The sound of wind blowing across the barren desert and fine sand moving along with its movement was the only sound that could be heard as Constantine sat down in silence while contemplating Ruger's words.
Constantine had to agree that Ruger did make a lot of sense...
Normally, there were not many people who were obstinate and foolhardy when it came to their own views. But every once in a while, you would actually meet some people that were just like that.
These people felt their own views and perspectives were right and correct when they were actually just wrong, but they were just too stubborn to admit it.
Just like the example Ruger gave, about how people said there were no red apples and only green ones just because red apples were a result of artificial cultivation so they couldn't be considered real apples...
Would anybody actually believe that there was somebody who had this kind of belief and refused to be convinced otherwise?
There w
"How?" Constantine did not know the answer, so he didn't waste brain cells coming up with one and asked Ruger directly. "Beats me if I know!" was Ruger's timely reply. "But I couldn't help noticing something interesting. I don't know if you would be curious to know what it was." Sigh! Constantine was exasperated. Ruger was clearly baiting him into asking questions, but he had no choice but to bite and ask. "Oh no, what could be so interesting? Please, don't hold back, do tell!" Constantine asked sarcastically. "Che! you're no fun at all," Ruger said, displeased. "Very, let me tell you..." "You've probably not noticed by now, but do you know what the sand you're sitting on is actually composed of?" As soon as Constantine heard this question, he knew something was wrong... Every time Ruger started a sentence with a word noticed in it, there was usually some kind of profound information coming out o
In Ruger's hypothetical scenario, there were four assumptions. Each pointing at different limitations in a hypothetical world. Constantine tried his best to answer Ruger's question based on the assumptions he had made. He first thought about what kind of limitations existed in each assumption before he even considered thinking of coming up with a solution. This way, by recognizing the problems, he could better come up with a solution.The first assumption was that the hypothetical world has a fixed total amount of energy meant to ensure the survival of itself and the creatures inhabiting the world. The entire assumption had already pointed out a serious problem which was having a fixed amount of resources with virtually limited ways of renewing said energy.This kind of scenario is called a dead-end scenario in most cases, where the outcome could already be determined from the beginning. If the world did not find ways to replenish its lost energy, then the only outcome
Why did Constantine come up with the idea of devouring other worlds?Well, the answer to that is simple... it is because in the memories he inherited from Ruger, while Constantine was trying to figure out a solution to the problem plaguing the hypothetical world, a memory suddenly sprang in his mind.In this memory, there were records of sentient worlds that had already developed a kind of will of their own and liked to invade other worlds in order to plunder the origin of other worlds and assimilate it into their own to make their own origins stronger.The origin of a world was a kind of base law that governed all the aspects of any world. It was what determined the kind of system of law, a world adopted in all facets of life and existence.Think of world origin as the source code of a world and by plundering the origin of another world you were actually stripping said a world of their sources code and using it to update and optimize your own source code
After Constantine cleared his thoughts, he quickly turned to Ruger and asked him."Is the doom world trying to devour earth and fuse with its origin?"Without hesitation, Ruger answered, "Yes, that is indeed the case. I guess you got that answer from my memories, didn't you?""So it's true," Constantine ignored Ruger's last question as he mused. But he did not dwell on this discovery for a long before he started asking that troubled him the most."How exactly does this work? In what way is the doom world attempting to fuse with earth and how does it have anything to do with the nature of these dooms as elemental creatures that we were previously discussing?"These three questions were what troubled Constantine the most. Although he understood from Ruger's memories the concept of origin devouring, Constantine didn't know the exact process of how it is carried out.Constantine felt that as long as he could understand the process of the doom wo
"So you're saying it's a bad thing that the earth is changing so much so quickly?" Constantine asked Ruger for clarification. "That is the case," Ruger confirmed. "As I said, it takes time for the laws of another world to be fully assimilated, especially when said laws are completely opposite from each other and share no similarities whatsoever. This is the case between earth and the doom world." "The laws of earth and the doom world are completely opposite from each other with little to no similarities at all. I won't say anything about some of the more obscure and difficult to understand and comprehend laws. Let us take the simple laws, for example." "Using earth as an example, there are no laws that support supernatural and extraordinary powers or abilities. In other words, there is no transcendent system in place on earth and no laws that govern such a system. Because of this, such systems have not developed on earth and it is likely that they wou
"Earth and the dooms are both equally responsible for the speedy changes that are happening currently. The reason for this is that both play a vital part in the invasion of the otherworld." Ruger began his explanation."The relationship between planet earth and the doom world is that of defender and invader. The doom world is seeking to devour earth's origin and fuse with it to strengthen itself. Naturally, Earth will resist this invasion with all its might.""As I said before, the best way to invade and attempt to fuse with another world is for the invading world to pour its energy into the defending world and slowly influence and change the rules of the other world using its energy. As a defense mechanism, the world that is being invaded will attempt to expel this foreign energy so that it wouldn't affect it in any way. This is why the process is usually very slow.""Because the defending world tries to expel the foreign energy from itself, the invading world
After understanding the reason for the doom's constant invasion of earth and their relentless targeting of humans, Constantine no longer thought about it anymore. In any case, now that he was still in the doom world, he couldn't do anything about it at all.Besides, it's not like he had to care in any case. It didn't really matter to Constantine whether the dooms targeted humans or not, as long as his family was safe. He couldn't be expected to save humanity all by himself... that was the government's job.Probably the only thing Constantine could do was understand as much as he could about the invasion of the other world, and then he would see if there was a way for him to decimate this knowledge to the government and other humans on earth.Having come to this conclusion, Constantine addressed Ruger once more and asked, "I understand the role the dooms play in this invasion. So then tell me, how is Earth also responsible for what is happening so far?"Ru
In the vast desert landscape filled with fields of sprawling sands and high rising dunes, Constantine sat in deep contemplation. His mind was working fast to fully understand the things he had just learned from Ruger.Needless to say, earth's situation sounded grim when Ruger explained it in detail. From his words, there didn't seem to be any hope of earth winning against the otherworld. All the things it did were like the wailings of a drowning man who was in his final death throes... futile and damning.Feeling incredibly glum, Constantine asked Ruger doubtfully."Is there any hope for the Earth to survive this ordeal from the otherworld and are humans really going to be doomed to extinction?"It wasn't like Constantine was asking because he cared a whole deal for earth or the human race in general. Like most people, Constantine could barely care about the people he interacted with daily and he didn't concern himself very much with what went on in his n