Light Fortress Chapter 2000 - 53: Dreamweaver

The death of the Black Snow Mountain Giant did not end this "war"; instead, it made the retaliation of the Sacrificial even more fierce.

The portals of the Traveler Tribe continued to open incessantly—

The death of the leader drove these low-level creatures completely mad!

"Chu Ling, bring the ’Genesis’ over."

A wisp of blazing fire pierced through the snowy clouds, swept into the Genesis shield, and transmitted this sound before Gu Shen contemplated the ancient text on the stone tablet.

Boom!

The next moment, the massive starship started without hesitation and plowed forward, smashing tens of thousands of Sacrificial in half, forcibly pushing a thousand meters through the snowfield. Earlier, Gu Shen had deliberately directed the Genesis away during the battle with the Black Snow Mountain Giant... although he had the upper hand, battles involving source-level power were nonetheless incredibly powerful with every clash.

Now that the Black Snow Mountain Giant had fallen, the Traveler Tribe could no longer pose a "deadly threat" to the Genesis!

The starship arrived before the felled snowy mountain, opened its shield, and enveloped Gu Shen—

"I need one hour."

Gu Shen said only this, then fell silent, closing his eyes and immersing all his focus into the stone tablet.

"One hour?"

Turing looked at this ancient text and couldn’t help but ask, "You want to comprehend the text in such a short time?"

The next moment, he fell silent.

The blazing fire erupted from Gu Shen’s brow and split into nine strands! Nine flows of Heart Flow Power, ninefold comprehension efficiency! The dim ancient text on the tablet quickly lit up, and when it did, nine spots lit up!

"......"

Turing had no words to say.

He truly didn’t anticipate that Gu Shen’s cultivation of mood was so incredibly advanced.

Even with nine flows of Heart Flow together for comprehension... one hour is still a bit too short.

"Next, our task is to endure for one hour."

Turing clenched his fists and looked at the dense wave of Sacrificial ahead, asking solemnly, "With the reserves of the Genesis, how long can we withstand the current offense? I want to know an accurate data."

Alf was silent for a few seconds, then said, "If these Sacrificial continue to attack the Genesis without interruption, our Source Material Shield consumption rate will exceed the replenishment rate... The duration we can endure will depend on the energy reserves of the Genesis."

Turing took a deep breath: "So how long?"

"About four years."

Alf said seriously, "At least over fifteen hundred days."

"???"

Turing looked at Alf with a very peculiar expression.

One second he was considering how to deal with the current crisis, as Gu Shen needed to meditate to comprehend the stone tablet to unlock the puzzle of restarting the world, which was supposed to be the toughest challenge.

But the next moment, Alf’s answer completely deflated him.

"Theoretically, you could sit on the mountaintop, make a cup of hot coffee, and then pick up a thousand-year-old Starship Daily, enjoying this leisurely Old World afternoon tea time."

Alf offered a fair suggestion: "If you feel bored, I still have dramas from the era of the Starship Civilization that were popular back then to help pass time, and an hour will fly by quickly."

"Am I here for a vacation?" Turing said angrily, "The current scene is so dire, I really want to do something, okay? Tell me what I can do!"

"Alright."

Alf thought seriously for a moment and said, "Perhaps you can try putting on a battle suit and fight alongside Red Shadow. Friendly reminder, there are High Order Transcendent beings that have reached the ’Sealing Title Battle Power’ among the Traveler Tribe. They’ve already entered the internal space of the first Source Energy Shield layer and are advancing towards the second shield domain."

"Get me a cup of coffee, thanks, I want it iced," Turing said.

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Gu Shen once again arrived at his own Heart Lake.

Before him was a silent lake, and this time the Origin Will did not act cryptically... it sat directly on the lake’s surface, meeting Gu Shen openly and honestly.

"Are you here?" It smiled.

"I am." Gu Shen glanced down at his hand, which held nothing.

"Don’t look; the Fire Extinguishing Sword, a ’concept weapon’ like that, cannot be brought into your Spiritual Domain."

The Origin Will stood, smiling as it spoke: "You should know, that sword belongs to me, not to you."

This was not a hard statement to understand.

The Fire Extinguishing Sword could be "drawn" by Gu Shen only because it existed in the world simulated by the Origin Will.

Yet here, was a truly Gu Shen’s Spiritual Domain.

"According to you, everything in this world belongs to you... but is that really the case?" Gu Shen said indifferently, "If the Fire Extinguishing Sword were truly yours, it wouldn’t have remained suspended in the bronze hall of the Genesis all this time. You would have taken it down and cut me to pieces long ago. Why negotiate with me, and why push for restart time and time again?"

"You are a smart person."

The Origin Will sighed lightly, shrugged helplessly, and said, "You’re right, in theory, everything in this world is mine. I only have ’ownership,’ yet not ’rights of movement.’ I cannot remove the Fire Extinguishing Sword, nor can I prevent you from forcibly exiting."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, waiting silently for what came next.

"So, I have come again, and I’m willing to make a second concession."

The Origin Will said softly, "I don’t want to continue this game anymore. You can take all the people you want—Zhou Jiren, Tianshaun, Zhong Wei, Xiugu... and Chu Ling."

"Oh?"

Gu Shen smiled.

