Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 575 Power and Authority (Extensive Settings)

"Femto, I'm here to play with you!"

Zheng Shu kicked open the door of Feimuto Castle and walked in.

Under Eve's guidance, Zheng Shu found Feimto, who was curled up in the bedroom, wrapped in a quilt and watching a documentary.

"Hey, why are you here?" Although Feimto was asking, his eyes did not leave the TV at all.

Zheng Shu sat down and ate some snacks on the table. "I'm here to give you the results of the experiment. Do you have a way to contact those two guys?"

"So fast?" Upon hearing this, Feimto finally turned his gaze to Zheng Shu.

But he looked a little strange. One eye was fixed on the TV, and the other was turned to look at Zheng Shu. He looked exceptionally "smart".

"I can contact Arijira, but I can't contact the Tyrannical King."

"That's fine, let's get in touch. Anyway, we can let the Tyrannical King come to your place to get the result."

As Zheng Shu spoke, he took out several reports he had printed out and placed them on the table.

"Okay, I've already contacted you."

After agreeing, Fimto didn't make any move. Instead, he finally turned off the TV and picked up the report on the table to read.

"Hmm... Tsk tsk, interesting. You actually started from this perspective? It seems that I was really stuck in my old ways of thinking. Fortunately, you are someone from another world, so you can discover these things that we take for granted."

Zheng Shu's report actually did not provide much. It simply summarized the nature and essence of the special powers held by the superior beings.

In this report, Zheng Shu named the special power held by the superior being "authority."

The reason for this name is that "authority" is a kind of power that is similar in nature to "power", but has completely different effects when used.

In essence, whether it is authority or power, it is the ability to arbitrarily control certain rules according to one's own will.

For example, when Zheng Shu was still the Dragon King, he had control over electromagnetic force and particles.

One can easily change matter or control electromagnetic force just by following one's own will, which is unimaginable for normal technological or magical civilization.

Authority is essentially the same thing. The reason why there is such a big difference in the external manifestations of the two abilities is mainly due to the difference in the actual owners of the power.

This is also the main difference between authority and power.

Simply put, power is the power "granted" to the user by other beings; authority is the power that the user himself possesses.

Just like the three powerful beings that Zheng Shu had come into contact with before, the power of the Dragon King in the dragon world was separated from the Black King, but the Black King's own power was also granted by the planet.

So strictly speaking, the Dragon King's power is granted by the planet.

Not to mention the divine power in the Type-Moon world, which is granted by the two restraining forces of Alaya and Gaia.

The powers of the immortals in the world of Under One Person are a little more special. What grants them power is not planetary consciousness, but cosmic consciousness, which is what the immortals call "Tao".

Therefore, in terms of strength and breadth, the power of the immortals in "Under One Person" is stronger than that in the previous two worlds.

As for those powerful divine beings in the world of Blood Blockade Battlefront, although Zheng Shu has never come into contact with them, he can basically infer who bestowed their power.

From the communication with Fimto, it can be seen that most of the power of divine beings is actually granted by higher beings, and part of it is granted by the world.

There is also a very small number of divine beings. Strictly speaking, the power they possess cannot be called power, but rather incomplete authority.

It’s just that the degree of completion is too low, so it can only be temporarily mounted on a certain rule in the world and run with the help of the world’s power.

In this way, the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious. The advantage is that you can use your own strength more conveniently and greatly enhance your combat effectiveness.

The disadvantage is that if you are not careful, the authority you originally obtained will be eroded by the world and turned into the rules of the world, and finally the authority will become the power bestowed by the world.

The source of authority is relatively simple, it comes from the user himself.

It may be sublimated from the user's power, or it may be created by the user himself after understanding the rules of the world. The possible origins of the organization are varied, and the external manifestations are also strange.

When asked whether there were any beings with authority in the previous world, Zheng Shu thought about it and found that he had actually come into contact with them, and even had enhanced templates of these beings.

Yes, I'm talking about the big spider Ort.

All of Oort's power comes from itself, so it can break free from the constraints of planets and galaxies and roam freely in the universe.

Even if Zheng Shu is in another world, he can still use all of Ort's power.

The power that Ort holds is actually very simple, namely "predation" and "mimicry".

Because it is too simple and straightforward, this ability cannot accomplish many things, but its strength is still unquestionable.

Just like the Crystal Valley that Orth possessed, this was actually the power it gained through "mimicry" after devouring the fifth clan of the twenty-seven ancestors of the previous generation of Dead Apostles in the Type-Moon World.

In fact, in addition to Ort, there should be another enhanced template with authority in Zheng Shu's enhanced template inventory, but Zheng Shu has never used it since he obtained it.

That is Chaos God Chaos. As a star-class super battleship that can survive even if the universe it exists in is destroyed, this power that can still exist apart from its own universe is undoubtedly authority.

In addition, Zheng Shu speculated that there should be some beings with authority in the Type-Moon world, the most likely one being the so-called "Awakened One".

The reason is actually very simple. Judging from the known plot, the other party is too "free".

The power of power and authority are essentially the same thing, but one of the biggest differences in their "actual use" is "freedom."

The Complete Dragon King has such powerful strength but cannot leave the planet. The gods of the Type-Moon world can only move within the areas where they believe in themselves. If they want to leave these areas, they can only seal themselves and downgrade themselves.

Not to mention the immortals who are second only to one person, they don’t even have freedom of will.

The freedom that power users have can be seen from Ort. Even if the world changes, they can still use their power completely.

Because authority fundamentally comes from the user himself, the user's own power can construct the existence of authority.

