Chapter 296: The Intersection of Past, Present, and Future (Part II)
"Of course, we know you have a lot of questions, because we have them too."
Completely inconsistent with the image of the "dark dragon" in Rod's mind, Ault raised his glasses again, and said in a soft tone, just looking at his appearance, not to mention that Rod couldn't imagine that this would actually be a dark dragon, and I am afraid that he would not think that he was the CEO of a B&M company with a net worth of more than 100 million.
"So first of all, how much do you know about the Dragon Soul Continent?"
"It's basically the background setting on the game's official website."
In the face of Ault's inquiry, Rhodes quickly answered, he changed his posture, crossed his hands, and looked at the four people in front of him indifferently and coldly as always. This is not that Rhodes is dissatisfied with them, but a certain instinctive reaction that will inevitably occur when he analyzes and thinks about intelligence.
"But I heard Alice say that there seems to be a hidden meaning in this, especially between the dragon soul inheritor and the dragon of creation........."
"That's right."
Hearing Rod's answer, Aort nodded, and then he stretched out his hand, along with Ault's movements, the mysterious, complex large-scale three-dimensional map influence appeared in the air, Rod could recognize it at a glance, this is the Dragon Soul Continentβββ with the four elements as the foundation, the Seven Illusion Realm as the pillars, and the walls and roofs formed by the dragon soul, and the entire world world is like a small world wrapped in an oval glass bottle.
"In the setting, we have made it very clear, and this is indeed the truth of this world to some extent. But......... What I need to tell you is what happened before this. With these words, Ault's hand turned, and then the map in front of him began to work automatically like a movie rewind. Then everything before disappeared, leaving only a prosperous, beautiful, and fertile land.
"You don't know it, the war between chaos and order has been going on, and they have been going on for many years. For many years, long enough for the dragon to decay and the earth to crumble. In fact, even we don't know why such a war took place between chaos and order in the first place. But that's how the war happened, and it swept every corner of the world where we live. β
As he spoke, Ault waved his hand, and with his movements, Rhodes saw that the beautiful land was eroded by chaos. Everywhere there was fire, and the once beautiful land soon became dark, and death and chaos filled everything. Seeing the scene in front of him, Ault was silent for a moment, and then continued.
"However, Chaos is far more powerful than we think, and the people of the time can only barely stop the attacks of Chaos, but they cannot destroy them. Because order and chaos are inextricably linked. The torn order will be reduced to the food and energy of chaos. Strengthen their strength. We tried a lot of things to do about it, but none of them worked. Eventually, in the absence of a solution, in order to avoid the fate of extinction and death. We decided to leave the continent and escape the clutches of Chaos in faraway places where Chaos couldn't reach. We use the power of the Void Dragon's Vientiane Void. Using space travel, we opened up our own space world at the end of the boundless sea of stars, which is the origin of our name as the dragon of creation. And in fact, both us, and our followers. Including all the races living on the Dragon Soul Continent now, they are just a group of people who have fled their homes to escape the war. β
"However, the order is still unstable."
At this moment, Serena on the side took it and continued.
"When we first started, we wanted to create a world that was entirely composed of order and had no connection with chaos. But in the end we found that this was impossible, and no matter how hard we tried, the relationship between order and chaos was still inextricably linked. We need to find regular rules from the broken chaos as the basis of order to resist the attack of chaos. But on the other hand, once the rules are broken, then they themselves will immediately turn into chaos to erode and attack our worldly realm. We have foreseen such a future, but we are helpless about it. But......... But we find an implicit rule in this. β
"Rules?"
"Yes, we found that the continent we created would eventually be destroyed no matter what, but that in itself is a rule of order. Chaos represents the chaos of uncertainty, while order represents the end of order, and we are quite surprised that the trajectory of destiny created by this continent itself will form a unique line of order running through the entire destiny under the chaos. But, because of that, we came up with a method. Since destruction is inevitable, can we break this rule? β
Hearing this, Rod's eyes narrowed slightly.
ββ¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ So you decided to distort history? β
"That's right, it seems that you have obtained a record of these from Miss Alice, going back in history again and again, but each time making a completely different choice, using a lot of twists to completely destroy this line of order, that's all we can do........."
"But that's not enough."
This time, it was the sisters sitting next to them who spoke.
"We have found that while this can disrupt the line of order that 'this continent will be destroyed', if there is no new future, then the continent will fall into a state of confusion about where to go, and this is the harbinger of chaos. There is nothing we can do about it, in our world, everything we can think of has been experimented, and that's all we can do. But this was not enough, and in the end, we decided to go to other worlds to try to find a solution. To do this, we have built the deepest labyrinth and built the outer realm gate to the outer realm at the lowest level. But I think you should know that the Gate of the Outer Realm is a one-sided passage, and it is impossible to freely enter and exit this world, so we have set up a beacon tower, which will absorb the power of this continent and emit strong energy fluctuations to the outside. In this way, if we find a way to save this place in other worldly realms. Then we can try to scan and reconnect with the fluctuations, relying on our own force to get back here again. β
"I see, I think I understand why I'm here for nothing."
