The void is endless, it is everything and everything beyond everything, the unity of the known and the unknowable, the collection of everything and everything beyond everything, everything that can be described, that cannot be described, that can be explained, that cannot be explained The orderly, the disordered, all are included in the void, and the dark tide surges in this boundless domain. Every time the tide ebbs and flows, countless worlds are born, and countless worlds are annihilated. Whether it is the Dream Plane, the Surface World, or any other universe, they are actually just bubbles in the void.
However, it is these bubbles that give birth to endless and splendid landscapes—those soulless, spiritual, ignorant, wise, countless natural phenomena and intelligent races have shaped each bubble. There is a vast world, and every line of scenery in this vast world moves the gods.
It was the first time Lia saw such a scene.
For a long time, she has been trapped in the small universe she was born in. All she can see is the horizon that can be described by the limits of mathematics. Even if she uses divine power to sense, she can only vaguely sense the edge of the universe. As well as the weak information fluctuations outside the margin, she relied on calculations and reasoning to draw the conclusion that there are new worlds beyond the universe, but today is the first time she has seen with her own eyes those that only existed in mathematical formulas and theoretical models in the past. scenery.
Numerous nebulae, kingdoms, and universes stretched out on the water under her feet, and some of them gradually became clear, and the fate of these worlds also came into her mind. She saw the fate of these worlds as if she had witnessed it with her own eyes. History and the future, although the distance between these worlds and her has reached a scale that cannot be described by mathematics, everything seems to be experienced personally.
And the voice of that "mother" sounded directly in her mind:
"This place is called the Great Nebula. Ten thousand years ago it was also called the 'Galaxy of War'. The entire universe is almost a battlefield, and more than three digit civilizations live here. They are all mortals, and their opponents are A group of gods who have gone mad...
"This is Heisenwood-Redmoon. There are more than a dozen intelligent races living on this binary star system. Their civilization level has not even broken through the space bottleneck, but they have to face a source of disaster that is enough to trigger the end of the world— Before the protoss paid attention to this world, they had persisted for a thousand years.
"This planet has been destroyed. I have personally guarded here for tens of millions of years. My body is the seal, and this planet covers me, like a tomb. There is a human civilization multiplying on the tomb. Get up, but after the seal was broken, this civilization disappeared in an instant—but the survivors built a shelter on a nearby planet, and now 10,000 years have passed, and they are about to launch the deep space spacecraft to the boundary of the universe. The disaster that broke out on this planet has been completely ignored by them."
Leah opened her mouth slightly: "There are so many... so many worlds, so many disasters..."
"The void is boundless, and the number of worlds is endless, but for many mortals who can only live on a small planet for a lifetime, such a vast world is actually not very meaningful. The world they live in is their entire world. The world, and in the face of disasters in this world, they will burst out with unimaginable survival power—because to them, that is everything to them.
"So I want to correct your sentence, my blood, you are indeed protecting them, but you are not just a protector, because protector is a word that is too high, which means unilateral overlooking and charity, And mortals—they are stronger and more powerful than you imagine, even if there are no gods, they will protect their homeland and inheritance, even stronger than you. So it is more accurate to say that you are not protecting mortals, but Join mortals in protecting their world.
"You feel that you have the responsibility and obligation to protect mortals, which is good, because the sense of responsibility has always been a good quality of gods, but don't use this sense of responsibility to cover the efforts of mortals themselves, it will blind your sight, and blindness often It’s the first step on the wrong path.”
Liya felt that she understood something, she nodded, her eyes moved slowly on the water under her feet, each universe was dying under her gaze, gradually, the picture on the water changed again, and the voice in her mind Also continues to ring:
"Now I'm going to teach you the second thing, about the parts that we can't save. You've seen the worlds struggling to regenerate after the end, but in fact, it's more of these... the ones that didn't make it through , there is not even a little residue left, only a world of number plates left in the archives of extinct civilizations."
The light and shadows that emerged on the water were changing rapidly, and pieces of starry sky passed by quickly. Liya saw the ruins, debris, and ruins. There are the remains of celestial bodies floating in the universe, there are also jagged steel ruins on the earth, and there are also huge starships that are torn apart floating alone in the sea of clouds of the gas giant planets. Those starships may mean a failed escape.
