Kill the Sun

Chapter 820: Life

After dealing with the next set of books and checking up on the research base, Nick went back to the contained Adversary for one last session.

"We have a Star Energy generator that can be carried. It's not small enough to fit on a hand, but we can wear it on our backs like a backpack. It is not completely finished, but it will be finished in a couple of years," Nick told the Adversary. "Can we get to generating Pure Energy now?"

"Excited: That's good to hear!" the Adversary said through vibrations. "I would advise you to continue focusing on Star Energy since you are going to need a lot of it, but I also want to get out and eat something. So, yeah, sure, we can get to the Pure Energy part."

Then, the Adversary started to talk about Pure Energy for the first time.

As explained earlier, Pure Energy was a fusion of Star Energy and Zephyx.

In a way, this was an unnatural fusion. After all, Star Energy basically just consumed Zephyx to make more Star Energy usually.

Star Energy was like fire, while Zephyx was like a dense fuel.

Pure Energy was essentially the fusion between a fire and fuel, which was not normal.

However, living by itself was already not natural in a way.

Existence moved towards entropy.

Energy didn't like to stay gathered in one place for long periods of time.

Energy wanted to be dispersed over all places.

Just like how a big clump of water spread over an entire basin, turning into a thin layer, energy wanted to have low density and spread everywhere.

Over their lifetimes, stars radiate all their energy and warmth over the infinite void that was the universe.

Warmth moved from a hotter object to a colder object, equalizing the temperature.

Life was in opposition to entropy.

Life was a constant oxidation, searching for more food to fuel its fire.

Life gathered energy into one spot, keeping its fire burning.

A sufficiently advanced society would gather the energy of several stars in one area,increasing the density of energy of one spot.

Life gathered all the spread energy and focused it, which was in opposition to entropy.

Life forced energy to do something it did not want to do.

So, creating something unnatural like Pure Energy was just another aspect of life.

Pure Energy didn't want to exist, but life forced it into existence regardless.

Specters desired to become stronger and survive, and they could only get more food by interacting with humans.

But if the humans couldn't access the Containment Units, the Specters wouldn't be able to interact with them.

That forced them to teach humanity about the basics of the Enlightened Ones' technologies.

Of course, the Enlightened Ones knew about the Sun and what it represented, which was why they had hidden the Specters far away from its light.

Sadly, the Enlightened Ones couldn't have known about the creation of the Nightmare, and their hidden Specters became very difficult to find.

The few of them who had come into contact with the light had been eradicated by the Sun, and the few of them who had been stored deep underground hadn't seen human eyes in a long time.

The Nightmare forced humanity to the surface. The deeper one went underground, the stronger the Nightmare's influence became.

The Suffering Ones couldn't resist the Nightmare.

They had never found the Enlightened Ones' present.

Humans who created light themselves might have found the Specters, but their light alarmed the Sun of the Specter's existence.

It was necessary to find the Specter without the presence of light that could fight the Nightmare's influence.

Light coming from torches or basic electric lights was okay since that didn't stop the Nightmare's influence, but light coming from abilities was not fine.

Because of that, it was basically impossible for humans to make use of these Specters.

Luckily, Nick was not a human.

In order to create Pure Energy, one must first know about the creation of Zephyx.

The creation of Pure Energy was very similar to the creation of Zephyx.

Naturally, humans could produce Zephyx by harvesting it from the Specters, but they didn't know how the Specters produced the Zephyx.

They just knew that Specters absorbed Prephyx, caused suffering to humans, and then made Zephyx.

But how did that work exactly?

The Adversary explained the creation of Zephyx in detail since Nick had to understand that process to understand the creation of Pure Energy.

And Nick very quickly understood why the aliens used Earth as a Zephyx generator.

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