Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 936 - 158: Divine Creation (Part 2)
Her slender fingers unconsciously caressed the staff in her hand, embedded with the Philosopher's Stone, as she contemplated the progress of the entire plan.
The birth of divinity meant that this god-creation experiment had finally crossed the most critical threshold.
As long as this forming divinity could coalesce, it would suffice to prove the feasibility of the artificial deity; this is not an arrogant blasphemous plan, but an extraordinary project that can be achieved through precise calculations.
Once the first true divinity completes its tangible manifestation in the core, this being named "Aktorria" will break away from the void conceptual aggregate, becoming a spiritual entity with an independent divine persona.
Theoretical deductions indicate that, by then, Perfikot only needs to continuously inject purified faith power into it, allowing divinity to complete qualitative changes from quantitative ones, ultimately helping this artificial creation traverse the mortal divine chasm where countless sages have failed.
But Perfikot cautiously uses "possible" to describe this prospect, because in the process of Ancestral Spirit's transformation into True God, no one can predict what obstacles will be encountered—perhaps the instinctive repulsion from the world's laws, or the divine punishment from those lofty Old Gods.
She recalled the divine punishment Sanderion encountered when impacting the Legendary realm—only she survived among the three legendary strong figures a hundred years ago, yet she was cursed by the Divine for a hundred years, unable to maintain anything other than a young girl's figure.
It wasn't until Perfikot lifted the curse that she was able to break free from the young girl's figure, and even surpass the constraints of Legend to become a Demigod.
The intervention of gods has never been a nebulous legend but a tangible threat.
Perfikot must consider whether those hidden eyes in the dark will notice here, whether divine punishment might be brought down, or even the direct descent of a Divine Envoy.
After all, for the Ancient Gods that are returning, a mere mortal attempting to create a New God is undoubtedly the most blatant provocation to divine power.
However, it's indeed too early to consider these things now.
The embryonic divinity has yet to fully form, still slowly growing under the nourishment of faith power, and worrying prematurely about obstacles on the path to godhood would be excessively arrogant.
Although the birth of the New God is already an inevitability visible to the naked eye, Perfikot knows better than anyone that before the final results are revealed, any accident can happen.
A minor energy disturbance, an uncalculated variable, even a sudden wavering of a believer, can lead the entire ceremony to fail.
Fortunately, she has long prepared contingency plans.
In the underground warehouse of the Floating City, twelve of the latest Godslaying Armors lie silently dormant, their core furnaces pulsating with divine essence crystals extracted from the corpses of fallen deities, providing them with powerful enough energy to slay gods, even stronger than any Godslaying Armor Perfikot has made before.
These war machines will declare in the most violent manner to those lofty beings—that the victory in this war between humans and deities will belong to mortals.
Thinking of this, a cold smile appeared at the corner of Perfikot's lips.
Since the war with the gods began, those who consider themselves eternal have continuously descended to probe, even repeatedly getting personally involved to attack Perfikot; their arrogance and contempt have long exhausted her patience.
Instead of passively countering every move, it might be better to take this opportunity to strike proactively.
Should the birth process of the New God indeed attract those ancient deities, it would actually be a sought-after opportunity for her.
After all, nothing can better test the results of her research than a hearty god war.
Whether it is the power of the New God or the limits of the Godslaying Armor, they need a genuine deity as a touchstone.
Likewise, in a world ruled by divine power for thousands of years, nothing can better determine the fate of mortals than a decisive battle—whether to continue kneeling under the throne of gods or to break the shackles of fate with their own hands, the answer might soon reveal itself.
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Due to the comprehensive launch of the god-creation plan, Perfikot's originally planned colonial tour program was forced to halt, yet the expansion project of the Floating City pushed forward at an even more astounding speed.
This steel city suspended in the sky is now extending visibly to the surrounding areas.
The new energy core roars day and night, providing power to the ever-increasing urban area; gigantic mechanical arms swing among the clouds, precisely assembling pre-fabricated metal modules...
Most astonishing is that the city's perimeter is constructing new Floating City modules, which will further enhance the carrying capacity of the Floating City.
The Desert Kingdom, although seemingly a lifeless sea of yellow sand baked barren by the scorching sun, unable to sustain even the hardiest desert lizards, hides wealth that makes the entire continent envious.
Empire Geological Survey reports indicate that while the surface soil here is too barren for even basic crops to grow, just beneath thirty meters underground lies a completely different realm.
In fact, when the Empire's expedition first ventured into this "land of death" twenty years ago, the accompanying alchemists were shocked by the exploration results.
Their exploration instruments emitted unprecedented strong reactions upon penetrating the underground—here, the density and richness of mineral deposits completely overturned people's understanding of desert regions.
Spanning the entire Desert Kingdom, the "Black Ridge Mountains" resemble a sleeping dragon, with every inch of its layers containing dazzling wealth: the northern slope has iron ore purity reaching 75%, coal seams on the west side exceed two hundred meters in thickness, and even more copius copper and tungsten were discovered in the eastern mountain region.
What captured Perfikot's heart most was the nearly infinite "black gold" deep in the desert.
When her drilling equipment penetrated layers three thousand meters deep, a column of oil gushed out tens of meters above the ground!
Subsequent exploration showed that beneath the seemingly barren desert lies a massive oil field of unimaginable scale.
Geologists discovered to their astonishment that the entire Desert Kingdom seems to float atop a vast ocean of oil—the conservatively estimated reserves of the entire oil field are enough to sustain the Empire's industrial operation for over a hundred years.
These precious resources buried deep underground are now being extracted efficiently at remarkable speed.
In the heart of the desert, steam-driven giant drilling machines operate tirelessly, with steel-crafted drill bits easily penetrating hard rock layers; automated mining cars shuttle back and forth along newly laid tracks, carrying full loads of ore to refining centers.
Upon initial processing and refining, these resources are continuously shipped to the clouds by air carriers from the Floating City, serving as essential supplies for the expansion of this sky city.
The oil resources dubbed "black gold" have been developed by Perfikot to their maximum potential.
She built a modern refinery near the colonial fortress, where towering distillation towers gleam with metallic luster under the sun, and a network of intersecting pipelines stretches in all directions like the veins of a giant. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
Crude oil is transported here through underground steel pipelines and giant tanker cars hauled by steam locomotives; after undergoing complex processes like catalytic cracking and hydrorefining, it is decomposed into petrol, diesel, kerosene, and other basic fuels, as well as more precious petrochemical materials.
To maximize the utilization of these oil resources, Perfikot did not hesitate to use the omniscience capability of the Jade Record to project the complete petrochemical industry knowledge from another world into her mind.
Therefore, in this desert, production lines for polyethylene, synthetic rubber plants, and chemical fiber manufacturing workshops sprang up like mushrooms after the rain.
The products from these facilities, including plastic goods, synthetic materials, fertilizers, and pesticides, greatly enriched the lives of the Desert Kingdom's residents.
The charm of industrialization was displayed to its fullest at this moment—when a product can achieve large-scale production, the astonishing capacity can change everything.
