Zongman: Beginning with the Killer Queen

"How about it, it's quite interesting."

Looking at the completely stunned Yakumo Murasaki, Roland couldn't help laughing.

"Although you haven't noticed, in fact, except for conveying messages to you in dreams, I have never appeared in the outside world in any way. The existence and aura of Roland that you feel now are only because you entered It’s just my dream.”

He explained in a slow tone while observing the changes in Yakumo Murasaki's expression.

And soon, he gained a satisfied expression.

In the face of such news that one is so confused that even fear is forgotten, leaving only loss and sadness.

The legendary monster sage moved his lips and murmured for a long time without saying a word. He was really like a helpless girl.

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.

Roland seemed unaware and spread his hands.

"Huh, happy, happy. I have been holding the news that the end will come at any time in my heart for a long time. I finally found a suitable time to share it with others."

"Will doing this help you with your plan to deal with the doomsday?"

Yakumo Purple pursed her lips and did not care about Roland's obvious teasing. In terms of responsibility, even Yashi Eirin, who was wary of each other, recognized the truth.

When facing a big crisis in Gensokyo, you can always trust the Yokai Sage.

However, seeing Yakumo Murasaki's serious look, Roland's smile grew thicker.

"If you mean the plan itself, it's not helpful."

"Eh? Then why do you still..."

"Because it's not easy to make such secret things public. It will cause a lot of commotion. Besides, it's much easier to have two people suffering together than me."

"Hehehe... That's really congratulations!"

Yakumo Purple's face darkened. Looking at Roland who was careless and with a contented expression on his face, he clenched his fists and gritted his silver teeth, eager to bite off a piece of his meat.

Even if Roland is a wounded person, if the other party's purpose of calling her here today is to have fun, she will never give up.

"Well, calm down, Zi. Isn't the world still running smoothly? This in itself is enough to show that things are not as bad as you think."

Roland said lightly.

"You also saw the snake in the crack, right? Can you tell me your conclusion?"

"You didn't kill the snake."

"certainly."

Roland admitted without hesitation.

"In fact, the winged snake cannot be killed. To use a human analogy, it is just an immune cell produced to deal with my disease——"

The boy's smile was as gentle as ever, but in Yakumo's purple eyes at this moment, it had a chilling meaning.

"And when this immune cell dies, the disease still does not disappear. There is only one thing the immune system will do."

In Yakumo Purple's almost dull eyes, Roland said softly.

"——Raise your own functions to the highest level."

The Winged Serpent is just a shadow cast by the Apostle of the High Heaven, born according to the severity of the enemy.

After realizing this, the Dragon God understood that the winged snake might lead to the emergence of stronger enemies after death.

It and Roland's original plan was to deliberately not destroy the remnants of the Winged Serpent after killing it.

In this way, with the time it takes for this huge chaotic creature to die completely, it and Roland will have a lot of breathing space, whether it is to recuperate or look forward to the future.

But in the battle with the Winged Snake, Roland discovered that even if the monster's size was reduced, its properties were still endless.

Each of its attacks is the highest frequency output of the current magnitude. Even Roland, who has a perpetual motion machine, will feel powerless under full power.

The Winged Snake, which does not have the personal principle of perpetual motion, can ignore this, which only means one thing.

Its energy comes from a higher place.

This is not a relatively independent clone or incarnation.

It is not an individual formed by dividing the power by a powerful being, but more like a simple change in nature.

When the body is not threatened, it will maintain its normal state of only needing to deal with minor symptoms. But when it fails, the virus is still surviving tenaciously, or even expanding, and the immune system will explode with full force.

Just like a high fever in humans, it represents the virus and the instinct that one of the subjects must die today.

Although {Snake} has died and the Supreme Heaven who killed the snake is not the apostle's true body, the power cannot be the same as before, especially for Roland now.

Rather, the winged snake, which had destroyed several universes before and almost caused Roland to die, was just a symbol of its small troubles.

"unlimited……"

Roland raised his eyebrows, remembering his thoughts when he saw the black snake before, and sighed.

"That is beyond the scope of what I can understand. Although it can still be recognized, even if it is not truly infinite, in the single universe, that guy is the closest existence to infinity."

In terms of power level, as the level gets higher, even the smallest difference may be the difference between heaven and earth.

With the right timing and props, a magician who has mastered the mystery may also be killed by ordinary people.

For adventurers with different levels, depending on the environment and status, there is a possibility that a higher-level adventurer will be killed by a lower-level adventurer.

But as his height continued to increase, Roland knew very well that defeating the strong with the weak would be almost extinct in future battles.

Because people of that level have no theoretical weakness to the characters below them.

No matter how careless they are, they may not be able to find a way to kill themselves.

It's just that the Winged Snake, which is several times larger than Roland in the universe, beat him who had the Star Grail and the Dragon God, and was still holding the Slash Emperor, so that he could only lose his life in exchange for injuries.

If the Winged Snake hadn't been too careless and Roland seized the opportunity to weaken it and in turn strengthen it, the outcome of this battle would have been different.

Even so, Roland completed his counterattack because of his desire to surpass the Winged Snake.

Because of this, after feeling the boundless power, Roland could not find any feasible method other than using the opponent's own enemy-seeking mechanism and using the restrictions given by the snake to escape.

——So, he must die.

As Yakumo Murasaki said, simply sneaking into the realm of death cannot deceive the apostle of the Supreme Heaven.

When he felt the black snake appear directly outside the world, Roland immediately extinguished his last possibility.

But Roland didn't cheat in this regard. His possibilities had been completely eaten up, and he was only left with the desire to survive as the world maintained the last possibility of winning.

After the victory, even Roland, who was the last chance, died, and the world could no longer maintain its life. It could have lasted for more than ten years and then reached the end of heat death in an instant.

