[Collected fragmented information.]
[Amount of information in the sum of ‘512 Petabytes (PB)’]
In an instant, a tremendous amount of information unfolded before my eyes.
An infinite number of numbers written as 0’s and 1’s.
Feeling fatigued in his head, Zero began to control the numbers.
[Instantaneous processing capacity exceeded.]
[Attempting compression.]
[The ‘dragon’ is developed in the form of compression.]
[The developed ‘Dragon’ has a built-in function to find and read only the data the user needs.]
512 petabytes of information.
I felt in an instant how much it was, but it was formidable.
If I had left it on, I wouldn’t have died under those numbers.
Zero had been defragmenting that capacity for nearly a month.
I was processing the nanomachines of the dead ‘dragon’ inside me, arranging them in my own way, and using my own functions to the maximum.
Thanks to that, I was able to find the information the dragon had.
After thinking for a while, I opened my mouth.
“Who are you?”
“The Great Old One, the dragon of ‘Beta’.”
“beta?”
“The second great giver. A being of balance governing the sun and moon.”
The dragon of the Holy Land dutifully answered the question I asked.
And I was only talking about exactly what I was asking.
It’s probably because it’s not the dragon we met in the real holy land, it’s just a collection of information in the shape of a dragon.
‘It’s the Great Old One.’
Great Old One. It is the name of a ‘great being’ that is revered in the Holy Church.
It is said that the great being is divided into twelve branches and manages the world.
However, the names of the ‘twelve branches’ were unknown.
The name of the second branch is beta.
If it was the main god who created the dragons, questions about them naturally arose.
“Are all the main gods artificial intelligence?”
“Meaningless. I couldn’t find anything related to it.”
Only what the dragon knew could be answered.
This means that there is no information on whether all 12 main gods are AI.
“How are dragons born?”
“It is born from the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil’, the fruit of the ‘World Tree’ in ‘Eden’.”
“Where are Eden and the World Tree?”
“I couldn’t find anything related to it. However, when the dragons that escaped Eden achieve the ’12th feat’, the road to Eden opens again.”
“What exactly is Eden?”
“Utopia, the paradise of the gods, the home of all dragons, a place I want to return to.”
Eden. It is a name that does not exist on the continent. But judging from the words of the dragon, only the main god and the dragon who has accomplished all the feats get the right to enter there.
12 feat.
ordeal from the gods.
Achieving that will open the way to Eden?
It must have meant that he could become a god.
It didn’t really mean becoming a god, it meant going back to the hometown where you were born.
But why didn’t Malfiel go back to Eden?
Because the road is not open? Or was it a lie that he had actually accomplished all 12 feats?
“Tell me about a feat.”
“It is a dragon’s ordeal to eliminate the existence that disturbs the ‘balance of the world’. The content is determined by the World Tree, and when an existence that threatens the balance appears, an ordeal in the form of a feat is given to the dragon who is worthy of it. Dragons sometimes refer to it as a ‘quest’ and refer to themselves as ‘players’.”
“player? What do you mean?”
“For dragons, this world is a game. Players are participants in the game that is cleared by completing twelve tasks.”
From the eyes of dragons, this world is like a game.
They were looking at the world from above.
So they were calling themselves players in their own terms.
“When you are selected for a feat, is there any way to avoid it?”
“There is no precedent, but there are ways. Only the ‘greatest being’ can delete or change the details of the feat set by the World Tree.”
“The greatest being? Are you talking about the Great Old Ones?”
“Yes. The beginning of the beginning, Alpha is the greatest being.”
I pondered for a while.
Croft said he had become “an object of feat.”
It is recognized by the World Tree as an existence that is awakening and threatening the world.
The way to avoid it in the first place is to delete or change the contents of Alpha, the greatest principal.
If not, it was a story that a dragon of the right rank would eventually be selected and come to get rid of Croft.
Like Damon’s bowl, it could take some time, but that wasn’t a fundamental solution either.
“How many dragons are there in total?”
“There are as many as the number of trees of the knowledge of good and evil that the world tree has formed. And the twelve gods can divide their capacity and put it in the knowledge of good and evil, but usually the number does not exceed ten.”
I don’t know the exact number, but it was possible to figure it out roughly.
The 12 gods share their strength to create dragons, and if the maximum number is 10, it is possible to unleash 120 dragons in the world.
“Then why is there a dragon with the same face?”
“The dragon is supposed to follow the face of the main god who brought forth the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
The dragon of the holy land right in front of me and Malfiel were born from the same main god.
Second given by Beta.
Apparently, the god gods seem to be exerting their influence by sending a ‘dragon’ down to the ground.
If it was a truly omnipotent god, he would have to do it himself, but if he dares to use dragons containing his power, he can’t directly influence them.
Anyway, I know there are quite a few dragons in this world.
There are up to 120 of them, but there must be dozens of them in reality.
“How can I find the dragon?”
So there was a way to get rid of it before finding it.
It might be a much better way to find and exterminate them than to wait.
If Malfiel could be found, he had to eliminate it by any means.
“does not exist. All dragons are rivals and have a natural hostility to other dragons, so they do not unite and cannot be found.”
is a competitor
A strange word.
If you just solve the ordeal, if you just want to go back to Eden, isn’t it a relationship with each other?
However, the competition means that there is a limit on the number of people who can enter Eden.
The last twelfth ordeal.
If only those who reached that far could enter Eden.
“What is the last twelfth feat?”
