Chapter 1052 Two Hundred Million Years of Waiting (120 Million Chapters)

Path of Ashes.

In the past, Ian had predicted many paths, whether it was the initial swarm, the following spiritual disaster, the further extinction of stars and eternity, or the ongoing arcane... Each path has its own extraordinary features.

The extraordinary fantasy, the technology far beyond this era, and the attempt to reach the stars are enough to turn their colors into "gold" or even dye them into "rainbow".

However, the path of ashes is different.

This time, whether it is Ian or the King of Ashes, the first thing they saw was darkness.

It was a deep darkness composed of endless scarlet flames and ashes, which could engulf all light and burn all hope.

Then, in this darkness, a little rainbow appeared.

"Actually..."

Even Ian couldn't help but feel shocked at this moment, because all the paths he had seen had never seen such a dark darkness that was almost "certainly dead"... It's better to say that he hasn't seen a future that can threaten his own death for a long time. The current Terra continent no longer has the possibility of killing him without any resistance.

But speaking of this, I, who was on the Extinguished Star Path, ran into the end in the end, which should theoretically be a certain death, but for some reason there was no sign of darkness.

Is there any difference between the two?

I don't know. So keep reading.

Under the gaze of the prophet, the road to the future emerged from nothingness.

Everything originated from Harrison Port.

Ian, who had no brother and was alone, had a very different experience in Harrison Port than in this "present" life. Ian, who developed the Ashes Path, should be an earlier Ian. His mode of action was not normal exploration, but a reborn person similar to "multiple rounds to explore different possibilities".

Relying on the identity of an appraiser, he ventured into the jungle many times, chose to be loyal to Viscount Grant, and became a member of the core circle of Harrison Port as the successor of Elder Pud. Ash Ian did not show much "curiosity" about the outside world, because he had not deleted too many memories at that time.

He had a good relationship with many loyal subordinates of Viscount Grant, the city defense officer Sir Yam and the financial officer Lamar. Both of them took good care of him as a young boy, and Ian also knew the "branch line" behind these two people.

Sir Yam was relatively simple. As the right-hand man of Viscount Grant, he controlled several smuggling lines and accumulated a lot of wealth. He guarded all kinds of potion materials and wealth stored by the Grant family.

He did not embezzle. This old man was mainly a bit of hamster disease. He had a lot of money but hid it all. Ian in one of his lives even took all his money as start-up capital, but when he returned to Harrison Port with wealth and prepared to return it to Sir Yam, he didn't even realize that he had been stolen.

And Lamar was a little more serious.

He has private contact with the Feiyan Special Forces!

It sounds very nervous, but in fact it's okay. As a wandering red people who fled from Feiyan, Lamar is in a high position in Harrison Port. In the eyes of the Feiyan Special Forces, this is the best target for rebellion, so various rebellions and threats against Lamar are endless, and Lamar has no idea of ​​betraying Viscount Grant, and he firmly refuses every time.

Even after knowing this, Viscount Grant wanted Lamar to pretend to agree to the other party so that it would be convenient to seduce those Feiyan bugs, but Lamar also refused.

Although he didn't tell Viscount Grant the reason, Ash Ian knew the conversation between Lamar and his sister by chance.

The content of the conversation is more complicated and more private.

Krendel's meaning is very simple. The Viscount did save their lives and had great love for them. It is impossible to betray, but if the Viscount abandons them, she will warn the Viscount for the last time to repay his life-saving grace, and then leave Harrison Port.

Lamar also admitted that the reason why he didn't contact Feiyandi was that he was afraid that after the Viscount abandoned them in the future, he would not be able to help but contact Feiyandi and do something harmful to Harrison Port - he couldn't resist the temptation, so he didn't want to get involved with temptation from the beginning.

That said, from their tone, Ian could hear that these two would not run away at all... They would stay in Harrison Port and die with Viscount Grant, or even take Viscount Grant with them!

"Lamar's brother and sister are actually such a sickly character? Viscount Grant is so dangerous? If they are a little more fickle, I'm afraid they don't need me, and their lives will be in danger directly..."

