Wasteland Echoer.

Chapter 519: Official Awakening (Part ) (Wright Returns)
"They... these stupid humans, they won't be able to get here in a short time. I've been bound here for hundreds of years, and even I don't know the true picture of this place." The Lord of Eternal Red smiled bitterly, shook his tree-like body a few times, shook off a few black, floating cylindrical metal sheets, and continued:

"Back then, this group of Crusaders, who claimed to be fearless, brave, and keen on fighting, tricked me here out of fear of the so-called fate of the demise of the Millennium Empire. They tried to tie me up completely and use the Ranked Monsters to continuously drain my energy."

"What happens next?" Wright asked, looking at the soil near the body of the Lord of Eternal Red.

"The Crusaders' attempt naturally failed. It is wishful thinking in itself to want to control the top-ranked gods with a human body." Lord Yongchi replied, with a smug attitude on his face that belonged to an upper-class person.

"But now you are truly trapped here, and so am I. Since I woke up a few days ago, I have been looking for a way out through the 'red magic power' in my body, but unfortunately I have found nothing. This place is like a maze full of randomness. Sometimes it is a palace, sometimes a desert, and sometimes it is a glacier and a forest. In short, I have no clue." Wright said helplessly as he looked at the dark area outside the dim lights around him.

"That's because of greed, endless greed and mismatched intelligence and ability." Lord Yongchi said indignantly:

"Humans are always greedy and want to pursue eternal things. They activated a monster called 'Tears of Bizuni' in an attempt to control my body, but the eternal fire in my body instantly overflowed, and the endless 'burning fire' almost destroyed the settlement built for scientific experiments.

"The rich flame magic source power in my body happened to combine with the high concentration of 'Sorrow' that turned into black smoke, destroying my body and turning me into this half-god, half-monster. Moreover, during this period, I lost most of my divinity, and the remaining sequence core was constantly damaged during the endless long night. Judging from my quantifiable strength, my current magic source power level is estimated to be only sequence 3: combat level."

"The 'Combat' level is not weak. In an era when the magic power has been greatly reduced and is becoming increasingly scarce, there may not be many people like it in the entire Rinie Empire or the Cruz Federation. You know, I am only at the fifth stage of the pain level now." Light comforted the Lord of Yongchi.

"I am not the same as you." The Lord of Eternal Red suddenly raised his head, stared at Wright's black pupils with his red eyes, and said seriously:
"You are a person with full 'divinity', a lucky person chosen by humans and gods. You have also inherited the 'Dark Mystery Touch' of the ancient gods, as well as the 'Red Magic Source Power' that countless people have dreamed of. Even... you are an [Orderer]. Your promotion is the slowest among all 16 order groups, and you have to go through rounds of silence and pain.

"Other professionals or non-professionals spend twice as much energy as you, the Orderer, to advance two levels, but the power they gain is equivalent to that of you obtaining one Order Core."

"I don't really understand this, and I don't care about power and promotion. I only know that I am an ordinary person from another dimension who was forced to come to this world. At first I just wanted to go home, and now I just want to know the truth."

"The truth? What a childish and ridiculous word. Hahahaha, hahahaha, hahahaha..." The Lord of Eternal Red laughed wildly for almost half a minute, then he took a few deep breaths while trembling slightly from his rapid breathing, and continued:

"Do you know? Those clergymen and even some scientists of the Old Empire claimed that the Orderer is a rare person. In the appraisal of the Sequence Deck, there is less than a one in a thousand chance that the Order card will appear.

"But they never told you that, in fact, the [Orderer] is not 'one in a thousand' or 'one in ten thousand', but the 'only' one."

"'Only' existence?" Wright repeated mechanically, somewhat unable to understand.

"That's right." Lord Yongchi nodded slightly and said:

"There is only one [Orderer] in a period, and there are no more than three [Orderers] in an era. [Order], [Order], as the name suggests, is the existence that maintains the most basic operation of this world. When an era needs to end and enter a new era, the [Orderer] will appear to lead.

