Soul of Burning Steel

In the world of stars, in the tide of brilliant light that destroys everything, there is a "typhoon eye" where forces conflict and annihilate each other, so that they appear extremely calm.

A trace of will from the God of Steel separated from the center of the battlefield and manifested in this peaceful time and space. He has already perceived that "self" has become independent from the subject's will as a "clone", isolated from other wills, and the chaotic space and distorted time make it temporarily impossible for him to connect back to his own body.

Joshua looked around calmly, and he saw that around the peaceful fragment of time and space where he was located, a huge energy tsunami was erupting inside and outside the barriers of the star world, the silver-blue steel power and psionic energy, and the black domination Space collides and annihilates each other, producing a thunderous noise that shatters time and space... But this fragment of time and space is located in the middle of two completely equal energy opposing currents, and the balance is perfectly achieved, so that it is so peaceful.

And the will that belongs to that branch, that is, the clone of oneself, is thus stripped from it, and comes here,

"Since that's the case... then, the other party should be the same."

Nodding thoughtfully, Joshua, who was in the state of a four-armed steel god, turned his head and looked at another corner of the space-time fragment.

Sure enough, a trace of will of the ultimate sublimation aggregate, a trace of tiny cocoon silk appeared aside.

Without any hesitation, the power of silver steel turned into a halo and condensed in front of the fist. Joshua directly stepped forward to attack—even though he was a clone, it did not prevent him from fighting the enemy. Consensus to understand and communicate with each other, then the consensus among all Joshuas is probably the case.

A layer of different space barrier was deployed, and the ultimate sublimation aggregate blocked the attack, but unexpectedly, it did not fight back, but began to communicate.

"You don't have to keep fighting."

It was unusually calm, and even used an admonishing tone to stop Joshua who was trying to make another move: "I have already failed—don't you see? The outside world, my body, is constantly being annihilated."

Joshua raised his head, and sure enough, he saw that in the tsunami of energy, the black different space was constantly shattering, and the will of the ultimate sublimation aggregate was canceled out. Inside and outside the world of stars, the steel python, the triple curtain, Joshua , under the double attack of Joshua's avatar and Thakur Patriarch's power, the extreme sublimation aggregate at the center is being swallowed and smashed by the bomb turned into the galactic black hole in the most violent and incredible way.

It was like an elephant being stuffed into a cement mixer with a high-yield bomb stuffed into its belly, the ultimate sublimation polymer was collapsing from the inside out, dying, and there was no room for recovery.

"...Then what do you want to do?"

After knowing this, Joshua looked at the clone of the ultimate sublimated body again, and he noticed that the opponent's body was also constantly falling into pieces, collapsing like the outside body, and the soldier narrowed his eyes: "I want to die later!" a little?"

"It's nothing, I just want to communicate with you, to exchange information about the backside of the evil god, the mastermind behind the scenes, and the disappearing primordial fire and the source of the demon tide."

The cocoon thread swayed, and the light gradually dimmed, like a candle in the wind, but even so, the selfish beast did not fall into an ugly frenzy before dying. It was calm, calm, and far more rational than any "civilized individual" : "You are located in this super-large world in the second half of the 'Road of Backtracking', and you are unimaginably close to the initial fire and the magic tide. You must have information that I don't know, and I also have information that you don't. Information."

"I want to communicate that, that's all."

Joshua was silent. He didn't ask questions like 'you are dying, why are you asking this', because he thought about it, if he was in the same situation, he might do the same.

Anger, venting, frenzy affect what? At that last moment, I definitely just want to know the answer to the biggest question in my heart—even if I can't get the answer, it's good to be able to get even one step closer to the truth.

"...What is your ultimate purpose?" Breathing out, Joshua raised his head and stared at the dim cocoon, he whispered: "You abandoned the eternal life, came here, invaded here , to plunder and fight at the expense of your life...why are you fighting? Without knowing this, I cannot communicate with you."

"I want to break all shackles."

The ultimate sublimation aggregate replied clearly: "Everything in this world, all the basic laws, the extraordinary power of all other people, all the evil gods, and even everything behind the evil gods... My purpose is to sublimate, to surpass everything."

