Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 483 Leaving the Universe and the Forgotten Deep Space
Chapter 482

"We can't afford to waste the remaining two thousand years."

Rosen calculated the time and decided to use this time to elevate his own eternal body.

But if two thousand years pass like this, he will definitely regret it in the end.

The reason is simple: he still has some things he needs to figure out before the universe is destroyed.

First, we need to understand what exactly is outside the universe.
According to his deduction, when the old universe is destroyed, the entire universe will undergo spacetime collapse with the center of the universe as the singularity. The terrifying force generated by the collapse of the universe when the old universe is destroyed will mean that even if the original life forms continue to stay in the universe, they will only face certain death.

Therefore, before the new universe is born, it is necessary to leave the old universe and live outside for a period of time.

The Holy Temple joined forces to build the Burning Heaven Star Palace in order to survive outside the universe.

No one can say for sure how many years it will take for a new universe to be born from the remnants of an old one. Therefore, the longer one can survive outside the universe, the better. Only by truly coming into contact with the environment outside the universe can one make the best and most accurate responses.

Rosen arrived at the edge of the first star ring universe, where all that lay ahead was darkness that swallowed everything, and he could not see the outside of the universe.

The Creator's Eye, now fused with the Root Heavenly Eye, possesses even greater observational abilities, yet it still cannot perceive the absolute darkness ahead.

Logically, the more the universe expands, the more fragile its outermost layer should be.

However, the reality is quite the opposite. The more the universe expands, the stronger the outermost surface becomes. This is similar to a ball in the deep sea gradually expanding into a balloon. If the surface cannot become stronger as it expands, the balloon will be easily destroyed by the pressure of the deep sea.

Why the surface strength increases as the universe expands remains a mystery in the study of the many eternal beings in the Holy Temple.

Regarding this matter, various studies have only proposed three possibilities.

Firstly, the surface of the universe has not actually grown larger.

The deep sea has always existed as a ball, not an enlarged balloon. The surface of the universe has never changed fundamentally. What is truly expanding is the spacetime inside the ball. The phenomenon of cosmic expansion is merely an illusion perceived by life within the universe.

The expansion of the universe, from beginning to end, is nothing more than the expansion of its internal spacetime.

As for the second possibility, there is no deep sea outside the universe, but some kind of special substance.

When the universe was a ball, its surface area was small, so it could only attract a small amount of special substances.

As the universe expands into a balloon and grows larger, its surface attracts more and more special substances. These special substances, when integrated into the cosmic barrier, strengthen the barrier's strength, and the more they are integrated, the better the strengthening effect.

Finally, the third possibility is one that has emerged from research in recent years.

The universe itself transcends the primordial world. Since the primordial world can integrate with the undying will, then the universe itself, which has integrated with the cosmic will, must also possess the characteristics of an undying universe, or even characteristics stronger than undying.

The cosmic barrier may be constantly being destroyed, but it possesses properties beyond immortality, making it indestructible.

The seemingly ever-strengthening cosmic barrier at the edge of the universe is actually a collision zone formed by matter from outside the universe colliding with the cosmic barrier. Because the destructive power of the collision zone is so great, it has formed an insurmountable protective electric grid.

Regardless of which of the three possibilities is true, there are other, even more unbelievable, possibilities.

The only way to find out the truth is to verify it yourself.

Rosen had considered using methods to coerce the Chaos Gods into revealing the situation outside the universe, but they dared not say he dared not believe it, and he had no way of judging whether they were lying about such a crucial matter.

Upon releasing the Doomsday Ark, the Miracle Sequence immediately upgraded it to the Eternal level.

However, that wasn't enough, so they integrated the Miracle Star Sea into the Doomsday Ark for further symbiotic integration and enhancement.

The Doomsday Ark, now enhanced into a primordial relic, unfolds its Doomsday Barrier and moves forward, continuously penetrating deeper into the cosmic barrier.

The cosmic barrier is not a physical wall like in a mystical study, but a special blocking structure with laws as its steel reinforcement, spacetime as its framework, and energy as its filling. The cosmic barrier is the foundation of the world, and strictly speaking, it is even more important than the origin of the universe.

The Doomsday Ark traveled through the void for several days, its speed decreasing and its progress becoming increasingly difficult.

