The silence only lasted for a short time before it was broken by Joshua himself.
Under the white light of the information hall, the soldier exhaled and shook his head: "Forget it, no matter what they are doing, there must always be the war faction and the peace faction."
If there are no contradictions and conflicts between each other's ideas, we are not human beings.
Saying this to himself, he suddenly stood up. Joshua looked around the entire information hall. He looked at the dense information storage devices and smiled: "Everyone's ideas cannot be the same. It's a waste of my energy to struggle with this kind of thing."
"… Eh?"
And No. 3, who was staying behind Joshua and was thinking hard about how to comfort Joshua, blinked and was stunned for a moment. After a while, she stuttered and said: "Wait... wait, Qiao Xiu. Ya, didn't you look very, very... very angry just now?"
Confused and overwhelmed? No. 3 has been holding back this sentence, unable to say it, because these two words have nothing to do with the current calm, steady, and seemingly not decadent Joshua. The artificial intelligence girl even doubted whether her observation system was Something was wrong so that she, an AI, could see hallucinations.
"Angry? Of course I'm angry. These people haven't even seen the true face of the evil god. They just fought against the black mist mother body. They actually start thinking of a way to retreat so early - I know they are cautious and think of defeat before they win. But I am the only one among them who has seen the evil god, and I don’t even want to run away, why are they so nervous?”
In response, Joshua waved his hand, and a silver light wheel appeared behind him. Many translucent crystal fragments flew out of the light wheel. A large number of data light points flowed in the fragments, connecting the entire world like No. 3. In the storage of the information hall, the soldier helped No. 3 transfer data while walking leisurely in the hall: "But that's it. If I have to say it, I am not angry because of their caution, but simply feel accurate."
"Unhappy?" No. 3 instinctively repeated the sentence, with a strong tone of disbelief.
"I'm unhappy. I'm unhappy. Why don't they believe that I can't achieve the realm of a sage?"
At this point, Joshua curled his lips and snorted: "I can achieve the legendary realm from silver in a few years, and it takes ten years to reach a level comparable to a god. At this time, there are at least two years left before the evil god invades." More than ten years, even decades.”
"By that time, I will definitely be stronger than the Black Mist Mother Body, and even stronger than the average evil god. If I'm lucky, it's not impossible to find a chance to become a sage - look, aren't you telling me about the 'weakened evil god'? News? This is a very valuable clue. If I really find a trace of the realm of a sage, it will be difficult to say what will happen in the future."
"the most important is."
Having said this, Joshua turned his head and patted the head of No. 3, who had been following him and was in a daze. The soldier smiled and said: "I have seen a lot and have faced the true face of the evil god." How can a warrior who is chatting and laughing with the gods need your comfort?"
"I have saved the world and destroyed the world. I have helped a galactic civilization defeat the void monster that devours the stars. I have put a world that was distorted in time back on track. My destiny can only be changed when I get up early and do push-ups. It's just an invasion by evil gods. It's not my character to rush and shout 'It's over' right now."
During the conversation, the countless data flows flowing in the translucent crystal that Joshua spread out suddenly stopped. The soldier noticed this and said easily: "Okay, the data transmission in this hall is completed, you can go to the next one."
"What?!"
At this time, No. 3's expression became even more incredible. She scanned the information database in shock, and then discovered that Joshua had indeed transferred all the data in the entire information hall within a few minutes. No. 3 looked at The progress bar of '100% transmission completed' was displayed, and he murmured: "My transmission speed is one hundred and forty-four times that of the average Jiyi-level mage. How could it be..."
"Everyone is an artificial intelligence, but one is conceived by parents, and the other is created by engineers and researchers. In my opinion, you are just an ordinary human being like me."
At this time, Joshua was already walking towards the exit of the hall. He waved to No. 3 behind him: "I still have some things to do over at Winter Castle, so I won't accompany you for the time being... But if there is anything else, it's concerning. You can inform me of any information from the sages at any time.”
"Okay, okay."
No. 3 nodded subconsciously, and then watched Joshua's figure leave the hall. After a long pause, she suddenly reacted in confusion: "Wait, who is a human?!"
And outside the hall.
Joshua's originally smiling expression quickly turned calm and indifferent.
"Sage."
He stretched out his right hand, stared into the palm of his hand, and whispered this word and this name in a low voice, as if he was chewing on the endless meaning contained in these two simple words.
