Sword of Dawn

This terrible collective san check has an obvious result: all failed.

But perhaps it was because a large number of middle- and lower-level priests shared the pressure of that spiritual shock, or maybe it was because the three church leaders at that time disconnected from the Kingdom of God in time, this collective san check failure did not lead to the most terrible That kind of consequence-although the three dark sects were blackened instantly, there was no terrible incident in which a large number of members were directly distorted into monsters. After a short frenzy, they even "woke up" from madness and reformed themselves. Formed three new sects, the Society of the End of Everything, the Eternal Sleeper, and the Son of the Storm, and even conducted a lot of research to try to carry out a rebellious plan...

But if you think about it carefully, have they really "woke up" after experiencing that shock?

Gao Wen quietly looked at Bertila in front of him.

She stood quietly between the roots and vines, without the slightest madness in her eyes, she looked rational - but look at these vines around, look at those slowly wriggling roots, think about it How these roots run through the layers of palaces and crypts, think about the giant tree that is so huge that it is beyond imagination... nothing is normal.

Perhaps, this symbolizes the essence of the three dark sects: an insider returning from madness, a heart that thinks it has awakened, and is imprisoned in a crazy shell.

Once manifested, he is a dangerous lunatic.

"After the Summit of the Ancestors meeting, we experienced great chaos and loss. A large number of members rushed into the wasteland of Gondor. Many of the remaining members also self-harmed, committed suicide, or fell into permanent madness. Hiding--it was easy to hide in the chaos of the time--and it was years later, when the frenzy of the mental shock abated, that we regrouped in the dark...

"We know that the truth we have grasped is too shocking. Even if we just say half a word, it will attract the attacks of almost all the orthodox sects, and it is more likely to attract the attention of the gods behind them, so we chose to fall into the dark and look for the one who broke the situation." Method……"

Having said that, Bertila shook his head, showing a hint of self-deprecation: "Now calm down and think about it, our original purpose is really not that complicated. It is the long time and long-term paranoia that made everything deviate from the track, and there are more important things. , that rebellious plan...

"The ones who brought the rebellious plan are two elf druids. They are a pair of sisters named Fierna Baishuang and Leierna Baishuang."

Chapter 0715 The Ghost of Disobedience

Gao Wen knew that there must be shadows of rebels behind the end of all things, because the "great evolution" they carried out was obviously an extension of the rebellious plan back then.

But he didn't expect that the "shadow" turned out to be two elves.

He had thought that the only members of the Rebel Project were humans.

"They are elven scholars employed by the Gondor Empire, and they have been like this since 1000 years ago. At the same time, they are also members of the Holy Spirit Druid sect...at least on the surface," Bertila continued Said, "When the impact of the Ancestor's Peak happened, they disappeared in front of the sect members. I even thought that they rushed into the wasteland of Gondor like other crazy believers, but many years later, they suddenly reappeared. revealed their true identities.

"At the same time, they also brought a rebellious plan."

Gawain looked at Beltira: "There is no doubt that, based on your situation at the time and your mentality after suffering the 'God Shock', disobedience to the plan has greatly touched you."

"It's more than a very big touch..." Bertila shook his head slowly, "We are inspired by this grand plan that is almost tragic, and we are impressed by the wisdom and courage of the predecessors. However, when we were most desperate and sinking, we suddenly saw a glimmer of light lit by other rebels, and we couldn't refuse the technology and ideas they brought."

"...The disobedience plan is indeed the greatest self-rescue action in human history, but mortals will always make mistakes. As you just said, the long time and paranoia have made everything deviate from the track," Gao Wen said with emotion, "Not all disobedients have persisted, and you may be very unfortunate to meet disobedient ones who deviate from your original intention."

Bertila didn't respond, maybe she didn't know how to respond at this moment.

Any justification is powerless in the face of the facts. Today, the scorched earth in the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain and this huge "Shorin Giant Tree" are the final answer to all the efforts and persistence of the Doom Society for centuries-a cruel conclusion. But there is no way to argue.

But Gao Wen himself had doubts in his heart:

The pair of elven twins, the elven twins who had participated in the rebellious plan, put aside their race and stood side by side with humans to fight against the gods, and together they faced the evil tide that destroyed the Gondor Empire. Passed down the key technologies and ideas of the Rebellion Project to the Death of All Things Society... Is their purpose just to cause such a disaster in Ansu?

Although the man-made god is terrifying, Gawain knows very well that he has not reached the level that mortals cannot resist. Even if there is no Cecil Legion, even if he can destroy the entire Ansu, he will not be able to destroy Typhon or the Silver Empire. .

