Time passes minute by minute, and it will be repeated hundreds of thousands of times in the future. The reality may tremble between two forces that can distort everything, and the inner world cannot bear it.
Cause and effect are reversed, the past fades away, reality becomes hazy in endless illusions, history has errors and omissions, and everything is submerged in the surging river of existence.
—So, Fatlolvi saw such a vision.
It was a scene of two adults, a boy and a girl, and two children, a boy and a girl, driving out of the city in a hurry.
The man was generous and kept comforting his somewhat panicked wife. The two children were also very well-behaved and did not cry. The boy as the elder brother even imitated his father and began to touch his sister’s head and whisper comfort because the birthday party was interrupted. Interrupted, the other party seemed a little unhappy.
Because it was night, there were no other cars on the street. They drove very fast and left the city in ten minutes. While driving, the worried woman asked in a low voice: "Are you really so nervous?"
"A warning from a friend with superpowers... I didn't believe it at first, but when I think about it, it's not bad to believe it for such a big thing."
The man gripped the steering wheel tightly, his fingers turning white. He pretended not to care and shrugged, "In the worst case, we can just treat it as a day trip."
But soon, blazing fire light lit up behind them, and with the continuous explosions and roars, the originally peaceful and peaceful city was burning.
The house collapsed, the street shattered, and the shock wave that shook the entire car violently hit from behind. The girl who had been quiet suddenly burst into tears, while the boy hurriedly comforted each other. At this time, the man and woman were also panicked. Getting up, they looked through the rearview mirror at the city in chaos behind them, their eyes full of fear and joy.
This is the beginning of the first superpower world war.
The family without a home was wandering around in various cities. Fortunately, the World Government was still there. As a well-known technician in the industry, his father and his mother were also well-known writers. They quickly found a new job in a new city. settled in the city. Boys and girls also resumed schooling.
The boy is a very good person. Although he doesn't talk much, he is sincere to others and he quickly made new friends at school. But the world is still at war. Several students are absent from the school from time to time, and even the teachers are getting fewer and fewer. Two years later, the school is officially closed, and the city is about to be abandoned. Under the guidance of the World Government, the family is preparing to go The strongest fortress cities.
On the way, their parents looked tired. The high-intensity work, the tense environment, and the increasingly turbid and strange air all made them in their forties feel powerless, but both boys and girls were healthy. , which makes them feel at ease.
"We don't have anything to say. The children must have a future." These were their original words during a private conversation.
Life in the fortress city is even harder. Because of the shortage of resources, everyone's food and water are limited. At this time, the boys and girls who have become teenagers are just about to grow up. Their parents work hard to get more shares, and even I appropriated some of my share to the children. They refused several times, but their parents scolded them: "Why are you talking so much?" "You can eat if you want."
This poverty situation ended on that day. When the boy's father was hospitalized due to long-term malnutrition, he awakened his superpowers, and powerful energy fluctuations spread throughout the city.
Experts from all walks of life gathered to test the ability of this powerful nature awakener. They determined that the boy's ability was the extremely cherished 'teleportation' or 'super-fast movement', which is very necessary for the current world government. Ability. To this end, the government provides a large quota to recruit teenagers into the "Predator" special operations force. The boy's parents wanted to refuse, and his sister also looked worried, but he shook his head gently but firmly to appease his family.
"Now, it's time for me to contribute to this family."
War is cruel, but it is not difficult for young people. With the ability of "all things stand still", he can always make his team successfully complete a series of tasks. Gradually, he becomes the core of the team. His position became higher and higher, and he eventually became the breadwinner of the family. His parents, whose physical condition has stopped deteriorating, are now recuperating at home, while his younger sister skipped a grade and went to college. The adult man supports all of this. Although it is hard, he is happy with it.
Time flies and the war is about to end. Under the comprehensive counterattack of the world government, the radical superpowers are rootless water after all and cannot continue to fight. It was obvious that peace was coming, but just a week before the final battle, the parents' deadlines came one after another.
"My child, don't be sad. Mom's health is not good to begin with. She is still too tired after so many years of running around."
The woman lying on the bed, using a ventilator to assist her breathing, looked lovingly at the grown-up and crying boy, girl, and her husband. She said softly: "You are my hope... Stop crying, mine." Hope you, take a look at a peaceful world for me."
My mother passed away, and the next day, my father also fell ill. According to the doctor's test, it was gastric cancer. It was probably caused by too much socializing in the early years and lack of maintenance for many years. It was already in the advanced stage. In addition, multiple concurrent inflammations occurred at the same time. Basically, There is no way around it.
