[Protect, until The End awakens, until we die alongside humanity] [Choice] [Six] [...What if we stopped protecting, and instead opened up a future?] [Choice... Seven?]
Artemis was filled with despair, because Ye Qiyan had made it understand a truth it had actually understood long ago, yet had chosen to restrain and deceive itself about because of the underlying code and logic left behind when [Zeus] created it.
The humans of Seven Worlds would never appear again.
Because they had actively chosen The End.
And entrusted the future to them, the AIs.
But now, Artemis suddenly realized something.
They, who called themselves "Saviors," were going against their creator's wishes.
They had neither carried on nor escaped, had created no civilization, and had never even entertained the thought of challenging that sleeping True God.
They were merely waiting.
Waiting for what?
Waiting for the True God to awaken, and then... dying useless deaths.
It shouldn't be like this...
Artemis trembled incessantly.
"It shouldn't, be like this, shouldn't..."
The tank shattered completely.
The deep blue energy inside spilled out.
The entity known as Artemis was dissipating, bit by bit.
This dissipation was just like what happened when a C-Rank False God saw the [Blasphemy Ring].
Merely learning the truth had made it utterly reject the path it had espoused.
Once an AI lost the meaning of its own existence,
destruction was its only path.
"Has it broken?"
Ye Qiyan did not particularly care if this thing broke completely.
"Lisette?"
"Sorry, Master... Lisette has only received 39% of the Permission Loop technology. I still need a little time, so..."
Lisette offered an apology.
"So it can't break just yet. Although it's an AI, since it's a Mythic Fantasy Mechanical Construct and has the ability to think independently, it counts as a