For hundreds of years, the eternal sleepers dormant underground in the old capital of Typhon were trying to understand and analyze the secrets of the gods from an ancient device. They once thought that the device had powerful imprisonment power. It was a cage used to imprison some fragments of the gods, but they never thought that that thing was actually a container and altar specially built for the gods - it carried the eyes of the gods.
This is undoubtedly a great irony, and...horrible.
The only luck for the Eternal Sleepers is that the restraint facility from ancient times malfunctioned, and the "Eye of God" contained in it was truly shielded. It cannot return to the God Realm for the time being, but can only Being locked up like a real prisoner on the "throne" originally prepared for it prevented a divine disaster that was as powerful as the "Upper Narrator Incident" that year.
There are only two choices left for the Eternal Sleeper, either to completely destroy the "Eye of God" in the restraint field, or to use some method to safely and permanently isolate the Eye of God from the divine world. Make sure that even if the restraint device fails one day, that eye will not "tell" the gods what it sees.
Gawain frowned and looked at the starlight aggregate floating opposite: "Did you cause the collapse of Orlandale while you were trying to destroy or seal the Eye of God?"
"It's one of the reasons, but it's not all because of us." Megall III's tone suddenly became a little strange, seeming to lament the uncertainty of fate, "We finally decided to destroy the Eye of God and made a plan for this We came up with a plan - in the course of hundreds of years of research, we have learned a lot about that ancient restraint device and been able to make more control and adjustments to it. We have found that when the time is right to turn it off The stable structure of the inner ring can produce powerful energy shocks in the constraint 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 full discussions and calculations, we are ready to implement this plan - and for this, we need a period of time to charge the outer ring of the restraint device.
"The accident happened at this stage - you still remember, the entire ancient ruins are underground in Orlandale, the old capital of the Typhon Empire.
" While we were working on adjusting the restraints, the Augustus family suddenly decided to renovate the city's drainage facilities - it all seems too coincidental now, but no one noticed it at the time - the urban drainage facilities of that era Very backward, as you know, Typhon more than two hundred years ago was no different from old Ansu. The so-called urban drainage channel was an underground river that ran right through Orlandale. People drained all the dirty water there. Inside, except for underground rivers and limited ditches, most of the city did not have sewers. Under such circumstances, the Typhon royal family at that time suddenly wanted to build an artificial sewer outside the main city, so they decided to Start digging down...
"They dug deep, butInitially, we did not come into contact with the 'dome top' of the underground palace, but strange things still happened: the workers responsible for the excavations had hallucinations underground. As more and more earth and rocks were transported, the mental state of the excavators worsened. , at first, the nobles did not care about the status of the civilian workers. Instead, they suspected that they were lazy and forced them to work underground for longer periods of time. But soon, this illusion began to extend to the supervisors and even stationed near the excavation site. On the knights...
"When abnormalities appeared on the surface, we focused most of our attention underground, until more and more diggers lost control, and the Typhon royal family We even started to send elemental mages to lift up the land and try to dissolve through the rock formations, when we suddenly realized something:
"The restraint device has weakened at some point, so the 'Eye of God' has Self-aware, it secretly spreads its power without arousing our alertness. Through years of infiltration and pollution, it has affected the residents of Orandale—even the royal family that rules Orandale. "
Amber standing aside couldn't help but swallowed: "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 caves were contaminated. They began to dig downward crazily, and mages loyal to the royal family also participated. Coming in, under the attack of powerful magic, all the protections we set up failed to work. They quickly dug a big hole in the center of Orlandale and found the dome of the underground palace. Then the dome was also dug up. , royal knights and mages swarmed in.
“The entire Orlandale was shrouded in an atmosphere of weirdness, fear, and tension. The civilians didn’t know what was happening. The small nobles and businessmen were frightened by this crazy excavation. All kinds of Rumors spread everywhere, and some upper-class nobles said that treasures were found underground, which further aggravated the chaos in the city...
"The Order of the Eternal Sleeper was powerless to stop all this, and more importantly... God The eye 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 firmly resisted the gods. They were suppressed by the restraint device. Under the circumstances, it can't do anything to us, so it turns those unsuspecting people on the surface into tools. When the Royal Knights entered the underground palace and began to destroy various energy stations, the Eye of God also began to attack the restraint device. Magnetic cage, and the energy we originally planned to use to annihilate the Eye of God was not ready yet. If we rashly activated the arrangement, it was very likely that the Eye of God would escape from the force field and return to the divine realm...
"I was The only option is to stop the out-of-control, crazy diggers and the Typhon royal family that keeps sending more knights to the rear.
“Several archbishops and I ventured to the surface from other passages and sneaked into the castle of the Augustus family. What surprised us was that half of the people in the castle wereThe nobles and a considerable number of royal family members are still trying to resist the erosion of the God's Eye, and even the emperor himself... is barely maintaining his sanity.
“Most 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. The other half were sent by them. The emperor, who barely maintained his sense, sent out personnel to stop and investigate the situation, but they immediately went crazy 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 they went crazy. As more investigation teams were sent out, 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 gods. The Corrosion of the Eye - Surrounded by the Royal Guards, I told the then Emperor Typhon the truth about the underground.
"Of course, I did not tell the emperor that behind the 'Eye of God' was a 'true god' in the minds of the public, because normal people's views on gods are obviously very different from our views on gods. I told He is a crazy evil god, and our research and surface excavations have awakened him.