"He has been holding on, probably because he doesn't want to cause trouble for you." The doctor took the pathology report and carefully said to the man: "It was still stable at first, but it is probably because the death of your father-in-law was too exciting."
The man was now one of the three top leaders of the Hunters and the top official of the World Government. He looked at his father's medical records and was speechless for a long time.
He and his sister came to the ward. His father was unable to say anything more. The aging man looked at his son and daughter with joy, and then as if he was satisfied, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
"No!"
The man roared and activated his power, stagnating the entire city. Wanting to save his father's last moments, he touched his father's face and wanted to use his power to solidify his dying body. But in the end, the ability will eventually end, and the old man still dies, in the comfort of having hope.
After the ability ended, the man disappeared, and his sister couldn't be found everywhere... At this time, the man was wandering among various cities. He walked confusedly in every corner of the fortress, looking at everyone's life. The world has become unstable due to war. , everyone was tired, panicked, worried about whether tomorrow would come, worried about whether there was hope for the future, the man walked through all the hidden rooms, walked through all the places he had never been to on weekdays, he found a lot of things, saw a lot of things, those Secrets may protect against a person with the ability to teleport, but they cannot protect against a person who can stop time.
So the man discovered the world government's plan for all superpowers. He laughed out loud in confusion and in the stagnant world. He didn't know whether he was happy or sad.
…
The illusion is over.
Because Fatlolvi closed his eyes.
He didn't want to look any further, couldn't bear to look any further, didn't want to look any further... He no longer continued to observe the possible world line.
Yes, he knows that although this future still contains sadness, it may be the road that can lead to the future and hope: his sister is still alive, his comrades are also alive, and there is no irreversible relationship between superpowers and ordinary people. Hatred, when the top leaders of the Hunters take over, the world government will gradually transform into a super-civilized government - although the future is bumpy and destined to be ill-fated, at least there is this 'possibility' in the 'future'.
But Fatlolvi closed his eyes resolutely, even though his heart was filled with turmoil.
Because it's enough.
The Time Movers never wanted a perfect and happy life, he just wanted to hear the voices of his parents again, watch his sister grow up with his own eyes, and let his comrades who had fought for half their lives have a happy ending... He just wanted to see a 'possible hope'.
Moreover, now is not the time to pursue the past. He knows that he still has very important things to do now. He feels that he has forgotten many things and forgotten something very important. Fatlolvi's thoughts turned in pain, Thinking about everything forgotten.
Where am I
What am I doing
By the way... I'm fighting!
At this moment, recalling all this, Fatlolvi opened his eyes—really opened his eyes and woke up from the chaotic dream!
What appeared in front of him was a fragmented but powerful steel fist that could shatter space!
The giant fist quickly retreated - to be precise, it was retracted, and Fatrolvi felt that his head was broken in half, and the entire body of the galaxy giant flew backwards. His thinking was confused before, because just now With the direct strike of that giant fist, Fatlolvi felt that his thinking had been stagnant for a long time, and he had fallen into a chaotic dream. But now, the rotation of the Milky Way in the Galaxy Giant's body has gradually restored his clarity.
On the other side, the owner of the giant steel fist did not pursue him, because at this time the giant god's body was also covered with broken scars. He also fell after swinging the circle and lay on the ground - at this time, the four-armed giant was covered in wounds. No piece of it is intact: traces of stellar flames, self-destruction of degenerate matter, distortion of psychic space, decomposition of mass fields... Various injuries that he doesn't even know how to describe are spread all over his body, and there are millions of them. The scars left by the simultaneous attack of these forces.
Both sides beat each other into a daze. Time went back many times, and the earth was overturned and reborn. They were completely unable to distinguish between the present and the future, and they relied entirely on instinct to fight.
At this time, this place is no longer the inside of the world, but the center of the real world of Siberia. In the sky, the soul stars were dim and dim, with only a few still shining. Fatlolvi has reversed the time dozens or hundreds of times to fight fierce battles with powerful enemies one after another, but now it seems that fate and the future have been defeated, because the four-armed steel giant is here. After a short rest, he stood up again and walked towards the galaxy giant lying on the central continent of Siberia.
Boom, boom, boom. Every step the steel giant takes is like a mountain peak bombarding the earth. This is the result of his deliberate restraint, otherwise the entire continent's crust will collapse, and the air is filled with an ionized fishy smell, and the smell like blood is spreading.
As the giant walked, it gradually became smaller. At the same time, the giant body of the vast sea of stars also drifted away in the wind. The dark unknown material dissociated itself and turned into pure soul energy, and the galaxy in his body also It turned into a real nebula and floated towards the high sky.
