CHAPTER 94: ONE YEAR TIMESKIP, THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE WORLD BECOMES A TYPE 1 CIVILIZATION!

A year had passed since the Church of Evolution completed its domination of the Zombie Apocalypse World.

While the world’s fate had already been sealed the moment Ainsworth completed all the Main Missions, the process of rebuilding civilization into something superior was not a task he left to chance.

Even though the Church of Evolution had monopolized nearly all the world’s Moon Crystals and Sun Crystals, Ainsworth understood that hoarding resources was not the end goal. The true goal was transformation—of society, of knowledge, and of himself.

He entrusted the complete administration of the Church to Rian and Dante while assigning the Apostles and High Priests to support them. With the entire world already submitting to their rule, there was no longer any need for Ainsworth to micromanage the Church.

Instead, he focused his attention on mastering everything the Zombie Apocalypse World had to offer.

The first three months were dedicated to gathering data from all available sources. From the public knowledge archives to secret labs hidden by megacorporations like Noctyra and Biotex, nothing escaped his reach.

He utilized a wide range of mind-based superpowers, including Cognitive Acceleration, Memory Extraction, Multitask Processor, Intuition Expansion, and many more, to absorb knowledge at a rate that no human could match.

Whether it was mathematics, engineering, biology, chemistry, medicine, or information theory, he digested it all and stored it within his Pathogen Neural Archive. He didn’t just understand knowledge. He optimized it.

Outdated theories were revised. Broken models were reconstructed. Even obscure research projects that had been abandoned for decades were completed within minutes under his hands.

And it wasn’t just science and technology.

He studied political theory, art, culture, history, language, law, and economics. He read the entirety of human literature and could cite them at will. He could recite hundreds of legal frameworks and simultaneously propose better alternatives.

When reviewing modern economic theory, he revised the outdated fiscal models that had once led to repeated market collapses. His revised version of macroeconomic equilibrium allowed even collapsing city-states to restructure their economies within weeks.

In political science, he created a governance model called Viral Meritocracy, which fused centralized control with adaptive decentralization. It automatically reorganized local leadership structures based on the Hive Mind, resource efficiency, and morale metrics.

In law, he reconstructed an integrated legal framework from the ruins of fragmented pre-apocalypse systems. His Code of Adaptive Justice optimized conflict resolution through neural arbitration systems and predictive ethics AI.

Former lawmakers, judges, and jurists, some of the most brilliant minds who had survived the early waves, were forced to retire in the face of his reforms. Those who challenged him in intellectual duels lost without exception.

In art, he revived forgotten movements and created new hybrid genres. His viral fractal paintings displayed evolving imagery based on viewer brainwave activity.

In language, he constructed a simplified universal grammar that allowed seamless communication across all dialects, both human and mutated.

Even the most renowned scholars in history, if resurrected, would have been unable to surpass him in any of these fields.

Those who were still alive had already been defeated, either through public intellectual debates or by witnessing the obsolescence of their theories through real-world application.

Ainsworth didn’t merely become a polymath. He became a god of knowledge within the confines of this world.

In the fourth month, the Church of Evolution had accumulated enough Moon Crystals and Sun Crystals so Ainsworth had used his Override: Ultimate Freedom to merge them into Solar Moon Crystals.

After absorbing all those Solar Moon Crystals, the energy contained within those was enough to increase his Viral Energy stat attribute from B to B+.

Because of that, all of his stat attributes were now at B+ and none were lower than that.

After his stat breakthrough, his mind operated with even greater clarity. The speed of thought, the depth of analysis, and the range of simulation had far exceeded anything a normal human or even a peak superhuman could ever comprehend.

With that, Ainsworth started experimenting.

He reconstructed fusion reactors using zombie virus bio-catalysts as stabilizers. He designed organic data centers using neuron cultures.

He replaced all outdated communication systems with wireless neural wave transmissions using harvested undead frequency nodes. That was communication tech without using the Hive Mind.

Technology was rewritten at its core.

Cities were rebuilt under his schematics. Entire infrastructures were redesigned to use virus-infused bioelectric systems instead of fossil fuels or solar power.