"At least, nothing and nothing can prevent me from living the way I want."

This is a sincere answer. Joshua thought of the light of the primordial fire in the cocoon of the ultimate sublimation aggregate, and he knew that this was indeed true. If the other party succeeded in sublimation and a new prototype of the multiverse was bred in the body, then it could indeed surpass the world. Everything, all the basic laws of this multiverse, the extraordinary power of other sages, and even the evil gods and the black hands behind the evil gods can no longer restrain it.

If it is said that a sage is a pioneer, imprints his own "way" on the entire multiverse, and flows out a new basic law and extraordinary power by himself.

Then, the pursuit of the ultimate sublimation aggregate is to create a world of its own, and it is everything in its own world, the absolute solipsism.

"The evil gods are trying to destroy me, so I am an enemy of the evil gods, and I want to destroy all the evil gods."

The Ultimate Sublimation Aggregator doesn't feel that their thoughts are a little weird, this is its logic: "I assimilated and devoured countless evil gods and countless civilizations, and learned from them many ancient secrets of the multiverse. There are some things, It shocked me very much.”

"Among them, is the essence of this multiverse, which is actually very young."

"The multiverse is full of time traps. Every galaxy and even the world galaxy has a completely different time frame of reference. There are some fast galaxies, only tens of thousands of years have passed, and some galaxies have already passed away. Billions or even tens of billions of years, even those multi-dimensional galaxies and multi-dimensional galaxies, the seemingly vast and incomparably dark void is actually filled with the ruins of other multi-dimensional galaxies-their time has passed hundreds of billions of trillions of years, Even in endless time, even white dwarfs become icy cold, and supermassive black holes evaporate completely."

"However, the source of the movement of the multiverse, the origin of all things, the existence called the primordial fire, for it and the time reference system around it, from the birth of the multiverse to the present, it may have just passed one or two hundred million Years... This huge time difference has caused the 'time' in the multiverse to be completely confused, and even close to extinction. This is why I say that we are the last batch of existences that can explore the primordial fire."

Regarding this, Joshua nodded. What the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregator said was almost the same as what he had guessed before, but unlike himself, the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregator had indeed seen several different multi-dimensional galaxies with his own entity. , So after thinking for a while, he responded: "This multiverse is very young and is being accelerated towards extinction. I agree with this, but what makes me strange is actually the birth of the 'sages'."

"The existence of sages actually complements the diversity of the multiverse. In a sense, it can be said that it stabilizes the stability of the multiverse, prolongs its lifespan, and accelerates its maturity—because the sages and those The purpose of the black hands behind the scenes is opposite, so I will guess the purpose of the black hands behind the scenes."

"What he wants is probably the original, the most primitive 'initial fire' that has not yet started to create other worlds in the multiverse—so, he wants to destroy everything in the multiverse other than the initial fire. Perhaps it will be convenient for him to do some things and achieve his purpose."

"The sage is actually the materialization of the power to change the multiverse. This change may affect the change of the black hand behind the scenes." The ultimate sublimation aggregate obviously knows the existence of the sage, and it has already discovered in a long time The essence of extraordinary power, so I also thought: "It's like an original machine that has been written with a lot of improved programs. This is of course convenient for the machine to operate, but for those who want a 'blank machine' , any change is intolerable.”

After thinking for a while, Joshua shared the information about the sage of the devil that he had obtained from the knowledge receiver, and the information about the world behind the stars, which was actually the mother world of the psychic sage. There is nothing that cannot be said, and the ultimate sublimation aggregate will also tell what it knows.

The soldier noticed the change in the tone of the ultimate sublimation aggregate, he frowned slightly, and asked: "If you become a sage, how do you want to change this multiverse?"

"I never thought about it."

The cocoon silk stopped dancing, and it calmly said: "The power belongs to me alone, why should I distribute it to others? Ah... wait."

The selfish beast understood what Joshua meant: "So, why should I distribute it to others? But is it just that? I think it shouldn't be so simple..."

Joshua stared at the ultimate sublimation aggregate at this time.

Then, in the next moment, the outer layer of this small piece of stable space-time fragments began to gradually shatter.

