Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 650 Chaos Cycle
Rorschach disappeared from the material world again. He stopped manipulating illusions and light particles and returned to the small plane where he was imprisoned.

It would not be appropriate to call it a "cage". The area of ​​the border is now so vast that one cannot see the end of it. The majestic Tree of Law reaches the sky, and the roots and computing units below are almost the entire component of the "earth".

Outside the boundary wall is a surging tide of darkness that wants to devour it, but the exorcism order that Rorschach brought from another world forms a solid shell, firmly resisting the invasion of the Mother Goddess.

The layout of the center of the entire intersection is still similar to the past. The biggest change is the sudden increase in the size of the "library". From the outside, the building has not become wider or taller, but this is a place between symbol and reality. The corridors surrounded by bookshelves inside have "grown" to endless length.

Not only that, there are countless books that have not been put on the shelves. They continue to automatically record relevant information. Sometimes the characters will replicate themselves and then be distributed to other books.

The meaning and contents of each book are different. In the past, most of them recorded spells and their use, but now a considerable part of them is about people.

Every person alive today, as long as he uses a spell or is affected by a spell, will have a record. These effects are like Monte Carlo experiments, each related spell is like a collision of small balls, and when the amount of data reaches a certain level, it can outline the shape of the soul.

In other words, Rorschach is constructing a complete picture of the soul of almost everyone, a book represents a person and his soul, as well as his past.

Some people have more than one book, such as the Lord of Order and its predecessor, the Memories of the Ancient Sages.

The golden memory book with the Lord of Order's prohibition was still sealed deep in the "Great Library". Rorschach walked to the restricted area and picked up one of the books. As the Lord of Order's consciousness dissipated and disappeared, he might be able to easily open the forbidden memory in his hand.

What's inside? It's almost certain that it's related to God.

"Open it." The tower spirit urged. It read a certain memory of the ancient sage and urged Rorschach to uncover the last secret of the Lord of Light and Order before he became a god.

However, Rorschach just looked at them quietly for a long time and then put the books down.

"Why?" The tower spirit was puzzled. It only knew that Rorschach had wanted to see the secret, but when he opened it to him today, the other party stopped.

"Intuition." Rorschach forced a smile: "My intuition tells me that now is not the time to turn it on."

The tower spirit was still a dead soulless being after all. It ran for a while, and finally gave up on reacting to Rorschach. From then on, the border area fell into silence again.

The master of the borderland was walking in the middle. He no longer had a physical body, but was more like a ghost floating here. But Rorschach still had one thing to do.

He took several bundles of books from large libraries, probably thousands of them, and they all behaved in the same way: they were neither finished nor could they be written on, and the newly generated handwriting would quickly collapse.

This was a branch of the church's fleet that was stuck in a cycle, with several ships disappearing and reappearing in fixed areas. This strange phenomenon had attracted the attention of the Space Guild, and it was to be discussed at the meeting, but Rorschach diverted the discussion.

Because the cycle of those ships was caused by Rorschach.

The image at the junction showed a huge "Temple-class" ship surrounded by several medium-sized "Monastery-class" ships. They were lost in a hazy nebula, separated from the pilgrim fleet looking for the end of the world, and worse, the transmutation dust fuel they carried was running low.

The small fleet prayed to their Lord, and then plunged into the unknown energy mass. In the violent turbulence, the shields were drastically consumed, and soon the power system and defense system lost energy support. Both the ship and the people were torn to pieces in the end, merging into the chaotic matter and energy mass.

The disordered and violent mass of matter and energy is like a pot of porridge. Matter is like grains, and energy is like water. This pot of porridge has merged into a sticky mass, and it is still in a boiling state. The fleet that dives into it is immediately "stewed" into residue.

When the souls of the crew members were about to dissipate and return to their original state, Rorschach used the influence of the "book" to draw them into the boundary area and turn them into "bookmarks". The "book" that belonged to them also ended here, and the pages that were originally open automatically closed. The virtual image in the boundary area corresponding to the ship was also not spared and was already shattered.

But Rorschach forced the book open, erased the last paragraph, and reassembled the virtual image of the ship.

Correspondingly, in the real world, the stuck matter and energy groups in the nebula began to surge, and the matter that originally belonged to the crew and the starship began to recover.

The scattered atoms were combined into inorganic and organic matter, and then into flesh, steel, and runes... until a person and a machine, a holy object, a ship, were extracted backwards from the chaotic mass.

After Rorschach restored their corresponding symbols at the junction, extracted the souls residing in the junction and poured them back into their bodies, everything returned to the starting point, back to the state before they were swallowed and torn apart by the interstellar turbulence.

"Your Excellency the Bishop, our fuel will not last much longer! There is severe interference in this area, and our 'Shipborne Holy Bell' cannot transmit messages to the main force!" The technical priest in the command room of the "Temple-class Flagship" was very anxious, and he was helpless about the current situation.

The commander of the squadron, a young bishop, recited a few scriptures to calm himself. Outside the porthole, there was no longer an empty black curtain dotted with sparse starlight, but something like the aurora, with frantic floating objects and rays rubbing against the shield of the spacecraft and expanding violently, adding more flowing colors to the golden barrier.

It was these turbulences and stardust that caused them to lose their way and contact.

The situation has deteriorated to the extreme. If they don't contact the main fleet and get supplies, all of them will die in this strange star field.

“This is the Lord’s test for us!”

The bishop chose to gamble in desperation, and used the tone and form of his sermon to cover up his despair and madness:

“Indeed, the Lord has promised us a new world of abundance, milk and honey, and has opened His kingdom of heaven to us. But please think about it, on what basis can we receive the Lord’s favor and enter the kingdom of heaven for no reason?
“Therefore, this expedition, especially the difficulties we are facing now, is a test from the Lord. Anyone who has devout faith in the Lord will surely receive His guidance, His salvation, and His approval.

"Don't show your cowardly side again! All crew members, listen to my command, move forward, just move forward, and entrust the rest of our fate and everything to the Lord!"

All fuel, supplies and personnel were gathered on a ship, and then they began to charge at the chaotic mass of matter and energy. Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope in the turbulence, as long as the ship always traveled in a relatively gentle laminar flow. However, as long as it came into contact with the powerful turbulence inside, the weak shield of the church starship would be torn to pieces in an instant.

When Stardust roughly opened the "church dome", the bishop would cry out in anger and despair: "Lord, why have you abandoned us...for..."

"Failed again, try again." Rorschach once again erased the victims' death records, reshaped them, and "fished" the people and the ship out of the material energy ball.

He then carefully added a few bytes to the "books" of all the people involved, hoping to introduce new changes and get a different ending.

The cycle began again. Over the past few years, the duration of the cycle has been increasing. Fleets used to only be able to survive for a few minutes after entering the Chaos Cluster, but now they can sail for several days before being destroyed.

This "porridge"-like area is not only a blend of matter and energy, but also a special area where reality and illusion meet, giving Rorschach room to interfere with reality. And Rorschach is like an evil god, letting the fleet cycle continuously, but with slight changes each time.

The old man Talling who was watching thought that Rorschach was just being bored, and he suggested again: "You shouldn't interfere too much with their fate and take pleasure in doing so. Besides, someone has already noticed the abnormality, please give them relief in time and end the cycle."

Then, as usual, Rorschach ignored it, went his own way, and continued this somewhat cruel game.

(End of this chapter)