Chapter 103: Transcending the Three Realms, Outside the Five Elements
"My Lord... why can I no longer feel Your will?" Arba wore an expression of tragic grief.
Although the souls had attained liberation, Arba was not happy. Arba herself had already achieved a slight assimilation with Ill Ilah. Now that Ill Ilah's will had been replaced by Lucian, and her own structure had been altered under the grand magic enveloping the planet, she naturally couldn't feel Ill Ilah's presence, nor could she receive mana from Him.
As a fanatic of Ill Ilah—fanatical to the point of being a psychopath—Arba had long ago seized the original Ren Gyokuen's body. Therefore, Ren Hakuryuu and Ren Hakuei were her biological children. Giving birth to Ren Hakuei and Ren Hakuryuu was because she absolutely needed a body of her own biological offspring to act as a vessel for possession in order to use her power from the Alma Torran era.
Ren Hakuryuu's two older brothers, Ren Hakuyuu and Ren Hakuren, held no value to Arba and had rebelled against her, which was why they were killed. As a side note, Ren Gyokuen was Arba's biological daughter. Meaning, a grandmother possessed a mother's body to give birth to 'me'. Ren Hakuyuu and Ren Hakuren were also Arba's biological grandsons.
What a psychopath.
"Disappear." Lucian had no desire to converse with this psychopath. He directly stripped her of her Magi traits and caused her to regress back into the Rukh.
Although Arba had hijacked Ren Gyokuen's physical body, the people of this world—even their physical bodies—were constructed from Rukh. Thus, her Rukh did not completely vanish; remnants remained. Magic rendered the human body's composition independent of the Rukh, and since Ren Gyokuen's body was usurped by Arba, the residual Rukh of the deceased would return to nature.
As long as he retrieved Ren Gyokuen's Rukh, resurrecting the deceased wouldn't be difficult. However, there was no need for him to do such a thing. Arba had already returned to the Rukh, and Ren Gyokuen's life energy had long vanished. Even though the human body and soul were no longer composed of Rukh, turning into Rukh after death would take away the person's life force. Only in this way could the life energy of the Magi world continue to grow.
At least Ren Gyokuen can rest in peace, right? Lucian thought to himself.
Next, Lucian teleported to the lowest depths of the Magnostadt Academy. That was Matal Mogamett's laboratory, and also the most classified location in Magnostadt. Throughout the academy's depths, the mana of the commoners from the 5th Level Clearance Zone would be absorbed bit by bit and gathered here, subsequently nurturing Dark Djinn through black Rukh.
The related technology was provided by Ithnan, a member of the Al-Thamen organization, intended to create dark spots and summon Ill Ilah to descend to the lower world. After Lucian changed the basic biological structures and the laws of the new world, because of the Rukh's non-interference property, this related technology could no longer be utilized.
These Dark Djinn composed of Rukh did not have their own wills like true Djinn transformed from humans. Therefore, under Lucian's magic, they regressed back into Rukh. When Lucian arrived, he saw Matal Mogamett sitting decadently on the floor, while the laboratory's culture tanks were completely empty.
"Have a good dream, Mr. Matal Mogamett." Lucian whispered, summoning Rukh to flow into Matal Mogamett's heart.
These Rukh were Matal Mogamett's wife and daughter in the past. Both died from mana exhaustion due to the ruthless exploitation by the Musta'sim Kingdom, the predecessor of the Magnostadt Academy. Matal Mogamett himself had a gentle and honest personality, but his judgment of character was somewhat lacking, failing to see the true colors of those upper-class figures, or perhaps engaging in self-consolation and self-hypnosis.
After the deaths of his wife and daughter, he swung from one extreme to the other. In his youth, he volunteered to save everyone; in his old age, he volunteered to save only magicians, treating non-magicians as livestock.
Even though the Rukh had shifted from a collective to individuals, making their post-mortem existence entirely different from their lives, they still possessed a compassionate side. First was the most instinctual aspect—their affection for family and loved ones would not disappear, so they could accompany their family and loved ones even after death.
The collective nature of the Rukh still existed, and the Great Flow still existed, only it had shifted from Solomon's will to a collective memory, storing the traces of human history's past. Through these traces, Lucian could resurrect the dead or allow them to manifest briefly.
Matal Mogamett himself no longer possessed the will to live, so Lucian simply bestowed a new life upon him.
"For your final life, I hope you find release." Lucian transformed into light and disappeared.
First, he took in the entire planet with a macroscopic view, and then returned to the Divine Court. This world was still imperfect, but the fundamental issue had been resolved. With Sinbad present, as well as Scheherazade, Yamraiha, and Ren Kougyoku acting as bridges, the three factions joining hands would usher in global modernization in a few short years.
Although the three factions had different wills and directions, as long as they could sit at the table and talk, and with Lucian suppressing anyone from flipping the table, the three factions would inevitably compromise with each other, and peace would arrive sooner or later.
"The Rukh are the manifestation of the torrent of destiny. They are the materialization of destiny."
Lucian released the black jellyfish and, just like he did with the Rukh earlier, bestowed Him with free will, allowing Him to drift freely within the Divine Court. Lucian analyzed Ill Ilah and integrated His rules into the Divine Avatar, the World Will's body. In doing so, the Sea of Illusions could gain an additional structural layer.
Of course, Lucian wouldn't use the Rukh as a medium, but directly integrated it into the Sea of Illusions. As a dreamlike ocean born from Lucian's inner world, the core rule was naturally illusion. Although he lacked the Authority of a relevant God, the scale of the Sea of Illusions to this day was extremely massive, so compiling a related Authority was not difficult.
The addition of the rules of destiny was equivalent to illusion encompassing destiny. Outside the boundlessly radiant Divine Court, a strand of golden color appeared. Subsequently, more and more gathered, fully merging with the endlessly glowing Sea of Illusions.
The destinies of the residents of the Divine Court naturally connected with the Sea of Illusions. With a slight thought, Lucian bestowed the destiny connected to the Sea of Illusions back to the residents, molding it into a Mark of Destiny for them.
"I suppose this counts as transcending the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements?" Lucian chuckled lightly.
Allowing the residents of the Divine Court to possess independent destinies was not something a typical World Lord would do. Only in worlds with special world rules did individuals who reached the absolute limit possess the possibility of transcendence, but it was merely a possibility. Having independent destiny but no means to manipulate it made it easy to be toyed with by those who possessed destiny manipulation abilities, or even reduced to slaves.
But forming a Mark of Destiny was different. If someone truly touched an individual's destiny, the person would immediately sense it, and the mark was not so easily shaken. If things truly reached an irreversible point, even though the Mark of Destiny was independent, it was still protected by the Sea of Illusions. At that time, Lucian's Divine Avatar would descend to see exactly what was going on.
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