Listening to the ruins described by Megall III, Gawain gradually fell into thinking.
The ancient facilities buried deep underground, the architectural style that is obviously different from the Gondor Empire and the incomprehensible ancient technology, and the storage of "samples" related to the gods...all these characteristics made him develop An inexplicable feeling of familiarity.
The clues that Megall revealed immediately confirmed his "familiarity".
“Another point,” a low voice came from the starlight aggregate, “the ruins we found underground in Orlandale and the ruins found in the Thorin area of the All-Death Meeting are in the same style. There seems to be a certain connection - they look very much like two facilities built by the same civilization in different historical periods or under the influence of different regional cultures. However, because the ruins are too old and lack key clues, we have used them for many years. It is impossible to determine the specific connection between them, let alone decipher the ancient technology in the ruins..."
Gawain suddenly took a breath: "It is a counter-tide heritage..."
Megol had obviously never heard of this word, and subconsciously asked: "Your Majesty? What did you say?"
"The ruins you have discovered, and the final death of all things will be in the Thorin area. That underground palace should have originated from an ancient civilization called 'Counter Tide', which was completely destroyed in the war with the dragon, and there are inextricably linked between this empire and the gods."
He thought of the "Ultimate Book" that Bertila gave him. That Ultimate Book was the legacy of the Counter Tide Empire. Its function was to forge keys and communicate with satellite databases in planetary orbits. In addition, according to the clues provided by Bertila, there were some rooms that were corroded and contaminated by indescribable forces in the collapsed area deep in the Solin Underground Palace. Those rooms were obviously related to the gods.
And now, there are new clues indicating that the underground palace occupied by the Eternal Sleeper under the old capital of the Typhon Empire is very likely to be the second relic of the countertide in the world!
Megor obviously did not expect that Gawain would reveal the details of the mysterious ruins in one word - the problem that the Eternal Sleeper had spent hundreds of years unable to understand, seemed to Gawain to be just common sense. But soon he remembered the true identity behind this apparent "human emperor", and his shock gradually subsided.
Gawain did not continue to discuss things about the Counter-Tide Empire with Megoul - after all, he only knew so much. He looked at Megower and brought back the topic: "What do you think about the Empire?" Do you also have some knowledge of the underground palace that will be occupied by all things after death?"
Megall immediately replied: "We have some cooperation with them and share some less important information."
< p>"Well," Gawain nodded, "So back to the ancient ruins you discovered - what happened after that? Was the Typhon royal family, whose capital was Orlandale at that time, kept in the dark?""The ruins are extremely hidden, and the entrance to the surface has almost been swallowed up by earth and rocks. It was a great luck that we were able to find the entrance - careAfter realizing that it was an excellent hiding spot, we moved people and materials inside and modified and covered the entrance to make it harder to find. And for many years to come, we were always careful to hide ourselves and our underground facilities.
“The Eternal Sleepers are a group that is very good at hiding themselves. As you can imagine, for hundreds of years...the Augustus family actually didn’t know that we were hiding in their Under their noses, they don’t know what kind of secrets are buried under their city.
“We are the shadows and symbionts under the city of Orandale, and we take root with that city. The development has penetrated many facilities in the city. In this way, we rested and recuperated in those ancient halls and cloisters. The sect that had suffered heavy losses gradually recovered its vitality. At first, we only gathered in the shallower layers of the ruins, where the more dense It was safe and large enough to accommodate all of our members at the time, but as the Order slowly recovered we decided to head deeper.
"We wanted to at least figure out what our 'dwelling' looked like.
"We quickly explored the safe dome area and the almost empty mid-level connecting corridor, and finally, We found... something still running in the deepest part of the ruins. "
Gawain's eyes immediately became serious: "Is it still running? What is it? ”
“Please allow me to show you the scene I saw back then——”
Megor said in a low voice, and the amorphous body of starlight gradually dispersed. Then, it turned into a mist, and in the hazy depths of the smoke, Gawain saw a holographic image (magic illusion) quickly peeled off and reappeared in Megall's memory.
He saw a huge rotunda hall. There was also a large-scale ring-shaped facility surrounded by metal and crystals around the hall. A large number of black obelisk-shaped devices were set up tilted in the hall, with their tops pointing towards In the center of the hall, and in the very center of the hall, he saw a dazzling thing like an ocean of light surging around a circle of ancient devices. It was like some kind of viscous liquid, but it was It showed a hazy and illusory brilliance when it rose, and something like starlight was constantly moving and flashing inside.
Gawain immediately frowned: "What is this? ”
Megor’s voice came from the surrounding smoke and mist: “A powerful energy restraint device, composed of an astonishing magnetic field, circulating arcane energy and a series of elemental stabilizers. , so large that the entire hall and part of the cloisters around the hall are its 'shell'. ”
Then the former Pope paused and added: “It took us nearly a century to figure out these rough ‘functional components’. "
"...Is the remains of the God of Dreams in the center of the restraint field? Gawain frowned, "Is this a prison device?" ”
“We thought so too...and this is what we"One of the biggest mistakes we made," Megall III said in a deep voice, "After discovering this area, we didn't understand its function at all. We only thought it was the energy source of the ruins, just like the magic well in the mage tower. , we studied it carefully and spent a century to figure out its general functions, but found that the technology inside could not be copied and utilized at all - of course, we did not dare to shut it down rashly, because no one knew the consequences of doing so.
