Chapter 498 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

If it is a simple recording device, it is likely to be corroded or lost over time, but if the person in charge of the recording is an artificial spirit and it is stored through spirit technology, it can be stored for a very long time.

Think about it, as a reincarnated person, even if I put thousands of years of reincarnation memories into my soul, it is still spacious. It’s worse than the soul, but what about similar skills?

“Come to think of it, I’m curious about the current time. What year is it now?”

[The current time is the year 11264 of the Imperial Era]

“…What did you say just now? If I remember correctly, I think we celebrated the 3000th National Foundation Day last year?”

[I’m sure. As a result of confirming the date recorded in the astronomical records and facility facilities observed through satellites, the current date is March 15, 11264 Imperial Era]

“What…….”

If you roughly calculate it, it means that about 8,000 years have passed since the empire collapsed. Almost 10,000 years.

……No, but it’s a bit strange, isn’t it?

Eight thousand years since the empire fell? Of course, it is enough time for one civilization to collapse and another to be established, but the situation on this planet is a bit strange.

Eight thousand years is obviously a long time. The history of the Korean Peninsula is only half a million years, or about 5,000 years, and a few countries were built and collapsed… That’s a long time. But that’s just human standards, and 8,000 years is only about 8 seconds or 8 minutes in terms of stars.

“Somehow, the output of my yeouiju decreased during frozen sleep, so if it’s 8,000 years…”

“I understand that your facilities can last longer with ectoplasmic coatings or spirit magnet technology. If they are strong, they can last longer than expected.”

Baekhee had been sleeping for 8,000 years.

Even considering her lifespan, which was extended to hundreds of years after undergoing the spiritual procedure, it is more than 10 times that time. In terms of humans, it was like hearing that a thousand years had passed quickly after waking up.

The gap between eras and eras is too great. You have to experience the feeling of skipping 8 centuries and becoming a lost child of the times.

I’ve tried things like time travel from time to time, but it didn’t feel very good.

First of all, I waited until Baek-hee, who seemed to be going back and forth, calmed down. We also waited quietly, knowing the shock she received.

She is a strong person Even if the reality in front of her eyes was cold, she was someone who knew how to accept it and move on. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have accepted them in the first place.

“…Huh, that’s good. I’ve calmed down a bit.”

“Is it okay if I hear more?”

“At least I can hold out for now”

“Because the human mind is a limited resource? Do you properly understand and speak?!”

“Don’t worry”

Human potential is limitless, but human mental power is limited. If there were no limits from mental strength, humans would have been the strongest species before.

Anyway, we decided to check the record of the artificial spirit of the cradle again.

“I want to check the records of the time when the empire was destroyed in the past. Can you?”

[Many of the records at that time were lost due to zero magnetic waves, and only a few remain. Some records remain, but we cannot be held responsible for the aftermath. Are you still okay?]

“Young magnetism?”

I wouldn’t call it a spirit magnetic wave simply because of its power. As long as nuclear explosions are not called spirit magnetism, they must be using such an expression because they focus on spiritual things rather than physical things.

However, it was highly likely that artificial spirits would use such expressions.

………For some reason, a chilly feeling ran up my back. I didn’t feel ominous, but I had a feeling that the events ahead were not ordinary.

Even if I felt that I belonged to the upper rank in terms of the position of the Great Demon King, even if it was a little lower transcendentally, it was that much. What on earth is in front of it?

“Okay. Replay the record at the time. The price is right for me to pay.”

[All right. Plays the record of the time recorded on Jisangan Nuri]

Mir for orbital bombing and Nuri for ground surveillance. Among them, the video contained in the record of the latter was played like a hologram in front of my eyes.

And.

There, three people began to come into view.

One is familiar.

A person who has seen the face of the other but has never met.

The last one is a video of a person you have never met or seen.

And I felt that the language spoken by a familiar person was transmitted beyond time and language. As for other records, the power recorded with spirit-type technology is clearly transmitted even now.

[The three great demon kings have gathered and filled the minimum seats, so let’s start the judgment now]

Utopia Why are you bastard out there?!?!?

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On the one hand, when Utopia came out of the video, I had my doubts.

This world still has traces of humans. Utopia is an extreme person who loves and hates humans, saving them when they save them and killing them when they kill them. However, it was really strange that humans remained even after he judged them.

