Chapter 245 244 He Who Was Swallowed by Time
Chapter 245 244. He was swallowed by time
"There is no need to criticize my choice. How could I see the future seven hundred years ago? I just chose the path that I thought was most appropriate at that time."
Clarence pointed to the surrounding books: "The books here are almost all written by the top magicians and scholars from various countries at that time. They themselves have long been annihilated in the long river of time, and only these thoughts are left. Even so, as future generations, you may laugh and feel disdain for their thoughts and treasured knowledge.”
"Times have changed." Clorance's words were filled with vicissitudes of life.
"Perhaps in your current era, magic has reached the eighth or ninth level. Some people have even peeked into the secrets above the level and found another measure of magic to promote, so you can stand from the perspective of latecomers. Lamenting how stupid the previous choices were, 'If it were me, there must be a better solution...' This way. His words are full of arrogance, but for us who are trapped in that era, we cannot see more possibilities and have no more choices. Every attempt by a magician to break through himself is worthy of praise. You can say that my struggle was bloody and evil, but I don’t think what you, a latecomer, said is correct.”
Sera smiled and said: "Do you think I am refuting you in an arrogant tone from the standpoint of a latecomer? Wrong. I just sighed that you were one of the most powerful magicians of that era but your definition of 'eternity' was so ridiculous. And feel helpless.”
Clarence's life force was strong, and the magic power in his body quickly fell to the level that Sera could understand and confirm his strength, so she stepped forward confidently and boldly, staring at the light that was still beating in Clarence's gray eyes. .
"What do you mean by eternity?"
After pondering for a while, Clarence replied: "Escape from the body, escape from decay, become immortal, discover the mystery of magic, and turn consciousness into a god."
Sera curled her lips disdainfully.
Clarence asked: "You seem to think I made a mistake, but eternity has its own definition."
"I was just laughing at you for taking the concept of gods so seriously. It seems that this is also one of the reasons why your fragments call themselves gods. Neither you nor I have seen gods. Why can you be sure that gods can obtain eternity and escape? Decay? Have you discovered that you are constantly complicating a definition and gradually turning your purpose into an unattainable concept?
"Lu Yu."
Sera suddenly called her name, which made Lu Yu stunned.
"Clorence, this is a magician who has just started, only the third level. Lulu and I have never explained to him why magicians like to incorporate so many meanings into the word 'decay', why not How about we give it a try?”
Clarence asked, "What do you want to try?"
"How does a person who has only heard a few words from us view eternity and decay?" Serra said, "This way you won't think that I am superior because of my knowledge that is an era ahead of you, a magician who started from the beginning. , fair enough.”
"Why do you want to convince me?" Clarence asked, "I am going to die, and everything here belongs to you. Wouldn't it be better for me to disappear holding that broken dream?"
"Are you scared?" Sierra suddenly raised her voice, "Persuasion, no, I want you to wake up, I want you to understand your sins! Why do you think I came here and why did I want to kill you? Your obsession has killed countless people!”
"In this long reincarnation, how many undead souls have been trapped in your formation and sealed in the warehouse?"
"Your fragments have deviated from their original trajectory little by little in the reincarnation. After they wake up, they will even go to the outside world to abduct 'materials'. The countless puppet materials in this castle are the flesh and blood of innocent people. What do you think you are so high and mighty?" You are all right, the magician, don’t you think you are too indifferent? How many lives have you sacrificed for your eternity!”
"Listen to what you say, 'The magician's attempts to reach the end are all worthy of praise', 'You can say that the process of my struggle was bloody and evil', what do you think of human life? It is for the continuation of your reincarnation. Firewood?"
Clarence laughed loudly: "You want me to die with guilt? The fragments plus myself have existed for nearly a thousand years. How can a thousand-year ideal be shattered because of your few words?"
"Whether it's the Chosen God or the Saint, you're just a church puppet who uses things that don't exist to gain trust and benefits. As I said before, there are many people in this world who are dirtier than me. Have you ever seen those people? Is it a country where people are enslaved to death? Have you ever questioned why some people are born to be rich and powerful, and why some people are born with ugly scars and work to death on a piece of land? There is no shortage of jade food, carriages and horses for traveling, but some people can only dig food from the soil and are sick and difficult to treat. Why are we all human beings, but in the year of great disaster, some people can eat meat and drink soup in the house, and some can eat meat and drink soup in the house? You can only eat by exchanging seeds, chewing tree bark, and eating dirt. Why can you blame me for reincarnation and cannibalism just because I am about to die, so you can happily accuse me from the moral high ground? "
"Sela, I appreciate your strength. Maybe you are really angry for those who died. I can also cater to your anger and false confession, but don't really think that I will approve your words. We are different. people."
Sierra was indifferent and continued to ask: "Then are you willing to give it a try?"
Lawrence glanced at Lu Yu.
"That's fine. In my last moments in this world, I will play this last game with you two...you ask, or should I?"
"You, only then will you be convinced."
Clarence stood up, and Sierra looked at him stumbling and stepped forward to help him.
Clarence glanced sideways at Sierra and sighed, but said nothing.
"Lu Yu, what do you think of eternity?"
This kind of philosophical question can be refuted no matter how you say it. After all, who has truly achieved eternity?
Lu Yu thought for a while and decided to answer this question from another angle.
"Have you ever used magic crystal?"
Clarence was stunned. He thought for a while and realized that there seemed to be no possibility of burying such a question, so he nodded.
"We assume that there is a magic crystal that contains powerful magic power. If we use up its magic power in one go, we will get an empty crystal. At this time, we only need to place the empty crystal shell and wait for a long period of time. Time and magic will naturally fill the inside of the crystal.”
