Uncle, I am not an ordinary office worker.

After a moment of silence, seeing that no one was willing or had the courage to say anything at this moment, Kal'tsit sighed and said to Roy:

"Go on, the third crisis."

"Demon King Crisis."

Volume 1: Chapter 231: The Demon King's Crisis Is the Humanity's Crisis

"I know this."

Finally finding a topic she could join in the conversation, the Queen raised her hand first.

There was no way. Roy and Kal'tsit were obviously outsiders, and the old Witch King was still living in the body of the Teutonic Elector. After all the calculations, she, who was obviously the person with the highest status at the scene, became the most ignorant person who could not get a word in.

But when it comes to the Demon King, she is not sleepy anymore, because this is a secret that the leader of every country in the world needs to know.

"The Demon King is the leader of the Sarkaz tribe. They have the ability to read emotions, manipulate memories, and weave illusions. They always try to lead the Sarkaz to invade other countries. They are the symbol of evil."

As soon as she finished speaking, Roy and Kal'tsit looked at her at the same time, their eyes conveying incomprehension and anger.

This made the queen panic, and she asked doubtfully, "Did I say something wrong?"

Roy glanced at Kelsey, who did not respond, which meant she gave Roy the opportunity to explain. Roy then said:

"I'm just wondering why, at your level, you would judge a symbol, not even a specific person, as righteous or evil."

Isn't it said that once a person's status reaches a certain level, his view of the world will change, gradually transforming from the original black and white to realizing that the world is more of a delicate gray?

Logically speaking, the Queen's status is high enough. She is the current ruler of Leitania and the leader of a country! However, even she immediately identified the Demon King as a symbol of evil. Why is that?

Facing Roy's questioning, the Queen was startled at first, and then she realized something was wrong, but soon she found an explanation:

"Because in the past few thousand years of history, the Demon King has always been synonymous with evil. Every time the Sarkaz recast Kazdel, their next step would be to take revenge on other countries on earth, occupy cities, massacre civilians, and plunder land. These things have been repeated for thousands of years, so the Demon King's notoriety is left."

"Indeed, as you said, Mr. Roy, the Demon King is just a position, a symbol, just like the Emperor of Leitania. The people who hold this position and bear this responsibility may be good or bad, but the countries of the earth cannot gamble on the good or evil of a Demon King at the cost of their own safety. For the safety of the country, eliminating them must be the best option."

The Queen had one more thing to say - at least, we didn't really kill all the Sarkaz.

Aren't they still existing as part of the earth?

Having said that, Roy also understood the Queen's concerns.

Take Leitania as an example. Although it occasionally had a cruel monarch like the Witch King, before the Witch King, in Leitania's thousand-year history, such cruel and powerful leaders as the Witch King were always a minority. Therefore, people would not think that Leitania was evil and barbaric just because a Witch King appeared. Similarly, in Kazdel's thousands of years of history, its revenge, its slaughter, and its eagerness to conquer foreign countries after reconstruction were too frequent. Therefore, the countries of the earth would not change their views on Kazdel just because one or two demon kings like Quillon who moved east or Theresa who called for peace occasionally appeared in Kazdel.

In addition, the long-lived nature of the Kazdel Sarkaz race makes them remember the wars of the past ten or hundred years as if it were yesterday, and the blood feud is still vivid in their minds. The short-lived race also feels the threat of the Sarkaz from the inheritance of history, and the rulers do not have enough time to reach a communication or reconciliation with the xenophobic Sarkaz race, so they can only take the most extreme means to eliminate the threat and ensure their survival. This is why the two sides will never reconcile unless a miracle happens, until one side is completely defeated.

There were people among the Sarkaz who realized the problem. For example, Theresa noticed the entanglement of the suspicion between the two sides and chose to call for peace, but her ending was also a pity for all to see - not only did her personal awakening fail to awaken the understanding of the entire race, but she would also be considered a traitor and a spy, sowing the seeds of civil strife. Even though Theresa's personal charm had reached its peak, her prestige as one of the six heroes who resisted foreign enemies was huge enough to win over nearly half of the Sarkaz royal court and people, enough to fight against the hawkish Theresis. But after her death, the Tower of Babel built entirely around her could only collapse in an instant.

As the saying goes, when a person dies, his politics ends; when a person leaves, the tea gets cold. It is just like this.

This was another almost unsolvable problem, and Roy felt his scalp tingling. This was the first time he personally felt what Kal'tsit faced and thought about every day.

