Chapter 188 Because I Don’t Want To

That's not even the current 1.0 plot anymore!

The name of the 3.0 expansion pack is called [Shadows of Avalon], and this is also the version in which the Ring of Ending ritual appears for the first time.

The arrival of Fallen Sky Division takes place outside the main plot. To be more precise, this is the story that takes place in the trailer of version 3.0. But Avalon's Shadow Sky Division only came after the main line BOSS of version 3.0, the Fallen Sky Division that came to Star Antimony, was defeated.

The "someone" who was once a puppet of Star Antimony but is now independent and summoned Shadow Sky is Isabel (puppet).

——This is the core of the Star Antimony Kingdom's conspiracy, and it is also the reason why they dare to attack Avalon directly.

They used the most advanced technology crystallization - using the techniques of golem, alchemy, ritual and necromancy to create a replica of Princess Isabel, who was loyal to Star Antimony as a doll. It even has an independent consciousness and can act independently without accepting orders.

She looks exactly like Isabelle in appearance, except for the joints that are hidden under her clothes.

Of course, there is a huge personality gap between her and Isabel. And because of her low intelligence in autonomous action mode, as long as the ministers are clear in their thinking, they can easily see that she is just a doll.

——But having a puppet as a cover is enough.

On the surface, it is still the royal blood that controls Avalon - even if she is not on the authoritarian path, it is better than nothing. Those ministers who betrayed Avalon and went to Star Antimony will not be blamed. The hatred of the Avalonians will not be completely concentrated on the Star Antimony people.

People will only feel that Avalon has been defeated once and therefore signed a contract to sell out their interests. But they would never have thought that their new queen was just a puppet of the Star Antimony Man.

It is precisely because in version 3.0, Isabel became famous for defeating the Fallen Division with the support and help of the Theocracy. People began to wonder - if it was Isabel who defeated the Fallen Division, then who is their queen?

Until the 3.2 version of the plot, the puppet lost the control of the Star Antimony Man and was forced to start learning Isabel's past. In the end, the doll gradually awakened her heart - or in other words, she gradually lost control. She really grew to think that she was Isabel.

Aiwass forgot the plot in the middle. But in short, in version 3.4, Miss Puppet and Puppet Queen learned of the existence of the "Shadow of Avalon", and finally chose to sacrifice their brother John as Isabel in an attempt to summon their ancestor Lancelot I to protect Avalon.

However, the summons failed.

The summons must fail.

Because the ceremony arranged by Merlin before he became an apostle had long been modified by Lancelot's adoptive mother and Merlin's ex-girlfriend, the Lake Fairy Vivian of the Path of Love.

After completing her great achievements as a mother, Vivian also successfully became an apostle.

But she was not the apostle of Henga, but became the apostle of Ying Tiansi.

According to the rules of the path of love, both superiors and subordinates are loved. So she can be counted as Ying Tiansi's daughter or lover, then Lancelot is Ying Tiansi's grandson - this is why he went to the Kingdom of Shadows to experience instead of becoming the Silver Crown Dragon Apostle.

Vivian's original purpose was probably to prevent Lancelot's rebirth.

Because everyone knows that as long as Lancelot dies again after being reborn, he will leave the Kingdom of Shadows forever and become the apostle of the Silver Crown Dragon. But as long as his resurrection fails, he will stay here forever as a warrior of the Kingdom of Shadows.

Despite Lancelot's bad attitude towards her, Vivian still loves him one-sidedly.

As a foster mother, and as a mentor, but also as a lover.

Extraordinary people on the path of love always find it difficult to control their desires. Moreover, various desires will be mixed together and misidentified.

The reason why Lancelot had a bad attitude towards her when he became an adult is also very simple - because Vivian did not raise Lancelot as an orphan, but fell in love with him after seeing Lancelot as a baby. She fell in love with him and then stole him as an infant directly from his parents.

But maybe it’s because Huan Tiansi has tampered with it, or maybe it’s just a coincidence, or maybe it’s the inspiration for the “Ring of the End” ritual… In short, after being modified by Vivian, this ritual just happened to be The "ring of the end".

When she changed this ritual, Huantiansi had not yet taught this ritual to humans.

Lancelot's still-living body became the "living sacrifice" needed for the Ring of Ouronomy ceremony. The close kinship between him and Ying Tiansi became the foundation of the ceremony.

What serves as the ritual fire is the ignorant and pure desire in the puppet queen's heart.

