21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 904 - 898 World Consciousness
Chapter 904 -898 World Consciousness
From Inomata Naoki’s perspective, it might simply be that he’d figured out certain things, accepted the emotions brought by a dream he couldn’t even remember, and experienced something he deemed unremarkable and hardly worth mentioning.
But in Chen Yu’s eyes, what Inomata Naoki had gone through was akin to a battering ram, forcefully striking against the already fragile and disrupted world rules.
The violent impact finally caused a breach in the operation of the world rules, achieving the state Chen Yu had anticipated.
Just as he’d seen in visions before—countless rules enveloped the world like a colossal net, intertwined and tangled like roots, embedding themselves into every corner of the world.
This was the ultimate manifestation of order; it was the essence of the world.
And it was the ultimate pursuit mages tirelessly strived for.
Ordinary mages had no hope of accessing the rules; even powerful mages needed the aid of various methods to barely glimpse fragments of this highest embodiment of order.
To attempt, as Chen Yu did, to fully uncover the ultimate manifestation of order—that was something utterly impossible.
For even if they could endure the impact of the rules carrying the information of an entire world, they still wouldn’t have the means to comprehend the entirety of the rules shaping the world.
As for triggering a tremor in the world rules, allowing them to emerge visibly, like what Chen Yu had done—this was absolutely beyond the capacity of ordinary mages, and furthermore, it was not something they would dare to attempt.
It’s not that these mages were morally upright or reluctant to cause destructive harm to the world rules; the true reason was that if they dared do so, they would face extremely grave consequences.
In novels, whenever villains stir trouble, or when a Demon King sets out to conquer the world, heroes always emerge to vanquish evil. Despite immense hardships, the heroes ultimately prevail.
While such stories remain fiction, the reason heroes are willing and able to defeat evil stems from the author deciding that’s how the narrative unfolds. But what if transplanted into reality?
The matter would be quite different.
The world possesses consciousness—though it might be simple, even sluggish to the point of dullness. Moreover, as the world rules approach perfection, the world consciousness would eventually completely lapse into slumber, assimilated into the rules themselves. Yet when someone seeks to harm the world or disrupt its rules, even the dullest world consciousness would instinctively resist.
The method of resistance employed by the world consciousness involves nurturing what is called the Child of the World, granting them extraordinary fortune to combat evil.
And that is the hero, the protagonist of the tale, the brightest star of an era.
Of course, this resistance might at times fail. After all, not every brave soul successfully defeats the Demon King; only those who triumph can marry the princess, inherit the throne, ascend to glory, and be hailed as heroes.
Besides this, the world holds another means of opposition—leveraging the power of deities.
When deities acquire divine rank and divine duty, they merge with the world, becoming part of it. Thus, whenever the world consciousness acts, deities turn into its most effective tools.
In worlds where deities walk among mortals, those who threaten the world will inevitably face the swiftest reaction from the gods.
Decreeing divine mandates, mobilizing followers to purge heretics, or even descending catastrophic divine punishment personally—such scenarios are all within the realm of possibility.
Thus, in most circumstances, mages dare not destabilize the world rules or obstruct their operation. Doing so would likely result in abhorrence from the world rules, where the entire world turns against you.
You might trip on flat ground and snap your neck, choke while drinking water, suffocate face-down in your sleep, or laugh yourself to death…
The greater the impact you bring to the world, the stronger its rejection will be. In extreme cases, you may be expelled from the world or face rejection from every world in the Multiverse.
If you were to personally destroy a world, every world within the Multiverse would deny your entry, turning you into a wanderer among the cosmos.
Though most would perish under the world’s resistance before reaching the point of rejection, there are still a handful of powerful beings unconcerned about the world’s opposing consciousness, who dare to act and even succeed in doing so.
This is precisely why such methods are known to some.
As long as one possesses sufficient power, while keeping the disturbance to the world rules at an acceptable level, the cost of such actions is tolerable.
However, for most individuals inclined toward this path, they lack the strength to resist the world’s consciousness. Those who do possess such power rarely need to act in such a manner to achieve equivalent goals. Added to the undesirable prospect of rejection by the world, the number of practitioners is exceedingly scarce.
As for why Necromancers dare to tread this path—on the one hand, the profession itself is inherently unlikable. Within nearly every world of the Multiverse, Necromancers are widely ostracized, so further enmity or rejection from the world doesn’t pose a significant issue for them.
Moreover, as necromantic space techniques mature and develop, Necromancers, upon reaching the strength necessary to construct a necromantic space, tend to spend most of their time confined to their own domain. This renders the world’s rejection virtually irrelevant to them.
Naturally, all this hinges on the premise that the Necromancer does not cause extensive harm through their actions against the world rules, avoiding outright expulsion or suffering heroic assaults—or worse yet, divine punishment.
While Chen Yu’s actions undeniably disrupted and shook the world consciousness, the rules of Earth were already well-refined. Moreover, Chen Yu’s methods were neither excessively violent nor destructive, which kept the world’s resistance relatively mild.
Additionally, as a figure second only to the Three Precious Children in the Japanese Pantheon, Inari God’s strength was sufficient to shield Chen Yu from the world’s counter-reactions. By taking personal responsibility for the matter, Inari God effectively prevented interference from other deities.
This allowed Chen Yu to smoothly execute his plans. Now, with the impact upon the World Rules reaching the scale he envisioned, he could finally begin attempting to seize the rules themselves.
