Chapter 133

Chapter 133

Fang Yuan answered this, but without stopping, he walked directly in front of the giant god clone and carefully looked at this unprecedentedly powerful incarnation.

Although from a distance, the giant god Fang Yuan looks like a human figure magnified many times, but when you get closer, you can find that he is not actually a real flesh and blood body, but an energy condensed from high-intensity pure energy. body, but retains the properties of matter to some extent.

In fact, Fang Yuan, whose consciousness is connected to the Titan clone, also knows that this body not only has the properties of energy and matter at the same time, but is also closely connected with the essence of the space-time dimension. This is why he was able to control matter like an instinct before. Energy, time and space are one of the reasons why the devil world can be rebuilt in an instant.

Of course, the giant body that was born by combining the essences of Adam, Lilith, and countless demons in the demon world has more than just this ability.

In Fang Yuan's design, this body, which can be called a "divine body", has not yet revealed its true ability - it is a power that needs to be fused with Fang Yuan's true self before it can be officially activated.

"Now is the time!" After using the power of the Gate of Truth to scan and test the newborn divine body and finding that there were no flaws, Fang Yuan gave an order to his incarnation: "Let us merge again!" Titan God Fang Yuan nodded towards the ant-sized deity at his feet, and the huge body retracted instantly, shrinking to the size of a normal human body.

The appearance of the shrunken divine body has also lost its original slightly frivolous sense of unreality, and has become as if it were a real body of flesh and blood, standing face to face with Fang Yuan himself, except that he was not wearing any clothes. Apart from that, there is almost no difference from the real person.

However, this change was only the beginning. The next moment, the divine body that had shrunk to the size of a normal person suddenly turned into a hazy shadow. Then he stepped forward and gradually overlapped and merged with Fang Yuan who also took a step forward. Collect and finally become one.

However, the real change occurred in a realm that outsiders could not see - in the inner world that Fang Yuan had cultivated, the incarnation of the giant god suddenly appeared, but at this time he was no longer the size of an ordinary person. It is not the height of about 100 meters before, but like the giant Pangu, with its head in the sky and its feet on the ground. The entire huge figure fills the entire inner world, and even oppresses this small world that has not yet completely moved toward reality. It seemed like it was about to collapse.

No, it seems that at the next moment, this small world carrying an overly huge burden exploded into countless pieces with a "bang" like a broken glass product.

Also damaged along with it, the giant god supporting the heaven and earth also turned into countless light spots, mixed together with the billions of fragments, almost indistinguishable from each other.

However, this devastating scene that should have caused serious damage to Fang Yuan miraculously did not have any impact on him.

Because, in the next moment, under the influence of some kind of force, the originally destroyed world and the giant gods condensed into a ball and shrank into an infinitesimal point, just like the singularity at the beginning of the birth of the universe, pregnant with something.

There is no space or time in the singularity. It seems like hundreds of millions of years, or it seems like an instant later, the singularity explodes, time and space reappear, and material energy is reborn, a world that is more primitive than the past, but extremely real. born.

And in the center of this new world, a giant god who coexists with the new universe is reborn.

Facing the extremely desolate new world, the new giant god was not satisfied, so he used his own body as a material to turn into countless life seeds and sprinkle them over the entire world.

In the long time that followed, countless animals, plants, microorganisms, carbon-based life, silicon-based life, energy life, spiritual life, dimensional life, and even space and time life were born and developed in different environments, and evolution struggled. , various intelligent individuals sprouted from various races, and various civilizations were slowly born.

And whether they are species that choose to evolve alone, or civilizations that choose to evolve in groups, their every progress, every evolution, and even every failure and destruction will be fed back to the giant god at the center of the universe in real time. His further progress provides endless resources... Naturally, the progress of the giant god is Fang Yuan's progress, and the power of the giant god is Fang Yuan's power.

Driven by countless races and civilizations, Fang Yuan's realm and power are rising endlessly.

Rules and concepts that originally required various rituals and external forces were as simple and easy to understand as reading text on the palm of his hand; various methods of using power that he had never thought of were reflected in the wisdom of countless races. With reference, it was transformed into various magical powers with infinite power... Of course, more importantly, Fang Yuan's understanding of high-end concepts such as matter and energy, time and space, dimension and world has also changed from the previous half-knowledge or one-sidedness. Understanding has transformed into the current comprehensive understanding from body to mind.

