Constantine pushed open the door to the Forgotten Bar. The bar was located in a pocket universe. It had a portal to almost any major city in the world, so Magicians were happy to come here for a drink when they had nothing to do and exchange information about the magic world. Shadow Pact's captain, Master Darknight, the leader of Dimensional Magic, was the boss here.
Constantine was, as usual, an unwelcome guest.
"You still dare to come here …" The bartender of the bar, a furry primate who was in fact a highly intelligent gorilla detective who could speak, was wiping glasses by the bar counter. When he saw Constantine enter, he exclaimed in surprise, "Did the Constantine Banishing Curse behind the door lose its effect?"
"No wonder I stepped on dog poop when I walked in!" Constantine did not mind at all. He had an unruly temperament.
"Give me a bottle of cheap whiskey! Bobo … "
The orangutan detective's temper was actually quite good. It was known as the Sherlock Holmes of animals. It had a strong sense of justice, and at the same time, it also had a very high IQ. It could be said that it had all the elements of the DC universe's great villain. IQ, blackness, and the golden body of immunity — it was an animal. There were many animal protectionists in the Justice League, and they treated animals much better than humans.
However, it was precisely because Detective Xin Gorilla was a hero with a sense of justice that he did not get along with Zha Kang. Zha Kang only got along with those heroes who had a unique sense of humor and were close to the gray area. They were also commonly known as dark heroes and anti-heroes.
"Can you afford it? If you can, just hand it to the counter. It's a magic counter. Once you pay, it will automatically fill your glass … "The gorilla detective replied.
Constantine smiled shamelessly. "Can't you buy me a drink? Bobo? "
"You wouldn't come here if you don't have something important … Constantine!" The owner of the bar, Master Darknight, spoke. "If you have something important to do, I can buy you a drink. If not, you'll have to pay!"
"Wait for two weeks … I'll have money for you." Constantine continued to smoke his cigarette.
"I'm here to get some information. You all know that I've spent more time with the guys in the Justice League than most magicians. I've heard some news from Zakang recently. I'm very sure that there's some sort of hidden threat, some sort of undercurrent, surging in the world of magic. "Constantine was spouting nonsense again.
He was half-bluffing and half-seriously asking Grandmaster Midnight, "Have you sensed the source of magic?"
Grandmaster Dark Night came before Constantine and solemnly said, "What do you know … Don't try to fool me with some groundless evidence. If you know something, you should honestly tell me."
The gorilla detective said, "I think being honest has nothing to do with him!"
Constantine said, "The Justice Alliance has found the origin of Lightning Speed, and they've also found the origin of the emotional spectrum power used by the Green Lantern Corps. Unexpectedly, there's a vague shadow of a person behind these two origins … You know who I'm talking about …"
The gorilla detective said with dissatisfaction, "Don't try to fool us with this kind of gossip …" Master Darknight was silent!
Grandmaster Darknight signaled for the gorilla master to stop attacking Constantine. He looked at Constantine and said seriously, "You want to ask about the prophet?"
Grandmaster Darknight did not care about Constantine's answer. He turned around and explained as if he was talking to himself, "You know, our world is made up of a bunch of madmen, madmen, and … magicians. It's different from the world of the Justice League. Their world has good and bad people, fighting criminals and madmen, and accomplishing the feat of saving the world. It's black and white. Our world, on the other hand, is in the shadows. It's even weirder and more chaotic. "
"This allows us to discover the dark secrets in the shadows before the Justice League."
"And among these secrets, the most terrifying and the one that defies common sense are the prophets!"
"In the eyes of most magicians, the Three Prophets are a secret society that appeared after World War II. It's a group of magicians with the highest level of prophecy. That's why they respect the Three Prophets, but not fear them."
"But I'm different. Most magicians, elemental guardians, higher dimensional beings, and embodiments of laws are different. We revere them, and even … fear them. The Three Prophets are a group of monsters. Before the Eternal Council was established, the first batch of witchcraft users in this world had yet to be called gods. "
"Even before the birth of Heaven and Hell, they were already the most feared existences in this world."
"Magicians who made deals with demons learned from them that they fear the prophets, so they fear them. Magicians who use the power of Heaven get the same answer from Heaven. And those ancient witchcraft users who are now called 'gods', Zeus, Odin, and Poseidon, as well as the magicians of the Eternal Council, Nabu, and Shazan, gained the fear of the prophets from magic …"
"Based on my conjecture, let's make a bold hypothesis — there was no magic in this world in the beginning. It was the prophets who created magic. Whether it's from Heaven, Hell, elves, or witchcraft, they're all seeds of fire sprinkled by the prophets. And the first magician was Prometheus, the Stealer of Fire. "
"This doesn't mean anything," Constantine said. "Not all prophets … right?"
Master Darknight said vaguely, "We don't know who the supreme existence who planned all of this is. We only know the origin of magic. This world was originally chaotic, and it was the prophets who set the rules of chaos. They discovered this world from chaos and fixed order. "
"And before that, in the midst of chaos, everything was possible and would happen. There was magic at all times. Turning back time, shaping life, controlling souls, and distorting matter. Everything was possible in chaos, so everything that could be called magic existed. But these magic had no meaning. Chaos without order is chaos. "
"So it can be called the era of chaos magic."
