Chapter 1267 - 719: Transcendence Experiment
Chapter 1267: Chapter 719: Transcendence Experiment
In Su Yu’s view, continuing to "go up" was meaningless. Even if he went to an upper layer again, there might still be an even higher layer, going on and on, without end.
Only by completely transcending these stacked Narrative Dimensions could he truly transcend and gain real freedom.
The Narrative Dimension Su Yu had previously been in had always been influenced by the upper layer’s High-dimensional Destiny; all kinds of pain, Death, and tragedy were born from it.
Now Su Yu had arrived at this upper Narrative Layer, yet he was still controlled and affected by the Power of Narrative, forced to fall into a story.
On top of that, Su Yu saw these human warriors being written by the behind-the-scenes existence into a story, trapped in that never-ending war with the aliens. All of this made Su Yu feel very pitiful, very helpless.
However, the behind-the-scenes existence that controlled and wrote all this might also be subject to the writing and control of an even higher layer; no one could be freed.
That was why Su Yu felt so strongly that he wanted to transcend the Narrative Dimension.
And that behind-the-scenes existence should be the same!
"Could it be that this place is an experimental field? These humans and aliens, under the control of the story, keep fighting and killing, just to see whether an existence that transcends ’story’ can be born?"
An inspiration flashed through Su Yu’s mind, and he finally understood the deeper intent of this "story" before him.
An experimental field!
Trillions upon trillions of humans, along with aliens, had been fighting and warring for billions of years within this story.
Perhaps a genius would emerge, awakening a power that could break free of the Power of Narrative and no longer be controlled by anything.
Thinking of this, Su Yu recalled all kinds of things he had experienced in the lower Narrative Layer before.
At that time, when Su Yu wanted to cross Narrative Layers, he was obstructed by the upper Narrative Layer. The behind-the-scenes existence of the upper Narrative Layer used the method of writing a story to accelerate the lower layer’s logical collapse, trying to make Su Yu completely die.
Back then Su Yu thought it was the existence of the upper Narrative Layer that was afraid of him "going up," so it tried to block him.
After all, once both sides were in the same Narrative Layer, the other party would no longer have that kind of absolute crushing advantage.
But now it seemed that the behind-the-scenes existence might also have been experimenting at that time.
It wanted to see whether Su Yu, the strongest in the lower Narrative Layer, could break through the obstruction and go to the upper layer, or even... directly achieve transcendence!
And once Su Yu arrived at the upper layer, he went through several more stories.
In these stories, the behind-the-scenes existence seemed to want to kill Su Yu, yet also seemed not to have used its full strength.
Now it looked like it was still experimenting.
"My being thrown in here is also part of the experiment..."
Su Yu said to himself in his heart.
He was extremely different from other lives in one aspect: he possessed the trait of an "Audience Reader."
In any Narrative Dimension, it was difficult to write anything onto Su Yu.
In a sense, Su Yu himself was already in a half-transcendence state and could, to a certain degree, remain unaffected by the Power of Narrative.
So after various tests, the behind-the-scenes existence treated Su Yu as an important experimental subject and threw him into the story before his eyes, wanting to see what kind of performance he would show...
Of course, there was another point: although the behind-the-scenes existence treated Su Yu as an experimental subject, it should also genuinely fear Su Yu.
After all, the power Su Yu had displayed previously in the lower Narrative Layer was extremely strong. Now that he had come to the upper layer he was weakened, but it wasn’t certain he couldn’t return to his peak.
So the behind-the-scenes existence kept hiding its head and showing its tail, never appearing.
Thinking of this, Su Yu already had a grasp on the current situation in his heart.
Then he stopped thinking about it and instead turned his attention back to the current battlefield.
With a thought, countless neural tendrils erupted from his body and swept directly across the battlefield.
These neural tendrils instantly pierced into the bodies of a great number of worm monsters, draining all their Spiritual Energy.
On this planet there were over a hundred million worm monsters, and in the blink of an eye Su Yu had absorbed several million of them.
The human warriors beside him, seeing this, were all extremely excited and threw themselves into the slaughter as well.
With Su Yu’s participation, the battle ended very quickly; the hundreds of millions of worm monsters were all slaughtered.
Su Yu also absorbed the Spiritual Energy of tens of millions of worm monsters, and his strength rose again.
It was just that there was still some distance to the Fifth-Order. After all, with Subspace no longer existing, if Su Yu wanted to advance to the Fifth-Order, he would have to solidly accumulate Planet Level energy. For him now, that was a massive project.
He would probably have to carry out several hundred more such clearing battles, wipe out hundreds of alien species, to accomplish it.
Fortunately, things quickly took a turn.
After finishing the sweep of the worm monsters, Su Yu and the three hundred thousand human warriors returned to the mothership, then initiated another jump to head to the next Star System for clearing.
Just like that, after five more sweeps, Su Yu returned to the mothership and met that Fourth-Order mothership Commander.
This Commander, after seeing Su Yu’s results from these few battles, confirmed that he truly wished to serve and that his combat strength was great.
So this Commander told Su Yu that with his strength he shouldn’t be drifting around on this kind of low-level battlefield; he should go to a higher-level battlefield.
The Commander contacted the Imperial core through the mothership and quickly got a transfer order for Su Yu, sending him to the battlefield at the center of the River System to participate in the real war with the Spirit Beast Clan.
Obviously, with Su Yu here their casualties would be much lower, but this Commander still resolutely sent Su Yu to another battlefield.
Clearly they were all affected by the story; everything was for battle. They truly treated Death with indifference. Su Yu lowering their casualties here meant nothing to them. All they cared about was whether a fighting force like Su Yu could be put to effective use.
And this fit Su Yu’s wishes; he also found the battles here far too low-level and unable to let him absorb enough Spiritual Energy to regain his strength.
So very quickly, Su Yu boarded a small independent spacecraft and set off on the journey toward the center of the River System.
The warriors who had followed Su Yu through five or six clearing battles were somewhat reluctant to part with him and all offered him their heartfelt blessing, hoping that Su Yu could die on the battlefield.
"What kind of blessing is that? How ominous..."
After leaving, Su Yu recalled that "blessing" and felt it was a bit unlucky.
But he knew those warriors meant no harm; they were sincere.
To those warriors, the meaning of their existence was battle. To die on the battlefield was truly to die where they belonged; it was a good ending.
But Su Yu had no intention of dying so bafflingly.
The small spacecraft Su Yu rode in had good performance; it could reach tens of thousands of times Light Speed. It was estimated that in only three or four months he would arrive at the battlefield against the Spirit Beast Clan.
In these three or four months, Su Yu traveled while performing Super-quality Conversion, plundering the surrounding planets’ energy to replenish himself.
Although it was not as fast as directly absorbing Spiritual Energy, it was better than nothing.
However, halfway through the flight, Su Yu suddenly thought of something...
"Wait, what was that Commander’s name again?"
Read Novel Full