Chapter 715 The Rebellious Ghost

Gawain knew that there must be shadows of disobedients behind the death of all things, because the "great evolution" they performed was obviously an extension of the disobedience plan back then.

But he did not expect that the "shadow" turned out to be two elves.

He also thought that the members of the disobedience plan were only humans.

"They are elf scholars who have been employed by the Gondor Empire since a thousand years ago, and at the same time, they are also members of the Holy Druid sect... at least on the surface," Bertila Continuing, "When the Ancestral Peak attack happened, they disappeared in front of the sect members for a while. I even thought they rushed into the Gondor wasteland like other crazy cultists, but after many years, they suddenly reappeared, and revealed their true identities.

"At the same time, they also brought a plan of disobedience."

Gawain looked at Bertiera: "There is no doubt that with your situation at the time and your mentality after suffering the 'God Shock', disobeying the plan has caused you a great impact."

"It's more than a very big touch..." Bertila shook his head slowly, "We are inspired by this great and almost tragic plan, convinced by the wisdom and courage of our predecessors, we are pitiful who were destroyed by the evil spirits of the gods. Insect, but at the time of the most despair and sinking, we suddenly saw a glimmer of light lit by other rebels, and we simply could not refuse the technology and ideas they brought."

"...The disobedience plan is indeed the greatest self-help action in the history of mankind, but mortals always make mistakes. As you just said, the long time and paranoia have derailed everything," Gawain said with emotion. "Not all disobedients persevered, and you may be very unfortunate enough to encounter disobedients who deviate from your original intentions."

Bertila didn't respond, maybe she didn't know how to respond at this moment.

Any excuse is pale in the face of the facts. Today, a piece of scorched earth in the eastern area of ​​the Holy Spirit Plain and this huge "Thorin Tree" are the final answer of all the efforts and persistence of the Society for the Death of All Things for centuries - a cruel conclusion, But could not argue.

But Gawain had doubts in his heart:

The pair of elf twins, who had participated in the disobedience plan, put aside their racial distinctions and fought against the gods side by side with human beings, faced the devil tide that destroyed the Gondor Empire together, and experienced the baptism of thousands of years. Passing down the key technologies and concepts of the Disobedience Plan to the End of Everything... Is their purpose just to cause such a disaster in Ansu?

Although the man-made god is terrifying, Gawain is very clear 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 cannot 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 understand what the elf twins named Firna/Leerna wanted to do.

Maybe Veronica would know? After all, they are both ancient rebels, maybe they knew each other...

Gawain shook his head, wrote down the new doubts for the time being, and then asked, "What else do you know about the pair of elf twins? Where are they now? Are they here too?"

As he said that, he couldn't help but look behind Bertila.

In the secret room covered with vines and roots, the densely piled humanoid wreckage has begun to gradually disintegrate.

Lost the constant replenishment of life,

These long-dead priests of death finally came to the moment when the dust returned to the dust. Bertila imprisoned these people for too long in a muddle, but now that she has woken up, everything should be over.

Those corpses would soon be the sustenance of the giant tree...then circulated in the forces of nature, eventually becoming the new fertile ground of the Holy Spirit Plains.

"They are not here. When the 'false god's body' was awakened, they were performing tasks elsewhere," Bertila shook his head, "I have been sleeping in a daze during this time. I don't know their whereabouts, but I think they are still there. Live."

Ghosts are always difficult to "die", especially the ghosts of disobedient people.

Gawain was not too surprised by this, just a little regretful and irritable—how much help the disobedient can do when they are his own people, then how much harm they can do when they are enemies or uncontrollable factors, he can understand this. arrive.

"I've been with them for hundreds of years, and I still don't know much," Bertila continued. "They always appear together, talk and act together, as if one soul controls two bodies; they They have a kind and friendly appearance, but they are actually more cunning and dangerous than anyone else; they are mainly responsible for the affairs related to the disobedience plan, but they are also responsible for the technical work related to the magnificent wall - after all, they are from the silver empire, and they are not familiar with the magnificent wall. have a certain understanding of the technology.”

Gawain nodded silently, and raised his eyebrows when he heard the magnificent wall: "Speaking of the magnificent wall... What connection do you have with the wasteland?"

Bertiera hesitated for a moment, but soon she twitched the corner of her mouth and said with a strange smile: "Inside the magnificent wall...inside the other half of all things will die."

Gawain's eyes widened: "The other half of all things will die?!"

"Didn't we just say that when the ritual of the Ancestral Peak went out of control and the power of the gods descended, a large number of believers from the three sects of Druid, Dreamland, and Storm rushed into the wasteland of Gondor to seek self-destruction..." Bell There was a coldness in Tira's smile, and it seemed that telling this part of the secret was not only not psychologically stressful for her, but very happy, "But not everyone who rushed into the wasteland died - Druid , has always been the profession that is best at facing environmental changes and best at 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 some way of evolution and mutation, and became the death of all things. Will there be 'cooperators' and branches in the wasteland?"