To put it simply, it is the perspective from which he views the world and the universe. He has finally been upgraded from a "human" in the past to a true "god"! This is a more important progress than him materializing his soul to achieve immortality. It is also the most critical step towards the evolution of those beings whose essence of existence spreads across endless time and space and infinite worlds! However, everything that happened in this new universe seemed to have passed countless years, but in the eyes of outside Taoist priests, after Fang Yuan merged with his own incarnation, just in an instant, his whole aura began to increase endlessly. , not only instantly reached the level when the giant god showed his power before, but also climbed to a higher realm without stopping, and was about to reach a level that the Taoist priest could not understand.

Regarding this, the stunned Taoist priest only had one thing to say: "This guy's cheating has gone too far!" The second update was completed.

')540'\u003eChapter 539: Want to cheat? Have you asked me about Naiya? !

Seeing Fang Yuan's aura becoming more and more majestic and powerful, his external body is also evolving and improving, gradually moving towards perfection, becoming a "divine body" and "Tao body" that truly fits the heaven, earth and universe.

In the eyes of the Taoist priest, Fang Yuanzheng is gradually transforming from a "human" to a "god" and even "the Tao", becoming more powerful and more inhuman.

"Here's the Taoist Ancestor of the Sanqing Dynasty, is Brother Fang about to become a Taoist?!" The Taoist priest murmured, looking at Fang Yuan who was undergoing rapid transformation with a mixture of admiration, reverence, and envy, waiting for him The moment you truly become Him.

However, things did not develop as smoothly as the Taoist priest imagined.

Just when Fang Yuan's aura soared to an almost unfathomable level, suddenly, as if his aura was cut off at the waist, he suddenly fell, and in an instant he returned to a level that was only slightly stronger than at the beginning.

The next moment, Fang Yuan, who was about to completely transform into a "god", suddenly opened his eyes, spurted out a mouthful of blood with a touch of golden color, and suddenly fell to the ground exhausted.

"This..." The Taoist priest opened his mouth wide, not knowing how to react to this sudden change.

But after being stunned for several seconds, he came to his senses and quickly stepped forward to help Fang Yuan, who was almost unable to stand up.

"Boss Fang, is there something wrong with your upgrade?" Although the Taoist priest was concerned, he still couldn't help but be a little curious. How could such a good person vomit blood? "Ahem!" Fang Yuan coughed twice, spat out the remaining blood in his throat, and said with a somewhat depressed look: "I was tricked into thinking that something went wrong in the ascension ceremony just now, but now that I think about it, this accident... I don’t know whether it should be considered a good thing or a bad thing... No, for me now, it should be a good thing..." Fang Yuan spoke so carelessly that the Taoist priest was confused - he just What happened? And "being plotted"...who was plotting it against? Unfortunately, when the Taoist priest continued to ask, Fang Yuan refused to elaborate. In the end, he had no choice but to let it go, leaving him full of questions.

And only Fang Yuan himself knows what kind of danger he encountered in that moment that seemed like millions of years ago - the calamity of Taoism and self-loss - if we use more metaphysical terms, this is it! To put it another way, the shallow personality that Fang Yuan has cultivated over the past few decades will inevitably be diluted under the impact of the massive information accumulated by endless races and countless civilizations over hundreds of millions of years. When it is diluted, the humanity gradually disappears and the divinity - or the more the Taoism becomes stronger, it will be completely transformed into the sacred "Tao" that is selfless, desireless, heartless and selfless, and will no longer regain the human heart and humanity.

From a certain point of view, this process of personality weakening and gradually being replaced by godhead is an inevitable change in the transition of life levels. It is the natural abandonment of "human beings" as they approach "god" and "Tao". Something that no longer matters.

Perhaps for the god Fang Yuan after his true achievement, the so-called past personality is not very important. Once it is discarded, it is discarded. His true foundation will be transferred to the newly forged godhead.

But for Fang Yuan, a person who has not yet completely achieved success, this kind of evolution and substitution is almost tantamount to complete death! What was even more terrifying was that he was in the midst of a rapid transformation and was not aware of this at all. Instead, enriched by endless knowledge and truth, he was full of joy and unconsciously walked step by step towards this certain path. sense of the road of no return.

