I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

Every morning and evening, sunset and dawn...

Amys sat leaning on the hospital bed, talking non-stop, pouring out her heart to the cold optical quantum computer.

She expressed her longing for Last, her nostalgia for the peaceful daily life in that border town, and her reluctance to no longer be by his side... She poured out all these burning emotions to the blank Yaoguang that was gradually being born in the quantum computer.

Spring warmth, summer days, autumn days, winter nights…

Before anyone knew it, Amys, who was originally diagnosed by the medical team as having a maximum survival time of no more than three months, had actually survived for nearly a year.

And the artificial light that was originally as empty as a blank sheet of paper gradually became real, clear and lifelike under Amy's persistent dialogue and confession.

However, Amis's body was visibly weakening and becoming haggard, and even the time she could maintain lucidity each day began to decrease.

No matter how advanced the medical technology is, it is only a temporary solution to the "aftermath of space-time collapse" and not a cure for the root cause.

The fact that she had survived for so long was due to Amy's active cooperation with treatment and her optimistic attitude, which was extremely rare among patients, as well as the use of a large number of new drugs that had not passed clinical trials.

And now, her illness has finally developed to the final stage.

……

It was still an evening with sunset.

The setting sun was as red as blood, shining into the intensive care unit through the small window, covering the hospital bed and the girl on it with a layer of light golden neon.

Gray opened the door and walked into the intensive care unit again.

On the hospital bed, the little blonde girl was still leaning sideways towards the cold optical quantum computer, whispering something.

Perhaps due to her weakness and illness, Amy's voice was very soft, almost whispering, and she would pause for a long time after each sentence before continuing.

Fortunately, the microphone of the optical quantum computer was sensitive enough. On the screen next to it, a number was growing at an extremely slow rate as Amys spoke.

That was an indicator of the degree of perfection of the "artificial fluct light." The higher the value, the closer the artificial intelligence was to human-level performance... Before this, even experts in the field of artificial intelligence had never imagined that someone could actually perfect artificial intelligence to this level.

Amys was extremely devoted and serious in her confession. It seemed as if just saying these words had exhausted all her energy, leaving her completely unable to focus on anything else. Perhaps the illness had affected her hearing...

A long time later, when Amys took a break, she discovered Gray who was silently watching her beside the bed.

"Sister Gray..."

She tried to sit up, but found that she had lost the strength to do so.

"No, we can just communicate through 'heart-to-heart dialogue'."

Gray spoke softly. She sat down next to Amis, a light flickering in her eyes, and the "Fool's Library" was activated.

The next moment, her voice rang deep within Amy's heart.

"I'm sorry to bother you, Xiao Ai, but according to the medical team, if I don't come to you this time... maybe I won't have the chance to talk to you again."

"I understand, Sister Grey."

Amys nodded gently. "My life span is almost over. I know that from the day I asked you for help, I have been prepared to die."

"and--"

She turned her head and looked at the display of the optical quantum computer beside her: "The artificial fluct light named "Amis" has also been completed..."

"I just want to perfect it as much as possible before I go."

Amys said softly, "With this, when I die... there will be someone to stay by his side instead of me. He won't feel lonely in this strange world and fall into despair or even give up on himself."

"Xiao Ai..."

Gray seemed to be hesitant to speak. "Don't you feel unwilling or even jealous?"

"If it were me, I would share my feelings and memories with a loved one with a replica."

"To watch your beloved treat a replica of you, with the same appearance, personality, and memories, as your own, letting a substitute take the place that should have belonged to you."

"Honestly... I can't even imagine it."

This is Grey's true feelings after putting herself in the other person's shoes.

If I were in Amys's shoes, I would have to share my memories, experiences, and all my emotions with my brother Last with a replica of his virtual soul... Let that replica take over my life for the rest of my life, and walk through the future with my brother Last...

Even just thinking about this kind of thing made Gray feel sour in her heart.

She rejected and disliked the occurrence of such a thing from the bottom of her heart.

"Of course I'm jealous, of course I'm unwilling..."

After a brief silence, Gray heard Amy's voice echoing in her heart, as if there were emotions that had been suppressed for a long time accumulating.

"How could I possibly want to share those things with someone else, to see another person by his side, to take over my own life?"

“I didn’t want to hand it over to anyone.”

"I like Rust and I like the feeling of being with him."

"I want to be by his side, grow old with him, and when one day we are both too old to walk anymore and can only sit on a lounge chair in a mountain hut, basking in the sun, we can talk about our youth and still look at each other and smile."

"My past with him in Canaan, every little thing we went through together... I feel shy just thinking about it..."

"All of that, clearly, belongs only to me. Neither the gods nor fate have the right to take it away from my heart."

"But--"

Amys paused. "Rather than having my life replaced by another replica, and rather than the bitterness, resentment, and jealousy welling up in my heart... I don't want to see him fall into despair and abandon himself because he's lost the company of someone he knew."

"I hope he can smile, regain his own life, and have a bright future."

"even if--"

"In that vast future that belongs to him, there will no longer be a trace of me."

……

"To be honest, I didn't expect that this skinny little girl would give such an answer."

"It was a wake-up call in my ears."

"Compared to the feelings she harbored for you, Brother Luster, my longing for you, or perhaps even my possessive desire for you, which has gradually twisted and degenerated over the past two hundred years...seemed to pale in comparison in an instant."

Gray's voice echoed through the light curtain, carrying a silent sigh.

"It was at that moment that I finally made a decision in my heart."

"Decision on how to use my third and final wish from 'Wish Upon Destiny'."

