The life of a lightseeker is destined to be turbulent and displaced.

In the Twilight Zone, where there is no eternal light to shine on, the Lightchasers must drive huge mobile world cities, chasing the trajectories of stars and moving, absorbing their light and heat, and in the entire nine heavens, there are very few stars that can be used by mobile cities, either because they are too close to the steel continent to turn everything into ashes, or because they are too far away from the continent to provide enough energy for the mobile city to move and maintain the inner world ecosystem.

Even if you are lucky enough to find a suitable star, due to the terrifying and changeable gravitational pull of the Steel Continent, these blazing suns will fall off the balance line and fall to the earth at any time because of its gravitational pull - and at that time, the mobile city must quickly change direction to avoid the area and avoid the destruction caused by the crash of the star.

Although the Continent of Steel will absorb all the kinetic energy that erupts when the star collides with the earth, and will not cause a huge earthquake that lasts for a few light hours, or even a few light days, and recondenses the gas from the collapse of the star into a new star, in any case, this means that the mobile city will lose its energy source, and they must set sail as soon as possible to the next star that can be used.

Chasing the light, chasing the stars, sometimes as long as a thousand years, sometimes only a few decades - the mobile city is a huge steel shell that runs on the continent forever, because of the stable operation of the stars, and because of the fall of the stars, and the light chasers are the worms hiding in this shell - for the vast majority of ordinary light chasers, just the gravity of the steel continent and all kinds of radiation and pollution from the outside world are enough to threaten their lives, if they are not in the city, they are protected by the artificial world barrier, Ordinary people without supernatural strength die in a matter of minutes.

So, even in the shining area, there is no such thing as 'stability'. Even because of the endless bright light brought by the dense star cluster, so that the beings in the shining area do not have to worry about energy problems, but more and denser stars also mean more 'star falls' - every year, there will be a certain mobile city unexpectedly encountering a 'star shower', destroyed by hundreds or even thousands of star clusters falling at the same time, and this natural disaster occurs almost every day in the shining area.

The stars rise and fall, the stars fall, on this continent of steel, endless things are turning, moving, there is no stability at all, and beyond the light, there are endless Chaos Clans from the ends of the world, they are afraid of the light, but they shuttle through the twilight—all those who seek the light, they yearn for stability, they yearn for eternal and peaceful light, and they do not have to be in the midst of migration and escape forever.

This may sound like a humble wish, but no one has ever solved a problem in 100,000 years, and countless people have devoted themselves to astralism and astronomy, or explored the distant places of the stars, trying to find out the laws of the stars, trying to solve the reasons behind all this turmoil, but until now, no one has ever found the answer.

Even, no one can guess how this world was born and how it was created. Based on the basic nature of the star's model, physics, and supernatural powers, the brightest scholars of the League of Nations have speculated on the possible birth of countless worlds, but none of them have ever given birth to such a strange and strange world as the 'Three Realms and Nine Heavens', and they can only reluctantly admit that there may really be a 'creator', a real 'god' in this world.

It's not the gods, the gods of the age of the gods, but the 'mighty' who can't even reach the 'Nine Heavens', neither the sword realm nor the axe realm, but they are also creatures who chase the light.

Therefore, all of them can only blame the Almighty Father, the Creator of the Endless Steel Continent and the Creator of all living beings, and call all this suffering a 'trial' - because they can find no other reason for this.

But now, Alpha Falst, an ordinary bachelor of astral science and a well-known explorer of the past, has discovered that he may now be on the path to the 'truth' - in this vast and lightless region, he sees the black giant star that is spinning in the middle of the world, and he also sees countless dazzling stars sinking into it, turning into a little fire, like a firewood to fuel a fire.

“…… Either way, I had no choice. They took my Alice, they took my daughter and my son. I lost everything, only the 'truth'. ”

The silver-haired middle-aged man smiled wryly, shook his head, turned around, and looked behind him.

Instead of looking at the advanced exploration ship left behind by Karlis, Alpha looked at the origin of the 'hill' under his feet, the ultimate goal of his trip.

