His name."

"Of course I remember you. The former leader of the Federation."

[Since you know] Elan said slowly: [Then don’t disturb my mission, let me quietly watch the end of mankind]

[Aldo Yinfeng, you have done a very good job. In order to seal the abyss, you have endured the terrifying pressure of a fifth-level powerhouse in the past, but you can still survive to this day... Wait here with me,

Let us witness together the fate of those who betrayed and abandoned their brother’s path]

"Betrayal? Give up?"

Aldo repeated the word, and he laughed loudly and said: "Great Watcher Elan, who betrayed the sage, and who gave up the path of the sage?"

"The name of the sage is [guidance] and [future]! Human beings are a greedy, selfish, fragile and vicious race. They are strong because of this, and their desires are boiling endlessly - human beings are like a manic fire that burns everything and everything.

Do your best!"

"That's why guidance is needed, just like a tamed flame can turn into a furnace, tempering steel tools, and starship armor - a civilization without guidance will naturally go astray!"

"I was their guide. I reversed the war that should have lasted for thousands of years. I reunified the Terran civilization for the second time, and had the most glorious and great golden five hundred years, allowing humans to spread across the star sea again."

"But...what about you?"

The last prophet asked the Watcher: "Have you ever guided mankind?"

[That is the path of the elder brother!] The young man with white hair and purple eyes frowned: [Since they abandoned me, why should I...]

"Why not try to reverse it!"

The black-haired sage and far-sighted Aldo took a step forward and raised his voice: "If you thought this was wrong, why didn't you deny it, reverse it, and guide the humans at that time?"

[Ridiculous] Elan sneered: [Didn’t I change the situation? Aldo, didn’t you see me being expelled by a joint vote at the General Political Bureau Conference? You were in the audience at that time, and you supported it at that time.

me?】

[No one wants to have an inhuman intelligent supervisor - no, all humans don't want anyone above them to supervise themselves, unless that person can give them what they want... I can't give it to them]

"I supported you."

Aldo said calmly: "Of the three votes that support you, one of them is mine."

The purple-eyed watcher was slightly startled, and Aldo continued: "As for what happens next, this is what I want to say to you, the great watcher Elan."

"Do you really think that 'advice' without any violence is the so-called guidance?"

"If he is a sage, your brother, if he is voted out by the 500-person assembly, he will really be expelled obediently, instead of..."

At this point, Aldo laughed, and he humorously made a 'beheading' gesture with his fingers: "Although I have never seen a saint, I guess a saint will also have the wrath of thunder, right?"

"Just like when I unified Terra for the second time, the sages back then... must have just used voting as a cover. In essence, they used their absolute strength to crush other people and forcibly unify Terra, right?"

Elan was silent.

After a long time, he slowly raised his eyes and said with some nostalgia: [Yes...Brother...Although he always seems to be gentle and peaceful, if it is really needed...]

[He will kill everyone who stands in his way. Everyone including me]

[Even my birth was sifted from endless time and space by him in order to go further]

As soon as these words came out, even a wise and calm person like Aldo was stunned.

After all, he has never met Ian Silver Peak, nor the Silver Peak Prophet or Silver Peak Pioneer of that era, so he does not know the epic story leading to that period, nor does he know the sage's credibility when he steps forward.

Terrible determination.

He just suddenly understood that the 'Watcher' in front of him might not have been sitting on the throne in the deepest part of the virtual realm for hundreds of years just for those simple reasons.

But Aldo also believes it.

He believed that the person in front of him was also a person full of love and compassion for all living beings - if Elan hadn't secretly taken action back then, the tens of billions of Terran people who died during the Twenty Years' War would have been more than a few hundred million souls scattered.

【Guidelines...】

At this moment, Elan slowly closed his eyes.

He had struggled for hundreds of years to maintain the civilization his brother left behind, but he watched with his own eyes as the Terrans forgot his brother's achievements and sacrifices little by little, deviating from the right and great path, and the long period of peace eroded their hearts.

Desire and corruption breed, but the fanatical war prevents stable development and exploration.

If it does not follow the right path, human civilization is destined to repeat the contradictory spiral of war and peace, with ups and downs, slow progress, or sudden demise.

