The Path of Ashes.

In the past, Ian had foreseen many paths, whether it was the initial swarm, the following cataclysm, whether it was the further extinction of the stars and eternity, or the ongoing arcane...... Every path has its own special features.

The unconventional fantasies, the technology far beyond the era itself, and the attempts to reach the stars were enough to turn their colors into 'gold' and even 'rainbows'.

However, the path of ashes is different.

This time, whether it was Ian or the Ember King, the first thing they saw was pitch black.

It was, made of endless scarlet flame and ash, that could engulf all light and incinerate all hope...... Deep scably.

Then, in the darkness, there was a little rainbow.

"It's ......"

Even Ian couldn't help but be shocked at the moment, because none of the paths he had ever seen had ever seen such a near-'certain death' darkness...... Rather, it had been a long time since he had seen a future that would pose a mortal threat to him, and there was no possibility of killing him without the power to resist in the current Terra continent.

But speaking of this, the self who extinguished the star path bumped into the end at the end, which should theoretically be an inevitable ending, but for some reason there was no dark omen.

Is there any difference between the two?

I don't know. So read on.

Under the gaze of the prophet, the path to the future emerges from nothingness.

It all started in Port Harrison.

Without a younger brother and being alone, Ian's experience in Port Harrison is very different from that of the 'now' life, and Ian, who developed the Path of the Ashes, is supposed to be a relatively early Ian, and his mode of action is not a normal exploration, but a reborn similar to 'exploring different possibilities in multiple weeks'.

Relying on his identity as an appraiser, entering the jungle many times on adventures, choosing to be loyal to Viscount Grant, and becoming a member of the inner circle of Port Harrison as the successor of Elder Pudder, Ash Ian did not show much 'curiosity' about the outside world, as he had not deleted many memories at that time.

He had a good relationship with many of Viscount Grant's loyal men, Sir Arme and Lamar's treasurer, both of whom took good care of him as a young child, and Ian knew the 'side story' behind them.

Sir Arm is relatively simple, as the right and left hand of Viscount Grant, he has several smuggling lines in his hands, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth, and all kinds of potion materials and wealth stored by the Grant family are guarded by him.

He wasn't corrupt, the old man was mainly a bit of a hamster, he had a lot of money but hid it all away, and Ian even took all of his money away as start-up capital, but by the time he returned home to Harrison to return to Sir Arm, he hadn't even found out that he had been stolen.

Lamar, on the other hand, is a little more serious.

He has a private connection with the Flame Land Special Operations Team!

It's very nerve-wracking to say, but in fact, it's okay, as a wandering red people who fled from the Flame Lands, Lamar is in a high position in Port Harrison, and in the eyes of the Flame Land Special Operations Team, this is the best target for rebellion, so various rebellions and threats against Lamar emerge in an endless stream, and Lamar does not have any intention of betraying Viscount Grant, and firmly refuses every time.

Even Viscount Grant, knowing this, wanted Lamar to pretend to agree to the other party so that he could seduce those flaming bugs, but Lamar refused.

Although he did not tell Viscount Grant why, Ian the Ash learned about Lamar's conversation with his sister by chance.

Conversations are complex and private.

Clendale's meaning is very simple, the viscount does have a life grace and love for them, and betrayal is impossible to betray, but if the viscount abandons them, then she will warn the viscount one last time, with full saving grace, and then leave Port Harrison.

Lamar also confessed that the reason why he didn't contact Flameland was because he was afraid that after the Viscount abandoned them in the future, he would be tempted to contact Flameland and do something harmful to Port Harrison - he couldn't resist the temptation, so he didn't want to be involved with temptation from the beginning.

Said so, but from their tones, Ian could tell completely that these two would not run at all...... They will stay in Port Harrison and die with Viscount Grant, or even with Viscount Grant!

"The Lamar siblings are actually such sick and delicate characters? Viscount Grant is so dangerous? If you spend a little bit of money, I'm afraid you won't need me, and your life will be directly guaranteed......"

Ian was a little nervous, Viscount Grant's harem looked quite difficult to manage, and I didn't know how he could perfectly coordinate this world...... But if you think about it carefully, Viscount Grant is pure and single-minded, and after having a child, he directly transformed into a good father, in terms of Terra's morality, he is really a perfect nobleman who is clean and self-conscious, and it is normal not to overturn.