"The evil god."
He clenched his fists, raised his eyes, and said this nickname in an indifferent tone, not knowing what kind of emotions were surging in his heart.
In the end, all the emotions were condensed into two words with no emotion at all.
"interesting."
After he finished speaking, his figure disappeared, and a space crack appeared in the space outside the large information library almost at the same moment. It appeared quickly, and then closed quickly, as if it was just an illusion.
…
"The speed of human evolution has slowed down."
Moldavia, Winterfort College, end-of-year lecture for the graduating class.
In the trapezoidal hall, there are nearly a hundred students sitting at the front, and behind them, hundreds of other lower-grade students are also sitting, looking seriously at the original stage, now the center of the podium.
A middle-aged mage calmly bore the gaze of all the students. Under the light, he used magic amplification to send his voice into the ears of everyone present without a trace of nervousness or hesitation.
"As we all know, humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, dwarfs, and even the extinct centaurs and orcs all have the same blood origin as us in a sense. In the primitive barbaric period tens of millions of years ago, most The ancient human race has not yet differentiated. At that time, there were many alien races in the world, and there were many environments that had not been explored. Our ancestors lived in the warm plain environment and did not move for millions of years. One step over."
Nostradamus and Israel sat at the top of the hall. They calmed down and watched the middle-aged mage speak calmly. No students or instructors noticed that the two top leaders of the empire were at this moment. Right behind them. But at this moment, a figure appeared and sat beside Israel without hesitation, causing both of them to look sideways.
Joshua made a 'quiet, look carefully' gesture to the two of them, and then stopped talking - this immediately stopped Nostradamus and Israel from asking questions, and temporarily put aside questioning Joshua. Ya had no idea what to do before, but turned his head and continued to listen to the speech that had been planned for a long time.
"But an abnormal climate change, which now seems to be the prelude to the first Ice Age, forced our ancient and primitive ancestors to begin to migrate away from their homeland. During the long migration process of hundreds of thousands of years, some Human beings went to the humid south full of jungles, some went to the dry west full of mountains, and some chose to stay where they were... It can be said that there were as many choices as there were human tribes at that time, and our ancestors were the first This time it began to spread around the world."
"Those who went to the south became today's elves. Those who entered the mountains were the ancestors of the dwarves. Those who stayed behind were the oldest cold zone barbarian races. Halflings and dwarfs all moved into the narrow and warm underground. The tunnels were created, and the lucky ones who migrated to the plains that are as warm as before are the ancestors of ordinary humans like you and me.”
"The form of life will evolve due to the environment. This is a fact that we can observe in countless experiments and practices - the shark lizards in the north are all ice-based, but almost all of them in the south have the power of the dual elements of water and earth. , fire dragons live around volcanoes, and thunder dragons have always lived on mountain tops in rainy areas, this is no coincidence."
The middle-aged mage on the stage is a Xishan native. His voice is magnetic and rich, with a slight Xishan accent, but everyone present does not care, because he has already mastered the profound knowledge in the past few years. His academic skills conquered all the students, so he was able to get this opportunity to speak on stage: "While we are transforming the world, the world will also transform us. Life constantly adapts to different environments and becomes stronger from generation to generation - data shows, Eight hundred years ago, the average adult strength of human beings was only comparable to the Black Iron level. But now, in Moldavia alone, our sixteen-year-old boy has the average strength of the Black Iron intermediate level, and this level is growing at an incredible rate. The speed increases.”
"But this is all just an illusion." Suddenly, the mage who gave the speech said categorically: "This is not an illusion that our life form is rising - it is just an illusion caused by simple nutrition, everyone has meat to eat, and everyone can practice cultivation."
"The speed at which life adapts to the environment can no longer keep up with the speed at which life transforms the environment."
"Our evolution has actually come to a standstill."
These few words immediately caused a low commotion in the entire hall. Although these scattered conversations and exclamations were calmed down by the instructors present, it could be seen that all the students had obvious expressions in their eyes. of surprise and confusion.
The instructor on the stage is still speaking.
