Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 144: The troops are gathering, the bell is ringing

"The Paradox Engine... a divine device that can use magic and psionic energy to freeze time for an entire planet."

Looking at the huge steel structure that was like a humming hill and placed on the edge of the old world, everyone couldn't help but look at the horrifying product with awe from the bottom of their hearts.

That was a true artifact that surpassed everything that the four Chaos Gods had forged in a short period of time using the great power of the gods. The entire system alone was as big as a small mountain, and countless mages and warriors who had sacrificed themselves expended their lives and magic power inside, creating a breathing space for the solidified world and preventing the power of destruction from completely spreading out.

The warp began to compress in the rituals of the four Chaos Gods and countless wizards around the world. For the first time, the back of this world has undergone some changes and transformations under the cooperation of the inside and outside. Because the greatest, most terrifying, and most cruel ritual in history is unfolding on this planet.

A drama called destruction and rebirth is being staged. Unreasonable natural disasters are attacking various countries. Even demons and nightmares have to join forces to fight against the unspeakable terror, and finally a decisive battle will take place in the old world.

Yes, the old world is the place of the final battle.

From the advent of the ancient saints, bringing life to this world, to the prosperous world of all nations today, to the second advent of the land of advent, and the heaven he promised, the old world has carried too many things in terms of religion and mysticism. Now, the ritual of destruction and rebirth is taking place here.

That was an impossible ritual, the original concept of chaos, the concept of destruction that existed at the beginning of all life but could never appear. Even the Chaos Gods had no idea where that monster came from. Even players could understand the value of life, but even players could not dig out such pure destruction. Because the requirements of this ritual were actually a paradox.

Choose to destroy yourself and everything in the world while acknowledging that you and everything in the world are one. Even without any desires or thoughts, just destroy for the sake of destruction, and you can touch this pure ritual.

And then that freak did it.

He was fearless and unrestrained, believing from the bottom of his heart that he loved everyone in the world, and then he started the final ceremony without hesitation.

The Great Whirlpool has disappeared, as the price of the Tenth Impact, the island of the ritual has disappeared. Once a product of the concept of blocking demons and the warp, it has completely disappeared from the concept of ritual in this world, and there is only a dry hole in the center of Ulthuan.

Instead, there was a pure golden glow covering the sky. This golden light meant that the owner of this will was an unstoppable and unreasonable monster. Perhaps he didn't even realize how cruel his actions could bring. He knew everything in this world, but he didn't belong to any corner of this universe. Once this contradictory ritual was generated, it could only be stopped by the four gods.

"…There are thirty seconds left until this round of time stops."

"Leon's anchor point has begun to fail. Destruction is unstoppable. We can't stop him at all. I'm afraid there will be no time to stop the next round of free movement."

"Even so, the current situation is acceptable. We have at least assembled a considerable number of troops. No matter from which perspective, at least we still have the right to choose. It's a pity that the city-states directly below the Old World originally had superb teleportation technology, but it was destroyed by the natural disaster."

"It's all fate, it's all the result of fate."

Countless compound eyes looked towards the possible future. The light blue figure folded his hands and looked indifferently at the surging crowd below.

The Chaos Gods naturally couldn't believe in or like ordinary humans, but they also knew that it was impossible to resist the real Leon with their own strength. They were defeated in the subspace, let alone the freak whose body was still in reality.

Because his concept is the natural enemy of the Chaos Gods. The Chaos Gods at least burst out from all desires and hopes. But the spectacle of destruction represents the opposite of all desires and hopes, a point that is carved out in life and no one will ever face up to it. That is the desire for death of intelligent creatures. Their desire for self-destruction has never had a carrier, but now they have one.

Compared to the countless complicated interests and thoughts, the desire for death is naturally very simple. What he pursues is just death. Apart from that, there is no other request.

If you don't want to die miserably, if you don't want to die in such a humiliating way, then you have to live ugly and live by any means necessary.

But sadly, this is the opposite of the desire to die.

No matter how hard you struggle, the end of a person is death and despair. Even gods are no exception. All suffering, sin, and desire are caused by the concept of life. But the opposite of pure destruction is nothing. In a sense, it is even the opposite of the subspace.

Because he opposes the existence of the soul, he is even gradually dismantling and destroying the warp itself. As a reflection of the world, even the warp, the sea of ​​souls of living souls, must have the desire to die.

The judgment that is the result of millions of years of desire, can it really be killed by the Phoenix King?

Maybe, maybe not. But no matter what, life must go through the stage of self-death-seeking in order to grow faster and to curb the desire for death from going any further.

Life without soul, life without spirit and magic, can it still be called life? At least the Chaos Gods don't think so. So these enemies, whose differences were already unimaginable, joined forces and gradually created such an engine that violated the laws of the material universe.

Without any other requirements or thoughts, the most elite 1% of all the mages in the world were extracted and sent here, just to buy the last strategic transfer time. In the blue light gate like a tide, soldiers wearing armor and different styles filed out of the portal, and under the guidance of the extraordinary flames of those demons, they settled in their respective directions and locations.

