Chapter 311 Fire

Time soon came to the last day of November.

The day of the long shot.

Early in the morning, Gillan got up.

He practiced, washed, and read the newspaper while eating breakfast. His self-disciplined life was the same as always.

The newspapers were full of meaningless news. Gillan didn't care which noble lady had an affair with the male servant at home and messed around in the stable, nor did he care which store was short-changing customers and shop owners on the street in fluent Mus accents.

However, there was a young man with a promising future. Because he was cheated of his feelings and money by the person he loved, he jumped off the East Mus Bridge in despair and fell into the Sicily River and drowned.

This incident caused a lot of indignation in the capital circle.

Gillan shook his head and sighed that it was a pity.

He hated being deceived the most. Seeing such things, he couldn't help but hate the woman. If he was caught by him, he would definitely let her taste the iron fist of justice.

In addition, the reports on the border war in the newspapers are becoming clearer and clearer, and the situation is very good. According to the current situation, only a few cities in the Great Forest have not been recovered.

It is expected that within this year, the empire will completely quell the war and win this counterattack.

After a while.

After eating, Gillan folded the newspapers neatly and put them in the cabinet in order of date.

Then, he returned to the master bedroom.

He took out two real films, "Dark Ages # 1" and "The Great Plague # 2".

The strange phenomenon happened again.

I saw that the two black films seemed to melt, wriggled and glued together, and finally became a new real film.

Gillan looked at the surface of the film reel. The small note was marked with a pleasing handwritten cursive name:

"The Spark of Enlightenment".

'The series of films about "The Remnant King" William Gerard, its name was originally called "The Spark of Enlightenment"...'

Gillan raised his eyebrows.

He actually wanted to know what the black cube that even "Banlan" could not give a detailed entry was.

After installing the black film reel on the projector, Gillan inserted the mercury battery and raised his hand to flip the switch.

Click.

The shuttle turned and the beam was projected.

Gillan awakened the little familiar Weiwei, and the two sat on the wooden floor together to watch the movie.

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After the film started, the plot of the first half was almost the same. As the captain of the caravan guard, Gillan rescued the young William in the burned Marta Village and taught him to grow up.

Five years later, he met Clark and went to the Nvsi Lake to search for treasure together. He was attacked by the Qiushang clan...

It was not until the subsequent development that new changes appeared.

After Gillan parted with William outside Florian City under the sunset, the plot took another turn, this time spanning ten years.

At that time, William had already founded the "Healing Knights" and led the mercenary group to win repeatedly in the "Battle of Rongsa", and his reputation was growing day by day.

The plot gradually progressed to the Rongdeng Great Plague period that Gillan was familiar with...

However, what surprised Gillan was that after the "Healing Knights" conquered the territory of the Rongdeng Kingdom one after another, they suddenly accepted the recruitment of King Ajoss II.

Directly turned the guns and aimed at the Kingdom of Sakya.

At the same time, William Gerard, the leader of the group, and the four knights were all awarded titles in the palace hall of "Samwell", the capital of the Rongdeng Kingdom.

William not only became an earl, but also received a face-to-face commendation from King Ajoss II, and married Princess Philippa Isaac.

This secret history really shocked Gillan.

And the role of teacher he played has continued to this day, and it seems that he has become a member of the Knights, responsible for logistics.

But William's respect for him has never changed.

Although the members of the Knights were confused about the decision of the leader, they never questioned it.

The deputy leader, "Silver Crown Knight" Agni Baldwin, once said that William's goal was most likely to use the power of the Kingdom of Rongdeng to clear the forces of Sakya and put an end to the war.

However, the subsequent development of the plot was counterproductive...

Gillan stayed in the Knights for nearly a year and followed the team to fight. He also took this opportunity to constantly test the "Owl Form" and swordsmanship on the battlefield.

He even made a name for himself, and was vaguely known as the fifth knight commander, the "Mad Owl Knight".

After another transition.

Time accelerated to 1655.

William was already 49 years old this year.

The Kingdom of Sakya was finally defeated in the war and annexed by the Kingdom of Rongdeng. The most magnificent and long "Battle of Rongsa" in medieval history was declared over.

But William's dream was still not fulfilled.

Because he found that even if the Kingdom of Rongdeng defeated the Kingdom of Sakya and achieved unification, it still did not stop its expansion.

The ambitions of those in power are endless and will never stop.

At the same time, William had aroused the fear of the Rongdeng royal family because of his numerous merits. Even the ministers who had stood on the side of Earl William gradually distanced themselves from him since some time ago.

Coincidentally, during this period, an unprecedented plague and famine broke out again in the Rongdeng Kingdom.

Starving people were everywhere, and crows formed clouds.

The whole world seemed to be covered by gray and gloom.

Countless civilians died overnight, and the speed at which the bodies fell was faster than the speed of digging pits. In the end, the Rongdeng Kingdom directly gave up part of its territory and let the civilians fend for themselves.

The seven or eight surrounding principalities are ready to move, frequently encroaching on the kingdom's territory.

