For hundreds of years, the eternal sleepers under the old capital of Typhon had been trying to understand and analyze the secrets of the gods from an ancient device. They once thought that the powerful confinement device was a cage used to imprison the fragments of the gods, but they never thought that it was actually a container and altar specially built for the gods. It carried the eyes of the gods.
This was undoubtedly a great irony and... horror.
The only fortunate thing for the eternal sleepers was that the restraining mechanism from the ancient times had malfunctioned, and the God's Eye that was contained within it was truly shielded. For the time being, it could not return to the Divine Realm. Instead, it could only be locked up on the "throne" that was originally prepared for it like a real prisoner. That was why it did not trigger a divine calamity that was as powerful as the "Upper Narrating Incident" back then.
The Eternal Sleeper only had two choices left. Either he completely destroyed the "God's Eye" in the restraint field, or he used a certain method to safely isolate the "God's Eye" from the Heavenly Realm forever, ensuring that even if the restraint field failed one day, the eye would not "tell" what it saw to God.
Gwen frowned as he looked at the starlight amalgamation floating opposite him. "Was the Great Collapse of Aurandale caused by your attempt to destroy or seal the God's Eye?"
"It was one of the reasons, but not all of it was because of us." Meghul III's tone suddenly became a little strange, as if he was lamenting about the fickleness of fate. "We finally decided to destroy the God's Eye, and came up with a plan. In the course of hundreds of years of research, we have a certain understanding of the ancient confinement device, and can make more adjustments and control. We found that at the right time, shutting down its inner ring stabilizing structure can cause a powerful energy shock in the confinement field, and if the energy level of the outer ring is adjusted to the highest, the shock can even completely annihilate the power of the gods in the center of the energy field...
"After sufficient discussion and calculation, we are ready to implement this plan. And to do so, we need a period of time to recharge the outer ring of the confinement device.
"The accident happened during this period. Do you remember that the entire ancient ruins is under the old capital of the Typhon Empire, Aurandale?
"While we were adjusting the confinement device, the Typhon Family suddenly decided to renovate the city's drainage system. Now that I think about it, it was all too coincidental, but no one noticed it at the time. The drainage system of the city was very backward. You know, 200 years ago, the Typhon Empire was no different from the old Ansu. The so-called drainage system of the city was just an underground river that passed through Aurandale, and the people drained all the dirty water into it. Apart from the underground river and a limited number of canals, most of the city did not have any sewers. Under such circumstances, the Royal Family of the Typhon Empire suddenly wanted to build a man-made sewer outside the main city, so they started to dig down...
"They dug very deep, but they did not touch the 'dome floor' of the underground palace at first. However, weird things still happened. The workers who were responsible for the excavation had hallucinations underground. As more and more rocks were transported out, the mental state of the diggers worsened. At first, the nobles did not care about the status of the civilian workers. Instead, they suspected that they were slacking off and forced them to work underground for a longer time. But very soon, the hallucinations began to extend to the supervisors and even the knights who were stationed near the excavation site …" That's right.
"When the abnormalities occurred on the surface, we focused most of our attention on the underground. As more and more excavators went out of control, the Royal Family of the Typhon Empire even dispatched elementalists to excavate the ground and attempt to melt through the rock stratum. Only then did we realize something.
"Unknowingly, the confinement device had weakened. That 'God's Eye' has its own consciousness, it stealthily spread out its power without alerting us. After years of infiltration and contamination, it had already affected the citizens of Aurandale. Even the Royal Family of the Aurandale was affected."
Standing by the side, Amber couldn't help but swallow her saliva. "Then... then what?"
"The situation is starting to get out of control. Some of the members of the royal family, as well as a large number of workers, supervisors, and nobles who were sent to dig the underground cavern, have been contaminated. They have begun to dig madly downwards. The mages who are loyal to the royal family have also joined in. Under the assault of powerful magic, the various defenses that we have set up are useless. They quickly dug a large hole in the center of Aurandale and found the dome of the underground palace. Following that, the dome was also dug open. The royal knights and mages swarmed in.
