After Rafael and the others returned successfully, the assembly's three hundred thousand main forces waited for an entire week in front of the Space-Time Gate, but the dead army didn't invade.
Lynn was somewhat surprised by this, but recalling Rafael's report, he immediately realized that his nuclear explosion had probably caused significant trouble for the enemy.
Millions of undead had been eradicated, and it would likely take some time to gather a sufficient number of troops again.
With four or five days there equating to one month here, Lynn let others continue to monitor the situation. After two weeks of rest, the damage to his soul was essentially healed, and finally, it was time to perform the godhood ceremony he had envisioned!
Lynn summoned Harrov, Vittorio, Aurora, and Anthony, and shared his plans.
"Have you really found the secret to becoming a god?" Harrov and the others looked at Lynn in astonishment, their faces filled with surprise and disbelief.
Just a year ago, they had each advanced to the legendary level, and they were still trying to fully understand this realm. And now, Lynn had already found a method to advance beyond this legendary realm.
This was somewhat too fast!
"Do you remember Altoc? He has given me quite an inspiration, and during this time I also extracted quite a bit of information from that raven's mouth, I have about fifty percent confidence!" Lynn said thoughtfully.
When Lynn mentioned Altoc, Harrov and the others frowned, describing his condition only as bizarre. The council tried various methods to awaken him, even gathering tens of thousands of people to perform soul summoning and prayers, but all to no avail.
Aurora suspected that these people's faith might not be devout enough, but even than brainwashing, they couldn't produce so many devout believers so quickly.
"Should we wait a bit longer? Fifty percent is a bit too risky," Anthony couldn't help suggesting, despite trusting the star of magic, Lynn was just a seventh-circle legendary wizard, and advancing two levels directly seemed like a tall tale.
The safest method would be to wait until he had advanced to a ninth-circle wizard before considering becoming a god.
"The risk is indeed not small, but this might be the only way to defeat the lord of the dead," Lynn sighed.
The more he studied, the more he realized the vast gap between higher and lower dimensions; if his guess was right and there was no being of equivalent level to oppose it, they could not harm the adversary at all!
Even if the antimatter bomb was powerful, it was useless if it couldn't hit the target!
Understanding the urgency of their situation, Harrov and the others, seeing that Lynn had made up his mind, didn't urge him further but instead asked whether there was anything they needed to prepare for the advancement ceremony.
"I have prepared everything we'll need!" Lynn extended his hand, and hundreds of dark golden spheres engraved with runes appeared in his palm. "Just place these in the magic power bases within the empire."
"This… isn't this…" Vittorio quickly recognized what it was, and his lips twitched involuntarily.
"Right, I melted down all the Corona Medals, and it was just enough!" Lynn shrugged nonchalantly.
He had already discovered something special about this dark golden metal during his previous research.
It was fundamentally composed of gold atoms, but internally there was something he called a magic core, which allowed it to hold immense magic power and soul power.
The rune spheres he made were just like the specially crafted secret magic rings he made before, harboring a splinter of his soul, thus allowing him to connect to all the magic power bases simultaneously!
Lynn was well aware that what he lacked compared to a ninth-circle wizard was two things: computing power and magic power reserve.
The former could be compensated by a supercomputer, while the latter required external help, which the previously built magic power bases could now provide!
"I'll go personally, place them into the bases, and set up the necessary protection techniques," Vittorio took the hundreds of metal spheres, and solemnly assured him.
Lynn nodded. He then told the others that during the ceremony, he might need to use part of their computing power, and hoped they could cooperate then.
Since the magic network had been announced, there was no need to hide this fact; the computing power needed by the magic network was not a small number, and secretly taking it could easily cause some severe impacts.
Harrov and the others obviously understood this.
Since the magic network could distribute computing power, it could certainly gather everyone's strength into one.
"By the way, where exactly did you find such unusual metal?" After handing out the metal spheres carrying soul and magic power, Lynn curiously asked.
He had already tried, and this magical gold couldn't undergo magic mimicry, probably because its nature was intrinsically linked to magic power.
Harrov was the first to explain, saying this metal came from a foreign land, found in the stomach of a black dragon that had arrived in Wizard Land through the Space-Time Gate; it was unclear what the dragon had eaten before.
Now that the foreign land had become a haven for the undead, it was clearly impossible to send people in to investigate or even mine the ore again.