I Have a God Simulator

Chapter 343: Chapter 330: The Firefly God’s Battle

Exactly what kind of Divine Being was the Firefly God?

According to the detailed records in the world’s backend, He ascended with His Divine Kingdom 62 Eras ago and founded Sun Casting Bay.

In the early days, the Firefly God was no different from the other Gods. He paid close attention to the population of His Divine Kingdom, continuously performed Miracles to boost the vitality and confidence of His Believers, and slowly and diligently gathered Faith.

Through His diligent management, the population of Sun Casting Bay once surpassed one million.

In the 9th Era, a powerful Green Dragon arrived at Sun Casting Bay.

The Green Dragon announced that the Dragon Race was commandeering this Divine Kingdom. It told the Firefly God that the great Yinglong would permit Him to prostrate Himself, kiss Yinglong’s toes, and swear fealty.

Whether the Firefly God was willing or not, this place had now become a Tunnel World for the Dragon Race. Everything had to serve the noble and Immortal Dragon Residence.

Before long, the Dragon Race built a Nine-Grain Pillar in this world to guide Dragons passing nearby.

A short while later, a small incident occurred.

A Red Dragon took a keen interest in Sun Casting Bay’s first generation of humans. Its interest was in eating them; in the eyes of a Red Dragon, most living things were either food or disgusting mongrels.

The Firefly God refused this unreasonable demand.

The Red Dragon left, disgruntled.

Afterward, more and more Red Dragons made similar demands. They formally confronted the Firefly God, asking why He would refuse. It was just eating a person, after all. Wasn’t the Dragon Race His greatest backer? Or perhaps, He had some sort of problem with the Dragon Race?

The Red Dragons’ confrontation occurred in the Divine Hall, so all of it was clearly recorded by the world’s backend.

The Firefly God’s response was forceful.

“This is my Divine Kingdom. These are my people. I protect their lives.”

The two sides parted on bad terms.

Not long after, large numbers of first-generation humans began to disappear under mysterious circumstances. The world’s backend clearly recorded them as being killed and devoured by Dragons. Whether this was deliberate retaliation, a morbid hunt for sport, or a show of force was unknown.

The Firefly God was powerless to do anything about it.

The Dragon Race came and went. He couldn’t determine which Dragon was the killer, nor could He possibly detain every Dragon.

In the end, the Firefly God reported the matter to Yinglong, hoping to receive the Main God’s support and create a Deterrence against these lawless Dragons.

What response Yinglong gave, or if he gave any at all, is not recorded in the world encyclopedia. But judging from the results, it seems Yinglong offered no substantial help.

From then on, the Firefly God’s style changed.

He began to modify the humans, which led to the creation of the second generation.

Unlike the gentle and stable first generation, the second-generation humans were filled with aggression and a desire for destruction. They liked to gnaw on raw flesh, exhibiting a kind of feral Madness and wildness akin to Ancestral Regression, with venom flowing in their organs and saliva.

This too was the Firefly God’s strategy.

Since He couldn’t restrain the Dragon Race, He would make the humans ferocious and Chaotic. Once the Dragons’ interest completely disappeared, He would guide humanity back to the path of civilization.

But He never expected that the Dragon Race would end up liking them even more.

Many in the Dragon Race directly stated that they wanted to buy these little people from the Firefly God. They enjoyed watching their bloody battles and mutual slaughter, and after the show, they could be eaten.

Some from the Dragon Race even said that these second-generation humans had a great texture and a complex, spicy flavor, much better than the first generation.

This dealt a huge blow to the Firefly God.

He finally realized what the problem was.

The vast majority of Dragons passing through Sun Casting Bay were Red Dragons, a tyrannical and greedy type of Dragon that loved to hunt all kinds of life. Their nature was unchangeable; as long as something was made of flesh and blood, they were liable to feel the urge to eat it.

The ones hunting and buying humans were all Red Dragons.

The Firefly God made a decision.

Sell.

Rather than let the second-generation humans be hunted down one by one, it was better to sell them to the Red Dragons in exchange for some resources.

And so, Sun Casting Bay’s first human trafficking deal was made.

The Firefly God gradually realized that there was only one way to solve this Red Dragon problem: change the main population into a species not of flesh and blood.

Finding a suitable candidate was not easy.

After doing this “population” business for several Eras, the Firefly God found his opportunity in the 14th Era.

Deep beneath Sun Casting Bay was a vast coal deposit, displayed as Abnormal Interference.

The place flickered with indescribable, distorted lights and shadows. A kind of grayish-black beast appeared and disappeared like a phantom, nimbly crawling and running between the coal seams, able to hide within the rock and earth at any moment.

The Abnormal Interference here had never been corrected by the world’s rules.

