Chapter 421: The World's Melting Pot
"There seems to be no surprises."
Seeing Barbatos' hesitant appearance, Stephen, who was standing with Bruce, breathed a sigh of relief. The power that Barbatos showed just now was not inferior to that of some powerful dimensional demon gods. If it was him who was in front of him, he didn't have the confidence to do what Luke was right now. The best he can do is to ensure the safety of himself and Bruce, and then see the right time to choose to retreat or confront.
Stephen's words also attracted the inquisitive eyes of the two Bruces, who were in a state of incomprehension of what had just happened. Barbatos' strength and strange state made them extremely concerned. Especially the hospital gown Bruce, he has been in contact with Barbatos, so he knows better how terrible the power that Barbatos is carrying!
It was saddled with the creation of the world's crucible, all the unstable and pluralistic forces that favored the dark Honkai universe! To say that Barbatos' power is inexhaustible is not a metaphor, but a true narrative.
Just now, they thought that there would be a fierce battle, a battle that would be difficult, dangerous, and accompanied by sacrifices. But I didn't expect this strange picture at the moment.
Barbatos will be suppressed by Luke with words! This is simply beyond the hospital gown Bruce's knowledge and understanding of Barbatos.
The other party is the dragon of darkness and destruction, and there is a natural desire for tyranny and destruction. If you want to communicate with him seriously and let him do something that goes against his nature and he is unwilling to do, the biggest possibility is to be destroyed by Barbatos with dark power, or thrown into some dark universe to torture to death.
Most of the time, Barbatos is not a good communicator.
"Empowered!" Seeing the gazes of the two Bruces, Stephen observed the wind and grass in front of him, and at the same time didn't mind explaining some information to the two of them: "A high-level application of psionic energy. Not just use it as energy, but take it a step further and show its characteristics and shape it into a power similar to a rule super.
There are many ways and means to empower applications. Different people develop different empowers about themselves. As a psychic creator, Luke may possess omnipotence and power. β
"Almighty and powerful?" The two Bruces glanced at each other, and the information that Stephen had revealed was firmly etched in their minds, believing that it might be useful someday in the future. After all, there is too little information about Luke, except for knowing that the other party is a creator who has invented many magical and incredible equipment and items, more information is nothing.
"Omnipotence refers to the ability of psionic energy to devour and assimilate various energies and transform their properties to achieve the effect of omnipotence. Power is a form of empowerment, which has strong pollution and strong control. It is essentially a manifestation of social rules. Stephen looked at Bruce's two thoughtful faces and took the initiative.
"Is it a control and a bondage?" Bruce, who was in the hospital gown, looked at Barbatos, who had become strange, and realized something in his heart, but it was like looking at flowers through a layer of fog, and he couldn't see the real tulle. This made him more immersed in reasoning and conjecturing the correct answer. He wanted to tear off the veil and take a closer look at the so-called scenery to see the true face.
"To be precise, it is a kind of repression that only social life can be born. Class, power, power. Stephen looked at the alternative battle in front of him, and simply reached out for Bruce and tore the tulle and explained in detail.
"Why wouldn't a man with great power dare to rebel against someone who is inferior to him in every way? He also needs to bow down in front of this person, and use his own strength to conscientiously do everything the other party commands.
Because this man has great power, he has desires! His power can give him something, but in many ways, his strength alone is not enough to make his wishes come true.
And the man who is inferior to him in every way, but who holds what he wants and needs most, can control him, drive him, and finally tame him little by little like taming an unruly beast. β
"Class, money, power." Bruce muttered to himself.
"That's right. The spiritual energy that Luke empowers is the control and distribution of power, resources, etc. It may sound inappropriate to describe a battle, but I think it's the best way for you to explain it. Stephen nodded approvingly.
"But would he have that kind of thing? The so-called rights, resources, desires ......" hospital gown Bruce is still somewhat unbelievable. Because none of these things mean anything to Barbatos.
"What I said is just a metaphor that you can quickly understand. In other words, do you really think Barbatos doesn't have any desires? Regarding Bruce's questioning of the hospital gown, Stephen shook his head slightly, looked at the two Bruces who were thinking, and said again: "Any power has a certain attribute, and people who have this kind of power are naturally influenced and dominated by the power and become the representative of their attributes. Normally, they would be like Barbatos, like a person who is extremely paranoid and cannot change. β
"You're trying to say that Luke can reverse this paranoia? Or is it to change the strength of the other party? Bruce kind of understood what Stephen was trying to say.
"The facts are right in front of you, aren't they?" Stephen nodded, he pointed to Barbatos, who was becoming more and more anthropomorphic and had more and more emotions, "Give an opposing personality, and then gradually build a framework, and use spiritual energy to subtly erode the other party's thinking, and in the adjustment again and again, let the other party become what the regulator wants." Essentially, it's a kind of soul dimensionality reduction! β
A person who is resolute in the face of problems can become a hesitant character.
A person who is not afraid of life and death can become a cowardly person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
A god of the multiverse, who is the master of the dark forces and whose mind is full of destruction and evil, can also be dominated by all kinds of emotions and ideas like humans, and unaware that he has been reduced to the dimension of his soul! Detached from the profound influence of the power attribute, I began to think about some things that I didn't have.
If Betsy is also here, then Stephen will definitely have to set an example and ask Becky to take out her [pets] to make a good image of popular science.
Her strange dimensional creatures that have been captured from the worlds and edges of the major dimensions are also extremely dangerous and changeable, and many of them have no brains and no such thing.
