Chapter 605: Creation
The experience of dimensional ascension always makes one feel very peculiar. Ace sometimes felt as if He were a fish about to evolve into an amphibian.
Climbing out of the sea from time to time to breathe fresh land air. Through this method, one could ultimately adapt to four-dimensional space-time and transform into an existence amphibious in both the fourth and third dimensions.
“If we deduce using this line of thought, Level 6 is an existence amphibious in both four and three dimensions. Then does Level 7 become a purely four-dimensional existence? In other words, completely evolving from a three-dimensional lifeform into a four-dimensional lifeform?”
The four-dimensional “particle”-like Ace began to think earnestly. Starting from Level 5 existences, the basic constituent rule runes were completely different from the past. Runes were no longer in a three-dimensional state, but a true four-dimensional state.
On the three-dimensional level, one could only observe the projection of Level 5 runes in three dimensions. Only during a brief dimensional ascension could one see the true appearance of Level 5 runes.
“Dimensional ascension is absolutely the most important thing. Whether it’s runes, existential modes, or even the so-called planes manifested in three dimensions, they are actually all important steps towards four-dimensional particle-ization.
“However, a great existence on the four-dimensional level must certainly be complex. It can’t possibly be a single particle. More particles, an unimaginable form of existence—that should be the future, right?”
As His imagination ran wild, Ace was actually spellbound for a moment, stopping there blankly. It took a good while before He remembered that He came here to experiment with a spell.
“Constructing four-dimensional space-time is somewhat similar to creating three-dimensional space, but not exactly the same. Three-dimensional space continuously twists and combines, ultimately presenting as a particle in four dimensions, still situated within this four-dimensional space-time.
“But constructing four-dimensional space-time is different. Constructing four-dimensional space-time is opening up a new space-time entirely separate from the current one. First, I need an extremely twisted point, the so-called singularity!”
Ace began to guide that black hole in His sub-plane. In three dimensions, it was a massive, unique celestial body; in four dimensions, the black hole was an approximation point of infinitely twisted curvature.
Ace extracted this black hole from the four-dimensional “particle” of His sub-plane and observed the curvature of four-dimensional space-time. Some insurmountable curvature ravines gave Him a moment of enlightenment.
“The curvature ravines in the fourth dimension, manifested on the three-dimensional level, are the Astral Plane layers. The layer I cannot surmount is probably the upper Level 5 Astral Plane layer. As for those surmountable curvature ravines, they are probably the boundary membranes leading to the Level 3 Astral Plane layer.
“Placing the black hole—this twisting point on the four-dimensional level—near the curvature ravine between Level 4 and Level 5 should be an excellent position.”
After roaming and observing in the four-dimensional space-time He was in, Ace reached a conclusion.
He also used this opportunity to discover a massive number of world coordinates, and the plan in His heart became increasingly detailed.
He placed the micro black hole—this four-dimensionally highly twisted approximation point—at the edge near the curvature ravine. The curvature ravine was like a bottomless abyss, and Ace was fundamentally powerless to cross it.
Fixing this black hole in place, the position where the black hole was situated became like the contact point of two bubbles, the sole point of connection.
To use an analogy, it was like a synapse extending from a cell and bulging into a new cell. That was roughly the feeling.
Ace began to activate the spell model in His mental imagery world. Countless Level 5 runes began to appear out of thin air, slowly forming a spell model resembling a four-dimensional particle.
“The model is stable. Next is to embed it into the black hole—this potential approximation singularity. This is the only method to blow another bubble from within a bubble!”
Ace slowly pressed the “spell model” near the black hole. Surging Divine Power Essence began to pour in.
In a trance, Ace felt as if He had become a true Creator God, seemingly possessing infinite mighty power.
He was becoming the creator of a new four-dimensional space-time. This was a space-time of the same type and level as the Astral Plane’s four-dimensional space-time. Although its volume could not compare, in terms of quality, the two were identical.
This was an unimaginable scene. Even someone as consistently calm as Ace felt His emotions surging at this moment.
“The so-called Creator Gods of worlds, even at the moment of creation, cannot compare to Me right now. I shall open up a brand-new space-time.”
A “gale” blew in the four-dimensional space-time of the Astral Plane. Using such a three-dimensional description is imprecise, but it can only be described approximately like this. The curvature twisting of that micro black hole continuously deepened, ultimately transforming into an infinitely small singularity: no time, no length, no width, no height.
