The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

Luo Shu was stunned by Yotsuba Miyuki's sudden and presumptuous remarks.

"Miyuki, your statement is very presumptuous."

He reacted and put his hand on her little head and rubbed it, "But how did you find out?"

"The ears are obvious, right?" Yotsuba Miyuki thought seriously for a moment. "Also, the atmosphere and the biomagnetic field emanating from the vitality are completely different from those of humans."

"Very sharp observation." Alice was not angry, but a little surprised. "But, what does the life force magnetic field mean, Ah Shu?"

"That's something I'd like to ask as well." Luo Shu looked at Yotsuba Miyuki, "Does Miyuki have the Demonic Eye?"

"It's not the Demonic Eye." Yotsuba Miyuki felt relieved when she noticed that neither Alice nor Luo Shu seemed angry. After a moment, she explained, "It's just a feeling."

"Feel it?" Luo Shu raised his eyebrows slightly. "You are very sensitive to life force?"

"Yes." Yotsuba Miyuki nodded slightly, "Master, is this ability strange?"

"It's not that I'm surprised, but rather that your ability makes you more suitable to be the benefactor of the Mother Tree than I am."

Alice was in a complicated mood. She then took out a leaf from the Tree of Life from her space ring and said, "I'll give this to you as a gift."

"Master?" Siye Shenxue looked at Luo Shu and did not agree rashly.

"Take this. This is a leaf from the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a god-like being worshipped by the Alice clan. It's very precious."

Luo Shu explained to Yotsuba Miyuki the origin of the leaves of the Tree of Life, then he looked at Alice and said, "Thank you, Alice."

"We're all family, no need to be so polite." Alice watched as Yotsuba Miyuki obediently accepted the Tree of Life leaf, nodded to her with a smile, and then looked at Luo Shu after accepting it. "Ashu, I have a question for you about Miyuki?"

Luo Shu watched Yotsuba Miyuki and Isis leave in unison and looked at her, "Do you want to ask Miyuki?"

"Ah."

"She is indeed a person favored by the world." Luo Shu did not choose to hide it, "It's just that she is not from this world, nor from my world, nor from the demon world, but from another world."

"Heaven's Favored One?" Alice fell into deep thought when she heard Luo Shu call her that. "Is this your own understanding, Ah Shu?"

"I got the information from some source." Luo Shu didn't directly answer Alice's question. "The 'Favored by Heaven' and the 'Favored by the World' you mentioned are pretty much the same thing. But, I really want to ask, what are the 'Blessed Ones' you're talking about?"

"A Benefactor is a special being chosen by the Mother Tree of Life and endowed with certain special abilities." Alice tried to explain the origins of Benefactors to Luo Shu using simple and straightforward terms. "Of course, Benefactors and Heavenly Favored Ones are not the same thing."

"You're not a gift recipient yet?" Luo Shu pondered, "Is there any other condition for receiving the gift?"

"Yes." Alice seemed to have thought of something, and her face flushed slightly. "In fact, the giver of the Mother Tree of Life needs to shoulder the burden of the tribe's reproduction, but..."

"but what?"

"Ashu, do you remember what I mentioned about the Seven Shield Alliance?"

"The Seven Shields Alliance on another continent in your world?"

"Yes," Alice gathered her thoughts. "The world where the fog of the Misty Sea dissipated was actually the time point when the time channel connecting to the world where Kurumizaka and the others were located appeared. Subsequently, led by the Council of Elders and escorted by the dragons, the Kingdom of Ymir organized the first exploratory journey across the Misty Sea."

"The result is not good?"

"Yes. The first ocean exploration across the Misty Sea directly caused the Dark Elf Queen at the time to lose contact with the fleet. Celestine, another Light Elf who was competing with my sister Isis for the position of Princess and was also the Giver of the Mother Tree of Life, has also disappeared."

"Ah?" Luo Shu didn't expect to hear the name of the Black Beast's Elf Queen from Alice. "Celestine is also a light elf?"

