nucmednet Chapter 1657 Final Chapter: Crossing the Shore [1] "He opened his eyes."
Chapter 1657 Final Chapter: Crossing the Shore [1] "He opened his eyes."
Chapter 1657 Final Chapter - Crossing the Shore [1] - "He opened his eyes."
Su Ming'an opened his eyes.
He finally woke up from his dream and returned to the world, as if he had been in another world.
"Awake?" A seemingly casual voice came from the window. The red-haired youth sat by the window with his arms crossed, his golden eyes gleaming. "If you're awake, get up. Pudding and Lu Shen are about to have their final battle."
Su Ming'an got up and rubbed his eyes.
"What was your dream like?" Su Lin asked.
“I dreamt of the young King Su Liujin… and the two-dimensional Casadia,” Su Ming’an said. “I said goodbye to them.”
“The past cannot be undone. Whether it was the experiments humans conducted on Su Liujin or Casadia's sacrifice to create the Radiant Mother Goddess... it has nothing to do with you. It's all history.” Su Lin offered a few words of comfort, a rare occurrence. “Let's go, let's move forward.”
Yes, the most important thing is to move forward.
History has already happened and cannot be changed; what he needs to do is prevent such things from happening again.
"Crash..."
Su Ming'an washed his face with water, cleared his head, and sorted out the current situation.
Faced with the choice between venturing forward into the sea and staying on the shore, he chose the former. He was unwilling to merely run away in his small world; instead, he wanted to gain a deeper understanding of who "them," "the awakened ones," and "dream wanderers" were, in order to find a more perfect, golden path.
This arduous path was extremely difficult for a mere human like himself, but he adopted a strategy of using one enemy to devour another, setting his sights on the Supreme Lord Torsolius. If he could find all the fragments of the Supreme Lord's image, he could, according to the Dark Forest Theory, make the Supreme Lord an ally, thus restraining the ever-watchful Lord of the End of All Things, resolving the crisis troubling Rovasa, freeing Olivers from endlessly resetting the world with the Book of the World, and allowing Rovasa to achieve a perfect completion on the highest difficulty.
After all, the only problem troubling Rovasa has always been the Lord of the End of All Things. As for the Lord of Dreams, them, the Awake Ones... these are all information that Su Ming'an came into contact with separately, not included in the scope of Rovasa's copy, nor are they problems of the locals.
Thus, by “guiding them to possess him, and then repeatedly killing himself to read his memories,” he obtained the multi-petaled form of the Supreme Lord. The remaining two petals were most likely hidden by Him in history.
Integrating the "Life" authority of Asagao, the "Reincarnation" authority of Siber, the "Observation" authority of Dawn, his own "Faith" authority, the "Devouring" authority of the Sixth Seat, the dragon power of Dan Shuang, the "Immortal Talisman - Retraction" of Li Mingyue, and even the "Book of the World" left behind by Olivers... he transformed into a force against the current, turning the page forward. It turned out that Rovasa reading "from front to back" and "from back to front" represented the first and second halves of the story, respectively. His act of turning the page forward made everything complete.
He returned to the stories of Li Ziqi (the twelfth story, "If I Had Never Seen the Light"), Shi Ying (the eleventh story, "The Kind Nightingale"), the little king Su Liujin (the tenth story, "The Sunfish Will Not Come"), and the rabbits (the ninth story, "The Struggle of the Nameless")... He learned that the Radiant Mother Goddess was using fan fiction to overwrite the official history, using a wrong worldline to overwrite the correct worldline, wanting to create her own utopia, and altering the lives of everyone in history.
Therefore, he entered this fanfiction (Story 8: Saint and Sinner), becoming Su Wenli, the orphaned son of the world's ruler, surrounded by the ambitious Pope Hui Chi, who wields power over the emperor, and the taciturn and mysterious Imperial Tutor Hui Bi. Furthermore, he can also possess the body of Chen Yuhang, an ordinary student who escaped from the Mingxi Campus of the Disciple Game.