He was looking at a 'high mountain'.

A mountain that is more than 400 million kilometers high, and it takes 24 minutes to walk just up and down, and it is incomparably huge, even much larger than many stars.

However, in this infinitely huge continent, even such a colossal mountain cannot be called the highest, and the 'Great Heavenly God Mountain' in the shining area, the sanctuary where the gods used to live, is as high as two lights, but even so, such a mountain peak and the continuous mountains around it are nothing more insignificant than the folds on human skin.

- And the Light Chasers live in such a huge world, they are small, and they struggle in this world.

At the very top of this mountain, at the top of the mountain, at the top of the mountain, which was completely beyond the reach of ordinary people, there was an extremely striking tip exposed—a sharp prismatic tip made entirely of silver, glowing crystal, and this tip shone like a star, releasing a little starlight.

Alpha stared at this light, he felt the blood veins in his body boiling, and an inexplicable feeling began to appear...... What does it feel like exactly? What's in your blood? Why does it that I have been living in the shining zone feel 'familiar' with the tip of a crystal on a high mountain in this distant lightless zone?

Could it be that I am really not as ordinary as I think? Is it because of this that Mr. Carlis chose to be his student, and what does the so-called 'son of the silver elf' mean?

Countless questions linger in the heart of a tired middle-aged man, but even though he has lost his wife, children, and everything he has fought for all his life in the shining area, he has not lost his courage and curiosity - he has not lost the blood and impulse in his heart, and the will to move towards 'truth'!

"Let's go."

With that, plucking up his courage, Alpha once again entered his exploration ship, and as the light of the Leap Engine started to glow, he began to head towards the top of the 'mountain'!

[--Alpha's Exploration Log——]

[In the dark and lifeless area of the Lightless Zone, I found something suspicious, a prismatic tip made entirely of crystal, crystal clear, emitting blue light.

It sits on top of an unnamed mountain and emits a bright, but devoid of any temperature, a cold glow that I had in place to insulate and in vain, but that's not a bad thing, because it allows me to leave the ship and get up close with the rest of the ship's AI to explore it. 】

[After several days of careful investigation, I can finally confirm in amazement that the crystal prism shining at the top of the mountain range is actually the top of a huge crystal obelisk! Its main body is buried under the mountains, and this mountain range - completely, completely! Made from the corpses of Chaos Monsters! With Heavenly Father above, it is hard to imagine that such a huge body of mountains is actually made up of endless corpses of Chaos monsters, and after a long time, these Chaos monsters have lost their strange and insane toxicity, and have become only a little pollution left behind, and this obelisk is buried in it.

I'm sure there is a way to enter this obelisk, and Mr. Karliss must have guided me here with a purpose, certainly not just to surprise me, and it would be really embarrassing for such a huge obelisk to dig it out if I had not let me go in but had been dug up...... And for some reason, I felt that there was something inside this obelisk that was attracting me. 】

[After a long search—in fact, only two and a half hours, I found a way to enter this obelisk.] The method is very simple, that is, without any protective equipment, enter the silver cold light, touch the crystal with my own hands, and it will naturally suck me in...... Seriously, if I didn't feel that the protective suit was too stuffy, just ready to breathe, I would never do this, with my strength just now at the golden intermediate level, I would have died without a place to bury if I encountered a little accident in the lightless belt, but when the cold light shone on me, I felt that I could not even breathe, it would naturally provide me with all the energy I needed to sustain my life.

There was no other choice anyway, so I got into it. The moment I was inhaled, I felt an extremely large force, far greater than the stars, sweeping my whole body up and down—far more powerful than the supernova explosion that my teacher and I observed decades ago, enough to wipe out thousands of moving world cities in an instant. Come to think of it, those Chaos Clans must have rashly touched this crystal obelisk, so they were wiped out by this, piled up for tens of thousands of years or even longer, and buried the entire obelisk in it. 】

[And I found that the light in this crystal was transforming my body—I gradually did not need to breathe, the feeling of hunger and thirst disappeared, I could feel that the energy around me began to gradually become intimate to me, but at the same time, my ears began to sharpen, my skin began to become a bit like metal, and the need for energy increased considerably...... This should have been the ability of the Golden High Rank, or even the Extreme Intention Rank Elementalization and Spiritual Transformation, was appearing in my body...... Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know, but when I woke up from my trance, I was in an unusually large crystal hall with many tiny caverns scattered around it.

