Most of the Mad Lord, including its existence and its power, were formless, and the massive distorted structures in the universe were merely a phenomenon caused by it, and the tidal wave of minions was merely its projection in the real world under specific conditions, and the attack that the Petrachelys was facing … was something that slightly touched the Mad Lord itself.
But it was completely unobservable, at least not with the naked eye.
The ship was being attacked every second, and the violent fluctuations of the shield system was the best proof of that. While there was no physical contact, all sensors were sending out signals of damage or approaching threats, and the bizarre phenomenon was perplexing. But in Hao Ren's vision, he could see another scene in space.
A viscous, dark "substance" filled the space structures, like clouds intertwining with each other. That was the ultimate nothingness, and all normal, rational, and orderly information in the universe would quickly disintegrate upon contact with it. Matter would be reduced to elementary particles, elementary particles would be reduced to quantum fluctuations, and quantum fluctuations would be reduced to meaningless clusters of information. The unfathomable viscous darkness was actually the Mad Lord itself.
It was the "information expression" that accompanied the birth of the universe, and represented the death of all things.
As the ship passed between them, it was inevitable that it would come into contact with them, and as an orderly body, the starship would inevitably be destroyed by these unnecessary things.
Hao Ren knocked on the control panel. "How's the shield?"
"The recharging speed can keep up, don't worry," Nolan's voice sounded full of confidence. "This ship can even fly in the void, this Chaos is nothing."
"I remember the first time I fought the Mad Lord," Rheia said. "That was … tens of millions of years ago, right? In the heat of the moment, I led an army and charged in, not understanding the meaning of the conflict of order, and did not know how to sort out the chaos here. The first team was almost wiped out, and I had to learn how to survive in this environment on the battlefield, and then reorganize the rest of the soldiers. I fought in the heart of the darkness for hundreds of years, and in the end, I found out that this thing had no physical form … That moment was truly depressing. "
"And then you found a way to give it a 'physical core'," Vivian said with a faint smile. "What a deep obsession."
"Yes … deep obsession …" Rheia sighed softly. "Perhaps this is some sort of obsession, but it is not just my own obsession. It belongs to all life, to every living and dead life, and to the entire world."
She looked up at the images sent back by the external monitors, and it was as if she was talking to herself, but also to Hao Ren and Vivian. "There was a time when I questioned the meaning of all this, and wondered if the struggle of all life in the universe was worth it. The world is not eternal, and I have discovered this a long time ago. Even the seemingly everlasting universe has a lifespan, and all the stars will die, and even time itself will dissolve. In the face of such an ultimate and equal destruction, most of the lights of civilization are not even worth mentioning …
"Whether it's the King's Knight who has a long history on the planet, or the interstellar empire that dominates the galaxy, none can stop the death of the universe. When it comes, everyone is equal, and the Mad Lord … may be the way this universe welcomes its death, the natural, normal process of this world. Compared to the fate of the universe, the Pastoral Age that I have created may be an anomaly. Life and Order, as well as the stubbornness of not wanting to face death, were the complete opposite of the fate of this universe that would eventually perish …
"But now, I have thought it through, the questions that I have questioned and pondered … are meaningless.
"All life is born of order, and belongs to order. We live in this world, and we may have to face birth, aging, sickness, and death, but that is also a part of order. This universe may have its own predetermined fate, and all life will die one day, but that is not an excuse to stop in the face of chaos …
"Because resistance and survival are also part of the natural process of the universe."
Hao Ren listened quietly as the ship passed through dark spatial rifts and weird nebula structures. The starlight in the distance had completely disappeared, and the influence of the Mad Lord had seeped through the ship's shields and armor, and into the ship's internal space. But under the protection of divine power, his mind was abnormally clear, and completely unaffected.
In front of the Overwatch Bastion, the minions of chaos drowned an echelon of droids, and the guardian fleet that held the line of defense was quickly forced to retreat due to the heavy damage to their flank. The backup droids immediately rushed out of the base and barely reclaimed the airspace that was occupied by the minions of chaos, but the entire defense line was once again compressed.
Several blinding beams of light burst out from the Overwatch Bastion, forming a torrent of energy in space. The absolute destructive power of the Annihilation Lance had finally curbed the speed of the minions' proliferation, but at the cost of a control tower near the Annihilation Lance array being reduced to ashes in a series of explosions.
