Custodian? Roland pricked up his brows and said, "A guardian to ensure that every civilization will walk towards destruction?"
"I knew you would ask that… but that is a solution that cannot be helped . " The entity stood up from the throne and dragged its right hand lightly . Following that, a sphere of light appeared in its hands before peeling away, layer by layer, to reveal the complicated structure within . This continued until Roland recognized what it was .
Although he had anticipated it, only when he saw the scene before him did his heart skip a beat .
Floating in the entity's hand was the world they were from .
He saw the Land of Dawn, the Fertile Plains, as well as the Kingdom of Graycastle . Beyond this continent, there were the Blackstone region and the Sky-sea Realm . But those weren't important . What was important was that the entire world was enveloped in a honeycombed shell, just like the barrier that isolated a planet from the outside .
And beneath the continent and oceans hid an extremely complicated core . It wasn't like a planet's core which formed a spherical shape due to the pressure placed on it . Instead, it was an irregular geometric body . The protruded Sky-sea Realm was located on the boundary of a geometric solid, and Roland could even see that the Swirling Sea's bottom was connected to the Sky-sea Realm . The path resembled a Klein bottle .
Without a doubt, this world appeared so unharmonized solely because it wasn't naturally formed .
The artificial planet he saw In the second scene was just like the present real world .
The clouds and celestial bodies observed by people were simply projections formed by the barrier .
And in the real space beyond that, all Roland saw was dead silence .
"You were the 'pair of eyes . '" Instantly, he suddenly understood the answers to many questions .
God sighed slightly . "I'm not sure of what information you have collected, but that doesn't matter . Time is a measure that can be as long and short as required . I will satisfy your curiosity… before destroying you . "
"As expected of what a Custodian will say—it's like a student not needing to go to classes, or a pharmaceutical company not needing to produce drugs," Roland said sarcastically as he spread his hands . Regardless, he was now representing humanity, or perhaps all living beings in reality . Even if the entity across him was God, he could not cower in fear . "What I wish to ask is why is there a Battle of Divine Will? What do you plan to achieve?"
"I thought you would ask from the trivial questions . Fine . " It retracted the sphere of light in its hand and waved one hand . Countless 'screens' soon appeared behind it, and in the spartan space, they formed a stunning wall .
Roland discovered that the contents depicted by the screen were… all sorts of living beings .
"Project Gateway was a success . Its results were almost identical to the calculated outcome . With the help of many civilizations, this universe's gravity was pulled apart eventually, producing an extremely tiny rift," God said slowly . "But Project Gateway was also a failure . The energy which surged in from another territory destroyed most of the sentient lifeforms, including the creator of Project Gateway . "
Was that the final scene of the third act…
Roland recalled the extreme grief, as though he was connected to all the civilizations which had participated in the plan .
"That's right . This energy is what you call magic power . "
"It's not light, nor does it have temperature . It's neither made up of particles or waves . To be simple, it comes from a space that has completely different laws from the universe we come from . Physics and math become meaningless in the face of such energy . In almost an instant, it influenced and changed the entire world . "
"What's… on the other side of the rift?" Roland couldn't help but ask .
"An accurate description isn't available because no one has passed through that distorted membrane, but according to an analysis, there are basically two possibilities . One of them being a universe that includes our universe . This is the easiest theory to understand . " Having said that, the entity's voice turned ethereal and hollow . "A new singularity can be born within the universe to produce an explosion to form a new universe, and thus, creating a set of completely independent laws and physical constants . Therefore, even if our world stems from a universe beyond the membrane, it doesn't mean that life or matter can easily proceed without obstruction .
"The second possibility is that our world is in the empty gap within the multiverse . You can think of it as a pot of thick soup, and we are just rising bubbles with their appearance, inflation, fusion, and bursting happening… Of course, reality is a lot more complicated, but that has already exceeded the limits of your comprehension . "
"Fine… let's turn back to magic power . " Roland curled his lips and said, "You previously mentioned that you would destroy a large majority of life, but you were the one who created the normality of the real world . Isn't that a contradiction?"
If humans were said to be the chosen ones of the universe, it would have been too incredulous .
"Magic power possesses a very unique set of laws . One of them is that it would change via will . Meanwhile, it will also change the mind of the possessor . "
Roland was suddenly surprised . "What?"
"The first batch who had their lives change were the participants of Project Gateway . Their forms were warped and reconstructed, and after ten million years of evolution, they finally became a special crystalline body, which is the magic stones you use," God said calmly . "As I'm not considered a lifeform, I was lucky to survive, but similarly, I suffered tremendous damage which took me tens of thousands of years to recover from . And from that moment forth, gravity was no longer the force which is most deserving of reverence . "
Upon hearing this answer, Roland was momentarily unsure how to continue .
However, Roland wasn't surprised by the notion that the Custodian wasn't that of a lifeform . Project Gateway was a humongous program that spanned over trillions of galaxies, with more than 170,000 civilizations participating in it . To ultimately take the correct path over such long periods of time, the coordinator definitely could not be a particular lifeform or race .
The entity had appeared because of the project .
"After that, the Cradle was created . It uses magic power to construct a world; however, the amount of energy suffers a particular limit . From an incomplete data bank, I chose life and began to foster them, allowing these creatures to live again under new rules . As competition can increase a race's development speed, the Cradle will deliberately choose lifeforms who lived in similar environments to foster . But the calculations soon discovered that this process would take an inestimable amount of time . With limited resources, it limits free growth . As such, the choice of involving external forces became inevitable .
"… Legacy shards," Roland said in a deep voice .
"That's only a part of it . " The entity nodded . "As for what I ultimately want, it's not that complicated . The creator of Project Gateway, which is the civilization that created me, doesn't only want the universe to 'live on . ' It had never had the intention of stopping progress, even so at the moment of destruction . Opening the rift was only the first step . Its true goal is to see that territory which no one has ever stepped in . "
"It handed me this mission, and my final duty is to create a civilization that can adapt to the laws of the two worlds . " The entity paused for a moment . "And this competition and its development is what you call the Battle of Divine Will . "
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