Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 174 New World

"We can see that all galaxies are moving away from us, and all galaxies are also moving away from each other, so we can conclude that the universe is expanding. That is to say, the original universe was smaller than it is now, and if we continue to extrapolate, we can reach another conclusion."

"The universe once experienced a Big Bang."

—A popular science magazine.

1.62 × 10⁻³⁵ meters is the Planck length. When an object is smaller than this scale, it forms a miniature black hole. Black holes cannot be observed because humans rely on photons for observation. However, at such a small scale, photons would be swallowed by the black hole and would not be reflected back to the human eye, so humans would see nothing at all.

At this scale, both relativity and quantum mechanics become completely invalid, because humanity cannot speculate about an unpredictable world. We cannot understand what happened before the Big Bang, because we cannot understand what happened at the Planck scale.

The Planck scale is the limit of what humans can observe, and the singularity is even smaller than the Planck scale. Humans cannot understand things smaller than the Planck scale, nor can they understand the singularity, but it was eventually born.

The singularity began to expand, unleashing countless amounts of heat, force, and energy. This was an immeasurable and enormous change. Faced with such overwhelming energy, even spacetime was utterly insignificant, because within this universe, which was not even the size of the Planck scale, the infinite heat and force prevented the formation of three-dimensional spacetime. At this moment, an eleven-dimensional spacetime existed.

Eleven-dimensional spacetime unfolds fully at this moment, creating an indescribable and unimaginable world, because the world is composed of eleven dimensions, and all things operate within the eleven-dimensional interface.

At this moment, the heat energy reaches 10^27 Kelvin, a hundred billion billion degrees Celsius. Such intense heat energy is concentrated in such a small area, forcing the primal forces to be bound together and unable to move freely.

At this moment, the four fundamental forces were brought together to form the "Grand Unification Force" that someone in later generations dreamed of. Matter could not be born from such a hot environment; there was only pure energy. All particles were moving at the speed of light because even the Higgs boson, which gives mass to all things, had not yet been born. The mass of all things was 0.
Since they are weightless particles, they can easily reach the speed of light.

In the 10^-36 seconds of the singularity's eruption, the singularity expanded to the size of an atom. Among the primal forces that were originally forced by the enormous energy, gravity was the first to break free from the primal forces, and the power that dominates all things in the universe first demonstrated its supreme divine might.

Expand!
Just as God commanded, the Big Bang occurred.

In less than a ten-millionth of a second, the force of gravity forced this universe, smaller than an atom, to expand to the size of the Milky Way, exceeding the range of light-years. With the expansion of the universe, the eleven-dimensional spacetime that had briefly appeared collapsed into three dimensions in an extremely short time. The other dimensions were forced to curl up below the Planck scale and became unobservable, thus establishing the order of spacetime.

In a fraction of a second, the temperature of the universe had already cooled to tens of trillions of Kelvin, but it was still incredibly hot. The four fundamental forces—strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravitational force—had completely broken free of their restraints and were recklessly shaping this newborn universe.

Between the collisions of photons, hadrons and leptons were formed, and the entire universe is filled with countless quarks and antiquarks, electrons and antielectrons, and neutrinos and antineutrinos. But like the most extravagant spendthrift, this nascent universe is so wealthy that it pays no attention to the mutual annihilation between particles and antiparticles.

As the vast number of particles and antiparticles expanded, they eventually vanished into nothingness. In this unprecedented confrontation between particles and antiparticles, in this unprecedented and extravagant waste, the entire universe lost almost all of its particles, with only less than one in a billion positive particles surviving. These positive particles will constitute the entire material universe in the future.

At 3 minutes and 46 seconds into the singularity explosion, the ratio of protons to neutrons was 87:13. Two protons and two neutrons combined to form a helium nucleus, and the atom was born. For countless millennia thereafter, the entire universe has been continuously shaping countless helium atoms. This is the age of nucleosynthesis...

In the 38th year, the first ray of light was born in the dark universe. After that, countless lights illuminated this dark and empty universe.

In the 70th year, a stable hydrogen-helium atom structure appeared in the universe, and numerous substances were shaped.

In the 4 millionth year, gravity caused numerous particles to coalesce, and the increasing gravitational pull formed the first giant stars. These stars were enormous, but also extremely short-lived. Three to four billion years later, these ancient stars died, forming supermassive black holes, some of which ejected vast amounts of matter, forming nebulae.

Five billion years later, a second generation of stars was born from the remnants of an ancient star, but the universe was still incredibly sparse at this time, with no matter possibly within hundreds of thousands of light-years of a star.

In the 92 billionth year, a medium-sized star was born in a vast galactic cloud. Over the next 100 million years, numerous galactic dust particles revolved around it, eventually forming planets under the influence of gravity.

……

On that blue planet, numerous life forms thrived and evolved step by step, from the oldest giant creatures to mass extinctions. Life on this planet evolved through repeated trials and tribulations.

