Chapter 847 [0834] Nunu and Willump's Secret Mission
Why did Nunu and Willump appear in Lakstak?
This has to do with Lissandra's mental turmoil at the time. Because she wanted to connect to Kalya's dream through Ino's dream, Lissandra suffered from the dream erosion from the nightmare, and her mind was seriously turbulent. Willump felt something and decided to go to the place where Anivia was reborn with Nunu.
According to Nunu, he had never seen nirvana. His mother said that nirvana was rebirth, and rebirth was the stone beetle secretly coming out of the ground again, so he also wanted to see what Anivia looked like when she came out of the ground.
Of course, Anivia could not come out of the ground.
When Willump brought Nunu to the edge of the Howling Abyss and walked into the abyss along a winding path, they heard strange singing halfway.
If Nunu was not a member of the Notai tribe and had been exposed to music since childhood, it would be difficult for him to hear any actual content from the ethereal singing.
But Nunu, who is emotional and empathetic, keenly grasped the voice hidden in the wind.
"Someone is calling me!"
Willump didn't hear the voice Nunu said clearly, but he trusted Nunu very much, so they changed the direction of entering the Howling Abyss and ran towards the source of the voice.
What Nunu and Willump didn't know was that if they followed Willump's previous route and walked through the passage in the snowman's memory, they would end up falling into Lissandra's trap, and eventually, like countless snowmen whose dream power was extracted, they would sink into the dream woven specifically for them and would never be able to escape.
On the contrary, it was the voice hidden in the Breath of Anivia that Nunu heard that could truly guide them safely into the Howling Abyss.
The lower they went, the colder it was in the Howling Abyss.
At the beginning, Nunu could still walk by himself, but as the temperature dropped further, he gradually had to be held in Willump's arms to move forward - Willump's thick hair kept him warm, and even if only the Frostguard Warriors could enter the center of the Howling Abyss, his arms were still warm.
Nunu, who was held in Willump's arms, poked his head out, rubbing his red ears while carefully listening to the intermittent singing in the Breath of Anivia, guiding Willump in the direction of progress.
Although his ears hurt, the warm feeling of his body still made Nunu feel a subtle sense of comfort - this even made him think of the time when he was with his mother.
Speaking of which, Nunu had never been to the bottom of the Howling Abyss before, and he could not find his mother. Could it be that his mother went to the bottom of the Howling Abyss first for more stories?
Nunu's thinking began to become active, his logical thinking ability declined, but his imagination became richer and richer, and the emergence of this kind of fantastic ideas meant that he was getting closer to dreams step by step.
In the cold wind of the Howling Abyss, dreams and reality were being distorted and reconciled.
This is why every time the warriors of the Frostguard tribe enter the Howling Abyss to explore the indescribable things under the abyss, they have to follow a specific route - it is not only the nine visible seals that seal the Watcher, but the Howling Abyss itself is also a part of the seal.
Fortunately, with the guidance of the song, and Willump himself is a snowman, and has a strong resistance to the power of dreams when he does not go astray, Nunu finally succeeded in finding the source of the song before he fell into a deep sleep.
A huge...egg.
It is hard to imagine that under the Howling Abyss, where there is no sunlight, there is actually a huge, crystal clear egg that seems to glow by itself.
And this egg is Anivia in the state of nirvana.
Or you can call her Eggnivia.
There is no sun or sunlight under the Howling Abyss. Nunu and Willump can climb all the way down, relying mainly on Willump's vision in the dark and Nunu's hearing to locate.
But in fact, Nunu, who was in a half-awake state due to the power of dreams and almost fell into a dream, had already closed his eyes because of the darkness around him.
However, now, the egg in front of Nunu was in the darkness, emitting a faint fluorescent light. The light blue light was not dazzling, and even in the darkness, it gave people a subtle and gentle feeling.
"Are you singing?" Nunu rubbed his eyes and jumped out of Willump's arms. "I heard the singing in the wind... Hey, it doesn't seem so cold here."
"I'm singing." Eggnivia quickly responded to Nunu, "Sensitive little guy, what you heard is my singing."
