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Chapter 299 Utopia

[After escaping from prison, you and your companions found an abandoned wooden house in the dense forest. After confirming that there was no danger here, you planned to take a short rest. You decided -]

1. Rest

【2. Entertainment】

【3. Training】

"Good boy, I haven't seen 'training' in a long time!"

Feng Xue looked at the options in front of him, chose training without hesitation, and selected architecture from the pile of unfolded skills.

Although he is not even a Shadow Chaser yet, and it is a bit too ambitious for him to directly learn the Grandmaster-level Architecture Technique, but as the saying goes, opportunity cannot be missed. Compared with the subjective skill unlocking coupons, the knowledge granted by professional tools and safe corners is obviously more comprehensive. However, professional tools have not seen orange ones so far, and he has finally come across a safe corner. In the case of not lacking san value, he naturally cannot let it go.

However, although it is master-level knowledge, the information that flooded into Feng Xue's mind was no more than that of the expert level. Moreover, this master-level only had the dreamer part, but not the creator part that Feng Xue was most curious about.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, this world is full of architects. As long as ordinary people have heard of the word "architecture", they can be considered as consultants. The more advanced dream seekers and shadow chasers themselves have a huge base. Even the shadow chasers can number tens of millions, so naturally they can leave behind a lot of knowledge.

There are only about 3,000 dreamers still alive in the world, and with the accumulation of hundreds of years, there are only about 10,000 or 20,000 of them. The experience that such a small number of people can leave behind, although not small, is definitely not much either.

As for the Creator...

Since the birth of the architect system, there have been only ten such people in the world, including the second-generation Hongying and the fourth-generation Qingyun who failed as soon as they took office. From a certain perspective, every creator can be regarded as a black box born by chance, a miracle of life that cannot be replicated.

Of course, even if the amount of information is not as good as that at the expert level, the amount of information in this material will not make Feng Xue feel at a disadvantage.

At least, it not only supplements the last one and a half of the nine rules, but also explains what it takes to become a visionary.

Article 8: There are core rules in Shadow City, which can be encapsulated through matching fantasies and serve as the cornerstone of the ideal country.

Article 9: Before the Utopia is completed, it will be identified as the City of Shadows.

These two points may seem a bit confusing, but when combined with some knowledge of visionaries, they are not so difficult to understand.

Feng Xue had only heard the word "Utopia" twice in his memory. One time was when he said that the law of causality of the Yae family had begun to build the Utopia, and the other time was in the Creator's last words.

After receiving this information, Feng Xue finally understood the meaning of this concept——

Although it is called a "country", in a sense it is the projection of the architect in a dreamland, a bit like the feeling of a self-contained universe in fantasy novels.

According to the information, when the Shadow Chaser has fully honed his will in the baptism of the City of Shadows, he can try to carve out an area in the deep area of ​​the Dreamland and build a city framework.

Because it is in the deepest part of the Dream Realm, this framework will constantly interact with the strong obsessions that make up the Shadow City, and the erosion it endures in this process is dozens of times that of entering the Shadow City with a character card. If it can withstand it, the framework will absorb the obsessions as "building materials" to continue to grow and improve, but if it can't withstand it, it will become another Shadow City, and the architect himself will also be severely damaged.

If it fails in the early stages of construction, it will only last for three to five years at most. But if it fails when it is about to be successfully built, it may even be directly polluted, completely lose its mind, and become something like a nightmare or a monster.

There are even nightmares that will try to devour the ideal country and thereby transform into a higher realm.

The ninth rule is aimed at this situation. Its existence at least ensures that the architect will not be attacked by nightmares when the ideal country is still in a fragile state of a semi-finished product.

As for the encapsulation mentioned in the eighth layer...

It is a shortcut to building an ideal country, because fundamentally, the City of Shadows and the ideal country are the same thing, except that one is a mixture of the obsessions of countless lives, while the other is the condensation of the fantasy of only one person.

In addition to the rule that "dreams and nightmares can be transformed into each other", by using the corresponding fantasy to transform the Shadow City into a dream, and then using it as the foundation of the ideal country, you can skip the most boring, complicated and time-consuming accumulation link and directly obtain a large amount of "building materials", greatly shortening the construction period.

In fact, being able to encapsulate it with fantasy itself means that this "foundation" is compatible with oneself, and is even more suitable for oneself than the ideal country that one has painstakingly designed after collecting materials. Not to mention that the Shadow City itself has "core rules", which can even be used as one's own trump card if it can be properly utilized.

And spending so much effort to build an ideal country naturally has its advantages.

Putting aside the change in title after being promoted to Visionary, first of all, it is an energy core that can continuously draw power from the dreamland. With its existence, the things constructed by the Visionary will basically not disappear naturally.

Secondly, the ideal country is a projection of the visionary's spirit, and in a sense it can be regarded as a second thinking center. Even if the brain is destroyed, it can be reconstructed through the ideal country. If one is proficient in anatomy and first aid, perhaps one can extend one's life. For the creator and top visionaries who are proficient in this, it is not a problem to directly construct a body out of thin air and then upload consciousness.

Finally, the Utopia is the benchmark of the Utopia's fantasy. When necessary, the advent of the Utopia itself is the Utopia's last trump card. In the Utopia, the Utopia can directly obtain G·I particles from the Dreamland, thereby ignoring the consumption of G·I particles (Note ①). At the same time, the Utopia itself will have various effects due to the architect's thinking. From this perspective, it is a bit like Type-Moon's inherent barrier or the development of the field of Jujutsu Kaisen.

"I see." Feng Xue was reading the last public textbook of the Architect System, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart, because he suddenly discovered a problem -

To put it bluntly, the so-called seventh and eighth articles are simply extensions of the fourth article!
So from a certain perspective, should the seventh and eighth articles have all been established in the fourth article, but because they were too large, they caused severe damage to the fourth creator, and the later creators had to tear them down twice before re-carving them into the dreamland?

But if this is the case, we have to consider a question -

According to the fact that Hongying gave birth to three creators, and the fourth creator was the second generation of Hongying, at least one of the seventh and eighth creators was not from Hongying, but they "unintentionally" chose to complete this rule. What does this mean?
After thinking it over, Feng Xue could only come up with a few possibilities:

1. This set of rules is of great benefit to the Creator, which makes Hongying disclose the full picture of this set of rules, and Creators from other countries are also happy to take over.

Second, if this rule is not embedded, it may cause trouble that even the Creator does not want to see, which forces everyone to work together to embed the rule.

Of course, there is a third possibility:

Because the creator must embed rules, and direct embedding is too risky, so it is better to just follow the half-embedded rules of predecessors to reduce risks.

So, which one is it?
(End of this chapter)