Building an Eldritch World, Creating Sadako

The students below began discussing it heatedly.

Some laughed at him, some took pleasure in his misfortune, and others cast sympathetic looks toward Shen Hui.

Even if the world Shen Hui had awakened to really was only one kilometer in diameter, it was still a world, and he could create a civilization in it.

His starting point would be slower, but he could still develop gradually. He would still be better off than a Common.

But the world Shen Hui had awakened to was filled with Death Negative Energy.

It couldn't support the creation of any life.

Even if he'd awakened to a Common world without any energy, he could slowly develop a civilization and build a low-level civilization!

But if no life could be born, then that world was as good as ruined.

How was that any different from not awakening at all?

This was truly unprecedented. In all the generations of people who had awakened to worlds,

Shen Hui was the only one.

"What a pity. Such a good chance to awaken, wasted just like that."

"Haha, what kind of luck is that?"

"I'd say he's the opposite of a lucky bastard!"

Shen Hui returned to the classroom, where everyone else hurried to comfort him.

Even Qingxue, the school beauty who had just awakened to a world sixty kilometers across, came over to console him.

"Don't lose heart, Shen Hui. Maybe there'll be a way to get rid of the Death Negative Energy in your world someday."

Shen Hui smiled at her. "I'm fine."

Everyone else thought Shen Hui was just forcing himself to keep it together.

If they were in his shoes, they'd finally gotten the chance to rise above ordinary people, only to be told that the opportunity had already passed them by. They would've broken down and cried.

But Shen Hui's smile came from the heart.

The world filled with Death Negative Energy wasn't impossible to build a civilization in.

After all, there was something that wasn't alive,

something connected to death and negative energy.

That was naturally Eldritch Beings-every kind of urban legend!

There were very few tales of Eldritch Beings and urban legends in this world.

So people had judged it to be a ruined world, one where no civilization could be built.

But Shen Hui, a transmigrator, knew a great many Eldritch Being and urban legend stories!

Was an Eldritch world's civilization not a civilization too?

Besides, building such an eldritch civilization required this kind of Death Negative Energy.

And Eldritch Beings could be terrifyingly powerful.

They could have all kinds of rules-based abilities and be impossible to kill. In the future, he could even create powerful eldritch gods!

Shen Hui would build an eldritch civilization of his own, one unique to this world!

The world was small, but it could still grow by conquering and devouring other worlds.

So Shen Hui's world wasn't some ruined world at all!

At last, everyone had finished awakening. More than half of them had failed to awaken.

"Everyone, once you go home, make sure you guide your worlds' development properly."

"We'll conduct an assessment in three days. At that time, we'll distribute world-development resources according to everyone's potential."

After the teacher's final announcement, Shen Hui and the others all left the school.

Shen Hui returned alone to an old residential complex in a very remote area outside the school.

As an orphan, Shen Hui could only afford to rent the cheapest place there.

Back in his rental, Shen Hui eagerly checked on his world.

A message appeared in Shen Hui's mind.

[Death World]

[World Size: 1 kilometer]

[World Level: Level 1]

[Created Units: None]

[World Origin: 100]

"A one-kilometer world really is too small, but it's more than enough to create an Eldritch Being!"

The development of civilizations varied from one kind of world to another.

But the broad strokes were much the same. First, you transformed the environment and created many forms of life.

Then you let them slowly evolve a civilization of their own.

Once they'd developed to a certain point, you could create powerful individual life-forms.

For example, people with exceptional talent and spiritual roots in a cultivation world.

Or people of extraordinary intelligence in a technological world.

These were all collectively known as hero units.

But Shen Hui, who was preparing to build an eldritch civilization, believed that this approach didn't suit him.

First, Shen Hui's world was too small.

Second, only powerful Eldritch Beings had great strength.

Common Eldritch Beings, such as ghosts and little imps, could at most create effects like a Ghostly Wall or mental interference.

They could even be killed by yang energy.

So Shen Hui planned to skip the step of creating many life-forms and directly make his first hero unit!

Shen Hui knew all kinds of Eldritch Being and urban legend stories by heart.

He could directly use an existing story as a blueprint to create a hero unit!

"I only have one hundred units of World Origin Power. It's not that much. What should I create?"

Shen Hui suddenly thought of one of the most famous Eldritch Beings-Sadako!

Most people knew Sadako as a killer who appeared through videotapes or televisions.

But that was only one of Sadako's abilities, a curse she could unleash.

Sadako herself had no restrictions at all.

Shen Hui began to immerse his mind in his Death World.

He looked at his world, shrouded in darkness and filled with cold black mist saturated with death and negative energy.

He was the creator of this place!

With a thought, Shen Hui began using World Origin Power to turn it into what he wanted and create it.

Shen Hui planned to create the place where Sadako was born.

A forest in late autumn appeared on the dark earth.

But because life couldn't be born, the trees died the instant they appeared.

Still, Shen Hui didn't need them to be alive. He only needed them to stand there.

Leaves fluttered down and blanketed the ground.

At the center of the forest, a dried-up well appeared.

The cold wind howled through the trees, and the sound of a woman crying came from the well.

"Wuuu wuuu wuuu~"

Then came the sound of fingernails scraping stone from inside the well.

"Scrape-scrape-scrape!"

The sound made listeners' scalps tingle.

As it grew louder and louder inside the well, the temperature around it plunged rapidly.

Then a pair of ghastly white hands reached out from the well and grasped its rim.

The flesh on the fingers was mangled, clearly from clawing at the well's walls as she climbed up.

Then a head emerged, its disheveled hair completely covering its face.

It let out a strange "hee hee hee" laugh.

Its limbs twisted as it crawled out of the well like a spider.

Then it stood up, and a strand of hair covering its face fell aside.

A pitch-black eye stared straight ahead.

Sadako had been born!

The sight made Shen Hui jolt.

Even as her creator, he still shuddered when he saw Sadako.