Mythology (2)
Lu was silent for a while, then said, "Let's talk about their affairs later. Aren't you curious about your own affairs?"
Inger asked dryly, "Why me?"
Zero poked his side with his finger, "Not you, the God of Time and Space needs Inger Neka, the original one."
Lu nodded and said with a wry smile: "He doesn't care whether our world will be destroyed or when it will be destroyed, but there seems to be something wrong with the time and space you are in. He needs Inger as a wedge."
Ling said: "He once said that this was the only possibility to avoid a terrible ending."
Ritsu added, "You're just one of the people who finished reading that comic book."
Zero: "We don't know why the God of Time and Space chose you, but before he left, he said that even if there is no way to prevent the ultimate demise of human civilization in this world, this can be used as a possible variable to give this era a good ending."
In Inger's mind, the questions just kept growing.
He said in a dry voice: "So, what I went through..."
Lu obviously knew what he was going to say, and said softly, "We are not gods who control destiny. The destiny of this world is the path that creatures take. We can interfere and guide, but we cannot control it. We cannot modify the Book of the World either."
Zero added: "Including the history that was retraced will also be faithfully recorded in the Book of the World."
For a long time, Inger believed that the goddess sent him to this world to guide him to help the protagonist save humanity.
Even though he is reluctant, the gears of fate will eventually mesh, forcing him to jump into this fire pit willingly, as if everything is destined.
But they now made it clear to her that he was just a random pick, a byproduct of a special exchange of people.
Everything he experienced was just his own choice. It was not fate that controlled his life, but the path he took was his destiny.
Inger wiped his face, struggling to digest this fact.
Zero: "We didn't expect you to bring any changes to this time and space, but you not only gained magic from another time and space, but also changed some of the trends through your own actions. In this respect, that guy is right."
Inger forced a wry smile.
Law: "We have been paying attention to you, but we have no way to guide you. Our divinity was no longer sufficient to support our intervention in this world. Even these two bodies could not wake up."
Inger: "This is... a clone?"
Lu: "Yes, you should have heard about it from the Tree of Life and Death. We have long liked to use clones to interfere with and guide the direction of human history."
Ling glanced at her and said, "But it was never satisfactory. I went back several times and my divinity weakened so rapidly."
Lu smiled bitterly: "..."
Zero: "This time it was because the little girl woke up the ring that we were able to make a sound and contact her."
Lu: "That ring was made by us a long time ago. It has been dormant for a long time, and our divine power still remains in it."
Inger: "...Does this ring have the power to make people unconsciously convinced?"
Lu: "Well, you guessed it. But if people didn't believe it at all, it wouldn't have infected them. It just magnified the possibility that already existed in people's minds."
Zero thought for a moment. "We used this ring to give speeches a long time ago, and it worked great. Well, we occasionally give it to children we choose to use. That child, Eric, is very close to us in nature."
Inger gradually understood what had happened and murmured, "Well... this time it was because of the clone's behavior..."
Lu explained: "Our original divinity was already very weak. When we realized that we could not maintain our clones, we planned to go back in time and let Elena and Alex retain their memories, hoping that this would bring some positive changes to the direction of this space and time."
Inger: "Then why... is Alex the only one here?"
Lu: "...No, we chose Elena, not Alex."
Inger's eyes widened.
Zero: "We judged that Alex was too emotional, and that Elena from the later period was more suitable for the survival of humanity as a whole, but she refused and gave the opportunity to Alex. Her original words were..."
Elena said: "I have no regrets in my life. Alex has many regrets, and he needs this opportunity to make up for them. And his vulnerability will become his strength, which is a stronger power that I don't have. He will protect humanity."
Lu: "We couldn't ask Alex for his opinion at that time. We had to send him back."
Zero: "Your meeting was an accident, but a good one."
Lu looked at him and smiled, "You have done a great job getting to this point. Thank you for your hard work."
Inger opened his mouth, and a sour look welled up in his eyes and nose.
It turns out that it was not because they were the chosen ones, but because they stood at the forefront at the critical moment of human survival that the goddess chose them and they became the protagonists.
Their good fortune, their sorrow, their trials, were not predestined.
They are just ordinary yet unique people.
They are not characters in comics, but real people who exist here and are desperately trying to live in this history.
This place where he was was the reality.
Inger looked up at the wooden beams, trying hard to control the tears that were welling up in his eyes.
As he was talking, Lu Ling leaned sleepily on the soft pillow standing at the head of the bed.
