Mage? Spell Engineer!

Rorschach disappeared from the material world again. He stopped manipulating illusions and light particles and returned to the small plane that imprisoned him.

It is not appropriate to call it a "cage". Now the area of ​​the junction is so vast that you can't see the end at a glance. The magnificent Tree of Law is on top of the sky, and the roots and computing units below are almost all the components of the "earth".

Outside the wall of the junction is a surging dark tide that wants to swallow it, and the demon-dispelling order brought by Rorschach from the other world constitutes a stable shell, firmly resisting the invasion of the Mother Goddess.

The layout of the center of the entire junction is still similar to the past. The biggest change is the sudden increase in the scale of the "library". From the outside, the building has not become wider and taller, but this is a place between symbol and reality. The corridor surrounded by bookshelves inside has "grown" to an endless length.

Not only that, there are countless books that have not been put on the shelves. They keep automatically recording relevant information. Sometimes the characters will replicate themselves and then distribute them to other books.

The meaning and content of each book are different. In the past, most of them recorded spells and their use. Now, a considerable part of them are about people.

Every person alive now will have a record as long as he uses a spell or is affected by a spell. These effects are like Monte Carlo experiments. Each related spell is like a small ball that collides. When the amount of data reaches a certain level, the shape of the soul can be outlined.

In other words, Rorschach is constructing the soul of almost everyone. A book represents a person, his soul, and his past.

Some people have more than one book. For example, the Lord of Order and his predecessor, the memory of the ancient sage.

The golden memory book with the Lord of Order's prohibition is still sealed in the depths of the "Great Library". Rorschach walked to the restricted area and picked up one side. As the Lord of Order's consciousness dissipated and annihilated, he might be able to easily open the forbidden memory in his hand.

What will be inside? It is basically certain that it is related to God.

"Open it." The tower spirit urged, and it read a certain memory of the ancient sage again, and in response urged Rorschach to reveal the last secret of the Lord of Light and Order before he became a god.

However, Rorschach just looked at it quietly for a long time and put down the books again.

"Why?" The tower spirit was puzzled. It only knew that Rorschach had wanted to see the secrets, but when it opened to him today, the other party stopped again.

"Intuition." Rorschach forced a smile: "Intuition tells me that now is not the time to open it."

The tower spirit was still a dead soulless existence after all. It ran for a while and finally gave up any reaction to Rorschach. From then on, the border fell into silence again.

The owner of the border walked in the middle. He no longer had a physical body, more like a ghost floating here. But Rorschach still had one thing to do.

He took several bundles of books from the Great Library, about thousands of books. They behaved in the same way: neither was it finished, nor could they write anymore, and the newly generated handwriting would soon collapse.

This was a branch of the church fleet that was trapped in a cycle. Several ships disappeared and reappeared in a fixed area. This strange phenomenon also attracted the attention of the Space Association. It was originally going to be discussed at the meeting, but Rorschach diverted the discussion.

Because the cycle of those ships was caused by Rorschach.

The junction showed an image of a "temple-class" giant ship surrounded by several "monastery-class" medium-sized ships. They were lost in a hazy nebula and separated from the pilgrim fleet looking for the end of the world. What's worse, the transmutation dust fuel they carried was running out.

This small fleet prayed to their Lord and then plunged into an unknown energy group. In the violent turbulence, the shield was consumed violently, and soon the power system and defense system lost energy support. Both the ship and the people were torn to pieces in the end and merged into the chaotic mass of matter and energy.

The chaotic and violent mass of matter and energy was like a pot of porridge, with matter like grains and energy like water. This pot of porridge had merged into a sticky existence, and it was still in a boiling state. The fleet that plunged into it was immediately "stewed" to slag.

When the souls of the crew were about to dissipate and return to the original, they were pulled into the junction by Rorschach using the influence of the "book" to become a "bookmark".

The "book" that belonged to them also ended here. The pages that were originally open closed automatically. The virtual image in the intersection corresponding to the ship was also not spared and was already shattered.

But Rorschach forced the book open, erased the paragraph at the end, and reassembled the virtual image of the ship.

Correspondingly, in the real world, the glued matter and energy groups in the nebula began to surge, and the matter that originally belonged to the crew and the starship began to recover.

The scattered atoms were composed of inorganic and organic matter, and then formed flesh, steel, and runes. Until a person and a machine, a holy object, a ship, and retreated from the chaotic mass.

When Rorschach restored their corresponding symbols at the intersection, extracted the souls that were lodged in the intersection and poured them back into their bodies, everything returned to the starting point, back to the state before they were swallowed and torn apart by the interstellar turbulence.

"Your Excellency the Bishop, our fuel will not last much longer! There is severe interference in this area, and our 'ship-borne holy bell' cannot transmit messages to the main force!" The technical priest in the command room of the "Temple-class Flagship" was very anxious, and he was helpless about the current situation.

The commander of the squadron, a young bishop, chanted a few verses to calm himself down. Outside the porthole, there was no longer an empty black screen dotted with sparse starlight, but instead, like an aurora, wild floating objects and rays fiercely rubbed and expanded with the shield of the spacecraft, adding more fluid colors to the golden barrier.

It is these turbulence and stardust that make them lose their way and lose contact.

The situation has deteriorated to the extreme. If they don't contact the main fleet and get supplies, all of them will die in this strange star field.

“This is the Lord’s test for us!”

In desperation, the bishop chose to take a huge gamble and used the tone and form of his sermon to cover up his despair and madness:

"It is true that the Lord has promised us a rich new world with milk and honey, and promised to open His kingdom of heaven to us. But please think about it, why can we gain the favor of the Lord and enter the kingdom of heaven for no reason?

“Therefore, this expedition, especially the difficulties we are facing now, are the Lord’s test for us. Anyone who devoutly believes in the Lord will surely receive His guidance, His salvation, and His approval.

"Don't show your cowardly side again! All crew members listen to my orders, move forward, just move forward, and entrust the rest of our fate and everything we have to the Lord!"

All fuel, supplies, and personnel were concentrated on a ship, and then began to charge towards the chaotic mass of matter and energy. Perhaps there is a glimmer of hope in turbulence, as long as the spacecraft always travels in relatively gentle laminar flow. However, as long as it comes into contact with the powerful turbulence inside, the weak shield of the church starship will be torn to pieces in an instant.

When the stardust violently lifts the "cathedral dome", the bishop will cry out in anger and despair: "Lord, why have you abandoned us... for..."

"Failed again, come again." Rorschach once again erased the death records of the victims, reshaped them, and "fished" people and ships out of the mass of matter and energy.

Then, he carefully added a few bytes to the "book" of all relevant people, hoping to introduce new changes and get a different ending.

The cycle begins again. The cycle time has been continuously expanding in the past few years. The fleet could only survive for a few minutes after entering the Chaos Star Cluster, but now it can be destroyed by accidental collision and sailing for several days.

This "thick porridge"-like area is not only a blend of matter and energy, but also a special zone where reality and illusion meet, giving Rorschach room to interfere with reality. And Rorschach is like a bad god, just letting the fleet circulate continuously, with only slight changes every time.

Grandpa Taling, who was watching, just thought it was Rorschach Boring, and suggested again: "You should not interfere too much with their destiny and take pleasure in it. What's more, someone has noticed the abnormality, please relieve them in time and end the cycle." "

Then, as usual, Rorschach ignored it, went his own way, and continued this somewhat cruel game.