Hao Ren was now very glad that he had stayed in the city for a day, and that he had seized the time to explore Gorgon's Abyss. He had also found the last words of Magician Marchieri in Gorgon's Abyss, from which he learned of the existence of the Tumen Empire.
He vaguely realized that the seemingly messy clues were actually the most important thing. What he had come into contact with was the ultimate truth hidden in the mysterious world of L 'Haronne.
When he mentioned the Tumen Empire and the inheritors, Grand Duke Owen, who was lying on the bed, did not answer immediately. Instead, he asked, "Are you here to participate in the Turn of the Era?"
Hao Ren looked into the eyes of the old duke and nodded solemnly. "Yes."
He did not blush, did not pant, and even seemed to believe himself.
This was the attitude of a good inspector. Without the experience of messing around with their god, they would never have developed such a temperament so quickly.
Grand Duke Owen breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Charlemagne and his sister. "I know. You have brought something. Now take it out."
Charlemagne frowned. "But that thing can only be taken out in the presence of His Majesty Berentine or Princess Constance …"
"Princess Constance will be here soon," Grand Duke Owen interrupted Charlemagne and looked up at the silver-haired woman standing next to him. "Ginny, you can ask Her Highness to come over now."
The silver-haired woman, known as Ginny, nodded gently, and then slowly closed her eyes. Her muscles relaxed, and her body appeared to be in a state of complete stillness. A few seconds later, Hao Ren heard a slight sound of electric current and mechanical friction coming from her body, as if some device had been activated.
The silver-haired woman's temperament changed completely in an instant. The gentle and slightly wooden temperament had turned into a sharp and powerful aura. Her eyelids trembled twice, and when she opened them again, her eyes had become fierce.
"Nice to meet you, I am Constance." She looked at Hao Ren and nodded slightly.
Then she looked at Charlemagne and his sister. "This is the second time I have met you, guests from the other side of the world."
"Woo —" Lily let out an exaggerated sigh. After a brief moment of surprise, she immediately figured out what had happened. "You're possessed by a ghost … Ahem, transmission of consciousness? Or something like a soul link? "
"It's the same technology as the Knights of the Ebon Blade." Hao Ren understood better than Lily. When Ginny closed her eyes, he had detected a large number of signal links, and before the link was established, the woman had signs of wireless communication with the outside world. "If I am not mistaken, you have been watching the situation in the room through this lady's eyes?"
"As you said, it is just consciousness transmission technology, and it is not advanced knowledge for the heritors." Princess Constance nodded slightly. "I am sorry that I can only meet you in this form. The situation at the frontline is not optimistic, and there are still mutated Knights of the Ebon Blade attacking us from time to time. While we have found a way to deal with them, we need someone here."
As she spoke, she looked around and took in the entire room. As the corrupting power on Grand Duke Owen had been purified by Rheia, the unnatural darkness in the room had disappeared, and the remaining divine power made the room even brighter and cleaner than the other normal rooms. "While I had guessed that you are heritors when I heard what you did in the Black Pine Forest, I did not expect you to wield such power. With this, there is more hope for the Turn of the Era."
"May I ask …" Awenna could not help but ask, "What does the Turn of the Era mean?"
When Hao Ren heard Awenna's question, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Damn it, he had been worrying about how to ask the question …
After all, pretending to have everything under control was too convincing, and after fooling around, he had to face the dilemma of being as calm as Lily on the outside but panicking on the inside. There were a lot of questions that he did not understand, but he could not find the right opportunity to ask, and that was the most troublesome situation for the investigators. Fortunately, Charlemagne and Awenna were there, and the siblings did not look any less confused than Hao Ren …
"Izzo really doesn't know the details?" Princess Constance frowned slightly, but then she let it go. "It doesn't matter. Take out what you have brought, it is what you were going to present to my father. "
Charlemagne and Awenna looked at each other and nodded slightly.
Then they each took out a delicate silver dagger from their dimensional containers, and without hesitation, they cut their fingers and pressed their bleeding fingers on the amulets hanging on their chests.
"Archivist, C-3035 (C-3036)," the siblings said in unison, but instead of chanting a spell, they uttered a password that sounded like a secret key. "Simultaneous authentication. Identification information submitted. Request to open the vault."