"Then, the prophets discovered everything in the midst of chaos. They fixed the rules of the chaos, stipulated light and darkness, heaven and earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars. They created order in the midst of chaos, gave everything a name, fixed them, and then operated order."
"This is the era of creation … a terrible blasphemous heresy myth."
"But only magicians know that it's true, at least part of it." Master Darknight recited the root of an ancient rune, and a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in his hand.
"Those who have not experienced that era will not understand. Constantine, when you learned magic, magic was already fixed. So, you just need to recite an incantation, perform some rituals, and magic is born. So, how did these incantations and rituals come about? What kind of power is behind them? "
"I know you have the demonic bloodline of Hell, so you think that magic is paid for by other 'existences'. We pay a 'price' to use it. But only those of us who participated in the creation of magic know … that magic itself is power. "
"Let me tell you how magicians are created!"
"The prophets create order from chaos, give names to everything, and then their names have power. We call out their names, calling out their power bound by order …"
Chen Ang was programming in front of the computer. He was continuing to create this world. He still had to continue developing the patch pack of lightning speed power that he had developed a few years ago. This universe was a virtual universe that he had participated in creating. No matter what kind of world it was, it determined that information could not exist purely without matter. So, the structure of this virtual universe was in the sea of consciousness of all living beings.
It was in the material universe, in the nerve cells of every carbon-based living being, in the storage units of silicon-based living beings …
Although all living beings in the universe had become an indescribable mixture of flesh and blood with nerve cells, even silicon-based living beings had become a chaotic combination of countless storage units and logic circuits.
"All the information of this universe is stored in the storage units. It is encrypted by the three prophets and operated by the internal logic given by the three prophets … Just like a whole system, it operates harmoniously. This law of operation was order. Information that can interfere with the operation of the entire system is called an order. "
"An order is composed of an operation code and an address code."
"An operation code is the serial number of an order, telling the system to execute a preset order. These orders are contained in the instruction set, written in advance by Chen Ang. The address code is more complicated, mainly including the source operand address, the destination operand address. In general, it is to retrieve the information stored at the bottom."
"When the operation code and the address code are combined, it is the basic magic language, or it can be called machine language. It is composed of Yin and Yang trigrams. Of course, it can also be changed to 0 or 1. The basic unit of information in this universe is the byte. A byte is composed of eight trigrams. The operation code and the address code take up a kilobyte. "
"The basic magic language, or the basic magic spell, is the language that directly communicates with the world. The ancient wizards used this language to create magic, such as the Fireball spell, which uses the information data of fire. The wizard needs to issue an order from the instruction set developed by Chen Ang, which includes the compound instructions of elements, shaping, and motion functions, and then use the address code to retrieve all the information about the fireball. "
"That is to say, you first need to compile a spell for the fireball, which contains all the information about the fireball, and then store it in the world's memory. Finally, you use the basic magic to design a spell and issue an order to the world, using the backdoor left by Chen Ang to create a fireball. But such magic has its limitations. "
"The basic magic language responds quickly, but carries very little information. It can use magic quickly and accurately, but it is difficult to operate complex magic. If it is just a simple elemental magic, the structure is simple, and the information involved is not much, so it is easy to compile a spell. But to achieve complex magic, such as damage return, time reversal, and consciousness distortion, it is too difficult to use the basic magic language to shape the spell. "
"So the wizards created the upper magic language on the basis of the basic magic language."
"The world of magic began to progress from machine language to C language, and then to more complex programming tools. Later, the information that could only handle a few kilobytes was increased to a terabyte, and all kinds of complex magic began to be created."
"Later … I tricked the other two prophets and created the world magic gear — Prophet Zero."
"Prophet Zero standardized the rules of all magic, and I wrote all kinds of basic protocols and world network interaction protocols, completely depriving all mages of the authority to communicate with the world. Now they only need to recite the spell, and Prophet Zero will respond. I deprived the mages of the programmers, so they can only be a fool operating a mage in front of a magic computer with a mouse."
"But I still retained some of the ancient wizards' authority to reward them for their contribution to the establishment of magic. Now they call themselves' gods. '"
"Some of the magic language written by the mages was integrated into the magic gear by me, so they have a part of the backdoor. This is the legendary ancient wizards. I was the one who turned the wizards from those 'hackers' who explored the world's basic code, created magic rules, and manipulated the world, into program users who only need to recite the spell and wait for the spell to take effect. "
"What a great merit!"
"In the process, some mages sensed my existence through the rules of magic, and sensed that there was a supreme authority behind magic. However, rather than saying that they were afraid of me, they would rather say that they were afraid of the authority of magic. They still can't detect the truth behind it. "
Chen Ang leisurely continued to patch the world with the special power, and at the same time wrote in the program's remarks: "One of the special power anchoring this world, magic, construction completed. Preparing for the 51st test of the next special power, Lightning Speed … "
"The power that mages have reached the origin … and I am the origin!" — Chief Designer of the Magic Gear, World Mysterious Architect Chen Ang
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