All of this is interesting to Ian, but to the Ember King on the side, it's a little unclear.

However, he keenly saw that something was wrong.

- None of this seems to be the future...... It's the past!

Ian's perspective actually can't see Ash Ian himself, but it can be surmised through the relationships of various people around Ash Ian, and the Ember King can vaguely see that all this seems to be related to their strategic action against the Empire's South Ridge in the first place.

That was quite a long time ago, and development seems to be different from reality.

Could it be ...... Is it another possibility?

The Ember King suppressed his curiosity and doubts, and continued to follow Ian's perspective.

In this world, most of the things are in the same order, the South China Sea Labyrinth incident, Ash Ian did not participate too much like the original one, but entered the South China Sea Labyrinth with Weggers at the end, fought with the swarm, and finally witnessed the end of Hilliard with Isengard and others.

[Actually?! 】

In the process, the King of Ember opened his eyes wide, and the majestic fifth energy level also became a curious melon-eating crowd.

Even he didn't know about the many events in the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea, and Hilliard had actually passed away at this time, so didn't it mean that Ian Yinfeng had simply relied on his own strength to develop the Arcane Path, instead of inheriting the legacy of Inaga and Hilliard as they thought?

Thinking about it this way, I am really not wronged to be defeated.

And that's where the reversal happens.

I don't know what went wrong, maybe it's the 'difference' of parallel time and space, the news from Weggs leaked - the new generation of patrol knights who knew the news of Hilliard, most of the patrol knights led by the deputy head of the frost trail rushed directly to Harrison Port at full speed, Viscount Grant was controlled as soon as possible, and the entire Harrison Port and the South China Sea Labyrinth were under martial law.

Even, there are rumors that His Majesty the Emperor was touched by this news and will personally come to this South China Sea frontier.

Theoretically, if the sun god bird wants to come, it will arrive in the next second. But Ian knew that at this time, Axel was probably still at the edge of Terra's orbit to rectify his scourge of light, and he would not be able to return until he set off for the imperial capital, which should be a projection clone.

Thinking about it carefully, the prophecy of the Hall of All Souls was at that time, Axel should have also known the news of Isengard and the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea before setting off back to the imperial capital, and he happened to sense the danger immediately after the other party came back and went back to his hometown to farm.

Under multiple time-space comparisons, we can find out the logic behind more events.

But for Ian the Ashes, this is the worst of the worst - although he has received the inheritance of Immovable Fortification, the eyes of the Empire have noticed him, and he has no way to make a trip to the imperial capital or other adventures, and Isengard is directly protected as the emperor's grandson.

There is only one way to escape the sight of the Empire.

Run!

Run to the Flamelands, the Whale Song Cliffs, or Canaan Moore!

This choice may have determined the difference in paths, but obviously, Ian Ash chose the Flamelands.

And then......

Time began to speed up.

[What? 】

And the King of Ember was also shocked: [You joined the Flame Land? How did I not know?! 】

[No, why didn't you join the Flame Land when you saw this possibility!] 】

The Ember King didn't quite understand the essence of Ian's prophecy, and he thought that this was Ian's prophetic ability - to directly see through a possible future, so he couldn't figure out why he didn't go this way when he could go with the tide of time.

But soon, he also figured it out: "I see, this is your prophetic power...... You definitely see a better future, which is who you are now. It's just that the future I see now is based on the possibility of cause and effect between you and me.]

[In this future...... Can I burn longer than I ever thought I could be, as you can see? 】

"That's it."

Ian replied softly, carefully observing the details of it all.

After Ian the Ash joined the Flamelands, he quickly gained the attention of this generation of Flame Kings, and as a 'temporary teammate' with a certain relationship with Hilliard and Isengard, he met the Ember King.

Then, there's the rapid development.

The Ember King's personality meant that he would not care how incredible Ian's genius was, but would accept it without care.

And Ian has undoubtedly grown rapidly, and after helping the King of Ember solve many problems with the development of local people's livelihoods, as well as the development and progress problems related to the path of sublimation, he was directly appointed as the crown prince of Yanyuan, and the next step is to compete with others of the Abasarom bloodline for the inheritance of the 'blood of the top seat'.

