Act 87 Illusion and Reality

What is the law of tiaat?

If you ask the native people of Warende this question, you will get a consistent answer: That is Lord Martha's blessing.

In , players have conducted in-depth investigations into this strange phenomenon that only belongs to the world of Warnd.

The answer they got was:

This is the collective name for this world order, the core of the elemental barrier surrounding the entire world, and the basic law that binds the elements that form the cornerstone of this world.

This is described more clearly in the Blue Epic.

Martha made an alliance with the four elven masters, personally issued the laws of tiaat, and used the laws to constrain the boundaries of the elements, so that the cornerstone of the Warnd world could be established.

However in fact.

The law of tiaat can be observed.

Whether standing on the land of Warnd, looking up to the sky, or casting a glance in the direction of the elemental barrier from the chaotic sea of ​​magic.

It is a magnificent silver network composed of beautiful curves and straight lines. And this giant network spans tens of thousands of miles of sky. Whether it is cloudy or cloudless and clear in the afternoon, people can always see its existence.

But few people have seen the real thing.

Brando is no exception.

The moment before Bai disappeared, although he did want to ask more questions, the other party obviously did not intend to give him this opportunity.

Her somewhat pale, illusory figure swayed slightly in the void, and Brando watched as she submerged into the dark metal plane.

Then the huge structure seemed to light up imperceptibly, and then returned to silence.

Brando stretched out his hand in that direction, but found helplessly that he couldn't catch the other person at all.

All he could see were the tens of millions of structures shining with metallic luster across the void. They are arranged in a huge array and form a giant network.

"Thank you... for bringing her here?"

"What on earth are these things...?"

"What does this woman want...and what do she mean by those words?"

Brando was confused and confused for a moment.

Bai's behavior was so different from the Bai Tiamas he was familiar with. The God of Death under the black rose who disdained to play tricks, the angel of death holding a huge scythe——

However, since the other party emerged from his spiritual world, he has lied again and again. What he did was obviously just to conceal his true intention at this moment.

Brando fell downwards, but his eyes were quietly looking at the huge array in front of him across the dark space.

So what does this woman want to do?

What secrets are hidden here? So much so that the other party even did not hesitate to use eternal things as an excuse, and even revealed secrets such as the mercury staff and the elemental staff to him.

This thought rose uncontrollably in his mind.

Although Brando had the same doubts in his heart when he first saw this huge array. But at that time, the storm blowing from the crystal wall of the world once again extinguished these random thoughts. He had several adventures where he had the mind to think too much.

But at this moment, this idea took root in his heart again and grew stronger——

Because he thought of another question.

He thought about this world——

Brando remembered that in the game, the furthest places that the player's footprints had reached should be the Scorched River and the depths of hell. And some players travel between worlds with the fleet of plane travelers. They have been to many unknown worlds and broken planes, and even traveled for long periods of time in the Gray Segment to fight against the etheric predators.

But a common sense is——

No one can reach beyond the elemental barrier. A force called the World Cover surrounds the four outer worlds of Warend, namely the Shallow Sea, the Mountain of Calm Storm, the Stone Pivot, and the Scorched River. When people try to cross When you pass it, you will be sent back by the opposite force, no exception.

But when the Dragon Queen withdrew the cornerstones of the laws of the four elemental planes, the situation became somewhat different.

The Shallow Sea and the Mountain of Calm Storm collapsed one after another, followed closely by the Stone Pivot and the Scorching River. When the four elemental worlds guarding the periphery of Warnd's world perished. The shield between Warnd and the elemental barrier disappeared.

Brando is not sure whether he is the only person who has been lucky enough to witness this scene in thousands of years, but at least one thing he can confirm is that he must be the only player who is lucky enough to witness it all.

But when he saw this spectacular sight. What flashed through my mind was this question:

So, what does it mean behind all this?

Fias and Root shouted in his ears.

