His voice grew increasingly calm, and his vision and perspective were also the most unattainable and unfathomable among all the Roots Lynn had ever seen.
Yes.
He was not a loser.
You could say he was scheming, you could call him a deserter, but he indeed used the defeat from the great war against the Colossus and the Cyber Civilization thousands of years ago to successfully avoid the Great Cataclysm three thousand years ago.
And Lynn finally understood why the Flesh and Blood Cult could never be a match for the chanical Cult.
Because they had a King overlooking this world!
"It has begun."
The God of All Machines raised his head, gazing from the enormous void towards the very center of the Cursed City.
"Let see how the Colossus's Brain will save you. This should be our first conversation in seven thousand years."
Hum—
Almost at that very instant, the ground of the entire Cursed City trembled violently.
Lynn's heart, which was being suppressed by him, also beat more fiercely amidst the massive earthquake.
Thump—
It was like a war drum sounding from hell.
Even the surroundings could clearly hear the series of thunderous booms coming from within Lynn's chest.
It was the lone wolf's call to the pack.
A long howl under the moon.
And precisely under the gaze of Lynn's blood-red eyes, at the very center of the Cursed City, within the enormous Mother Tree wrapped in countless dense vines and branches.
A rumbling, thunderous noise echoed.
The earth shook. A hidden tower buried deep underground slowly broke through the surface, shattered the branches of the Desire Mother Tree, and gradually appeared within everyone's Sight.
The pale colossal tower rose with a rumble, like a monunt stabbing straight into the sky.
That was the Colossus's Tower!
It was also the relic of the fallen Colossus Civilization that the chanical Cult and the Flesh and Blood Cult had been seeking!
It was a structure that should not exist in this world. Even after enduring the baptism of countless generations, not a single flaw could be seen upon it.
And at this very mont.
For the first ti, Lynn felt such a clear connection to sothing within that high tower.
Clear as Information Sync, as if they were originally one.
And within this connection.
He sensed sothing ancient awakening.
As if it had heard the lone wolf's mournful cry and call.
But Lynn knew he couldn't continue like this. He struggled to gather his consciousness, which was suppressed almost into blankness. Dense bloodshot veins nearly covered his eyeballs. Gritting his teeth, he used the brief monts of clarity brought by each heartbeat.
Slowly, with his final will, deep within his mind, he Cataclysd a sharp, long thorn.
Struggling.
Striving.
To make himself die.
But even this had long been seen through by the God of All Machines.
"Don't struggle. You must still be waiting for that Titan to save you, right?"
The God of All Machines lifted his head and said:
"I'm afraid that will disappoint you. Whether it's the Titan or that Angel, the curses they bear destined them to be unable to descend through the ritual. This world is always impartial."
"The more powerful you are, the more you must endure the suffering of the curse, the more you will be suppressed, unable to move."
"No one is an exception. Not even gods."
His voice carried a kind of pitiless cruelty, like the brutal heart left behind after seeing through the essence of everything.
But Lynn still did not give up. He was still gritting his teeth, waiting for an opportunity.
Thump—
The frequency of the heartbeat grew faster and faster.
And the Will felt within the Hyper-Dinsional Link was also awakening more rapidly.
And finally, at that mont.
Within the consciousness of the Hyper-Dinsional Link, he suddenly saw a pair of eyes slowly opening. It was as if the awakening of that consciousness instantly activated the Hyper-Dinsional Network that had been dormant for a full three thousand years.
In an instant.
Lynn felt his consciousness beco infinitely vast.
He seed to beco a node within that network. He sensed the consciousness inside the Colossus's Tower, sensed the consciousness of Little Treasure tens of kiloters away, sensed the countless consciousnesses being tornted inside the massive inverted pyramid above his head.
And beside him, he even sensed the blank, bewildered consciousness of that Girl whose hand was linked with his...
And at even more distant distances!
Across the vast lands thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of kiloters away!
Dense and countless, as if the entire Dark World was within view. Countless points of light representing consciousness all established a Hyper-Dinsional Link with it the mont the Colossus's Brain awakened!
The King and the Queen.
And the hundreds of millions of subjects scattered across the land.
They all once belonged to the sa individual, to that long-collapsed, lost...
Colossus Civilization!
Hum—
Almost the instant the Colossus Network was established, the hundreds of millions of consciousness streams that once belonged to the Colossus's flesh and blood all converged, at that very mont, through the Hyper-Dinsional Link onto the node where he was!
It was like the lone wolf's mournful cry receiving a response from the entire pack!
A surging torrent of consciousness, like raging waves, instantly poured into his heart!
Thump—
A massive heartbeat.
At that mont, the hand of the God of All Machines tightly gripping Lynn's heart was instantly blasted into countless information fragnts by that surging power.
His consciousness abruptly fell upon Lynn. Amidst the scattering fragnts, his body suddenly exploded backwards.
"The Colossus Network. As expected."
Hum—
Almost the instant he exploded backwards, a massive, kiloters-tall phantom of an Information Stream piercing the clouds abruptly appeared above his Projection, coldly confronting him.
And within Lynn's chest, inside the heart thundering like a war drum, countless consciousness streams were still pouring in continuously through the network towards his node. It was as if he was no longer alone, but surrounded by the endless, dense phantoms of a crowd stretching as far as the eye could see!
Like an army. Like a civilization.
This was the Colossus's Brain's response to the call.
This was the awakening of the King.
Because the King never represents an individual; it represents the highest Will of the entire kingdom!
And its awakening ant it had the ability to restart the network, the ability to summon all the scattered Colossus Wills across the land, allowing them to reunite as a civilization through the network once more!
Slowly.
Amidst that powerful wave of consciousness, above Lynn's broken body, a blood-red, equally massive phantom piercing the clouds manifested, coldly confronting the God of All Machines.
It was as if the civilization that once stood at the pinnacle thousands of years ago was reviving once more.
That being who took a path completely different from the Artificial Intelligence Civilization, that Flesh Ascendant who condensed the flesh and blood of hundreds of millions of a civilization's beings into a single entity!
That Colossus which once defeated the Artificial Intelligence Civilization...
Seed to stand proudly in the world once again.
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