Chapter 416
Chapter 416
Chapter 416
Inside the Babel Tower, Bai Yan, who was sitting on the throne, closed his eyes slowly. In just a moment, his consciousness had already shifted to the incarnation in the dream dimension.
Very strange and even somewhat difficult to understand phenomena.
Existing in this dimension as well as in another dimension.
Bai Yan knew in his heart that this was the result caused by the Babel Tower.
The Babel Tower was an extremely unique thing, possessing a power level that even surpassed the rules between dimensions.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in an empty magic props store, realizing that he had entered the dream dimension.
So, Bai Yan left the magic props store and calmly arrived on the deserted street. Taking a deep breath, he could already feel the distinct difference between the dream dimension and the reality dimension.
All the things in front of his eyes seemed incredibly real, but in the "peripheral vision," they were all blurry.
"Is this the state of entering the dream dimension? It's similar to a lucid dream, but with many differences."
If someone who is dreaming doesn't pay attention to their surroundings, they might mistakenly think that this place is the real world.But Bai Yan is not an ordinary person, nor is he an ordinary super being. He can easily perceive the differences around him.
This is the first level of the three-layered dream, corresponding to the "reality layer" of intelligent life.
"Where is Blank Fire, no... what is that?"
Suddenly, Bai Yan had a feeling.
He furrowed his brow slightly and felt that somewhere, something was calling him, waiting for him to go there.
The calling became stronger and stronger!
Dreams and dreams are interconnected.
"Maybe, I can go inside my own dreams... I have to go and see!"
Bai Yan didn't hesitate, and resolutely followed the guidance in his heart, heading towards the place calling out to him.
The surroundings gradually started to change.
He didn't know when it happened, but he found himself in the second layer of the dream corresponding to his imagination.
"Fantasy Layer"
And, this wasn't the fantasy layer from the shopkeeper's dream... it belonged to Bai Yan's own dream!
All dreams are interconnected.
In this dream layer, there were many magical sights of Babel Tower, various fantastical things from World of Noah, and other worlds, as well as all sorts of things from Bai Yan's memories of his home world...
Everything was fragmented.
Bai Yan could see the broken Tatsumi City flying in the sky, a huge blurry face staring at him behind the sun, and endless anime characters popping out from the underground, turning into fireworks in mid-air.
After the fireworks fell to the ground, they quickly transformed into various monsters from games, including Fusion Slime and Mushroom Sword. The rapid changes in the surroundings were overwhelming.
"After all, it's just a dream."
This is a dream determined by imagination, where everything is crazy!
Bai Yan traversed through numerous fantasies and headed towards the deepest layer of the dream.
That is the "Primitive Layer".
The deepest layer of the dream determined by primal desires.
In fact, it is also the location where the dream dimension is connected to the Soul Dimension.
Here, there is a vast crimson land, with thunderous sounds occasionally coming from the sky. Bai Yan also saw many insects.
Those are many white flesh worms.
They represent Bai Yan's most basic desires as a human, constantly mating, fighting, and devouring, each one uglier than the other, completely unbearable to watch.
Everyone's primitive layer of dreams is actually similar, regardless of age or gender, they all possess various innate desires deep within their instincts.
"To truly embrace one's humanity, but what if killing certain worms here helps me find inner peace and contentment?"
However, he discovered that the white worms emerged continuously from the crimson earth, only to quickly perish, indicating that they couldn't be completely eliminated by ordinary means.
Suddenly, Bai Yan caught sight of some damaged black fragments.
The pitch-black fragments emitted a faint glow, slowly floating in mid-air, approaching Bai Yan.
According to what Bai Yan read in the book about dream dimensions, these black fragments don't exist in the primitive layer of dreams.
"What are they?"
At this moment, Bai Yan realized something.
So that's it, they have been calling for themselves.
"What exactly are you?"
Bai Yan stared at the dark fragments.
Why did you call for me?
He could feel that these black fragments seemed to contain many truths, things that he had always wanted to know but had no way of knowing...
