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"So, all those movies, TV shows, novels, anime, and manga I watched in my previous life... did they all come about this way?"
At this very moment, George was reminded of his previous life.
He made a bold guess: the world he lived in during his previous life might have also had a Creator.
This Creator, much like Ilúvatar, had likely received storybooks left behind by one or several passing Creators and had subsequently integrated those stories into their own world.
As a result, the humans in his world, during their creative processes, manifested these stories in many different forms.
However, he guessed that the Creator of his previous world probably wasn't very powerful. After all, the world of his past life was just an ordinary world, devoid of any extraordinary powers.
Uh... perhaps.
He suddenly realized that in his previous life, he was just an ordinary person. Even if there truly were extraordinary powers in the world, he wouldn't have been able to discover them, would he?
But that wasn't important now. In any case, he was no longer in that world.
If his strength was sufficient in the future and he had the opportunity, he would definitely go back and take a look.
What he was more concerned about now was who had sent him to the Marvel world and given him the ability to create doppelgangers in various worlds.
Regardless of who it was, he was grateful to them.
If not for this powerful entity, he would still be living the life of an ordinary wage-earner, worrying daily about his house, car, and kids.
A meager lifespan of a hundred years—or perhaps not even living that long—before dying from an accident or illness.
How could it compare to his current situation, where he not only possessed unimaginable power but also had so many fascinating experiences?
As for whether the other party did this for fun, on a whim, or had some ulterior motive, that was a matter for the future.
With his current level of strength, he probably hadn't even registered on that entity's radar.
Reining in his distracting thoughts, George stopped dwelling on these issues that were currently irrelevant. He got down to business, beginning to ask Ilúvatar for guidance on how to perfect his own small world.
Creating a world belonging to him and advancing to the Single Universe level—that was the most important task at hand.
If he couldn't reach the Single Universe level, even surviving in the Chaos would be a problem.
In response to George's request for guidance, Ilúvatar was also very true to his word and began to instruct him with great diligence.
In truth, while it was called guidance, it was also a mutual exchange of knowledge and learning.
Although George's strength was not equal to Ilúvatar's—or more accurately, they weren't on the same level at all—he had his own advantages. The laws of his small world were derived from the magic he had learned in various worlds, all by "taking the essence and discarding the dross."
Therefore, even Ilúvatar benefited greatly after coming to understand many of the laws contained within it.
They provided Ilúvatar with significant inspiration.
If one looked closely, the benefits Ilúvatar gained were considerably greater than those George received.
George was already at the peak of the Skyfather level, just a single step away from entering the Single Universe level, both in terms of his individual strength and his small world.
Even without Ilúvatar's guidance, he could have achieved the breakthrough on his own in, at most, a few decades or a century.
Ilúvatar, on the other hand, was in the initial stage just after breaking through to the Multiverse level. Barring any special circumstances, it was already very difficult for him to make any significant new progress.
If he wanted to advance to the next level, the time required was simply incalculable.
That was why he idly spent his time, day after day, watching the development of his Middle-earth in endless loops, as if watching a movie.
But ever since communicating with George and being exposed to knowledge from many other worlds, he surprisingly showed faint signs of an impending breakthrough.
Precisely because of this, during the time George spent in the Timeless Halls seeking guidance, their relationship grew closer and closer, even reaching the point of calling each other "brothers."
Oh, calling each other "brothers" wasn't entirely accurate, because Ilúvatar was genderless.
George had just provisionally treated him as male. Whether Ilúvatar was male or female was entirely dependent on his own whim.
Just like that, several months later, inside George's world.
"Little George, your world is basically complete now. You just need to spend a bit more time allowing the laws you've recently added to fuse completely, and you should be able to advance. At that point, you just need to adjust the flow of time, and this land will evolve naturally according to the laws, eventually giving rise to the intelligent life you've designated."
Ilúvatar said with a look of gratification, pointing at the planet George had created before them, which was identical to Earth.
George also smiled and nodded.
"This is all thanks to Brother Eru's guidance. Otherwise, I couldn't possibly have completed it this quickly."
He hadn't followed Ilúvatar's guidance completely and built a cone-shaped continent like Middle-earth. Instead, he had made modifications based on that guidance.
In the end, he used Earth as the template to create the planet before them now.
This was because, so far, the most powerful world he had ever seen was still the Marvel Multiverse, where the strongest entities might be at the Omniverse level.
Therefore, it was naturally most appropriate to use the Marvel world as a template: first create an Earth, and then develop a solar system, the Milky Way, and other major galaxies centered around it.
He believed that developing to the peak of the Single Universe level using this template would undoubtedly be much, much stronger than Ilúvatar's version of a peak Single Universe.
In the future, after his doppelgangers merged and he entered the Multiverse, he would absolutely not be considered weak among those at the Multiverse level.
In truth, he felt that the "round heaven and square earth" model of the Great Desolate World (Honghuang) would absolutely not be inferior. Unfortunately, he had never been to a similar world, so he had no template to reference.
"Time, accelerate!"
Waving his hand, George activated his small world's laws of time, accelerating its flow to the maximum. He and Ilúvatar then vanished, returning to the Timeless Halls.
Under this accelerated time flow, the Earth within the small world would evolve from the most basic single-celled organisms to multicellular organisms, then to amphibians, and finally, life would move from the oceans onto the continents.
This entire evolutionary process was also based on the framework from his previous life, proceeding until true intelligent life emerged on the planet and began to give birth to civilization.
At that point, the chain reaction he had set in motion would be fully activated. The entire small world would then mature into a truly complete world, forming an independent universe.
And this would also signify that he had truly advanced to the Single Universe level.
It wasn't an individual advancement, but an advancement as a world, likewise representing that he had become a Creator, albeit of the lowest level.
Because the laws were accelerating time, this process wouldn't be overly long. He calculated that it should be complete within a few months.
Aside from Ilúvatar's guidance, there was another very important reason he could complete this so quickly.
That was the three Silmarils.
Originally, he planned to absorb the power of the three Silmarils to accelerate his individual advancement into the Single Universe level.
But later, on Ilúvatar's advice, he instead forged the three Silmarils into the small world's stars (suns), which enabled him to perfect the small world so quickly.
Otherwise, if he had been forced to rely entirely on his own power to forge a sun within the small world, it likely would have taken him more than a decade.
(End of Chapter)