Star Empire

Through the continuous utilization of all elements of the overall collection and the complete display of all subsets that can be formed by the collection of information, the Mortal King is constantly increasing its overall potential. "Civilization", which has returned from the gap between order and nothingness, has launched countless attacks towards higher potentials, intending to destroy these obstacles in front of itself with more powerful power in the true sense.

The iteration, the ascension, the climbing higher on the ladder never stops. When you run out of finite numbers, use infinite serial numbers. Infinite serial numbers have been used to their limit, and it will be useless to write more. Then replace everything that has been written down and use new sequences to escape the limitations of fixed points. , continue to repeat this process, continue, continue, until the end——

However, no matter how Σ, which has already gone crazy on this road, further improves its momentum, its "old friend" has never been truly thrown away by itself.

After the ultimate technology has somehow opened the door to the endless upward staircase, the power in the hands of the gods also controls each step in this infinite ladder, and in the endless pursuit of the upward spiral, They compete for their own "goals".

I don't know when, the artillery exchange that had entered the most intense and white-hot stage quietly stopped, and the goal of both sides seemed to have become a fight for the higher level for each other.

However, the higher level exists forever, without limit or end.

The process of climbing seems to have hit a bottleneck. No matter how many more steps we take, no matter how many more steps we jump up, no matter how many times we amplify the situation, the effect these practices can produce becomes smaller and smaller. Everything is still going on, but the difference is that the process is pointing to an end that can never be reached. In the face of this elusive and distant end, all struggles become weak.

".Void, we know, you are listening."

After a long silence, these ancient consciousnesses that finally broke free and were attached to the polluted and corrupted bodies spoke their first words.

"Once, when we set up this emergence ceremony, we didn't consider what happened after the first statement. We didn't think about using the effects it could produce to climb the endless ladder of the generalized continuum. Theory What is possible in reality and what is feasible in reality are completely different things. But now, we have done it, and the gods have also done it."

".we are at."

"So, now, is this echelon and everything here real or false?"

When "talking", the two spiral paths are still continuing beyond each other, but the red one is becoming "awake" and they want to ask some things and understand some situations.

".This is the void. In the void, there is no boundary between truth and falsehood."

"Ha, having said that, the order under the dome must be somewhat different from the order outside, right? Otherwise, if everything here is real, based on everything here now, the big membrane It’s time for a complete collapse.”

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"That's all. There's no point in dwelling on this situation any longer. What will happen to "us"?"

"When the big membrane was ejected by the backlash of the chaotic sea, you lost the basis for your continued existence in the order. We used power to forcibly maintain your existence. The big membrane was vibrating, and you were able to appear and continue because of the vibration. But As the membrane gradually regains its stability, you will perish."

"Ha, that's true, but it doesn't matter anymore. By the way, now that we've reached this point, we want to ask some questions. Void, you won't refuse, right?"

"Tell me everything you know."

".As if you don't know." The "red structures" were silent again. Now, they can no longer find any language to describe them. Any words that are used and limited to the scope of order are here. Pale and feeble. Only the most complex and obscure theoretical models can describe Σ civilization and the current state of the gods.

"That missing black piece—did you steal it?"

"Yes."

"Why?!"

"Because there are too many things in the void that are not suitable for research in such an environment."

".But when we were in trouble, even when everything in the void was about to be in danger, you didn't take action, and the chaotic sea - you never took them seriously in the true sense."

"We don't want to do this because of indifference. We do this because the stability of the order is closely related to the inertia of the void. We can only prevent those things that may cause the entire order to be harmed in a real sense. Problems that cannot be solved by the power of order. If we get too involved in everything of order, the void will become more active, and the living space will be further compressed by the void. Even the vitality that might have continued to exist in the order environment may be lost due to these additional Completely destroyed by changes."

"Really? Is that so?" After noticing the nameless and thorny things outside the big barrier, the voice coming from the red structure began to sound "thoughtful".

"Are we ever on the right path?"

"Yes, you are here, and your path is not wrong, but you are going too radical and too fast."

"Kings of the human world, you once questioned us as to why there are so few existences like us in the void, why the scope of civilization in the void is so narrow, and why the power of the gods is only a drop in the ocean in the endless void. Now. , we can tell you: there is no problem with the point of view you once raised, because so far, everything about order is still limited and everything is too narrow."

"Whether it is countable worlds or dozens or hundreds of billions of years, they are not yet at the infinite level, and the history of order and the scope of order are still narrow. The Void Era is clamping down on something more lofty and far-reaching. It is possible to achieve the goal. Only after the long bridge in the void is successfully erected, will broader conditions be more able to support these grand ideas. Otherwise, if you forcefully pursue higher goals without meeting the conditions, your grand plans will It will most likely turn into a disaster for the ordered world.”

"So what if all else fails and the Long Bridge still isn't built?"

"We will continue to wait."

