Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 988 - 541: Shortcut on the Epic Path (2)

"It's time to give it a try!"

Noah lowered his head, looking at the shattered world he had carried here. As a Material Realm where even the World's Garment had collapsed, this world wasn't in good shape, but it was still better than the shattered layers of the Abyss.

Because of this, Noah felt a rush of kindness. After witnessing the unique structure of the Space-Time Realm, Noah wanted to give it a try.

Originally, Noah chose a shattered layer in the Abyss, but after a closer examination, found it unsuitable, and abandoned the idea.

Now, seeing this world broken because of him, Noah was inspired to save the world while also testing his ideas.

Crackle—

When Noah approached the Dragon Realm with the Broken Realm, rules lightning carrying the Power of Destruction instantly flickered on the World's Garment, triggering its defensive instincts.

This was a force that made even the Divine beings tremble. If a slightly stronger Otherworld creature entered, it would invoke the world's rules; how much more so for an entire world.

Even though it's broken, such a foreign object was still too large for the Dragon Realm. Although their scales differed by almost a hundred times, their essence was the same.

Roar—

A splendid Golden Sun slowly rose, calming the agitated World's Garment, and the chaotic Order lightning dissipated into nothing.

Although Noah wasn't yet the Lord of the World, in terms of authority at the world's root, he was unparalleled. In other words, mastering the world's root and becoming its ruler was only a matter of time.

Thus, Noah easily suppressed the world's instinctual agitation, then proceeded to receive the world ruins he had lifted back from the distant Void.

As the shattered world passed through the rules garment, more powerful Order Thunder erupted, but Noah subdued it one by one without causing any turmoil; not a single destructive thunderbolt landed on the already suffering ruined lands.

The Order Thunder, meant to destroy Otherworld lands, under Noah's manipulation and transformation, turned into Order Divine Chains full of boundless vitality, descending from the sky onto the desolate wasteland.

"The world is truly saved."

The Legend, bleeding all over, was stunned, staring directly at the tender green sprout emerging from beneath his feet. That surge of vitality made his once-dead heart begin to stir.

"What kind of existence is that? Divine? No, it can't be a god. The gods have abandoned the world."

This surviving Legend clearly remembered that in the face of such a devastating catastrophe, although there was an initial response from the Divine, ultimately, all gods chose silence; no Divine answered the pleas of the masses.

That existence, appearing suddenly when the world was about to end, without hope, and promising him that the world would eventually be saved, was definitely not a Divine entity. It must be a being more supreme, sacred, and merciful than any god.

Even though he was filled with gratitude and piety, wanting to kneel and worship, no one answered his doubts, because Noah didn't have the time to deal with him now.

Using his authority over the world's root rules, he allowed the Mother Realm to accommodate a piece of shattered material world, suppressing all resistance at the rules level, yet causing unprecedented gravitational effects at the material level, bending light and disarraying tides.

No matter how small, a shattered world was still a world. In Noah's manipulation, the material world forcibly descended, and if not handled well, could trigger an apocalyptic disaster.

When this broken world entered, gravity had already begun to imbalance. As soon as Noah discovered this, he intervened promptly.

He originally wanted to directly fill this world into the Dragon Realm, but forcing it in, solely based on the various effects triggered by a large material body, would create a catastrophic disaster unheard of, so Noah overlapped the space, enveloping the world and letting it integrate into the Dragon Realm as a half-plane.

Even so, it caused great tremors, plate shifting, and tide surging, but all was swiftly stabilized with the ten suns in the sky, most creatures only felt the tremble of heaven and earth, while they themselves were almost unharmed.

The consequences of all this were naturally borne by Noah alone. He not only shouldered everything himself but also once again used his authority, consuming Root Power.

But even so, the World Will, awakened by the stimulation, did not disdain or reject Noah; instead, it favored him even more, a joyful will appeared high in the Sky Dome.

Because it had annexed a world, a feat it could never accomplish on its own. Although it was a shattered world with rules already collapsed, its boost to the world's scale and foundation was undeniable.

"Indeed, as I expected!"

When Noah felt his authority at the world's roots further enhanced, with countless complex world root rules unfurling before him, he knew he had taken the right step.

The Epic Path from Source Fusion to a Constructed World has shortcuts. A Constructed World aims to become a creator shaping myriad forms, and before that, must master rules sufficient to build a complete world.

Such requirements alone would silence the Divine, not to mention ordinary deities, facing an existence commanding numerous rules, they could probably only bow; no wonder when a creator appears, the gods in the Void have only pilgrimage left.

Thus, if a world could fully open to an Epic, allowing the Epic to observe and comprehend the root rules freely, the Epic could effortlessly upgrade to a Constructed World.

This is the Epic's shortcut, but truly able to embark on this shortcut Epics are few and far between, for besides the Mother Realm, no world would be so generous to an Epic; even the Mother Realm is quite resistant to Epics.

However, merely observing and comprehending a world, even if it's as strong and potential-filled as Noah's Mother Realm, a medium-sized Material Realm, isn't enough; it requires understanding the unique rules of more other material realms.

Therefore, concluding this shortcut alone isn't enough to support an Epic's upgrade; but as shown here, integrating other worlds into one's mastered Mother Realm, their unique rules naturally open to Noah.

For this reason, Noah's mood also lifted with the joy of the World Will, only he didn't know exactly how many material worlds need to be collected and devoured.

Additionally, the Mother Realm's world devouring requirements are quite strict; a complete material world is impossible to devour, only worlds with defenses destroyed but not yet fully fallen are suitable targets.

Yet if deliberately destroying worlds, then that would reduce to the Evil Demon class of the Lower Plane; fundamentally, the Mother Realm is no different from the Abyss, and Noah neither wants nor can he fall to that level.

"After the war with the Sitra Snake-man Empire, perhaps I could emulate Heaven."

Noah had an epiphany, setting the tone for future war directives of the legion. Since establishing a war system, this bloodthirsty Giant Beast could no longer be reined in, unless he rebuilt everything from scratch, yet how could he do such self-destructive deeds.

"Space-Time Realm!?"

Because the inspiration came from the Space-Time Realm, Noah couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if he led the Dragon Realm to fully swallow and merge with the Space-Time Realm?

The Space-Time Realm is a special domain formed by the fusion of over a hundred broken material realms for continued survival; each Space-Time Realm is an excellent supplement and food source for the Noah-led Dragon Realm.

If consumed one by one, by then, the Dragon Realm would have the potential to promote to a Great World, and he might have a chance to advance to a Constructed World. It's just that Odin might oppose...