Therefore, when the black snake responsible for destroying everything came in a fierce manner, it was such an embarrassing situation.

It did come, but the enemy seemed to have simply died of old age.

If it were a real life, with the wisdom possessed by the apostle of the highest heaven, it would naturally not be deceived by such an obvious scheme.

No matter whether the enemy is dead or not, just use yourself to send the opponent away to ensure that he is completely dead.

But just to clear the disease, the black snake that has locked onto Roland needs to have a process of changing targets when doing this.

Just like destroying the world before, getting rid of the shackles of being a human being is the best strategy, but the Winged Snake just stared at Roland like a mad dog.

Roland was waiting for this brief moment.

In the dying fire, in the ashes of the world, it sat on the star cup and fell into a long sleep, thus giving birth to this infinite dreamland.

"Are we...living in a dream?"

Yakumo Zi murmured to herself, her eyes were in a daze, and her pupils seemed to have no focus.

As a girl who is always seventeen years old, the difficulties and problems that Yakumo Purple has experienced have long made her develop a strong heart, but now she is like an ordinary woman who has been severely hit mentally.

But this is not surprising. A strong man with a strong will and dreams can still muster the courage to face a crisis that will destroy the world.

Because of this deep obsession, when they realize that the world and their own lives may be false, they will be more vulnerable than ordinary people.

"This question... depends on how you define dreams."

Roland replied.

"But you don't need to worry. Before that moment, everything you experienced was real. Whether it was Gensokyo or the efforts you made, it all happened before. Because my dream is also based on the complete destruction of the world. On the embers of the past, it just replaced your original future."

"……replaced?"

"To use an analogy, the electronic equipment has changed the server, and the shrine has changed the god it enshrines."

Roland smiled.

"So, in this world now, although time is still moving forward, it is a world where there is no possibility. This will be the case before the Dragon God and I are revived."

The disappearance of possibility is by no means as simple as recovering from an injury; it breeds growth, change and the future.

As a server, Roland no longer has any possibility, and the possibility of the world itself has been handed over to Roland by the Dragon God. Therefore, even if the world is still functioning normally, there is no way to escape facing this terrible consequence.

"From now on, there will be no new inventions in this world, whether it is the exploration of new powers or theoretical breakthroughs. The world will stagnate in the existing technology for hundreds or thousands of years. There won’t be any changes, not just for humans, but also for monsters.”

"However, it seems too absolute to say this. Even if I only have a dream left, it is not something you can ignore with your level."

Because the gap between us is as huge as that between me and the snake, Roland said this while showing a natural expression.

"Considering this, if there are people like you who can enter this extraterrestrial land and enter this subspace, and are highly inspired, they may also obtain technology that is not available in this world from my dreams, but this is not called The creation above is just a simple reproduction.”

This is also the reason why Yakumo Murasaki didn't feel any changes, firstly because the time was too short, and secondly because the technology mastered by Roland was too advanced.

It is still very difficult for human beings to explore all the magic, science, and deeper magic technology in ancient and modern times and abroad.

Thanks to this, humans who were favored by fate before will probably still maintain extreme suppression of Gensokyo. After all, their spirituality is much higher than that of the monsters and anomalies who have reached their end.

But this is their dream after all. It is hard to say what kind of technology they will gain, and whether it will directly erode their spirits or even turn them into monsters.

But at this point, there is no need to tell Yakumo Murasaki in front of him. Maintaining the stability of the status quo is the best way to deal with the black snake trapped in the dream outside.

If the balance between monsters and humans is broken, leading to the emergence of careerists, there may be no end in sight. On the human side, it is better to use dreams to transform some characters favored by fate to adjust the process of the times.

Roland thought to himself and nodded leisurely.

Yakumo Zi pondered for a while, then suddenly raised her head.

"In other words, does that existence that cannot create possibilities include you? Also, you said that you will come back to life after leaving the Golden Throne, and that the throne functions as an amplifier. Are these all to suppress the black snake? ?”

"...Although I have praised you before, Zi, your sensitivity is indeed very attractive."

"As you think, the black snake will be slow for a moment because of the change of target, but that's all. Its next target will be the dream of the world that was born because of me."

"So - I paused time."

Roland sat on the throne with a smile and looked at the star cup above.

"The Star Cup is an item that also has infinite possibilities. It can cover the entire world with the principle of desire that I possess in an instant. The snake surrounding the world is also within this range."

"I stopped the world at this moment. It's lucky that the apostle closest to infinity still has the weakness of being unable to resist reason."

Among the powers Roland possesses, there are currently three types that can be covered by his desire and called principles that transcend the rules.

{Time} was born from the beginning of the past, {Perpetual Motion} was born from the sublimated self, and {Eternal Return} was born from the future of the heavenly ceremony.

And what is now maintained by the Star Cup is the principle of time that shined when killing the Final Dragon.

An eternal moment.

Only those beings recognized by Roland will continue to flow. Everything else is frozen at the moment when the dream occurs and the apostle attacks.

"But on the other hand, being restricted in a dream and half-dead, the extent of my interference is limited."

Roland was complaining, but his tone was serious, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

Yakumo Purple also realized that this seemed to be the real reason why Roland called him here today.

She nodded solemnly.

"Please give me your orders. As long as it is something I can do, I will do it."

"That's good," Roland said with a gentle smile on his face. He lightly snapped his fingers and let the familiar map unfold in front of Yakumo Purple.

A mountain full of monsters, a magic forest full of precious materials, a bamboo forest that makes people lose their way, a mansion located on the shore of the Lake of Mist, a human being in a fertile valley; and the Sanjukuan River that separates the other shore and Gensokyo.

"Next, let me explain in detail why I call it

——Fantasyland Paradise Plan. "