"It's also the only way to atone for the sins I committed in my first two wishes...to put your fate, Brother Luster, and Xiao Ai's fate, which was twisted by my momentary thought, back on track."

"Just as Leader Sissel paved the way for me with his own life... after I make my third wish, human civilization after the Sixth Epoch will also have an even more prosperous future."

"Even if the price of making this last wish is—"

"Even in that prosperous future, I will no longer be there."

……

Gray's narration ended.

And within the light curtain, in the memory scene from Gray's perspective—

After being stunned for a moment, Gray spoke again.

"In fact, your 'sequelae of space-time collapse' may have the possibility of being completely cured."

"If this attempt succeeds, perhaps you can see Brother Rast again...see Rast, and continue to accompany him for the rest of his life."

"A method to completely heal me?"

Hearing Gray's voice, the sky-blue eyes on Amy's pale face suddenly lit up again.

"Ah."

Gray nodded. "The root cause of your current illness...is that you were implicated when I made the wish. You were forced to travel through tens of thousands of years, becoming an outsider who doesn't belong to this era, nor to the current historical juncture."

"The long river of history has a strong power of correction. It will spontaneously eliminate and exclude those time travelers who do not belong to the current era, or impurities."

"And your illness is actually due to the rejection of this force of historical correction, which is why your body is constantly deteriorating and decaying."

"For this symptom, any external remedy will only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. Even the slightest mistake could backfire, exacerbating the rejection of history's revisionist forces against you."

"The only way is to change yourself—"

Gray gazed into the eyes of the blonde girl on the hospital bed. "Make yourself strong enough, strong enough to ignore the correction force of history and the distortion of time and space collapse."

"Let yourself reign supreme over time, reign supreme above the calamities of the changing eras, defy the erosion of time, and truly ascend the throne of eternal immortality... Whether in the past, present, or future, there will never be a moment of weakness."

"Whether upstream or downstream in the long river of history, we maintain our absolute uniqueness."

"At that time, regardless of time or space, you will be you, the only you... Then that virtual, artificial Fluctlight will also be you, a part of you, without distinction."

"Or, to put it more simply—"

"Xiao Ai, you have to become an 'angel'."

Chapter 212 Where is your place, little Grey? (Two in one)

"Let me become an angel...?"

Amy's weak voice couldn't help but pause for a moment.

Then, the light that flickered in her sky-blue eyes dimmed again.

Amis has lived in the Sixth Epoch for nearly a year, and during this year, Grey has never concealed anything about the extraordinary people from her.

Therefore, at this moment, she knew very well what the term "angel" meant in the world of extraordinary people.

This is the end of the long staircase that humans can reach so far.

For ordinary extraordinary people, becoming a legend is already an insurmountable chasm... Countless talented geniuses have spent hundreds of years, even their entire lives, yet have failed to truly achieve legend.

Not to mention, it is the realm of "Angels" above legend.

That was the realm of historical legends, of mythical creatures from the grand epics.

In the entire history of mankind, there are only a few cases where the details are unclear and later generations speculated that they were angels.

In the Sixth Epoch, the only angel walking the earth is the woman before Amis, the "Shore Keeper" Gray.

But even this civilization leader, after reaching the throne of legend, spent more than a hundred years before breaking through the shackles of legend and becoming an angel...

What's more, it was Amis herself who was only a little over ten years old.

Before being caught in the collapse of space-time and traveling to this world, Amis was just an ordinary little girl living in a small border town... She had never been exposed to any extraordinary field, and she didn't even know the concept of "Sequence Long Level".

Not to mention, Amys's life was already running out.

In the last few years of life, he could transform himself from an ordinary person with no foundation into an angel... To Amys, this sounded like a fairy tale.

“It’s not completely impossible.”

Gray began to explain.

"The eighth level is also known as the realm of God. Every angel there can be called a true mythical creature."

"To become an Angel, one must master the authority of the rules of one's own Sequence, the so-called 'Star Cup', 'Divine Authority'... Transforming from a player who follows the rules of the game to an administrator who controls them."

"However, the rules and authority corresponding to different long-level sequences are limited. Therefore, each long-level sequence can only give birth to one angel."

"So, in a sense, it's not wrong to call these angels who govern the rules corresponding to their own sequences... the gods of this sequence."

"Of course, on the other hand—"

"If an ordinary person, through various means and by chance, came to control a lost and ownerless 'Star Grail'—the so-called divine authority... then even if they were merely an ordinary, powerless person, they would possess the key to the divine realm and the qualifications to become an angel."

When she said this, a look of reminiscence appeared in Gray's emerald green eyes.

She couldn't help but think back to over two hundred years ago, when she hadn't yet become the leader of a civilization in charge of the "Library of Fools" and was just an ordinary shorekeeper...

The black-haired boy whom he looked up to in the Holy Scripture, mingled among the crowd in Paradise Royal City.

At that time, Brother Rast had already collected all the Star Cups of the God of Death, which also meant all the authority of the long-ranked "God of Death"... As long as he completed the last step of the god-making ceremony, he would be able to become the new God of Death.

Although what is obtained in this way is only the qualification to become a god, in order to truly obtain the power of the gods, it still requires a long time of accumulation and practice - but the qualification to become a god has been the lifelong pursuit of countless extraordinary people, which means that he will have a smooth journey on the road to the realm of the gods.

However, in the end, Brother Rast chose to betray during the ascension ceremony.

He returned the Star Cup of the God of Death to Axia... He gave up the gift from fate of "becoming the new God of Death" and rejected the invitation of the gravekeeper, the opportunity for true eternal immortality.

Just for the ideal of being a "shore watcher".

Gray's pupils moved slightly, pulling her thoughts back to reality from distant memories.