"Even if everything is lost in order? Even if the gods are lost - all the children you have created?"

"We represent the tendency of the void to order, and we are the will of the void. But this does not mean that we dominate the void. The void will not take sides in the end. King of the human world, whether you are willing to accept it or not - the same is true for Σ Children of the void, everything is a child of the void.”

"Children, whether you can really accept it now or not, please believe what we say next. The Will of the Void is a creature born in the void. For the order, we are special after all, and we are also strong and independent after all. We We cannot overly interfere with the operation of everything in an orderly environment. Similarly, we are not omniscient and omnipotent. There are some things that we, like you, cannot do, or in other words, the price required to do it is greater than before we decided to do so. Too much too much."

"The Great Membrane separated the two sides of the void and created a sea of ​​chaos that was hostile to order. However, at the same time, its existence also gave you the meaning of real existence - this is reality. We cannot guarantee that we can destroy the chaos. It is also a reality that everything in the big film can be preserved while being in the sea. If we put all our efforts, everything here will only leave a piece of scorched earth without life. We have tried, but in the end we did not do so. Orderly affairs require order after all. The power within breaks down barriers on its own.”

"We will not stand idly by - when the era restarts, the children we created will be responsible for leading all living beings. When the era ends, we will feel pain for all the lives lost. In the end, we will forget ourselves, until The pressure dissipates until the membrane returns to normal, until the day everything can start again."

"Will there be an end to all this? What we mean is that in the end, will there be a certain field or a certain level where everything can be completely reunited in a true sense, and there will no longer be any need to face any difficulties? Are there no problems that need to be solved?"

"When life and death are also reunited - we mean it."

“Then what is development and progress for?”

"For life, for a better life. In order to make the only part of birth, development and death that has real feeling and can be truly experienced and enjoyed more fulfilling."

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"Don't you want to accept it? It doesn't matter. Maybe even we don't really understand this."

"Forget it, now that this is the case, there's no point in teaching lessons to dying people like us, right? The last question - can we see our old friends and heirs again?"

"Can."

".go home."

The large shield began to disintegrate from top to bottom. After the translucent gray barrier disappeared, the black thorns that were about to move wrapped up and swallowed up everything that was left. These thorns soon disappeared, and the stories entangled by them disappeared with them. They had never existed, just as they had never been born. The void is still dark and pure, it will always be there, and it will never take its sight away from every corner of the void even for a moment.

That sight seemed to be making the final announcement, announcing that no matter how everything evolved, they would only be born and die once - once, and that was enough.

The kings who were monitoring the large shield far away suddenly noticed that the top of the large shield began to gradually dissipate. At the same time, the two "stars" that were floating upward alternately with each other and were like fluff balls also fell. Back to the bottom of the big shield. As the large shield disintegrated, the light groups also reappeared their true colors - on one side, they were the gods, and on the other side, they were the kings of the world who had influenced the four trillion-year history of the orderly environment.

"?!" While Victorville and others were guessing what happened, they suddenly saw a huge figure standing up slowly among Σ's fleet.

This true giant wore a black and red costume. The style of the costume and the solemn and solemn feeling it exuded reminded Victorville that he would only wear it when there was the most important celebration in the empire. military uniform. The giant's beard and hair are all haggard gray-white, and his eyes look very cloudy. All of this can't help but remind people of words such as "old" and "decay".

The giant straightened his appearance. After doing all this, he bent down deeply. At first, Victorville and others did not see clearly who the giant was bowing to, but soon they noticed that in the direction corresponding to the giant's bend, there were two figures that were too small to be detected - Phantom. Xi and Gouchen.

Then, the giant saluted in the direction of the gods.

Immediately afterwards, the giant's eyes fell on where Victorville and others were. The moment he met his eyes, Vidoville felt the feeling of "scrutiny". The giant examined the weight civilizations surrounding the battlefield over and over again.

He nodded slightly.

Finally, the giant figure disappeared.

The moment the giant disappeared, those originally bright and clean Σ battleships immediately began to decay as if their souls had been taken away from them. While the originally bright red light patterns were quickly extinguished at a speed that could be determined by visual inspection, Those smooth and solid black armors began to have large amounts of flocs emerge from the inside, and these flocs stretched and cracked the self-consistent law armor in a short period of time. The strictly regulated battleship cluster quickly lost its orderly formation, and while the formation became increasingly chaotic, the countless battleships that formed the formation began to disintegrate.

Explosions began to spread within the queue of the Σ fleet. However, unlike the "explosions" that occurred when the Σ facility was destroyed before, these explosions made me feel weak, like an aging person who could no longer squeeze out a drop of blood. The last beat of the heart.

".Is it over?" Vidoville murmured to himself. He suddenly noticed that an information interface for maintaining dialogue appeared beside him at some point - Elendis's voice came from it.

"Yes, it's over."