Chapter 884 – Meteorite
『At first, I believed most of it was nonsense. No matter how difficult our lives are becoming… What kind of idiot would want to take refuge in fanaticism? That’s nonsense with poor logic?』
Therefore, as always, the leadership tried to isolate the so-called ‘prophet’ by reprimanding him for causing trouble. However, rather than bending to them, the prophet confidently urges them to check their ‘holy relics’ for themselves.
『At first, of course, our people were not idiots, so we ignored his words. But…』
The so-called ‘prophet’ who consistently insisted on his ‘revelations’ and the rotting ‘holy relics’ during dozens or hundreds of dimensional evacuations. Many Ys people are fed up with his consistent and crazy behavior, so they decide to listen to him for once and then use that as an excuse to imprison him forever.
“… Did it really work?”
『Surprisingly.』
In fact, a warehouse of ancient artifacts that went to put an end to the Prophet. There, the prophet spreads the powerful power he discovered in ancient times, but he succeeds in putting the ‘black meteorite’, which had been left lying around without knowing how to use it properly, to its true purpose.
“… Meteorite?!”
“Exactly. Meteorite. We do it simply by sending out a powerful psionic wave. Also, I only knew it as an object that kills or awakens creatures that are hit directly by the wave. But that object was not something that only spread that kind of power.』
“… What kind of item was it?”
『It was a great holy artifact that could cause infinite ‘cracks’ in not only time and space, but also the multiverse. We really didn’t know anything.』
“… Cracks? Multiple? Infinite?”
“Exactly. If you ‘start’ the black meteorite according to a specific situation, the meteorite was a cosmic sacred object that could create an infinite dimensional intersecting space in a specific area.』
“…!!”
Seong-il feels goosebumps all over his body after hearing Ilax’s explanation. After recently awakening, he did not feel emotional ups and downs due to any stimulation, but Illax’s remarks were so strong that they shook Seongil’s composure.
『That day. The ‘prophet’ of the Transcendent Church explained to high-ranking officials how to ‘transcend’ based on this holy relic. He recommended that we find a ‘suitable species’ that could accidentally appear in that space by traveling across infinitely divided dimensions.』
“Why are you crossing dimensions…?”
『Because if we go across dimensions like that like crazy, it will be difficult for even an AI with powerful causal computing power to track us.』
The existing traditional dimension jump technology consumed enormous resources and required a huge amount of psionic energy recharge, but since dimension movement based on black meteorites had extremely low consumption values, ‘Issins’ could easily escape AI’s tracking. I could lose.
“Did the prophet of the Transcendental Church come to power based on that day?”
『No… His reputation has grown since then, but he is still not the backbone of power.』
Isuin was able to escape the AI’s persistent pursuit for a long time thanks to the method of using the holy object taught by the prophet. They were still annoyed by the prophet who behaved like a pseudo-fanatic, but they could not ignore a prophet who had contributed greatly to the tribe, so they accepted him as an honorary member of the committee and tried to turn a blind eye to him.
“Then why on earth does he have power…?”
『First of all… In a small way, it is because after that incident, the number of people who began to seriously follow the prophet gradually increased. But the real incident is different.』
An alien civilization that literally crossed dimensions like crazy and repeatedly tried to elude AI’s pursuit. As if that wasn’t enough, they even moved between dimensions more than 100 times in a short period of time, something they wouldn’t normally be able to do. He attempted to thoroughly evade AI’s tracking by crossing dimensions to the point of destroying AI’s computation.
『The method of frantically crossing the multiverse using a black meteorite as a lighthouse in an infinitely divided dimension was effective to some extent. In fact, the persistent AI tracking has been lost for about 100 years.』
An alien civilization that finally succeeded in moving away from the AI thanks to a terrifying dimensional shift using the characteristics of a black meteorite. They cheer for the peace that has finally come and begin to rebuild civilization again.