Domestic conflicts seem to be a dynamite barrel that is about to explode and be completely destroyed...

One night in November.

William was stabbed in the back by the old King Ayose II. Five hundred elite soldiers surrounded his mansion and sent dozens of mystics to assassinate him.

Faced with this, William managed to break out of the siege on his own. With one man and one sword, he fought from the mansion to the front of the palace, leaving a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood behind him.

But at the last moment he stepped onto the steps.

He fell head-on.

Because in the evening before the night of the assassination, the person he loved most, his wife Philippa, the crowned princess of the kingdom, poisoned the wine he drank.

When he saw his wife, the king and many ministers, surrounded by countless soldiers, William's eyes dimmed.

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After watching this movie, Gillan finally understood that the "Healing Knights" in history did not retreat.

But he was betrayed.

Thousands of members died and dispersed in the end. The leader was imprisoned in the most notorious "Silent Dungeon" in the Rongdeng Kingdom, and the four knight captains disappeared.

During this movie viewing, Gillan, as a member of the Knights, was also hunted by the kingdom.

But with his powerful makeup and disguise skills, and with the help of Weiwei, he hid in "Samwell" and was always paying attention to the development of the situation in secret.

But this plot made Gillan feel strange.

Because in his opinion, with William's intelligence, he would not be unable to see through the situation in the Rongdeng Kingdom, or even the malicious intentions of the people around him.

But subsequent developments made the inexplicable feeling in his heart become even stronger...

Because William suffered for three years in the "silent dungeon".

Eyes were gouged, tongues were cut, hand tendons and hamstrings were severed, skinned, whipped, and branded with irons...

There was not a single intact part of his body.

But in such a plot, suddenly on a quiet night, King Ayose II died suddenly, the princess was also beheaded, the entire royal family died, no one was spared, and the ministers also died.

A tall, straight, strange yet familiar figure stood at the top of the Kingdom Hall.

He raised the cross sword in his hand in the light of the morning light. Under his long golden curly hair fluttering in the wind, he had a pair of perfect facial features.

It was William who was reborn as a god.

He opened his mouth and said calmly to everyone in "Samwell":

"I am destined to make great achievements and end wars. But the powerful regard me as a sword, a chess piece, and a piece of grass. They will destroy me after using me."

"This unfair fate cannot make me bow my head. I killed all the people who got in the way, and I will also kill the people who will get in the way in the future."

"Now, I am the king of glory."

"Please remember my name, William Gerard."

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Until the end of the movie, Gilan's brows were still furrowed.

He always felt that in the series "The Enlightenment", some crucial information and plots were missing, which resulted in the logical relationship between the previous and later episodes being somewhat fragmented and absurd.

The whole process was full of contradictions.

So until the next day, the first day of December, the day of the montage, Gillan chose to watch the movie again.

This time, in the constantly flashing video screen, Gilan finally found the answer he wanted...

Those are four extremely secret Easter egg scenes.

The first scene.

It was at the beginning of the establishment of the "Healing Knights" that William led the team to formally intervene in the "Battle of Rongsa" one night as mercenaries.

William lay on a simple straw bed in the marching tent and had a dream.

In this dream, he was extremely lucky to visit "Toyalan", the land of gods, and met a woman on the shore.

The woman was wearing a snow-white dress and her long white hair shawled. She was sitting lazily on a rock, looking at the sea.

After a simple exchange, William learned the other party's name, Xia Dia.

Xia Diya speaks very softly and makes people feel like spring breeze. She always had a friendly smile on her face, and William was quite fond of her.

The two quickly became friends.

During the chat, Shadia called William "the hero of the times" and seemed to be very optimistic about his future.

"William, your dream is great, and I admire it very much... But mortals have their limits, and you may not succeed in the end."

Xia Diya smiled slightly and said.

William didn't care, he just shook his head and replied:

"Of course I know...and I'm ready to die on the battlefield."

"If one day, your dream is shattered, you can call my name in your dream...I can help you."

Xia Dia said to William solemnly.

When leaving, she also gave William a scale-shaped ornament as a token of her friend.

When William woke up at dawn, he originally thought it was just a dream, but he was shocked to find that he was holding the scale ornament in his hand.

The second scene.

It was in the evening on the night of the assassination.

Forty-nine-year-old William stood by the window of the attic of the mansion, looking at the scenery of "Samwell", the capital of the kingdom, with an indifferent expression.

After twenty-eight years, he once again took out the scale ornament, took off the black cube from his neck, and placed it on one end of the scale.

"There is no hope for this country..."

"Shadia, you are right."

"I am willing to follow the principle of 'equivalent exchange' and pay everything for it in exchange for power beyond the world."

Immediately, there was a knock on the door, and his princess wife Philippa brought the wine with a smile.

William turned around with a calm expression.

Without hesitation, he picked up the glass and drank it in one gulp.

The voice-over suddenly sounded something that Ms. Shadir said at some point:

"William, if your dream is shattered, you can come to me. Everything in the world follows the principle of 'equivalent exchange'. If you can meet the four conditions, I can help you ascend to godhood."