“With the advancement of technology, with the popularization of spiritual practices, and with the penetration of extraordinary power into our group—including all civilized life forms such as elves, dwarves, and halflings, etc., among all the Mycroft intelligent beings, we Our bodies have no need to adapt to the environment. We have clothes and houses that can keep warm, there are practices that can withstand the severe cold of minus one hundred degrees, and we have magic and fighting spirit that can enter and exit the void. Thousands of years ago, in the last era, Life no longer needs to passively adapt to the environment, and the progress of our ancestors’ wisdom is enough to replace the adaptive evolution of our bodies.”
His voice was so loud that even the three legendary strongmen at the back of the hall could hear it clearly. Israel's expression was calm, Nostradamus's expression was uncertain, and Joshua smiled and nodded.
"Our wisdom makes us unique. Pan-human civilization has become the overlord of the entire continent. Since then, except for civil war, our race has no challenge. Because of this, our evolution has completely stagnated, or in other words, has become very Slow and can no longer keep up with us.”
The mage who gave the speech was very engaged. It was obvious that this was the deepest thought in his heart. He looked around at the hundreds of students and instructors in the entire hall and shouted loudly: "Now, our civilization is about to enter the void - any race can not Relying on cultivation methods and not relying on magic equipment, can you directly enter the void with your body?!"
"No! Not even dragons! Except for the ancient dragons and giant void beasts that only exist in legends, no life can survive in the void with the physical body! We humans have the ability to enter and exit the void, but we do not have the physical body to match it. , this is the glory of our wisdom, but it does not mean that we should accept this weakness! It is time to change, our wisdom should not accept this fragile carrier calmly, natural evolution takes tens of millions of years to achieve a major progress , but that was something from the ancient barbaric era, now, we should take the initiative to change it!"
"It took our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years to go from eating hair and drinking blood to learning how to light fire and cook food. It took them hundreds of thousands of years to develop from scattered communities to the tribal era. It took them hundreds of thousands of years to play with stone tools and use them. It took tens of thousands of years to build large houses. They just learned how to forge metal 8,000 years ago, and then reached the peak of civilization 1,300 years ago! The rate of progress of civilization is simply not what natural evolution can keep up with. Well, the physical fitness of some primitive tribes in some remote islands in the far south is not even as good as our twelve-year-old boys. Natural evolution has lost its meaning. It is impossible for us to adapt to the void and adapt to the world of this multiverse by relying on mutation. Infinite world!"
"Only through wisdom, magic, fighting spirit, through our wisdom and transforming our bodies, can 'human beings' and 'intelligent life' adapt to this era of void and adapt to this vast and boundless multiverse. This is me."
Having said this, the speech mage pointed at himself, then stretched out his hand, and clicked his fingers on all the students present at different grades: "It's you too."
"This is the direction that all of us, and the entire civilization, should strive for in the future."
The lecturer on the stage was still saying some final words, and the students on the stage were applauding wildly. The noisy applause could be heard echoing throughout the hall, but it didn't matter anymore, because at the end of the hall, several legendary strong men A muted quarrel was going on among them.
"Joshua!"
Nostradamus said angrily in a low voice: "Is this your plan? You want to publicize the rationality and legitimacy of 'human body modification' within Winterfort Academy, and then use these students as a starting point to promote your plan to the outside world. Those theories?!”
As he said that, the old mage thought of the densely packed 'human perfect prototype experimental bodies' in the fourth practice room of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site that made his hair stand on end, as well as those incredible void monsters that should only appear in nightmares. He couldn't help but let out a breath: "You really plan to transform the entire human race... You are not kidding."
"I never make jokes, only a few bad jokes at most. Nostradamus, you should have discovered this at least eight years ago."
Joshua didn't pay attention to the old mage's question. He calmly looked at the lecture instructor, whose face was flushed and excitedly waving to the cheering students. He whispered: "Humanity today is still stagnant at least a hundred years." Our wisdom stagnated the evolution of the primitive species thousands of years ago, so our wisdom should once again improve it. This is the first step for our civilization to become a true void civilization."
"Who do you think you are? A god or a sage? Are you sure that the transformations you want to make are really suitable for humans?"
Nostradamus rubbed his temples. He had calmed down and said seriously: "Although today's human beings are indeed fragile, they are at least stable - our civilization and our society all exist based on this fragile body. If One day, everyone will suddenly be able to fly, then our architectural style and society will change drastically, and what you have to do now is not just to let humans fly, but to make humans become extraordinary."
