my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 75 Arrogance under reason

The preparations on the protagonist's side are obviously more adequate.

Even though the little man in the bottle swallowed the "god" and could activate various alchemy skills at will, he himself was not good at fighting.

Moreover, he is now extremely short of the Philosopher's Stone and dare not use alchemy that consumes too much energy to prevent the "god" from backlash.

To put it bluntly, he's been getting beat up.

The man in the bottle rushed to the top of the presidential palace, surrounded by nearly a hundred Northern Army soldiers.

Originally, he wanted to refine the soldiers into the Philosopher's Stone, but when he took action, a black and white formation suddenly appeared on the soldiers' helmets, which immediately countered the creation of the villain in the bottle!
This is a miniature version of the anti-Philosopher's Stone formation. Wang Shui has mastered the "Philosopher's Stone refining principle" for so many years. How could he not think of developing countermeasures?

If it weren't for the fact that countermeasure materials were hard to come by and Wang Shui didn't want to waste the Philosopher's Stone, today's battle would definitely be more than just one against a hundred.

Of course, this is also thanks to the arrogance and thinking inertia of the villain in the bottle.

For more than 400 years, he has never thought about improving the Philosopher's Stone Formation Formation, and is still using his basic version of "Truth".

"You! All! Want! Die!"

His expression became more and more ferocious, and the villain in the bottle no longer dodge. He chose to use his shield to resist the damage, and then took the initiative to fight back. This actually made the protagonist group's momentum weaker.

The little man in the bottle has not paid attention to Aqua Regia and Sylvia who are hanging up next to him. He has not yet had the combat awareness to observe the overall situation, and his consciousness is already a little crazy.

But he noticed something else - 30 souls hovering in the sky!
The little man in the bottle doesn't know why there are so many souls that have not returned to his body, but they are all philosopher's stones!

He immediately thought of an idea to break the situation. The villain in the bottle threw out a burst of bright light. The sound was loud but the power was limited. It only scared away the people around him. This was the first time he made a correct decision in the battle.

But then, he made an extremely wrong decision.

The little man in the bottle controls the earth and rock ground to lift him up, helping him quickly approach the 30 souls hovering in the air. He wants to take these souls into his bag!

During the rapid ascent, his eyes were always fixed on those souls, and the corners of his mouth began to grin wildly, but suddenly, a bright silver-white light flashed in front of his eyes.

Then there was nothing under his feet, and the little man in the bottle fell from the sky.

He looked at the broken stone pillars with some surprise, and at the human woman falling with him next to him - there was nothing special about her, and she fell from the air in a very relaxed manner.

It's just that the long sword in her hand is lingering with strange black and white flames, and her eyes are full of calmness and overwhelming killing intent!
In a tense battle, everyone does not have time to be sensational, talk about truth, or express their opinions impassionedly like in anime.

After the little man in the bottle scared everyone away, the people below, whether they were preparing to attack or checking their own status, were still paying attention to the little man in the bottle.

Then they saw a ray of moonlight rising from the ground to the sky, saw the elongating stone pillars inexplicably break into several pieces, and finally saw the sharp sword light connecting into one!
The absolute defensive shield of the villain in the bottle was easily penetrated by the two-handed long sword wrapped in black and white flames. The constant flashes of moonlight made everyone's back numb.

The airborne time is less than two seconds.

Before Sylvia landed, she kicked the little man out of the bottle, and then several rays of silver light shot out from Aqua Regia, which hit the little man first and nailed him to the wall. !

bang bang bang-

After the continuous gunshots, ten warheads landed around the body of the villain in the bottle. Combined with the ten flying knives inserted in his body, the black and white formation was activated, immediately sealing the villain in the bottle!

"Wouldn't it be better to live a little longer?" Wang Shui sighed helplessly, and then looked at Sylvia who was still standing there.

She has been standing there since she landed, the long sword in her hand constantly decomposing and disappearing in the black and white flames, and the flames also extended to her body.