Think about it. Even in the same desert, it happened after the sun came up near the earth and evaporated most of the ground, and no matter how lucky you are, only dozens of people per star survive.

Even if they put aside their encounters with each other, the number is far too small to sustain humanity. It was clearly connected and eventually collapsed due to the side effects of incestuous marriage.

At least I don’t think utopia destroyed this civilization. It is certainly.

[It’s a pretty promising civilization, but it’s going to be difficult. I don’t know anything else, but if I had only one thing, civilization could have been passed on to future generations.]

[We don’t need a civilization that travels from planet to planet and spreads contagious diseases.]

The two great demon kings who seem to be a good match for each other are people I know.

One is Utopia, who is still a colleague at work. And the other one…

[Because a civilization that cannot even think of its own future is honestly hopeless. If I had come a little earlier, I might have appreciated the will to develop the moon.]

Illusion Road, the ideal King of Demons.

I haven’t seen it, but Phantom, the current strongest Great Demon King, is the former Great Demon King who met and killed him. True to its name, Illusion Lord, he came to the Lord with the concept of illusion, and even at that time, he was strong enough to claim himself as the strongest among the Great Demon Kings.

It was not just the strength of an individual, but also the strength of many. This is because he was one of the three major realization-type abilities, and he was a monster who could materialize his army only with his own will.

I’m a strong person with a different feeling from me who kills the majority, but if I fight, I lose. That’s how strong he is.

It was at most 8,000 years ago, but considering that the time axis of the dimension is slow due to the nature of the remote dimension, it must have been tens of thousands of years ago. It’s no wonder he was alive at the time.

And the other one.

It is the first time even I have seen the existence of one other than the worst demon king, Utopia, and the ideal demon king, Illusion Road.

One of the demon lords not left in the records, she was delicate and like an adult woman. She is only slightly taller than Shion, but her bodily voluptuousness is more than that. In addition to that, there was something like a tree branch sprouting from the temple area…

You can tell at once what race she is. And who she was.

King of nature.

The family of the Absolute of Nature. Gardener at Nature Garden. Transcendence Lu-Beana.

And an irregular member of the family created by a transcendental person like Nuri.

[Honestly, I don’t like this place. If you had the will to restore the natural environment, you would have seen it, but you are not even aware of it]

A girl with bright blue-green hair resembling the buds of a pine tree that blooms in spring speaks.

It was a girl who seemed to humanize the fresh spring. No, she looks like a girl, but she resembles her owner, and her body is quite unbalanced, like a loli with big breasts. Those who like it will like it, but the judgment continues anyway.

[Anyway, let’s judge. First of all, from me…… This civilization has developed and developed technology that applied spirits, but it has no will to overcome the evils. It is unacceptable to just move forward on such a subject. What’s more, you guys don’t intend to use this planet cleanly, but are thinking of developing and migrating to other planets or other dimensions, aren’t you?]

Humans should not be bound by the past.

That’s why I also sympathize as the Great Demon King. But just because he says he shouldn’t be stuck in the past, he shouldn’t turn away from the past and move on.

At least you shouldn’t simply forget what you have to keep in mind and move on.

Are you forgetting history and tradition? Have you already forgotten why Japan perished on Earth?

Take what you need, but forget what you need to forget. It was the law that civilization developed only when it was separated and moved forward.

And there is no future given to those who forget it.

[So I’m going to convict]

And next is the Illusion Road of the Great Demon King.

In fact, I have seen only stories and records about him, but this is the first time I have seen it so vividly. Even in the past, it’s honestly rare to have such a detailed record.

[Impossible to remain in civilization. It represents a milestone on the way forward. Are there any other goals left in the civilization of this era other than the goal of survival? Do you still have a goal to reach it, even if it is just a fantasy?]

Among the former Great Demon Kings, there was also a Great Demon King who dealt with the concept of a dream. And the concept that Illusion Road deals with is ideal.

It seems the same, but it is different. As if an ordinary human trying to become president is relatively ideal, but trying to become a god is a dream. The latter is a far more absurd and unrealistic dream.

So, perhaps, the judgment of the Great Demon King who sees dreams is not an individual, but a civilization as a whole. For example, the United States during the Cold War dreamed of going to the moon. In the end, I succeeded in bringing my dream down to reality… But anyway.

