I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 2029 - 1365: Battle for the Future
The Tianyun Mountain has been violently dismantled, leaving only a solitary Thunderstorm Land.
"The War Hundred Clans must be really anxious now," Qi Xiangyun looked at the Star Destroyer attempting to dismantle the Thunderstorm Land, not fearing the current situation at all.
Their current situation would be the same without Tianyun Mountain; only after it was flattened, there were no resources left here to use, turning the Thunderstorm Land into an isolated island by a few Star Destroyers.
After completing the dismantling, the Star Destroyer continued to strip away parts not belonging to the Thunderstorm Land from all directions, including the land carrying the Thunderstorm Land.
This exposure also revealed the secret site Qi Xiangyun and her team had developed.
For those exposed areas, Qi Xiangyun directly filled them with bomb traps.
These were made using the power of the thunderstorms, which are more special compared to the earth fire of planets. Facing those bomb attacks, the Star Destroyer, engaged in dismantling, naturally retaliated.
And this retaliation directly stimulated the properties of the thunderstorms, forcing the dismantling progress to pause amid the wave of explosions.
It also allowed the remaining Qingtian Joint Army to breathe a little more easily, as they once again witnessed the power of the Star Destroyer and were relieved that Qingtian Star still had such a safe area.
But from today, Tianyun Mountain has become a thing of the past.
Deep within the Thunderstorm Land, a young man seriously stared at the chessboard, placing a piece down, and raised a new question.
He started feeling annoyed again, yet the time spent reflecting and the many questions answered during this period significantly improved his emotional control.
’Mental enhancement’ however does not affect the course of the game; the self-defense he created instead became a burden.
The little girl on the opposite side changed the battle area; to continue progressing, he must take the initiative to attack.
Striking around the established self-defense would instead drag him down; the more steps delayed, the more Tia could forge a sharp sword through the game.
With this sword, Tia could completely cleave through his painstakingly constructed self-defense, and while forging this sword, Tia even gave away the dark piece he set up to Li Yongle.
So to prevent this sword from being forged, he could only take the initiative to attack, but constructing self-defense consumed a lot of his steps, making counterattacks somewhat passive.
Unless... he gives up the self-defense he has meticulously built!
Dismantling the self-defense, abandoning the tortoise’s path, switching from defense to offense for a hard confrontation, or else his pieces would eventually be obliterated.
Yet while dismantling his self-defense, Tia’s pieces blocking the self-defense area could also move.
This is the problem brought by the resource disparity; Tia’s pieces and layout occupy most of the resources, hence can stretch the front line long, while he is persistently trapped with limited resources from his moves.
To take significant actions, he must sacrifice something, and sacrificing is akin to pressing wood; don’t press down directly in the middle, press from the sides, and as one side goes down, the other side rises.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to press the wood completely down, but lacks the strength to do so.
With Tia’s piece laid down, the young man picked up a new piece and asked, "Should all people from the Old Era die?"
"They shouldn’t die, but they should return to the New World as it unfolds, where all beings are equal at that time," Tia answered according to her stance, stating that all things originating from the world itself are part of the world, even worthless discarded items are no exception.
When the world is intact, these things are abandoned freely, destroyed, or even left untouched. But when the world is reorganized and unfolded, everything, from the high gods above to unseen, useless trash, is equal from Tia’s perspective.
They are all part of the world itself, even the slightest bit is so.
Trash can be decomposed into fundamental particles to rebuild the world, and gods can also be decomposed into exactly the same fundamental particles; the difference lies only in quantity, yet the structure of fundamental particles is the same.
From this perspective, is there a distinction between the two? No.
"Creatures have thoughts." The young man placed his piece, and the painstakingly constructed self-defense completely collapsed.
"Thoughts will also become part of the world’s reorganization." Tia looked at the chessboard in front of her, paused for a moment, and then placed a piece.
At this moment, the young man’s mode of questioning changed; he no longer waited to ask after Tia placed a piece, instead posing the relevant question as he placed his pieces.
He gave up the passive stance.
"But thoughts are personal, right?" The young man placed his piece, and the self-defense crumbled further.
"They are personal, but the individuals carrying the thoughts originate from the world itself." Tia’s piece placement slowed down a bit more.
