In the world of stars, in the tide of brilliant light that annihilated everything, there was an 'eye of the typhoon' that seemed extremely calm because of the conflict of forces and annihilation of each other.

A glimmer of will from the god of steel, detached from the center of the battlefield, manifested in this calm space-time. He has sensed that 'self' has become independent from the subject's will as a 'doppelganger', isolated from other wills, and the chaotic space and distorted time make him temporarily unable to connect back to his own essence.

Joshua calmly looked around, and he saw that around the calm fragment of space-time where he was located, a huge tsunami of energy was erupting inside and outside the barrier of the star-world world, and the silver-blue steel power and spiritual energy collided with the black domination space and annihilated, producing a thunderous sound that shattered time and space...... But this fragment of space-time sits in the middle of two identical streams of energy hedges, perfectly balanced to the point of being so calm.

And the will that belongs to that tributary, that is, the doppelganger of oneself, is thus stripped from it and comes here.

"In that case...... Then, the other party should be the same. ”

Nodding thoughtfully, Joshua, who was in the state of the four-armed steel god, turned his head and looked at the other corner of the space-time fragment.

Sure enough, a trace of the will of the extreme sublimation aggregate, a trace of a tiny cocoon appeared aside.

Without any hesitation, the silver steel power turned into an aura and condensed in front of the fist, and Joshua directly stepped forward to attack - even if he was a clone, it did not prevent him from fighting the enemy, if people rely on consensus to understand and communicate with each other, then the consensus between all Joshua is probably the same.

A layer of alien space barrier unfolded, and the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate blocked the attack, but unexpectedly, it did not fight back, but began to communicate.

"You don't have to keep fighting."

It was unusually calm, and even used an exhortatory tone to stop Joshua from trying to continue to attack: "I've failed—don't you see?" The outside world, my very being, is constantly being annihilated. ”

Joshua raised his head, and sure enough, he saw that in the tsunami of energy, the black alien space was constantly shattering, and the will of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate was canceled out, inside and outside the Star World, the Steel Python, the Triple Veil, Joshua, Joshua's doppelganger and the power of his crying and Great Patriarch, the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate in the center was being swallowed and shattered by the bomb turned into by the Silver Heart Big Black Hole in the most violent and unbelievable way.

It's like an elephant stuffed into a cement mixer with a high-yield bomb in its belly, and the extreme sublimation polymer is collapsing and dying from the inside out, with no room for recovery.

“…… So what exactly do you want to do? ”

Knowing this, Joshua looked at the clone of this extreme sublimation body again, and he noticed that the other party's body was also constantly falling into fragments, collapsing like the body of the outside world, and the warrior narrowed his eyes: "Want to die later?" ”

"It's nothing, I just want to communicate with you, exchange information about the evil god, the mastermind behind the scenes, and the source of the Initial Fire and Demon Tide that is going away."

The cocoon swayed, the light fading like a candle in the wind, but even so, the selfish beast did not fall into an ugly frenzy before dying, it was calm, composed, and far more sane than any 'civilized individual' seemed: "You are in the super-large world of the second half of this 'backtrack', unimaginably close to the Primordial Fire and the Demonic Tide, and you must have information that I do not know, and I also have information that you do not have. ”

"I want to communicate that, that's all."

Joshua was silent, he didn't ask the question, 'You're dying, why are you asking this?' because he thought about it, if he was in the same situation, maybe he would do the same.

What can anger, venting, and frenzy affect? In those last moments, I must only want to know the answer to the biggest question in my heart - even if I can't get the answer, it is good to be able to get even one step closer to the truth.

“…… What is your ultimate goal? Exhaling a breath, Joshua raised his head and stared at the bleak cocoon, and he whispered, "You have abandoned your eternal life, come here, invade here, plunder and fight at the cost of your life...... What exactly are you fighting for? Not knowing this, I can't communicate with you. ”

"I want to break all the restraints."

The Extreme Sublimation Aggregate replied clearly, "Everything in this world, all the fundamental laws, all the transcendent powers of all others, all the evil gods, and even everything behind the evil gods...... My purpose is to sublimate, to transcend everything. ”

"At the very least, there can't be anything and nothing that can prevent me from living the way I want to live."