"You are either in a high position like Ivan XXII, controlling the overall situation as an emperor and promoting the development of everything, or like those [Orderers] who were eliminated by the long river of history, you happened to make the right choices at several inadvertent historical nodes. In other words, your appearance itself carries the 'supreme and only mission'."

"'Mission'? For me, is it to end the Wasteland Era and usher in the 'Star Era'?" Wright asked further, taking half a step forward, almost close to the handsome face of the Lord of Eternal Red.

"Maybe, maybe not. I don't have the power of the Creator now. I can only help you guess from the perspective of an ordinary person. But..." The Lord of Eternal Red sneered:

"This means that everything you have is given by the Creator himself. The 'truth' you want to know may be the 'most sensitive information' that the Creator must conceal." "I don't understand." Wright shook his head and turned his back.

"You must know that this world is a terrible dream that the Creator is experiencing. When He wakes up from this nightmare, all existence, including the continents, the sun, the stars, and the universe, will disappear in an instant and turn into nothingness, as if they had never appeared." The Lord of Eternal Red explained:

"Originally, this dream could last for a long time, until the day when the universe was completely destroyed naturally. Since the 'Time of Praise of Fire', the initial explosion has forced the entire universe to expand to an infinite distance. In the dimension we are in, time and space are infinite, and the universe is naturally infinite as well.

“When the power of darkness continues to expand and fills everything, planets will cease to exist and stars will turn into black holes, swallowing everything.”

"Do you gods also know about astronomy and other scientific knowledge?" Wright asked with interest.

"This is part of the 'reason', and it is something that the Creator has already set up. Isn't human scientific research about discovering these existing 'reasons'?" The Lord of Eternal Red replied.

"It seems that this does make sense. So, after the infinite expansion of the universe...what will happen in the end?" Wright asked.

"The stars will be torn apart, black holes will continue to appear, but civilization will still exist, just like... even in the darkest night sky, there will be the faint light of fireflies." The Lord of Eternal Red replied:

“But in the end, all material existence will eventually be completely torn apart and transformed into the most basic physical particles, while the gods and the new humans will continue to exist in the form of energy bodies.

"In the end, black holes will evaporate, and the particles that sustain the existence of energy will be torn apart by the infinite expansion of space. All flames will eventually go out, all movement will stop completely, and everything will become quiet. This universe will die along with the Creator...

"So, as a [Orderer], you should accept the fate given to you by the Creator to end the Wasteland Era, and the truth has never been something that humans can touch. If the Creator is an existence that ordinary humans cannot peek into, then the so-called 'truth' is an existence that you, Light Sugra, a [Orderer], cannot touch."

"An untouchable existence? What if I really see the 'truth' one day?" Wright turned around and asked, somewhat unwillingly.

"Then, you will immediately fall into infinite madness. Because the supreme thing that does not belong to you will completely tear your soul apart. A walking corpse without a soul is the safest. They will no longer spy on any 'invisible things'." The Lord of Eternal Red answered, stretching out a few arms that had long since turned into dry vines, and wrapped them around Wright's waist while "stroking" his cheek back and forth.

Suddenly, all of the Lord of Eternal Red's eyes, including the whites and eyeballs, turned bright red. He raised his head and said to Wright in the most severe "dual-channel" ethereal voice:
"I have already told you the 'truth' behind the formation of the wasteland world. It is the result of Ivan XXII's 'New Construction Plan' buried a little further south. Your mission is to do everything you can to use your power, your red magic source, to put an end to it.

"Do you know? This 'Red Fantasy Ruins' was originally a place full of strange changes. The emperor of the old empire imprisoned me here, waiting for my attitude."

"Attitude? What attitude?" Wright was a little flustered by the behavior of Lord Yongchi, and asked with a slightly trembling voice.

"Or it can be called 'compromise' or 'surrender'. Because here, there is a 'wind wall' left by a higher god. It imprisons everything and fills this place with devastating energy.

“If a human strays into this place, he will be turned into dust in an instant. If a demonic power user enters here, he will have a complete mental breakdown within three hours. If a god is imprisoned here, his divinity will slowly dissipate, and he will eventually become a being even more despicable than a demon.

"And what caused all this was just the remains of a monster killed by a righteous young man."

(End of this chapter)