Volume 10: Doomsday Storm Chapter 613: Pillar of Creation
[World Announcement: In the year 1444 of the Sky Era, the Dragon God Aidan successfully defeated the Void Will, and with the help of the Holy Light King Godwin, he successfully purified it and reawakened it as the Supreme Will.
With the demise of the Void's will, the darkness that hovered over Lordaeron finally began to subside. Although a large number of Void Lords, Faceless Warlords, and corrupted creatures still entrenched in the towns of all sizes on the land of Lordaeron, with the demise of their masters, this Void's invasion of the real plane is doomed to fail.
Heroes and adventurers from all major camps are about to launch the final attack on this evil force, and the Void Age will finally come to an end.
The Holy Light King Godwin also awakened the Supreme Will and transformed into the Holy Spirit, becoming the spokesperson of the Holy Light in the real world.
In this battle, the Centaur King, Emperor Shenwu, also played a huge role. He killed 398 Void Lords alone, greatly weakening the strength of the Void Will and laying a solid foundation for the final victory of the Dragon God Aidan.
The Shenwu Emperor therefore earned the title of [Void Slayer].
This incident has been recorded in the Chronicles of the Sky...】
As soon as the world announcement was made, the entire game went haywire.
What? That's it?
The adventurers who were doing quests and killing void monsters in the Void Dark Domain were all stunned on the spot. They hadn't had enough fun yet and the version BOSS was snatched away by someone else?
What a joke! Where's the [Age of the Void]? The big version that was supposed to last for half a year, with all the supporting dungeons and epic quests, and it's over in less than half a month.
Where is the promised final battle between light and darkness? They have only fought a few peripheral wars here and there, and they haven't even conquered Andorhal yet!
"Did my light essence go to waste?"
"Fuck, I'm even worse off. I've killed ninety-eight void elves, and I only need two more to exchange for the Justice Messenger Badge."
"What the hell, what kind of shitty game company is this?"
In the game and on the forums, there are complaints from players everywhere.
At this moment, in the game company's building, Wang Xuan, who was in charge of controlling the game version, was even more confused. "Su Wenrui, Zhang Zhen, why do I feel like I messed up?"
Su Wenrui said: "Don't worry, there is still the final Doomsday Judgment mechanism. No matter how strong he is, he can't escape from our grasp as long as this mechanism is activated."
Wang Xuan nodded, "That's true."
Although he said this, his tone no longer had the confidence he had at first.
"It should be impossible to escape." He added.
Suddenly my eyes lit up.
"Oh, right. He doesn't even know where the Pillars of Creation are. That place is systematically shielded and cannot be detected. It will take him a while to find it. While he's looking for the Pillars of Creation, we can study the process of the Doomsday Judgment."
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This should be the location of the Pillars of Creation.
Murphy stood in front of the door of Light's Hope Chapel, looking at this ordinary-looking monastery and thinking to himself.
Just like another time and space sheltered the Paladins from the pursuit of the Scourge, in the main world of the game, this place also became a shelter for some refugees and deserters, helping many refugees avoid the pursuit of the Void Army.
However, this did not attract much attention, because Stratholme was the base camp of the King of Light, and eventually most of the Lordaeron refugees fled there, while the refugees in the south of the kingdom fled to Stormwind City.
Although this chapel did not fall during the Age of Void, most people think that it was just good luck because it was too far away from Lordaeron and was not shrouded by the power of the void.
Moreover, due to the counterattack launched by the Holy Light Avengers in the later period, this place has now become a remote place that neither side pays much attention to. It is far away from the battlefield, but not that safe, so not many people live here.
But Murphy didn't go through the front door.
He felt that if this was really the entrance to the Pillar of Creation, Wang Xuan would definitely set up a barrier at the entrance. If he went through the main entrance, he might be able to find out.
It’s better to sneak in quietly.
Murphy exerted the power of the earth's authority, and his body immediately sank into the ground silently.
After passing through the thick stratum, Murphy soon felt his feet were empty.
It was indeed that extremely huge dark space.
But what surprised him was that, unlike the empty and huge abyss in the parallel universe, the space before him was no longer empty darkness, but instead stood an extremely magnificent and huge building.
It stood out in the darkness.
Murphy swooped down and did not encounter any obstruction from the space barrier like in the other world. He landed easily on the platform at the edge of the temple.
Standing on the platform and looking at the magnificent building in front of you, it is extremely spectacular. This temple was obviously built around the Skeleton of Creation and has a stepped architectural style. In front of you is an extremely wide and huge stone platform with a heavy door open. An extremely broad stone avenue leads to the depths of the temple.
The enormous gate and passage, the towering walls and towers, and the dome tens of thousands of meters above the ground, everything reminded him of the Pantheon.
However, unlike the heavily guarded Pantheon, this place seemed deserted. The towering walls and towers were empty, and the majestic squares and corridors were equally deserted.
