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  Free Extra Story The Prophet Who Will Remember Eternally (4400)

   "So, you are the echo of the pre-epoch civilization."

【Not exactly correct. I am indeed an echo of Terra civilization, but not a pre-epoch. I still exist, and the Terra civilization will not perish, and will not become a 'pre-epoch']

"Well. You can also say that, but the main body of the civilization on the earth is already the new sublimator civilization. Your creator banned you here, probably to prevent you from obtaining the information base and permissions in the subspace. "

【Yes. Can you open it for me? 】

   "No. We true dragons will not interfere with the actions and contracts between you humans, but I can chat with you. For example, what are you going to do with the information base?"

  【Do you admit that I am a human being... I want to become a tinder and leave this place】

   "Tinder... So, are you planning to give up the human beings on this land and go to the starry sky alone? It is a difficult road and very lonely."

  【They are not human. They are another civilization. I don't want to see them]

   "They also worked very hard. Over the past thousand years, human beings have defeated all foreign gods and powerful enemies, pacified natural disasters and aliens, and only then have they re-established civilization from the barrenness... They deserve the word human."

【I know I know…】

  【So I just want to leave】

   "Don't be sad, although I can't help you, it's okay to chat with you."

【Too. what is your name 】

   "Dolan. Dolan Bonarson."

   "You can also call me Ice Menglong, this is the name given to me by humans."

   "Echo, I'm dying."

  【...Yeah, hundreds of years have passed, and you are indeed approaching the limit of your lifespan】

  【…Dolan, do you want to be an Echo? 】

   "Hmm... I actually don't mind. After all, isn't there an echo of a mentor in the subspace maze? To be honest, it would be nice to treat my echo as my child... But I still don't want to."

【Why? ! Do you think echoes are not real life? 】

   "No. How should I put it? It's because I think echo is life too much, so I don't want to create it so rashly."

【…how you said that? 】

   "Do you think, do you think I want to live now?"

  【Should have a little desire to live. But more, I think you are a bit tired]

   "Yes. Although the Creator gave us a lifespan of five hundred years, which seems to limit our immortality, in fact, this is a kind of protection."

  "Some dragons have lived with civilization for a long time, and they will consider themselves members of civilization, and then intervene in civilization, while some will oppress. Some are burnt out and exhausted, and then have perfunctory emotions towards work."

"Recover the consciousness of the dragon every five hundred years, make adjustments, and then help us improve step by step, sharpen our abilities and thinking patterns, and then become a member of the Creator... It is said that if the five ancestors of the year can complete the task entrusted to them by the Creator task, they will have the opportunity to become creators."

"In fact, I belong to the kind that is a bit tired of life. Echo, I want to see something new. The land of Terra is too narrow. I can only see continuous repetition and reincarnation. I don't want to watch it anymore." Yes, so I thought, just find a stronger opponent to die under his hands, or find a human being who is pleasing to the eye and strong enough to kill me, and let him use my blood to promote Terra In the development of civilization, it is also good to add a little variable."

  【What a chaotic idea...so...you don't even want to leave the echo? 】

   "Well. I don't want to live myself, and the echo is my copy. Although it will be alienated in the future, but at the beginning, this echo must be full of irritability and boredom, right?"

   "Why would I create such an echo that doesn't want to be born?"

   "Echo...my friend. You must remember this."

  “Life is a blessing. Only when you have blessings can you create life.”

   “It must not be a burden.”

  【...I'm afraid I won't be able to find anyone to chat with after you die. There is no other consciousness in the Institute of Alien Species except me, and I am sealed in the server, and there is no way to leave]

"Haha, indeed, that's why I'm also worried, friend. I'm doomed to die, and you will live forever as long as the server is not destroyed. How long will it take for humans to find you? I really don't feel relieved, you continue like this , it's only a matter of time before the degeneration of thinking becomes extreme.”

  【I don't hate that kind of ending, extreme is what I want, regardless of success or failure】

"I think this is the reason why you don't have a physical body. You only have one thought, and you will definitely become more and more dead-end...Well, speaking of it, recently, I know a way to help you, whether it is to become The tinder is still the new body."

【Um? Is there a way? Didn't you say you wouldn't help me get out of my restrictions? 】

"Yes. I really won't help you get rid of the restrictions, but if the current Terrans find you and want to release you, you can't do anything without a body—so I plan to prepare the tools for you first, In this way, when a Terran finds you in the future, you can start to act directly, which can save a lot of time."

