Plural Apostles

"Once upon a time the Earth."

A hand landed on the top of her head, and pressed slightly: "A mortal has reached the extreme, the scene of touching the gods."

Hill turned his head, looked at the familiar figure, his expression froze for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, "Are you... scumbag Siegfried? Or villain Siegfried?"

"Please call me Siegfried, the most holy, supreme, and virtuous." Siegfried raised his hand with a serious face, and knocked hard on Hill's head, "What kind of scumbag? Idiot, wake up!"

boom!

"It hurts!"

Hill covered her forehead, she took a deep breath, it was really painful: "Siegfried, what are you doing! I corrected your mistake just now, shouldn't you thank me?!"

"I didn't expect you to be able to do this." Siegfried shook his head and raised his hand to pull Hill up. "What you met was me formed by the worst elements of my character."

"Worst element?"

"Possession, longing, self-satisfaction, but you can teach him what love is, which is really beyond my expectation... Probably because of your temperament, love is heavier than anything else, so you can teach him what love is." Let those who touch it feel the weight of it."

Siegfried smiled softly, raised his hand and pulled Hill's face forcefully: "I have wronged you."

"..." Hill patted Siegfried's hand away, rolled his eyes with a cold snort, "Then why are you still doing this kind of action? Anyway, what about everyone? Why aren't you here?"

"They are all here, have always been here, it's just that you can't see them, it's just that you don't have enough power to observe them, just like you are not sure if I am standing here or not."

Siegfried was walking on the street, and strange-shaped creatures passed by. Hill looked at the messy individuals around him in doubt, and quickly followed Siegfried——she just had this idea, only to realize that I didn't know when I was walking behind Siegfried: "This..."

"Don't feel incredible, everything in this world is full of beauty and magic."

With his hands behind his back, Siegfried looked back at Hill: "Are you interested in hearing a story? The story of this place."

This Siegfried makes me feel so strange... The appearance of the costume is just like the usual Siegfried, but when he looked at it, Hill felt that he seemed to see the faces of many people, and looked at Qi Looking at Ge Fei's face, he couldn't help but feel that he was distracted just now.

"what story?"

"The story of mortals, the story of human beings, the story of Honkai." Siegfried put his hands behind his back, with a plain and gentle smile on his face, "This is the earth, and these are human beings, doesn't it feel incredible?"

"These...are humans?" Hill looked up at the giant dragon flying past in the sky, and looked down at the "alien" coming and going around, "This..."

"When people's aesthetic standards reach the extreme, when people's personality and self are completely liberated, this is the situation. Everyone has the right to pursue their own beauty, and everyone upholds the ultimate human nature, but people live together. In the end, The elusiveness of the commonality of the group, and the ever-changing individual self."

Siegfried said slowly: "A long time ago, human beings completed technological progress, left the dwindling earth, and went to the vast sea of ​​stars. Over a long period of time, they gradually became stronger, and finally distributed in every corner of this universe. This corner... Not only is the level of technology strong, but many things that have been imagined by humans have already been realized by human beings—immortality, eternal youth, ever-changing, moving mountains and filling seas..."

"The matter possessed by human beings can almost be equivalent to this universe, and their spirits, which have also developed over time, have also reached the point that you seem to be unbelievable-just like human beings today, they will take the past family patriarchal system, The polygamy system is regarded as dross, and the slavery system of the past was regarded as dross, and mortals are progressing from generation to generation in this way."

"Contempt for any system is just an appearance. The essence is to use a more civilized attitude, abandon the once-barbaric attitude, and value and praise human rights... Just like people under the imperial power, they would never think that one day, the position of the emperor will become a joke. , Today's human beings can't imagine what those human beings all over the starry sky did a long, long time ago. It is not empty words that everyone is holy, and it is not impossible to reduce evil hearts."

"As you can see, everyone possesses the most terrifying power that humans seem to see today. Everyone follows their own appeal and beauty. They can change into any shape at will, maybe in the shape of an animal, maybe in the shape of an animal. The image of a human being, perhaps the image of other races, has no clear standard of right and wrong in external aesthetics, and only the human being dominates everything.”