"The entire Aurandale was shrouded in a layer of strange, fearful and tense atmosphere. The commoners were clueless about what was happening. The lesser nobles and merchants were frightened by the frenzied excavations. All sorts of rumors and slanders sprung up. Even the upper nobles claimed that they had discovered treasures underground. This further intensified the chaos in the city...
"The Eternal Sleep Congregation was powerless to stop all this. More importantly... the God's Eye had begun to show signs of life.
"It knew what we were about to do. It resisted. The members of the Eternal Sleep Congregation were all powerful psionic mages. Furthermore, they already had a firm resistance against the gods. Under the suppression of the restraining device, it couldn't do anything to us. Thus, it turned those defenseless people on the surface into its tools. When the Royal Knight entered the underground palace and started to destroy the various energy stations, the God's Eye also began to attack the magnetic cage of the restraining device. The energy we had originally prepared to annihilate the God's Eye wasn't ready yet. If we rashly activated the device, it was extremely likely that the God's Eye would escape from the force field and return to the realm of the gods...
"My only choice at that time was to stop those frenzied excavators from losing control. Furthermore, I had to stop the Typhon Royal Family from continuously dispatching more Knight's.
"A few archbishops and I took the risk to come to the surface through other passages and sneaked into the castle of the Augustus Family. To our great surprise, half of the nobles and a considerable number of members of the royal family in the castle were still trying their best to resist the erosion of the God's Eye. Even the emperor himself... was barely maintaining his sanity.
"More than half of the excavators and Knight's that rushed into the underground palace were not sent by the Augustus Family. No one knew who gave those people the order to continuously excavate and invade the underground palace. The other half were sent by the emperor who was barely maintaining his sanity to stop and investigate the situation. However, after they entered the underground palace, they immediately went crazy and lost contact with the castle. The castle couldn't receive any news, and its judgment system was in a state of chaos. Thus, more and more investigation teams were sent out, and more and more people rushed into the underground palace.
"Fortunately, after building a strong mental barrier, we managed to free the emperor and some of the ministers from the erosion of the God's Eye. With the royal guards surrounding us, I told the truth of the underground to the Emperor of Typhon at that time.
"Of course, I didn't tell the emperor that behind the God's Eye was a 'true god' in the eyes of the public, because the way normal people see gods is obviously very different from how we see gods. I told him that it was a crazy evil god, and our research and excavation work on the surface had jointly awakened him.
"We — the people underground and the people above — had jointly created a huge mess, but at that time, there was no time to pursue the issue of responsibility. After quickly determining the situation in the underground palace, the emperor decided to evacuate the entire city, evacuate all the uncontaminated people, and create a no-man's land outside the city. During this period, we activated the underground annihilation plan and completely destroyed the God's Eye. "
Gwen nodded gently. "Evacuating the civilians, creating a mental barrier to prevent the spread of the mental corruption, destroying the center of the corruption … The idea was right. Then what?"
Meghul III was silent for a moment, and there was a sigh in his voice. "Under the command of the Knight's Regiment and the noble soldiers, the evacuation was completed quickly. After returning to the underground palace, a few archbishops and I blocked all the passages in the inner layer, blocking the crazy Knight and the excavators who had already entered the underground palace. This succeeded in delaying some time, and at the agreed time, we finally had enough energy. We successfully triggered the energy oscillation of the restraining device, and the God's Eye was destroyed by the powerful impact. We began to cheer until Earth's Wrath and Armageddon smashed on our dome one after another."
Amber blinked and spread out her hands. "… Just as I thought."
"We didn't realize at that time," Meghor the Third said in a self-deprecating tone. "We are a group of … researchers. Perhaps we are extreme researchers. We are a dark sect. We are depraved priests. We are paranoid and cold. We have chosen a terrible path. But even without all of this, we are still a group of researchers. This includes me.
"The researcher's brain is not good at speculating the Earth's Wrath and Armageddon that fell on top of our heads."
