Chapter 926 Has Begun

The "success" of Mirmina, the goddess of magic, seems hard to replicate, at least in Ammon's eyes.

But for Gawain, this incident still gave him an idea - the "discriminatory trend of thought" created by the neural network is likely to be an unprecedented "purification" for the gods born from the trend of thought. means".

Of course, the current neural network is still very weak, and the peak scale of the mere tens of thousands of nodes is completely incomparable to any current religion in the world, but in Cecil, "magic industry products" like neural networks have one of the largest The characteristic is that it develops very fast - even if it is not large enough now, in a year, two years... One day, its scale will reach the point where it can shake any theocracy in the world.

He didn't explain these details to the old god before him, he didn't think it was necessary.

Amoen was obviously still thinking about the escape of the goddess of magic, and he broke the silence with some sighs: "I think more than one god has thought of a similar 'escape plan', even... That 'try' should have inspired some gods, but in the end, only the goddess of magic was able to successfully implement a similar plan, which was actually determined by her 'inclination'. She was born from the shallow beliefs of magicians , From the very beginning of the birth of this belief system, the magicians only regarded her as a kind of 'explanation' and 'sustenance'. The magicians have always advocated solving problems with their own wisdom and strength, rather than praying for the gift and salvation of the gods. , which resulted in the opportunity for Mirmina to 'ignore' the prayers of the faithful.

"For ordinary gods, it is very difficult for believers to completely ignore their prayers. They must respond more or less..."

Gawain quickly understood the meaning behind Amoon's words.

Because all the gods in this world are born from the prayers of mortals, mortals "create" those gods in order to relieve their anxiety and fear, in order to find an extraordinary individual who can respond to them, so for those born under this trend of thought Gods, "response" is one of their innate attributes, and they simply cannot refuse prayers and petitions from this world.

However, the goddess of magic is different - the wizards conceived the existence of the "goddess of magic", not to seek strength or desire for guidance, but to find that some principles or formulas are missing in the process of academic research. The key "elements", when the academic direction could not solve the problem for the time being, they decided to "define" a source for these unexplainable things - the passage of time and the change of group concept together caused this source to gradually deviate from the initial concept , has gradually become a god used to explain all black boxes, but the essence of the goddess of magic remains unchanged:

"He" is the common "condition X" among a large number of unsolvable formulas and flawed theories of mages. The attitude and expectations of mages towards this god can be summed up in one sentence: you stay here and don't move around, I will go to the back The formula is masked out...

Such a weak constraint naturally gave the goddess of magic room to operate freely. She used a long self-isolation and an ambitious escape plan to give a response to the believers in the world: My uncle, whoever loves you will take it with you, anyway, I will go. !

Gawain shook his head, feeling that the seemingly aloof gods were actually wearing shackles just like mortals, but also that the willful and decisive escape of the goddess of magic would cause chaos for a long time.

In the end, he restrained the irrelevant associations in his mind and suddenly looked at Amoun.

"Now you...should be able to tell us more 'knowledge',

Right? "

"It's not all," Ammon replied slowly, "you should understand that I'm not completely free now - the contamination of divinity is still there, so if your question is too involved in areas that have not yet been touched by human beings, or If you point too much to the gods, then I still can't give you an answer."

"That's enough for me," Gawain nodded, then sorted out his thoughts, and asked the question he wanted to ask the last time he talked with Amoun, "I want to know the source of the magic tide... …You once said that the occurrence of the magic tide has nothing to do with the gods, it is essentially a natural phenomenon, so what is the principle behind this natural phenomenon?”

Amoen was silent for a moment, and then a sweet voice sounded in the minds of Gawain and Veronica: "Now you are still unable to solve its source, because its source... comes from the sun above your heads."

"It really comes from the sun?!" Veronica suddenly broke the silence and asked in a hurried tone.

"Ah, looks like you've noticed some evidence."

"When the magic tide happened 700 years ago, there was a record of the sun changing. When the aftermath of the magic tide in the Gondor wasteland changed, the sun would always have a corresponding vision," Veronica Shen said. Sheng said, "We have always suspected that the magic tide is related to a certain operating cycle of the sun, but we never thought... its source actually comes directly from the sun?!"

Gawain, who was standing next to him, instantly thought of another question - the "sun" of this world is not a star in the galaxy, it is just a gas giant planet!

If this gas giant can trigger the magic tide, what about the real star "O" in this galaxy?

Is there some kind of similarity between the gas giant planets and the stars of this world... is there a connection in the composition of matter? If these two celestial bodies can trigger the magic tide, then... can this explain the source of the magic power?

"Will there be a magic tide on a planet orbiting directly around 'Ao'?" Gawain asked bluntly while thinking.

"...No mortal has ever thought about the connection between celestial bodies and magic tides from this perspective. Your focus is beyond the knowledge scope of ordinary mortals," Amoen's eyes fell on Gawain, but he soon let out a cry He chuckled, "But it doesn't matter, this question can still be answered...

"Yes, 'Ao' will also trigger a magic tide. Any world illuminated by stars or virtual planets will have a magic tide."

"Void planet?" Gawain ignored the surprise in his heart, and immediately grabbed a strange word in the other party's words.

"Their structure is similar to that of stars, and the material composition is similar, but they fail to condense into 'fire' like stars. The light and heat they emit are faint as candles in the sky, but when they are close enough, their satellites still It is possible to give birth to life under the light of this faint candle - the 'sun' in your perception is the virtual planet."

Gawain looked astonished—the so-called virtual planet was actually what the gods called "gas giant planets". Obviously, there was no such thing as a "gas giant planet" in this world.