Whether it was the opening and closing of the Originium and Solaria Sea Gate, or the blood feud between the Sarkaz and other races, such unsolvable problems were enough to drive people crazy. Not to mention, while facing all these problems, Kal'tsit also had to deal with a lot of smaller but no less troublesome problems.

"Roy, calm down."

At some point, Kal'tsit had come to Roy's side and called softly.

Roy came back to his senses and noticed the worried looks in Skadi and Margaret's eyes. He smiled apologetically and turned around as if nothing had happened, saying to Kal'tsit:

"It's okay, I'm fine. Just thinking about something."

Kelsey nodded, and did not expose Roy's forced calmness. She just followed his lead and said, "

"Is it about the Demon King crisis? That crisis... shouldn't just be about the Sarkaz, right?"

"Yeah." Roy nodded and continued the conversation. "Yes, I got off track a bit. Although the Demon King crisis is related to the Sarkaz, it is not entirely caused by the Sarkaz."

"After all, do you know why the Demon King is called the Demon King?"

As soon as Roy asked the question, the Witch King answered through the mouth of the Elector Emperor:

"Because of that little black crown, and the ability to weave emotions, memories, and even thoughts into reality."

"That sounds very similar to the abilities of the Void Realm...Originium and the Sea of ​​Solaria?" Knight Yao keenly noticed the connection between the two.

Roy nodded: "Yes, this is also the special feature of the Demon King. The authority of the Demon King is not inherited by blood, but selected by the Black Crown. The previous generation of the Demon King... Her Highness Theresa, her birth was not prominent, and she did not belong to any Sarkaz royal court, but she was still chosen as the Demon King. And this generation of the Demon King..."

Having said that, Roy hesitated for a moment, tilted his head slightly, glanced at Kal'tsit, and then continued:

"This generation of Demon King is not even an orthodox Sarkaz. This is enough to prove one thing - the emergence of Demon King is not something that Sarkaz can control. Black Crown does not belong to Sarkaz."

“That black crown is actually one of the most important relics left by human civilization.”

Roy took a deep breath and said,

"That is another complete Solaria Ocean that is similar to the Originium, and what is stored in it is human civilization."

"Human civilization?" The Queen suddenly realized something, and even her sitting position trembled violently, "Wait, the Demon King's ability is to weave out memories, emotions, etc...."

"That's right." Roy nodded.

"So, the Demon King crisis is not actually referring to the Sarkaz or Kazdel crisis. The desire of a race to restore its country is not enough to be called a civilization crisis. After all, in our view, the Kazdel formed by the Sarkaz and the Terra civilization composed of other enslaved races are not fundamentally different from the Terra civilization today. It's just a change in the ruling class."

"The real Demon King crisis refers to the Demon King machine that has perfectly awakened and inherited the human civilization in the Black Crown. There is no way a person can bear the weight of all the consciousness of a civilization. Their influx will instantly annihilate any autonomous consciousness of the person, turning him into a pure machine that reproduces civilization. Using the Originium combined with the Black Crown, with the ability to turn the virtual into the real, in a short period of time, the entire human civilization can be copied and pasted from the Black Crown, covering the crisis of the entire Terra civilization."

"The Demon King crisis is also the real crisis of humanity."

Therefore, the Black Crown must be sealed with the Ten Rings. Every time a ring is unlocked, the Demon King will be eroded by the will stored in the surface of the Black Crown. At the beginning, it was the consciousness of the former Sarkaz king attached to it, and then the older Demon King from the Tikaz era, until all Ten Rings were opened, and the true will of human civilization [Alaya Consciousness] was unsealed, manipulating the Demon King in reverse.

Therefore, the prophecy would say: I see cities, devastated. I see Originium covering the land. I see you, with a black crown on your head, boiling millions of lives into memories. I see the Demon King, enslaving all species.

When true human civilization returns, all the cities on Terra that are now crawling on the ground will be crushed, the consciousness, knowledge, and data stored in the Originium and the Black Crown will be released, and the incarnation of human will [Alaya Consciousness] wearing the black crown will return to the throne. When humans from the Age of Stars return, the civilization of upright small animals born on the colonized planet Terra will naturally not be able to escape slavery.

This is the biggest crisis for Terra civilization.

PS: Do you feel that the scale has suddenly expanded?

I have been writing for a long time and finally wrote this plot. It can be said that I wrote this book just to write this conjecture. I made dumplings just for this vinegar!

It feels great. No matter if I will be backstabbed in the future, at least it feels great now!

Volume 1: Chapter 232 This is the real natural disaster crisis!

The crisis of the devil is also a crisis for humanity.

