Uplifting Journey

"Farewell forever?" Arthur almost tore off his beard, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"You like to be shocked." Slime turned into fluid, slowly slid down the small channel on the terrace to the ground, and then said to Arthur in a moderate tone, "It's actually death, it's hard to understand Is it?"

"No," Arthur took a deep breath, "doesn't life long to be alive? You don't look like that at all Uh, as far as I know, although slimes are low-level monsters, their lifespan is almost limitless of."

"Are you talking about our brainless fellows from other planes?"

In addition to mobilizing the magic net for space transfer, the movement of the four-branched stripes of slime is always very slow. Its body slowly recovers from the fluid state to the gelatinous texture, and said with a little emotion: "Perhaps when we gain wisdom, we can also We paid a corresponding price, anyway, our lifespan is far worse than yours.”

"Even so, with your strength." Arthur recalled the time-space manipulation that Slime had just mastered so well, which made his legend feel horrified, "...it shouldn't be difficult to find a way to prolong life, right?"

"I think there are some differences in the definition of 'strength' between us," the blue-green striped jelly slowly began to roll forward, "but that's not important. Indeed, as you said, the magic net of this plane There are many ways to change life forms and prolong life, and there are many ways that our family can use."

Seeing the slime slowly rolling in the ruined mini city, Arthur followed up: "Then why don't you use it? Don't those methods have a very high price?"

"It's all about the price." Slime, who gave up all the original sensory organs, looked at Arthur through the sensory information fed back by the magic net while scrolling, "Our Gumballs are not without development. We have studied body transformation, or flexible transformation to adapt to various tools is our way of survival.

"After reaching the limit of life, choosing to return to the earth, this behavior of giving up life will surprise you, but there are some differences in our understanding of culture and concept of life."

difference in concept? Arthur was silent for a moment—in his past travels, he has indeed encountered many races with strange views on life and death, and many of them will devour their own intelligent life under certain conditions. This intelligent slime family also has its own special features. where?

"I don't know how you define life. I've heard it before. Humans define life and death very well. It should be similar to the early elves."

Slime thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "This topic about life cognition has been very hot recently. There are different cognitive factions participating in the dispute, such as the Flesh and Flesh Party, the Memory Party, and the Real Name Party. The quarrel is in full swing. If you are interested, you can search online."

Arthur, who had initially learned to use the special magic net of this plane, immediately searched the magic net interface with his mind, and then found the discussions mentioned by the four branches of the slime.

Generally speaking, the reason for this hot topic is that some members of the old generation of elves are approaching the limit of their lifespan, and a considerable number of elves will enter the end of their lives one after another within a period of time. The knowledge and technology of transformation and other aspects have been taken out and discussed in depth by those who are interested.

Here, Arthur saw all kinds of life extension methods that countless mortals in other planes dreamed of, from relatively conservative body system transformation to very radical soul uploading magic net, which made Arthur dazzled vision.

However, Arthur couldn't help feeling a little heavier in his heart when he saw that the plan discussed on the Internet also included divinity shaping and infusion of this technology that touched the realm of the gods.

"A slime like me is actually very interested in those reliable and unreliable solutions on the Internet - purely in terms of technology"

The slowly rolling four-branch stripes seemed to have discovered something, and began to slowly turn and roll to another road. At the same time, it explained to Arthur: "Compared with those ways of living, we are more eager to return our body and consciousness to the mother body. , for us, returning to the blue crystal land at the end of our life is like finally going home to rest.

"Actually, this can't be defined as death. It's another form of life continuation. It's just a continuation that doesn't even save its real name and memory. It's not recognized by most lives. Well, from this point of view, our family It should be regarded as the flesh and blood party."

Arthur hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "The blue crystal land and matrix you mentioned, do you mean the blue land under our feet or the elf named Ivy?"