The existence of authority can be transformed into a certain specific order to ensure that the user's "existence" can continue even in an environment with completely different rules.

The left foot steps on the right foot and spirals up to heaven.

Besides "freedom", another difference in practical usage is "effect".

Without considering the basic strength of the user himself, even if the intensity of power and authority development is equally high, the actual effects and combat effectiveness of both sides are completely not on the same level.

Power is indeed strong enough, and the holder of power can even absolutely crush and rule over those who do not hold power. However, compared with authority, it will appear too "rigid" and "weak", even if the "strength of power" of both sides is actually at the same level.

The reason is that power is essentially still in the order constructed by other existences.

For example, Zheng Shu once used particle control. This power is the power given to the "dragon" by the earth in the dragon world. Although it can produce various incredible abilities that seem incredible to ordinary people when used, it still operates under the rules of the "world".

In other words, although Zheng Shu can use this power to convert and create various substances at will, and can even easily convert mass and energy, he can never create something out of nothing.

Because "creating something out of nothing" does not conform to the physical rules of that world.

The same is true for other powers. They seem to be miracles that cannot be replicated, but in theory, as long as you have a sufficient grasp of the rules of the world, you can eventually use technology to do the same thing.

Authority does not have this limitation. Even extremely incomplete authority still has its own order and is beyond the rules of the world.

For example, the werewolf's "invisibility" ability, even if Zheng Shu judged it to be the monkey version of castration, it is still able to violate the physical rules of the world.

When Zheng Shu and Zhen first met, Zhen underwent three dilutions in total because of Zheng Shu's pressure.

Every time Zhen made her existence more rare, but in fact, even at the second dilution, Zheng Shu could still observe the particles belonging to Zhen.

During this process, Jane's own mass was actually decreasing, and her matter and energy were also disappearing rapidly.

If these substances are converted into energy, then the energy released by the disappearance of such a large-scale matter should be enough to blow away the entire earth.

But the fact is, when Jane used her ability to dilute herself, her matter and mass disappeared out of thin air, and when she recovered, she also created matter and mass out of thin air to form her body.

Moreover, this world still follows the basic rules of particle collision, which means that unless a person completely replaces his body with free neutrons without any charge, he still cannot "pass through" matter at will when facing it.

But for a werewolf, even just letting his body enter a shallow dilution is enough to easily pass through walls or solid materials such as metal that have no cracks at all.

This level of ability is incomprehensible not only to the human world but even to the magicians in other worlds. It is like stomping on the face of the rules of physics.

Therefore, Zheng Shu felt that the sorcerers in the other world actually made a very accurate summary of this ability: the power to rewrite the world in a very small range.

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In Feimto's castle, Zheng Shu was explaining to Feimto the definition of authority from his own perspective, while Feimto on the other side was thinking thoughtfully about his own affairs.

"So according to your theory, the reason why I was able to become a superior being is because I have mastered the authority? Just like those other guys, but in a different way?"

"Almost. Others haven't seen much, but I can at least confirm that you and Arijira sublimated your knowledge into authority, while the Tyrannical King sublimated his power into authority."

Both Feimto and the Tyrannical King had told Zheng Shu that eleven of the thirteen kings had been promoted to higher positions in the same way, while the remaining two were incompatible.

Those two were Fimto and Arikira. When Zheng Shu came into contact with the three of them, he also discovered the essential differences between them and the Tyrannical King.

Although Femto focuses on the bio-genetic technology on the technological side, and Arijira focuses on the magic on the magical side, they are both essentially researchers.

Perhaps because of this reason, these two people with different personalities became good friends, which is relatively rare among the higher beings.

Zheng Shu felt that their way of using knowledge to advance was very familiar from the beginning. It was not until he had studied some information about authority that Zheng Shu finally understood why he had such a strange sense of déjà vu.

Fimto and Arijira are two modern magicians if placed in the Type-Moon world!
Judging from Zheng Shu's definition of authority, the magicians in the Type-Moon world, especially the modern magicians, can actually be regarded as holders of half authority.

It is hard to say about the magicians in ancient times, but in Zheng Shu's opinion, the modern magician Bao Shi Weng can definitely be said to have mastered a certain degree of incomplete authority.

This can be seen from his "freedom" which is far superior to others. Chaos, who is not good at this, has to try his best to open the way to other parallel universes, while Jewel can easily jump between the parallel universes of the Type-Moon world with his magic.

And if Jewel can go one step further, he will become the same as Fimto and the others.

"Aiya... this thing is indeed of some use to me. Unfortunately it's not as useful as those guys of the Tyrannical King. It's a bargain for him." Fimto sighed and lay lazily on the ground.

Zheng Shu casually picked up an orange on the table, peeled it and started eating it. When he heard Feimto's words, he did not object, but just nodded silently.

What he said was right. Because they chose different paths, Fimto and Arijira were walking on a relatively convenient "path" from the very beginning.

Otherwise, Fimto and Arijira, the two youngest upper beings, would not have been able to become the stronger ones among the Thirteen Kings.

Therefore, Zheng Shu's experimental report was only slightly helpful to them.

As for a guy like Tyranny King who has been improving himself according to instinct from the very beginning, one can imagine how quickly his strength will improve after receiving the guidance of this experimental report.

"But... I suddenly thought of something interesting. If I can really do it, maybe it can make our place more lively." Fimto tapped on the report with his fingertips and suddenly smiled.

"What?" Zheng Shu was aroused by the guy's expression.

"That depends on whether you are willing to give this report to others besides us." Feimuto showed a bewitching look, "If successful, it can also bring you more experimental 'materials'."

(End of this chapter)