The future or the present, this is a question worth pondering.
Focusing only on the present while ignoring the future is short-sighted. But focusing only on the future, ignoring the present, is even more foolish.
"What Shaping Energy said is correct, in the foreseeable future, war is the main theme of this starry sky," Curse Crown suddenly spoke, "Our enemies are not just the Galaxy Mayflies; in the future, we will also have to face the Civilization Devourer and his minions.
If we do not have enough strength, our survival will be in question."
The words of Curse Crown plunged the Alchemy Crown into silence.
Curse Crown was the first among all crowns to achieve the truth, and it was under his guidance that other Truth Wizards emerged.
In a certain sense, he could almost be regarded as the teacher of other Truth Wizards.
His words carried considerable weight for all the Wizards present, including Richard and the Physique Crown.
"Curse, what have you seen?" Alchemy Crown asked in a deep voice.
Curse Crown was silent for a moment, then spoke dreamily, "The stage is set, and the actors are about to take their places. In this play, all civilizations are actors."
After he finished speaking, Curse Crown’s voice suddenly lowered.
"The river of history flows unceasingly; even if one or two undercurrents change, it won’t hinder the progress of the times.
I agree with Richard’s proposal that the Subhuman Wizards need to be promoted, and we need to promote them with all our might!"
Curse Crown’s words put the seal of approval on the proposal Richard put forth. After a moment of silence, Alchemy Crown slowly spoke, "If we are to promote them, we must establish rules.
In the future, Subhuman Wizards will surely become the mainstream among Wizards, and in terms of law, I believe that Subhuman Wizards should be treated the same as ordinary Wizards and enjoy all the benefits and treatments of ordinary Wizards."
Shaping Energy Crown asked, "Are resources sufficient?"
Alchemy Crown’s voice was icy.
"It will be sufficient once we’ve devoured the Galaxy Mayflies. However, the number of future Wizards must be controlled.
The current all-populace Wizard measure can only be a wartime strategy, for without the consumption brought by war, we do not have the resources to support so many Wizards."
Although theoretically speaking, Wizards require only minimal resources to maintain survival.
But people always yearn for a better life.
If we continue cultivating so many Wizards post-war as we do now, even with so many worlds as resource supplies, it will be unsustainable.
"Limitation is necessary; the qualifications of the new Wizards are too uneven."
Shaping Energy Crown had no objection to this point; the new Wizards were merely a temporary measure, an abnormal product born to cope with the Galaxy Mayflies.
It will inevitably be eliminated with the progression of times.
"Then it’s settled," Curse Crown said, "Miracle and Physique will handle technical support, while we old folks will be responsible for overall coordination.
Alchemy, you should have the bloodline of major races from various planes in your species library."
"I do," Alchemy Crown nodded slightly, then turned his gaze to Richard.
"Miracle, does your technology have any bloodline requirements?"
"No requirements; as long as it’s the local bloodline."
"For the first pilot worlds, I recommend setting them in the Elemental Balanced World," Shaping Energy Crown suggested, "The mortal seeds we transferred are all in the Elemental Balanced World.
Choosing the Elemental Balanced World for emergence can directly integrate these Subhuman Wizards among mortals."
"Basic education also requires modification," Soul Crown offered his opinion, "In education, we should abandon the notion that the Wizard World is the source of Wizards.
The Wizard World should be seen as the origin of Wizards, not the source. Then increase the promotion of different Schools and de-emphasize the promotion among different worlds."
"Won’t there be problems with that?" Richard asked with a frown.
"There will be no problems," Soul Crown replied calmly, "Wizards inherently do not value lineage, and the popularity of Bloodline Witchcraft has laid us a good foundation.
We just need to guide, and we can unite Wizards from different worlds through the same School.
As for the issues arising from such unity... we can control it."
Soul Crown is a master of manipulating souls, will, and even thoughts; it was his idea to erase history in past plane wars.
Since he said there would be no problems, there most likely are no problems.
Then they discussed various other issues, such as which worlds should be selected in the first batch, the distribution of Schools among Subhuman Wizards, and many other matters.
When they finished, the upheaval in the Great Wizard World had already concluded.
"Then let it be set as such for now, and specific problems will be dealt with through specific analysis as they arise.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us adjourn."
The crowns dispersed, beginning to busy themselves with their respective matters.
In the Secret Realm, Richard arrived at the Divine Palace Laboratory.
"Lan, do you have plans to upgrade?"
Faced with Richard’s inquiry, a flicker of surprise flashed across Lan’s projected face.
"Have you found other laboratories? If so, I can connect with them in parallel to enhance my computational power."
"Laboratory?" Richard chuckled, "This thing is much more powerful than a laboratory."
Even though the Wilderness Great World was shattered due to the unsealing of the Civilization Devourer, its fragments still housed numerous Supreme relics.
In the relics mastered by the Wizard Civilization, there exists a massive computational matrix.