In the outside world, the huge wave of energy is annihilating the dark space, the body of the ultimate sublimation aggregate is about to be completely wiped out, and there is not much time left between the clones.

After noticing this, the ultimate sublimation aggregate accelerated the speed of thought transmission, and it thought: "All evil gods are the tools of the mastermind behind the scenes. When the civilization that meets the conditions dies, it is equivalent to being frozen into a dead eternity. "

"I only know that this eternity can actually be reversed. It's just why the black hand behind the scenes designed the evil god like this? I don't understand. If he just wants to destroy civilization and use the corpses, there is no need to make such trouble. After all, civilization You and I should be able to create things like dead souls."

Joshua nodded silently. The Eternity of the Cthulhu can be reversed, and this is the case with the Weak Cthulhu. Taking advantage of its characteristics, the Mycroft civilization almost suppressed the Cthulhu of Death forever, turning it into a super large unit. body world.

And the dead soul of civilization is even simpler... Among other things, isn't his soul abyss? It really doesn't work, the same thing is true for the collection of psionic wills of the dead civilizations in the star world.

As long as you kill enough, you will be fine.

"If you want to fight against the evil god and the existence behind it, you must understand the nature of the evil god and the reason for this frozen eternal essence. We must understand that only in this way can we destroy his plan—I believe, you Will not sit back and let him succeed."

The Ultimate Sublimation Aggregator has transmitted almost all of its research materials on evil gods and all the research information on eternity to Joshua. The body has failed, and you, the lunatic who belong to 'civilization', may not."

"...that's not the kind of thing a selfish beast would do."

Accepting the information in silence, it took a while before Joshua looked at the other party, and murmured in a low voice: "It's surprising that you didn't cheat or hide in these messages... This is the most important thing. It's beyond my imagination."

At their level, whether there are errors or omissions in the experimental information can be seen at a glance, and no one can deceive the other.

"Selfish? Do you call it selfish? Of course it is."

Facing the soldiers' doubts, Cocoon smiled and danced, "What do you think is selfishness? Hurting others and benefiting yourself? Everything belongs to you, but you don't give it to others? No matter what, don't let others benefit?"

"No, no, that's not selfishness, that's called 'maliciousness' - if it's selfish, it means everything is for my own sake."

"Destroying civilization can be selfish, helping civilization can also be selfish, harming others can be selfish, and dedicating oneself can also be selfish—just like you, an unknown lunatic, you think you help other civilizations, and other worlds are against me Does it look great? You are just fulfilling your own wishes, you must not have thought about your friends and relatives, how worried and sad you will be when you know that you may die, right?"

"This is also selfishness. Selfishness is the satisfaction of selfish desires. Life is selfish."

Having said that, the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregator chuckled, "And my selfishness is meaning."

"The meaning of my birth into the world, the meaning of returning to death, the present I live in, why does my life exist? The meaning of fulfilling all these is my supreme code, which I will never change or make any concessions. Selfishness. Even if I die, perish, and annihilate in the void, I must leave something behind. As for making the enemy (you) suffer, or helping others (you) to make him succeed, that is all my business."

"I do this voluntarily, not for anyone, which is selfish - other people have no right to judge what I do, because I do all this, not for other people's ideas at all."

"...This is actually the inheritance." Joshua said in a deep voice, his brows were tightly frowned: "Don't you understand?"

"Inheritance, this is what it is—what you leave behind, whether you want to be happy or not, the fact is that you get the meaning, and others can stand on your shoulders, on your corpse, and look at more far away."

The clone of the ultimate sublimation aggregate did not reply.

The light had dimmed to the limit - it dissipated.

In the outside world, a tsunami of energy rushed to disperse the main body of the dark space. Even the small group of primordial fire, which was protected in the most important place, was dispersed by the mighty flow of light, and finally separated from the surrounding world of stars.

The blazing white Void Great Demon tide roared and flew, it took away most of the aftermath of the explosion, and also melted and took away the completely shattered corpses of the ultimate sublimation aggregate, turning it into an energy tide that spread to the multiverse—— It's like a tree withers, a beast dies, and the carcass becomes food for other beings.