As a conspiracy that has been planned for thousands of years, this ending seems a bit anticlimactic.

He really couldn't figure out what the pair of elf twins named Fierna/Leerna wanted to do.

Maybe Veronica would know?After all, they are both ancient rebels, so they might know each other...

Gawain shook his head, put down the new doubt for now, and then asked, "What else do you know about the pair of elf twins? Where are they now? Are they here too?"

While talking, he couldn't help looking behind Bertila.

In the secret room covered by vines and roots, the densely packed humanoid remains have begun to gradually disintegrate.

Losing the continuous replenishment of life, it was finally time for these long-dead priests to return to ashes. Bertila imprisoned these people for too long in a daze, but now she has woken up, everything It should be over.

Those corpses will soon become the nourishment of this giant tree... and then circulate in the power of nature, and finally become the new fertile soil of the Holy Spirit Plain.

"They're not here. When they woke up the 'False God's Body', they were performing missions elsewhere," Bertila shook his head. "I've been sleeping in a daze during this time. I don't know their whereabouts, but they must still be there. live."

Ghosts are always difficult to "die", especially the ghosts of rebels.

Gao Wen wasn't too surprised by this, but was a little bit regretful and annoyed—he understood how much help disobedients could produce as their own people, and how much harm they could cause when they were enemies or uncontrollable factors. arrive.

"I have been with them for hundreds of years, but I still don't know much about them," Bertila continued, "They always appear together, talk and act together, as if one soul controls two bodies; they They have a friendly appearance, but they are actually more cunning and dangerous than anyone else; they are mainly responsible for the affairs related to the rebellious plan, but they are also responsible for the technical work related to the Great Wall—after all, they are from the Silver Empire, and they are very concerned about the Great Wall. Have a certain understanding of the technology."

Gawain nodded silently, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the magnificent wall: "Speaking of the magnificent wall... what is your connection with the wasteland?"

Bertila hesitated for a moment, but soon she twitched the corners of her mouth and said with a strange smile: "Inside the magnificent wall...inside is the other half of the Death of Everything."

Gao Wen's eyes widened: "The other half of all things will die?!"

"Didn't we just say that when the ritual of the Ancestor's Peak got out of control and the power of the gods came down, a large number of believers from the Druids, Dreamland, and Storm sects rushed into the Gondor wasteland to seek self-destruction..." Bell There was a coldness in Tira's smile, as if telling this part of the secret was not only stress-free for her, but also very satisfying, "But not everyone who rushed into the wasteland died—Druid , has always been the profession that is best at facing environmental changes and surviving under extreme circumstances.”

Gawain's expression instantly became serious: "...so, the druids who rushed into the wasteland of Gondor survived, adapted to the environment in the wasteland in a certain way of evolution and mutation, and became the death of all things. Will there be 'support' and branches in the wasteland?"

"Yes, at least we have always thought so," Beltera said in a cold voice, "They are active in the wasteland, collecting intelligence for us, especially the data about the aberrations and magic tides, we have been Thought that all sect brethren were working to defy the plan, both inside and outside the wasteland, but apparently not.

"The loss of control of the body of the false god is half the credit of those freaks."

It wasn't until this moment that Gao Wen finally understood the cause and effect of the grand conspiracy of the End of All Things from the beginning to the end, and figured out that in the final stage of creating the "artificial god", the cult priests in this underground palace all encountered what.

Those druids who rushed into the wasteland and survived... I am afraid that they have been completely distorted in the terrible and harsh environment of chaotic magic energy, and they have long since given up their self-awareness and code of conduct as humans. Blocked by the wall, the Headquarters of the End of All Things, which can only maintain limited contact with the wasteland, is completely unaware of all this.

To be honest, it is really unfair that all things will die in this wave of death.

But considering the harm they have caused, Gao Wen can only say - the dead cultists are the good cultists.

He really can't imagine, if everything dies, there will be no such "self-explosion", if what they create is a completed and sober "Giant Deer Amorn", what will this disaster look like—— At that time, the Cecil Legion may really be unable to stop it.

It will be completely unknown whether those deep-sea salted fish can be rescued in time when the human defense line collapses.

With three points of sigh and seven points of gratitude, he exhaled, and then frowned and said: "Then, the 'half of all things will die' in the wasteland is probably still alive now... No one knows what they will do next. Whatever you want to do, it's going to be a threat."

"Yes, no one knows what they want to do next," Bertila said leisurely, "so, if you want to rush in and destroy them all, I will support you very much—if you can do it."

