After Xia Wei arrived in the Akame ga Kill! world, he began to summon the World Will to manifest, following his previous experience.
However, the World Will showed no reaction at all. Xia Wei initially thought that the World Will was unwilling to bother with him, or simply indifferent to his existence.
But even when he made the Gods' Order descend into the world, the World Will still showed no movement. He even spread his divine sense, but still felt no fluctuation from the World Will.
"That's impossible. A world absolutely cannot be without a will," Xia Wei frowned.
A world without a World Will would only become a 'dead star'; it's impossible for it to be so vibrant and teeming with life like this.
All things competing to grow.
There are many types of World Will. Even a primitive world where no life has been born still has geomorphic activity, because at this time, the World Will is the purest Gaia Will.
When life appears, the fluctuations of life and life force merge with the Gaia Will to initially form the World Will. To put this process in human terms, a primitive world is a fetus, and a world after life is born is like the world has gained a soul and been successfully born.
"But—I can't find the World Will. What's the meaning of this?" Xia Wei didn't believe it. He pressed his palm to the ground and extended his divine sense deep underground.
This world is still a planet, but it's not a planet in the greater universe; it's more like a plane.
This is a small plane, much smaller than the solar system, with only a few planets within it. The planet he stood on was the main planet, and the sun revolved around this planet.
The sun was very small, the same size as this world's moon.
It was a typical 'geocentric' world, then on the outside was the planar shell enclosing this 'geocentric' world, and beyond the plane was the void dimension.
The stars in the night sky were merely light spots on the planar shell, not actual celestial bodies. These light spots corresponded to the life-fires of every living being on this main planet.
When a life perishes, the corresponding light spot disappears.
"The world's energy level isn't high; it only reached the mid-second energy level. Such an energy level absolutely cannot give birth to a planar will."
If a planar will were born, then this world would be at least a third-energy level, capable of giving birth to Gods.
The Gods born from it, if they controlled the core of the plane, could even become Plane Lords, potentially reaching Gods of Iv.4 or higher.
"Strange, strange—" Xia Wei was full of odd thoughts. He also didn't find any World Will fluctuations beneath the planet's surface, but this planet was definitely alive.
"Every flower, every blade of grass, every life is incredibly vibrant. Logically speaking—hmm?"
Xia Wei suddenly thought of a possibility and slightly widened his eyes.
"Could it be that this world's will dispersed itself and re-integrated into every living being in this world? Is it trying to evolve into an 'inhibitory force'?"
The paths for the World Will to advance are varied, and one of them is the 'inhibitory force'.
The life of a world eventually ends, but continually evolving life can always find a way out. When the world dies, life, having evolved countless times, might have developed to the point where it can break through the world's barrier and cross dimensions to other worlds.
As long as one life goes to another world, the 'inhibitory force' will revive and begin the revival of civilization again.
Xia Wei stroked his chin. The Imperial Armaments Shangri-La had the ability to open spatial dimensions. Although it couldn't yet open planar barriers, it had appeared a thousand years ago.
If humanity developed along that path, in the future, it might indeed be possible for something to appear that could pierce through planar barriers.
"However—the plan seems a bit too wishful," Xia Wei muttered.
To dare to develop towards an 'inhibitory force' at a mere second energy level.
One must know that the initial 'inhibitory force' is quite weak, and it can even fall into slumber directly before humans become the masters of the world.
Currently, the masters of the world are not humans, but those Dangerous Species. Even some Imperial Armaments are made from the body hair or blood of Dangerous Species.
Present-day humans are confined to a small corner of this continent; the remaining areas are all uninhabited Dangerous Species territory, especially in the oceans.
And humans are also prone to self-destruction.
For example, the first Imperial Emperor who created the Imperial Armaments.
After creating the Imperial Armaments, he directly massacred all the craftsmen and then sealed away all the information about their creation.
As eras changed, that information became either incomplete or lost.
Now, trying to re-create an Imperial Armament is harder than ascending to heaven. Even with the combined might of the empire, they could only create ambiguous 'Subordinate Armaments'.
This was all caused by the first Emperor's selfish desires: he wanted his descendants to control the empire for eternity, ensuring that his subjects could never resist the rule of his bloodline.
"Truly troublesome—" Xia Wei sighed.
The World Will abandoning its sovereignty over the world and instead integrating into life meant that he couldn't directly bring the world into order through a contract.
He could only proceed step-by-step by establishing a faith order to indirectly gain world sovereignty.
While it was a bit more troublesome, the benefits were also obvious.
He would be able to 100% control everything in the world, and the 'inhibitory force' would also 100% become an agent of the Gods.
"I can't directly bestow Divine Blessings upon those righteous and kind individuals anymore."
Previously, in other worlds, he could directly bestow Divine Blessings worldwide because a world contract had been signed, and the world was already under the Gods' Order. He could precisely bestow Divine Blessings to people through the world's memories.
Now, he could only determine if a person was qualified for a Divine Blessing through 'lines of faith'.
A ray of sunlight appeared from the horizon.
Xia Wei looked over: "It's already dawn, the late period of the Empire, the enlightenment of a new era."
Xia Wei looked towards a certain corner.
His location was not far from the Imperial Capital; he could even see the towering city walls of the Imperial Capital with his naked eye, and in front was a wide trade route.
He hadn't concealed his presence when he descended here.
Are you kidding? Why would a God conceal his existence? Unless he was on a secret inspection.
So, when the Heavenly Realm Gate appeared in mid-air, it was noticed by people who were already in this forest. They then stealthily approached and hid atop a large tree.
He had been standing there for as long as the person hiding in the tree had been climbing.
"Come down from the tree. You have three seconds. For every second you're late, a Divine Punishment will descend from the heavens," Xia Wei said calmly. *Rustle, rustle*—the sound of breaking branches and a frightened cry emerged. A yellow figure fell down, then lay sprawled on the ground, hands clasped together above his head, wailing miserably.
"No! Great God! I didn't mean to peek! Please spare me!"