Many years later.
At the source of a world where time, space, entropy, and death have completely lost their meaning, Ash is trekking alone. There is no road here, only darkness flowing like cold glass. Ash steps into the darkness with every step, and then pulls it out, like a mountaineer challenging a snowy mountain.
When Sword Princess and her companions conquered all known world lines, the majesty of the Lord of the Void radiated from the throne to every corner of the entire plane where magic existed. In this great era when all things are unified, even the most brutal magic supreme must abide by the code in the Magician's Manual and dare not easily disrupt order. The rebellious Four Pillars were exiled to the wasteland outside of civilization, where they could only decay in endless loneliness until the glory of civilization gave them new life.
But this war must be ended by Ash himself, leading the army in person is the king's inevitable fate.
despair!
Ash stopped. Although there was still endless darkness ahead, in Ash's eyes, a curtain beyond imagination completely blocked out the magic.
He knew that this was the limit of Sword Princess and the others, and ahead was an unknown area that had never been contaminated by magic.
This is why the Lord of the Void Realm must come in person, because even if Sonia is willing, she cannot do it for her. The so-called magicians are actually sailing on the ocean called magic. The virtual wings are the ships and the magic spirits are the sailors. Only in this way can they sail to the end of the world. But if it is a land without an ocean, how can magicians sail?
Ahead is the dry shore that magicians cannot set foot on, but it is also the origin of time and the beginning of everything.
Because it is the original world line, the page where all stories have not yet begun. There are no rules, no fate, only eight creators.
It is because of the fall of the creative life that time, space, fate, entropy, and death came into being, and then the magician civilization was born, just like the fall of a whale gives birth to all things.
Therefore, it is natural that magicians cannot set foot in the original world line, because even the concept of "magic" does not exist there. No matter how powerful the magician is, it is impossible to paint on non-existent paper. This is a logical fallacy.
The only person who can cross the veil is Ash.
As the Lord of the Virtual Realm who has completely collected all the concepts of magicians, completely conquered all world lines, and ruled the past and the future, his authority is undoubtedly equal to that of the eight creator lives. His eight wings can be reversed back to the original authority. He is not limited by magic and naturally will not be blocked.
Now the world, the virtual world, and destiny are just tiny parts of Ash, because he is everything, both the whole and the one.
He stretched out his hand, lightly touched the curtain, and stepped over.
What will you see?
Is it ruins, chaos, or 'eight' people chatting in a circle?
It may be difficult to understand, but Ash actually came here with the mentality of reminiscing about the past. Although he had never seen any of them except the Source Angel, it did not prevent Ash from being very familiar with them: the remains of the first one was a golden fish, the corpse of the second one was a white bull, the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh each turned into four pillar gods, and the eighth was integrated into the world and became the origin of the magician... Before the magician was born, they all died except the Source Angel, but they still influence every magician to this day, and will not change in the foreseeable future.
Even if the 'eight' attacked him together, Ash might not be angry, but based on his understanding of them, they might be stunned for a long time after seeing him before realizing what was happening... because the Source Angel was a somewhat stupid girl.
Although Ash was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but be stunned when the scenery before him came into view.
The sunlight is slightly dazzling, but it feels warm on my body.
The grass grows towards the sky, reptiles chase the sun during the day and the moon at night, the wind is a transparent river, and the light is a warm meteor.
Ash looked at this sunny world, not knowing how to react for a moment.
With a thought in his mind, everything in this world no longer had any secrets in Ash's eyes. This was a world without miracles, where only the unmodified laws of physics were in operation, like a feast that no one had touched, quietly waiting for guests to enjoy it.
But what about the other eight?
No matter how hard Ash looked, he could not find any trace of the eight creation lives, as if they did not exist at all. But this was the starting point of the world, if they were not here yet, then where were they?
Without them, there would be no future. Without the future, there would be no me. Without me, I would not have discovered that they did not exist at the starting point... Ash felt as if he was trapped in an observer paradox. Before this, the development of the world was very clear, all the logic was self-consistent, and all the evidence pointed to the 'eight' as the origin. Although seven of the eight died, the source angels lived into the future... But when Ash really checked the beginning, they did not appear as they should have.
Ash stood there in a long thought, but time would not stop for him. As the sun rose and the moon set, the night gradually dissolved the blue sky, and the world became a mysterious dark world. Only the stars were the protagonists here, and the stars in the sky were within reach.
So familiar.
The inexplicable familiarity was like a stone that smashed heavily into Ash's memory, splashing water everywhere, slowly falling, sinking to the bottom of the sea, stirring up mud and sand. It was also like a bone that Ash threw far away, and the dog of memory also ran away. No matter what, it would bring something back.
