Shadow of the Beautiful World

The Void, a mysterious concept among the stars.

According to the explanation that Merlin got from the omniscient and all-knowing spirit of Weishandi, this mysterious concept is similar to the world composed of dark matter filling every part of the universe.

The world under reality.

It is like the mirror world of the real stars, like two sides of the same coin.

It does not exist in the real star sea that can be observed by the naked eye, just like the overlapping mode of the quantum world and the real world, the void also exists in every place of the stars.

After the foundation that makes up the plane of reality is destroyed, after that solid state of matter collapses, a crack leading to the void will be opened.

But it's hard to do that.

Void is a mirror world, but it is also a world. Its edge is as stable as the real world. It is difficult for the heavenly fathers to tear open the cracks in the void.

When Odin exiled the angel world to the void, he also borrowed the power of the world tree at the conceptual level.

Merlin has not fully understood this concept so far, but the spirit of Weishandi told him that it is good to treat the void as a specific dimension, and there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

There is nothing useful to Lord Raven there.

In fact, if it is not necessary to get the Spear of Destiny from God, it is necessary to rescue the exiled angels, Merlin will not have much relationship with the void in his life.

That concept is too obscure to be understood by spellcasters.

On the contrary, civilizations on the technological side are more likely to have access to this knowledge for research on black holes and dark matter.

Among the stars, those spaceships that can cross wormholes at super-light speed and perform leap flight, when they enter the state of super-light curvature flight, they are actually escaping from the real world into the seam with the void.

Although the manifestations of wormhole flight and teleportation are very similar, the inner working principles of the two are completely different.

This is probably the difference between the so-called technology and magic.

Different roads lead to the same end, and they are all tools used to explain the truth, but as for the truth that is finally explained, no one knows.

From this point of view, maybe the ultimate answer to everything is 42.

In short, after Angela took that step in the way of phase walking in the quantum state, with the help of the remaining phase beacon on her body, she and Raven Lord were in the grotesque, distorted into different shapes of light and shadow flashing, then Set foot on another land.

Snapped

The feeling of stepping on the ground made Merlin breathe a sigh of relief.

Looks like the phase walk was successful.

He let go of his arm, and the pale-faced Angela went limp and collapsed at Maharaja's feet.

The poor girl broke away from the quantum state, and she was lying on the ground breathing heavily like a dying fish.

A kind of joy burst from her heart, and she finally got out of the difficult state just now, and the sense of crisis that she felt that she would disappear at any time also dissipated at this moment.

But what came with the joy was the overwhelming nausea in my stomach.

vomit

Covering her mouth, she got up with weak hands and feet, rushed to the grass on one side, bent down, and vomited out everything in her stomach.

That embarrassed posture is very similar to the rookie mages who tried the shape-shifting spell for the first time.

I just said, tell you not to eat

Sensing the strong magic power here, Lord Raven hovered on the ground with his hands behind his back, and threw a handkerchief to Angela in pain.

The latter took it in his hand, wiped his mouth, and straightened himself up.

She turned her head and stared at Merlin viciously, but the latter was focused on looking at the scenery in the distance, and didn't have time to pay attention to her.

What appeared before Merlin's eyes was a complete world.

There are complete continents, and the air composition is very similar to that of the earth, allowing people to breathe here, and the high concentration of magic power also makes the animals and plants in this world appear in a state of gigantism.

The place where Merlin and Angela arrived was in a forest at a very high altitude. Looking down along this height, with Raven Lord's vision, he can easily see the existence of thousands of kilometers away. City.

A huge, gold and silver

steel city.

The city was built on the hillside, with a fairly well-planned city exterior. The overall distribution was in the shape of a ring, spreading outward round by round, and there were trains running on elevated roads connecting each other.

Under the halo of the sky, the whole city shines like a coin that has been wiped clean.

Merlin would not be mistaken for the emitted light, it was the cold light emitted by steel.

This city is made of steel.

Merlin blinked in surprise. At this moment, he suspected that he had come to the wrong place.

