"Discord Continent: Advent", "Discord Continent: Glory", "Discord Continent: Dragon Calamity", "Discord Continent: Far Frontier", "Discord Continent: God Descent", "Discord Continent: Ember".

Earth Federation's super popular fantasy game, the [Continent of Discord] series has occupied one of the top ten of the popularity list of all submersible games since it began to open the whole galaxy at the same time nine years ago, and has reached the top several times, with excellent production, perfect values, interlocking plot chains and huge world views, the continent of discord has 180 million registered users since the third version of [Dragon Calamity], 40 million resident players and nearly 9 million die-hard players who log in for at least four hours every day, and then with the change of versions, some players left, With more players joining, that number continues to double as before, with millions of players exploring adventures in a war-torn world all the time.

In the era when Joshua once lived, the world was the same, the material was extremely rich, human beings began to colonize space, and almost all low-difficulty manual labor was replaced by intelligent machinery, and the vast majority of human beings except for four hours a day, the extra time could only rely on various entertainment or extracurricular learning to pass, in this context, including games, live broadcasts, music, variety shows, religion and other industries began to flourish, and [Continent of Discord] can be said to be one of the best.

In addition to the super-first-class production, extremely detailed, as if a real-world background is also part of its appeal, in the game, no plot and important items are isolated, they are interconnected and interconnected, a nameless iron sword may be the saber of a sword master hundreds of years ago, and can lead to a huge chain of tasks, and a seemingly ordinary murder case may involve the blasphemous cult sacrifice behind it, the player plays a character to adventure in this world, which means a succession of surprises, You can choose to travel around the continent and witness the customs, or you can become a soldier and go through the battlefield, and anyone can find the way they want to play.

Generally speaking, this kind of game with a huge world view, there are hundreds of copywriters and professional designers to improve the filling of the setting, and even this may not be enough, in fact, for the vast majority of large-scale approximate games, every time the version is changed, when the new world plot unfolds, it means that part of the original setting is overturned, that is, what players commonly call eating books, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the industry, and even everyone is used to this, because people's abilities have limits, It is almost impossible to weave a perfectly self-consistent worldview from beginning to end, and even if it can, it will take a long time to scrutinize, and the gains outweigh the losses.

But the continent of strife is different. Advent, Glory, Dragon Calamity, Far Frontier, Divine Descent, and Ember, the six version changes not only did not destroy the original setting, but expanded the world view again and again, and the transition was like flowing water, without the slightest stagnation, as if it were a real world.

In fact, if it is just this, it is not surprising, after all, as long as you are willing to put in the cost and time, any first-class company can push the quality to this point, but what really shocked the industry and even the entire federation is that it is only 'one person' who designed all these plot settings and many vivid characters.

Alone.

Is this possible? No one dares to believe this kind of thing, even the most arrogant person does not dare to say that he can independently design and improve all the worldviews and background settings of a game like [Continent of Discord], not to mention that the gentleman who does not want to be named has also arranged corresponding relationships for tens of thousands of characters and forces, plots and task chains, this kind of workload is calculated in T alone in the text, and it is impossible for a person to complete even if he confesses all his life to this, this is an 'impossible task'. To this end, Federal News Channel 1 even produced a program to interview the designer, who did not want to be named.

Joshua had forgotten a lot about the content of the interview at that time, after all, most of the time during the period was boring saliva, and the mysterious designer did not reveal the slightest bit of news about how he was fighting the continent of the game, but there was only one passage, which he remembered very well, which was a conversation that appeared at the beginning of the interview.

"Construction, design? No...... How dare I say that, it's not so much that I designed the [Continent of Discord], but that 'it' poured into my mind-" The mysterious designer who used the avatar to be interviewed in the online world muttered with a wry smile: "Even if it is too far-fetched to say that it is inspiration, I feel that I am just a simple retelling, yes, 'retelling' a world, it will work naturally, and then it will come naturally, that's all." ”

"He probably wasn't lying."

More than a decade later, the warrior who was no longer far from his former homeland closed his eyes in the stargazing fortress in the void, and Joshua's ears still echoed what Israel had said to him a few seconds earlier.

The Abyss Seal, the Earth Beneath, the Starfall Era, the Shelter a thousand years ago - these news that were blocked by the Dalemond royal family and many legendary powerhouses had actually been seized by those enthusiastic Examiner Party players in their previous lives, and if it weren't for the Abyss Invasion, they might have found out the truth behind it long ago, anyway, the two are so similar that it is impossible to be curious.

Joshua has long guessed the truth behind all this, he has been living in the current Mycrof continent for a long time, and he can be sure that this is the real world, for the warrior, all this is not so much that he came to the world of the game, but that the information of the game in the previous life came from the former world of Mycrof.