This is a sincere answer. Joshua thought of the light of the Initial Fire in the Cocoon of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate, he knew that this was indeed the truth, if the other party successfully sublimated and a new prototype of the multiverse was born in his body, then it could indeed surpass everything in this world, all the basic laws of this multiverse, the extraordinary power of other sages, and even the evil gods and the black hands behind the evil gods, could not restrain it.

If it is said that the sage is the one who opens the heavens and splits the way, imprinting his 'path' on the entire multiverse, and exuding new fundamental laws and transcendent powers with himself.

Then, what the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate pursues is to create its own world, and it is everything in its own world, absolute self-sovereignness.

"The evil gods seek to destroy me, so I am the enemy of the evil gods, and I will destroy all the evil gods."

The Extreme Sublimation Aggregate doesn't find its idea the slightest bit strange, this is its logic: "I have assimilated, devoured countless evil gods, countless civilizations, and learned from them many ancient secrets of the multiverse, and there are some things that I am very shocked about. ”

"Among them, it is the essence of this multiverse, which is actually very young."

"The multiverse is full of time traps, every galaxy and even in the world galaxy, the reference frame of time is completely different, there are some fast galaxies, only tens of thousands of years have passed, and some galaxies have already passed billions or even tens of billions of years, and even between those multi-galaxies and multi-galaxies, the seemingly vast dark void is actually full of the ruins of other multi-galaxies - their time has passed hundreds of billions of years, and even endless time, even the white dwarfs have become cold, Huge black holes have completely evaporated. ”

"However, the origin of the multiverse movement, the origin of all things, the existence called the Initial Fire, may have only passed one or two hundred million years since the birth of the multiverse for it and the temporal frame of reference around it...... This huge difference in time has led to the complete confusion of 'time' in the multiverse, and even the near-extinction. That's why I say that we are the last beings to explore the Initial Flame. ”

In this regard, Joshua nodded, what the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate said was almost the same as what he had guessed before, but unlike himself, the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate had indeed seen several different multi-galaxies with its own entity, so after thinking for a while, he responded: "This multiverse is very young and is being accelerated towards extinction, which I also agree, but what makes me strange is that it is actually the birth of your 'sages'. ”

"The existence of the sage actually completes the plurality of the multiverse, in a sense, it can be said to stabilize the stability of the multiverse, prolong its lifespan, and accelerate its maturity and completeness - because the purpose of the sage is opposite to that of the mastermind behind the scenes, so I will reverse guess the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes."

"What he wants, I'm afraid, is the primordial 'Initial Flame' that hasn't yet begun to create other worlds in the multiverse—so he wants to destroy everything in the multiverse outside of the Initial Flame, which may be convenient for him to do something to achieve his purpose."

"Sage, in fact, it is to change the materialization of the power of the multiverse, and this change may affect the change of the mastermind behind the scenes." The Extreme Sublimation Aggregate obviously knew the existence of the sage, and in the long course of time, it had already discovered the essential truth of the supernatural power, so it also thought: "It's like a primitive machine, which has been written into a large number of improved programs, which certainly facilitates the operation of the machine, but for people who want a 'blank machine', all changes are intolerable. ”

After thinking for a while, Joshua told the information about the Demon Sage that he had obtained from the Knowledge Receiver, and the news about the Mother World of the Psionic Sage behind the Star World—there was nothing more to say, and the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate also told him everything he knew.

The warrior noticed the change in the tone of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate, he frowned slightly, and asked, "If you become a sage, how do you want to change this multiverse?" ”

"I never thought about it."

The cocoon stopped dancing, and it said calmly: "The power is only mine, why should I share it with others?" Yes...... Wait a minute. ”

The selfish beast understood what Joshua meant: "I see, why should I give it to others? But is that all? I don't think it should be that simple......"

Joshua stared at the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate at this time.

Then, in the next moment, this small piece of stable space-time fragment, the outer layer began to gradually shatter.

In the outside world, the vast wave of energy is annihilating the dark alien space, and the essence of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate is about to be completely destroyed, leaving not much time between this clone and the clone.

