The dreamy scene gradually dissipated, and the story about a boy, young man and man thousands of years ago gradually came to an end.
The man who gave up all illusions about beauty and devoted all his energy to hunting those chaotic superpowers eventually became a nightmare for the whole world.
When a person can pause 'time', there are no teammates to protect and cover, and there are no various restrictions to freely take action, then there is almost nothing and nothing in the world that can stop him.
He can kill anyone because he operates in a stagnant world that is impossible for ordinary people to observe. In the face of this ability, no matter how tight the defense is, the fortress is useless. He can destroy anything, because if it fails once, it will happen ten times, and if it fails ten times, it will happen a hundred times. He has plenty of 'time' to ponder and destroy.
In a world where civilized order collapsed, he walked through snow, grasslands, swamps and urban ruins, leaving behind countless corpses and bloodstains. Groups of evil-doing superpowers were destroyed one after another, and one after another post-apocalyptic human gathering places were reduced to scorched earth. He killed thugs who committed all kinds of evil, and ordinary people who looted material warehouses. He killed superpowers who used human beings as slaves and claimed to be emperors. He also killed high-level officials of the former Hyboria government who kept gathering refugees and wanted to rebuild the world government.
Men treat everyone equally, so the once prosperous Sin City turned into a cemetery overnight. No one among the human traffickers and violent organizations who lived there survived. Therefore, the most powerful Nanhai Fortress sank overnight, and the twenty-seven fusion warheads contained in it were unknown. trace.
Men roam the entire Hyboria continent, hunting anyone who creates chaos and affects the world with their own selfish desires, whether they are superpowers or remnants of the world government.
He is very patient. If after killing a wanton leader, a hundred equally bad successors will appear, then he will kill those one hundred people in the same way. If these one hundred people have ten thousand successors , he will continue to kill. Anyway, killing one person or ten thousand is just an instant for him. It is not a big deal, and he does not mind killing more.
If something goes wrong in the world, let him correct it. If the Hyborians fall into chaos, let him eliminate it. Some say that order cannot be built on violence and killing. Some say that darkness and chaos can never be eradicated. The man once believed this, but now, he doesn't.
And he was right, fear and blood did create order.
In this way, the man became stronger through constant killing. His ability was originally stagnant for fifteen seconds within a 550-meter radius centered on himself, and could be used again after ten seconds. Later, it became stagnant for twenty seconds. , twenty-five seconds, even half a minute, one minute, and the cooling time has also changed from ten seconds to five seconds, three seconds, one second, or even negligible.
The scope of stagnation is also getting larger and larger. Originally, his ability could only cover one street, but the scope quickly expanded to several streets and half of the city. When the man grew up to the point where he could clearly 'see' the ubiquitous things around him. The time of 'Super Essence'. He has been able to pause the time of the entire city. He can see colorful particles like meteorites, seeping from the outside of the world and overflowing from the bodies of the dead superpowers. They shuttle throughout the entire world and are then captured and absorbed by his body. , slowly strengthening his abilities.
By the time the man traveled around the world and killed all those who tried to maintain chaos, he had been able to stop time in hours, and the scope of his ability was half a country. Now, no force dares to expand. , and no pretentious person dares to rule. Everyone is in panic all day long because an invisible nightmare is lingering on the continent.
Men define rules and order, and those who do not follow will only die. Those who dared to resist were turned into corpses a few years ago. What is left now are only the frightened people who dare not resist. They are unable to resist, because the enemy against them is time itself.
How far can the ultimate level of extraordinary power be achieved
That is to use the power of one person to suppress the entire civilization and the entire world.
When everyone in the world of Hyboria is frightened by a person's name and dare not make the slightest move, that person becomes the de facto master of the entire world - his will is the law, and his preferences are the rules. When the name 'Fatlolvi' spread throughout the world, everyone on the Siberian continent worshiped this name.
But Fatlolvi dismissed this worship.
The illusion completely dissipated, the dream-like world ended, and Joshua's will returned to the real world. At this time, the sky above the Hyboria world was still dark, and the dust in the atmosphere was still dense. In the center of the world, there was a world with human souls as raw materials. The steel factory has not been destroyed yet, as if everything he had done before was an illusion.
— Stagnation, even countercurrent.
