High Above

"Unexpectedly...there is no ether?!"

At this moment, Ian really felt incredible - incomprehensible incredible.

Some people may think it's making a fuss, but in the Terra Universe - the Star God Ether Universe, the existence of ether itself is the foundation of everything.

It is the ether that integrates the shapes of the stars, and it is the ether that constructs the origin of the birth of all living beings... To put it simply, in the ether universe, before the true ether spread, there was probably only one life form in the entire universe, the star god. With the queen ether, human beings And other carbon-based organisms, metal-based life and various other different life forms were born.

Without ether, the shape of the entire universe would be unimaginable by current creatures.

However, the 'outer universe' that spreads with the end and continues to invade the 'inside the cradle' is a 'dead silence' without any ether.

Ian watched this scene without moving, without moving his eyes at all.

"There is no ether in the universe outside the cradle."

This is the biggest reminder and greatest contribution of [Path of Ashes] to him.

Muttering to himself, Ian took a deep breath: "There are too many possibilities... Let me think about it carefully."

First of all, ether is the tool of the Star God, and the Great Ether Gyre is the supreme creation of the Star God. The Star God and the ether are absolutely bound together.

There is no ether in the outside world, which means there is no Star God. This is also consistent with what Ian knows. In this war in heaven, the result is that the Star God is defeated.

So, under this premise, there are two possibilities for the disappearance of ether.

The first one, which is the most likely one, is that after the Star God is finally defeated, the 'ether', the source of power representing the Star God, is also blocked... To put it simply, two races breathe oxygen, One breathes ammonia, and the two coexist on the same planet that has both oxygen and ammonia.

The battle for oxygen was defeated, and the ammonia-breathing race removed all the oxygen in the planet and replaced it with ammonia. In this way, even if the oxygen-breathing race recovered its vitality and prepared to fight again, it would be the same on this planet. Huge disadvantage.

The second type is that the Star God was defeated and took the initiative to remove the ether and accumulate strength to lurk.

There is nothing to say about this. If the first possibility is still the main one, then the Star God will eventually eliminate it if he does not accept it. The Star God has anticipated this possibility and will definitely take the initiative to recycle the ether, just like accumulating power. When punching, you need to swing your hands back like this. This is the process of accumulating strength.

But neither of these possibilities can perfectly explain the scenes that Ian saw during 200 million years.

First of all, it is the escape of the final fragments from the Dragon Island seal.

One hundred and sixty million years ago, due to the virtual destruction of the Terran civilization, the perpetual motion machine disappeared. Without a steady stream of 'new ether', the ether concentration inside the cradle was extremely low, and even fell below the limit that could maintain the seal of Dragon Island.

The seal of Dragon Island failed, and the final fragment left the black hole that sealed it and entered the interior of the sun, turning the Terra star into a black hole.

This scene seemed ordinary, but in fact it made Ian suspicious.

Zhenyan was originally a race that lived in black holes. This can be seen from the fact that after the Zhenyan fragment left the seal of Dragon Island, it went directly to the star to create a black hole. This is almost their instinct.

But apart from that, it seems like he can do nothing in the end.

After the Terminus fragment turned the sun of Terra into a black hole, until the cradle was shattered, and the Terminus outside the cradle also entered the black hole of Terra, there was a full 40 million years - during this period, what was the Terminus fragment? Even without doing anything, the black hole rotated smoothly, and the reincarnation of fire was not hindered or affected in the slightest, until it was completely destroyed by an even more terrifying disaster of light 40 million years later.

Yes, the Reincarnation of Fire was destroyed by the Scourge of Light.

It was not the fragments of the End, nor the Great End behind it - Ash Ian and the Samsara of Flame were indeed dead, but they had nothing to do with the End. This was probably the reason why Ian could see the 'Pitch Black Rainbow'.

After all, the cradle is broken, and Ian has actually escaped from prison and is located in the outside universe. Although he died the next moment and it was pitch black, he finally achieved his goal, so there was a little bit of rainbow.

This gave Ian a rather incredible possibility.

"Could it be that on the way to the end of the road to the end of the star, Ian... didn't die?"

Thinking of this, Ian shook his head: "No, it is completely unobservable. My guiding star can't send back any news, of course I don't know what the result will be - but Ashes Ian can still send back 'I will die in Here's the news, so it's dark."