Time is passing, eroding steel and tombstones, cities and ships are gradually weathered into dust, but there are no survivors, and there are no descendants of civilization to rebuild these things.
There are more and more such pictures, and the end of each group of pictures is turned into darkness, a black cross mark is their last comment, and there is only one cold word under the mark: canceled.
In the end, Leah saw a huge cylindrical space that seemed to be floating in chaos. This space was boundless. In the cylindrical area, there were countless neat grid-shaped crystal lattices floating, and countless blurry figures were moving. Shuttle through this space endlessly, storing certain things into each square. Under some inexplicable induction, her sight suddenly turned to a certain direction, and the square at the end of her sight became clear in her eyes.
She saw some words floating in front of the grid:
"Dream Plane-Tanagus, Civilization Status: Extinct, Filer: Hao Ren"
Leah opened her mouth: "... I remember this name..."
"Although they have been destroyed, the creatures living in these worlds have also resolutely resisted. Fortunately, they can still leave a few words of records or a few bloodlines that have been cut off, but most of them only have one serial number. The doomsday is happening every minute and every second in the endless void. Even if the gods fight desperately and all the living beings in the world resist to the death, the numbered 'tombstones' left in this archive will still increase day by day. Then , do you think our efforts are still meaningful under the premise that these worlds are doomed to be destroyed?"
Of course it made sense, Leah wanted to say, but she couldn't help thinking about the negative thought she had in the first place.
"You are hesitating, because you have already realized the crux of the matter," the tall figure condensed out of thin air again, and she looked into Liya's eyes quietly, "Maybe we are destined to be unable to save everything, maybe sacrifice is inevitable, but Our battles have never been a transaction with clear benefits—mortals resist because they don’t want to perish, we fight because we don’t want to see them perish, this motivation is enough, as for the result…does that make sense?”
Leah clenched her fist silently, and said softly, "I think I understand."
"No, you haven't fully understood," the dark Valkyrie interrupted her, "because what I've told you so far are some bright truths, and big truths are of course useful, but the motivation they generate is very weak. limited, next I want to tell you something more practical than truth—
"We fought, bloodshed and sacrificed to kill a certain enemy. In addition to some great reasons, the more important reason was-unhappy."
Leah: "...Huh?"
"We want to protect something, but someone is trying to do the opposite, trying to destroy what we protect, so we will be unhappy, very, very very upset, this kind of discomfort is the first motivation for us to decide to kill the opponent, no matter in In any case, as long as this discomfort persists, there is absolutely no reason for us to stop. We either smash the opponent into scum, or push the opponent to the ground and let him call his ancestor willingly, otherwise, never stop!
"A qualified god will fight endlessly after identifying his enemy. We will face our enemy from the front, destroy him with all our strength, crush him, smash him into ashes, and cut him into pieces. If he escapes, Then chase him to the end of the void, if he defends, then smash his defense, if he resurrects ten thousand times, then kill him ten thousand and one times, if he dares to open branches and leaves, let If your own evil minions are spreading everywhere, then cut off every trace of his power, wipe out each of his minions, dig them out from multiple dimensions, dig them out from different timelines, and dig them out from the background radiation of the universe Dig it out until he regrets being born in this world—and that's the kind of violence necessary for justice."
Leah's eyes slowly brightened.
"My blood, tell me now, does that guy called Lord of Crazy make you very upset?"
"Very upset!"
"Would you be pleasing to your enemies because your career was frustrated and your achievements were destroyed?"
"Absolutely not!"
"So, are you willing to fight for your slaughtered people, to crush your enemies to ashes?"
"Very happy!"
"Very well, it seems that you are ready for justice," the Dark Valkyrie smiled and looked at Leah approvingly, "Now turn to the first page of the textbook, the first lesson, about the origin of gods and definitions—the full text will focus on the key points and will be tested at the end of the semester.”
Leah: "..."
In another world far away, in the office of another god, Hao Ren looked at the goddess in front of him suspiciously: "Do you think that what the Dark Valkyrie left in the textbook will really work?"
"It will definitely work," Raven 12345 waved his hand, "Anyway, if your mother doesn't know what to do, then even if you really swing the meteor hammer, it will be of no use. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about the dark field." …”