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On the twelfth day, the Yellowstone volcano erupted completely after numerous remedial measures failed. Volcanic ash covered most of the United States, and countless refugees flocked to Mexico and Canada, causing intense conflicts with local residents.
On the fourteenth day, observatories in multiple countries observed the strongest solar storm since humans were able to observe solar activity. Almost all radio communications were severely disrupted, and for a time, human civilization seemed to have regressed by thirty years, returning to an era where communication was basically done by shouting.
Due to the effects of solar storms, unrest has begun to occur in some countries.
Day 16. The polar ice caps are melting at an accelerated rate. Many low-lying countries, including Japan, are seeking refuge in landlocked countries. However, in the chaos, no one seems to care. In an attempt to change their impending doom, some countries resort to violent conquest to seize their land.
It appears that World War III has broken out.
On the twenty-first day, the terrifying effects of the solar storm gradually subsided. Before people could recover from the chaos and upheaval of the past seven days, news from the space station, a week late, finally reached the Earth.
An asteroid with a radius of 30 km is approaching Earth's orbit and is expected to collide with Earth in 218 hours, landing in North America.
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On the thirtieth day, after concluding this "round-the-world trip," Lin Yi returned to the city where he first arrived, a city that had been covered in volcanic ash and reduced to ruins by rebellion and strife.
Thirty days later, walking along this two-kilometer-long street again, Lin Yi did not encounter any "accidents" this time, because the biggest "accident" had already occurred in the attempt by humans to save themselves, at the cost of reducing their volume and mass by half and falling to the ground—right above the city.
At the very end of the road was a suspension bridge. In the dim light, one side of the bridge was piled high with abandoned cars, while the other side seemed to lead to a bottomless abyss...
"You told me that if I went up there, I could see 'Death'?"
The coroner, who appeared out of nowhere, affirmed: "Of course, as long as you are under the gaze of 'death,' all of this will end."
It refers not only to the plague spreading through the city, but also to the thick layer of volcanic ash overhead, and even more so to the meteorite that is about to destroy the planet's ecosystem.
"They are of the same origin as you, but they have been implicated because of you. This is just returning you to your predetermined fate... Death is not terrifying; it is merely a new beginning."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Lin Yi stepped onto the seemingly endless suspension bridge under the satisfied gaze of the "coroner".
"Death is merciful, it will allow you—no! Damn it, what are you doing?!"
Surrounded by three hundred antimatter particle emission devices aimed at the other side of the suspension bridge, Lin Yiwen, standing on the bridge, said with a surprised tone: "Isn't death just a new beginning?"
The deep red particles compressed and condensed, and their massive quantity illuminated the dark bridge surface: "You're welcome, I'll help you."
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 797 - Furious to the Point of Explosion
The asteroid that was heading towards Earth failed to reach the ground, instead exploding into cosmic dust in an unknown way beforehand. However, humanity, "saved" in this way, felt no joy. With one catastrophe that could have wiped out humankind gone, another catastrophe had already begun.
"Is she angry?"
Standing atop the war fortress at an altitude of 200,000 meters above the Earth's surface, Lin Yi observed the constantly "undulating" ground. Following the indiscriminate firing of antimatter rays at the end of the path leading to "death," the anomaly on the suspension bridge vanished without a trace, and the coroner, suspected of being the "representative," died in agony.
I thought that even if "Death" didn't directly enter a "dormant period," it should have stopped, but I didn't expect it to unleash such a powerful move...
From an altitude of 200,000 meters, the land beneath our feet appears to be only slightly "undulating," but to those trapped on the ground, it is a terrifying earthquake that sweeps away all traces of the earth's surface, reaching the theoretical peak intensity—and even exceeding it by a considerable margin.
The seismic waves roared like thousands of tanks rumbling through the air, or like hundreds of airplanes streaking across the sky, whistling from the seabed. Cracks tens or even hundreds of meters long stretched across the ground, gushing forth molten lava under the pressure. Flat land bulged up, forming small hills within seconds, like a giant turning over. Buildings built on top of these hills were easily toppled like sandcastles built by children…
No one can escape the fate of living on such a planet.
However, while this disaster, even more terrifying than the Great Flood described in the myth of Noah, was certainly enough to destroy the ecology of the ground, it meant absolutely nothing to Lin Yi, who was stationed at a war fortress at an altitude of 200,000 meters.
Perhaps noticing this, the "undulations" on the ground did not fade or stop over time; instead, they became more pronounced, with magma gushing from some cracks reaching terrifying heights of thousands of meters.
