The 'Great Dream' civilization was a rank 12 force with only one universal law. It was a typical rank 12 force, not too weak or too strong.
Among rank 12 civilizations, the determining factor in power is how close they are to acquiring their second universal law. As long as they obtain more than one universal law, they will be considered a 13th-rank civilization.
For this reason, all of them are fervently striving to discover complete laws to reverse-engineer universal laws from them. This process is very delicate.
It requires a lot of computing power and creativity. Different civilizations have different ways to go about it.
The 'Great Dream's' approach is to let its subordinate worlds handle it. It has countless rank 10 and 11 subordinate worlds, each working hard to discover complete laws.
Every complete law can give rise to a rank 10 world. For instance, the complete law of space alone can create an independent world in which time would be substituted with other incomplete laws.
Of course, with an incomplete law of time, it would be much smaller and more limited than a rank 11 world, and its expiration date would come much faster, but it can operate as it should.
Space and time are the two most widely recognized complete laws, and most civilizations use them to form worlds.
'Great Dream' is the main producer of time and space complete laws, which brought them great profits.
There are certain conditions to consider.
To produce a complete law, one must clearly understand its underlying universal law. For example, time and space stem from the universal law of 'existence.'
'Great Dream' civilization owns the license to the universal law of 'existence,' allowing them to create complete laws of time and space very efficiently.
Other civilizations can make time and space complete laws, but they are nowhere as efficient as 'Great Dream' because they do not have as clear of an understanding of the universal law of 'existence' as 'Great Dream' does.
All complete laws are like this; everyone can make them as long as they have some understanding of the underlying Universal law—the more detailed the understanding, the less effort and resources it takes to make them.
But no matter how much one understands a universal law, one can only use it with a license!
Getting an understanding of Universal law is difficult but possible.
But getting a license might be impossible.
First, one must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms of the universal law. This is why everyone collects so many complete laws – to grasp the underlying universal law.
However, they still cannot use the universal law even after that.
The reason is not having the license.
There are only three rank 14 civilizations in the universe. One of them is known as the 'office.' Its primary purpose is to license as many universal laws as possible.
Universal laws are based on 'the creation,' one must have at least some knowledge of 'the creation' to be able to utilize them.
No rank 13 force can achieve this condition. So, 'the office' will issue a non-transferable token to the first civilization that discovers the universal law.
For this reason, the first who discovers a universal law is the only one who can use it.
Civilizations below rank 14 can only use the universal laws they themselves have discovered.
Moreover, Universal law licenses cannot be plundered, since the token is non-transferable.
This diminishes the motive for starting a war.
The only scenario where conflict might arise is in the pursuit of discovering complete laws.
In general, civilizations create worlds to uncover complete laws.
What prevents other civilizations from infiltrating these worlds and stealing the complete laws?
It's the world shield.
World shield is the most powerful layer of defense.; breaching it will consume immense resources, which makes it not worth doing it in the first place.
Once the world shield is breached, most civilizations typically abandon that world because removing infiltrators may cost more than the complete law they are trying to discover.
However, 'Great Dream' wasn't planning to do that this time. They were determined to purge 'Rachel' because they were familiar with this civilization.
A long time ago, a new civilization suddenly emerged in the universe. Initially, it wasn't taken seriously, but soon, everyone started paying attention.
This civilization, named 'Rachel,' excelled at infiltrating worlds!
It started infiltrating innumerable worlds, stealing complete laws, and, with them, reverse-engineering countless Universal laws.
Today, it is a very powerful rank 13 force.
However, it attracted a massive backlash due to its actions. All other bellow rank 14 forces decided to purge it from any world it infiltrated.
...
"Rachel again?" said a humanoid named Oll.
"Again!" answered a female voice named Ioa.
"Pity," said Oll, one of the creators of that world named W105N.
"Purge it?" asked Ioa.
Purging the world means wiping out everything, resetting the river of time, and shrinking the space, essentially starting over.
There is a significant cost associated with these actions, but it's better to do it now than wait for time to exhaust and space to reach heat death.
"Not now. I recently acquired another 'Rachel' specimen, and I believe I'm making progress," said Oll.
Only a few billion years ago, he obtained a major 'incarnation' of Rachel and has been attempting to hack it ever since. He has failed until now but continues to try.
Acquiring 'Rachel's' incarnations is not particularly difficult, but they are mostly empty shells lacking valuable secrets. Only the main incarnation in each world may contain important information.
"I'm going to check the new one. If it is a major incarnation, my research may have a breakthrough," said Oll.
"In the meantime, speed up time in W105N by ten times," Oll said.
Time in 'Great Dream's' worlds is usually synchronized with the universal time, but it can be adjusted.
"Do it again?" asked Ioa.
"Yeah, the old plan," said Oll.
Ioa nodded and disappeared.
...
Dyer was playing with a spell crystal in his hand. It was the rank 10 'perfect shield' spell.
In this world, nothing can penetrate through this defense. At least, this is how it's supposed to be, but Dyer had no confidence that this is true.
"Something terrifying is in hell, something that cannot even be defended against by a rank 10 spell." he thought with fear.