[No. There is no way left for a civilization without purpose. I will also plead guilty.]

What remains is the last Great Demon King I have never seen.

He is only the king of nature.

[As you develop spirit technology, pollutants generated through ectoplasm technology do not simply last for a long time, but accumulate in the star itself. As soon as it is thrown away, it accumulates in the sea or deep underground and gradually kills the stars over hundreds of thousands of years. Compared to the star’s age, it’s not that long, but it’s a different story if you’re killing it for sure.]

What would happen if all the nuclear bombs on Earth exploded?

Of course, mankind will perish. All that is left is the land and the world contaminated by radioactivity.

But the stars won’t die. After tens of thousands of years, it is clear that a new world will eventually open again. That is the life force of a star.

However, if it is limited to physical things, pollutants originating from spirits are different. Even if it is feeble, it does not rot even after tens or hundreds of thousands of years, but spreads its malignant nature.

[Even now, this star is showing early symptoms of cancer. At that level, there is a possibility that it can be cured with treatment… But if the patient does not have the heart to do so, he will eventually deteriorate and die]

No matter how simple a disease is, if the patient does not have the mindset to treat it, it becomes an incurable disease.

We, the Great Demon King, believe in humans and leave the last chance. Even utopia, if there is any hope left, regards it as hope and gives a lenient judgment.

They say they are the great demon kings of the past, but their judgment will be the same as ours.

The Anima Empire perished because it deserved to perish. In the first place, it is my fault for judging the civilization of the time by listening only to Baek-hee, one of the vested interests of the time.

“Aaaaa…”

Baek-hee groaned as she watched the video, perhaps recalling her lost memories.

Is it pain or is it fear? The emotion in that voice was so complex that it was difficult for me to grasp.

It was only now that he seemed to know why Jaeho and Yugwi had gone mad. If the Great Demon King descended and wiped out civilization at once and saw what happened after that, it’s strange that ordinary people wouldn’t go crazy.

Even if a phantom reveals himself in the form of a giant of the abyss, even a few transcendent people cannot face it.

It must have been a shock enough to make you think it was natural for him to go crazy and for Baek-hee to forget his memories of the time.

[Three out of three guilty. The treatment of this civilization has been decided unanimously]

[As for the judge… Well, let’s leave it to Aurum this time]

[Anyway, there is no one but me to purify the pollutants accumulated in this civilization, right?]

I don’t know her full name, but I know that at least one of her names is Aurum. Information about the former Great Demon King is sparse, so it’s hard to find out, but it’s a pretty good thing.

Why don’t you ask Utopia? Do you think he’ll come up with something like that easily?

Soon after, the video cut off.

[Images above this level are lost due to zero magnetic waves and cannot be reproduced. However, only the fact that there was a sudden change in weather remains in the record.]

But it’s worth knowing roughly what happened.

Lu-Beana is a descendant of the Absolute of Nature. She lives in Nature Garden and has been assigned some of her powers.

Although they do not enter the dimensional species that sustain this world, they are transcendental species belonging to the transcendental ones from birth. And that strength… At least the level of Nuri is something to think about.

“I think I know why the creatures here have evolved so much and no pollutants have been seen even after only 8,000 years have passed.”

All doubts have been cleared.

The appearance of animals that need to evolve over hundreds of thousands of years and the absence of contaminants that should have remained for a long time are all her work.

Evolution is, in the end, a direction derived from nature, nature is included in the environment, and if it is her power as a descendant of the absolute of nature, it is natural that the growth of animals and plants affected by that power is rapid, even if it is only a very small fragment. Enough to achieve evolution that took hundreds of thousands of years in thousands of years.

Of course, the power does not simply affect animals and plants.

Nature’s ability to self-purify was also included in it, although it took thousands of years to borrow the power of the Transcendental One… Pollutants that should have lasted for hundreds of thousands of years were purified in just a few thousand years.

“This…….”

“Hmm”

I was at a loss to say anything. In the face of great fear, Jin-gyo hugs her body and tries to calm her down somehow, but she can’t comfort her in that way as her memories of that time come to mind.

As far as I am concerned, I am the current Great Demon King, and this civilization has already been destroyed… Above all, I am on vacation.

Don’t you know it’s disrespectful to urge you to work while you’re on vacation!!!!!