The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 991: Vaan's Regret



After Vaan learned more about the Celestial Dragons of Celestial City, he didn't find it surprising why the people there considered themselves different from other Celestials.

They had practically become a different race after monopolizing the Golden Dragon Blood at the heart of the Dragon Vein. The new articles describing the Celestial Dragons' physical features further confirmed this.

The Celestial Dragons were Celestials who had become draconic humans after absorbing the Golden Dragon Blood.

If the Ocean Master represented the peak of energy cultivation in the Celestial Kingdom, then the Celestial Dragon King likely represented its peak of body refining.

Considering Celestial City also used Divine Inheritance, the Celestial Dragon King most likely had a strong energy cultivation base as well. In fact, given his powerful physique, his energy cultivation base could only be stronger and not weaker than the Ocean Master.

Vaan thought he had already handled the biggest threat posed by the Celestial Kingdom, but it seemed he had only scratched the surface.

That said, Celestial City has not interfered with the affairs of the twelve cities for a very long time. Thus, it was unlikely to be aware of the situation outside of its closed-off territory.

Moreover, there was an existing tension between the privileged faction and the military faction.

If he exploited it well, the Celestial Kingdom could easily fall apart.

Nevertheless, Vaan's pressing concern was the Celestial Kingdom's potential arsenal of nuclear weapons. As such, he browsed the limited database for related information.

Fortunately, his worries were unnecessary.

The use of Deep-Sea Steel in nuclear warheads ended as early as the second decade of the Celestial Kingdom's founding; it was banned for its long-lasting damage and pollution to land and sea while providing limited firepower.

The Celestial Kingdom had moved onto the more efficient and clean nuclear fusion technology before settling for cold fusion technology, which didn't require such extreme conditions to achieve nuclear fusion.

After all, the Celestial Kingdom already had access to such advanced technology. It didn't need to rely on inferior technology once it achieved stable access to the planet's resources.

That said, due to its impressive density, much of the depleted Deep-Sea Steel found on the seafloor was still used in everyday infrastructure, starships, and weapons.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

It was a key material in most alloy fusions.

Although large cold fusion warheads existed, they were only equipped on starships, which had never taken flight since the Celestials settled on Pangea. Moreover, these cold fusion warheads were only created for the purpose of destroying large space debris.

They weren't particularly useful for anything else, considering penetration power was more important for killing higher-level life forms, such as sea monsters from the Outer Sea, not to mention explosive power wasn't very effective in the deep sea.

As Vaan surfed the Celestial Database, he also discovered why the Celestial Kingdom could conquer the Northern Outer Sea but faced fierce resistance from the Southern Outer Sea.

The sea monsters from the Northern Outer Sea were much weaker; they were all native life forms of Pangea.

On the other hand, the Southern Outer Sea possessed a water rift connecting to another sea realm of Chaos. Furthermore, there was also the Southwestern Outer Sea's dimensional crack connecting to Gehenna's Darksea Abyss Territory.

Naturally, the sea monsters on the southern half of the Boundless Sea would be much more fearsome and powerful.

Information on the Divine Inheritance was also easily accessed with the Garrison Captain's permission level, which didn't surprise Vaan.

After all, if the Celestial Kingdom hadn't made the knowledge about Divine Inheritance common for the Divine Origin Realm cultivators, their numbers would have dwindled over the years.

Vaan soon found out that the Divine Origin Realm cultivators could only transfer their Divine Worlds to their successors or inheritors when they were alive.

If they had died, their Divine Worlds would harden into Divine Cores. At higher realms, the Divine Worlds would turn the area into secret realms.

Such secret realms were usually considered inheritance sites since the fallen expert would have left behind all their possessions, techniques, and knowledge-everything except their cultivation base.

As such, although Vaan had pocketed all the Celestial corpses at the Divine Origin Realm and above, he was unable to produce new Divine Inheritors with them.

That said, their Divine Cores were still useful as energy carriers. The divine energy within them wouldn't be lost due to the Celestial Kingdom's grand spirit-gathering formation. While Vaan was surfing the Celestial Database, the Garrison Captain and Celestial soldiers inside the room were all dumbfounded by his reading speed. In fact, they didn't believe he was reading at all.

He was switching pages faster than they could recognize.

Still, they couldn't believe how proficient Vaan was with their computer terminal. His fingers danced on the keyboard like he were a computer expert with countless years of experience.

At first, he wasn't like this. But after five minutes, he was already punching keys faster than them. If Vaan told them that he had never used their civilization's computer terminal before, they would definitely doubt him.

Although there was a lot of information in the Celestial Database, Vaan eventually felt the limitation of the Garrison Captain's permission level.

For example, while he could access information on the existence of starships, even the knowledge to construct them, it did not mention where the existing ones were located. He needed higher access permissions for the more sensitive information.

Only the highest level of access would allow him to understand whether the Celestial Kingdom had any secret weapons of mass destruction he was unaware of.

Considering the Garrison Captain's access permission to the Celestial Database was in the form of a steel card, Vaan immediately thought about rummaging through the Ocean Master's corpse for something similar.

However, the Ocean Master had been crushed by the Sea God Temple so badly that his corpse had become two-dimensional. His Divine World had exploded into oblivion with everything

inside.

There was nothing left to salvage from it.

"Ah..." Vaan sighed with a tinge of regret and frustration.

Considering the Ocean Master's revered status, his Divine World would have likely been filled with wealth unimaginable to a normal person.

What a tremendous loss!