This time, Su Mo got a very thorough experience of what it felt like to enter the Root from within the Root.
Void Shiki and Manaka Sajyou could both be considered products of the Root's 'demotion,' daughters of the Root. Now, within the Root, the two 'daughters of the Root' were like being in their mother's womb, receiving the greatest possible assistance and protection.
Under these circumstances, Su Mo could indeed output without any reservations. With the Root's personal blessing, the endurance of the two daughters of the Root had already surpassed that of Tiamat, Shiroyasha, and the Halloween Queen, reaching the same level as Madokami and Akuma Homura.
Thanks to this, using the spiritual channels of the two girls and their different representative perspectives, Su Mo filtered and absorbed all the knowledge within the Swirl of the Root once over.
The excessive influx of information had no effect on the current Su Mo. His current scale had already surpassed that of an ordinary multiverse. The knowledge of the Swirl of the Root alone was not enough to impact him; at most, it could only create a beautiful ripple in the boundless sea that was Su Mo.
However, Void Shiki and Manaka Sajyou, acting as the channels, couldn't withstand the impact. Even with the Root's personal protection, they both fainted. Manaka Sajyou's spiritual essence was closer to that of a human, so she was the one who demanded the most, and at the same time, she was also the weakest. She was soon crying "Father Emperor, spare me!" and begging for mercy on her knees, only to rally under the Root's blessing, charge back menacingly, and promptly faint again.
Void Shiki was the complete opposite. With her cool and quiet personality, she was exceptionally good at enduring. Although she would also enter brief periods of dizziness, she could fight for a long time under the Root's protection, only going offline when she absolutely couldn't take it anymore.
For Su Mo, this experience was quite rewarding. This reward didn't refer to the two daughters of the Root sleeping and recuperating on his throne, but to the information he had drawn from their channels. In terms of the quantity and level of information, it was naturally nothing to him; the Akashic Records in the center of the Little Garden would only contain more.
What was important were certain unique perspectives within the Root—not just any knowledge was qualified to create a ripple in the sea of information he commanded.
"Besides the world's self-observation and human observation, it also involves the perspective of aliens..."
Su Mo's mind quickly scanned through the special existences of the Type-Moon world. As the Emperor of the Root, the moment he thought, the Root responded. A white-haired girl with long white hair, wielding the rainbow-colored Sword of the War God, appeared before him. The girl's face was calm, but not indifferent like Void Shiki's; rather, it held a hint of confusion, like a young beast that had lost its way home.
"Attila?"
Su Mo naturally knew the identity of the white-haired girl before him—the girl who had established an unprecedentedly glorious empire as the leader of the Huns, leaving behind the title "Scourge of God."
However, in reality, she was not the king of the Huns, or even human. She was a bunshin created by the Velber vanguard, the titan Altera, a weapon specifically designed to destroy civilizations. In human history, if it weren't for the Holy Sword of the Planet, human civilization would have been ruthlessly swept into ruins by the Velber vanguard.
Although its scale couldn't compare to the center of the Little Garden, in terms of the richness of its cosmology, the Type-Moon world even surpassed the Little Garden in some areas.
Besides Attila, the Moon Goddess Artemis also manifested. However, like Attila, this moon goddess of Greek mythology was not a deity of humanity's native civilization, but a machine god who had descended from another universe. Her true form was actually a mecha, like a Gundam or a starship.
To humans, the identities of these two beings were terrifying enough. Whether it was Attila or Artemis, both their own power and the forces they represented could threaten or even destroy all of human civilization. Compared to the existences behind them, Goetia was nothing.
However, to Su Mo, whether it was the civilization behind the predatory Velber or the Greek machine gods, they were all insignificant. The moment the two girls appeared, they both bowed, expressing their submission to Su Mo.
He was the Emperor of the Root. Therefore, whether it was Earth's civilization or alien civilizations, whether it was the Heroic Spirits on the Boundary Record Belt or the gods in the Planet's chronicles, every existence in the Type-Moon world was his property. Whatever Su Mo wanted, the entire Type-Moon world would provide.
Thus, with a slight lift of his gaze, Su Mo understood everything once more.
"Although they are alien civilizations, they are more like different universes from a human perspective... The physical laws are not the same, but the rules of mystics can be universally applied."
Su Mo had seen plenty of alien civilizations in the Honkai: Star Rail world, but they were different from those in the Type-Mon world. In the Honkai: Star Rail world, the basic laws of physics were universal. Among the rules of mystics, aside from the universal power of the Aeons, the power of a planet's native gods was often limited.
But the Type-Moon world was the complete opposite. Here, the physical laws between different star systems were not universal. Instead, the rules of mystics could cross galaxies. This meant that it was difficult for human civilization to break the limitations of its star system by relying solely on scientific research; the civilization's upper limit was locked.
"In other words, the Type-Moon world is more akin to a divinely created universe, similar to the Little Garden, or even a step further, like the world of No Game No Life..."
Su Mo, who had some expertise in theology, made this judgment. "And the Honkai: Star Rail world is half and half. It has both universal physical laws and universal mystic rules, which is why the interstellar forces in that world are particularly prosperous. However, the human cosmology is exceptionally dominant—wait!"
Halfway through his categorization, Su Mo suddenly realized something, and his eyes began to flicker.
Language is the greatest blind spot of thought. For him, who was half a step from the double-digits, this was common sense. He had previously sensed that the final step of his advancement was lacking another perspective. This made him subconsciously think he needed a perspective other than the human one, which naturally led him to think of an alien perspective.
But now, looking back at the many worlds he had experienced, Su Mo suddenly became aware of the biggest blind spot in his thinking.
"What is 'human cosmology'?"
The cosmologies of the Type-Moon world, the Honkai: Star Rail world, and the Little Garden were clearly different, yet because of their shared heritage, he had always classified the main cosmology of all three worlds as 'human cosmology.'
But thinking about it carefully now, the cosmologies of these worlds were qualitatively different. Even if they all had eschatology, the eschatology and methods of resistance in each world were different.
Considering the Honkai: Star Rail world, a world full of synthetics, aliens, and various other forces that all ended up converging evolutionarily with humans, Su Mo suddenly realized a possibility.
"It's not that human cosmology is exceptionally dominant, nor that alien civilizations are converging towards human cosmology. It's that there is no 'human cosmology' to begin with, only the cosmology of intelligent life! Even without humans, their cosmology would naturally evolve to a similar state as humanity's!"
Thought is a product of the environment. Humans from ancient and modern times, from all over the world, independently discovered truths with identical cores in an era when they couldn't communicate. This wasn't because some god was teaching them knowledge, but because it was the necessary mental model for intelligent life to understand the world.
So-called causality was not created by the human mind, but was manifested by the world itself, merely imprinted on the minds of intelligent life! Whether human or alien, as long as they were in the environment of Earth, as long as they wanted to understand Earth's laws, they would inevitably develop the same mode of thinking.
"Causality inverted. In other words, to gain another perspective, the key is not human or alien, but the environment—the universe itself?!"
Having broken through the node, Su Mo's eyes lit up, and he fell into a state of epiphany.
He felt that he was about to grasp the key to reaching the double-digits, to Tier 9.