Alien Knights

"It has been almost a year since you left here last time, and I thought you had given up on your original decision."

Meredith walked ahead, pushing away the bushes that blocked the way, and said: "Especially after I heard about the son of the gods... Do you know? The northern kingdoms are either fanatical for the rise of the gods, Either tremble under the tyrant's iron hooves. If this continues, you will own the entire Northern Continent in a short time."

Todd looked at the dilapidated temple in front of him, and said softly: "I never thought of giving up here, this year, I just finished some things that should be done."

"Your words sound like a terminally ill person fulfilling his unfulfilled wish."

Todd was taken aback by Meredith's words.

The latter was silent for a while, then laughed: "It's really similar."

Meredith glanced back at the man, turned her head, sighed lowly, and stopped talking.

The two walked to the high platform of the temple. The Shadow Queen Scathach was looking at the distant mountain peaks, and she didn't seem to notice the visiting guests.

Todd wanted to speak, but Meredith stopped him and motioned him to wait a moment.

A few minutes later, Scathach withdrew his gaze from afar and turned to Todd.

"There are more and more souls in the sky."

Scathach's sudden words made Todd look up in confusion.

He transformed his eyes into golden pupils in the form of a tyrant, and looked at the southern sky, where there was a thick layer of "blue clouds" that kept flowing.

Meredith frowned: "Those are the souls of the dead... Souls would not be united unless someone manipulated them behind the scenes."

Scathach walked down the stone steps, came to the side of the two, and said to Meredith: "You step back first, I have something to ask him."

Seeing the purple-haired queen of shadows standing in front of him, Todd was a little uneasy, always feeling that everything about him had been seen through by the other party.

"A human who is willing to become a monster for the sake of human companions." Scathach's words contained incomprehensible feelings: "You let me see that there is still hope in human beings."

Todd said hesitantly, "Actually, I..."

Scathach continued: "But you may not know it, you chose the most difficult path, Xia Shang..."

Hearing Scathach finally say the name in Chinese, Todd was stunned, at a loss, his brain was in a mess: "Do you know my name in another world?!"

"This is not something to be surprised about. A name is a symbol, and it doesn't make sense to call it. The key is, what is inside you?"

Todd became more and more confused: "Sorry, can you be more specific? I..."

Scathach closed his eyes and shook his head lightly: "Have you seen Jingsu?"

Todd was surprised again: "You even..."

"Besides me, there is another creature who also knows about you and Jingsu."

"who?!"

"Leviathan."

Todd rubbed his temple vigorously with the index finger of his left hand, and made a pause with his right hand towards Scathach: "Wait! Wait! I'm completely confused! Who are you?!"

Scathach waved his hand, and a thick tree root broke out from the ground, and it grew into a "tree chair" in a blink of an eye.

Signaling Todd to sit down first, Scathach said: "Let me start from the very beginning... When the universe was still in chaos, Jingsu created everything, including me and Leviathan."

Todd's eyes widened: "So..."

"That's right, Leviathan and I are the first batch of creatures created by Jingsu, and we are also called the 'Forerunners' to assist it in managing and supervising the world." Scathach looked at his palm and said: "With Like Leviathan, I have various names in the long history, Hecate, Sekel, Geoffyn... All these identities have only one purpose, which is to help Jingsu observe the world. create things."

Todd sorted out his thoughts and asked: "The pioneer? The first batch of creations of Jingsu? So, this group is not limited to the two of you?"

"Yes, but in the long years, some forerunners chose to exile themselves to the corners of the universe, and some forerunners chose to turn life forms into inorganic objects, and they have truly survived until now. Only the individuals that still exist are left The few, including me and Leviathan."

"So that's it... I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. What exactly is Jingsu? Or, what exactly does Jingsu want to do?"

"I don't know much about this. I only know that Jingsu created us, but above Jingsu, there is a group of higher-level creators who created Jingsu. According to Jingsu , its Creator gave it only one mission: to find out the optimal mode of existence of life."

