My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 263 - 247: Modifier Development—Charm, Time Stop, and Hypnosis

Looking at the plant person with its butt stuck in the car wheel and entire body missing, Xue Dili was speechless.

He wasn't quite sure what the concept of 600 million such creatures distributed worldwide meant—monsters making up about 10% of the total population. If a city had more than a million people, there'd be about 100,000 of these things lurking in the shadows.

This density far exceeds the ratio of homeless people or contagious patients around.

So during this time, the entire Blue Star was in chaos, and now many countries are exerting all their effort using various ways to restore order, dealing with these plant people.

In many places, they've simply started to put it aside, letting them rampage in the shadows; resistance depends only on spontaneously organized militias.

It's like they could run into two of these things in the time it takes to have a meal, and this is in a sparsely populated place like America. In areas with high population densities, everyone really needs to carry weapons just to move slowly.

On the truck, others keep telling Xue Dili how troublesome these things are—how many there are, how hard it is to dispose of bodies, their stealth, their love of hiding in dark places, their penchant for burrowing into trees and hiding within trunks.

Because they are essentially plant monsters, things like thermal detection are all ineffective.

Xue Dili: "..."

He really didn't expect the aftermath of the Divine Wood to be this troublesome.

And this was already the situation after he saved and restored almost everyone to humans during battles on his home turf.

If this had happened in another world, the entire world would probably be completely ruined.

He could only sigh; with 600 million, even if he could use the Modifier to delete each one, the sheer number is enough to keep him working until the end of his days without eating or drinking.

Thus, Xue Dili suddenly understood the harshness of this world.

It seems that in the future, he'll have to call for help to clear things here—the situation might be such that even throwing in tens of thousands of dragons wouldn't make much of a splash. After all, with 600 million plant people, each dragon would have to capture more than ten thousand plant monsters.

As Xue Dili was thinking, the truck had already stopped at an American rural manor.

The truckload of people gradually got off; after traveling a few kilometers, the plant person stuck to the wheel had already disappeared without a trace. They all seemed used to going out in trucks and finding these things stuck in the wheels; they didn't even care anymore.

The group chatted as they walked into the manor, and the sound of a television came from inside the house.

They opened the door to find Hercules lying on the sofa with beer and fried chicken in hand, watching TV while his phone automatically scrolled through a game. Fried chicken and beer were by his side—a true couch potato lifestyle.

In just a few days, Xue Dili wondered if he had gotten fatter. Was his belly bulging out?

Can you still see your toes now when you look down?

"Yo, you're back," Hercules greeted, while the news continued on the television.

"Vice President Vance accused the Deep State Government's conspiracy of orchestrating this disaster. Those 'Dinosaur People' in the Deep State still wish to overthrow the world. We are determined to fight against the 'Dinosaur People' to the end," a female reporter mockingly relayed the Vice President's words.

Hercules took a swig of beer, burped, and laughed heartily, pointing at the TV, saying, "Political battles in future generations are really interesting. Accusing one another of being dinosaur people—hahahaha, like there are real dinosaur people in this world..."

The laughter echoed through the night.

But the others couldn't laugh; everyone fell silent.

After laughing for over ten seconds, Hercules stopped, looking at the silent crowd and asking, "What's wrong? Why are you all looking at me like that?"

No one spoke, just continued watching Hercules silently, everyone wore strange expressions, and then weirdly looked at the television...

"Ahem, when they say 'Dinosaur People,' they're not really referring to dinosaur descendants, are they? It should just be a metaphor. I remember for over a decade they've used it to refer to something like the Deep State Government..." Xue Dili explained quietly.

"No, quite a few people genuinely believed that Dinosaur People secretly rule the world, and they've even made several movies about them," Howard, with panda eyes, explained from the side.

Xue Dili: "..."

Great, now those rednecks were ahead of their time by over a decade. Now real Dinosaur People have indeed arrived on Earth.

Some explained to Hercules about the tens of thousands of dragons now dwelling in the mountains of Salem Jungle, all descendants of dinosaurs, having finally returned to Earth after tens of millions of years.

Hercules was also taken aback, looking at the American election news on TV where they were calling each other "Dinosaur People". He speechlessly changed the channel.

"Since things have come to this, let's eat first."

...

Xue Dili stayed here for the night, continuously operating the Modifier throughout, mainly to understand the situation of this world's mess and to familiarize himself with this new ability.

He had previously thrown away all his Treasures, and although he did it decisively, he was full of heartache afterward.

However, he did not regret it. Given the chance, Xue Dili would still choose to discard all his Treasures to gain the support of billions of Giant Dragons and six Dragon Kings.