Hospitals no longer use surgery or medicine. Instead, symbiotic virus colonies healed patients instantly.

He even developed new agricultural models using fungi-based virus strains that could grow nutrient-rich crops at twenty times the yield rate of traditional farming.

Then came the Zombie Energy Farming System.

Zombies, once considered uncontrollable menaces, were now the backbone of viral energy production.

Specially designed harvesting facilities called Viral Domes were constructed across the world.

Within these domes, zombies were biologically pacified and infused with nutrient cocktails to maintain virus production. Their virus strains were extracted regularly, filtered, and refined into virus crystals.

Zombies became a renewable resource. The virus, which was once the root of the apocalypse, became the world’s greatest fuel.

Thanks to Ainsworth’s efforts, the entire planet was unified, optimized, and elevated.

The Zombie Apocalypse World, also known as Terra, had its status elevated.

Before a year ago, the Zombie Apocalypse World was merely a Type 0.8 Civilization on the Kardashev Scale.

But now, under Ainsworth’s intervention, he managed to elevate Terra into a Type 1 Civilization.

By definition, a Type 1 civilization has advanced enough to harness and use all the energy available on its home planet. This included energy from the sun that hits the planet, wind, earthquakes, volcanoes, oceans, and other natural forces.

Other technology created by Ainsworth had already met that condition but since this was the Zombie Apocalypse World, he merely shared the blueprints and made samples of those devices. Since he wasn’t going the Alien Technology World path, Ainsworth focused more on improving the technology path of this world based on the zombie virus and viral energy.

The viral energy that the Zombie Apocalypse World could harness and use was already comparable to Type 1 civilizations and the technology he gave them was advanced enough to contend with civilizations of the same Type level as them.

In fact, if not for the lack of resources and manpower, Ainsworth would have even deduced and created the blueprints for Type 2 civilization tech devices like Dyson Swarm, Star Lifting, Stellar Engines, Matrioshka Brain, etc.

However, he was limited by the materials in this world. After all, the resources were lacking and he didn’t want to focus much on sci-fi stuff when even Awakeners rarely use those high-tech devices.

For awakeners, using a star-collapsing cannon to destroy a star was far inferior to using a skill powered by mana using one’s own body to blow up a star. Or even those aura-type awakeners would just either punch a star and destroy it or cut it up using a sword.

Whether such a feat was possible for those SSS-rank Awakeners or not, Ainsworth wasn’t certain as the full power of SSS-rank Awakeners wasn’t fully disclosed.

Nevertheless, all Awakeners agreed that external power like relying upon alien technology would be useless if those devices were taken or interfered with. It was more reliable to use internal power obtained by oneself.

Furthermore, if Ainsworth was thrown into an Alien Technology World, then he could easily build those Type 2 civilization technologies as he had already known the full theory of it and even had the skills to build it but was just restricted by the Zombie Apocalypse World’s Type 1 level.

It might be overkill to learn and master knowledge that he wouldn’t likely use, but he did believe that it wasn’t useless.

Anyway, it only took him two months to learn and master all the knowledge and fields that humanity has in Terra. After he became a Three-Star B-rank Awakener in the fourth month, he had already started creating those Type 2 civilization tech blueprints.

The learning speed and computational power he had when using all available mind-based superpowers were no joke. He didn’t even have to rely on the Hive Mind’s collective brain power.

Although he had no use for the Type 2 technologies, Ainsworth merely deduced them so that if his team was thrown into an Alien Technology World, he wouldn’t be a country bumpkin there.

At least, even in a technologically advanced world, hacking their technology was within his ability as long as he was given time to adapt and put the theory and knowledge he had into practice.

Even without that, Ainsworth learned all fields for one reason.

A wise man had once said, "To master the whole, you must first understand the parts."

And an immortal cultivator once said, "To master one law is to glimpse all laws."

Moreover, he didn’t just focus on technology alone as he had learned ALL fields that Terra could offer, including swordsmanship, martial arts, craftsmanship, etc.

The proficiency levels of those fields had already reached the limit he could achieve in this world so Ainsworth was satisfied.

’There’s still a few hours left before the Otherworld Mission time limit extension will expire. I might as well check my status screen and see my progress.’