Todd chewed this passage over and over again, and asked, "What is the optimal mode of existence for life?"

"I don't know. Jingsu once said that all created creatures are flawed. The optimal form of life should not be created, but should be formed naturally in the process of continuous evolution and evolution Yes. How to find the optimal model in line with the development of life is the mission entrusted to it by the master of Jingsu. As for why this is done, I don’t know, not even Jingsu itself.”

Todd rubbed his brows, and continued to ask: "Another question, what happened to the candidate for the god that Jingsu mentioned?"

Skaha replied: "The so-called god candidate is actually a method of life optimization. Through the judgment of individual strength, evolution and cognition, a ruler of the race is finally selected and endowed with a strategy. Ability higher than the normal individual, to see how he will improve the race."

Todd was a little skeptical: "This method can really optimize life?"

"All kinds of things that happen in nature have proved everything, the survival of the fittest, the survival of the strong, and the way of life optimization is also the same."

Todd shrugged: "Well, even if that's the case, why did you suddenly tell me this today?"

Skaha said slowly: "The next thing I want to talk about is related to the differences of races. A long time ago, the world's species showed a variety of development, and humans were just one branch of it."

"In the tens of thousands of life optimizations that followed, human beings were able to assimilate other races materially by virtue of their research progress at a geometric rate. This also made them gradually stand out among creations and became victors time after time "In Scatha's words, there was a bit of a sigh: "However, unlike other races, the exclusivity of human nature is very serious, so severe that it cannot even tolerate the existence of other races. Relying on the divine power of the winning candidate, human beings have repeatedly compressed the living space of other races, and finally pushed other races to the brink of extinction."

"Seeing such a situation, as the first batch of creations of Jingsu - the forerunners, they can no longer sit idly by. More and more individuals have proposed to Jingsu to rebalance the entire racial environment and restrict human beings. Power. However, as the creator, the crystal host rejected this proposal. It believes that only in such a cruel competitive environment can the best life form be selected in the end."

"More and more pioneers could not agree with Jingsu's approach and left this place... Those who stayed behind watched other species gradually die out."

Todd was a little helpless: "So, human beings have become the leaders of this world. Then, has life optimization made any progress?"

Scathach shook his head in frustration: "On the contrary, after humans dominated the world, the optimization process of life did not make any progress, but continued to regress."

"Humans without enemies from other races began to seek pleasure and act recklessly. They launched internal battles one after another. The world was destroyed time and time again in human wars. Species stagnated and even began to emerge. The situation of civilization retrogression. Jingsu's life optimization has fallen into a vicious circle that keeps repeating."

"It was at this time that Leviathan and I had a serious disagreement."

"Leviathan believes that human beings are inherently a failed creation. They are like viruses that devour others and then devour themselves. First, human beings will destroy all races with potential for development. Then, they lack foreign enemies , will seek self-destruction in endless struggles and killings. Therefore, he believes that this product of human failure should be completely wiped out, and the entire optimal plan of life should be reset.”

"In my opinion, human beings are like the light and dark sides of the moon. They have both good and evil, and they cannot be generalized. If possible, they should be guided and managed, not just supervised."

Todd sighed: "Let me guess, Jingsu didn't adopt your opinion."

"That's right, Jingsu still insists on not taking any intervention measures against You, but... just when we were discouraged, you appeared."

Todd pointed to himself in surprise: "Me?"

"You don't belong to this world, but you can influence this world correctly. Most importantly, your attitude and choice towards species happened to meet the requirements of me and Leviathan at the same time."

"Meet your requirements at the same time?"

"For me, I hope that the winner of this battle of God's Choice will be a human being who puts aside self-interest and pays attention to balance; while Leviathan hopes that the winner this time will be a human being who subverts human dominance. Alien creatures. In comparison, you may be our only choice."