Want to live as a human being, as "Isabelle du Lac"——

As a result, the ritual absorbed John's blood, the puppet queen's heart, and Lancelot's body, and turned into a top-notch "Ring of the End" ritual, directly dragging Shadow Tiansi down.

——Having said this, Ying Tiansi must also be at a loss.

Because it is impossible for Tiansi to want to be dragged down by the Ring of Ending - even if they can be reborn in the dream world after being killed, if they die in the material world, they will no longer be Tiansi after rebirth.

Although the phantom will regenerate after death, its "equipment" will be dropped.

Ordinary phantoms don't have much equipment, but Tiansi has authority...that is, their Tiansi fragments.

If you die in the dream world, you can be resurrected in full state as long as the person who kills you is not a fellow who can absorb your fragments. But if you die in the material world, it is equivalent to this part of the fragments falling directly into the void.

It is the disintegration of this part of the authority and the vacancy of the occupied power nodes that can allow the extraordinary people on this path to break through the limit and go further. It was after Ying Tiansi died once in the material world that the rare shadow power was finally unlocked.

Now without the puppet queen, Aiwas can't say whether Ying Tiansi will succeed in descending.

But he can be sure that Vivian must have changed the ritual. In other words, no matter what, it can't be Lancelot who descends. Maybe it will be Vivian, or it may still be Ying Tiansi. The best possibility is that his former brothers and other knights who have become apostles of the Silver Crown Dragon, but it can't be Lancelot.

But another troublesome thing came.

That is, Aiwas can't stop the queen from performing this ritual.

——Now that twenty members of the royal family have died, the ritual is only one last one away from completion. Then you, an outsider who had never heard of this ritual before, suddenly jumped out and said, "There is something wrong with this ritual, stop it immediately"?

There is no need to think about it, he can't persuade her.

Even if she knows there is a problem, the old lady will definitely try.

Because without Lancelot's protection, Avalon will find it difficult to survive the pain period - the fact is indeed so. Avalon without Lancelot was directly pushed by Xingti's F2A.

However, the world level is too low now. There are very few people who can even touch the upper limit.

If you want to change all this, you still have to wait for the big event of version 2.0... At that time, the upgrade speed will increase suddenly.

Now if they really pull out the Shadow Tiansi, it will be a mess - at this time, the whole world can't get a sixth-level team together, and the demon incarnations of the Rosicrucian Society are also stuck at the upper limit of the fifth level.

If you don't reach the sixth level, how can you beat the descending Tiansi... If the priority is not enough, you can't even break the defense.

Then Avalon will be buried with the whole world.

...Then, let's think about it. Is it possible to fix this ritual?

Not impossible.

If Merlin is summoned and told that Vivian has changed a part of his ritual... can he find a way to change it back?

——This is like a one-time program written when I left the company more than 400 years ago. Because it was a one-time program, there was no comment. Now the program is ready to run, but a bug has appeared. I hope he can come back to the company to fix it now.

... Aiwass thought about it and felt that there was not much hope.

The best possibility is to destroy the ritual directly. This is not difficult, after all, the foundation of the ritual is Lancelot's body.

Although Aiwass can't understand this complex ritual at the apostle level... but if the problem is solved fundamentally, just kill Lancelot. Lancelot's body is the foundation of the ritual, and the ritual will automatically close when he dies.

After all, it is just a body without a soul. It is equivalent to a sixth-level strongman falling into a deep sleep that cannot be awakened. It is still very easy to kill him.

But in that case, there is no turning back. He also had to prepare other means to fight Xingtan.

However, Her Majesty the Queen basically didn't think about that.

After all, this was not a plan arranged by Avalon, but a flexible countermeasure against the conspiracy of Xingtan and Iris. It was already amazing to be able to think of a counterattack when he was completely passive, surrounded by enemies, and troubled by internal and external troubles. And now, less than a year later, if Aiwass asked to tear it all down and redo it...

Tsk, it hurts a bit.

Aiwass suddenly felt that it seemed that knowing too much was not a good thing.

The result was that no matter how he moved, it seemed to lead to unexpected situations.

... Logically speaking, just let the story develop. Let Avalon perish and let them flee, and the problem should be solved in the end... Let Avalon be destroyed and then reborn in the flames.

But can he do this?

Aiwass rejected it without thinking.

There is no complicated reason.

——Because I don't want to.

Chapter 2 will be written after having a meal!