"The third escape tower is gone!" A guardian commander exclaimed. "All Annihilation Lances are on forced cooldown!"
Salaman connected to the frontline fleet. "Brothers and sisters, the Annihilation Lance array needs an hour to fire again. The defense line is all on you … Don't forget the lives behind us!"
"For Mother, for all life!!"
…
Billions of light-years away, in the barren wilderness of the Ansu Continent, Collow.
A ball of golden flame flew from the side and smashed a twisted piece of meat into pieces. The smelly flesh scattered all over the ground, and some of it landed on Veronica's arm.
Veronica pulled her sword out from the corpse of a monster, and the monster turned into black smoke. She looked up and nodded to the Einherjar Spirit that was glowing in golden light not far away. The latter's support had allowed her to escape a fatal ambush.
The battlefield princess of Taros was back in her military uniform. Her lavender hair was stained with blood. It was red blood, human blood, but she did not have time to care which brave soldier it came from.
After two years of peace, Collow was once again at war, and the enemy was still the same old foe — the monsters from Chaos and nightmares.
There was nothing wrong with that. Veronica shook off the blood and rotten flesh on her sword. Collow was once a prison, and everyone in this world was a jailer. Fighting against those evil monsters was the innate instinct of every Collow citizen. Lockmarton may have been destroyed, but if the source of Chaos wanted to start a new war, then so be it.
Even without the warning of the goddess and the notice of the "heroic spirits", the prophets and scholars of Collow could smell the imminent return of the Chaos. As early as a few months ago, the humans of this world were ready for the challenge, and the oracle of the goddess only made everyone more aware of the ins and outs of the war.
"Your Highness, the monsters here have been taken care of!" A personal knight came up to Veronica. His breastplate was covered in blood. "News from the Shadowy Jungle. There is a new infiltration point over there!"
The source of Chaos in the center of the universe had broken free and was launching a counterattack against the world of Order. The goddess and her allies were fighting the monster in the deepest part of the stars, and the monster's presence had bypassed the defense line, trying to corrupt the mortal world behind the goddess, and use the flesh and souls of the mortal world as its source of power.
So there were large and small contaminated areas called "infiltration points" in Collow. In the contaminated areas, the familiar monsters that were once banished from this land had returned.
But the people of Collow were not afraid of them.
The people of Collow had been dealing with these monsters for countless years.
Veronica nodded to the knight. "The barbarians of the Sacred Wolf tribe are in charge there. We don't have to worry."
"Those … barbarians?" The knight had a slightly strange look in his eyes. He could not help but look into the distance. "I can't believe they actually formed a country …"
At the end of the knight's sight, there was a team with a very different style from the troops of the human kingdom. It was another group of people sent by the Sacred Wolf tribe. They were a coalition of various beasts and demi-human races. They wore tattered and lacked uniform armor, and they had a variety of weapons in their hands. Now that they had won the battle, these barbarians were cheering and celebrating around a huge flag. On the flag was a majestic white wolf.
That was the totem of the Sacred Wolf tribe, and the symbol of its supreme leader, the alpha.
As far as Veronica knew, there was only one supreme ruler in the tribal kingdom of the Sacred Wolf, and that was the alpha who led the Beast Tide through the Chaos and established the civilization. The alpha would never abdicate, and a tribal representative group called the Circle of Beasts would rule the kingdom on behalf of the alpha when he was away from the Beast Tide.
Until today, many kingdoms in Collow could not believe that a group of beasts and demi-human races had really formed a country. But the neighboring kingdom of the Kingdom of Beasts, the Kingdom of Taros had established communication with this new country a year ago. On the one hand, they had seen the wisdom and rationality of these beasts and demi-humans. On the other hand, they were quite familiar with the alpha.
Scholars in the Kingdom of Taros believed that it was probably because of the divinity of the alpha that the Beast Tide led by the alpha had evolved in the process of crossing the Chaos. Compared to their distant relatives in the forest and the wilderness, the beasts were smarter, more rational, and more able to control their primitive bestiality.
Therefore, there was a kingdom built by beasts in Collow.
"They are also intelligent creatures," Veronica shook her head. "In the face of the Chaos, all intelligent creatures are natural allies."
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