"I can probably guess that you will ask these questions."
Claire didn't look surprised at the question raised by Anvis.
"As for your first question, I'm actually not sure how I should define my existence."
As she spoke, she slowly took a few steps forward and came to the edge of the terrace, then turned around to face Anvis, letting the silver-purple moonlight fall on the side of her face.
"The first time I had such a thing as 'memory' was in the era of high elves in this world. They first called me Experiment 24. Until that day, the last high elf queen gave me the name 'Claire'
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But after that, as the last floating cities of the high elf civilization left, I was also split in the collision known as the 'Great Rip' and scattered into different time and space.
However, as fragments of 'me', they naturally have the instinct to merge and unify. Even the endless and distant time and space cannot stop this connection.
Since then, I have been on my own path to find myself."
With her back facing the endless and far-reaching dark starry sky, the girl's words were ethereal and silent.
"You know, I once walked through the dark land of endless years ago, and saw the first beasts crawling out of the ocean and setting foot on land.
I have also seen the rock cities of the snake people civilization and the marl altars built in the middle of the steaming swamp. They fought with each other to please the snake god under the extremely huge and hot Seer (sun). In that world where there were no humans yet
In ancient times, looking up at the ancient starry sky was completely different from today.
After years that I don’t even know how long, I encountered the coming star civilization.
After negotiating with them, they told me some of the changes in the future, and let my fragments sleep in their cities, across the endless river of time, until they are gathered together in this era."
Under the hazy two-color moonlight, the blond half-elf girl smiled slightly.
"Now, I can tell you that according to the definition of intelligent life in this world, I am Claire, an extraterrestrial existence that controls the power of thoughts and wishes."
"I see."
Listening to the girl's explanation, Avis' eyes flashed with surprise and understanding, and he actually had some guesses about Claire's identity.
In fact, with his fragments fully restored, even he could not clearly see the girl's current strength.
"As for your second question, I can also answer you, but I think that's not what you really want to know."
Looking at the young man with black hair and black eyes on the throne, Claire looked half-smiling.
"For the high elves to break through the legend, they only need to make their own rules and scheduling infinitely close to 100%, and finally completely transform themselves into regular creatures.
Of course, this process carries great risks. If you are not careful, you will completely integrate yourself into the rules and completely lose your independence."
"..."
Avis sighed at Claire's sudden amusement.
"So, how do the high elves make their own rules and scheduling reach 100%?"
"Of course it depends on hard work...Okay, I know what you want to ask."
Looking at Anvis's rare helpless look, Claire seemed to have gained some kind of psychological satisfaction and showed a happy expression.
"In fact, the ninth level of the high elves do not need to make any special preparations to naturally make their own rules and scheduling reach 100% limit.
But this is not because of talent, but because the rules of today’s world itself are flawed!”
As he said that, Claire's expression became serious again.
"I know that after so many years of development of human civilization, there should be more than one ninth-level person who has discovered the problem, and even you should have some understanding of it, but the truth behind this actually involves the biggest issue in Yunivar's history.
secret."
Regarding Avis's other question, Claire suddenly brought up another seemingly unrelated topic.
"Do you know the end of the goblin civilization? They disappeared in a very short period of time. It was not destroyed by natural disasters, but 'it' briefly revived and came to the main material plane.
Then, it will swallow up the entire goblin civilization, or 'assimilate' it. The minimum requirement to resist this assimilation is to master the power of rules.
Unfortunately, I cannot name 'it' in any form, I can only refer to it as such, otherwise there will be big problems."
"so……"
Hearing this, Anvis frowned instinctively.
He actually knows some information about the goblin civilization, such as the fact that the quality of individuals in the goblin civilization is naturally weak.
"Unfortunately, due to the inherent weakness of individuals, although the goblin civilization has mastered powerful construction technology, there has never been a ninth-level existence that can master the power of rules by itself."
Claire nodded, confirming Avis's suspicion.
"So, in silence, all the goblins, from the goblin emperor on the throne, to the goblin sages in the tower, or ordinary goblin civilians, or even the hermits hiding deep underground.
All the goblins, without exception, integrated with 'it' in a very short period of time and became part of it."
"Then, 'it' disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared, leaving only an empty constructed city. The traces of civilization that had lost their maintenance were quickly dusted away by the power of nature, and the world returned to its original appearance.
You must be aware of the history that followed. That was the era of mankind. It emerged from the shadows of caves where people drank blood, developed and expanded, conquered the environment, mastered power, defeated natural disasters, and finally established a glorious ancient magic empire.
The ancient magic empire was so powerful that it even controlled nine floating cities at its peak. Are you curious about how it collapsed?
Yes, ‘it’ appears again!
However, humans have not disappeared. This is not only because the ancient magic empire that controls the floating city is more powerful than the goblin civilization, but also because of the existence of 'gods' created by a crazy alchemist.
The first sentence of "Grace" by Shenghui Holy See is like this.
'The ancient foreign objects from outside brought chaotic darkness, and the darkness swallowed the people. People called God in despair, so God came with supreme light and drove away the darkness and foreign objects.'
The disaster of annihilation completed the last part of the madman's ascension ceremony, but due to the restrictions of incomplete rules, he failed to create a truly complete god.
But even this is enough to fight 'it' head-on in this world where the upper limit is restricted.
That is the ‘Day of Destruction’ recorded in the history of the Gloria Empire, and it is also the ‘Day of Judgment’ recorded by the Holy See.”
Having said this, Claire breathed softly with some emotion in her tone.
"If it weren't for the limitations of this world's incomplete rules, 'it' would not have been blocked by your power.
Even a completely completed 'god' is just a more difficult target to assimilate when faced with 'it' in a truly complete state.
However, this world is actually a duel ground, a duel ground where 'fairness' is forcibly achieved through incomplete upper limit of rules.
Then, in that brutal war that no words were enough to describe, the strongest human beings relied on the floating cities left behind by the high elven civilization and the 'gods' to try their best and successfully delay 'it' from falling silent again.
The time to go down.
With the sacrifices of the vast majority of the most powerful people, the crisis of annihilation was successfully resolved. Without the suppression and protection of the most powerful people, the remaining people split into multiple kingdoms and forces, which is the history of the continent recorded by you."