Sylvia has cut off the control, and her consciousness silently returned to Wang Shui's body.

Because of her forced explosion, the android's body has been broken every inch. Even if Aqua Regia controls [Dead Fire], the body can no longer be used.

The people around him didn't know it. They watched Mr. Via's bodyguard being decomposed by the flames. They thought it was Sylvia who sacrificed herself and seriously injured the little man in the bottle before he could absorb the soul in the sky.

In fact, it’s not wrong to think so.

"Mr. Via! Kill him! Don't live up to the sacrifice of Miss Bodyguard!"

Edward shouted to Aqua Regia from a place very close to the little man in the bottle. He just tried to attack the little man in the bottle who was nailed to the wall, but the attack was blocked by the formation that imprisoned the enemy.

At this time, Hohenheim also saw clearly the contents of the refining array. It was probably Aqua Regia using its own power to help the little man in the bottle suppress the "god" so that the god could not easily bite him back.

"Sylvia! Kill him quickly! What are you thinking?!"

Hohenheim's shout just made Aqua Regia shake his head.

"It's over. There's nothing here anymore. I'll kill him in a while. You should rest when you need it, and hurry up and do whatever you have to do."

After hearing Wang Shui's words, Major Miles, the on-site commander of the Northern Army, looked at Mustang, who nodded to him, and then the two began to direct the troops to evacuate.

They are going to clean up the presidential palace and take over the country. This is what they had negotiated with Mr. Via before.

Everyone else was also very tired. After hearing Wang Shui's words, everyone immediately relaxed a lot.

Only Hohenheim, "killing the man in the bottle and committing suicide" has always been his nightmare and long-cherished wish. Now he can do it soon, but he is stuck by aqua regia, and the seeds of doubt sprout again.

Hohenheim didn't understand. He walked towards aqua regia and asked:

"Why! Why don't you kill him immediately! Do you also want to become a god?!"

"Do you think I'm that stupid too? And am I weaker than that stupid god over there now?"

Hohenheim was too nervous and could not rest at ease until the man in the bottle died.

When he got close to Aqua Regia, a metal fence was immediately raised on the ground to surround Hohenheim. Aqua Regia said to the two Edward brothers:
"Take your father away. He doesn't have many Philosopher's Stones left in his body. He may die at any time. We'll talk about other things tomorrow. Leave this place to me."

Edward looked at Al, then nodded to Aqua Regia.

Over there, Hohenheim still wanted to struggle, but a wave of sleepiness came over him for no reason, and he fell asleep directly.

Wang Shui stepped forward and pulled out the fine needle from Hohenheim's body and carefully put it away. The powerful toxin on it was very expensive and was a good thing in the main world.

Everyone left, leaving Wang Shui sitting cross-legged on a raised floor, looking quietly towards the south.

The little man in the bottle next to him gradually regained some consciousness.

His body was in pieces, and waves of unfamiliar pain swept through his nerves. He could not feel the philosopher's stone in his body, nor could he feel "God". He could not even concentrate on thinking because of the pain.

The unfamiliar refining formation trapped him tightly and maintained everything.

Not long after, a black spot gradually enlarged in the southern sky - it was a high-speed drone, and it had begun to slow down.

Before the drone crashed into the Presidential Palace, a small box was ejected and flew towards Aqua Regia.

Wang Shui easily caught the already slow box. After opening it, there were three crystal cards inside. These are the computing crystal cards of the [Core Computing Cloud·Crater] and are its core.

"Only three?" Sylvia asked, she was more or less anxious.

Wang Shui did not answer immediately.

He took out a metal box from his pocket, inserted the computing crystal card into it, and then told the news that Sylvia least wanted to hear:
"Three of them may not be used. It's not that it's too late, but that I'm too greedy."

With Wang Shui's input, a new [Thinking Lock Computing Cloud] was quickly constructed.

The complex main world [Alchemy Array] was generated at the feet of Wang Shui. In the storm of 30 souls in the sky, more than ten or twenty souls gradually flew down and merged into the computing crystal card.

