Chapter 769 - 441: Death Cruise
The remaining information on the corpse was thoroughly extracted by Xue Dili and the Mimic Venerable King. To be honest, aside from the information potentially related to the Seventh Apostle, the rest of the intelligence was utterly meaningless.
It was even possible to discern that the opposite world was still a technology-based world, where the application of Magic was quite shallow. However, in terms of technology, it was at least at a pre-World War I level, as evidenced by the special "Magic Guide products" in his possession.
The Mimic Venerable King directly analyzed: "A special Magic Guide product, a pocket watch, used to measure time and remind the owner."
"And this, this Magic Guide product could likely be used for remote communication with specific individuals, but it should be limited to point-to-point communication, unable to perform precise random communications."
Beyond that, there wasn’t much information left.
This corpse belonged to an indigenous individual from a civilization roughly at a pre-World War I level, who could crudely use Magic Power, albeit just enough to slightly clear his mind. Meanwhile, he suffered inhuman torture before his death, and according to the Mimic Venerable King’s analysis, he wasn’t dead when his organs were harvested.
The scene was rather horrific, but Xue Dili roughly understood what the world under the Seventh Apostle’s rule would be like.
An Apostle born of fear, it’s likely the entire world resembled the world controlled by Demons. Xue Dili wasn’t surprised since the Demons from Susu’s homeland were originally modeled after the Seventh Apostle, which reveals a glimpse of the situation.
Despite any differences, the underlying logic remains the same. The Seventh Apostle would ensure everyone provides fear to him as much as possible while ensuring they die as little as possible. Moreover, there must be some excuse to occasionally let the Divine Tree feed, ensuring its smooth development.
Perhaps because He focused too much on extracting fear, there were fewer fruits from the Divine Tree, leading to His power being surpassed by the Eighth Apostle.
Xue Dili roughly shared his reasoning with the Mimic Venerable King and elaborated on the living conditions of the people under the Demons’ rule at the time.
"I understand, an Apostle who imprisons and tortures humans... Should I say He lacks ambition, or is He twisted?" the Mimic Venerable King couldn’t help but quip.
Given His deep understanding of the nature of Apostles, it felt strange when He noticed the Seventh Apostle’s power was somewhat weaker.
To put it this way, if the Twelfth Apostle’s frontal strength is 1, representing a standard Apostle Level with control authority, Xue Dili’s current strength is approximately 0.8. The Eighth Apostle’s combat power is about 20, the Ninth Apostle’s combat power is around 6, and the Sixth Apostle’s combat power is about 50...
But the Seventh Apostle, his combat power is only around 10.
Though this power level is still a vast chasm to the 0.8 power of Xue Dili, and in direct combat, He would be easily overpowered, but compared to the Sixth Apostle beforehand, the difference is enormous...
And the Sixth Apostle’s strength wasn’t even in his true form, but rather his swarm. Even so, the Seventh Apostle being this much weaker compared to the former, and also lower than the subsequent one, was astonishing.
It must be said, it’s genuinely funny how mediocre he is.
But this is good news for Xue Dili and the Mimic Venerable King fragment.
"Your Majesty, dare to join me in attacking the Seventh Apostle?" Xue Dili said sinisterly.
"Of course! I can’t hold back any longer!" If the Mimic Venerable King had a face, his grin would be harder to suppress than an AK.
Though the purpose of this fragment is merely to protect Xue Dili, now that there’s an opportunity to touch an Apostle’s tail, He naturally wouldn’t miss it.
Simultaneously, He was intrigued by the subspace fishing spot of the Earth Consciousness, curious about how this consciousness of such an obscure planet managed to land so many good things.
In the subspace, it’s a mix of everything; catching something valuable there is rarer than catching king crabs and sea urchins while coastal fishing.
However, this could be addressed later, as the Mimic Venerable King contemplated whether to invest some cost in openly trading for this planet’s subspace point, allowing Himself to explore it in the future.
But this would have to wait until they returned.
As He contemplated subspace matters, He was also calculating the coordinates on the corpse in His mind.
This corpse had a peculiar piece of information—multiple coordinates on its body.
For the Mimic Venerable King, the essence of coordinates is the information left after material exchange within the creature’s body belonging to that world, enabling the reverse deduction of the micro-particles’ location in the Cosmos.
Generally speaking, a creature typically has a complete micro-particle replacement throughout their body every decade.
Breathing, drinking, eating...all material exchanges with the outside world gradually turn the matter from other worlds into a part of your body.
Hence, a normal person usually has only one coordinate, while those who teleport and shuttle around would have multiple different coordinates.
This corpse was such an instance, possessing as many as seven coordinates, prompting the Mimic Venerable King to consider which coordinate was most needed.
The first was the coordinate at his wound, highly likely related to the creature that tortured and killed him.