Exploration and distance, progress and sacrifice, right and wrong.

Ellan suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Ian took him to play on the beach, building castles with sand and decorating them with shells, seaweed and starfish.

"The castle I make is always not as good as my brother's."

At that time, he, who was still stuttering, looked with disappointment at the simple little castle he had made, and the large castle that Ian had made that could be called 'towering'. Comparing the two lines, he even wanted to finish it in one go.

The idea that one's own castle can be bulldozed.

But Ian stopped him.

"Elan, I used shells, sand and starfish as decorations, stacked castles, and placed decorations, but I had never caught a jellyfish." Ian, who was also a child at the time, asked a question that easily attracted Elan's attention.

Attention: "Do you know why?"

"Why, why?"

"Because I like jellyfish. Whether it's a minehunting jellyfish or a ghost jellyfish, their fluorescence in the sea is as brilliant as stars."

At that time, my brother held himself in his arms and pointed to the sunset coast that had slowly entered dusk. In the depths of the gradually darkening sea, a faint blue fluorescence lit up in the blue water: "That's what I love.

The view.”

"It's so beautiful..."

At that time, he couldn't help but feel a kind of extreme and vital beauty. He stammered and wanted to express his psychological thoughts to his brother, but Ian was not too happy after listening: "This is just

The scenery I like. Elan, you have never seen the Sea of ​​Stars, so you don’t know that I like it, just because it looks like it.”

"What you like are these jellyfish and the fireflies in the sea, while what I like is the sea of ​​stars... They are the same but different."

"Just like your castle. Elan, since you like this kind of fluorescence, you can pick some fluorescent grass as decoration next time. You don't need to compare the size with my castle. You don't have to do the same thing as me. You have to do

…It’s your [castle you really like].”

【Elam】

At this moment, on the throne, the watcher who had been watching for more than seven hundred years heard a familiar voice: [I know, you still mind, I created your origin]

[I also know that you don’t care about your own nature. You are just afraid that you have done something wrong, failed to meet the needs I created you, and failed to fulfill my expectations for you]

[You are afraid...Afraid that you have deviated from my guidance]

[But don’t be like this, my brother...my favorite relative]

【Because I have left this world to you】

[Just like after that, I left the entire beach sand and the entire sea to you. You can build your favorite castle as you wish, and shape everything into what you want.]

[Go, Elam, the whole civilization is yours]

[You have stopped walking for hundreds of years, it’s time to take another step]

[Go and change the world... into what you want, into something I can't predict, into something different from my path, but something I like, just like the stars in the sea, the deep fluorescence,

A look that makes me want to explore]

[Only in this different world... can I have the motivation to come back]

——A different world?

Slowly opening his eyes, the eternal watcher looked at the last prophet with a surprised expression in front of him. He had already realized something and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Brother, don't regret it."

"Because...I will definitely do things beyond your imagination."

【--I am looking forward】

In the void, the remaining echoes gradually dissipated: [If one day you really complete your dream, the sea of ​​​​stars will change because of you, the hearts of all living beings will be as joyful as fire, a new civilization will be shaped, and the unprecedented achievements will illuminate the entire universe.

...]

[Elan, please don’t have any burden and paint the universe into the shape you want, because that is exactly what I expect from you]

"yes."

The throne under him gradually lit up with a silvery light like the ocean tide. Ellan Yinfeng lowered his eyes, and the burning light flowed out, intertwined with the words in his heart, and he said from his mouth: "Wandering around in circles.

After seven hundred years, I finally understand your expectations of me...Yes, I finally understand."

"I don't want to be a king, and the Heart of Terra doesn't want to be a god. Since humans don't want our guidance, then we will leave."

"But I don't want to...I don't even want to."

"I don't want to be a passer-by in your life until the end, just your younger brother... Brother, I think I am your successor and someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder with you!"

The watchman left.

[Eternal King] stared at the universe in front of him.

The brilliance shines.

"Yes, yes! This is it!" And Aldo looked around him in surprise, and then looked at the silver figure slowly emerging to his side: "Finally - restarted!"
To be continued...