After noticing this, the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate sped up the speed of thought transmission, and it thought, "All evil gods are the tools of the mastermind behind the scenes, and when the eligible civilization dies, it is equivalent to being solidified into a dead eternity. ”

"I only know that this eternity can actually be reversed, but why did the mastermind behind it design the evil god like this? I don't understand. If he just wanted to destroy civilization and use the corpses, he wouldn't have to make such trouble, after all, you and I should be able to make such a thing as a civilization revenant. ”

Joshua nodded silently, the eternity of the evil god can be reversed, and the weakened evil god is like this, using its characteristics, the Mycrof civilization even almost suppressed the evil god of death forever, reversing it into a super-large monolithic world.

And the revenant of civilization is even simpler...... If nothing else, isn't his soul abyss? It really doesn't work, the collection of the dead civilizations in the world of the stars is the same thing.

As long as you kill enough, you're good to go.

"If you want to fight against the evil gods, against the existence behind them, you must understand the nature of the evil gods, and understand the reasons for this solidified eternal nature. We have to understand that this is the only way to destroy His plan – and I am sure that you will not sit idly by and let Him succeed. ”

The Extreme Sublimation Aggregate transmitted almost all of its research materials on the evil gods and all the research information on eternity to Joshua over the years, and it was calm as if it had no feelings: "I, selfish beast, the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate has failed, and you, the madman who belongs to 'civilization', may not be like this. ”

“…… It's not like a selfish beast would do. ”

Silently accepting the information, after a long while, Joshua looked at the other party and muttered in a low voice: "Surprisingly, you didn't deceive in this information, nor did you hide it...... That's what I can't imagine. ”

At their point, whether there is any error or omission in the information of the experiment is something that can be seen at a glance, and no one can deceive the other.

"Selfish? Are you saying it's selfish? Yes, definitely. ”

In response to the warrior's doubts, Cocoon smiled and danced, "What do you think is selfish? Harming others and not benefiting oneself? Everything is owned by yourself, that is, not half of it is given to others? In any case, not to benefit others? ”

"No, that's not selfishness, that's called 'malice' - selfishness, it's all for my own will."

"Destroying civilization can be selfish, helping civilization can be selfish, harming others and benefiting oneself can be selfish, giving oneself can also be selfish—just like you, unknown madman, do you think you are great at helping other civilizations, other worlds against me? You're just fulfilling your own wishes, and surely you haven't thought about your friends and loved ones, knowing how worried and sad you might be after you die, right? ”

"This is also selfishness, selfishness is the satisfaction of self-desires, and life is selfish."

Saying this, the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate chuckled in a low voice, "And my selfishness is meaning. ”

"The meaning of my birth, the meaning of death, the present I live in, what is the reason for my life? The meaning of fulfilling all this is my supreme rule, which is that I will never change and give in to the slightest bit of selfishness. Even if I die, perish, and perish in the void, I must leave something behind, and whether to make the enemy (you) suffer, or to help others (you) make him successful, that is my business. ”

"I do this voluntarily, not for anyone, and that's selfishness – other people have no right to judge what I do, because I don't do it for the sake of other people's ideas."

“…… This is actually inheritance. Joshua said in a deep voice, his brows furrowed, "Don't you understand?" ”

"Inheritance is what it is meant to be - what you leave behind, whether you want to be happy or not, it is the way it is, you get meaning, and others can stand on your shoulder, on your corpse, and look beyond."

The doppelganger of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate did not reply.

The light had dimmed to the limit - it dissipated.

Outside, the tsunami of energy rushed, scattering the main body of the dark alien space, and even the small initial fire that was protected in the most important place was also dispersed by the mighty light flow, and finally broke away from the surrounding area of the star world.

The blazing white Void Great Demon Tide roared and galloped, taking away most of the aftermath of the explosion and dissolving the corpses of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate that had completely shattered, taking them away, and turning them into a wave of energy that spread across the multiverse—like a tree withering, a beast dying, and the corpse becoming nourishment for other beings.

