The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion

Chapter 35. Syrup 2

An incredible invention was made.

By fusing two primitive life forms, Gel and Topping, into [Syrup], the feat of connecting the spiritual land and the spiritual realm was achieved.

Of course, according to Sesaisa, it’s not an impossible technology. It’s just that the tech is unbelievably fast. In his world, it took at least two thousand years to invent circuits and technology that connect the spiritual land and the spiritual realm so easily.

But I pulled that tech tree like crazy.

But somehow, it doesn’t seem like such a big deal. When you really hear the principle, it’s just a trivial thing like ‘No one in Sesaisa’s world could do that for thousands of years?’

The principle is this.

The spiritual land is a space that creates spiritual flow in the material realm.

The brain, where mental activity occurs, is the midpoint between the material realm and the spiritual realm.

The spiritual realm is a space that creates mysteries that act on matter in the spiritual realm.

So… This [Syrup] is like a nerve cell, nerve, ganglion, brain. Something like that. The toppings in the gel create such a primitive flow.

So if you just sprinkle a lot of syrup between the spiritual land and the spiritual realm, they react to the surrounding flow on their own, and as a result, it becomes a circuit that directly connects the spiritual land and the spiritual realm.

And this gel and topping gradually reproduce while absorbing the flow and magic that follow the circuit, naturally reinforcing and expanding this structure.

I handed over this technology in exchange for analyzing the flow of the spiritual realm and the spiritual land a bit more, even after erasing all of Sesaisa’s contributions.

“My goodness! If we could do this with meat, what on earth have our world’s spiritual scholars been struggling with all this time! No, no, but how does this work???”

“I’ve explained the principle.”

“No! But, I can’t understand this gel and topping meat! The structure analysis doesn’t work!”

“That’s because I’m keeping it confidential.”

“How did you make it!”

“Well… that’s an absolute secret that can’t be sold.”

“Ah! Praise be!!!”

I explained the principle. If Sesaisa tries a few times, they might make something similar.

Of course, they would understand the flow better than mine and create a much better circuit.

But the life that forms the basis? It would probably be far inferior to mine.

“Ugh…”

“Shall I install it for you?”

“No. I can’t even guess how many points I’d lose. I’ll try it myself. The connection between the territory and the spirit world… From an expert’s perspective, it’s objectively very crude and rough, but considering the effort put in and the current level of technology? It can be said to be close to a miracle. There’s a lot of room for improvement…”

I see.

“I don’t have the capacity to care about your world anymore. By the next collision, I will definitely create something similar. I sincerely hope not to lose in the next collision. Be well, Bein.”

“Me too, Sesaisa. Let’s meet again after that.”

Anyway, it’s true that Sesaisa improved my ecosystem with enthusiasm and dedication. The advice was excellent, and with the host’s guarantee, it can’t be a lie.

Then, I should now comprehensively inspect my ecosystem.

There’s no need to summon the avatars. After all, the consciousness is shared.

Thanks to the recent increase in faith through syrup, I now have eight avatars, and with the two avatars related to Sesaisa and the one that was observing the current situation while exploring the community, I can now inspect my ecosystem in full condition.

Let’s assign each one a task.

Avatar 1. Manage the flooded Nectar Oasis.

Avatar 2. Manage the freshwater lakes, rivers, and swamps where nectar is flowing in.

Avatar 3. Manage the mountains and forests in the mountains.

Avatar 4. Manage the desert forest.

Avatar 5. Edit the terrain of the spirit world and ecosystem damaged by the overflowing Nectar Spring.

Avatar 6. Sprinkle a large amount of syrup in my world to increase the connection between the spirit world and the territory and observe the syrup’s ecosystem.

Avatar 7. Develop metal life forms through open-pit mining.

Avatar 8. Central personality. Responsible for humanity, devising grand strategies in real-time and distributing traits.

Alright. Now I am Avatar 8. In other words, the central personality. I gather information obtained from the community in real-time and build grand strategies with the information brought by my other avatars.

Let’s check the situation from Avatar 1.

∞

I am in charge of the Nectar Oasis. And I felt incredibly embarrassed.

