I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 733 - 27: Origin (4,000 Words)_2

The space filled with the energy of the dead and shattered stars was gradually transformed by her will. One by one, tomes recording the myriad things of the world and universal principles slowly appeared, growing like a forest, eventually forming a colossal library composed of knowledge and deduction.

Like a silent phantom, she observed the historical currents of the real world through the books.

Meanwhile, her research into the origin of the Death Domain never ceased. She abandoned the power of Sequence, instead allowing herself to focus more intently on the study of the Death Domain.

Through countless dangerous attempts and experiments, she gradually devised an entirely new system for harnessing the power of the Death Domain. This system discarded the traditional sequence’s requirements for soul purity and mental unity, utilizing instead the corrosiveness and energy characteristics of the Death Domain to develop the eerie abilities of manipulating negative energy, distorting matter, mental pollution, and even temporarily stealing life force.

In some respects, its power was no less than that of the Death God Sequence.

Then, the Stargazer, utilizing her ability to control the Death Domain, began searching for targets in the real world. She quickly found some suitable little ones—infants or toddlers abandoned by their parents, struggling at the brink of desperation.

These helpless souls were enveloped by the power of the Death Domain, quietly brought into the Grand Library. Initially, their numbers were few, but as time passed, a group personally taught and endowed with the power of the Death Domain by her gradually formed.

These children became her subjects.

However, the growth of power and influence did not bring the Stargazer satisfaction... Promises were like invisible chains, binding her and her burgeoning force tightly within the library, while the descending reality left her restless.

Her "subjects," too, were bound by the promises imposed by the Stargazer’s entity. These individuals could not set foot in the real world or directly influence its course.

The Stargazer still needed agents, some tools that could sow seeds in the real world and ultimately guide humanity toward evolution.

...

In the library, gene fusion engineering commenced.

The Stargazer attempted to use the human gene sequence as a basic template, employing the energy of the Death Domain as a catalyst, and integrating soul energy within it.

Her goal was to create a wholly new form of life. These life forms must integrate perfectly into the human world, unshackled by the laws or oaths left by the Monarch, while possessing not only the potential to manipulate the power of the Death Domain but also their own sequence.

The experimental process was frequently accompanied by substantial failure and sacrifice. Countless fusion bodies transformed into twisted monsters amid genetic collapse or Death Domain pollution.

But the Stargazer did not care.

Having experienced the wash of endless years, much of the "humanity" in her heart had long since been worn away, her emotions were scarce, and she viewed death with indifference, with nothing and no one to care for.

She pursued only two things—greater power and more knowledge—anything or anyone daring to obstruct her would be discarded without hesitation.

Her will was like cold steel, even if those test subjects once wept and called her "mother," she remained unmoved.

In some respects, she and the Monarch were indeed of the same ilk, willing to discard unnecessary emotions for their goals and ideals by any means necessary.

Eventually, a batch of relatively stable special individuals was born.

They looked no different from ordinary human children, able to perfectly simulate human life signs, even passing the most rigorous conventional tests.

However, their souls had been entirely transformed. The power flowing through them was neither purely sequence power nor entirely Death Domain pollution, but a controllable exotic Death Domain power "disguised" by sequence fragments.

They could learn, think, grow, and use power; there was no difference from humans, the only distinction being their exceptional talent, which, if allowed to develop normally, would inevitably turn them into Apprentice Death Gods.

Moreover, they had a unique ability: the nature of their souls and sequence was determined by their childhood experiences.

Tormented children would grow up harboring resentment and transform into Mad Dogs or Anti-Mad Dogs to exact revenge on the world.

Children raised in indulgence would become Doctors, going on to heal others.

Children growing up in the military would become Guards; scholars’ children would achieve the status of Tuners.

What was once the uncontrollable Death God Sequence became controllable in them.

This, in a small way, was the Stargazer’s little "dark sense of humor."

For she knew all too well how terrible the real world was.

An orphaned child, with no support, in the world of Nest City, most likely would meet with suffering, growing amid pain and struggle.

Finding normal parents was a rarity.

Therefore, the overwhelming majority of children, upon growing up and becoming Apprentice Death Gods, were likely to become villains wreaking havoc, unleashing disaster upon the world with their terrifying powers in search of revenge.

In as little as a millennium, the disasters caused by these children resulted in billions of deaths, causing repeated setbacks in civilization.

As a result of this, the Stargazer named these successful experiments...

Calamity Demons.

Of course, the Stargazer could observe every single action of the Calamity Demons; however, she generally lacked the interest to watch them for long.

After all, the turmoil stirred up by these "children" was largely the same; their tragic family origins, the bullying they faced growing up, followed by wanton slaughter upon maturity... there wasn’t much difference.

Having seen enough, her interest naturally waned.

So, for a long time thereafter, the Stargazer even became too lazy to observe these children’s lives.

Until...

Until the year 2061 AD.

A black-haired, red-eyed girl fell alongside a meteor shower from the Death Domain, landing in Nest City No. 3 located in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Perhaps due to genetic mutation, the girl bore the appearance most similar to her genetic origin among all Calamity Demons and, fortunately, possessed the happiest family among them all.

Her family wasn’t wealthy, barely making ends meet, but her parents poured all their love into her.

As an adopted child, she even managed to lead a life happier than 90% of children at the bottom tier of Nest City. She did not have to perform heavy physical labor, nor did she have to resort to a life of hardship, and she even occasionally got to eat cake and pudding.

To ensure her healthy upbringing, these parents, with whom she shared no blood relation, even fed her with their own blood.

Thus, after becoming a Death God, drawing upon the "love" and "acceptance" she received from her parents, the girl not only acquired three different sequences but also a lord sequence, a lineage thought theoretically impossible to resume, having been severed by the Monarch.

From that moment, the Stargazer smirked and then focused all her attention on the girl.

She watched the girl grow step by step, grow stronger, and then forge her own legend.

The Stargazer clapped her hands in satisfaction, then...

She turned to Yun You, who was watching all this unfold, grinning.

"Oh my~"

"I hadn’t even watched this whole thing completely before, so many things happened from start to finish, how interesting..."

"The story has ended."

"Little Youyou, you should wake up too."

In the instant her words fell...

The world, or rather, the text materialized before Rococo’s eyes began to ripple, and a slender hand broke through space, gently holding Yun You’s wrist.

"Swish~!"

The surrounding scenes shattered like pages, and with a flicker of the mind, there was no surgical table in front of her anymore, only an ancient and timeless... library.

Isn’t this the Cosmic Library?

Yun You instinctively turned her head, looking toward the owner of the hand.

And in the next moment, a delicate face appeared right before her.

It was Deng.

No...

Strictly speaking, Yun You should call her...

"Stargazer."