Chapter 42: History
As they talk to the system, a war story that took place long ago gradually unravels its mystery, and it is only then that they truly understand what has happened in the past few centuries.
Unlike Shen Yi and the others knew, the rebellion didn't actually happen once at the end of every era.
Precisely, from the beginning of the First Age, the rebellion of human adventurers against the domination of the Lords has never ceased.
Since the Juggernaut was not aware of the importance of hiding his own existence in the earliest days, the adventurers knew very early that the Juggernaut was not a god, but that they were just a group of alternative beings who had stolen the space of the gods and stolen the power of the gods.
The absence of the fear of God, coupled with the oppression of death, led to the adventurer's rebellion from the beginning.
Although after entering the Second Age, the Juggernaut retreated into the background, avoiding too much contact and exposing more of his weaknesses, but those things that had been circulated still could not be completely eradicated.
Therefore, the war of resistance of human adventurers is like a protracted war against aggression, it has never stopped, but the intensity is different, and every time the century changes, the master makes concessions, which is the inevitable consequence of a large-scale war of resistance.
What Shen Yi and the others are seeing now is one of the large-scale anti-domination operations, and as for whether it was the war at the end of the third century that led to the rise of the bloody city, even the subsystem is unknown. Because after this war, the subsystem was on the verge of collapse, and now the subsystem is reduced to the most basic memory export function.
In that era when the oppression of death was far higher than now, adventurers tried all kinds of ways to fight against the master for the power of survival and freedom.
In the fierce struggle, countless sparks of wisdom and surreal miracles burst out.
The creation of subsystems is carried out on this basis.
But at first, it wasn't the subsystems that the adventurers intended to create.
"The creation of the subsystem was carried out by all the adventurers, but initially, what the adventurers wanted to create was not a subsystem, but a spiritual annihilation six-pointed star array. ”
"Spiritual Annihilation Six-Pointed Star Array?" Shen Yi repeated, "What kind of array is this?"
"The Spiritual Annihilation Six Vast Star Array is an attack array developed based on Alexandra Lawler's phylotectonics, and its main target is Juggernaut. The subsystem replied, "Alexandra Lawler, before coming to Bloody City, was a German scientist who worked in physics and chemistry. He was not well known when he was on Earth, but he was the theoretical founder of system tectonics. Phylotectonics, what you call true alchemy. This is a new discipline based entirely on the laws of dream space, and its purpose is to find out what kind of operation the master has set up in this space, and find a way to use it. ”
"Great idea. Shen Yi exclaimed: "For a while, I was also researching what the rules of the city were, but they never appeared publicly in any way. It's like setting up a law for you, but not allowing you to know what the law is, which gave me a lot of headaches. ”
This is exactly what Alexandra Lawler's phylotectonics is all about. In Alexandra Lawler's time, the rules were not very secretive, and as you said, if you want people to obey the law, you have to make the law public. As a result, Alexandra Lawler could easily grasp the laws of how the world worked. If he had lived long enough, maybe he would have been able to reveal all the secrets of the whole world, but unfortunately he didn't make it to that point. The price paid for his dedication to research was that he was too weak, and many people at the time did not realize the importance of his existence......"
In an era where survival was the first goal, Alexandra Lawler was never the strongest of the adventurers. Because of his dedication to the study of the laws of space, his life can be said to be quite difficult and difficult. In fact, most of the time, when fighting alongside other adventurers, he was known for "dragging others back".
According to the subsystem, this is an "incompetent" guy who is a bit clumsy, not very dexterous in his hands and feet, and has little timidity, and is afraid to move forward when fighting.
He once borered fellow adventurers and was abandoned many times.
However, Alexandra Lawler never gave up on his more in-depth and thorough study of the basic theory of space, believing that as long as there are laws in this world, as long as he masters these laws, then he will have the most powerful power.
But the truth is that he was wrong.
He had only developed a preliminary theory, not to mention failing to put the theory into practice, or the system structure itself had not been developed, and he died in a beast tide attack.
However, it was his theory of system construction that was later inadvertently acquired by another adventurer, who was Jiang Hongyuan, the initiator of the Six-Pointed Star Array of Spiritual Annihilation.