【Ahhh! It’s too hard! My creator!】

Even if we accept that the aphojus is growing uncontrollably by absorbing nectar, the sudden doubling of the spring’s capacity has thrown the ecosystem into chaos.

My entire ecosystem is 320 square kilometers, and the nectar oasis alone is 100 square kilometers… Of course, that’s the amount that overflowed, so inside, rock jelly creatures and coral gummies are rapidly increasing, digging into the ground to expand the depth, and toppings are proliferating, supplying heat and light like crazy.

As the lake grew too large, a catastrophe occurred where the gummy trees, jellies, and puddings that were originally nearby were submerged in nectar, but fortunately, the jellies are originally aquatic and swim relatively well.

Even the gummy trees, which are technically animals at their core, are moving out of the submerged lake faster than the ground is collapsing.

And as the nectar increases and the jellies thrive? The predators that eat the jellies, the puddings and gamchis, also flourish.

The increased gamchis leave the gummy forest near the nectar oasis, becoming migratory birds that move to the freshwater lake and the desert beyond, while the puddings increase and grow stronger. The gummy trees also evolve to grow larger.

“Jelly creatures really grow well.”

There was only one thing to say to the angel’s murmur.

“Honestly, I’m also finding it fascinating.”

“Huh?”

“Originally, living creatures have limits on how big or small they can grow depending on their species.”

Let’s take humans as an example.

Among the diseases defined by humans, there is ‘gigantism.’ For some reason, due to excessive secretion of growth hormones, the height, size, and limbs grow enormously.

But, people with this gigantism… their health is really poor. It’s the same reason bodybuilders who inject steroids have poor health.

Because a lot of growth hormones are secreted, the body grows as instructed, but the infrastructure of the body can’t support the increased size.

And no matter how much growth hormone is injected, they can’t grow to 4 or 5 meters. They would die before that. The tallest person in human history grew to 270 cm due to a mistake during brain surgery. His knees couldn’t support his frame, and his health was extremely poor.

“The same goes for shrinking. Although it is somewhat influenced by environmental factors such as nutrition, there are still upper and lower limits to the height and size a species can have. But, from what I’ve observed, jelly creatures seem to have very loose size constraints even within the same species.”

In other words, a parent pudding might be 50 cm in diameter, while its offspring could be 1.5 meters or even 5 cm.

Of course, dogs can also vary greatly in size, with some over 100 kg and others under 5 kg, but the phenotypic expression of these jelly creatures is too diverse, isn’t it?

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I was surprised to find out that the giant gummy tree about 5 meters tall and the 30 cm gummy tree below it are siblings. Can the same species have such size differences without any physical issues?

“Is it a good thing?”

“It’s both good and bad… it’s hard to control the changes.”

Anyway, the jellies and puddings show efforts to adapt to the environment by drastically changing their size with each generation.

One of the changes that shocked me was when the anomalocaris pudding, which had clearly lost its eyes, regenerated them, came ashore, and started breaking and eating gummy trees with its two strong tentacles.

The puddings might soon evolve into a main force, becoming predators that directly hunt enemy creatures, like infantry.

I managed the overflowing nectar oasis by evolving the puddings, jellies, and gummies with a clear direction.

Impressively, the [syrups] connecting the nectar spring and Creamland sucked up the nectar and moved it to Creamland, creating something like a nectar river or a stream flowing from bottom to top.

Creatures that feed on it also appeared, but it seemed like a good direction, so I left it alone.

∞

I am in charge of the freshwater lake, river, and swamp.

At the same time, he is in charge of the mountains and forests.

He is also in charge of the desert forest.

In short, this side is completely screwed.

“Huh. You’re making weaker sounds than I thought.”

That b*stard Shikadoz. With that damned teleportation laser beam, he persistently destroyed the rest of the ecosystem, so I have no idea what to do with this ecosystem.

First of all, the freshwater lake is beyond recovery. Literally boiled to death, all the creatures inside died. I replant aquatic plants, create fish, frogs, crocodiles, capybaras, and all sorts of creatures, and even make freshwater jelly, but there are limits.

“You consistently make freshwater jelly.”