"Yes, at least we have always thought so," Bertila said in a cold voice, "They are active in the wasteland, collecting intelligence for us, especially data on aberrations and magic tides, we have been It is thought that whether in the wasteland or outside the wasteland, all the sect compatriots are working hard to disobey the plan, but this is obviously not the case.

"The loss of control of the false god's body is half of the credit of those freaks."

Until this moment, Gawain finally understood the cause and effect of the grand conspiracy from the beginning to the end of the End of Everything, and understood that in the final stage of creating that "artificial god", the cult priests in this underground palace all suffered. what.

Those Druids who rushed into the wasteland and survived... I am afraid they have been completely distorted in the terrifying and harsh chaotic magical energy environment, and have long given up their self-awareness and behavior as human beings. However, due to the magnificent Blocked by the wall, the Doomsday Headquarters, which can only maintain limited contact with the wasteland, is completely unaware of all this.

To be honest, it's really unfair that all things die in this wave of death.

But considering the harm they caused, Gawain could only say that a dead cult is a good cult.

He really can't imagine what this disaster would have turned into if all things died without this "self-destruction", and if what they had created was a completed and sober "Julu Amoen" - to At that time, the Cecil Corps might not really be able to stop it.

And in the case of the collapse of the human defense line, it will be completely unknown whether the deep-sea salted fish can be rescued in time.

With a three-point sigh and seven-point rejoicing, he exhaled, then frowned and said: "Then say that, the 'half of all things will die' in the wasteland is probably still alive now... No one knows their next step. Whatever you want to do, it will always be a threat.”

"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'll be very supportive - if you can do it."

"You also know that this is impossible," Gawain glanced at Bertila, "counterattacking the wasteland of Gondor, this is a great goal, but unfortunately the current Cecil Empire can't do it."

"Is the Cecil Empire..." Bertiera was stunned when she heard the name, and then her tone was suddenly a little erratic, "I saw the Cecil flag with gold rims hanging on those camps, and sure enough..."

After that, there was a few seconds of silence. After the silence, Gawain heard the other party whisper: "It is my proposal to cross the sword and the plow together."

"I remember, you hope that future generations will remember the hardships of pioneering, and you also hope that the nobles holding swords will not forget to protect the people who help the plow."

Bertila smiled: "But it's actually because the pattern you designed with the sword and the plow side by side was so ugly."

"...You didn't say that."

"Seven hundred years later, I finally said it," Bertila sighed and laughed at himself, "You did inherit his memory, I almost thought you were him."

"Now tell me, why do you say that Gawain Cecil's soul has been completely drained? Why do you know this?"

Bertila quietly stared at Gawain in front of him.

This is an extraterritorial wanderer, 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 tribe is a mystery. They shuttle among the stars, create destruction, provide shelter, observe, seem to do whatever they want, and seem to abide by some rules.

The Eternal Sleeper is afraid of the power of the extraterritorial rogue, because the latter happens to completely restrain the spells in the spiritual realm, and she herself was once full of fear of this extraterritorial rogue, because he occupied Gawain Cecil's body.

But today, they had such a long conversation, it seems... extraterritorial rogues can communicate and even trade.

Maybe this is just an imitation he made after occupying the human body, or maybe this is just one of the countless faces of his race, but in any case, at least now he looks kind and rational, and claims to be right. There is no malice in this world.

In life, sometimes it takes a little bit of adventure—the same goes for being a tree.

Gawain didn't know what Bertila was thinking while watching him quietly, he could only try to maintain his calm, aloof and friendly persona, and then he heard Bertila speak: "Gawain Sai Searle made a voyage that no one knows about, and since you have inherited this memory, you must know it."

Gawain's breathing suddenly stopped for half a beat.

This half-shot 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 this is the only thing I failed to do. Memories inherited from Gawain Cecil's mind."

Then he stared at Bertila: "Do you know the inside story of that voyage?"

Bertila shook his head: "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, I didn't travel with me at the time, and I'm also curious about what he encountered and saw during that mysterious voyage, but one thing... Now it seems that I More than you know."

Gao Wen's eyes were bright: "What is it?"

"After returning to the mainland, Gawain Cecil once said something to the people beside him," Bertila repeated word by word, "he said that he made a deal in the sea of ​​eternal darkness, using 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 the voyage after that. It is said that a mage even checked his soul for this purpose, but he didn't. Found a little problem, so the inexplicable words were quickly forgotten - only the old and immortal will always remember.

"After Gawain Cecil died, I managed to sneak into the funeral and finally confirmed the truth of that statement myself.

"Normal human beings, even ordinary people, will retain their souls for more than a few days after death. In the right conditions, obsessive souls can remain for several years. Powerful transcendents can even maintain a certain self after death. Consciousness, and the opportunity to transform himself into an undead creature to continue 'survival'...

"But in Gawain Cecil's recently-dead body, there is not even a single trace of his soul.

"It was a blank body."