If there are no accidents, in the end, Fang Yuan, as a "human", will die quietly, and from his remains, a child will be born who truly transcends human beings, transcends the mundane, and even transcends the world. "god".

But since it is "if", it means that the accident did happen! Just when Fang Yuan's personality was gradually diluted and worn away by the massive information and the long years of the newborn universe, and was about to completely dissipate, the "gift" of an indescribable god quietly started! ——A shadow, a shadow that was almost completely integrated with Fang Yuan's soul, emerged from his spiritual ocean that had turned into a dazzling divinity.

Along with this shadow, there are also many subtle distracting thoughts and selfish desires that Fang Yuan in the past regarded as the dregs of inner demons.

——The desire to possess beautiful women; ——The weariness of a long career of research and practice; ——The look down or even contempt for ordinary humans with no power; ——The sense of pride brought by casually subverting the "plot" of the world... …For Fang Yuan in the past, all these were dust that needed to be brushed away from the heart mirror and spiritual platform at all times, shadows and dregs that came and went in the pure Yangshen, and small obstacles on his path to enlightenment. .

But at this time, these previous obstacles and disasters have become the last straw to maintain his personality.

Under the amplification and infection of the shadow, Fang Yuan's originally dazzling divinity, which was about to be completely condensed into a godhead, was polluted by endless distracting thoughts in an instant, and immediately interrupted his continued deification or deification. the process of.

And with the stimulation of these negative thoughts, various positive thoughts corresponding to them also emerge.

Positive and negative, yin and yang, good and evil, instinct and morality, id and superego... All the elements that make up Fang Yuan's personality emerge spontaneously from the endless ocean of information. After reorganization and entanglement, Fang Yuan's The initial personality finally emerged from Taoism and reawakened.

Fang Yuan, who had recovered himself, immediately realized what had happened to him before, and also knew that he was only one step away from complete death.

——Although if he goes one step forward, he will truly become "him", but if the price required for this sublimation is the demise of his self-personality, then Fang Yuan, who is still a "person" at this time, is No matter what, I wouldn't want to.

In order to prevent himself from becoming another existence that has nothing to do with him now, Fang Yuan did not care about what other conspiracy was hidden in the shadow power that was obviously written by Nyarlathotep. , decisively used this divine power that was "making trouble" to cut the "human" side of himself from the "god" side, and demoted himself to a human again.

Of course, it would not be easy to do this. The backlash from the divinity immediately caused Fang Yuan to be seriously injured, and it was also caused by serious injuries at the soul and spiritual level.

But no matter how serious the injury is, it is better than complete death. This is the price Fang Yuan must pay to save himself! Some people say they want to finish the book? It's still very early! The protagonist won’t be able to reach the top level so quickly. After all, Naia, who loves to cause trouble, is here! ')541'\u003eChapter 540: The Four Gates of God's Gate, Greed is Not enough, and the Heart Gate Is Hard to Break

"In the final analysis, I am still too greedy..." This is what Fang Yuan sighed to himself after waking up.

In the final analysis, he was too anxious this time. He wanted to reach the sky in one step and completely complete the transformation from "human" to "god".

However, Fang Yuan overlooked one point. His plan was indeed perfect, but he himself was not completely prepared! According to some online novels, when you transform from a human to a god, you need to transform from the four aspects of heart, body, energy, and spirit to achieve immortality. Only in this way can you become a true "god". These four paths are also the four paths. This pass is called the "Shenmen Four-Four Pass".

Although this seems to be just the opinion of a novelist, in Fang Yuan's view, it still makes some sense.

Take him for example, when he achieved the third method and became Yang Shen, it can be regarded as a preliminary realization of the divine level, breaking through the limits of the soul and achieving the immortality of the soul.

Therefore, from that moment on, Fang Yuan could no longer be regarded as a mortal, and at last he could be called a demigod.

Later, he combined various power systems and built an inner world based on his own mental world. Based on his initial immortal soul, he continued to deeply explore the path after the divine pass.

If one day his inner world can completely turn virtual reality into reality and can exist independently forever without the need for external energy and material supplements, then he will be equivalent to completely opening up the road to the Divine Pass, and using this as a fulcrum, he can touch other worlds. Three levels.

However, taking this path requires a long time and accumulation. Fang Yuan needs to complete the construction of his world step by step, replenish material and energy, repair the loopholes in the rules and regulations, give birth to local life and even civilization, and finally even break through the world. The limitations of the origin allow this world based on his soul to be completely independent. It does not ask for anything from outside, but it can be self-generated and exist forever.