Ian was a little nervous. Viscount Grant's harem seemed to be difficult to deal with, and I didn't know how he could perfectly coordinate with this world... But think about it carefully, Viscount Grant is pure and loyal, and he has transformed into a good father after having a child. In terms of Terra's morality, he is really a perfect noble who keeps himself clean, and it is normal that he doesn't turn over.

All this was quite interesting to Ian, but it was a little confusing to the King of Ashes beside him.

However, he keenly noticed something wrong.

——These didn’t seem to be the future... but the past!

From Ian’s perspective, he couldn’t actually see Ash Ian himself, but he could infer the relationships between the people around Ash Ian, and the King of Ashes could vaguely see that all this seemed to be related to their original strategic actions against the Southern Ridge of the Empire.

That was a long time ago, and the development seemed different from the reality.

Could it be... another possibility?

The King of Ashes suppressed his curiosity and doubts and continued to follow Ian's perspective.

In this world line, most things develop in the same order. In the South China Sea Labyrinth incident, Ash Ian did not participate too much as in the first life. He just entered the South China Sea Labyrinth with Wags at the last moment, fought against the swarm, and finally witnessed the end of Hilliard with Isengard and others.

[Actually? ! ]

During this process, the King of Ashes opened his eyes wide, and the majestic fifth energy level also became a curious spectator.

Even he did not know many events in the South China Sea Labyrinth, and Hilliard had passed away at this time. Doesn't that mean that Ian Yinfeng relied on his own strength to develop the path of arcane magic, instead of inheriting the legacy of Inaga and Hilliard as they thought?

In this way, it is not unfair for him to lose.

And the reversal happened here.

I don't know what went wrong. Maybe it was the 'difference' of parallel time and space. The news from Wagers was leaked. The new generation of patrol knights who knew the news of Hilliard, led by Deputy Captain Shuangji, rushed to Harrison Port at full speed. Viscount Grant was controlled immediately, and the entire Harrison Port and the South China Sea Labyrinth were under martial law.

There are even rumors that His Majesty the Emperor was touched by the news and would come to the South China Sea border in person.

Theoretically, the Sun Bird would arrive in the next second. But Ian knew that Axel was probably still at the edge of the Terra solar system orbit to deal with his light disaster. He would not be able to come back until he set off for the imperial capital. The imperial capital should be a projection clone.

If you think about it carefully, the prophecy of the Pantheon was at that time. Axel should have known the news of Isengard and the South China Sea Labyrinth before he set off to return to the imperial capital. And he happened to sense the danger immediately after the other party came back, and went back to his hometown to farm.

Under the comparison of multiple time and space, more logic behind the events can be discovered.

But for Ash Ian, this was the worst situation - although he had inherited the Immovable City, the Empire had already noticed him. He could not go on the Imperial Capital Tour or other adventures. As the grandson of the Emperor, Isengard was directly protected.

There was only one possibility to escape the sight of the Empire.

Run!

Run to Feiyandi, Whale Song Cliff or Canaanmore!

This choice may determine the difference in the road, but obviously, Ash Ian chose Feiyandi.

Then...

Time began to accelerate.

[What? ]

And the King of Ashes was also shocked: [You joined Feiyandi? Why don't I know? ! ]

[No, why did you see this possibility, but didn't join Feiyandi! ]

The King of Ashes didn't quite understand the essence of Ian's prophecy. He thought this was Ian's prophetic ability - directly seeing through a possible future, so he couldn't figure it out at once. He could obviously move forward with the tide of time, so why didn't he do so.

But soon, he figured it out: [So that's it, this is your prophetic ability... You must have seen a better future, which is you now. It's just that the future I see now is a possibility derived from the cause and effect between you and me]

[In this future... can I burn longer than I can imagine, as you see? ]

"That's it."

Ian responded softly, and he carefully observed all the details.

After Ash Ian joined Feiyandi, he soon got the attention of this generation of Yanyuan King, and as a "temporary teammate" with a certain relationship with Hilliard and Isengard, he met the King of Ashes.

Then, it was a rapid development.

The character of the King of Ashes destined him not to care how incredible Ian's genius was, but to accept it without any care.

