Custodian? "Roland pricked up his brows and said," Is it to supervise every civilization's inevitable demise? "
"I knew you would ask that … but there's no other way." The entity stood up from the throne and raised its right hand, causing a ball of light to appear in its hand. Following that, the ball of light began to unravel layer by layer, revealing its complicated internal structure until Roland recognized what it was —
Even though he had expected it, his heart still skipped a beat when he saw the scene in front of him.
Floating in the entity's hand was the world they were in.
He saw the Land of Dawn, the Fertile Plains, as well as the Kingdom of Graycastle. Beyond this continent, there was the Blackstone region and the Sky-sea Realm — but that wasn't the main point. The main point was that the entire world was enveloped in a honeycomb-like shell, like a barrier that isolated the planet from the outside world.
And beneath the continent and the sea, there was an extremely complicated core. It was not spherical like the Earth's core due to the pressure, but an irregular geometric body. The protruding part of the "Sea Line" happened to be on the edge of a cube. He could even see the bottom of the Maelstrom Sea connected to the Sky-sea Realm, and the path was like a Klein bottle.
Without a doubt, the reason why this world was so disharmonious was because it wasn't naturally formed.
The artificial planet that he saw in the second scene was the real world today.
The clouds, the sun, the moon, and the celestial bodies that people observed were all projections created by the barrier.
And in the real outer space, all Roland saw was dead silence.
"You are 'that pair of eyes'." In an instant, he suddenly understood many problems.
The god sighed softly. "I do not know what information you have obtained, but it doesn't matter. Time is a unit that can be long or short here. I will satisfy your curiosity, and then … destroy you."
"As expected of the words a Custodian would say. It's just like how students don't need to attend classes or pharmaceutical companies don't produce drugs." Roland calmly spread out his hands. Regardless, he now represented humanity, or rather, all living beings in the real world. Even if the other party was a god, he could not admit defeat. "What I want to ask the most is, why is there a Battle of Divine Will? What do you want? "
"I thought you would start with a small problem. Fine. " It retracted the ball of light in its hand and raised one hand. Soon, countless "screens" appeared behind it, and together, they formed an eye-catching wall in this white and flawless space.
Roland discovered that the contents displayed on the screen were … all kinds of life forms.
"Project Gateway was a success. It was almost the same as the calculation. With the cooperation of many civilizations, this universe was finally torn apart by gravity, and an extremely tiny crack appeared." "However, Project Gateway was also a failure. The influx of energy from another domain destroyed the vast majority of intelligent life, including the creator of Project Gateway."
Is this the scene at the end of the third act?
Roland recalled that extremely sad feeling again, as if he was connected to all the civilizations that had participated in the plan at that moment.
"That's right. This energy is what you call 'magic power'."
"It is neither light nor heat; it is neither a particle nor a wave. To put it simply, it comes from a space that has completely different rules from the universe we are in. Physics and mathematics are meaningless in the face of such energy. Almost instantly, its influence changed the entire world."
"What … is on the other side of the crack?" Roland could not help but ask.
"An accurate description does not exist because no one has yet crossed that distorted membrane. However, according to analysis, there are basically two possibilities. One is the universe that envelopes our universe. This is also the easiest inference to understand." At this point, the voice of the other party became ethereal and ethereal. "A new singularity can be born inside the universe and explode to form a new universe, producing a completely independent set of rules and constants. Therefore, even if our world originates from the universe outside the membrane, it does not mean that life or matter can pass through it unimpeded.
"The second possibility is the 'gap zone' between the multiverse. You can think of it as a pot of thick soup, and we are the rising bubbles. It appears, expands, fuses, breaks … Of course, the truth is much more complicated, but that is already beyond the scope of your understanding. "
"Alright … let's get back to magic power." The corner of Roland's mouth twitched. "You previously said that it had destroyed most life forms, but now it has become the norm in the real world. Isn't this contradictory?"
If humans were the chosen ones of the universe, that would be too unbelievable.
"Magic power has a very unique set of rules. One of them is that it can be changed by consciousness, and at the same time, it can change the possessor of that consciousness."
Roland was taken aback. "What?"
"The first batch of life forms that were changed were the participants of Project Gateway. Their structures were distorted and recombined, and after thousands of years of evolution, they finally became special crystal-like objects, which are the magic stones you use," God said calmly. "I survived because I was not a lifeform, but I similarly suffered extremely heavy injuries. I spent tens of thousands of years to recover. It was also from then on that gravity was no longer the most revered force in this world. "
Upon hearing this answer, he was momentarily at a loss for words.
However, Roland wasn't surprised that the Custodian wasn't considered a lifeform. Project Gateway was a vast project that spanned hundreds of billions of galaxies and involved 170,000 civilizations. To walk on the correct path over such a long period of time, it was impossible for the coordinator to be a single lifeform or race.
It had only appeared because of this project.
"Following that, the 'Cradle' was created. It was a world constructed using magic power, but the energy intensity was limited to a certain extent. I filtered out lifeforms from the incomplete database and began to nurture them again, allowing these species to be reborn under the new rules. As competition can greatly increase the evolution speed of a race, the Cradle would deliberately choose species with similar habitats for symbiosis. However, the calculations soon discovered that this process would take an inestimable amount of time. Limited resources also restricted its free growth, so external interference became a last resort. "
"… Legacy shards," Roland said in a deep voice.
"That was only a part of it." The other party nodded. "As for what I wanted to obtain in the end, it wasn't actually that complicated. The creator of Project Gateway, which is also the civilization that created me, did not only want the universe to 'live.' It never planned on stopping its advance, even at the moment of its destruction. Opening the rift was only the first step. Its true goal was to see a domain that no one had ever set foot in before. "
"It entrusted this mission to me, and my final mission was to create a civilization that could adapt to the rules of the two worlds." It paused for a moment. "And this competition and evolution is what you call the Battle of Divine Will."
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