"However, in the end, it is indeed less harmful than imagined."

Originally, Ian thought that as the enemy of the Star God, Jiuyan's mere appearance would cause distortion and destruction of the universe, extinguishing countless stars in large swaths.

But now it seems that they simply turned all stars into black holes, without even interfering with gravity.

In other words...as long as it doesn't attract their attention, can we go in another direction?

"The end is located in the direction of the cradle's wound. If you go from there, you will definitely hit the end, and you will definitely die."

Ian's mind was spinning: "And now, I know that the magnetic monopole can break the barrier of the cradle - can I go to the other side of Terra's cradle, use the magnetic monopole to open another door, and avoid the end of the world?" How can we go to the outside world?"

"Maybe. But it's only ten light years from one end of the cradle to the other. If you really want to catch up, I'm afraid you'll catch up in an instant, right?"

"Hmm...can I catch up?"

At this moment Ian suddenly fell into deep thought.

——Is there finally a way to travel faster than light?

No doubt there is. According to the last echo and the news from Dragon Island, the final appearance and spread are faster than the speed of light, and it is still at a very high level. It will not take long to extinguish an entire river system.

But how do they travel faster than the speed of light?

There is no need to think about this at first. For an invincible race like Zhenyan, the Star God loses more than he wins when facing him. Do we still need to think about how to exceed the speed of light?

But actually, that's not the case.

"How can he finally leave the black hole... He can break through the event horizon because of the 'ether'."

Ian frowned, and he felt that he seemed to have grasped something key: "If the end is really a timeline life, then they will actually be very unadapted to the movement on the 'space axis'."

"Only under the influence of the ether, finally has the initial ability to move the space axis."

Just as Ian guessed at the beginning, for Endgame, the existence of ether is simply like an anomaly in a horror game, allowing them to travel through time and come to different spaces like humans, and life on the space axis is very important to them. Generally speaking, it is also a monster that changes rapidly and is difficult to see in the same time and space area, and suddenly flashes in a certain period of time from time to time.

Because of this, no matter whether it is the Final Fragment or the Final Soul, as long as they encounter a black hole, they will immediately enter it - they have finally found a stable space-time zone, and they will no longer encounter so many messy weirdness.

But here comes the question: they relied on the ether when they came out of the black hole, and their diffusion also relied on the ether... Without the ether, how could they 'move' their own space axis and reach the inside of the black hole's event horizon?

Ian doesn't know the answer to this question, but it's easy to predict the likelihood.

First: Finally, he has the ability to move on the axis of space without the need for ether.

Ultimately, it should be possible for him to do this. As a civilization that is at the same level as or even superior to the Star God, the Star God can make the ether transcend time and space and predict and know the direction of many information in the past and future. As long as he studies it, he will definitely be able to do it. Research results.

But here comes the question - can everyone achieve this?

The individual Star God, looking at it now, may be at the seventh energy level. If it is a larvae, the standard condition may also be the sixth energy level. However, the Star God's ability to transform the space and time of the universe, shape the great ether circulation, and influence infinite parallel time and space is definitely not something that can be summarized by the seventh energy level.

The sixth and seventh energy levels are probably just the weak and ordinary people in the Star God group. Above these, there are more powerful individual Star Gods, as well as the "Star God civilization as a whole" that represents the pinnacle of all things.

The Great Ether Circulation can assist the weak Star Gods to do many things that they cannot do by themselves. This is the power of civilization. Even humans like Ian can know the future with the help of the Great Ether Circulation and the power of prophets. Or the possibility of infinite parallel space and time.

However, if there is no big ether circulation and it is just an ordinary country star god, relying on its own power, it wants to transcend time and space, predict the future, and sense other parallel time and space... Ian feels that it is definitely difficult to do it. thing.

If there is a 'Great Final Circulation' in the end, then maybe every end can freely walk on the axis of space. But at present, although the end has defeated the Star God and has the ability to eliminate the ether, it has not yet It's too late to create a 'Great Final Circulation'.

The strength of ordinary Endgame may not be as strong as imagined. Without the support of the civilization behind it, it may not be possible to move the space axis without ether.

So, thinking about it the other way around, this is the second possibility.

Individual, ordinary final beings do not have the ability to move the space axis in non-etheric environments.

So, there is another possibility.