All the gifts of fate have been secretly marked with a price. While the nations of the earth are discovering the technology and products left by humans, developing Originium and technology, and expelling the Demon King and Sarkaz, and are thriving, the greatest threat is also constantly approaching them.

It is hard to imagine what would happen if one day a demon king was finally overwhelmed by the cruel and bloody encirclement of the Sarkaz by various countries and decided to abandon everything, liberate the Ten Commandments, and seek the most powerful power from the depths of the Black Crown.

[Civilization Continuation] is opened, and the civilization that survives in it is freed from its shackles. The Originium transforms the illusion into real energy and merges with endless data. In a few days, a revived and flourishing human civilization will once again stand on Terra. By then, it will be easy for humans to re-contact and control the ecological environment transformation system in the ocean, release the sea to reorganize the entire planet, and finally break through the isolation layer and return to the starry sea.

What an unimaginable technology this is. For the few people who are listening to all this from Roy at this moment, this is no different from a miracle, a true miracle!

In front of such miracles, the behemoths that claim to be gods seem so ridiculous, the emperors who claim to have created great achievements and dynasties seem so insignificant, and even the earth itself pales in comparison!

However, as if to shock others, Roy silently raised his fourth finger.

"The fourth crisis."

"And a fourth one?"

This time, even Margaret, who understood almost nothing, couldn't help but shout out.

From the Sea Crisis to the Demonic Crisis, she understood almost nothing. Whether it was the ecological transformation cluster on the seabed, the virtual demons on the Arctic ice sheet, or the Sea of ​​Solaria, these were not the truths she could touch at present. She was like a sunny and cheerful girl who was caught passing by and listened to a secret report, highlighting that she was always confused and had something to do with me.

But until the Demon King Crisis and the Human Crisis began, she gradually became serious and nervous.

She knew about the Sarkaz people, and she also knew that the Sarkaz had been discriminated against and persecuted. Although she had not personally experienced the era when the coalition forces of various countries besieged Kazdel, from the words of the Queen, Roy and Kal'tsit, she could easily imagine the scene of blood flowing like a river at that time. As for the topic about the Demon King of the Sarkaz, Black Crown and the survival of human civilization, although she also did not fully understand it, she could already feel it a little.

Because this is something that is happening around her and is happening right next to her!

She could turn a blind eye to the ocean problem because she had no friends in Iberia, and she could not feel deeply about the evil demons because the Infi Icefield was very far away from Casimir and was always strictly guarded by Yan, Ursus, and Sami. But it was impossible for her not to pay attention to the Sarkaz around her.

Her best friends, Shining and Nightingale, are Sarkaz. Shining is from a very special lineage of "Pardoners" among the Sarkaz, and Nightingale has an even more special identity and is protected by Shining.

She knew that not all Sarkaz were bad people, nor were they all war maniacs. There were also people who loved peace and were kind to others. She also knew how deep the prejudice and persecution they had encountered was, and how much they wanted to change this situation.

If there really comes a day when the Sarkaz Demon King who is now somewhere unknown can no longer tolerate the situation of the Sarkaz and decides to fight to the death to unseal the Black Crown, then the ones who will be hurt will not only be Shining and Nightingale, but also the Sarkaz on Rhodes Island and all the people on this land.

What a terrible result that would be?

What's even more terrifying is that this kind of thing may happen at any time. As long as the Sarkaz do not receive equal treatment, the risk of crisis will increase day by day. It all depends on the Demon King's patience!

This crisis is enough to send chills down the spine of anyone on Terra, but it is not the last and most serious crisis Terra faces.

There's a fourth one!

Not only Margaret lost her composure, but also the Queen and the Elector, and even Kal'tsit was surprised, not sure what Roy was going to say next.

What could be more terrifying than the return of human civilization and the enslavement of Terran civilization?

Wait, are you trying to say...

"The fourth crisis comes from outer space."

"From the real [Natural Disaster]!"

Roy spoke these words in an unprecedentedly heavy tone, causing everyone to involuntarily repeat them again.

"A real natural disaster?"

What is a true natural disaster?

On Terra, natural disasters manifest as earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, sandstorms, and other natural disasters. Once they occur, they will inevitably cause extreme conditions in a short period of time, and leave a large amount of Originium in the area where they occur after the natural disaster ends.

Now, the Queen has known the nature of Originium, and can also conclude that natural disasters are actually special phenomena caused by ripples in nature caused by the energy of the Solaria Sea, which has nowhere to be released. So, what is the real natural disaster?

Several nervous eyes were cast towards Roy, waiting for his answer. But Roy reached out and pressed the thin card on the table - [Disaster Laboratory ID Card].