And Ian undoubtedly grew up quickly. After helping the King of Ashes solve many local livelihood development problems and development and progress problems related to the sublimation path, he was directly appointed as the Crown Prince of Yanyuan by him. The next step is to compete with other people of the Absalom bloodline for the inheritance of the "Top Seat Blood".

The competition process was quite cliché, nothing more than military exploits, arena matches, research paper publications, etc., and Ian successfully became the only two highest heirs of Feiyan Land after a smooth pretense and slapping faces and using a super-era paper to blow up a group of old antiques' heads (worldview).

Then, he confessed his identity as a prophet.

[Ah? ] The reaction of the King of Ashes at that time and the King of Ashes in reality was exactly the same, and it could even be said to be exactly the same: [You only exposed your identity as a prophet at this time? What did you waste so much time on before? ! ]

"It's mainly to collect data." And Ian thought: "After this competition, I have collected all the data of the king blood of Feiyan Land, and my prestige plus the prophet is unmatched."

Unlike the empire, the bloodline of the empire is too stable and the power is too huge, so it can't be easily changed like Feiyan Land.

Becoming the de facto second-in-command of Feiyan Land, Ash Ian promoted various social reforms and sublimation research very easily.

And the King of Ashes also let Ian do it.

It was at this time that Ash Ian became involved in research related to the ‘Cycle of Flame’.

As Ian thinks now, the Reincarnation of Fire itself is very crude, because the Flying Flame Land does not have the resources of the Empire to advance the details of the plan, but as the host, King Jhin has indeed mastered the core skills, at least in the Demon Legion. In this regard, King Jhin and the Chrysalis have indeed determined the possibility of 'artificial demons' and conducted a series of experiments respectively.

Under Ian's auspices, the details of the Reincarnation of Fire were rapidly fleshed out, and related research on 'human nature', 'virtual distortion', and 'ether circulation' were completed in sequence, and the world war started as scheduled.

This time, there was no arcane way to ease the war between various countries, and the power of the Flying Flame Land became stronger with the help of Ember Ian. It withstood the Empire's floating city attack and dragged the Empire's power to the ground. Around the Absalom Mountains.

Then... Mikael raided the imperial capital, Axel was severely damaged, the empire lost its ability to attack foreign countries, and wars around the world became more and more intense.

That was a harbinger of the end of the world.

The endless flames of war have burned the entire world. As the wars between countries around the world become more and more cruel and real fire is fought, the death toll is also rising. Various dangerous technologies that should be used with caution are being put into practice one by one.

The four orthodox religions gathered a group of civilians, but this was only the last seed and could not stop the continuation of the war - but it was the Far Coast Island that completely intensified the war and pushed the world into doomsday.

——Since you are not willing to let us have land, we will not take any responsibility for the continent of Terra.

With the beginning of the 'Great Migration' plan, all members of the Far Shore Island withdrew from the Terra continent. Cangxing led the national immigration fleet to the New World. The mantle plume originally located on the Far Shore Island soon disappeared due to the war and war in western Terra. The ether shook and erupted, and the terrifying flames spread, instantly engulfing all areas west of the Outer Flying Flame Land and the Dark Mountains.

High-heat hurricanes, tsunamis and horrific earthquakes swept through western and central Terra. Countless civilians, ordinary people and even some weak Ascended Ones were unable to withstand such natural disasters.

Even with the protection of two fifth-level powerhouses, Feiyan Land still suffered a huge impact. A large number of coastal areas and port cities were swallowed up, and the Sea of ​​Tranquility turned into a closed inland sea, boiled by the heat originating from the earth's mantle. Let the terrible smoke cover half of the continent.

People die like grass and turn into ashes. No one can be saved. No matter whether they are good people or evil people, whether they are dreamy or ignorant, whether they are intelligent people and monsters or insects without their own thoughts, they are all the same.

It's all ashes.

Both Ian and King Jhin fell into silence as they watched this scene.

Just as Ian originally predicted in Harrison Port, there is no need for the end or the end of the world at all. Humanity will destroy itself. It only takes a war to kill more than 90% of the people in the world.

And when the fifth energy level takes action, it is more than 99%.

At this point, it was no longer possible to start the reincarnation plan.