Hearing the twin sisters' words, Rhodes nodded, which is actually not difficult to understand, just like the mobile phone signal and base station on the earth. The more powerful the base station, the farther it will be able to connect to a mobile phone. It's also easier to connect. The dragons of creation can freely enter and exit the outside world, so naturally they have their own way to go back. In fact, even Rhodes himself did not travel back to his own world realm with his real body, on the contrary, he appeared here as a projection connected by the strong signal fluctuations of the beacon tower. In fact, even this space is not really the Earth plane where Rhodes is located. It's more like a reflection on the inside.
"However, it is not as simple as we think."
Soon, however, Seth, the younger sister of the sisters, spoke with a little sadness.
"If we use the Buddha-figure to pass through the gate of the outer realm, we can indeed return to this world realm more quickly. However, without our source of strength, it is impossible for this continent to hide and support for too long under the attack of Chaos. By that time, even if we have found a way to save this world, before we return. Perhaps this continent has also been destroyed by Chaos. The world that has been destroyed by chaos is absolutely chaotic, and it is impossible for us to even go back to the past continent by traveling through the time portal to start over. For this. We must ensure the safety of the Dragon Soul Continent, so ............... We gave up our bodies and chose the inheritors of the dragon soul to inherit the power and maintain this continent in our place, while we chose to abandon our bodies and travel to this world through the way of our souls. β
"Because of the turbulence of time and space. There is a certain error before and after we come to this world, Oult is the first, and we are basically the last. As soul bodies, we can't maintain our form for long, so we choose to live in the human beings of this world, born like ordinary people. Grow. β
"Then, we discovered that although this world realm is full of chaos, it is not as harmful as our world realm."
Oult took over the conversation again.
"The chaos here doesn't have a consciousness and mind of its own, it's just a natural existence. And humanity is in this place to establish its own order. Order was broken again and again, but soon re-established, and we were very interested in this completely different system of civilization, so we decided to study this place and find a way to save our world. β
"I understand what you're saying."
Hearing Ault's answer, Rod nodded, but then he frowned suspiciously.
"But......... What does this have to do with your online games? To be honest, I think it's right to study the natural sciences, humanities, philosophy, and so on, just by looking at your goals............
In any case, the connection between developing online games and saving the world is too unreliable. Hearing Rod's question, everyone looked at each other and smiled, and then Serena replied.
"In the beginning, we were only interested in the game itself, and we were surprised that we were able to create an illusory world itself with the help of the civilization technology of this world. Therefore, we had an ideaβββ if we can make our world realm completely and completely digitized, and completely take on the form of order, then is it possible to resist the attack of chaos? To this end, we began experimenting, and using the civilization of this world, as well as the knowledge we possessed, we finally created the game Dragon Soul Continent. β
Saying this, Serena smiled slightly.
"I don't think you realize the importance of order, and the most important thing is rules, Mr. Rhodes. If you used to be a top player, you should know very well that although Dragon Soul Continent claims to have a high degree of freedom, it also has a lot of rules and systems, right? β
"That's true."
Hearing Serena's inquiry, Rod nodded. No matter how real a game is, it is not to play the Matrix and engage in a virtual real world to rule the world. In the game, level, experience, MP value of soul power, HP, success rate of forging, and all kinds of things can be expressed by numerical values. And these values themselves are rules, experience points will be upgraded when they reach the point, and the connection between proficiency and skill damage are all established rules.
"Now that you have awakened the power of the dragon soul, you should have noticed that the way to protect the dragon soul barrier on the Dragon Soul Continent is very primitive, and you can only use the people's belief in the dragon soul itself to absorb the soul power to consolidate the order. But this is not possible, and in our thoughts, if we can integrate many of these rules and concepts with the world realm of the Dragon Soul Continent like this game, at that time, we can not only absorb the power of the soul through ordinary means. Even if people improve their strength, make their skills more proficient, and even the interaction between one person and another, and the improvement of the favorability between the forces, when all these are digitized by the rules, their words and deeds will contribute their own strength to strengthen the rule barrier of the entire world! In this way, chaos will no longer be so easy to invade the Dragon Soul Continent..............."
Hearing this, Rod's expression changed slightly.
"So......... What do you mean............... Do you want to transplant this system in the online game to the world realm of the real Dragon Soul Continent? (To be continued......)