"You also know that this is impossible," Gawain glanced at Bertila, "Counterattacking the wasteland of Gondor is a great goal, but it's a pity that the current Cecil Empire can't do it yet."

"The Cecil Empire..." Bertila was stunned when he heard the name, and then his tone suddenly became a bit erratic, "I saw the gold-rimmed Cecil flags hanging on those camps, and it really is..."

After this, there was a few seconds of silence. After the silence, Gawain heard the other party whisper: "It is still my proposal to cross the sword and the plow."

"I remember, you hope that future generations will remember the hardships of pioneering, and you also hope that the nobles who hold the sword will not forget the people who guard the plow."

Bertila smiled: "But it's actually because the pattern you designed with the sword and the plow side by side is too ugly."

"...You never said that."

"It's been 700 years, I finally said it," Bertila sighed, a little self-deprecating, "You did inherit his memory, I almost thought you were him."

"You can tell me now, why do you say that Gawain Cecil's soul has been completely exhausted? Why do you know this?"

Bertila quietly watched Gao Wen in front of him.

This is a wanderer from outside the territory, a soul of unknown origin, an "indescribable thing" that descends from the starry sky and can occupy other people's bodies.

Everything about him and his group is a mystery. They travel among the stars, create destruction, provide shelter, and observe. They seem to do whatever they want, and they seem to abide by some rules.

The Eternal Sleeper is afraid of the power of the wanderer outside the realm, because the latter happens to completely restrain the spells in the spiritual realm, and she herself was full of fear of the wanderer outside the realm, because he occupied the body of Gawain Cecil.

But today, they had such a long conversation, it seems that... rogues outside the domain can also communicate, and even conduct transactions.

Maybe this is just an imitation made by him after occupying the human body, or maybe this is just one of the countless faces of his group, but no matter what, at least now he looks kind and rational, and claims to be right There is no malice in this world.

Life, sometimes you need to take a little risk - the same goes for being a tree.

Gawain didn't know what Bertila was trying to figure out while watching him quietly, he could only try to maintain his calm, detached and friendly persona, and then he heard Bertila speak: "Gaowen Sai Syl once made a voyage that no one knows about, and since you have inherited this memory, you must know about it."

Gawain's breathing suddenly stopped for half a beat.

This half beat was noticed by Bertila.

"I know that there was such a voyage," Gao Wen calmed down, and said in a deep voice, "but the specific memory is blank, as if the relevant content has been deliberately erased-I suspect this is the only thing I failed to do. A memory inherited from Gawain Cecil's mind."

Immediately afterwards, he stared at Beltira: "Do you know the inside story of that voyage?"

Bertila shook his head: "I'm afraid I will disappoint you. I was not traveling with him at the time, and I was also very curious about what he encountered and saw during that mysterious voyage, but there is one thing... now it seems that I A little more than you know."

Gao Wen's eyes were burning: "What is it?"

"After returning to the mainland, Gawain Cecil once said a word to the people beside him," Bertila repeated word by word, "He said that he made a deal in the Sea of ​​​​Eternal Darkness. The soul is the bargaining chip."

Gao Wen: "..."

Bertila continued: "No one knows what he meant by that sentence, and he never mentioned anything about that long voyage after that. It is said that even a mage checked his soul for this purpose, but no one has heard of it. A little problem was discovered, so that inexplicable sentence was quickly forgotten-only people who are old and immortal will always remember it.

"After the death of Gawain Cecil, I found a way to sneak into the funeral, and finally confirmed the authenticity of that sentence.

"Normal human beings, even ordinary people, will retain their souls for more than a few days after death. Under the right conditions, the souls with obsessions can remain for several years. Powerful extraordinary people can even maintain a certain self after death. Consciousness, and the chance to 'survive' by transforming yourself into an undead creature...

"But Gawain Cecil's body, which had just died, didn't even have a single trace of his soul.

"It was a blank shell."

Chapter 0716 Across 700 Years

700 years ago, Bertila Augustus actually attended the funeral of Gawain Cecil...

This incident was really beyond Gao Wen's expectation. He didn't have the slightest impression of this—of course, it's normal to have no impression, after all, the main task of his body at that time was to lie in a coffin for people to look up to, but when he attended the funeral There is also a group of bigwigs. The first generation of founding pigeons are all violent. When the court meeting disagrees, they can copy the bench from Silver Fort to Iron Cross Street. At that time, it had become a dark German Rui's Bertila dared to approach...

It can only be said that she was really concerned about the death of Gawain Cecil.

"It's actually not difficult." Beltera seemed to know that Gao Wen was surprised by this, she shook her head and showed a helpless smile, "At that time, the death of all things would be far less 'famous' than later, You should also know that we had just started our activities at that time. And... as a high-level druid, I always have a way."