"Yes." Although Alice wanted to ask Luo Shu why he seemed so familiar with the name, she swallowed the words back. "Because the Gifter disappeared and Isis still couldn't pass the Gifting Ceremony, I was chosen as the new Gifter candidate, and also the candidate for the Elf Queen of Ymir."

"and after?"

"Later, we organized several Mist Expeditions, and only recently did we establish a base on the continent where the Seven Shields Alliance is located."

Alice looked up at the azure sky of Sky Island World. "Then, we discovered a very surprising fact. The people of the continent where the Seven Shield Alliance is located have an astonishing reproductive capacity, but many of the offspring of elves and humans lost on that continent often have degraded bloodlines."

"Huh?" Luo Shu hadn't expected that the Ymir elves, to whom Alice belonged, were also a race that inherited bloodlines. This unexpectedly made them very similar to the magicians in the demonic world. It was indeed a script written by the Japanese. "Bloodline degradation?"

"Yes." Alice nodded slightly. "Ashu might not understand, but for the immortal species like the Ymir Light Elves, and even the Dark Elves, the Dragon Clan, the reproduction rate has never increased. This is precisely because the life level gap between the immortal species and the various short-lived species is too great. Once the life level gap is too great, the bloodline of the offspring will continue to deteriorate. The most direct manifestation is a decrease in the level of magical talent, a lower probability of receiving gifts, and a lower upper limit on lifespan."

"So, when the Elven Elders Council talks about reproduction, they don't simply mean increasing the population?"

"Yes." Alice sighed. "In fact, there are many half-elves in the Kingdom of Ymir, but the total number of elven descendants who can bear the gift is too small."

"Isn't the gift only available to princesses?"

"Of course not. I can become a candidate for the princess because of the consciousness of the Mother Tree of Life and my royal family. However, the gift is not only bestowed on royal elves."

"I understand." Luo Shu finally understood why even a Red Dragon Demigod like Ursula would come to Alice. "Simply put, your Mother Tree of Life hopes to find a strong person worthy of you, the Elf Princess, through the Demihuman Aid Program?"

"It's not just this reason." Alice thought for a moment, and finally confessed part of the truth to Luo Shu, "The birth of the Demi-human Aid Project is actually related to a prophecy from the Mother Tree."

"Prophecy?" Luo Shu pretended to be confused. After all, he couldn't let Alice know that he had already noticed the content of the prophecy.

"The essence of the Demihuman Aid Project is, firstly, to solve the problem of the reproduction of the light elves in Ymir, and secondly, to find a savior who can resist the demon world and save both worlds."

Chapter 48: Magical Depression

"The savior who resists the demon world and saves both worlds?"

Luo Shu hadn't expected Alice to confess the truth about the Demihuman Aid Program. This saved him the trouble of legally obtaining this information. "The two worlds here, could it be your world and the world where Liuli and the others are?"

"Yes." Alice thought of the revelation conveyed to her by the Mother Tree of Life. "The Mother Tree told me through revelation that if the other world fails to produce a demigod-level powerhouse, then after the invasion of the Demon Realm, the new world will soon perish. Once the new world perishes, the existence of the space-time channel with Mount Kumoqu in Fuso will inevitably be discovered by the Demon Realm, and then the Demon Realm will definitely launch an invasion of the Mother Tree's world."

"So, the Demihuman Aid Plan isn't just a plan for the Ymir Light Elves to borrow seeds from the powerful, but also a self-rescue action to eliminate the threat from the Demon Realm?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Shu suddenly felt that the Mother Tree of Life that Alice believed in was far more far-sighted than he had imagined.

Rather than saying this is a prophecy, it is better to say that it is the result of the Mother Tree of Life deducing the information about the derivative world provided by Alice and others.

"Yes." Alice nodded slightly, then withdrew her gaze from the blue sky and shifted it to Luo Shu's face, asking, "Ashu should have noticed too. The mysterious order of the world where Kurumizaka-san is located is gradually collapsing."

