Act Eighty-Seven: Fantasy and Reality

What is Tiamat's Law?

If you ask the native people of Vawnd this question, you will get a one-size-fits-all answer: it is a blessing from Lord Martha.

In Amber Sword, players have an in-depth investigation into this strange phenomenon that belongs only to the world of Vaynd.

The answer they got was:

This is the collective name for this world order, the core of the elemental barrier that surrounds the entire world, and the fundamental law that binds the elements that make up the foundation of this world.

This is more clearly described in the epic of the firmament.

Martha made a covenant with the four elven lords, and personally lowered the laws of Tiamat, using the laws to bind the boundaries of the elements, so that the foundation of the world of Vaulnd could be established.

And yet in fact.

Tiamat's law can be observed.

Whether it's standing on the earth of Vaynd, looking up at the sky, or casting a glimpse in the direction of the elemental barrier from the chaotic sea of magic.

It is a magnificent silver network of graceful curves and straight lines. And this huge net spans tens of thousands of miles of sky, whether it is cloudy or cloudless and clear afternoon, people can always see its existence.

But few people have seen the real it.

Brando is no exception.

In the moment before Bai disappeared, although he really wanted to ask something more, the other party obviously didn't plan to give him this chance.

Her pale, illusory figure flickered in the void, and Brando watched as she sank into the dark metal plane.

Then the massive structure seemed to light up imperceptibly, and then fell silent again.

Brando reached out in that direction, but found himself helpless to find that he couldn't catch the other at all.

All he could see was the tens of millions of shimmering metallic structures that stretched across the void. They are arranged in a huge array, a huge web.

"Thank you...... I brought her here? ”

"What the hell is this ......?"

"What exactly does this woman want...... What did she mean by those words? ”

Brando's mind was confused and puzzled for a moment.

The white of the white is the same as the white he is familiar with. Tiamas is so different. The Grim Reaper under the Black Rose who disdains to play tricks, the Angel of Death who holds a giant scythe-

However, since the other party appeared from his spiritual world, he lied three times and twice, and what he did was obviously only to conceal the true intention of this moment.

Brando fell down, but his gaze was silent on the huge array in front of him that lay across the pitch-black space.

So what exactly does this woman want to do?

What secrets lurk here that the other party does not hesitate to use the eternal immortal as an excuse. Even secrets such as the Scepter of Mercury and the Scepter of Elements were revealed to him.

The thought rose irrepressibly in his mind.

Although when Brando first saw this huge array, he had the same doubts in his heart. But at that time, the storm that blew from the crystal wall of the world once again extinguished these cranky thoughts, and he had several adventures, and there was too much thought there.

It was only at this moment that this thought took root in his heart again and grew stronger.

Because he had another question in mind.

He thought of the world—

Brando remembers that in the game, the farthest the player has ever traveled is the Scorching River and the depths of Hell. Some players travel from world to world with fleets of Plane Travelers, who have traveled to many unknown worlds and broken planes, and even traveled long periods of time in the Gray Segment. Make enemies of the Aether Predators.

But a common sense is-

No one could reach beyond the elemental barrier, and a force known as the Cover of the Worlds surrounded the four outer worlds of Vauld, the Shallow Sea, the Mountain of Storm Rest, the Stone Pivot, and the Scorching River, and when one tried to pass through it, they were teleported back by the opposing force.

But when the Dragon Queen extracted the law foundation of the four elemental planes, the situation became a little different.

The shallow sea and the mountain of the Storm Silence collapsed, followed by the Stone Pivot and the Scorching River, when the four elemental worlds on the outskirts of the Vaund world perished. The shield between Vaynd and the elemental barrier is gone.

Brando wasn't sure if he was the only person in thousands of years who had the privilege of witnessing it firsthand, but at least he could confirm one thing. He must be the only player who has the privilege of witnessing this qiē with his own eyes.

But when he saw this magnificent scene, this question flashed through his mind:

So, what does this qiē stand for?

Fias and Rute whispered in his ear.