Inger immediately took out a large pile of magic stones.
Lu half-closed his eyes, fighting sleepiness, and waved his hands: "We can't use this."
Zero pointed at Inger's hand: "But we can use your magic."
Inger clenched his fists and began to quickly absorb the magic power in the magic stone.
The girl with the white hairband is on the left, the girl with the black hairband is on the right, and Ritsu's left hand holds Ling's right hand.
"This last time of retrospection was also completed with the help of the power of the God of Time and Space. The remaining divinity is not enough to support the next retrospection. This is the last time. No matter what the ending is, we will accompany mankind to the end."
They said, "You may still have many questions. But please listen to our story and you will get the answers you want. Let's start from the beginning."
The name of the world, the name of the goddess, and the name of the world's laws, a trinity.
God was born from the destruction of a world.
The god of that world that was destroyed was their mother.
The gods have no language; they were given the language of a destroyed world and carry the history and memory of that world.
The twin goddesses appear as young girls wearing flower crowns, white skirts and holding authority in one hand.
There is no difference in power status.
Their world is on this planet, because its location determines that it will eventually give birth to life and civilization.
They are the gods of time. The gods who maintain time and order in this world.
Law governs creation, Zero governs destruction.
They stayed together on the desolate planet. After an unknown amount of time, the earth's crust began to crack and move, and water appeared.
The surface of the earth began to turn blue and green, and life was born.
Lu liked those strange little things very much, so he gave them divine power.
She created magical creatures, and the Age of Mythology began.
Dragons and phoenixes go to war, giant trees wrestle with earth demons, big fish and big birds chase each other in the sky, giant sandworms dig a maze underground... these little things always turn the world upside down.
But these little things must come to an end.
A butterfly in the Western Hemisphere can cause a sea storm in the Eastern Hemisphere.
All things have their birth and their death.
Destruction is a part of nature.
Living things begin with life and end with death, while matter is formed and then destroyed.
Zero plucked a flower crown from the giant tree, ultimately ushering in the end of the entire era.
Lu did not stop him because she knew that was Zero's mission.
During the demise of a great era, most of the green land was frozen. As the ice gradually melted, the third god, Morine, was born in the ocean that occupied half of the planet. (1)
She controls the ocean and all life in it, so the ocean retains many traces of its ancient past.
When Ritsu was looking back at the memories of the previous world, she saw humans who were similar to them. She asked Zero: "Why are there no humans in our world?"
Ling said nonchalantly: "It will be born one day, right?"
Lu waited and waited, and when the next era of creatures began to grow wildly, she waved her hand and created two babies.
Zero looked at her speechlessly.
Lu smiled and said, "Raise them well, right?"
They created two clones, raised two children, and played house.
Before the clones died, Lu Ling went to receive their memories.
Zero had to admit that the lives of primitive humans struggling for survival were indeed more interesting than the lives of their omnipotent gods.
Lu was very excited, like a child who had discovered a new toy.
The law has sown the seeds of human beings everywhere. Human life span is very short, and they die after a few dozen seasons. Therefore, they think that this era should not last long.
They slept for a while, and when they woke up, they found that the era of humans had arrived.
The originally handful of human beings somehow multiplied into numerous tribes, and these small and fragile creatures could be seen everywhere on the gradually fixed continental plates.
Compared with the magical creatures of the mythological age, they are much weaker, but they tenaciously multiply and thrive on the mainland, forming settlements, societies, countries, and civilizations, transforming and evolving at an astonishing speed.
They possess complex emotions and thoughts that even ancient magical creatures do not have, and have created a society that is more diverse than a population.
Lu often pulls Ling to create several incarnations to participate in human life. They cannot interfere too much in human life, but they can experience and participate. The memories of these incarnations throughout their lives have become the seasoning in their boring divine lives.
Human life is precious because it is short.
In this process, Lu fell in love with humans more and more. And Ling only considered how to destroy human civilization in a proper way.
Because although the human race grows fast, it also perishes fast, and the history of the human race is too short compared to previous eras. Zero had a vague foreseeing this.
God should not interfere too much in human history. This was the last lesson their mother gave them.
But Law apparently forgot this.
They discovered that some humans could actually hear their voices.
Such people are able to harness the aura that lingers in this world, just as they do.
So Lu made an oracle without authorization.
She taught them the language of this power, the Word of God.
The goddess of law generously taught the language of the destroyed world to all human children who listened to her.
I also talked to her about many things through my clone.