Gawain hummed, and didn't delve into this issue further: "As you said, Gawain Cecil made a deal with his soul, so after his death his soul was exhausted, and his body was just a blank body, so it is absolutely impossible for him to be resurrected, then..."

An idea gradually took shape in his mind, bizarre but lingering.

He exhaled, and said in a deep voice: "This blank body really seems to be prepared for me, doesn't it?"

Bertila's eyes widened. Obviously, she had never considered this direction before today.

It was personal feelings and natural vigilance against wanderers outside the territory that blinded her original sharp thinking and judgment.

"Don't look at me like that, I know what you're thinking," Gawain glanced at Bertila and shook his head helplessly, "I'm just guessing, I don't know the details—I don't have this paragraph in my memory, It might have been erased by someone else, it might even have been erased by me, but we can keep that possibility—the body that Gawain Cecil left behind was for me from the start."

Gawain Cecil made a deal with a mysterious being in the Sea of ​​Eternal Darkness, using his soul as a bargaining chip.

Just now when he heard these words, Gao Wen's heart was already stirred up.He has been thinking about the secret of his "resurrection", thinking about the destination of Gawain Cecil's mysterious voyage back then, but there is a key link missing in all the things, and all the clues are isolated from each other and cannot be connected as a whole.

Until now, the information revealed by Bertila allowed him to make a bold guess—although the clues are still incomplete, at least he can have a reasonable guess:

The so-called deal that Gawain Cecil proposed to the people around him after returning from the voyage was this "resurrection" after 700 years.

But the target of the resurrection is not him, but an alien from a lonely universe.

However, how did Gawain Cecil, an ordinary human being, get in touch with the satellites far away in space?

Those crystals... those crystals of unknown origin that he entrusted to the Mithril Treasury for safekeeping seem to be able to explain some problems.

When Gawain came into contact with those crystals, he successfully re-established contact with the satellites in space, which indicated that the function of those crystals was similar to some kind of "communication medium".

Gawain Cecil 700 years ago should have found those crystals during his long voyage, perhaps in the so-called "Eternal Dark Sea", and those crystals made him contact Gawain in space. In the communication that was deliberately erased, the souls of the two worlds reached a deal.

As for how this deal was reached, and what motives Gawain Cecil had at the time, it is unknown.

However, Gao Wen vaguely had a guess. If all his assumptions were true, then what he is doing now may be the content of the transaction agreement back then.

He exhaled slowly.

A series of exciting hypotheses, but hypotheses are hypotheses after all, as long as there is not enough evidence, he can't completely take his imaginations seriously, these... are just possibilities.

"Wanderers outside the territory will also be trapped by memory problems... This is indeed beyond my expectation," Bertila snorted, "It seems that your group is not without flaws in mentality."

Looking at Bertila's appearance, I don't know how many non-existent features those gang of eternal sleepers have added to the race card of "extraterritorial wanderer"... I'm afraid there is a special "extraterritorial wanderer" among the eternal sleepers. Behavior Characteristics (Brain Supplementation) Research Laboratory of Behaviors of Patients”.

Have a chance to ask Daniel to investigate, if there is any, see if you can put some "artistic processing" in it...

The most effective way to deal with the heretics is to be better than them - this is Gawain's greatest experience after successfully fooling the Eternal Sleeper for the first time.

"Of course we have shortcomings, everyone has shortcomings," Gawain said lightly, "and I want to remind you one more thing—at least at this stage, you can regard me as the real Gawain Cecil , whether in the memory I have inherited, or in his own honor."

Bertila stared at Gawain for a long time, as if she was facing a difficult decision, and finally she suddenly laughed: "The real Gawain Cecil...you know that if the real brother Gawain stands Here, what will he do?"

"The first reaction was to kill you." Gao Wen said flatly.

The expression on Bertila's face froze.

"Do you still remember what you said in the dream? You have caused trouble, a big disaster," Gao Wen continued expressionlessly, "You have taken a wrong path, but you want to let the Holy Spirit Plain, and even the entire Ansu People will bear the price for you, of course, the Doom Society has already accepted the punishment with its fate, and you have become like this, but Gawain Cecil will still draw his sword."

Bertila slightly lowered his eyelids: "...It seems that you have indeed inherited almost all of his memories..."

"But I haven't finished yet—his second reaction is to chop the sword on the ground next to him."

"why?"

"Because you are Beltira, and because of your current appearance...there is really no need to strike again," Gao Wen said quietly, "Do you think you are still alive now?"