Demon-Seeking
He had never been so relaxed since the Survival Game began, so relaxed that on his first day of reflection, he was simply reminiscing about his past.
The wind there is gentle, and the sun is warm.
Only when I was in the darkness did I realize what had happened; unfortunately, at the time I had taken it for granted.
He's only 27 years old this year, but he spent 26 years in his hometown, and then celebrated his birthday in Survival Game.
Survivors seem to have no concept of birthdays, perhaps because their mothers are no longer alive.
Song Shige's past is nothing to boast about; he was simply described as a "genius."
Serving in a military region in Central Lands, his initial three Attributes of 7 represent his competence and also suggest that his overall strength may have been the best in the world back in his hometown.
Except for Ye Fan.
Song Shige's memories are not just a review of his past life, but a way of seeing who is still alive through the perspective of those memories.
Of the original 8 billion people in the Dark Survival World, fewer than 30 million may still be alive, with a mortality rate exceeding 99.6%.
On average, only three to four out of a thousand people survived.
The young Demon King often felt sorrow for the deaths of his kind.
Human civilization stumbled along for seven thousand years, from a population of thirty million in the Neolithic Age, through the decay of dynasties and the Annihilation of city-states, to the modern era, and then jumped back in less than six months.
What have humanity gained?
Strength?
The endless Survival Game is like an Abyss, swallowing the Future of all Survivors.
The Survivor's strength is like a flower that should be in full bloom bursting forth in a raging storm, while the Survivor is short-lived.
One hundred thousand Survival Worlds hover like bloodstained blades before the eyes of powerful Survivors, and more and more Survivors are realizing the irreconcilable differences between them and other Survival Worlds.
Competition is an inherent part of the Survival World, a consensus shared by many Survivors.
The Continued Battle mechanism cannot instill such a deep-rooted idea in Survivors. It is certain time-based Survivor can see a hopeless Future who are crying out, for they have seen a certain stage of survival in the Future.
In that Future, the Survival World will be at war with each other.
The conflicts of the Future, the inevitable wars, have already transcended time, influencing the current Survivors ' perceptions and becoming a consensus in the Survival Game.
This is why more and more powerful Survivors are relentlessly slaughtering Survivors from other worlds at all costs.
In the ecosystem of Survival Games, they may already be teetering on the brink of collapse; the dead are dead, and the living may not survive.
Subtracting the names of those who died, Song Shige's past memories suddenly became shrouded in darkness.
He unconsciously brought the world's top Survivors and people he knew into his past memories and information, trying to figure out why they were so powerful.
What was Su Luo like before she Crossing?
According to him, he was just a recent college graduate who hadn't even entered the workforce yet.
Who is the God of Magic Kundina?
She appears to be the daughter of a middle-class family in an Eastern European country.
What about Ye Zizhen has made the greatest contribution to the world?
In the city of Central Lands, he is just one of millions of ordinary office workers, living a mundane and unremarkable life.
What about Father Tali Lang was known as "the Last Righteous Man of Sodom"?
The bishop of a dilapidated chapel in the Beautiful Country.
In their original world, they were merely ordinary people, but after arriving in the Survival World, they transformed into dragons amidst the turmoil.
[Existence], [Potential], [Circumstances].
Their strength does not solely rely on Talent; the Survival System is well-designed, with Trial Instance and Continued Battles arranged in layers.
Talent can only give you a significant advantage against other Survivors with lower Talent. When facing other Survivors using cheats, Talent is not everything.
If all you can do is sit in a wheelchair, then I'm sorry, you'll have to fly sooner or later.
Whether it's the Silver Badge Battlefield, the Gold Badge Battlefield, or the Top Rainbow Badge Battlefield, all Survivors must be forced to Breakthrough the Limits, undergo a bloody transformation, and fly high.
How many players have achieved the Gold Badge in the Dark Survival World? How many are still alive?
The mortality rate for Gold Badge is even higher than that for Silver Badge soldiers in the second and third Continued Battles.
Song Shige believes that many Survivors, possessing world-class Talents and cheats, have died silently in the darkness, as well as in trials and battles arranged by the system.
No one is born in heaven; falsehood will always remain falsehood.
The next day, Song Shige began to reflect on himself.
When he first became the president of the Mutual Aid Association, he felt that the Fate and darkness of the entire region and the world were pressing down on him, even though he thought he was still young at the time.
In the eyes of most powerful beings in the All Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds who have reached this level, twenty-odd years is nothing more than a blink of an eye; the minds of powerful beings are not shaped by such experiences.
Perhaps the life of a true strong person is one that spans thousands of years.
But for Song Shige, he had become a master strategist more than twenty years ago.
Ten thousand years is too long; seize the day.
He couldn't help but recall the books he had read in the past, the philosophy he couldn't understand back then, and he couldn't help but start to ponder what makes the strong strong.
He pondered for a very long time, reflecting on the power of the environment to shape the strong, and on the meaning of the individual and the world.
Ultimately, Song Shige reverted to Su Luo's [Source Theory].
He discovered something very simple: since the environment restricts growth, rules limit the upper limit, and the Order solidifies the pattern, the way to break the deadlock is to transcend everything!
Transcending the shackles of heaven and earth, transcending the established rules of the Survival System, transcending the Innate notions of professional Talent, transcending all the old Order of the world.
First, you need to find your own path.
Song Shige has been thinking about this since the third day.
His path has always been quite clear.
[Demon-Seeking]
The symbolism of evil is often "evil, obstacles, Negation, self-isolation, desire..."
But this is not the case for Song Shige.
He disliked killing; killing was merely a means to gain power.
He believes that the counterpart to "demon" is "god," not in the sense of religion or a living being.
[God] represents the existing stable Order, while [Demon] represents the inherent collapse of that Order.
There is no eternally static, Perfect world, nor is there any unchanging, ultimate power.
Everything can only be rebuilt from destruction and reborn from fragmentation. Only by tearing apart the old shackles can we force things to iterate, update the rules, and drive all existence towards Higher Dimension.
What he seeks is the power to break down the old and to question everything that is already established.
Slaughter is just one aspect of [the demon].
When he possesses the absolute power to question all outdated constraints, possesses Origin that cannot be defined by external things, and is able to tear apart all the corrupt Order of the world and break all predetermined fates on his own.
He is the one and only [Demon King].