"I think we'd better get back to the wagon," said the woman known as the Seer.
Gomez told Chocano that he would return to the carriage to meditate for a while longer and returned to the carriage with the prophet.
"I didn't expect you to show up. They are all dead, why are you not dead yet?" Gomez asked angrily after closing the car door.
"Fighting is not my responsibility. I am just a guide. It was like this then and it is the same now." The prophet sat opposite, giving Xiao Chen a chance to take a closer look at her face, but the hood of her entire cloak was obscured by the hazy white light, and his facial features could not be seen at all.
"Hasting and his group of guys from the Magic United Council were deceived by your so-called prophecy, so they launched an attack on the gods at all costs. If they followed my advice, they should first unify the entire continent, then devote the power of the entire continent, accumulate power for more than ten years, train a large number of saint-level and master-level wizards, create a large number of holy artifacts, and finally attack the divine realm. Wouldn't it be much more secure? Now the war of unification has only been fought halfway, and it has been abandoned halfway. There are still more than a dozen countries that have not been conquered; the elves, dwarves, orcs, and sea people, these forces that can be used are not under control; the power of the Temple of Nature in the human world has not been damaged at all; it is unwise to rush to gamble in the divine realm with the power of the Seven Towers! It's not worth it!" Gomez said harshly.
Xiao Chen still remembered hearing two bards, who were also spies of the Temple of Wisdom, sing the legend of Hastings. It seemed that the rumors in the folk songs were exaggerated after all. Hastings' sphere of influence was far less powerful than in later legends. Moreover, attacking the Divine Realm was not his own idea, but a joint decision of the leaders of the seven towers. Perhaps Hastings of the Sword Tower was just a representative of the crowd.
"I have seen the scenario you describe, in which you became the leader elected by the Magic United Council," the Prophet said.
"You still keep talking nonsense now?" Gomez sneered, "Do you think I will believe these nonsense just by saying this?"
"That time, you spent ten years unifying the continent. No matter which race, human, elf or dwarf, they all came under the rule of the Mages Union. Even orcs, goblins and sea creatures served as slaves for your magic empire.
As the Archon of the United Council of Mages, you are much more powerful than you are now, and have become the most powerful person in the world. From ancient times to the present, no one has owned a larger empire than you, and naturally no one has greater power than you.
You launched a war against the Temple of Nature. The Mage Union Council, which gathered the power of the entire continent, defeated the Temple of Nature step by step, and retreated to the last fortress of the Temple of Nature. The Golden Branch priests either died in the battle or died in the sacrifice to the God of Nature.
However, just after you completely destroyed the Temple of Nature, the God of Nature awakened. The closer the God is to awakening, the more energy he gains, and the faster his strength recovers. Over the past ten years, his strength has become much stronger than it is now. You have endured the true wrath of God in front of that fortress. The scene is hard to describe in words. In short, the result is that all the elites of the seven towers, including you, were killed or injured, and no one escaped from the battlefield. Afterwards, the God of Nature not only cleared all the magic towers, but also destroyed many human cities. The wealth, culture, and technology accumulated by people over thousands of years were lost in history, and human civilization was regressed to the beginning... Regressed to the days when the spark of civilization was just ignited and there was almost nothing left. "
"Why would the God of Nature do this?" Xiao Chen couldn't wait for Gomez's answer and couldn't help asking.
The prophet did not speak, but looked at Xiao Chen. Although Xiao Chen could not see her facial features and expression at all, he had a feeling that this woman was seriously sizing him up. "Because of fear... The more humans develop, the less they need gods. If the Seven Holy Towers do something to kill gods today, someone else will do the same thing tomorrow, so it is not okay to deal certain blows to humans from time to time."
"Then why doesn't he just wipe out all humans?" Xiao Chen asked puzzled.
"If you were tending a garden, would you burn all the flowers and plants because of the thorns?" the prophet asked. "Wouldn't you weed and prune regularly?"
Xiao Chen was thinking about the prophet's words when Gomez spoke again: "Everything you said is just ridiculous speculation. Just like the stories you told the Mage Union Council before. I remember that was another completely different version, saying that if the mages did nothing, the God of Nature would awaken faster, and he would lead the Temple of Nature to wipe out all the forces of magicians."
"You know there are many smart people in the Mages' United Council. They know how to deduce the right choice."
“But the ending now seems to be no different from the two stories you told. The elite of the Seven Holy Towers were almost wiped out, and the few of us left are fleeing for our lives as they are hunted down by the Temple of Nature. So what’s the point of attacking the divine realm?” Gomez asked.
"The significance is that history was completely changed and the awakening of the God of Nature was interrupted. The wizards of the Seven Holy Towers completed their mission."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure that they forced the God of Nature to wake up and severely injured him, causing him to fall into a deep sleep again. This will give us enough time to wait for the power that can truly end him to appear." The prophet's tone revealed a heavy sense of history.
"The Seven Holy Towers are just a prop used to delay time? You knew in advance that they would never come back, right?" Master Gomez glared at the other party.
The prophet nodded slowly and said, "Do you think they don't have such awareness?"
"They..." Gomez seemed to have thought of something, and instead of questioning her like before, he asked, "Then why did you come to see me?"
"I'm here to advise you to reach a compromise with the people of the Temple of Nature. In many possible futures, you have perished together with your pursuers in different ways."
"This is the last dignity of the Dream Tower, isn't it great?"
"Not good! This is not the most valuable future."
Gomez's face was uncertain. "Even if I agree, how can you be sure that they will compromise with us?"
The prophet explained, "Because as clergy, they are well aware that the God of Nature has fallen asleep again. They will not get the true support of the gods for a long time in the future, and they cannot destroy all the mages. The two consecutive battles just now have made them realize that if they fight you, you will make them pay an unbearable price. In this case, we can naturally talk."
"Is this another conspiracy?" Gomez looked hesitant. His limited contact with this woman made him realize that everything she did was linked together like a chain.
The prophet said calmly: "There is no conspiracy, just a very simple reason: the inheritance of the Dream Tower must be maintained."