After investigating, the Firefly God discovered the reason: the Nine-Grain Pillar.

The surface above the far end of the coal deposit was the precise location of the Nine-Grain Pillar. The Dragon Race building and securing the Nine-Grain Pillar had caused continuous damage to the rules of the world.

It was like a sharp nail hammered into a smooth wooden board.

Some cracks appeared in the area around the nail. These cracks were normally imperceptible, but on the level of the world’s rules, they created fractures and disorder.

The Mining Area happened to be right on this fault line.

The Firefly God observed the coal mine further and discovered that the black beasts were entities that existed between the tangible and the intangible, originating from pieces of ignited coal.

He performed a Miracle, gathering all the coal affected by the Abnormal Interference. This coal was dark red and possessed a strange form of life. Aside from being unable to move on their own, they were the new population the Firefly God had been searching for.

The Firefly God named them the Carbon People.

The black beasts—that is, the later Fog Beasts—were the thoughts of these Carbon People. Once the Carbon People burned, their thoughts would actively dart out of their bodies, moving about and exploring.

They appeared in darkness and dust, only able to maintain a physical form within black smoke. Otherwise, they were merely illusory shadows.

These running Fog Beasts acted purely on instinct. They would curiously touch any object, and contact with a living creature would cause it to become Poisoned and fall into Chaos. All forms of life feared them.

The Firefly God dug out the Carbon People one by one.

This was the third generation of humans.

They had stone-like bodies and couldn’t move, relying on their thoughts to travel the world.

Just as the Firefly God had expected, even the Red Dragons had no appetite for the Carbon People.

Their assessment of these little people was: “Rocks more disgusting than toad piss.”

That was more like it.

This was precisely the effect the Firefly God had been hoping for.

The second-generation humans gradually faded from the stage, while the third-generation Carbon People were continuously excavated. Subsequently, more Carbon People continued to be slowly generated from the coal mine under the Abnormal Interference caused by the Nine-Grain Pillar.

Unfortunately, this good situation didn’t last long. The Fog Beasts attracted the attention of the Black Dragons.

The Black Dragons were very fond of these nimble beasts that could walk in darkness and mist, considering them interesting pets. On their days off from battle, they enjoyed taking the Fog Beasts for walks.

Following the Red Dragons, the Black Dragon Sect swarmed in, asking the Firefly God to sell them Carbon People so they could raise Fog Beasts.

Luh Yao felt a surge of sympathy as he read.

‘I don’t know if this old chap just has a constitution that attracts the Dragon Race, or if he’s just so gifted that he always invents things they’re interested in. It’s not like this on the neighboring Continent Island.’

The Firefly God continued to sell his people.

The Carbon People had also been turned into commodities by Him, to be sold off to the Black Dragons.

Undiscouraged, He began to ponder the fourth generation of humans.

‘The fourth generation must avoid the Dragon Race’s usual appetites as much as possible. Only then can the species’ stability and independence be guaranteed.’

In the 57th Era, the Firefly God finally created an unprecedented type of life.

He used a burned Carbon Person as the core, processing it into a Life Spine. Upon this foundation, He constructed a shell of metal, crystal, leather, and fabric. When the Life Spine was heated until it glowed red, they would gradually awaken.

This was the Lamp Race.

A Carbon Person only possesses memory and Wisdom while it is burning; once the fire is extinguished, it forgets everything that came before. Therefore, there was no need to worry that the Lamp Race would remember their past lives as Carbon People.

The sealed bodies made of metal, leather, and fabric would contain the Lamp Race, keeping their thoughts circulating within their bodies so they wouldn’t drift away and lose control like the Carbon People.

If a Lamp Race member’s body was shattered, the Fog Beast within would escape, reverting to its primitive instincts and wildness.

So, when a member of the Lamp Race was “killed” by a Fog Beast, it was actually a case of their body shattering and their thoughts dispersing, reverting to the form of a Carbon Person. As they burned, they also generated new Fog Beasts.

A deceased member of the Lamp Race would split into two parts. The first was a Ghost, which would either perish or enter the Sea of Descent. The second was a Fog Beast, which would linger in the black mist.

The Firefly God settled the Lamp Race on a special plot of land. This was an Exclusive kingdom He had crafted for His fourth-generation humans, a place for them to start a new life.

Unfortunately, divine foresight is no match for cold, hard reality.

In the 58th Era, the first Lamp Makers emerged from the Lamp Race. This was because the death of a Lamp Race member created a great deal of black smoke that would not disperse and contained lingering Fog Beasts, which was extremely dangerous for the living members of their race.

And so, the Lamp Race began to make lamps.

And then, the Lamp Race had the great “fortune” of catching the eye of the Silver and Brass Dragons.