At this time, civilization and ecology on Earth had basically become extinct, and only a tiny fraction of species remained, mostly in the ocean. However, with the continuous eruption of underwater volcanoes, the rapidly rising temperatures were forcing them to their doom...
Ultimately, as a rift valley, 130,000 meters long and nearly 2,000 meters wide, tore apart North America, the already ravaged planet met its end.
The suppressed explosion traveled along the Earth's surface all the way to an altitude of 200,000 meters, directly breaking through the atmosphere and carrying a large amount of escaping material into space.
Two seconds later, a second "rift valley" tore open on the northern side of Africa, one end extending deep into the middle and the other disappearing into the sea.
Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth...
In less than five minutes, the entire planet was engulfed by countless cracks, as if an egg had been smashed. Even the azure sea was dyed crimson by the gushing lava from the seabed, not to mention the land that had not yet sunk.
But at the moment when the Earth's core temperature reaches its peak—
It exploded.
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Lin Yi didn't know whether "Death" still existed after the self-destruction, because at the moment of the self-destruction, he directly transported the war fortress to the surface of Mars, and witnessed the entire process of a planet's explosion and destruction up close.
As a being with a planetary consciousness, it would likely need to slumber for a period of time to recover after the entire Earth is reduced to fragments of space, even if it doesn't completely disappear. This is assuming that the "Earth" it is based on can recover; more likely, it will simply turn into cosmic dust and vanish forever.
"Death is not scary, it is just a new beginning... That's true. Wait billions of years, and maybe you can start over."
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Looking at the final phenomenon, combining the previous worlds related to "wizards" with the current world of Death, we can discover a rather peculiar situation.
The wizard civilization transfers its world through war fortresses, and these war fortresses are connected to the "wizard's will" through the "boundary-breaking system" to complete this transfer process. Moreover, each selected target world "coincidentally" contains wizards or mysterious elements that are beneficial to the growth of the wizard civilization.
In contrast, the God Realm possesses a world transfer mechanism that searches within a fixed dimensional world, determining whether a world is suitable for invasion based on the strength of its active energy. Furthermore, each selected target world contains elements of "humanity" and "parallel worlds".
Lin Yi had also sought confirmation from the Main God regarding this matter, and the only answers he received, besides the seemingly omnipotent reply of "relevant data is missing and cannot be analyzed," were affirmative responses. At least before this, every world that Lin Yi had invaded with the help of the Main God did indeed contain these two related elements.
Of course, once Lin Yi has the ability to actively transfer within dimensional worlds, he no longer needs to be subject to this restriction.
However, the commonality between the world transfer mechanism of the Main God Space and the world transfer mechanism of the Wizarding Civilization is hard to dismiss as a coincidence...
To this end, Lin Yi proposed two of the most likely hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1: The original wizard obtained a "fragment," just as Lin Yi built the Main God Space, and used this fragment as the core to build the entire wizard civilization.
However, this possibility is not high. Firstly, the main god did not find any trace of the "fragment" in the wizarding world. Of course, it is also possible that the fragment has become so useless that even the trace of another fragment cannot be found and confirmed. However, since Earth civilization discovered and invaded the wizarding world, the wizarding civilization's sluggish response does not seem to be the behavior that the "fragment" should have.
At least among all the "fragments" that Lin Yi encountered, apart from those that established a closed system and then immersed themselves in the idea of cultivating observational information integration, every outward-expanding "fragment" possessed extremely strong vigilance and aggression.
Moreover, even the Information Integration Thought Entity has absolute control over its own territory. If it weren't for the Golden Clan's road signs and the intervention of the Cthulhu God diverting the Information Integration Thought Entity's attention, Lin Yi wouldn't have been able to so easily infiltrate the core world where the "fragment" is located. Unlike this world, which was so easily infiltrated and invaded by Earth's civilization.
Therefore, the probability of this assumption is relatively low.
The second assumption is based on known intelligence.
To date, apart from the world transfer mechanism, Lin Yi has not discovered any areas similar to the "main god". This is clearly not the situation after cracking a "fragment". If the world transfer mechanism had really been cracked, there is no reason why those simpler abilities could not be cracked.
"God, does this situation exist... where the 'fragments' somehow transfer a portion of their 'authority' to a second party in exchange for intelligence and resources?"
After a full half-minute of silence, the Supreme God gave a response.
[Assumption holds true]
But this is where things get interesting. Can a "fragment" that doesn't seize resources by force but instead prefers to acquire them through trade still be considered a "fragment"?
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 798 First Hearing of the Holy Spirit
The Wizarding World, West Coast.
