Age of Adepts

Floating City is crashing....

This also meant that there wasn't much time left for the invaders to scavenge and plunder for resources and treasures.

Thus the battle on top of the Floating Sky City grew more intense!

And in the inner ring of the Floating Sky City, in an arcane academy seven kilometers west of the Hall of Arcane Arts, a unique lecture was still underway.

It was still the same Hall of Learning, and the same two familiar figures.

Lucia was sitting in the first row of the vast Hall of Learning, listening carefully to His Excellency Brown's narrative.

Today, His Excellency Brown was talking about the origin of life, which also contained some of his own views and opinions.......

The inside of the Noble Hall of Learning was empty, just him and Lucia, and his broad, gentle voice even echoed over the entire hall, unable to cover even the earth-destroying elemental roar outside.

"The origin of life has different theoretical insights in different bits..."

"In the bit worlds ruled by the gods, their uniform interpretation is that life was created by the gods! All of heaven and earth, all of the bits of living creatures were created by a great deity who combined some bits of matter with his body or blood..."

"While these gods have coaxed many foolish believers with this theory, their theory is hard to justify. At least they can't explain where the gods came out of again..."

At this point, His Excellency Brown couldn't help but laugh out loud.

And through the translucent crystal curtain wall behind him, one could faintly see an arcane tower in the distant sky being knocked out of the sky by the enemy, crashing onto the surface of the floating city and sending out a shocking explosion.

The shockwaves quickly reached the Academy of Arcane Arts, causing a large number of buildings to continue to shake and shake. Even the hall of learning where the two of them were also began to shake slightly, and from the top of the beautifully domed vault of heaven, countless ash and detached porcelain tiles fell down.

However, the two within the hall paid no attention to this, and were still listening to a serious lecture....

"...Most bit creatures live their entire lives in a muddled state, not even realizing that they are within a closed space protected by the bit boundary membrane. Only those higher consciousnesses that have awakened are aware of the problem and try to find the answer..."

"And their answer lies in the Bit Void..."

"The bit is not real, the void is not empty..."

"Each of the bit worlds is a patchwork of strange substances rolled up from the void. Originally they were all sentient and unintelligent cold substances, and they did not contain any animals or plants. But when the bit surface boundary membrane fused, it wrapped the entire world intact and isolated it from the powerful and terrifying void storm outside. Then, in less than a hundred years, strange life seeds will be born from nothing within the boundary membrane..."

At this point, the Brown Austrian couldn't help but look up at the stars, his words filled with awe and yearning for the strange universe.

"The investigation regarding the life on the surface has been going on for thousands of years before and after the Empire. During that time, the great arcane masters with the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth have even created a proto-plane with their own hands, and then spent hundreds of years monitoring the process of the emergence of the life of the Plane from nothing..."

"So where did the first life born within the bit come from?" Lucia couldn't help but widen her eyes and lick her lips, eagerly inquiring.

"Beyond the Bit, the Endless Void..." the Brown Auror couldn't help but sigh grudgingly.

"Beyond the bit plane, the Endless Void?" Lucia couldn't help but murmur and repeat.

"Yes, the great Olympians feel as amazed as you do! The first source of life on the surface came from outside the surface..." Brown sighed for a moment and then returned to normalcy, "After the Grand Aurors came to this conclusion, they made various investigations based on it, and found that most of the creatures within the surface worlds are surprisingly similar to each other. Up to 87%. Although some creatures have undergone some physical and skeletal mutations in different bits and environments, when it comes to their origin, they still originate from the same life source..."

Outside of the Hall of Learning, loud rumbling sounds continued to be heard, as sheets of heavenly fire fell from the sky and melted the large buildings of the Academy of Arts and Sciences into a baked cake.

The entire world began to burn silently.

And at the end of the line of sight, a topmost flaming giant was roaring furiously, raising his hands and waving a steady stream of flames, as if he was battling some powerful enemy.

The arcane barrier on the hall's surface had yet to dissipate, barely blocking the rapidly rising waves of terror outside.

However, the arcane runes etched on the thick stone pillars surrounding the hall had been slightly damaged by the previous shocks. Some strange flames penetrated through the gaps in the arcane barrier, causing the temperature inside the hall to slowly rise as well.