At that time, the faith in the Radiant Mother Goddess ruled the entire world, and Pope Huichi aided and abetted the tyranny, causing widespread suffering. The revolutionary army known as "Nest" spread like wildfire, awaiting the day of the World Lord's succession ceremony to seize the "Holy Sword" that Huichi had cultivated with the malice of the world.
The background is strikingly similar to Minghui, Huichi is similar to Shengqi, the controlled orphan Su Wenli is similar to Qinwang, the "Nest" is similar to the Revolutionary Army, and the succession ceremony of the World Lord is similar to Qinwang's coming-of-age ceremony. It makes one wonder if the Radiant Mother Goddess has run out of life and is simply copying and pasting the stories of other civilizations.
Su Ming'an's goal is to obtain the image of the Supreme Lord. It is speculated that this will be the champion reward for clearing the zeroth Disciple Game, which means that he must defeat the Radiant Mother Goddess, who is the final boss.
There are two conditions for defeating her: First, an ally possessing at least the strength of a first-level god, such as the Demon Mother Goddess. Awakening her requires a [Key]. According to Su Lin's information, after killing or defeating three members of the Lin Clan, the [Key] will appear in the hands of the last member of the Lin Clan. Second, the Holy Sword. Although it is not explicitly stated that the Holy Sword must be used to defeat the Radiant Mother Goddess, since it is something that Hui Chi has maliciously cultivated over thousands of years, it is still necessary to bring it along.
He uses his two identities, "Chen Yuhang" to fulfill condition one and "Su Wenli" to fulfill condition two.
"Crash..."
Cool water slid down his cheeks, and his hazy consciousness gradually cleared. The water flowed over him, icy and refreshing, and he slowly opened his eyes: "But this is only limited to inside Rovasa..."
—His vision has always been far beyond that of Rovasa.
What truly concerned him were "them"... these higher concepts.
……
"What are 'them'?" Su Ming'an asked.
"The Lord of Dreams gathered them in the Blackwater Dreamland, established a points system and a reward and punishment system, treated various civilizations as games, and granted them the ability to traverse the bodies of others."
……
Then he heard a lot of harsh noises.
"He's just a puppet." "Why is he the only one who realizes the benefits of a perfect playthrough?" "I don't believe there's such a saint in the world." "It's too fake." "This kind of persistence seems inexplicable."...
……
[“According to Su Ming’an, didn’t Bai Chun mention ‘drawing SSR cards’? Perhaps from their perspective, the Rovasa people are like characters in a game’s story.”]
……
Currently, it seems that they = the lucid ones = dreamers, and there isn't much difference in the concept.
They use various invisible means to interfere with civilizations throughout the universe, twisting, playing, and reversing... regarding Rovasa as a game called "Rovasa's Ring".
—If the land beneath people's feet were rootless duckweed, it could be easily pulled away.
—If the principles and formulas that people rely on for trust are nothing more than things that others play with and tamper with.
—What if you struggle with all your might to the very end, only to find that fate can be easily reversed? For example, Su Ming'an could have had a happy family, but was deliberately orchestrated to have a car accident when he was ten years old…
That is absolutely wrong.
Su Ming'an wasn't content with merely guarding the shore because his vision far surpassed that of Rovasa. He believed human civilization had reached a point where obscure, low-level civilizations were exposed to the universe's gaze. Even a hasty retreat wouldn't guarantee an unscathed escape. The Supreme Lord and the Lord of Dreams would undoubtedly keep a close watch on this small world, and several organizers were already aware of the existence of the humans from Zhai Star. Perhaps human civilization would continue peacefully for millennia, or perhaps one day it would be struck by a sudden calamity, leaving no trace of its enemies.
To prevent this from happening... he decided to move forward and figure it all out. After all, under the protection of the world game's mechanics, players were the lucky ones, able to quickly become stronger in just a few days. But once the world game ended, without this game mechanic's protection, everything would become difficult and hardcore.