Three months is neither a long nor a short time. In order to confirm the other system that constitutes the transfer of the wizard civilization world, "Wizard's Will", when Lin Yi returned with the war fortress, he heard some slightly unexpected news from the Earth civilization.
They discovered the existence of "mana".
Admittedly, for the main god, or even any reincarnator within the main god, discovering the existence of "mana" would be an easy matter. After all, this energy is inherently highly similar to active energies such as spiritual energy, magic, and elements. However, the reason why reincarnators are able to do this is entirely based on the premise that there is a main god space to help them understand. For Earth civilization, which has followed materialism to develop to the present day, trying to confirm the existence of "mana" would be meaningless and would be a subversion and reconstruction of the existing materialistic scientific system of Earth civilization.
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"We used the most precise microscope on Earth to observe and measure the 0.01nm region, and after eliminating all elemental electrons with constant properties, we discovered this highly reactive natural substance... Please see."
The massive base nearly hollowed out the entire underground space. As a bridgehead for conquering the "mystical wizard theory," this place gathered a large number of professionals who took a symbolic step towards Earth's civilization through their tireless research.
The researchers, excited by the image magnified two million times, said, "This is the first time we have observed this substance. It appears to be highly reactive, with its cycle time being faster than any known substance on Earth. However, it also possesses an inert characteristic that we never imagined; it hardly reacts to any substance."
"almost?"
"Yes, except for the witchcraft cast by wizards!"
During the battle against the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy, in addition to the various materials related to the wizarding world and wizarding civilization inside the Bauhinia Wizarding Tower, the expeditionary force also captured several wizards who had fallen into a coma due to the "price" after the tower collapsed. Most of them were frozen into ice by the returning Moonlight Wizard with a move called "Ice Age," but before that, a small number of them were imprisoned in Prometheus.
These wizards played a significant role in Earth's civilization's discovery of "mana".
According to researchers, the power wielded by wizards is not created "out of thin air," but rather uses a substance that does not exist on Earth as "universal energy." Through targeted training, wizards acquire mental strength that acts in a chemical-like manner to create powerful magic.
Its principle is essentially a type of chemistry, but it is utilized more efficiently than any other chemical reaction on Earth.
"...According to the intelligence provided by the captured wizards, the magic released by the Moonlit Wizard at that time was most likely the sixth-circle magic 'Ice Age' recorded in the Wizard Tower. It was a chemical phenomenon that caused a large-scale heat extraction by reacting with 'mana' with mental power. Because it was the strongest ability that we had ever encountered from a wizard, the research department specially built a model for it."
"According to the increasing effect, the higher the mental strength of a single individual, the more 'mana' he can capture at the same time, and the faster and more powerful the reaction will be..."
On the projected screen, the X-axis, representing power, and the Y-axis, also representing power, are tilted at a 45-degree angle and continuously increasing in a three-dimensional coordinate system.
"The final conclusion is that if a wizard possesses sufficiently powerful mental energy—at least thirty million times that of the Radiant Moon Wizard when he unleashed 'Ice Age'—then he is fully capable of extracting enough heat in this way to create an 'artificial sun,' or to extract all the heat from a sun, causing it to prematurely enter its decay phase!"
"This level of mental power no longer needs 'incantations' as a catalyst to accelerate the reaction between mental power and 'mana'. Just being in an environment with a large amount of 'mana' will cause it to react violently with the large amount of 'mana' around it."
This also explains where the "radiation" on wizards comes from. For wizards below the Morning Star level, unless multiple wizards are standing in one area, the radiation effect of "mana" caused by mental power is not enough to be fatal to humans.
However, once a level three Grand Wizard undergoes a sudden transformation and advances to become a Morning Star Wizard, the intensity of this constant reaction will instantly increase tenfold, transforming into a terrifying radiation field that can be detected with the naked eye. This is the power that the Radiant Moon Wizard once used when he descended with the incarnation of the Water Element.
In other words, wizards above the Morning Star level are not lacking in means to kill Earth's civilization, because they themselves are the best weapons. As long as they go into densely populated areas, their terrifying radiation can kill anyone who is not adequately protected. This is why wizards build tall wizard towers.
It's for the sake of protecting oneself, and also for the sake of protecting others.
According to the descriptions of the captured wizards, they knew of four ways in which wizards could undergo sudden mental transformations.
The first time was when they had just advanced to the level of wizard apprentice. Although their spiritual power remained within their bodies and could not spread outwards, they could only use "spells" to contact "mana" and release the most basic witchcraft. However, they did possess a power that distinguished them from ordinary people.
