"As expected of Snow Empress."
Bai Luo marveled at Snow Empress's excellence: "What is Nature?"
"A skill that converts magic essence into existing matter."
This skill was somewhat similar to Rimuru's Analyze and Create, yet also had certain differences.
The biggest difference was that Snow Empress's creations were not transformations of form, but rather akin to creation from nothing.
For example, Rimuru would eat minerals and herbs, then directly create weapons and potions.
Snow Empress could do similar things.
Not only that, but Snow Empress could also use magic essence to create various minerals and plants.
And as Snow Empress gained control over Nature, she could even synthesize life, such as monsters and magical beasts.
"Isn't that like being a Creator?"
"There are differences too."
Snow Empress shook her head slightly and said, "This skill cannot create souls."
If used to create life, plants were best, followed by ordinary animals with low intelligence like pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep.
If creating monsters, the monster's soul must come from outside, and the monster's potential was related to the strength of the infused soul.
The potential and aptitude in the Cardinal World primarily depended on soul strength.
The stronger the soul, the higher the upper limit of skills it could bear.
"I see."
Bai Luo praised, "That's still very impressive. With you, Snow Empress, we will never lack resources again."
magic essence equals resources, and resources can be used for development.
No wonder it was called 'Nature'.
Snow Empress alone could support Bai Luo's entire family, and the future was promising.
[Bai Luo]
Race: Dragonkin (Pseudo)
Level: A-Rank High-Tier (87000EP)
Profession: Mage
General Skills: Life Magic, Healing Magic, Elemental Magic, Pokémon Magic, etc.
Inherent Skills: Adaptability, All-Profession Mastery
Additional Skills: Dragon Eye, Explosion Magic, Soul Summoning, Human-Soul Fusion
Unique Skills: Traveler [Broken], Leader, Capturer, Learner, Spirit Controller (Can transform dependents into Soul Spirits and gain a Soul Spirit Space)
Special Skills: Magic Element Solidification (Inheritable), Stellar Particle Manipulation (Non-Inheritable), Ten Rings of God (Non-Inheritable)
Exclusive Skills: Twin Martial Souls · Cold Desolation Master (Possesses Snow Empress and Ice Empress Martial Souls, can possess or directly summon them)
Dependents: Egui Peng, Snow Empress, Ice Empress (3/6), Hong Maru, Zhu Cai, Shion, Cang Ying (4/6)
Marked Worlds: Pokémon World (Cooling Down), Konosuba World (Cooling Down), Douluo Universe (Sealed)
"Spirit Controller, a new Unique Skill."
Bai Luo was very happy to have gained another new Unique Skill.
Spirit Controller allowed dependents to accompany him in Soul Spirit (Martial Soul) form and live in the Soul Spirit Space.
Bai Luo originally had a similar space.
But the Pokémon Space and the Soul Spirit Space had fundamental differences.
The Soul Spirit Space was based on mental power; here, Bai Luo could directly materialize anything, making the dependents within it very comfortable.
The Pokémon Space could store matter and physical bodies, but it was too narrow inside, with almost nothing.
"I wonder if these two skills can be fused together."
If so, the combination of matter and consciousness would truly create a portable mini-world.
However, this task was quite difficult, and Bai Luo had no idea how to approach it.
As for the Douluo Universe being sealed and inaccessible, Bai Luo was not surprised.
Tang San was, after all, the Enforcer God of the Douluo God Realm; his power was immense, capable of triggering world rules to be wary, which Bai Luo found very reasonable.
Bai Luo expressed indifference to this.
Douluo was currently in the Peerless Tang Sect era, and no matter how much Tang San cultivated, he would only reach a certain level.
Bai Luo's speed of becoming stronger was beyond Tang San's imagination.
And when he could forcibly break the seal of the Douluo Universe, Bai Luo would naturally seek out Tang San to have a good talk about today's events.
At the same time, east of the Jura Great Forest, an ancient castle, exuding an air of disinterest in the Qixi Festival, sat atop a cliff.
"The plan failed."
"Failed, failed~"
Laplace, the Pleasure Clown, reported the latest intelligence from the forest.
Beside him, a little girl named Tia raised her hands, spinning around and giggling as she repeated Laplace's words.
"Hmph!"
Footman grumbled, "Those insects indeed couldn't amount to anything."
"They were just a batch of failed modifications, we didn't have much expectation, did we?"
At the head of the table sat a tall man.
He had silver-white hair, red pupils, two golden streaks on his forehead, and a sinister smile that appeared at the corners of his mouth as he spoke, making him appear exceptionally demonic.
This person was Clayman, one of the Ten Demon Lord Seeds, known as the [Puppet Master].
He was also the mastermind behind the Insect Monster chaos in the forest.
"However, having the plan destroyed by someone is quite displeasing."
Clayman looked at Laplace and asked, "Did you find out who did it?"
"A newly appeared fellow, seems to be called Bai Luo."
"Bai Luo?"
Clayman swirled the red wine glass in his hand, then indifferently took a sip: "Never heard of him, probably just some small fry who crawled out of a corner."
"Don't be careless, Clayman."
Laplace's expression was somewhat serious: "That guy is very strange; not only did he defeat your modified insects, but he also subdued the Great Ogre Clan in the forest."
"He was actually able to subdue that Great Ogre Clan?"
Tia: "So amazing!"
"Great Ogre Clan?"
Clayman remained disdainful: "Just a bunch of muscle-brained simpletons."
A mere B-Rank Great Ogre Clan, and only a meager 300 of them, Clayman didn't even put them in his eyes.
"I will have Grummid notify the Pighead Clan to advance towards the Great Ogre Clan's village."
In Clayman's view, the Pig Head Emperor, who had already reached Special A-Rank, was fully capable of sweeping through everything in the Jura Great Forest.
"The Pig Head Emperor?"
"That guy gives off a terrifying feeling."
"With the Pig Head Emperor, the new guy who just emerged will soon be eliminated, right?"
"How pitiful, just gained control of the Great Ogre Clan's power, and now he's about to die."
"..."
In the clowns' eyes, a mere Great Ogre Clan village, what power did it have to stop the Pig Head Emperor's advance?
"Then we will continue to monitor that forest, Clayman."
"Ah, I leave it to you."
Watching the clowns leave, Clayman drained the wine in his hand.
Clayman could not personally intervene in the matter of the Jura Great Forest.
That forest was the Storm Dragon's territory.
Other Demon Lord Seeds would not rashly enter unless necessary.
According to Clayman's plan, he would send the Dragonkin Grummid to name the monsters in the forest, thereby gradually encroaching upon the Storm Dragon's territory through this hierarchical relationship.
What Clayman did not expect was that among the Pighead Clan, a Pig Head Emperor, rarely seen for hundreds of years, had appeared!
The Pig Head Emperor possessed the power to devour all things and could rapidly increase his magic essence by continuously feeding.
If the Pig Head Emperor could become a Demon Lord Seed.
Then, with him, the power of two Demon Lord Seeds would completely surpass the other existences among the Ten Demon Lord Seeds!
Yes, at this time, Clayman had no idea how enormous the gap between a Demon Lord Seed and a True Demon Lord truly was.
In Clayman's view, even the ancient Demon Lord Seeds Guy and Milim.
Even if these two were stronger than him, they wouldn't be much stronger.
If one Demon Lord Seed couldn't win, what about two?
Two against one, could they still not secure a place among the Ten Demon Lord Seeds?
"A newcomer who appeared out of nowhere..."
Standing up, Clayman walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, then looked at his reflection, and smiled sinisterly: "Cherish this brief period of beauty; soon, you will know the cruelty of this world..."