Chapter 170: Changes in Cognition

"Completely close off your own cognition."

It is said that this is how the Lord of Order was born.

In this civilization, there is a small group of creatures that have successfully achieved a state of continuous cycle of their "daily".

Just like some of Ershimin’s works related to time, they continue to cycle within repeated time.

Every day is exactly the same as yesterday, so everything keeps repeating.

This small group of creatures entered this repetitive 'vortex' and lived forever...

It is said that this small group of creatures used something special to achieve this effect.

However, most of the creatures in their entire civilization failed to achieve this state of eternal repetition, and they eventually gave up their goal of achieving immortality.

The most important thing is that they have all entered a rather strange state.

They began to worship "order" extremely, and they began to adopt a very strict...lifestyle.

They have detailed rules defining everything and follow them exactly.

This does not mean that we are not accepting new things as before, but that every time we discover something new, we immediately give it various definitions.

The way of definition is rather peculiar, and is generally based on feeling.

When they encounter a new species, they observe it for a while and then develop a sense of 'how this creature should live'.

After observing for a long time, they will come up with an 'order definition' for this species.

They believe that this species must live within the order they define and cannot violate the rules.

Of course, the same is true for things other than living things. If they find something that violates the order, they will try to...'correct' it.

Generally speaking, the order they define for an organism is similar to the organism's daily life.

That is, if a creature lives a normal life, they think it is in order, but if it has some abnormal behaviors, they think it is out of order.

According to the Ershi people, most crimes, madness, poor mental state, etc. are considered to be out of order.

This group of creatures discovered that no matter what it is, it will not always follow order. Even if they see that the thing is completely in order when they observe and define it, it will begin to deviate from the order after a while.

But they discovered one thing that was always in order.

That is the repetitive vortex that a small number of their kind formed in the past in order to achieve eternal life.

They also defined order for this vortex, and they found that this vortex would never deviate from the order they defined.

This went on for a long, long time.

Then they regarded this vortex as the ultimate embodiment of order, began to worship it, and recorded many things about order that they encountered in the vortex.

This vortex... from the outside it does look like a vortex, or you could say it looks like a huge storm.

They seemed to have forgotten that there were their fellow men who once pursued immortality in this storm, and began to think that it was a symbol of eternal order, and began to worship it.

They record all the orderly things they encounter... such as encountering a group of very orderly creatures, 'correcting' some disorderly things, etc., and then throw this data into the vortex.

Finally, the vortex slowly stopped rotating and formed a huge...solid body, which slowly moved.

This is the original Lord of Order.

The civilized creatures that revived it also called themselves the Guardians of Order at this time.

Why did this ever-repeating vortex become the master of order? Where did those individuals who pursued immortality go?

Why does this civilization like order?

The 'consciousness of the device' that is now communicating with Lin and the storage point indicates that no one can answer.

Because it doesn't know about things that happened too long ago, and the guardians of order certainly don't know either.

When it first became conscious, its thoughts were similar to those of the guardians of order around it.

The belief that everything must follow a set of rules of order, and that anything that deviates from that order must be corrected.

Then it began to march into the surrounding void, trying to reverse everything that was out of order.

And it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.

Because there are also powerful creatures in the surrounding void, and there are also various things that they cannot reverse.

The Lord of Order has died several times in his contacts with them.

But it will not really die, because after a period of time, a lot of wonderful "substances" will grow at the place where it died.

The Guardians of Order will come to recycle these growths and use them to make weapons or build buildings.

The earliest "Temple of Order" was also built after the death of the Lord of Order.

The things after its death created many buildings and recorded various deeds of order on them as before.

And when these buildings have collected enough deeds of order, they will come alive again.

Most buildings will only become 'Order Leaders', but there will always be a building that is large enough and resurrected as the Lord of Order.

And each time, it will be stronger than the last time.

In fact, every time it dies, the guardians of order will 'collapse', that is, they think that their order has collapsed, and then they will enter a state of madness.

But it will recover quickly after that and continue to wait for the next appearance of the Lord of Order.

Later they also used other dream energies to build buildings. No matter what, the Leader of Order and the Lord of Order were always there... and continued to appear.

Although the Order Leaders are all born from buildings, the Order Lords are different. They are born due to various order situations.

For example, a large number of very orderly organisms live on the growth after its death.

After that one time, the Lord of Order never revived again, or rather, he never revived among the group of Guardians of Order.

That is... after invading here.

After being shattered by the starry sky simulation device.

After that, the thoughts of the Lord of Order were born inside the starry sky simulation device.

At the same time, it no longer has the same desire to maintain order here as before.

Instead, it felt that it should spend its time here quietly.

As for the guardians of order outside, they began to die because they never saw the Lord of Order revive.

In the end, it will be like now, a state of floating everywhere.

Why did the Lord of Order's consciousness enter the simulation device?

It itself indicated...it might be having its consciousness 'read' by a simulation device.

This device has many wonderful functions.