Neighbors in forbidden land

How long have we been here?

We were born with the birth of this planet, in that era when even barrenness was no longer barren.

We master all the magic contained in this planet, and we can also adjust the ecology of this planet at will.

However, this planet can move forward without our intervention and adjustment. The first drop of water was born from this planet, and the first life was born from this planet... All of these are the development of this planet itself the result of.

Magic is facilitation, not creativity.

We can use our own power to make a certain area of ​​this planet produce a life, but we cannot produce a life by ourselves.

This is the power of this planet, we are just a big goblin in charge of coordinating and modifying.

It is not accurate to say that we are responsible, because we have no obligation to do this, but we are the only ones on this planet who can do this.

But nothing worth adjusting happened on this planet, everything is developing according to a certain law.

Animals, plants, monsters, every existence on this planet, from birth to death, left traces on this planet to push other existences forward, or just die out, that is development.

There is no existence equal to us on this planet.

Alone watching the sky turn and the stars move, the flowers bloom and fall on the ground, waiting for a long time.

We seldom leave here, this place called the extreme north by humans.Because even if we only stay here, we can still know what's going on outside.

Even the goblins that we can drive at will are just the manifestation of various phenomena in this world on this planet, so where they exist, they can cause various phenomena.

Sometimes, looking at all the existences in this world, we also wonder what the meaning of their existence is.

What is the meaning of our existence.

There are powerful monsters and weak animals on this planet.

There are humans who keep moving forward, and there are plants that never take a step forward.

Only this, we don't know.

Before you know it, time has passed.

We and our little fairies are not the only ones here that are covered by ice and snow all the year round.

In the long time, there have been two existences here.

One is a white monster born from the extreme southern land opposite here. If there is anything in this world that can barely reach an existence similar to us, it is her.

But it's too stupid, even if we just looked at each other in the snowstorm, we can see that it is not a monster that is good at thinking.

And the other one is a human being.

Human beings who have left the place of residence and trekked the mountains and seas of half a planet to come here.

There was a group of people when they set off, but when they arrived here, she was the only one left.

Moreover, the vital signs are already quite low.

After all, this is not an environment suitable for human survival.

"You... are... a monster?"

Supporting his body with the wooden pole in his hand, he staggered to the front of us.

The first sentence is this.

"We are big goblins."

"Big... goblin..." She raised her head with difficulty, revealing her fluffy eyes under the messy short hair in the wind and snow, staring at us closely.

From the outside, she was already a dying life.

Looking at her eyes, she seems to be a life that has just come into this world.

"Here... is, where?"

"According to the words you can understand, this is the northernmost point of the world."

"Over there..." tremblingly, she raised her hand wrapped in heavy clothes, and pointed to the back of us, but she almost couldn't grasp the wooden pole in her hand and fell to the ground, "...that is, the world... the edge, huh?"

This is the northernmost point of the world, however, it is not the end of the world.

Because if she could continue walking, she would only see the world on the other side of the planet.

This world has no end, because as long as you move forward, you will eventually return to the original place.

She has no way to understand.

It's like we can't understand why she came here all the way.

"What if we say no?"

"Then I... just, continue..." Her voice became thinner and thinner, just like her life.

But she couldn't move on.

Because she fell headlong into the snow under our feet.

The string of footprints behind her was also submerged in the wind and snow.

But her life goes on.

Supported by something unknown, holding his last breath.

She can no longer move, but she is still moving.

His fingers trembled slightly, wanting to move forward.

Her life would be gone, in this snow and ice.

We have never known what the meaning of all this existence on this planet is.

Perhaps thinking about this itself is meaningless.

"This is the edge of the world."

"This...like...ah..."

Such a voice came from the snow.

"It's... well, finally, it's..."

Yes, here we are.

Even if you stop moving forward, your life has come, it has come to an end.

"You're going to die."

"..."

"Let me ask you, why did you come here?"

"..."

She didn't answer. Although she still has energy, she will soon be submerged by the wind and snow, taking her last breath of life.

Just when we sighed lightly.

"To...see...the world..."

such an answer.

"...you have seen it."

We raised our hands and snapped our fingers lightly.

After a flash of light, only faint snow marks remained on the ground in front of him, proving that there was something there just before.

"Thinking about coming but not thinking about going back..."

We slowly raised our heads and looked at the children floating freely above our heads, constantly glowing.

"...that's stupid."

However, not long after, we finally discovered that there is no lower limit to stupidity.

A huge shadow enveloped the sky, carrying an unparalleled firelight.

We usually have nothing to do, but as soon as we do it, we have to do big things.

Unfolding the magic barrier covering this world, but it only slightly slowed down the whereabouts of that thing.

We really didn't expect that monster to be able to push the moon down.

Seeing that the magic barrier was completely crushed, we immediately changed the flow of magic power.

If it is futile to aim towards the sky, then aim towards the ground.

Turn your own body into magic power, rushing to the ground like the roots of those plants, and then continue to deepen and spread.Control the flow of magic power within the entire planet, build a resistance to impact magic, and start repair work at the same time.

Most of existence will be annihilated because of this.

Then, the moon came down.

The whole world is torn apart.