Therefore, even though many details are still quite rudimentary, and even though many technologies are not yet fully mature, the entire territory of Feiyan Land has begun to 'devil transform'.

However, just the population of Feiyan Land cannot reach the lower limit of 'reincarnation'. To cause the distortion of the virtual world, twist the originally smooth flow of psychic energy-ether into a recurring circulation, and distort the real world into a virtual dream, more than 2.7 billion "artificial demons" are needed.

"Dad, just go and implement the reincarnation plan."

【how about you? 】

"Since this world will turn into ashes no matter what...then now, I will add some fire."

【……I do not understand what you mean】

""I'm going to destroy all the remaining humans and ascendants and transform them into demons. Don't worry, no one will survive. "

"I have this confidence."

"Do you have this confidence? No, wait, could it be that before this, I have already accomplished the achievement of 'Slaughter All of Terra'?"

Even though he could only hear the sound, even if he could only see King Jhin's tired face, Ian was still a little unable to hold on, and King Jhin stared at the fragments of time in shock. He stared blankly for a while. Then he turned to look at Ian Silver Peak, the great prophet who "loved all mankind" in his heart, and couldn't help but take a breath: [Are you talking to me? 】

"Probably." Ian thought for a while, then nodded and admitted, but he immediately dismissed the blame: "But part of the reason must be because of your education!"

——Fart, I’m not that extreme!

King Jhin originally thought that he was already extreme, but only after meeting Ian who was on other paths did he realize what true extreme was.

But he was also very curious about the next development, so he remained silent and continued to read.

Next...everything fell into place.

In front of Ian who has grown to the limit, no matter which Ian is, as long as he takes the time and does not mind destroying the world, he can always defeat any opponent he wants to defeat. As the entire world gradually became a broken wasteland, Terra, which was originally green and full of vitality, also turned into an apocalyptic world full of lava and broken crust.

But even this is an abyss planet that is worse than hell and more doomsday than doomsday.

A fierce flame ignited the virtual realm and started reincarnation.

Reincarnation.

When the Apocalypse server started running, all the backed-up human memories, thoughts and souls were thrown into the already chaotic and dark virtual world, and turned into demons, and the virtual world began to distort and change.

——Initially, the world was empty.

There were only broken rocks, burning earth and boiling black water, and everything was shrouded in chaos.

Until one day, the first fire appeared in the dark chaos... The flames illuminated the darkness and brightened the nothingness. Things that did not exist were created, and things that had disappeared appeared again.

A brand new world was created.

The humans in the new world have the memory of their "previous life". In any sense, they are the original people, but because of the distortion of the virtual world and demonization, they cannot correctly recognize themselves, and the Apocalypse server wipes out all the painful memories for them, allowing them to live peacefully in the new world.

For them, all this is no different from the sky falling disaster: they were protected in a huge shelter, waiting for the war world, and the world was reborn. And now, it's just to build a home again.

The new world is vast and boundless, because everything is the expansion and imagination of the virtual world. People happily start from scratch, build towns and cities, and once again draw out the country and society. People reproduce and thrive in it, and continue to struggle and compete.

Because it is not completely from scratch, many people have professional knowledge. In the first few decades of reincarnation, the "reincarnation human" has built a fairly stable settlement and social structure.

But for some reason, technology has not developed, and the number of sublimators is very small. People maintain the city-state-level social structure and fight with the power of the highest second energy level peak. The highest science is just to create artillery and steam engines. The further internal combustion engine and alchemical engine are already the most advanced and highest technology in various countries, and cannot be popularized.

And this certain reason is the limit of "reincarnation".

Those who have the third energy level of the heart light body will perceive the truth of the world. They will notice that they live in a false dream of the virtual world, and they will also notice the various unreasonable aspects of this world.

All the power of the high-energy people in the past, after they were killed and put into reincarnation, became the power to maintain reincarnation itself. Even though the reincarnation can recycle all energy almost without loss, the higher the base, the higher the quality of the reincarnation.

Although the power of the peak of the second energy level can already defeat the army, it can still be defeated by low-level sublimators and various alchemical artillery. Therefore, the war in this world is more stable and the society is more stable than that of the original Terra.

