Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 366 Grave

"But... what am I supposed to do with it?" Xuan Yuan Muze couldn't help but ask, looking at the core of the technological god in his hand. He felt like a nouveau riche with money to burn.

So Gulasga suggested, "How about this, you take us to this coordinate, we happen to need to go there to do some things."

As he spoke, Gulasga sent a virtual cosmic star map to Xuanyuan Muze's nanotech armor. Looking at the star map in front of him, Xuanyuan Muze couldn't help but ask, "How do I use this technological god core?"

Gulasga then instructed, "Don't worry, your usage information has already been entered. Just place your hand on it and think about it, and the Tech God Core will do as you wish."

Following Gulasga's instructions, Xuanyuan Muze placed his hand on the core of the God of Technology and silently issued the command. As soon as the command was issued, hundreds of spatial gates appeared and enveloped all the scholars. Xuanyuan Muze and the scholars from the experimental institution instantly appeared in outer space at the coordinates. Fortunately, Xuanyuan Muze and the scholars were wearing equipment that allowed them to survive in space; otherwise, they might have been killed by the harsh environment of space.

At this moment, Xuanyuan Muze immediately realized his mistake and quickly issued an order to build a space station in space as a landing place and send all the scholars inside. Then, Xuanyuan Muze entered the space station and asked Gulasga, "What's next? To be honest, this power is really amazing. I feel like I'm... omnipotent!"

Gulasga chuckled and said, "Yes, power is a fascinating thing. Could you please create a small star in front of us? I've already sent its data and information to your armor. You input the data into the core, and it will automatically read and translate the information to materialize what we need."

Xuanyuan Muze immediately did as instructed and imported the data into the core. In the blink of an eye, a bright small star appeared in front of everyone. Despite being so close, the star's heat did not directly evaporate them, which was clearly a design feature.

Looking at the star in front of him, Xuanyuan Muze asked, puzzled, "What is your purpose in creating this star?"

Gulasga suddenly answered him solemnly: "For the sake of inheritance, just now we used a complex universal language to imprint all our theoretical knowledge and scientific technology into this star. This star was also specially designed. The material that made it was created by capturing material from the void and did not use any resources in the universe. Although this star is constantly emitting light to attract everyone's attention, its internal environment is actually always in a stable state. It relies on constantly absorbing energy from the universe and then emitting it out in the form of light to maintain balance. In other words, its existence does not depend on the universe but only participates in the energy conversion of the universe in a shallow way. Even if this universe collapses and restarts in the future, this star can still exist independently outside the universe and then be re-enclosed by the restarted universe. In other words, theoretically, this star can retain information for hundreds of billions of years. This is also the legacy that our nation of all races left to future generations. We have inscribed the words on the star."

The unique core inside this star retains all the information. We've calculated that any qualified advanced civilization could open it and obtain our legacy—a small token we leave for future generations.

Xuan Yuan Muze asked, puzzled, "Why do you want to leave an inheritance? It sounds like you're leaving a will, which is kind of scary."

At this moment, Gulasga and the scholars behind him remained silent. The silence gave Xuan Yuan Muze a terrible thought. As if to confirm his conjecture, Gulasga then spoke up: "Yes, my friend, this star is our will. In a little while, we will fly into that star and merge with our legacy."

These words struck Xuan Yuan Muze like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, leaving him momentarily at a loss. After a long while, Xuan Yuan Muze finally reacted and hurriedly asked, "Are you joking? Why would you want to commit suicide? You've just reached the pinnacle of technology and achieved this feat, why are you so distraught?"

Gulasga raised his head with a sense of loss and answered in a tone without regret: "It is precisely because we have accomplished all this that we are preparing to leave, my friend. To be honest, with the help of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races, it is not a problem for us to live for two thousand years, but... our lives have no meaning anymore."

I was the first scholar in this academy of cosmic science and technology. I discovered the laws of macroscopic mechanics and laid the foundation for basic physics. However, my life was also locked by these laws of mechanics. As science developed, many of my ideas were refuted and modified. Although I am a pioneer of science, I can no longer create anything new. My old friends behind me are all from the same era as me, and most of us are over four hundred years old.

So we became the real idlers of the Academy of Sciences, unable to keep up with the thinking of the young people, and unable to create new value. Fortunately, His Majesty put forward the God of Science and Technology Theory, which gave us old guys something to look forward to in the future, and finally we could repay His Majesty the Dragon God for his grace.

In fact, among the advanced classes of the Kingdom of Myriad Races, our Academy of Technology is arguably the most useless. If mages wanted to develop technology, they could easily crush our Academy. It's just that they disdain playing with such low-level things as technology, because when magic is cultivated to a high level, their souls themselves become the core of a technological god.

Furthermore, soldiers of the Kingdom of Myriad Races also have the potential to reach the level of divine beings or even attain godhood. Therefore, we scholars, who are destined to never reach the divine realm, have always been an outcast among the higher echelons of the Kingdom of Myriad Races.

Xuanyuan Muze immediately comforted him, saying, "But you have also completed the creation of the God of Technology, and are in no way inferior to them. Why belittle yourselves?"

Gulasga shook his head and replied, "You haven't truly understood the difference. Due to the subtle differences in the rules, each core of a technological god can only be matched in the universe to which it belongs. In other words, even if we become technological gods, we will only have some say in this universe."

But magicians are different. They are born to be the darlings of nature. After they have cultivated to a high level, they can go to any universe and manipulate the laws of the universe at will to help themselves. So even in the same universe, the level of authority of magicians is still higher than ours, because we have only achieved godhood by taking shortcuts. The difference between us cannot be explained in a few words.

As for those soldiers who cultivate, once they reach the level of divine beings and become gods through their physical bodies, they can defy the rules of nature and overcome skill with brute force. At that point, they are no longer beings that we can easily kill, let alone those who have achieved godhood and are considered gods!

Ironically, my friend, you'll find out later that technology is the easiest way to become stronger in the world. Anything in this universe with a brain can potentially develop technology. The low barrier to entry also means its potential is low.

I used to laugh at those lower creatures who couldn't even develop technology. Now I laugh at myself for only being able to develop technology. Even though the Dragon God's Treasury has given us psionic energy and the ability to develop some basic magic, what's the use? We still can't compete with those darlings of nature. The most despairing thing in this world is that 'the destination you reach with all your might is just the starting point for someone else'!

Just when we thought this was despair enough, we learned from His Majesty about the existence of nature gods, which plunged us into even greater despair. It turned out that our end point hadn't even reached the starting point of those nature gods.