In addition, Ammon's answer revealed a very important information: any planet illuminated by a star or "virtual planet" will periodically appear magic tides.

This information corresponds to the "magic tide will also appear on other planets" that he had tacitly agreed to each other last time, and further explained the source of the magic tide, and at the same time made Gawain suddenly have an idea - if the sun caused it Magic tide, will it be useful to block the sun during the magic tide cycle?

However, he only let this thought flash for a moment, and quickly dismissed the idea of ​​​​this aspect. The reason is very simple - when the magic tide suddenly broke out 700 years ago, it was late at night in the Gondor Empire...

The sun caused the magic tide, but the medium was not sunlight.

"Do you know the 'black trap'?" Gawain sorted out his thoughts, and then asked, "It refers to the phenomenon that civilization on this planet will suddenly die out every time it develops to a certain level..."

This time, Amoun was silent for a longer time, and finally sighed: "I don't know the word 'black trap', but I know the kind of phenomenon you're talking about. I can't answer you much...because of this The question has been directed to the gods."

"So, the 'black trap' is really caused by gods," Gawain had already obtained the answer from the other party's attitude, and some speculations in his heart were quickly connected, "Is it because the development of mortal civilization to a certain extent caused all gods to fall into madness? Or is it a backlash due to the failed attempts of gods and humans to break free from the 'chain'?"

"I can't even answer you," Ammon said slowly, then his tone suddenly became serious, "but I can give you a piece of advice."

"What kind of advice?" Veronica on the side couldn't help asking.

"If you want to avoid stepping into that 'black trap'... Disobedience should be done as soon as possible."

Gawain and Veronica immediately looked at each other.

Hearing the words "disobedience as soon as possible" from the mouth of a former god is really a rather strange thing.

Veronica subconsciously asked, "What does this sentence mean?"

"As time goes on, as mortals continue to develop, the gods will become more and more powerful, and eventually become more powerful than you can imagine," said Amoun, "For you today, fighting a god has been exhausted. The power of the whole country, and also must use ingenious methods and rely on a certain amount of luck, but you know that in older times, when humans were just learning to use flames to drive wild beasts, to kill a 'natural god' like me had How easy is it?"

Veronica opened her mouth, but failed to organize the language, and Amoun gave the answer on her own before that:

"Back then, all that was needed was a couple of clubs big enough and sharp spears - at most, plus a few lit oil-soaked rocks."

Gawain and Veronica fell into silence at the same time after being shocked, but their thoughts surged.

He thought of the gods of war who seemed to have begun to step into madness, as well as the gods who seemed to be still sane at the moment, but didn't know when they would get out of control.

"...Looks like we need to re-plan a lot." He couldn't help but whisper.

Veronica looked at Ammon with a somewhat complicated and weird gaze: "As a former god, you really have a plan against mortals..."

"It's also part of the laws of nature," said Amorn softly, "not everything has a perfect ending, and when survival becomes a problem, sometimes we have to treat everything as an alternative. - That's what the laws of nature are, it's neither gentle, nor cruel, nor good or evil, it just works, ignoring your wishes."

"But we can also look forward to a better way to break the game," Gawain said, "You succeeded, and so did the goddess of magic. Although you said that all of this cannot be replicated, what we are doing now is to put the past The technological re-enactment of what the world sees as a miracle - I've always believed that development can solve most problems."

"Then I wish you success," Amoun said with a smile in his tone. "It's just that you have to hurry, all of us - and God - don't have enough time."

"Of course," Gawain nodded, "from the time I decided to restart the disobedience plan, it all started, and it is destined to never stop, so we can only go on."

Afterwards, he and Veronica said goodbye and left here—not without more questions, but because they had been stuck here for too long, Ammon’s divinity had not been completely purified, and the long conversation here There is still some risk.

What's more, there are still a lot of things waiting to be arranged in the outside world.

The dark and chaotic courtyard was quiet again, and on the fragmented ground, only the giant giant deer lay there quietly.

"Starting..." In the silence, Amon suddenly whispered to himself, "Unfortunately what you said is not accurate... In fact, it all started when mortals first decided to walk out of the cave. "

Then he fell into a long silence, and it wasn't until ten minutes later that he sighed slightly.

"...What did Miermina tell me when she left?"

...

After returning to Cecil City, Gawain did not rest for a while, but went directly to the main control room of the Imperial Computing Center, where Carmel and Jenny were.

The huge control room is brightly lit, and a large number of technicians are checking the neural network that has just experienced a storm in front of each device. Several immersion cabins are set up in the corner of the room, and the cabins are all activated. The technicians of the Bishop of the Eternal Sleeper were lying inside—they now have their own title, called "Node Masters."

Carmel, who was busy in front of a large terminal, was the first to notice the arrival of Gawain and Veronica, and he immediately stepped forward to salute: "Your Majesty, Your Highness Veronica."

——Although Anzu no longer exists, Veronica Moen still retains the title of princess according to tradition, so she also has the title of "His Royal Highness". Of course, from the perspective of the Church of the Holy Light, she can also be called a "Saint", but this is not in line with Carmel's habit.

"We've learned a lot from Amoen -- but we'll talk about that later," Gawain nodded to Carmel, while also responding to Jenny's tribute next to him, "Now let's look at the network."

"Everything has stabilized. We have successfully remotely activated a distribution station in St. Sunil just now. The neural network and the magic net are running according to the expected efficiency," Carmel replied immediately, "Miss Jenny and I are connecting the The standard template for Mind Protection runes is transmitted to all nodes, and we just have something to report on that."