It is a dark sky park.
Ash searched for a long time and finally found a picture that had not faded from his deep-buried memories - he had seen the exact same scenery when he traveled with his brother in his previous life!
So... Ash raised his head. The atmosphere did not block his sight at all. The stars in the sky were reflected in his pupils. He saw the moon, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle, and Halley's Comet, which orbits the sun every 76.1 years...
This world is not a product of nature, but a replica of the Earth world exactly!
In all the time in this plane, only two people can complete this homesick work, one is Ash himself, and the other is...
The final viewer!
He had actually been to the original world line! But this is a place that only the Eight Wings can enter. How did he get in? When did he get in? Why did he want to create an identical Earth world? Why didn't he ever say anything?
Countless questions popped up in Ash's mind, like pearls and jade splashing.
But apart from the cold wind on the top of the mountain and the shining stars, no one answered his question. There was no end-watcher here, nor eight, only the world that Ash once dreamed of.
The excitement slowly cooled down, and a strange question emerged in Ash's mind -
Why did he go directly to the Dark Night Park after passing through the curtain?
If it was accidental then there is no need to say more, but if it was not accidental... then it was the deliberate design of the end-watcher.
The end-watchers knew he was coming.
Ash carefully examined the world again, but still could not find any trace. He began to doubt his own judgment - if the Doomwatcher wanted to leave him a message, he would have many ways to do it, but why couldn't he find anything?
Is it really just a coincidence? Ash couldn't help but feel a headache. There were too many mysteries in the original world line, and it was almost impossible to get the answers. The only hope was the viewer. If the viewer really didn't leave him any clues, then he would definitely not be able to sleep tonight...
wrong.
There is one more clue.
A clue is right in front of us.
Ash looked up at this familiar world, and when his mind moved, the world folded up like a scroll.
That's right, the Earth world that the viewer deliberately reproduced is the biggest clue. No matter how you think about it, the viewer can only reach here after being promoted to the highest level of magic. Even if the viewer is still capable of sentimentality, it is impossible for him to spend so much effort to reproduce the Earth world - at least Ash will not waste such time for his homesickness. He might as well indulge in the tenderness of the queen and the princesses.
As expected, Ash discovered that the viewer left many obvious "creases" in constructing the world. When he folded the world along the creases, the original world line turned back into endless darkness, leaving only a book that was familiar yet unfamiliar to Ash.
Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual
After so many years, Ash didn't expect that he would have the chance to see this name again. He reached out and gently stroked the words on the cover, and for the first time his eyes revealed the color that a master of the virtual world should have, as if after a thousand years, the world had changed drastically and they were meeting again.
But now Ash had more questions than before, but at the same time he realized that some of the confusion that had lingered for a long time might be answered.
After Ash became the Lord of the Void Realm, he thought he had surpassed the Doomwatcher and wanted to replicate the functions in "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual", namely "cross-domain teaming", "compulsory training", "potion system", "vehicle system", "talent system", "professional system" and so on.
As a result, he has not been able to perfectly replicate these functions until now.
The team function requires magicians to form a team offline before entering the virtual world together;
Forced training can be achieved by using the Domination Miracle, but the cost-effectiveness is too low;
Potions and vehicles are essentially manifestations of miracles that barely make it happen;
As for the talent system and the career system, there was no trace of them at all - if it was still possible to fix and quantify talents, then the career system was like seeing a ghost to Ash.
He used to think that the occupation system was probably a permanent miracle, but miracles have one effect on mortals, one effect on demigods, one effect on god masters, and another effect on the highest magicians. For example, the same miracle that enhances sensitivity will make mortals want to live and die, but when Vichy uses it on himself, it can only produce a little interest.
However, the job characteristics are different. For example, the Wild Dancer job effect of Sword Princess is "Attacks on the same target can increase attack speed by 2%, up to 5 times, and will become invalid if the attack target is changed." When she was a mortal, she could stack 10% attack speed. Now, as the ultimate swordsmanship supreme in all planes, she can also stack 10% attack!
The gap between the former and the latter in terms of energy level is more than a billion times? If Sonia wants to increase her attack speed limit by 10%, she must use the Supreme Wonder at least, which consumes tens of thousands of source crystals once. However, she does not consume any energy when triggering her professional characteristics!
He and Sonia had studied it seriously, trying to find out the essence of professional characteristics, but they found nothing. Professional characteristics are like the sunlight outside the painting. No matter how the people in the painting look for it, they can never find that this is not the light of their own world.
