Chapter 36: Cooperation

"Dragon Pathway Sequence 2, 'Observer'." Sasriel threw this eyeball directly to Chumen.

Chumen caught it in his hand, observed it carefully for a moment, and his mouth twitched, "Isn't this the Mind Dragon I hunted with Medici back then?"

The spiritual imprint within the characteristic felt somewhat familiar.

At the time, he had even taken two drops of dragon blood to learn the various abilities of that Mind Dragon, so his intuition about this could not be wrong.

"Medici has already given you your spoils; this is what Medici handed over to me." Sasriel's expression was indifferent.

Medici was indeed loyal; for a natural Mythical Creature to have such a bizarre trait was truly...

"Fine!" Chumen did not quibble; the Sage's Robe on his body shimmered with a faint light, and he began to manipulate the Beyonder Characteristic with his hands!

The Sage's Robe had now integrated the "Master" characteristic, and "Master" was the Sequence 2 of the "Artisan" Pathway!

Coupled with Chumen's in-depth development of the Dream Book and his stronger control over Dream Phosphor, he could fully handle this Beyonder Characteristic.

Before long, the Beyonder Characteristic in Chumen's hand vanished, and only a Dragon Mask with a slightly exaggerated design appeared in his palm.

"Here!" Chumen threw the Dragon Mask to Hermes. "Once you wear the mask, you will possess the abilities of an 'Observer'. The side effect is that when using it, it generates a cold, insane virtual personality, which will likely have strong self-destructive tendencies."

For other pathways, this virtual personality with strong self-destructive tendencies would be enough to make people shrink back, but for the Dragon Pathway, which controls virtual personalities and can "Pacify" them, such a side effect is nearly non-existent.

The virtual personality could even be utilized positively.

"Thank you, Mr. Angel! Thank you, Dark Angel." Hermes expressed his gratitude.

Nowadays, the Dragon Race, like the Giant Race, was in its prime; obtaining a characteristic from a Mind Dragon was truly too difficult.

"Hmm!" Sasriel nodded and left; he still needed to deal with the vast, sea-like affairs of the Kingdom of God.

Chumen took Hermes out of the church and directly Roamed to the Dream Church in the largest city-state.

"Call me when Oumibeila and the others arrive." Chumen walked into the depths of the church and merged into the Statue.

Now, those few Statues of his had all been fashioned into private residences, allowing him to merge directly into them.

"Still missing something..." Chumen took out the Dream Book and flipped to the fourth page.

The first three pages were the Dream Kingdom, "Causality", and "Illusion Dream"; this was Chumen's analysis of the Dream Book's strongest Authority, "Dream".

After all, the "Dream" Authority was a bit too complex for him at the moment.

Compared to the Omniscient and Omnipotent Authority, what it contained covered almost every aspect; except for the resurrection of that God, no one could directly control it.

Even the designated Ancient Sun God still had to start from the five God's Pathways, gradually approaching the control of the Chaos Sea to master the Omniscient and Omnipotent Authority.

Chumen's process of analyzing the Dream Book was equivalent to a True God looking down and dismantling their own Authority, dispersing it into Sequence 1 through Sequence 9.

For example, dismantling the "Fooling" Authority of Mr. "Fool" from the "Diviner" sequence into abilities in aspects such as "Grafting", "Wish", and "History".

Chumen was currently performing such work.

It was just that this "Dream" seemed a bit complex; during the previous two triggers, he had dismantled the two most shallow and intuitive aspects.

But for these hundreds of years, Chumen's analysis of the "Dream" Authority had remained stuck on the third ability.

However, this third ability would also be an important transformation in his understanding of the "Dream" Authority!

"I always feel like the Dream Book could be dismantled into several pathways!" Chumen felt a bit of a headache.

Among the Source Qualities, only the "Key of Light" included only one pathway.

And in the absence of the Omniscient and Omnipotent Authority, this work of nearly reverse-creating pathways was truly dull and tedious.

But this analysis of the Dream Book did not last long before the Giant came looking for him.

"Mr. Angel, the Goddess of Harvest and the God of Dawn have arrived." Chumen, inside the Statue, heard Hermes's report and leaped out from the Statue.

"Long time no see, you two." Chumen scrutinized these two Giants for a while; compared to him, these two had also undergone significant changes.

The aura of madness on their bodies was less, and their mental states were much better compared to when they last met.

This was likely due to the Acting Method.

Since the Potion Formulas had been given out, someone would eventually summarize the Acting Method.

And the result of these Ancient God races promoting the Acting Method was that the tendency toward losing control was greatly reduced; in this way, these subordinate gods would also become more powerful.

"Long time no see." Oumibeila showed no strange expression, her gaze looking at Chumen gently.

"Hmph!" Badehaier showed no improvement; that was just great.

"Your Giant Race wants to cooperate with the hidden sects of humanity?" Chumen did not want to continue exchanging pleasantries with the Giant and asked directly.

"Humanity's hidden sects? I think it's your Dream Sect!" Badehaier rumbled.

"Oh? It seems you haven't made no progress; at least you've started to grow a brain." Chumen crossed his arms and glanced sideways, his eyes containing a hint of encouragement, as if waiting for him to Provoke.

"..." Dawn flashed in Badehaier's single eye, but he forcibly suppressed it.

This actually surprised Chumen.

"We hope to cooperate with you." Oumibeila said softly; this "you" included more than just the human sects and Chumen.

"Why? Give me a reason to provoke an Ancient God." Chumen's eyes showed no surprise; he had anticipated this long ago.

"We want the Phoenix, you want the Elf and the Dragon." Oumibeila's words were earth-shattering!

Chumen narrowed his eyes; this was his Shenshen, so naturally, no information would leak out, but how did the Giant King dare to say such a thing?

Just based on that guess-work knowledge of adjacent sequences?

The sequences had been spread for hundreds of years, and Demigods and Saints had been born in many races; naturally, they would have a certain understanding of adjacent sequence knowledge.

This could answer many of the Ancient Gods' doubts.

But under Sasriel's deliberate arrangement, much of that knowledge was incomplete, and even understanding concepts like adjacent sequences was barely possible.

Of course, Ancient Gods were mental patchwork monsters; it was also possible that their "Appetite" had flared up.

"We will deal with the Goddess of Misfortune ourselves; you are getting a great bargain." Badehaier suddenly spoke.

You probably don't know that I am the Night Pontiff... Chumen's mouth twitched.

No! I directly manifested a projection of the Goddess in an Illusion Dream to strike him last time...

Did he not realize my relationship with the Goddess, or was he... doing it on purpose?

This time, Chumen truly took a serious look at Badehaier.

Perhaps... he really has grown a brain!