"Only a few can be rescued..."

Sylvia's voice was much softer. She didn't show any anger or blame on Aquaria Wang.

She knew aqua regia, so she calmly accepted the reality. After all, she had experienced this kind of thing a lot.

Wang Shui is a very nostalgic person. Even if it is a pen, a computer, or any old item that is worn out, he will clean it up and put it away carefully - he has always valued his hard work.Wang Shui may kill many people, but he will never waste the feelings he pours into.

Holding the computing crystal card tightly in his hand, Wang Shui was silent for a long time. Finally, he took out an alchemy pen.

Taking off his shirt, the cold tip of the pen passed across Wang Shui's chest, leaving even traces of the sage's graphite.

Wang Shui's hand was steady and fast, and a complex [Alchemy Array] spread out on his chest, even extending to his abdomen.

"It was my fault, and I made it twice. The first mistake was that I should not have been greedy. I only wanted to expand the number of artificial souls as quickly as possible, which limited the computing power of each individual soul to only 1BVail (extraordinary computing power unit). , and at the same time, only a small number of individuals with a high degree of self-awareness have higher computing power.

They lacked complexity and their souls were too fragile. When the [Thought Lock Computing Cloud] was shattered, their consciousness had already dissipated. "

As Wang Shui spoke, he cut the skin on his chest, and a lot of blood flowed out, soaking the alchemy array.

"The second mistake was that I ignored their existence because I was accustomed to treating them as tools. I didn't consider them to be complete souls. I didn't transfer them in advance, causing their deaths to be in vain."

Aqua regia moved his fingers, and a large amount of alchemy model data came to his mind. He said to Sylvia:

"But I will take them away."

The array was activated, and black and white lightning burst out from Wang Shui's body. The electric light shot straight into the sky, and the lightning connected into a network, wrapping the soul storm in the sky and dragging it towards Wang Shui's body.

There was a burning sensation in his chest. Wang Shui felt that the patterns and words on his body were burning. A powerful torrent of soul poured down from the sky. He took several steps back after being hit. When the vision in the sky disappeared, Wang Shui stood up. Steady steps.

The alchemy array on Wang Shui's chest disappeared, leaving only a red ring, but Wang Shui felt strange vitality.

The 30-piece Philosopher's Stone turned into a red liquid and blended into his flesh and blood.

Because the Philosopher's Stone maintained its existence and did not change Aqua Regia's genes or his body structure, the [Master's] talent did not react at all.

But Wang Shui sensed them, they had merged into one, and no longer had a single state.

Sylvia watched everything and had no comment.

Having mastered a strong power, Wang Shui was not happy at all. He walked up to the little man in the bottle with a stinky face and said calmly:

"I originally wanted to torture you, but I lost interest when I saw how stupid you looked. You are an arrogant and stupid thing."

With that said, Wang Shui released his suppression of "God", but at the same time he also activated another refining formation.

At this time, all the signal base stations on the unmanned aerial vehicles in the stratosphere around the world were turned on to maximum power.

Based on the [Sylvia Network], the invisible formation is connected into a ball, covering the entire planet!
His own Gate of Truth appeared behind Wang Shui, and silently, the ball-shaped formation was further strengthened.

An invisible [Singularity] immediately swallowed the villain in the bottle backwards!

The moment the little man in the bottle disappeared from this world, Wang Shui pointed at the general location of the singularity with his hand, and the surrounding environment immediately turned into a snowy white.

In the field of vision is the familiar white space, the familiar Door of Truth, and the familiar hollow metal ball, but I don't know what it is used for.

Wang Shui stood here again.

Over the years, he has come here often, often opening his own door to truth and exchanging knowledge with the Philosopher's Stone, until the knowledge he wanted has not been discovered, or has not been studied.

The knowledge behind the door of truth grows over time. "Truth" itself is more like a responsible recorder. The knowledge it identifies as truth will be recorded after a period of time, constantly improving the "omniscience" ”.

