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;
至于天赋系统跟职业系统则是一点影子都没有——如果说将天赋固定量化还存在可能性，那么职业系统简直是让亚修见了鬼一样。
他以前以为职业系统大概是永久神迹，但神迹对凡人是一个效果，对半神是一个效果，对神主是一个效果，对术法至高又是一个效果。譬如同样一个增强敏感度的神迹，会让凡人欲生欲死，但维希对自己用只能产生些许情趣。
然而职业特性却不一样，譬如剑姬的狂舞者职业效果是「对同一目标进行攻击可以增加2％攻速，最多累积5次，转移攻击目标立刻失效」，她在凡人时能叠加10％攻速，现在她作为全位面的终极剑术至高，一样能叠加10％攻击！
前者与后者在能量层级上的差距，何止亿倍？如果索妮娅现在想给自己增加10％攻速上限，至少要动用至高奇观，使用一次相当于消耗数万源晶，然而她触发职业特性却没有任何消耗！
他跟索妮娅她们曾经认真研究过，试图找出职业特性的本质，但居然一无所获，职业特性就像是画外的阳光，无论画中人如何寻找，都不可能发现这根本不是自己世界的光线。
亚修当初失去《欧洛拉的术师手册》时还没什么怀缅情绪，后来才知道自己错过了什么宝藏。他们虽然创下无数丰功伟绩，但仍旧没有发掘完终末观者留下的遗产。
现在，它重回到他的手上。
一如旧日碎湖。
亚修翻开《欧洛拉的术师手册》，首先映入眼帘的居然是披着暖黄小马甲，穿着白色连衣裙和马丁靴，戴着遮阳帽的繁星立绘，她还提着一个刚买的工程箱，单纯是因为觉得很帅。
这是两天前繁星跟他去约会时的打扮……哪怕彼此已经是左手握右手的关系，但繁星依旧跟他保持每月一次的约会频率，手牵着手，看看太阳，走在街上。
立绘占据左侧大面积篇幅，右侧最上面是三行数据，分别是「至高圣杯」、「源力」、「源晶」，正是亚修所拥有的最高级别流动资源。
下面是占据一定篇幅的「探索」，探索有两项备注，一项是【状态：∞/∞】，一项是【当前：最初之地】。
「探索」下面是「编队」和「干员列表」，干员列表居然没什么变化，只有【剑音主宰】、【魔幻司命】、【全知全能】、【统驭大君】，也就是四名王后，只是她们的称号变了。
亚修点了点干员具体信息，发现天赋系统和职业系统都在，但没有标出羁绊等级。
然后点开编队，发现里面是他对大家的安排分配，譬如维希/菲利克斯/黛达萝丝/芙瑞雅/希芙琳，都属于【家庭序列】，但同时维希和塔玛希又属于【征战序列3队】，代表维希有时候照顾孩子，有时候跟塔玛希出去征战世界线。
但因为除了王后们，其他人都不属于‘可用干员’，所以她们呈现灰色形态，无法选中也无法调动，只能通过现实安排来影响编队系统里的分配。
接下来是「采购中心」和「寻觅」。
亚修点开「采购中心」，发现里面存在三种消费货币，就是亚修拥有的至高圣杯、源力和源晶。购买的东西琳琅满目，从流金河到秘域，从神灵到奇观，只有亚修想不到没有里面买不到，但问题是全虚境的术法资源都在亚修手里，这些商品是哪里变出来的？
「寻觅」居然跟以前一样，还是寻觅干员，亚修点开寻觅列表，顿时琳琅满目的名字冲进眼睛。芙瑞雅她们，伊古拉他们，血月极主祂们，还有许多亚修认识的或者不认识的名字，都处于寻觅范围内，而且寻觅系统保证，每一次都会抽到干员，不会抽到任何其他东西。
再下面是「任务」和「建设」，亚修打开任务，发现里面全部任务都完成了，最上面的一条是【成为唯一八翼】。
打开「建设」，顿时书页翻出了极其复杂的一页，将亚修统驭的所有世界线、天国、资源点都罗列出来，光是文字都有上百万。
到这里基本结束了，然而亚修已经被震撼得说不出话。
良久他才幽幽吐出一句脏话：“观者，你个小喇叭！”
