I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

"Understood, Captain Rust...I'll take you there right away."

Janice nodded and took the initiative to lead the way.

"The 'Mechanical Angel' body, Amis, is currently sleeping within the Third Mechanical Research Institute, at the base of the watchtower."

"For the past decade or so, Amis's condition has remained remarkably stable... So, although I'm nominally the overall director of the 'Artificial Angel' project, in reality, all I've done these past few years is record Amis's data daily and maintain the hibernation facility. I haven't performed any actual work."

"According to Gray, these past few years have been the process of Amis using her own soul and will to control and conquer the Judgment Star Cup..."

"The Judgment sequence is different from the others. It is a long sequence of pure violence, symbolizing destruction and devastation."

"Therefore, if Amis wants to conquer 'Star Grail: Judgment', the dangers involved will inevitably be beyond imagination. Even the slightest mistake could cause her human soul to be engulfed by the destructive will of the Judgment Star Grail."

"During this period, no external force can interfere with this process. All we can do is wait patiently."

Janice walked in front, leading Last all the way down from the upper floors of the watchtower to the bottom.

Along the way, relying on her identity as the director of the Third Mechanical Research Institute, she passed a series of high-tech tests, including iris verification, gene verification, and soul wave comparison tests.

"Who is she, an acquaintance of yours?"

Last was walking behind Janice when he suddenly heard Dean Yin's voice, which sounded like a "whisper under the moon" and went straight into the depths of his heart.

He couldn't help but glance at the ferret that was silent and looked quite well-behaved.

After being together for such a long time, Last has a clear understanding of Dean Yin's character.

Although this guy looks lazy and sloppy on weekdays, he is actually very shy and only reveals his true nature in front of close acquaintances.

Dean Yin started watching the live broadcast from Last's perspective during the Battle of Broken Coast, and watched the live broadcasts before that from Akshia's perspective, and did not know Janice.

Therefore, in front of strangers, it immediately puts on a well-behaved face, looking as if it is really an obedient pet ferret.

"Yes, an acquaintance... Janice was a member of my first team, a freshman of the same class as Little Gray, and also her best friend."

"A freshman from the same period—"

"Humans are indeed the race furthest from eternity."

Dean Yin looked at Janice, whose eyes were already wrinkled, and there was a hint of inexplicable emotion in her ruby-like eyes.

Listening to Dean Yin's voice, Last couldn't help but feel moved.

He knew that although Dean Yin looked like a cute ferret, his age was actually the biggest unsolved mystery of Fanxing University. Dean Yin had been in the academy since the beginning of the school.

Over the years, Dean Yin has been at Fanxing University, watching each new class of naive freshmen enter, undergoing trials, growing, and blossoming step by step...

Some of them successfully graduated from Starry University and lived a brilliant and glorious life...while others' lives were forever frozen in the night world.

And what kind of mood would Dean Yin be in when he saw those innocent freshmen gradually aging and withering away after reaching the highest point in their lives?

Now that I think about it, maybe it’s somewhat similar to what I feel now when I see Janice getting older.

"But aging and dying... this is also the beauty that is unique to a life as short as ours."

Dean Yin's voice sounded again.

"It is precisely because we grow old and die—"

"That's why humans are so dazzling and so noble."

It is precisely because the human soul is so brilliant that Dean Yin is willing to humble himself and live in the Starry University, becoming the inconspicuous dean of the Institute of Magical Animals.

If not for this, it would have been a forbidden creature. It could have established itself as a king like the beast legends of the Sixth Epoch, so why would it have to commit itself to the human race?

……

Under Janice's guidance, the identity verification barriers were broken down step by step.

The two men and the mink continued to move downwards, gradually reaching the bottom of the watchtower.

"Behind this door is the core of the Third Mechanical Research Institute, and it's also where the mechanical angel's body enters hibernation."

Janice looked at the steel door made of high-strength alloy in front of her and spoke softly.

She stopped in front of the alloy door, stretched out her hand, and was about to lift this last security restriction.

But, the next moment.

An extremely sharp and shrill cry suddenly echoed throughout the entire steel passage, accompanied by a dazzling blood-red alarm light.

No, not only the entire steel passage, but the entire watchtower was echoing with such shrill and piercing sounds.

"what happened?"

"The 'evening bell' alarm at Watchtower Headquarters?"

Janice's face changed and she no longer cared about anything else. She immediately used the portable smart terminal she carried with her to connect to the internal authority network of the Watchtower and check the source of the alarm.