As for technology, it is only because these reactions are relatively simple and the server can bear it. Higher-level ether reactions will involve the essence of the virtual realm, which will still cause instability in the world.

Slowly explore the world, slowly open up the territory, slowly reproduce and grow.

Everything in the reincarnation world is very stable. Although there are still many joys and sorrows in the world, and there are still many regrets, it is not so that a fifth-level strongman will suddenly go crazy and transform the whole world into what he wants.

And this world also has many adventures, battles and stories. The exploration of distant places, the experiences of adventurers, the legends of mercenaries, those classic swords and magic, and the hegemony between city-states are enough to carry people's hearts.

Very soon, very soon.

Thousands of years have passed, tens of thousands of years have passed, and the world still exists.

Everything remains the same. Although people have developed a lot of new technologies and entered the electronic age, this is the limit. People are immersed in a stable society and continue a life that will never end no matter how long it lasts.

Fifty thousand years.

This is the life span of the first era.

And the reason for the end is also very simple.

The distortion has reached the limit. The nature of artificial demons has gradually turned newborns into real demons. The loss of human nature and the deterioration of the soul have begun to make monsters appear. The originally peaceful world has encountered the "world-destroying demon disaster". In the face of this demon disaster, there are no heroes to turn the tide, and there are no undead and ashes to continue the world.

The world was destroyed by the demon disaster.

Then, all the distorted virtual realms began to flow back and shrink...towards the initial flame.

"Is it okay?"

[It's easier than expected. Fifty thousand years of time can actually pass like water... It's hard to imagine the time when I was still a human being.]

[Is there anything happening in the outside world? 】

"A few years after the reincarnation began, the Light Disaster broke out, Terra was shattered in half, and the remaining part became a lava planet. It has not completely cooled down yet, but the evaporated water has been condensed into meteorites by me, and can be thrown back to Terra after cooling down to reshape the ecology."

"As for the lost half of the mass, take your time, anyway, you can wait for the cosmic dust to condense."

[...I just rekindled the flame, but you really want to create the world again]

[Aren't you lonely? ]

"The Dragon Kings handed over Dragon Island to me, and now I have to guard the seal, and by the way, I have to suppress the remaining thousands of stars. The future reconstruction of Terra depends on it. In general, it's very busy, but everything is on track, and I can also rely on Dragon Island to speed up my time. Fifty thousand years is not a long time."

[Let's start, the second reincarnation]

The first era ended.

Then, it was the beginning of the second era.

Everything starts from scratch, everything starts from scratch.

It's like a game that keeps rolling and restarting. After the initial players join in, the world starts to run spontaneously, and then reborn again and again.

Some people return to the server after finishing the beginning, while some choose to enter a later time. The souls of the Terrans in the Apocalypse server are the so-called players. The information they copy is the players. Nothing will change. They play countless times and it will be as fresh as the first time.

In essence, the Flame Cycle is not a living world.

It is a tombstone.

It stores everything about the Terran civilization and relies on the ritual of "reincarnation" to preserve the "spark" almost forever.

"Won't you be bored?"

[No]

"Won't you get bored with the same world?"

[A little bit]

"The 34th reincarnation... It's almost two million years. The surface of Little Terra has cooled down. We can try to use Thousand Stars to collect solar energy and cosmic dust to restore Terra's mass."

"Can you still hold on?"

[Still]

[Whether human or demon, they will all be ashes. As long as the core data is not damaged, the cycle 'circulation' caused by the intersection of the virtual world and the material world will continue.]

[If it can continue, I can continue. Don't worry about me, Ian. Go and do what you want.]

[You wait for the result you want, let me continue to burn.]

The King of Ashes knows no fatigue and no boredom.

Many people have said that immortality is a curse.

The immortal will lose everything, lose what they love, lose what they want, and the immortal will lose again and again, and have nothing but himself.

The immortal will say goodbye to all his concerns. He will lose his humanity, his animality, his fear of death, his yearning for life. The immortal will eventually lose his desire for immortality and then give up his own life.

For short-lived humans, if they do not deny everything about immortality, it seems to be sneering at the brevity of their lives.

