"Then why do we want to destroy it?" Hitzfeld asked, "To continue to let the 'Mother Tree' breed particles - isn't that what it wants to do most? What considerations made you decide this way?"
This question is quite serious, and it can be said that it is an in-depth inquiry into the cause and process of the gray fog invasion.
"The reason... I thought you could guess it." The Blood Crow flapped its wings. "Yes, that's what you are thinking about now... We are worried that the existence of magic energy particles will allow those ugly monsters to profit."
"That's really the reason..."
"Yes, because this path is too difficult. Even if there is another genius like Amen Harwin, we simply don't have time for her to grow up."
"Not even a few years?"
"Not even a day, not even a second!" Crow corrected her. "This is the difference between existence and non-existence, understand? Particles and non-particles... the latter allows the gray fog to come in, but the former... in an instant they can absorb particles and turn into something unknown! By then we won't be able to resist at all, so how can we find time for the new savior to grow up?"
"This is the result of our joint discussion." She concluded: "Mediocre - this is the best way to fight against them!"
The ancients in the deep space were not necessarily so powerful at the beginning.
Their strength comes from their long life. They wander in the universe, immortal and everlasting. In the process, they have destroyed and devoured countless civilizations and absorbed countless strange energies. This knowledge and energy have driven them to evolve into what they are today.
That ugly appearance has no reference value. Perhaps their realm has surpassed simple beauty and ugliness, just as they clearly know a lot of things but appear blind and stupid.
Hitzfeld felt that it was very wonderful to understand the evil god from this perspective. It was no longer some kind of "fantasy magic". She felt more like understanding a science fiction story.
"Don't think so." The lady reminded her immediately, "Mystery and science are completely hostile. The latter focuses on discovering principles to explain everything, including the laws governing the operation of the universe... I'm not saying that this habit is bad. It's certainly great and even the most suitable path for humans, but being too obsessed with scientific ideas will lead to your obsession."
"And the end of obsession could be downfall." Hitzfeld took the initiative to help her complete the answer, "Because the core idea of occultism is 'respect for the unknown'."
Yes, this is where the two really conflict.
Scientific thinking encourages people to study everything, but the problem is that individual power is limited. Not to mention the universe, there are countless difficult problems that cannot be fully explored within this world alone.
Taking Blood Origin as an example, Hitzfeld could imagine that in the era when Ms. Yusilian existed, there was no external coercion, and this force had not been systematically organized at the beginning. There must have been many people who took detours, or even went astray.
Because flesh and blood magic is such a cruel thing... body alienation and organ deformation, this is simply the absolute protagonist of horror and plasma movies. It is easy to get stuck in a dead end when studying on your own without anyone's guidance. One mistake may turn you into a complete monster.
She could tell the difference... She knew that Ms. Yusilian was not asking her to completely abandon scientific thinking, but to "respect the unknown" while upholding such thinking.
The universe is vast but will is finite. Individuals who do not respect objective laws cannot walk long on the road of life.
Thinking of this, she suddenly woke up - since when did she start thinking about this kind of thing?
This is Ms. Yusilian, her real body, and the Dragon Girl, what the Sun King and the others need to consider, right?
Evolution... becoming a god... eternal life... She didn't want to learn these things in the beginning for the purpose of researching them, she just wanted to be able to better control this eye.
Secretly warning himself not to think too much, Hitzfeld stared at the crow who buried his head in the cup to drink water and asked, "One more question."
"Say it directly."
"What is the Epoch War?"
"You are a little too curious." The crow suddenly pulled its head out to look at her, "Knowing this will do you no good."
"I'm just curious... After all, you also said that the current situation is due to foreign invasion... Then there was no foreign invasion at that time, right? Why did a war of the scale of the Epoch War break out?"
The War of the Era is a terrible war between gods in which the goddess split the earth to show her miracle, causing great extinction, great earthquake, and great catastrophe in the era.
The scale of this battle was much larger than that in Elsa Continent. Hitzfeld was not clear about the details, but judging from various unearthed historical records, the battle was so fierce that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were invisible. She couldn't help but be curious - there was no external enemy, but the battle was so fierce... Who was the enemy?
"It's 'death'."
Raven turned and looked toward the window.
"In the beginning... including her and me, as well as our enemies, all of us were pawns of the Mother Tree. We were born at the wrong time... When we opened our eyes, we saw not a world thriving, but one that was about to wither. Unfortunately, this world had self-awareness, and it didn't want to die like this, so it racked its brains to research various ways to give birth to miracles."
"…It sounds like raising a Gu."
"Yes, it is raising poisonous insects. Don't think that there is justice and evil for the mother tree. Why would it care about you? It is not even a human. If the necessary condition for its survival is to eat all the living things in its body, do you think it will hesitate at all?"