"Again, you don't know much about our family's history." The slime who stopped rolling in front of a dilapidated building that was half-swallowed by the earth sighed with emotion, "The memory of the body has declined badly, but it's finally here. "

After rubbing on the surface of the dilapidated building, Slime said to Arthur: "The original individuals of our race were split from the azure crystal land, and our civilization started by excavating the azure crystal land, mining the deep buried The magic crystal veins sustain life.

"Later we found out that those mineral veins that contain highly compatible magic power are actually the magic patterns left in the body of the mother goddess Ivy of our family, that is, her magic power lines and rune circles."

Arthur was startled, then he turned his head and looked around suddenly, and said in disbelief: "Wait, you said that this entire blue land is actually the body of a super life?"

"Well," the slime said proudly, "Although she looks like an elf, our mother goddess is a god-level slime whose body can cover the entire plane."

Slime Arthur, who was so huge that it turned into the plane of the earth, flashed the elf figure of Ivy in his mind, and was speechless for a while under the strong contrast—although it was because of the contact with the two elves a long time ago , He knew something about Ivy to some extent, but he didn't expect that Ivy's body would actually look like that kind of horror.

Imagine that the boundless ground under his feet was the body of a monster, and he stood on the surface of his body like a speck of dust on a giant's body. Arthur couldn't help but feel a shudder.

The blue and green stripes on Slime's body changed for a moment, and then continued: "Because of the problem of belief, this fact has brought a great shock to our family, although the mother goddess has personally explained the cause and effect, and expressed that she doesn't care that she once These things happened in the body, but the impact on our family is still very far-reaching

"Return to the earth after natural death, and return everything excavated from the earth. This trend of thought gradually became clear during that period. As an old man, you should understand my approach, right?"

Arthur, who was as energetic as a strong man, stroked his white beard, and could only nod wordlessly.

"That's good," said Slime, rubbing among the gravel, clearing out a patch of pure blue, and then staying there, "Thank you for listening to me, I thought the last part of my life You should go alone, but it feels good to be accompanied by someone.”

Arthur froze for a moment, and then saw that the texture of the slime's body began to change slowly, gradually becoming homogeneous with the ground below.

"Yeah..." The tone of the soul language became a little long, and the slime looked at the buildings around him and sighed, "This used to be my home, but after our family's experiment to reactivate the blue crystal land caused disasters and caused mothers to die. After God paid attention, we never came again. We will choose to return to the earth, more or less to make up for the mistakes we made at the beginning.

"No matter how powerful civilization develops, we cannot be complacent. We should always retain humility and awe in our hearts. Farewell, my friend."

After the words fell, the slime in front of Arthur had completely turned into blue crystal, and his body was slowly shrinking as if being swallowed by the earth.

Arthur, who was silent, thought that this friend who had not known him for a long time would leave like this, but he did not expect that after a while, the slime that was shrinking suddenly stopped assimilating, and muttered as if he hadn't woken up: "It's the end, Let’s make a good environment and go.”

Arthur, who was standing there, suddenly received several notifications from the magic net. Before he could open it to watch in astonishment, he found that his surroundings suddenly became dark.

Arthur looked up, and saw a dark cloud suddenly condensed in the sky, and then dense rain fell precisely around the building in front of him.

Arthur took a step back subconsciously, and then stood in the rain-free space. He looked at the small circle of rain in front of him, which made the blue crystal land look a little soft, and listened to the passionate music accompanied by the crackling thunder. A complex and unspeakable feeling could not help but emerge.

Arthur, whose inexplicable sadness was completely diluted, stood quietly in front of the rain curtain until the ultra-small thunderstorm stopped and the music sounded from nowhere around him dissipated. Withdrew his sight.

After sighing softly, Arthur moved to open the Magic Web interface, and looked at the information he had received before——

"Temporary adjustment of the weather notifies you that it is within the adjustment range. You do not have the authority to vote against it. Please prepare for protection. The specific form, scope, and time parameters are as follows."

