Daniel opened his quest log.

[Command a Pocket World]

[Forbidden Curse Mage Class Change Mission]

Restriction: Forbidden Curse Mage

Mission Difficulty: Exalted-grade

Mission Objective:

Obtain a pocket world.

Mission Introduction:

You have already stepped onto the path of one of the world’s most supreme classes, wielding Strength powerful enough to shake the Heavenly River. This Strength does not exist for you alone, but for your entire race.

If a race wishes to survive, it cannot remain rootless.

Without a territory of its own, a race is like drifting duckweed.

In the Endless Starfield, races without a homeland are known by the world as "star wanderers." Wanderers are like rootless, withered leaves, blown about by the wind, suffering endless disdain and contempt. Without solid land, they cannot take root. Without roots, they cannot reproduce. Without reproduction, they can only decline day by day, until their bloodline and name both vanish into the depths of the star sea.

Therefore, you must forge a place for your people to stand—a complete pocket world.

The grade of a world determines the limit of what it can bear. A major world can accommodate supreme beings of High Divine-grade. A medium world can contain powerhouses of Low Divine-grade. As for a pocket world, it is the ceiling of the supreme-grade realm.

Do everything in your power to push your world to greater heights.

It is not merely your territory. It is the future of your race.

Mission Duration: Long-term

Mission Rewards: [Sacred Spring of Life] ×1, [Forbidden Curse Mage Class Awakening Scroll] ×1...

...

After Daniel finished reading the class change mission, he could not help but laugh.

Although this mission was marked as Exalted-grade, to him, it could not even be considered epic-grade.

The most difficult part was obtaining a pocket world.

He had already completed that part long ago.

The Aerial Realm was already in his hands.

The second difficult point was possessing an actual "pocket world."

One had to know that even Aetheria was still only a piece of World Fragments. From this alone, it was clear just how high this requirement was.

But Daniel had the World Tree Seed. Once it matured, the Aerial Realm would be elevated into a pocket world.

And so, this extremely difficult mission became incredibly simple again.

He shook his head.

This time, his luck was absurdly good.

"It’s time to properly develop my forces."

...

Daniel returned to the Polaris District.

Whoosh—!

He hovered in midair and was just about to land when he suddenly froze.

"That... what is that?"

His expression changed instantly.

A city had actually appeared in the sky!

A city floating among the clouds.

That city was faintly discernible, like a shadow hidden in mist. It could be seen, yet not touched.

Daniel narrowed his eyes and looked carefully. He could see cold flashes of weapons everywhere within the city. It was heavily guarded.

There were also waves of powerful Godkin auras spreading out from within, so dense they were like storm clouds.

"Godkin?"

Daniel frowned, killing intent surging in his eyes.

The Godkin were quite bold!

They had actually come to Aetheria?

Were they still planning to treat the human race like a soft persimmon they could squeeze however they liked?

At that moment, Carodion flew over.

"My King."

Daniel raised his hand, pointed at the city in the sky, and asked, "What is going on?"

Carodion glanced at the city in the clouds and gave a bitter smile.

"In answer to my King."

"Not long after you left, this city suddenly appeared. Aliris and I went up to investigate. It is one of the Godkin’s war cities—a war machine specifically used to conquer races across different planes."

After Daniel heard that, the killing intent on his body could no longer be suppressed.

A monstrous wave of killing intent surged out from him, causing even Carodion’s expression to turn solemn.

"The killing intent on the King... is becoming more and more terrifying."

Carodion was secretly shocked.

Just how many living beings had he killed to condense such heavy killing intent?

Daniel gritted his teeth and asked, "So, is there something strange about this city?"

Carodion sighed.

"My King is wise!"

"This war city is very peculiar. It seems to have separated space itself."

"To us, it is like a mass of transparent air... Whether we slash it with blades and axes or bombard it with magic, we cannot harm it in the slightest, because it is simply not in the same space as us. This is probably an extremely advanced spatial formation."

Daniel’s expression darkened.

A spatial formation!?

To put it simply, Aetheria was like a painting, and all living beings, including Daniel himself, were people inside the painting.

Meanwhile, that city in the clouds existed outside the painting. No matter how much the people inside the painting struggled, they could not harm anything outside the painting.

"In that case, we’re very passive."

Daniel took a deep breath.

With his current abilities, there was nothing he could do to that city.

Unless the other side willingly entered Aetheria’s space and stepped into the painting.

"However, it’s not that bad yet."

He had enough trump cards in his hands.

The Aerial Realm could contain all of Aetheria’s players and natives. It just could not be casually exposed.

He also had the Ancestral Totem and the statues of the forebears, which could protect humanity to a certain extent.

Besides, if the Godkin wanted to attack Aetheria, they would have to merge into this space.

Once they dared to step in, Daniel would dare let them experience what a nuclear explosion felt like!

Their passivity only came from the fact that the Godkin could watch this place at any time and send people here whenever they wished.

In truth, the problem was not too serious.

Thinking of this, Daniel sneered.

"Ignore them for now. Just send people to monitor them at all times."

"The most important thing right now is to increase humanity’s strength as quickly as possible and raise the strength of the adventurers."

...

Daniel returned to the Imperial City and paid no more attention to the city in the sky.

In any case, no matter how many Godkin dared to come, he would dare to kill them all.

With his current strength, supreme-grade beings were no different from ants.

As for Divine-grade powerhouses, they could not descend into this world.

So what was there to fear?

Right now, the most important matter was to comprehensively increase humanity’s strength.

He opened the world panel.

[World Tree Seedling]

[Growing]

Current Highest Limit: [Young Tree State]

[Complete Pocket World]

Growth Progress: 38.120502%... 39.000003%...

He glanced at it and closed the panel.

The World Tree’s growth speed was actually not slow. The progress bar had already moved past one-third.

Thinking of this, he took out the [Codex of Creation].

This was the reward the system had given him when he first occupied World Zone No. 1213. Now was precisely the time to use it!

Time was pressing. It was time to create a batch of equipment that would only appear in the future.

[Codex of Creation]

[Epic-grade]

Grade: Epic-grade

Effects:

Codex of Creation: This book contains 180,000 manufacturing blueprints of all kinds.

Genesis: Immortal Singularity can be used to light up the technology tree and determine the technological development direction of the empire.

Innovation: Immortal Singularity can be used to automatically deduce new manufacturing blueprints.

Description: The prosperity of a nation does not rely only on peerless powerhouses, but also on the flourishing of its people!

Daniel did not hesitate. He directly burned a sum of Immortal Singularity.

[Ding! You have consumed Immortal Singularity and unlocked technology tree development options. Please choose a technology tree branch.]

As soon as the system prompt fell, a whole pile of options appeared before his eyes.

[Bloodline Purification]

[Machine Intelligence]

[Mysteries of Magic]

[Magic Martial]

...

Daniel directly selected the two branches [Machine Intelligence] and [Mysteries of Magic].

[Ding! You have lit up the two technologies [Machine Intelligence] and [Mysteries of Magic]. They have automatically derived [Arcane Machinery]!]

He then proceeded to light up [Arcane Machinery].

[Ding! You have lit up [Arcane Machinery].]

[Arcane Machinery]

[Technology]

Effect: Allows the deduction of technological manufacturing blueprints belonging to the [Arcane Machinery] civilization.