There is a connection between the world and the world. The knowledge of the sages in the Azure Orb tells a lot of mysteries about the initial fire, existence, and the world, and in the multiverse, countless stars are releasing their 'ripples' to the outside world, and the endless ripples stir each other, giving birth to the chaotic void turbulence, which blocks the connection between most worlds, but also makes some worlds more connected.

Projections, links, twins, differentiation – and more often other messaging, such as one world where an ancestor accidentally creates magic, and another world where a sage suddenly understands the power of magic, and raccoons in Australia learn to wash their food with water, and other raccoon tribes on the other side of the world learn the same skills. This connection cannot be explained by logic, it originates from a more primordial place, from the resonance of existence.

Joshua doesn't usually think about these things, because he has more important things to care about than these things, but now, the warrior seems to understand some of the reason why he is here, but as he continues to think about it, he finds that the reason is not tenable. Soon, Joshua swept away the scattered thoughts in his mind, he knew that caring about what had happened in the past could not change the present and the future, and the only thing worthy of his attention now was the secrets that Israel Delmond was about to tell him, the deepest truths about this world.

"Say, Your Majesty the Emperor." "I'm listening," he said. ”

"Here, in the void, you can't understand." Israel looked away from the Mycrof continent below him, and he looked up at Joshua, "You don't seem surprised at all - but yes, it's you, after all." What's more, you still have the inheritance of sages. ”

"Don't worry, although the Void Stargazing Station is a distant fortress for the Empire to observe the outside world, it is also an intermediary place connecting the Fairy Township and the place where you and I are going." As Israel spoke, powerful energy fluctuations began to overflow from the walls of the hidden conference room in this stargazing room, and the powerful energy made His Majesty's dark golden hair fly, and also made the corners of Joshua's clothes fly, the two glanced at each other, Israel nodded, and then looked overhead: "Queen, start teleporting." ”

"Listen to you." A slightly cheerful female voice rang out from all around, and Joshua felt a familiar aura that he had felt in the Elven Country not long ago, belonging to one of the fairy queens.

In the next moment, with the powerful traction force, a door glowing with inky black light opened in the middle of the conference hall, and a faint light that could not be explained in words shone on Israel's body, causing the figure of this legendary powerhouse to disappear in an instant, Joshua let the same light shine on his body, he felt a power of time and space with an ancient aura enveloping his body, as if to lead him to a distant and deep space, different from the previous teleportation, This time, it doesn't seem that the fighters need to actively enter, they just need to be passively towed.

But here, the problem arises.

"Crackle—"

After completely enveloping Joshua's whole body, the dim light that wanted to teleport him away like a teleportation of Israel suddenly flickered for a moment, and then turned into scattered light and sand in the sky to dissipate, Joshua had already closed his eyes, but at this time he opened his eyes in confusion, and the unknown fairy queen raised her voice in surprise: "Huh, hey, hey, How can it be?! The realm circle opened with my power can't even teleport you away?! It's impossible, Israel and that old man mage not long ago can teleport together, and your energy level can't exceed the two of them! ”

Shocked and muttered to herself, Joshua could even imagine that the fairy queen was in a hurry, but then, the queen seemed to have found the key, and she asked cautiously, "May I ask this ...... It's called Joshua, right? How much does it weigh? ”

"—probably, more than 100,000 tons."

Due to the recent battle with the demon Lord Helm, Joshua was a little unsure of how much quality he had been evaporated by the opponent's stunt, but in the last few days of rest and recovery, he had recovered a little with the resources in the Great Ajax Mountains, so 100,000 tons must be there, after all, no matter what, his body is a real body of steel.

“…… You'd better go in by yourself......"

After being silent for a long time, the Fairy Queen said in an inexplicable tone, "No wonder the magic circle shows a void beast hundreds of meters high...... I can't send you there. ”

When Joshua himself took the initiative to contact the inky space-time door and disappeared into the teleportation, a faint voice came from nowhere: "It turns out to be the type of person who wears clothes and looks thin......"

Not knowing that he had been judged strangely by a certain fairy queen, at the end of the teleportation, Joshua opened his eyes and looked around, and he found himself in a strange space.

The red light, the scorching heat, the rumbling roar, and the ubiquitous magma rushing around the surrounding space, Joshua only took a fraction of a second to understand where he was, he raised a hand, shattered a thick arc of energy that had just jumped from his side, and then turned his head to look at Israel who was on his side: "Deep in the heart of the earth? ”

"Yes." Not caring why Joshua arrived later than him, His Majesty the Emperor nodded: "A special space that stretches around the center of the earth—to be precise, the node of the seal. ”

After a brief exchange with Israel, Joshua continued to observe the situation around him. This is undoubtedly the periphery of the earth's core, the viscous lava at the bottom of the mantle is flowing at a crazy speed unimaginable to ordinary people under the action of high temperature and high pressure, just like a river rushing down from the snow-capped mountains, here, the coke will be compressed into diamonds, and the pure gold will lose its form, except for the legendary powerhouse, even the existence of the extreme will be difficult to survive here, but in such a harsh environment, there is a huge spherical blank space, although there are thousands of meters of energy arcs in it from time to time, But it's enough to prove its magic.