——Is it really that the ether was finally eliminated, rather than that after the Star God was defeated, he took the initiative to remove the ether?

Finally using the ether that is open to everyone, plus his own unique technology, he defeated the creator of the ether, Star God. This is not surprising, because finally used the power of Star God to defeat Star God himself... But the other way around Said, if Star God completely gives up the ether, then Star God and Zhongyan will be back on the same starting line!

As a result, those who do not have ether, and are not the most powerful batch of ‘ends’, are stagnated in the ‘outside universe’ without ether!

This is also the reason why the final fragments entered the Terra star when the ether was thin and turned the star into a black hole, but did not come out for a full 40 million years - not only is the black hole comfortable to live in, but also because the ether has become so thin that it is weak. The fragments cannot leave the event horizon!

"Finally stopped outside the wound of the cradle... Is He waiting for something?"

Raising his head, Ian looked towards the direction of the cradle's wound, thoughtfully: "Sure enough, without the ether in the external universe, He cannot move?"

The end outside the cradle, if Ian's guess is correct, is stuck in place for the same reason.

Back then, the star god's spaceship crashed into the cradle barrier, allowing the ether inside the cradle to flow to the outside world, attracting an end that was looking for a suitable place to live in the surrounding area. However, the disappearance of the ether made the end's movements on the space axis become increasingly difficult. Slower and slower, when He came outside the cradle, the cradle had been repaired and no ether flowed out.

He stagnated in place, motionless, and fell into a state of neither life nor death for the end.

Until...the dragon of light smashed the cradle's wound, allowing high-concentration ether to flow out, activating the final ability to move.

Or maybe 200 million years later, the cradle was broken and the thin ether flowed out, finally finding the last chance to follow the ether flow back to the black hole.

As for the normal material world?

In the end, I don't care. Just like human beings would not take a second look at planets without a suitable environment.

That makes sense.

And...Ian even thought about the beginning of everything.

The disaster of falling from the sky.

The crash of the starship.

Why does the seal of the Star God's seal of the Final Fragment fail? Why did this seal succeed again as soon as it entered the cradle?

The answer seems simple.

"It was that moment."

Ian whispered to himself: "At the moment when the disaster happened, the 'ether' disappeared from the outside world!"

"Even the Star God spacecraft, one of the individuals of the Star God, which carries the important sheltered fire and carries the fragment of the terminal, did not receive this notification. When encountering the sudden disappearance of the ether, the seal and power unit lost control, allowing the fragment of the terminal to escape. , destroying key areas of the spacecraft!"

"No, it may be that he knew and was notified, but he did not expect such a big impact. The Star God spacecraft has a perpetual motion machine, and the ether it continuously produces is enough for the spacecraft to be used alone, but the change in ether concentration is enough to cause the final The fragments found an opportunity and caused a 'fall from the sky'."

"After Tianzhui entered the Terra star field and entered the cradle, due to the isolation of the cradle from the 'internal and external universe', the ether concentration returned to stability. Instead, the dragon kings found an opportunity to reshape the seal and suppress the final fragments."

"This is the truth about Skyfall - it is not a simple accident, but the 'aftermath splash' caused by a confrontation between the two sides in a war so vast that humans can hardly imagine it!"

"Whether it is Star God or Endgame, their civilized individuals are powerless in the face of cosmic-level changes. One died due to falling from the sky, and the other was stagnated in the outer universe due to the disappearance of ether."

"This is... what Ash Path wants to tell me!"

Ian didn't know whether his guess was right - but that was the case with all speculations and assumptions. Only by acquiescing that he was right could all thinking continue.

When the Star God built the cradle, he should have also made relevant designs.

First of all, there is a high probability that there is a perpetual motion machine inside every cradle, because the cradle cannot abandon the life of the ether as an energy source, ensuring that the ether ecology in the cradle can exist.

This is the case with Terra. Although the Endless Tide has not yet fully started, it has been slowly releasing the ether, allowing Terra to be gradually converted into a Gaia planet.

If everything goes according to the Star God's vision, when they cancel the ether in the entire universe and start a new war with the end, all intelligent life in the universe will be preserved in the cradle and regenerate in the ring worlds.

The perpetual motion machine can ensure that they have extremely abundant energy resources, independent of the war between the Star God and the End... In this way, the civilization in the cradle may always exist!