In the center of the Crystal Hall, there is a staircase that is a little narrow for most Lightseekers, leading to the depths of the Obelisk - it seems that the obelisk was built by a creature smaller than the average Lightseeker, but the structure is far larger than many stars, and it must be said that it is a shocking miracle.

Without hesitation, I chose to continue deeper. 】

Stopping the pen and continuing the good habit that had been maintained for more than ten years, Alpha took a deep breath as he walked to the central staircase of the Crystal Hall and continued to go deeper.

At the beginning, the hall was semi-circular, with a radius of about fifteen kilometers, and with the improved eyesight, Alpha could see that the four walls of this crystal hall were full of many large and small hollows, and the wind came from them, which seemed to lead to other places. On the walls on both sides of the staircase in the center, there are countless incomparably complex runes inscribed, as well as many engravings with neat and beautiful handwriting, but it is not clear what language it is.

Alpha felt as if he could vaguely understand the meaning of the glyph, perhaps some kind of rare ancient language? There happens to be translation equipment on the exploration ship, so when the time comes, take these pictures back to the ship and try them out to see what exactly is being said.

After a long distance, the glyphs gradually disappeared, and layers of murals gradually appeared, and Alpha hurriedly took out the shooting equipment to record the layers of murals.

Unlike words, murals can be understood just by looking at them. It can be seen that this series of murals seems to tell the life of a 'priest', who was born into an ordinary peasant family, because he was attacked by a demon tide (Alpha felt like a chaos monster, but he didn't know any of the chaos monsters on the mural), the clergy's parents died, and he was adopted by the kind priest of the village to practice the transcendent way.

There were seven gods that the priest served, which was a rare occurrence because these seven gods formed an alliance of gods and shared the glory on an equal footing. The young priest devoted himself to his practice, traveling around the world's cities, helping the poor and needy, until middle age, when he was unknown, and his deeds were at best praised among some ordinary people. However, after the abdication of the previous pope, he took part in the discourse of the testimony of the gods and became pope after overcoming all his opponents in terms of knowledge and strength.

Very inspirational story - Alpha was still a little envious when he saw this, from ordinary people who had nothing to the Pope at the highest place in the whole world, this is not something that anyone can do, it takes great courage, great determination, great perseverance and great wisdom, and he himself, at most, has a little courage, determination and perseverance, not to mention wisdom.

The mural is not over, but the story continues—the priest has been trying to work for the good of all the people of the world since he became pope, he has fought a horde of giant lizard-like monsters, he has slain many chaos monsters, he has confronted other evil gods, and he has joined forces with the Seven and many other powerful people to seal black mist monsters many times larger than the stars.

The first half of his life was silent, the second half of his life was magnificent, and the priest ended up with a giant god standing on the galaxy, rushing into the eternal and endless dark chaos cluster that seemed to be a band of light.

"This is supposed to be the last remaining gods and their churches at the end of the Age of the Gods, when they fought against the chaos that swarmed from the Lightless Belt, right? What prehistoric mobile city experience is so legendary, but I've never heard of it? ”

Alpha had no doubts about the authenticity of the mural - who would be bored to build a huge monument to the stars just to deceive those who came after him? Compared to this, he was curious that the logic of this matter was a little unsmooth.

The gods and their popes...... Can you really build this monument of incomparably large spectacle with a height of 24 light minutes? If it were the gods, Alpha would have reluctantly believed it, but this mural is obviously just about a pope.

And...... Finally, the four-armed giant god who stood above the endless galaxy...... Who is he? He is not one of the seven gods, nor is he any mythical deity, and there are no rumors or descriptions of him that resemble him.

