The Battle Queen Came Back with Her Husbands (Joanna) novel Chapter 404

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It sounded even more frightening than producing Clones in bulk.

None of it made sense.

But once an evil god was involved, everything suddenly became easier to understand.

Joanna’s expression slowly changed.

“If the Space Alliance wants to grow, is the solution simply creating more people?

“Sure, a larger population increases the chance that geniuses will appear.

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“But the Decennial Tournament shows another direction. We can increase the amount of special energy entering the Alliance, improve bloodlines, and strengthen everyone overall. That feels like the right way forward. Just flooding the world with people and hoping a few prodigies appear is wrong.

“Many people never asked to be born only to live ordinary lives, become life–skill players, or struggle in

poverty.

“That kind of system disrespects new life.

“What we should do instead is give everyone a choice–whether they want to pursue combat professions or life professions—and let them live the life they want.

“Everyone should have the chance to rise!”

Helen already understood all of that.

But the higher she climbed, the more she felt how rigid the rules were.

Changing them required real authority and influence.

At that level, even a single sentence from the top could affect humanity’s future or at least change the fate of several dimensions or planets.

Maybe after a few hundred years, she would reach that position.

For now, all she could do was comfort Joanna.

“Your research topic actually sounds solid. If you graduate next year and go for a master’s degree, you could choose this subject,

“I’ve even thought of a title for you–‘On the Mismatch Between Increasing Prodigies and Expanding Population Size!

“By the way, any progress on your Transcendent–level talent lately?”

They were close friends, so the conversation shifted easily. Joanna moved smoothly to the new topic.

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They discussed plans and the development of the Joanna Dimension before ending the call.

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Since information about evil gods would take time to appear, Joanna turned her attention back to her Transcendent–level talent.

She had two talents right now, but there was no question which one mattered most. The core ability was her SSS–rank Affinity.

Her stat growth mostly came from the boons given by her contract beasts, like Nighthowl and Alwyn.

To activate those boons, she had to calm them with her affinity aura.

Right now, removing all distortion from just one contracted companion required killing 100 billion

monsters.

The speed depended on the public dungeons, the number of monsters that appeared, and other factors.

In the past, killing that many monsters took about four months.

Now, it only took around two months.

She still had six contract beasts waiting to grow stronger.

Once the Mythic–level mission was completed, she would sign a seventh contract.

If she wanted to save time and gain the biggest benefits, her Transcendent–level talent needed to strengthen SSS–rank Affinity.

So Joanna devoted herself fully to researching the Transcendent–level talent.

This challenge was hundreds of times harder than the previous one. Since returning, she spent every spare moment decoding it whenever she wasn’t deploying Godfall Land.

She used Power Siphon to borrow Xavier’s Body of Enlightenment, which boosted her brain’s analysis speed. But it burned through energy quickly, and money disappeared every day.

Xavier also helped, making the decoding process much faster.

Because of her high ranking in the Decennial Tournament, the Space Alliance opened many data files to

her.

From those records, Joanna learned that Transcendent–level talents usually required at least one year to

form.

Some people spent their entire lives trying and still failed.

At Joanna’s current pace, however, she only needed ten days.

If she hadn’t been busy building star systems and organizing population transfers, she would have tinished the simulations already.

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Still, creating a Transcendent skill was not just about finding an answer through simulation. She also had to reverse the process and locate the source.

Why did killing monsters increase affinity?

Across the Space Alliance, many talents allowed people to gain HP, Attack, Vitality, Strength, Agility, or Spirit simply by defeating monsters.

Didn’t that sound absurd?

Yet as the simulations continued, Joanna began to understand the logic.

Every dimension had its own mass–its origin energy. Living beings carried part of that mass.

When a creature died, part of its energy transferred to Joanna through the laws of the universe.

That “law” was the true function of her SSS–rank Affinity. Her simulations were trying to reveal that principle.

Now. Joanna needed to transform the entire talent into pure law.

So that was the truth. Transcendent power was essentially Law–tier power.

Soon, a new law appeared.

“Your Affinity (SSS–Rank Talent) has advanced to (Law–tier)..

“Affinity (Law–tier):

“Law 1: Monsters you defeat convert into affinity a based on factors such as level, strength, appearance,

aura, and other qualities. The higher the value, the more aura you gain.

“Law 2: If you wish, you can become the most attractive person in the world.

“Note 1: You’ve touched the authority of certain gods, including the Goddess of Succubus and the Goddess of Beauty. They may come after you to seize this authority.”

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