Two Worlds, Starting with Kaguya of Penglai Mountain

The red and white shrine maiden asked a question.

To be honest, Reimu still has a certain yearning for extraordinary power.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that her body gets dirty every day and she has to take a bath makes Reimu, who used to be free from dust and never took a bath, feel extremely troubled.

Reimu's current mindset is actually similar to that of a disabled person who has suddenly lost a limb and has an urgent desire to return to a normal life.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "The situation..."

Hearing Reimu's words, Kurokawa Kazuya opened his eyes and turned to look at her, a thoughtful expression on his face.

According to the memories he obtained from Yukari Yakumo.

The technology of the Lunar Capital is essentially a solution achieved with the "illusory" authority held by Tsukiyomi at its core.

At the end of the Age of Gods, the core of this technology was actually the eternal power wielded by Kaguya Houraisan, as the moon goddess wanted to solidify her power into an eternal force.

However, as the world changed, it was realized that the power of eternity was ineffective, and thus Kaguya of Houraisan was completely separated from then on.

The path to the survival of the Lunar Capital thus shifted to illusory authority.

From the real and eternal to the illusory existence.

The truth is, they realized that their original ambitions were unrealizable and thus withered away.

They no longer aspire to have the power to intervene in the world amidst the changing times.

They only wish to continue existing, waiting for the world to one day, after eternity, return to a space where they can act as they please.

In Kurokawa and Miyako's current understanding, it means transforming the entire land of the Lunar Capital into a data space that is not connected to the real world.

The gods who existed in the Moon Capital will exist forever as illusions.

Similarly, they themselves will no longer interfere with anything outside the Lunar Capital.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "Simply put, the ultimate goal of the Lunar Capital is to become a data state similar to what Kaguya and I are in today's modern world."

Hakurei Reimu: “?”

All those gods did was go through so much trouble, and this is all they wanted to do?

Reimu looked at Kurokawa Kazuya strangely, now wondering if he was just trying to tease her.

Kurokawa Kazuya: "Looking at me like that won't help. That's exactly what the gods of the Lunar Capital are trying to do. It's just that compared to our state, the data state they've achieved is outside the rules of this other world."

The illusionary state of Kurokawa Kazuya and Houraisan Kaguya is essentially obtained by Kurokawa Kazuya by linking two worlds and sharing rules from another world.

Without Kurokawa Kazuya as a contact, the barrier Reimu created would naturally collapse.

Not to mention, in his current illusory state with Kaguya, Kurokawa Kazuya is unable to truly interfere with reality, and the barrier that is scheduled to be established in the Lunar Capital.

At least in their plan, although gods cannot exert their conceptual power in the normal world, they can still touch the outside world like ordinary people.

Reimu Hakurei: "Oh, so can we use their technology in the modern world?"

For the troubled priestess, this technology from the Moon Capital was a godsend.

Reimu's brain, which had been dazed from being soaked in warm water, suddenly became alert for a while.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "No."

He pronounced the verdict on the witch before him.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "Because the premise of this technology is actually the ability to exert conceptual power in reality. The gods of the Lunar Capital manipulate the space on the moon using their own concepts; they use the power of concepts to subtly alter the rules. We don't have such tools for modification in the modern world, but..."

At this point, Kurokawa Kazuya looked at Reimu and smiled.

Reimu Hakurei rolled her eyes slightly at the other person's expression.

Judging from her appearance, it's clear that although she didn't get what she wanted, Kurokawa Kazuya must have gotten something else.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "We have made tremendous progress in the Lunar Capital regarding the transformation of the online world. The online space that was previously impossible to interact with and touch can now truly become a real space that can be touched, reached, and interacted with."

The barrier originally created by Reimu's soul, although governed by real-world rules, still prevented the individuals within it from interacting.

That is, after all, a world made up of data, and its stability is limited.

Although Reimu can introduce the rules of another world into it, she cannot introduce a series of parameters such as gravity, sunlight, and air pressure from the reality of that other world.

Because there are no relevant parameters, even if the physical body inside exists, it cannot function.

but now--

"Using the technology of the Lunar Capital, we can basically achieve perfect interaction. Merry plans to add several other layers of barriers on top of Reimu's soul barrier. To be honest, if we continue to refine this aspect, it's not impossible to bring things from the online world into reality."

Kurokawa Kazuya described what Yakumo Yukari had gained from the Lunar Capital this time.

As Kurokawa Kazuya spoke, Kaguya, who had been somewhat languid, immediately looked at Kurokawa Kazuya with a hint of excitement.

Because of the various interesting things Kurokawa and Miya bring, Kaguya, though still an ordinary game, is still not quite there yet.

But if it's the legendary virtual reality, that's a different story.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Why don't we use this to make games?"

She spoke with such righteous indignation.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "Of course we should do it, and in the early stages we can also collect relevant data and conduct various experiments. This can be integrated with the various experiments related to crossing between worlds that were originally planned."

The goal is to gradually make cyberspace resemble the real world.

Kurokawa Kazuya wasn't really sure where this would lead.

He himself doesn't really care about this aspect.

For Kazuya Kurokawa, the key to this technology should be—

He can completely enable people from two different worlds to meet freely within that virtual reality.

Perhaps because he had spent so long in another world, Kurokawa Kazuya subconsciously felt that the difference between illusion and reality was not that great.