"Strange to say, have all the defenses inside this obelisk failed?"

Shaking his head, he put his doubts behind him for a moment - Alpha had recorded all the words and murals, and was ready to translate them with the help of the translation system when he returned to the exploration ship. Compared with these intellectual problems, what was even more strange to him was that along the way, he had clearly seen a lot of crystal sentry devices that were obviously used for defense, they were shining, and there was energy flowing in the translucent cannon body, but for some reason, these sentry cannons did not move when they found him, as if they had broken a glance.

However, as soon as the drone that Alpha brought into the obelisk was released, it disappeared in an instant, and was turned into ashes by an invisible beam of light...... This immediately frightened Alpha's legs weak, and he almost knelt down, you know, the drone is much harder than his head, and if it can burn the drone in an instant, it can also burn his head by the way.

Now advanced, it can wipe out the gold level in an instant, and hit the extreme intent - and this is not known if it is the ultimate miniature weapon equipment, not even in the League of Nations, or even in the mobile city ruins of the Age of the Gods!

What kind of building has such a high level of technology? On the Great Tenjin Mountain in the Shining Zone, the Grand Temple of the Constellation of All Gods is not as magnificent as this building, and although their decoration is luxurious, it is far less powerful than the sense of power. The strongest deity of the Age of the Gods, the Voyager of the Star Sea, the god of the sea of stars and exploration, his temple does not have the majesty of this ruin, not to mention that the deeds of a pope and a priest are only praised here.

"Do you mean...... This is the time before the age of the gods, when 'the beginning of the birth of all living beings'...... Relic? ”

Thinking of this possibility, Alpha couldn't help but shake his head, this silver-haired middle-aged man did not look dashing, but was very old and tired, but because of this, that serious expression seemed extraordinarily real, and he muttered: "Legend has it that 'Heavenly Father' created the Three Realms and Nine Heavens. He banished the primordial chaos in the darkness of nothingness and created endless stars, and in this first light, the gods were born from the stars. ”

"However, it is too difficult to expel chaos, even the 'Heavenly Father', after eliminating most of the chaos, is tired and can only sleep, He handed over the world to the management of the gods, and then turned into all things in the three realms and nine heavens - this prehistoric mythological era is the 'beginning of the birth of all living beings'."

Could it be ...... This relic is the creation of the ancient era that has been lost for 100,000 years? And what this mural is talking about is the first gods and their followers to fight against the Father against the primordial chaos?

But how is this possible!

"The 'Father' is nothing but a myth created by the Lightseekers to avoid despair...... He didn't exist at all, and there were no temples, no ruins...... Well, the one in front of me may be half of it, but it doesn't prove the existence of the Heavenly Father, I prefer to believe that this is the creation of seven powerful gods in prehistory......"

Almost, almost at the end of this staircase, Alpha was shooting, but the thoughts in his heart drifted to the endless distance, and he said to himself in a slightly bitter tone: "To put it bluntly, 'Heavenly Father' and 'Trial' are just fig leafs created by ancient scholars and scholars to explain those questions that do not make sense for the time being. It's like blaming God for something you don't understand—it doesn't matter if Heavenly Father exists or not. ”

"No, you are wrong, the existence of the Father is very important."

Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind Alpha. The voice was loud and serious, like a giant iron drum that had been beaten, and with this sound, a series of footsteps appeared behind the middle-aged man.

Alpha turned his head in shock—he had no idea when the voice and the footsteps were behind him, and as soon as he turned around, the man saw a white-haired man in a red and black coat like the embers of flames, standing on the stairs behind him, he was stepping down the stairs, and behind the man was a whole group of guards wearing the same 'ember suits'!

These people, all of them are members of the [Ashes Order]!

Facing the stunned Alpha, who didn't seem to have time to react at all, the one at the head was a white-haired old man who should be the top of the Ash Order, standing firmly on the steps - his body was muscular, his face was majestic, he walked with a dragon and a tiger, and his clothes were windy, except for the white hair and wrinkled face, no one could tell that his age had reached the age of aging.

