I Have a God Simulator

With the integration of the Bos God Realm and the Wuzi Kingdom, the world had expanded further. Everyone needed some time to process this and reshape their understanding.

Luh Yao turned his attention to the World-Dimension Space outside.

Ever since the Yao Race World joined the Ring Realm Group, it, like the other small worlds, had begun to slowly revolve around Yunzhong Temple.

The nearest world was shaped like a lightbulb.

Luh Yao double-clicked to inspect it.

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[Gravel World Unnamed]

[Divine Format]: None.

[Divinity]: None.

[Divine Body]: None.

...

The lightbulb world was a Gravel World, while the Yao Race World was a Fragment World.

This Gravel World was tiny, less than one-tenth the size of the current Yao Race World.

Although the two worlds were not far apart, they maintained a stable distance thanks to the Rule Power of the Vortex World’s Yunzhong Temple. Their movements were so incredibly slow that, to the naked eye, their positions seemed static.

In other words, to make the two worlds overlap for a closer inspection, he would need to expend Fire of Faith to Sail and accelerate.

Luh Yao’s current Faith Reserve was 3.8 million, so he could afford it. However, cross-world exploration was a costly endeavor, so he decided to look around a bit more first.

He clicked on the four surrounding worlds and found they were all identical: [Gravel World Unnamed], with the three divine attributes at zero.

When he inspected the fifth world, something was different.

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[Banquet Bird of the Toastmaster]

[Divine Format]: None.

[Divinity]: None.

[Divine Body]: None.

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This was a named Gravel World, meaning a God had been there in the past.

According to the [True Sight Curse] scan, it was also a desolate place.

This piqued Luh Yao’s interest.

This Gravel World was shaped like a handleless cup, floating silently within the Ring Realm Group and also very close to the Yao Race World.

Luh Yao initiated Sail to accelerate.

The World Ship suddenly sped up, its movement changing from a snail’s crawl to that of a darting fish.

Three seconds later, the two worlds made contact.

[Anchorable world found: Banquet Bird of the Toastmaster]

[Connect this world to the Silvanus Tree?]

[Estimated cost: 124 Faith]

The cost to anchor a Gravel World was almost negligible. The main expense was the Faith Fuel required to accelerate using Sail.

Luh Yao selected ’Yes’.

Two orbs of light immediately appeared on the tree in the Golden Field.

One was the Yao Race World, a union of three realms, and the second was the Banquet Bird.

Luh Yao first checked the backend encyclopedia entry for Gravel Worlds.

A Gravel World is a world unit smaller than a Fragment World.

When a Fragment World shatters completely, it breaks into many Gravel Worlds that drift through the World-Dimension Space.

Additionally, a Divine Kingdom that has lost its God is also classified as a Gravel World.

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[Banquet Bird of the Toastmaster]—Gravel World—Abandoned—391st Era in progress

[Description]: One of many Gravel Worlds created by the Titled Deity [Toastmaster]. It was set adrift in the World-Dimension Space to entertain passing Gods.

[History]: Originally a part of the Toastmaster’s Divine Kingdom. It was detached and fashioned into a Gravel World, then cast out by the Toastmaster to drift in celebration of acquiring an Unowned World.

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’So it was a traveling dinner table created by a Titled Deity.’

Luh Yao continued to read the world’s description.

The rules of the [Banquet Bird] world were crude, to say the least: there was no weather and no vegetation. The lifeforms column listed only a single Race called the [Akward], described as [Extinct].

Unlike Fragment Worlds, which had abundant and complete information, the backend data for Gravel Worlds was incomplete, and many terms were difficult to look up. For example, [Toastmaster] was just a name, with no explanation or further entries.

Only after confirming that this was indeed a celebratory Gravel World did Luh Yao send Isabel in for an on-the-ground inspection.

This pincer approach—one observing from the outside, one exploring on the inside—would allow him to better understand the world’s story from start to finish.

Luh Yao also began his observation.

Up close, the Banquet Bird World resembled a giant volcano, encircled by a relatively narrow mountain ridge.

Moving inward from the ridge, one could descend a steep cliff face into the world’s interior. A thick layer of grayish-brown dust had accumulated at the bottom, like a cup that hadn’t been washed in ages.

The exterior, meanwhile, was an equally sheer and vertical stone wall.

But every surface here had its own rules of gravity. Isabel walked upon them with ease, as each plane exerted a magnetic pull that ensured her stability and balance.

The Cup World had uniform visibility, both inside and out; the light emanated from the very material the world was made of.

