"You stand on my head now," said Erthos slowly.
Lily had just turned back at this time, and was straightening her skirt while pulling the fur on her tail, when she heard the words, her voice jumped up: "Etos? That Etos of Etos?!"
The slow voice sounded again, as if there was no emotion: "I don't quite understand your way of expression..."
"You don't need to talk to her, she is engaged in literature," Hao Ren pushed Lily down, and then subconsciously looked up at the sky. Because the energy accumulated in the previous battle had not dissipated, the invisible "jellyfish" in the sky reappeared at this time When it came out, its undulating surface was shimmering, and countless slender tentacles hung down from the sky like silk threads between clouds and mist, connecting with the colossus corps on the ground, "You... the one in the sky?"
"You were the first to observe me. Before I was affected by the energy-rich environment, you observed a part of me." Ertos seemed to confirm Hao Ren's guess, "This makes me feel good about myself." You became interested... Very few creatures can observe the ghost of Chaos Wanderer, except for those very special or very old. But whoever or what you are, I should thank you, thank you Release me from this long servitude..."
"Chaos Wanderer? Is that your racial name?" Hao Ren frowned. Before he asked what "long labor" meant, he first became interested in the creature Ethos itself, "Didn't you already Died many years ago? Killed by that 'great master'..."
When he said this, he suddenly remembered something: "Could it be that the 'Great Master' who fought with you back then was the 'evil spirit' in the pyramid?"
"Chaos wanderers don't die easily. In many cases, death is just a change of form for us," Ethos said slowly, his huge spirit body stretched out in the sky, as if he was recovering The damage caused by the previous battle, "As for the 'great master' you mentioned, she is indeed the fallen monster in the pyramid... But I noticed that one of you is very similar to her, I can first May I ask this person's name?"
"You can call me Vivienne," Vivienne said proactively, "Don't worry, I'm not the same as that crazy guy in the pyramid, we just look alike."
Ethos seems to believe this statement: "I see... that's interesting."
Hao Ren coughed, and brought the subject back to the topic: "Ahem, so you haven't died all this time? After the great master fought with you back then, you actually lied to me?"
"No, although the Overlord destroyed my form, we are not hostile, nor have I deceived her," replied Ethos to everyone's surprise. "There has never been any battle between us."
Even Y'zaks couldn't help it this time: "What does this mean?"
"The mural we found described that you were a destructive monster in ancient times. Many human city-states were destroyed by you. Later, the great master suddenly came and destroyed you." Hao Ren also frowned. "Is there any truth to this legend? error?"
"Humans use their own ways to understand what they see, but they often fail to see the real side of things," Ethos' voice seemed to sigh, "the first half of the legend is correct, my The activity led to widespread destruction—but that was not my intention. I cannot control my energy leaks, just as humans cannot control their organs, birth, old age, sickness and death. To Chaos rogues, storm and fire are just us. A part of the body, but in the eyes of humans, those means a devastating natural disaster... I tried to persuade those creatures that approached rashly, but the communication stopped at war... Ah, war, there were wars everywhere at that time... "
Hao Ren was stunned: Is Ethos actually a pacifist? !
Lily stared blankly at the big jellyfish in the sky, and suddenly said: "So what is the truth about your fight with that 'great master'?"
"She suddenly appeared in front of me, showing great power. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve the dilemma, so I reached a consensus with her," Ethos replied, "I asked her to help me change my life form, In order to undo the damage I unintentionally caused to the outside world, as you know—the way to change the life form is to dismember my original body."
Hessiana couldn't help sticking out her tongue: "...the taste of plastic surgery in that era was really strong..."
"So you're not at war with that great master?" Hao Ren never expected that the truth would be like this, and he was stunned for a moment before continuing, "The slate records that you two fought against each other for several days. What's going on? You two are throwing ball lightning back and forth..."
Ethos said flatly: "That's us talking—but for humans, this way of talking may indeed be a little scary."
Hao Ren: "..."
Hessiana continued to mutter: "The doctor-patient communication in that era also had a strong taste..."
"So it's like this... So it's like this," Hao Ren didn't know what expression to show, so he could only sigh dumbfounded, "Oh, the history recorded by human beings is always limited by the time and vision, and you ancient gods have nothing to do with it. This is even more so. So what happened after that? I think you should have stayed in this city like this? Why will the city of Ethos be destroyed? What about the residents here? What happened to those stone statues? Pyramids How did the evil spirits 'fallen'?"