In this world, all rank 10 spells are based on either the complete law of time, space, or both. However, time and space are expansive, so there are spells of every type based on them. 'Perfect shield,' for example, can defend against any attack that affects space and time.
It should mean everything. But in reality, not every attack affects space and time. If the 'perfect shield' is attacked by another complete law, it's just a normal shield and can break.
Or, if it's attacked by another spell based on space and time, it still might break.
So, the name 'perfect shield' is actually not suitable. If it were up to Dyer, he would have chosen 'all-around shield,' as it can defend against all types of attacks but is not 'perfect'.
Today, after absorbing the inheritance that Doris left behind, he understands much more about what a rank 10 law is.
A rank 10 law doesn't naturally exist; it must be created with one's knowledge and understanding.
Dyer did not succeed because of the limited nature of this world.
This world is isolated from the universe, so naturally, one cannot obtain all understanding for creating complete law from this world alone.
Only by studying items from outside the world does one have a chance.
They can study all they want, but the final piece just isn't in the world.
For example, Dyer is very knowledgeable, knows a lot about everything, and is confident he can reach rank 10 if he knows some crucial details, but finding those last steps is nearly impossible.
"This is all by design! The creators don't want us to reach rank 10!"
he believes that if he were in the vaster universe, he would already have reached rank 10.
nowadays, he doubts everything related to the Creators.
He even has some thoughts about his third eye.
Dyer also has some understanding of what happens after one reaches rank 10.
After reaching rank 10, a complete law appears in the body. It is wholly controlled by the person who made it and cannot be taken away without greatly damaging the complete law.
A damaged complete law is no longer a 'complete law.'
As for Doris, it was frankly the system that discovered the complete law, not Doris.
Nothing was actually taken away.
All the power was the system's; Doris was only borrowing it. That's why, after the system left, she was left with nothing.
Dyer was very impressed with the system's methods of deception.
It preys on people already susceptible to the belief that 'transmigrators get a system' and makes them trust it; when it's time, it dumps them!
He had already searched for information about Doris and learned about the world she came from.
Many rumors about the 'system' were spread in that world, even though that world was an energy desert with no magic.
"I feel like the dangers are great no matter what I do. For now, let's do nothing." he thought.
...
Corey was looking at the system interface.
"The system is repairing,"
he sighed.
After that girl had tried to hack his system many times, she finally broke it, so the system went into repair mode.
After that, The girl just let him go! He didn't believe it at first, but it was true.
"She knows where I am at all times! I'm still a prisoner, just the prison is the entire hell!"
He just started training his eyes.
Now, he knows his abilities.
His left eye can create illusions, while the right eye can break illusions. These powers are strong; he can even draw in a rank 4 demon with illusions. However, in front of that woman, they were a joke.
"Sigh, why do I deserve this?"
...
Zagronan reached a new continent.
"Lana, we are finally about to have some more fun!"
"Yay," she smiled cutely.
At least, Zagronan thought it was cute.
...
Red was sleeping.
"Wake up!" said Rachel.
"No, I want to sleep some more!"
"I'm serious! Wake up! Your mother will return today!" one of her incarnations predicted Red's future and concluded this.
"Mother is finally coming?" Red was surprised.
His mother was supposed to come soon, but after many years, she still hadn't returned.
"Just remember, nothing about me can be known! Lately, many want to find me!"
"I know!" Red answered.
He reached rank 1 with the help of the pills many years ago and started speaking to her since then.
After a while, a massive dragon with a wingspan of more than 1000 meters arrived.
For dragons, size is not truly related to power.
His mother, also nicknamed Red, is a rank 6 dragon.
"Mom," said Red, who was smiling after seeing her mom after many years.
Some describe colored dragons as chaotic.
This is fake news spread by people with a certain agenda, based on what his mom told him.
"Red dragons are the most benevolent dragons you can find" is a quote from Senior Red, his mom.
"My child! I see that you are very talented! Congratulations on your advancement!" she said.
Red hugged his mom.
Rachel was speechless. "This is just way too different from what I expected! Are dragons benevolent?"
Then, Senior Red took out some humanoid bodies.
"Honey, these are the best food in hell! They are called humans. Eat them once, and they become your favorite food forever!" she said with love.
Rachel sighed. "They may be benevolent, but definitely not from a human's perspective!"
Red, who was clueless about what humans were, smiled and happily started eating.
The humans were still alive and started screaming, running in all directions, but Red paid no attention and started hunting and eating them happily. After all, he is used to doing it to animals; humans are no different for him.
"I love it! The best ever! Thanks, Mom!" Red licked his lips.
For some unknown reason, all hell creators loved human/elf meat.
Red's mother also smiled lovingly and flew away again...
...
Rachel Number 144 sighed with disappointment.
Her new host was a soldier on a mortal continent. She wanted to kill him, but she couldn't bring herself to.
After all, she was not a demon, and just killing someone for no reason other than being unlucky enough to pick her up didn't sit well with her.
"I'm not going to poison him, but I hope he dies in war!"
She had already fed him the 100 pills required, so he was her host officially.
The man, who had a tall nose, a skinny face, and a muscular body, opened the pill container again and swallowed one pill.
Then, he went out to train to kill the invaders from 'Slow Mountain' State!