So, for the King of Ember, who can be regarded as "immortal" in a sense, how does he feel?

The answer is nothing.

From beginning to end, the King of Ember has no extra thoughts.

He has indeed lost everything, and he can't even perceive this world. He can only watch the reincarnation from the perspective of a bystander at a speed of dozens or hundreds of times. Even if he can speed up his thinking and observe the life of an individual, just like watching a movie or reading a novel, reading everything in this world, he will eventually finish watching a movie, reading a novel, and feel the "melancholy of the end of the story".

Even if he has nothing, he will still lose it.

But the King of Ember doesn't care about these.

[Why do some people think that immortality is painful? ]

[Why do we feel lost and disappointed when we lose something? ]

[Why do some people always think that the flame will definitely go out? The sun burns much longer than human civilization, but there are ignorant and weak humans who point to that fleeting spark and confidently declare that the flame is short-lived and will eventually go out? ]

[Everything, whether it is the boredom of life, the disappearance of dreams, the end of civilization, or the unchanging things, I can endure and overcome it]

[Because...]

[I really don't want to]

[I don't want to turn into ashes]

If human personality has a template, then the King of Ashes was not a human from the beginning.

Humans are essentially a short-lived race, and they value the time of their lives to pursue what they want. Some people want to stand on the top of the mountain and overlook the world, some people want to stand in front of people and teach the people, some people want to lead the army to conquer the four directions, and some people want to settle all difficulties with the world in their hearts.

Some people want to be in the royal court, some people want to be well-off, some people pay attention to benevolence and righteousness, some people pay attention to morality, some people pay attention to love and hate, and some people pay attention to self.

All these dreams, desires and pleasures are the reasons why human hearts are moved. Some are realized, but more are unwilling. Some are gained, but more are lost.

People hate and even fear loss.

So people, humans, cannot imagine that a person with infinite lifespan can constantly gain and lose infinitely.

That is simply the greatest pain in this world.

But the King of Ashes cannot understand this pain.

Because the dead will become ashes.

It will become a nothingness that can no longer affect this world and can no longer see this world.

All meanings, all dreams, will become meaningless under the erosion of long time. Even if the world is transformed, all human bad habits are changed, and a perfect civilization is created, but after hundreds of thousands or millions of years, civilization will turn into ashes and dust in the void, then all this is simply meaningless.

Nothingness.

The only thing that can fight against nothingness is "eternal existence and infinite continuation".

In order to fight against this nothingness, this extremely boring nothingness, the King of Ashes will burn - forever and ever, burning.

Even if it means stripping away his consciousness bit by bit, tearing apart his soul, and turning his entire body into a pure ignition machine.

The thirty-fourth reincarnation.

The seventy-second reincarnation.

The one hundred and nineteenth reincarnation.

The two hundred and twenty-fifth reincarnation.

Sometimes it takes tens of thousands of years, sometimes thousands of years, and the shortest is less than two hundred years, and then an accident happens, and humanity flows back, turning the whole world into a demonic purgatory.

But the longest one lasted more than 400,000 years. The entire era was divided into more than a dozen different eras. Wars and struggles, divisions and unifications, provided the entire era with extremely rich legendary epics and history. People's civilization almost discovered the reality of the virtual world and the world.

The King of Ashes and Ash Ian saw everything.

They saw happiness and pain. They heard singing and crying. They witnessed the sublime and the great.

They watched all the powers established and all the kingdoms collapsed.

Those oaths, curses, those sincere or hypocritical prayers, those tragic or ridiculous wars, they all witnessed.

Human cruelty and kindness, human malice and innocence, all of them are no longer strange. Those parents who sacrificed everything for their children and strangled their children with their own hands all seemed mediocre in the long reincarnation, and could not be called noble or despicable, because this was only a part of human beings.

The reincarnation continued, and Ash Ian waited silently in Dragon Island. If the King of Ashes is an inhuman will, then Ash Ian is an obsession that Ian cannot understand now.

He is waiting.

Even if he cannot see, even if he can only sense Ash Ian's existence indirectly through the 'intermediary point' of the King of Ashes, Ian can know what the other party is doing.