"I do feel that way." Luo Shu thought for a moment. "After all, the mysterious side of the world Liuli and the others are in is hidden beneath the surface civilization, like the relationship between light and shadow."

"Ashu's understanding is correct. Although I don't quite understand why the power of the mysterious world in the world where Kurumizaka and the others are located is suppressed by the surface civilization, from the intelligence I have recently collected, it seems that the power of the mysterious world is gradually recovering due to the invasion of the demon world."

"You mean, the invasion of the demon world led to the mysterious revival of that world?"

"Mysterious revival, that's a very fitting description." Alice thought for a moment and realized that Luo Shu's description was quite apt. "Ashu should have noticed as well. The magic power concentration in Kurumizaka Ruri's world is becoming increasingly suitable for magicians' training, but a world's magic power alone wouldn't experience such a large-scale increase in such a short period of time."

"Alice, are you trying to say that this phenomenon occurred because a space-time channel appeared simultaneously in the Demon Realm, your world, and Liuli and the others' world?"

"Yes, through the data collected by the Taimanin of Ikawa Asaki on the magic concentration in the area around the Aokigahara Forest Demon Realm Passage, and combined with the data on magic concentration collected from the area around the Kumotori Mountain Space-Time Passage, we discovered a surprising fact."

Alice paused briefly before continuing, "Simply put, while the three worlds are connected, there's essentially no space-time connection between the Demon Realm and my own world. Therefore, the world where Kurumizaka and the others are is the true intersection of the three realms. And because the magic power of this world is lower than that of the Demon Realm and my own, a natural depression forms where the three realms meet."

"Water flows to the lowest point. Is the high concentration of magic power from the Demon Realm and your world overflowing through the space-time channel into the world where Liuli and the others are?"

"Yes." Alice nodded slightly. "The magic power from both worlds overflowed together, causing a short-term abnormal increase in magic power in the world in the middle depression. Ten years ago, the Taimanin blocked the Demon Realm passage through the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees, which essentially slowed this process. But after ten years, the seal on the Demon Realm passage through the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees is probably no longer effective."

"So, the seal on the Demon Realm passage has been broken, leading to a further acceleration of the growth of magic power?"

"Yes, the seal on the Demon Realm passage in the Aokigahara Forest is essentially like forcing the magic power flowing from the Demon Realm to the low-lying world to temporarily accumulate inside the passage. After the seal loses its effect after ten years, a large amount of magic power from the Demon Realm will flow into the low-lying world at once, directly triggering a continuous increase in magic power that will affect the entire world in a short period of time."

"So, the increasing number of demon attacks in Fuso Tokyo is related to the breaking of this seal?"

"Of course." Alice sighed. "Otherwise, Ah Shu, why do you think the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees' leaders would go against their usual practice and so readily agree to let us and the Fuso government go to the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees' headquarters for a field investigation? Ultimately, it's because after the seal went wrong, those people were no longer able to solve it on their own.

If my guess is correct, the reason why the demons in Fuso have been difficult to eliminate in recent years is not only because Nomad is fanning the flames behind the scenes, but more importantly, after the Demon Ninja sealed the Demon Realm Passage ten years ago, a large amount of Demon Realm magic power has accumulated in the originally narrow Demon Realm Passage.

Ten years later, the seal failed, and all this magic power erupted at once, pouring into the low-lying world. This process likely expanded the scale of the space-time channel. This process is similar to the magic tides that erupt regularly every few decades in my world, and these magic tides are often accompanied by monster disasters.

"Simply put, the actions of the Taimanin high-ranking officials of Aokigahara Forest to seal the passage to the Demon Realm ten years ago were equivalent to artificially creating a tide of magical power?"

"Yes."

"So, the reason why demons are so difficult to destroy nowadays is because after the passage to the Demon Realm expanded, a large number of demons from the Demon Realm broke through the defenses set up by the Taimannin in the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees?"

