The silence lasted only a short time before it was broken by Joshua herself.

Under the white light of the information hall, the soldier exhaled, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, no matter what they do, there must always be the main battle faction and the main peace faction." ”

If there is no contradiction or conflict between each other's ideas, they are not considered human.

Saying this, he suddenly stood up. Joshua looked around the entire information hall, he looked at the dense information storage, and laughed: "Everyone's thoughts can't be the same, and it's a waste of effort for me to be entangled in this kind of thing." ”

“…… Huh? ”

And No. 3, who was originally staying behind Joshua and was thinking about how to comfort Joshua, blinked, was stunned for a moment, and after half a sound, she said with a stutter: "Wait...... Wait, Joshua, didn't you just look, very, very ...... Angry? ”

Lost and overwhelmed? No. 3 has been holding back this sentence for the rest of the day, because these two words have nothing to do with the current calm, calm, and seemingly non-decadent Joshua, and the artificial intelligence girl even wonders if there is something wrong with her observation system, so that she can see hallucinations even as an artificial intelligence.

"Angry? Of course I'm angry, this group of people hasn't even seen the true face of the evil god, they just fought with the Black Mist Mother, and they actually started to think of a way to retreat so early - I know they are cautious, and they think about defeat before victory, but I am the only one among them who has seen the evil god, I don't even want to run, why are they so nervous. ”

In this regard, Joshua waved his hand, and a silver light wheel appeared behind him, and many translucent crystal fragments flew out of the light wheel, and a large number of data light spots flowed in the fragments, like the storage of the entire information hall like No. 3, and the warrior helped No. 3 transfer the data while leisurely walking in the hall: "But that's all, if I have to say, I'm not angry because of their caution, but simply feel unhappy." ”

"Unhappy?" No. 3 instinctively repeated the sentence, and his tone was thick and incredible.

"It's not happy, it's not happy, why don't they believe that I can't achieve the realm of a sage?"

Speaking of this, the corners of Joshua's mouth twitched, and he snorted: "I can achieve the legendary realm from silver in a few years, and it will take ten years to reach the point comparable to a god, and at this time, there are at least twenty years, or even decades, before the invasion of evil gods." ”

"By that time, I'm definitely going to be stronger than the Black Mist Mother, or even stronger than the average evil god, and if I'm lucky, it's not impossible to find a chance to become a sage - lo and behold, didn't you tell me there was news about the 'Weakened Evil God'? This is a very valuable clue, if I really find a trace of the sage realm in it, then it is difficult to say everything in the future. ”

"The most important thing is."

Speaking of this, Joshua turned his head, he patted the head of No. 3, who had been following him in a daze at this time, and the warrior smiled: "I am a well-informed warrior who has faced the true face of the evil god and the afterimage of the sage, and talked and laughed with the gods, how can I need you to comfort me." ”

"I've saved the world, I've destroyed the world, I've helped a galaxy civilization defeat the star-devouring Void Monster, I've brought a world that even distorts time back on track, fate is just something I can rewrite when I get up early and do push-ups, the evil god has invaded, and it's not my character to rush to shout 'it's over' now."

During the conversation, the countless data streams circulating in the translucent crystals that Joshua had diffused out suddenly stopped, and the warrior noticed this and said easily, "Okay, the data transmission in this hall is complete, you can go to the next one." ”

"What?!"

At this time, No. 3's expression became even more incredible, she swept through the information library in shock, and then found that Joshua had indeed transferred all the data in the entire information hall within a few minutes, No. 3 looked at the progress bar that had displayed '100% transmission completed', and muttered: "My transmission speed is one hundred and forty-four times that of ordinary Extreme Meaning mages, how can it be ......?"

"Everyone is an artificial intelligence, but only one was conceived by parents, one was created by engineers and researchers, and in my opinion, you are just an ordinary human like me."

At this time, Joshua had already walked towards the exit of the hall, and he waved his hand to No. 3 behind him: "Over there in Winter Castle, I still have some things to do, so I won't accompany you for now...... But if there is any other information about the sages, please feel free to let me know. ”

"Okay, okay."

No. 3 nodded subconsciously, and then watched Joshua's figure leave the hall, and after a long pause, she suddenly reacted in frustration: "Wait, who is human?!" ”

And outside the halls.

Joshua's originally smiling expression quickly became calm and indifferent.

