High Above

"Of course I happily agree."

Ian wouldn't - it was impossible for him to refuse a virtual realm machine god of the level of the 'Final Line of Defense' to come and help him protect the virtual realm.

With the light in his arms, he felt like he was sleeping on a pillow. This was what he was thinking about when he saw the countless white virtual machine gods wrapped around the body of the 'real demon' in the light world.

——This is perhaps the greatest legacy left by the civilization of the previous era to the Terran Era.

Yes, the greatest legacy.

Ian knows very well what Terra would be like without the Void Realm Machine God.

The disasters and sufferings accumulated in the lost era, the resentment and hatred created by sacrifices and deaths, will dissipate with the souls of the dead, turning into the black mud of the abyss of the virtual world, and then shape it bit by bit. The prototype of the devil created the "Shadow's Terran Abyss" and created a devil that belonged to all Terrans.

Even in those abyssal galaxies, when countless demons gather together, they will create their own 'Demon King'...

Or maybe it’s called ‘evil god’.

What the Star God bestows on all living things is source material and spiritual energy, ether and future, and endless love and possibility. Even if a civilization is destroyed and reduced to ashes, there will still be demons reborn from the shadows, and they are the last remaining 'successors' of a civilization.

Death and destruction are not the end. In a sense, demons and evil gods are also products of love.

But most ignorant mortals cannot bear this kind of love.

Terra has already died once, and theoretically, a demon should be born. Although the Terran people struggled to crawl out of hell, this did not mean that the demons would retreat into the shadows.

They should have been wreaking havoc, but it was the Void Realm Machine God left by the civilization of the previous era that removed all the seeds and traces left by the demons, allowing the countries of the Terra Era to grow smoothly until now.

The Void Realm Machine God is the ‘guardian’ that all civilizations in the etheric universe that have penetrated deeply into the path of sublimation must create. As long as the guardians are still there, then civilization does not have to worry about the birth of demons, and they cannot affect the thoughts of all living beings, causing civilization to gradually deteriorate and turn into a hotbed of shadows.

However, guardians also have their limits.

If a full-scale war breaks out on Terra, and the population of Terra's era has expanded, a large number of people will die in a short period of time. The corruption of souls will distort the virtual realm and directly create an abyss. But now, the people have been severely damaged and no longer have full strength. The Void Realm Machine God will be unable to stop the invasion of demons, and Terra's civilization will completely fall in the flames of war.

Become the ruins he predicted.

[The Terra Void Security Center will protect everyone’s hearts]

As the Fairy Queen said, the eyes of the 'Final Line of Defense' flashed with light, then took a step forward, turned into a ray of light and shadow, and disappeared, or in other words, merged into the virtual realm.

Then, in this virtual realm, countless rays of light condensed into a large number of strange-shaped virtual realm machines and gods in the form of spheres, triangles, cones, rhombuses, squares, etc. - they emerged from the void, and seemed to come directly from the void. It surged out of the realm, and then flew to every place in the Silver Peak Territory.

Ian watched this scene. The virtual machine gods were all glowing white. They flowed through the sky and the earth, like rivers of light floating in the sky.

He did nothing, but aroused the interest of the Fairy Queen: [I thought you would be subconsciously shocked, or try to stop it - you are so confident about the final line of defense? You know, with your permission, he will go directly into the depths of the virtual realm of your territory. The authority is so high that it is difficult for me to completely delete it! 】

"It's nothing more than a process of decompressing and installing security software. There's nothing surprising about it."

But Ian replied in a tone that seemed to be familiar to him: "Security software must have high permissions, otherwise how can you kill demons and remove curses? Although I am also a little worried, the pre-era civilization should be a civilization without junk and rogue software. , even if there is, it is better to have a gangster leader to help look after the house than to let Adebert and I do the work ourselves."

"Rogue software?" Adalbert was a little confused, but the Fairy Queen was stunned for a moment, and then said happily: "If I didn't know you weren't, I would have thought you were a civilized person from the previous era!" Haha, rogue software, I really miss that era. Although it developed brutally, it was also full of vitality]

[I also specially designed that line. How about it? Isn’t it interesting? 】

"It's so fun."

Ian knew that the lines spoken by the other party were the classic lines of [happily agree/ruthlessly reject], so he was relieved because it was so classic. He smiled and shook his head: "Her Majesty the Queen, you said you are the creator of the final line of defense... right? It can be said that my original guess about the virtual realm machine gods, that is to say, that they are some kind of artificial fairies, is indeed true?"

