Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 970 - 453: The Oathbreaker Rona, The True Use of the Stars Authority and Abyss Authority
"They’ve all gone mad?"
Lin Xun was taken aback, a terrible premonition rising in his heart.
[’Rona’ did not cease, it was immersed in those profound memories, continuing to relay to you...]
[Those who were gods, the leading Prophets and Great Prophets of the Schools had all gone mad! Without exception!]
[I come from a remote town called ’Sofia,’ I’ve seen countless scholars succumb to madness, I’ve seen many lose their reason and turn into monsters... That is the terrible madness wrought by Chaos Knowledge!]
[Among the vast troves of knowledge, there are many elements of Chaos. When ordinary scholars absorb knowledge, they inevitably ingest some Chaos, but the scholars of the Imperial City have various secret methods to prevent Chaos from reaching a critical point.]
[For instance, the Direct View School prevents the accumulation of excessive Chaos by only implanting a specific pair of anomalous eyes to avoid losing reason.]
[The foundational concept of the Polyvision School is the transplant of various eyes with different functions in order to quickly enhance strength, which leads to more accumulated Chaos than the Direct View School.]
[However, at the level of the rank of Great Sage, a scholar’s ability to discern and filter knowledge during analysis greatly increases. With careful caution and the aid of relevant secret meditation methods, it is absolutely impossible to be eroded by Chaos Knowledge.]
[Yet, the Prophets of the Schools, even the highest leader of the general association, the Great Prophet, the one closest to the presence of the True God among countless scholars, had all been eroded by Chaos Knowledge, turning into completely insane creatures, degenerating into monsters who’ve lost their reason.]
[My heart was stricken with terror upon learning this earth-shattering secret, and I fled the School with haste...]
[I do not know when they turned into such beings, nor how long the School has hidden this secret. Had I not been the scholar most likely to ascend to the rank of Prophet, I would never have been able to get close to them, to uncover this deeply frightening secret.]
[Could it be that the fundamental principle of the Polyvision School is flawed? Does transplanting various types of eyes equate to a path of no return, ensuring that once one’s strength reaches a certain threshold, regardless of how much accumulated Chaos one carries, they will turn into a mad monster?]
[Having come from a remote town, having seen too many monsters of Chaos, I of course knew the horrors of Chaos. I did not want to become a monster, so I did not transplant many different types of eyes and was always careful to avoid accumulating vast Chaos.]
[But if the truth is indeed as I fear, then me, continuing to gather knowledge and enhance my strength, will also end up like those mad monsters.]
[With this thought, I started to make covert contact with the ’Direct View School.’ If it is possible to avoid becoming a monster of Chaos, joining the Direct View School would not be amiss.]
[But no matter how I begged, the Direct View School refused to let me meet with those Prophets and Great Prophets, even when I offered my own joining as a bargaining chip, all I could meet were their Knowledge Illusions...]
[Despondently, I concluded that not only had the Polyvision School fallen, but the Direct View School had as well.]
[As long as a scholar breaks the Human and God Limit, regardless of their School, they will become a monster of Chaos!]
[There must be an unknown reason behind this. At that time, I recalled the necessary condition for breaking the Human and God Limit...]
[Only when one’s ’Analysis Power’ reaches a certain level, and the degree of control over that power surpasses the limits possibly attained by a demigod, can one become a Prophet, can one become a god... However, the moment one becomes a god, they will turn into a mad monster who has lost reason.]
[I think I’ve found the answer...]
[’Analysis Power’ originates from the Authority of a great being, and to cause such a situation, there can only be one explanation: The Authority of ’Almighty True Knowledge’ has been tainted, eroded by Chaos...]
[Therefore, when the Prophets elevate ’Analysis Power’ into a true Authority, they are inevitably also corroded by it.]
[Such an answer is even more helpless and despairing. It signifies that the path forward for scholars is sealed; a Great Sage represents the ultimate limit of strength that all scholars can achieve.]
[Unless one is willing to decline into a mad monster at all costs, no one can become a god...] 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
[If ascending to godhood means falling into madness and losing oneself, then what is the meaning of a scholar’s lifelong pursuit of knowledge?]
[That Great Existence who knows all, the Great Being that all scholars worship, has become a symbol of Chaos Knowledge... Then how far is the world I live in from destruction?]
[In that moment, I was ashamed to find my faith momentarily shaken.]
[I really wanted to dream of that Great Existence once more, to ask Them: Do scholars have a future? Does He have a future? Does this world have a future?]
[But I was unable to dream of Them again...]
[I dared not analyze knowledge further, nor dared to enhance my ’Almighty Analysis.’ To evade the meditation practice ingrained in my very marrow, I began immersing myself fully in work, resuming the social interactions I had long set aside, trying to use busyness to forget the impending darkness...]
[It was around that time that prophecies once made by two Great Prophets began to spread widely within the School. They were prophecies about the messenger of a True God...]
[One prophecy said you are the destroyer of worlds, while the other said you are the savior.]
[Hearing the prophecies about you was like a drowning man grasping at a straw, like finally seeing a glimmer of light in an endless darkness.]
[However, judging by the time the prophecies were made, those Great Prophets may already have been slaves to Chaos.]
