Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 1014 - 511: The True Power of the Number God Mechanic, Rule Mechanic, and... The Secret of the Power of Paradox (Part 2)

Chapter 1014: Chapter 511: The True Power of the Number God Mechanic, Rule Mechanic, and... The Secret of the Power of Paradox (Part 2)

Su Yu was now on the verge of "death," and in just a moment, he would truly die.

This death was the complete extinguishment of consciousness, and even though Su Yu possessed the Power of Time, he couldn’t resurrect himself.

The Power of Time required the control of consciousness for resurrection, but with consciousness utterly extinguished, how could one be revived?

Just as Su Yu had understood the Number God Mechanic’s abilities, intending to use the data-driven Cosmic Rules as "materials" to create a new Mechanical Creation, he was far from completing it.

Utilizing the underlying rules of the universe as materials, such a miraculous Mechanical Creation wasn’t so easily crafted.

Su Yu didn’t even have a complete blueprint, only a rough idea.

This idea was inspired by the previous transformation of the Pain Evil God by the Mechanical God, turning it into an Evil God Soldier Mecha.

As a powerful Evil God, the Pain Evil God itself was already akin to some cosmic underlying rule. The technology to transform it into an Evil God Soldier Mecha could serve as a reference for Su Yu at this moment.

With his intelligence and computational power, having this reference was enough for Su Yu. He was determined to turn inspiration into reality and create the anticipated "Rule Mechanism."

However, there was too little time, and death was approaching too quickly.

Now, in Su Yu’s consciousness, a "life-flashing-before-eyes" moment began. In that instant, a flood of memories surged forth involuntarily, an instant seemed like an entire lifetime.

Su Yu couldn’t discern whether it was a hundred-thousandth of a second or a billionth of a second before he would be dragged into death by Qi Chen.

Even though death was merely a state, even after death, the Profession Panel would still be bound to Su Yu.

But Su Yu didn’t possess Qi Chen’s ability to cause trouble after dying.

He also hadn’t seized the divine rank of a Fifth-Order Evil God, and couldn’t resurrect after death.

Without the ability to think or act after death, what use was the Profession Panel?

"What a pity..."

Su Yu sighed lightly in his heart.

This sigh, like that of most dying individuals, lamented the brevity of life and the unfinished tasks, filling his heart with regret.

However, Su Yu was resolute; even on the verge of death, he quickly suppressed such regretful emotions.

He tried to pray and ask for help from the Radiant Emperor, but there was no response.

Su Yu shook his head silently, then focused intently on reminiscing about the past.

Since death was unavoidable, in the final moments before death, he decided to carefully relive his life.

Anyhow, in this "life-flashing-before-eyes" state, an instant felt like a lifetime, his mind accelerated by millions of times—a free "gain" of a lifetime’s time.

"Tsk tsk, I’ve really accomplished quite a few significant things."

"With such a life, it’s already quite good. What’s there to regret?"

As Su Yu reminisced, he marveled.

"Wait, this is..."

At this moment, Su Yu’s consciousness suddenly steadied.

In this moment before death, everything around him turned black and white, frozen, as if it were a world apart from Su Yu.

The memories in his consciousness, however, became vividly alive, except for one segment, which was dull and gray, out of place with the rest.

This immediately caught Su Yu’s attention.

That memory was... a piece of information transmitted to Su Yu by Song Ming before being "reclaimed" by Qi Chen.

However, Su Yu didn’t know the specific content of this information.

Because just as this information was passed to Su Yu, he forgot it, or rather, it was "killed," turning into that dull gray state.

Clearly, this was Qi Chen’s doing.

But now, as Su Yu reminisced about the past in the face of death, he unearthed this dying memory.

Su Yu was invigorated and immediately began to read this piece of information.

Even on the verge of death, Su Yu didn’t give up self-rescue. As he reminisced during his life-flashing-before-eyes, the "Rule Mechanism" was still under creation.

He was reminiscing, actually to search for a method of self-rescue in the depths of his memory.

But now, he finally found a potentially useful variable.

This "dead" information was what Song Ming transmitted to Su Yu before disappearing. Su Yu hadn’t had the chance to read it before Qi Chen "killed" it.

Judging by this, the information was undoubtedly crucial!

"This is... the secret regarding ’Paradox’!"

The information was not complicated; within a thought, Su Yu had already read and absorbed it.

This information was indeed extremely important; it was the new Power of World Salvation information that Song Ming had awakened after learning about "Paradox."

According to Song Ming, "Paradox" could indeed accomplish the impossible.

However, this power, in essence, was a type of "exchange."

Upon using "Paradox" to achieve an impossible event...

Correspondingly, an event that could have normally happened would become impossible.

Previously, Song Ming utilized the power of "Paradox" to help Su Yu instantly reach Full Level of the Number God Mechanic without meditation practice, an inherently impossible event.

Thus, the price Song Ming paid was the impossibility of holding the Number God Mechanic profession through normal meditative practice, or mastering similar powers.

In other words, even if Song Ming possessed the professional information of the Number God Mechanic and perfectly completed the ritual to successfully hold the profession, he couldn’t improve his power through meditation practice; he would forever stay at the initial moment of holding the profession, with the level perpetually at 1.

If he insisted on trying to advance, then... he’d die!

The power of the Number God Mechanic itself had become a part of the paradox.

Like the classic grandmother paradox where one travels back to the past to kill one’s grandmother, an impossible event.

If he insisted on doing it, he would be the one to die, consumed by the backlash of time and space.

The current Number God Mechanic was also thus.

Moreover, beyond Song Ming himself, no one else in the universe could seek advancement after holding the Number God Mechanic profession.

Luckily, Song Ming had a multitude of abilities, so it didn’t matter much.

Furthermore, he wasn’t a normal human to begin with, relying solely on awakening for power, and likely wouldn’t practice meditation.

Thus, this price was essentially nothing to Song Ming.

At most, after Su Yu, if he wanted to pass the Number God Mechanic onto others, they wouldn’t be able to advance post-profession.

But Su Yu would surely not idly expose his trump card power, so this price was essentially negligible for him as well.

Seemingly, the power of "Paradox" was almost too wonderful, with no cost at all?

But Su Yu understood that this power was extremely dangerous.

The minimal personal cost in exchange for more formidable power, but the price was actually borne by the universe.

With each use, an extra "impossible" would bloom in the universe.

If these "impossibles" multiplied, wouldn’t the universe be unable to progress?

Who knows what these "impossibles" might be, easily triggered, leading to an inexplicable death.

Just like now, if somewhere deep in the universe, there’s another genius who, without a Profession Panel, inexplicably manages to create the Number God Mechanic profession, completes the ritual, then seeks advancement through meditation practice, and then, triggered by an "impossible," dies inexplicably.

That would be such an undeserved death.

However, given that the Profession Panel created a new profession capable of gaining Fifth-Order strength from a Fourth-Order state, others creating the same would be improbable, so there’s no need to worry.

"Moreover, if the Pain Evil God was also created using a paradox, what was the cost of creating It, and what if it’s accidentally triggered?"

Su Yu thought with a touch of coldness.

Being in contact with the Pain Evil God for so long without triggering related "impossibles" was truly fortunate.

But the "impossibles" related to the Pain Evil God were of extremely high rank, undoubtedly at the Fifth-Order level, so it was normal for Su Yu not to have triggered them before.

Still, for the sake of safety, Su Yu decided to find a way to understand what kind of "impossibles" the birth of the Pain Evil God had caused.

These matters, Su Yu planned to study later, for now, the priority was resolving the current crisis,

"So, now with two instances of ’Paradox,’ what can I do with them?"