Rosen looked ahead and found that the concepts of time and space were becoming increasingly blurred.

The concept of space is vague and uncertain; no matter which way you go, you may stay in the same place.

The concept of time is vague and uncertain. You might think you have been traveling for many days through the cosmic barrier, but in reality, a few seconds or decades may have passed outside. Combined with the ambiguity of space, it may take hundreds of thousands of years to cross the cosmic barrier.

Rosen unleashed the Creator Domain, simultaneously projecting the power of the Root Universe into it.

By relying on the laws of the universe, the blurred spacetime barrier was forcibly stabilized.

In fact, a better approach is undoubtedly to use an undying will to control the cosmic laws that constitute the cosmic barrier.

However, the attempt failed, and Rosen's undying will was expelled by the laws of the universe.

If it weren't for the fact that the Creator's Domain could still offer some resistance, he would have had no choice but to forcefully carve out a path.

Under the protection of the Creator's Domain, the Doomsday Ark continued its journey. However, as time went on, the cosmic laws of the Creator's Domain became less and less effective because the uncontrolled cosmic laws within the cosmic barrier became stronger and stronger.

Rosen had no choice but to transform the Origin Seed into more Cosmic Origin Seeds to stabilize the spacetime laws of the Creator's domain.

This continued for decades, and the Doomsday Ark crossed the cosmic barrier with difficulty but without danger.

Rosen had assumed the cosmic barrier would be dangerous, filled with spacetime storms and other things that would wreak havoc everywhere.

Unexpectedly, apart from a vague sense of time and space, there was no other danger.

Thinking about it carefully, it's not surprising. The cosmic barrier is the outer shell of the entire universe. If this outer shell is unstable, it means that the universe is very fragile. How can a fragile cosmic shell support the entire universe, especially since he was piloting the primordial artifact to cross the cosmic barrier?

Rosen activated the Eye of the Creator ahead of time, carefully observing the outside world the instant the Doomsday Ark passed through the cosmic barrier.

Just one glance, and all the excitement and anticipation in my heart vanished.

He had imagined many possibilities about what might happen outside the universe.

Beyond the universe may lie endless energy, like the primordial dark sea, or a place similar to the primordial sea of ​​the universe, or a lonely universe floating in the endless void, or even a world in the palm of an supreme being.
He had considered all possibilities, even the possibility that the universe might have been created by a more powerful being.

After all, there are life forms in some smaller universes within the Root Universe that are unaware that they live in a microcosm controlled by humans.

Rosen considered all sorts of possibilities, but he never imagined this particular situation.

It was indeed an endless void, a pitch-black void with only a few starlight. The background environment outside the universe was remarkably similar to the starry sky inside the universe; they looked almost identical.

However, what adorns this endless, dark void are not stars, but universes.

As far as Rosen could see, both near and far, were all universes. The number of these universes was as numerous as the number of stars within the universe, numbering in the trillions, making it impossible to calculate exactly how many universes existed in this darkness.
If it were just a matter of the sheer number of universes, it wouldn't have been enough to make Rosen's heart sink.

What's truly terrifying is that all the universes he could see were destroyed, all of them were universes with collapsed cosmic barriers, universes that were completely silent. Heaven knows why all these endless universes were destroyed.

Rosen looked around in all directions and found only this intact universe behind him.

He wanted to observe further, but discovered that the universe behind him was receding into the distance.

The Doomsday Ark immediately gave chase, and it took hundreds of years to catch up.

Rosen discovered that, like the cosmos, the countless universes in the endless void were also in motion, and moving at an extremely fast speed. He exerted all his strength to steer the Doomsday Ark, and it took him hundreds of years to catch up with the distance that had been created by the few minutes he had previously stopped.

He now finally understands the mindset of those primordial beings who transcended the universe back then.

They probably also witnessed the true nature of the universe outside, so they imitated everything they saw outside the universe, transforming the original flat universe into a starry sky, using individual stars to imitate the destroyed universes outside the universe.

Rosen finally understood why they hadn't killed the will of the universe but hadn't destroyed the universe.

Because there are countless destroyed universes outside, but only one intact universe.

In this context, the preciousness of this unique, intact universe becomes all the more apparent.

Rosen also understood why those primordial beings who transcended the universe had not returned to this day.