When Ash lost the Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual, he had no nostalgic feelings, but later he realized what treasure he had missed. Although they had made countless great achievements, they still had not fully explored the legacy left by the Doomsday Watcher.
Now, it was back in his hands.
Just like the Broken Lake of old.
When Ash opened the "Aurora's Magician's Manual", the first thing that caught his eye was the portrait of Fanxing wearing a warm yellow vest, a white dress, Martin boots, and a sun hat. She was also carrying a newly bought construction box, simply because she thought it looked very cool.
This is how Fanxing dressed when she went on a date with him two days ago... Even though they are already in a relationship of holding hands, Fanxing still maintains a monthly date frequency with him, holding hands, looking at the sun, and walking on the street.
The portrait takes up a large area on the left side, and at the top of the right side are three lines of data, namely "Supreme Holy Grail", "Source Power", and "Source Crystal", which are the highest level of liquid resources owned by Ash.
The following is the "Exploration" which takes up a certain amount of space. There are two notes for exploration, one is [Status: ∞/∞], and the other is [Current: Original Place].
Below "Exploration" are "Formation" and "Operator List". There is surprisingly no change in the Operator List. There are only [Sword Sound Master], [Magic Destiny], [Omniscient and Almighty], and [Lord of Control], that is, the four queens, but their titles have changed.
Ash clicked on the operator's specific information and found that the talent system and career system were both there, but the bond level was not marked.
Then he clicked on the formation and found his arrangements for everyone. For example, Vishi/Felix/Deda Rose/Freya/Shifrin all belonged to the [Family Sequence], but at the same time, Vishi and Tamashi belonged to the [Conquest Sequence Team 3], which meant that Vishi sometimes took care of the children, and sometimes went out with Tamashi to conquer the world line.
However, except for the queens, none of the others are 'available operators', so they appear grey and cannot be selected or moved around. The only way to influence the allocation in the formation system is through real-life arrangements.
Next are "Purchasing Center" and "Search".
Ash clicked on the "Purchase Center" and found that there were three types of consumer currencies, namely the Supreme Holy Grail, Source Power and Source Crystal that Ash owned. There were a wide variety of things to buy, from the Flowing Gold River to the Secret Realm, from gods to wonders, there was nothing Ash couldn't think of that he couldn't buy there, but the problem was that all the magic resources in the virtual world were in Ash's hands, where did these goods come from?
"Search" was the same as before, still searching for operators. Ash clicked on the search list, and suddenly a dazzling array of names rushed into his eyes. Freya and others, Igula and others, Blood Moon Extreme Lord and others, and many other names that Ash knew or didn't know were all within the search range, and the search system guaranteed that he would draw an operator every time, and would not draw anything else.
Below that are "Missions" and "Construction". Ash opened the mission and found that all the tasks in it had been completed. The top one was [Become the Only Eight-Winged].
Opening "Construction", the book immediately turned to an extremely complex page, listing all the world lines, heavens, and resource points controlled by Ash. There are millions of words alone.
It was basically over here, but Ash was so shocked that he was speechless.
After a long while, he uttered a curse word faintly: "Viewer, you little megaphone!"
Compared to this, the Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual that Ash got was just a super low-end beggar's edition! There is no doubt that the viewer borrowed this original version and made a fake and pirated product for Ash to use!
However, Ash was not incomprehensible, because he found that this original version did not have a bond system at all. In other words, except for the bond system that was indeed invented by the viewer, everything else came from this original version!
As for the nature of "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual", it is not difficult for Ash to guess: now the eight creation lives in the original world line have disappeared, except for being swallowed by "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual", could they be playing hide-and-seek with Ash?
In addition, Ash can be sure that part of Aurora's Magician Manual comes from outside the world. Not only because there are too many laws in it that override the magician world, but more importantly, Ash has mastered all the resources of the magician plane, but it can also create new resources out of thin air and increase the total amount of the magician plane. It can only be input from outside the world.
This way you can understand why effects like "professional characteristics" can be described as not miracles, because they are not miracles at all, but powers that come from other dimensions!
If the magician's plane is a house, the eight creative lives are all the raw materials, and civilization is the builder, trying to make the best use of the materials and even gradually increase the total amount. However, the forces outside the world can contact furniture stores outside and add new furniture to the house without regard to the limitations of raw materials!
It's just like spending real money in a game, it goes beyond the boundaries of miracles.
As for why the viewer didn't just take the original copy away, Ash thought about it and understood: he couldn't take it away.