He controls the Thousand Stars and guards Dragon Island on behalf of the Dragon Kings. The Light Disaster destroyed half of Terra, and the remaining half is being reshaped in his palm.

Millions of years have passed, and tens of millions of years have passed, and the end fragments in Dragon Island have not been released from the seal. Just as the Dragon Kings said, as long as a qualified successor is found, the end fragments cannot come out.

After the Light Disaster, the 'Cradle' was gradually completely repaired... Above the sky, except for the planets inside Terra, there is no more star from the outside world.

Even so, Ash Ian is still waiting.

What is he waiting for?

Ian doesn't know either.

It could be the limit of the cradle, it could be the return of the Star God, it could be when the End outside would launch an attack on the cradle without any stimulation... In short, as Ian who knows the essence of the inheritance of the Guiding Star, Ash Ian is trying to obtain information that cannot be obtained by normal means.

The 314th reincarnation, 'In the cradle', 8 million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

The 1925th reincarnation, 'In the cradle', 30 million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

The 5572nd reincarnation, 'In the cradle', 100 million years after the destruction of Terra.

Nothing has changed.

One hundred million years seems very long.

Whether it is for people, countries, civilizations, or a species, one hundred million years is very long.

But for a planet, for geological changes, and for an entire ecosystem, one hundred million years... does not seem to be very long.

On the planet that used to be, dinosaurs ruled the world for 140 million years. They have undergone many changes from birth to destruction, but there are still many unchanged ones. They are still dinosaurs. Even if they become more adaptable to the environment and more intelligent and sensitive, they are still dinosaurs.

If it weren't for that meteorite that led to the geological changes of the entire planet and completely transformed the planet's environment and climate, dinosaurs might continue to thrive for 200 million years, 300 million years, it's possible.

The same is true for humans preserved in reincarnation.

Ian watched time flow before his eyes, and the King of Ashes also watched it silently.

Whether they predicted it or they were in reincarnation, they were doing the same thing.

They are waiting.

Waiting for the change that will end everything.

And no matter how long the wait is, it will eventually end.

The 9,704th reincarnation, in the 'cradle', 168,014,417 years after the destruction of Terra.

Changes have arrived.

Dragon Island.

Surrounding the almost reshaped planet Terra, Dragon Island still rotates silently. It is so solid that more than 100 million years have left no trace on it at all.

After all, for the Star God creations that surpass the stars and stars, for those ancestor dragons who are expected to become Star Gods, more than 100 million years is only one percent or even several hundredths of the time it takes for a star to be born and die. How could it be destroyed so easily?

But at this moment, it was destroyed.

From the inside out, the sudden surge of gravity shattered the entire Dragon Island.

It turned into a black hole... turned into an almost unnoticeable dot.

"Finally!"

As he saw it, Ian, who had been silently watching all this, opened his eyes wide. In addition to excitement, he was nervous: "Although I don't know what Ash Ian did, he is definitely not the one who deliberately released the end fragments."

"Sure enough, the seal of Dragon Island is not permanent. Even if someone maintains it, it will collapse after 160 million years!"

"No... wait. It's not. The collapse of the Dragon Island seal is because of ether!"

At first, Ian thought that the Dragon Island seal collapsed spontaneously, but soon, he noticed the real discord: "Why did the concentration of ether become so low?"

Even Ian couldn't immediately notice the gradually decreasing ether data over 160 million years. In fact, as the planet Terra was shattered by the Light Disaster and the virtual world continued to reincarnate, the concentration of surrounding ether was gradually decreasing, which was a normal phenomenon.

From Ian's perspective now, perhaps the Terra civilization was destroyed in the real sense, and the perpetual motion machine 'Boundless Tide' returned to the Great Aether Circulation, so there was no perpetual motion machine in the Terra Cradle of the Ashes Path.

Without the perpetual motion machine to provide a continuous supply of ether, all ether in the natural environment will gradually degenerate into psychic energy and source quality, and then will not be able to affect time and space.

Even if the sun is still continuously providing source quality, without intelligent life to provide psychic energy, the virtual world is reincarnating again, and true ether can no longer be born.