Even Ace Himself could not enter this moment—the moment when the new space-time was about to be born but had not yet been born.
“Before the singularity, there is no time, no space; everything is meaningless. The only thing that probably has meaning is the Hand of God. Am I playing a super-conscious role transcending space-time?
“Is it exactly me playing this God of a space-time not yet born, or is it the God of the space-time I am in who wants me to play it?”
At this moment, on the edge of the ravine in the ocean of curvature in four-dimensional space-time, Ace couldn’t help but let out a long sigh and question. Even if He researched deeper, anything before the singularity was meaningless.
But He quickly discovered that pure energy was not enough; a certain amount of matter was also needed.
“If I want to maintain the stable existence of a miniature space-time at the smallest scale, I must also inject an extremely massive amount of matter. This matter must at least be more than a four-dimensional particle. It’s simply too difficult.”
Would He fail right here? Would the plan to create an absolutely safe immortal hiding room be abandoned just like this?
Ace’s brain began to work frantically, trying to find a chance of survival. His own sub-plane was absolutely out of the question; that was His cornerstone, the possibility of His future advancement to Level 6.
Suddenly, He discovered something. Within the four-dimensional particle of His sub-plane, there seemed to be an even larger piece of matter hidden: the “Tender Leaf of the World Tree”!
“A leaf of the World Tree is actually the wreckage of a plundered Level 4 world. These worlds look very nascent, almost as if they just ascended from the Level 3 layer. But regardless, this is a true Level 4 world. Using it to inject matter is absolutely enough.”
Ace quickly contacted His projection. Through three-dimensional and four-dimensional vibrations, relying on the leaf of the World Tree, He located and summoned the four-dimensional state of the world wreckage represented by the leaf.
A multi-four-dimensional particle aggregate on the verge of collapse.
Without hesitation, Ace pulled it into the twisted singularity of the black hole. A surging torrent of energy and matter poured in, transforming through the twisting point into a pure singularity.
As energy and matter slowly injected, Ace gradually had a feeling: at this moment, right at the moment when energy was being injected, He seemed to be able to define the fundamental laws of the new space-time in a trance.
If He didn’t define them, or if they were laws He couldn’t understand and define, the new space-time would replicate the established conditions of the Astral Plane space-time.
“The primary purpose of such a brand-new space-time is to hide the Fruit of Immortality. I will hide my past in another space-time outside the Astral Plane. Such a space-time does not need Astral Plane layers, does not need complex worlds, and does not even need the birth of intelligent life.
“Therefore, this place should be a desolate universe. Periodic supernovae will extinguish all buds of life. The Fruit of Immortality will quietly drift on the four-dimensional level of this space-time.”
Hum!
In an instant, Ace felt as if He had become all things in the universe, possessing infinite mighty power. Within the permitted scope, He freely defined all laws, all possibilities.
When He woke up, the twisting point of the black hole had already turned into a somewhat ethereal “hole”; passing through it would lead to the new space-time. And He Himself had also lost the special ability to define the laws of the new space-time.
“I can feel that there are some basic laws I cannot change. Is it exactly because this new space-time was derived based on the Astral Plane space-time, so it cannot differ too greatly from the Astral Plane space-time? Or is there an unknown hand, a super-body consciousness transcending the Astral Plane, controlling all this?”
This was an ultimate question, and also an unsolvable question. No one could explain it, nor was there any way to explain it.
Whether a true super-consciousness existed, whether there was a God relative to Himself, Ace was also uncertain. It was a realm beyond guessing and certainty.
This was just like mortals looking up at supernaturals. As the distance increased, the gap in resources and information mastered by both sides presented an exponential explosion-like difference. This was an unimaginable gap.
For mortals, although Level 1 lifeforms are powerful, they can still be imagined. But Level 2 lifeforms are already miraculous, and Level 3 lifeforms are almost the limit of what mortals can understand and judge.
Going further to Level 4 and Level 5 existences, mortals fundamentally find it difficult to comprehend their form of existence. Coupled with the gap in resources, ultimately, in the eyes of mortals, existences Level 4 and above are the so-called deities.
This gap can be narrowed. If all people are supernaturals, with the lowest being Level 2 lifeforms, then although Demi-gods and True Gods are still powerful, they are not to the point of being incomprehensible.
