Chapter 123: The Enlightener

To discover a metal that could be widely popularized among humanity, one naturally could not use Beyonder abilities during the forging process.

This was also the reason the artisan had just been hammering away with a hammer.

"A metal with greater superiority can indeed push forward the progress of human civilization, enough to become a 'Civilization Enlightener'."

And that giant metal figure dispersed at this moment, constantly dismantling, turning back into individual pieces of metal, and retracting into the "Artisan".

She walked out from the darkness, made a certain decision, and walked toward Chumen.

A faint light fell upon her; she had slightly messy short silver hair, a rather gaunt face, and her appearance was... handsome?

"Eh?!" Chumen blinked, "You really are a woman?"

This was nowhere near handsome; he had even gotten the gender wrong!

The slightly thin figure opposite had completely walked out from the mass of metal, but was somewhat stunned by Chumen's question.

After becoming an Angel, gender was already irrelevant; after all, mythical creature forms do not distinguish between male and female.

"What?" the "Artisan" asked in astonishment.

"No! No problem!" Chumen returned to normal.

Steam Maiden it is, then...

"I have a task here worth one 'Civilization Enlightener', are you interested?"

"This will bring you a certain degree of danger, but it will not harm your life," Chumen stated his purpose.

The "Artisan" tried to keep her expression calm, but seemingly feeling that there was no need to tense up in front of such an existence capable of killing the Creator, a clear struggle appeared on her face.

"I have a total of two Unique items here, the 'Civilization Enlightener' and the 'Perfecter'." Chumen calmly displayed his treasury; the two Characteristics and the Unique item within made the "Artisan's" expression change.

"... Alright!" The "Artisan" thought for a few seconds and nodded directly.

All the Magical Items on her body, plus her own Characteristics, might not even compare to these two Characteristics.

Such an existence had no need to harbor any ill intentions toward her.

"Very good."

Chumen first hid this space, then reached out with one hand into the void, plucked a piece of metal the size of a fist out of thin air, and tossed it to the "Artisan": "This metal is called 'Iron', it perfectly meets your requirements."

"This is your advance payment; only a Sequence 1 could likely complete the task I mentioned."

"Iron?" The "Artisan" looked at the metal in her hand, subconsciously using her own abilities to analyze it, "This..."

"High hardness, large reserves, strong plasticity, low smelting difficulty..."

It perfectly matched the metal the "Artisan" was looking for that could spark a revolution in human civilization.

"As long as you spread the smelting technology for this thing, your ritual can be completed."

Chumen lifted the concealment; this piece of metal appeared in this world for the first time in the "Artisan's" hand.

The "Artisan" seemed to sense something, solemnly put away this piece of metal, and bowed deeply to Chumen, "Thank you, Dream Crown."

"This piece of iron is more useful than you imagine; with a little transformation, it might be usable for the 'Perfecter's' godhood ritual."

"Of course, provided you trade for the remaining Characteristics of the 'Perfecter' from me."

Chumen nodded slightly toward the still-dazed Artisan and was about to step away via Roaming, but stopped halfway.

"By the way, your name."

"Christina." The "Artisan" subconsciously spoke her true name.

"Mm, once you become an 'Enlightener', I will come to find you."

Chumen left, but not entirely; he opened a space pocket in the gap between the Spirit World and the Real World, with his true body sitting in command within.

"This place gathers all the High-sequence Characteristics and even the Unique item of the 'Perfecter'; it just depends on whether something comes."

The Source Quality "Knowledge Wilderness" is the Source Quality corresponding to the "Perfecter" and "Hermit" Pathways.

It was also one of the Source Qualities Chumen was primarily guarding against.

After all, in Chumen's memories of the future, this was the only Source Quality that successfully occupied the Unique item of its pathway and then gained sentience, and in the Fifth Epoch, it even possessed True God-level combat power.

This time, Chumen displayed the civilization scrolls and the other two Sequence 1 Characteristics from his treasury here, and adding the one in the hands of the "Artisan" Christina, it was already equivalent to one "Perfecter".

Such a thing could likely attract the "Knowledge Wilderness".

The "Artisan" knew nothing of this and urgently summoned her subordinate Demigods, ordering them to publish the smelting method for this metal in the shortest possible time, increasing believers while completing the ritual.

This process was not difficult, as the "Artisan" herself already had certain preparations for it.

The key was that other Churches did not stop it, and even intended to spread it more widely.

The metal known as iron would bring about a huge change in farming methods, promoting a step forward in human civilization as a whole.

And just a few years later, Christina already sensed the arrival of her opportunity for advancement.

"Is this the Dream Crown..." Simply taking out a piece of metal was enough to allow a "Civilization Enlightener" to completely finish the ritual.

The "Artisan" even had a premonition that she wouldn't even need to worry about the digestion of the Sequence 1 Potion.

Amidst the surging of various thoughts, the "Artisan" drank the already prepared Potion in one gulp.

It was even thanks to the fact that most of the High-sequence Characteristics were in Chumen's hands that there were now very few High-sequence Angels of the "Perfecter" pathway, and no one came to block her advancement.

The viscous Potion slid directly into her stomach; in an instant, the "Artisan" expanded into a ball of light formed by distorted knowledge.

This knowledge was chaotic and filled with madness, floating in the Real World and forming a convergence with the various information of the Real World.

But the information of the Real World was too complex and disordered, causing the ball of light that the "Artisan" had become to disintegrate at an extremely fast speed, about to become a part of the Real World entirely.

"That is... my Anchor!"

When the "Artisan" barely possessed self-cognition, she found the "Anchor" she had left in the Real World.

Those were a large number of farmers who had begun to use iron farm tools, Soldiers holding iron weapons, and even ordinary people using iron household utensils.

These people all became the "Artisan's" Anchors, allowing her to find her own mark from the complex information of the Real World, and thereby re-condense herself.

The "Artisan's" body no longer had flesh and blood, but was composed of pure information flow, extracting a large amount of information from the Real World to fill herself.

The Beyonder Characteristics began to return; at this moment, the "Artisan" truly stabilized her own status and became a "Civilization Enlightener".

And following the perspective that had just merged with the Real World and almost become a part of the Real World, the "Artisan" looked toward a corner.

That was the Space pocket constructed by Chumen, with some kind of terrifying power surging within it.