Chapter 1603 - Vivians Real Mission (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was the real function of the Creation’s Engine.

It was not an engine with physical propulsion. The way Vivian described it was more like a ‘system engine’ that acted on information and modified the content of the universe at the information level.

The only function of this engine was to rewrite the information registry of the universe, and ‘delete’ the goddess of creation and the Mad Lord.

“The Mad Lord in the original state was almost invincible. It was born in the chaos of the ancient times of the Plane of Dreams, from which it was inseparable. Its activities would eventually drag the universe into destruction, but it was still one of the cornerstones by which the universe existed.” Vivian shook her head gently. “The goddess of creation was able to defeat the Mad Lord and even imprison the Mad Lord again and again, but she could never really destroy it. Her war with the Mad Lord pushed the universe rapidly to its doom, which was an inevitable result of the battle of the two forces.”

Hao Ren smacked his lips and said, “So, she chose to perish together with it?”

The goddess of creation chose to perish together with the Mad Lord, but it was no surprise in itself. From the clues Hao Ren had in his hands earlier, Hao Ren could already roughly infer the decisions that the goddess of creation took in the face of this eternal war. Everything that this goddess did was to end the threat of the Mad Lord, and for this purpose, she could sacrifice herself.

What really surprised Hao Ren was the goddess of creation choosing to perish together with the Mad Lord and the truth about the Creation’s Engine.

As Vivian put it: The Mad Lord in its original state was invincible. It lived in symbiosis with and as long as the universe; it was a component of the fundamental law of the Plane of Dreams and could not be destroyed. But the war of the goddess of creation and the Mad Lord had produced an unexpected change; the Mad Lord had turned into a god.

The Mad Lord who had acquired divinity had instead become destructible.

“The Gilded Discs that we are looking for are essentially the storage of divine power and ‘comparator’ that can calculate divinity. When the Creation’s Engine is started, its core system will index the divine information recorded in the Gilded Discs and forcibly delete any information that meets the index criteria. The process was as if clearing the registry information by looking up keywords. The divine information is actually the ‘sample’ of the goddess of creation.

“We found an ancient crystal disc and supporting facilities in Collow and thought that they were prototypes of the Creation’s Engine and the Gilded Discs. But we were thinking the wrong way. We assumed that the Creation’s Engine was a propulsion engine or something that had influences on the material world. We ended up making little progress in studying the prototypes. It is not wrong to call those things prototypes. It is just that they more like work on the information level than the physical level.”

Hao Ren nodded as he finally understood what the Creation’s Engine and the “deletion of the gods” were all about. “What does this have to do with the Heart and the Throne of Destiny? What does it have to do with you?”

“It is to ensure that the world will survive after the departure of the gods,” Vivian explained. “Because of the lack of technical knowledge, the Creation’s Engine that the goddess of creation created was rather rudimentary. It deleted the data of the true gods from the universe by indexing the keywords but was not capable of repairing the system of the universe system. And the end result was—”

“The law of the universe would face a wide range of logical loopholes and data breakpoints!” Hao Ren had learned a lot from Raven 12345 about the Grand Unified Theory and naturally knew what Vivian was talking about. “The Mad Lord is the fundamental data of this universe, and the fact that the goddess of creation has been active in this world for so long, she has an inextricable influence in the Plane of Dreams. So, it is impossible to forcibly remove their data. Of they must do, there must be a replacement. Wait a minute! Could it be that—”

“I am the replacement. Other than me, the Throne of Destiny, the planet Heart, and the divine network outside the X-Galaxy all add up to fill the void after the demise of the goddess of creation and the Mad Lord.” Vivian drew some magical patterns in the air using her finger. The first pattern was a big circle. “Do you still remember the divine burst network that we have found in the universe of the Plane of Dreams—the one that you detected while bringing the otherworldlings visiting their homeworlds? It is based on stars and the peripheral execution unit of the entire system. The neutral divine burst could control the operation of the universe like nerve signals do in our body.”

Vivian then drew a small circle inside the big one with shiny lines dancing like sprites in the small circle.

“This is the Heart of Destiny in the X-Galaxy. The planet is the middle-level processing unit of the entire system. The sprites are actually the neural nodes. Their bodies that is, those resonant crystals, process and store a huge amount of information. Just like a supercomputer, it gives instructions to the peripheral execution units. The reason why the sprites are such a confused bunch is not that they are stupid, but because the supercomputer lacks a core.”

Vivian formed a blood-red runic symbol with magic in the center of the small circle.

“The Throne of Destiny is in the crystal mountain. We have not seen it, but I can already sense its existence. In the blueprint of this system, I am sitting on the Throne of Destiny, responsible for running all the commands,” Vivian pointed at herself, “akin to a CPU and an OS. But this is not an accurate analogy because it is not quite the same as the computer. It is more like the highest node, the queen of the sprites. Back then, the goddess of creation sent me to the surface world to protect her highest node and to complete the Ultimate Absolution. But I would eventually return to this place according to the original program.”

A few seconds of silence ensued. Hao Ren quietly looked at Vivian, and finally said, “So, this is the real mission that the goddess of creation has left for you.”