readx;?“ With all due respect, I don't know much about what you're saying, so I think it's best to start by introducing yourself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info↖↖, I'm Gordon. Freeman, a mage who accidentally came to the floating city. ”

"I already know this from the message that 'it' is coming. I also know that your companion is not doing well right now and needs to be treated sooner. ”

Gordon nodded helplessly.

"Then you need my help even more. And I need your help too. Atlas said.

Through this conversation, Gordon felt more and more that this Atlas was definitely more than just a conscious mind, a rigid copy of the memories and thoughts of the Grand Arcanist Heteras. It seems to have its own ideas, and its own plans and intentions.

As if he had seen through Gordon's thoughts, Atlas said slowly in a hollow voice that was emitted by a tremor of energy: "As you think, I am not an ordinary conscious ......."

"I knew it was so." Gordon thought to himself.

Because although the spell of creating consciousness and wisdom sounds very cool and lugging, in fact, if you think about it carefully, it is actually not very useful to spend a lot of effort to copy such a "database" that is exactly the same as the memory personality of the original owner. It does not have any combat effectiveness, and it is not a doppelganger that can share the work of the original owner. Generally speaking, the most used area of the Magic Empire in Netherduran is high-end education.

However, judging from the fact that this floating city has been drifting in another space for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, it is obvious that this kind of function is not needed.

Atlas glanced at Gordon and sighed very "humanly". said, "Well, since I need your help." And you're the only one who can help me, so I should show a little sincerity. Tell you the truth. ”

The truth that Atlas said did surprise Gordon.

The original owner of the Floating City, Hytrus. Osht was actually killed by the artificial intelligence of this floating city.

However, the artificial intelligence of the Floating City is a special spirit creature created by the Grand Arcanist, and it is bound by absolute power, and it is impossible to betray its master. Hytrus. How could Osht be killed by his own servants in such a state of absolute control?

Theoretically, this is absolutely impossible.

Theoretically.

But so. The existing knowledge and theories of magic are only based on known discoveries. Just like science, new discoveries overturn old theories and establish new ones.

From the Third Age to the Fourth Age, from the Arcanists of Nether to the current mages, it is a theory that the soul contract signed on the basis of the power of order in the multiverse can never be violated, and it is in Hetrus. Osht's body was broken.

In order to escape the cataclysm of the end of the Third Age, which brought down the entire Magic Empire of Netherduran, Osht piloted his floating city into the void. Then, when he traveled between the main material realm and the endless abyss. Suddenly, I encountered a creature.

That kind of creature is the complete opposite of order, stability, creation, and so on, and it is a terrifying existence that can plunge everything into chaos and destruction. This creature is mysterious, and not only has no concrete form. Even the top Grand Arcanist of the Nether Empire, like Hytrus, had a hard time observing it.

The creature managed to invade the Floating City and infect the Floating City's artificial intelligence. The special power of evil and chaos that it possesses. Allowing the AI to free itself from the grip of the pact with Heteras, and to have evil thoughts towards this master.

The evil thoughts of artificial intelligence are very primitive and pure. It's almost instinctive. It wants to kill Hytrus, not for power. Not for power, not for the sake of capturing this floating city. The act of killing Heteras is its purpose in itself.

Heteras sensed the changes in artificial intelligence and took measures in time.

He split the AI in two, intact and uninfected by the evil creature, and became the "big guy", and the other part became the "little guy".

But because both the big guy and the little guy are closely related to the entire Floating City, if something goes wrong with either of them, it is very likely that the entire Floating City will encounter accidents. At that time, this floating city happened to be swept up in the eternal jewel "Miphagne. There is no room for error in the energy storm set off by Ottoton, so Hyteras decided to keep the status quo and solve the problem in front of him before dealing with the mysterious unknown creature.

Like so many dramatic stories, it was Heteras who delayed so slightly, and the unexpected happened.

The "little one", who had been firmly sealed by the Grand Arcanist, somehow broke through the shackles and launched a sneak attack on his former master, severely injuring him. However, Heteras is not a mediocre person after all, before he died, he not only injured the "little guy", but also used his last breath to create "Atlas", a consciousness with subjective initiative.

"But," Gordon was puzzled by Heteras's words, "the facts I heard from the big guy are very different from what you said. Did you lie to it? But it stands to reason that the 'big guy' is still on your side, you are still its master, and there is no need to lie to deceive a servant who is absolutely obedient to you. ”

Maybe there is a split personality of the artificial intelligence in the floating city, but the reason for all this is not the so-called helplessness of the master after death, but because of an evil and mysterious creature encountered in another dimension.

"I don't need to fool the big guys, but I need to fool the little ones," Atlas said. ”

Heteras was wounded by the evil creature before he died, and it was not a "wound" in the traditional sense. Because the mysterious creature had no body at all—either a body made of matter or a body made of energy. So he used another very special attack method - modifying the memory, completely erasing the existence of the evil creature in the memory of the "little guy".

That's why there are those memories, and there are the crazy actions of the "little guy" who desperately want to regain Hytrus.

However, the power of the spell will eventually disappear, and sooner or later the evil creature will wake up from the seal of memory. If measures are not taken as soon as possible, not only this floating city, but even the entire Endless Abyss, and the entire main material realm, will be in danger at that time. (To be continued.) )u