Bai Yan reached out and touched one of the black fragments.
The next moment, his vision was flooded with memories recorded in the black fragment.
——
In front of his eyes, there was a sky full of billions of stars!
He found himself standing amidst an endless sea of stars, in the vast and dark expanse of the night sky. In front of him were thousands of magnificent silver-white starships, as beautiful as works of art, slowly moving through the universe.
Bai Yan took a deep breath and couldn't believe what he was seeing. Each silver-white starship carried billions of intelligent beings and emitted an unimaginable amount of powerful energy waves. The intensity was so strong that it even terrified Bai Yan.
He even thought that with just one strike, they could completely destroy a planet the size of Earth!
"So many silver-white starships..."
Each silver-white starship was not made of physical matter, but pure silver-white energy. They had the ability to instantly jump to any location in the universe and were immune to most extraordinary powers.
Even true gods would struggle to resist this energy fleet that could conquer the universe!
The magnificent scene left Bai Yan stunned for a long time.
Then, he saw a lizard-like female with purple skin, respectfully bowing her head and speaking to him.
They all "stood" in space.
Bai Yan could feel that this female lizard person was actually a powerful demigoddess, even stronger than Queen the Scarlet Moon.
Very strong!
But compared to the endless fleet of energy in front of her, her power was not worth mentioning.
The lizard woman spoke with excitement, "Finally, we have found it. This is the battlefield where the Original People will soon arrive. My master, you can finally take the first step towards fulfilling your wish!"
Master? Original People? Battlefield? Wish?
Bai Yan fell into deep thought, the amount of information he had just received was quite overwhelming.
The "self" in his memory spoke slowly.
"Cycle, origin, unknown, pursuit, annulus... The Origin Civilization is one of the five advanced civilizations in the multiverse, and it is one of the few beings capable of resisting the power of the Outer Gods."
"Only by finding them... can we have a little hope of achieving that plan."
"I will release you once the plan is realized."
The lizard woman became even more excited.
Could it be that she was enslaved? Bai Yan calmly wondered, all of these were things of the past, who knows how long has passed compared to now.
It is possible that thousands of years, millions of years, or even longer things could happen...
Keep in mind, the time rate of each universe is different.
Bai Yan silently followed the perspective in his memory, vaguely speculating that the "self" speaking in the fragments of memory is either Connector or the God of Games.
Who exactly is it?
Why would the fragments of the other party's memory remain in the deepest part of my dreams?
"Because our souls are originally the same?"
Bai Yan had long suspected that his true identity might be the reincarnation of one of the Connectors or the God of Games, but he could never confirm if his guess was correct.
Now is the opportunity to validate the truth.
"Myself" spoke again.
"The civilization that the Original People are preparing to destroy is a very terrifying dominant civilization, Finn. It rules over nearly a hundred universes and has countless smaller civilizations under its control. It has even captured more than one deity for research... This level of civilization is deploying its full strength to confront the Original People."
The female lizard person asked, "Why do the Original People have to annihilate them? Is it because the Finn civilization has conquered too many worlds and committed too much slaughter?"
Bai Yan also wanted to know the answer, luckily "myself" provided a direct response.
"Such matters are completely irrelevant to the Original People; they are merely natural evolutionary processes. In reality, the fatal mistake of the Finn civilization lies in its structurally ingrained belief in the Outer God... This is something the Original People cannot tolerate."
The lizard person continued to ask, "Which Outer God do they believe in?"
"The end."
Suddenly, something incredible happened right before Bai Yan's eyes!
The sky was filled with huge starships, one by one they began to disappear.
They couldn't resist or fight back at all, they simply vanished one after another.
Countless dreams, fears, despair, hatred, and struggles carried by intelligent beings became meaningless in the face of unseen power. The silver energy starships couldn't even retaliate.
They couldn't find or identify their enemies at all.
As the dominant civilization of the multiverse, the Finn civilization couldn't even see the Original People in this war. Countless main fleets gradually disappeared into an unknown force.
