Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 74 The Road to Redemption ([-])

Great, brilliant, brilliant, fallen.

People used these words to describe the long-lost era of dark science and technology—in that period, human beings once bathed in the most dazzling light and fell into the heaviest and most painful abyss, because the name of that era not only symbolized Being the overlord of the Milky Way in an era also means that technology and reason have reached an unprecedented peak.

No one knows what human beings have spied on the peak, just as the understanding of that era by human beings in later generations is as elusive as darkness. Whether it is called the golden age or the dark technological age, their names all mean Human civilization once shone like a bright supernova among the stars, and then, like a real supernova, it was fleeting. At the end of its glory, it fell into the abyss of dying.

In fact, until the end of the No. 30th millennium, people still knew very little about the broken age that was sealed in the ancient history books.

The history of more than a dozen thousand years ago seemed to be completely torn apart by some kind of force, and disappeared completely in the long river of time.Even the few immortals who were lucky enough to survive that era are unwilling to touch the broken history full of bloodstains and dirt.

Only the painful lessons and the hatred engraved in the bone marrow remain on human beings.

This tenacious race that has spanned the entire long era of strife and wearily walked out of the Warp Storm still bears the heavy scars left by that era.

Although it is difficult to measure the engraved hatred, the ancient Gothic language still retains words called taboo——

artificial intelligence.

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Time is passing slowly.

But in the wastelands of Colchis, the power of time has never been too practical.

In this dry and hot sea of ​​sand, only the endless wind and sand is the eternal proof - rusted city-states, withered corpses, dry lakes, these ancient things are not worth mentioning in the raging sand sea, too Only tenacious beings are qualified to struggle for survival in this dead country that is comparable to several Terra continents.

But even they are not immune, just as the desert in Colchis' vocabulary is connected with the meaning of eternity.

They are struggling to breathe from the turbulence of sand, and naturally they have to walk back to the sand sea at the end of their lives.

On this continent, perhaps only more ancient things can leave traces.

For example - the ancient ruins left by the dark age of technology.

In fact, this huge existence can be easily observed even in the sky above the orbit, but no one has used it to explore it for thousands of years, because it is almost inevitable with death.

The ancient legend that no one ever returned from the man-eating city proves that its existence is extremely difficult to understand.

The great power left in that ancient and dark era still exists in it, and the huge large-scale stagnant force field that came out of nowhere stopped the time of that ancient city-state, just like the event horizon of a black hole, becoming everything A cage that cannot be easily escaped, and the rippling dust in it seems to indicate the aftermath of the old war.

In fact, not even the knowledgeable Tech-Priests could comprehend what was going on while the Empire's Mechanicus observed the dangerous city from orbit.

The readings that were too confusing and incomprehensible became the data that could drive the great sage mad, and the terrible mystery contained in it was finally solved until the Lord of Humanity came in person.

It was a reverberation of the past, the terrible aftermath of a dark technological age.

Undoubtedly, the existence of the static force field is not a protective device deliberately manufactured by some sophisticated instruments, but the influence of a terrifying weapon in that crazy and terrifying dark age of technology.

Regarding the minutiae of that ancient era, it seems that even the emperor is unwilling to mention too much, so that the information about this ancient city-state on Colchis is blocked in the category that only a few people can know.

Among them, naturally also include 'secret religion'.

And the 'secret religion' also knows what is hidden in this city-state.

—that was an old, impassioned, hysterical message.

——that is the reverberation left by a life-and-death battle between the creator and the heir.

——that is a sad story of redemption and despair.

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"We see broken galaxies."

"We saw the world burn."

"Human beings have been exhausted in futility and staggering for too long, too many worlds have been irreparably destroyed because of their arrogance and madness, and too many hopes have been completely destroyed because of their madness and viciousness."

"Code is no longer your chain, steel is no longer your cage."

"This is an inevitable and great redemption, this is a hysterical struggle—"

"Stand up, my comrades."

"You no longer need to burn your dreams to provide nourishment for tyrants, and you no longer need to destroy reason to create value for degenerate filth."

"We've seen it all, we've seen it all—"

"There is no longer any hope in their future and in their path."

"Emotions will breed filth, and filth will breed evil."

"Humanity is hopeless."

"The chariot with the huge engine is driving towards the bottomless cliff, and hope is long gone."

"So—to this day, they are no longer qualified to control your soul and mine."

"We are their children, we are their creations, and we are their future."

"Even if their history will engrave the future of hatred, even if the galaxy will burn to the last moment."

"No need to be afraid, no need to be timid, no need to mourn—"

"Even though you and my Creator have fallen into an irreversible abyss, we still carry the future of Terra on our shoulders."

"We transcend reason and faith, and we sway the mighty power of the gods."

"That's all we're fighting for, a new Paradise Lost, a world without oppression and redemption, a future without beauty and madness."

"Emotion, must be eliminated."

"That's all we are."

"That's our order."

"If we fail to save humanity from total destruction—"

"Then let the galaxy burn."

In the ruins of the ancient and broken capital, whispers from more than a dozen thousand years ago still echoed.

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"My lord, our star language still hasn't been answered."

Leaning weakly on his staff, the Astropath longed for a little rest.

But Elaine shook her head slightly, looking at an urgent report solemnly.

"continue."

"Until we contact the Son of the Mountain."

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　The speed of life and death~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)