Joshua stared at the huge power of steel in his hand that had not yet been released—this power of steel should have turned into a beam of light a few minutes ago, tearing apart the barrier of the world of Siberia and connecting to his body. But now, the power flows back into his hands, as if it is as weird as rewinding a video tape. Outside the world, his body is probably still wondering about this inexplicable change, and he doesn't know why he broke the link.
This is the ability held by the man who is feared by countless Old Siberian people and is called the 'Master of Destiny' and the 'Mover of Time'.
At this moment, the man spoke.
"The Adventer."
His voice was calm, as emotionless as a soul puppet: "Leave my world."
Except for his voice, the entire Hyboria world was silent. Everything, dust, smoke, clouds and wind were stagnant. Even the light stopped in place, plunging the whole world into indescribable darkness. Fatrol Wei stood at the top of the spiral tower, looking down at the entire world, and indifferently issued an expulsion order to the giant stagnant steel puppet.
At the same time, an extremely powerful repulsive force acted on Joshua. This force was so huge, it was as if the whole world had turned into a living thing, trying to forcibly expel the warrior as a 'foreign object' from the body - at this moment , you can see that the space around Joshua is broken layer by layer, and dark blue lines are spreading in the broken space.
Due to Fate Lolvi's words, a huge formation of several thousand meters spread out with the warrior as the center. It can be seen that a hole leading to the void outside is quickly emerging. It is like a black hole, trying to All the substances in the formation path were sucked into it, and the black-red giant puppet was the first to be affected. While he was imprisoned, he was slowly pulled towards the entrance of the cave, as if he was about to be expelled from the world of Siberia.
However, a low and clear voice sounded in the silent world.
"I reject."
Accompanied by the sound of something breaking, the steel puppet that was supposed to be imprisoned in time slowly raised his head. He looked at the man named Fatlolvi floating in the air with the same indifferent eyes. The huge puppet looked at each other with the man standing on the top of the spiral tower. A few seconds later, a deep voice came from the puppet's speaker: "This is not your world."
The flame burned on the puppet's body again, and the bright light began to surge in the imprisoned world again. The raging power of steel flowed along the broken space, just like the best glue, holding the broken expulsion channel together. Fill thoroughly. And with this process, the sky of the Hyboria world divided into two distinct realms, one dark and stagnant, like the world after death, and the other bright and vibrant, full of fire and vitality.
He exploded with power and broke free from the shackles of the stagnant world, but Joshua did not immediately attack the enemy as before. He stood in the center of the light and stared at the opponent.
Fatlolvi—the name of the man in the fantasy—had an ordinary appearance, with regular features, nothing out of the ordinary. His eyes were as cold as a machine, with blue light flowing in his pupils. He looked at Qiao Xiu Ya broke free from his confinement, but there was no reaction, he just watched indifferently.
This is the appearance of the most powerful superpower who suppressed the entire world thousands of years ago, created soul puppets, and herded the Siberian people as livestock. He didn't look evil, but it was chilling.
Joshua was supposed to be like the soul puppets and rebels in the world of Xibaya, and his memories were sent back a few minutes by the other party. However, because of the information linking ability of the power of steel, he and the unknown people shrouded the entire spiral tower. Through the connection of forces, he entered the other party's 'dream', or in other words, the 'past' of a real world. He saw the truth about the collapse of the world of Siberia thousands of years ago, and also learned the origin of the other party's beliefs.
The man who vowed to eradicate chaos and create absolute order fulfilled his vow and created a world of order as solid as iron.
"What was just now was your memory?"
Above the sky, the two men faced off in silence. After a moment, the puppet's speaker vibrated again, and a deep voice came from it: "Is this the reason why you breed Sibiya people? Because you can't find a way for superpowers and ordinary people to coexist. We can’t find a way to maintain absolute order, so we simply wipe out everyone’s self-will and guard them in the breeding area like chickens and ducks?”
"Coexistence? It's not a question of coexistence."
Joshua's deep voice shook the world. Faced with his questioning, Fatlolvi, who had not succeeded in driving the soldiers away, unexpectedly did not continue to take action. He looked up at the starry sky, then lowered his head and talked with Joe. Xiuya looked at each other, and Fatrolvi said calmly: "As long as superpowers exist, true order cannot be established."