The surrounding buildings had collapsed and melted one after another, and the Hall of Learning was still struggling to function thanks to the presence of the Brown Olympian, the arcane barrier. Just looking at the cool and frightening surroundings, it wasn't likely that this place would hold up for much longer.

"Since the Grand Aurors have perceived the source of life and the bits beyond, have they not traced the true source of life?" Lucia blushed with eagerness to pursue the question.

"The cruelty and ferocity of the Bit Void is unimaginable to those who have not experienced it. It was in order to explore the mysteries of the depths of the starry sea, to discover the origin of the life of the Bit Void, those great arcane masters this is why they created the mighty and powerful half-space fortress, and conquered it along a certain fixed trajectory, one bit at a time..."

"By the time the Empire faced this crisis, the Austrian Empire had sought out and conquered a total of two thousand three hundred and seventeen planes, and turned them all into our secondary planes or resource planes..."

"Certain great Olympians still believe to this day that if we can travel to all the bit worlds and radiate the power of the Arcane Empire to every corner of the multiverse, then any secret will no longer be a secret in our eyes. The entire multiverse is like an arcane garden behind our house, at our disposal..."

"Is this...teacher, has this idea already deviated from the original point of our departure? What's the difference between us and those calamitous creatures if we go on like this?" Lucia's face was spread with a look of pain and struggle, and she shook her head in annoyance.

"Do you think, little Lucia, that all people are like you, that they will always maintain that original idea? Decipher the origin of the plane and discover the reality of the universe! Such an idea is something that each of us can do at first. But as our power grows stronger and the knowledge we gather grows larger and larger, we are able to destroy a bit and a world by raising our hands. At that time, will we still be able to calm down and continue to pursue our truth?" Brown sighed melodramatically.

"After countless Olympians and countless years of exploration and speculation, the upper echelons of the Olympian Empire are convinced that this multiverse we live in may not be the only one, much less the whole. Outside the multiverse there may still exist life-spaces similar to ours, and in order to maintain the activity and flow of life within, there is also a strange exchange of matter and life between the different multiverse..."

"There is an exchange between the multiverse and the multiverse, and within the multiverse, there is a hidden and inevitable exchange of matter and life between bits and pieces..."

Lucia's mouth opened in surprise when she heard this, and she couldn't help but murmur, "If... if this exchange really exists, then who is the first driving force? Could it be... does a supreme being really exist in the multiverse, probing and controlling everything in the multiverse?"

"Little Lucia, you should already know that every bitworld, when the living beings reproduce and grow, will give birth to a shadowy and instinctive bitconsciousness. This bit-consciousness will manipulate the laws of the bit-world and make the entire bit-world run according to a certain law or instinct..."

"So do we have bit consciousness on the Morian plane as well?" Lucia's eyes widened in curiosity.

"Of course there is. You, me, and any life, any tiny bit of matter in the Morian Plane are all part of the Great Plane Consciousness. If you have the opportunity to advance to the 1st Ring Orb, you will be able to briefly touch the Great Bit Consciousness the moment you advance..." spoiled Brown as he looked at the alert and studious apprentice before him.

The two of them did not have the mantle of mentor and disciple, but at this moment, he had taught and passed on the other as his own disciple from the bottom of his heart.

Lucia gazed at the thought.

She couldn't imagine what such a huge bit world would be like once it gave birth to a bit consciousness? Does it also have feelings of joy, sorrow or pain like humans or ordinary creatures? And how does it manipulate the bit beings?

Outside the hall, the rumbling of the elements was even greater.

The battle of the flaming giants in the distance seemed to be getting closer and closer to the Hall of Learning, the outer walls of the hall had been baked red by the terrifying heat, and the towering dome-shaped vault of heaven was beginning to soften and flow downwards drop by drop with crimson molten lava.

The Brown Olympian waved his hand, and a tall Olympian puppet standing in a pestle beside him stepped forward, shielding them from the falling ceiling with its massive body and wide arms.

The temperature in the hall became more intolerable!

By now, the floating city had fallen nearly half its height, the entire city's foundations tilted 45 degrees, and most of the surface of the city began to burn and collapse.

Looking out from the crystal walls surrounding the Hall of Learning, the entire horizon was tilted.

There were flames and battles going on everywhere outside, and it looked like the end of the world altogether.

There wasn't much time left for them!