That child is a good child. Zero is not annoying either.
The girl called it magic.
She became the world's first witch.
She longed for this magical power to help more people, so with the goddess's permission, she began to teach magic.
It is often easier for women to learn the magic of the goddess.
Lu also praised her.
But by the time Lu noticed, the witches had all been burned to death.
They were burned to death by believers in the gods. They called them pagans and burned them alive in the fire.
The witches said: "The Heavenly Father is not my Lord. I do not obey the priest or my husband. I only follow the goddess because she allows us to seek our own happiness and is willing to bless the world." (2)
The clone's sudden and painful memories caused Ritsu to be angry.
There are only three of them in this world.
However, humans have arbitrarily invented all kinds of gods and forced people to obey those commandments that distort human nature and deprive people of freedom. Some people have killed their compatriots in order to satisfy their desire to control power.
Ritsu wanted to punish these humans, but was stopped by Zero.
Zero picked an apple from the tree, and then plague and war broke out on the continent, completely burning the era of mankind.
On the eve of human extinction, Lu admitted his mistakes and chose to use divine power to go back in time.
In the end, she couldn't bear to leave her child.
Poseidon and Zero tolerated her willfulness.
This is the first backtrack.
In the cracks of time, the tree of life and death captured the wonder of looking back, but he could not speak to any existence, he just stood there quietly.
Lu taught some of the spells to children with magical qualifications, and set a ban on humans that could never break through the eighth level. She personally selected her own spokesperson and spread the oracle to every corner of human society. Since then, wizards have been proven that humans can no longer create magic and there are only three gods.
The sea goddess doesn't like to communicate with humans on land, she prefers to talk with races in the ocean.
As a result, the myth of Poseidon gradually disappeared from human beings.
Humans do not like destruction and death. Due to their instinctive fear of death, they cannot frankly admit that death is a part of nature, so they blur the concept of zero.
Poseidon and Zero didn't care.
Knights emerged from the human race. They did not have the precise perception and control of magic, but by tempering themselves with magic, they became more powerful than wizards of the same level.
The human population exploded during a warm period. Wars followed. Unlike magical creatures that don't die easily, humans die easily. Because they have emotions, they are even more cruel. Unlike natural creatures that kill for survival, humans often have many reasons to kill.
The memories of the wartime incarnation are not interesting.
Lu started to look back again.
She longs to shape this world into the balanced and harmonious world she wants.
However, no matter how she guides, humanity will eventually perish soon.
Zero told her that the human era was destined to be so short.
Even if the law is reluctant, it has to give up, because destruction is also in line with the laws of the world.
Destruction is inevitable, but not necessarily this time. If creatures can survive extinction, they can move on to the next brief peace. If not, they can start a new civilization.
Destruction is cyclical, and the world is in a cycle of birth and destruction.
And if you want to eliminate this cyclical destruction, you must kill Zero.
But God's creation cannot kill God.
At this time, Lu and Ling have already sensed the disappearance of their divinity. They have existed for a long time, creating magical creatures, creating humans, and maintaining the order of the world, which is constantly consuming their divinity. Going back in time further intensifies the entanglement of cause and effect. They are like their creations. Even if they have a long time, they will eventually perish.
When the two gods exist, they will affect the world in a relatively direct way, but when the divinity of the two gods completely dissipates, they will become humans, and after death, they will become part of the laws of the world, influencing the birth and destruction of world civilization in a mysterious way.
However, around the fifteenth century of human history.
An alien has entered their world.
Aliens coming from another time and space and not belonging to their world have caused a serious rejection reaction in this world.
The black seeds suddenly appeared from a non-existent void channel torn apart in the space near the planet. Due to gravity, they rushed to the ground. They were not dissolved by the atmosphere and space radiation, and fell on the Eastern Continent.
Their insensitivity to the concept of time means that by the time they realize the seriousness of the situation, it is already too late.
The black seed was aware of the existence of God. It hid its existence by moving like an ordinary tree while taking root crazily in the underground of the Eastern Continent. When it had accumulated enough power, it began to devour the creatures on the Eastern Continent crazily, including humans, magic beasts, magic stones, beasts, flowers, trees, dragons, giants and other magical creatures...
She has the ability to devour lives and blend their genes together, giving birth to flower embryos and breeding "guards" that belong only to her. She grows and becomes stronger by consuming lives, and transforms the ecological environment of the Eastern Continent into a place suitable for her children to live.
An alien invasive species that wants to transform the world and become gods.
