Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 395 - 23: Higher-Dimensional Player
Dimension Space.
At this moment, Duncan was in a grand and magnificent Roman palace. Originally, he wanted to create a Forbidden City, but considering he had no physical reference, he figured it probably wouldn’t have turned out well.
He was lazily lying in a hot spring pool, relaxing while observing three projection screens before him.
With a flicker of his mind.
A table of sumptuous delicacies appeared out of thin air, along with wine in golden goblets, carried on wooden trays flowing with water to his presence. This was a creation ability Duncan recently mastered, which he called ’Hero’s Banquet,’ a new spell he learned from the Norse Pantheon.
The current Dimension Space was already a suspended land mass, roughly five kilometers in diameter, shaped bit by bit using Creation Technique.
The only disadvantage was that besides him, there were no living creatures here.
"If there’s no Human Form."
"Staying in Dimension Space for too long would indeed drive someone insane with boredom."
Duncan felt that his true self was trapped inside a box—although this box existed in a higher dimension, it couldn’t be denied that his soul was imprisoned within.
After a comfortable bath, Duncan stood up, snapped his fingers, and a silk robe of an imperial emperor appeared on his body.
Now his Creation Technique was quite practiced.
Duncan reclined on the sofa, the three projection screens resembling computer displays; with a swipe, the world of Human Form No. 1 unfolded in front of him. This projection screen was divided into two images, one showing Human Form No. 1 living in seclusion in Avalon, the other showing turbulent seas. They were encountering a storm, nearing the West Indies Isles, with a captain named Juan commanding others to steady the sails.
"The ship shouldn’t sink."
Duncan observed it and felt there was no need for him to intervene, letting his possessed avatar continue to disguise as an ordinary young sailor.
Upon entering the Indian Ocean, he sensed a unique mythical power.
The direction was towards the area of the Ganges.
Unlike the Greek Pantheon, Norse Pantheon, and Celtic Pantheon, the deities in the Indian region, although not extensive in core faith range, had a high concentration of Power of Faith, distributed along the Ganges River Basin.
"Feels somewhat akin to a theocratic Earthly Divine Kingdom."
"The development direction is somewhat similar."
At this moment, Duncan’s eyes transformed into pure light of divinity, gazing toward the Ganges River Basin, murmuring, "However, this theocratic union is far inferior to the early Mechanical Divine Sect, more like being trapped in the Middle Ages, relying on a cycle system for constant reconstruction."
To conquer India, naturally, Hinduism must also be conquered.
Duncan temporarily had no plans to act. To establish an empire on which the sun never sets, he also needed to first bind Monotheism and Polytheism to his chariot.
This time his real destination was Japan.
Due to the mythological tide receding, supernatural beings retreated to the fringes and overseas islands, with the Oriental mark points being around Ryukyu (Dragon Palace faith) and Japan (Shintoism). The East Asia region also had places with mysterious powers, mostly legacies of Primitive Witchcraft.
After eight hundred AD, there were fewer supernatural legends in the East, but at this moment in Fusang, it was the era of active Yin Yang Masters.
Shikigami, demons, and hundreds of thousands of spirits were all vibrant during this period.
This was the delayed effect of mythological recession.
Just as the area around Italy had few mythological tales, Scandinavia and the Nordic regions still had many supernatural rumors.
Fusang was in a similar situation; the Heian Era was the peak of the Night Parade of Hundred Demons.
Moreover, how to handle the East was something Duncan had to consider.
Personally, he couldn’t start the first industrial revolution in the West and leave the East behind. Originally, he thought of seizing a Human Form in the East too, but it wasn’t easy to implement, with the distance being too far; he hadn’t yet become strong enough for that.
In the context of mythological recession, deities could hardly come and go freely.
Look at the secret insurance of the Norse Pantheon, the farthest that dragon could fly was to the Eurasian plains, only Sarmatians used the Dragon Head Banner, continuing east could bring unknown implications.
"Adapt as necessary."
"If it doesn’t work, simply highlight ’Chinese learning as essence, Western learning as application.’"
Meanwhile, the storm at sea grew fiercer.
Duncan thought for a moment, finally deciding to intervene quietly. As a young person on the deck slowly closed his eyes, somehow, the clouds in the sky gradually dispersed. In an instant, the storm subsided, and everyone rejoiced as survivors of a disaster.
—Weather control.
This was a technique Duncan learned while nestled in the embrace of Crow Queen Triss; it must be said that Crow Queen was an excellent teacher.
Over these years, the Britain Kingdom remained stable, largely due to the behind-the-scenes contributions of Crow Queen.
Duncan had two purposes in this journey.
The first was to find existences that uphold other civilizations’ ceilings, to see if he could prevent the End of Dharma Era from further evolving; as the world’s limit rises, his own limit also increases. The second was to mark the earth’s ley line nodes; currently marked coordinates included Great Britain, Scandinavia, the Nile River Basin in Egypt, the Holy City of Jerusalem, and areas of Ancient Babylon.