Moreover, the World Consciousness did not let Xue Dili down. After he discarded all his Treasures, it granted him this absurdly versatile Treasure.

[Modifier (EX~???): Forged with the authority of a World Consciousness at its core, it possesses similar permissions to the world's authority, allowing arbitrary creation and conjuring of one's own imaginary creations, as well as arbitrary modification of one's own state. It can even perform small-scale permission modifications on other planets, like modifying attack to infinity, self-invincibility, Time Stop, Charm, Hypnosis, control of gravity and electromagnetic force, strong and weak interaction forces, and so on.

Note: The energy to run the Modifier is paid by this World Consciousness, but the consumption of using the Modifier is still borne by the user. Please ensure you have enough Magic Power.]

Xue Dili realized how powerful this ability was. For instance, with the Modifier, he could modify attack power to the next level of infinity, enough to instantly kill an Apostle of the Black Mist Council.

However, he would still need to expend as much energy as it takes to instantly kill an Apostle-level foe.

In other words, as long as his blue bar is sufficient, with the Modifier, he could even survive invincibly through a cosmic explosion.

This Treasure, truly crafted with the authority of the world at its core, allows for easy implementation of fantasy creation, value modification, rewriting constants within a certain range, Time Stop, and more.

Xue Dili first tried Time Stop. At the next moment, he felt as if the entire world had been paused instantaneously.

He realized this was not true "Time Stop," but rather his speed had increased by several million times in an instant.

According to relativity, this means the world's time flow appeared to slow down by several million times for him, thus the whole world appeared to be slowed down by that degree in Xue Dili's eyes, a kind of Time Stop in essence.

"5 seconds..."

"6 seconds..."

"7 seconds..."

"Buzz!" Time Stop ended, and Xue Dili collapsed on the ground, panting. Still on his home planet, Time Stop could only last for 7 seconds, indicating his Magic Power was still too meager.

7 seconds of Time Stop was still too short.

After a few minutes, his Magic Power recovered, which was impressive even on Blue Star, considering Xue Dili had a super doubling blue buff constantly on him.

It seemed even Time Stop had to be used sparingly; the best approach would be using it for only 2-3 seconds at a time, across multiple uses.

Similarly, gravity modification, atom structure modification, and small range basic constant modifications were all attempted by Xue Dili, and sure enough, the smaller the scale of the effects, the larger the consumption.

With the Modifier, he could even control the four fundamental forces within a short time, with a million horses of magnetic field rotation being no issue.

However, the consumption required for controlling the four fundamental forces was too much for him to bear at the moment. Hence, it was wiser to limit high ambitions and instead focus on consuming smaller amounts, like creating fireballs, water dragons, or clapping his hands to create a wooden man.

At the back of the large farm, Xue Dili stared at the writhing Plant Monster in front of him, clapped his hands, and shouted, "Glowing Grass Entwined!"

In an instant, countless grass roots grew frantically, entangling the Plant Monster in front of him. However, the attack and control power were really limited, and the Plant Monster could break free easily. The advantage was its low consumption, allowing him to cast entangle thousands of times.

"Forget it, no more entangling, Tree Root Burial!" The terrifying tree roots erupted from the ground, crushing and grinding the Plant Monster into plant juice, leaving not a trace.

Then, the roots gathered into an apple tree, from which numerous bright red apples grew.

Odysseus, standing nearby, unceremoniously picked an apple, took a bite, and immediately his eyes lit up, giving a thumbs up: "The taste is fantastic, with plenty of energy, and the protein is ten times that of beef. An ordinary person could survive for days on a single apple."

Xue Dili: "..."

This apple tree assimilated the Plant Monster's ability. According to the Giant Dragon, that Plant Monster bore fruit for the Divine Wood, and its internal energy and nutrients were 100 times that of ordinary Magic Power.

With such energy absorption, the apples it bore were several times superior to normal ones.

"Today, we must have a good chat with the Dragon Race regarding future developments and cooperation in cleaning up this world's mess, aiming to set this world back on track within a year…" said the old Mystic Scholar Austin from afar.

"And the remaining Divine Wood roots, do the dragons eat those? Tell them to hurry and chew up the roots. Although they've lost activity under the influence of the Bacteriophage, there's no guarantee they won't adapt and start reproducing again," remarked Doctor Xue.

"Why do you think dragons would chew on tree roots anyway?" another person nearby quipped.

"This is already recorded in Nordic Mythology; dragons that don't chew on roots should put a lion in their pupils and head to the children's table," retorted another.