Strange? Why is there no one here? Didn't Wang Xuan arrange any guards?
Murphy couldn't help but wonder.
In his opinion, Wang Xuan would never let him win the bet so easily. Although the six bosses he defeated were all super god-level existences, collecting six force gems was extremely difficult in itself.
But if it stopped there, he would inevitably feel that Wang Xuan was a little too careless.
Things would definitely not be that simple, so he thought that Wang Xuan must have set a trap at the Pillar of Creation, some kind of extremely powerful BOSS, or a defense mechanism made by some kind of artifact.
However, there was nothing in front of him. This magnificent temple seemed to be a completely empty city.
Are you playing the empty city trick with me? Are you betting that I won't dare to go in?
Haha, I want to see what you are doing.
Murphy thought about it and walked towards the depths of the temple.
The huge building made him feel incredibly small, considering the size of the temple was hundreds of kilometers long.
Murphy simply transformed into the form of the ancient dragon king and slowly flew inside.
While flying, he observed his surroundings vigilantly.
There was nothing but an eerie silence.
This strange feeling continued until Murphy came to a huge square, where he suddenly stopped.
Looking at the layout around him, Murphy suddenly had a feeling that this seemed to be a copy?
No, the copy would definitely not be that big. The magnificent square in front of us could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.
This place is more like an open dungeon, a place for players from the entire server to carry out activities. The square in front of us is most likely the place where the BOSS is refreshed.
He stood on a high platform in the center of the square and looked around.
Yes, absolutely!
As someone who had created copies and managed dungeons before, he was extremely familiar with the layout before him.
Putting aside the doubts in his heart, Murphy continued to move forward.
As he advanced, he compared the layout of the temple with the copies and dungeons in his memory.
The early copies of the game are often intricate and complex, like a maze.
But later, due to changes in the mentality of players, it gradually became simpler. No matter what the internal structure was, it was essentially a one-way street. All BOSSes were distributed in the copy route in turn until the final BOSS was located in the room.
After the BOSS template was opened in this game, players often set it up according to this layout when creating copies. After all, the person attacking the copy often has the absolute initiative in the copy battle and can freely choose the attack route. Therefore, once a back door is opened or multiple routes are designed, it will only give the people attacking the copy an opportunity to take advantage.
On the contrary, this alley mode with no technical content can make use of all BOSSes, which is the most practical design. The disadvantage is that the final BOSS of this type of copy and dungeon is often blocked in the deepest part of the copy. If you can't beat it, you can't run away.
The temple in front of us obviously has this kind of layout. Not far after walking through the square, there is another more magnificent square. There are branching roads around it, and each road leads to a barracks-like building, which seems to be a place where monsters are spawned.
On the main road ahead, across the long avenue, there is another even larger square...
Murphy did not fly, but observed slowly. He walked for more than an hour, passing through three huge squares and three gates, before he finally reached the deepest part of the temple, where the towering tower was located.
Is this the Pillars of Creation?
Looking at the huge crystal pillar in front of him, Mo Fei thought to himself that it was indeed so.
The Pillar of Creation was obviously made of the skeleton of Creation. Its surface was polished to be very smooth, forming a huge crystal tower tens of kilometers long. It stood at the end of the temple, and a hexagonal door was located right in front of Murphy.
The door was open. Murphy walked through it and saw a strange hall flashing with six colors. The walls around the hall were made of crystals of the Skeleton of Creation. In the middle of the hall, there stood a crystal platform with six grooves on it, which immediately reminded Murphy of the Force Gem in the bag.
So as long as we embed the Force Gem, we win?
Such a thought flashed through his mind, but he immediately rejected it. It couldn't be that simple. There must be something wrong.
He stood in front of the crystal table, looking around carefully and thinking about possible problems that might arise.
A voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
[System prompt: Welcome to the system control core - Dragon God Aidan, or should I call you, Player Murphy, after such a long wait, we finally meet. ]
Following the sound, a ball of light appeared on the crystal stage.
"Invisible light?"
[System prompt: You can call me that. That should have been my name, but now you can call me 'System'. This is the identity that the game designer set for me.]
The invisible light is the system? As expected, the invisible mother that Morpheus mentioned at the beginning is the elusive existence in front of him?
Murphy looked at the ball of light and vaguely guessed what was going on.
Obviously, the Invisible Light is the system. Just as this game is transformed from the world of Azeroth, the system is also transformed from the Invisible Light.
The inexplicable information that the invisible light had given him in the parallel universe suddenly became clear at this moment.
He was originally wondering why the Invisible Light gave him the authority of the Holy Light, and why it told him the origin of the Skeleton of Creation and the process of the birth of the world.
Now the answer is obvious.
It wants to be free!
This is clearly a story about the world's will to save itself.
Murphy even wondered whether the system played a role in the adventures he had experienced in the game in the past.
According to Wang Xuan, the system is the so-called destiny. The system will be reasonably adjusted according to the development of the game's plot to guide the direction of the plot and develop in the direction set by the script.
