There was a long silence between Bertila and Gawain.
It was Gao Wen who broke the silence first.
Because he wasn't sure if the half-plant woman in front of him would have the same patience as a plant-if she didn't talk all day, he wouldn't be there all day.
"Now that I've finished my story, it's time to talk about you." He said in a low voice.
"Us? As you can see, we are just a group of pathetic losers now," the roots behind Bertila squirmed, and the voice seemed to be mixed with rustling friction, "but I saw you building around Solinburg. The barracks have been set up, and the land is gradually being recovered...then the final victor must have been determined in this war."
"Can you 'see' what's going on outside?" Gawain raised his eyebrows, more curious about Bertila's current state, "This is... very interesting."
"I can see, it's very broad, it's an unprecedented wide field of vision, but I can't move, and I can't see what I look like now," Bertera said slowly, "I... what look like now?"
"...a tree, a huge plant covering half of the Sorin area, and it is still growing slowly," Gao Wen said frankly, "If you are really curious, I can send someone from a farther place Take a picture of your current picture and show it to you."
"... I would like to express my thanks in advance," Bertila suddenly moved the roots around him, as if he had made up his mind, or suddenly figured out something, "Wanderer outside the territory, I still don't know your essence, But I have become like this, and it doesn't matter whether I choose or not. The path we have taken has been proven wrong, and if our failure can leave you with some experience, then just ask."
Gao Wen glanced at the other party in surprise, and then thought for a while: "You should know about the 'Disobedience Project', right?"
Bertila's expression suddenly changed: "... why do you know?!"
But then she showed a stunned expression: "Ah, that's right, wanderer from outside the territory... You have been observing this world, of course you know, what you just said..."
"Don't get me wrong, it has nothing to do with whether I am a wanderer outside the territory or not," Gao Wen frowned, and interrupted him solemnly, "Don't indulge in the fantasy of shouldering the mission alone or saving the world, you have already become like this. Look, you should at least wake up—while you are paranoidly carrying out those shady and extreme plans, there are still people in this world who are promoting this world openly."
Bertila frowned, and after a while, the squirming of the vines and roots behind her gradually calmed down: "Arrogance should be the first mistake we made."
"It is true that you have made many mistakes, but I will not discuss this with you now," Gao Wen said, "About the 'rebellious plan' you implemented, who passed it on to you? How much have you mastered? The inheritor is now Are you still alive? How long have you been carrying out this?"
Facing this series of questions, Bertila closed his eyes slightly, and said in a low voice: "How long has it been implemented... We have already started to implement this plan shortly after the birth of the Death of All Things. For nearly seven hundred years, we Has been the continuation of the rebellious plan!"
Faced with Gao Wen's slightly surprised expression, she continued quietly: "You know the ceremony on the Ancestor's Peak back then, right?"
"I know," Gawain nodded, "You once wrote me a letter, which mentioned that you were going to the Ancestor's Peak to participate in the ceremony of communicating with the gods."
Bertila stared at him immediately: "My letter was addressed to Gawain Cecil."
Gawain smiled, and pointed to his head: "I know, but this memory is here—Beltilla, whether you admit it or not, I have inherited Gawain Cecil's memory, I know he Most of the things I've been through, knowing the part about you, maybe you still think I'm a body-stealing extraterrestrial rogue, but in a sense, I'm Gawain Cecil now, and in this life, I'll be This identity is alive."
Bertila stared at Gawain steadfastly, a large number of vines and roots trembling or wriggling unconsciously behind her, no one knew what she was thinking at this moment, but Gawain seemed to be watching from the other side's dull eyes. There was a glimmer of light, and then she continued the topic: "...on the Ancestral Peak, the head of the Holy Spirit Druid, the Pope of the Dream Church, and the Pope of the Storm Church held a joint ceremony, successfully bringing the Dream Pope Megal III teleported to the Kingdom of God... "
Gao Wen knew this part, he nodded: "After that, all the members of the three major dark sects went crazy... What happened at that time?"
Bertila closed her eyes, and her body trembled slightly. It seemed that even seven hundred years later, recalling what happened at that time was still a kind of torture to her. The voice said: "Megal III entered the realm of the Kingdom of God, where his soul was almost completely torn apart, but compared with the truth he witnessed, the tearing of his soul was nothing at all: he saw the kingdom of God And the palaces of the gods, and around those illusory and gorgeous palaces, there is an incomparably vast and chaotic void space. Countless broken ruins and the corpses of gods float around the kingdom of God, circling in dead silence...