"Alpha Falst, don't speak of Heavenly Father and God—even if He never performed His miracles, He is of great importance to our civilization."

Ignoring the actions of Alpha, who seemed to be dodging and seeming to retreat and find a chance to escape, the senior of the Ash Order looked around at the murals on both sides of the stairs, then turned his head to meet Alpha's gaze, and his tone was solemn: "I know that for you scholars, neither the Heavenly Father nor the gods are far less important than 'knowledge and truth', and you think that everything that actually exists in this steel continent is real compared to the ancient and vain glory - but have you ever thought that if you lose 'gods', lose' Heavenly Father, is it possible that we simply cannot develop the great civilization we have today? ”

"This ......"

Although Alpha was flustered on the surface, he was actually very calm in his heart - he understood many things in an instant, such as why the Ashes Order had taken his wife and children, but only warned himself not to come back and continue to investigate the truth, instead of arresting himself as well. They were trying to track themselves and find the location of this huge 'crystal obelisk'! The only thing he didn't quite understand was why the high-ranking member of the Ash Order in front of him didn't ask his guards to arrest him, but looked at him and talked about these 'rather strange' questions?

As for hatred...... A rational person will not casually show his anger in the face of a big disadvantage, after all, he is a bachelor, and he can't be so stupid.

And it seemed that he saw the disguise of Alpha and the hatred hidden under the other party's calm expression, the white-haired old man smiled slightly, and did not care. He started and continued on, past the alpha, to the end of the ladder behind him, and he continued to say in that solemn tone: "It is difficult for many people nowadays, especially the bachelors, to understand that in the early days of civilization, 'rational thinking' did not actually lead to progress. Do you understand? The rationality of that ancient age was not used to inquire into truth and knowledge, but to think about how to defeat wild beasts, how to find food, how to continue to survive, and how to live as long as possible. ”

"'Rational thinking' does not allow the ancients and modern scholars to explore the truth of the stars, the laws of the operation of all things—it is only used to summarize the knowledge that is actually used in life, such as farming, herding livestock, building houses, and making traps. On the contrary, it is the first 'sensual thinking', those earliest romances, fantasies, and primitive 'imaginations', which are the only things that will think about why the sun rises, why it sets, why the water flows downwards, not towards the heavens—in the ancient age of suffering, rational people do not waste their energy thinking about these meaningless questions for survival, only sensual and impulsive beings will make up all kinds of 'stories' for all these unknown phenomena, that is, the so-called ' In the same way, only the "gods and religions" need to explain to all living beings, to their own followers, the 'why' behind all these phenomena. ”

"Only this kind of irrational thinking can think about the story of the stars, and only the gods created by this primitive worship need to explain why fire can burn wood, why water can extinguish fire—why fanning wings and spraying flames can generate upward momentum and fly high into the sky, why the stars repeat the cycle of ups and downs, and why we suffer so much."

With that, the white-haired old man had come to an arch, which was the end of the stairs, and the guards of the Ash Order followed, completely ignoring Alpha, leaving him behind, seemingly not caring if he ran or stayed - and Alpha fought for a long time in his heart, and finally gritted his teeth and decided to follow.

The old man seemed to have known that he would make such a choice, and so, just like that, the group of the Alpha and the Ashes Order stepped through the arch and entered a vast and unsurpassed hall with no end in sight.

It can be seen that this hall is filled with a gentle silver light, but there is a colorful spectrum lingering at the top of this hall, there are countless ups and downs, fusion and splitting light bubbles appearing and disappearing in the highest place, and all these lights, all the light bubbles, all surround the center of this hall, hanging a crystal pillar.

And in this crystal pillar, there is a beautiful young man with long light blond hair, like a fetus, curled up and sleeping peacefully—the light of endless colors envelops its surroundings, showing a dreamy and misty holiness.