Finally, World became calm, and only the starry sky remained.
The entire army was wiped out.
The whole process only lasted a few seconds.
Bai Yan was stunned as he watched.
"It's over."
"The Original People launched an attack from a special dimension, as if they were casually erasing a picture on paper, wiping out their enemies. The Finn civilization, with little knowledge of dimensional warfare and almost no way to defend themselves, was crushed by overwhelming force. It's a normal result."
(Translated by Gravity Tales ?)
The person who seemed to be Bai Yan spoke again, calmly commenting.
The lizard-like female who just spoke to him was frozen in fear, clearly experiencing a renewed understanding of the power of advanced civilizations, just like Bai Yan.
After a while, a glowing sphere appeared before "Bai Yan's" eyes.
It appeared without any warning.
[I am the Original People... Crystal.]
The sound of the shining ball appeared in my heart.
[Connector, why are you looking for us?]
Connector?
Bai Yan could now confirm that he played the role of "Connector" in the fragments of his memory!
He quickly replied, "I know that the Original People believe in the 'Origin' in the Outer God. There is something important that I must communicate with the great Origin."
[Origin, our ruler... H/she will not meet you, just like a dragon won't communicate with an ant.]
Afterwards, the crystal disappeared.
A complete rejection.
"Master, what should we do?" The lizard-woman was very anxious.
Bai Yan quickly heard the sound of Connector.
"Oh, we will succeed after all. We believed in this from the beginning. Maybe I won't be the one to succeed, but one day we will be successful."
Me, us?
Could it be that Connector is not a person but an organization?
What does it mean exactly?
Bai Yan fell into deep thought, but the information he knew was still too little.
Suddenly, he realized that he was back in the dream of the primitive layer, coming out of the fragments of his recent memories.
"Connector... could that be my past life?"
Bai Yan remained silent for a moment, then reached out to touch the next memory fragment.
However, to his surprise, the memories he saw this time didn't belong to Connector.
——
"The God of Games?"
An angry voice echoed through the sky.
Huge dark clouds appeared in the clear white sky, gradually covering the entire world and making the original white and clear disappear in an instant.
Within the dark clouds, a giant one-eyed man with a long spear emerged, wearing pitch-black armor. The remaining eye showed endless wisdom.
Bai Yan realized that it was a living, true deity!
"You shamelessly invade the civilization I belong to and strip them off their powers using your own strength. Now, it's my turn to challenge you..."
The one-eyed god roared in anger.
"Come on! Start your game! I will win everything and make you completely fall!"
The God of Games, right?
Bai Yan immediately caught the keyword!
Are these memory fragments belonging to the God of Games?
So, was his past life really a Connector or the God of Games? Or perhaps a combination of both?
He was a bit confused.
Bai Yan heard a response from "himself".
"I accept your challenge."
"Let the game begin."
In the next moment, two huge bird cages appeared in front of Bai Yan.
And...inside the bird cages, there were also realistic models of two cities, full of vitality and life, as if the real cities had been shrunk.
"Myself" spoke again.
"Let's guess which of these two countries, that believe in you, will perish first?"
"How despicable!"
The one-eyed deity, witnessing this scene, became furious, but couldn't attack the "Bai Yan" in front of him, as if there were some kind of limitation.
At that moment, both bird cages quickly fell, and the miniature cities inside them also plummeted frantically.
They fell straight towards the sky.
Towards the ground.
Bai Yan had a strange thought in his heart.
If the birdcage falls, the miniature city will be shattered... then, the real city in World will also be destroyed!
During this falling process, the one-eyed deity must give their own answer, otherwise they will be considered as losing.
Is this the game of the deity?
Just at that moment, Bai Yan heard "himself" speaking again.
"We will play many rounds of games, and as for the bet of this round... let's use your the Golden Palace."
The Golden Palace?
Upon hearing this, Bai Yan was shocked, as if hearing thunder on a sunny day!