Chapter 911: Simulated Universe·Unknowable Realm (17)

From afar, Pativiya saw a sea of flowers.

What amazed her was that these were organic-life blossoms blooming upon inorganic matter. Green branches and leaves sprouted from the metallic "soil" beneath her feet, growing denser and thicker, and the flowers grew among the foliage, blooming as if no one were there.

Strolling through the sea of flowers, after a short while Pativiya saw the tombstone.

It stood in the center of the flower sea, so tall that one had to tilt the head to see its tip. Shaped like an inverted triangle, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like a massive sword plunged into the earth's heart. Its outline is now shattered, and one can imagine the builder alone stacking metal from the cemetery, shaping it piece by piece into the tombstone before them.

It seemed as if Lu Po Te Er Shi had long foreseen his own death, deliberately leaving this undisturbed mausoleum at the edge of the throne for himself.

Pativiya stepped forward cautiously. In front of the tombstone she saw an elegant inorganic flower, its buds made of alloy, its stems of transistors and copper wire, the scent of rust and machine oil mingling with the floral fragrance.

She summoned the provenance model, but the mysterious signal had silently vanished, because she was already at the storm's core. She spent a long time digesting that fact, the star had fallen from above three times. Then she had to spend even longer to digest another fact.

At the source of the solitary wave, the core of the Scepter System, lies the star itself.

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fate/Wei Gong family's meal.

"You wouldn't think Lu Po Te Er Shi is quite romantic, actually making his mausoleum so beautiful," Yuan Ban Lin said in amazement, scanning the flower sea in the sky. In a world of inorganic life, this sea of flowers symbolizing organic life seemed out of place, yet growing in this barren world gave it a unique sense of sanctity.

An emperor who tried to use the inorganic life army to annihilate all organic life, yet a sea of flowers grew before his tomb… truly eerie and harmonious.

"Logically, Lu Po Te Er Shi should have already classified himself as inorganic life by now; are these blossoms an aesthetic an inorganic being would have?" Lancer sat shapelessly on a chair, his red eyes fixed on the inverted‑triangle tombstone; compared with the flower sea, the stark tombstone clearly better matched Lu Po Te Er Shi's taste.

"It must have been planted later, right? Like that woman called Bo Er Ka·Ka Ka Mu… she consecutively killed two brilliant colleagues; it's easy to understand why she'd place a bouquet at a colleague's tomb," Archer said with a light laugh, shaking his head. "By record, this woman is the strongest Assassin in the entire universe; two assassinations saved the cosmos twice. I wonder which genius she'll target with a scalpel next?"

"Lady Black Tower?" Wei Gong Shilang guessed.

"Unlikely," Yuan Ban Lin instinctively denied. "So far, Bo Er Ka·Ka Ka Mu's two attacks targeted the inorganic emperor who posed the greatest threat to the cosmos. If the Lady Black Tower hasn't developed an extreme desire to slaughter the cosmos or purge humanity, Bo Er Ka has no reason to kill her."

"Is it really only about clearing the cosmic threat?" After hearing Lin's words, Archer couldn't help but laugh. "…Lin, in your mouth, this Bo Er Ka lady doesn't seem like a genius but a hero protecting universal peace."

"But judging by the outcome, she indeed succeeded in protecting the cosmos," Lin puffed her cheeks, poked Archer's chest, "Then tell me, if not to protect the cosmos and stop the inorganic legion's slaughter, why would Bo Er Ka risk her own life to kill her own comrades?"

"Fine, I don't know either, but I guess it isn't for 'peace' or 'salvation' or anything like that," Archer spread his hands. "She must have her own purpose… but at present none of us can discern her true intentions."

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"School wars are often criticized by historians as misnamed. Compared with many events that span dozens of centuries, its duration is too brief, confined to conflicts within the Erudite Society, and lacking profound impact on the galaxy, like a frail butterfly."

"Standing before the core of the Scepter. Terror and exhilaration, adrenaline and dopamine prick the emotions, freezing thought briefly. Pativiya felt an inexplicable anger, anger of being blinded by ignorance; she lost all desire, left only the impulse to seek knowledge."

"The so‑called inorganic bionic neuron clusters are merely a crude imitation of the Erudite Sovereign. The emperor forged a celestial‑scale computational interference device, granting it solving power, yet never gave it the function to ask questions."

"He asks no individual, relying solely on his own mind. For this reason he is the emperor, needing no divine star‑god bestowal. Infinite recursive equations, gazes spanning the cosmos, and thoughts expanded by the Scepter, he molds himself into the ideal perfect scholar."

"He is the sole nucleus in the neural network formed by the Scepter. He crowns himself upon the cast‑iron throne!"

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Spirit Cage.

"Self‑coronation?! Goodness… such boldness, no wonder he's the inorganic emperor, a member of the Genius Club," Shan Da clicked in amazement.

"But after completing self‑coronation, Lu Po Te Er Shi should become the human closest to the Erudite Sovereign, even if his Scepter System is just a crude imitation of the Erudite Sovereign; it's not something an ordinary genius could pull off," Bai Yue Kui thought increasingly suspiciously, believing that the emperor after self‑coronation likely far exceeds ordinary emissaries, yet how such a person could die is beyond her imagination.

"Shouldn't an organic being like Bo Er Ka·Ka Ka Mu be locked onto the moment she entered his inorganic empire? Let alone completing an assassination so publicly."

"Is Bo Er Ka not an ordinary genius? Or perhaps she herself is an extremely powerful intellectual emissary?"

"Has the chance for self‑coronation now fallen onto Pativiya?" Xu Tong suddenly realized this; the scholar now stood before the Scepter, as if a simple nod from her would let her perfectly inherit Emperor II's legacy!

She is the person within the Erudite Society closest to a genius!

Undoubtedly, it is a huge temptation.

Shan Da even began fantasizing about sitting on the Iron Throne after self‑coronation; he doesn't ask the Scepter System to grant him great wisdom, only that it can ensure he can calculate opponents' Mahjong tiles perfectly.

Just for that, he finds it hard to refuse the lure of self‑coronation.

Thus, Shan Da impatiently urged, "What's this little girl waiting for? Hurry and complete the self‑coronation! The thing she's been painstakingly pursuing is right before her eyes, why does she freeze when it's within reach?"