High Above

Although the dead Lord Adebert wore quite heavy armor, he was actually quite thin. Even if his face could not be seen clearly, he could tell from his face shape that he was essentially a weak researcher.

As his memories spilled throughout the labyrinth of the Warp.

The power of the dead king gave him a majestic and indifferent temperament. Now the man is the king of the labyrinth, the true ultimate enemy of all those trapped here.

But Ian knew very well that beneath the shell of the dead king, he was still a good man who was gentle and thought about most things with good intentions.

[If you want to know the truth... then I will tell you]

So, turning his head, the Dead King looked at the laboratory where the strange black light shield was still maintained. He slowly said to Ian: [Tell you, what the Dead King's plan actually represents]

[It represents a brand new fourth-level or even fifth-level inheritance that can be stably man-made or even mass-produced]

[The price is that one person carries the soul of a country]

It can be seen that the dead king intended to surprise Ian by saying these words.

But Ian was shamelessly not surprised.

His biggest reaction was to nod his head in understanding: "That's indeed the case. It seems that my guess was right."

Yes, Ian had expected this.

Ever since he obtained the power of the Dead Lord, he had been puzzled by this strange inheritance. Rather than using the dead souls to strengthen himself, it was more about the dead souls strengthening the host and allowing the host to protect them.

He's not saying that this shitty place like Terra is full of scum, but even on Earth, there is definitely no shortage of egoism.

Shouldn't this kind of inheritance be the type of 'a dead soul is my shield, a dead soul is my life'?

It turned out not to be!

Therefore, from then on, Ian began to try to connect the information obtained previously, and connect the retrospective horizon with the information known in Adebert's memory.

——Starting a few years ago, the Avak Territory implemented the implantation of 'artificial souls attached to the brain' due to a plague situation.

——In other words, everyone in the entire Avak Territory has souls, and these souls can even fine-tune their structure through brain possession.

——In this way, we can bypass the difficulties that Adelbert ignored because of his too high morals in his memory, and directly create souls that can overlap and resonate with each other, and even form some kind of spiritual structure!

If the artificial soul is regarded as a source material structure, then hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, millions of overlapping souls are enough to accumulate a sufficiently complex and large sublimation system with multiple functions and a very strong sublimation system.

Then use an extreme 'emotion' or 'goal' to unify the 'consensus'...

For example, 'revenge'.

Or, ‘rest in peace’.

Then, the power of the third energy level can be derived.

Of course, this is not enough... One million people is really too few. Although it sounds like a lot, if you think about the complexity of the circuits and structures of electronic components, it is more complicated than ordinary electronic components. How many times the source material structure, you can know that the million level is really very small.

Especially since these millions of souls are composed of brain-attached ectoplasmic combinations... the strength is really not high.

Therefore, a ‘dead king’ is needed.

It takes a backbone - a person with enough strength, potential and belief to resonate with the dead souls, so that such a miracle of promotion can be achieved.

Moreover, if you want to become stronger, you will need at least hundreds of millions of souls to reach the fourth energy level.

As for the fifth energy level... at least he must be a strong man at the peak of the fourth energy level, who can climb to the fifth energy level with the help of the souls and beliefs of hundreds of millions of sentient beings...

In other words...

"Grand Duke Thorin. Only him!"

Ian suddenly remembered that on the way of the insect swarm, the Grand Duchy of Thorin successfully became independent, and his own insect swarm crushed the entire Grand Duchy of Thorin as if it were in no man's land...

He suddenly felt horrified: "Isn't it possible? This madman, Inaga's disciple at that time, wouldn't really do this, would he?!"

"The reason why I feel like I'm in a no-man's land among the worms...is it really because the Grand Duchy of Thorin has completely turned into a dead land of undead...a country of the undead?!"

"He killed everyone in the entire Grand Duchy!?"

That's not the case.

Ian realized that even if the Grand Duke had made preparations for so many years, it would still be impossible to completely popularize soul possession.

Therefore, there are still some people in the Grand Duchy, which makes the insect swarm himself puzzled, but he does not care too much - there are two different concepts between eating less people and not eating people, so the insect swarm himself does not notice it. Too many differences.

——All the clues, including the clues to the prophet’s future, are connected!

Therefore, under the astonished eyes of the dead king, Ian thought thoughtfully, and even said his guess suddenly: "So, from the beginning, this plan was to kill everyone, and then Their souls bear it and keep it within themselves.”

