Pirate Kingship

Byron's [World Snake] jumped 80,000 miles, and the two incarnations flashed forward on the upper and lower reaches of the Styx, faster than the speed of the electromagnetic slingshot body turning into lightning.

[Divine Vision] also expanded wantonly on the Styx. Where the limit of flashing is, there is the boundary of divine vision.

The incarnation heading upstream was the first to get the harvest, and saw the undead floating in the river.

To be more precise, this is a remnant soul that has been dead for an unknown period of time, and after leaving the body, it was worn away by time and the Styx, and was about to completely dissipate.

Not only has it fallen into eternal sleep like those ancient heroes in the collective subconscious, even its body has become blurred, and its whole body exudes a strong stale smell.

"What is this?!"

When Byron came in front of the other party and barely recognized the appearance, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

The body is seven or eight meters long, similar to the body of a human, with tattered bat wings on its back, but an octopus head on top.

Especially the eight tentacles on the chin that were still slightly wriggling even though it had been dead for who knows how long, which was too recognizable.

"How can this creature from the upper world be so similar to the sleeping god Kraken?"

When Byron wanted to use "limited omniscience" to read the information on this residual soul, he read nothing.

Even just bearing Byron's gaze, it quietly dissipated, like a phantom in a dream that did not exist in the first place.

This power from the dream seemed even more suspicious.

Byron looked up at the direction where the water of the Styx was flowing upstream, and knew that this river, which symbolized death and cycle and ran through the world of heaven, was not flowing fast.

Ordinary undead fell into the tributaries of the Styx in their own material world, and they would dissipate before merging into the main stream, and even the immortal divinity of the gods could not last too long.

In the absence of corresponding power, unless there are many divinities that can serve as "tickets" to sail far away.

Although the dissipated soul just now seems weak, he was probably a great man in his lifetime.

"And I have smelled the scent of the source tide. The world upstream seems to have suffered a flood earlier than our world!

We may not be the first victims of the world-destroying flood and the Luanyan era."

This discovery made Byron hesitate.

"The reason why the three great human gods split apart and why they still couldn't stop the flood after 1,500 years of stalemate with the world's will is that they are closed.

The independent material world is only a speck of dust in the universe. Closing the country has never had a good end. Humanity must eventually go out.

But going out also requires methods and means. Only the strong side can shout the slogan: "Open the door, free trade."

Once a backward country opens its doors without restraint, all national industries will be eaten up by the strong country.

If the world we encounter is weaker than us, it's better. If it is stronger than us, I'm afraid we will be attacked from all sides."

In Byron's expectation, the infinite world outside the world cannot be regarded as a flood discharge area.

If possible, it is best to provide additional resources to oneself like the colonies in the Age of Discovery to support the continuous growth of one's own world.

That is, like those "vampire stars", by transferring entropy increase, one can keep oneself young forever, and even achieve the dimension upgrade of the entire world!

So now a key question is also placed in front of Byron:

"The creatures in the upstream world obviously entered the extraordinary world earlier than us. Have they tried to save themselves? Escape? Block? Or drain?

What is the situation now?

And those gods who have mastered the power of the underworld should also be qualified to travel through the Styx for a short distance.

I can discover the secret that this river connects other worlds, so have other underworld gods tried to explore other worlds like me?

Although they do not have the status of [World Serpent] and [Four Basic Elements: Water], if they just go downstream when escaping, then...

Well, let's see."

Byron could not determine whether his guess was true or false, and did not make a direct conclusion.

Turning his head to look in the direction of his own world, he did not see a very suspicious figure, but unexpectedly found that when observing the Styx in his own world from this distance, he could easily see the previous scene.

This is because the transmission speed of light is limited. As long as you stand at a far enough distance, you can see what happened in this world long enough ago.

It is equivalent to directly observing the history of this world and gaining omniscience in disguise.

Byron even saw his own shadows on the Styx.

It was just that the space on the surface of the [Styx] was distorted like a "rust belt". Perhaps the distance between the two planets was extremely far, but it was not so exaggerated here.

Byron turned his head and looked back, and could only see the scene a few months ago at most. When he looked forward, he could not see any changes.