“It’s the easiest way to destroy the opponent’s farmland. It eats rocks, gravel, and fertile soil, and excretes worthless sand. But nectar has flowed in here, and the freshwater jellies seem to want to eat only nectar according to their ancestral habits.”

Nectar is such a superior substance. If you deliberately synthesize nectar, the population doubles, so why not do it?

But then they become too dependent on nectar, and ultimately, you can’t use the strategy of destroying the opponent’s ecosystem without nectar.

In the end, you have to make ‘ordinary’ jellies. Not dessert jellies, but ones that can adapt anywhere and thus destroy any ecosystem.

But starting from scratch is daunting.

In fact, there’s a more fundamental problem.

The nectar spring has expanded so much that nectar keeps flowing into the freshwater lake. Even the lake, swamp, and river occupy a considerable area, don’t they?

It seems to occupy one-sixth of the world, but the nectar spring alone is half of the world. Even in that half, nectar keeps overflowing because of the syrups.

“The depth is gradually increasing, so at some point, it won’t overflow.”

It’s a temporary measure. The wetlands will keep growing, and every time the nectar oasis expands, will you keep moving the adjacent wetlands and mountains? There’s no waste like this.

It’s better to do fundamental construction.

“Hmm… It sounds good, but how do you plan to do it?”

I even called my clone, who was in charge of terrain editing, and condensed massive divine power to completely reshape the world’s terrain.

Let’s think of the world as spherical.

First, let’s say there’s a nectar spring at the ‘ceiling,’ the polar region.

And the nectar spring in the polar region is surrounded by the northern hemisphere regions of the 《Desert Forest》, 《Valley》, 《Sand Desert》, and 《Gravel Desert》.

Surrounded in a ring shape, right? Then, from the equator to the southern hemisphere, it’s surrounded in a ring shape by the 《Mountains》, 《Rivers》, 《Swamps》, and 《Aquifers》, the wetland areas.

And below the southern hemisphere, opposite the nectar spring, there’s another polar region. There, the 《Steppe Grassland》, 《Space-Time Boundary》, 《Constellations》, and 《Open-Pit Mines》 exist.

“In other words, you’ve divided the world into four layers.”

That’s right. When the nectar spring overflows here, the nectar first goes into the cacti, valleys, sand, and gravel deserts.

The massive amount of nectar that flows in there is consumed by the creatures there, and almost no nectar goes to the upper wetland areas.

“But then, what about Creamland? There’s a long passage connected by syrups linking the nectar spring and the 《Open-Pit Mines》.”

About that, first, let the syrup flow straight across the 《Desert》.

The water that comes down from the 《Mountain》 flows along the river to the 《Aquifer》, but since the world is spherical, the 《Mountain》 and the 《Aquifer》 are actually right next to each other, right? In other words, there is a point where it appears as 《Aquifer》-empty space-《Mountain》.

Passing through this place, the syrup flows straight to the meadow, and through Creamland, it creates a huge river of syrup that penetrates the 《Space-Time Boundary》 and the 《Constellation》 《Open-Pit Mine》.

And this syrup river is somewhat connected to the mountain and the aquifer, maintaining the ‘flow’, and all the nectar heads towards Creamland installed in the 《Open-Pit Mine》 without leaking elsewhere.

“So, in the end, the syrup that started from the nectar spring connects the entire world? Very interesting.”

「The world’s 〈Faith〉 score has surpassed 18,016 points, and the level has risen to 8.」

“It’s interesting enough to raise the level. How about it? Don’t you feel like you’re getting drunk on the surging divine power?”

It feels like drinking liquor made of syrup.

Very smooth. Now, I will manage the ecosystem to death until the 〈Life〉 score, which has barely surpassed 15,000 points, reaches at least 80,000 points.

Whatever comes in the ‘Disaster Zone’, that level of 〈Life〉 should be more than enough to handle it.

“Really?”

······I thought the angel was saying something unlucky, but on second thought, I think I said something even more unlucky.

Even in games, you get complacent thinking this much is enough, and then you get hit by an unexpected meteor and fall flat······.

I decided to focus on strengthening my foundation instead of trying new things, preparing for the disaster zone.

First, shall I check the traits according to the increased level?