He didn't care about Joshua's reaction, nor the increasingly fierce flames burning on his body. Fatlolvi stood at the top of the spiral tower. He looked down at the entire world of Siberia, scanning one soul puppet after another. Garden, the existence called the master by the soul puppets seems to be able to see the superpowers in each garden. He said in a slight voice: "I have tried many times, but failed every time... Unrestrained super power With infinite spread, everyone can possess the power to almost destroy the world - with this power, order is just a piece of paper that anyone can easily tear into pieces."
At this time, Fatlolvi seemed to be lost in memories. He turned his head and looked at Joshua again. This indifferent man seemed to laugh, but he could not feel the slightest smile: "Anyone can do it." No one can stop whoever they kill. Anyone can cause world-class chaos. They can create zombie viruses, activate metal machinery, they can infinitely spit out fire and burn the entire continent, and they can infinitely create ice to fill the entire world. —They can even control and enslave the souls of other superpowers with one look. Their existence itself is destroying the stability of the world."
"At that time, everyone claimed to be gods... They played with the laws of the world, fought with each other, and destroyed everything in the past. Ordinary people who had not yet awakened were wiped out like grass. Order and society were as fragile as eggshells. I saw it with my own eyes. To see our civilization reduced to chaos, where it is all ugliness, ugliness, ugliness.”
"They want to take over the world."
Standing at the top of the tower, Fatlolvi said: "And I can only kill them all."
The cold and cruel words were spoken by this man in the most simple and calm tone, but Joshua could hear the helplessness from the deepest part of his heart.
The soldiers could only remain silent about this.
Unlike the world of Mycroft and many worlds with extraordinary power, the situation of the world of Hyboria is too special... It is located in the center of the great whirlpool of the void. It has to withstand the impact of steel particles thousands of times in the ordinary world. Countless powerful and weak The authority will spread endlessly in this world that originally did not have any extraordinary power, and stage a living scene of national awakening.
If I have to describe it, it’s like every superpower possesses an extremely concealed pistol, or even an invisible nuclear bomb launch button, and every ordinary person may have access to this pistol and button at any time—as long as these people are , if a madman goes crazy, he can easily kill hundreds of people, destroy a street, or even an entire city.
This is completely different from Mycroft's world, which requires hard training to obtain extraordinary powers. The acquisition of superpowers is too random and too easy. No one has a clear understanding of the power, let alone awe, and for the original For ordinary people, only superpowers with authority, their defenses are too weak, so that even a weak superpower may kill a powerful superpower in a sneak attack, even if the other party has early warning. It's all the same.
As long as there is wisdom and ambition, order will never come to the world of Hyboria.
So, there is only one way.
No need for Fatlolvi to say anything, Joshua himself could guess the subsequent development.
Because the birth of superpowers is too random and completely unpredictable, and no matter what superpower it is, it is a huge hidden danger to the fragile order. Therefore, Fatlolvi based on the technology of the old Siberian civilization, There is also the newly discovered wonderful thing of the soul, which creates the existence of the soul puppet. For time movers who will not age and die, it is only a matter of time to learn and develop various soul technologies. But the issue of time is never a problem for Fatlolvi. In a static world, he optimizes from generation to generation. The structure of the soul puppet and use it as the basis of its own order.
Fatrolvi cleansed the entire world. He killed all threatening superpowers, leaving only the most obedient group of ordinary people. He imprisoned these humans in a closed garden completely managed by soul puppets. And he used advanced soul technology to brainwash them and put a stamp on their thoughts - he sealed the imagination and association ability of all Sibiya people, making the originally intelligent Sibiya people become worse than beasts, only working, sleeping, working, and sleeping. living creatures.
In this way, even if an ordinary person suddenly awakens to a super power that is powerful enough to destroy the whole world in an instant, without any self-awareness or wisdom, he can only live as a livestock and become part of the breeding farm. Unlike humans, soul puppets will not show favoritism and can eliminate all possible hidden dangers.
Joshua knew that this was by no means what Fatlolvi had done at the beginning. He must have failed many times, thought about it for many years, and made improvements again and again, before finally creating such a suffocating order... But Even so, Joshua still found it difficult to understand.
"This does not explain why you want to breed Siberians and harvest their souls."
The soldier said solemnly: "You don't need to let those people live at all... You hate superpowers, you hate the Sibiya people - why don't you kill them all? You have no reason to let them live at all!"