The process of competition is quite cliché, nothing more than battle exploits, ring matches, research paper releases, etc., and Ian successfully became the only supreme heir of the Flying Flame Land after a smooth pretense of slapping the face and eating a tiger and blowing up a group of antique heads (worldview) with out-of-time papers.

Then he confessed his prophethood.

[Huh? At that time, the Ember King reacted the same as the real Ember King, and it can even be said that it was exactly the same incredible: [You only revealed your prophetic identity at this time? What did you waste so much time for?! 】

"It's mainly about collecting data." And Ian thought thoughtfully: "After such a competition, all the data of the king's blood in the Flying Flame Land has been collected by me, and my prestige and prophet are even more invincible. ”

Unlike the Empire, the Empire's bloodline is too stable and too powerful to be easily changed like the Flying Flame Lands.

Becoming the de facto second-in-command of the Flamelands, Ash Ian advances various social improvements and sublimation studies with great ease.

And the King of Ember is also at the mercy of Ian.

It was at this time that Ash Ian participated in research related to the 'Reincarnation of Fire'.

As Ian thinks now, the Reincarnation of Flame itself is very rudimentary, because the Flying Flame Land does not have the resources of the Empire to advance the details of the plan, but as the host, the Ember King has indeed mastered the core skills, at least in terms of the Demon Legion, the Ember King and the Chrysalis have indeed determined the possibility of 'artificial demons', and have conducted a series of experiments respectively.

Under Ian's auspices, the details of the reincarnation of fire were rapidly fleshed out, and research on 'human nature', 'Shroud Distortion', and 'Aether Circulation' was completed one after another, and the world war began as promised.

This time, there was no way to ease the war between the countries, and the power of the Flying Flame Land, with the help of Ash Ian, was even stronger, and it withstood the surprise attack of the Empire's floating city, dragging the power of the Empire around the Abasarom Mountains.

And then...... It was Mikael who raided the imperial capital, Axel was severely damaged, the empire lost its ability to attack externally, and the war around the world became more and more intense.

It was a precursor to the end of the world.

Endless wars have burned the world, and as the wars between the nations of the world have become more brutal and the death toll has risen, all kinds of dangerous technologies that should have been used with caution have been put into practice.

The Four Orthodox Churches have co-opted a number of civilians, but this is only the last seed, and it will not prevent the war from continuing - and it is the Far Shore Island that will completely intensify the war and push the world to the end.

Since you don't want us to have land, we won't be responsible for the continent of Terra.

With the beginning of the 'Great Migration' plan, all the Far Shore Islands withdrew from the Terra Continent, and Cang Xing led a national migration fleet to the New World, and the mantle plume originally located on the Far Shore Island broke out soon after due to the war in the west of Terra and the Aether Tremor, and the terrifying flames spread, engulfing all the areas west of the Outer Flame Lands and the Dark Mountains in an instant.

Heat-hot hurricanes, tsunamis, and terrifying earthquakes swept through western and central Terra, and countless civilians, ordinary people, and even some of the weakest sublimators were unable to resist such natural disasters.

Even with the protection of two fifth-level powerhouses, the Flying Flame Land still suffered a great impact, a large number of coastal areas, port cities were swallowed up, and the Tranquil Sea also turned into a closed inland sea, boiled by the heat from the mantle, so that the terrifying smoke covered half of the continent.

People die like grass and turn to ashes, and no one can be saved, whether they are good or evil, whether they are dreaming or muddy, whether they are wise people and monsters or insects without their own thoughts, all of them are the same.

It's all ashes.

Both Ian and the Ember King fell silent as they watched this scene.

As Ian originally prophesied in Port Harrison, there is no need for an end and an end of the world for humanity to destroy itself, and it only takes one war to kill more than ninety percent of the world's people.

And when the fifth energy level makes a move, it is more than 99 percent.

At this point, it is no longer possible to start the reincarnation plan.

Therefore, even if many of the details are still quite rudimentary, and even if many technologies are not yet fully mature, the entire territory of the Flying Flame Land has begun to 'demonic transformation'.