"Have you seen Anivia?" Nunu's eyes lit up, "Mom said that the Nirvana of the Ice Phoenix will usher in a new life. I saw Anivia rushing into the abyss with my own eyes. Did you see it?"
"Anivia, ha, there is no Anivia here, but there is Eggnivia." Eggnivia did not hide her identity, "Then didn't your mother tell you that after Nirvana, Anivia will return to the beginning and end of life, and become an egg, until it breaks out of the shell again."
"Mom just told me that Nirvana is a new life - I thought it was like a stone beetle, poking its head out of the mud!" Nunu shook his head, "She didn't have time to finish the rest of the story before we dispersed."
"Is that so?" Eggnivia did not continue on this topic. "You can understand my singing, so you should be from the Notai tribe, right?"
"Hey, do you know this too?" Nunu was a little surprised. "No wonder my mother said that Anivia is a symbol of wisdom."
If someone else said this, Eggnivia would only think that the other person was flattering, but if such words came from a little boy, she would only feel happy.
"Of course I know. If it weren't for the Notai tribe who like music and stories, who would listen to the Breath of Anivia?" Eggnivia's voice had a bit of a complex meaning. "The Breath of Anivia has never been just the breath of Anivia."
Eggnivia's words made Nunu a little confused.
Although he had listened to his mother singing since he was a child and had learned a lot about the ancient history of Freljord intentionally or unintentionally, Nunu still didn't understand the meaning behind these stories - stories are the carriers of history, but history is not just stories. Just knowing stories cannot be considered understanding history.
The Breath of Anivia is not only Anivia's cold breath, but also Anivia's ancient sigh. Although he is called the God of Wisdom of Freljord, how many people know that Anivia, the God of Wisdom, has been trapped in an endless cycle since thousands of years ago?
"So, little guy, are you willing to listen to a story?"
"Of course!" Nunu, who was still full of doubts the moment before, quickly became excited the next moment after hearing about the story, "Great, I haven't heard a story for a long time! As the God of Wisdom, Anivia must be able to bring a new story, right?"
"Haha, that's a new story of course." Eggnivia seemed to be laughing, but the laughter was not cheerful, "This is a story from a long, long time ago. The story starts with three little girls who pursue power."
Three is a magical number for Freljord. When Nunu heard this, he immediately thought of the three sisters.
"There are three little girls who grew up together. Although they come from different tribes and have different interests, they are as close as sisters to each other and have always been inseparable. Since the age of twelve, they have determined that each other is the best partner."
As if the keyword of partner was triggered, Willump took out a hard potato from his arms and stuffed it into Nunu's pocket. After Nunu took the potato, he quietly gave him a thumbs up, as if silently affirming that Willump was his "best partner".
"But the three little girls come from three different tribes. Although they are very close, their tribesmen always have disputes. Different tribes are fighting and plundering each other, forever. Even if they help to reconcile, they still can't stop the war between tribes."
Nunu nodded gently.
During his journey, Nunu also saw many fights between tribes. At the beginning, Nunu would try to stop them, hoping to stop the looters - but on this ice field, the looted tribes would suffer because they had no supplies, and the looters would also die of hunger and cold if they had no harvest.
As a Notai man without a position, Nunu could not stop them, nor could he not stop them. This incident undoubtedly made him very sad.
Although the songs of the Notai people can move people's hearts, being moved cannot fill their stomachs or resist the cold wind.
"So, the three little girls began to seek help from different gods, hoping to get help, bridge the contradictions between each other, and make all the tribes as close as a family."
Nunu nodded again - this was also what he hoped to see.
"The first little girl found a powerful white bear. She believed that as long as the white bear gave her strength, she could unify all the tribes, so that everyone would be like a family."
"The second little girl found a clever goat. She believed that as long as the goat provided enough food, there would be no food shortage, and everyone would not need to fight each other endlessly."
"The third little girl found a wise phoenix. She believed that the wisdom of the phoenix could solve the problem. With enough wisdom, there would always be a way, so she chose to follow the phoenix and learn slowly."