Israel stood in the center of the space filled with crimson magma light, he raised his left hand, there was a simple gray bracelet on his wrist that was flickering, one after another runes containing infinite mysteries were lighting up one by one along the arc of the bracelet, Joshua just saw these runes, and subconsciously knew their pronunciation and meaning, the existence of this powerful ancient language itself is beyond logic, representing existence, it is a divine word that circulates among the gods.

All the runes lit up, Israel clenched his left fist, the gray bracelet came out of his wrist, and then automatically suspended in mid-air, the ancient lines on it were coming out of it one by one, spreading in all directions of the space, and the chaotic energy arcs that were originally scattered throughout the space were guided by these runes and turned into straight lines, and within a few seconds, a huge three-dimensional matrix circle filled the entire blank space, and the powerful sealing pressure came out of it, Even Joshua frowned vigilantly.

"What is this, Israel?"

"It's a legacy from the Ancients."

In the face of the warrior's inquiry, His Majesty the Emperor lowered his head and stared at the center of the earth that was not far away, hidden by countless golden-red magma. He said in a low, calm, completely emotionless tone: "The resonance begins. ”

As soon as the words fell, it seemed to resonate, and suddenly there were three almost identical huge magic circles lit up in the distance, they were also around the center of the earth, but the distance was so far away, it seemed to be separated by half a continent, this total of four huge sealing circles occupied all directions, as if the entire center of the earth was surrounded, and there was a stream of magical light between them that spanned tens of millions of kilometers, which would be connected to each other, and the huge runes flashed with divine brilliance, completely sealing the center of the earth.

"Four shelters, four seals, after three hundred years of loss, countless remnants have come out of the closed shelters, and they are facing their homeland that has completely turned into another world, and the crazy impact of demonic beasts."

Watching the end of all the changes, Israel said softly, not only talking to himself, but also to Joshua: "After a hundred years of fighting, the four major human settlements have appeared on the earth one by one, and the belief in the seven gods of the human race has also spread unconsciously, when my ancestor, the ancestor of the Dalmond family, who almost unified the entire northern gathering area, met the fairy queen and the god of justice who descended into the mortal world, and he supported my ancestors to establish the largest kingdom on earth, but correspondingly, my family also has to take responsibility. ”

"Is this sealing circle in the depths of the earth's heart?" Joshua naturally knew what Israel was talking about, and he frowned and asked, "What exactly is the seal?" Wait......" Joshua suddenly remembered something: "Yes...... The sages used the corpse of the Rich Evil God as the foundation to reshape the Microf Continent, right?! ”

"It's not that, how could a sage leave that kind of hidden danger? But it's not far off, and for humans, it's even worse. ”

With a soft laugh, Israel raised his head and looked around at the empty space that still had a place in the depths of the earth's heart and remained undestroyed for a thousand years, as if he was relieved that he was finally able to confide this heavy secret to outsiders: "Behold, Joshua. ”

His Majesty the Emperor stretched out his hand and pointed to the condensed heart that was exuding high temperatures, and the countless ancient runes that loomed around it: "This is the seal left by the gods of the previous generation. ”

"It separates us from heaven and earth, and locks the will of the world firmly to the center of the earth - since that day many years ago, the star belonging to Microve fell, and it disappeared into the multiverse, until you re-lit it not long ago."

Joshua's pupils shrank slightly, and he finally understood what the doubts that had been lingering in his heart were! That's the will about the Microf world! He had communicated with Callis, talked to Ilgener, even in the extinct world of Grandia, the nascent world will had prayed to him for salvation, he was the king of the burning soul, the intermediary between the world and life, as long as he existed, he should not be unable to detect the steel python of the Microf continent!

Joshua hadn't thought about similar questions before, but a succession of events interrupted his deep thoughts, and the Mycrof continent was a dead world, and the warrior felt that maybe the will of this world might have died long ago - but Karlis proved with himself that the tenacity of the world's will surpassed any life's imagination, even its steel python, which was almost exhausted for a thousand years, could be rejuvenated by the injection of new flames, Then the world of Microf, which has all the flames of the world of Grandia, should never remain silent.

And it is also very strange that the gods of the previous generation have all fallen silent, the Father of Nature can survive for so long in such a difficult situation, why did the gods of the Glorious Age who were the victors all disappear, leaving only the gods who are clearly a new generation?