当初亚修拿到的《欧洛拉的术师手册》，跟这个比起来简直就是超级低配乞丐版！毫无疑问，观者是借用这个原版，整出一个伪劣盗版产品给亚修用！
不过亚修倒不是不能理解，因为他发现这个原版根本没有羁绊系统。也就是说，除了羁绊系统确实是观者发明出来的，其他都是来源于这个正版！
至于《欧洛拉的术师手册》的本质，亚修不难猜出来：现在最初世界线里的八个创世生命都消失了，除了被《欧洛拉的术师手册》吞了以外，难道它们还能是跟亚修玩躲迷藏吗？
除此之外，亚修还可以肯定《欧洛拉的术师手册》有一部分是来源于世界之外。不仅是因为里面有太多法则凌驾于术师世界之上，更重要是亚修已经掌握术师位面所有资源，但它还能凭空创造出新的资源，增加术师位面的总量，只可能是来源于世界之外的输入。
这样就能理解「职业特性」等效果为什么能不讲奇迹，因为它们根本不是奇迹，是来源于其他维度的力量！
假如说术师位面是一栋房子，八个创世生命便是所有原材料，文明是搭建者，尽量将材料物尽其用甚至逐渐增加总量，但世界之外的力量可以联络外面的家具商店，无视原材料的限制给房子添加新家具！
简直跟在游戏里氪金一样，超越奇迹的界限。
至于观者为什么不直接带走这本原版，亚修思索一下便明白了：他带不走。
这本原版与最初世界线已经融为一体，以观者术法至高的权能，根本没法将最初世界线打包带走，只有作为虚境之主的亚修有这个权限。
既然带不走，观者肯定是从原版里偷走了一些权能，然后加上自己的羁绊系统，拼凑出亚修曾经使用过的《欧洛拉的术师手册·青春版》。
也就是说，观者是在遇到亚修之前就来到最初世界线了，可他那时候只是被乌洛波洛斯追杀的术法至高，怎么可能来到最初……
最初……
终末……
亚修微微一怔，抬头望向前方。
前面自然是一无所有，因为这里就是一切的起点，起点更前面是不存在的……吗？
当然不是。
假如亚修没有统一术师位面，而是有一条终末之蛇吞噬所有世界完成术师概念统一，那么这条蛇将会在最后吞噬自己的尾巴，直至彻底崩溃回归混沌，位面回到原初状态。在经历无法计数的庞大时间后，原初混沌里会再次诞生出八个创世生命，命运循环往复，如同一个环。
终末之后，便是最初。
观者并不是逆流时间线找到最初之地，而是穿越终末，到达位面回归混沌后的最初之地，就像衔尾蛇的尾巴，连接着衔尾蛇的头部！
终末观者，亦是最初观者！
所有疑惑冰消雪融，还发现了一份难以估量的宝藏，但亚修心情却没有多高兴。
在发现观者的痕迹时，亚修心里其实隐隐抱着一丝微弱的期待，一丝自己都不愿意承认的期待……毕竟作为虚境之主还祈求奇迹，未免也太软弱了。
他点开最重要的「探索」，书页翻开到新的一页，出现了一个金色的树状图。
最上面的树梢写着「终末世界线」，然后一路下来分别是「炼金世界线」、「鸿雪世界线」、「黑键世界线」、「浊心世界线」……亚修很快找到他们的世界线，名为「听日世界线」，不知为何用听日术灵来取名。
而金色树状图的底部，自然就是「最初世界线」，旁边还显示着【亚修序列正在探索】。
显然这个探索系统，是辅助亚修带领干员征服世界线，但对现在的他来说已经没用了。
然而亚修直勾勾地盯着这个页面，神色变幻。
他看见树状图的左上角，一块什么都没有空白里，有两团不断撕裂变化的数据乱流。
大的那团始终没有出现有效信息，而小的那团，在千分之一秒内闪烁出一行清晰的文字：
【终末序列正在探索】。
观者没有死！？那死狂她们呢？难道他们都没有死！？还是复活了？但他们为什么不在术师位面里——
亚修很快就自己就想出答案：假如观者他们真的复活了，又失去了羁绊系统，在他们看来自己已经没能力解决终末之蛇，如果有离开术师位面的机会，他们肯定会离开……至少观者会离开。
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".