"This kind of change is enough to cause our society and civilization to encounter great turmoil. People will no longer be human. The most important thing is that you are not sure whether this transformation is safe! Even so, you still have to do it! "
"Otherwise." Joshua replied coldly: "How would you know whether it is suitable or not without transformation? Do you think that fighting spirit practice and magic practice are not transformations? Then what are legendary powerhouses like you and me? Lich transformation, elemental transformation Transformation, soul transformation, a mage of rune culture, a warrior stronger than a dragon, faster than a bird, and able to physically enter and exit the void. Isn't this a special and non-universal transformation?"
"I just want this kind of transformation to be popularized by everyone. It's really weird that you can't understand me. I don't intend to force the transformation, but to subtly let our civilization adapt to this behavior and let them take the initiative. To transform yourself.”
"What's more, I am a human being." As he spoke, Joshua pointed at himself, and then at Nostradamus and Israel: "So are you. Even we are all human beings. Why didn’t it change after they reformed it?”
Nostradamus seemed to be planning to refute, but Israel, who was between the two of them, made helpless gestures to signal the two of them to stop talking: "Okay, what's the fuss about this little thing? Teacher, you are He felt that this kind of transformation would cause social turmoil and even induce the collapse of "human self-identity". Mr. Radcliffe was thinking about the future. What he said was indeed right. Our civilization is entering the boundless void. The fragile body is indeed a hindrance."
"You have already quarreled over the issue of evil gods before. Why bother to quarrel again? This kind of issue is not..." At this point, His Majesty the Emperor pondered for a moment, and then sighed: "Okay, we can decide this matter."
"I know, Master Nostradamus, you don't completely reject my idea."
At this moment, Joshua spoke again. He turned his head and looked at the old mage with a headache expression on his face. The soldier said calmly: "It's just that you feel that such a big matter needs careful consideration and decades of time. Make plans and then implement them with great stability - only then can the entire civilization be pushed into that new era smoothly and without chaos."
"But we have run out of time - we have all begun to think about whether to turn people into souls and store them in the coordination circle and take them away. So what does it mean to transform humans?"
The soldier whispered: "If you don't try, you will never have a chance. Resistance and attack are like this - and so am I."
After speaking, Joshua stood up and left the hall, leaving only Nostradamus and Israel sitting in their seats.
"… Ha ha."
After confirming that Joshua's life response had completely disappeared in the fluctuations of time and space, Nostradamus, who had originally looked depressed and dull, changed his expression and laughed softly. He exhaled, and he didn't know whether it was relief or pleasure. Said: "He finally has the idea of 'wanting to become stronger'."
On the side, Israel's avatar also nodded slightly, and he sighed: "I didn't expect that it was us who played this role."
Nostradamus closed his eyes and said in a tired voice: "Joshua... He is the person in the entire Mycroft world, including the data from the Era of Glory, who advances the fastest and is closest to a sage. … I said this a few years ago, but I have to say it again.”
"If we say who is most likely to achieve the 'realm of a sage', then there is no third person in the whole world except him and Eagle. And Eagle is already an old man. He has excellent talent, but his structure has been limited to In terms of Mycroft's civilization, only he, Joshua, can surpass him. Only someone like him, who has wandered around the multiverse at a young age and has traveled through many worlds, has a chance."
"But this guy only has the belief in 'challenging powerful enemies' in his mind, but has no determination to 'become stronger' - for him, strength is just a ticket to challenge. No matter how much he says, it is just a Tools, his talent is really good, he can become stronger quickly even if he doesn't care, which makes him have a weak concept in this aspect."
Israel nodded in agreement: "And now, he wants to become stronger. For the first time, he doesn't think 'one day I want to challenge the saints', but 'I want to achieve the realm of saints as soon as possible'. Although it seems to be the same , after all, how can you challenge a sage without the realm of a sage? But the most important thing for the former is to 'find a sage', while for the latter it is to 'become as strong as a sage'... This can be regarded as turning his idea around."
"etc."
Suddenly, Nostradamus frowned: "Do you think Joshua has discovered our purpose?"
"Never mind him."
Israel shook his head indifferently: "So what if he finds out? This is his own idea, and we are just providing an opportunity - this is not a lie. After all, if he cannot achieve the realm of a saint, we will never It is impossible to lead a group of ignorant feudal subjects who have not yet developed their wisdom to fight against the evil god."
"It's just like Joshua said - if you don't try, you'll never get another chance."
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