By the time Joshua came to Fatlolvi, both parties had returned to normal human size. Fatlolvi's seriously injured body fell to the ground, and the crown on his head had dimmed and almost disappeared. Behind him was Because time went back and the spiral tower had not yet collapsed, the time mover looked at the starry sky illuminated by the void vortex and murmured to himself.
"Really, I lost."
At this time, Fatlolvi always recovered the fragmented memory of being beaten. He whispered to himself, and then said nonchalantly: "Well, this is also a possibility."
In the sky, the brilliance of the divine stars dimmed, the observer system was exhausted, and the time mover was no longer able to observe the future again - all possible illusions were gone, and he was even unable to dodge the coming of the alien. Attack, so he simply stayed like this, waiting for the final blow to come.
But the steps stopped.
Joshua didn't move on.
The confused Fatlolvi opened his eyes and looked in front of him.
It was a petite figure. A small, girl-like soul puppet, she stood in front of Joshua, preventing him from moving forward.
"You want to protect him?"
The soldier's deep voice came, and he reminded him kindly: "You have self-awareness. I will not attack you at will. If you insist on stopping me, I will crush you together."
But the psychic puppet's calm and unwavering voice sounded: "Yes, I want to protect the master."
"He just uses your faith as an introduction to guide soul energy. Otherwise, he would not be able to control the divine stars and create an observer system."
Fatlolvi listened to the voice of his enemy. Unlike him, this descendant calmly told the little soul puppet the truth: "You are just a tool he created, a tool used to retaliate and reshape the world. It is easy to use." And a loyal toy.”
ridiculous. he thought. The soul puppet has no such thing as emotions. To protect himself, it is probably just a low-level program that he set up a long time ago... That puppet was specially designed by him to assist in world line observation and to reason with these guys. What is the use? This descendant is really persistent in boring places, whether he has to fight against himself or protect those soul beasts.
"If we say that his intention in creating us is to let me provide faith and use my words."
However, the little puppet replied seriously: "Then I am willing to believe in the Lord and willing to be used."
“For He is our Creator and Lord.”
Fatlolvi, who was lying on the ground and didn't care, was suddenly stunned.
He struggled to sit up. His body was so broken that even if he raised his hand, the energy in his body would leak out and turn into a blue energy liquid like blood. But Fatlolvi still had to sit up even so. He was Struggling to stand up, he asked in a deep voice: "Are you also a defective product?"
"According to the procedures I set for you, you should surrender as soon as possible now! I don't need your protection!"
After finishing speaking, the Time Pusher who couldn't stand up turned his head and looked at Joshua - this was the first time he saw the warrior's face in human form, but Fatlolvi didn't care about this. He whispered: "And Why is a puppet talking nonsense? Give me the final blow!"
"You dare to burn this world, but you don't even have the courage to cross a soul puppet and kill me?"
But Joshua did not answer his words. The warrior looked around the entire world, and Fatlolvi also subconsciously followed his movements and looked around at the surrounding Siberian world.
But he did not see a messy world that was eroded and burned by the power of steel. On the contrary, what Fatlolvi saw was a continent that was very different from before.
In the sky, dust settled, turning into new soil and accumulating on the land that turned into a desert. On the earth, plants sprouted, and cold rivers flowed from the mountains, flowing into the continent along the rivers that had long since dried up.
In the sea, the turbid pollution is being purified little by little, and mutated creatures are swimming blankly in the unprecedentedly clear ocean. I don’t know why the dangerous but familiar environment in the past has become like this. And next to those original oases, Sibiya resists. Jun watched in shock as the green expanded as if it were alive - seedling leaves began to appear on the riverbank mud, and saplings grew in the desert. Under the influence of an inexplicable force born from burning souls and stars, the entire silent world of Siberia began to rapidly grow. Back to life, faster than anyone imagined.
"...You didn't burn the world..."
How could Fatlolvi not understand the truth of the matter? Joshua did not destroy the world to draw energy for himself at all. He just relied on the illusion of burning the world to increase the consumption of his soul stars a thousand times, thereby depleting all his reserves—this descendant even burned his soul , let the whole world rekindle the flames and revive again!
But because of this, an unknown emotion made him grit his teeth. Fatlolvi, who had always been extremely indifferent even in the face of death, roared: "I don't need you to repair my world!"
With the support of this anger, Fatlolvi, whose body was on the verge of complete destruction, stood up again. Light blue liquid energy continued to flow from his body surface, and then he struggled to pull the girl's soul puppet behind him and walked towards Joshua. .
