Chapter 12: This race really can't sink any lower!

T04 World Region,

Dust World,

Logan returned to the World Fragment, and a large log prompt popped up before him—

[Log]: You consumed the special effect "Slaughter Will"!

[Log]: You consumed 3,500 Faith Points, selecting 35 Second Order Goblin Elites, advancing them to Third Order Master level Slaughter Goblins!

[Log]: You consumed the special effect "Desire for Reproduction"!

[Log]: You consumed 1,414 Faith Points, selecting all Goblins, endowing them with the Desire for Reproduction!

[Log]: One Shot Soul Entry probability increased by 50%, Desire for Reproduction increased by 100%, breeding time reduced by 200%, offspring quality reduced by no more than 5%!

[Log]: The Followers under your command in the Goblin Tribe have produced another 1,200 bottles of reproduction potion!

[Log]: Your Followers under command, the Slaughter Goblins, have initiated hunting operations, hunting Zero Tier lifeforms*149, First Tier Steelback Boars*13, and First Tier Horn Scale Serpents*28!

[Log]: Faith Points +149+130+280=559!

[Log]: You harvested the dropped special effect "Blood of Hunting"*37!

[Log]: You harvested the dropped special effect "Steelback"*11!

[Log]: You harvested the dropped Limited Special Effect "Heavy Armor"*1!

[Log]: You harvested the dropped special effect "Snake Armor"*17!

[Log]: You harvested the dropped special effect "Shadow Bloodline"*13!

[Log]: Certain special effects exceed 10 in number, would you like to consume 1000 Faith Points per item to crystallize them?

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Blood of Hunting is commonly dropped by wild beasts; it's a special effect that lets life forms adapt to Spiritual Energy, applicable for Zero Tier breaking through to First Tier.

Snake Armor and Steelback are the same type of special effects, both being physical enhancement types, applicable for First Tier breaking through to Second Tier.

"New special effects are out, and there's even a limited special effect!"

Excitement appeared in Logan's eyes,

"Special Effects Crystallization?"

"Does this mean that once crystallized, they won't be directly consumed when used and can be used repeatedly?"

Seeing the last part gave him a sudden jolt.

Throughout, every hunted creature was bound to drop something, but what was dropped could not be controlled.

Logan always worried some special effects, once used, might not be dropped again.

Now, with the appearance of a crystallization function, it directly relieved his concerns, the only worry being that more than ten are needed to crystallize,

"Better to have some than none, let's crystallize first."

Holding a hundred Faith Crystals, equivalent to 100,000 Faith Points, Logan was now financially robust.

With a grand gesture, he crystallized everything!

[Log]: You consumed 4,000 Faith Points to crystallize the special effects "Steelback," "Snake Armor," "Blood of Hunting," "Shadow Bloodline" altogether.

[Log]: Detected that "Snake Armor" and "Shadow Bloodline" can be fused, would you like to consume 10,000 Faith Points to proceed with the fusion?

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"Special Effect Fusion?"

Reluctantly, Logan thought to himself; never before had he seen so many functions in the System, nor had it looked so desperate for "money,"

"True, previously my Faith Points savings had never exceeded 1,000, even the most basic Special Effect Crystallization function couldn't be activated..."

"My grand dropping system doesn't help the penniless, huh."

Although he didn't know what would result from the fusion, Logan didn't hesitate and directly chose to fuse—

[Log]: You consumed 10,000 Faith Points to fuse the special effects "Snake Armor" and "Shadow Bloodline"!

[Log]: You obtained the Legendary Occupation "Shadow Hunter" (Incomplete)!

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"A Legendary Occupation, though an occupation can only represent the potential ceiling, doesn't mean one will necessarily reach that level."

"But Professionals and ordinary Spiritual Energy practitioners are very different, even in Blue Star, a Legendary Occupation could be worth quite a few Faith Crystals, not bad."

Logan then opened the information for the Limited Special Effects "Heavy Armor" and "Shadow Hunter" to view their descriptions—

[Type]: Limited Special Effect

[Name]: Heavy Armor

[Effect]: Upon using Heavy Armor, a set of ultra-heavy armor is generated on the skin surface, inseparable, self-repairable if damaged! (Limited to one life form use)

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[Type]: Occupation

[Name]: Shadow Hunter

[Quality]: Legendary (Incomplete)

[Special Effect 1]: Affinity with the Shadows allows moving in the shadows, but attacking will cause one to fall out of the shadows!

[Special Effect 2]: After falling out of the shadows, agility and damage increase by 30% for a short time!

