- Dead Eternity -

The Thunder Ancient Dragon opened its huge mouth, its wings flapped, and a sandstorm set off in the shrinking desert of the world of Kronos, and it couldn't help but be slightly stunned when it heard this word.

The evil gods are the enemies of civilization, the enemies of life, and they are the embodiment of natural disasters, the destruction and the end of the world. From ancient times to the present, there have been countless civilizations that have tried to analyze the nature of evil gods, just as intelligent life has analyzed that the essence of the wind is a storm caused by the release of heat from the ocean, and earthquakes are the shocks caused by the pressure released by plates.

But this attempt, unfortunately, failed at the last step.

It's not that no one has been able to succeed in this difficult step since ancient times, but before they succeeded, the army of evil gods that came from nowhere annihilated everything about them.

“…… Do you think, can you make an exception. ”

So the Thunder Ancient Dragon asked, in its long life and ancient inheritance, there is indeed a message from the evil god, as the rebuilder of the world cycle, the regenerator, the Thunder Ancient Dragon has indeed restored several worlds destroyed by the evil god, so it was shocked: "The eternity of the dead - that's what you found, there is a clue about the nature of the evil god?" No one had ever come to this point, or rather, before this step, they were all destroyed. ”

"To be precise, it's not that I found it, I just synthesized other people's information and confirmed it."

A part of Joshua's mind was still in communication with the Thunder Ancient Dragon, and as he left, he said thoughtfully, "Destruction? Sure enough, in addition to 'eternal wonders' and 'overdeveloped civilizations', is the message of 'studying the nature of evil gods' also an inducement? Indeed, this is consistent with the information I have. ”

"The existence of the evil god may indeed be a little more important than everyone imagined at the beginning."

The Extreme Sublimation Aggregate is left by the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate, which is extremely rich in research materials related to evil gods, and as a near-sage who can already imprison some evil gods in the world, carry them with them, and even use them as tools such as a compass, it can be said to be the first professional in the multiverse in this regard. And Joshua, who inherited the relevant information of the other party, naturally benefited a lot from it, and had a lot of new ideas, and then combined the original information of his own side, he could infer many new things.

For example, before that, Joshua thought that the evil god might just be a 'phenomenon' caused by the forces behind it, like the psionic one, the Steelpython - or rather, the evil god could be another apocalyptic version of the Chaos Steelpython.

But now it seems that the information of the evil god itself is also within the 'warning range', which is not a purely derivative phenomenon, and it can be enjoyed.

"Malicious Chaos, let's just call it the kind of extraordinary power held by the mastermind behind the scenes, the essence of this power can be analyzed from the power of the evil god."

Joshua's subjective consciousness is still falling into the maelstrom of creation, he is crossing the layers of abyss, the blockade of chaos by the seven gods in the past, the warrior thinks alone: "Chaos can erode and infect anything else, but only other supernatural forces can fight against it - this may often be overlooked, but in fact, it shows that malicious chaos is extremely closely related to everything." ”

After all, the so-called erosion phenomenon is similar to the effect of 'magic power infusion', 'divine power infusion' and even 'holy light imaging', but in addition to divine power, whether it is magic power or holy light, it can only quickly imprenate a part of the related transcendent substances, as well as the corresponding transcendent beings 'magicians' and 'priests' related to oneself, not everything.

Secondly, malicious chaos can cause mental erosion, which makes people crazy, and even impossible to think - there are many possibilities for this, such as simply interfering with the soul, chaos has anti-intelligence algorithms, or it contains a lot of information that directly drives people crazy. According to Joshua's own experience with the Evil God of Weakness and the Evil God of Death, the point of 'containing a lot of information to drive people crazy' is actually the most appropriate, isn't he almost disturbed by the countless memories and calls of the Evil God of Death for a long time?

One of the essences of the evil god is the sea of memories and information formed by the convergence of countless dead lives in civilization. Of course, the possibility that it has such a thing as an 'anti-intelligence algorithm' cannot be ruled out.

- Ordinary people will go crazy at a glance, and the strange contagious and erosive nature of the evil god clan, the spiritual pollution, and even the memetic mode of action have undoubtedly confirmed one point, that is, compared to other transcendent powers, 'malicious chaos' and 'information' are closely related.

"However, the Demon Sage said that the nature of the evil gods, and even the nature of the people behind them, is related to 'eternity'."

The abyss continued to fall, stretching continuously, and the god of steel did not deliberately accelerate, but just swept through countless worlds like a walk, and his thoughts diverged: "'Eternal', this word, I have seen the same word in the memory of the 'Abundant Evil God', the ancient pastoral era of the multiverse, the 'ultimate civilization' of those original civilizations. ”

"Eternal, Infinite, Absolute, and Omniscient."

- Beyond all material changes, even the 'eternity' of the end.

- Beyond all finite existence, even the imaginary 'infinite'.

- Beyond all notions of cause and effect, even the 'absolute' of probability.

Omniscient and omnipotent aside, that thing is obviously the supreme meaning in a purely philosophical sense, and there is no need to discuss it in reality, but there is no doubt that the three points of "eternal", "infinite", and "absolute" are absolutely feasible for those ancient civilizations who were once close to the glory of bathing in the initial fire and were born with an infinite source of energy and matter.