This was a story that Nunu had never heard of before - although the images of the white bear, goat and phoenix all made him feel familiar, and the configuration of three little girls was even more common in the legend of Freljord, but he had never heard of this story before.
"Later, all three girls succeeded, but also failed."
"The girl who pursued the power of the white bear gained great power, but was also backfired by this power. She hoped to unify all the tribes, but other tribes were unwilling to join her. She spent ten years running on the battlefield, but could never completely eliminate all the tribes."
"The girl who pursued the help of the goat moved the goat with her sincerity, and finally got a big bucket that could feed everyone. As long as she picked up a shovel and stirred it in the bucket, it would be filled with hot soup. She thought this could fill everyone's stomach, but as the tribe grew larger, relying on this big bucket alone was far from enough to fill everyone's stomach."
"Even because of such a bucket, the tribe's stove owners were unwilling to go to livestock. Compared with hard work, grabbing a position closer to the bucket seemed more important."
"As for the little girl who pursued the wisdom of the phoenix, she followed the footsteps of the phoenix and traveled all over the land of Freljord, but was gradually eroded by pessimism. She found that the seeds of internal struggle seemed to be rooted in the souls of everyone. Even if they were well fed and well-drinking, they would not stop and would continue to fight for various reasons, and even develop into a war without end."
"For this reason, she was quite disappointed and took the initiative to bid farewell to the wise phoenix, as if she had determined that wisdom was not enough to solve the problem."
At this point, Eggnivia paused her story for a while, as if to give Nunu some time to think.
Then, when Nunu's face showed some realization, she finally continued the story.
"The three exhausted girls gathered together again at the age of thirty to share their experiences - however, they did not intend to give up, but swore to form an alliance and decided to try again with the strength of three people."
"And this time, they were infinitely close to success."
"The problem that the white bear's power could not solve was solved with the help of the goat."
"The problem that the goat could not solve was solved by blood and oath."
"Only the problem discovered by the third girl could not be solved from beginning to end - even if conquered by force, controlled by materials, connected by blood and oath, people would still fight endlessly, and the war still could not completely leave Freljord."
"It was at this time that Phoenix discovered that his former student seemed to be looking for some dangerous power."
"He found his former student and asked her why she did this, and his student calmly responded that this was the only way to solve it. The solution to the problem, she used wisdom to find a way out. "
"Phoenix naturally would not believe such sweet talk, but she said it was because Phoenix did not understand humans, and made a bet with Phoenix. "
"She said that wisdom is not easy to prove, but strength can. People who look weak can be stronger than the most powerful gods. If she can prove this, Phoenix will help her complete her plan. "
"Phoenix does not believe her, because Phoenix knows that the stronger humans are, the gods they believe in will be equally powerful. "
"The proud Phoenix made a vow with his former student-then, without the help of other gods, humans defeated the arrogant white bear. "
"Phoenix can only accept the bet and agree to the conditions of his student. "
Speaking of this, Nunu has realized the identities of the protagonists in the story. He widened his eyes in surprise, because no story has ever been told that the first generation of Lissandra was once Anivia's student!
"So, Anivia made a vow that she would not tell anyone about the bet and would contribute her divine power to Lissandra when she needed it." After Nunu guessed everything, Eggnivia no longer concealed it, "and Lissandra finally told her plan - in order to unite the Freljord people, she found a powerful and exploitable enemy."
"Wait, didn't you make a vow not to reveal it?" Nunu was stunned, "You can't tell anyone about the bet... Am I dead?"
"Of course not." A joyful laugh came from the egg, "I said, I'm Eggnivia!"
Kalya's Little Classroom·Eggnivia:
The egg after Anivia's Nirvana is another unit, called Eggnivia - if the Ice Crystal Phoenix is typing after Nirvana, the one who speaks is called Eggnivia, not Anivia.
PS. This chapter should have been uploaded earlier, but I didn't finish it and watched a game, and I felt sick...
LNG's play made me dream back to my college days - this is what S4567's World Championship tastes like.