But as the majesty looked more carefully, he did see some women flying with two wings and wearing armor among the elegantly shaped metal buildings dotted with huge suspended rings.

Angels indeed.

No matter from the appearance or the shape of the wings, there is not much difference from Gabriel and those star angels.

Um?

Raven's expression became a little weird. He turned his head to look at Angela who was struggling to maintain her balance. He said:

You never told me that these angels have inherited the power of technology, and your city looks full of technology.

That is the strength that the aborigines of this world insist on.

Angela replied weakly:

Although it is called the kingdom of angels, there are not only angels here, but also other races. Queen Haven did not kill all those races. She ruled the world in a very equal way.

Of course, the sky only belongs to the angels, and the cities on the ground were built by the aborigines hired by the Queen of Angels. The price is the long-term peace of the two races.

Those wingless aborigines live underground, and there are also their cities underground. In your words, they are also full of technology.

Well, it seems that I really underestimated you.

Merlin raised his head and looked at the sky, he said to Angela:

I also heard from the angel souls I saved about their descriptions of this heaven. I thought they were beautifying this world.

But now it seems that they don't. It's really hard to describe the world with poor language. But I have one last question

Lord Raven asked softly:

Where's the sky? Where's the cloud? Where's the atmosphere?

Yes, if there is anything weird about the kingdom of God that exiles the angels, it is the sky.

In the sky that Merlin was staring at, there were no clouds or atmosphere. The sky of the whole world was like a pool of clear water, or a mirror, allowing people to see the stars without hindrance.

Pieces of stars, from the reflections of the stars in the world, are projected on the sky of the kingdom of angels.

It's as if the whole world is exposed to the stars in the sky at a glance, but there is some special force preventing harmful cosmic rays from entering this world.

This situation must not be natural, it must be that the angels here deliberately dispersed the clouds and atmosphere

Merlin was rather curious as to why they did this.

Because it's perfect here.

Angela was also a little silent at this moment.

She used to think that everything in the kingdom of angels was normal and what a world should have.

But it wasn't until she was inadvertently teleported to the real stars that she saw the legendary cloud for the first time, saw the sunlight refracted by the atmosphere, and saw the beautiful sunset.

Dawn, noon, lightning in the clouds, storms, and all changes in weather belong to the forces of nature.

She replied to Merlin:

I've seen clouds on Earth, it brings rain, it's part of that world, but here, in the vision of angels, they see clouds as white blemishes, and they don't allow any imperfection in this world .”

When I was a child, I saw with my own eyes that the angels dispersed all the clouds in this world and projected the true faces of the stars on this world.

I still remember that they held a large-scale sacrifice. It seemed that they were expecting some kind of higher will to see the world through the stars. I still don't know what they were expecting when I saw them.

The gaze of God.

After listening to Angela's words, Merlin explained:

They are looking forward to the response from their hometown, just like you, Angela, the angels who rule this world are also eager to go home.

They dispersed the clouds so that God's eyes could see them more clearly as they fell into the void.

They built their own cities on the earth in the shape of heaven, and expressed their sincere thoughts to God in this way. They wanted their Lord to see all this, and they were praying for redemption.

Unfortunately, they are destined not to wait.

Can I still go?

Merlin was silent for a moment, looked at Angela, and said:

I don't want to stay in this delicate world that has been deliberately shaped for any longer. There is nothing real here, and it makes me feel very uncomfortable. Take me to your queen, Archangel Haven, let's end this matter Let's do it.

Angela took a few steps forward, but ended up walking crookedly.

I can go to the queen's palace on the other side of this land, far away, my manor, my Sierra is also there, I have to go back first.

She has not yet recovered from the infection of the quantum state. Although Merlin used that power to lift weights lightly, in fact, the infection of life by quantum energy is terrible.

At least Angela couldn't avoid that kind of long-term weakness.

Are all the people in the Odin family so stubborn?

Merlin shook his head.