In the static world, countless troops and supplies were being assembled. From the perspective of outsiders, it seemed that in just a moment, a continuous construction site that looked capable of garrisoning tens of millions of people was built on the outskirts of the old world.

Time stopped, and this power of the gods finally descended upon the earth. But in fact, this concept is a trick. In essence, there is no such thing as time stopping. It is relative. Individuals and creatures affected by magic power will accelerate time. In that instant, it accelerated to an unimaginable degree. Unilateral acceleration of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of times is relatively speaking time stopping. This is the essence of the paradox engine created by the Chaos Gods using their divine power. In order to help these intelligent creatures gather their strength, these powerful Chaos Gods really spent all their abilities. Even now, they are hanging on the top of the Paradox Engine, using their infinite magic power to charge and resist the golden lines spreading in the sky.

"There are five gods in this world... and four of them are helping us right now."

"But the fifth one we fought was even crazier than these four. He could even use a power that could stop time on a large scale, but it was useless against that mad god... What a nightmare I am having."

Looking at the sky gradually spreading and spreading, the black and white space began to gradually turn golden, even a complete magic illiterate now realized that the situation seemed to be getting worse. Those golden curtains were pervasive, and the lines that transcended the concept of time penetrated deep into the subspace with super-dimensional means.

At the beginning, the Chaos Gods still tried to maintain the sealed secret places and cooperated with the leaders of various tribes for acting to create a lifelike meeting room for Leon. They determined that Leon's main thinking was a contradictory individual with bad taste, who liked to observe the postures of those who rebelled when he was in an advantageous position. It was this arrogance that gave everyone a chance to breathe.

After all, if this guy secretly started the ritual, I'm afraid everyone would be kept in the dark. If it weren't for the players, these treacherous guys, who were still useful, the Negative Star would have completed the final destruction ritual by now. It wouldn't be their turn to act.

But even so, those golden supernatural lines still keenly captured the disharmony of the world's flow and began to spread in this relatively accelerated space. The individual that originally moved at hundreds of millions of times the speed began to gradually slow down.

Although their own movement speed has not changed and they are still transferring and constructing at a brisk pace, the interference to the outside world is becoming increasingly greater.

From the original speed of hundreds of millions of times that would not interfere with the outside world, to the current speed of tens of millions of times, millions of times, it was accelerated step by step, and cracked step by step. Until at a certain critical point, people suddenly saw the colors of the world and heard the sounds of birds and flowers outside the boundary.

The birds and small animals looked at the fortress and countless soldiers that appeared in the blink of an eye in horror, chirping and calling out in panic, and fled madly out of the steel jungle.

But the entire land has been reinforced by civil engineers and mages into a fortress made of anti-magic steel plates. This carefully built fortress specifically for the ritual of destruction is engraved with runes that disperse psychic energy. In front of these anti-magic marks and metals, even the most elite mages cannot cast even a little spell. Similarly, the elves in front of the realm also looked at each other in confusion.

They could no longer feel the connection to Li Ang's consciousness. Not only the connection to consciousness, but even their thoughts seemed to be disturbed, filled with strange noises and clamors. It was as if they had gone from an extremely noisy place to an absolutely quiet place in an instant, and there were still some echoes of noise in their minds.

Just by watching the actions of the elves in the fortress, everyone realized that the Phoenix King Oliver was not lying, and that he could indeed use various props to interfere with the psychic connection of the Negative Star.

But they were not happy, and there was no time to be happy.

They saw that the golden line that tore the black and white space began to slowly descend, condensing into a platinum-colored human figure in front of people. The Lord of the Negative Stars appeared in public for the second time in front of the world.

Compared to the first time they faced the Chaos Demon, they were righteous and righteous, but even though they were still righteous and righteous the second time, everyone was filled with fear of this Negative Star Lord who seemed to hate evil. They held their weapons in silence, looked at the shadow in the sky, and swallowed their saliva.

"...Very good strategy. I see. Does my psychic communication have such a weakness? I didn't even know it myself."

The golden figure said with a smile in mid-air.

Although it was only one sentence, the sound of their native language was transmitted in everyone's mind, allowing everyone to clearly hear the exclamation uttered by the golden monster.

"However, your decision to stop time is really a bad move."

He said.

"I don't care because although time can be stopped, it can't be stopped forever. Although you think that after time is stopped, you have infinite time to slowly gather your troops, but you don't remember one thing, that is, your emotions will also accumulate infinitely."

"I have mastered the concept of destruction. The more fear you have, the more you know, and the more you take action, the more it will stimulate my development. So if you fight me with chariots and horses, you may have a chance of winning."

"But because of your self-willed actions, the fluctuations in the subspace have begun to lean towards my side in all aspects."

"It's a power that the four Chaos Gods are all afraid of, and I'm the only monster that can kill gods in reality. Is that what you think? Then this has become a reality."

"So you see, it's all your reckless actions that are to blame... The eleventh impact is about to begin."

After smashing the empty space, looking at the horrified people, Leon smiled and pointed his finger at the sky.

A rainbow flashed across the sky, and the next moment, the world turned into the purest white. Even the ears and eyes could no longer see any other colors, only the most terrifying pure white.

(End of this chapter)