"Engrave the memories and souls of all living beings on your own body, enhance the strength of the only king to the point where it can overcome all natural disasters and destruction, and then let the king defeat all dangers and obstacles, and move towards the future..."

In this regard, Ian's evaluation was simple: "As expected of a Terran, he was able to deal with such a sick idea, and he succeeded."

It sounds very strange, but in fact, this is actually a very 'efficiency theory' idea.

Rather, if it is purely based on logic, such action is the most reasonable.

Ten billion humans, stacked together, would only amount to one billion tons, or about one cubic kilometer... or a small hill.

The third-level mountain-carrying giant turtle outside is probably the same as tens of millions of humans in terms of weight alone. But how many times larger would the city that tens of millions of humans need to live in be larger than the mountain-carrying giant turtle?

If they were all stacked in life-support devices, protecting human beings would be a very simple matter.

If it were just a soul, it would be easier to preserve it.

All it takes is a carrier... maybe it can be achieved!

Therefore, if you want to protect all mankind from some kind of irresistible disaster that sweeps the world and can even destroy the entire world's ecosystem... then the plan of the dead king has practicality.

Destroy human bodies and use their souls as raw materials for shelter - the dead souls support the power of the dead king. They connect the essence of the virtual realm and subspace and absorb the source of nature. Each soul is designed to be free. Combine various powerful ability structures to complete your tasks and support the dead king's divine power.

The dead king's activities in the outside world ensure that he can maintain himself and avoid more irresistible disasters.

This is essentially...

It's just a kind of outer space immigration ship, just a psychic version.

Everyone is a crew member, everyone is a ship, and the captain directs the direction.

Ian said in his heart. He remembered his original job on Earth, and understood it all as if he was blessed: "The essence of the dead king is a kind of shelter...a kind of 'fire'!"

"This is the truth about the dead king's plan!"

——A kind of Terran psychic version of the Spark ship!

【Yes...you guessed it correctly】

The dead king obviously didn't expect that Ian's thinking could actually keep up.

After a moment of silence, he smiled in relief and said: [Yes. That's it. 】

[On the continent of Terra, there are not enough resources for everyone to become a strong person]

[Even if the sublimated ones are not interested in ordinary people and their wealth, just the conflict between the sublimated people... will create the tragedy in front of you and me]

【even……】

Having said this, the dead king Adebert looked at his hand. He stared at this pale hand: [In order to save some people, he will destroy more people]

[There is nothing to admit. I used my body as the experimental subject of the 'former dead king' to liberate the souls of the dead - I know the archduke's purpose. He just wants to make this technology practical. He just wants a result, and he will use any means during the process. This is also where I recognize him. He can make choices that I cannot make and accomplish things that I cannot do.]

[To me, this is the only way to solve the atrocities at Avak Labs]

[But how can I underestimate the hatred of the souls who died of misfortune? The Dead Lord used too many vicious spiritual powers and virtual realm technologies. After taking up residence in me, hatred and despair converged, leading to the fall of the virtual realm fragments and creating this subspace maze]

[Then...everything got out of control]

[Phantoms are killing people, viruses are killing people, fungi are killing people, monsters are killing people... Even the real world that constantly overlaps with the virtual world has induced a huge spiritual shock in the entire Avak Territory area - those who had been there a few years ago People who accepted artificial soul experiments without knowing it were induced to give birth to souls under the guidance of violent technology]

[And their bodies went crazy in the spreading despair and hatred, turning into wild beasts that chose people to eat.]

The Dead Lord raised his head. He looked at the top of the subspace maze, as if he was looking at the resentment that made up the entire maze: [I killed them - I just wanted to save those experimental subjects, but I ended up leading Avak into the trap. Kill all those innocent ordinary people]

[I am also an ascendant. I made the arrogant decision to bury them all... It was only after I became the Dead King that I realized that the significance of the inheritance of the Dead King is to protect ordinary people so that they will not be meaningless in the hands of an arrogant sublimator like me. dissipate]

[Even if the price is death, they can live forever in the dead king's body - they will have a dream, an eternal and beautiful dream that will never end until the real death comes]

[For them, this dream is reality]

——It turns out that it also has a cyberspace. The dead king is playing outside, and the dead soul is sleeping and dreaming inside. It feels pretty good.

This dead king's technology is quite advanced.

This is what Ian thinks. But if you think about it carefully, the original name of the virtual realm has a "psychic cyberspace", and the dead king essentially turns himself into a small virtual realm entity.