“Many years later, we finally found some ways to control the energy flow, and during an attempt to adjust the energy flow, a very small crack opened in the center of the constraint field— —The things that were shielded inside finally leaked a breath, and I was at the scene at the time.
"In that breath, I sensed some terrifying and familiar 'voices'——"
p>There was a sudden tremor and hesitation in Megol's voice, as if that terrible feeling would still haunt his now alienated body and mind, but after a moment of calmness, he calmed down his tone. , continued:
“I feel the breath of the gods.
“A shocking truth shocked us all - what was 'imprisoned' in the restraint field was not something else, but the God we once worshiped and feared, or in other words, a part of God...
“That is a fragment of the God of Dreams. We don’t know where it came from. We don’t know what kind of power can cut off a fragment from the god’s body. We don’t know what it was. Having been imprisoned in that device for so many years, we only know one thing - that terrifying god that is on the verge of madness and will eventually engulf the entire world can actually be hurt and imprisoned.
“After the incident at the Peak of the Ancestors, everyone was shrouded in a long-lasting despair, because the power of the gods was so powerful that it was impossible for mortals to fight against it. At the same time, this A force is walking on an unstoppable and increasingly crazy road. All this is as irreversible as the doomsday in the countdown. However, the device we found underground seems to allow us to see a glimmer of light - that But the fragments of God! The fragments that were imprisoned by the device can be used for research!
"After overcoming the great fear, we... began to study that thing.
“The powerful power of the restraint field can shield the spiritual pollution of gods, which makes our research possible. It is also these properties of the restraint field that allow us to make terrible changes to everything. Wrong judgment - we mistakenly thought that the entire underground facility was a prison, and mistakenly thought that the restraint device was used to trap the gods..."
Gowen was about to ask, but Amber beside him couldn't bear it anymore Zhu broke the silence: "Isn't it?"
"Of course not, that thing... is actually an altar.
"An altar used to welcome the gods, talk to the gods, and serve the gods. Altars that provide temporary receptacles - so-called receptacles, are the binding field in the hall.
“The will of the gods ‘arrived’ in the center of the constraint field in the form of ‘fragments’, like a detached eye. The God of Dreams observes the world through that eye, and we are here. He has been busy for hundreds of years under the gaze of one eye."
Amber took a breath: "...Oh my god..."
Even Gawain felt it. A chill spread into his heart. He could fully imagine how terrifying the truth was, so much so that at this moment, Megall III's tone would tremble when he mentioned related matters.
"Everything you do is watched by the God of Dreams?" His tone was extremely serious, and he frowned and looked at Megor, who had regained his composure.
"The unfortunate thing is that the 'Eye of God' in the device is not connected with the god's body in real time," Megall said in a complicated tone, "The 'Eye of God' in the device It is more like a split clone that collects information in the real world. After a certain level, the polarity of the core of the restraint device will be reversed and the fragments of the 'Eye of God' will be released back to the divine world. At that time, the dream world Only God knows what the 'eyes' see, and the restraint device we found may be too old, or some functions may have been damaged and stuck. It has never released the 'eye of God' in the center of the energy field. '.
"In a sense, the device in a malfunctioning state is actually a real prison... But unlike a real prison, the 'prisoners' inside it are theoretically the owners of the prison. , and the prison door... may be opened at any time due to the system's self-healing.
"You should be able to imagine how terrible this is for us."
"I can imagine," Gawain nodded slightly, "but I am very I’m curious, how did you discover this truth? Is there an instruction manual placed next to the ancient device?”
Megor was silent for a moment, and the starlight aggregate slowly expanded and contracted: “…Your Majesty? , do you know how I became like this?"
Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Didn't I change my life form to extend my life?"
" At that time, I had already used the technology provided by the Society for the Death of All Things to extend my life, and I could at least survive for several more centuries." There was a sigh in Megall's voice, "What made me look like this was an experimental accident. .
“Due to a mistake in operating the energy flow, I was hit by a ray bursting out of the constraint field. The ray destroyed my body, but the powerful energy of the constraint field trapped my body. Soul, I was involved in those rushing energies, and... slightly came into contact with the 'Eye of God' that was bound to the core. "
Gawain understood: "The knowledge of gods has the characteristics of forced infusion - did you 'see' the truth of the device from the fragments of the God of Dreams? ”
“Yes,” Megall III confirmed Gawain’s guess, “The moment I came into contact with the ‘Eye of God’, I knew the truth about the device and what would happen if the ‘Eye of God’ releasedWhat terrible consequences will there be if we are put back into the divine realm - all our secrets will be exposed in front of the gods, and the gods will never allow such disobedience.
"Fortunately, I 'survived' that terrible accident, because the fellow cult members at the scene acted in time, and my soul was released before being completely annihilated, but at the same time, something happened Severe distortion and mutation - from that day on, I became like this
“But compared with the truth of the Eye of God, the mutation of the soul is nothing. We must. To solve the hidden danger of the Eye of God, either completely destroy it or permanently cut off its connection with the divine world so that it can never return to the God of Dreams. ”