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 a thousand 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 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. We are poor worms destroyed by the maliciousness of the gods , but 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 always make mistakes. As you said just now, 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 have deviated from their original intentions."
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, and now 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 concepts 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 is finally time for these long-dead priests to return to ashes. Bertila has 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 he was a little regretful and annoyed—he had realized how much help disobedient people can produce when they are their own people, and how much harm they can cause when they are enemies or uncontrollable factors. .
"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 have a great understanding of the Great Wall. Have a certain understanding of technology.”
Gawain nodded silently to record, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the magnificent wall: "Speaking of the magnificent wall... what connection do you have with the wasteland?"
Bertila hesitated for a moment, but soon she twitched the corners of her mouth and said with a weird 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 Peak got out of control and the power of the gods came down, a large number of believers from the Druids, the Dreamland, and the Storm sect rushed into the Gondor wasteland to seek self-destruction..." Berti There was a coldness in La's smile, it seemed that telling this part of the secret was not only not psychologically stressful for her, but also very satisfying, "But not everyone who rushed into the wasteland died—Druid, always It is the profession that is best at facing environmental changes and surviving in extreme situations.”
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 members of the society of the end of all things. '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 mana, and have long since given up their self-awareness and code of conduct as humans. However, due to the majestic wall The headquarters of the death 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 caused, Gawain can only say - dead cultists are good cultists.
He really couldn't imagine, if the death of all things would not have encountered this "self-explosion", if what they created was a completed and sober "Giant Deer Amorn", what would this disaster look like—to where 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 happiness, he exhaled, and then frowned and said: "If you say that, the 'half of all things will die' in the wasteland is probably still alive now... No one knows what they want to do next. Do whatever, it's going to be a threat after all."
"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..."
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 didn't say that."
"It's been seven hundred years, and 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 requires a little adventure—and so does 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 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 that this is the only thing I haven't been able to get back to. A memory inherited in 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'm going to disappoint you. I wasn't with him at the time, and I'm also very curious about what he encountered and saw during that mysterious voyage. You know better."
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 found, so that inexplicable sentence was quickly forgotten - only the 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 oneself 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."