"God is the most romantic explanation of the truth behind all things in the world by intelligent beings! Because we were curious about the truth behind the flames, the god of fire appeared, because we worshipped the power of the sun, so the sun god was born, and we respected water as the most important component of life, so the god of water appeared on the throne - but all this is far inferior to the existence of the Father! ”

Looking up at the young man sleeping in this crystal pillar, staring at the 'life' conceived in this huge, colossal obelisk, the tone of the white-haired old man of the Ash Order began to gradually become excited: "Believing in countless gods is actually equivalent to not believing in any gods, and people's curiosity will be consumed by the false 'explanation' of the gods, after all, the gods do not represent the truth, they only hold power and exist as the final product of 'perceptual thinking'......"

"But the Father is different, unlike the God who was 'created' because of 'need', the Father created this world, but let us suffer, this kind of 'unwillingness' and even 'hatred', this kind of emotion that has nothing to do with faith and worship, so that countless people have to give an 'explanation' from religion, after all, even the God who can't explain the 'why' does not exist, and no one will believe in it."

"So, the first pioneers, in order to explain the reason why the Father created all things, in order to explain the laws of the movement of the stars, created the first mobile cities, they chased the trajectories of the stars, discovered the 'gravitational force', they dissected the sun, they broke down matter, and discovered the 'power of division and fusion' - but this is not the end, gravity cannot explain the existence of the continent of steel, and the power of division and fusion is not the most efficient way to use energy, at least the Father created the world, It is impossible to use this method to obtain energy, so above that, there is a higher truth! ”

"The Father's presence and faith are important. Civilization must have a target, and in constant doubt, in constant debate, it can progress. Rational thinking must step on the bones of sensuality and spiral up little by little through the method of 'negating imagination', otherwise, it will never be able to get out of the fence of reason, and will only live for the sake of living like a wise worm. ”

"Heavenly Father is the only and supreme Creator, the creator of God, and He is naturally eternally right, but where is He right? Some people set the target and start explaining how Heavenly Father created the world, and then another group of people will retort and point out that the other is incorrect, and the wisdom of humanity that is dazed and overwhelmed will progress with the 'struggle'. ”

"It is precisely because of this that in the endless struggle, one law after another, one code after another, and the world in our cognition is getting closer and closer to the truth - because of this, society is gradually progressing, and the productive forces are gradually developed, so that you, the rational bachelors, can not think about 'how to live', but raise your head and use that wisdom to look up at the sky."

“…… I don't deny that your theory does have some interest, but ......"

Hearing this, Alpha frowned, his heart suppressed hatred, and he wanted to angrily reprimand the other party for his nonsense, but not to mention that the other party was powerful, and everyone's strength was higher than him, even if it was just for the safety of his wife and children, he couldn't be impulsive. So, after thinking about it, after thinking that the situation couldn't be worse, he couldn't help but ask out loud: "But this old gentleman, what does all this you say have to do with this ruin where we are now?" What does this have to do with your Ash Order kidnapping my wife and children, banishing me from the Shining Zone, and following me here? ”

"A big deal. And you don't have to call me old man, I'm the Grand Inquisitor of the Ashes Order, Gloen Danis, and you don't have to pretend to call me 'Damn Stinky Old Man' or 'Vicious Kidnapper'. ”

Grand Inquisitor Glone turned his head, and instead of staring at the light-haired boy sleeping in the light, he met the silver-haired middle-aged man again. He narrowed his eyes and said in a solemn tone: "The Grand Master of the City of Knowledge, Alpha Falst, I say this mainly to tell you that the Light Chaser, and even any intelligent creature, can never be a purely rational being, they must be impulsive, emotional, and will make 'wrong' choices other than 'right' for romance, impulsiveness, and even various reasons—and these mistakes are the ladder of our progress, so don't be 'been' Heavenly Father does not have the habitual scholarly thinking bondage of ' and only then can you understand the true truth. ”

"What's more, the 'Heavenly Father' does exist—compared to the speed of light, the laws of physics, and all the so-called 'truths' that can be changed, this alone is the 'truth' that can never be shaken! And whether it's you or me, or your teachers and bosses who have disappeared, they are all here for Him. ”