Chapter 851 God's Eyes

Hearing the scene of the ruins described by Megall III, Gawain gradually fell into thought.

The ancient facilities buried deep in the ground are obviously different from the architectural style of the Gondor Empire and the incomprehensible ancient technology. There are "samples" involving gods... All these characteristics gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

And the clues revealed by Megall immediately confirmed his "familiarity".

"Another point," came a deep voice from the astral aggregate, "the ruins we found under Orlandale seem to be related in style to the ruins found in the Thorin area by the end of all things— - They look like two facilities built by the same civilization in different historical periods or under the influence of different regional cultures. However, because the remains are too old and lack key clues, we have been unable to determine the difference between them after many years. The specific connection, let alone cracking the ancient technology in the ruins..."

Gawain suddenly took a deep breath: "It's a legacy against the tide..."

Megall obviously had never heard of this word, and asked subconsciously, "Your Majesty? What did you say?"

"The ruins you found, and the dungeon where all things will die in the Sorin area, should all originate from an ancient civilization called 'Reverse Tide', which was completely destroyed in the war with the dragon, and this empire There are innumerable connections with the gods."

He thought of the "ultimate book" that Bertila gave him. The ultimate book is the legacy of the Reverse Tide Empire. Its function is to forge keys and communicate with satellite databases in planetary orbits. According to Bell According to the clues provided by Tira, there were some rooms eroded and polluted by an indescribable force in the collapsed area in the depths of Thorin's Underground Palace, and those rooms were obviously related to gods.

And now, there are new clues that the underground palace occupied by the old capital of the Typhon Empire and occupied by the Eternal Sleepers is most likely the second anti-tide relic that exists in the world!

Megall obviously didn't expect Gawain to reveal the details of the mysterious ruins in one sentence - a question that the Eternal Sleeper could not understand for hundreds of years, it seemed to Gawain to be just common sense, but he soon remembered it. The real identity behind this seemingly "human emperor" gradually subsided.

Gawain did not continue to discuss things about the Anti-Tide Empire with Megall - after all, he only knew so much, he looked at Megall and returned to the topic: "You are the one who will occupy all things in the end. Does the Underground Palace also know something about it?"

Megall replied immediately: "We have some cooperation with them and share some less important information."

"Well," Gawain nodded, "then go back to the ancient ruins you discovered—what happened after that? Was the Typhon royal family, whose capital was Orlando, kept in the dark?"

"The ruins are hidden very deep, and the entrance to the surface has almost been swallowed up by earth and rocks. We were completely lucky to find the entrance - after realizing that it was an excellent hiding place, we are even more In addition to transferring the materials in, we remodeled and covered the entrance, making it harder to find. For many years after that, we have always carefully concealed ourselves and hidden underground facilities.

"The Eternal Sleepers are a group that is very good at hiding themselves, as you think, for hundreds of years... The Augustus family didn't even know that we were hiding under their noses, let alone. What... secrets are buried beneath their cities.

"We are the shadows and symbiotes under the city of Orlandale. We took root and developed together with that city, and penetrated many of the city's facilities. In this way, we recuperate in those ancient palaces and corridors, and those who have suffered heavy losses Little by little, the order has recovered - at first, we just gathered in the shallower part of the ruins, which was safer and more than enough to accommodate all our members at the time,

But as the Order slowly recovered, we decided to go deeper.

"We want to at least figure out what our 'home' looks like.

"We quickly explored the safe dome area and the almost empty mid-level connecting corridor, and finally, in the deepest part of the ruins, we found...something that was still working."

Gawain's eyes immediately became serious: "What is still running? What is it?"

"Allow me to show you what I saw back then—"

Megall said in a low voice, the shapeless starlight body gradually dispersed, it turned into a haze, and in the depths of the hazy smoke, Gawain saw a holographic image (magic illusion) quickly Stripped and recreated from Megall's memory.

He saw a huge rotunda, with a large-scale ring-shaped facility surrounded by metal and crystals on the periphery of the hall. A large number of black obelisk-shaped installations were inclined in the hall, and the top of the hall pointed to the hall. In the center of the hall, and at the very center of the hall, he saw a dazzling, like a sea of ​​light surging in a circle of ancient devices, it was like some kind of viscous liquid, but it was rising When it got up, it showed a hazy and illusory brilliance, and inside it, there was something like a star that was constantly moving and flickering.

Gawain frowned immediately: "What is this?"

Megol's voice came from the surrounding haze of smoke and dust: "A powerful energy-confining device, consisting of an astonishing magnetic field, circulating arcane energy, and a series of elemental stabilizers, so large that the entire hall is so large And some of the cloisters around the hall are its 'shell'."

Then the former pope paused and added: "It took us almost a century to figure out these general 'functional components'."

"...The center of the restraint field is the wreckage of the God of Dreams?" Gawain frowned, "Is this a prison device?"