It's just that just the population of the Flame Land can't reach the lower limit of 'reincarnation'. To create a distortion of the Void, to distort the otherwise smooth psionic energy-aether flow into a recurring circulation, and to distort the real world into a dream realm of the Void, it would take more than 2.7 billion 'artificial demons'.

"Daddy, you can go and carry out the reincarnation plan."

What about you? 】

"Since this world is going to be reduced to ashes no matter what...... So now, I'm going to add to the fire. ”

【…… I don't understand what you mean]

"I'm going to destroy all the remaining humans and sublimators and turn them into demons. Rest assured, no one will be alive. ”

"I have this confidence."

"Have this confidence? No, wait, could it be that I had already done the 'Slaughter of All Terra' before this? ”

Even if he could only hear the voice, even if he could only see the tired face of the Ember King, Ian was still a little nervous, and the Ember King stared at the fragment of time in shock, he was stunned for a while, and then turned his head to look at the Great Prophet Ian Silverpeak, who 'loved all mankind the most' in his heart, and couldn't help but gasp: [Is this you talking to me? 】

"Probably." Ian thought about it and nodded in acknowledgement, but he immediately shook the pot: "But there must be part of the reason because of your education!" ”

- Fart, I'm not that extreme!

The King of Ember thought he was already extreme, but after seeing Ian from other paths, he knew what it meant to be truly extreme.

But he was also quite curious about the next development, so he remained silent and continued to watch.

Next...... Everything falls into place.

In front of Ian, who has grown to the limit, no matter which Ian is, as long as he takes the time and doesn't mind destroying the world, he can always defeat any opponent he wants to defeat. As the entire world gradually reduced to a shattered wasteland, Terra, which was once green and full of life, has also turned into a post-apocalyptic world full of lava and shattered crust.

But even this is an abyss planet that is more hellish than hell, and even more apocalyptic than the end of the world.

A flame ignited the realm and began reincarnation.

Transmigration.

When the Apocalypse server began to operate, and all the human memories, minds, and souls that had been backed up were thrown into the chaotic and pitch-black void and turned into demons, the realm began to distort and change as a result.

- At first, the world was empty.

Only broken rocks, burning earth and boiling black water, everything was shrouded in chaos.

Until one day, the first fire appeared in the dark chaos...... The flame shines through the darkness, brightens the void, what did not exist is created, and everything that has been gone reappears.

A whole new world was created.

The humans of the New World have memories of their 'past lives', and in every sense of the word, they are the same people they were, but they could not correctly recognize themselves because of the illusion and demonic distortions, and the Apocalypse Server erased all painful memories for them, allowing them to live peacefully in the New World.

For them, all this is no different from the Fall of the Sky: they are protected into a huge shelter, and when they come to the world of war, the world is reborn. And now, it's just a matter of building a home again.

The new world is vast, because everything is an expansion and imagination of the imaginary, and people happily start from scratch, build towns, cities, and once again draw out the state and society, in which people multiply, and continue to struggle and compete.

Because it is not completely from scratch, there are many people with professional knowledge, and in the first few decades of reincarnation, the 'reincarnation of humans' has built quite a solid settlement and social structure.

But for some reason, technology has not developed, the number of sublimators is very small, people maintain the social structure of the city-state, fight with the power of the highest second energy level peak, and the highest science is only the creation of artillery and steam engines, and further internal combustion engines and alchemy engines are already the most sophisticated and high-level technologies in various countries, and cannot be widely used.

And for some reason, it is the limit of 'reincarnation'.

With the third level of the mindlight body, they will perceive the truth of the world, and they will notice that they are living in a dream of vanity, and they will also notice all kinds of irrationalities in this world.

The power of all the high-level people in the past, after they were killed and put into reincarnation, became the power of reincarnation itself. Even though reincarnation can recover almost all the energy for recycling, the higher the base, the higher the quality of reincarnation.

Although the power at the peak of the second energy level can already defeat the army, it can still be defeated by low-level sublimators and various alchemy artillery gatherings, so the war in this world is more stable and the society is more stable than the original Terra.

As for the technology, just because these reactions are relatively simple, the server bears the higher-level aetheric reactions that will involve the nature of the Shroud, and will still cause instability in the world.

Slowly explore the world, slowly expand your territory, slowly multiply, and grow.

