Chapter 77: Legends

In the seventh year of the San calendar, Rooney Elvis used his newly found power, which allowed him to control some of the monsters in the sea, to build a powerful merchant fleet. He then allied with many merchants and nobles and quickly accumulated a huge amount of wealth through sea trade.

A year later, the Elvis family brought a dukedom and a large piece of contested land through the tribute of large amount of wealth to the Luhmann Kingdom's monarch. Then Rooney Elvis personally led forth an army and conquered this territory and became a true duke.

Another year later, the king of Luhmann Kingdom passed away to an illness. Immediately after he passed, the oldest prince and the third prince began fighting for the throne. Rooney led the military in support of the third prince and fought all the way to the capital of Luhmann Kingdom.

The city wall of Luhmann Kingdom's capital was very old and sturdy. During this time, there were few ways to attack a city. Trebuchets and wall scaling ladders were set up and they attacked for a number of months, resulting in countless casualties but the wall remained standing. Furthermore, the inside of the city had plentiful food and sources of water, enough to hold a siege for a few years.

If the present situation persisted, the eldest prince might be forced into sacrificing a great deal to make an alliance with the Church of Light, the Mara Kingdom, and many other small countries. At that time, the one to die would be the third prince and Rooney!

Before the other armies could arrive, however, Rooney appeared, flying over the capital on a black dragon. The dragon was still young and relatively small, but it was large enough to carry Rooney. And, even though the dragon hadn't awakened its powers yet, it was still able to breathe fire. With the dragon, Rooney easily broke through the wall.

This was the first time that any dragon had ever appeared in the world and it left an indelible mark in human history with its powerful posture and supernatural abilities. When humans talked about this creature in the future, they were enveloped by darkness and fear. Each of the black dragon's breaths could burn an entire squadron of people, leaving them screaming in agony. The dragon charged into the soldiers and easily tore open a path and with the addition of Rooney's supernatural abilities and reinforced body, they were like heroic figures of legend, completely unstoppable. They opened the city gate, charged in, and killed the eldest prince.

However, at the feast that night, the third prince attempted to poison Rooney, as he was afraid of Rooney's power but Rooney saw through his plan and in his anger, Rooney killed the third prince at the feast. The entire city descended into chaos. Leading the military, Rooney took the opportunity and occupied Luhmann's capital city.

In the same year, Rooney Elvis quelled the rebellions in Luhmann Kingdom and made a deal with the Church, promising them more benefits as well as the conditions the Church previously agreed with Luhmann Kingdom in exchange for becoming the new king of the kingdom.

Rooney then renamed the Luhmann Kingdom to the Kingdom of Rosa d'Oro, and he became officially known as Rooney the First. From herein, Rooney had an extra title, Dragon Rider. The story of how the Elvis family had risen from being a small noble family to the ruling monarch family spread like wildfire, soon becoming legend.

Rooney established the Kingdom of Rosa d'Oro and left his fair share of legends, as well. His fight with the sea monster, the origin of his dragon, and all the stories about him were enough to write a serialized novel. In his life, Rooney became like a hero of legends, recorded in the annals of history!

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Lu Zhiyu was very excited, because he had finally deified all of his cells. All of the cells in his body were within his control and had become one with his mind power, consciousness and will. Lu Zhiyu could feel that he could change his appearance at will, however, because his gene template at the moment was that of humans combined with elves, he still maintained his past form.

However, he had been developing mythical creature templates for years and he already had a framework set out a few years back. All he needed to do since was to fix a few more things, to make it perfect!

He had also become a level seven wizard, which meant that, as long as he could use the Source Form, he could maintain his body's youth. In this way, he had achieved his original goal of immortality!

The influence of a mythical wizard after deifying all of their cells could go no further than the molecular level, it was just finer and more detailed. Thus, the supernatural abilities Lu Zhiyu had were nothing more than the abilities he developed earlier. At most, it was an accumulation.

However, given the strength of Lu Zhiyu's presently deified cells, the information they could store was still finite. So, even if he used all of the mythical templates, he could not use all of the powers they contained. He could only selectively design his mythical creature template!

Actually, even if Lu Zhiyu did not have the template, he could still use its power. However, each detail would have to adjusted and buffered, it would not be instantaneous. Furthermore, his control would not be intricate enough compared to someone who used the template. In a fight, he would definitely be at a disadvantage and the slightest difference was the difference between life and death!

Lu Zhiyu spent a great deal of time thinking about this and modified his initial mythical creature template again and again. In the end, they still did not satisfy him. In Lu Zhiyu's eyes, these normal supernatural abilities were full of flaws because he had designed them himself. He knew all of the weaknesses and counters. No matter how powerful such a power was or how much area it covered, it was always very easy for someone to target it.

After trying a lot of different combinations of abilities, he finally figured out the best which formed a perfect cycle of self-compensation. This way, it would not be easy to be targeted or have a clear weakness. Lu Zhiyu had believed that this was the template most suited to him.

That was until three years ago when an ingenious idea bumped to his head.

Why the life form has to be based on flesh and blood? Why does it have to be like that of a normal living being? No, a mythical creature didn't have to follow the rules of a normal living things.

Lu Zhiyu wanted to expand on the thought he had in dream space earlier to create a creature without form or weakness to control dream space. This creature would live in dream space and the mind and it could interfere in reality through controlling information!

According to Lu Zhiyu's thoughts, in the future, he could materialize everything in the dream space into reality and interfere the reality on the information level. Lu Zhiyu named this mythical creature template Dream Controller!

Lu Zhiyu had even planned the next few steps. If his control could reach the the atomic level, or even smaller to the ion and electron level, he could then truly materialize information into reality. He would be like a true god of creation and the dream space would become a true world. At that time, he would be known as the Master of dream space!