My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 271 - 255: A Seasoned Religious Warrior

The principle of the Modifier is similar to an all-purpose module and universal creation platform in "Minecraft".

As long as Xue Dili wishes, he can use the Modifier to manually create any ability and effect, and the materials needed for these abilities are provided by the World Consciousness from Little Dragon Lady's side. Xue Dili only has to pay a repair fee and the cost of using mana.

On the other hand, the Modifier is also a small-scale control of the Four Basic Powers at a low level, allowing Xue Dili to do anything he wants.

Therefore, he always says it's an enhanced version of the Fantasy Materialization, because while Fantasy Materialization creates one-time entities, what the Modifier alters is permanent, and not necessarily confined to entities.

With the Modifier, Xue Dili has a smooth path to Tier Five without being stuck at the Quasi-5th Tier, the limit for ordinary creatures.

Although his experience bar is only at Tier Three with 90%, making him at most a Quasi-Tier Four, he is still far from Tier Five, but it doesn't matter. Xue Dili doesn't mind having more abilities, the more the better.

Of course, he would prefer not to have the Charm Value increase given to him by Aleye.

Thus, after getting the Modifier, Xue Dili immediately spent more than half a day manually crafting a Cursed Blood for his own use.

Afterwards, he set a passive function on the new Cursed Blood to delete suffering after it transfers onto himself.

This way, he essentially uses Cursed Blood's ability without any side effects.

Right before his eyes, the rotting Angel was swiftly regenerating, with new muscles growing explosively from the corroded bones and decayed skin. The hollow chest cavity was filling with organs at a visibly fast pace.

Her corroded face began to fill out, as the growing muscles and collagen replaced the decaying flesh, with the new skin sprouting like tender shoots.

The pure golden hair began to grow, her white wings unfolded, with pristine feathers gently drifting down and turning into points of light upon touching the ground.

A naked Young Lady Angel slowly appeared before Xue Dili.

Xue Dili said, "Put on some clothes."

"Swoosh!"

In the next moment, an outfit reminiscent of a middle school student's uniform was draped over her, covering her tightly.

Forgive Xue Dili for his lack of fashion sense, thus he usually goes out in a plain white hooded coat, and it's fortunate he didn't wear a tight vest underneath, otherwise he might have turned into a full-blown eccentric.

This applies to male clothing, let alone female clothing—although he's known quite a few women, they wore clothes native to their cultures. Even though Xue Dili can manifest fantasies, he could only envision familiar clothing.

So, he imagined a middle school's uniform, consisting of long sleeves and long pants like athletic wear.

Forgive him for becoming an unimaginative adult a long time ago. If you ask him to unleash his imagination, he can only draw from bizarre fantasy products he has seen before.

Although the sight of a full middle school uniform on the Angel appeared incongruent because Xue Dili could tell she was just a young lady externally but might be hundreds or thousands of years old internally.

The weary aura of an aged person couldn't be faked.

Even after her revival, she seemed indifferent to her exposure in front of Xue Dili, showing no typical young girl reaction. Instead, she remained emotionless, like a soul-lost puppet. Only when Xue Dili met her gaze did she force a grateful smile.

It seemed she was trying to express gratitude in this enforced manner.

Xue Dili slowly closed his eyes.

He knew that this person's soul and will were virtually dead; she had completely lost herself, becoming numb and hollow. Xue Dili's guidance would have no effect on such a person.

If she harbored hatred, was capable of anger, or could cover her face and cry to vent her emotions, it wouldn't be so daunting, even if emotions went into disarray. But the current pseudo-man expressionless state, only showing a false smile under Xue Dili's gaze, was true despair.

She had no inner world.

To use an analogy, it's akin to an Emperor who faced ultimate humiliation for months, then dealt with the entire world seeing the footage of this humiliation.

It might even be more grave.

"Retract your wings," Xue Dili said.

At the next moment, her wings slowly dissolved into points of light, and before Xue Dili stood a "doll" with golden hair in middle school uniform.

No expression, no desire, no inner world, akin to an enlarged version of a life-sized Barbie doll. Purely a puppet, yet also like a robot capable only of simple operations.

"Take a good rest," Xue Dili left a mobile phone behind, silently opened one of the videos, and exited the Consciousness Space.

She needed tranquility now, and Xue Dili had no habit of intrusively disturbing others.

...

Back at school, he kneaded his temples vigorously to alleviate the headache.

