Betrayal
As a testing ground where advanced civilizations experimented with certain ethical technologies, the Cyber Test Site was the cradle of dangerous technology and was quite famous.
In fact, it was not only advanced civilizations that conducted such experiments. Top-tier civilizations did as well, though they generally did not do so directly.
As the masters of the universe, every evolutionary experiment within the universe was equivalent to an evolutionary experiment of their own. They could share all the fruits of evolution.
That was why they discovered a certain "humanoid variable."
But... what if...
Lady Eternity's gaze swept over everything below—the universe repeatedly falling into existence and destruction amid the aftershocks of "Eternal Fall" and "Eternity," the five Level Nine civilizations fighting desperately against the "Organic Calamity" while remaining almost completely ignorant of the higher-level struggle, and finally the darkness and whispers before her that represented the ultimate form of "calamity."
What if the entire main universe, along with its endless galaxies, countless civilizations, and even the Level Nine beings like themselves who stood at the pinnacle, was merely a "Cyber Test Site" of a larger scale and higher level—but also more brutal?
Then what were these Level Nine civilizations, who fancied themselves the masters of the universe and beacons of civilization?
The "giant corporations" in this enormous testing ground?
They appeared to possess boundless glory, controlled the rules and resources within the testing ground, and fought endlessly, yet still could not escape its boundaries. Even their existence, competition, and evolution might merely be experimental variables set by a higher existence.
The chill brought by this thought even briefly overwhelmed the turbulent rules surging through her clash with the Calamity Supreme.
He must know something.
As an existence capable of forcibly fusing the two essences of calamity, "Formlessness" and "Corruption," and