"Sage."

He stretched out his right hand, stared into his palm, and whispered the word, the name, as if chewing on the infinite meaning contained in these two simple words.

"Evil God."

He clenched his fists, raised his eyes, and said this pronoun in an indifferent tone, not knowing what kind of emotions were surging in his heart.

In the end, all emotions are condensed into two words that do not hear any emotions at all.

"Interesting."

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared, and he could see that a spatial crack appeared in the space outside the large database almost at the same moment, it appeared quickly, and then closed rapidly, as if it was just an illusion.

……

"The rate of evolution of mankind has been slowed down."

Moldavia, Wintercastle Academy, Graduation Year-End Lecture Speech.

In the trapezoidal hall, nearly 100 students sat at the front, and behind them, hundreds of other junior students were also seated, staring solemnly at the original stage, now in the center of the podium.

A middle-aged mage calmly accepted the gaze of all the students, and under the light, he used magic to amplify his voice, sending his voice into the ears of all present, without a trace of nervousness or hesitation.

"It's no secret that humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, and even extinct centaurs and orcs all have the same bloodline origins as us in a sense. Tens of millions of years ago, during the primitive wilderness, the oldest human races were not yet divided, and at that time, there were still many alien races in this world, with many unexplored environments, and our ancestors lived in the warm plains and did not move a single step for millions of years. ”

Nostradamus and Israel sat at the top of the hall, the two of them gathering their breath and watching the middle-aged mage speak with a calm face, and no student or mentor noticed that the two supreme leaders of the empire were behind them at this time. But just then, a figure appeared, sitting beside Israel without hesitation, attracting both of them to look sideways.

Joshua made a 'quiet, watching' gesture to the two of them, and then stopped talking—which immediately stopped Nostradamus and Israel from asking what they were doing, and instead turned their heads and continued to listen to the long-planned speech.

"But an unusual climate change, which now appears to be the prelude to the first ice age, forced our ancient and primitive ancestors to begin to migrate away from their homeland, and in the long process of hundreds of thousands of years, some humans went to the humid and jungled south, some went to the dry and mountainous west, and some humans chose to stay put...... It can be said that at that time, there were as many tribes as there were human beings, and for the first time, our ancestors began to spread throughout the world. ”

"Those who go to the south are transformed into today's elves, and those who enter the mountains are the ancestors of the dwarves, and those who remain in place are the oldest cold barbarian races, halflings and gnomes, all of whom were created by moving into the narrow and warm underground tunnels, and the lucky ones who migrated to the same warm plains as before are the ancestors of ordinary human beings like you and me."

"Life forms evolve according to the environment, which is a fact that we can observe in countless experiments and practices - the shark lizards in the north are all ice attributes, but almost all in the south have the power of the dual elements of water and earth, and it is no coincidence that the fire dragon lives around the volcano, and the brontosaurus has always lived on the mountain tops in rainy areas."

The middle-aged mage on the stage is a Xishan man, his voice is magnetic and rich, and he also has a bit of Xishan accent, but everyone present doesn't care, because he has already conquered all the students with his profound academic skills in the past few years, so he can get this opportunity to give a speech on stage: "When we transform the world, the world will also transform us, and life continues to adapt to different environments, and then generation after generation is stronger - data shows that the average adult strength of human beings eight hundred years ago was only comparable to the black iron level, And now, in Moldavia alone, our sixteen-year-old boy has the average strength of the middle rank of black iron, and this rank is rising at an unbelievable rate. ”

"But it's all just an illusion." Suddenly, the Venerable Master who gave the speech said categorically: "It's not that our life forms are on the rise—it's just the illusion that everyone is rich in nutrients, that everyone has meat to eat, and that everyone can practice. ”

"The speed at which life adapts to the environment can no longer keep up with the speed at which life transforms the environment."

"Our evolution, in fact, has long come to a standstill."

These few words immediately set off a low noise in the entire hall, and although these scattered conversations and exclamations were silenced by the instructors present, it could be seen that all the students had obvious surprise and confusion in their eyes.

The instructor on stage is still speaking.

