The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

Han Wu invited Kerry to his divine realm.

Although Kerry could sense that his divine realm was unique, she couldn’t pinpoint what made it different.

Han Wu brought over a large table, positioning two chairs on opposite ends for them to sit.

Seeing this earnest action, a wave of embarrassment washed over Kerry. She had assumed that Han Wu was flirting with her and had proposed a private class to ask her out. Unexpectedly, he actually wanted her to teach.

Kerry coughed to mask her shame. “Han Wu, I first need to ascertain how much you know about mechanical engineering. Have you ever learned or built anything mechanical?”

Han Wu shook his head. “I never learned mechanical engineering before, but I do have experience in building golems.”

With that, he summoned the ten Cockroaches, Heroic golems that he had made in the past. Despite being classed as Heroic life forms, their high resilience and endurance actually positioned them closer to Lord life forms.

Kerry examined them carefully, but after some tests, she concluded that they weren’t machines. In her eyes, constructing a golem was nothing but pseudoscience.

“It seems you don’t even have the basics. We can start from there,” Kerry said, feeling an oncoming headache. Shaking her head as if casting away her negative thoughts, she wholeheartedly put her mind into teaching Han Wu the basics.

Time slowly passed in Han Wu’s divine realm. It took her three entire months to finish teaching Han Wu the basic principles of mechanical engineering. Regardless of Han Wu’s brilliance in academics, even he couldn’t digest all that information at once.

While he could only construct mechanical toys like wind-up cars at his skill level, the most important thing was that he had grasped the basics. First, creating a machine or something mechanical required him to be extremely uncompromising in his chosen material and energy source. In particular, machine cores involved a huge amount of high-purity rare metals.

The type and quality of materials used determined the upper limits of the machine. Kerry had grumbled many times about how she wanted to infuse psychic energy into her bullets, only to discover that it would require an exceptionally rare and expensive metal called Prismatic Titanium. Worse still, natural Prismatic Titanium was not usually pure enough for her purposes. Even if they were used to make the core, she still wouldn’t be able to infuse the amount of psychic energy she wanted.

Han Wu was overjoyed when he first heard this. After all, this was a problem he could easily solve with the Refiner. Nonetheless, as he wasn’t that close to her yet, he didn’t mention it.

After grasping the basics, he told her that he needed a machine or device to assist him in completing a set of motions within a single second.

Kerry assured him that it was a piece of cake. She had once made an automaton that could execute a set of actions encrypted into the executable chip. After recording the actions as commands in a chip, she could then insert it into an automaton to execute.

When Han Wu mentioned that he needed to record 739 separate instances of complicated actions into the chip, however, she became less certain. Even so, they decided to try it out. She first recorded all 739 actions into a chip made from basic materials before inserting it into a machine that resembled Han Wu.

The automaton started executing the recorded actions, but the speed needed to complete all 739 actions meant the chip burned out within 0.3 seconds. Still, the failure didn’t stop them, and the pair optimized the design for the second test.

Another three months passed. Their 321st experiment had failed. While the automation could complete the actions within a single second, the chip would burn out immediately after.

Kerry removed the chip to run some diagnostics. In the end, she learned that the material of the chip had some severe limitations and simply couldn’t withstand the stress. They needed better materials.

She ran through the materials she knew of, crossing off the ill-suited ones until she was left with three that could withstand the stress of executing all 739 movements within a second.

The first material was Ink Gold, a versatile metal with good conductivity for all energy. It could reduce the instances of energy overload on the chip. A chip made from this material would last at least a hundred uses.

The second was Setero Rebar, an extremely durable metal. Although less conductive than Ink Gold, it was also more durable. The chip could be used at least 5000 times or more, but it came at a cost. It would heat up greatly while executing commands, and the bearer would have no choice but to endure it.

The third was the perfect material they needed, Nanite Mythril. Its conductivity was top-notch, and it could repair itself like a living object. If they used it to manufacture the chip, the chip would essentially last forever and wouldn’t have any side effects.

Nanite Mythril was ideal, but it was also the rarest of the three. It wasn’t something that could be bought with money alone. Even Kerry, with her vast knowledge of materials from a large variety of civilizations, only knew of one place where it could be found: the Lawless Civilization.

The Lawless Civilization was an enclosed space with scrambled signals. Elemental energy also could not permeate there. Nevertheless, that was the only place Nanite Mythril could be found.

“Should we use Ink Gold? We could buy it through the Imperial College’s online market, but it’s still quite expensive at 100 Divine Essence per gram,” Kerry suggested.

Han Wu could afford it, but he sought perfection. Both Ink Gold and Setero Rebar had side effects, and he planned to use Stellar Plunder often in the future. In his eyes, it wasn’t worth the money saved.

“Ms. Kerry, I want to try making the chip with Nanite Mythril.”

Kerry’s eyes widened in surprise. As an experienced mechanical engineer, she naturally knew that Nanite Mythril was their best bet. However, they would have to risk their lives in the Lawless Civilization to obtain it—something Kerry made sure to explain to him.

“Don’t worry, I don’t fear the danger,” Han Wu replied.

Kerry nodded eagerly. “In that case, let’s get ready to depart. Oh, but my private tutoring lessons are expensive, and the fee will increase severalfold if we need to go on a mission to source materials.”

“This should be enough, right?” Han Wu chuckled, passing her a card with 1000 Divine Essence.

She smiled when she saw the amount of Divine Essence in the card. “Handsome lil’ boy, let me take you on a tour of the Lawless Civilization.”