"We thought so too...and this was one of the biggest mistakes we made," said Megall III solemnly, "After discovering this area, we didn't understand its function at all, just thought it was The energy of the ruins is like the magic well in the Mage's tower. We carefully studied it and spent a century to understand its general function, but found that the technology inside could not be copied and used at all - of course, we did not dare to close it rashly It, because no one knows the consequences of doing so.

"After many years, we finally found some way to control the flow of energy, and in one attempt to adjust the flow of energy, the central part of the confinement field opened a very small crack - the thing that was shielded inside Finally a breath of air came out, and I was there at the time.

"In that breath, I sensed some terrifying and familiar 'voices'—"

There was a sudden trembling and hesitation in Megall's voice, as if that terrifying feeling would still haunt his now heterogeneous body and mind, but after a moment of composure, he calmed down his tone and continued:

"I sensed the breath of the gods.

"An astonishing truth that shocked us all - what is 'imprisoned' in the restraint field is nothing else, but the god we once worshipped and revered, or rather, a part of the god...

"That's a fragment of the god of dreams. We don't know where it came from, what kind of power can cut a fragment from the god's body, and we don't know how much it has been imprisoned in that device. Years, we only know one thing - that terrifying god who is on the verge of madness, and will eventually engulf the whole world, can also be hurt and imprisoned.

"After the Ancestral Peak incident, everyone was enveloped in a kind of long-term despair, because the power of the gods was so powerful that it was impossible for mortals to fight against it, and at the same time, this power was walking in an impossible line On the road that has been blocked and gradually becoming crazy, all this is as irreversible as the doomsday in the countdown, but the device we found underground seems to allow us to see a ray of light - it is a piece of God! Imprisoned, fragments that can be used for research!

"After overcoming a great deal of fear, we ... started working on that thing.

"The powerful force of the restraint field can shield the spiritual pollution of gods, which makes our research possible, and it is these properties of the restraint field that make us make terrible and wrong judgments about everything—— We mistakenly thought the entire underground facility was a prison, that the restraint device was used to trap the gods..."

Just as Gao Wen was about to ask, Amber next to him couldn't help but break 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 provide temporary containers for the gods - the so-called container is the restraint field in the hall.

"The will of the gods 'falls' in the form of 'fragments' at the center of that bounding field, like a disembodied eye through which the god of dreams observes the world, and we, busy under the watchful eye of this eye for hundreds of years.”

Amber took a deep breath: "...Mom..."

Even Gawain felt a chill spread over his heart. He could fully imagine what a terrifying truth it was, so that at this moment, Megall III would tremble when he mentioned related matters.

"Everything you do is watched by the god of dreams?" His tone was extraordinarily serious, and he looked at Megall, who had reunited with his brows furrowed.

"Fortunate in misfortune - the 'eye of God' in the device is not connected to the god's body in real time," Megall said in a complicated tone, "the 'eye of God' in the device is more like a split It collects information in this world, and after a certain level, the polarity of the core of the restraint device will be reversed, releasing the fragments as the 'eye of the god' back to the realm of the gods, and then the god of dreams will know about the 'eye' 'The sight we saw, and the restraint device we found may be too old, or some functions may have been damaged and stuck, and it has never released the 'eye of God' at 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' in it are theoretically the masters of the prison, and the gate of the prison... May be opened due to system self-healing.

"You can imagine how scary this is for us."

"I can imagine," Gawain nodded lightly, "but I'm curious, how did you find out the truth? Could it be that there is an instruction manual next to the ancient device?"

Megall was silent for a moment, and the starlight aggregate slowly shrunk: "...Your Majesty, do you know how I became this way?"

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you change your life form to prolong your life?"

"At that time, I had already extended my lifespan with the technology provided by Doomsday, at least for a few more centuries," Megall said with a sigh, "It was an experiment that made me look like this. ACCIDENT.

"Because of a mistake in manipulating the energy flow, I was hit by a ray shot out of the restraint field. The ray destroyed my body, but the powerful energy of the restraint field trapped my soul, and I was involved in those torrents. , and... slightly touched the 'eye of God' that was bound to the core."

Gawain understood: "The knowledge of the gods has the characteristics of forced instillation-you 'saw' the truth of the device from the fragments of the god of dreams?"

"Yes," Megol III affirmed Gawain's guess, "the moment I came into contact with the 'Eye of God', I knew the truth of the device and what would happen once the 'Eye of God' was released back to the God Realm Terrible consequences - all our secrets will be exposed to the gods, and the gods will never allow such disobedience.

"Fortunately, I 'survived' from that horrific accident. Because of the timely operation of the fellow members of the cult at the scene, my soul was released before being completely annihilated, but at the same time, serious distortions and mutations occurred— - Since that day, I have become like this.

"But compared with the real eye of God, the mutation of the soul is nothing, we must solve the hidden danger of the eye of God, either completely destroy it, or permanently cut off its connection with the realm of the gods, so that it will never return. to the god of dreams."