It can be seen that the light of the Demon Tide has brightened up several levels, and the almost infinite energy has even temporarily increased the strength of the Demon Tide from the source - thinking about it, for the other world rivers below the Demon Tide, there is about to usher in a flood peak of the Demon Tide.

- No matter how selfish life is, the corpse after death will become the soil for the next generation of life.

In this fragment of calm space-time, which had been shattered and was about to completely collapse, Joshua's doppelganger sighed heavily.

"This multiverse is so dark......"

Whether civilized or individual, selfless sage or selfish beast, the ultimate goal of all minds is to fight against the darkness behind the curtain - but even so, no one knows anything about it, no one knows what the future holds.

If there is any kind of suffering, then I am afraid that the very act of 'birth' is real suffering. All life in this multiverse will weep over the suffering that befalls the world since they were born, because they will face a civilization that has disappeared like tears in the rain, and a multiverse as dark as the sea in the middle of the night.

Even tomorrow, which is expected by countless people, is as dark and deep as an abyss...... How much light, how many lives and civilizations will this tomorrow's abyss, called the future, have to swallow before it can become a smooth road that can be walked?

The fragments of time and space were destroyed, and Joshua's doppelganger dissipated, and he followed the wave of energy to bring all this information into the body.

- At the dawn of the collision, the clones of both sides of the battle were born in this calm fragment of space.

- In the dark night where the collision ended, the clones of both sides of the battle died in the chaotic waves of the void.

And around the Star World, in the torrent of the Great Demon Tide, the last trace of consciousness of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate Body Body is also gradually dissipating.

"I ......"

In its spiritual world, which began to scatter, icons like 'eyes' appeared...... That's the trademark that Robert left behind for this proudest creation when he created the 'sublimation virus'.

"I ...... To sublimate ......"

This is the meaning of its birth, transcending everything and sublimating everything...... It could see the delightful gaze of Researcher Robert who had been one with itself for an unknown number of years.

"...... with me"

It can see that everything is one with itself, and it is a sublimated life. Among them, there are angry, resistant, desperate, and hopeful, some of them are embarrassed, some are voluntary, some are resigned, and some are happy.

That is the desire and the meaning of its existence.

"I ...... That's me...... It's also us...... But it's all my ......."

"As long as I could unite the multiverse into one...... There is no longer me ...... with us."

- In this way, there will be no more ...... There is no one or nothing that can stop me, us, from living according to our own ideas.

- Unfortunately, I failed.

At the last moment of the existence of the self-will, in the depths of the will of the extreme sublimation aggregate, there was a 'smile'.

"Death...... It can't be said that it's not a kind of sublimation...... From now on, I, we will never be controlled, we will never be the toys behind anyone's scenes, whose tools are ......"

It smiled, abandoning all struggles, allowing its life and consciousness to drift away from this dark multiverse.

- Even so, it's a pity.

In the last moment of its life, its 'eyes' that were about to dissipate looked into the distant distance, the source of the primordial fire and the demon tide.

It looks to the distant future.

- Life is born with suffering.

- Death returns to the future.

This is the blinding dawn of birth

and

A peaceful night to death.

For the losers, it's all over.

"Therefore, O living, I curse thee, that there shall never be peace."

The final attack, sent out, and then.

- The Near-Sage, the Beast of the Self, Extinction -

At the same time, the consciousness of Joshua's body, which had almost burned itself out, also fell into darkness.

…… Warm...... Serene......

He felt like he was going to sleep.

If sleep is a short death, then today he may be able to enjoy a peaceful eternal sleep.

…… Comfortable...... Calm......

However, perhaps a curse, perhaps a blessing, in the final analysis, the warrior was destined never to sleep quietly like this.

Thus, under the final impact of the Extreme Sublimation Aggregate, in the midst of that intense pain and suffering, his self-will, because he wanted to 'fight' against the dead enemy, the instinct born because of 'fighting', began to condense in the brokenness, began to merge again, and reconnected as one.

In the storm of time and space of the riot, under the surging impact of the Great Demon Tide of the Void, and in the last remaining attacks of the enemy, Joshua began to break away from a long and distant nightmare.

"Wake up."

He seemed to hear it.

So Joshua opened his eyes.

Wake up.