"I never thought so," Hitzfeld said seriously.
She could tell that describing the experience put Ms. Yussirion in a bad mood.
Although they were the ultimate winners and had won the fruits of the war, it was obviously not a happy thing to be controlled as a pawn, and she might have lost something at the time.
Her attitude made Crow less angry, and she slowed down her tone: "Anyway, that's it... I just want to remind you not to have any hope for justice."
"That's something that only talented people consider, and it's something that only civilization can rely on."
"Fighting with naive ideals may result in a collapse of faith, especially when you discover that something you have believed in for a long time is actually helping your enemies... Believe me, that feeling will not be good."
There was silence for a while.
Hitzfeld didn't know how to respond.
"That's it for today."
The crow hopped and went to drink water again.
"Tomorrow I will focus on introducing you to the divine weapon."
"Artifact?"
"Yes, that is one of the few legacies left to you by the Kingdom of the Sun God."
"The purpose of introducing the artifact is..."
"Solve your biggest problem right now." Crow looked up at her.
"For example, I can give you an example right now - I can tell you that there is a special crown in the world. It contains magical power and can help you absorb the original power perfectly."
Chapter 7 Artifacts
Ms. Yusirion tried her best to let Hitzfeld live a normal life, arguing that it would be beneficial to her physical development and her healthy body would further provide nutrition for the God's Eye. But if Hitzfeld herself said so, she felt that what she had learned during this period made it more difficult for her to fall asleep at night.
Because it's so magical... What a fantastic world it is, with magic particles, magic formulas, "magic" that can be used just by taking particles and stuffing them into the formula model, and new paths that are different from "magic".
Think about it, so far she has only mastered three paths, which are "nightmare", "mystery" and "blood source" in order of priority. These three paths were not developed by her own research, but were all benefited by her predecessors.
The "nightmare" path is the one that Agent Sarah has persisted on the longest, and it seems to be the most suitable path at present. "Mystery" comes from the gray fog, and "Blood Origin" comes from Ms. Yusilian, or in the past era.
To build each road from scratch requires a lot of manpower, material resources, time costs and most importantly a little bit of luck... Building roads is so difficult that she could hardly imagine that there were more than a dozen roads of the same level as "Blood Source" at that time.
There are mimicry methods that go to extremes in the path of transformation, there are shadow assassins who rely on the dark side, there are divine arts that flicker based on the residual grace of God, and there are even creatures that shed their material bodies and exist only in the form of lines.
Hitzfeld knew that this was not normal. If the Namibian world at that time was compared to a human body, the speed at which roads were created would seem like a last gasp.
The mother tree didn't know what to do to save itself, so it just did some random research and tried every possible way it could.
Then each path can be said to have its chosen successor. The final collision between them triggered a terrible war of gods that changed the heaven and earth. Aimen Harwin became the ultimate winner by virtue of his research on magic particles. This is the root of today's history.
No - she thought again of the first time she met Coldis on the train, and the story he described in The Gears.
He said that the goddess and the earth also have a connection, and those dirty things can't do anything to her in a head-on confrontation, so they simply start to think of crooked ideas, trying to dig out the secret of her deification by infiltrating her original world.
Even... although Lengdis didn't say it, Hitzfeld himself could think of it... even if those dirty things could travel through time, they would definitely consider going back to the past and killing the goddess who had not yet become a god or even traveled through time.
This was too much for Hitzfeld.
That's right, she already knew that the power of the Sun King included time. Just like when clocks were not invented, everyone judged the time based on the position of the sun in the sky at sunrise and sunset.
Next is the sundial, which is inseparable from the sun. If concepts are also a kind of power, then she, who has become a true god, should theoretically also have the power of time.
Hitzfeld couldn't imagine what kind of power that was. After all, she was a living being that could only exist in normal time - oh, maybe because of the divine eye, she could observe the past for a short period of time, which further confirmed her previous guess.
So I shouldn't worry too much, right?
Worried that she'd lose...that she wouldn't be able to beat those things or something.
After all, she was so powerful that she attracted the main force of Gray Mist by driving the Kingdom of the Sun. The opponent couldn't beat her and even considered digging out her origin... and she herself understood the power of time, so she couldn't be killed by a trick like traveling back to the past.
With these things in his mind, Hitzfeld remained in a daze until late at night before falling asleep.
She was so troubled that the first thing she said to Little Crow when she was woken up the next day was: "She won't be easily defeated by those things... Is that right?"
"You're still worried about us?" Crow was surprised. "Don't worry... The greatness of the true gods is beyond your imagination. Even the inferior ones like the Four Ancient Gods can exist at all times at the same time. Do you understand how terrifying this concept is?"
"No matter how powerful she is, why hasn't she come back to drive out the gray fog?" Hitzfeld said he would not be fooled easily.