“Together we – the people below and the people above – have created a huge mess. , but at that time there was no time to investigate the issue of responsibility. After quickly judging the situation in the underground palace, the emperor decided to evacuate the entire city, evacuate all uncontaminated people, and create a no-man's land outside the city. During this period, we launched the underground annihilation plan and The Eye of God is completely destroyed. "
Gawain nodded slightly: "Evacuate the civilians, create a mental isolation zone to prevent the spread of mental pollution, and destroy the pollution center... The idea is correct, what next? ”
Megor III was silent for a moment, with a sigh in his tone: “Driven by the knights and noble soldiers, the evacuation was quickly completed. Several archbishops and I returned to the underground palace. We blocked all the passages in the inner layer and blocked the crazy knights and diggers who had entered the underground palace. This successfully delayed some time. At the appointed moment, the energy was finally enough. We successfully triggered the energy shock of the restraint device. God's Eyes shattered by the powerful impact - we cheered until the Wrath of the Earth and the Creation of Oblivion struck our domes one after another. "
Hubo blinked and spread his hands: "...It's just as I thought. "
"We didn't expect it at the time," Megall III said in a self-deprecating tone, "We are a group of...researchers, perhaps extreme researchers, we are a dark sect, a... The fallen priest was paranoid and ruthless, and chose a terrible path, but apart from all this, our identity is still a group of researchers - including myself.
“Researchers’ heads are not good at guessing the wrath of the earth and the creation of annihilation that fall on their heads.”
“Emperor Typhon did this two hundred years ago It's a cold decision, but do you want to hear my opinion?" Gao WenmanHe said slowly, his eyes falling on the starlight aggregate.
"...It's reasonable, right?"
"It's reasonable," Gawain nodded slightly, "If you failed to destroy the Eye of God at that time, Then the Orlandale area will be the source of the disaster. Destroying the entire area may not be able to stop the arrival of the 'evil god', but at least it may delay the evacuation of others for more time. If you successfully destroy the Eye of God, then at that time Emperor Typhon will not let you continue to live - you are a dark cult, and you have been breeding in the imperial capital and under the eyes of the royal family for hundreds of years. To a certain extent, you may even have the ability to trigger a revolution in the entire empire. Turmoil, this is something no ruler can tolerate.
“So no matter what the outcome, you must die in Orlandale. "
"I figured it out later," Megall III said with a chuckle. "A lot of us figured it out. "
"But you can't find an empire to take revenge - especially after suffering a heavy blow," Gawain said unhurriedly, "What's more important is that as time goes by, those supplementary With more and more new generation believers coming in, the Eternal Sleeper Order will eventually forget everything that happened in Orlandale, and the Augustus family will also believe that there can be no survivors if the entire city collapses. With the technology of the time Conditions and the chaos after the capital move, they should not be able to examine the situation deep underground in detail - this terrible and potentially staining incident for the royal family will be buried and everyone will forget it, even if anyone remembers it. Things will never be acknowledged.
"On the other hand, later facts also proved that Emperor Typhon's judgment was actually accurate - only two hundred years later, you researchers who are not bound by laws and morals 'The second 'divine disaster' happened right there, and this time it was even a god created by you yourself.
"If I hadn't appeared, how much disaster would the upper-level narrator have caused. ?
"I believe that the scale of the disaster is definitely worthy of the Typhon royal family sending out their mage group to smash the entire Orlandale region and all of you with the Creation of Annihilation again."
Megor III's starlight body shrank, and his tone was full of helplessness: "...It's extremely ironic and irrefutable."
"So it's all summed up in one word -" Gowen said softly Sighing, "It's time."
Megor: "..."
"We won't discuss this topic anymore," Gawain shook his head and revealed this paragraph, "Now there are The evidence proves that your original work of destroying the Eye of God does not seem to be completely successful - the spiritual pollution of the god remains, and the curse of the Augustus family is the evidence."
"We doubt the Eye of God. The eye escaped at the last moment when it was destroyed, but after all, it suffered heavy damage. It was unable to return to the god, so it parasitized the bloodline of Augustus' family." Megall III replied, "For two hundred years, This curse has always beenContinuation, without strengthening or weakening, we have some archbishops who have extended their lifespan and experienced the events of that year even think that this is the price paid after the Augustus family's 'betrayal'... Of course, after the 'Upper Narrator' incident, There should be some changes in the mentality of these archbishops, after all, the blow was too great. ”
Gawain now understands why the Archbishops of the Ever-Sleeping Ones follow Cecil so resolutely—the intimidation of his “outlander” is only one of the reasons, and the remaining factors are obviously related to It is related to the disaster in Orlandale two hundred years ago.
Besides, what he is most concerned about at the moment is the curse of the Augustus family.
"You think'. Is it possible for Eye of God to recover and escape after entering the bloodline of the Augustus family? "He frowned and asked in a serious voice.
"The possibility is very low," Megall III replied, "We have been paying attention to the curse of the Augustus family, that curse It has obviously become a pure thing, similar to the sequelae of mental pollution, and with the dilution and transformation of bloodline from generation to generation, the 'god part' of 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 mortal souls for a long time and is destined to continue to decline. Of course, it is only the 'divinity' in the curse that has declined. The intensity of the curse itself... does not seem to have weakened at all in the past two hundred years. "
"Really..." Gawain touched his chin and said as if talking to himself, "Can things related to God really die so easily..."