"With the advancement of technology, with the popularization of spiritual practice, as the supernatural power penetrates deeper and deeper into our race—including all civilized beings such as elves, dwarves, halflings, etc., and all the intelligent lives of the Maicrof, our physical bodies have long since had to adapt to the environment. We have warm clothes and houses, we have cultivation methods that can resist the cold of minus 100 degrees, and we have magic and fighting energy that can enter and exit the void, as early as thousands of years ago, in the last era, life has no need to passively adapt to the environment, and the progress of our ancestors' wisdom is enough to replace the adaptation and evolution of our bodies. ”

His voice was so loud that even the three legendary powerhouses at the back of the hall could hear it clearly, Israel with a calm expression, Nostradamus with a cloudy expression, and Joshua with a smile and a nod.

"Our wisdom has made us unique, and the pan-human civilization has become the hegemon of the entire continent, and since then there has been no challenge to our race except for civil war. Because of this, our evolution has come to a complete standstill, or rather, has become so slow that we can no longer keep up with us. ”

The mage who gave the speech was very engaged, and it could be seen that this was the deepest thought in his heart, and he looked around the entire hall with hundreds of students and mentors, and shouted loudly: "Now, our civilization is about to enter the void - can any race directly enter the void with a physical body without relying on cultivation methods or magical equipment?!" ”

"Nope! Not even dragons! Except for the legendary Ancient Dragons and Void Behemoths, no life can survive in the Void with its physical body! We humans have the ability to enter and exit the void, but we don't have a physical body to match it, which is the glory of our wisdom, but it does not mean that we should accept this weakness! It's time to change, our wisdom should not accept this fragile carrier calmly, it takes thousands of years for natural evolution to achieve a big progress, but that was the ancient barbarian era, now, we should take the initiative to change! ”

"It took hundreds of thousands of years for the ancestors to go from drinking blood to learning to light a fire, it took them hundreds of thousands of years to develop from the scattered community to the tribal era, it took them 100,000 years to play with stone tools, it took tens of thousands of years to build large houses, they just learned to forge metal 8,000 years ago, and then they reached the peak of civilization 1,300 years ago! The progress of civilization is simply not something that natural evolution can keep up with, and the primitive tribes in some remote islands in the Far South are even less physically fit than our twelve-year-old boys - natural evolution has lost its meaning, and we can't rely on mutation to adapt to the void and adapt to the infinite world in this multiverse! ”

"Only through wisdom, magic, vindictiveness, through our wisdom, to transform our bodies, can we make 'humans', 'intelligent life', adapt to this void age, adapt to this vast and boundless multiverse. This is me. ”

At this point, the orator pointed at himself, then stretched out his hand, and pointed his fingers at all the student grades present in turn: "It's you too." ”

"It is the direction that all of us, the entire civilization, should strive for in the future."

The orator on the stage was still saying some closing words, and the students on the stage were clapping wildly, and the loud applause could be heard echoing throughout the hall, but it didn't matter anymore, because at the back of the hall, there was a low-voiced quarrel between several legendary powerhouses.

"Joshua!"

Nostradamus whispered angrily, "Is this what you're going to do?" Do you want to spread the legitimacy and legitimacy of 'human modification' within Winterkeep Academy, and then use these students as a base point to spread your theories to the outside world?! ”

As he spoke, the old mage thought of the dense 'Human Perfect Prototype Experiment' in the fourth practice room of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground, as well as those unbelievable Void Monsters that should only appear in nightmares, and he couldn't help but exhale: "You really plan to transform the entire human race...... You're not kidding. ”

"I never joke, at most a few bad jokes. Nostradamus, at least eight years ago, you should have discovered this. ”

Qiao Sia didn't care about the old mage's questioning, he calmly looked at the lecturer who was flushed and waved excitedly to the cheering students, and said in a low voice: "The current human race is a primitive species that was still stagnant at least a million years ago, and it is our wisdom that has stagnated his evolution, so it should be our wisdom that will enhance him again." This is our civilization, the first step towards becoming a true Void civilization. ”

"Who do you think you are? God, or sage? Can you be sure that the modifications you're going to do are really suitable for humans? ”

Nostradamus rubbed his temples, he had calmed down, and said seriously: "Although the current human race is indeed fragile, but at least stable - our civilization, our society is based on this fragile body, if one day, everyone will suddenly fly, then our architectural style and society will change greatly, and what you have to do now is not only to let humans fly, but to make human beings become extraordinary." ”

"This kind of change is enough to cause great turmoil in our society and civilization, and people will no longer be human – and most importantly, you are not sure whether this transformation is safe or not! Even so, you still have to do it! ”