"Oh, that's because our enemies are also very powerful." Crow shook his head, "Let me give you an example... You see, you now know that there are spirits in the world."
"Ah."
"That spirit is the mother tree. The mother tree has self-awareness. It accompanies Namiia in her constant wandering and exploration in deep space. Suddenly one day, it was stimulated, and the speed of its spiritual enlightenment increased significantly. In one second, it comprehended the development process of life over billions of years, and finally truly realized the truth.
I understand and comprehend who I am.”
"That is 'life'." She said, "It finally discovered that it is also a life, and a most special kind of life. As soon as it was born, it was far superior to other lives in terms of personality and power. The newborn is full of curiosity about all life, and it will try to use the knowledge it understands.
Knowledge, and verify them with actions, even 'eating'. "
"This is the most terrible assumption, you know?" Seeing that Hitzfeld seemed indifferent, the crow looked a little unhappy. "For a life, what is more important than eating and reproducing? Eating is to replenish energy to survive better, and reproducing is to replenish energy to survive better.
, to be frank, it is actually the crooked way adopted by most beings because they know they cannot achieve immortality. "
"You can't live forever. Your cells and genes are very unhappy about this. But what good is it to be unhappy? No, your life is set like this. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to eat something good, or comprehend some truth that can elevate your life level and improve its quality.
You will change, but at most you will live a few hundred or a few thousand years longer."
"You will eventually die, and your genes realize that they can't put their hopes on you. They want to live forever, so they want to urge you on and give you 'sexual desire', so that you have the desire and pursuit to reproduce the next generation, so that this gene can be passed on."
"Gene inheritance - at this level, they are immortal. They are the ancestors of all life, their origin... a compromise with death. From this perspective, the meaning of life is to reproduce the next generation - isn't this also a 'Tao dispute'? Any existence in this world
The reason why the genes of humans can be passed down is that they have experienced great hardships and made great efforts. If you look into this, you will find that many animals and insects can die right after reproduction... Are they not afraid of death? In fact, they are under the spell of death.
The underworld can feel it, feel that a part of itself has been passed on through reproduction, then its mission is over, it seems to die but in fact it will live forever - if its children can continue to multiply. "
Hitzfeld thought she was talking nonsense, but he had to admit that it was a very bizarre angle of explanation.
She couldn't help but try to give some more interesting examples to test her: "According to what you said, this is a 'moral dispute'. If a husband finds out that the child is not his and he happens to be too old to have children, then wouldn't it be..."
"That can be called the 'eternal catastrophe'." Crow gave her a funnier explanation.
Hitzfeld wanted to laugh, but as she thought more deeply, she began to feel creepy.
What if she wasn't kidding.
Just think about it, how much effort and coincidence it takes for the genes of ancient times to be passed down to a mortal today. There seem to be many such mortals, they are everywhere in the settlements and in the fields, but in fact, each of them is a life in the history of inheritance.
The ultimate miracle.
This is not easy, and it is worthy of admiration and awe. But just when they wanted to continue this miracle, they found that they could not do it.
This is indeed a dispute.
Someone destroyed their path to immortality and even the path to immortality for countless generations of their ancestors. She simply couldn't think of a more cruel disaster than this. From this perspective, it is not an exaggeration to analyze how crazy the person involved was.
"You should be happy." The crow was chattering again.
"You were replaced with a female body by the Upside-Down Coffin, and female bodies are the least likely to have to worry about the end of their path to immortality. I'm not being stereotypical - but it's true that it's difficult for a female body to have a child that's not her own."
I don't think we were discussing this at the beginning...
Hitzfeld opened his mouth.
What a weird topic this is.
She couldn't utter a word.
"So now you understand the difficulty of 'eternal life'?" Crow changed the subject, "Well, I'm sorry, the mother tree that gave birth to true wisdom doesn't need the desire to reproduce."
Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment.
this means……
"It is immortal." The crow nodded.
"It has learned to be selfish, to be self-interested, and to have learned the most primitive and barbaric instincts of life. It is too powerful, and its status is too high. It can almost devour everything to feed itself... Does this description sound familiar to you?"
"This is the Great One," she answered. "The prototype of the Great One, the most ignorant look before they set out on their journey."
"…Is this what you discovered during your collision with them?"
After a moment of silence, Hitzfeld asked softly.
"Or you can research it yourself..."
"It's a little bit of both." The crow interrupted her, "There are many kinds of 'Great Ones'. You have seen them. They are strange in shape and of different species. The 'Great Ones' transformed from the mother tree, that kind of transformation is just one of the paths. There must be other paths, and there must be more.
A weird thing that proves great in other ways.”
"For example..." The girl's voice became softer, "If no one had stopped Yin Seer at the beginning..."
"Yes, he does have a chance of success."
Hitzfeld lay in bed for a while in a daze.
