Chapter Twenty-Three: The Beginning of Falling into a Dream
"I need to enter your dreams and dream deeper in your dreams, just like you did in your dreams in PCCJJK. To Lord Kaeya's question, Shure finally gave the answer, "The biggest problem now is time, Pavatiga doesn't have much time to find other ways to solve the looming crisis, and it's too late to even verify whether the ritual proposed by several adults is feasible, the ritual in the near future is both an attempt, a test, and a desperate gamble, once it is found that it is not feasible, or if it fails, then the entire world of the twisted void will have no future at all." Everyone knows that there is no way back in this way, it is too dangerous, but no one has any other way, because the time is too short, and even the preparation of the ceremony is quite rushed, and it is impossible to spend time to verify it. β
I wanted to fall asleep, so I fell asleep.
Facing the last smile of Lord Kaeya, Shul only felt his eyelids sink into sleep, and gradually fell asleep. Is it his own dreamland, or is it Mistress Kaeya's? Shure couldn't say.
A dream for hundreds of millions of years, I don't know if these hundreds of millions of years are my own experience, or the perspective of a bystander, in short, Shuer is just observing the world, and an observation is countless years.
In the dream, I saw the holy light shining at the beginning of the creation, the bright and dazzling young void, the childhood when the endless void was as hot as a furnace and could melt everything, the endless dust rushed and collided like an energetic youth to form a thick star, I saw the void from ignorance to calm and mature, thousands of stars had order, forming a stable galaxy, I saw the mature void with the love of a loving mother, giving birth to batches of young and fragile lives, seeing the mother slowly aging, the young life thriving, and gradually giving birth to wisdomγ
There was no sorrow, no fear, no joy, for hundreds of millions of years, Shur had no emotion, like a star, a stone, a wisp of dust, just a simple existence, just quietly watching, not born, not dead, not perishable, not transferred by any will.
Perhaps, this is the experience of Lord Kaeya, Lord Luna, and all the physical gods, Shure thinks so, and it is really not accidental and lucky that they can get to where they are today.
Yes, it is by no means accidental and lucky, perhaps only after experiencing the vicissitudes of hundreds of millions of years, witnessing the birth and decline of the void, will you have such a deep love for this world.
"In order to break the barrier of time, so that the ritual can be carried out safely, in your dreams, I want to become a god, at least have the vision and power of a god, and be able to create a whole world in your dreams like you. In the haze before falling asleep, Shul muttered to Master Kaeya, "I know that the time on both sides of the dream is not equal, a moment outside the dream, countless years in the dream, in your dream, I can have endless time to observe, to explore, to understand, to master, I can make the best preparation, repeat the ritual repeatedly, until the bottom line and effect of the ritual are tested." β
And so it happened.
The ignorant and small soul, the fear brought by the endless unknown, the instinctive avoidance of death and the end, everything makes the life in the void seek faith in confusion, seek liberation in faith, so, suddenly one day, Shuer, who has been watching coldly for hundreds of millions of years and has never had emotional ups and downs, suddenly has feelings, and suddenly will secretly rejoice in the success of this group of little things, and grieve for the failure of this group of lives.
Shur is like a young mother who has just given birth to life, and suddenly understands what love is.
Temples were erected, statues radiated endless light, and the name of Shur was praised by the creatures of the void, and people knelt in front of the icons to offer devotion and faith to Shur.
I am one, I am all thousand, I am the beginning and the end, I am the creation and the destruction, I am the only one in the world.
This is the proverb that Shur told the believers at the beginning, it is not boasting, it is not falsified, everything is true.
"So, in your dreams, I will have another dream, or rather, many more dreams, and in each dream, I will intentionally create the world, and then make the world face the crisis of my awakening. "Yes, that's right, I'm the creator, the observer, the guide, and finally the destroyer, and I will lead my followers to perform similar rituals, and then observe the results of the rituals on me." Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but whether it works or not, you and I don't need to worry about the time frame, we have plenty of time, we can try it countless times, until one day, I feel the right time, and then ......"
"The subject changed from you to me. β
"Yes, the second step is to hold the ritual in your world, I am only the guide, and you are the observer and judge, and it is up to you to feel the effect of the ritual, maybe you can feel it repeatedly. In this way, we have a large amount of measured data, which is probably enough to deduce whether the ritual is feasible or not. β
And God said, "Do so," and so it came to pass.
Under the guidance of Shur, the fragile lifeforms sensed the apocalyptic crisis and began to try to use the methods provided by Shul to survive this devastating disaster.
However...... The attempt failed.
Fear and despair overwhelmed hope and reason, chaos spread rapidly among living beings, killing and war replaced cooperation, perhaps for different ideas, perhaps for nothing, but simply to vent fear, and war broke out involving the entire void.
Destruction, death, the once beautiful world has become like a hell on earth, and the rituals that have been nearly ready have become empty words.
Heartbroken, disappointed, before waking up, Shul stared lonely at the world that had turned into a wasteland, and deeply rooted the last scene of the world into his mind. In the melody of the explosion of the stars and the smoke of war, the world of order is swallowed up by the darkness of disorder, and Shure believes that he will never forget the failure in this dream for the rest of his life, and the bleak end will always be remembered in his heart.
Darkness fills the air, and Discord returns, perhaps stimulated by the last scene, and Shure wakes up from his dream, sighs softly, and falls into a deep sleep once more.
There is no time to sigh, there is still a long way to go, countless experiments are waiting for him, perhaps...... There are also countless failures ahead.