"Not so." Joshua replied indifferently: "Whether it is suitable or not, how can you know if you don't transform it?" Do you think that the cultivation of vindictive spirit and the cultivation of magic are not transformations? So what are I and you, legendary powerhouses? Isn't it a special and unpopular transformation for a mage who is lichified, elementalized, soulified, and cultured, stronger than a dragon, faster than a bird, and able to enter and exit the void in the flesh? ”

"I just want to make this kind of transformation accessible to everyone, and it's strange that you can't understand me - I don't plan to forcibly transform it, but little by little, let our civilization adapt to this behavior, and let them take the initiative to transform themselves."

"What's more, I'm human." As he spoke, Joshua pointed to himself, then to Nostradamus and Israel, "You all too." Even we are human beings, so why are they not after they are transformed? ”

Nostradamus seemed to be about to refute, but Israel, who was in the middle of the two, gestured helplessly, signaling both of them to stop talking: "Okay, what's there to quarrel about this little thing, teacher, do you think that this kind of transformation will cause social unrest, and even induce the collapse of 'human self-identity', and Radcliffe is thinking about the future, he is indeed right, our civilization is entering the infinite void, and the fragile flesh is indeed a burden that drags its legs." ”

"You have quarreled once before because of the problem of the evil god, why bother arguing again, this kind of problem is not ......" Speaking of this, His Majesty the Emperor pondered for a moment, and then sighed: "Okay, we can decide this matter." ”

"I know, Master Nostradamus, you're not completely rejecting my idea."

And at this moment, Joshua spoke again, he turned his head and looked at the old mage with a headache on his face, and the warrior's tone was calm: "It's just that you feel that this kind of major event needs to be carefully considered, planned for decades, and then implemented steadily - this can smoothly and without chaos push the entire civilization into that new era." ”

"But we're running out of time—we're all already thinking about whether or not to store people as souls and take them away in the Coordination Circle, so what is it to transform humans?"

The warrior whispered, "If you don't try, you'll never have a chance, and so is the resistance and the confrontation—so am I." ”

With that, Joshua got up and left the hall, leaving Nostradamus and Israel in their seats.

“…… Ha ha. ”

After confirming that Joshua's life reaction had completely disappeared in the fluctuations of time and space, Nostradamus, who had a depressed and dull face, actually changed his face and laughed softly, he exhaled, and he didn't know whether to be relieved or happy: "He finally has the idea of 'wanting to become stronger'. ”

On the side, the incarnation of Israel also nodded slightly, and he sighed: "I really didn't expect that we actually played this role." ”

Nostradamus closed his eyes, and he said in a somewhat tired voice, "Joshua...... He is the one who advances the fastest and closest to the sage in the entire Mycrof world, even including the data of the Shining Age...... I said this a few years ago, but I want to say it again. ”

"If there is anyone who is most likely to achieve the 'realm of sages', then there is no third person in the whole world except him and Iger, and Eagle is already an old man, he has excellent talent, but the pattern has been limited to the Mycrof civilization, only him, he Joshua can surpass, only he has been wandering in the multiverse at a young age, and only people who have walked through many worlds have a chance."

"But this guy only has the belief of 'challenging a strong enemy' in his mind, but he doesn't have the determination to 'become stronger' - strength is just a challenge ticket for him, no matter how much he says, it is just a tool, and his talent is too good, even if he doesn't care, he can become stronger quickly, which makes him even more weak in this regard."

Israel nodded approvingly, "And now, he wants to be stronger." The first time he didn't think, 'I want to challenge a sage one day,' but 'I want to achieve the sage realm as soon as possible.'" Although it seems to be the same, after all, how can you challenge a sage without the sage realm? But the most important thing for the former is to 'find the sages', while the latter is to 'become as strong as the sages'...... It can be regarded as reversing his thinking. ”

"Wait."

Suddenly, Nostradamus frowned, "You say, will Joshua have already discovered our purpose?" ”

"him."

Israel shook his head indifferently: "What if you find out?" This is his own idea, and we are just providing an opportunity - this is not a lie, after all, if he can't achieve the realm of sages, we will never lead a group of ignorant feudal subjects who have not yet opened their minds to fight the evil gods. ”

"Everything is the same as Joshua said - if you don't try, you won't have a chance."