What does it take to change the world?
Maybe it takes a ship that can sail to the New World, a train that can lead to the steam age, or maybe just a simple string of code and an invisible network connecting the entire world to change the world dramatically.
For the lord of the sea, Hines, changing the world means opening the door to another world.
"Hains, have you ever seen a human being?"
“…”
"Isn't that a particularly weak life form that we can easily kill?"
“…”
"When I read in the Book of Destiny that our world would undergo tremendous changes, perhaps even be overturned, because of humans, I felt a fear for the human race."
Hines and Wisdom sat together on the beach, listening to the Wisdom King express his fears.
"You actually have something you're afraid of?"
The Prince of Wisdom smiled.
"As long as one is alive, who doesn't have fear?"
"As long as we have something to care about, there is reason to fear."
“So, when I learned that our world could be turned upside down by humans, I was terrified.”
"I had already prepared for the worst and imagined all the different kinds of human beings in my mind."
"I imagine that each of them possesses immense strength, a physique or intelligence several or even dozens of times greater than ours. When they appear, they can easily destroy our world."
The King of Wisdom gently spoke of His past worries.
"I've even prepared for the worst."
"Then, humans showed up."
Hines was slightly drawn to the words of wisdom, and He continued to speak:
"But humans are not strong."
The Prince of Wisdom nodded with a complicated expression.
"That's right, humans aren't strong. In fact, they're much weaker than I thought."
"When I first saw them, I couldn't even imagine they would look like this."
"It's much smaller than the average tall and weird creature, not as agile or strong as before."
"Aside from possessing a special language and special knowledge, they were almost completely weak in terms of power. They didn't even possess any special abilities in the beginning."
“That’s what humans are.”
"It was the human I once feared."
Wisdom laughed at itself, "God knows how ridiculous my fear of myself was when I first saw them and realized how weak they were and how devoid of any extraordinary wisdom they possessed."
"That's ridiculous, isn't it? Humans like this will bring about drastic changes to our world. Humans like this will turn the entire world upside down."
“At that time I even wondered if the Book of Destiny was a fake book.”
"Otherwise, how could it give such a ridiculous answer."
"At that time, I didn't believe in fate. I even felt funny that I had believed in the book of fate."
"But... fate soon taught me how powerful the consequences of not believing in it are."
Hines frowned, knowing what Wisdom was going to say.
"The bloody massacre that happened a hundred years ago happened right before my eyes."
"When I thought that human beings were greedy, stupid, ignorant, jealous, and possessed all the evil and inferior qualities, they suddenly changed."
"They suddenly had power, suddenly became wise, suddenly had unbreakable faith and purpose, and then they gradually became the fear I imagined."
"Yuan, almost killed me and almost destroyed the entire capital."
"If I hadn't read the Book of Destiny and planted the seeds of evil among the first humans to come to this world, perhaps the overturning of the world described in the Book of Destiny would have actually happened before my eyes."
"So it seems we have to trust in fate."
Hines was silent for a long time: "What does that have to do with me?"
"Humans will eventually leave this world. They are merely beings that strayed into this world through the cracks of time and space."
"They're only a different species from the strange creatures of this world, even from the higher-level creatures. As long as they can gather enough strength to pass through the cracks and gates between realms, then we can just let them go."
"After all, they are not the lives of this world, and they will not bring any changes to this world."
"Wrong!"
The voice of wisdom suddenly grew louder: "You are wrong, Hines! Humans and the weird cannot coexist! Just like the human world and the weird world cannot coexist!"
"Hasn't humanity changed this world yet?! Open your eyes and look at the world now! Humans have been here for a hundred years. What has our world become in those hundred years?!"
"Because of humans, our world has vehicles that replace weird running, all kinds of strange cooking gadgets with no edible value, and all kinds of unnecessary lazy desires that are superfluous and weird!
While we think humans are weak and just passing through this world, these lives that keep coming from another world have already spent hundreds of years changing our world!
"Hains, open your eyes and look!"
Wisdom stood on the sea, pointing at the distant city. "This world is gradually being adapted to humans! Perhaps before long, when the humans of this world have completely adapted to everything here, the world will no longer belong to us, but to those damned outsiders!"
"This is the subverted ending written in the book of fate! This is the true fate that I have never seen before!"
"Those humans seem so weak that they can be crushed with a finger, but they keep coming, batch after batch! There's almost no end, no limit!"
"Haines! Are you willing to make our world a human world?!"
"Are you willing to let those outsiders seize the power that should belong to us, to the sea people and the sky?!"
"At least I don't want to!"
Wisdom looked fiercely at the gradually surging sea before him: "Humanity will never surrender to us! Humanity will not accept its fate! Even if those humans remain in this world and become strange, they are not strange after all. They have strange appearances but human hearts!"
"They are like a virus to this world! They want to contaminate and devour our beautiful world!"
"Heins, even if you are in the ocean, you can't stop those humans from continuing to explore the depths of the sea!"
The originally calm sea suddenly stirred up a huge wave.
There was no excessive expression on Hines' face.
"wisdom."
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Don't say those useless things, just tell me directly, what do you want to do?"
