Chapter 714: Bertila's Information

There was a long silence between Bertiera and Gawain.

Gawain was the first to break the silence.

Because he wasn't sure if the woman who had turned into a half-plant in front of him would have the same patience as a plant-if she didn't speak for a whole day, he wouldn't have a whole day to accompany him.

"Now that I've finished talking about me, it's time to talk about you." He said in a low voice.

"We? We're just a bunch of tragic losers now, as you can see," the roots rustled behind Bertila, and his voice seemed to be mixed with rustling, "but I saw you building around Solimburg. The barracks have been set up, and the land is gradually being recovered... So presumably this war has already decided the final winner."

"Can you 'see' what's going on outside?" Gawain raised his eyebrows and was more curious about Bertila's current state, "It's... very interesting."

"I can see, it's very broad, and it's an unprecedentedly wide field of vision, but I can't move, and I can't see what I look like now," Bertila said slowly, "What am I...what do I look like now?"

"...a tree, a huge plant that covers a small area of ​​Sorin, and is still growing slowly," Gawain said calmly, "If you are really curious, I can send someone from a farther The place will take a picture of your current situation and show it to you.”

"...I would like to express my thanks in advance," Bertila suddenly moved the roots entrenched around him, as if he had made up his mind, and seemed to have suddenly figured out something, "Outer Territorial Wanderer, I still don't know your true nature. , but I have become like this, and it doesn't matter whether or not to choose. The path we have taken has been proven wrong, and if our failures can teach you some lessons, then you can ask."

Gawain glanced at the other party a little unexpectedly, and then thought for a while: "You should know about the 'disobedience plan', right?"

Bertila's expression suddenly changed: "...Why do you know?!"

But then she showed a stunned expression: "Ah, that's right, outsider... You have been observing this world, of course you know, what you just said..."

"Don't get me wrong, it has nothing to do with whether I am a wanderer or not," Gawain frowned and interrupted the other party in awe, "Don't get caught up in the fantasy of carrying a mission alone or saving the world, you have become this person. Look, you should at least wake up - while you are paranoid implementing those shady and extreme plans, there are still people in this world who are pushing the world openly."

Bertila's brows frowned, and after a while, the creeping of the vines and roots behind her gradually calmed down: "Arrogance, it should be the first mistake we made."

"You have indeed made a lot of mistakes, but I won't discuss this with you now," Gawain said. "As for the 'disobedience plan' you implemented, who passed it on to you? How much have you mastered? The inheritor is now Not still alive? How long have you been executing?"

Faced with this series of questions, Bertila closed his eyes slightly and whispered: "How long has it been implemented... Soon after the birth of the End of Everything, we have already begun to implement this plan. For nearly seven hundred years, We have been the continuation of the Disobedience Plan!"

Facing Gawain's slightly surprised expression, she continued quietly, "You know the ceremony on the Ancestor's Peak, right?"

"I know," Gawain nodded, "you wrote a letter to me, which mentioned that you were going to the Ancestral Peak to participate in the ceremony of communicating with the gods.

"

Bertila stared at him immediately: "My letter was written to Gawain Cecil."

Gawain smiled and pointed to his head: "I know, but this memory is here - Bertila, whether you recognize it or not, I have inherited the memory of Gawain Cecil, I know Most of what he's been through, knows a part about you, maybe you still think I'm a body-stealing outlander, but in a sense, I'm Gawain Cecil now, and in this lifetime, I'll be Live as that."

Bertila stared at Gawain, a large number of vines and roots were slowly shaking or wriggling behind her unconsciously, no one knew what she was thinking at this moment, but Gawain seemed to be watching from the other side's blank eyes A ray of light flashed, and then she continued the topic: "...On the Ancestor's Peak, the Holy Spirit Druid, the Pope of the Church of Dreams, and the Pope of the Church of the Storm held a joint ceremony, and successfully put the dream together. Pope Megall III teleported to the kingdom of God..."

Gawain knew this part of the content, he nodded: "After that, all the members of the three major dark sects went crazy... What happened at that time?"

Bertila closed her eyes and her body trembled slightly. It seemed that even today, seven hundred years later, recalling what happened at that time was still a kind of terrifying torture for her. The voice said: "Megall III entered the realm of the kingdom of God, where his soul was almost completely torn apart, but compared with what he witnessed, the torn of his soul was nothing: he saw the kingdom of God. And the palaces of the gods, and around those illusory and gorgeous palaces, there is an incomparably vast and chaotic void space, countless broken ruins and gods' corpses floating around the kingdom of God, running around in dead silence...

"Those broken ruins and corpses of gods seem to have been floating for a long time, and there are obvious differences between them. It seems that they are not destroyed at the same time, but have undergone rounds of regeneration and death. Those ruins and corpses were almost half-mad, but what was even more terrifying was what he witnessed afterwards:

"He saw the gate of the kingdom of God opened, and the figure of the god flashed inside... In that extremely brief sighting, the huge knowledge and truth destroyed all the mental defenses of Megall III, and he almost immediately fell into crazy--

"The Druid Grand Master and the Storm Pope who held the ceremony together discovered the abnormality in time. They tried to pull Megall III back to the real world, but this move made the spirits of the three of them connect together... They shared perception."