The second time is when a wizard apprentice is promoted to a full wizard. At this stage, the wizard's active spiritual energy will unconsciously leave the body and initially react with the "mana" of the outside world to form radiation.
The third time is when a Grand Wizard advances to the Morning Star Wizard level. The intensity of their mental power will be enhanced tenfold, and their radiation will also be enhanced by the same factor, transforming from something that is only perceived into a radiation field phenomenon that can be detected by the naked eye.
So, what is the condition of those wizards who have completed the ascension from the Sun to the Holy Spirit and the fourth sudden change in their spiritual power?
The expeditionary force, which had just come into contact with the existence of "mana," was unaware of it, but everyone who had learned of the existence of the "Tower Alliance" from the prisoners was heavy-hearted.
"With humanity's current capabilities, individuals who can unconsciously create highly lethal radiation fields for ordinary people are already a disaster. We simply cannot imagine what kind of power those Holy Spirit Wizards, forced to leave the planet, possess..."
In his eyes, Lin Yi saw a desire to back down.
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 799 The One Who Stopped
Ignorance breeds fearlessness.
When Earth's civilization knew nothing about the wizard civilization, it was able to invade without any worries. However, after a series of unexpected events, even with confidence in their own civilization, the expeditionary force still split when faced with the various unknown forces represented by the Holy Spirit Wizards.
During the three months Lin Yi was away, as the deciphering of various information about the Five Rings Tower and the understanding of the wizard civilization deepened, the expeditionary force's originally unified attitude towards external threats inevitably fractured. Some began to oppose the invasion plan, listing the various powerful abilities and cultural heritage displayed by the wizard civilization: the mysterious wizards, the powerful war fortresses, the towering towers, and the vast sea that separated the land from the mainland...
According to their description, even if Earth were to eventually succeed in taking over this world, the price it would pay would be unbearable for humanity.
Of course, not everyone shares this attitude. Faced with the many methods and abilities displayed by the wizards, they remain optimistic. After all, humanity's ultimate weapon of destruction has not yet been released, and compared to the hundreds or thousands of years required for each individual in the wizarding civilization to grow, the development of Earth's civilization is clearly more suitable for this kind of interdimensional war.
Didn't you see that even "mana," the most core energy symbolizing wizarding civilization, has been discovered?
This group firmly believes that while Earth's civilization may suffer setbacks during the invasion, ultimate victory will still belong to them.
The conflict between the two split factions ultimately resulted in the expeditionary force's delayed actions. Despite having already digested all the gains from the Five Rings Tower, the expeditionary force stubbornly kept its footsteps confined to the west coast. It even canceled the routine surveillance deployment in the area of the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy that it had once captured, simply because it might attract the attention of the "Tower Alliance".
“I know that people will stop at nothing to win, but I’ve never heard of anyone willingly gouging out their own eyes just to avoid failure.”
After learning from Eve what had happened on the West Coast during his three-month absence, Lin Yi didn't bother with the expeditionary bases that were supposedly holding their eleventh vote meeting. Instead, he took Eve directly through the portal back to this long-lost world.
World Zero, Earth.
Portal.
In the crowded flow of people, no one noticed the two figures that suddenly appeared.
Feeling the familiar yet unfamiliar atmosphere that permeated every corner of this world, Lin Yi spread out his arms.
In my vague memory, I was once one of them.
Amidst the distorted interplay of light and shadow, one is transported directly from the frozen spine of the world to a bustling metropolis. Standing in the center of the street, one looks up at the building that represents the most outstanding achievement of human civilization on Earth in the 22nd century.
And beneath that, the laboratory that was once set up to study the unique characteristics of its own "origin world" has long been overrun by birds.
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Each "fragment" is merely a vessel; it will not make any decisions for the host, nor will it force the host to take any action.
The same applies to the "Zhu Xian Sword", the "Source of Fire", the "World Tree", and the "Information Integration Thought Entity".
Based on this premise, Lin Yi has imagined more than once what it would have been like if, after obtaining the "Main God," he had chosen not to leave this familiar world to expand outwards, but instead to stay on Earth and use the Main God's various abilities to extract resources from this planet and grow stronger.
Or perhaps we could simply make the existence of the supreme god public, allowing the wisdom of eight billion people to use this "tool," instead of letting a single, insignificant "self" decide the future. In that case, under the same time and conditions, to what extent could we achieve this?
On one occasion, Lin Yi posed this question to the Supreme God, who then calculated and drew a conclusion in one second.
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