She could also, like the young man, peer further into results through the timeline, but the place where the young man was located was the ’Ultimate’ of time itself. What was referred to as flipping through the timeline ahead was not observing the timeline but was a simulation of the future.
Even external people with unique time abilities, even capable of time travel, could only traverse backward and could not move forward.
The New World Hundred Clans’ discovery of the timeline monitoring had no issues; until now, many still believed that the future timeline could not be observed. That was due to the future having developed time technology in this aspect, which caused a lockdown.
But in fact, they simply had no future timeline at all.
Everything they did was moving forward amidst Chaos; only those in past timelines attempting to observe the timeline could watch the future.
In Time’s Ultimate, people here do not lack a future but instead are creating it. The ’future’ the young man sees is also a kind of super simulation, similar to the traits displayed during his battle with Dusk in the last era.
The young man had eroded Dusk in the previous era; although he did not possess a strong subjective understanding, he could also use the super simulation belonging to Dusk.
This super simulation is at the same level as Tia. Of course, in terms of individual simulation, Tia is superior to the young man before her; however, the young man, as a ’terminal’ of time, along with the time’s power, makes their super simulation indistinguishable.
It’s like Tia requires the young man’s time terminal to unlock actively when seeking to employ more advanced time power, and the young man needs her to unlock his super simulation to reach the highest extent.
Otherwise, the young man would be a level weaker than her, and the same applies to the power of time.
But being a level weaker doesn’t matter; with the addition of the young man’s influence of time’s power, there’s not much difference, adding that time’s power influences her, and her side would be somewhat weaker.
Moreover, her super simulation can be enhanced through the young man’s time power, which is tantamount to unlocking the highest-tier permissions for the young man.
No matter how much they improve, both reach the same level in terms of super simulation, even surpassing their respective limits with mutual complement.
This made Tia even more reluctant to let go of the young man before her, an external variable that could lead her ’Ultimate’ to ’enhancement.’ Even though she wouldn’t interfere in many matters, in the case of the young man, she would not let it slip by.
However, simulation is ultimately just simulation, even when including all factors; still, the observer of the future is the largest variable.
Many results have already changed once seen, even if the observer doesn’t interfere actively; the observer themselves is a kind of interference!
A single glance is a variable.
Indeed, at their level, super simulation equates to future deduction. Its accuracy exceeds that of the ’Great Prophecy Technique’ from the previous era.
The Great Prophecy Technique is like saying what is said becomes so, but it consumes greatly and its influence scope is not ideal.
Their deduction of the future directly affects predestined fate. Originally, an unlikely event, once determined by their massive deduction as the worst outcome, will almost certainly occur, even with a very low probability.
Currently, their deductions of the future are in opposition, with the young man seeking his desired outcome and Tia an alternative result.
The collision, blurring, of the two deduced futures begins.
Their current location being in Time’s Ultimate ensures that future deduction through this game will not produce disastrous consequences, as the future is chaotic in this ultimate place.
If they were playing this game a million years ago on the timeline, this world would have produced numerous chaotic or broken timelines, affecting the New World lightly.
The only affected ones would be the lifeforms and other things across various timelines.
The time in the New World is like an ocean, not like the fixed crystal of the Old Era which, once damaged, its crystal structure would be destroyed causing a complete collapse.
Within the New World, no matter how chaotic the past timelines get, they remain water within the ocean; the chaotic timelines can be seen as insignificant, small eddies within the vast ocean.
New ones arise while the old ones disappear; whether the old eddies disappear or new ones emerge, they are still drops in the ocean.
So far, the timeline of the New World remains smooth, after all, the New World has only appeared for a million years, this world’s timeline is too young to experience changes that genuinely affect time, leading to more branch time lines splitting from the world.
The place of their duel determines the New World timeline won’t be heavily impacted, but the game itself determines the trajectory of the future.
A future with Tianhe people, without Tianhe people, Tianhe people being enslaved, Tianhe people declining and struggling to survive, and so on.
Tia seeks a future without Tianhe, implying the New World eliminates the last defect after reshaping the world, wiping away the vestiges of her Old Era completely.
The young man standing before her? He’s not a defect!