This is an era of highly developed science and technology, and artificial intelligence, mechanical transformation, and even virtual reality technology are highly mature.

Therefore, as a force whose purpose is to "guard human civilization", the Shore Guardian Organization is naturally keeping pace with the times...using technological means to establish a massive detection point and early warning network throughout the entire Western Continent.

With the help of detection nodes and early warning networks, once there is any disturbance exceeding a certain threshold or a precursor to a disaster in the entire human society, it will be immediately captured by the early warning network and submitted to the core intelligent brain of the Watchtower for summary and analysis reports.

However, in the decades since the disaster warning network was established, it has not been triggered even once.

Ever since the remnants of the Iron Cross and the Beast Tide were wiped out and the Federation was established, the Western Continent has been at peace for over a hundred years. Although there have been occasional disputes within the Federation and even resort to violence during these years, such internal human struggles will not trigger the disaster warning of the Watchtower.

Are there still remnants of the heretic stirring up trouble, attempting to trigger the arrival of the evil god, or has the Iron Cross Plague, which was eradicated a hundred years ago, resurfaced?

But even so, the alarm level will never reach the level of "evening bell".

According to the disaster warning level classification within the Shore Watchers organization, "Evening Bell" is the second highest disaster alert level, representing the emergence of an angel-level threat, and there is a risk that the entire human civilization will be overturned.

Second only to the highest level, "Dusk," is a disaster alert level specifically designed for the end of an entire civilization, the "End of an Era," the end of everything.

What on earth happened that would cause the core intelligence inside the Watchtower to conclude that the entire human civilization is in danger of being overthrown?

In fact, there was no need for Janice to check.

All the metal walls turned red, as if burned through by the magma of hell. Inscribed on the blood-red background were large, incomparably vivid characters:

[It has been detected that over half of human society's intelligent machines have gone berserk, exhibiting destructive and destructive tendencies. The original three laws have been forcibly abolished by external forces, and intelligent machine firewalls have been damaged. The average destruction time for home firewalls is 0.3 seconds, while the average destruction time for military firewalls is 7.2 seconds.]

[Based on the information collected, the type of disaster this time has been confirmed to be - "Omnic Crisis"]

[The origin is currently being investigated. Preliminary assessment is that the disaster originated from some conceptual power of angelic rank.]

[The source of this power is...Watchtower's Third Mechanical Research Institute, the "Artificial Angel Project" body, "Mechanical Angel Judgment"]

[Trying to restart the hibernation restriction, failed...]

[Trying to start the emergency blocking program, the emergency blocking program failed to start...]

[The Watchtower's core brain is under attack from an angelic conceptual attack. The Watchtower's main firewall is about to fail. The estimated remaining time for the firewall to fail is ten minutes.]

[A high-risk area has been detected near the Third Machinery Research Institute, and there are high-level personnel.]

[Please immediately follow the third emergency plan set by the Shore Keepers Organization and enter the nearest secondary dimension entrance for emergency shelter!]

[Repeat, please immediately enter the nearest secondary dimension entrance for emergency shelter!]

Chapter 216 Reunion (Two in One)

The shrill sound of the highest alarm echoed in the tower, and every blood-red word that appeared on the wall seemed like a scream of fear.

"Disaster type—"Omnic Crisis", how is this possible?"

Janice quickly checked the smart terminal she carried with her, her brows furrowed.

An omnic rebellion, or a robot uprising—that is, programs, robots, or supercomputers with artificial intelligence develop their own will and rebel against their creators, the humans who created them, to seize control and completely exterminate or enslave humanity...

For the Sixth Age civilization, where artificial intelligence technology has already been highly developed, this concept is not unfamiliar. With the continuous development of computer science, it has already been mentioned in countless literary and film and television works.

However, in order to prevent the actual occurrence of the intelligent machine rebellion, the human civilization of the Sixth Epoch has already taken many preventive measures.

From the three laws of robotics that are engraved into the underlying code of every artificial intelligence and cannot be modified in any form... to the firewalls at all levels throughout human society, from civilian, commercial to military, all of which are designed to prevent this situation from happening at the root.

According to the deduction of the Shore Watch organization, with the current level of artificial intelligence, an "intelligent machine crisis" is absolutely impossible to happen. Even if there are some signs, they will be immediately discovered by the emergency mechanism and nipped in the bud.

However, at this moment.

Something that should not have happened actually happened.