Facing a lot of questions that suddenly came to him, Ethos' voice was still unhurried: "That was many years ago—when the 'great master' you called finally helped me get rid of the layer of inability to adapt. After the shell of the environment, some aborigines took materials from the local area and used my fragments to start rebuilding their homes. They used my armor to make weapons and golems, used my organic matter to make medicine and living materials, and built on my bones My spirit has been wandering around them, because this kind of lively little creature is really curious... And after wandering for a while, I found that the 'great master' had also moved in from the wilderness This made people even more surprised, so I simply attached my spirit body to the city, trying to pass the time by observing the activities of short-lived creatures like 'human beings'...
"In the early days, all races in the city lived in peace, humans worked diligently, and the slightly larger tribal leaders called 'beast gods' gave orders, while the 'lord' lived In the great temple in the city center, as the titular supreme ruler here, accept the offerings of everyone."
Hao Ren couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this: "That 'evil spirit' has really been the 'City Lord' here for a while? About how long?"
"Not for a long time, probably decades," Ethos said indifferently to Hao Ren's interruption, "and she never really 'ruled' the city, she spent most of her time just in the pyramid Sleeping in the city, and occasionally waking up just talking to himself. But anyway, the city was peaceful for the first few decades... After that, the situation gradually deteriorated.
"The 'master' is not emotionally stable, in fact I suspect that she has no normal reason and logic most of the time, she seems to be completely immersed in her own world, and her reactions to external stimuli are very strange even in my opinion. Weird, in the popular parlance of the era, she was a 'moody and elusive Chaos God'. At first, her mood swings only caused her to be a little irritable occasionally, but as time went on, her irritability gradually became became tyrannical.
"Of course, the increasing tyranny of the 'Master' has also caused panic among the residents of the city, but no one is her opponent. The only ones with combat power in the city are the 'Beast Gods', but they and the battle statues they made are not enough To suppress the 'ruler' who was in a rage. The conflict became more and more serious day by day, and the behavior of the 'ruler' gradually reached a completely unreasonable level, so the residents in the city finally carried out the battle under the leadership of the priest class, that is, the beast head gods. revolt.
"What is strange is that the always brutal 'Master' turned a blind eye to such blatant acts of rebellion. When the humans and beast gods gathered in the city, she had been watching with cold eyes, and when the rebels were about to rush to the high ground. , she disappeared from the Great Temple without leaving a trace. The angry rebels were so dazzled by their emotions that they didn't realize the abnormality of the situation. They ransacked the entire temple and took all the gold and silver treasures I snatched them all home—based on my observations of humans over the years, I think this is precisely a manifestation of fear."
Lily nodded: "Fear will make people do things beyond fear, because only with crazier behavior can they anesthetize themselves to escape inner anxiety."
Meanwhile, Hao Ren felt that a doubt in his heart had finally been answered:
Why is there a scene of being looted in the Great Temple? It seems that it was indeed because of a rebellion, but the specific form of the rebellion was quite different from what everyone had guessed at the beginning: it was not that the lower class people rebelled against the upper class priests, but that everyone, including the priests and the people, jointly rebelled against the "god" , and in the early stage of this rebellion, the so-called "God" did not take action at all, which led to no more serious damage to the Great Temple other than being looted.
"That 'evil spirit' must not have suddenly turned into a good person," Y'zaks said sullenly, "She should have done it soon, right?"
"Yes, just as the rebellion ended hastily and the priests and the people dispersed, the 'Master' suddenly appeared and brought down a huge disaster."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "She destroyed the city of Ethos?"
"It's worse than that," said Ethos, "and she summoned a bloody moon, and she bathed the city in its light, and the moonlight took possession of all minds, and every one in the city began to kill each other. , Some people tried to escape from the city gate, but the moonlight formed a wall-like barrier in front of them. Some people tried to record what happened here to warn future generations before they died, but the moonlight made them fall into hallucinations, and they were just in the air. The words were inscribed, and the last group of beast-head gods who remained awake staged a dying resistance, and almost succeeded: they summoned the power of the ancestor spirits to blow down a section of the city wall, and punched a hole in the moonlight barrier, but they were still on the verge of failure... "
Lily asked impatiently, "Why?"
"Because the space collapsed," Ethos said, "The Master tore apart the space structure and threw the entire city into a different time and space."