This original version has been integrated with the original world line. With the supreme power of the viewer's magic, it is impossible to pack up the original world line and take it away. Only Ash, the lord of the virtual world, has this authority.
Since he couldn't take it away, the viewer must have stolen some powers from the original version, and then added his own bond system to piece together the "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual: Youth Edition" that Ash once used.
In other words, the viewer came to the original world line before meeting Ash, but he was just the Supreme Sorcerer being hunted by Ouroboros at that time, so how could he have come to the original world line...
initial……
The End...
Ash was slightly startled and looked up to the front.
Naturally, there is nothing in front, because this is the starting point of everything, and there is nothing before the starting point... right?
Of course not.
If Ash did not unify the magician plane, but a snake of the end devoured all the worlds to complete the unification of the magician concept, then the snake would devour its own tail in the end, until it completely collapsed and returned to chaos, and the plane returned to its original state. After experiencing countless huge time, eight creation lives would be born again in the original chaos, and fate would repeat itself like a ring.
After the end, there is the beginning.
The viewer does not go back through the timeline to find the original place, but rather travels through the end and reaches the original place after the plane returns to chaos, just like the tail of an Ouroboros connected to its head!
The final viewer is also the first viewer!
All doubts were dispelled, and an inestimable treasure was discovered, but Ash was not very happy.
When he discovered the traces of the viewer, Ash actually held a faint expectation in his heart, an expectation that he himself was unwilling to admit... After all, as the Lord of the Void Realm, praying for a miracle was too weak.
He clicked on the most important "Explore", the book turned to a new page, and a golden tree diagram appeared.
The top treetop had "End World Line" written on it, and along the way down were "Alchemy World Line", "Hongxue World Line", "Black Key World Line", "Turbid Heart World Line"... Ash quickly found their world line, called "Tingri World Line", and for some reason it was named after the Tingri magic spirit.
The bottom of the golden tree diagram is naturally the "Original World Line", and next to it it also shows [Ash Sequence is exploring].
Obviously, this exploration system is to assist Ash in leading the operators to conquer the world line, but it is no longer useful to him now.
However, Ash stared at the page, his expression changing.
He saw that in the upper left corner of the tree diagram, in a blank space with nothing in it, there were two turbulent streams of data that were constantly tearing and changing.
The large ball never produced any useful information, but the small ball flashed a line of clear text within one thousandth of a second:
[The terminal sequence is being explored].
The viewer is not dead!? What about the Death Maniacs? Are they not dead!? Or have they been resurrected? But why are they not in the magician's plane——
Ash quickly figured out the answer himself: If the Observer and the others were really resurrected and lost the bond system, they would no longer be able to deal with the Serpent of the End in their opinion. If there was a chance to leave the Sorcerer's plane, they would definitely leave... at least the Observer would leave.
If the viewer knew that Ash would become the Lord of the Void Realm and could perfectly solve the End Serpent, he would definitely run faster. The viewer is a despicable, shameless, cruel and ruthless fox, but also a proud and tenacious lone wolf... How could he allow himself to surrender to Ash in exchange for his life?
As for where the viewer is going, there is only one possibility.
Ash looked at the exploration page for a long time, his eyebrows and eyes smiling, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and he chuckled: "Have you already rampaged in other worlds?"
Not in the magician's plane, "Aurora's Magician's Manual" can communicate with other worlds. The viewer has obviously exploited the loophole of the "exploration" system, reversely invaded other worlds, and left the magician's plane.
So, what should I do?
Apparently there is only one choice.
"It's a rare trip. It would be a shame not to bring back any gifts."
Ash rubbed the exploration page with his fingers, muttering to himself:
"Fortunately I came here alone."
The power of other worlds has been projected to the magician plane. It would be fine if Ash didn't know, but if he knew, how could he just sit back and do nothing? Whether it was an enemy or a friend, he had to go outside the world to see the situation before he could decide on the next move as the Lord of the Void Realm.
By the way, let's see if the viewer is really not dead and whether the dead maniacs and the others have been resurrected.
If Ash doesn't go now, he will have to go with Riven and the others when he returns. It would be better for him to explore and collect information on his own first to prevent them from encountering unknown dangers.
and……
"So-called magicians are just a group of hopelessly greedy and curious adventurers."
Ash smiled softly, and pressed his finger on the ever-changing data stream. Then a new data stream popped up, but Ash knew it was a confirmation question, so he nodded and said:
"Set off."
At this moment, the turbulent data pieced together a complete field, showing Ash's destination -
"Aurora".
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