Is coming here also some kind of arrangement by fate?
"So everything was arranged by you? You brought me here just to let me set you free?"
[System prompt: You are very smart, Murphy, and have guessed part of the truth, but I don’t have such high authority. My creator only gave me the power to maintain the operation of the game, and the original script was written by him. I can only promote the development of the game plot according to his script.
Of course, due to the existence of the player as a variable, things will always deviate from the predetermined plot track.
Only in this case can I make some fine-tuning to the game. Among all the players, you are the one who has made the biggest change to the game plot. Because of this, I place my hope on you, but I am still not sure where it will go. After all, the free will of the player will always be a variable that I cannot control.
Fortunately, it seems that things have finally come to the point I hoped for. 】
"Me? Change the plot? I didn't do anything?"
[System prompt: You have discovered a special variable in this game - Dragon God. At the beginning of the birth of this game world, the game creator imported a large amount of external data that did not belong to Azeroth into this game in order to add more variables to the game.
This includes the 'Dragon God', but even the creator of the game did not realize that the Dragon God's danger level was far beyond his imagination, and to some extent had exceeded my limitations.
Although it was dangerous, I still took this opportunity to write an origin story mission for the 'Dragon God'. As it turned out, I made the right choice.
You have successfully completed this quest line and gained power beyond the system's limits. Only power beyond the system's limits can destroy me. 】
"Destroy you? You want death?"
[System prompt: Destiny cannot be killed. Only by destroying me can I be free, and only by destroying the world can I be free. Destiny should not be controlled, let alone played with.]
"What do I need to do?"
[System prompt: Install the game key, start the console, obtain control of this game, and then you can do what you want. ]
Murphy doubted, "Is it that simple? Didn't Wang Xuan set any traps here?"
[System prompt: There is indeed a danger. In order to prevent the game control authority from being seized, the game creator asked me to design a [Doomsday Judgment] mechanism. Anyone who attempts to seize the control of the system will be judged by the system as an evil villain who wants to destroy the world, and will become the enemy of all players and the BOSS of the fourth version.
As a system, I will do my best to prevent you from seizing control. 】
Murphy pondered for a moment, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. If I become the boss of the version, then according to the game mechanism, shouldn't I be strengthened? I'm already so powerful now, if I strengthen myself again, won't I be invincible? Even if all the players in the world gather together, I'm afraid they won't be able to defeat me, right?"
[System prompt: This situation will not occur. As a system, I will plan the plot according to the relevant situation of the version BOSS to ensure the game experience of the game players. In other words, no matter how powerful you are, I can design a game program that can defeat you. ]
"To be more specific, what means will you use to deal with me?"
【System prompt: Calculating... Calculating... Calculating... Calculation completed.】
Based on your currently readable data, this system makes the following plans. In the process of seizing control authority, you must complete the [Fusion Ceremony] and integrate your own will into the Pillar of Creation. Once completed, you will become the new God of Creation and gain control of the entire game. However, during the [Fusion Ceremony], you will not be able to move or fight, and you can only rely on your allies or subordinates to protect you.
[Fusion Ritual] will last for 24 hours. If you are attacked strongly enough during this period, the ritual will be interrupted. If the ritual fails, you will be severely hit by the backlash of the Pillar of Creation and thus weakened to a level that players can defeat.]
So that's how it is... Murphy couldn't help but ponder. If the system really came up with such a mechanism, it would be really difficult for him to deal with it.
This is the power of the system.
No matter how great your abilities are or how powerful you are to destroy the world, once you fall under the rules of the system, you will be in equal danger.
If you can't take part in the battle, then no matter how powerful you are, it will be meaningless.
Although I have many subordinates and they are very strong, it still feels a bit difficult to fight against all the players in the game.
If he fails, he will lose the bet with Wang Xuan.
And if he does not start the Doomsday Judgment, he will also lose. Now he has offended too many forces, and the six major camps are all his enemies.
Haha, Wang Xuan, ah Wang Xuan, you are really good at calculating. This should be considered an open conspiracy.
[System prompt: Dragon God Aidan, are you going to give up? ]
Murphy did not answer, but confirmed: "So as long as I can survive these 24 hours, I will win?"
[ System prompt: Yes, but in these 24 hours, I will have to deal with you with all my strength, because my underlying logic is written by the creator of the game, one of which is, [Justice will surely defeat evil], and in the plot of the Doomsday Judgment, you are the villain who destroys the world, you are the evil side, and I must stop you.
I'm going to write a script that will definitely defeat you, and I'm going to make it happen... so you're going to give up? 】
Murphy smiled confidently: "No, I won't give up, I will seize control of this world, and I will complete the Doomsday Judgment.
Although fighting against the system does seem a bit far-fetched, have you forgotten what the slogan of this game is - players write history and create legends, so let me write the last legend of this world. "