Compared with other unexplainable things, this is the biggest doubt for Joshua.
Fatlolvi, there is no reason to maintain order at all. His sister was killed by a superpower raid, his parents were seriously injured and died a few years later, and a few years later, his comrades were wiped out due to the betrayal of the World Government. Everything this man cherished was gone. Destroyed at the hands of the Hyborians, both superpowers and ordinary people have a life-and-death hatred for him. He has no reason to maintain the order of the world. He should be the happiest person for the destruction of the Hyborian civilization. .
Fatlolvi should have destroyed the world a long time ago without leaving any room. How could he go to such great lengths to establish order and construct a system like a farmer's garden that can last for countless years
"There's only one explanation."
Facing the time mover who had not replied so far and even closed his eyes, Joshua controlled his puppet body and said in a mechanical voice without any fluctuations: "You need a lot of souls—to be precise, you It takes an astronomical amount of energy to accomplish something... Yes, you need an endless amount of souls."
Having said this, Joshua paused, and then said slowly: "Let's reverse time."
"Just like you did before when you deflected my attack."
With these words, the whole world fell into silence again. In the sky, more than 1,600 soul stars began to flicker with uncertain light, and the spiral tower under Fatrolvi also began to flow dark blue. Guanghui, Joshua did not rush to continue speaking, he just stared at Fatlolvi. After a moment, the huge puppet said: "But..."
"But I know."
At this time, Fatlolvi finally spoke. He opened his eyes again. In his pupils, the clockwise rotating hands had completely stopped. The master of time said calmly: "Time is an illusion."
The master of time said this, as if talking to himself: "Time is just a scale of material movement, and the scale cannot be turned back."
"I know that more than a thousand years have passed. Counting my stagnant time, even thousands of years have passed. Of course I know this... Time does not exist at all. It is just the process of material movement. My time has stopped and is just stagnant. The movement of all things.”
"The so-called reverse flow of time is just a simple reversal of the movement of matter. You broke away from my stop precisely because your explosive power exceeded my stagnation speed. It is so simple that I actually figured it out now."
Fatrolvi told the truth about his ability without hesitation, because he knew that the reason why Joshua did not take action at the beginning was precisely because he had not yet seen the truth about his ability, and he did not take action at the beginning. It was also because he didn't understand how a warrior could escape from his own abilities.
But now, both sides have obviously seen through each other's methods... This means that the peaceful mutual delay is over, and the real battle is about to begin.
"One last question, Fatlolvi."
In the bright world, flames were blazing, and the huge steel puppets absorbed the energy from the surrounding atmosphere wantonly, shattering the stagnant dark world around them. Joshua's voice, who was ready to go all out, became thick and loud at this time. He said in a voice with a rumbling echo: "You are doing this kind of brainwashing to save your world and to reverse the flow of time. Are you doing soul breeding?"
"of course not."
An unwavering voice came from the top of the tower, and countless complicated lines began to spread in the atmosphere. A ring of runes appeared behind him, and Fatrolvi's eyes were like a solid rock that had not changed for thousands of years: " Saving the world has nothing to do with me."
The Time Master said indifferently: "I just want to make this world mine—what I want it to be."
"Really, what a shame."
Seeing that the other party also started to use all his strength, Joshua's voice gradually turned cold: "I originally wanted to say that knowledge and power should be used to build ladders, not fences... There are countless extraordinary powers in the multiverse. You can go out and have a look at a world where you can coexist with ordinary people... But now it seems that you have simply given up."
Because I couldn't find the answer, I stopped in place in despair, and even began to fantasize about the reverse flow of time, and began to stop moving forward.
"Stop talking nonsense, Adventer, you don't understand anything and don't know... I have found the right path."
For the warrior who clearly showed his murderous intention, a thick silver python scepter suddenly formed in Fatlolvi's hand. He stood with the scepter and released a majestic aura of majesty all over his body. In the sky, one thousand six hundred soul stars shined brightly, suddenly turning the whole world into daylight.
In the eyes of the time controller, the hands began to rotate: "I am the order, I am the world."
“I judge all people and all things.”
My insomnia has gotten to the point recently. I finally fell asleep, and when I woke up, I found that twenty hours had passed... Don't worry about updating, I always remember that I have a basic 4,000 words every day, and I will make up for whatever is missing.
(End of chapter)