When that monkey picked up a tool, when the ape-men gathered into tribes, when the tribes evolved into civilizations and city-states...

There is no God, no demon, no angels or monsters. It is a completely self-evolving world. God's place is only for the instant of the Big Bang, because everything else is beyond God's control.

At the source of the river of time, a completely different world was reshaped. The old world of gods and monsters was irreversibly rewritten, all figures were destroyed by the immense power of the universe, and everything that was incompatible with this new world was ruthlessly rejected.

The omnipotent beings in the Crystal Heaven, the numerous gods who descended, and even the creator god, were all abandoned by this world, because there was no longer a place for them in this world.

The gamble between gods and demons has lost its meaning, because in this new world there are no gods or demons, and therefore no gamble.

Along the river of time, the new world, originating from the source, gradually devours the old world, shattering and reconstructing everything in the old world.

"You little bug, you actually dared to do this."

At the end of time, the violent monster was plunged into an unprecedented crisis. Its pupils, which could glimpse the past, could clearly see the arrival of a new world, a new world in which there was no place for it, nor even for gods.

It had already understood God's thoughts: if victory was impossible, then let the existence of the gamble itself vanish. In the reshaped new world, there were no gods or demons, no gamble. Even the omniscient and omnipotent were denied, because they never existed in this new world. The new world would be a completely blank slate.

"The age of mythology has ended."

The monster at the end of time gazes at the god at the beginning of time, as if it can hear the god's words.

Madness and violence filled the crimson, vertical snake eyes.

"The end? Don't even dream about it!"

The new world marches forward like a raging torrent, negating everything that defies it. Yet, in the long river of time, the roaring monster clings to time itself, stubbornly resisting the new world.

A new world? Let's see if you can destroy me or I can overturn you!

"..."

The serpent's scales and flesh were instantly pulverized by the cosmic pressure spanning trillions of light-years. The new world and the old world were like two giant millstones, relentlessly squeezing and grinding everything into them before reshaping it.

Scales, flesh, bones—the tangible body was completely ground into powder, leaving only the serpent's soul, which was forced into a tiny dot, bearing the pressure from both worlds alone, as if it would be unable to withstand the power at any moment and be shattered into dust.

"ansuz!"

In an unprecedentedly urgent cry, the owner of the voice only had time to cast one spell before being shattered and reshaped by the pressure between the two worlds, and sent to the new world. Even so, the rune was still attached to the serpent.

Runes, magical runes created by Odin, are something even Odin could not fully understand. Odin believed they possessed almost omnipotent power and attempted to fight against Ragnarok, but ultimately failed. However, this does not mean that runes are weak.

In this world, Mona is the only one who understands all runes; she was once called the Queen of Magic by the Norse gods. Although her power is far inferior to that of the serpent, her mastery of magic surpasses that of the serpent in areas the serpent is not interested in.

Amidst the pressure between those two worlds, the serpent's soul, now reduced to a tiny speck, was continuously stripped away, like a grain of sand in the middle of a millstone.

The old world is constantly weakening, while the new world is constantly strengthening. The old history is rewritten by the new world, but no matter how much it is ground down, that grain of sand can never be crushed, as if it possesses some incredible power that makes it indestructible. Conversely, it is the two new worlds that are being rubbed apart by that grain of sand, creating discordant notes. Repeated grinding not only fails to crush the sand but also leaves deeper marks on the old and new worlds. The new world, spanning trillions of light-years, is even showing signs of impending collapse.

A sigh echoed in the void. The new world no longer ground that grain of sand, but instead mixed with the old world, incorporating the sand into it.

The sand was not crushed, and the new world did not collapse. Although it did not meet God's original intention, the three were still barely merged together under God's will.

"It seems that the end of the mythological era is still some time away."

God looked at the somewhat discordant "new world" and understood what the discord was. The monster had eventually entered the new world, a new world without God, but with only a demon.

The mythical age has not completely ended. The influence from the old world still exists, albeit subtly. As long as that monster exists, the mythical age will not truly end. However, it had anticipated this and left some hidden tricks in the new world.

But in any case, all its power had been used to shape the new world, and at this moment, she no longer had the ability to stop that monster...

In the void, the light emanating from his body had faded, making him appear like an ordinary human being. He stretched out his hand, looking at his slender arm, feeling the beating heart in his chest, quietly experiencing everything a human being could feel.

"Human feelings...?"

As she spoke, the expressionless girl remained silent for a long time. Then, the corners of her mouth seemed to curl up slightly, but before they could appear, they vanished into thin air.

God has fallen into an eternal slumber, unable to awaken.

……

On May 30, 1431, a woman named Jeanne was burned at the stake. But no one could hear the angry roar coming from inside her body. The shadowy figure bound to the human body could not break free and could only feel the pain of being burned at the stake.

"A mere insect... how dare it... Aa ...

Ultimately, according to legend, when the saint was burned to death, only some bones and remains remained. The British army scattered them all into the river, but no one realized that among the scattered ashes was something resembling a heart...

(End of this chapter)