Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 251 Heaven is at our feet
“God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’... This was the first day.”

“God said, ‘Let there be a vault between the waters to separate the water from the water.’ So God made the vault and separated the water that was under the vault from the water that was above the vault. And God called the vault ‘heaven’…that was the second day.”

“God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let dry ground appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry ground ‘land,’ and the gathered waters he called ‘seas.’... It was the third day.”

"God said, 'Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years; and let them be lights in the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so. Then God made two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light over the night—and he also made the stars and set them in the sky to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness… This was the fourth day."

"..."

"By the seventh day, God had finished the work of his creation,"

—Genesis, Old Testament

……

Galactic calendar year 18741, Second Republic era.

"Among the stars, one race has gathered here to celebrate a long and arduous project."

Amidst countless gazes, a voice spoke.

"Universe, what a grand word. Compared to this ancient and ancient universe, compared to its 934 billion light-years span, and compared to its 137 billion-year history, we are so insignificant. We strive to explore among the stars, but compared to this vast universe, we are still a tiny species that has not even left our local galaxy cluster."

"Yes, we are insignificant, and even at this moment, we must maintain this sense of awe."

"In this universe, we are so insignificant. Compared to the universe, everything we have is as trivial as a child's toy. Everything we have is thanks to the gaps left in the universe's fingers; everything we create is a clumsy imitation of the universe."

“Look, those stars have been shining for billions of years, long before the birth of humankind; they will continue to shine even after humankind perishes. Human life is not even a moment's time for a star, something that humankind has understood since ancient times.”

"However, it is humans, not stars, who recognize the eternity of the stars and the fleeting nature of human life."

The voice continued speaking.

"Thinking back to the distant past, a four-legged creature migrated across the planets. Back then, they were weak and ignorant, struggling only for a meal. Now, we, standing on two legs, are walking among the stars."

"They once looked up at the stars, but now we have created the stars."

"The universe has sculpted these numerous stars over billions of years, but even with the vastness and antiquity of the universe, it could not create a grand world, which was born in the hands of us, a mortal species."

“Insignificant humans, mortal humans, be proud of it.”

"Universe, have you seen it? Among these stars, a tiny species has created a miracle that even you could not achieve. At this moment, we have transcended mortals and glimpsed the realm that belongs to the Creator..."

Behind that figure was a blue star with a radius of 4000 million kilometers, and the ring-shaped structure built around this giant blue star—something that could not be seen anywhere else in the universe.

A colossal object with a radius exceeding 100 billion kilometers is slowly rotating.

A ring world.

After a long period of 15000 galactic years, that miracle beyond human imagination was finally born.

Above the inner walls of the ring-shaped world, clouds loomed in and out, with flashes of lightning faintly visible. Below the clouds lay blue oceans and yellow land. In some places, spaceships could be faintly seen carrying template components of the land and ocean, installing them in areas that were not yet fully covered.

This is a ring-shaped world with an incredibly large surface area, exceeding 1 trillion trillion square kilometers, which is trillion times the size of Earth and nearly 100 million times the size of the Sun.

To build it, humanity exhausted the resources of 75 star systems, extinguished four nearly eternal stars, spent 15000 galactic years, and relied on the efforts of thousands of generations. The Supreme Scientific Council was dissolved, and the First Empire took over; the First Empire was destroyed, and the Second Republic took over, finally creating this supreme glory at this moment.

A massive star control system with a radius of 5000 million kilometers controls a blue giant star called Sommer, meticulously regulating every bit of energy extracted from Sommer. All of this energy is directed to this vast world, transforming into sunlight and heat that shines upon the earth.

Sunshine, rain, sunset, land, ocean...

Everything in the circular world was created by humankind.

Humanity should be proud of this, because something that the universe has been unable to create for billions of years has been born in the hands of a tiny species.

It surpasses any celestial body in the universe, whether solid or gaseous planets, stars, or black holes; nothing can compare to this man-made space structure.

There may be countless planets, countless stars, countless black holes in the universe... but there is only one such ring-shaped world, even if you count them all over the entire universe.

……

On a nearby spaceship, an old man gazed at the ring world not far away.

"Scholar, what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking at the sky," the scholar said slowly, gazing down at the circular world below.

"Sky?"

Some of the young people didn't quite understand what was so interesting about the sky.

The scholar glanced at him and laughed.

"Chano, do you know what humanity's attitude towards the sky was in ancient Earth times?"

The young man shook his head.

In this era, the vast majority of people, let alone the cultures of ancient Earth, are not even very clear about what ancient Earth was. Even though most people have undergone genetic modification and brain processor implants, resulting in significant breakthroughs in intelligence, what is unknown remains unknown; knowledge does not appear out of thin air.

The scholar turned his head, looked at the circular world below him, and gazed at the floating clouds.

he said softly.

"In ancient times, people had a great deal of worship for the sky and believed that gods lived in the sky."

"There is a myth that God created the sky, the earth, the sea, the alternation of day and night, and all things in seven days. They believe that God is a monarch who lives in the heavens, in a place called 'Heaven,' where everything is perfect. Humans were once banished from Heaven by God for making mistakes."

"In ancient times, people all yearned for heaven and tried every means to enter it. Some people even used heaven to intimidate them, threatening that they could not enter heaven if they did not believe in gods..."

This scholar eloquently explained knowledge that few people know today.

"so……?"

After listening, the young man still didn't quite understand.

The scholar shook his head.

"Chano, you haven't realized yet, but this scene is really quite similar."

After speaking, the scholar looked down at the circular world and clouds below.

There, strange life forms created by humans run across the plains, a scholar says softly as he looks down at them from above the clouds.

"Zanau, mankind once chased after paradise, but unknowingly... paradise is already at our feet."

……

The birth of the circular world signifies the birth of a great era.

In just a thousand years, a large number of humans from all directions of the stars have entered this paradise world, and every day, new changes are taking place in the ring world.

In this vast world, the human population began to grow without limit, leading to a greater exchange of ideas among more people, more scholars, and more unique perspectives. Science, which had previously stagnated, seemed poised to advance again.

Just as Innernais had hoped more than 10,000 years ago, the great convergence of ideas he wished to see was taking shape.

In the originally loose human world, a powerful and irresistible force suddenly appeared. Driven by this force, many human kingdoms around the ring world successively came under the unity of the Second Republic.

Despite the fact that the speed of light is still unbreakable, and despite the fact that this universe is so cold and desolate, the reunification of humanity seems to be unstoppable.

Meanwhile, in a remote star system within the human world...

……

The solar system, the cradle of humanity, has long been abandoned.

The solar system, having lost Earth, held little value, and subsequent wars further ravaged this birthplace of humanity. Eventually, no one lived here anymore, with only occasional spaceships passing by a research site to temporarily replenish supplies.

This place should be peaceful, but now an event that will change the fate of the universe is about to occur...

A strange spacetime tremor occurred at the site of the original Earth's remains.

Amidst this strange spacetime tremor, a rift appeared in spacetime, and a beautiful young woman draped in an ancient robe and holding an exquisite scepter stepped out from the rift, arriving in this universe from that abandoned old world.

Its pale skin made it look like a living person, its lifeless white pupils held no light, and in some places, it was covered with fine snake scales.

The girl slowly surveyed the desolate scene around her, and when she looked at the countless pieces of Earth's remains, her deathly white pupils stopped, and she fell into a strange silence.

(End of this chapter)