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.
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.
However, creating something like Pure Energy was not easy.
Naturally, Star Energy turned Zephyx into more Star Energy, and that process had to be changed to create Pure Energy.
The creation of Pure Energy was turning Star Energy into Zephyx but without the essential component that comprised Zephyx.
The Enlightened Ones had been scarily advanced.
They managed to create things that seemed impossible in the current era.
One of these things was the creation of Zephyx without Specters.
The Ancient Ones had also managed to achieve that.
Sadly, this process was not without drawbacks.
The Adversary knew a lot about human technology. It knew far more than any Specter should know.
It also knew how these reactors worked.
Why did it know so much?
Who told this random Specter how all of human technology worked?
The answer was actually quite simple.
The Enlightened Ones.
Just like how Aegis viewed all of humanity as the most important thing in existence, the Enlightened Ones also viewed humanity as the most important thing. Ȑá₦𝘰฿Е𝐒
What if the Enlightened Ones failed?
What if their plan didn't work, and the aliens reset the era again?
Well, in that case, they needed a backup plan.
One of these plans was a couple of suppressed Specters.
Future generations could work and learn from these Specters.
Humanity couldn't store the majority of their knowledge in machines since the aliens would wipe them.
But what if they stored some knowledge in the Specters?
So, the Enlightened Ones had taught a couple of suppressed Specters all over the world about their technology.
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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