“All gaps, in the final analysis, are gaps in resources and information. When this gap reaches a certain degree, it becomes the dividing line between human and god. Where did the Astral Plane space-time come from? How did I transmigrate here? Beyond the Astral Plane space-time, does a super-consciousness transcending the Astral Plane exist?
“Does this space-time actually have a prime mover? Today I injected energy into the new space-time; then who injected energy into the Astral Plane space-time?”
For a time, Ace’s thoughts ran wild. This was ultimate thinking; the end of magic is philosophy.
He didn’t know the answers to these questions, nor could He answer them. But His goal had been achieved: creating a miniature space-time attached to the Astral Plane space-time to store the Fruit of Immortality within it.
“This is the absolutely safe immortal fruit hiding room belonging to wizards. It just requires subsequent operations. If I am truly killed by another and fall into a long slumber, hiding it only gives me a higher possibility of resurrection. But how to resurrect requires a method.
“First, sufficient energy is needed. I need to store more energy in the miniature space-time, just in case.
“Second, a resurrection mechanism is needed.”
Ace slowly approached that inconspicuous vortex on the edge of the space-time curvature ravine. He transformed Himself into a stream of informational energy and entered the miniature space-time.
He used Level 5 runes as a language to formulate a resurrection mechanism.
“There are two methods of resurrection. The first is to select the person I trust the most, and let this person resurrect me according to the instructions. The second is a fixed time as a later failsafe. If I haven’t been to the Level 4 Astral Plane layer for a thousand standard years, the Fruit of Immortality will automatically draw energy, detach from the miniature space-time, and appear at the ravine.
“If I truly fall into a long slumber, the Fruit of Immortality will naturally resurrect me. If I have not fallen into a long slumber, the Fruit of Immortality will return the way it came.”
After completing all this, Ace down-dimensioned back to the three-dimensional level somewhat wearily, returning near His own sub-plane.
The wizards were still busy creating the artificial sub-plane, while Ace took a trip out and laid down hints for His several post-resurrection backup plans. Although invincible on the inner side of the world, Ace’s sense of crisis had always been very strong.
The Titan Main Gods might not necessarily do anything to Ace, but Ace Himself had to take precautions.
Time passed quickly. The birth of General Relativity brought the macroscopic foundational theory of magic closer to perfection. Many wizards even predicted, “Everything in theoretical magic has already been researched; in the future, there are only some unimportant blanks that need to be filled.”
This was the consensus of the members of the Supreme Council. Almost all of them, to varying degrees, built their cognitive models based on General Relativity. Over the course of nearly a century, a total of 151 wizards advanced to Legendary Wizards, and the threshold for the Supreme Council was raised to Immortal Legend.
There were even up to ten thousand Mythical Wizards, nearly a hundred thousand Legendary Wizards, and nearly a million Golde Wizards. This was a golden age for wizards. Under the popularization of the Magic Net, even without magical aptitude, one could become a Mage.
And as long as a Mage advanced to Legendary, they could convert from a Mage to a wizard, their future limitless.
During this time, the Kaya Gods had to reach an agreement with the wizards: the gods collectively migrated to the Old Continent, wizards were not allowed to develop on the Old Continent, and the gods were not allowed to spread their faith on the New Continent.
Even so, a century of time had produced extremely strong changes.
The mortals of the Old Continent numbered no more than a billion. Although they absorbed the magical technology of the Wizard Continent to a certain extent and improved society, their overall development still lagged behind the Wizard Continent by nearly a century.
As for the Wizard Continent, with the explosion of magical industrial technology and the rapid popularization of magic, it created nearly ten thousand floating cities. There were over four hundred demi-plane-class floating cities, with a population of nearly a hundred billion.
If it weren’t for the fear of the Titan Main Gods outside, the wizards would probably have captured all the deities of the entire Kaya World.
During this century, Ace continuously extended His Magic Net, finally subduing and dredging the Godfall Storm near the Prime Material Plane, receiving a massive amount of blessings from the Great Source.
In the Reflection World, the Elven Gods leveraged the advantage of the World Tree and held onto about one-third of the emerald secret realms. The remaining areas belonged to the Necromancers. Liches and Skeleton Knights had become the native inhabitants of this Reflection World.
