The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion

Chapter 43. Bread and Fame

Before I properly completed the anti-intellectualism build, I had several transitional periods.

The one I spent the most time on was merging with magic to create monsters or creatures, and using those powerful monsters to conquer the enemy’s world.

It’s a build I’ve completely abandoned now, but the strategy of pressuring with powerful monsters instead of intelligent beings, and with powerful magic and unique creations instead of civilization, was quite useful. At least until the mid-late game.

In the late game, they just armed an enormous number with the power of ＜Technology＞ and ＜Industry＞, made things like nuclear bombs, and bombarded me. The combination of ＜Life＞ and ＜Mystery＞. Its peak was clearly lower than the harmony of ＜Technology＞ and ＜Industry＞.

And the top players, as if it were natural, mixed ＜Technology＞, ＜Mystery＞, and ＜Industry＞ to create magical nuclear bombs that swept the planet’s surface.

Can you compete? No matter how strong a creature is, it’s still a creature.

From the point when the enemy’s ＜Technology＞ level roughly exceeds 23, no creature can withstand the attacks of a developed civilization. Even if you pour all the monster abilities into it, 26 levels?

The unique creations that were leveled up to the same level could hold out a bit at that point, but that’s all. No matter how strong a unique creation is, it can’t overthrow a civilization alone.

Of course, this only happens in the late game. But since I was going to the final battle, I couldn’t use a build that became useless after level 23, so I switched to a different build.

But the experience remains.

I’ve experienced ‘creating abnormally strong monsters’ thousands of times in the form of a game. Naturally, I’ve created many ecosystems close to fantasy. I’ve tested the harmony of monsters and civilization, or fantasy civilizations using creatures, many times.

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If their world is a celestial one, I’ll just create a world tailored to the celestial.

“Wouldn’t it bring hardship rather than prosperity to your world, is that okay?”

“Oh? Hardship.”

“Not just simple disasters, but hardships that can train your heroes to be stronger.”

“If that’s the case, then it’s fine. Do as you please.”

Good. Then I’ve got permission for the direction.

First, I observe the opponent’s world more. Since this is not my world, 『Divine Unity』 doesn’t work, so I have to check it directly.

And I infer the build of this dinosaur immortal, Mihun, by looking at the world.

In the game, the core is still a few top entities that are strong beyond common sense. Should I call them cultivators since it’s a celestial style?

At this point, the most powerful hero in all worlds is the dinosaur monk named [Yeon Dan-woo] of this world.

His abilities are 2.5 times that of Yogo-Tosos. Yogo-Tosos can wipe out an entire civilization. With a monster of this caliber, there would be no one to rival him in defense or attack.

And if Yeon Dan-woo is close to being a ‘very ordinary monk’ who trains alone, the epic-level 5th-level monks have formed sects, raising disciples or children to compete with each other. It’s absurd to think that they haven’t surpassed Neolithic-level technology.

However, surprisingly, some of the houses were properly built.

By ‘properly,’ I mean they had a structured design. The ones building them were a race that looked like giant hermit crabs, but they were intelligent beings, not beasts.

“That race over there, they seem to be treated differently from others.”

“Did you notice? They are the race of my assistant. By passing on a few construction methods, I brought workers from there and employed them.”

I see. That assistant seems to have some expertise in 〈industry〉 and 〈technology〉.

Anyway, the magic these monks learned required all of 〈strength〉, 〈dexterity〉, 〈intelligence〉, 〈charisma〉, 〈spirit〉, and 〈magic〉, which was absurd.

Usually, magic requires only one or two abilities, but this one needed all of them, making it ridiculously difficult to master, but equally powerful.

In this world of poor civilization, the high-level terrain supports the maintenance costs of such powerful heroes. The level of the terrains embedded in the world was incomprehensibly high.

“I want to confirm, did you enhance the terrain with traits?”

“Did you figure it out? I purchased a mythical trait during the shop phase. Even so, it was far from enough to exhibit the original physical abilities of the main body, but it helped quite a bit.”

『Wu Wei: The growth of one terrain does not hinder the growth of another, and any terrain can overlap. All terrains in the world gain an additional level +5 advantage depending on the degree of uncultivation, and the places that receive the maximum level bonus are always prosperous and not subject to disasters.』

Ah. This. It’s the trait used for so-called wild-nature conservation play. I wanted to get it too, but he took it?