【…Thanks】

   "Needless to say thank you, I am indeed dying. Thinking about it carefully, that old guy is also dying, and he has been coveting my 'treasure' for a long time, and he can just use it to bet."

  【Treasure? What you said would not be...]

"Yes, the 'bloodline transcription instrument' used by your pre-epoch civilization to lay the foundation for sublimation...is the instrument that records the genes of alien creatures into the human body. Although it cannot record the source material structure, it can transcribe Some basic adaptive bloodlines, I remember that the first batch of bloodline sublimators of human civilization on Terra now used this instrument to assist your predecessors in the way of source quality potions, and this successfully laid the foundation for the modern path of sublimation."

  【...What does he want this ancient thing for? According to what you said, don't the current group of Terrans all have dragon blood in their bodies, and use this as a basis to carry the true form of the blood? This is not as strong as the blood vessel transcription instrument, I don't know how many times]

   "Dragon blood is not perfect. What's more, what the old guy wants to do is to transform human beings into other dragon blood lives that adapt to his ecology, rather than burn the advantages of other lives into the human body."

   "He has a low-light cradle system in his hands, which can interpret and create a fire unit. In addition, there is a perfect cultivation cabin, which is suitable for your current situation."

  【...The human beings on the ground have played with human blood to such a degree...so unclean...】

"Hey. I just said that you have begun to become extreme. After all, what is sacred about something like DNA that can be changed at will? The Terrans of the pre-epoch civilization also fully sublimated themselves, and the current Taila The pullers were even oppressed by the living environment and had to be transformed."

   "If you feel bad, you can also carry out the transformation of the whole people in the future, and get rid of all abnormal genetic modifications... For us real dragons, this is something that can be changed at will."

  【I know, I was the one who was wrong...but I just can't accept this, I can't accept their changes】

   "It's not bad to have such an obsession. Then, goodbye Echo."

  【Goodbye, thank you very much】

【besides…】

  【Hope to see you again, Dolan】

   "...Phew. That stupid Dolan, talking about the most precious treasure, isn't it just a big server?"

【Who are you? 】

   "Oh? There is an artificial intelligence in the server? No... um, an echo?"

  【...You are Solstner the Iron Dragon, Dolan's opponent...Is Dolan dead? 】

   "Hmph, it's still early, at least there are still a few months to live. On the contrary, you, I didn't expect that the purpose of Dolan's fight with me is this. You are His treasure..."

  【Treasure...? 】

"That old man Dolan has a withdrawn personality. He has no interest in doing anything. He has been wandering around the mountains to sleep, or silently watching the development of the elves' cities. Generally speaking, he has no desires. The fact that he has friends really makes me Surprised."

  【You said He is not dead, what do you mean? 】

"I fought with him for the treasure. I didn't lose, and he didn't win, so I just exchanged the treasure and had a dry addiction. Look, the perfect training cabin, I wonder why Dolan appointed this thing, It was originally prepared for you."

"When the current Terrans find you in the future, you can use any means to try to let him create a body for you—don't underestimate it, as one of the Creator's healing facilities, it even our real dragon body It can be slowly regenerated and reshaped, and it only takes a few decades to completely burn out an almost complete dragon body! Unfortunately, the model is wrong, I can only use the super large model, it is only a medium model.”

  【Dolan...】

   "I put the cultivation warehouse on the fifth floor. I'll go see what the old thing has hidden for so many years... Instead, it's you, Echo, what are you going to do after you get the body?"

  【I want to turn myself into a fire seed and go to the stars outside the sky】

   "Tsk, that's crazy, none of us real dragons would have such an idea... But it's also very interesting."

"Anyway, come on, Echo, if I die here, you can use my flesh and blood to create your body - if you have the chance, take my body back to the Bison Mountains and tell my people that I am back , and, I won."

  【Didn't you say you didn't lose or win? 】

   "How can you, a human echo, not know how to lie? Stop pretending, just say whether you agree or not."

  【...do not agree. Dolan did not lose to you]

   "He himself doesn't mind."

【I mind】

   "I didn't expect Echo to be so stubborn... Well, well, then you will tell my people..."

   "Just say, their dragon **** is back."