Listening to what Bertila described, Gawain remained calm and composed on the surface, but a huge wave was already set off in his heart——

At the ceremony on the Ancestral Peak seven hundred years ago, the three church leaders really witnessed the wreckage and ruins after the fall of the gods, but the specific situation was even more bizarre and crazy than he imagined!

Outside the Divine Kingdom of the gods, there are countless ruins and countless corpses, and that is not a situation that can be caused by one round of destruction - Gawain knew about the battle of the god-killing fleet that destroyed the gods in ancient times, but If Bertila's information is true, then the battle report that Gawain heard in the Eternal Slate is probably only a part of the countless destruction cycles of the gods.

If the ancient god-killing fleet destroyed the gods once, what caused the countless other destructions that remained?

Will the destruction and reincarnation of the gods and their kingdoms be related to the demonic tide in this world? Will it be related to the destruction of human civilization again and again?

The surviving gods and their kingdoms are located in the middle of the ruins, surrounded by countless wreckage. Is each round of new gods born from the "cemetery of the gods"? Or... that the scene surrounded by ruins corresponds to the magic tide and the reincarnation of civilization in the mortal world, and has a deeper symbolic meaning?

Countless guesses and associations swirled in Gawain’s mind like a tidal wave, but these questions obviously couldn’t be answered from Bertila’s mouth. He could only temporarily file these questions into memory and start paying attention to another matter:

The original three church leaders were distorted by contacting the knowledge of gods after sharing their senses, so why did other ordinary believers go crazy together?

He asked his own question, and Bertila sighed slightly: "Faith, which binds us all together."

Gawain's expression suddenly froze.

"Belief in the gods is a chain, and it took us years to figure this out - praying to the same object of worship, following the same code of commandments, building body and mind according to the scriptures, seeking personal 'spiritual gifts' and gods' The closeness and unity of divinity is the foundation of all beliefs and divine arts. Mortals obtain the blessings of divine arts according to these actions, but at the same time, they lock their minds on the same chain. This chain is 'The bridge between God and man'. And the stronger the faith, the stronger the chain will be, and the more powerful it will be..."

Bertiera spoke slowly, her tone more serious than ever.

"That's why, when the huge knowledge about gods poured into the minds of the three church leaders, as the first link in the chain, they spread this knowledge to the lower reaches of the chain in an instant...

"The most marginal believers may not be affected, because their beliefs are not firm enough, and there is still a certain distance between their hearts and gods, but all priests who can use divine arts are undoubtedly part of this chain, no matter they are Whether or not they were at the peak of the ancestors at that time, they could not escape this terrifying shock of knowledge.

"The end result is: everyone on the chain is affected."

Gao Wen took a deep breath.

Faith causes mortals of the same faith to form an invisible connection, an important piece of information never known before!

Could this connection have something to do with the Mind Stamp?

Bertila's description is full of metaphors and occult vocabulary, which is determined by her personal knowledge and worldview, but in Gawain, it can all be summed up in two sentences:

The leaders of the three dark sects looked directly into the secrets of the gods seven hundred years ago.

All the devout members of the three denominations did a national k on that moment.

This horrific collective k had the obvious result: it all passed.

But maybe it was because a large number of middle and lower-level priests shared the pressure of that mental shock, or it was because the three church leaders at that time disconnected from the kingdom of God in time, this collective K failure did not lead to the most terrifying thing This kind of consequence - although the three dark sects turned black in an instant, there was no terrible incident in which a large number of members were directly twisted into monsters. After a brief frenzied behavior, they even "awake" from the madness and reorganized themselves. Three new sects, the Society for the End of All Things, the Eternal Sleeper, and the Children of the Storm, have even done a lot of research and tried to carry out a plan of disobedience...

But think about it, after that shock, did they really "wake up"?

Gawain quietly looked at Bertiera in front of him.

She stood quietly between the roots and the vines, there was no madness in her eyes, she looked rational - but look at the vines around, look at the slowly wriggling roots, think about it How these roots penetrated through the layers of palaces and crypts, think about the huge tree that is beyond imagination... none of it is normal.

Perhaps, this symbolizes the essence of the three dark sects: the insider who has returned from madness, a heart that thinks it has woken up, and is imprisoned in a frantic shell.

After showing it, it is a dangerous lunatic.

"After the Summit of the Ancestors, we experienced great chaos and losses. A large number of members rushed into the wasteland of Gondor, and many of the remaining members self-mutilated, committed suicide, or fell into permanent madness, unable to wake up, and the members who barely kept their senses. Hiding - easy to hide in the chaotic situation of the time - then it took a few years, when the madness from the mental shock waned, and we secretly regrouped...

"We know that the truth we have grasped is too shocking to the world. Even if we just say half a word, it will attract attacks from almost all orthodox sects, and it is more likely to attract the attention of the gods behind them, so we chose to fall into the darkness and look for those who broke the game. Method……"

Speaking of which, Bertila shook his head, revealing a touch of self-deprecation: "Now calm down and think about it, our original purpose is really not that complicated, it was the long time and long-term paranoia that deviated from the track, and more important , that defiant plan...

"The ones who brought the disobedience plan were two elf Druids. They were a pair of sisters, named Firna Whiteshuang and Leerna Whiteshuang."