Chapter 2204: Eternal Skyfire 3
Chapter 2204: Eternal Skyfire 3
Humans, driven by greed, selfishness, and arrogance, destroyed their own future beacon, rejecting the assistance of the most fair and just ’Restricted Intelligence,’ and chose once again to rule their hearts with other human hearts.
They sealed the Synthesis Intelligence, turned away from the path of the Domain of Void, enamored by the splendor of reality and forgetting the sublimation of the spirit; they sought the desires of the heart but abandoned the exploration of the distant.
Such humans are quite uninteresting.
So he chose to return to the depths of the Domain of Void, communicating with all the Lost Souls—a task left to him by his long-departed teacher, known as Adalbert.
Indeed, not just my brother, but even the teacher and Uncle Qingchao didn’t come back—they must also be disappointed with today’s humans, right?
He should have continued to watch indifferently as humans rise and fall, until the end, when all Lost Souls unite and transform into [Terra’s Conclusion], and having completed his task, he would leave for [the distant Space-Time where his brother resides].
But it seems he cannot have such a simple ending.
"Elan Silverpeak... the brother of the Sage."
The old black-haired human slowly lifted his head and smiled at the ’young man’ before him: "It was you who signed the Moon Artificial Human Development Decree that allowed my mother and I to be born and bestowed upon me the name ’Silverpeak’.
"Of course, I remember you—the former Federal Leader."
[Since you know this,] Elan slowly said, [then don’t disturb my mission, let me quietly watch the end of humanity.]
[Aldo Silverpeak, you have done well, to bear the nearly terrifying pressure of a past Fifth Energy Level powerhouse to seal the Abyss, yet you still survive... Stay here with me, let us witness the end of those who betrayed and abandoned the path of my brother.]
"Betrayal? Abandonment?"
Aldo repeated the words and laughed heartily: "Great Watcher Elan, who exactly betrayed the Sage, and who abandoned the path of the Sage?"
"The name of the Sage is [Guidance], is [Future]! Humans are greedy, selfish, weak, and vicious by nature and are thus powerful; therefore their desires boil endlessly—humans are like a frenzied blaze, consuming everything, even themselves!"
"Thus, guidance is needed, just as a tamed flame can be forged into a furnace, shaped into steel tools, and starship armor—a civilization without guidance will naturally lose its way!"
"I was once their guide; I turned around what should have been a thousand years of warfare, I brought the second unification of Terra, ushering in the most brilliant and majestic Golden Five Hundred Years, letting humans once again spread across the Star Sea."
"But you?"
The last Prophet questioned the Watcher: "Did you ever guide humanity?"
[That was my brother’s path!] The white-haired, purple-eyed young man frowned: [Since they abandoned it, why should I...]
"Why not try to turn it around!"
The black-haired Sage, Foreseer Aldo, took a step forward and raised his voice: "If you think it is wrong, then why did you not deny it then, not turn it around, not guide humans at that time?"
[Ridiculous,] Elan sneered: [Did I not try to turn it around? Aldo, did you not see me being expelled by a unanimous vote at the General Administration meeting? Were you not in the audience, did you support me then?]
[No one wants a non-human intelligence overseeing them—no, no human desires anyone overseeing them, unless that person can give them what they want... I couldn’t give them that.]
"I supported you."
Aldo calmly stated: "Among those who voted for you, one vote was mine."
The purple-eyed Watcher was slightly taken aback, and Aldo continued: "As for what happened afterwards, this is what I want to tell you, great Watcher Elan."
"Do you truly believe that those ’suggestions’ without any violence were what you call guidance?"
"If it were the Sage, your brother, and if he were expelled by a vote of five hundred, would he truly leave obediently, and not..."
Saying this, Aldo laughed and humorously made a ’beheading’ gesture with his hand: "Though I have never met the Sage, surely even a Saint would possess a lightning fury, no?"
"Just like when I unified Terra the second time—the Sage back then surely used the vote as a pretense, essentially overpowering others by absolute strength, forcibly unifying Terra, right?"
Elan remained silent.
After a long time, he slowly lifted his eyes with a hint of nostalgia and said: [Yes... my brother... although he always appeared gentle and calm, but if truly needed...]
[He would eliminate all obstacles, including me within them.]
[Even my very existence is because he sought to go further, filtering from the Endless Space-Time.]
Even Aldo, wise and composed as he was, was momentarily stunned by these words.
He had never met Ian Silverpeak, never witnessed the Silverpeak Seer and Pioneer of that era, and thus did not know the epic story that led Above the Sky, nor the terrifying determination the Sage had when he stepped forward.
He simply suddenly understood that perhaps the ’Watcher’ before him had not sat on that throne in the deepest Domain of Void for hundreds of years merely because of simple reasons.