Chapter 586: Something Discovered Me

"Impossible, how could there be someone else's scent, impossible…" Radiyad denied instinctively, but after only two sentences he realized this wasn't his wife, then immediately realized again that he didn't have a wife.

Given the identity behind that voice, it clearly wouldn't joke with him; Radiyad Immediately Cautioned himself and asked: "What scent."

A gust of wind rose in the sealed space, sweeping over Radiyad's body and stirring up some things: "The scent of a powerful life."

The wind gathered into a clump in the air; Radiyad leaned in to look, and there was nothing in the air but some dust-like floating particles.

"What thing? There's nothing here? Where's the thing?" Radiyad asked in confusion.

The clump of divine light in the plant thicket swayed, and the dust before Radiyad's eyes suddenly began to grow, sprouting strands of velvet, but they quickly withered and shrank, finally turning to ash; in that very brief instant, these 'dust' vanished.

"Hiss—plants? God of Life?" Radiyad said in shock.

"God of Life? What's that? A tree? A giant tree? Doesn't seem like it, more like a technique for manipulating souls. Have you forgotten some things?" The divine light flickered as the voice asked.

"Forgotten things? Forgotten what things? I've forgotten everything before I was three, do you mean that?" Radiyad asked in confusion.

A phantom figure emerged from the divine light, extending a tentacle-like phantom that brushed across the top of Radiyad's head.

With a boom from Radiyad's body, the divine fire was shaken out of him, and he then clutched his head, screaming as he crouched to the ground; some memories that should have been erased surged back into his heart.

Flash Feti, Alchemy King Duroken, Light Pope Anthony, Holy Essence Liquid, Worm Ash Liquid, World Tree Sapling, Life Fruit, Heart of Life, Divine Fragment…

"This… I, so much of my memory was erased?! How did they manage it? Isn't Anthony the Light Pope? Why would he mix with undead? Flash Feti and Duroken actually came too, have all those powerful beings from the God Realm already descended?" Radiyad's thoughts were thrown into utter chaos by these newly emerging memories.

But the clump of divine light was drawn to those things brimming with powerful vitality: "Vitality, get those things with powerful vitality back."

The divine light was unusually shaken, but Radiyad had no time for it, busy inserting these new memories into the corresponding timeline.

Human memory is linear; if something is recorded while drunk or half-unconscious, the lack of a clear timeline makes it seem very chaotic.

Fortunately, what had been erased from Radiyad was basically all from the same time period, the same scene, so he sorted it out quickly.

"So that group led by Anthony has two identities—one is the Church of Light? The other is undead? In the end, did the undead unify the God Realm, or did the Church of Light capture those undead?" Radiyad muttered to himself.

《Sword》

The divine light didn't care about any of that, urging: "Vitality, hurry up and get me vitality, massive amounts of Divine Fragments would be best, if not, Holy Essence Liquid and Life Fruit will do too. What's Worm Ash Liquid? Put together with these things full of vitality, it should also be something full of vitality, right? Get some and let me see."

Radiyad said: "I've been trying, but these people are very powerful, they come from the God Realm, they captured me easily, and unbelievably erased my memory; I have no way to take what you need from them."

The voice of the divine light fell silent for a moment, then said slowly: "Trade, trade what they need for what I need, go ask, what do they need."

"Alright, God Ancestor. Oh, right, what did I come back this time to do? Almost forgot. God Ancestor, these people are going to hold a Grain Seed Competition, they probably need some high-yield grain seeds. Should we try using high-yield grain seeds to trade with them?"

"Also, among the prizes of the competition, there's a divine artifact of the Harvest Goddess, it might carry the vitality you need." Radiyad said.

"High-yield grain seeds? Use this." A point of divine light left his body and drifted before Radiyad: "Sprinkle it on the rye, and it will grow according to my strongest will."

Radiyad said hesitantly: "These people look very confident, and the God of Life is there too. How much can your will yield per mu? If it's too little, I'm afraid I'll lose."

The God Ancestor was silent for a while, then separated another point of divine light that drifted before Radiyad, and said calmly: "Sixteen hundred jin, I suppose. My will, for now, only has this much. Bring back more vitality, and my will can be stronger too."

From the God Ancestor's calm tone, Radiyad sensed a pang of heartache, but he didn't pay it much mind, only complaining: "The vitality you want is way too picky—either something with divine power, or something with powerful life, or something that can promote the growth and development of life. If you weren't so picky, couldn't I just catch ten million fat-gut worms and let you eat them?"

The God Ancestor said calmly: "Simple life has too little vitality, keep it for yourself to eat."

Radiyad sighed: "Got sick of eating it long ago. Just looking at fat-worm paste now makes me want to throw up. But lately, with more frequent contact with the surface, I can eat more fresh vegetables and fresh meat, no need to gnaw on that stuff anymore."

Fat-worm paste is the kind of nutrient cake used to relieve famine victims, made from a kind of worm called the fat-gut worm, and is the staple food of all living beings on the entire Starburst Array.

The Starburst Array has too little space available for planting, but water is plentiful, because ice blocks floating in the void—any one of them pulled back would be enough for the Starburst Array to recycle for several hundred years.

All wastewater and dirty water is gathered through pipes into one place, where a very potent algae grows, breaking down the nutrients within, while growing wildly under the sunlight.

These wildly growing algae are used to feed fat-gut worms and other worms; the fat-gut worms and other worms are ground together, spices and seasoning added, and it becomes the staple nutrient cake, the staple food of everyone on the Starburst Array.

As for vegetables, rice, wheat, bread and the like, those are things only eaten on major holidays; normally at most some dried vegetables, because they're easy to preserve and transport.

Of course, that's for ordinary people. For a Joint Mage like Radiyad, material security can let him live a life not much different from surface nobility—except that before he became Joint, he had already been sick of the nutrient cake, and now just hearing about the stuff gives him a physiological reaction.

The God Ancestor paid no heed to Radiyad's complaints, silently gathering the dead leaves around it and wrapping the divine light within.

Radiyad sensibly took his leave. God Ancestor, God Ancestor, ancestor of all gods—how could it care about his petty complaints about eating and drinking? Still, he wasn't worried it would get angry.

It's like a stone complaining to you: I'm going to freeze and crack… you wouldn't get angry either.

Don't be fooled by the God Ancestor's lively tone and cadence when speaking—in reality, it's all imitating Radiyad; from an outsider's perspective, it sounds more like a conversation between two Radiyads.

Seed Mage—Radiyad's title sounds impressive, but only he knows that what's impressive is the 'seed'; he's just a farmer, and the God Ancestor is that seed.

Sprinkling the divine light into a bag of rye seeds, Radiyad went back satisfied. He had originally only wanted to get grain seeds with a yield of eight or nine hundred jin, but he didn't expect the God Ancestor to bleed heavily, directly doubling it—sixteen hundred jin.

Heavens, that yield figure is two times higher than the grain seeds used on the Starburst Array. Even if those fellows from the God Realm had the God of Life personally take the field, they couldn't possibly have such a yield. At this, Radiyad was fully confident.

At the moment Radiyad entered that space and the pollen was gathered and sprouted, the God of Life also popped out from Seeing Ange's shoulder: "Something discovered me."

PS: Mid-Autumn Festival, Happy Mid-Autumn, eat mooncakes.