[Special Effect 3]: When facing targets with high intelligence (such as magical system professionals, long-range professions), agility and damage further increase by 30%!

[Note]: This profession currently has only first and second tiers; subsequent tiers need to integrate new effects matching the profession!

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"The scouts have their role before the new main profession is acquired; for now, the Slaughter Goblin remains the main force of the army in its nascent form."

Logan slightly pursed his lips. The Shadow Hunter was simple—only a portion of Goblins needed to switch to this profession. However, the Limited Special Effect Heavy Armor was challenging,

"Especially since it's a limited special effect, it's likely to be obtained only this once."

"But this effect is clearly more suited to Giantkind or Giant Beastkind."

"Even for the strongest Goblin Chieftain, it would be a waste to bestow it upon him."

"Let's just keep it for now."

Logan recalled that Ximen Qing decided to launch into World War with the Dragon Taming World in ten days.

Yet, with the current population and military power of the Goblin World, it was clear they couldn't participate,

"But it's not like there's no way."

When the Goblin Tribe could traverse this World Fragment, the original iota of World Will had completely vanished, and Logan had become the "World Will" of this World Fragment, truly replacing the heavenly heart with his own!

But for him, this was already familiar territory; he had tired of it during Hyperdimensional Simulations. As the dominator of his own World Fragment, consuming Faith Points could accelerate the flow of time, and of course, other Deity Players could also achieve this within their respective worlds, as long as they had Faith Points.

Logan began to tally his remaining Faith Points,

"One Faith Crystal is a thousand points, a hundred crystals equal a hundred thousand Faith Points."

"I used some just now, but I still have ninety-six thousand seven hundred-plus Faith Points left, enough to accelerate the flow of time."

"The World Fragment is the smallest at Dust Class; currently, the highest Spiritual Energy level is only third order. Accelerating time a hundredfold should cost about three thousand Faith Points a day!"

"Being small isn't without its benefits."

"Thank goodness I harvested a bunch of deity players from other T World Communities, or else I wouldn't even be able to afford half a day's worth of Time Acceleration!"

Logan, embodied with crimson eyes, instantly soared into the sky, dissolving into countless blood-red specks that merged into this World Fragment.

Control!

Unlimited Power!

These two words were Logan's first feeling after becoming the World Will, the moment he truly felt like a Deity, all-powerful, the god within this World Fragment!

"Accelerate time!"

Logan made a request to the elusive rules; the next moment, the stored Faith Crystals hummed and instantly 32 crystals, equivalent to 32,000 Faith Points, evaporated.

Even Logan, now the World Will, felt a bit of pain at that moment, quickly reassuring himself,

"No worries, didn't the Goblin Tribe just produce twelve hundred bottles of High-efficiency Reproduction Potion?"

"I'll just harvest some more from the T Forum."

Of course, Faith Points weren't spent in vain; the moment after the Faith Crystals disappeared.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

It was like the sound of countless rivers scouring hard slabs emerged at the bottom of Logan's heart, followed by the "concept" of an infinitely long and large river flowing in his consciousness—

The River of Time!

He saw an almost invisible, seemingly nonexistent tributary within the River of Time quietly speeding up a bit...

The flow of time, began to accelerate!

One hundred times!

Ten days, one hundredfold, which is about a thousand days, roughly equivalent to three years.

"That's enough!"

Logan exited the state of World Will. He was above the World Fragment but couldn't merge into it; everything inside the world seemed to have hit the fast-forward button, blurring his vision,

"Goblins inherently have a short lifespan, reproduce very quickly, and have very short development times; a litter can have seven or eight young..."

"After amplifying their desire for reproduction, it only takes two months for a breeding cycle, and Goblin offspring need only four months from birth to adulthood. Of course, the trade-off is a negligible 5% decrease in the quality of descendants, at most."

"Especially with time acceleration, ten days being equivalent to three years, enough for the Goblin Tribe to breed six generations."

"For other races, this might be a terrifying drop, potentially reducing the quality of new generations by as much as 30%!"

"This could even alter the future of a race, enough to downgrade low-level Monarch Species into high-level War Races..."

"But what is my Follower Race?"

"It's Goblins!"

"Don't talk about 30%, even another drop of 30%, that's still about the same!"

"This race really couldn't get any lower!"

Having done all this, Logan was preparing to rest well and wait for the big battle in ten days, but then he was disturbed by a vibrating sound coming from the T Forum.

Looking at the vibrating T Forum, he couldn't help but feel puzzled,

"Really, what now?"