"Jenny, how does it feel?"
"It's a strange feeling. I can't distinguish between reality and illusion; everything feels so real, without any flaws."
"Veronica, what about you?"
"I can't detect any abnormality either. It's as if... everything is really happening."
"Alessa?"
"I can feel a slight difference. Although the other you is very real, I can't sense that warmth he has for me."
Luke was testing the abilities of the Master of Illusion template.
It had to be said that this ability was far more powerful than he had imagined.
No wonder even Charles couldn't distinguish between true and false.
It didn't forcibly twist one's psychological perception. Instead, it subtly guided people into a meticulously constructed world through their five senses.
Neither the magic master Veronica nor Jean Grey, with her Omega-level potential, could detect the anomaly.
Only Alessa, because of her twisted and pathological love for Luke, could perceive that she was inside an illusion through subtle cues.
Jean Grey's eyes suddenly turned red. "I can detect the difference too! That fake illusion doesn't have the passion you have for me in his eyes, and most importantly, he is very fragile!"
Dark Phoenix Jean raised her long neck and said seductively, "The fake is ultimately fake. Love cannot be faked. If anyone else tried to use a similar illusion on me, I would find him and kill him immediately!"
After speaking, Dark Phoenix Jean blew a kiss to Luke, then relinquished control of the body.
Although they could now exist as separate entities,
Dark Phoenix enjoyed playing games and loved seeing Jean Grey's shy appearance, so she merged with Jean Grey most of the time.
To play some daring games.
Jean Grey looked a little distressed after regaining control and quickly said, "Let's try again. This time, I will definitely find the flaw."
Alessa and Dark Phoenix could distinguish it through love; there was no reason she couldn't.
Her love for Luke was definitely not inferior to... well, maybe it really wasn't as intense as Dark Phoenix's.
The Phoenix was arrogant and looked down on others.
But once she chose someone, her love was as fiery and crazy as the flames on her body.
This was something most women could not achieve.
"It seems the flaw of the psychic illusion ability is also very obvious. Perhaps I can consider merging psychic illusion with telepathy, illusion techniques, illusion magic, and other abilities to see if I can create an illusion-type ability without flaws."
Quality over quantity when it came to skills.
Luke began consciously merging some complex skills.
Some skills were practical but had many defects. In such cases, it was best to merge them with similar abilities.
Take teleportation abilities, for example.
Luke currently possessed short-distance teleportation, the Jason version of spectral teleportation, as well as the Kamar-Taj portal, Warcraft Arcane Teleportation, and so on.
The advantage of short-distance teleportation was that it was instant, had no cast time, didn't require knowing the destination, and allowed arbitrary movement.
The disadvantages were short range, the need for a tough body, and the inability to carry others.
The Jason version of spectral teleportation covered long distances, but its disadvantage was the prerequisite: it had to be executed in a deserted location, and it could only teleport to an uninhabited area within a certain radius of the target.
The Kamar-Taj portal's advantage was long-distance transmission, its use as both an offensive and defensive tool, and the ability to enter and exit the Mirror Dimension at will. Its disadvantages were the need to draw a circle and the added step of walking through it.
Arcane Teleportation had a long cast time, but it could instantly move people across continents and even star systems.
Each had its own merits, but the drawbacks were also hard to accept.
Luke hadn't cared before, but now that he was stronger, he paid more attention to easily overlooked details.
After numerous attempts and nearly exhausting all his energy, Luke finally merged all the teleportation abilities into one divine skill that combined all the excellent attributes: Instant Teleportation!
It had no cooldown, no cast time, allowed mass teleportation and intergalactic travel, psychic (consciousness, memory, imagination—including images) positioning, and was also equipped with spatial cutting, capable of creating a spatial turbulence gate to tear apart enemies attempting to pass through it.
It was this successful attempt that prompted Luke to begin testing the pros and cons of the many skills from the skill library and character templates, hoping to further enhance his strength by merging similar abilities.
But this was a long-term process.
It required a large amount of time for repeated trials and consumed massive amounts of energy to merge skills.
Judging by the fusion of the teleportation abilities, successfully merging a satisfactory new skill within three days would be considered a blessing from the Goddess of Luck.
Luke was not in a hurry. Merging different skills to improve their quality was merely icing on the cake.
Continuously upgrading the Reality Editor was his true foundation!
After staying home for three full days, Luke felt restless.
He wondered if it was because the Ancient One, after recovering, along with Thor and the others, had ruthlessly suppressed the magic side.
The Earth had been surprisingly calm during these three days.
At least on the surface.
New York news reported prosperity and booming activity every day.
One day they were eliminating Martian stragglers, the next they were preparing to launch rockets to attack Mars, conquer the Moon, expand territory, and glorify the name of humanity.
In any case, the slogans were getting louder and louder.
Yet no one seemed to be taking real action.
However, Luke, who could sense the state of the Earth, faintly perceived the suffocating pressure before a storm.
No, to be precise, this feeling had never disappeared since he had adopted the Orochi template.
The Earth's crisis had not eased at all, and human civilization could be overthrown at any moment by an apocalyptic disaster.
It was during this delicate moment that various media outlets, newspapers, and TV news frequently featured reports related to fertility.
One day they launched a Fertility Festival, the next they promoted Children's Day, and the day after they introduced better welfare and fertility guarantee policies.
Behind all this, there seemed to be a large hand subtly twisting human perception and trying to increase the birth rate.
If an attentive person observed the global and regional population figures of various countries over the past few years, they would find that although the population had increased in recent years, it was rising very slowly at a tiny rate.
Furthermore, the largest contribution to population growth came from countries like India.
As for the United States, the total population had not changed for many years.
Such numerical changes were clearly abnormal.
Luke had also noticed this, but he was not surprised.
After all, this land was highly inclusive, with cults of all sizes everywhere.
Coupled with the merged universe, the number of cults here was more than ten times greater than in his previous world.
A few people were sacrificed every day to the so-called Satan, plus the occasional harvest by evil spirits and devils.
Even excluding the unlucky individuals captured as experimental subjects and living organ warehouses, these two factors alone represented an exaggerated number.
The official total population figures released were just arbitrarily modified numbers; even negative growth over many years would not be strange.
The only thing that slightly concerned Luke was the frequent appearance of the word "Eternity" in various media.
"Ajak, CEO of Eternals Bio-Pharmaceutical Group, calls for: For the future development of the country, please introduce more outstanding talents from Africa..."
"Eternals Bio-Pharmaceutical Group's latest infant three-piece set, helping your child grow up healthy!"
"The Eternity Foundation established its thirty-sixth infant welfare center, aiming to provide orphans with a complete and warm childhood!"
"Ajak visited Boy City, where Father Jax reached multiple cooperation agreements with Ajak regarding the protection of boys' rights..."
Eternals Bio-Pharmaceutical Group? The Eternity Foundation? Ajak?
Is this what I think it is?
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