This distance was nothing to him, but it was enough to be called a natural moat for other people and even ordinary gods.

Referring to the undead who just died, the possibility of a large-scale cross-border expedition to his own world was not very high.

The First Empire of the Sun Never Sets could try to use this place as a transit station for the "Earth Vein Railway Network" to achieve ultra-long-range troop projection.

Byron retracted his gaze, and his body shook and turned into a line of lightning and continued to move forward.

Along the way, he could not find any undead soaking in the river until he saw a tributary of the Styx appear in front of him.

This tributary flows out from a gray mist, and the "rumbling" sound of water caused by the water level difference can be heard faintly, and the unique smell of the source tide is becoming more and more intense.

Determining the current status of the upstream and downstream worlds is crucial to Byron's next plan.

Since he has come here, he has no hesitation. He finds a place connected to the inside of the world and jumps in.

Plop!

The world barrier is much weaker than expected. Byron's world can keep a large group of demigods out.

There is not much resistance here for Byron, an outsider. He just struggled a little and fell into a dark ocean.

Byron used the authority of [Ouroboros] to distort the space, and did not rashly contact this lifeless black ocean where no living creatures could be found.

But as [God's Vision] swept over, his face suddenly froze:

"Why is it that I'm in the material world right after I come in? Where are the edge of their world and the underworld?"

You know, under normal circumstances, the mystical structure of a material world should be composed of three layers:

The top layer is the kingdom of God held up by the true gods. Their kingdom has complete rules and can operate independently from the material world. It is also called the upper plane or heaven;

The middle layer is the largest material world, where mortals live. The demigods' kingdom of God on earth is also on this layer, symbolizing the "yang side" of the world;

The bottom layer is the world of the dead at the edge of the world. This is where the collective subconscious takes root, symbolizing the "yin side" of the world.

The outer layer is the boundless sea of ​​source.

As for the "triple point", it is an "orifice" that mortals cannot see or touch. It is probably located at the junction of the yang side, the yin side, and the sea of ​​source, which is the waterline of a sailboat.

The multiple worlds interact with each other, but they are also clearly divided.

For example: Alexander, the former president of the Lighthouse Federation, could only enter the United Pharmaceutical Company as a dead person when he walked through the revolving door.

A living person without the corresponding authority can never reach the edge of the world.

This world is obviously different. Byron waved his hand gently.

Whoosh!

The sea water within a few hundred meters was stirred into a ball, with subtle rust-colored light and shadows in the middle, exactly the same as the scene of the "Rust Belt".

In Byron's eyes, the whole world has returned to the essence of waves, and it is easy to distinguish which is "real" and which is "virtual".

The positive and negative sides of this world seem to be mixed together, the boundary between matter and spirituality is completely broken, the two are neutralized, and the activity of the source is almost zero.

Byron pondered for a moment and made his own judgment:

"If my world is a world of low- and medium-level demons, even the high gods can be beaten to death.

Then this place is almost close to no demons or even dead demons.

It feels like the embers that slowly burn out after the fire in the furnace loses fuel. Even my power has been weakened to the limit."

This situation was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Byron thought that this might be a world struggling to survive like his own, or a world completely ruled by the old gods, full of destruction and bloodthirstiness.

But he didn't expect that this world seemed to be completely dead?

In this environment, the possibility of local natives still alive is very small.

Fortunately, Byron's spiritual realm of "all things return to one" can be used in any occasion.

After the limit expanded, it was found that the entire world of mixed reality and illusion had been submerged by the sea, and no land could be found. The sea was covered with dark clouds and it was raining everywhere.

There were no fish, no intelligent creatures, not even a water grass or a living algae cell in the sea.

Only in the shallow seabed, there are many ancient buildings that have been there for who knows how many years.

Byron turned into a stream of light and fell into a huge underwater city.

The structures of the buildings here are very abnormal, completely contrary to the geometry of his own world, and are abstract from the main body to the details.

The huge spatial structure and dimensional size make people feel strongly uncomfortable from the bottom of their hearts.

All the buildings are made of slippery huge green stones. The city is full of dizzyingly high stone carvings, magnificent stone statues and gorgeous reliefs.

And both the statues and reliefs are engraved with sticky tentacles, which makes people feel like falling into a tentacle nest.