It successfully resisted part of the impact, but the earth's crust was lifted thousands of kilometers into the sky, and when it fell again, it shattered the last layer of magic barrier. The clouds were penetrated in an instant, the sky fell into a never-clear fire, and the world was covered in red. illuminated.

We just watched everything other than us distort and disappear, and those goblins who were not around us also disappeared because the "phenomenon" exceeded the tolerance value.

They are not beings, they are attached to some phenomenon.

However, most of the phenomena in this world are erased at this moment.

Even "fire" has far exceeded the tolerance range of the goblin whose phenomenon is fire.

The planet is almost destroyed.

The ice and snow around me have disappeared, leaving only us, the dilapidated scorched earth full of rolling lava, and the sky dyed red by flames and smoke, and the last goblin flickering in our arms.

We don't know what the meaning of existence is.

Because that is the question that those existences have to think about, not what we have to think about.

What we need to consider-

Restoration work began.

Only a very small number of humans and monsters survived, and everything else died in the pervasive heat.

The situation inside the planet is not much better than on the surface. Most of the magic power has been lost just now. Originally, we could let a corner of this world create a vast ocean at will, but now...a drop of water is so difficult .

We took a drop of blood and tears from the remaining human beings that flowed to the ground and melted into the ground for reconciliation, and it took a long time to turn it into real water.

In today's world, just a drop of water can't do much.

So it needs to be fixed, starting with this broken world.

The first is the adjustment of energy, slowly changing the flow of energy in the ground, allowing some of the surface to operate, and the excess is concentrated in the area where the moon directly fell to the ground, after all, there is nothing left.

As long as the flow of energy tends to be normal, the obviously overheated environment can be improved, and the remaining ground fire will be slowly extinguished.

The next step is the environment, bit by bit the smoke and dust permeating the chaotic environment sinks to the ground, and at the same time compensates the damaged environment to a certain extent.

At this time, add the drop of water that was blended before into the ecological cycle, and then use the wind to disperse the remaining dregs in the sky, and let the simple rain and sunshine return to the ground.

Then improve the ground, melt the dross after being burned by the flames into the ground, and concentrate it in the big crater smashed by the moon.

In this way, plants, animals, and monsters can be slowly returned to the earth. Non-essential monsters will not be restored for the time being because they do not participate in the ecological cycle. Bechymos can be reshaped to eat the excess rocks , As for Leviathan... wait until the water cycle is basically normal, and the sea will return before processing.

This world is broken. After all, many phenomena and environments are repaired and maintained by magic power.

The climate is unstable, the sea is empty but still exists, and the distribution of plants, creatures, and monsters is unreasonable... It will be a long time before these things return to normal

By the time we used magic power to reshape our body and returned to the ground with the goblin, an ice crystal tree made of magic power had already grown there.I think it was created unconsciously when we used magic power to adjust the interior of the planet.

Ice and snow once again covered this place, but these are just substitutes made of magic power. It will take a long time for real snow to fall.

We also met that monster again.

Now she is already a monster called Calamity by humans.

After such a long time, we just want to say one thing.

She actually turned black.

When will we care about such small things.

Forget it, so be it.

Afterwards, we redistributed a small number of goblins around the world to adjust the phenomenon. At the same time, we also left the extreme north to repair the world by ourselves, for example, to reshape an ocean.

During this process, we discovered that the monster was mixed with humans. This is the first time we have seen such a situation, but it is not surprising.

After all, the language of humans and the language of monsters originate from the original language of this world. It is not surprising that there are non-human beings who master the language of humans, and for humans, communication is possible only if they communicate with each other.

Afterwards, that monster came to apologize to us for the "mistakes" she had made. Although it was not considered a mistake in our opinion, it may be that this planet and the existence on the planet are on the way of development. Just one of the difficulties that needs to be faced.

We thought of the past, the human being who desperately wanted to climb to the "edge of the world".

Maybe it's ignorant, maybe it's incomprehensible, maybe... this is a human being, maybe... this is a monster.

When I saw the two of them again later, we were gathering a bunch of goblins to re-open an ocean.

At that time, she changed into a human form, and her demeanor really didn't change at all, except that we could see through this level of change.

After a simple exchange, although the human named Yimi had some prejudice against us, he expressed his gratitude to us when we parted.

"What you need to thank is not us, but that child."

What they get is that child's help, not our help. We don't need to thank or apologize, because we don't have the corresponding thoughts.

Moreover, being willing to get close to her is nothing more than a choice made by that child.

Some things, perhaps seen once, never a second time.

After all, we are only doing what we can do.

For such a long time, we have been just like this.

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Today, it should be regarded as returning without success.

At least it didn't seem to meet Yimi's request, but Yimi didn't seem unhappy, but fell into deep thought after returning. "Yimi?" I tried to call out Yimi's name softly.

"...What's the matter?" Yimi, who broke away from her contemplation, just asked me indifferently.

"No... I just saw you seem to be thinking about something..."

Yimi sighed softly and shook her head: "It's okay, I just feel that there are still many things in this world that we don't know, so I just thought about it for a while."

"Oh."

"Compared to this..." Yimi's face recovered some smiles, "Although we didn't find anything useful today, I don't know if Xiaogu has found anything. After all, every time she will find some weird things. Something is back."

"really……"

Like this time.

When Yimi and I came to the beach, we found a huge shadow on the beach.

It was a... huge wreck.