"Two hundred years ago, Emperor Typhon made a cold decision, but do you want to hear my opinion?" Gwen said slowly, his eyes falling on the cluster of starlight.
"… It's reasonable, isn't it?"
"It's reasonable," Gwen nodded gently. "If you failed to destroy the God's Eye, then the Aurandale area would be the source of the outbreak of the disaster. Destroying the entire area may not be able to stop the arrival of the evil gods, but it may at least buy more time for others to evacuate. If you succeeded in destroying the God's Eye, then Emperor Typhon would not have let you continue to live. You are a dark cult, and have been breeding in the imperial capital, under the nose of the royal family for hundreds of years. To a certain extent, you even have the ability to cause turmoil in the entire empire. This is something that no ruler can tolerate.
"So no matter what the result is, you must die in Aurandale."
"I figured it out after that," Meghul III said with a chuckle. "Many of us have figured it out."
"But you can't seek revenge on an empire, especially after suffering a heavy blow," Gwen said slowly. "More importantly, as time passed, the new generation of believers added in, and the Eternal Sleep Congregation would eventually forget what happened in Aurandale. The Augustus Family would also think that there were no survivors when the entire city collapsed. With the technology at that time and the chaotic situation after the relocation of the capital, they would not have the ability to check the situation deep underground. This terrible incident that may have left a stain on the royal family would be buried, and everyone would forget about it. Even if someone remembers, this incident would never be acknowledged.
"On the other hand, the subsequent facts also proved that Emperor Typhon's judgment was actually very accurate. After only two hundred years, you, a group of 'researchers' who are not bound by law and morality, created a second 'divine calamity' on the same spot. This time, the divine calamity was even a god that you created.
"If I did not appear, how big of a disaster would the Narrator have caused?
"I believe that the scale of the disaster is absolutely worth the Royal Family of Typhon sending their wizards to smash the entire Aurandale area and all of you with the Creation of Annihilation again."
Meghul III's starlight body shrunk, and his voice was full of helplessness. "... Ultimate irony, irrefutable."
"So, in summary, there is only one word —" Gwen sighed softly. "Deserved."
Metro: "…"
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Gwen shook his head and skipped this part. "Now there is evidence that your destruction of the God's Eye was not completely successful. The spiritual contamination of the god survived, and the curse of the Augustus Family is the evidence."
"We suspect that the God's Eye escaped at the last moment of destruction, but after all, it was severely damaged. It did not have the ability to return to the god, so it parasitized the bloodline of the Augustus Family." Meghul III replied. "For two hundred years, this curse has continued. It has not strengthened or weakened. Some of us who have lived longer and experienced the incident even thought that this was the price the Augustus Family had to pay for their 'betrayal'... Of course, after the incident of the Narrator, the mentality of these archbishops should have changed. After all, the impact was too great."
Gwen now understood why the archbishops of the Eternal Sleep were so determined to follow Cecil. The deterrence of the 'extraterritorial wanderer' was only one of the reasons. The other factor was obviously related to the disaster in Aurandale two hundred years ago.
Other than that, he was most concerned about the curse of the Augustus Family.
"Do you think that the God's Eye can recover and escape after entering the bloodline of the Augustus Family?" He frowned and asked in a deep voice with a serious expression.
"The possibility is very low," Meghul III replied. "We have been paying attention to the curse of the Augustus Family. The curse has obviously become a pure, something similar to the aftereffects of spiritual contamination. With the dilution and transformation of the bloodline of the Augustus Family, the 'divine part' of the curse can only become weaker and weaker. After all, the soul of a mortal is far lower than that of a god. The power of the gods is destined to decline after a long period of parasitism in a mortal's soul. Of course, it is only the 'divinity' of the curse that has declined. The strength of the curse itself... does not seem to have weakened in the past two hundred years. "
"Is that so..." Gwen touched his chin and said as if he was talking to himself. "Can something related to the gods really die so easily?"
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