"In order to fight against natural disasters, we created natural disasters. But, world, oh world, we still don't know how to save you."

Roy read out for the second time the words that were engraved in his mind at the same time when he received the card. His voice was so heavy and so suggestive.

The Elector and the Queen both frowned, not understanding the deep meaning of Roy's repetition of this sentence. But Kal'tsit had already spoken thoughtfully:

"Everyone, haven't you noticed? The three crises just now have a fundamental commonality for us."

"Commonality?" Margaret asked puzzledly.

"They, whether they are [Sea Heirs], [Devils], or [Continuation of Civilization], they all have one thing in common. They come from - [Humans]."

Kelsey's tone gradually rose, and she became more and more excited:

"Don't you understand? This card was created by humans in order to open their natural disaster laboratory. Humans cannot build a natural disaster laboratory just to fight against their own creations!"

"Since they have formulated so many plans and created so many products [to fight against the natural disaster], and have even prepared to pack their entire civilization into the Black Crown and prepare to revive again after tens of millions of years, then what exactly was the natural disaster that they were fighting against from the very beginning and destroyed them?"

"This is the real natural disaster crisis!"

Volume 1: Explanation, plus more updates on Thursday

Recently, I have seen many readers complaining about the slow pace of updates, and someone in the group sent me a private message asking if I can update more quickly.

The main reason is that I have a lot of classes this semester. Those who are in college should know that the sophomores and juniors have the most classes. As a sophomore, I have a full schedule of professional courses every day. Basically, I use the time after class in the evening to write, write first and then do homework - we actually have homework, it doesn't feel like a college at all.

But everyone is responding, and I also think that it is really abstract to drag a climax plot for four or five days. It is really uninteresting. In this case, even if I have to squeeze in time, I have to squeeze it out to update.

Starting from Thursday—I really didn’t have time on Wednesday as my classes lasted until 9:30 p.m.—I’ll update every day until the climax is complete.

I would like to apologize to all readers who had a bad viewing experience.

very sorry

Volume 1: Chapter 233: Fight for the Future, Not the Past

The meeting with the two kings and one duke ended three hours ago. Conclusions and decisions cannot be reached in an instant, especially when it comes to the country and civilization. Everyone needs sufficient time to digest the information they have obtained.

As the sky gradually darkened, Roy finally stepped onto Rhodes Island's main ship.

Even though he had rehearsed this scene countless times in his mind, even though he had purchased a scaled-down model of the main ship Rhodes Island, and even though he had seen the operators coming and going on the island countless times in the game, when he actually stepped onto this landship, Roy still felt excited, excited from the bottom of his heart.

Even if it was Miguel, Zilan, or other three-star operators who he had only despised in the past when they appeared in the open recruitment, when they really appeared in front of Roy, they greeted Kal'tsit with a smile and looked him up and down with puzzled and surprised eyes, Roy would feel waves of emotion and relief.

There is a sense of relief, as if one has completed a pilgrimage to a holy place.

Kal'tsit seemed to sense Roy's change in mood, which made her feel a little relieved. After passing through the gate that Theresa had built and entering the medical office where Amiya and the doctor often went in and out, until he entered the deepest part of Rhodes Island, Roy realized that Kal'tsit didn't plan to take him to see Amiya right away.

He was in a space that had never appeared in the plot. The spaciousness of the space and the many large databases placed in it made people realize his extraordinaryness at a glance. Although Rhodes Island's security had always been in a Schrödinger quantum state that could be conquered by the integration of the remnants of the defeated army and daunted Victoria's gray hat, Roy could still feel the high-tech confidentiality here at a glance.

This also allowed him to quickly determine the location of this place.

The core area of ​​Rhodes Island, the huge mysterious space hidden from the ship map. The hollow area was discovered by Kal'tsit after Kal'tsit and the Doctor left Rhodes Island.

The secrets stored here have not been revealed in the plot, but combined with the identity of the relics of the previous civilization excavated from under Rembil on Rhodes Island, what is preserved here is probably something on par with the Deep Sea Laboratory and the Tomb of the Tremont Preserve.

Noticing that Roy showed curiosity rather than understanding, Kal'tsit was sure that Roy did not belong to the Spark Plan of human civilization represented by Rhodes Island. But she was not discouraged, which was normal.

No one in the entire universe can possibly count how many incredible plans humans proposed and executed when the catastrophe was imminent and on the verge of extinction. That was a civilization that could build megastructures and travel the stars and make every effort to survive. Not to mention the official efforts, even if people tried privately, there were probably tens of thousands of them.