You know, the cradle on Terra collapsed after 200 million years because the perpetual motion machine disappeared, and the waiting time for other normal cradles is probably not shorter than the lifespan of a star, right?

Ten billion years... Normal civilization would have been extinct long ago. If the Star God could do this, no civilization would complain.

Obviously, Ian can think of the timeline life in the end, and Star God must also be able to.

Although the Star God's understanding of the end is vague, it is probably no problem to make a guess. A series of treatments against the ether and the cradle can prove that although the Star God is at a disadvantage, he still has the ability to fight back and is only temporarily dormant.

At this point, Ian only has one question.

"Is the time in the cradle really synchronized with the time outside?"

Ian narrowed his eyes.

He has vaguely found the key to avoid the end and go to the outer space of the universe.

And the offense and defense of Star God and Zhongyan finally showed their role to him.

The 200 million years of waiting on Ashes' path has indeed allowed Ashes Ian to wait for the most important clue...the ether, the core of everything is here. In the end, the yearning for black holes and the powerlessness of individuals in space and time without ether are also revealed.

At this moment, the cyan light stream brought by the precognitive horizon has disappeared, and the prophecy of the path of ashes has completely ended.

In the virtual realm, he held a spiral sword in his hand, and the sword penetrated the chest of King Jhin, who was also shocked by the final appearance.

Witnessing everything on Ashes' path with Ian, and hearing Ian's self-questioning words, the King of Ashes came back to his senses and laughed and replied: [It's definitely not synchronized, boy, even the other possibility is... We can all use the power of black holes and virtual realms to accelerate our somatosensory time. If the Creator really planned everything, how could it not be accelerated? 】

[Our acceleration is to wait for the 'end of all meaning'... And you think that if the Creator, the Heavenly Father, really has any purpose, he must take great pains to create such a 'cradle' like we are in. Its purpose is What? 】

[Is it simply raising cute lambs in captivity? Are they raised ethically? Is it to give yourself peace of mind, or to build a huge cosmic tombstone, so you throw all the remains of fire and civilization here and pile them up? 】

The arms, legs, and limbs had begun to turn into pure white ashes and dissipate with flying flames, but the King of Jhin raised his head and looked at the sky with extremely bright eyes, as if there were blazing flames: [Of course not - Heavenly Father is Hope, hope that we 'children in the cradle' can grow up to the point where we can catch up with them! 】

[Then, when we catch up with them, we can leave the cradle and fight against the end with them! 】

Lowering his head, King Jhin looked at Ian, his eyes shining brightly: [He wants us to fight]

[In other words, I hope they want us to fight]

[In this way, everything will make sense]

Ian looked at King Jhin who had begun to 'die'. At this moment, he had always been bored with his life and the meaning of his life, but he wanted to exist no matter what, waiting for the 'meaning to come'. Finally found the meaning of my life.

——Yes, yes, I have proven myself that I can burn, burn to the end of the world, burn to the end of everything in the world.

——I can endure reincarnation, all the misfortunes of life and the loss of death.

——And in the end, I found... I found the meaning of life that I can accept in my life!

The King of Ashes, who was said to be on the path of Ashes, finally got the truth about everything.

Then King Jhin [now] already knows that his significance in this possibility is to reveal all this for Ian Silver Peak!

A prophet who can change the world and choose a different future... His battle and his presence are needed to prepare for defeating more terrifying opponents and finding a better future in the future!

He was not at all unwilling to accept this outcome and frankly admitted his defeat.

The man, who was fully satisfied with both the battle and his life, expressed his opinion to Ian: [Although Heavenly Father is merciful, the war has reached this point and cannot allow Heavenly Father to continue to be merciful - they need more strength to defeat stronger enemies]

[The Stagnant End and the Accelerated Cradle... During the period when the End is stagnant due to the disappearance of the ether, the civilization in the cradle can accelerate, spawning more Heavenly Father clan to fight back]

[We are their descendants, or in other words, only you, only people like you, Ian Silverfeng, can become the new Star God, the 'helper' who walks out of the cradle and helps the Star God! 】

[This is the original intention of the cradle - the existence of the fire of thousands of stars and the perpetual motion machine is originally for this. In order for all civilizations to learn from each other, integrate with each other, and work together to create a greater home, so that the best of all civilizations can become the new Heavenly Father and Creator, that is why the Heavenly Father will build the cradle]

"You are indeed right."