He lingered in the void for a few minutes, while the Doomsday Ark pursued him for hundreds of years.

Those primordial life forms have been gone from the universe for countless billions of years. Heaven knows how far the universe has moved in this dark void. How easy is it to pinpoint the universe's location and find our way back?

It's even possible that those primordial life forms no longer want to return.

After all, with so many destroyed universes, no one can say for sure how many unclaimed resources are inside.

If resources are plentiful, wouldn't it be better to collect them yourself and elevate your microcosm into a macrocosm?
Or perhaps they have already died in the endless depths of space.

In the endless universe, only one thing remained intact while the rest were destroyed.

That force that destroyed these universes might still linger in those broken universes.

Who knows, they might have already died in those cosmic remnants and never returned.

Rosen took one last deep look, and the Doomsday Ark began its return journey.

I thought the outside world would be very dangerous, but I didn't expect that I didn't come into direct contact with any danger except for the endless deep space.

The only thing to worry about is that when the universe is destroyed and reborn, it probably won't stop in the endless deep space, but will continue to move at high speed. Without a vehicle of the primordial relic level, it will probably be left behind by the new universe and never be able to catch up again.

This is understandable, as the Chaos Gods did not take the Holy Temple seriously.

Because relying on the Burning Heaven Star Palace, it is impossible to catch up with the new universe moving in the endless deep space.

The Holy Temple was disqualified from the start for vying for the new universe.

The Doomsday Ark crossed the cosmic barrier once again, and Rosen felt completely relieved.

Although there was no danger in the endless depths of space outside the universe, there were no laws there, not even energy. It was empty and there was nothing there. In that environment, he was like a fish out of water living in a vacuum.

Although it relies on the Root Microcosm, it can survive in a vacuum without water.

However, if danger arises, relying solely on one's inner strength might not be enough to cope.

Because if the microcosm could roam freely outside, the primordial life form might not have necessarily had to kill the will of the universe or squeeze out most of the universe's origin to forcibly transcend it.

They must have discovered something and needed greater strength to protect themselves, which is why they did this.

Rosen was still pondering various possibilities when he suddenly sensed something was wrong.

He is forgetting everything he saw outside the universe; not only are his memories fading, but even everything passively recorded in the Bronze Book of Fate is disappearing.

For hundreds of years, the Ark of Doomsday has been chasing the universe. The paintings he made on the ship that touched on the universe are gradually disappearing. In just a few days, he will forget everything outside the universe.

Rosen tried various methods to stop it, but he couldn't preserve these memories.

Finally, having no other choice, he could only write down the crucial information that one needs a primordial vehicle to survive outside the universe, and the information that one needs to obtain a new universe to survive.

This information does not involve the true nature of the universe, which is why it has been preserved and has not disappeared.

Although only this much information has been gained over hundreds of years, Rosen feels it was all worthwhile.

Because if he knew nothing, during the period of the destruction of the old universe and the birth of the new universe, if he were just a little bit slower in the endless void, even if he were to catch up in the Ark of Doomsday, it would take at least several decades and at most several hundred years to successfully catch up.

Such a long period of time might have been enough for the Chaos Gods to determine the victor and take control of the new universe.

Taking a single step too slowly could mean total defeat; that is the greatest lesson learned from this cosmic journey.

Rosen was even thinking about how to make the Doomsday Ark faster, but all his attempts were ineffective because the Doomsday Ark had already reached its speed limit. To continue accelerating, he would have to rely on power that surpassed the original level.

His memory quickly faded completely, but he didn't forget the things he needed to pay attention to and the things he needed to do.

After Rosen quietly returned to the primordial sea of ​​the universe aboard the Doomsday Ark, he began to continue creating new primordial holy laws.

This primordial holy law is very special. It requires long-range attacks, requires that the attacks not involve any laws after they are released, requires that energy be conserved to the maximum extent, and requires that interference be the primary focus and destruction be secondary. In short, all of these requirements are abnormal.

The primordial holy law created under these conditions would likely be utterly defeated in the face of eternal holy law.

However, Rosen resolutely began to deduce creation, because this was a warning he had personally written in the Bronze Book of Fate. It was an extremely profound and undeniably important reminder in his memory, second only to strengthening his Doomsday Ark in importance.

(End of this chapter)