"The meaning of infinity...... I may have understood a little, especially after meeting with the Shadow Sage, I have a glimmer of realization—the other party is an infinite being, and it is only an infinite being that can cover the same infinite multiverse with its own power, and isn't it true that the idea of opening up a new path is in line with the meaning of 'infinite'?" Infinite power, infinite diffusion, infinite future...... And, infinite hope. ”

Although it is only speculation, Joshua believes that the realm of 'sage-level' is precisely to deal with the concept of 'infinity' among the three 'ultimate civilizations', and this realm is definitely worthy of the imagination of the ancients.

The term 'eternal', apart from the term 'ultimate civilization', has only been heard of by Joshua in the context of 'eternal wonders'. To be honest, he couldn't understand this, after all, in his opinion, no matter how brilliant and great the buildings and wonders were, they could gradually fall silent with the passage of time...... To this day, Joshua was a little confused about where this eternity was.

However, it can also be understood in another direction, that is, the existence of those eternal wonders must be contrary to the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes - it can even be said that there is no real eternal wonder in this multiverse, after all, even the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground was destroyed before it was really completed, if Joshua became a close saint, maybe he could try to repair it, but now, even if there is relevant information, there is nothing that can be done.

"Those great wonders, if completed, will definitely cause earth-shaking changes to a civilization, whether it is the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground or the Black Mist itself, if it becomes a complete body, it is enough for a civilization to dominate the multiverse, and even never be destroyed...... But is this eternal? No, there must be information that I don't know, and even the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate doesn't have much speculation in this regard, and I definitely don't know what key elements are missing. ”

But even then, it was enough.

[Malicious Chaos] is a kind of power that has something to do with everything and is highly compatible with information - and the eternal spectacle and overdeveloped civilization will make the people behind the scenes feel uneasy and want to obliterate them, for which he even created the tool of the evil god, and the evil god is also a more important element in the implementation of his plan...... So much information, enough for Joshua to respond.

Moreover, the power of Malicious Chaos is completely different from psionic magic, and it does not seem to be the same system as the sages.

How so? It's kind of like the difference between the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate and the Sage.

"The ultimate sublimation aggregate, the path of the universe in which the self fulfills itself, may have something to do with the Absolute, the absolute self, the absolute master of the self, and for the inner world it creates, it is the 'absolute' existence."

Malevolent Chaos is associated with Eternity—this is also consistent with the message left by the Demon Sage.

At this moment, Joshua has come to the boundary of the former extremely dark abyss, the boundary of the maelstrom of creation - here, you can see the wreckage of countless worlds falling into it, just like the death of a giant whale floating in the ocean, the whale falling to the bottom of the deep sea, and similarly, here, you can see countless new worlds rushing upwards, just like the volcanic eruption at the beginning of the birth of all things, bringing new matter and possibility to the surface world.

The god of steel did not move on, he stood on the dividing line between life and death, the border between destruction and creation, staring at the maelstrom of creation itself, the black and white, like the Tai Chi grinding disc of all things, silently thinking.

[Eternal], [Infinite], [Absolute], the relationship between these three is really very close, and it can even be converted into each other...... For example, infinity can also represent eternity, eternal existence, nature is infinite, infinite existence, nature is also eternal.

And the existence of the Absolute is unrealistic if there is no infinity and no eternity—otherwise, is it worthy of being called Absolute? Conversely, the infinite power itself is absolute suppression, and eternity is also absolute existence, and the three are almost mixed, but slightly different in small aspects.

Therefore, [Malicious Chaos] must have brought something to the multiverse. The evil gods should correspond to the primordial gods of divine power, the world consciousness of spiritual energy, the pure energy creatures of magical power, the ancient dragons and void beasts of life energy, the primordial elemental creatures of the elements, and the various ancient aetheric beasts of the ether, etc. And the changes caused by malicious chaos are hidden in the 'common sense' of all people in the multiverse today, after all, it is second only to divine power, and it is earlier than psionic energy, and all the lives born in this multiverse must be bathed in its changes.

It's just that this kind of change is too subtle, just like before Joshua explained, many people didn't even understand that the supernatural power was created by the sage, they tacitly accepted that it was the truth of the multiverse, and they couldn't imagine that there was no such thing in the previous multiverse.

Subtly, boiling frogs in warm water? Although it is a little ugly, Joshua has always been afraid to imagine the worst - all the life that exists today may have been affected by the changes related to 'Malicious Chaos' long before it was born, and locked, and they have been dancing in each other's palms from the beginning.

But Joshua is different...... At least in the world he had lived in and understood, there was no supernatural power, and if there was anyone in this multiverse who was most likely to notice something was wrong without knowing anything, it was probably him.

But that doesn't mean he'll find out – maybe he's already in the game and doesn't know it? Maybe what he also regarded as common sense was the chaotic side?

"But that's my strength."

In the past, the sages were forced by the situation, in order to save this multiverse, they may not have the time and energy to continue this research, so they can only give up halfway, so compared to the sages of the past, Joshua's advantage is actually not just the identity of the traverser...... His real advantage is that he has been inherited by countless people, and all the scattered clues are gathered in him, just like the eyes of all worlds converge.

Joshua now holds the key to the 'truth' in the near future!