The dangers of those [pets], at least as the current Supreme Mage, Stephen is absolutely unwilling to face and endure. Not to mention opening a petting zoo on your own body.
But why was Becky able to ignore the dangers of dimensional creatures that represented all sorts of strange power attributes and make them honestly obedient?
Is it because of Becky's power? Strong strength can indeed make a life with the ability to think and know how to weigh the pros and cons to succumb, but for those who have no brains and no thinking, or a tendon that is not afraid of death, pure strength cannot play this role.
And I have to say that these so-called pets from all dimensions and with various dimensional powers are almost 100% of them, and they are all species that are difficult to tame and unable to communicate. They are naturally fanatics of the dimensional forces behind them!
Just as a mage believes in magic and a man believes in science, that is the source of its own power and everything. Trying to make them betray their dimensional power is undoubtedly equivalent to taking away the meaning of their existence.
Why does Betge have control over them?
Because Becky also has the power of high-level psionic applications similar to Luke's.
Brainless?
Don't be afraid, you will have an organ similar to your brain.
Don't have a mind?
Don't be afraid, you will learn how to think and weigh the pros and cons.
Betrayal of the power attribute?
Creatures of chaos and chaotic power are chaotic and chaotic, and after being eroded and controlled by psionic energy, even if they are alive, they will only transform their life form into another dimensional creature. However, the transformation of psionic energy simulates deception, allowing them to have clear brains at the same time, and still inherit and use their previous powers.
Behind the lives of those dimensions was the dimension behind themβ Behind these dimensional lives now are the dimensions behind their β Becky β.
In this peculiar transformation, Betsy is separated in the middle, becoming their new master. What if it's still hard to tame?
There are ways too!
It is to give thoughts and fears, and after reducing the dimension, throw them to the edge of the abyss and walk around. Generally becomes honest. If you still have a little thought, you can go deeper to the edge of the abyss.
Time is meaningless to the abyss, whether you stay at the edge of the abyss for a second or for how long, the effect and feeling are the same. But how you feel at the edge of the abyss and when you get closer to the abyss, it's very different.
Normally, after these axes, most dimensional lifeforms will become very interesting in front of Becky. What can I do if I don't know how to do it? In the face of a terrible human girl who can cut off your energy source at any time and threaten you with the abyss at every turn, the dimensional beings have no power to resist.
Seeing Barbatos in front of him, Stephen saw in a trance those dimensional beings that had fallen into Becky's hands.
"This power is too dangerous. Even scarier than the anti-life equation! Bruce made a judgment on Luke's strength.
The power of the anti-life equation is already evil in Bruce's opinion, capable of distorting people's wills, making people lose their freedom and accept that they are being controlled. But this power of Luke is like a superior force against the equation of life!
This sense of threat and crisis in the throat simply made Bruce feel uncomfortable.
"It's still different from the anti-life equation. The anti-life equation is coercive control, which can be said to be a superior force similar to mind control.
Luke's power is not coercive control, but subtly, growing stronger and stronger over time, eventually giving birth to a new, stable soul.
If the user's strength was not strong enough, like Barbatos just now, we would have died in those black thunders long ago. Stephen corrected.
At this time, the energy storm that was shaking in front of him finally slowly subsided. The hall, which was constantly shaking under the collision of energy, gradually quieted down.
The three of them suddenly paused their communication, no longer focusing on the front of them, but all on Luke's side. They realized that what could be followed could be a period of negotiations for a moratorium on the fighting.
Of course, it can also be understood as the effective period of Luk's power.
After all, it is hard for Bruce to imagine that the enemy of the opposing conflict would be willing to take the initiative to sit down and negotiate with the enemy before the winner is decided.
ββ¦β¦ You promise me that you will give me the power called the abyss, and I will take you to the World Crucible. β
Barbatos' voice rang in Bruce's head. This request made Stephen and the three of them can't help but glance at each other, and each other's eyes are full of strange looks.
Stephen was amazed that someone would dare to ask Luke for the power of the Abyss. Even if the other party is a dark force of similar attributes.
If Dormammu and Mephisto were present who couldn't avoid the power of the abyss, and even wanted to hide far away, I'm afraid they would have given Barbatos a look of pity and admiration anyway.
There is a difference between being tortured to be a madman and being actively tortured into a madman.
Barbatos, who has mastered the attributes of darkness and destructive power, is not only aimed at the universe and life, but also against himself.
Stephen looked at Barbatos' tall body in admiration, biting his lip and saying nothing with a serious expression.
The two of them are even more of a projection of power that has faced the abyss, the kind of filthy and dark power, they don't even want to think about it, because it is also a kind of pollution that torments people's spirits. Bruce's face in the hospital gown was a little more ugly, because he had taken the initiative to attract the attention of the abyss, and he also took the initiative to throw himself into the arms of the abyss. This act of death made him especially fond of that bad experience.
Of course, the associated memories are vague, and the experience cannot be physically reproduced as real as possible, and for protection, this perception and memory are sealed and left in the body of the smiling bat, which has been divided.
"Are you sure?" Luke looked at Barbatos, "If you insist." β
"I insist! I've gotten information about this from the Laughing Bat. So I know it's a powerful force and it's a good fit for me! Barbatos looked at Luke warily. Ever since he received information about the power of the Abyss from the Laughing Bat, he has been eager to find it and claim it for himself.
Now that he knew that the power of the abyss was the power that Luke had, he couldn't wait to make a request. In his opinion, it was a deal, in exchange for the power of the Abyss in the World Crucible.
(End of chapter)