Twenty years ago, the Abyssal Knight Arno comprehended the light from extreme darkness and actually transformed into a Knight of Virtue again, advancing to a True God-level Knight of Virtue along with Ancestar.
To allow the Path of Virtue to prevail, Ancestar even transformed into omnipresent Holy Light of Virtue, protecting the kind-hearted people who believed in virtue, no longer existing in a personified form.
Arno, on the other hand, went far away with the Legendary Wizard Ollie. They merged their two sub-planes into a super-large sub-plane, and enshrined Ancestar’s core Holy Light of Virtue here, becoming the Paradise of Virtue that everyone dreamed of.
In the northern polar region of the earth core, the Church of Hope flourished like a raging fire. The Goddess of Hope, Athena, even personally went to the Dream Star multiple times to seek an audience with Ace.
After obtaining Ace’s approval, Athena’s church developed very quickly. Her doctrines were different from the old Goddess of Hope, incorporating more content about the World Tree, yet the effect was actually quite good.
Ace did not spend too much energy on Athena. As a proper Legendary Immortal Wizard, Ace’s feelings for Athena were only past memories; He was still willing to lend a hand for a slight effort.
Today, the weather on the inner side of the world was clear and beautiful. Inside the floating cities, everyone sat in front of visual holographic screens, watching the exciting news on them.
On the 528th floor of an ordinary residential building in the Thirty-Fifth Residential District of the Ring of Academia, a family of three was watching earnestly with faces full of excitement.
“Dear viewers and friends, we have the honor to witness another leap in magical civilization with our own eyes! A massive breakthrough in magical industrial technology: the artificial sub-plane has been completed! This project lasted for nearly a century and a half, consuming the wisdom of thirty-four Legendary Immortal Wizards and three thousand Mythical Wizards, and has finally taken shape.
“This is a miracle of magic, a landmark product of our civilization at its peak.
“Next, I am honored to take everyone on a tour of the great artificial sub-plane: the Mobile Fortress!”
Listening to the perfect pronunciation of the news broadcaster on the holographic screen, the young witch playfully hit the young wizard and chided gently: “Hurry up and get the Stealth Magic Ring. Our Alexander has been wanting to see it with his own eyes for a long time.”
The wizard wasn’t angry, smiling as he said: “Isn’t that because the Stealth Ring is very precious? I’ll undo the seal right now, and let our family of three go experience what an artificial sub-plane is!”
The little boy named Alexander was about eight or nine years old, exactly the age to attend a magical enlightenment school. He had healthy wheat-colored skin and short blond hair, looking quite handsome and cute.
He bounced around the living room excitedly, urging urgently: “Hurry up, Dad! Hurry up, Dad! It’s about to start!”
“Alright, it’s ready. Let’s go!”
Following a spell from his father, the unsealed ring emitted a unique mana fluctuation, instantly enveloping the three of them. They became rigid and motionless. At the same time, in their own vision, they had already entered a bizarre, multicolored channel. After the logo of the Betty Magic Company flashed past, they happened to see the host right in front of them.
“I am very happy to lead everyone on a tour of the great artificial sub-plane. This project is divided into two parts: the construction of the sub-plane and the Artificial True God. As everyone knows, a sub-plane is the mental projection of a Level 5 existence. This is an inconceivable phenomenon where a super existence alters reality with their own mind. Even now, people cannot fully explain this theoretically.
“However, we already know its basic trajectory. If a Level 4 Mythical Wizard wants to advance to a Level 5 Legendary Immortal Wizard, they must achieve dimensional ascension through the ‘Door,’ which is entering the so-called four-dimensional space-time. The specifics are unclear to us, but a Mythical Wizard must enter four-dimensional space-time to have a possibility of advancing to a Legendary Immortal Wizard.
“After recording the advancement situations of many Mythical Wizards and comparatively testing the states of True Gods and Legendary Immortal Wizards, especially the four-dimensional state, we have gradually unraveled the mysteries of Level 5, or rather, the mysteries of True Gods.
“This is the great Ninth Ring Legendary Wizard, the Lord of Death, His Excellency the Lich Witte. We are very honored to have an audience with His Excellency Witte and listen to His thoughts. His Excellency Witte is a top authority in the field of True God research and Artificial True Gods. Please, everyone, welcome Him.”
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