For hundreds of years, the eternal sleepers lurking underground in the old capital of Typhon have been trying to understand and analyze the secrets of the gods from an ancient device. They once thought that the device with powerful confinement power was a prisoner. The cage, part of the fragments used to imprison the gods, but never thought that the thing was actually a container and altar specially built for the gods—it carried the eyes of the gods.
This is undoubtedly great irony, and... horror.
The only luck for the eternal sleepers is that the restraint facility from ancient times broke down, and the "God's Eye" contained in it was truly shielded. Locked on the "throne" originally prepared for it, this did not trigger a divine disaster comparable to the "Upper Narrator Incident" back then.
There are only two choices left for the eternal sleeper, either, to completely destroy the "God's Eye" in the restraint field, or to use some method to securely isolate the God's Eye from the God Realm permanently, to ensure that even if the restraint device fails one day, The eye also doesn't "tell" the gods what it sees.
Gawain frowned, looking at the starlight aggregate floating opposite him: "Did the Great Collapse of Orlandle be caused by your attempts to destroy or seal the Eye of God?"
"It's one of the reasons, but it's not all because of us," Megaul III's tone suddenly became a little weird, as if he was lamenting the impermanence of fate, "We finally decided to destroy the Eye of God and made a plan for it —In the course of hundreds of years of research, we have gained a certain understanding of that ancient restraint device, and have been able to make more control and adjustments to it. We have found that closing its inner ring at the right time stabilizes The structure can generate a powerful energy shock in the restraint field, and if the charging level of the outer ring area is adjusted to the highest level, this shock can even completely annihilate the power of the gods in the center of the energy field...
"After much discussion and calculation, we are ready to implement this plan - and for this, we will need some time to charge the outer ring of the restraint.
"The accident happened at this stage—you still remember, the entire ancient ruins are underground in the old capital of the Typhon Empire, Orlandelle.
"At the same time as we were working on adjusting the restraints, the Augustus family suddenly decided to renovate the city's drainage system - it all seems too coincidental now, but no one noticed it at the time - the city drainage system of that era Very backward, you know, there is no difference between Typhon and old Ansu more than two hundred years ago, the so-called city drain is an underground river that runs right through Orlandle, and people drain all the dirty water there Going inside, except for underground rivers and limited ditches, most urban areas have no sewers. Under such circumstances, the Typhon royal family at that time suddenly wanted to build an artificial sewer outside the main urban area, so they decided to Start digging down...
"They dug very deep, but at first they didn't touch the 'dome' of the underground palace, but strange things still happened: the workers in charge of the excavation had hallucinations underground, and as more and more earth and rocks were transported out , the mental state of the excavators worsened. At first, the nobles didn't care about the state of the civilian workers, but suspected that they were being lazy and forced them to work underground for a longer period of time. But soon, this illusion began to spread. To the overseers and even the knights stationed near the dig sites...
"And when there was an anomaly on the surface, we focused most of our attention underground, until more and more diggers lost control, and the Typhon royal family even began to send elemental mages to lift the ground and try to dissolve the rock formations. Then we suddenly realized one thing:
"The restraint device has been weakened at some point. The 'God's Eye' has its own consciousness. It has spread its own power secretly without arousing our vigilance. After years of infiltration and pollution, it has affected To the people of Orlandle - and even to the royal family that rules Orlandelle."
Hu Po, who was standing aside, couldn't help swallowing: "Well... then what?"
"The situation began to get out of control - some members of the royal family and a large number of workers, supervisors, and nobles sent to dig the burrows were contaminated. They began to dig down crazily, and the mages loyal to the royal family also participated. Under the attack of powerful magic, All the defenses we set up failed. They quickly dug a big hole in the center of Orlandle and found the dome of the underground palace. Then the dome was also dug up, and the royal knights and mages swarmed in. .
"The whole of Orlande was shrouded in a weird, fearful, and tense atmosphere. The civilians didn't know what happened. The little nobles and merchants were frightened by this crazy excavation. All kinds of rumors and rumors arose. Nobles say treasures have been found underground, adding to the chaos in the city...
"The Order of the Eternal Sleepers is powerless to stop all of this, and more importantly... the Eye of God has begun to show a tendency to activate.
"It knew what we were going to do, and it resisted. The members of the Order of the Eternal Sleepers are all powerful Psychic mages, and they have already firmly resisted the gods. When suppressed by the restraint device, it took us No way, so it turned the unsuspecting people on the surface into tools. As the royal knights entered the dungeon and began to destroy power stations everywhere, the eyes of God also began to impact the magnetic cage of the restraint device, and we were originally The energy to be used to annihilate the God's Eye is not yet ready, and if the arrangement is activated rashly, it is very likely that the God's Eye will escape the force field and return to the God Realm...
"My only option at the time was to stop those out-of-control, crazy diggers, and the Typhon royal family who kept sending more knights in the rear.
"Several archbishops and I ventured to the surface through other passages and sneaked into the castle of the Augustus family. What surprised us was that half of the nobles and a considerable number of royal family members in the castle were still trying to resist God. The erosion of the Eye, even the emperor himself... barely maintained his sanity.
"More than half of the diggers and knights who poured into the underground palace were not sent by them. No one knows who gave those people the order to continue digging and invading the underground palace, and the other half were sent by the emperor who barely kept his head The people who stopped and investigated the situation, but they went crazy immediately after entering the underground palace, and lost contact with the castle. The castle could not receive any news, and its own judgment function was in a state of confusion, so it continued to send more investigation teams , more and more people poured into the underground palace.
"Fortunately, after establishing a strong spiritual barrier, we allowed the emperor and some ministers to get rid of the erosion of the eye of God - surrounded by the royal guards, I told the underground truth to Emperor Typhon at that time .