This negotiation saw the Origin Will adopting such a low stance, it was quite amusing. Last time they met, its attitude was still very firm.

"Come on, it’s just another restart."

Gu Shen said calmly, "This game is very interesting, let’s keep playing, and play it longer."

The Origin Will’s expression turned a bit dark.

Yes, Gu Shen was right.

Just a single reboot!

This kid is like he’s got a cheat activated, speeding all the way ahead, unstoppable!

The source material storm is ineffective, and the Traveler Tribe’s full attack is also ineffective!

If Gu Shen had just obtained a starship, it might have been fine... But now he has already leveled Black Snow Mountain, and in an hour, the Gate Ancient Text of the Traveler Tribe will be completely comprehended by Gu Shen!

The last negotiation, its attitude was so tough.

Because it felt the game still "had potential," at that time Gu Shen’s Chi Huo had only awakened a bit.

But just one reboot, one time!

Gu Shen’s Chi Huo had awakened to the extent that he could easily slay a Black Snow Mountain Giant...

How did he do it?

The infiltration efficiency of external Chi Huo suddenly increased by tens to hundreds of times!

The most important thing is—

Gu Shen directly pulled out the "Fire Extinguishing Sword," how can it continue to play the game like this?

The biggest ace of the Origin Will is the source material storm of the Old World. If the starship wants to navigate within the Old World, more than 90% of the paths deep within the Old World would be covered by source material storms. It could bombard the starship fiercely by altering the timeline... but now its biggest ace is directly silenced!

Source material storm?

In front of the Fire Extinguishing Sword, it is a joke!

Concept weapons like this exceed the ability limit of the Origin Will during their creation—

Gu Shen was right in guessing that power above spark level is not something the Origin Will can create and erase at will!

Therefore... this seemingly unsolvable "Dream" actually has a very simple and crude solution.

As long as a perfect Fire Seed forging "Divine Throne" steps into this black hole.

This seemingly perfect spiritual world will spontaneously crumble because the "world" fabricated by the Origin Will cannot form logical consistency in the presence of the Divine Throne.

It cannot alter the timeline concerning the Divine Throne.

It only weaves this dream through the spirit of the dreamers.

It... is a dream weaver.

Seemingly omnipotent, but its abilities are limited everywhere. The perfection of this dream comes from the "imagination" of the dream’s master, likewise... its biggest drawback also comes from "imagination."

If in Gu Shen’s cognition, this world does not have a "Fire Extinguishing Sword," then this world indeed lacks this sword.

In other words... The power of a weapon like the Fire Extinguishing Sword depends on Gu Shen’s imagination.

After all, it’s just a concept.

But concepts, these things, are precisely the most terrifying.

During the Starship Era, there was never a creation of a so-called "extinguishing" sword. When Gu Shen first ventured out, his swinging sword could extinguish the source material storm, only relying on his "imagination."

So the Origin Will suspects that Gu Shen actually already guessed what it feared most.

This reboot.

He grabbed the Fire Extinguishing Sword intending to kill it!

"You... are mad?"

The Origin Will couldn’t hold it any longer and said in a low voice: "I have read the Spirit Sea of each of you, and I know what you lack most now is time! Spending every minute and second here will make the wars on the Five Continents more severe, is it meaningful to stall here with me?"

"If it took tens to hundreds of reboots, then indeed I couldn’t afford to waste time."

Gu Shen calmly said: "But as it stands now, it seems you don’t have that capability... Remember what I said before, I will find you, and then devour you."

Not waiting for the Origin Will to speak again.

Gu Shen wiped lightly with two fingers along a long line—

He directly locked Heart Lake, since this is, after all, his own spiritual domain!

In the distant vast Heart Lake, countless mist instantly surged, the vague figure condensed by the Origin Will wanted to say something more, but before he could step out, the lake surface instantly ignited with raging fire!

For a moment, waves of heat surge, raising a wall of Chi Huo as wide as a chasm between Gu Shen and the Origin Will!

"Negotiation" only appears when both sides are evenly matched.

If in the last negotiation, the Origin Will had agreed with Gu Shen to take everyone away... then Gu Shen might have chosen to agree.

He indeed didn’t want to waste time in this spiritual world.

But now it is too late.

Gu Shen doesn’t know what caused the rapid awakening of "Chi Huo," but at this moment, he is already wielding the Sword of Judgement, controlling his own destiny!

The Origin Will guessed correctly.

Before starting this reboot, he speculated on the "bug" of this dream.

All the details of this dream are provided by the dreamers...

So, to break through, he needs to find the weapon that directly targets the Origin Will’s vulnerability.

Now that he has taken the Fire Extinguishing Sword, he possesses the ability to overturn the game table, why would he still consider negotiating with the Origin Will?

Next, just wait for the Traveler’s Gate Ancient Text to be completed in comprehension, he will immediately replicate the Exile Array Patterns of Deep Sea.

Able to fabricate such a perfect spiritual world based on the spirit of the "dreamers."

The Origin Will of this world can be described as a divine miracle left by the creator!

This is much stronger compared to the "humanoid black hole" he accidentally found earlier!

If he could find this "black hole" and devour it... Chi Huo might evolve through a material change, right?

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(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone~ That’s all for today~)