little thing, wanting to see what he would say and do. Honestly, he really was a little curious.
This was also the first time, throughout all his acts of creation and destruction, that he had met the gaze of a life-form within his little universe.
Although he could sense the other's fear, Zoffy still kept his head raised, looking at him.
At this moment, Su Mo even found it a little amusing.
Yes, without strength, even your rage and roars were nothing more than a joke in someone else's eyes.
Like an ant scurrying around on a hot pan, humans would not empathize with its suffering. They would only find it entertaining.
"You want to kill me!"
Su Mo's voice rang out without the slightest emotion, resounding through the entire universe like mighty bells.
At this moment, the space of the entire universe resonated with Su Mo's words.
It was as though his words were the voice of heaven, the laws of the entire universe!
Along with Su Mo's words and the gathering of his experiments, the entire universe seemed to press down on Zoffy.
"You..."
Bearing that tremendous pressure, Zoffy wanted to say something, but in the end, he only managed the word "you."
At this moment, he understood that dialogue was meaningless. The Ultra Civilization had already been destroyed, and talking to this being would not bring it back!
At the same time, he finally understood how terrifying God was, and the gulf between this being and himself, as well as the entire Ultra Civilization.
But I absolutely couldn't back down like this!
Because I bore the hopes of an entire civilization, the fury of everyone in the Ultra Empire!
If he kept standing here talking, even he could not be certain whether he would still have the courage he had just possessed.
Even if I died, I had to strike back on behalf of myself and the entire Ultra Civilization!
Su Mo was still waiting for the other's answer. He really wanted to know how this fellow would respond.
If possible, he was even willing to answer some of the other's questions.
After all, once they were done talking, he would still crush this last survivor of the Ultra Empire as easily as squashing an ant.
But what he had not expected was that, after saying the word "you," the other party suddenly fell silent and charged straight at him.
At the same time, a mass of terrifying dark energy was gathering in his hand.
This little fellow actually dared to attack him after meeting him. That genuinely surprised him a little.
At the same time, however, he understood the other's intentions. Since the other party had come seeking death in the first place, he might as well make it quick.
Although he thought this, Su Mo still felt a little displeased.
I'd already condescended to speak to you and was even planning to answer your questions.
And you came right up and took a swing at me!
Did you really fucking think a god had no temper?!
[Boom!]
The enormous palm slapped down. The black ball of light, filled with terrifying energy, vanished at the mere touch of it.
Looking at the terrifying palm descending toward him, Zoffy's lips curled slightly.
In the end, I hadn't disgraced the Ultra Empire.
"Our Ultra Empire has no cowards!
May the Ultra Empire's glory endure forever!"
That furious roar became the Ultra Empire's final echo.
Su Mo did not directly smash Dark Tiga's body apart. After all, this was someone who had attacked him, and this thing was rather finely crafted. Destroying it would have been a bit of a shame.
So he decided to keep him as a memento.
With Zoffy's death, Su Mo's Divine Rank rose once again.
But looking at his Divine Rank of only 3.73, he was still a little dissatisfied.
Under normal circumstances, he should have gained 0.4 Divine Rank, reaching 3.89, but he had only gained 0.26. It seemed they still had not successfully colonized another planet.
Still, never mind. He had made a killing this round anyway.
Thinking this, Su Mo activated time acceleration, then opened the Foolproof Creation Magic Template.
Then he returned to his little farmhouse courtyard and joyfully began testing his abilities.
His Divine Rank had now reached 3.73, and he could use some Creator God abilities in the real world too.
Let me give it a try. Turn stone into gold!
As Su Mo pointed at a fist-sized stone before him, specks of golden light immediately lit up on it, then spread in every direction.
A moment later, the stone had completely transformed into a lump of gold.
Looking at this lump of gold, Su Mo was filled with joy. With this, he had money. A grand Creator God like himself finally no longer had to pinch pennies to get by.
This was fantastic. Hahaha!!!
Su Mo kept testing his abilities in the courtyard. At this moment, the upward curve of his lips was harder to suppress than an AK's recoil.
Two hours later, Su Mo finally settled back into his recliner. He had already decided to head into town for a good meal that evening, but for now, he would rest first. After all, he had just destroyed a world, and the mental strain was still rather great.
Well, really, the main reason was that he had gotten up too early that morning and felt a little sleepy.
However, when he woke toward evening and saw the message that had popped up on the Simple Brain-Dead System, he felt as though the sky had collapsed.
"What the hell? The new civilization was wiped out before it even lasted three hundred years?! Who the fuck did it?! How was it destroyed?! You're telling me mosquitoes and ants?! Fuck your ancestors!!!"