Everything in the world of reincarnation is very stable, although there are still a lot of joys and sorrows in the world, and there are still many regrets, but it is not so that a fifth-level powerhouse suddenly goes crazy and wants to transform the whole world into what he wants.

And this world also has many adventures, battles and stories. The exploration of distant places, the experiences of adventurers, the legends of mercenaries, those classic swords and sorcery, and the hegemony between city-states are enough to carry people's hearts.

Soon, soon.

Thousands of years have passed, tens of thousands of years have passed, and the world still exists.

Everything remains the same, and although many new technologies have been developed and the electronic age has been introduced, this is the limit, and people are immersed in a stable society and continue to live a life that will not end no matter how long it takes.

50,000 years.

This is the lifespan of the First Age.

And the reason for the end is also very simple.

The distortion has reached the limit, the essence of the artificial demon has gradually turned the newborn into a real demon, the passage of human nature and the deterioration of the soul have begun to make monsters appear, and the originally peaceful world has suffered a 'world-destroying demon disaster', and in the face of this demonic disaster, there is no hero to turn the tide, and there are no immortals and ashes to continue the world.

The world has been destroyed by a demonic plague.

Then, all the distorted realms began to flow back, shrinking...... Towards the initial flame.

"Are you okay?"

[It's easier than expected.] Fifty thousand years can pass away like water...... It's hard to imagine the time when I was still a human in the past.]

[Is there anything going on in the outside world?] 】

"A few years after the reincarnation began, the Scourge of Light broke out, and Terra shattered in half, leaving the rest into a lava planet. It's not completely cooled yet, but the evaporated water has been condensed into a meteorite that I can wait until it cools down and throw it back into Terra to rebuild the ecology. ”

"As for the lost half of the mass, take your time, you can wait for the cosmic dust to condense anyway."

【…… I'm just rekindling the flames, but you're really going to create the world again.]

[Isn't it lonely? 】

"The dragon kings handed over the dragon island to me, and I now have to guard the seal, and by the way, I have to suppress the remaining thousand stars, and it will depend on it to reshape Terra in the future. Overall, it's busy, but everything is on track, and I can rely on Dragon Island to speed up my time, and 50,000 years isn't long. ”

[So let's begin, the second reincarnation]

The First Age is over.

Then, it was the beginning of the Second Age.

Everything started from scratch, everything started from scratch.

It's like a game that's constantly rolling, constantly restarting, where the world spontaneously spins after the initial player is engaged, and then reborn again and again.

Some people go back to the server after brushing the beginning, while some people choose to go further in the development time, the Terrado souls in the Apocalypse server are the so-called players, the information they copy is the player, everything will not change, they will play countless times, and it will be as fresh as the first time.

In essence, the reincarnation of fire is not a living world.

Rather, it's a tombstone.

It stores everything of the Terra civilization, and relies on the ritual of 'reincarnation' to almost preserve the 'fire' that can be preserved forever.

"Won't it be boring?"

[Won't]

"Won't you get tired of the same world?"

[Sort of]

"The Thirty-Fourth Reincarnation...... It's been almost two million years, and the surface of Little Terra has cooled down, and you can try to use a thousand stars to collect solar energy and cosmic dust to restore the mass of Terra. ”

"Can you still hold on?"

[Still]

[Whether it is a human or a demon, it is ashes after all, as long as the core data is not damaged, the circular 'circulation' caused by the intersection of the virtual realm and the material world will continue]

[If it can last, I can continue, don't worry about me, Ian, do what you want to do]

[You go and wait for the result you want, let me continue to burn]

The Ember King is tireless and tireless.

Many people have said that eternal life is a curse.

The immortal will lose everything, lose what he loves, lose what he wants, and the eternal will lose again and again, leaving nothing but himself.

The Eternals will say goodbye to all their concerns, they will lose their humanity, their animal nature, their fear of death, their yearning for life, and the Eternals will eventually lose their desire for eternal life, and then give up their own lives.

For short-lived human beings, to deny all that is immortal seems to be to laugh at the brevity of their lives.

So, how does the King of Embers, who can be regarded as 'eternal' in a sense, feel about him?

The answer is nothing.

From beginning to end, the Ember King didn't have any superfluous thoughts.