[Yeah, but it’s not particularly accurate]

The Fairy Queen simply admitted: [Fairies are the natural final line of defense of the planet, and the Void Realm Machine God is the final line of defense of the Void Realm. If we don't create it, the prototype of the Void Realm Machine God will be born naturally. That is the so-called 'Angels', 'Holy Spirits', 'Dream Fairies' or 'gods' and other natural virtual creatures]

[During the period after the Federation encountered the Skyfall, weren’t there many alien fire gods coming? Part of it, or rather, a considerable part, is the 'racial god' condensed from their collective subconscious and the 'god body' created by fire. This is also a path]

[However, Terra suffered the first fall from the sky, and our collective subconscious knew the Heavenly Father, so it was difficult to give birth to a 'racial god'. Heavenly Father was very troubled by this at the beginning. Although they protect civilization, they basically will not appear. Once they appear, it will lead to cognitive distortion. After intelligent life knows that there are other higher intelligent creatures above itself, it will It’s hard to believe that ‘I am the unique protagonist of this universe’, and then I worship myself and gave birth to a racial god]

[Because of the Beast of Thousand Stars and Heavenly Father, it is difficult for humans to have their own ‘human god’, so they can only settle for the next best thing and create an ‘artificial machine god’ with weaker protective capabilities]

[Compared to the 'God of Humanity' who wholeheartedly protects all humans and maintains the survival of all humans, the God of the Void Realm can only act according to fixed procedures and has no judgment of his own, but the advantage is that everything is in his own hands]

"Fairies are nature's final line of defense?"

Ian was thoughtful and whispered to himself: "So that's it. Angels, Holy Spirits, Dream Demon Gods... Void Realm Machine Gods are indeed the right path."

"If a civilization accumulates too much negative emotions, it will breed demons. A civilization that is interested in developing the virtual realm must have guardians."

"The most natural guardian is the race god, or the angelic holy spirit shaped by various 'positive emotions', and making the virtual realm machine god yourself is a more technological product."

The core of the etheric universe lies in intelligent life.

The Star God changed the entire universe, allowing the entire universe to change and exist for intelligent life.

Existences such as racial gods and angels of light, just like demons, are probably the natural survival system created by the Star God, a natural law created by the Star God.

"How to create a virtual realm machine god?" Looking up, Ian finally asked the question he really wanted to ask: "In other words, what is the difference between the current Terran civilization and the virtual realm? Why did you, the Queen, create the final line of defense? , and now even His communication system cannot be repaired.”

【This is why I long for the light world】

The Goblin Queen also answered seriously: [The birth of goblins is the extremely accidental rise and fall of natural spiritual energy. It is the result of the fluctuations created by all the natural creatures on the planet. The virtual realm machine god also needs the rise and fall of virtual realm spiritual energy. Peak requirements are extremely high]

[If you want this technique, I can teach you now, but it will be easier in Falling Star City]

[Simply put, the creation of the machine god requires an environment that is extremely stable when it is stable and extremely high-energy when it fluctuates. We rely on this kind of fluctuation to imprint consciousness on the virtual realm and create the God of Machines... To meet this condition, the world must be unified at least and the people live and work in peace and contentment for more than ten years. Only then can the God of Machines be created in the most peaceful and happy virtual realm. ——Not a single second in the sixteen hundred years since Terra fell from the sky has met this condition. Only you, the Silver Peak leader, have a chance, but you have to persist for another seven or eight years]

[But the light world meets this condition at any time. It's just that the part of the small light world that our goblins control is used by me to create the light element furnace... As you said, the machine god is a kind of artificial dream goblin, only more powerful, but also more rigid. As long as it is slightly modified, The power of the light world can also accelerate the birth of fairies]

[In order to restore the number of goblins, I made a selfish decision. But I don’t think this requires an apology, because we goblins deserve it! 】

The Fairy Queen didn't hesitate at all, and Ian nodded in agreement: "The machine god can be built slowly in the future, but if there are no fairies in this world, it will definitely become worse."

Not to mention that the goblins have been exterminated five times in order to save Terra. Just because they are so cute and straightforward, they can make the people of Terra imagine that they can be as happy as the goblins. This serves as a banner-like guide, which is enough to make Iraq En agrees with what the Queen said.

The goblins are worth it.

[Are you planning to go to Falling Star City now? 】The goblins have always been coming and going. After seeing Ian begin to explain the follow-up work to Adelbert, the Queen knew that Ian was planning to set off. She smiled and said: "We can go to the depths of the virtual realm to take a look first." As a result of the work of "Final Line of Defense," you also have to understand how the Light Realm accelerated the birth of the Void Realm Machine God]

"Too."

Ian agreed with the Fairy Queen's suggestion, and together they dived deeper into the virtual realm, where Ian himself was connected to the 'Light Realm'.

The place where the final defense line works is easy to find. It is a giant silver vortex in the light world. This vortex reminds Ian of the 'Silver Sky Gate' in the Capital of Knowledge... Considering that the race behind the Silver Sky Gate is also a fairy. One series, it may not be difficult to understand the technical similarities.