And this process, at least, will take thousands of years to calculate, and even a longer time of hundreds of thousands, millions is very likely.

Even for Fang Yuan, who has already proven the immortality of his soul, this is really too long! So, he began to explore in other directions.

However, just after that, by chance, one of his incarnations was conspired by Nyarlathotep and thrown into the world of "Dark Bullet", and cut off the connection with the Door of Truth, possessing extraordinary power. Most of it was restricted, and even the connection with the main body was cut off.

This is undoubtedly a moderate disaster for Fang Yuan, but it can also be said to be a rare opportunity.

Under the pressure of the external environment, this incarnation took the path of "becoming the Tao through the body", integrating the mental world with the physical body, and regaining a body of power in the way of "the body becoming the world, and heaven and man corresponding".

However, this new power model is not only a way to draw power from the world, but also a way for Fang Yuan to strengthen and develop his own physical strength. It can be regarded as Fang Yuan's initial attempt in physical relations.

Then in the world of EVA, Fang Yuan gained unprecedented huge gains - the system of apostles and EVA, or more specifically, the system of S2 mechanism and A.T. force field, is a power system that spans the four major levels of heart, spirit, qi and body.

Qi barrier - Needless to say, the infinite energy brought by the S2 mechanism is the most obvious feature of breaking through the qi barrier. Although this is just pure energy infinity, and it has not reached the level where every ray of energy can be self-generated, self-circulated, and never decay, it can be regarded as barely reaching the lowest threshold of the qi barrier.

Body barrier - There is no doubt that every apostle with the fruit of life naturally has infinite lifespan, and can spontaneously grow and evolve in infinite time, constantly becoming stronger, and can be regarded as a life form that has broken through the body barrier innately.

Even for humans, as long as the S2 mechanism is integrated, as long as it does not die halfway, after a period of independent evolution, it will eventually achieve immortality at the physical level, which can also be regarded as a preliminary breakthrough in the body barrier.

Then there are the heart and spirit barriers, which naturally refer to the so-called "human instrumentality plan".

By integrating the hearts and souls of all mankind, using quantity to make up for quality, and forcibly piling up immortal and immortal souls, and a mind that is unchanging and perfect and self-consistent, coupled with the divine body created by the fruit of life and the infinite energy given by the S2 mechanism, a "true god" who has barely broken through the four gates of the divine gate is freshly produced.

Of course, for Fang Yuan, the spirit barrier, body barrier and qi barrier are fine. He has already broken through the former, and he doesn't care whether he uses external forces for the latter two. But in terms of the heart barrier, it is impossible for him to give up his independent consciousness and merge himself with other spiritual personalities into one, playing the game of "human instrumentality".

Therefore, he changed a method directly - first use his own incarnation to complete the revised version, so as to obtain a divine body that has broken through the physical and qi barriers, and at the same time obtain a sufficient amount of soul as accumulation, and then merge this divine body with his inner world, and use the accumulated soul as firewood to reopen the world and create the universe again.

On the one hand, this can help him make great progress in his cultivation in the divine barrier with the help of the transformation of the inner world, and on the other hand, it can also create a perfect experimental field with independent time and space, giving him the opportunity to accumulate the wisdom crystals of countless races and civilizations, so as to break through the heart barrier.

In this way, if the four barriers of heart, body, qi, and spirit are broken, he can ascend to heaven in one step, completely transform from a human to a god, and reach a new level.

However, the problem appeared in the last heart barrier.

Fang Yuan misjudged the strength of his spiritual consciousness, and underestimated the terrible degree of the ocean of information accumulated by countless races and countless civilizations.

Without establishing a sufficiently strong and self-consistent outlook on life, he stepped into it, but he almost had his personality washed away by the endless information and completely lost himself.

"In fact, my thinking is not wrong. After this catastrophe, I can clearly feel that my spiritual consciousness has become much tougher and broader, and I am one step closer to the level of spiritual immortality, but my mistake is that I am moving too fast!" In the process of self-examination, Fang Yuan realized that although the independent time and space ability obtained after the transformation of the inner world allowed him to extremely stretch the time axis and conduct evolutionary experiments of the world and civilization within himself, this seemingly perfect time trick is ultimately false.