The storm representing the will of the Dusk Dragon is roaring. Just as Bai said, the furious Dragon of Dusk is knocking on the door of this world, trying to tear open the crystal wall of the world again.

Although she has not yet achieved this, the power of the entire world has been transmitted from behind the crystal wall. Even if it is weakened tens of millions of times, it is still enough to tear apart the fragile elemental barrier at this moment.

Black ripples visible to the naked eye are emerging in the space.

Behind that is the fact that the laws of time and space are distorting and escaping crazily.

But Brando turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye, and his mind was in chaos.

Different from the education from another world received by another soul in his own body, Warnd in the game is an extremely wonderful world. The physical properties of everything in this world depend on the description of the laws, rather than the materials that make it up - earth, wind, fire, and water. The way the six elements of natural light and darkness are combined, and the properties of the elements themselves.

Like when one picks up a piece of shale from the ground. They can clearly feel that it exists physically and is material.

However, when the wizards used their magical eyes to analyze the stone tablet, everything changed.

They will first discover that although the material existence of the stone slab depends on the elemental cornerstones - earth, wind, fire, water, nature and even light and darkness, they themselves cannot determine its properties.

Because only the laws surrounding it can ultimately determine the nature of everything - hard or soft? Dry or moist? How malleable is it? Is it fragile?

When a law is described, it will exhibit familiar physical properties regardless of the elements that make it up - because the elements are just the material basis of Warnd, they are like the bricks needed to build a building - —and only design drawings can determine what the building will eventually look like.

This is like the process of a programmer labeling and injecting data into a thing he creates. No matter how 0 and 1 behave in the language he writes, what is ultimately displayed in front of the player is this thing. How it should look in the game.

In , the logic of the world is consistent with its setting as a game, so players don't care about it.

But since coming to this world, some problems have arisen.

If Warnd is no longer a game world, how does this world with one or more creators work?

Why does it still show almost the same nature of the world as in the game?

Brando is not a poet who needs to explore the truth of the universe, and he is certainly not one of those wizards who live in high towers all their lives and pursue ultimate knowledge and mysteries.

So he rarely thinks about such issues.

In fact, there are many problems that he needs to solve, whether it is the chores in the Fir Territory, a lot of troubles in Eruin's country, or Madara who is eyeing him on the border, and the ambitious empire.

It seemed that even handling these things one by one would take up all of his mind and time, and there would be no chance to consider these problems.

Besides, he never thought that one day, unforeseen events might force him to consider such an issue.

What is this world?

But it's not like he hasn't thought about this issue at all.

When he first arrived in this world, when he was lying in a pile of straw with Roman and Freya in the countryside of Qingcun, looking up at the stars, he once had such a question in his mind.

He once hoped that this world was just a dream of his, and that he would wake up from his dream at any time and return to the civilized and orderly world that originally belonged to him.

He woke up from bed, opened the door to his room, and saw the familiar teasing smiles of his senior sister and Hongcha, telling him that it was just a prank.

But as this dream deepened, he personally changed the kingdom bit by bit and changed the fate of many people. After seeing those familiar names surrounding him, he would no longer repeat their original sad and bleak ending.

This hope gradually turned into a nightmare that lingered in his mind.

Whenever he talked with the staff lady, whenever he listened to little Roman's absurd and weird ideas, whenever he walked in the warm afternoon sunshine of Fir Castle, watching the shadows of leaves swaying on the ground in the courtyard. hour.

He couldn't help but wonder if this was a dream, and if he would wake up and find that it was all just his imagination. Whenever such thoughts came to his mind, he couldn't help but feel depressed and uneasy. He even had several similar nightmares, in which all his uneasiness and fear turned into reality. When he woke up in the middle of the night, his whole body was already soaked in cold sweat.

This nightmare gradually expanded as time went by. Sometimes he would even think about it, assuming that the world was still a game.

He even thinks this way sometimes.

Perhaps the world itself is still a game. When he wakes up, he finds that everything he has experienced is still just data in the game.

…(To be continued)