Chapter 297: The Illusory World
The major breakthrough made by the Tablet of Destiny didn't make Ciri's workload much less, nor did it bring him any joy. Because as time passes, with the magic revolution that is now taking place in the Divine Grace Realm, Ciri has more and more troubles.
Ciri already knew why the power of faith, or the power of the soul, converged on itself, as a result of ancient humans modifying the rules of the world as a whole. However, it didn't work much for him. He didn't know or have the ability to change those rules like those ancient humans did. Even the gods can only affect the attributes of the rules within a certain range, and cannot completely and permanently change the operation of a rule in the entire world.
So the more "Atheism" spreads, the more people believe in it, even if they don't want to believe in Ciri, the power of the "soul" continues to be transmitted. Fortunately, Xiao Jiu was here, otherwise Xi Rui would have been driven crazy by those chaotic spiritual powers.
Xiao Jiu is still asleep, and according to the old mage Ryan, every time a divine beast like a phoenix grows significantly, it has to go through a long period of dormancy. However, Xiao Jiu can still help Ciri purify the power of faith while he is sleeping, and it doesn't matter if he wakes up or not.
As the power of the "soul" gathers more and more, and the speed of gathering is also getting faster and faster, the impact of the soul is becoming more and more serious. If the power of these "souls" were to be gathered on someone else without purification, I am afraid that that person would have been erased of his own will long ago, and then become a god under the control of the collective will.
Although Xi Rui eliminated the impurities with Xiao Jiu's help, and purified the power of the "soul", so that he was not in danger of erasing his own will. However, because the power of these purified "souls" has gathered more and more, it has revealed another characteristic.
Ciri's will can interfere with reality, and he now observes the world of perception and feels that the whole world is in a semi-illusory state. Ciri's own magic is still far from legendary, but it has already shown some kind of special crafting of the legendary stage, and even something beyond legendary.
For example, in the past, Ciri used to teleport with magic items, rune circles, or certain spells, but now he can move in space almost by will, just like a legend. Ciri felt that he was not moving, but that something had changed in the whole world that had brought him to where he wanted to go.
When the illusion of reality grows more and more acute, Ciri can even create something out of thin air that has never appeared before, including materials with certain special properties, some props with special functions, and so on. This makes Ciri feel more unreal in the real world.
The whole world feels like a dream in Ciri!
At the same time, the situation is rapidly deteriorating in his dream world. The official organization of that world has collapsed from within in a short time. All that remains are large groups under the official banner.
The whole old social order fell apart without official maintenance, and it was not long before a new barbaric system was established on the corpse of the old system, a system of the jungle.
The level of overall production and creativity in the world has regressed significantly, a large amount of technical knowledge and materials have been lost, and talents have withered. Coupled with the presence of various monsters and the originally hidden alien race, human beings are no longer the main body of that world, both on the surface and secretly.
Belief in the "Old Gods" has spread at a very exaggerated rate, and the world has begun to be completely dominated by their followers before the "Old Gods" have even truly appeared.
The beliefs of the "Old Gods" are different from those of the gods that Ciri normally knows. All believers in the various individuals of the "Old Gods" are mostly in a state of semi-madness, and they may not worship any belief in the gods, but simply worship some powerful power, some unknown and terrifying.
It is said that the vast majority of the "old gods" did not care about their followers, and some did not even know or completely ignored the things about them. The "Old Gods" usually do not deliberately destroy any one world, they often destroy something unintentionally, because the "Old Gods" themselves are at a very different level from other things.
For the "Old Gods", they have no ill will or good intentions towards the believers and the world, because they don't care about all this. The only thing that can make the "Old Gods" care is the other "Old God", and everything else is insignificant to them.
Even so, even if the worship of the "old gods" is only a one-sided thing, those believers can often derive some strange power from this worship. These powers are not given to believers by the "Old Gods" at all, just from the appearance of the "Old Gods", the breath they inadvertently leak, or a part of the meaning he represents, the weak can get some power far beyond their own level.
Ciri didn't know if the reason for his feeling that the real world was illusory was the power of those purified "souls" or the dream world. Because the dream world gave her the same feeling as the real world now, so much so that sometimes he couldn't help but wonder whether he was connected to that dream world in the real world, or shuttled to an illusory reality in the dream world.
Or maybe there are both the power of the "soul" and the change in the dream world, which causes him to be in this strange state, a state that makes him feel very bored. He always felt that everything around him was not real, and the feeling of waking up and waking up made his whole person a little trance and at a loss.
As the days passed, the illusion of reality became more and more serious. There is a blessing in the dream world called wish-fulfillment, and Ciri now feels like she has reached that stage. In this increasingly illusory world, he can get almost everything he wants. But it's not a happy thing to have your wishes come true in an illusory state. Every time he communicates with people, it seems that he is separated by a long distance, a distance that cannot be crossed.
Eventually, Ciri explained the situation to the City of the End, and temporarily withdrew from deciphering the rest of the Tablet of Destiny. In your makeshift base on the Non plane, try to calm your mind while waiting for these strange changes to end.
When the strange changes stopped, when everything froze, Ciri felt that the whole world had become a completely illusory state, a kind of appearance that seemed to be readable back and forth at will, and changed at will.
He himself was in that state, but his own will came to a completely empty space.
Ciri didn't know how to describe this space, or maybe there was no space at all, his mind was in nothingness. But it's not like there's nothing here, and although Ciri no longer has any outside senses, he can still sense the existence of another kind of will.