Soul of Burning Steel

— Eternal Dead —

The thunder dragon opened its huge mouth, flapped its huge wings, and set off a sandstorm in the ever-shrinking desert of the Kronos world. Hearing this word, it couldn't help being a little dazed.

The evil gods are the enemies of civilization and life, they are the embodiment of natural disasters, the entities of destruction and doomsday. From ancient times to the present, countless civilizations have tried to analyze the nature of evil gods, just as intelligent life has analyzed that the essence of typhoons is the storm produced by the ocean releasing its own heat, and earthquakes are shocks caused by the release of pressure from plates. People want to understand the nature of evil gods. Only in this way can we make a response and a solution.

Unfortunately, this attempt failed at the last step.

It's not that this step is so difficult that no one has been able to succeed since ancient times, but that before they succeeded, the army of evil gods came from nowhere and wiped out everything they had.

"...Do you think you can make an exception?"

That's why Thunder Gulong asked in this way, in its long life and ancient inheritance, it does contain the information of the evil god. As the reconstructor and regenerator of the world cycle, the Thunder Gulong has indeed restored several worlds destroyed by the evil god, so It was shocked: "The eternity of death—that's what you found. There are clues about the nature of evil gods? No one has ever come to this step, or, before this step, they are all destroyed."

"To be precise, I didn't find it. I just synthesized other people's information and confirmed it."

Joshua's thought thread still partly communicates with Thunder Gulong. When he left, he said thoughtfully: "Destruction? Sure enough, apart from 'eternal wonder' and 'overdeveloped civilization', 'research Is the information about the nature of the evil god also an inducement? Indeed, this is consistent with the information I have.”

"The existence of the evil god may indeed be a little more important than everyone imagined at the beginning."

The research data on evil gods left by the ultimate sublimation aggregate is extremely rich. As a near-sage who can already imprison some evil gods in the world, carry them with you, and even use them as tools such as compass, it can be said that in this respect, It's the number one professional in the multiverse. And Joshua, who inherited the other party's relevant information, naturally benefited a lot from it. He had a lot of new ideas, and after synthesizing his own original information, he could deduce many new things.

For example, before that, Joshua thought that the evil god might just be a 'phenomenon' caused by the power behind the scenes, just like the psychic beings and the steel python—or, the evil god might be another doomsday version The 'Chaos Steel Serpent'.

But now it seems that the evil god's own information is also within the "warning range", which is not a purely derivative phenomenon, and can enjoy the treatment.

"Malicious chaos, let's just call it the extraordinary power held by the black hand behind the scenes. The essence of this power can be analyzed from the power of the evil god."

Joshua's main body consciousness is still falling into the maelstrom of creation, he is crossing layers of abyss, the blockade line of the seven gods in the past, the soldier thought alone: ​​"Chaos can erode and infect everything else, only Only other supernatural powers can stand against it—this may often be overlooked, but it shows that Malicious Chaos is deeply connected with everything."

After all, the so-called erosion phenomenon is similar to the effects of 'magic power impregnation', 'divine power impregnation' and even 'holy light impregnation', but apart from divine power, both magic power and holy light can only quickly impregnate part of it. The extraordinary substance of the body, and the corresponding extraordinary "magician" and "priest" associated with oneself, not everything.

Secondly, malicious chaos can cause spiritual erosion, making people crazy, and even unable to think - there are many possibilities, such as simply interfering with the soul, chaos has anti-intelligence algorithms, or it contains a lot of information, directly supporting people crazy. According to Joshua's own experience of fighting against the God of Weakness and the God of Death, the point of "containing a lot of information to drive people crazy" is actually the most appropriate. He was almost disturbed by the countless memories and calls of the God of Death Has the thinking array been abnormal for a long time?

One of the essences of the evil god is the sea of ​​memory and information gathered by countless dead lives in civilization. Of course, the possibility that it has something like an 'anti-intelligence algorithm' cannot be ruled out.

——Ordinary people will go crazy at a glance. The strange contagious and corrosive properties of the evil god's family, spiritual pollution, and even following the meme-based action pattern have undoubtedly confirmed one point, that is, compared with other extraordinary powers , 'malicious chaos' and 'information' are closely related.

"However, the sage of the devil said that the essence of the evil god, and even the essence of the man behind the scenes, is related to 'eternity'."

The abyss keeps falling and stretching. The God of Steel didn't speed up deliberately, but just walked across countless worlds. His thoughts diverged: "'Eternal', this word, I used to remember it in the memory of 'Cthulhu God' , the same vocabulary was seen in the 'ultimate civilizations' of those first civilizations in the ancient idyllic days of the multiverse."

"[Eternal] [Infinite] [Absolute], and [Omniscient]."

——Beyond all material changes, even the "eternity" of the end.

——Beyond all finite existence, even the imaginary 'infinity'.

——Beyond all concepts of causality, even the 'absolute' of probability.

Omniscience and omnipotence aside, that thing is obviously the highest meaning in the purely philosophical sense, and there is no need to discuss it in reality, but there is no doubt that the three points of [eternity], [infinity], and [absolute] are very important for those who have been close to bathing. The glory of the initial fire is definitely feasible for the oldest civilizations who are born with unlimited sources of energy and matter.