Hill frowned slightly: "Is it like Gensokyo?"

"It's similar." Siegfried smiled, "There is no 'politics' in the vocabulary of these human beings. The existence of politics means the incompleteness of human spirit... Whether it is material level or spiritual level, they go As far as mortals can go."

"Even these human beings have actually touched the boundaries of the universe, the barriers of the world, and detected other worlds. They have discovered and summarized all the rules of their own universe, and they can do omnipotent things like gods. According to the empire's observation of mortal civilization and According to statistics, the human beings who have reached this stage will nothing more than transcend the universe and the world, and become a multi-civilization certified by the empire in a holistic manner. able to detect humans and admit them into the empire..."

"Because of the collapse?" Hill looked around, "So these humans are destroyed?"

"There is no destruction. What these human beings leave is the human beings on the earth today, but all the brilliance they created have disappeared, the extremely developed technology has been lost, precious knowledge has been erased, history has been in disaster and there is no inheritance from generation to generation. Constantly disappearing in the changes - so that because of the continuous degradation of material conditions, the spiritual soul of human beings is also constantly degrading, and there are national views, racial views, and the ancient words "politics" listed as meaningless have reappeared. We lost understanding of each other, we started to divide and fight internally, and finally became what we are today."

"Because of the collapse...you can put it this way." Siegfried touched his chin and walked with Hill. Hill found that the surrounding scenery began to change, sometimes it was a bright starry sky, and things were desolate and full of people. It is a planet in ruins, and sometimes it is a human being who drives a battleship and a spaceship to fight in the universe. In other universes, gods need to be created.”

"Create... God?"

"That's right, creating gods is something that even the empire can't do. After all, the level of life of gods is too special, and it is no longer enough to simply pile up power." Siegfried watched a group of strange-looking people fiddling with a large number of instruments. A great aura was bred in the training tank, "But under the influence of that thing, they created gods... Gods that don't meet the definition of an empire, possess power, and innately mean wrong gods."

Siegfried reached out his hand, as if grabbing something, and pulled it lightly.

"Huh? Big sister... big brother-in-law!"

Hill saw Yae Sakura staggeringly appear from the empty place, she opened her eyes slightly, and looked at Siegfried twice... It really feels very different, could it be that Siegfried is...

"I haven't become a god yet, I'm just in a period of transformation, but thank you for your efforts, I managed to preserve enough mental images, and now it's time to settle down." Siegfried smiled at Yae Sakura, who was a little astonished, " Welcome back, Xiaoba."

Yae Sakura, holding a sword in one hand, stared blankly at Siegfried, and Higokumaru on her shoulder had already started to explode: "Sister, run! I'm coming..."

Yae Sakura withdrew her sword, grabbed Higokumaru who jumped out from her shoulder with one hand, flung her fangs and paws towards Siegfly: "No need, it's over."

She smiled at Siegfried gently and calmly: "Welcome back, Siegfried."

"In order to explore the world beyond the universe, human beings began to concentrate resources to create gods. Because of certain influences, they possessed knowledge that they shouldn't have. Those knowledge should not be held by mortals, even if human beings have reached the level of mortals. Ultimate... just like if knowledge beyond the times is given to humans in today's era, their first thought must be for the country, for the race, and for their own standpoint to develop weapons that harm others, rather than things that benefit people."

Siegfried let go of Yae Sakura's hand, smiled softly, and continued to walk forward. The changing scene around him seemed to slowly pull away the history of the distant past: "All human beings have given a ray of their souls to the pregnant God, let this god create a deep connection with human beings, and share weal and woe... If the perfection of human beings is like this, then the gods are above human beings."

"Give him power beyond human beings, so he is the strongest."

"Give him an ever-changing form, so it is the most beautiful."

"Give him all the knowledge of the world, so the most spiritual."

"Give him every virtue that he can think of, and so be most holy."

"Give him the responsibility to lead mankind, so it is supreme."

"Give him the power to rule over mankind, so supreme."

"Its name is God—a man above men."

Siegfried raised his hand, grabbing a hand out of nothingness.