Currently, this computational matrix is used for the rune shattering optimization of various large alchemy machines, but now Subhuman Wizards are the top priority task of the Wizard Civilization, and all tasks must make way for it.
"Come on, change your form, I’ll show you something advanced."
"Your will, Master Richard."
Under Lan’s operation, the edge compartments of the Divine Palace Laboratory began transforming into tiny crystal cubes, reverting back to the central main structure.
During this process, the energy-transmitting mycelium from the World Mushroom started to continuously break.
The fragmented mycelium scattered in the air like snowflakes.
Richard frowned slightly: "World Mushroom, gather your mycelium."
The mycelium of the World Mushroom was useless to him, but to other creatures in this Secret Realm, it was well-known.
These mycelium parasitize living organisms, then continue to grow until they completely devour the creature, turning it into a fungal zombie.
In the past, the World Mushroom would have certainly gathered this mycelium immediately.
But today, for some unknown reason, the World Mushroom showed no reaction.
"World Mushroom? Are you asleep?"
Richard sensed something was amiss. In his memory, the World Mushroom had always been very reliable. It was unheard of for it to deliberately ignore his call.
"Fuzzy Ball, what’s happened to the World Mushroom?"
Richard swept his spiritual power and quickly found the ancestor of the Holy Tree Elf, his first obtained Holy Tree Elf—Fuzzy Ball.
"Ah? My master, has something gone wrong with the Holy Tree?"
Fuzzy Ball’s answer left Richard momentarily stunned. As the companion clan of the World Mushroom, the Holy Tree Elf should definitely be able to sense something amiss with the World Mushroom.
Now that the World Mushroom lacks consciousness, the Holy Tree Elf should have detected it.
"Eh, strange, my master, I don’t know what’s wrong with the Holy Tree either. The Holy Tree seems... Oh! My master, I feel it, the consciousness of the Holy Tree has been trapped inside that big guy’s body!"
"The body of the big guy?"
"It’s the big guy you threw in last time, the one with six eyes!"
"Six eyes, you mean Shepherd Star Titan! But isn’t he dead!?"
Richard’s face was full of shock, he personally witnessed the Shepherd Star Titan’s soul disappearance, there’s no doubt about it.
"Could it be that his body is too strong, instinctively craving a soul upon contact with the World Mushroom, and then imprisoning the World Mushroom’s soul?"
In the knowledge of previous civilization that Richard encountered, such a case was indeed mentioned. But Richard never imagined he would encounter it personally.
And what’s more, one World Master imprisoning another World Master!
"Where is the Titan’s body?"
"At the bottom of the Holy Tree, in the roots wrapped area. I’ll take you there."
Saying this, Fuzzy Ball emitted a wave of Magic Microwave from its body, summoning all the Holy Tree Elves across the world.
After years of development, the number of Holy Tree Elves had reached the tens of millions.
If it weren’t for the World Mushroom controlling them, reaching billions wouldn’t be an issue.
Countless Holy Tree Elves gathered together and simultaneously used mycelium control on the World Mushroom’s mycelium.
The next moment, a scene akin to Moses parting the sea appeared in front of Richard.
The ground trembled and cracked open into a bottomless crevice, where countless white mycelium rooted firmly in the earth and stone.
Richard was slightly surprised, not expecting these little guys to have such capabilities.
"Perhaps giving them clan status in the future wouldn’t be bad."
Entering the crevice, Richard quickly saw the Titan’s corpse.
Upon seeing the body, Richard knew it wasn’t surprising that the World Mushroom was trapped this time.
Faced with Richard’s preservation needs, the World Mushroom didn’t think twice and habitually inserted mycelium into the Titan’s body for energy transfer.
The Titan’s entire body was densely wrapped in mycelium.
If it didn’t act so, even if the Titan’s body revived, it just needed to loosen its mycelium.
Without a soul and without wisdom, imprisoning the revived Titan wasn’t difficult for the World Mushroom.
"This was my oversight."
Richard scratched his head awkwardly; one tends to unconsciously regard their own knowledge as common sense.
The body backlash is such a rare occurrence, not to mention the World Mushroom from native origins, even Ulysses would fall into it.
"Fortunately, this time the Divine Palace Laboratory needs action; otherwise, who knows how long you’d have been trapped."
Richard approached the Titan’s body, his spiritual power infiltrated the body, and began searching for the World Mushroom’s soul.
But upon searching, he discovered something odd.
"Hmm? How comes there is no soul?"
Richard’s spiritual power wandered around the Titan’s body without detecting any trace of a soul.
But this was completely contrary to what the Holy Tree Elf said.
As the companion clan of the World Mushroom, in terms of sensing the World Mushroom’s state, the Holy Tree Elf should logically not be mistaken.
Richard rubbed his chin, looking at the densely mycelium-covered Titan’s body, suddenly a flash of inspiration.
"Could it be... fusion?"