The race he exchanged for was a Sparkion. He picked the weakest one at the F-rank. It cost him 1,000 merit points.
This is ten times the cost of the Gemini twins with the same power. He even needed an army rank of two stars to exchange for it.
These two things show just how much more valuable the Yggdrasil civilization considers the Sparkions compared to the Gemini race, despite the twins having the ability to resurrect.
He thought to himself, "It is probably because every slave can be resurrected with the Yggdrasil, so the Gemini race isn't valued as much."
Wrath asked him, "What is your stupid brain up to now?"
He didn't say anything. He just sat on the couch with a smile on his face and waited for his package to arrive.
His package arrived 30 minutes later. It was brought by a drone.
He was notified when the drone arrived at his door. He rushed to open the door and receive the small package.
The package was a box just like the one that had contained the twins. But it was much smaller. It was a box with edges of 10 cm. It was ridiculously small compared to the 1-meter sides of the box that contained the twins.
He brought the small box into the room and closed the door. Then he opened the box carefully.
Within the box was a translucent sphere. It was rough and looked like a crystal rock. But within it was a strange worm with many colors.
The worm was ringed like an earthworm. But each ring was a different color.
From what he had read, he knew that the color of the rings change when the worms are conscious. It is only because the worm is unconscious that its color is stable like this.
Wrath recognized what this was immediately when she saw it. But she didn't understand what he was doing with it.
That didn't stop her from heckling him, though. She said, "Are you this desperate? This won't help you."
She didn't know what he wanted to do, but she didn't need to to belittle it.
Kelvin ignored her as always. He would have ignored her right now even if they were on speaking terms because he was too excited and focused on his plan.
He touched the crystal and activated destiny steal. This time, his ability found a living thing to latch onto.
His body glowed golden, and the golden light swept into the multicolored worm.
The process was very quick. It took two seconds for him to find what he wanted and to take it. The worm was just too weak to offer resistance.
Its resistance is even weaker than those of the twins. It was not a matter of strength.
By the time the golden light left the multicolored worm, it had died. Its body broke down dust within the crystal while Kelvin acquired the Omega ability called Poltergeist.
He didn't need to open a new slot for the new ability since he still had the empty sixth slot. He slotted the ability into it and wasted no time in using it on the mark.
He screamed in surprise and excitement, "It actually worked."
Wrath was strangely silent. She was silent and afraid because she had seen this scene just a few minutes ago.
She knows what came out of Kelvin's excitement a few minutes ago. It meant that Kelvin is cooking something right now.
She was afraid of what he was up to. If she had known, she would have told him to stop for both their sakes because what he is doing is dangerous for both of them.
He was trying to infiltrate and possess the foundation of the Yggdrasil civilization. There was no way he was going to get away with it.
There were no visible changes, but the command center of the Yggdrasil tree in this world received many notifications about the issue immediately.
- Infiltration of the mark of Yggdrasil detected.
- Source of infiltration identified as Poltergeist ability of the Sparkion race.
- Infiltration resisted.
- Deploying countermeasures.
- Encountered Privileged Status.
- Privileged status is that of the paragon of Earth-11.
- Countermeasures stopped because of privileged status.
- Decision forwarded to Council of God Kings.
An ordinary infiltration that should have ended with the destruction of whatever was attempting the infiltration became a much bigger matter because it involved a paragon.
As a paragon, he possesses certain privileges that even demigods don't possess. For one, he can kill any soldier of the army without repercussion.
A demigod won't be able to get away with trying to infiltrate the Yggdrasil tree, but a paragon might. It will all depend on what the council of God Kings says.
After all, the paragon will become a god king in the future. Only other god kings are qualified to judge him.
So the matter reached the ten God kings of the council of God kings. They are not the only god kings in the Yggdrasil civilization. But they are the strongest and the ones in charge.
Some of them ignored the notification when they saw it. But some of them were curious about what Kelvin was up to, so they pulled Kelvin's consciousness into the Yggdrasil tree.
Kelvin didn't know about all of these. He was busy trying and failing to possess the mark on his wrist.
The mark was simply immovable. He tried and tried over and over again, all to no avail.
He said with frustration, "What am I missing?"
He didn't give up, though. He was about to start again when he felt the world disappear around him.
His mind traveled over light-years worth of distance in an instant. He appeared in a large white space before several indistinct but giant figures.
He could see their figures as they were hazy, but he could tell that they were very big. Even without Extraordinary Perception to aid him, he was able to tell that they were very powerful too.
There were five of them present before him. They didn't introduce themselves or ask him about what he was doing. That would be a waste of time.
Instead they skimmed through his consciousness to read his memories and see for themselves what he was doing and why he was doing them.
His mind blanked out for an instant. During that instant, they had seen his whole life.
When he came back to, they decided to introduce themselves.
Well, only one of them decided to introduce them. The rest had no interest in doing so.
The one who had said, "We are the council of God Kings of the Yggdrasil civilization, and you have been accused of trying to sabotage the tree of Yggdrasil. That is a capital offense punishable by a thousand deaths."
"Just so you know, we have decided that you were surely trying to sabotage the tree of Yggdrasil. But we also know that it wasn't your intention to do so."
"In fact, you didn't even know what you were doing. So you're free to go."
Another god king said, "This was clearly a waste of our time. Don't do this again, or you will be punished next time you do so."
The first god king asked, "What else do you have to say for yourself?"
They were speaking so fast that it took a while for him to comprehend what they were saying. So it took some time before he could answer that question.
During that time, a god king that hadn't spoken earlier sighed and said, "So weak."
Another god king said, "You were right. This was a waste of our time."
The first god king cut them off. "Don't interfere. He is almost there."
Kelvin finally got to the part about the question. But before he could answer, more information drilled into his mind. It diverted the mental resources he had available to understanding it, which delayed his answer.
The god kings wanted to complain again. It was truly a painful experience for them. Kelvin was like a snail to them. He was agonizingly slow.
They felt that they could kill him and resurrect him several times over before he finished comprehending what they had said. This notion tempted many of them to give it a try and see how many times they could do something like that.
So they created a perfect copy of his mind and used it to amuse themselves.
They killed this copy of his mind and recreated it again and again while his real mind was working hard on keeping up with them. This kept the god kings slightly amused while they waited.
Finally, Kelvin finished understanding what had been said. He saw the game they were playing, which made him feel some fear. But he had more important matters to deal with, so he ignored it and said what he had in mind.
He wanted to say, "Is there a way to enslave Wrath?"
But he was too slow to speak. Before he said what he had in mind to say, they had already pulled the thought out of his mind and given him the answer.