"The meaning of infinity... I may understand a little bit, especially after meeting the shadow sage, I have a little understanding - the other party is an infinite existence, and it is only an infinite existence that can use its own power Covering the same infinite multiverse, and opening up a new path, isn't that what 'infinity' means? Infinite power, infinite diffusion, infinite future...and, infinite hope."

Although it is only a speculation, Joshua believes that the realm of "sage level" is just to deal with the concept of "infinity" among the three "ultimate civilizations", and this realm is absolutely worthy of the ancients' respect for it. imagination.

As for the word 'eternal', apart from the aspect of 'ultimate civilization', Joshua has only heard related concepts in the aspect of 'eternal wonder'. To be honest, he didn't quite understand this point. After all, in his opinion, no matter how magnificent and great buildings and wonders are, they may gradually become silent with the passage of time... Until now, Joshua has not been able to understand this. Where is eternity.

However, it can also be understood in another direction, that is, the existence of those eternal wonders must be contrary to the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes—it can even be said that there are no real eternal wonders in this multiverse, after all, even the sacrificial field of ten thousand worlds is in the real world. It was destroyed before it was completed. If Joshua became a near-sage, he might try to restore it, but now, even if he has relevant information, there is nothing he can do.

"Those great wonders, if built, will definitely cause earth-shaking changes to a civilization. Whether it is the sacrificial field of the myriad worlds or the black mist itself, if they become complete, it is enough for a civilization to dominate in the multiverse, or even never It will be destroyed... But is this kind of eternity? No, there must be information that I don't know, even the ultimate sublimation aggregates don't have much speculation in this regard, and I must be missing some key elements that I don't know."

But even that is enough.

[Malicious Chaos] is a power that is related to everything and is highly compatible with information—and, the eternal wonders and over-developed civilization will make the black hands behind the scenes feel uneasy and want to obliterate them. He even created the evil god as a tool, and the evil god is also an important element in fulfilling his plan... So much information is already enough, enough for Joshua to make relevant responses.

Moreover, the power of malicious chaos is completely different from psionic magic power. It seems that it is not a system with the sages.

How to say? Kind of like the difference between an Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate and a Sage.

"The ultimate sublimation aggregate, the path of self-achievement in the universe, may have something to do with [absolute]. The absolute self, the absolute master of the self, is the existence of 'absolute' for the internal world it creates."

And Malicious Chaos is related to [Eternity]—this also matches the information left by the Demon Sage.

At this moment, Joshua has come to the boundary of the former extremely dark abyss, the boundary of the great vortex of creation - here, the wreckage of countless worlds can be seen falling into it, just like the death of a giant whale floating in the ocean , the whale fell to the bottom of the deep sea, similarly, here, you can see countless new worlds rushing upwards, just like a volcanic eruption at the beginning of all things, bringing new substances and possibilities to the surface world.

The God of Steel didn't move on. He stood at the dividing line between life and death, at the boundary between destruction and creation, staring at the maelstrom of creation itself, the black and white, Tai Chi-like grinding disc of all things, thinking silently.

[Eternity], [Infinity], [Absolute], the relationship between these three is really very close, and they can even be converted into each other... For example, infinity can also represent eternity, and the existence of eternity is naturally infinite, infinite Being, nature is also eternal.

And the existence of the absolute is unrealistic if there is no infinity and eternity—otherwise, would it deserve to be called the absolute? Conversely, infinite power itself is absolute suppression, and eternity is also absolute existence. The three are almost mixed, but there are some minor differences.

Therefore, [Malicious Chaos] must have brought some changes to the multiverse. The evil gods should correspond to the primordial god of divine power, the world consciousness of psionic power, the pure energy creature of magic power, the ancient dragon and void giant beast of life energy, the original elemental creature of element and various ancient etheric beasts of ether, etc. The changes caused by malicious chaos are hidden in the "common sense" of everyone in the multiverse today. After all, it is the "true initial extraordinary power" that is second only to divine power and earlier than psionic power. Every life must be bathed in its changes.

It's just that this kind of change is too subtle, just like before Joshua explained, many people didn't even understand that extraordinary power was created by sages, and they acquiesced that it was the truth of the multiverse. There is no such thing in the multiverse.

Subtly, boil the frog in warm water? Although it sounds a bit ugly, Joshua has always been willing to imagine the worst - all the lives that exist today may have been affected by the changes related to "Malicious Chaos" long before they were born, and they have been locked. At the beginning, it was dancing in the palm of the other party.

But Joshua is different... At least in the world he once lived in and understood, there is no supernatural power. If there is anyone in this multiverse who is most likely to detect something wrong without knowing anything, maybe he is the only one .

But this does not mean that he will be able to find out—maybe he was already in the game without knowing it? Maybe what he also regards as common sense is the chaotic side?

"But that's my advantage."

Due to the situation, in order to save this multiverse, the sages in the past may not have the time and energy to continue research in this area, so they can only give up halfway. Therefore, compared with the sages of previous generations, Joshua's advantages are actually also It's not just the identity of a traveler... His real advantage lies in the inheritance of countless people, all scattered clues are gathered in him, like the eyes of the world.

Joshua now holds the key to the 'truth' recently!