"Well, it's kind of interesting."

Looking at Yakumo Zi, who was completely stunned, Roland couldn't help but laugh.

"Although you didn't pay attention, but in fact, except for using dreams to send you messages, I have not appeared in the outside world with any gestures, and the existence and breath that you feel now belong to Roland is only because you entered my dreams."

He explained in a slow tone as he watched Yakumo's expression change.

And soon, he received a look that satisfied him.

In the face of such a dazed news that people forget even fear, leaving only loss and sadness.

The legendary monster sage moved his lips, and he still didn't say a word for a long time, really like a helpless girl.

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.

Roland spread his hands as if he didn't realize it.

"Whew, pleasant, I've been holding the news of the end at any time for a long time, and I've finally found a suitable time to share it with others."

"Does this help you plan for the end of the world in the future?"

Yakumo pursed her lips, ignoring Roland's obvious flirtation, in terms of responsibility, even Yayi Yongrin, who was wary of each other, agreed with a truth.

In the face of Gensokyo's great crisis, you can always trust the Yokai Sage.

However, seeing Yakumo's serious appearance, Roland's smile became thicker and thicker.

"If you're referring to the plan itself, it's not helpful."

"Huh? Then why are you ......?"

"Because this kind of secret thing is not easy to publicize, it will cause a lot of commotion, and besides, it is much better to have two people to be troubled together than me."

"Hehehe...... Congratulations! ”

Yakumo Zi's face darkened, and he looked at Roland, who was careless and still had a comfortable expression on his face, clenched his fists, gritted his silver teeth, and wanted to gnaw off a piece of his flesh in one bite.

Even if Roland is a wounded, if the other party called her here today for fun, she will never give up.

"Well, calm down, Purple. Isn't the world still running well? That in itself is enough to show that things are not as bad as you imagined. ”

Roland said lightly.

"You saw the snake in the crack, can you tell me your conclusion?"

"You didn't kill the snake."

"Of course."

Roland admitted without hesitation.

"Actually, the winged snake is impossible to kill, to use a human analogy, it's just an immune cell created to target my condition—"

The young man's smile was as gentle as ever, but in Yakumo's purple eyes at this moment, there was a chilling meaning.

"And when this immune cell dies, the disease still doesn't go away, and the immune system does only one thing."

In Yakumo's almost dull eyes, Roland said softly.

"—Raise your abilities to the highest level."

The winged serpent is only a shadow cast by the apostle of the Most High according to the severity of the enemy.

Realizing this, the dragon god realized that the winged serpent could cause stronger enemies to spawn after death.

The plan for it and Roland's original version was to deliberately not destroy the remnants of the Winged Serpent after killing it.

In this way, with the time required for this huge chaotic creature to die completely, it and Roland will have a lot more breathing space, whether it is to recuperate or look forward to the future.

But during the battle with the winged serpent, Roland discovers that the monster's nature is still endless, even if the weight is missing.

Each of its attacks is the output of the highest frequency of the current magnitude, and even Roland, who has a perpetual motion machine, will feel that he is not able to do it in an all-out environment.

And the winged serpent, which does not have the personal reason of perpetual motion machine, can ignore this, which means only one thing.

Its energy comes from higher levels.

It's not a relatively independent doppelganger, or an avatar or anything like that.

It is not an individual formed by the division of power by a powerful being, but more like some simple change in nature.

When there is no threat in the body, it will maintain a normal state that only needs to deal with minor illnesses, and when it fails, the virus is still tenaciously surviving, and even expanding, the immune system will explode with all its might.

Just like the high fever of human beings, it represents the instinct of the virus and the subject to die today.

Although {Serpent} is dead, and the Supreme Heaven who slew the Serpent is not the essence of this apostle, the power is by no means the same as before, especially for Roland now.

It is better to say that the winged serpent, which has destroyed several universes before and made Roland almost die, is just a symbol of its petty fight.

"Infinite ......"

Roland raised his eyebrows, remembering how he had seen the black snake before, and sighed.

"That's beyond what I can understand, although it can still be recognized, but even if it's not really infinite, in the monolithic universe, that guy is the closest thing to infinity."

In terms of the level of strength, as the level increases, even the slightest difference may be the difference between heaven and earth.

Grasp the timing and props, and the magician who has mastered the mystery may also be killed by ordinary people.

Depending on the environment and status, there is a possibility that the high-level adventurer will be killed by the lower-level adventurer.

But as his height continues to increase, Roland knows very well that the matter of defeating the strong with the weak will only be almost extinct in future battles.

Because people of that rank have no theoretical weakness for the characters below them.

No matter how careless they are, they may not be able to find a way to kill themselves.

It's just that the winged snakes of the universe, which are several times more than Roland, can only exchange their lives for injuries if they have the star cup and the dragon god, and they still hold the slashing emperor.

If it weren't for the fact that the winged serpent was too careless, weakened by Roland, who seized the opportunity and strengthened itself in turn, the outcome of this battle would have been a matter of two things.

Even so, Roland also won because he had the desire to surpass the winged serpent, and he completed the counterattack.

Because of this, when he felt the boundless power, Roland couldn't find any feasible means other than to use the opponent's own enemy seeking mechanism and escape with the restrictions given to it by {snake}.

- So, he had to die.

As Yakumo Zi said, simply diving into the realm of death cannot deceive the Supreme Angel disciples.

When he felt that the black snake appeared directly outside the world, Roland immediately extinguished his last possibility.

But Roland didn't cheat in this regard, his possibilities have been eaten clean, and he is only maintained by the world with the last trace of possibility of victory, and he retains his desire.

After the victory, even Roland, who was the last turning point, died, and the world could not continue to maintain, and his life, which could have lasted for more than ten years, came to the end of heat death in an instant.