But most of the city has been destroyed, the patterns are gradually blurred, and the extreme madness and chaos are gradually dissipating.

This style may be very shocking to others, but Byron only feels that it is unusually familiar.

Combined with the octopus-headed remnant soul found at the beginning, a somewhat absurd answer is about to emerge:

"This city looks like a replica of the Deep Dive Church's Luoyan City.

Perhaps the [Sleeping God Kraken] who has been active since the mythological era was once a remnant of this world!

It's not that no one has done the same thing as me in the past, but that someone has already done it.

But I only managed to escape the flood once, and failed to escape the second time under the surprise attack of the human god king."

Byron strode into a "library" filled with slate documents, and called on his sister's power [digital modeling, information omniscience] to model the entire dilapidated library.

It was soon learned from the remaining information that this world was originally a sea-blue planet with 99% of its area covered by sea water.

The world is ruled by a race called "Brain-Eating Demons". They are an undersea extraordinary species and have established a very developed marine civilization in this world.

Byron then extracts a series of its strongest emotions and most important messages.

There was a sharp roar in my ears, which gradually turned into human language:

"In July 1988, the Year of the Gray Mist, citizens of the Brain-Eating Demon Empire, please rest assured that nothing has happened in our world."

"In December 1989 of the Gray Fog Era, citizens, something may be happening in our world, but we should not take action. The most correct choice is to wait and see what happens."

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"May 2991 of the Gray Fog Era, citizens, maybe we should take action, but in fact we can't do anything. The top officials of the empire have tried their best."

"January 2995 in the Gray Fog Era. Maybe we could have done something at the beginning, but now it is too late. The world-destroying flood is about to come. I wish everyone good luck."

Hearing this, Byron looked strange:

"Is this set of words a common skill among senior executives? It sounds a bit familiar."

Then the angry denunciations of the people continued to echo in the library:

“The top brass lied to us!

I am a soldier of the Royal Capital Garrison. Today I saw with my own eyes that they boarded the mythical submarine [Nautilus] converted from the Kingdom of Hades to escape for their lives. "

"Stab it. Stab it."

Then there were several more noises of the information medium being damaged over a long period of time.

“The patrol discovered the wreckage of the [Nautilus] that was damaged due to an unknown accident, and confirmed that most of the empire’s top officials were dead, lost their divinity, and turned into twisted monsters.

This mythical submarine is missing the most critical core part.

The gentlemen of the Disaster Management Committee feel that someone may have successfully escaped from this world with the divinity of the entire empire."

"I am Gatanothoa, the last great mage of the empire. Now 70% of the citizens have died and become dependents.

Now I can only record everything and trust in the wisdom of future generations.

According to my research, the reason why our world has changed from a demon-free world to an extraordinary world is because our ancestors evolved from a group of octopuses into extraordinary intelligent creatures.

The root cause is that with the invasion of the Sea of ​​Origin, all kinds of knowledge in this world suddenly acquired the characteristic of 'living'!

The most common way of expressing this kind of "living" is not to be able to move, walk, or kill, but to be able to communicate.

They can actively spread all kinds of weird, evil, or horrifying knowledge, and they can also unconsciously attract weirdos or brain-eaters who possess similar knowledge to meet them.

With this living knowledge, we can leverage the tide of source matter and use various extraordinary abilities. "

"So, many great mages have a consensus that the reason why we can build a great country is not because we brain-eaters are constantly pursuing the knowledge in the brains of other creatures, but because knowledge is constantly pursuing us!

It wasn’t until I witnessed the end of the world with my own eyes that I realized that knowledge is not ‘pursuing’ us, but ‘chasing’ us.

Their pursuit is brutal and emotionless, just like our domesticated killer whales chasing schools of fish.

The extraordinary power of the world exploded not because our ancestors were so powerful, but because they happened to be overtaken by those ferocious 'knowledge'!

The more knowledge our brain-eating demon tribe accumulates, the stronger the suction force will be on the ‘activity’ of the Sea of ​​Origin, making the end of the world come faster.

Therefore, the most important thing we should do is to destroy all the achievements of civilization and return to the primitive era of walking on scales and drinking blood! "

Seeing this, Byron also found resonance.