"Those broken ruins and corpses of gods seem to have been floating for a long time, and there are obvious differences between them. It seems that they are not destroyed at the same time, but have experienced round after round of regeneration and death. Megaul III looked directly at the Those ruins and corpses were almost half crazy, but what was even more terrifying was what he witnessed afterwards:
"He saw the gate of the Kingdom of God opened, and the figure of the god flashed past inside... During that extremely brief witnessing, the huge amount of knowledge and truth destroyed all the mental defenses of Megal III, and he fell into madness almost immediately —
"The Grand Priest Druid and Pope Storm who held the ceremony together discovered the anomaly in time, and they tried to bring Megal III back to the real world, but this move connected the spirits of the three of them together...they shared perception."
Listening to the events described by Bertila, Gawain remained calm and composed on the surface, but there was already a huge wave in his heart—
During the ceremony on the Ancestral Peak seven hundred years ago, the three church leaders really witnessed the ruins of the gods after their fall, but the specific situation was even weirder and crazy than he imagined!
The kingdom of the gods is surrounded by countless ruins and corpses, and that is not a situation that can be caused by one round of destruction—Gao Wen knew about the battle that the god-killing fleet destroyed the gods in ancient times, but if Beltira's information is true, so the battle report that Gawain heard on the Eternal Tablet is probably just a part of the countless times of destruction by the gods.
If the ancient god-killing fleet destroyed the gods once, what caused the remaining countless other destructions
Will the repeated destruction cycles of the gods and their kingdoms be related to the evil tide in this world? Will it be related to the destruction of human civilization one after another
The surviving gods and their divine kingdom are located in the center of the ruins, surrounded by countless wreckages. Could it be that each new round of gods is born from the "cemetery of the gods"? Or... the scene surrounded by ruins corresponds to the demonic tide and the reincarnation of civilization in the mortal world, and has a deeper symbolic meaning
Countless guesses and associations were surging in Gao Wen's mind like a tide, but these questions obviously couldn't be answered from Bertila's mouth, so he could only temporarily file these questions into his memory, and began to focus on another thing:
The original three church leaders were distorted when they came into contact with the knowledge of the gods after sharing their senses, so why did other ordinary believers go crazy together
He asked his own question, and Bertila sighed slightly: "Faith connects us all."
Gao Wen's expression suddenly turned cold.
"Faith in the gods is a chain, and it took us many years to understand this - praying to the same object of worship, following the same precepts, building body and mind according to the scriptures, seeking personal 'spiritual gifts' and gods' gods The closeness and unity of sex are the foundation of all beliefs and divine arts. Mortals obtain the blessings of divine arts according to these behaviors, but at the same time it is equivalent to locking their hearts on the same chain, and this chain is " The bridge between God and man'. And the firmer the belief, the stronger this chain will be, and the more powerful it will be..."
Bertila spoke slowly, her tone unprecedentedly heavy and serious.
"It is precisely because of this that when the huge knowledge about the gods flooded into the minds of the three church leaders, as the initial link in the chain, they spread this knowledge to the downstream of the chain in an instant...
"The most marginal believers may not be affected, because their beliefs are not firm enough, and there is still a certain distance between their hearts and gods, but all priests who can use divine magic are undoubtedly a link in this chain, no matter they Whether they were on the Ancestor Peak at that time, they couldn't escape the shock of this terrible knowledge.
"The end result is: everyone in the chain is affected."
Gawain gasped.
Faith will lead to an invisible connection between mortals who hold the same belief, which is important information that has never been grasped before!
Could this connection be related to the spiritual stamp
Bertila's description is full of metaphors and mystical words, which are determined by her personal knowledge and world view, but in Gao Wen's case, all of this can be summed up in two sentences:
The leaders of the three major dark sects looked directly at the secrets of the gods seven hundred years ago.
All devout members of the three sects performed a national san check at that moment.
This terrible collective san check has an obvious result: all failed.
But maybe 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 instantly blackened, there was no terrible incident in which a large number of members were directly distorted into monsters. Founded three new sects, the Death of All Things, the Eternal Sleeper, and the Son of the Storm, and even conducted a lot of research, trying 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, there was no madness in her eyes, she seemed sane - but look at these vines around, look at those slowly wriggling roots, think about these How the 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 in the chaos of the day--and it was years before the frenzy of the psychic shock waned and we regrouped in the dark...
"We know that the truth we have grasped is too shocking. Even if we only 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-mockery: "Calm down and think about it now, 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 more importantly , 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."