In short, everything is accumulated little by little, and the accumulation of 100 million years has reduced the concentration of ether to a limit.

The seal of Dragon Island cannot be maintained, and the fragments of the end are released.

Then...

Ian saw that the black light spot formed by the collapse of Dragon Island flew to the sun after flickering for a long time.

Then, within three days.

The sun collapsed into a black hole.

Silently.

There was no change in gravity, no magnificent shock wave. The sun collapsed almost in a breath, accelerated its rotation, and then turned into a black hole. Its gravitational field was completely stable, the gravity of the entire galaxy remained stable, and Terra was still in its original orbit. Nothing changed.

It was just that the sun became a black hole, the light was gone, and there was no more source of the sun flowing to the surroundings.

Everything became dark and silent.

But for the people in the reincarnation, all this didn't matter. They didn't rely on the light of the sun to survive. Even if the sun turned into a black hole, the reincarnation of fire could still continue.

And whether it was the flame transformed by the King of Ashes or Ian the Ashes, they still existed.

Even if their thoughts and consciousness had been distorted and turned into a form that could not be understood by normal humans, the reincarnation continued.

So, 14,595 reincarnations.

‘Inside the cradle’, 200 million years after the destruction of Terra.

The real change has occurred.

Bang.

For those in the reincarnation, there may not be any sound.

But for Ian and King of Ashes in reality, they both heard a slight sound of something shattering.

Then, they saw.

The cradle was broken.

Under the perspective that was accelerated countless times, the prisoner star sky prison with a radius of five light years, which spread throughout the Terra galaxy, was all broken.

And around the universe, the sparse but fierce starlight, the light of supernovas that had been sealed for 200 million years because of the existence of the cradle, filled the entire Terra galaxy within five years.

Everything was destroyed.

Including reincarnation.

Reincarnation is not extinguished because of burning out - reincarnation is extinguished by external forces!

Because the cradle was broken, the light of many supernovas accumulated for 200 million years condensed, completely destroyed the entire Terra, boiled the entire virtual world, and tore all the bubbles apart, so it dissipated!

[So that's it...]

Watching this scene, even the King of Ashes showed a complicated expression, and sighed: [It's not my limit, but the limit of the Heavenly Prison...]

But Ian opened his eyes wide and stared in one direction.

A direction he had been waiting for.

He waited.

A dark shadow that cannot be described in words and speculated by logic... is moving slowly towards the center of the cradle, the center of the Terra galaxy, in a way that space-dimensional life cannot imagine and cannot understand its causal order.

That is... the end.

The end that had been staying outside the cradle.

For 200 million years, He did not have any abnormality or any unusual movement. Even in the 40 million years when the fragments of the end broke away from the seal of Dragon Island and turned the Terra star into a black hole, He still did not move.

It was not until 200 million years later, when the cradle was broken, that He finally took action.

He headed towards the Terra Black Hole with an indescribable strange amplitude.

"Why?"

This time, Ian did not stop the "precognitive horizon" directly because he saw the black hole. Although he was indeed almost at the limit, the power of the fifth energy level was enough for him to continue until now with some spare energy.

But now, even with his wisdom, he couldn't figure out what all this meant for a while - the fragments of the end turned the Terra star into a black hole, the cradle was shattered, and the end that had been motionless in the outside world suddenly began to move and slowly sank into the black hole...

This is not strange.

The end is a strange existence living in the black hole horizon. No matter how powerful they are, they probably have the habit of returning to the black hole, just like no matter how powerful human technology is, they will not have to transform themselves into a strange appearance to adapt to the alien planet, but transform the alien planet like the mother planet.

But why? What important information does Ian need to understand in these 200 million years of waiting?

Ian couldn't think of it for a while, but he remembered everything.

Soon, Ian noticed perhaps the most fundamental difference.

"Ether."

In the last few seconds of the precognitive horizon, in the seconds when the End was submerged into the black hole of Terra, Ian was keenly aware of the subtle differences in Terra that came into contact with the Universe Beyond the Cradle again after the Cradle collapsed: " Ether, completely disappeared?”

"No. It's not that the aether has completely disappeared...wait."

"Could it be that...the universe beyond the cradle..."

"No ether?!"