- After all, the entire new universe is in his soul, and everything that happens in it is actually the same as his dream, except that this dream is very, very real, but it is not completely true after all.

He needs real, true time accumulation to enable him to shape a truly self-consistent, self-generated, and all-embracing immortal mind.

"So, the other three levels are easy to deal with, but the heart level is something you can't cheat on!" The second update is complete')542'\u003eChapter 541 Gains and Losses and Doubts

After a short break, Fang Yuan didn't care about how to deal with this new demon world. He opened a door and left with the Taoist priest. At most, he cut off all the spatial connections between this demon world and the main world before leaving and completely sealed it off.

——Although he was seriously injured, Fang Yuan was not so weak that he couldn't even open the spatial channel.

In fact, after this unsuccessful transformation and sublimation, the power he could use and the combat power he could exert at this time were even better than his previous self! 　　Not to mention anything else, just the perfect Taoist body forged in the ascension ceremony has allowed him to directly break through the Qi and body levels. Even though his soul was severely injured, his strength has increased instead of decreased.

After all, this is a true "divine body", which has not only broken through the physical limits of carbon-based life, but also has infinite lifespan and endless room for improvement. In fact, because of the involvement of super-dimensional matter such as the S2 mechanism in the process of forging the divine body, the newly forged body has a profound connection with the time, space, and material energy in the universe.

With all the physical magical powers derived from the instinct of the flesh, Fang Yuan, who is seriously injured at this time, can beat several of his previous selves.

Once his injuries are healed and his soul is restored, he will be a near-god strongman who has broken through the three major heavenly gates of the divine gate, the qi gate, and the body gate. It is unknown how high his strength will soar.

From this perspective, although Fang Yuan's experience of almost failing this time can be said to be an unprecedented setback, his gains and progress are also unprecedented and cannot be regarded as a complete failure.

... "But this time the injury was too severe!" After returning to his hometown, Fang Yuan, who did a detailed examination on himself, felt a little heavy.

It can be said that he has no physical injuries. The mouthful of blood he spat out before was only due to the slight energy backlash caused by the divine backlash. With his physical body's self-healing ability at this time, it healed completely in a few seconds.

But the real trouble lies within his soul and consciousness.

Needless to say, in terms of consciousness, his personality had just experienced such a thrilling experience that it was almost wiped out and then spliced ​​back together again. It had a great impact on him. He didn't know how long it would take to recover fully.

As for the soul level, it was the most serious part of his injury this time - in order to keep his consciousness from being wiped out, Fang Yuan had to separate his "humanity" and "divinity".

Although this will not cause his divinity to become completely independent and become a brand new god, it is equivalent to dividing his soul into half.

This kind of division is not the soul that was separated when he created the incarnation clones in the past. The souls of those incarnations and clones can actually be seen as projections of Fang Yuan's soul's true body at the high-dimensional level, but this time the division is But Fang Yuan’s true high-dimensional soul essence! Fortunately, Fang Yuan's immortal soul is not as fragile as a mortal. This kind of division will not kill him, and as long as there is enough time, he will be able to recover sooner or later.

But the real key is that after he divided the divine aspect in his soul, he also divided the entire mental universe. In order to ensure that his personality consciousness would no longer be affected, he had to separate the entire mental universe. Together with the divine clone inside, it is completely sealed and cannot be touched at will until he truly achieves spiritual immortality.

——This undoubtedly ruined a very important trump card of Fang Yuan.

Of course, Fang Yuan is not too depressed about this. After all, what he has gained is much more than what he has lost, and even if the mental universe in his soul is now completely sealed, Fang Yuan has other options. .

"Perhaps, I can use sacrificial techniques to treat my mental universe and divine side as an independent god, and mobilize that power by 'praying to myself'?" After thinking for a long time, Fang Yuan's heart rose. Such an idea came up.

This is not a fantasy.

In Fang Yuan's knowledge base, it is not uncommon to see rituals on how to pray to certain great beings to borrow power. There is also a detailed explanation of the nature of this "prayer and granting" behavior. He wants to use his divinity to It is not too difficult to incarnate as the person being sacrificed, and then use the human form as the sacrificer, so as to exert the "divine" power from the "human" body.