If the virtual world provides an experience exactly the same as reality, then it doesn't matter if we treat the virtual as reality.

Not to mention, the virtual world he created can actually allow a person's consciousness to exist independently of their physical body.

Even if a person dies in the real world, they can still exist in the virtual world, and can even directly transfer their consciousness into another world to complete the physical rebirth.

Just then, as Kurokawa and Yaku were pondering the matter, Reisen, who had been quietly soaking in the pool without saying much, suddenly stood up.

Reisen: "I've discussed it with Yukari Yakumo. If we're going to implement it internally in the early stages, we'll try all sorts of rules. We can try the game that Princess wanted to make."

The purple-haired rabbit, who hadn't spoken until now, chimed in with this comment.

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Chapter 147 The Two Who Watched the Final Battle

The place where Kurokawa Kazuya and Yakumo Yukari meet again is a special barrier formed by the soul of Hakurei Reimu.

A small screen floats in front of the blonde girl and the black-haired man.

It was playing a video of what had happened in that other world not long ago.

It was around noon when the final battle between the Moon Capital and the City of Technology began.

At this moment, theoretically, Yukari Yakumo should be in another world, using her own power to manage all the datafication matters in the town.

However, because the time dragged on long enough, Reisen's game "Moon Rabbit" produced, almost as expected, a corresponding magical artifact that could transform individuals into data.

In this town today, not only does Yakumo Yukari no longer need to overdraw her own resources as a price, but under the immense indoctrination of faith, the use of magical artifacts has also become casual and unrestrained.

The switching between data and reality has become the norm.

This process doesn't even affect the town's operation.

Anyone who enters the town will be digitized immediately, stepping into the online world of the real world.

Anyone who leaves the town will be instantly reconstructed from data and re-enter the other world.

The small town that still appears to exist in the local area today is actually just an illusion reflecting the town in the online world.

Because it was merely an illusion, leaving no trace, all attacks were ineffective against this town.

The gods on the moon showed no mercy when it came to the final battle.

The ruler of the moon, Tsukiyo, projected the entire lunar capital onto the ground, giving all the gods a renewed opportunity to wield the power of the divine era upon the earth.

The seemingly peaceful town illusion was actually plowed over countless times by the gods using all sorts of concepts from the very beginning.

But what use is all of this to something that is nothing more than an illusion?

After rounds of probing, the expressions on the faces of almost all the gods of the Moon Capital grew increasingly grim.

Even though the gods present had already heard about the matter from the Realm Demon beforehand, some of them had even secretly made corresponding deals with him.

But no one expected the situation to turn out so strangely.

It's not the worst thing that it doesn't work.

Worst of all, when it proved ineffective, they couldn't discern any clues from it, and what lay before them remained almost entirely unknown.

wrong……

It cannot be said to be completely unknown.

They could actually discover that there was a line connecting the town right now.

This is a clue that Yukari Yakumo deliberately left for them; the other end of the clue leads to a region beyond the world.

Logically speaking, at this time, there should be brave and reckless people who should step forward and take the lead in venturing across this line to explore the other side.

But such gods had already mostly disappeared by the time the Age of Gods ended.

The Lunar Capital is not an ordinary organization, and its gods are not mortals.

Longevity and enduring vision mean that great power originates from one's own existence, and there is no such thing as family, descendants, or kinship.

Once they're dead, they're dead; there's no one who can inherit everything they've been given.

Sacrifice is out of the question.

They only care about themselves, and all they need to do is be themselves.

As a result, the sky above the otherworldly technological city fell silent for a short period of time.

No one suggested that they would physically enter the otherworldly network and place themselves completely under Kurokawa Kazuya's control.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell this is a trap.

Yukari Yakumo: "They are more like a disorganized mess than I imagined. Given enough power, their weaknesses are far more numerous than I ever thought."

The images on the screen went out, and a voice filled with emotion rang in Kurokawa and Miya's ears.

As Kurokawa Kazuya spoke, he also shifted his attention away from the images in front of him.

Golden, waist-length hair, and a white felt hat.

When the woman in the purple dress smiled, she still possessed that familiar, enigmatic air.

The demon who had traveled to the moon did not undergo any particular changes.

If I had to put it in perspective, compared to the somewhat strange sense of responsibility I felt when we first met, I now feel more relaxed.

After all, once she truly stood on the Moon Capital in a legitimate capacity.

There's basically nothing in the other world that poses an immediate threat to it.

As the yokai themselves merged with humans and rode the fast track of human development, Yukari Yakumo had no worries about the future that could be achieved with this development.

The sage of the realm, in essence, has no love for any individual yokai; all she desires is the existence of the yokai as a group.

Yukari Yakumo: "Master, do you think we won a little too easily this time?"

With a smile, the wise girl turned her head and, after expressing her feelings, spoke to Kurokawa Kazuya with the same student-like expectation she had when they first met.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "The Lunar Capital's organizational structure gathers a lot of power, so if you can't beat them, you can't beat them much. But if you can beat them, the outcome is basically a crushing defeat of the opponent."

As they were talking, Kurokawa Kazuya rolled his eyes at Yakumo Yukari.

How could a wise sage not have noticed this? It was the other party who brought it up when he was discussing strategy with him.

Yukari Yakumo: "Of course I know that, but I can't help but feel sentimental."

The blonde girl still had a smile on her face, but her words couldn't help but carry a hint of emotion.