The King of Wisdom looked at the King of the Sea for a long moment. After a moment, He suddenly stretched out His arms and faced the ocean. "My requests and wishes are simple! Hines! I want humans to never again be able to change our world like a bug!"
"I want to open the door to the world!"
"I want our world to be safer than the human world!"
"I want...our world to completely devour the human world."
Huge waves as high as a hundred meters arose on the sea surface and hit the King of Wisdom directly.
It was as if he wanted to slap this weird thing that was talking nonsense to death.
But the King of Wisdom laughed loudly in the face of the huge waves, his dark eyes were full of fanaticism and ambition!
"Hains! Don't you hate those humans coming over here one after another?!"
"Hains! Don't you want to be free from trouble and worries forever?!"
"Hains!!! Don't you want to rule over a much larger and more vast ocean besides this one?!"
"Hains! This is the fate of these two worlds! Either we swallow them up or they overthrow us! Strike first!"
The huge waves on the sea slowly fell down at this time.
The King of the Sea looked at the monster that opened its arms as if to occupy the whole world, and the balance in his heart gradually shifted to one side.
If only one of the two worlds can survive, then...they can only be the Devourers.
"So, what should I do?"
Wisdom laughed.
"It's simple. Just give the Ocean Gem enough power to open the door to another world."
When Hines was about to leave the capital, Wisdom stood by the sea and watched him go.
"Hains, it takes strength and sacrifice to devour a world and create a new one of our own."
“No change is painless.”
"So...when you feel pain, think about how bright and beautiful the future is."
The King of the Sea frowned, but His steps toward the ocean remained unchanged. "That's why I said, I hate people who can't even speak well."
"Wisdom, if there's anything that's about to happen, just tell us directly."
The wise prince laughed and said, "Then I'll tell you directly, Hines. The power to open the door to the world is extremely huge. It takes enough energy to turn the ocean gem into one of the three keys again. And this energy can only be obtained from the ocean.
Perhaps, you will need to sacrifice your people."
Hines paused.
"That's impossible."
"I will not harm any of my people."
The wise gaze was lost in the misty sea fog, "Then you must find enough other energy to provide to the ocean gems."
"Of course, you are the King of the Sea. If you no longer wish to open the Gate to the World, you have the right to terminate it at any time."
Hines narrowed his eyes as the huge wave carried his body away, leaving behind his firm words:
"Of course I have the right to stop."
Only after the figure of the King of the Sea disappeared beneath the sea did the appearance of the King of Wisdom gradually emerge in the dissipating mist.
On His face was an extremely happy and ferocious smile.
Every word He said was true, so He never feared or cared about the verbal induction of the Lord of the Ocean and the Lord of the Sky.
A true lie is the most powerful lie.
He believed that Hines would make the right choice.
The wise eyes swept across the gradually calm sea, and then looked up, up, up, at the sky above his head.
He knew that above the thick and soft white clouds, there was a city flying in the sky.
Sea, sun, earth, sky...
The center of the world!
No subversive person can truly leave this world without His obstruction!
Those humans don't deserve a peaceful and beautiful life.
He has received the will of the world, and what He is doing is what the world wants to do!
Open that door!
When that door is opened, the weird world will become even more powerful!
"The ocean has already begun," Wisdom murmured to himself. "Will the sky... also be getting closer?"
"wisdom."
"Do you think the path you've chosen is the right one?"
The voice of fate resounded around the King of Wisdom.
"You are pushing your fate towards the worst possible outcome."
“Humans don’t accept their fate.”
The wise prince laughed. "Listen to how contradictory your words are! I am driving destiny, but humans refuse to accept it."
"It sounds like fate is a double standard thing!"
"Don't mention fate to me anymore! From the moment I was born, I don't believe in fate!!"
"So what if the wanderers have begun to return? After all, they are not the human king Lin Yuan who can overturn this world!"
"So what if a new Scarlet Wanted Criminal appears?! He might actually be able to pass through the ten major cities and open the gate to return. But he's running out of time!"
"Hahahaha, that human who might become the second Yuan no longer has time to travel through all ten main cities!
His path will be completely cut off in Ocean City!"
Wisdom said this with a very happy expression on his face.
"Look, fate."
"It's that simple for me to change my destiny."
"The fate of the world, the strange fate, and... the fate of those two humans, have all been changed by me."
"I've already written the ending, I'm just waiting for it to happen."
Fate said nothing more.
But the weird people in the royal capital seemed to have heard His sigh.
"Chief!! What on earth are you thinking about? Why are you keeping silent?! The Ocean Gem has already absorbed the life and energy of seven sea tribe elders. Do you want to let the Ocean Gem continue to absorb the life and power of other sea tribes?!"
Isn't this just a naked massacre?
Even so, this killing was not bloody or involve any flash of swords.
Hines continued to lower his eyes.
He was just a little bit away from being able to sense the power of the ocean gem.
There is nothing to hesitate about, just a little bit is enough to open the door to another world.
"...I will no longer draw power from Ocean City. The power surrounding Ocean City is sufficient."
"I will never harm my own kind."
"So, wait a little longer."
Just wait a moment and it will be fine.
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