"Of course, I didn't tell the emperor that behind the 'God's Eye' is a 'true god' in the public's mind, because normal people's view of god is obviously very different from our view of god, I told him that it was a crazy evil god , and our research and surface excavation combined to awaken Him.
"We—the people on the ground and the people on the ground—made a huge mess together, but there was no time to pursue the issue of responsibility. After quickly judging the situation in the underground palace, the emperor decided to evacuate the entire city and put all uncontaminated All the people were evacuated, creating a no-man's land outside the city, and we activated the underground annihilation plan during this period to completely destroy the Eye of God."
Gao Wen nodded lightly: "Evacuate the civilians, create a mental isolation zone to prevent the spread of spiritual pollution, and destroy the pollution center... The idea is correct, then what?"
Megaul III was silent for a moment, with a sigh in his tone: "Driven by the knights and noble soldiers, the evacuation was completed quickly, and several archbishops and I blocked all the passages in the inner layer after returning to the underground palace. , blocking those crazy knights and diggers who had already entered the underground palace, which successfully delayed for some time. At the appointed time, the energy was finally enough, we successfully triggered the energy shock of the restraint device, and the God's Eye was wiped out in a powerful impact— We cheered until Earthfury and the Wounds of Oblivion fell upon our domes."
Amber blinked and spread her hands: "... same as I thought."
"We didn't think at the time," Megal III said in a self-deprecating tone, "we are a group of...researchers, maybe extreme researchers, we are dark sects, fallen priests, paranoid, ruthless, chosen It's been a scary path, but despite all that, we're still a group of researchers—and that includes me.
"The researcher's head is not good at guessing the wrath of the earth and the annihilation that fell on his head."
"Emperor Typhon made a cold decision two hundred years ago, but do you want to hear my opinion?" Gawain said slowly, his gaze fell on the cluster of starlight.
"... Makes sense, doesn't it?"
"It makes sense," Gawain nodded lightly, "If you failed to destroy the Eye of God, then the Orlandle region would be the source of the disaster. Destroying the entire region may not be able to prevent the 'evil god' from coming. But at least it is possible to delay the evacuation of others for more time. If you successfully destroyed the Eye of God, then Emperor Typhon would not let you continue to live—you are a dark sect, and you are in the imperial capital, in You have been breeding for hundreds of years under the nose of the royal family. To some extent, you even have the ability to cause turmoil in the entire empire. This is something that no ruler can tolerate.
"So no matter what the result is, you must die in Orlandle."
"I figured this out later," Megaul III said with a chuckle, "many of us figured it out."
"But you can't seek revenge from an empire—especially after suffering heavy losses," Gao Wen said unhurriedly, "What's more, as time goes by, more and more new-generation believers are recruited. , the Order of the Eternal Sleepers will eventually forget everything that happened in Orlandle, and the Augustus family will also think that there are no survivors when the entire city collapses. There should be no ability to scrutinize what is going on in the depths of the earth—this terrible and potentially royal event will be buried, forgotten by all, and never acknowledged if anyone remembers it.
"On the other hand, the later facts also proved that Emperor Typhon's judgment was actually very accurate - after only two hundred years, you group of 'researchers' who are not bound by laws and morals have come up with the first The second "divine disaster", this time the divine disaster is even a god created by you.
"If I hadn't shown up, what disaster would the Upper Narrator have caused
"I believe that the scale of the disaster is definitely worthy of the royal family of Typhon sending their mage group to smash the entire Orlandle region and all of you with the Wound of Oblivion."
Megal III's starry body shrank, and his tone was full of helplessness: "...it's extremely ironic and cannot be refuted."
"So it can be summed up in one word—" Gao Wen sighed softly, "Yes."
Magall: "..."
"Let's not discuss this topic anymore," Gao Wen shook his head, uncovering this paragraph, "Now there is evidence to prove that your work of destroying the Eye of God didn't seem to be completely successful—the spiritual pollution of the gods remained, Augustus The family curse is the proof."
"We suspect that the Eye of God escaped at the last moment of being destroyed, but after all, it suffered heavy injuries. It was unable to return to the gods, so it parasitized in the blood of Augustus' family," Megaul III replied, "For two hundred years, this curse has continued without strengthening or weakening. Some of our archbishops who have extended their lives and experienced the events of the year even think that this is the price paid after the Augustus family's 'betrayal'... Of course, in' After the incident of the upper-level narrator, the mentality of these archbishops should undergo some changes, after all, the blow was too great."
Gao Wen now understands why the archbishop group of the Sleeper is so resolute in following Cecil - the deterrence of his "outer-territory wanderer" is only one of the reasons, and the remaining factors are obviously similar to those in Orlandle two hundred years ago. Disaster related.
In addition, what he is most concerned about at the moment is the curse of the Augustus family.
"Do you think that the 'God's Eye' can recover and escape after entering the blood of the Augustus family?" He frowned and asked in a serious voice.
"The possibility is very low," Megal III replied, "We have been paying attention to the curse of the Augustus family, and the curse has apparently become a pure thing, similar to the sequelae of mental pollution, and as generations of With the dilution and transformation of bloodlines, the "divine part" in this curse can only become weaker and weaker. After all, the soul status of mortals is far lower than that of gods. The power of gods has been parasitic in the souls of mortals for a long time, and it is destined to continue to decline Go on. Of course, what is declining is only the 'divinity' in the curse, the strength of the curse itself...it doesn't seem to have weakened in the past two hundred years."
"Is that so..." Gao Wen stroked his chin, as if talking to himself, "Can things related to God really perish so easily..."