Therefore, when the black snake responsible for exterminating everything came violently, it encountered such an embarrassing situation.

It did come, but the enemy seemed to die of old age.

If it were a true being, with the wisdom of the Most High Angels, it would not have been deceived by this obvious scheme.

Regardless of whether the enemy is dead or not, give the opponent a ride with yourself and make sure that they are dead.

But just to clear the disease, the black snake that has locked Roland has been locked, and when doing this, there needs to be a process of changing targets.

Just like before, destroying the world, getting rid of the shackles of being a human being is the best strategy, but the winged serpent is just staring at Roland like a mad dog.

It was this brief moment that Roland was waiting for.

In the extinguishing fire, in the ashes of the world, it sat on the star cup and fell into a long sleep, thus giving birth to this infinite dream.

"We ...... Living in a dream? ”

Yakumo muttered to herself, her eyes were in a trance, and her pupils seemed to be out of focus.

As a forever seventeen-year-old girl, the predicaments and problems that Yakumo Zi has experienced have long allowed her to exercise a strong heart, but now she is like an ordinary woman who has been greatly mentally hit.

But it is not surprising that strong people with strong will and dreams can also summon courage in the face of a crisis that will destroy the world.

Because of this deep obsession, when they realize that the world and their lives may be false, they will be more vulnerable than ordinary people.

"That's the question...... It's up to you how you define dreams. ”

Roland replied.

"But don't worry, everything you've been through before that moment has been real, Gensokyo, your efforts, it's all happened. For my dreams are also based on the embers before the complete destruction of the world, except that they have replaced your original future. ”

“…… Superseded? ”

"For example, the electronic devices have changed the servers, and the shrines have changed the gods enshrined."

Roland smiled.

"So, the current world, although time is still advancing, is a world where there is no possibility, and it was the same until me and the dragon god recovered."

The disappearance of possibility is not as simple as recovering from an injury, it is pregnant with growth, turnaround and future.

As a server, Roland no longer has any possibility, and the possibility of the world itself has been handed over to Roland by the dragon god, so even if the world is still operating normally, it cannot escape facing this terrible consequence.

"From now on, there will be no new inventions in this world, whether it is the exploration of new forces or theoretical breakthroughs, the world will be stagnant in existing technology, and there will be no change in hundreds or thousands of years, this is true of human beings, and the same is true of monsters."

"However, it seems too absolute to say this, even if I only have a dream left, it is not something that you can ignore at the level you have."

Because the gap between us is as great as the snake between me and the snake, Roland said with a look on his face as he took it for granted.

"With this in mind, if there are people like you who can enter this out-of-world place, enter this subspace, and have high inspiration, it is also possible to obtain technology from my dreams that this world does not have, but this is not a creation, it is just a simple reproduction."

This is also the reason why Yakumo Zi did not feel the change, firstly because the time was too short, and secondly, because the technology that Roland had mastered was too advanced.

Ancient and modern magic, science, and deeper magic technology, it is still very difficult to explore with human power.

Thanks to this, the humans who were favored by fate before are expected to maintain their extreme suppression of Gensokyo, after all, their spirituality is much higher than that of the youkai and anomalies who have come to an end.

But after all, this is their own dream, what kind of technology they will gain, and whether they will be directly eroded spirit, or even polluted into monsters, it is difficult to say.

But at this point, there is no need to inform Yakumo Purple in front of you, maintaining the stability of the status quo is the best way to deal with the black snake trapped in the dream outside.

If the balance between youkai and humans is broken, leading to careerists, I'm afraid it will be endless, and on the human side, it's better to use dreams to transform some characters favored by fate to adjust the course of the times.

Roland thought to himself and nodded leisurely.

Yakumo Zi groaned for a while, and suddenly raised his head.

In other words, does the being that cannot generate possibilities also include yourself? And you said that you would come back to life if you left the Golden Throne, and that the role of the throne is an amplifier, is this all to suppress the black snake? ”

“…… I've complimented you before, but Purple has a very impressive sensitivity. ”

"As you think, that black snake will be sluggish for a moment because of the change of target, but that's all, its next target will be the dream of the world born because of me."

"So- I paused time."

Roland sat on the throne with a smile and looked at the star cup above.

"The Star Cup, a prop that also has infinite possibilities, can cover the whole world in an instant with the reason of my desire, and the snake that surrounds the world is also within this range."

"I have brought the world to a standstill in this moment, and it is a blessing that the apostle, who is closest to infinity, still retains the weakness of having no resistance to reason."

Among the powers that Roland possesses, there are currently three that can be covered by his desires, which he calls the {reason} of transcending the rules.

{Time} born from the beginning of the past, {perpetual motion machine} born from the sublimated self, {eternal return} born from the future of the heavenly rituals.

And what is now maintained by the Star Cup is the principle of time that shines when killing the final dragon.

An eternal moment.

Only the existence recognized by Roland will time continue to flow, and everything else will be frozen at the moment when the dream is generated and the apostle strikes.

"But on the other hand, being confined to a dream, half-dead, I am limited in the degree of interference I can play."

Roland was complaining, but his tone was serious, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

Yakumo also realized that this seemed to be the real reason why Roland specially called himself over today.

She nodded solemnly.

"Please, I will do whatever I can do."

"That's good," Roland snapped his fingers with a gentle smile on his face, letting the familiar map unfold in front of Yakumo.

Mountains full of monsters, enchanted forests full of precious materials, bamboo forests that make people lose their traces, Western-style pavilions located on the shores of Lake Mist, and people in the fertile valleys; and the Santu River, which separates the other side from Gensokyo.

"Now, let me tell you more about why I call it

- Gensokyo Paradise Project. ”

(End of chapter)