Hao Ren looked at the siblings, who had been tight-lipped about their mission along the way, and saw the amulets on their chests began to glow at the same time. The amulets were originally used to activate the special royal coat of arms on them, but now it seemed that they had a more important function. As the two amulets were activated simultaneously, Hao Ren felt the space around the siblings suddenly began to distort. Soon, a silver-white sphere with a radius of more than a meter appeared in the air, and as honeycomb-like patterns appeared on the surface of the sphere and peeled off layer by layer, a platinum staff finally appeared in front of everyone.
This platinum staff was the treasure that Charlemagne and Awenna had escorted all the way from Izzo to the Dragon Empire?
Hao Ren could not help but look at the platinum staff a few more times. He could not help but feel a little strange as if he had seen this staff somewhere else. Its flower-like pattern and the carvings depicting the sun, moon, and stars were all very familiar.
He immediately lifted his shoulder. "MDT, compare."
"No need for comparison. This is the platinum staff in the hands of the Holy King Haersona in the illusion of the Black Forest," the MDT's voice rang in his mind. "The appearance is a hundred percent match, and the energy signature is the same. There's no mistaking it."
Hao Ren could not help but feel a little surprised, but he did not show it on his face. Before he knew the function of the scepter, it was best not to express his thoughts rashly.
Charlemagne and Awenna were also stunned for a moment when they saw the platinum staff, and then they had a thoughtful look on their faces. Clearly, they could tell that the staff was exactly the same as the one they saw in the illusion of the Black Forest, and this was also the first time they saw the true appearance of the object they were escorting.
"Looks like you kept your promise and did not open the vault before you came here," Constance said. She could see the surprise on the siblings' faces, and she could guess what was going on. "By the looks of it, you have seen the Scepter of Domination somewhere else?"
"It was in the Black Forest …" Awenna replied. "We experienced an 'illusion' in the Black Forest. An ancient queen was holding this scepter, and she was called the Holy King …"
"Ah, that should be the echo of Haersona." Constance sighed softly. "May the Holy King rest in peace. She has persevered in this broken world for too long."
Charlemagne could not help but take a step forward. "May I ask, what is this …"
Constance cut him off before he could finish his sentence. "Do you know the use and meaning of this scepter?"
Charlemagne and Awenna looked at each other and shook their heads. Both of them had the same puzzled look on their faces.
"Then you should not know about the turn and end of the eras, right?"
The siblings still shook their heads.
Constance looked at them quietly, and there was no mockery or contempt in her tone. She simply asked, "Then how did you know to come here and hand me the item in the vault?"
"Our father suddenly summoned us to the inner court and gave us this mission," Awenna answered honestly. She could not help but feel a little weak in front of this' fellow princess' who was better than her in every aspect. "He even seemed to have foreseen the civil strife in the Dragon Empire, and told us that if there is an enemy in the imperial capital, we should look for you."
"But he did not explain this in detail," Charlemagne continued. "And I think …"
"You think that even your father does not know why he is doing this, right?" Constance took over Charlemagne's words and sighed. "Just like what my father told me, the legacy will eventually be lost, and there is no eternity in the empire. The gods will die, the Holy Spirits will die, the sages and the dragons will also die. The reshaping of the world will continue to strip away those memories and knowledge, even with eternal souls. In the end, we will all live blindly and ignorantly, and under the push of ancient obsessions, we will carry out this war that even we ourselves do not understand the meaning of. The undying will eventually become the walking dead, that is the price of eternal life … "
Charlemagne and Awenna were both stunned, but when Hao Ren heard the words' reshaping of the world ', his heart skipped a beat.
Holy crap, Princess Constance knew that the world had been reshaped!
Not only did she know, even her father knew!
And by reading between the lines … the 'reshaping of the world' that they knew about was not the first time? Or else they would not have used the term 'stripping away'!
In other words, they even knew about the destruction of the universe by the Mad Lord!
"I'm sorry, this might be hard for you to understand." Constance did not continue her exclamation. She noticed the confusion on the siblings' faces and shook her head. "In the state of consciousness transmission, some of the subconscious thoughts are harder to control, and I have become more emotional than usual. Now let us return to our normal pace. First … let us talk about the fact that our world was once destroyed. "
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