He hooked his fingers, and under the transformation of gravity, Angela's body was lifted up, suspended in mid-air like Merlin.

The two of them flew towards the distant city in such a tandem.

On the other side, at the highest point of the mechanical palace where Archangel Queen Haven lived, a wandering hunter was half-kneeling in front of the Queen, reporting the latest discovery to His Majesty.

You are a 'messenger bird'.

Datian used a lazy posture to lean on the throne that she was portrayed as an angel with wings. She propped her chin with her left hand and looked at the hunter below. She said:

The lowest soldier in the spy class

Yes, Your Majesty.

The wandering hunter lowered his head, not daring to look at his noble queen, she was very nervous.

In this caste society, status and class are everything. If a lower class person like her is not lucky, it is impossible for her to meet her queen in her life.

Take it easy, kid, tell me what you see.

Hai Wen was playing with a gemstone that was as bright as blood, she didn't even look at the low-level hunter, she said:

My time is expensive and important news is time-bound, so speak quickly before it loses its value.

Under the queen's urging, the low-level hunter immediately said:

A few hours ago, Your Majesty, I witnessed two people traveling through the stars into the world from my defense zone. They crossed the snowy forest, crossed the border of the Seventh City, and were flying towards your palace.

But they seem to have come with a certain purpose. They stayed in the seventh city for nearly two hours, and then continued to leave. I came here to report all this to you. Those two people are very dangerous.

Well, you're doing well, my boy.

When the Queen of Angels heard that someone was traveling through the stars and entering the Kingdom of Angels from the outside world, her blue eyes suddenly narrowed.

Her heart beat a little violently at this moment.

This world has been closed for a long time, and there have been no guests for a long time.

But she didn't act immediately, she lifted the blood ruby ​​in her hand with slender and sharp claw-like nails, as if to hand it to the low-level hunter as a reward.

she says:

For the news you brought, I think the reward is worth it. You see, the best blood gem, it can buy a lot of things

Archangel Haven sat up straight, looked at the excited low-level hunter in front of her, and said softly in a playful tone:

It can buy you new armor, new weapons, and it can buy you opportunities for promotion.

As long as you find a way, it can even buy you a badge of a high-ranking hunter. You will use this to get rid of your humble status and enter the real hunter class.

Just before the gem fell into the hands of the low-level hunter, the queen suddenly let out a hoarse laugh.

Yes, it could have been

As if in a malicious joke, she curled her fingers and the jewel disappeared into her fingertips, and she said to the girl looking at her:

If you don't tell me this information for free, if you make an appointment with me in advance for a reward.

For your stupidity, boy, you'll get another paycheck, and that's a lesson you should have learned long ago!

The first law of the kingdom of angels, the only meaning of life itself, everything has value, everything must be exchanged for equal value, fair trade

The girl gritted her teeth, she knew she had been fooled by the queen.

But the huge class contrast made her dare not speak vulgar words, so she could only lower her head and whisper:

Yes, Your Majesty, I understand.

Hehe, whenever you encounter these things, the expressions on the faces of you silly children are always unforgettable.

Archangel Haven leaned against her throne in a feminine posture. She raised her chin with her arms again, and she said:

Go, tell my general to send two Dreadnoughts to 'escort' our guests to my palace.

She waved her hand, indicating that the low-level hunter could leave.

But the girl knelt on the spot and didn't move.

This made Queen Angel's eyes flash with satisfaction, and she deliberately asked:

What are you waiting for?

The round-faced angelic girl raised her head, looked at the Queen seriously, and said:

Remuneration, Your Majesty.

Ha ha ha ha

Archangel Haven let out a series of laughter, she waved her left hand, and amidst the brisk sound of metal colliding, several gold coins were thrown into the hands of the low-level hunter.

Her Majesty looked at the hunter who put away the gold coins, and she nodded in satisfaction.

she says:

Very well, my boy, you have learned

Fair trade, that's the way the world works, remember today's wrong and right choices. Your future is destined to be bright, and in this world shaped by reality, you will definitely make a difference.