This had been the most difficult case so far. If he intended to assist, it would be the most challenging world.

The enemies have completely seized control of the world's authority, even starting to treat that world as a ranch for bighorn sheep, implementing pastoral breeding policies that make the entire world continuously reproduce.

The majority of the children born become fodder atop the Divine Wood.

And the people of that world will discover that without needing to farm or work, simply by having children and handing them over, they can ensure a worry-free existence...

That world will completely transform into a civilization-less Hell, becoming a breeding ground where survival relies solely on reproduction, and people live distorted lives like insects.

An incomparably twisted future.

This is the future of civilization after world invasion.

Don't even mention that life will become better after being invaded. By that logic, the pigs in a pigsty also live well, as do the ants in an ant nest.

To completely solve that world, first, one must kill the enemy that has thoroughly controlled the world's authority, and second, change the twisted environment of the entire world.

Xue Dili thought that with his ability, he couldn't solve it.

Completely unsolvable, whether it's finding a way to deal with the enemy possessing complete world authority or addressing the rotten world, both seem like impossible tasks.

In the classroom, ignoring the clinical medicine teacher repeatedly explaining human anatomy diagrams, he filled the textbook with the intelligence he gathered this time.

First, those guys who stole the world's authority are not local natives; they are outsiders who completed a splendid facade after possessing local natives, thereby initially bypassing the Angel and World Consciousness's scrutiny.

Secondly, those people must be the subordinates of a certain Apostle, judging by their use of the Divine Wood's power and successfully seizing her authority in one go through an attack using it. They must be particularly familiar with the Divine Wood.

And that world's consciousness and the Angel are standard Religious Warriors. If during the period when she just became a God and the tribes united, religious ideology was indeed progressive thought, but after thousands of years, if it's still religious, that's really a bit difficult to maintain.

Watching himself consolidate and analyze each piece of intelligence and information, Xue Dili twirled his pen, continuously identifying the problematic points and recording them.

The reason for this World Guardian's failure?

Perhaps it's because she was lofty for too long, or maybe she became a God for too long and lost vigilance, unknowingly allowing enemies to infiltrate within. Even when the enemies attacked the Divine Realm, she thought it was internal strife and didn't use her full strength initially.

It was too late when the Divine Wood appeared, signaling something amiss.

Then there is this long-tested Religious Warrior... Xue Dili is not surprised she would say things like "maintaining stability is the priority, and there must be no drastic reforms," such senseless words.

This led to her world having no intense resistance or struggle and ultimately falling. Everyone in the Human Realm flung open the city gates to welcome the enemies. The only one to resist, she had absolutely no idea of the opponent's background, got ambushed and was strung up on the tree.

Her failure can be considered accidental, but also inevitable.

Xue Dili never thought religious ideology was some monstrous flood; structures suited to the corresponding productivity levels of each era are the best structures.

Religious ideology is a good transition during societal unrest, much like the world of the old Undead. In a world where people have completely lost all sense of propriety, it's instead religious ideology that successfully transitioned to the Renaissance and capitalism in the best way.

Just like for the primordial era of chaos, tribal systems were a form of progress, and for tribal systems, slavery was a form of progress...

To all of the above, capitalism is a sign of progress, like a beacon of humanity.

But compared to more advanced ideologies, capital becomes the source of all evils.

In the world of monotheism, by the end, only she dared to fight back.

Weren't all others the Lord's lambs?

So her failure was inevitable.

Yet she herself had no major issues. Letting the Human Realm develop freely was also not problematic.

One can't expect someone born in the tribal era and ascend into Godhood to suddenly conjure up an amazingly wise system overnight, right?

That she could even think of religious ideology being born in the tribal era was already genius.

This is why Xue Dili doesn't want to forcibly change his world's reasons: the world is always progressing in a spiral, and his interference could instead cause the world to stagnate.

Even if his current ideas are progressive, who can guarantee that decades later, his ideas won't become "feudal cancer"?

Although some progress isn't necessarily a good thing, such as the 114,514 genders and buffs conceived by Ame, progress that withstands the test of time is certainly good, though the future needs to be observed.

Xue Dili knows he needs to continuously learn in order to avoid the same fate as the Guardian's colleagues.

"Sigh..." He took out a small sphere from his hand, which was an emergency contact device from the Interstellar Corps.

It seems that to smoothly solve the problem of that world, the only option is the Mechanical Descent.