This is what the Eastern Continent Corridor of Truth does.

By keeping secrets and observing precepts, they separated the extraordinary from the mortals. Most ordinary people in the human kingdom did not even know that this was an extraordinary world.

As long as you don't know anything, you won't encounter inexplicable dangerous things under the rule of "all things are unified", and you may live longer than many extraordinary people.

Some people even gave this cognitive boundary a special name: "The Fool's Boundary!"

It means the cognitive defense line outside the dam of human soul.

The ruled lower classes in the Lighthouse Federation are proud of their ignorance and ashamed of reading. Growing up happily is their highest pursuit. The illiteracy rate is the highest among the three continents.

Now, there is such an actual statement in the material world, which means that this "fool's limit" is the same for the world.

The mutual attraction between the world and the Sea of ​​Sephiroth had already occurred tens of millions of years before the Great Flood began.

When a world's civilization reaches a certain standard, it will come into contact with the Sea of ​​Origin because of the "wisdom" of humanoid creatures.

The erosion will start little by little from the "Triple Point" and expand from the spiritual world to the material world.

While bringing disaster, it will also transform the demon-free material world into a supernatural world.

Byron saw the end and finally discovered why the world became what it is now.

Most of the brain-eaters turned into monsters in the flood, and the last remaining citizens, out of desperation, used the empire's ultimate weapon to destroy the "Triple Point."

He also killed all the mid- and high-sequence dependents, completely sealing off the connection between this world and the outside world.

At the same time, the boundaries between life and death, reality and illusion are broken, so that the souls of the dead can realize the internal circulation of the world, and the living and the dead are no longer distinguishable from each other.

The remaining brain-eating demons lingered for hundreds of years in a future destined to despair, and eventually they were completely destroyed.

This also explains why there are no undead souls in the River Styx, because they are all digested internally.

When Byron saw this, he couldn't help but give these octopus heads a thumbs up.

“These guys are more ruthless than the Creator who blocked the triple point.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, in an 'isolated' system, the entropy of the universe increases over time, transforming from order to disorder.

When the entropy of the universe reaches its maximum value, all other effective energy in the universe has been converted into heat energy, and the temperature of all materials reaches thermal equilibrium. This state is called [heat death].

In such a universe, energy will no longer be transferred, and there will no longer be any movement or order of life.

All ‘changes’ ceased. "

The situation in this world is the same, except that it changes from thermal energy to extraordinary energy.

As there are more and more cannibalistic lunatics in this closed system, there is less and less 'food'.

When all the "order" from intelligent creatures was exhausted, the entire world fell into the most complete chaos and disorder.

The tragic ending verified that sentence:

"In a spontaneous process, concentration tends to diffuse, structure tends to disappear, order tends to disorder, and chaos is the ultimate in the universe!"

Finally, it infinitely approaches another extraordinary form of "heat death", which can be called "spiritual silence".

In this state of artificial death, even the will of the world perished together with all intelligent creatures.

Byron stood in front of a civilized tombstone and read the last epitaph they wrote for himself. He felt so lost that he could not calm down for a long time.

“My world must never be like theirs.

Although this civilization has died, at least I know one thing from them. The speed of the coming flood of destruction is directly related to the degree of civilization.

As our whale oil industrial revolution develops, I am afraid that the rate of floods will continue to accelerate, and we must find places with lower levels of civilization and lower water levels than ours to serve as flood discharge areas.

This dead world has a higher level of civilization and water level than my world, so it is obviously useless.

Although the name Brain Eater does not sound like a good person, I, the ‘Great Good Man’ Saint Byron, also have a bottom line, so you can stay here.”

Byron walked out of the library with heavy steps, but [Shen Jian] inadvertently swept across the muddy seabed in front of him.

Under the seabed, there is a liquid that shines with black and golden light slowly flowing. It is an endless sea of ​​oil formed after the death of all living things in this world!

Byron's mouth opened a little bit, and then he swallowed the three pieces of "rest in peace" again, murmuring in his heart:

“It’s good to be upstream of us.

As long as a pipeline is built using the 'Leyline Railway Network', these heritages can be pumped to my world.

Thank you for the gift of nature! "