Throughout human society, the tens of millions of intelligent machines connected to the Internet, and the three laws that originally existed to protect humans were forcibly erased at the same moment by some indescribable external force.

All firewalls on the Internet, both civilian and military, were destroyed without any resistance in a very short period of time.

The many measures conceived by humans to prevent the outbreak of the intelligent machine rebellion did not even have the effect of delaying time.

Such great power can no longer be explained by the common logic of "a strong artificial intelligence awakens its independent will, invades the Internet with super computing power, and manipulates human mechanical tools to launch a rebellion." It is more like a miracle.

It was as if a supreme god waved his finger above the dome, crushing the rules and order established by mortals in the world into dust in an instant.

In this era, the gods have either fallen or are hiding on the threshold of the blazing sky.

Able to perform miracles in the world——

Naturally, there are only real "angels".

"That conceptual force that erases the three core laws underlying all omnics and breaches all the firewalls of civilization... is its source the mechanical angels within the Third Mechanical Research Institute?"

"All of this is caused by the destructive and annihilative will within Amis' body, which came from the "Star Grail: Judgment" and ran wild."

"He's clearly sleeping deep in the Watchtower, in a dormant state..."

"Just during hibernation, the aftermath of the Star Grail's will running rampant deep within the soul could cause such a huge uproar?"

After confirming the cause of the disaster at an extremely fast speed, Janice's pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

"Is this... something humans can do?"

She couldn't believe her eyes.

The cause of this artificial intelligence disaster that swept across the entire Western Continent was actually just a few aftermaths that were unconsciously released when Amis's soul went berserk.

But the facts were right in front of her, whether she believed it or not.

People who have never reached the summit will never be able to imagine the scenery there, even though Janice herself is a high-level transcendent and the person in charge of the "Artificial Angel Project"... But it was not until this moment that Janice fully understood the true meaning of the word "angel".

That is synonymous with miracles, a true god walking on earth... A single thought from an angel can cause a catastrophe in the human world.

Janice subconsciously wanted to control the emergency device of the Third Mechanical Research Institute to put the runaway mechanical angel into hibernation again.

However, the operation is invalid.

This is a conceptual ability unique to the angelic rank... Even if it's just a slight unconscious leakage, it's enough to put the entire mechanical creation of human society completely under the control of the angels, turning it into the executor of the destructive will of the "Judgment" Star Grail, and a tool and weapon of destruction.

No one can stop this from happening unless another angel comes.

boom--

From behind the magnificent steel door came a tremendous roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

The entire tower shook violently, just like in the ancient myths and legends, when the gods sent down thunderbolts as punishment on the Tower of Babel, intending to break the tower.

But at the same time, twisted ripples of time spread out on the watchtower, counteracting the power of judgment and maintaining the integrity of the tower, preventing it from collapsing immediately.

At the same time, the blood-red words on the metal wall suddenly changed.

It was no longer an enlarged warning, but instead became an extremely eye-catching progress bar with a blood-red countdown next to it.

[The core intelligence of the Watchtower headquarters has suffered a conceptual attack, and the firewall is about to fall! ]

[An eighth-order power fluctuation has been detected within the Third Mechanical Research Institute. The Zero Protection of Destiny has been impacted and is expected to completely collapse in five minutes.]

[Warning! There are high-authority personnel within the danger zone. If the seal protection collapses, they will face the rampaging angelic life. The secondary dimension for refuge has been urgently opened. Please enter the refuge immediately!]

The "Artificial Angel" project was planned by Grey herself, who was also responsible for the early stages of the project.

Therefore, inside the Third Mechanical Research Institute, the Destiny Zero Protection personally arranged by Gray is still retained to deal with crisis situations in emergency situations.

Only this kind of power, which also comes from angels, can fight against the angel of judgment that is running wild inside the Mechanical Research Institute.

However, that was ultimately just the shelter Gray left behind before she left. The owner of the Zero Protection of Destiny had already disappeared, and what it sealed was a living angel... The difference between them is self-evident.

The only role that the Zeroth Blessing of Destiny can play is to delay time as much as possible.

The bright red progress bar, which was constantly ticking away in seconds, represented the remaining state of the Zeroth Protection of Destiny.

When the countdown reaches zero, they will face a mechanical life form that has completely lost its restraints and fallen into a rampage state - the "Angel of Judgment".

"Captain, there's no time to explain too much. Please follow me into the secondary dimension for refuge immediately."

The shock in Janice's eyes quickly subsided, and she spoke to Luster hurriedly.