He did lose everything, and he couldn't even perceive the world. He can only watch the reincarnation move forward at a speed of tens of times hundreds of times from the perspective of a bystander, even if he can speed up his thinking, observe a person's life, just like watching a movie and reading it, and read everything in this world, but he will eventually finish watching a movie, reading a book, and feel the 'melancholy of the end of the story'.

Even if he has nothing, he will still lose.

But the Ember King didn't care about that.

Why do some people think that eternal life is suffering? 】

[Why is it that if you lose it, you will be lost, and you will be lost? 】

Why do some people always think that the flame will be extinguished? It is clear that the sun burns for a long time longer than human civilization, but there are ignorant and weak human beings who point to that fleeting spark and confidently declare that the flame is short-lived and will eventually be extinguished? 】

[Everything, whether it is the boredom of life, the passing of dreams, the end of civilization, or all things that do not change, I can endure and overcome]

[Because ......]

[I really, I don't want to]

[Unwilling to turn into ashes]

If there is a template for the personality of a human being, then the King of Ember was not a human from the beginning.

Human beings are essentially short-lived races, and they pay attention to the time of their lives to chase what they want, some people want to stand on the top of the mountain and overlook all living beings, some people want to stand in front of people and teach the people, some people want to lead the army to conquer all directions, and some people want to calm all the difficulties with the world in mind.

Some people want to stand in the royal court, some people want to be rich and healthy, some people pay attention to benevolence and righteousness, some people pay attention to morality, some people pay attention to love and hate, and some people pay attention to self.

All these dreams, wants, and pleasures are the reason for the human heartbeat. There are realizations, but more than that, there are unwillingness. There is gain, but more is lost.

People are disgusted and even afraid of loss.

So people, human beings, can't imagine that a person with an infinite lifespan can keep gaining and losing indefinitely.

That's the biggest pain in the world.

But the Ember King couldn't comprehend the pain.

For those who die will be ashes.

It will become a nothingness that can no longer affect the world, and can no longer see the world.

All meaning, all dreams, will become meaningless under the wash of time. Even if the world is transformed, all the bad habits of human beings are changed, and a perfect civilization is created, but hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years later, civilization will turn into ashes, turn into empty dust, then all this is simply meaningless.

Nothingness.

The only thing that can fight against nothingness is 'eternal existence, infinite continuity'.

To fight against this nothingness, this uninteresting nothingness, the Ember King will burn—forever and ever, burning.

Even if it is to strip away one's consciousness little by little, tear one's soul apart, and turn the whole person into a pure ignition machine.

Thirty-fourth reincarnation.

The seventy-second reincarnation.

The one hundred and nineteenth reincarnation.

The two hundred and twenty-fifth reincarnation.

Sometimes tens of thousands of years, sometimes thousands of years, and the shortest two hundred years are less than two hundred years, and accidents happen, and human nature returns, turning the whole world into a monster purgatory.

But the longest is more than 400,000 years, and the entire era has been divided into more than a dozen different eras, wars and struggles, divisions and unifications, providing an extremely rich legendary epic and history for the entire era, and people's civilization is even about to discover the reality of the virtual realm and the world.

The Ember King and Ash Ian saw it all.

They saw happiness, they saw pain. They heard the singing, they heard the wailing. They have witnessed the sublime, but also the great.

They watched as all powers were established and all kingdoms collapsed.

The oaths, the curses, the sincere and false prayers, the tragic and comical wars, they bear witness to them all.

The cruelty and mercy of human beings, the viciousness and innocence of human beings, all of them are no longer unusual. Parents who sacrifice everything for their children, parents who strangle their children with their own hands, are ordinary in the long cycle of reincarnation, and cannot be called noble and despicable, because this is only a part of human beings.

The cycle continues, and Ash Ian waits silently in the Dragon Isle. If the Ember King is an inhuman will, then Ian the Ash is an attachment that the current Ian cannot understand.

He's waiting.

Even if he can't see it, even if he can only perceive the existence of Ash Ian sideways through the 'intermediary point' of the Ember King, Ian can still know what the other party is doing.

He took control of the Thousand Stars and guarded Dragon Island in place of the Dragon Kings. The Scourge of Light had destroyed half of Terra, and the remaining half was being reshaped in his palm.