After looking at the impact notices of those slimes modifying the environment on the deathbed, Arthur shook his head. He found that he had completely adapted to the strangeness of this plane, and adjusting the weather and atmosphere for his mood would not make him surprised.

"What a wonderful journey." Arthur looked at the sky where there was not even a trace of cloud and mist left. After a sentence of emotion, he looked back at the magic net interface. After hesitating for a moment, he began to consult the legendary powerhouse's magic net point acquisition channel.

"There should be more interesting things in this plane. I don't know how the intelligent life here keeps the society running."

Arthur, who had an intuition that he could find what he wanted here, performed a half-baked operation on the magic web interface, and disappeared instantly from the original place, but went to a certain management center through time and space transfer. demiplane.

When Arthur was going on a wonderful adventure in the pilot plane, outside the plane covered by the new version of the magic net, in the special field where the void layer and the material layer overlap, a red dragon whose size cannot be judged and a burning sea of ​​fire are overlooking With this plane.

The god of the fire element, who glanced past Arthur, sneered: "The god of justice and judgment? I've heard of him, an idealist who can drive himself to schizophrenia. Even rules that are independent of the outside world like me Gods and spirits all have their own volitional biases, so how can we talk about absolute justice?"

"It's true to say that, but is it normal and legitimate to pursue better justice from a certain standpoint?" Cheng Bin smiled at the God of Fire Element, "The God of Justice and Judgment just discovered The real obstacle in front of my path, and at the same time, I was too eroded by the priesthood, so I left the source of the holy light and reincarnated in the lower realm to change my perspective and restore my ability to think."

"Whatever, it has nothing to do with me anyway." The God of Fire Element said indifferently.

Then it looked at the new version of the magic net covering the entire plane thoughtfully: "This is the root of the new era magic net and the new rule gods you said? Let go of the shield and let me investigate carefully from the perspective of rules."

The red dragon glanced at the sea of ​​flames next to it, and symbolically stretched out its claws to tap on the plane. After wrapping them into the void seal layer, he said: "I shield them not only for keeping secrets, you should take it easy."

The next moment, the sea of ​​fire incarnated by the God of Fire Element suddenly exploded and swelled up as if he had taken a great tonic, and it returned to its original form after several twists and changes.

"Is this the power of civilization development?" The dazed God of Fire Elemental took a long time to recover, and said inconceivably, "On one plane, in such a short period of time, they have advanced the exploration of elemental rules to the next level. This level is almost comparable to the height of your paradoxes.

"Fortunately, I'm used to your system, and I haven't had any problems absorbing the derivative results of these rules."

"The development speed of civilization and the union of different individuals at the same level will skyrocket as the efficiency of information interaction increases. The short time in the eyes of the gods is enough for civilizations that have solved their survival needs to transform to a very high level. levels."

Cheng Bin sighed with emotion, then shook his head and said: "However, there is still very little research progress related to the void. No matter how the elemental rules are deduced and changed, the power brought will hardly surpass the underlying information interference of the void. I don't know if civilization can touch this in the end." The world's deepest restriction lock"

"The material element layer can't compete with the void? That's not necessarily the case," said the fire elemental god noncommittally. "If this new version of the magic net covers the entire astral world and realizes the dream of the Titans, the predecessors of the dwarves, to control the movement of matter in all planes, when the time comes It’s hard to say what kind of power will be born.”

"That's true," Cheng Bin recalled some research results on the abyssal demon, and nodded thoughtfully, "Material and void, as the two poles of the world that can be transformed into each other, should not be completely void in terms of importance. It’s right to suppress the substance.”

Although as far as the current situation is concerned, a series of the most mysterious and powerful things, such as godhead and real name, all reside in the void to control matter.

Cheng Bin thought for a while, rearranged the plans related to the abyss expedition, then turned his head and smiled at the God of Fire Element: "Forget it, let's ignore those. Are you ready for the experiment?"

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The inspiration for the new novel developed by the stand-in flashed in my mind, but I still only had the ability to set the plot, tsk.