Jiang Hongyuan was a rare alchemy master in the dream space at that time.
Although alchemical knowledge is actually pseudo-knowledge, these pseudo-knowledge are different from pseudo-knowledge in the general sense.
It's not entirely false.
To be precise, the knowledge of alchemy itself was developed according to the rules of space. It's like science fiction, with theories and results, but it doesn't take into account the practical problems.
Just as the theory of relativity tells you that time can be bent and people can go back in time, but that doesn't mean that you can put it into practice through this theory. But with alchemy, the actual questions can be skipped.
But in this space, after Jiang Hongyuan combined his knowledge with Alexandra Lawler's phylotectonics, he found that they had a lot in common.
Alexandra Lawler's phylotectonics lies in discovery, while Jiang Hongyuan's alchemy lies in realization.
When the two are combined, many problems are naturally solved.
So he took over Alexandra's research and began the creation of true true alchemy.
Unlike Alexandra, Jiang Hongyuan was quite a powerful figure in the space itself, so soon after that, Jiang Hongyuan recruited a group of adventurers with the same wealth of knowledge and experience to cooperate with him to further sublimate the phylotectonics.
In addition to the effort, sometimes there are opportunities.
The era in which Jiang Hongyuan lived was the Tertiary period of Dream Space.
At this time, the Juggernaut had realized that it was impossible to complete the control of humans by relying on mystery alone, so following the Blood Crest of the Second Age, the Juggernaut launched the Tower of Babel in the Third Age, promising that as long as the adventurer completed all the tasks, he could return, and also accepted the adventurer's request to improve his living conditions and create a wild city.
This is where the City of Ashes comes from.
Of course, at that time it was not called the City of Ashes, but the City of Hope, because the Tower of Babel was their hope to return home.
At first, the presence of the Tower of Babel did ease the adventurers' revolt, as their battle was no longer a pointless battle to the death, but the possibility of returning home.
But as the battles come down one after another, and as no one has ever been able to complete the Tower of Babel mission, the adventurers gradually understand that this so-called Tower of Hope is nothing more than a mirage-like illusion, a means to deceive everyone.
They were furious again.
At that time, Jiang Hongyuan's research and development of real alchemy had also reached a peak stage, but due to some bottlenecks, he was still unable to complete the final breakthrough.
So he came up with a solution.
Together with some adventurers, he began to carry out a full-scale construction of the City of Hope, and carried out a large-scale renovation of the City of Hope on the grounds of "expanding human settlements, strengthening defense and security, and striving for the survival of more people".
For this approach, the Juggernaut did not find any problems at the beginning.
But what they didn't realize was that Jiang Hongyuan would take the opportunity of expanding the City of Hope to do two big things at the same time.
The first thing is that he took the opportunity to break ground and expand the city, taking the opportunity to approach the Tower of Babel.
The Tower of Babel was created by the Juggernaut with the help of the system's manipulation of space energy, and it itself is the embodiment of the greatest achievement of the rules of space. With the help of system tectonics, Jiang Hongyuan solved many problems that he couldn't figure out at first in one fell swoop through the study of Babel, and completed a major breakthrough in system tectonics.
With this breakthrough, he gained a way to shield the perception of domination.
The second thing is that he started the construction of the underground six-pointed star array with this project.
The construction of the six-pointed star array took a long time, and it was not completed until Jiang Hongyuan's death, but when he was alive, he built a good foundation for this large array and provided a theoretical way to eliminate the master - spiritual annihilation.
Spiritual annihilation, as the name suggests, is to launch a powerful impact directly on the spiritual level of people. Since Quarels are spirit beings, this attack is fatal to Quarels. Jiang Hongyuan thought that they had the hope of using this large array to wipe out all the Quarels in one fell swoop.
After Jiang Hongyuan's death, the Six Vast Star Array was continued to be led by his friends and heirs, Fang Haobo, Dan Dough, and Bald.
However, at this moment, an accident occurred.
Dan Douter, who is good at system construction, accidentally discovered that in a small-scale energy impact test, their star array energy actually resonated with space energy to a certain extent.
This resonance can transcend their original design, no longer following a fixed program, but directly giving instructions.