Lu Yu paused for a moment before saying, "Have you ever wondered why the magic power is filled with magic crystals?"
"It's just that water flows downwards," answered Clorons.
"Yes, the empty crystal will eventually be infiltrated by the magic power that exists in this world. Then we continue to assume that the magic power in this world is limited and is a 'resource' that will disappear one day. Then when all the magic power disappears, Will the crystal still be filled later?"
"Of course not." Clorance frowned. He didn't know why Lu Yu asked these questions that children could know, but the other party looked serious and didn't seem to be having fun with himself.
"So, in fact, the magic power will spontaneously transfer from the filled place to the unfilled place and infiltrate. This process is constantly happening, and when the magic power is limited, this process will terminate when the magic power is exhausted... We boldly assume that at this moment, all the magic in the world has been exhausted, then the path of magic will..."
"The end?"
"Correct." Lu Yu said, "Magic will come to a standstill because there is no longer any way to verify the theory of magic and magic."
"Please replace the magic power I am talking about with the energy that everything consumes to move, and then repeat and understand what I said. Imagine a world that has completely lost all energy, and all objects have stopped moving." Lu Yu said, "I think this is more in line with my impression of eternity."
Lawrence frowned, thinking hard, the wifi signal on his forehead gradually became full, and he sweated more and more.
Sera on the side was thinking blankly, and then looked at Lu Yu in surprise.
Seeing the distorted expression on Lawrence's face, Lu Yu only regretted that he had a poor memory and failed to memorize the theory of entropy. As a result, the metaphor was not very accurate and the description was also wrong, but it seemed that Lawrence still understood it. .
Clarence's understanding of eternity is to live forever and stand side by side with the world. The doctrines of his time never mentioned the end of the world at all. Judging from Serra's appearance, it seemed that it had never happened in this era. After all, the world was very young. After several consecutive magic upgrades, everything seemed to be prosperous, so no one would associate the word eternity with a situation where matter stopped moving.
Lu Yu's statement completely broke Clorance's expectations and persistence for eternity. His closed logic was blown away by Lu Yu's rough opinions, and gaps appeared in his unbreakable faith.
Although Lu Yu knew that the laws might not apply in different worlds, Clorance obviously didn't know that. He covered his head with his hands, his expression extremely painful.
Some things are just like this. If you can't figure it out or the conclusions you get are half-understood, it's easy to collapse the worldview that you have built with difficulty.
Clorance could not accept that the end of eternity was a cold world that had not even changed, nor could he accept that eternity was actually a mirror, flowers in the water, and the moon in the water. He looked at Lu Yu fiercely, and stretched out his wrinkled hands.
Sera was about to take action to stop him, but Clorance took his hand back, and he sat slumped on the ground, like an old child.
"That's your eternity...not mine."
Although Lawrence was shaken, he was unwilling to admit the possibility that Lu Yu described existed. He could only hide his inner fluctuations and gritted his teeth.
Serra praised in the chat room: "Well done."
"It's just standing on the shoulders of giants. It's not worthy of praise." Lu Yu said modestly.
"Do you still want to ask about Decay?" Sierra stared at Clarence with a smile.
The fear flashed across Clarence's eyes. A cold world already made his hair stand on end. He trembled all over when he thought that his ideal end point was so terrifying.
Clarence coughed and waved his hands: "I...I..."
The soul that turned into fragments and merged into Clarence's body floated out from his head.
That was the young man's soul. The moment he flew out, he turned into countless light particles and disappeared above the dome.
Sera smiled brightly, and that indifferent, indifferent soul with no regard for human life, leaving only a passion for knowledge and a paranoid soul for eternity, completely disappeared from this world.
Lawrence's eyes were blurry. After a long time, he looked at Sierra and murmured: "Thank you..."
Lu Yu now knew why Sera was so chattering about finding Clorens to debate. In the last moments of his life, the souls in Clorens' body began to loosen. The long-term separation of his own souls made these souls want to dominate the body when death came, and make a final attempt to continue their own existence.
Although they defeated Clorens, they relied on their original bodies that they were reluctant to part with, and the kindest side of Clorens' heart that came out of Warehouse No. 6 to assist.
Once other souls take the dominant position, it is very likely that when Clorens's body decays, the Book of Dusk will be activated, bringing an unimaginable disaster here, and they will have no escape at all.
Sera's voice was no longer as rough as before, but very gentle: "You who imagined the world to be extremely cold and hoped to establish reincarnation to escape suffering and death have disappeared."
Clorence smiled: "But he is also me. If I hadn't had such an obsession, it would not have become so powerful, occupying my body and possessing everything of mine."
"Desire for knowledge, desire for power, hope for immortality, hope to become a god, and be worshipped by thousands of people... These desires accumulated over time and gradually became the demons in my heart that I could never get rid of... I could no longer appreciate beautiful things, and could no longer feel the kindness and warmth of others. I went too far and did too many wrong things..."
"I was not like this when I was young."
Clorence cried loudly. This legendary puppeteer who was about to die released the self that had been suppressed in countless reincarnations like a child.
Crying for the self who was swallowed by time and once admired this world with passion.
I have gone too far and have forgotten what I wanted when I first became a puppeteer. Even before I died, I could not let my true self have a body. Instead, I was suppressed by obsession and inadvertently snatched away control.
Clorens shed tears and forced an ugly smile: "Can I really be considered an excellent puppeteer like this?"
Sera patted Clorens on the shoulder, comforting this legend who could no longer repent and was gradually dying.
"In fact, those who come to the Church to confess just want psychological comfort. They may not believe that confession is useful, but it can make them feel better..."
"Confess for those who died in vain."