Luh Yao had checked the backend: this Gravel World contained a small amount of All-Purpose Stone, which served to stabilize the world’s form and maintain its unique yet simple fundamental rules.

The All-Purpose Stone Mine was the first reward from this venture.

Isabel suddenly reported, "My Lord, there are no traces of the Dead here, but there is a strange building at the bottom."

She flew down to the bottom of the cup-shaped world on her Magic Staff.

Luh Yao deployed a [Scorching Sun], casting a powerful light to make observation easier.

A stone tower did indeed stand at the bottom of the cup.

It looked as if it were built from soft sand, yet it was remarkably stable. Its shape was somewhat like a snowman’s fuzzy hat, complete with a large sphere on top.

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[Sand Tower]: Built by the Sand Walkers of Yunzhong Temple. It purifies the Dead and Wandering Souls to generate Fire of Faith, allowing the departed to swiftly enter the Sea of Mourning.

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’No wonder,’ Luh Yao thought.

’This tower must have purified all the Ghosts.’

’Then again,’ he mused, ’so many years have passed. Even if the Akward people had left behind Wandering Souls, they would have likely dissipated by now without any special buildings or Artifacts to preserve them.’

Just then, Luh Yao noticed strange markings around the Sand Tower. The patterns flickered in and out of sight amid the dust.

He used several [Hurricanes] to blow away the surrounding dust, revealing clear stone carvings underneath.

"All birds fly to warmer lands, but one proud little bird decided to fly to the Sun. It flew higher and higher, scorched its wings, and fell into a canyon. Let us toast to confidence—for all of us, no matter who we are, how high we fly, or what time it may be! Cheers!"

"To the friends I have yet to meet, I wish you health and good fortune."

—The Toastmaster

Luh Yao read on.

There were other replies beneath the Toastmaster’s message.

"Thank you for the fine wine. All the best."

"This is the second time I’ve drunk the Toastmaster’s wine. If we should one day meet on the battlefield, I hope we can still share a drink and chat merrily."

"It tastes awful."

"Ridiculous. It’s nothing more than a liquid lifeform that provides a thrill. For a God to indulge in such base pleasures is an utter disgrace."

...

Most of the messages were well-wishes, but the Gods had all remained anonymous.

By communicating through this sort of worldly message-in-a-bottle, the Gods kept themselves safe from one another and avoided direct contact.

It seemed to be a tacit agreement among them.

After reading the twelve messages in total, Luh Yao reached a conclusion.

This Gravel World was, in truth, a wine cup created by the Toastmaster. And the ’fine wine’ within was the swiftly-perishing Akward people.

’It seems the Titled Deities each have their own style,’ he thought. ’There’s the Skinner, who enjoys skinning; the Whistleblower, who plays with his Whistle; and the Toastmaster, who enjoys treating others to a drink.’

Luh Yao summoned King Wuzi and had him select some reliable people to start mining the All-Purpose Stone in the [Banquet Bird] world. This was a chance for the Wuzi People to prove their worth.

"Lord True God, rest assured, I will find every last piece of All-Purpose Stone."

King Wuzi selected over three hundred Wuzi People and personally led the team to mine the Gravel World, leaving Apostle Zelkuku behind to guard Uda City.

Luh Yao turned his attention to more distant prospects.

’Developing Gravel Worlds requires a certain investment of time and resources, and most importantly, you have to choose wisely. Those unnamed ones have a very low chance of being valuable. But places where a God has lingered at least leave behind some clues in the backend information.’

’The most valuable prize here is undoubtedly the Vortex World at the center.’

’If I could control Yunzhong Temple, I would not only gain the 230,000 Fire of Faith inside but also effectively control the entire Ring Realm Group.’

’At that point, I could lead everyone and we’d be like a fleet of dump trucks on the highway. I’d like to see who’d dare to cut us off then.’

Luh Yao decided to get started.

He commanded the Golden Field to Sail.

The Yao Race World accelerated further, breaking through its Binding in ten seconds and entering the boundaries of Yunzhong Temple. The two worlds officially began to partially overlap.

[Connect this world to the Silvanus Tree?]

[Estimated cost: 83,470 Faith]

Luh Yao selected ’Yes’.

A notification appeared on the simulator.

[The Silvanus Tree is in the process of anchoring this world. Due to its anomalous Rule Power, the Clockwork Monkeys are performing further calculations and establishing a connection. Please wait with Patience... Estimated time required: 1 hour.]