Millions of years have passed, thousands of years have passed, and the final fragment in Dragon Island has not broken from the seal. As the dragon kings said, as long as a successor who meets the requirements is found, the final fragment will not be able to come out.

And after the Plague of Light, the 'Cradle' was gradually completely repaired...... Above the sky, there is not even a single star outside of Terra, except for the planets inside Terra.

Even so, Ian the Ashes is still waiting.

What is he waiting for?

Ian didn't know either.

It may be the limit of the cradle, it may be the return of the star god, it may be when the one outside will attack the cradle without any stimulation...... In short, Ian the Ash, as the one who knows the essence of the Guiding Star lineage, is to obtain information that is impossible to obtain by normal means.

The three hundred and fourteenth reincarnation, 'in the cradle', eight million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

The 1925th reincarnation, 'in the cradle', 30 million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

The five thousand five hundred and seventy-second reincarnation, 'in the cradle', 100 million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

100 million years, it seems like a long time.

Whether it is for people, for countries, civilizations, or for a species, 100 million years is a long time.

But for a planet, for geological changes, for an entire ecosystem, 100 million years...... It doesn't seem to be very long either.

On the planet once lived, dinosaurs ruled the world for 140 million years. They have changed a lot from birth to destruction, but there are still many that have not changed, they are still dinosaurs, even if they become more adaptable and more intelligent and sensitive.

If it weren't for that meteorite that drove the geological changes of the entire planet and completely transformed the planet's environment and climate, the dinosaurs would probably continue to prosper, 200 million years, 300 million years, it is possible.

The same is true of humans who are kept in samsara.

Ian watched the time flow before his eyes, and the Ember King watched in silence.

Whether it's them in foresight or in samsara, they're all doing the same thing.

They are waiting.

Wait for the change that will end everything.

And no matter how long the wait is, there will be an end to it.

Nine thousand seven hundred and four reincarnations, 'in the cradle', the 160,801,417 years of Terra's destruction.

Change has arrived.

Dragon Island.

Orbiting the more or less reshaped planet of Terra, Dragon Island still swirls silently. It is so strong that more than 100 million years have not left any trace on it at all.

After all, for the Star God Creation, who transcended the stars and stars, for those Ancestor Dragons who were expected to become Star Gods, more than 100 million years was just one hundredth or even one hundredth of the time for a star to be extinguished, how could it be so easily destroyed?

But, at the moment, it is destroyed.

From the inside out, the sudden surge of gravity shattered the entire Dragon Island.

It turned into a black hole...... It turned into a tiny dot that was barely noticeable.

"Finally!"

In front of him, Ian, who had been silently following all this, opened his eyes wide, his heart was not only excited, but also nervous: "Although I don't know what Ash Ian did, he definitely wasn't the one who deliberately released the fragments of the end. ”

"Sure enough, the seal of Dragon Island is not permanent, even if someone maintains it, it will collapse after 160 million years!"

"No...... Wait a minute. Not. The collapse of the Dragon Island Seal is because of the ether! ”

At first, Ian thought it was the Dragon Island Seal that had collapsed spontaneously, but soon, he sensed the real dissonance: "How did the concentration of the aether become so low?" ”

Even Ian couldn't accurately notice the aether data that had gradually decreased over the course of 160 million years, but in fact, as the planet Terra was shattered by the Scourge of Light, and the Shroud continued to reincarnate, the concentration of the surrounding aether was already gradually decreasing, which was normal.

From Ian's point of view now, it may be the destruction of the Terra civilization in the essence of the term, and the 'Boundless Tide' of the perpetual motion machine has returned to the Great Aetheric Circulation, so there is no perpetual motion machine in the Cradle of Terra on the Ashen Path.

Without a perpetual motion machine to provide a continuous supply of ether, all the ether in the natural environment will gradually degenerate into psionic energy and essentia, and then will not be able to affect time and space.

Even if the sun is still providing a steady stream of essendric matter, there is no intelligent life to provide spiritual energy, and the virtual realm is in reincarnation, and the true ether can no longer be born.

In short, everything adds up, and the accumulation of 100 million years has reduced the concentration of ether to a limit.