It can be seen that the light of the magic tide has brightened several levels again, and the almost infinite energy even temporarily strengthens the intensity of the magic tide from the source—presumably, for the other world galaxies below the magic tide, a magic tide is about to usher in Hong Feng.

——No matter how selfish a life is, the corpse after death will become the soil for the next generation of life.

Joshua's avatar sighed heavily in the shattered fragments of time and space that were about to completely collapse.

"This multiverse is really dark..."

Whether it is a civilization or an individual, whether it is a selfless sage or a selfish beast, the ultimate goal of all minds is to fight against the darkness behind the scenes—but even so, everyone knows nothing about it, No one knows what the future holds.

If there is any suffering, then I am afraid that the event of 'birth' itself is the real suffering. All life in this multiverse will cry for the pain that has come to this world since its birth, because what they have to face is a civilization that disappears like tears in the rain, and a multiverse that is as dark as the sea in the middle of the night.

Even tomorrow, which is expected by countless people, is as dark and deep as an abyss... How much light, how much life and civilization must be swallowed by this abyss of tomorrow called the future, before it can become a smooth road that can be walked?

The fragments of time and space were destroyed, and Joshua's clone also dissipated. Following the wave of energy, he made all the information merge into the main body.

——In this dawn of collision and intersecting, the clones of both sides in the battle were born in this peaceful fragment of time and space.

——In the dark night when the collision ended, the avatars of both sides of the battle died in this chaotic wave of void.

And around the star world, in the torrent of the great demon tide, the last trace of consciousness of the ultimate sublimation aggregate body is gradually dissipating.

"I……"

In the spiritual world that began to scatter, an icon like an 'eye' appeared... That was the trademark that the Roberts left behind and bestowed on this most proud creation when they created the 'sublimation virus'.

"I... want to sublimate..."

This is the meaning of its birth in the world, transcending everything, sublimating everything... It can see the joyful gaze of that researcher Robert who has been integrated with him for an unknown number of years.

"And me……"

It can see that everything is integrated with itself and sublimated together. Among them, there are those who are angry, those who resist, those who are desperate, and those who are hopeful. Among them, some are embarrassed, some are voluntary, some accept their fate, and some are happy.

That is the aspiration and meaning of its existence here.

"I...it's me...it's us...but it's all me..."

"As long as I unite the multiverses into one... there will be no more me and us..."

——In this way, there will be no...no one and nothing that can hinder me, us, from living according to our own ideas.

—Unfortunately, I failed.

At the last moment of the existence of self-will, in the depths of the will of the extreme sublimation aggregate, what is revealed is a 'smile'.

"Death... It cannot be said, it is not a kind of sublimation... After this, I, we will never be controlled, and will never be someone's behind-the-scenes toy, whose tool..."

It smiled, gave up all struggles, and let its life and consciousness stay away from this dark multiverse.

——That said, it’s still, unfortunately.

At the last moment of its life, its 'eye' that was about to dissipate, looked at the distant place, the source of the initial fire and the tide of magic.

It looks to the far end of the future.

- Life is born with suffering.

—Death returns to the future.

This is the blinding dawn of birth

and,

To the peaceful night of death.

For the loser, it's all over.

"So, living ones, I curse you and never have peace."

The final attack, issued, then.

——The near-holy one, the solipsistic beast, perish——

At the same time, Joshua's consciousness, which had almost burned himself out, also fell into darkness.

...warm...peaceful...

He felt like he was going to sleep too.

——If sleep is short-term death, then today, he may be able to enjoy a peaceful and eternal sleep.

...comfortable...calm...

However, it may be a curse, it may be a blessing, in the final analysis, the warrior is destined never to sleep quietly like this.

So, under the final impact of the ultimate sublimation aggregate, in the intense pain and torment, his self-will began to shatter because he wanted to 'confront' the dead enemy, the instinct born of 'fighting' Coagulate, begin to aggregate again, reconnect as one.

In the violent storm of time and space, under the turbulent impact of the great void tide, and in the last remaining attack of the enemy, Joshua began to escape from a long and distant nightmare.

"wake up."

He seems to have heard such a voice.

So Joshua opened his eyes.

wake up.

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