"However, this also has risks. In my current state, I can only maintain this state of 'asking God' for less than half a minute at most. Even if the injuries on my soul are healed, I'm afraid it can only last for half an hour at most. , cannot be used as a normal force..." This is the result calculated by Fang Yuan after assessing his injuries. It seems that this can only be regarded as a temporary buff enhancement method, but for Fang Yuan at this time It's enough! "Then, there is another more troublesome problem..." As he muttered to himself, Fang Yuan's expression became a little uncertain.

And the trouble he was referring to was naturally nothing else. It was the shadow power in his soul that once saved his life! Yes, although from the perspective of consequentialism, this ray of shadow power is undoubtedly the major contributor to saving Fang Yuan, but since it originated from the crawling Chaos, Fang Yuan will never Maybe they take it lightly - God knows what other conspiracy lurks in this shadow! In fact, not to mention other unknown conspiracies and calculations, the power of this shadow alone when Fang Yuan ascended to God was enough to be regarded by him as the most serious threat - the kind that pointed directly at people's hearts, The dark force that induces people to fall from the dark side of human nature, if Fang Yuan was not in that special situation at that time, the result might not be much better than Taoism and selflessness.

Fortunately, the most dangerous thing about this shadow power is that it is almost impossible to detect when it is hidden. Once it is detected, its threat plummets.

Especially since there is still a Gate of Truth standing in Fang Yuan's consciousness. As a being who is essentially the same as the owner of this ray of divine power, it is not a problem to deal with a mere shadow that does not have much real power.

But what Fang Yuan is really worried about is some of the information behind this shadow - "This ray of divine power itself is not the key, the key is what exactly does Nyarlathotep want to do to me? This ray of shadow It looks like some kind of malicious attack, but its final result is good for me... So, is he an enemy or a friend to me?" Fang Yuan was deeply worried.

……')543'\u003eChapter 542: Unlucky Reincarnator \u0026 Tricky Forced Summoning

No one answered Fang Yuan's doubts. He also knew that for the Outer Gods, whose essence was chaos and madness, the so-called "enemies" and "friends" might not make sense at all.

Therefore, he could only put aside his doubts for the time being and quietly lie dormant in his own nest to recuperate.

However, sometimes, even if you want to avoid trouble, trouble will still come to you on its own...　　...　　"Four... Four eyes, I can't do it anymore..."　　On a tragic battlefield, a man with only half of his body left fell into another man's arms covered in blood. While trembling with the only hand he could move, he took out a rune stone from the storage space, and used his last strength to order his teammates around him:　　"This mission exemption rune is given to you... Remember, you must survive to the end of the mission and return to the main god space alive! You are the only hope for the resurrection of all our team members, you must survive!!!"　　After saying the last sentence, the man swallowed his last breath and died with his eyes glaring.

"Captain! Captain!!!" The bespectacled man, known as "Four Eyes", hammered the dry and cracked ground hard, and shed tears of grief while holding the captain's body.

"Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!!! If I hadn't been too greedy, if it hadn't been me... things wouldn't have turned out like this!!!" The bespectacled man who always claimed to be a wise man in the team finally felt deeply that the so-called "wits battle", the so-called "layout", and the so-called "calculation" were so insignificant in the face of absolute power.

His Samsara team, a team of 15 people, was directly thrown into this punishment mission because he used too much strategy to score in the last mission. Moreover, on the first day of the mission, he encountered a battle between the goblins and the elves. Just the aftermath impact killed the entire team and only he was left! Yes, I believe many people have already seen that this so-called "punishment mission" is actually the world where the novel and anime "No Game No Life" are located, and it is an era more than 6,000 years before the start of the original story! It was an era of endless wars around the throne of the only god who unified the world.

The world was torn apart, and even the stars were destroyed in a miserable war. Countless races and creatures died in the endless war. The sky was covered by leaden clouds, the earth was torn apart, and the spirits in the atmosphere (not the long-eared elves, but some kind of existence similar to the source of magic) were killed by overly powerful attacks. The spirits turned into poisonous black ash, strangling all animals and plants that dared to be exposed in the open air.

In this war, even magical races such as the forest elves and high-tech civilizations such as the goblins were just pawns and cannon fodder in the hands of the high-ranking gods, and humans without magical adaptability were not even considered an intelligent race. They were just treated as talking monkeys, hiding, breeding, living, and destroying meaninglessly on the edge of the battlefield.

In short, this is a world that is more doomsday than the end of the world, making humans extremely desperate.