Ian nodded slightly, and he drew out the spiral sword, while King Jhin shook slightly and stood firm: [Until now, I understand why you are so powerful and your true purpose...]

Even the old man whose body had begun to shatter smiled and said: [From the beginning, your vision was not with us, not with Terra... but with the high sky]

[Therefore, none of us, prisoners on the earth, can defeat you, and no one can know you]

"There are still some."

Lowering his head slightly, Ian smiled and said seriously: "Don't you know it now?"

[It would have been better if I had known earlier, but it’s not bad now]

Ashes and flames continued to fly away, and two balls of flame overflowed from the King of Ashes, one pure white and one red, which were two different bloods of the throne: [This is my legacy and your trophy. With these two bloods of the top throne, Absalom’s bloodline, I will definitely obey your orders in the Flying Flame Land]

[But don’t worry about their bunch of trash, they are all ignorant, have strength but no dreams and goals. After you defeat me, you don’t have to be gentle, they are just a bunch of cheap bones, they will kneel down and lick your shoes]

"I know."

Ian looked at King Jhin. His body had been scattered, and without the support of the blood of the throne, only a vague head remained: "Do you have any wish?"

[I am satisfied with everything] King Jinder smiled, but after thinking about it, he seemed to have thought of something fun, and he suddenly became happy: [Especially when he saw that among other possibilities, you are actually my adopted son, and I want to be my adopted son. It’s really interesting]

【How does it feel? Silver Peak Prophet? ] He joked: [In some possibility, it feels like you are my adopted son? 】

The nearly dead King of Jhin no longer cares about anything. He is not provocative, but simply says what he thinks.

However, he heard Ian reply seriously: "It feels good. As a foster father, you are indeed qualified. I am very happy that you can fulfill your dream."

"In this world, you and I have nothing to do with each other. We are still enemies, but this does not mean that I will deny other parallel times and spaces."

"because……"

In Ian's eyes, the extremely clear water color flowed, as if endless time and space had turned into mirror glass, and the refraction in those eyes was repeated.

He whispered: "All Ian, no matter what time and space, what possibilities, what thoughts, what endings."

"it's all me."

“It’s all part of [Ian].”

"Our failures, over and over again, over and over again, I don't know how many times, have accumulated into me now, who is almost successful."

"And in this process, you have indeed helped me. You are my teacher, foster father, benefactor, instructor and protector."

"I'm not going to deny any of this."

"Just like [now], I will not care about all this, and will kill you without mercy and with gratitude..."

King Jhin opened his eyes wide, and he listened to Ian's words in silence.

Although he didn't say it clearly, he understood what Ian really meant... He didn't think he was joking. He did admit that everything in the 'prophecy' was true, and considered everything, including himself, to be quite ridiculous. 'adopted father', are regarded as part of their recognition of interpersonal relationships.

However, Ian Silverfeng admits all this but will not stop.

Even if he knows and admits it, he will still take action and kill.

[You are really...] Before completely dissipating, King Jhin laughed with relief and joy: [You are really a heartless but loving monster]

[Ian Yinfeng, maybe only you like this can have such an incredible prophetic ability and know the infinite direction of the future]

[It’s just that you can also forget it]

At the end, when the last trace of ashes was gone, he said in a weak voice: "You don't have to remember everything, remember all the possibilities you foresee... Those may have happened in the past, or they may not have happened yet. future...you don’t have to remember them all, it will become a burden to you]

[Because you are going to the future]

"No."

Putting down his sword and walking forward slowly, Ian stretched out his hands and obtained two flames from the dissipated ashes: "I will remember them all. Regardless of the past or future, regardless of success or failure, I will not forget it at all."

"Because I am a prophet who wants to move into the future, a sage who wants to change everything."

"I will remember everything, bear everything, and then..."

"Embark on the journey to the farthest place."

The morning light had just risen from the east, illuminating the Sea of ​​Tranquility and the Absalom Mountains. The crimson glow that had illuminated the entire Flying Flame Land for several days gradually dimmed.

Terra 778, October 15, early morning.

One of the two kings of the Flying Flame Land, the King of [Eternal Hell Flame] Jinder, Dartis Absalom, was defeated by the Prophet of Silver Peak, Ian Silver Peak.

Return to ashes.