In other words, they have inadvertently touched the threshold of manipulating spatial energy.
Everyone was ecstatic about this discovery, and they immediately realized that it could bring them more than they expected - a space manipulation system.
They may even use this system to replace the Juggernaut and become the gods of space.
As a result, the direction of development has diverged.
Fang Haobo insisted that spiritual annihilation should be prioritized, and the primary goal should be to eliminate the master.
Dan Dowt, on the other hand, insisted that priority should be given to building space systems and infiltrating the dream master system of domination.
Balder believed that the power of the system should be used to make oneself stronger, and even become a true omnipotent god.
Dan Dort and Balder's ideas, although different in their usefulness, both used to build systems, so the controversy ended in a victory for both men.
In the end, the Great Array of Spiritual Annihilation failed to take shape, but still retained some of its abilities, while the Great Array developed in the direction of building a system.
This development has greatly slowed down the formation time of the Great Array, and has also brought a crisis to its exposure.
"The fuller the ideal, the more skinny the reality. Shen Yi sighed: "The creation of the space system is indeed great, but for any rebel, time always comes first. The result of pursuing the ultimate goal too much will inevitably lead to all kinds of accidents. ”
"That's true. The subsystem replied: "The long-term expansion of the City of Hope has already aroused the suspicion of the Juggernaut. On the day when the space system was completed, all the adventurers involved had an all-night party, which brought about a drop in defensive psychology. No one expected that the counterattack from the Juggernaut would be so swift. In fact, it has only been three days since the system was completed, and the punitive troops sent by the Juggernaut have arrived......"
King Kong sighed: "Then they were subjected to a frenzied slaughter, and a great revolt ended in failure. It is also a tragic war...... It always happens between humans and humans. ”
The so-called punitive forces are actually the City Guardians, that is, the most powerful adventurers who have completed all space tasks and have left the city to fight against the Zerg.
Therefore, the war between the master and the adventurer is still a fight between humans and humans in the end, which is very helpless.
To his surprise, the subsystem replied, "No, the adventurers didn't lose. In fact, they fought back, slaughtered all the punitive forces, and won a great victory that had never been seen before. ”
"What did you say?" everyone was stunned at the same time.
The fact that the City Watch would be slaughtered by the adventurers in the space sounds like a graduate losing to a current student, which is really incredible.
The system has answered: "Adventurers have mastered the power of true alchemy, and many of their abilities can already have their own power system without going through the master." True alchemy is based entirely on the laws of space, like the laws of physics on Earth, which cannot be changed. It's like an atomic bomb on Earth, and whoever has it is the most powerful. ”
"What's going on behind that?" Gentle also asked in surprise, "If the Juggernaut loses, then why is there anything that follows?"
This question, without waiting for the system to answer, Shen Yi had a gloomy face: "I guess...... The Juggernaut was forced to be helpless, and finally chose to let the Zerg in, right?"
Everyone's minds buzzed at the same time.
At that moment, King Kong, Hong Lang, Gentle, Fat Man and others remembered the huge mountain of insect corpses in the Ash City, as well as the terrifying scars on the insect corpses.
It turned out that it was not a war for humans to meet the invasion of the Zerg, but a war to destroy the rebels with the help of the Zerg!
The system has replied leisurely: "Yes, the Juggernaut let the Zerg in, and with the help of the power of the Zerg to eliminate the rebels, at the same time, the Juggernaut even risked the collapse of the system and forcibly modified some of the spatial laws. Of course, this change is only small, and too big a change can lead to the collapse of the system that dominates itself. And true alchemy, although powerful, is based on the laws of space. It doesn't work outside of space, and it doesn't work when the laws of space change. It's like when the melting point of gasoline changes, all cars can't start. The biggest problem with the invincible power of true alchemy is that the foundation on which it rests is too weak. As a result, after the rules were changed, the adventurers lost several of their most powerful means of combat......"
Shen Yi let out a long breath: "So later, the adventurers were defeated on all fronts, and finally retreated here to launch a sacrifice?
"Using the ability of the subsystem to manipulate some of the spatial energy, at the cost of one's own life, to complete the third option that has not been realized...... Creation of the gods!"