This part of the knowledge was slowly explored by Wang Shui and all the researchers over many years.

God is both "all" and "one", but He is not anything that has never existed before. He does not know knowledge that has never appeared before. For example, He did not know that this was a fantasy world before.

Wang Shui was a little distracted. He turned around and looked at another Door of Truth that appeared inexplicably and two other guys.

One is the little man in the bottle who looks like black coal briquettes, and the other is "God", who is now the eclipsed version of the little man in the bottle.

"Don't worry about me, you continue, I'm not in a hurry."

Wang Shui very kindly said that he could queue up.

"You! It's all your fault! I've obviously evolved into a complete existence, I've obviously become a god! It's all because of you!"

The little man in the bottle was so loud that Wang Shui immediately regretted his kindness.

But before the aqua regia occurred, "God" spoke. He said to the little man in the bottle:

"Compared to a small number of outstanding human beings, you are the most arrogant existence. It just so happens that you also said that truth is to give arrogant people appropriate despair, so you should return to the truth."

"God" didn't talk too much and directly opened the empty door of truth behind the little man in the bottle. A bunch of black arms stretched out and dragged the little man in the bottle.

"No! I don't want to go back there! I don't want to be bound by the endless darkness! No!"

The helpless and furious shouting of the villain in the bottle actually made Aqua Regia feel better.

"So, you went to such great lengths to trap me here, what do you want to do?

If you want to resurrect those special souls, I think you already know the answer.Or do you also want to devour and fuse me?You are obviously not such an arrogant person. "

"Huh? You don't know what I'm thinking now?"

"Why do you think I know? I can only see your experiences, what you have done before, and what you have seen. I can't read your mind in real time. Well - maybe if you work hard, if you can do it I will also gain the ability to read minds in real time.”

"You sound like a thief, just like the villain in the bottle." Wang Shui was not particularly polite when talking to "God".

"The thief is also one, and of course I am too. ""God" always has a strange sense of freedom and ease.

"Okay, no more rambling, I just want to gain more knowledge.

When I open my own door to truth, I can only start from my own knowledge system. When I look for knowledge that is too far away, I will pay a high price.

Therefore, I intercepted you, intercepted you now, and now you are the complete "god". "

Then, Wang Shui pointed at the blank door that had not disappeared and said.

"This door is the door of truth for the little man in the bottle, and now it is also the door of truth for "God". Because of your existence, the knowledge system behind this door has reached the state of "omniscience". If I use this door to If you face the truth directly, you will gain knowledge at the minimum cost and see the complete truth. "

"But you know, the human brain cannot remember such a huge amount of knowledge, and facing the complete truth will cause changes in your soul."

As long as he is not arrogant, "God" is quite kind.

"I will use special abilities to memorize knowledge in my soul instead of the physical structure of my brain. And I will offer some additional sacrifices in exchange for your help. Once there is any abnormality in my soul, you will kick me out. .”

As he spoke, a large number of Philosopher's Stones appeared out of thin air and piled up into a hill next to Wang Shui.

Having come here many times in exchange for knowledge, Wang Shui has been able to contact his own awakened space here.

""Imprint knowledge in the soul." This knowledge comes from a book called "Study of the Knower: Anatomical Analysis". It is the knowledge you brought from another world, and you also have the ability called [Arrogance] Knower] ability, so it’s completely possible and interesting. "

"So, you agree to help me?"

"You will use the Philosopher's Stone to make a forced sacrifice. I can't refuse. But with your small sacrifice, you cannot read all the history of this universe."

Wang Shui put his hands into his windbreaker pockets and said calmly:

"Of course, my requirements are not high. Things related to alchemy, knowledge related to "qi" energy, the creation and evolution laws of all materials at the beginning of the universe, the origin and use of earth crust energy and dragon vein energy, That's all I want. "

"God" turned into a white silhouette of Aqua Regia and showed an exaggerated smile to Aqua Regia.

"I take back my previous comment. You are the most arrogant human being."

(End of this chapter)