Chapter 1341 - 531: Cave and Aleph_2
Chapter 1341: Chapter 531: Cave and Aleph_2
[Third Stage: The Birth of Aleph]
The most crucial turning point has arrived.
When the intensity and scale of faith reach a critical value, a "Concept Aleph" begins to form.
"This is a convergence point containing all related beliefs, emotions, expectations, and fears."
The Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide attempts to explain in plain language:
"At this point, myth transforms from conceptual imagination into reality itself. Native gods also shift from shadows to entities projecting the shadows."
The image displays a breathtaking scene:
Amidst the prayers of countless believers, a tiny point of light begins to flicker.
Yet this point of light contains a complete world.
All the stories about this deity, all the memories of the believers, all related emotional experiences.
[Fourth Stage: Reversal of the Shadow]
Finally, a phenomenon completely overturning perception occurs.
The native god is no longer content with passively accepting faith, but starts actively "projecting" new shadows to the believers.
"At this time, the allegory of the cave is reversed."
The Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide explains:
"The deity becomes the ’person who walks out of the cave,’ while the believers remain ’prisoners bound by chains.’
The deity sees the ’reality’ (or what they define as reality), and then projects this reality to the believers as ’miracles.’"
"But the issue is—the deity’s ’reality’ itself is constructed from the believers’ faith.
This forms a perfect cycle: faith creates the god, the god strengthens faith."
Next, the Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide elaborated on response strategies:
[Strategy One: Questioning the Shadow]
"The most direct method is to have believers question the ’shadow’ they see."
The image shows missionaries narrating different worldviews to the natives.
"Like the person who breaks free from the chains in the allegory of the cave, letting believers realize their ’reality’ might just be part of a bigger truth."
[Strategy Two: Reconstructing Aleph]
This is exactly the plan proposed by Ron.
"Not destroying the original concept convergence point, but rather injecting new elements, gradually changing its content."
In the image, the conqueror skillfully integrates new stories and values into the original mythological system.
"Eventually, the same ’Aleph’ begins to project entirely different ’shadows.’"
[Strategy Three: Creating a New Cave]
The most radical method is to establish a completely independent belief system.
"Allow the believers to ’walk out’ of the original cave, into a new cave, facing new shadows."
"But this method carries extreme risks, as believers familiar with the shadows may fall into total mental chaos."
Closing the Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide, Ron feels he has gained a new perspective on this issue.
The native god is neither an enemy nor an ally.
They are the "conceptual mapping" of this world, the "Aleph" where reality and faith converge.
To conquer such existence requires not only force but also the rewriting of the world’s "story."
And the first Chapter of this story is waiting for him to write.
As he immersed himself in the sea of knowledge, a nearly forgotten miniature rune inside his robe suddenly heated up.
It was a very subtle temperature change, like a snake’s tongue gently brushing across the skin.
If not for the Chaos bloodline’s acute perception of abnormal energy, he could hardly detect this change.
Ron’s heart tightened as he immediately recognized the origin of the rune.
It was the communication tool Cassandra gave him under the name "Emergency Contact" before he left the Main World.
Normally, this rune is in a completely dormant state.
The energy fluctuation is so weak it’s almost zero, even the most sophisticated detection devices struggle to identify its existence.
But once activated, it releases a special "space anchor," creating a temporary encrypted communication environment.
He quickly put away the Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide, setting up basic soundproofing runes in the room.
Then, carefully took out the heated rune from the inner layer of the robe.
The shape of the rune resembles a miniature hexagram, each corner inlaid with a soul energy crystal as thin as a needle point.
When he injected magic power into it, the rune immediately rose into the air, starting to emit light waves like water ripples.
The space in the center of the room began to show subtle folding phenomena.
The density of the air changed, forming a spherical area about two meters in diameter.
Within this area, all sounds and magic power fluctuations would be shielded by a special resonance effect, ensuring the communication content wouldn’t be monitored by any outside presence.
Accompanied by the spread of spatial ripples, a semi-transparent figure began to coalesce in the center of the anchor.
Cassandra’s projection appeared slowly, her purple eyes shining like gems in the darkness.
"My little advisor."
The Tower Master came straight to the point:
"You seem to be doing well over there. You handled Hillas’ little trick pretty brilliantly."
This sentence pierced Ron’s heart like an ice pick.
His mind raced at that moment, analyzing the deeper meaning of the statement.
Cassandra knows Hillas’s plan?
She knows the inside story of the Silent Dome incident?
More terrifyingly, she’s actually monitoring the internal situation of Green Ring No.2 in real-time at such a remote distance?
But Ron’s face showed not the slightest flaw.
He feigned a moderate expression of surprise, his tone carrying confusion:
"Tower Master? How do you know... what happened over there?"
"Also, what do you mean by Hillas’ trick? I don’t quite understand..."