In this case, it is not surprising that there is a local area network in the dead king's body, allowing the dead souls to dream in their bodies and live an illusory but real, happy and peaceful life...

"But what about the dragon?"

Ian thought of a doubt - Xio and his prosthetic body seemed to be in sync very well, so why was there no problem of matching soul and body?

[Dragon is different. Dragon souls are special, unique existences that are not affected by the body - according to my judgment, dragon souls are essentially independent existences that exist in the virtual world. They are super beings who have souls first and then bodies, similar to fairies. So no matter what kind of body it is, it can adapt perfectly. But unlike fairies, if it is not a dragon body, the dragon soul cannot fully exert its power.]

Adlbert said: [To be honest, the reason why the research room wanted to capture the Mountain King's child this time was to study the special features of the dragon soul... Even the study of the dead king has a lot to do with dragons]

[But until the end, we didn't research anything. We could only rely on the specialness of the dragon soul to extract some relevant information from the virtual realm]

"So that's it..."

Now, Ian can fully understand the idea of ​​​​the inheritance of the 'Dead King'.

To put it bluntly, the wise men on Terra have all thought about the question that the second prince Mikael asked Ian not long ago.

——Since the sublime can do everything, what else do ordinary people do?

——If ordinary people must be protected, how should we protect them?

The Dead King is the ultimate answer to this question.

——Since ordinary people are considered useless, the essence of all the power of the Dead King comes from the gathering of souls. Whether they are evil or ruthless, cunning or arrogant, they must reach a consensus with the dead souls in order to gain power.

——Since in this world full of natural disasters, it is impossible to protect the lives of ordinary people, then simply kill all ordinary people and only protect their souls!

Moreover, it is different from those fourth-level and fifth-level inheritances that require a lot of resources.

The line of dead kings only needs people.

All we need is that everyone has a soul!

And this related technical problem has been overcome by Adelbert and part of the pre-era technology!

In this way, the Dead Lord lineage, which does not require resources, is instead the lineage that is most closely connected with ordinary people and is completely opposite to the vast majority of sublimated people.

Moreover, because it does not require various resources, the entire Dead King system will also be the most stable inheritance.

Because Ian has already seen the final form of this inheritance.

——Death will not become the end, but the beginning of 'revenge'.

The souls of the naturally old and deceased long for "stability and prosperity for future generations." Whether it is an enemy country or a natural disaster, they are the targets of their "revenge consensus."

For those who die accidentally, as long as the Dead Lord himself is not the perpetrator, then the Dead Lord will judge them, kill their enemies, and let their power be used for them.

In this way, as long as the emperor's fallen kings still want to maintain their power and continue their rule and authority, they will become the realizers of the people's wishes - and this wish will not be fulfilled. Any unrealistic and eccentric needs, only the most stable 'security' and 'revenge'.

He wants to protect his home for the living and avenge the murderers of the dead.

If necessary, he will kill all the citizens with his own hands, and then gather all his strength to avoid natural disasters, avoid powerful enemies, and ensure 'existence and continuation'.

In the face of this inheritance, the entire social order of Terra will change drastically. The country without the dead king will become a backward party, just like one side has a complete set of underground industrial facilities to cope with nuclear war, while the other side does not. .

Once the two sides engage in a deadly fight, the Dead King's side can even leave the planet and wander in other areas, looking for a potentially suitable home, or simply turn into a psychic fire ship, just like those fire ships that came to Terra.

And the other side...

The other party can only wait to die.

After all, the problem of the lifespan of the sublime has not yet been solved, and the dead king still has the opportunity to find a place to rebuild the ecosystem and revive civilization. At least he can entrust his soul to the next dead king.

Even if other fifth energy levels can rebuild the ecosystem, where will the human soul be restored? Without a world to experience those potion materials and spiritual experiences, where would there be room for growth?

"If this is the technology that Inaga II wanted to achieve back then, but did not have the time to develop... it does fit his style."

"Instead of engaging in an institutional struggle with this group of people on Terra, it is better to directly bring a transformative inheritance technology and completely smash the old world - although it will bring dead bodies and blood all over the ground... but a new world will also be born.”

However, whether what is born is a beautiful new world or a worse world of corpse tyrants...that is not certain.

After all, everyone knows that ordinary people and the public are blindly obedient and easily deceived... In addition to seriously responding to the wishes of the dead souls, the Dead Lord can naturally also use various means to distort their wishes.

In addition to this, Ian still felt something was not right.

