Chapter 021: The Navy

Even more interesting is that a god-slayer gains the power and abilities of the god they kill, and these abilities are called Authorities.

For example, the Authority Wang Bo obtained—the Prison of the Dead Servants—

was stolen from the Egyptian god of harvest and the underworld, Osiris, after the oldest god-slayer, Marquis Voban, killed him.

This Authority preserves humans, divine beasts, demons, and soul-bearing artificial beings killed by the user as living corpses, becoming loyal servants absolutely obedient to the user.

Servants whose souls are imprisoned by the Authority can regenerate even if their physical bodies are destroyed, after a period of time.

The Marquis can instantly teleport them to his side.

Furthermore, in places like ancient battlefields and cemeteries, the Marquis can spiritually see the lives and fates of those who died there and can force the dead to answer questions.

If one must name a flaw of this Authority, it is that because the souls of the dead are forced into obedience by the Authority, the control is not absolute.

The servants also lose their judgment from life, making them incapable of tactical actions or predictions.

Even so, this is still a very excellent Authority.

At least Wang Bo quite liked this Authority.

Although Wang Bo did not enjoy killing people, he did not mind eliminating powerful monsters or creatures.

By killing these monsters, he could enslave them, and when battle was needed, he could summon them to fight. This villainous style of combat pleased Wang Bo greatly.

So Wang Bo immediately took out the crystallized Authority from his fourth-dimensional pocket.

Following the usual routine, he first pulled out a Copy Mirror, duplicated the Authority crystal a few times, tossed the copies into his fourth-dimensional pocket for storage, and then used the genuine Authority crystal.

In an instant, Wang Bo mastered the Authority.

At the same time, Wang Bo also understood that such an Authority required powerful magic to create.

Fortunately, Wang Bo's own magic power was indeed quite substantial, though not on par with a god's, it far exceeded the human range, being several times greater than his initial amount.

The only thing that left Wang Bo somewhat regretful was that the wormhole had been destroyed, and monsters could no longer invade this world, so he had no way to test how powerful this Authority truly was with a monster.

But soon, Wang Bo adjusted his mindset and erased the thought of wanting to kill now that he had a sharp blade.

In his view, an ordinary, peaceful life was far more interesting than fighting and killing.

On the other hand, after sending off Diana and Shinonono Tabane, Wang Bo did not immediately leave this world.

It wasn't that he wanted to live in this world.

Rather, Wang Bo wanted to obtain the last few Jaegers that had not been destroyed by the monsters.

Although both Wang Bo and Shinonono Tabane looked down on Jaegers, believing them to be largely useless, it was undeniable that Jaegers did have some excellent aspects.

For example, the system linking humans and Jaegers.

The control of a Jaeger was neither manual nor automatic; it was controlled by humans using their brains. This system, where human and Jaeger became one, was very excellent.

Wang Bo was also quite covetous of this system. He believed that Shinonono Tabane had definitely been secretly collecting data on this aspect, and she might improve upon it after returning.

The prospects for this technology were broad. If improved, the human brain could control far too many things, such as robotic arms, cars, or even spacecraft and starships.

With further improvements, it might even be possible for humans to sit at home watching TV and use their brains to control machines working thousands of miles away.

This was something Wang Bo had only thought of recently.

So he planned to stay in this world for a few days, obtain these things, and then leave this world.

Of course, Wang Bo didn't need to do any of this himself; he could leave it to Friday. He believed that with Miss Friday's excellence, she would not disappoint him.

Wang Bo only needed to sit back and reap the rewards.

In fact, Miss Friday absolutely did not disappoint Wang Bo.

In just one night, she obtained everything Wang Bo wanted.

Once the items were in hand, Wang Bo had no intention of staying any longer.

He decisively left this world.

…

The process of traveling was not complicated. Just like last time, when Wang Bo opened his eyes, he had already arrived in a new world.

Then, Wang Bo began to examine the residual information left in the mind of the man he had replaced.

Wang Bo was already familiar with the above procedure. He quickly understood his current identity, including the world he was in and the era he was in.

This time, Wang Bo still did not enter a different world but came to another Earth.

Interestingly, the era he was in now was the World War I period, well, the First World War.

Wang Bo remembered that the cause of World War I seemed to be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife during their inspection in Sarajevo by a Serbian youth.

Austria-Hungary, with Germany's support, used the Sarajevo incident as a pretext to declare war on Serbia. Then Germany, Russia, France, Britain, and other countries successively entered the war, and World War I broke out.

Now, he was a German navy soldier named Erich.

According to the residual information from Erich, the cause of World War I had not changed.

That is to say, this was likely an Earth during the World War I period.

Now, Wang Bo was on a warship with his teammates, pursuing a spy who was flying an airplane. It was said that this spy had stolen a very important secret from the rear battlefield.

Therefore, General Ludendorff, the famous tactical master of Germany during World War I and Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army, ordered that the spy must be captured and the stolen secret retrieved.

Because of this order, the navy dispatched several warships, pursued all the way, and finally damaged the spy's plane over a sea area.

The plane lost control and crashed into the sea ahead.

To capture the spy, the captain dispatched a group of sailors in wooden boats to search the nearby sea area.

Wang Bo was among this search team.

However, what surprised Wang Bo was that during the search, a very thick fog suddenly appeared on the sea surface, obscuring everyone's view.

While others were wondering why the fog had appeared so inexplicably, Wang Bo sensed something was wrong.

This fog had come too suddenly.

It hadn't drifted in from afar; it seemed to have appeared out of thin air.