Until now, the mystery has probably been revealed.

"The gods of the previous generation sacrificed themselves...... Sealed the will of the world? Joshua struggled to digest this information, he shook his head, it was not that he didn't believe it, but he simply felt unbelievable: "Since it is not the evil god who corrodes and corrupts, then what other reason would make the gods and clans seal their mothers?" ”

The answer is simple. Actually, it was not necessary for Israel to answer, the warriors themselves had already thought of the answer.

If it weren't for this mother who took the lead, then why would the gods and the tribes that inhabit this earth bother to seal their will to inhabit the world?

"It is so, perhaps it is that he thinks that all calamities originate from human beings, that the very existence of life is the source of destruction, or that it knows that it is dead and therefore wants to fall into the abyss—there are thousands of reasons, but there is only one result, the mother of all things wants to erase everything from the earth and restart the ecological cycle."

Israel's tone returned to calm, and he said in an indifferent tone, "It loves the Black Forest and the magical beasts that were bred when we were still in the Vault more than us, except for the blood remnants of the Mother Earth Goddess in the last era, we are no longer regarded as our own children...... But I can't say anything, because the millions of people can't accept that the ground beneath their feet is actually their enemy. ”

"If one day, the seal is lifted, then we have only three choices, kill our mother, be killed by our mother, or leave this world."

"The outcast race...... Listening to Israel's somewhat helpless voice, for some reason, Joshua suddenly remembered the Astral Dragon. Whether it is a five-colored dragon or a metal dragon, they are all powerful races from other worlds, and their world has suffered a great disaster, so they have to escape, and the warrior suddenly said: "They also know this, otherwise they would not have launched a dragon plague so inexplicably, wantonly attacking the human elf alliance that is stronger than them." ”

It seems that this is the case, the existence of the will of the world, the whereabouts of the gods, the many ruins buried in the earth, and the origin of the Starfall Era, all the seemingly complex mysteries actually begin with a simple thing: the Mother of Creation does not love the child it once was, nothing more.

Although the lost 300 years of history have not been explained in any way, the rest of the questions have been answered unpleasantly.

"Yes, the five-colored dragon didn't know about it sometime. They want to compete with the abandoned us for the dominance of the world, and then try to become the dominant player in the world of Microf, and be completely accepted by it. ”

Israel showed a sarcastic expression: "It's a pity that they failed, so they can only flee to the abyss, but the metal dragon that has always been opposed has the right to continue to reproduce in this world, which is really funny." ”

After saying that, His Majesty the Emperor took a step in the direction of the center of the earth, the high-temperature and high-pressure environment seemed to be completely non-existent for him, and the clothes on his body did not seem to be in the ground with thousands of degrees of heat, without the slightest scorch marks, Israel said as he walked: "So I disdain those people who are flies and dogs, they don't know anything, this land has no value to conquer at all." ”

Israel continued to get closer to the center of the earth, and Joshua walked side by side with him, Israel did not stop, there was a fire in his eyes, hotter than the surrounding magma: "This land has cultivated our ancestors, and also you and me, this is our homeland, but in the end, it is not the destination of us and our descendants. ”

"Joshua, I look the other way for you."

Turning his head sharply, Israel and Joshua looked at each other, and he said bluntly, "I am the emperor, I need to govern this kingdom, and I need to be responsible for the present of my people before looking for the possibility of the future." I was bound to this land, wanting to go to the stars, but I couldn't break the bonds...... Unlike you, you have traveled through the Atlas several times and have accomplished your goal perfectly, you understand how to find a living world, and you understand what is the environment that we humans need. ”

"I see what you mean."

Joshua's eyes narrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but remember the message that Karliss had told him: there were many world wills that needed his help to eradicate the Seeds of Chaos that were parasitic in their bodies. Undoubtedly, this is a job that requires traveling between worlds, and it is not difficult to find a land for the future of the many races of the Mycrof continent. Thinking of this, the warrior couldn't help but shake his head, he felt as if everything was going according to a certain trend, just like the mysterious designer interviewed by the government in the Earth Federation said, as if everything worked naturally, and then it fell into place.

"I have to say, Israel, you are the emperor who is the least like an emperor I have ever seen." Having come to the top of the earth's center, feeling the scorching heat, Joshua suddenly laughed for some reason, and he said calmly: "What you think, what you pursue, is completely different from what I knew before, maybe this is the difference between the real and the unreal—I really admire." ”

"A person who is cold and timid never knows what success or failure is." Above the center of the earth, Israel, who didn't understand what Joshua was saying, laughed the same, closed his eyes, and then opened them again: "Those who dare not act will be laughed at by the heavens." ”

"And I am a warrior after all, and courage and victory are my credo."

"Even if the opponent is this world?"

"It's the same."