MTLNOVEL Chapter 230: Popular Abilities of the Previous Epochs_2
"Moreover..." Sha Mo lowered his voice, "The current power grid is simple—it's just for powering the Pandora Crystal Stones, and there is no public electricity supply."
"The power is rated, so there aren't many technical difficulties at that level."
Hearing them talk like this, Lu Yuan was worried but could do nothing about it.
After all, time was really pressing.
All of them were struggling against a future where they might die of thirst!
Apart from laying electrical wires, workers from the other two engineering teams were figuring out how to strip the inner ring of Sky City while frantically scavenging for anything they could from the legacy.
The damage to the middle and outer rings was too severe to be repaired with their current capabilities, so they decided to take what they could and pack up everything they could carry!
"It's estimated that the inner ring could be stripped within a year."
"By then, we could try to raise Sky City and leave this place."
...
Days turned into a year in the blink of an eye.
The progress of the construction teams was methodical and fairly smooth.
The water in the reservoir kept decreasing.
The seven oil-digging insects had all hatched, and although they could survive by consuming oil, they also had a significant need for water resources.
In addition, four metal-smelting insects, six that could secrete microbial mats to promote rapid plant growth, and three that could release electric currents had hatched.
The current technology tree was indeed quite chaotic—the technology of the Green Grass Civilization, the Insect Technology, combined with humanity's own pure Physical Technology, made the human civilization look like a wildly growing mess...
Lu Yuan could hardly predict what kind of thinking the next generation bred in this environment might have.
However, he wasn't particularly concerned about it, as development... that was the hard truth!
Who cares about the type of technology!
However, as time passed, the three Worm Kings, burdened with important tasks, had still not returned.
Lu Yuan began to suspect that they might have died out there...
"That shouldn't be..."
"Aren't these insects the drought-resistant type?"
However, other than waiting, he had no other option.
...
On a more personal note, his Soul Full state found a promising opportunity for resolution.
The information on "Ability Merging" was provided by the Mirror [Demon].
This part of the content was quite obscure, and even a powerful civilization like the Green Grass had surprisingly little recorded about it.
Lu Yuan didn't know if it was a case of lost records or if there really were none.
He only found a few sparse papers, mostly speculative in nature.
"The current top tier civilization includes the Great Lai Empire as well as the Gear Civilization. The Great Lai Empire can imprison [Ghosts] and Mirror [Demons], while the Gear Civilization can create Divine Skills."
"As for the Green Grass Civilization, it's considered a second-tier civilization."
"If Green Grass really created gods, then it could count as a first-tier civilization," he rated in his mind.
"Even giants like the Great Lai and Gear Civilization have vanished... the future really is difficult."
Lu Yuan eventually resists the urge to contact the Mirror [Demon], and instead opts to study various documents of the Green Grass Civilization.
[The Origin of Extraordinary Abilities]
[Author: Mu Linsen]
[Exploring the true origins of Extraordinary Abilities is the current focus of research.]
[Through cultural exchanges across several civilizations and investigations of Ancient Relics, we have found some clues.]
[The origins of Extraordinary Abilities have three possible sources...]
[It is important to note that discerning the truth carries significant risks, and in the process of investigating deeper information, it is very likely to trigger attack tendencies of certain "Ghost" level anomalies.]
[Therefore, we can only conduct simple investigations.]
Lu Yuan frowned.
The following description became quite rudimentary, as the author "Mu Linmu" seemed to have deleted much content, making the document somewhat disjointed.
[The birth of the Extraordinary Spark might have occurred towards the end of the Seventh Epoch. Some highly intelligent beings split the Eternal Spark created by the Gear Civilization, resulting in the transferable Extraordinary Spark.]
[Hence, we have reason to suspect that in earlier epochs, there were no Extraordinary Sparks.]
[It is hard to imagine how intelligent life managed to survive in harsh environments during ages without the Extraordinary Spark.]
[However, according to archaeological excavations, we were surprised to find that in even earlier epochs, around the Sixth Epoch, there existed an ability called "Spirit Word".]
[To describe it more precisely, it resembled "magic" in fantasy novels, creating supernatural phenomena by invoking the resonance of Extraordinary Rules through sound waves.]
[Further archaeological investigations suggest that in perhaps the Fourth or Fifth Epoch, there might have existed an ability known as "Powerful Wind".]
[The ability of "Spirit Word" still had an extremely small number of natural births; they were the favored children of heaven.]
[While the ability of "Powerful Wind" no longer exists in the world, which is quite astonishing.]
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[Because, like physical rules, Ideal Rules are something every civilization can utilize, as long as it exists, there will inevitably be naturally occurring entities.]
[Thus we can boldly speculate, the rule of "Powerful Wind" was thoroughly eradicated by some entity... The ability of "Powerful Wind" was very powerful and could erase other Ideal Rules, its combat power far surpassing that of the Extraordinary Spark.]
[But how powerful it actually was, we can no longer determine.]
Archaeological investigations going further back might involve some horrifying entities, with no documentation whatsoever.
Lu Yuan guessed that truly sensitive content could probably only be transmitted via telepathy, without any text or any records.
This was troublesome, as now the Green Grass People were left with only a conch, equivalent to a knowledge gap.
"The ability of Spirit Word, the ability of Powerful Wind... does it mean the further back, the stronger the abilities?"
Following this, the researcher "Lin Senmu" categorized superpowers into three types.
The first type was purely natural, that is, the abilities found on anomalies.
Every new epoch would give birth to some brand new anomalies, and the newly born anomalies might have some relation to the participating civilization.
[They were likely born from beliefs and culture. The history of a civilization is a vast source of Ideal Energy. When countless civilizations converge on the Pangu Continent, triggering massive tidal shocks, new Ideal Rules were created.]
[The limit of this type of ability is the anomaly itself.]
[Because Ideal Rules can be utilized by everyone, there are also individuals naturally born with abilities identical to those of the anomalies. However, because they utilize the rules on a smaller scale, their abilities tend to be weaker than those of the anomalies.]
This paragraph is actually not difficult to understand.
Just as with the law of universal gravitation, others form stars and black holes, while humans can only hop around on the ground; borrowing rules is not so easy.
[The second type of ability is forcibly created. The powerful Gear Civilization created the Eternal Spark.]
[This is quite difficult, requiring massive amounts of energy to provoke historical tidal disturbances, forcibly creating an ability using their own civilization's culture and history.]
[This might require huge sacrifices.]
[This type of ability might not be very strong, but it fits the needs of intelligent life and is suitable for large-scale dissemination.]
[We are thankful for the Gear Civilization, without the Eternal Spark and the Extraordinary Spark, there would be no glory of this Epoch. The Eighth Epoch is long and glorious, and we Green Grass have a chance to escape.]
[The third type of ability might be a split from some superpower.]
[For example, the "Powerful Wind" ability was completely eliminated, leaving only a name, with no traces left behind.]
[But is there a way to preserve it?]
[The answer is yes, if there is a super civilization that quietly splits this Ideal Rule.]
[Future intellectuals who restore the split information might once again form the "Powerful Wind" ability.]
[It is worth noting that the process of restoring information is extremely dangerous.]
[Those civilizations that cannot overcome a "Ghost", seeking superpowers, are only seeking their own demise.]