A storm representing the will of the Dragon of Twilight is roaring. As Shiro said, the furious Dragon of Dusk is pounding on the gates of this world with a single blow, trying to tear the world wall apart again.

Although she has not yet done so, the power of the whole world has been transmitted from behind the crystal wall. Even if it was weakened ten million times, it was still enough to tear through the fragile elemental barrier at the moment.

Black ripples visible to the naked eye are emerging in the space.

Behind that is the law of time and space, which is frantically distorting and escaping.

But Brando turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye, and his mind was in turmoil.

Unlike the other soul in one's own body who is educated from another world, Vaughnd is an extremely wonderful world in the game, where the physical nature of everything depends on the description of the law. It is not the material that composes it - earth, wind, fire, water, natural light and darkness - the combination of the six elements, and the nature of the element itself.

Just like when people pick up a piece of shale from the ground, they can clearly feel that it is physical and material.

However, when the wizards used their magical eyes to parse the slate, a qiē changed.

First of all, they will find that although the material existence of the slate depends on the material elements of the building blocks of the elements, such as earth, wind, fire, water, nature, and even light and dark, they themselves cannot determine their properties.

For it is only the laws that surround it that ultimately determine the nature of all things - hard or soft? Dry or wet? How malleable is it? Is it fragile?

When the law is described, whatever the elements that compose it, it expresses familiar physical properties—for the elements are only the material basis of Vajnd, they are like the masonry needed to build an edifice—and only the design drawings determine what the edifice will eventually become.

It's like the process of a programmer labeling and injecting a number of jù into something he creates, no matter what the 0 and 1 expressions in the language he writes down are all about what the player should be in front of the game.

In Amber Sword, the logic of the world is inherently in line with its premise as a game, so players don't take it seriously.

But since I came into this world, there have been some problems.

If Vaurd is no longer a game world, how does this world with one or more creators work?

Why does it still express the almost same nature of the world as in the game?

Brando is not a poet who needs to explore the truth of the universe, and certainly not one of those wizards who live their lives on the towers in pursuit of ultimate knowledge and mysteries.

So he rarely thinks about such questions.

There are a lot of problems he needs to solve, whether it's the chores of the fir realm, or a whole bunch of troubles in Eruin's country, or Madara, who is eyeing the border, and the ambitious empire.

It seems that even if he handles these things one by one, it will take up all his thoughts and time, and where will there be a chance to consider these problems.

What's more, he never thought that one day, unforeseen circumstances might force him to think about such a problem.

What exactly is this world?

But it's not like he's not entirely unaware of it.

When he first arrived in this world, when he was lying in the straw pile and looking up at the starry sky with Roman and Freya in the countryside of Qingcun, he once had such a question in his heart.

He once hoped that this world was just a dream of his own, and that he would wake up from his dream at any time and return to the civilized and orderly world that belonged to him.

He woke up from the bed and opened the door of his room, and he could see the familiar and teasing smiles of the senior sister and the black tea, accusing him of being just a prank.

But as this dream deepened, he changed the kingdom little by little, changed the fate of many people, and saw those familiar names around him, after not repeating their originally sad and bleak end.

This hope gradually turned into a lingering nightmare in his mind.

Whenever he talked to Miss Staff, whenever he listened to the absurd and strange thoughts and ideas of little Roman, whenever he strolled through the afternoon sun of Fir Castle and watched the shadows of the leaves sway on the ground of the courtyard.

He couldn't help but wonder if it would be a dream, and whether he would wake up from a dream and find that this qiē was just his own imagination. Whenever such a thought welled up in his heart, he couldn't help but feel depressed and uneasy. He even had several similar nightmares, in which his anxiety and fear turned into reality, and when he woke up in the middle of the night, he was already drenched in cold sweat.

The nightmare was extended over time, and he sometimes even wondered if the world was still a game.

He even thinks like that at times.

Perhaps the world itself is still a game, and when he wakes up, he finds that all the qiē he has experienced is still just a number of jù in the game.

…… (To be continued......)