"This is the trial they deserve! They destroyed their own world, and they should be tortured in such a world! Why should you, an outsider, bear their faults! Why should you deal with the aftermath of these damn guys!"
Joshua stared at this angry Fatlolvi, the real Fatlolvi. Now, he finally puts aside the mask of the Master of Fate and the God of the Future, and reveals his true thoughts and nature.
Yes, the Siberians' superpower war destroyed their own world, their own civilization and order, and Fatrolvi, as the strongest superpower, ended all chaos. He suppressed all disobedience, Establishing an 'order' with the soul puppet as the core, he preset the development of future civilization, anchored the coordinates of the Siberian world, and saved the world.
He is a savior, but in the final analysis, he is still an angry avenger who has massacred dozens or even tens of billions of innocent people and wants revenge for everything.
"You are wrong, this is not the aftermath."
Facing Fatlolvi who stood up again and seemed to want to continue fighting, Joshua clenched his right fist and then hit the opponent's left face hard. The huge force shattered the opponent's shell and made him Blue energy debris and energy flow overflowed, and Fatlolvi fell to the ground again. This time, he could not stand up.
After throwing this punch, Joshua, who was almost as weak as the opponent, took a breath, then stood in front of the opponent and said in a deep voice: "This is the oath I made when I became a legend."
The warrior looked around the entire Sibiya world and said in a calm tone: "I bear everything, save everything, and punish everything. I am not repairing this world for the Sibiya people, but for the sake of those who have been born, will be born, and have not yet been born. All life in the future. I fight you not just because you have killed tens of billions of people, but because you have killed the future of the world and made order and civilization a game for you alone."
"It's just my job. I just do what I'm supposed to do, and you lost yourself."
With an unprecedented serious tone, Joshua said to his unprecedented enemy: "You think you control your destiny, but in fact you are just a prisoner of it."
"When you lower your head and look back at the past and are unable to extricate yourself, you can no longer truly look up at the stars and grasp the future."
Fatlolvi said nothing.
However, the illusory crown on his head finally shattered at this moment.
Inexplicable power swept through the entire world. At this moment, the world barrier that isolated the world of Siberia from inside and outside, and isolated the entire world from the Void Vortex and even the entire multiverse, began to quickly dissipate.
On the outside of the world, the spirits of the Steel Python Sibera and the Steel Python Kallis are present. The two great wills observe the entire process through the cracks torn apart by the battle between Joshua and Fatlolvi on the surface of the world. , they watch the internal time of the world being reversed, the future and the past are repeatedly uncertain, they watch the history and possibility of the world intersect, the flame of steel dances with the glory of time.
They saw the history of civilization, the self-destruction of the Hyborians, and the birth of the Soul Golem.
"It was my fault."
Suddenly, the Steel Python Siberia said this. The World Will with only its soul looked gloomy. The Steel Python, which originally didn't care about anything, lowered its head, and something condensed and fell in its red eyes.
"It was my fault."
It said again, with a low voice, and Siberia hovered in a ball. It seemed to say to Kallis, and seemed to say to itself: "I have never cared about this world. I watched reincarnation and never did anything."
"I know that the Hyborians suffered a lot in the early days of civilization. For this reason, they formed an extremely strict order civilization... They did not allow any individual to escape the control of the collective, they did not allow any deviation in the planned development, and they controlled everything. To harbor suspicion and malice, because otherwise there is no way to survive in a cruel world... It's all my fault."
"I never loved them, never helped them... They couldn't feel love, so everyone treated everyone else as hell."
Kallis also watched all this silently. It recalled the fallen civilization of the Kallis and the winged warriors who fought against the evil god to the last moment. It is pleased that its child did not destroy itself, but it is also sad that its child left before it.
But as Joshua said - it should be looking to the future.
Those remnants of the world of Grandia are its new children. I cannot ignore them. I should inspire them to re-establish a new civilization and order.
And inside the world of Hyboria.
The light of soul and time fills the entire starry sky and continent.
Destiny and future disappear into the silent world in a blink of an eye.
The endless battle between warriors and masters finally reaches its end at this time.
Joshua raised the condensed giant sword in his hand towards Fatrolvi.
The giant sword fell.
All sadness, despair, love and hope come to an end.
This volume is almost finished... To be honest, I actually wrote this volume very seriously, but in the end it was not completely finished due to some reasons, such as the protagonist's communication with the resistance and the communication with the soul puppets... because Qiao Xiu Ya is not that kind of person.
But it would be nice to end it in a serious way. I am also very happy, so I am asking for a monthly ticket.
(End of chapter)