Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!

Dr. Osborne’s heavy breathing sounded like a bellows, and even Kael’s smooth breathing halted for a moment as he said with some difficulty, "Maybe it’s a coincidence?"

"Science can hypothesize, but the real data does not lie in coincidence. Getting the same answer for five days straight has already explained a lot."

Dr. Osborne waved his hand to interrupt Kael, "Unable to observe the further reaches of the universe, yet we have observed the shadows of its existence—do you know what that means?

It means the entire universe is like an enormous closed-loop world. Before you observe it, it’s the unknown; when you observe it, it loads the scenes for you.

We can’t discover the boundary, merely because this digital world is indeed vast enough. We are like the goldfish in a celestial fishbowl, thinking we know everything, but to those outside the bowl, we appear so foolish. And the birth of the Scarlet Dream Blade has proven everything."

"Is it because of the Scarlet Dream Blade’s divine traits?" Kael frowned.

"No, that’s just corroborative evidence." Dr. Osborne sat down on the sofa in the lab, looking down as he spoke, "We actually anticipated the goblin apocalypse because we ourselves... it has always been our bête noire, something we didn’t want to think about or dare to think about."

Kael’s eyelids drooped, and he suddenly felt all this to be so absurd.

"Goblins are not a species that existed from the beginning, but one that was born later on. We have no origin; it’s as if, at some point, we just sprang into being.

Born with quasi-memories, seemingly with a history, of course, the history we have lived through after our birth is not fabricated, that much is certain." Continue your adventure at NovelBin.Côm

But Kael, Divine Particles are not particularly efficient energy, especially when compared to the more universal and more flexible energies of the various professional systems. The only special thing about Divine Particles lies in their origin."

Dr. Osborne walked to the table and picked up a piece of calculation paper, on which he drew two dots.

He then picked up a short pencil and connected the two dots:

"This is how the energy from the normal professional system takes effect; it needs an external force and follows a corresponding path."

Then he tore off the other half of the calculation paper, drew two dots, folded the paper to overlap the two dots on the same side, and then, with a poke of the pencil tip, he punctured the spot where the two dots were:

"These are Divine Particles. They don’t follow a path and it’s difficult to discern how an external force acts on them, but due to the properties of Divine Particles, only the starting point and endpoint are retained, without the ’transition’. That’s why the belief that deities are omniscient and omnipotent spreads across the continent—effect follows cause, and cause from effect, such is the power of the divine.

We have tested this. From one end of the continent to the other, our existing time-measuring tools cannot detect any change in time. If measured purely by distance, the speed of spatial teleportation has already surpassed that of light. So do you understand?"

Kael nodded heavily, looking at Dr. Osborne with a strange gaze. Dr. Osborne wasn’t annoyed but just snorted lightly and said:

"Let’s be frank, Kael. We goblins aren’t like any other race on the continent. If we had to be compared with someone, that would probably be... you!

After all, you are just like us. If we say that our memories come from ’civilization memories’ drawn by the will of the world from some Otherworld, then you, who have been able to understand our language from the beginning...

Do I need to emphasize it once more? We are compatriots from the same starry skies, at least in terms of memory, right, Kael?"

Kael remained silent.

Indeed, he understood.

No wonder there was always an inexplicable familiarity when he saw Wandong City.

No wonder the way of goblins always gave him a subtle sense of discord.

...

If the characteristics of a civilization itself depend on its history, then the goblins, a race directly created by the World Mother’s will and implanted with memories from a civilization of an Otherworld... they had already become an extension of that world’s civilization from the start.

This explained well why goblins were so out of place with other races.

If the industry of the dwarves is based on alchemy...

Then the industry developed by the goblins is actually more like transplanting Human Federation civilization into the game.

He vaguely remembered those academic achievers complaining after their conversion to Mechanical Mages, frequently scoffing that the planners were just teasing them; dealing with science and engineering was already troublesome enough in reality, and now they had to deal with the same thing in the game.

Now, looking at it from a different angle...

Tsk tsk, World Mother, I seem to have discovered the grandeur you’ve hidden away!

A joy of glimpsing a corner of the world made his expression a bit more solemn.

For this world, deities are like higher-dimensional entities.

For lower-dimensional beings to harm higher-dimensional deities, the price is exceptionally brutal, and it could be said... the vast majority of races couldn’t manage it.

Of course, there are exceptions. If one already possesses items from a higher dimension, perhaps there is a slim chance for mortals to harm the gods.