The law wants to eradicate it, but they are not allowed to directly interfere with the world itself on a large scale with divine power.
Zero tried to have humans use the purification spell to destroy this alien creature, but no human could leave the Eastern Continent alive.
After trying countless methods to no avail, all living things in this world are almost destroyed by this alien.
The three gods would not allow this to happen.
Destruction is part of the laws of the world, but this destruction must occur naturally in this world and cannot be interfered with by alien objects outside this world.
Together they did a retrospective.
However, this time, because the world was devoured too deeply by the magic tree, the origin of the world was damaged, and their divine power was also greatly weakened due to the encroachment of the world's magic power.
The parts eaten by the magic tree silkworms will not return even if they are traced back.
They only went back to the time when the magic tree had taken root in the eastern continent.
The divinity of Poseidon disappeared.
Before she disappeared completely, she made a choice and dedicated herself to the ocean with her last bit of divine power.
The ocean will be filled with strange magic in the next thousand years. It will be difficult for magic trees and the creatures they give birth to to enter the ocean. Even if marine creatures are occasionally eroded by the magic of the coast, they will not spread in the ocean. The magic in the sea water will disperse these, and the vast ocean will dilute everything.
However, this magic cannot be maintained if the sea water leaves the ocean, because the ocean is a whole.
In order to drive away the evil tree, Ritsu and Rei ordered the dragon and the phoenix to burn the root.
The above-ground part is indeed effective, but the underground part has spread too far. As long as there is a root stem left, the evil tree will be resurrected again.
This time they did not hesitate and went back in time before the magic tree matured and attacked the Western Continent.
At this moment, the time has been delayed to the moment when the magic tree begins to devour and occupy the Eastern Continent.
They hastily erected a wall of separation, hoping to slow the pace of invasion and give humanity time to strike back, but soon they fell into a deep sleep.
During their sleep, they can also know the progress of world history, but they can only watch and cannot help.
They watched as humans reconnected after an internal struggle, fought desperately after the wall was broken, and finally destroyed the evil tree.
They saw the human heroes led by Elena and Alex shining brightly, but after the strong light, they were extinguished in darkness.
Most of the human race died.
Their sacrifice forced their power to flow out.
That ancient blood ritual circle was a remnant from the long-gone witch age that had not yet been cleared.
The humans at that time did not know that the magic tree was not completely destroyed and that some residual seeds were left.
At that time, the two gods had opposite ideas.
The extinction of human civilization is a very common thing.
In the process of creating the world and constantly being born in it, Lu fell in love with this world. She experienced the world and willingly became the cornerstone of this world. At the same time, she also fell in love with the human species. She loved her creation and couldn't bear to see them end up like this, so she rewrote it again and again.
For Zero, neither of them matters. There is no difference between human self-destruction and destruction caused by demons.
Lu hopes that while he is still alive he can see hope for the continuation of humanity, rather than the world he created being destroyed by demons.
At this time, the God of Time and Space came and asked them for help. Lu also asked for his help.
The God of Time and Space helped them go back in time and space for the last time, and also helped them find the possibility of changing the ending.
The arrival of souls from another time and space was just a by-product of their transaction.
The God of Time and Space came and went in a hurry. He traveled through countless universes and time without leaving any news.
Because humans had defeated the demons on their own once before, this time Lu Ling left hope and decision-making power to humans.
Lu chose Elena between Elena and Alex.
Elena rejected God's kindness and gave the opportunity to Alex.
This is truly the last time.
Lu held Ling's hand tightly, his voice was very gentle:
"Even if kingdoms and dynasties are destined to repeat and overlap in the long river of history, and even if human civilization is not worth mentioning compared to the long years of the universe, at this point in time, the struggle of mankind is by no means in vain. Even if mankind is destined to be destroyed at a certain time, there should be room for them to struggle. They have survived many catastrophes. Doesn't this prove the resilience of this race? And as the god who created them, I have spent this short time with human civilization. It is my happiest time. No matter whether it is painful or happy, I want to give them one more chance before I leave my dear children. Thank you for accompanying me on this willful journey."
A rare smile appeared on Zero's face: "I don't care about humans, I only care about you. I will help you, because you are the other half of me, but I will also fulfill my duty and eliminate the aliens that do not belong to this world. I hope we can all do our best to do what we should do, and finally face destruction without regrets."
(1) Morine is derived from the word marine.
(2) “They obey neither priests nor husbands.”
—————"The Witch: The Unbeatable Woman"
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