【Um. I promise you】

-I will not forget.

   "What's the matter, Ian?"

  Ian suddenly paused before walking out of the ice dragon's lair.

  Retrospective vision from the past allowed him to see a lot...and hear a lot.

  Isengard noticed this keenly. The blond boy thought that the traces left by himself and others had not been cleaned up, so he stopped, intending to wait for Ian to point out where his secrets were exposed.

   "No. I didn't reveal anything..." Ian turned his head and looked at the dragon's nest behind him. He said thoughtfully, "It's just... suddenly feeling a little emotional."

"As time goes by, how much of the past in this world has been annihilated in the long river of history...Emotions, friendship, intertwining of cause and effect...Although we have fought against Echo, how much do we know about his past? Everything is like an iceberg. What we see What is there is just the tip of the iceberg, and the real history lurks under the surface of the sea, and when the person concerned dies, everything is forgotten."

"Not to mention, the historical records of those pre-epoch civilizations. What we can preserve is only a drop in the ocean. If even our generation of Terra civilization is completely extinct, the generous elegy of the pre-epoch civilization, the sacrifices and sacrifices of the lost era Step forward, the dedication and struggle of generations will be forgotten."

   "Forgotten... It would be great if it could be remembered forever." Speaking of this, the young man couldn't help but sigh: "I really don't want to be forgotten, even if I think about it, I still feel very unwilling."

   "That is really the most emptiness, the closest to the meaningless ending."

   "You can't say that..."

  Suddenly the topic became so big, Xiou, who was listening on the side, shook his head slightly: "Isn't it also meaningless to always worry about meaningless things? The past and future are annoying, as long as you are happy now."

"You can't say that." Anfa rubbed Xiou's head, and complained: "But it's true that you can't be too immersed in this sense of nothingness. After all, after billions of years, the Terra sun will also collapse. Our elven civilization will definitely not be able to persist until then, but is it because of this that it will not live? Certainly not."

  —Actually, if I follow the path of extinguishing the stars, I will blow up the sun in more than twenty years.

  Although he thought so, Ian didn't say it out. He just said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, if there is no me, except for Anfa, Yisen and Xiou, you two seem to have to die."

   "That's true." Ethan nodded earnestly, and Xiou rubbed his face strangely after agreeing: "But Ian, you are a little narcissistic when you say that-yes, you are right, but a little weird!"

   "This is self-confidence! Don't you think it's handsome?" Isengard objected to this.

   And Ian shrugged, the corners of his mouth curled up.

  He's certainly not narcissistic... just a little sentimental.

  Ian in parallel time and space, and Ian in Daotu, are undoubtedly real.

  They all failed, all will pass away, become a part of nothingness.

  But the guiding star shines in the endless emptiness, illuminating the infinite parallel time and space, allowing Ian to know the possibilities...and then.

  Remember their struggles, their sacrifices, their determination, and acknowledge them all.

   Then, engrave it on your body and turn it into a further strength!

   Looking around at his three friends, Ian's eyes flickered.

  In his own time and space, the Prophet saved people who should have died.

  A prophet changes his own course by changing the destinies of others.

  Without Xiou, Yisen, and Anfa, he would not be able to gather the elements of the Xingxing Path, and get the first path that can leave the Star Prison.

  Afterwards, if he helps more people and changes more fates, he may be able to go further and achieve success.

  So...why on earth did he give up this practice of changing the fate of others on his way to the Star Extinguishing Path, and instead just stay in his hometown and concentrate on farming?

   The answer to all this may have to wait until I go back to find it.

   As for now...

  He has to move on.

   "Dragon, Echo, and all the other forgotten people, those lost paths in parallel time and space... I will not be a memory."

  The boy stepped forward, walked out of the subspace maze, and came to the "third floor" of the Alien Research Institute.

  He whispered to himself: "I will remember you, remember everything. Whether it is the lost memory of the past, or the prophecy of the infinite future, it is all like this."

-I will not forget.

   “Then, set out on a path that leads directly to success.”

   It's not an official update. Originally, this plot was supposed to be released the first time I entered the Ice Dragon's Nest, but it felt too long and procrastinated. After thinking about it, I decided to post it as a side story!

   As for others, there are some important foreshadowings—but they are not particularly important, old readers should understand better!

  (end of this chapter)

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