After all, even if Inaga II was a real lunatic, his disciple, the lunatic Archduke Thorin, would add fuel to the fire.

But just to change the world, it doesn't require such extreme means as the dead king.

By now, Ian has completely understood why Grand Duke Thorin wanted to join forces with the Gnosis Academy and Feiyandi to conduct research.

Without Feiyandi's technology, there would be no artificial soul attached to the brain.

Without the large number of books related to the virtual realm and psychic energy brought by the Gnostic Academy, Adlbert's soul research would not have gone so smoothly.

Coupled with Grand Duke Thorin's own spiritual inheritance, the birth of the Dead King was a matter of course.

But he still felt that it was not enough.

It seems... there is another hidden secret.

——Grand Duke Thorin If you just want to have the power of the fifth level, you only need to specialize in your own inheritance.

His inheritance could have reached the fifth level. Although it was difficult, once he reached the fifth level and then tried to defeat the Dead Lord, the success rate would be significantly improved.

Of course, the fifth level may not be that easy.

[You already know the truth about the dead king]

At this moment, Adlbert said to Ian, his tone was admonishing: [Knight of the Glen, or Mr. Mahdi. You can leave]

[What I am doing now is purely to correct my mistakes... Since there is a second dead king besides me, then I can focus on avenging the dead souls - the fortress in front of me is my last Target……】

"etc."

But Ian raised his hand and interrupted the other party's narration: "After listening for so long, I actually have an idea."

He signaled to Albert to stop talking nonsense and continued to frown: "Are you of such a high moral standard?"

The dead king was stunned for a moment.

He didn't understand what Ian was saying.

The young man in the form of the Knight of the Valley thought for a moment, and then said in a relatively simple way: "What I mean is, is your moral standard a bit too high?"

"You have no relatives or friends to become experimental subjects. Just seeing the tragic situation in Awak's laboratory, you want to help them and save them from the bottom of your heart...even at the cost of your own life, try to practice 'death'" This is an immature technology."

"Is your home education so good? Don't you feel sorry for your mother who has been waiting for you? Oh, I forgot, you have always been very optimistic and friendly in your life. You are born with this kind of person..."

The Dead Lord was at a loss when asked by Ian - it was always difficult for Terran people to understand Ian's thinking. This was true for the dead souls, and the same was true for the Dead Lord.

"Sure enough, you haven't thought about it, have you?"

Looking at the other party's performance, Ian sighed: "So, you wanted to help others from the bottom of your heart, but because you didn't expect that Avak Laboratory was so vicious, you accidentally created the Abyss of Silence, resulting in The Warp Labyrinth was born, so that the Viscounty of Avak was completely destroyed.”

"You did make a mistake, but was it really you who was wrong? You were trying to do good things, but the viciousness of others led to bad results. You are willing to admit that it was your fault, but in the final analysis, the cause of this matter is Is it really your turn to take the blame?"

Having said this, the Knight of the Glen turned his head and looked in the direction of the fortress. His expression was as if he had seen a smelly thing: "Based on the moral standards of ordinary people, at this time, we should find an excuse to blame Gnosis. In the courtyard, Grand Duke Thorin and Feiyan are on the ground - I have been waiting for you to say this, and then help to agree and comfort you."

"Then - let's join forces and kill them all!"

"I didn't expect you not to blame?!"

Ian's tone became heavier all the way, and he was obviously disappointed with this: "Where did you come from as a moral saint? Without the support of Archduke Thorin, you will definitely be killed by office struggles!"

To be honest, I don't blame Ian for losing control of his emotions - this is the first time he has seen someone not blaming Feiyandi and Lingzhiyuan... Oh my god, it's so weird! ! !

He walked all the way from Nanling to the Imperial Capital and then to the Western Territory. Everyone swore that it was all the fault of Feiyandi and Lingzhiyuan. This is the normal situation! Imperial people should have this quality!

It turns out there is an honest person here.

With the expression and tone of the Rivendale Knight, these words were really sarcastic, but the dead king's temper was really a bit good. He even nodded hesitantly: [I also thought that it was all their fault, so I Decided to kill them all... But in fact, I know very well that it is precisely because of my research that the Death King Plan can reach this point]

[This is originally my responsibility. At most, I think it is not feasible, while others think it is, but it requires enough lives to sacrifice and accumulate data... If it were not for me, the Death King Plan might not even appear]

Saying this, the Dead Lord's expression gradually became indifferent and firm: [If you want to join forces with me, my answer is "No need\