"1. Go through wars and control your subordinates. This is to imitate the experience of March Sichen's 'Gladiator' and November Sichen's 'Blind General'. Through this, you can peek into the laws of the two Sichens and summarize your own path of."

"2. Endure torture and redeem yourself. This is the experience of Seventh Month's 'Omer', through which you can gain light and illuminate your way forward. The world is already out of order, and as the God of hope and order, He acquiesces You borrow His law.”

"Third, combine with salt to give birth to offspring. This is the help of September Sichen's 'Ms. Snow'. Through this, you can get the favor of 'equivalent exchange' and complete the highest gift from a mortal to Sichen."

"Four. The fire of love inspires enlightenment. Use the world's relics in your hands to obtain the highest enlightenment in despair, and soar on the spot..."

The third scene.

In the dim "Silent Dungeon", William was naked and skinny, with disheveled hair and bruises all over his body.

His hands were spread out and he was shackled to the wall. The whole person fell to his knees, bowed his head and said nothing.

The leader, who used to be as high-spirited as a god, is now being tortured to the point of becoming a human being.

A man slowly walked from the shadows outside the cell.

It was a man wearing a strange round helmet. His face was covered with thick shiny glass, and his facial features underneath could not be seen at all.

He was also wearing a fat white jumpsuit, which looked out of place for this era.

"William, is this your plan?"

A muffled sound came from under the helmet.

"Borrow the power of the four Si Chens to activate the 'Enlightenment Fire'... Although I think this is too risky, I still choose to believe you."

Hearing the sound, William slowly raised his head.

His face was haggard, his eyes were dark and empty, he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Clark understood what his best friend meant, sighed and nodded.

"Okay, I understand."

As he spoke, the man in the "astronaut uniform" waved his hand, and a strange black square-headed machine appeared beside him, supported by a tripod.

The circular lens focuses on William in the cell.

Click——

With a flash of white light, history was recorded.

The fourth scene.

William was walking in a very dreamy wilderness, but there were countless sharp knives standing on the ground.

He stepped on the knife naked and was bleeding.

But William's expression did not change, and he walked forward resolutely, even though he was faltering, he was very firm.

He walked through the wilderness and came to a square gate at the end.

This door is made of simple stone and is engraved with dense patterns and symbols. In the center of the door frame, there are several ancient Xilu characters:

"The Gate of Weights."

Beside the door stood a dark-skinned man.

He wore a golden cocked hat and a priest's robe, carried a double-winged snake staff in his left hand, and held a pot-shaped furnace in his right hand, which seemed to be burning with infinite temperature.

"Hermes, 'King of the Furnace', I am here at the invitation of 'Ms. Snow' Shadir..."

William spoke calmly.

The priest named Hermes did not speak, but silently stepped aside to allow William to pass through the "Gate of Weights".

After he walked through the door.

But in an instant, they came to a lake covered with ice and snow.

"Is this the Rinchi Lake, Shadir's home-ownership residence..."

William murmured.

He saw hundreds of human-shaped ice sculptures, frozen in various postures on the lake.

At the end of the glacial lake, there is a familiar figure of a lady.

Shadir floats in the air, wearing a crown and white hair. His eyes are closed and his expression is holy.

Wands in the left hand, scales in the right hand.

One end of the scale is a pile of salt, and the other end is William's black cube "The Fire of Enlightenment."

"William, believe me, you will be the hero of this era..."

He descended slowly and spoke gently.

William asked:

"'Ms. Snow,' I have always been curious as to why you chose me instead of Clark... We both hold the 'Enlightenment Fire'."

"You are different from him."

Shadir spoke softly and shook his head.

"Clarke Smith is an alternative. His dreams doom his future. After all, he cannot become the hope of mankind."

"..." William was silent.

Shadir raised the scepter in his hand and stabbed directly into his heart, causing blood to drip from his body.

He therefore freed up his hands, pulled William into his arms, and then said softly:

"William, give our child a name...she will become an important barrier in this world, endure suffering for the world, and save people."

"But it's not fair to her. Is her mission in life to live for others? Shadir, my goddess of justice...don't you think this is too ironic?"

William said indifferently in the goddess's arms.

Xia Dier lowered his eyes and answered softly:

"No, this is the greatest fairness... William, I have provided you with the law in my hand, not only allowing you to ascend, but also sacrificing your daughter to save this world on the verge of collapse."

"This is already the best choice."

Hearing this, William fell into a long silence.

At this moment, he remembered his dream, the painful struggles of countless mortals in the dark times, and the gradually intensified "miasma", which seemed to cast a doomsday shadow on the world.

He knew that if he did not make sacrifices, everything would enter the grave of destruction.

No matter the old god Si Sui or the new god Si Chen...except "Ms. Snow" Xia Dier, no one was willing to save it.

Finally, William took a deep breath and looked at Xia Dier. And gently, softly said a name:

"Our daughter..."

"The name is Tolina Gerard."