The game world is like a purifier; as long as you want to improve, it will draw upon your lifeblood and push you forward. As long as you win every opportunity and challenge, you will always have room for growth and will never encounter a situation where you cannot improve even with effort. Just like Su Ming'an, who ascended from human to god in just seven months.
Therefore, now is the best time to propel human civilization forward.
He once viewed the World Game as a natural disaster and a calamity, but now he realizes that if used properly, it can be a very powerful asset.
The players are actually lucky.
Many locals in Rovasa envied their rapid progress, their unlimited resurrection and freedom, their ability to travel between different worlds… Su Ming'an certainly wasn't grateful to the World Game. He just thought that, given the opportunity, perhaps the World Game could become a little better.
Unfortunately, he couldn't make the world of gaming better. Now, his vision is only focused on moving forward.
Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the time while the world game was still protecting the players, and strive to move forward a little further, and then a little further still. Relying on his player identity, as a mere human, he wanted to cross enormous chasms and challenge the pinnacle of existence in the universe.
In this way, we can extract potential and free human civilization from worries about the future.
Currently, he has formed an alliance with Lu Shen, one of the heirs of Blackwater Dream, to jointly deal with the other heir, Pudding.
His goal remains the same: to defeat the Radiant Mother Goddess and obtain the IF method from her.
……
Su Ming'an believed that "isolation" meant erecting a wall, while the Radiant Mother Goddess believed that "isolation" meant turning the world into a kaleidoscope, where ten thousand people could see ten thousand Hamlets.
"I see, it's the difference between 'no ending' and 'multiple endings'," the eleventh seat concluded.
……
Therefore, whether it's to perfectly clear Rovasa on the highest difficulty or to obtain the method to create the IF route—their ultimate goal is to defeat the Radiant Mother. This is everyone's final battle in Rovasa.
"Crash..."
Turning off the tap, Su Ming'an looked up, shook his wet hands, and gazed at Su Lin, who was still posing by the window.
"Excuse me, could you move aside?"
Su Lin condescended and jumped down.
Su Ming'an pushed open the window and looked outside—
The sky changed drastically.
Half of the sky was dyed a bizarre and intense pink, writhing like the entrails of a living creature, while the other side was pure white. At the boundary between pink and white, space cracked like fragile glass, bursting with rosy light.
Pink represents Pudding, and white represents Lu Shen. The competition between the two dream inheritors has reached a fever pitch. Whoever brings more "spiritual light" from their respective factions will ultimately prevail.
Pink has taken over most of the color, overwhelming white. The eight main characters, who have been given special abilities by "magical girl" Pudding, have occupied too much screen time in the world, and it seems that Pudding's victory is already assured.
Su Ming'an gazed at the changing sky.
"Come on..." The wind brushed against my cheek, bringing a soft and cool sensation.
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[Mission Route:]
[TE1: "First, obtain the radiance of its soul, then drive its life to its demise." (Kill the World Tree, successfully destroy the world): 80%]
【TE2 - "They have waited too long for redemption" (Win the Disciple Game, reach the Dark Side, and end the World Game): 99%】
【TE3·"The land where I reside... is your eternally existing Gensokyo" (Write a perfect story with an SSS rating): 84%】
[TE4 - "Will the wingless bird grow flesh and blood because of you?" (The Last Supper has twelve or more participants): 100%]
【TE5·"The rivers do not turn, and glory lasts for generations." (Standing at the top of the food chain, becoming an infinitely evolving jellyfish that surpasses even the first-level gods): 95%】
【TE6·"I hear your footsteps echoing with the ebb and flow of all things." (Create a perfect character card at the pinnacle of the world, reaching full rank.): 72%】
[TE7 "He closed the book and started all over again" (Fulfilling Squirrel Oliver's wish): 90%]
【TE8·"Will you weave the same blue sky with me?" (Raise "Iguler's" affection to 100 points - requires experiencing all the story events with her, cannot use the "Ruler's Skill" to forcibly increase affection): 0%】
【TE9 "Bo bo bo, chirp chirp chirp" (Back to the sea to be a happy jellyfish.): 0%】
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