The seal of Dragon Island could not be maintained, and the fragments of the end were released.

And then......

Ian saw that the black point of light formed by the collapse of the Dragon Island had continued to flicker for a long time before flying away from the sun.

Immediately after, within three days.

The sun collapsed into a black hole.

Silently.

Without any gravitational changes, without any spectacular shock waves, the sun almost collapsed in the middle of breathing, spun at an accelerated pace, and then turned into a black hole. Its gravitational field is completely flat, the gravitational pull of the entire galaxy remains stable, and Terra is still in its original orbit, nothing has changed.

It's just that the sun has become a black hole, the light is gone, and there is no essentia of the sun flowing to the periphery.

Everything was dark and silent.

But for the people in the reincarnation, all this does not matter, they do not rely on the light of the sun to survive in the first place, even if the sun turns into a black hole, the reincarnation of fire can still continue.

Whether it's the flames of the Ember King or the Ash Ian, they're still there.

Even though their minds and consciousness have been distorted into forms that cannot be understood by normal humans, the cycle continues.

Thus, 14,595 reincarnations.

'In the Cradle', 200 million years after the destruction of Terra.

A real change has emerged.

Boom.

For people in samsara, there may not be any sound.

But for the real-life Ian and the Ember King, they both heard a slight, smashing sound.

Then they saw.

Cradle, broken.

At the perspective of an unknown number of times faster, the entire Terra Galaxy, the Prison Star Prison with a radius of five light years, the entire cradle, was all shattered.

And around the universe, the sparse but fierce starlight, the supernova light that has been blocked for 200 million years due to the existence of the cradle, filled the entire Terra galaxy in five years.

Everything is destroyed.

Including reincarnation.

Reincarnation is not extinguished because it burns out – reincarnation is extinguished because of external forces!

Because the cradle was shattered, the light that had been stored for 200 million years, and many supernovae condensed, completely destroyed the entire Terra, boiled the entire Realm, and tore all the bubbles apart, so it dissipated!

[I see......]

Looking at this scene, even the King of Ember showed a complicated expression, and said with emotion: [Is it not my limit, but the limit of Heavenly Hell......]

Ian, on the other hand, stared in one direction with his eyes wide open.

A direction he's been waiting for.

He waited.

A dark cloud of shadows that cannot be described in words, and can be speculated by logic...... In a way that is unimaginable for spatial life, and it is impossible to understand its causal order, it is slowly moving towards the center of the cradle, the center of the Terra system.

Is that...... Eventually.

The end that has been standing outside the cradle.

For 200 million years, there was nothing abnormal or abnormal in Him. Even in the 40 million years that the Final Fragment broke away from the Dragon Island Seal and turned Terra Star into a black hole, he still didn't do anything.

It wasn't until 200 million years later, when the cradle was shattered, that He finally acted.

In an unspeakably strange magnitude, heading towards the 'Terra Black Hole'.

"Why?"

This time, Ian didn't stop the 'Foresight Horizon' directly because he was staring at the black hole, although he was indeed fast to the limit, but the power of the fifth energy level was enough to keep him going until now.

But now, even with his wisdom, he couldn't figure out what all this meant for a while—the fragments of the end turned Terra into a black hole, shattered the cradle, and the end of the world, which had been motionless, suddenly began to act, slowly sinking into the black hole......

This is not surprising.

In the end, they are strange beings living in the horizon of a black hole, no matter how powerful they are, they probably have the habit of returning to the black hole, just like no matter how powerful human technology is, they will not have to transform themselves into strange appearances to adapt to the alien planet, but will transform the alien planet to look like the parent planet.

But why? After 200 million years of waiting, what important information does Ian need to comprehend?

Ian wouldn't have thought about it for a while, but he had memorized it all.

Soon, Ian sensed perhaps the most central difference.

"Aether."

In the last seconds of the Foresight Horizon, the seconds when the 'End' submerged into the black hole of Terra, Ian was keenly aware of the subtle difference between Terra and the 'Universe Beyond the Cradle' after the Cradle collapsed: "Aether, completely gone? ”

"Not true. It's not that the aether is completely gone...... Wait a minute. ”

"Do you mean...... The Universe Beyond the Cradle ......"

"No Ether?!"

(End of chapter)