『However, the prophet we saw at the council meeting where we were going to settle down went crazy and said that we had to leave this place quickly. He argued that the only correct answer was ‘detachment’ and that the current peace was only a harbinger of a more terrible disaster.』
“…”
『However, the peaceful compatriots completely ignored the words of the prophet. It didn’t make sense in common sense. We’ve traveled thousands and tens of thousands of times in less than a month, so how on earth can AI track us? Our leaders thought that we had become truly safe because at some point they thought causal computation itself had become impossible. I thought it ended like that.』
However, the peace that came to the alien civilization was too short-lived. After just over 100 years, AI once again invaded the new settlement established by an alien civilization, and the alien civilization fell into despair at the terrible invasion and was forced to flee the dimension once again.
『The civilization that had been restored was destroyed, and many people died, but in fact, the situation itself was not hopeless.』
“Because of the hope that you might be able to escape again?”
“Yes. The only problem is that you foolishly continue to live in one settlement. This is because I thought that I could maintain civilization by constantly moving between dimensions. In fact, we succeeded in preventing tracking for about 100 years.』
However, horribly, the optimism of alien civilization collapsed overnight.
『But, one day, ‘it’ appeared that shattered our hopes overnight.』
The appearance of a strange meteorite radiating pure white power. It seemed as if it had copied the mechanism of the black meteorite, but only exhibited the opposite characteristics. It appeared like a ghost in a dimension where black meteorites were infinite and was emitting strange psionic waves.
『If the black meteorite emits a wave that forces the living being to germinate psionics, the white meteorite emits the opposite wave. As if he would not tolerate such behavior.』
“…”
Seongil feels that the pieces of his imagination that passed through his mind a while ago are slowly coming together. However, instead of feeling relieved again, he felt his breathing becoming suffocating and focused on Ilax’s words.
『We all knew it instinctively. The white meteorite… Is a kind of anti-thesis created by AI by replicating the mechanism of the black meteorite to chase us.』
And the AI attacks begin to repeat even more violently than before the meteorite appeared, to the point where the experience gained through the black meteorite becomes insignificant. The alien civilization that had barely found reason began to fall into a serious panic again.
『At first, I didn’t know the reason. So we kept running away in fear. In the meantime, the prophet began to shout.』
“What did you say?”
“‘Purple. Isn’t what I said right?’』
The prophet stood before the panicked leaders of his own people and scolded them. He is said to have vomited blood and cried out that if he had led his people to find the ‘suitable species’ while indulging in a moment of peace, this tragedy would not have occurred.
『When a prophet who almost saved his people once appeared in a crisis and shouted to everyone, many people began to shake. Meanwhile, the prophet’s second cry broke everyone’s spirits.』
“… What statement?”
『He shouted at us. ‘Why would the evil relics that those demons created by replicating our relics try to suppress psionic blooming?’』
“…”
『And those words put an end to people’s reason. 』
As the meteorite created by AI emitted the opposite power, as if denying the method claimed by the prophet who discovered the use of a strange holy object that no one could use and saved at least half of the race, the Is people began to believe that the prophet’s words were right.
“Like that. Most of my countrymen ended up completely submitting to the Prophet that day. From that day on, he finally gained complete ideological control over his fellow countrymen, and at the same time, he was able to oversee everyone’s life and death without a care in the world.』
A prophet who succeeded in sending his race into madness in just one moment. After gaining absolute power, he first began to thoroughly suppress ‘non-believers’ based on that.
『He claimed that those who ignore the ‘truth’ and do not have faith are stooges of ‘those’. In fact, he purged a huge number of people. Although there are not many species left…』
In the end, those who survived had no choice but to completely convert to the Transcendental Church, and to prove their loyalty to the Transcendental Church, they either practiced fanaticism or became friends and colleagues with shallow faith. He even tried to prove his religious purity by snitching on his family.
“… Crazy bastards.”
『Exactly. We went completely crazy in just one moment.』