In short, he’s receiving a crazy level bonus by barely cultivating the world. The places that are cultivated are only doing minimal agriculture.

In a way, the starting point is similar to mine. First, raise the terrain level, then raise the most powerful creatures based on that. The only difference is the direction, whether to raise many and various creatures or focus on a few.

With the terrain level being ridiculously high and overall elevated, the magic extracted from the terrain would be beyond imagination. Is that how they grow the monks and also cover the enormous magic and maintenance costs consumed by high-level monks? The build itself is really similar to mine.

“You didn’t create a spiritual realm?”

“Do you use crutches when your legs are fine?”

It’s like cutting off perfectly fine legs and modifying them into cyborgs.

I understood the build, so I examine the species of this mountainous terrain.

Since it hasn’t been cultivated at all, the nature itself is healthy, but the ecosystem is not.

The fragment of the god (though this term is a bit laughable now) only provides 10 square kilometers of land, so a variety of species cannot appear.

First, I increase the species inhabiting this place by more than 150 times. That’s the first step.

The most noteworthy terrain here is…

《Mystical Cave LV.9: A passage leading to the 《Great Underground》. It absorbs the flow of the surrounding terrain and turns it into the pure essence of magic, [Gongcheong Seokyu].》

Anyway, it’s a mystical cave that would appear in a martial arts world. The strongest entity in this world, Ahn Yeon-woo, is also training here.

Unlike the Nectar Spring, which lacks nutrients, this place focuses on creating elixirs that greatly enhance the character’s abilities.

I first created the insects. These insects, which were almost non-existent in this world, are not alive because they are useful, but simply because they can live.

These insects feed on the resources of this rich mountain range, which are located between terrain levels 7 and 10, in other words, they suck the magic power of the ecosystem called the mountain.

Those on the sky islands burrow into the solid clouds, while those on the ground suck the nutrients from the crops in the fields. And most importantly, they very slowly suck the dew of the celestial oil in the caves and grow into a kind of magical creature.

The important thing is that these guys only suck the excess magic power that the terrain cannot properly condense. It would be a contradiction if they harmed the main function of the terrain.

Then, I evolve them in large quantities. Fifteen different species. And I diversify these fifteen species into at least twenty species each, creating three hundred species of insects.

This way, instead of a specific species becoming overwhelmingly dominant, the foundation becomes strong, minimizing the consumption of precious elixirs while extracting everything that can be extracted.

“Uh, um? What is the point of creating such insignificant creatures?”

Wait. I haven’t even started yet.

Next, I increase the plant species. These are not ordinary weeds either.

They are creatures that suck the power of the earth itself and contain magic power within their bodies. It is important to ensure that they do not excessively extract the nutrients of the earth, but still extract them.

“Are you artificially creating spiritual plants now? The attempt is commendable, but it won’t be of much significance…”

Ah. Just. Wait.

Let’s call them spiritual plants since you called them that. Plants that contain magic within their bodies, or those with properties similar to herbs.

Usually, even if you create such creatures, they will just be pushed out in the survival competition of the natural world.

Just because they contain magic within their bodies doesn’t mean they can shoot fire or anything. Instead, they become strange creatures that unnecessarily store magic power.

That’s why the aforementioned insects are needed. The insects feed on the magic power of the spiritual plants and perform magic around them.

The insects cannot synthesize magic power on their own, so they rely on the magic power of the spiritual plants. Here, I boldly evolve them so that the insects instinctively become farmers managing the spiritual plants.

It’s not unnatural. Some acacia trees have the function of feeding ants within their bodies. Because by doing so, the ants will naturally remove all the surrounding weeds and catch other pests.

Some ants even farm mushrooms. Real farming. They instinctively control the temperature and humidity within the ant nest to create the optimal environment for mushrooms to grow and eat those mushrooms.

These guys will farm the spiritual plants in a similar way. The insects can perform magic with weak willpower and do everything with strong magic, including courtship, survival, and hunting.

As a result, the weak spiritual plants adapt to the insects and gradually contain more magic power for them, and the insects evolve madly (I also accelerate the evolution), resulting in the creation of noble spiritual plants and a legion of insects protecting them.

Naturally, the place where these spiritual plants directly grow is the “Mysterious Cave.”

