Chapter 63 - Prepare For Trouble
"Now, to further their invasion, the Aggressors must attack through the dungeons." There was a certain dread in Voloha's eyes while saying that.
Well, that's to be expected, I guess.
It's only natural to be fearful of a species that treats you like re insects and would stop at nothing to wipe you out.
But then again, that's to be expected of a Great Filter.
??The Great Filter???
He doesn't know what it is? Bruh.
[The Great Filter is basically the barrier that stands between prosperity and eternal death. A world with complex, intelligent life will one day, without fail, face a calamity that has the potential to wipe out all life from it with no hope of revival. It's the final threshold which that world must overco to beco a Class 1 world and step on the path to eternal prosperity.]
By the way, the Great Filter is so catastrophic that only 1 in 1,000,000 worlds survive it.
So yea, sorry to say this Voloha, but you and those you love are probably going to die a very horrific death.
??Nice explanation.?? He clapped. ??By the way, I knew that.??
[Then why did you ask?]
Does he know how much ti I spent on explaining that? This little piece of shit.
??My real question was, 'How are you sure the Aggressors Voloha's talking about are this world's Great Filter?'.??
[Then would it kill you to say just that?]
Does he think being cryptic makes him cool or sothing? Tough luck, motherfucker, but society usually calls such people ntally unstable and autist and ostracises them.
??I thought you were smart enough to realise my true intentions, but I guess I was wrong.??
[And what makes you think I'd actually spend the effort to guess the true aning behind sothing YOU said?]
Like bruh, I'd sell his soul for my recomnded 16 hours of sleep.
??…Just answer my question, please.??
[It's simple; Gods interfere in mortal matters only when a world is standing in front of its Great Filter. That's the standard protocol for every God presiding over a world.]
They didn't have this policy before, but after several protests by the Class 1 worlds claiming that the non-intervention policy of the Gods was atrocious or so shit, a law was passed requiring the Gods to provide the minimum level of support necessary for a world to overco its Great Filter.
??Well, they are technically right. Why would you leave those worlds alone???
[To prevent an influx of worlds. If the system called 'Great Filter' wasn't there, this Universe would have been full of an infinite number of worlds, triggering a Reset of the Universe which would have destroyed everything.]
??What? Total destruction? That got way darker than I was expecting it to.??
[The Systems are in place for a reason. We don't enjoy snuffing out worlds with theoretically infinite potentials, but it has to be done.]
The more worlds there are, the greater the probability of Chaos?.
That Chaos has the potential to twist the very concept of fate, thus triggering the Law of Causality. The fundantal forces of the Universe will interfere and start a Reset, destroying anything and everything.
That's why the total number of worlds alive at any point of ti is regulated using the Great Filter. That's why only the worlds which are worthy can beco a Class 1 world.
Being a Class 1 World ans that they have a say in which direction the Universe will go in. Talented individuals from those worlds are often selected to be Gods and manage other worlds.
??Still, isn't it a bit cruel to destroy worlds just because you cannot manage all of them???
[Not really. A world faces its Great Filter when it's nearing its end. There may be several reasons for that, like the lifeforce of that world reaching zero, or its Sun about to die and et cetera, et cetera. When the world is at its end, the probability of survival is exactly zero. The Great Filter increased that probability to 0.000001]
??Wow, so it's more complicated than I thought.??
[Exactly.]
??But aren't you the Origin? Couldn't you have done sothing about this???
[Of course.]
The Great Filter was supposed to be a temporary asure, in fact.
??Then why didn't you???
[I was dethroned before I could.]
??Sadge.??
[Very sadge.]
Anyway.
"I see. I get the rough gist of it." I replied to Voloha.
Let's finish this conversation, go eat sothing and sleep like a homicide victim.
"You do?" Azell asked.
"It's not really complicated." I shrugged. "Also, can I assu that the system called Dungeons was implented by the Gods?"
"Y-yes." Voloha nodded. "The Gods sacrificed a great deal to save us."
Sacrificed?
"They were just performing their duty."
"Maybe, but they still sacrificed themselves for us, and we owe our lives to them for that."
That's where she's wrong. They were literally performing their duty; that's what they were hired for.
??Hired? Hahahahaha! That's a nice term.??
[And it's the correct one. The Gods are hired by the Ancient Gods. They get a salary as well as several benefits, including paid vacation, dical insurance, and many more.]
??Even the Gods are corporate slaves, huh? Wow.??
[In the grand sche of things, everyone's a corporate slave.]
??F.??
"I see." I nodded at Voloha.
"Okay."
"…"
"…"
An awkward silence descended on the room; we had run out of topics.
Should I say sothing like, 'Dolphins sotis use the heads of dead fishes to pleasure themselves?'
??Wow, what a great conversation starter.??
[Right?]
??In fact, it's so great that they'll probably be rendered speechless, think what a fucking weirdo you are, and silently leave.??
[That would be like killing a rabbit with a stone when you were aiming for the bird.]
As long as they leave alone, I'm good.
"Anyway, do you have anything else for , or…"
"O-oh, no. No, I don't have anything." Voloha nodded. "…Is that it?"
"Is 'what' it?"
"Um, you know, you just learned that Azell and others are from another world, so…"
"So?"
"So, I was expecting you to have so sort of, uh, reaction or sothing…" Her voice trailed off.
"Yes, they are from another world. What do you want to do about it?"
"Well, uh…"
"If you were expecting a, 'Booho! You guys hid sothing so important from so I'm going to cry and shut myself in my room like a little bitch!', then I'm terribly sorry to disappoint you."
Like what, does she think them that being from another world would make excited or sothing?
People being transmigrated into another world is such an overdone trope that I've beco sick of it.
??Oh my God, I just realised that you're a living shitty story trope.??
[I hope that when you wake up to drink water, you find the jar beside your bed empty. Then you'll get up to get so water but stub your toe. While clutching it and hopping like a three-legged goblin, you fall down a flight of stairs and break your neck, you fucking unseasoned chicken wing.]
??Oof, what are you, the Devil???
"…" Voloha stared at like a lost chick.
"Pfft!" Noelle burst out laughing. "Hahahahaa, don't worry Voloha, you'll get used to it."
"I-is he always like this?"
"Pretty much." Azell chuckled.
Wow, rude.
?? ?? ??
"Wheew." Arteria exhaled a satisfied breath.
While Samur was having his tear-jerking(?) reunion with Voloha, she had taken this chance to fill her stomach.
After eating to her fill, she decided to retrieve her blood-stained blazer from Samur's room. She would have to wash it in secret to avoid suspicion.
"Shit!" The mont she reached the room however, she cursed and moved with the speed of light to hide.
She peeked from her hiding spot, "Goddamnit, we're done for."
Standing in the front of Samur's room were Noelle and Neia.
And they had frowns on their faces.
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