In the vortex, there are countless complex inscriptions that are gathering and combining to build a large number of crystal-like structures, and these huge crystal clusters vaguely create a three-dimensional 'door' at the core of the whirlpool, while streaks of silver light shine through. Under the guidance of the inscription, a simple psychic geometry is constructed inside the door, just like 3D printing.

That is the prototype of the virtual realm machine god.

As the high-energy spiritual energy fluctuations in the light world rise and fall, the power of the vortex continues to rise and fall, and using this as a driving force, a series of 'programs' that lead directly to the depths of the virtual realm are engraved in this spiritual entity... No. In just five minutes, a Void Realm Machine God was created.

After it was born, it swam directly towards the surface of the virtual realm, and Ian could tell that its target was the Silver Peak Territory.

It will swallow up the growth of the curse in the Silver Peak Territory, absorb the happiness and joy in it and grow stronger. Eventually, it will continue to transform, merge with its kind, evolve, and then divide and reproduce. This is the ecology of the virtual realm machine god.

[The most basic ‘white blood cells’] The Fairy Queen said softly: [The next step is ‘immunity’ and ‘artificial vaccine’. The next step is not prevention, but eliminators and destroyers, and the final ‘final line of defense’]

[In the light world, a white blood cell can be conceived in five minutes. But in the virtual realm of nature, this time may be five months]

[Thanks to you, Ian, if it weren’t for the arcane path and the world war continued, the speed of the virtual realm machine gods’ reproduction would not be as fast as the speed of human self-destruction. By then, even I would have no choice but to Sheltering a corner of Falling Star City]

"...Why is it so slow?"

It was also the first time that Ian saw the virtual machine god 'create' his own kind, instead of multiplying and dividing. After hearing the queen's emotion, he couldn't help but be a little confused: "And I was a little strange just now... fairies should also be born naturally. Right? The Hua An and Frost Butterflies I know are like this. Coupled with the acceleration of the Light Element Furnace, the number of fairies now should not be too small..."

[Ian] The Fairy Queen looked at Ian calmly. Silver Peak's prophet could see that the Fairy Queen's eyes revealed a sadness that was difficult for mortals to understand.

Although it was only for a moment, Ian did see this trace of sadness, and then he heard the Queen slowly tell the truth: [Fairies are the life of the free world]

[Because of the accidental birth, you can also choose to die after birth-no meaning, no restraint, fairies are so free]

[So... fairies can choose to die on their own]

[If it is a peaceful and happy world, an interesting and lively world, if it is not enough for fairies to live one life, they will naturally live a second life. They will always choose to live and live. In this way, no matter how small the probability is, no matter how rare it is, The number of goblins will also usher in explosive growth. Just like the civilization of the previous era, I can be pushed to the position of speaker by the goblins. There are even 60 goblins out of one hundred astronauts]

[But if...the world is like Terra before]

[Ian, an unhappy child can naturally choose... to refuse to be born into this world again]

Ian nodded silently.

He can... As the goblin' Ian the goblin, he can understand this choice.

Just like, if the current 'Ian' is disappointed and completely disappointed with everything, he can also choose to close the Guiding Star, completely eliminate the circle of reincarnation he created, and let 'Ian' die completely.

However, both he and the Fairy Queen would choose to live.

This is why they, who are free, still choose to be born.

[Then I will go back to Falling Star City first]

Not long after, the Fairy Queen left the Silver Peak Territory together with the final line of defense that had once again condensed its combat entity.

The final line of defense has created a nest in the Silver Peak Territory-Light Realm. He can teleport to the nest at any time through the virtual realm characteristics to protect the Silver Peak Territory and the Light Realm. The same is true for the Fairy Queen, so she knows that there is something else about Ian. After you have to do it, go back first to prepare for teaching Ian's skills.

In addition to handing over work to Adelbert, Ian did have one more important thing to do.

"I'm sorry, Albert."

Ian whispered to his old buddy: "But sometimes, you really can't give up some of the power you can use."

"I understand." And Albert sighed softly, then raised his head with firm eyes: "I will witness it."

"Um."

After comforting Adlbert, Ian looked around the virtual world, and then shouted sternly: "Come out, Split Thorin! The dead king of souls!"

"Since you can create hell, come and help me build heaven!"

silence.

There was a long silence.

Then, in the gray silence, the dim hum, and the light of death, a shadow emerged from the depths of the virtual realm, with the light of crimson lava behind it, like hell.

[Ian Silverfeng] A hoarse and tired voice sounded: [You are right, I can create hell]

[However, the place you want to build is not a paradise at all, but a dollhouse that belongs to you alone, in the palm of your hand]

Saying this, the figure of the fifth-level powerhouse, the Lord of Death, the Grand Duke of Hell, Split Thorin, appeared in front of Ian and the solemn Adebert.

The silver-haired man smiled sarcastically, but he was not laughing at Ian, but at himself: [But, I think]

[There may be many people who are willing to be your toys]

【This is the difference between you and me】