The spiritual plants here eat the celestial oil and contain more powerful magic than anything else, and they also draw the flow of celestial oil into their roots, increasing the total amount of celestial oil produced.

“Oh! How is this possible! Can spiritual plants be cultivated in this way?”

And the insects that eat these spiritual plants and contain magic are eaten by newly created intermediate predators, such as lizards or bats. These intermediate predators become magical beasts by eating the magical insects.

And these intermediate predators are eaten by larger predators again. Birds that eat bats, foxes that eat lizards, etc. They also contain higher quality magic.

This process is repeated. Although it is called a mountain range, the actual distance that can be traveled is limited. Unique spiritual plants grow in specific areas of each mountain, forming different ecosystems in each place.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be spiritual plants. There are minerals and special animals too.

The high “magic power” created by the terrain. When creatures eat and reproduce it, the intermediate process increases, so the energy conversion efficiency continues to decrease, but the total amount of energy produced and the total amount itself increase.

This is the effect of life.

Repeat this again. Repeat, repeat, and repeat again. The important thing is to maintain balance. If the balance is broken here, the spiritual herbs and elixirs we aim for will be devoured by other beings.

By the time it was finished, the world’s famous mountains and important landmarks were filled with the most powerful magical spiritual herbs, the insects that guarded them, the creatures that ate those insects, and all sorts of unique and powerful higher entities that protected the spiritual herbs.

These higher entities alone formed a kind of defense line that protected the world. Mediocre worlds couldn’t even enter.

A world full of magical tigers, magical bats, giant crocodiles, and all sorts of other monsters and magical plants. It looked like the world was ruled by monsters rather than humans, so in a normal world, it would just threaten civilization.

But it’s okay. The heroic entities of this world, in other words, the monks, will defeat them. Even an ordinary person in that world might occasionally defeat them and obtain an elixir, which could lead them to the path of cultivation.

In other words, I made a world that looked more like a world of immortals because it seemed boring with only humans. A world overflowing with monsters and elixirs. The level of culture and terrain in this world is so high that it keeps growing.

As a result, the world’s life and mystery scores increased by nearly 20,000 points each, the terrain level increased by a total of 7, and the faith level also increased. The military also increased significantly.

“Now there’s no need to explain further. If you defeat those unique and powerful entities, you will get elixirs. Eating those elixirs will greatly help the heroes in their training. Going to the most dangerous mountain locations to pick the spiritual herbs directly is also a kind of training.”

Mihun seemed genuinely impressed. He opened his fan wide and laughed heartily.

“This is truly amazing! If you had produced the spiritual herbs by sucking up the earth’s energy and then boasted about making elixirs, you would have been accused of insulting the main event.”

Is there anything more you can do besides pointing me out in the next match? I don’t lose easily.

“But to think that you increased the number of elixirs without causing any harm to the earth’s energy, no, rather increasing the earth’s energy! This is not just a skill, it’s truly a kind of immortal art!”

“The mechanism to increase production itself is simple, but balancing the ecosystem is not an easy skill, and something could go wrong. Call me whenever that happens.”

Mihun spoke leisurely, fanning himself with great satisfaction.

“Haha. I never thought the ecological consultant would be this excellent. I thought I could owe you a debt by solving the problems of your world, but it seems I’ve ended up being indebted instead.”

Well, that can happen.

But Mihun showed a strange curiosity.

“In that sense, I ask, while understanding your world in detail, why haven’t you taught the earth’s way (geodao) to anyone in your world, even though you have the ability to enhance the fragments of the main event?”

“In my ecosystem, where intelligence is low and mental strength is weak, magic is impossible. Charm-based magic is too stressful to handle.”

“No, no, not magic or sorcery, but the earth’s way. Ah, now I see, since there’s a guardian deity of the nectar spring, it’s not that you can’t use it at all. But that’s because it’s a guardian deity bound to the land… The world has spiritual lands and the earth veins are fully connected, so is there something else you want to do?”

“?”

What is he talking about… I stared blankly, and suddenly Mihun gave a refreshingly bright smile with that tyrannosaurus face.

“Even a beast without intelligence can learn the beast’s way, and even if it can’t read the heavenly signs, it can learn the earth’s way if it understands the geography. So, do you have any thoughts of learning and teaching it to your world?”

…Maybe the monster build can go a bit beyond level 23.