The Sea of Entropy

  The pyer named Muga-Muga was Old Blind’s a the hole.

  Li Aozi’s Omega Energy rental service was extensive, but it was obvious to ahat 【Gravity】 was his most powerful force—though it came at a steep price.

  They pooled together all of the guild's resources, barely scraping together enough for one slot. Without hesitation, Old Blind gave the sole rented 【Gravity】 Omega Energy to Muga-Muga, the most skilled, highest-level, and quickest-reag pyer, to plete the mission.

  Sure enough, Muga-Muga easily infiltrated the facility. Thanks to 【Gravity】’s invisibility effect, he could remain hidden for 40 minutes. As for taking pictures, there was o worry—he could take sshots, upload them to the game forum, and then download them in-game. It was a great way to gee attention, making the rental even more worthwhile.

  As Muga-Muga moved quickly through the underground facility, he was awestruck by the sights before him, still a rookie in many ways. plex particle colliders, oo-one scale urban warfare killhouses, exoskeletons that allowed people to walk and leap on walls and ceilings with ease, and even maery that enhanced 【Martial Artist】’s bat abilities.

  The four nations had deeply studied superhumans, fog heavily on boosting the bat power of low-level superhumans. Whether it was giving them greater mobility to avoid artillery fire or equipping them with armor too heavy for ordinary humans but just right for superhumans, they aimed to maximize destructive power by blending cold and hot ons.

  There were even Omega Energy users on dispy, being dissected and experimented on. These individuals were id out openly oing tables, their bodies cut in half, electrodes stimuting their brains to observe how Omega Energy affected their ans during release. The se was so gruesome that Muga-Muga almost vomited after taking the sshots.

  Despite the shog visuals, Muga-Muga still hadn’t found his target—the hydrogen bomb.

  He tio desd, burning through a lot of Omega Energy. He took a break by hiding in a trash bin, recharging his energy before resuming his reaissance.

  The invisibility effect of 【Gravity】 was stra seemed to bend light away, but as a result, the pyer felt unnaturally cold, as though deprived of external radiation. Thankfully, it was just a game, so he could ehe disfort.

  Muga-Muga kept taking sshots and closely coordinating with his teammates, mapping out as much detail as possible. Though the Murloc Guild didn’t have its own analysts, they had a huge following from their streaming roots. In no time, fans in their chat were helping analyze the underground structure.

  “This is clearly designed like a termite . B4 looks like a fire exit, G9 could be a civil defense shelter... hey, H3 is iing. It’s pced here, could it be ected to aor shaft?”

  Taking the advice from their fans, Old Blind directed Muga-Muga to move toward H3. Nervously, Muga-Muga tiptoed past security, barely breathing as he worked to keep his heartbeat steady.

  As he approached, he found H3 was indeed a hiddeor shaft. After waiting a while, the elevator opened, and a group of stists and researchers in heavy protective suits emerged, guarded by armed escorts. Muga-Muga quickly slipped inside, blending with the group of passengers heading downward.

  The elevator desded slowly, likely because it had a long way to go. After 20 minutes, during which a researcher nearly bumped into him, Muga-Muga was forced to ban one foot for several minutes, pressing tightly into the er.

  Finally, just as Muga-Muga’s energy was nearly depleted, the elevator jolted to a stop. The doors opened, and the group poured out, giving Muga-Muga his first glimpse of the lowest level.

  But as he stood there in the soft sand, the salty sea breeze brushing against his face, the se before him left him in a state of shock.

  “...WTF?”

  Old Blind, notig Muga-Muga’s strange rea, asked, “Hey, Muga-Muga, what’s up? Did you find the hydrogen bomb?”

  “No, not yet. But damn... this... this ’t be real!”

  “What are you talking about? Muga-Muga, expin yourself.”

  “It’s impossible. This makes no sense,” Muga-Muga muttered in disbelief.

  “What did you see?”

  “The sea.”

  Muga-Muga answered:

  “I see the sea, but there’s no water. I see the sky, but there are no clouds. My god... this is unbelievable.”

  Old Blind and the others exged fused looks. After berating him briefly, they coaxed Muga-Muga into relutly starting his game stream.

  After a short dey, Old Blind and the others ehe stream and withe “sea without water”:

  Pale blue fog, thick like the clouds of Camity, swirled across the ground. Sea creatures—fish, jellyfish, and whales—floated freely in the fog as if they were swimming in water. Massive coral reefs, 70 to 80 meters tall, covered the nd, and in the distahey saw a small floating isnd with houses, fields, palm trees, and a beach.

  But where was the water?

  Why did that blue fog look so simir to the form of Camity?

  The breathtaking se immediately drew in a rge number of viewers, and the livestream’s popurity skyrocketed. Even Li Aozi, browsing the forums, received a notification about it. Clig into the stream, a smile spread across his face.

  “Yes, that’s it.”

  He nodded slightly:

  “Camity is the thought of the Lord of Entropy, and Abandoned Mist is the informatioroyed by the Lord of Entropy.”

  The o here wasn’t a real o, and while the creatures within it were real, they weren’t living beings—just meaningless fragments of information.

  This was the terrifying aspect of the Lord of Entropy... those destroyed by the Lord never realized they had beeroyed.

  Yet, because of the nature of Abandoned Mist, people used it to recreate ses from past eras or to hide certais.

  Such as the hydrogen bomb—or perhaps... the Isle of Elves.

  FAL