"Yes."

"Have you told Miss Jinghe about this news?"

"Not yet. I want to wait until I finish my on-site investigation of the Taimanin headquarters in Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees before telling her the news."

"Alice, according to what you're saying, doesn't that mean the invasion of the demon world might have already begun?"

"Well, I guess the secret invasion of the Demon Realm began much earlier than we expected. Ten years ago, the remnants of the Nomad so easily abandoned the Fuso homeland and fled to the Lighthouse Country. Now it seems that it was just to paralyze the nerves of the Taimanin and divert their attention."

"A smoke bomb." Luo Shu immediately understood why Jinghe Asaki had been led to Tokyo's Itabashi District last night. "But, Alice, don't you find it strange? If the seal of the Demon Realm passage had been problematic for a long time, then the number of invading demons should have reached a terrifying level after so many years of accumulation. The increasing number of demon attacks in Tokyo has never exceeded the Taimanin Squadron's ability to cope. Isn't that very strange?"

"Ashu is asking, if a large number of demons really took advantage of the seal of the Demon Realm to invade the world where Kurumizaka and the others belong, why are the total number of demons eliminated by the Taimanin too small?"

"Yes." Luo Shu thought of the artificial space-time tunnel that appeared in the underground pipe when he and Jinghe Asaki went to rescue Jinghe Sakura. "Do you think these demons didn't choose to build a hiding place in Tokyo at all?"

"Artificial island?" Alice blurted out subconsciously. "Ashu, I looked into the information you gave me about the artificial island in Tokyo Bay and found something very strange. This artificial island is essentially a confidential project of the Fuso government, and it has been hidden from the sea using a barrier technique."

"Are you saying that this artificial island is really related to Nomad?" Luo Shu suddenly thought of a possibility. "If that's the case, it's no wonder that the Taimanin haven't found any clues related to demons after investigating the Tokyo underworld for so many years."

Chapter 49: I Want to Taste the Tongue of God

"Yes." Alice nodded slightly. "After all, the light is dark. The Taimanin probably never dreamed that Nomad would choose to build an artificial island in the sea of ​​Tokyo Bay as a hiding place."

"Alice, what do you think will happen if we hand over the investigation of the artificial island to Jinghe Asaki?"

Luo Shu's sudden question startled Alice. After thinking for a moment, she immediately understood what Luo Shu was trying to do. "Ah Shu, if we do this, I'm afraid Nomad will be desperate."

"We want to make Nomad lose his temper." Luo Shu heard Alice say this, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. "From the two brief encounters I've had with Nomad, it seems that Nomad has no intention of directly declaring war on the Fuso government, but rather wants to target the Taimanin."

"This is easy to understand. The Taimanin Squadron is one of the few violent organizations controlled by the Fuso government, used to maintain its influence on the mysterious side of Fuso. If Nomad destroys the Taimanin, the politicians in the Fuso government will most likely choose to cooperate with Nomad in order to protect themselves."

Alice, as expected of a princess, was extremely politically savvy. "Well, from my recent interactions with people from all walks of life in Fuso, it seems the politicians and oligarchs in the Fuso government don't care about the demon threat at all. Instead, they're more wary of the power of the Taimanin."

"This is easy to understand. Taimanin are not regulated by the Fuso government and are outside the so-called Fuso legal system. This weakens the government's authority for those politicians who claim to be the masters of Fuso."

"I don't understand." Alice sighed. "Is it possible that all your human governments have such a strong desire for power?"

"It's not just a lust for power, Alice. Don't you find it absurd that all the members of the Taimanin Squadron are women, and all of them are beautiful women?"

Luo Shu's sudden complaint stunned Alice. She then thought seriously for a moment, "Ashu, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed this anomaly. Could it be that Taimanin can only be female?"