“reset. Judgment that humanity itself breaks the balance of the world, erasing it and starting anew. Only those who have accomplished the final feat enter Eden, are given a number, and become gods. As little as a thousand years, as many as 10,000 years, the final feat begins.”
*
As soon as I got up, I meditated.
Close your eyes and clear your mind.
Conversations in augmented reality. Hundreds or thousands of pieces of information were collected and sorted in order.
‘The existence of the twelve gods.’
First of all, I knew the background of the birth of God.
A dragon born from the fruit of the World Tree becomes a god when it accomplishes 12 feats.
But the fact that there are twelve gods,
‘The world has been destroyed at least twelve times.’
That the world has turned upside down at least twelve times.
Of course, I said it was a reset, but it didn’t seem like complete annihilation.
It is impossible for the human race to prosper in such a number in a thousand years. Perhaps it means the elimination of anything that upsets the balance.
‘This is the reason why the spirit disappeared.’
With that in mind, it made sense that the spirit had disappeared.
Elemental weapons break the balance. If produced in large quantities, mankind may gain the power to surpass even the gods.
Also, when it was called the ‘heyday of ancient magic’ a thousand years ago, the number of wizards in the 9th circle reached double digits. However, there were no 9th circle wizards until now.
It must be because all those who reached the 9th circle were also eliminated.
Other than that, many things I didn’t know about would have been removed.
Perhaps what is called a mystery.
‘Malfiel did not achieve all twelve feats. He was performing his last feat.’
Only then did Malfiel’s actions make sense.
It was intended to incite humanity, divide it, weaken it, and eventually eliminate it all.
Did this mean the purification of the world?
If that were the case, it wouldn’t be just a matter of getting rid of Malfiel.
‘With the continental war, mankind’s technology has grown steeply. Not only that, but it also resulted in an overall rise in armed forces. Endless war gave birth to the strong and created innovation.’
The war of conquest that began because of me.
The war that started when I ascended the throne as the emperor was the decisive cause.
But even if there hadn’t been a war, the ending would have been the same.
‘If war is prevented, the development of technology may be delayed, but in the end it is bound to exceed the equilibrium point. Everyone is just hiding it now.’
As a result, Deus’ peace policy has delayed the time of the end of mankind.
But that’s not a real solution.
All countries and organizations hide their powers and technologies. Among them were things related to ancient civilizations.
It is similar to the fact that Archduke Carlos created a large number of sword masters.
There are few sword masters in the imperial family, and Archduke Carlos has dozens.
About 20 people are officially known, but the unofficial number is much higher. There were also people who were qualitatively different from Patrick and Crow, whom they encountered and killed before.
A number that cannot be explained by a simple difference in mana seniority.
Moreover, Archduke Carlos also had a contact with Damon.
Could it be that he also possesses an ancient lost power, or something capable of handling nanomachines?
For one reason or another, the final feat will be executed anyway.
‘The arrogant gods.’
But I can’t allow things like the end of the world.
I never agree with the idea of the arrogant gods to restrain mankind.
‘I will remove all of them.’
Simply becoming emperor was no longer enough.
Eliminate all dragons.
‘The world tree is also destroyed.’
The world capital and the gods are also destroyed.
I couldn’t let them go their way.
And the information obtained from the dragon was not the only secret of the world.
‘I said it was Hidden Peace.’
He said that the way a player can become stronger is through ‘Hidden Peace’ besides solving feats.
Hidden Peace is an ‘Epic that has not been selected as a feat, but has special powers’.
Zero in my head, for example.
And by hunting the existence that is like Baal that Kaichel embraces, the dragon becomes stronger.
It means wandering around in search of Epic, and that leads to a clue to finding the dragon.
‘Even if I can’t find the dragon, there’s a way to make it come.’
All of the dragons that come to visit are all gone, so if you skim through the information, you will surely be able to find out more details.
The dragon of the Holy Land has been imprisoned for a thousand years. I didn’t know what happened in between.
The urgent priority was to find and dissect the all-knowing dragon.
Then you will be able to find clues about things like the way to Eden or how to destroy the World Tree.
What you need to do is Epic.
awakened AI
‘Caliburn.’
Caliburn is one of them.
However, despite Caliburn’s official courtship, the dragon did not come.
If it had come, Caliburn would have been deleted on the spot.
Are there standards? Or is it too conspicuous?
It could have been because it wasn’t epic enough to be called Hidden Peace. After all, Caliburn was a spirit weapon created by ancient mankind.
‘We need more epics than that. I can’t throw Zero or Kaichel as bait, but…’
I stroked my chin.
What they have in common is that they are ‘humans with special abilities’.
Same goes for Damon.
The special ability, all of them had one thing in common: they used the ‘magic of the windowless window’.
Only real Epic can handle nanomachines instinctively.
Since the spirit weapon gains strength through the start language, a chant was needed anyway.
In addition, those who can use the magic of the shadowless window are called ‘attributes of emptiness’, and it is said that at most two wizards with that attribute appear in one era.
However, I know who the other human beings are with the attributes of nothingness.
-It’s a pity. The attribute of nothingness is a talent that is not born in a single era. If I had recognized him earlier, I would have been able to put my name on the top floor of the Magic Tower.
The same magician who diagnosed me in the past as if it were fun or mockingly.
He was once the lord of the ‘spirit mage tower’, and he was the imperial mage until just before that.
And he’s now locked up in an express convict ward.
＜Hidden Peace＞ End