"Who knows?" Luo Shu certainly wouldn't say that. The Taimanin were all female because of the setting of the related works. He raised his head and looked at the sky. "Alice, you should have noticed that the world where Liuli and the others live is a typical patriarchal society, which is very different from the political system in your other world. The existence of a superpower organization like the Taimanin Squadron, which is composed of all women, is quite an eyesore in a patriarchal society."

"Is it an eyesore?" Alice finally understood why the Fuso politicians she had been meeting recently had made her feel uncomfortable. After all, the Imir Light Elf Kingdom was essentially a matriarchal society. "Ashu, don't the Fuso government understand the importance of Taimanin?"

"I know, but Alice, the only lesson humans have learned from history is that they cannot learn from it."

Luo Shu sighed. "The mysterious resurgence of Liuli and the others' world came too suddenly. It suddenly arrived in the surface world, dominated by science and technology. This severely challenged the order of the scientific side. The scientific side was unable to come up with a response to the growing strength of the mysterious side. Naturally, in order to maintain order on the scientific side, the suppression of the mysterious side became inevitable."

Alice fell silent after hearing this. After all, the Tree of Life world itself was a derivative world where magic existed. She couldn't understand what changes would happen when magic suddenly appeared in a world without magic.

"Okay, let's not talk about these spoiling topics. Today is a family dinner."

Luo Shu smiled and walked to Alice's side, holding out his hand, "Your Highness, let's go. Don't keep them waiting."

"That's true." Upon hearing this, Alice didn't continue to dwell on this topic. She took the initiative to place her small hand on Luo Shu's broad and thick palm, and then followed him into the City Lord's Mansion.

Seeing Luo Shu and Alice coming back, Isis and Yotsuba Miyuki cast their glances over.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Luo Shu felt that the two women's eyes were full of strangeness, and said unhappily, "Go about your business."

Upon hearing this, Isis and Yotsuba Miyuki looked at each other, smiled at each other, and then continued to get busy.

"Is it Ash?" Sasaki Setsuna, who was busy in the kitchen, heard Luo Shu's voice and quickly said, "Ash, Liuli and Reina will be here later."

"I see." Luo Shu quickly responded after hearing this. Then he pulled Alice to sit on the sofa in the living room. Listening to the conversation of the three women in the kitchen, he smiled and said to me, "It seems that we are the only two people with nothing to do now."

"Ashu, I thought you were the one cooking dinner yourself." Alice suddenly thought of something, "When I came here, I thought we'd be having Chinese food tonight."

"It's not impossible." Luo Shu heard what Alice said, then lowered his head and kissed the elf princess's forehead. "But I only know how to cook some Chinese home-cooked dishes. I'm not good at Manchu-Han banquets or something like that."

"Home-cooked food is better. Isn't it a family dinner tonight?"

Alice smiled and said, "As for the Manchu-Han banquet, it's actually not suitable for a family dinner."

"Speaking of cooking, it suddenly occurred to me that there are still some people who haven't been introduced to you." Luo Shu then remembered that the lack of a chef at home is not always a problem. He began to think about whether he should summon the beautiful female chefs from Food Wars! through [Fantasy Exchange].

However, when he thought about setting up a company next, he couldn't help but feel a little conflicted because his own world origin points would need to be allocated first to the expansion of the sky island world.

However, he really wanted to taste Erina Nakiri's "God's Tongue".

Well, it seems that when the Chengshen Academy club recruitment activity starts next week, I have to pay special attention to the heroines of the otherworldly works in Class B. I hope I can plunder more world origins from them.

While thinking, Luo Shu stood up from the sofa and walked towards the kitchen.

Not long after Luo Shu walked into the kitchen, Kurumizaka Ruri and Hamasaki Reina were teleported to the central square of Yggdrasil City in the Sky Island world with bags.

"Liuli, do you think Shujun has arrived?"

"I couldn't reach Shu-kun on my phone just now. He's probably already here."

Kurumizaka Ruri took a look at the building in front of her that looked like Buckingham Palace, and felt quite uneasy.