The surroundings became eerily quiet. Less than twenty meters in front of us stood a phantom of a mysterious high-ranking officer of the ancient Xiling Empire known as' Reggie '. Yes, she was a phantom, as illusory as a video. This image was recorded tens of thousands of years ago. What we were seeing was what this old Imperial Army officer,' Reggie 'had done tens of thousands of years ago. Even though we were only a few dozen meters away from the phantom, the distance between us was even greater: the vicissitudes of time.
However, it was this phantom that was recorded in ancient times that was now looking at us. When she did this back then, there must have been nothing in front of her. What did she see?
Due to various interference factors, the image of "Lizzy" was blurry. I was unable to determine her appearance at all, nor could I see her eyes. But suddenly, I felt a gaze land on me. It was the gaze of a projection. It was a pair of powerful eyes that pierced through the vicissitudes of time and space to land on me. The other party seemed to smile faintly, and I heard a distorted voice. "I saw something … very interesting, but it has nothing to do with the current you."
She was speaking to her Emperor, but I felt that this sentence was also conveying a message to us. Yes, she was telling us this sentence: "I saw you."
"Is that so?" The Emperor of the 15th Heaven was stunned for a moment, as though he recalled something. Then, he chuckled, "Alright, I know your rules. I won't ask too much. Prepare to depart. We have less than a hundred years to complete this last expedition. Within a hundred years, regardless of whether we can find that Void Creature or obtain its help, we must return and face the attack. As for who can wake up again under this fifty percent chance, we can only leave it to fate. " The old Emperor seemed to shake his head in self-mockery. Then, he adjusted his aura and slowly raised his hand, "But no matter who wakes up, you must always remember, for the Empire! We will take revenge! "
All the commanders saluted at the same time and said in unison, "For the Empire! We will take revenge! "
Then, everything went silent and the holographic image stopped. Just like how the previous phantoms of the past 'played', the information recorded on this platform stopped. No one knew what happened after that. The last Emperor embarked on her hundred-year expedition to the depths of the Void to search for the last bit of hope. What she was looking for was a newly born Void Creature …
The surrounding phantoms trembled a few times before they dissipated. I was in a state of confusion and didn't notice it at all. It was only until almost all the phantoms turned into light particles that I realized there was one figure left behind.
It was a slender female Schilling Angel with a pair of pure white wings on her back. She wore a long white dress in the same style as Alaya's. She had been standing behind Alaya's group of Angels the entire time, with her back facing us just like all the other phantoms. In fact, no one had ever noticed that she was any different from the other phantoms of the past. It was only after all the phantoms had dissipated that this one figure caught everyone's attention. Just as I was about to take a step forward to see what was going on, she suddenly spoke!
"Her Majesty the Queen left her sword here before she left. But in the end, they never returned, and no one ever took it away from this platform again." The female Schilling Angel with her back facing us spoke softly. Her voice was clear and gentle, completely different from the phantoms of the past that everyone had met before. That was because no one had expected such a situation to occur. The moment she spoke, we couldn't help but stop in our tracks and exchange astonished glances with each other. Sandora couldn't help but ask, "You're saying that the Emperor didn't return?"
"A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. There was no news of Her Majesty the Queen and her fleet. There were no traces of battle in the void, but the entire fleet vanished." She sounded as if she was talking to herself. She didn't express any concern for Sandora, but it was obvious that she was answering us, and she was talking to each of us. "I waited until the very last moment, hoping to see Her Majesty the Queen return, but I didn't see anything. Ever since the Concept Severing began, I was forgetting many things every day. This process lasted for a hundred years, and I also forgot for a hundred years. I only knew that I had forgotten some things, but I didn't know what it was that I had forgotten. Every day, a large blank space would appear on my home planet, and then it would be filled up by randomly distributed information. In the end, I finally didn't realize that I had lost half of my brothers and sisters, and I closed this world. "
"Until today." She suddenly turned around, and I saw … a blurry, hazy face. "You've come, and you've brought back the avatar that I left in the tower as the center of defense."
I could only see her back earlier, and her sudden words confused me. I didn't realize that she actually looked familiar. Now that she suddenly turned her head, I finally realized that I knew the angel in front of me, and I blurted out, "Huh? A kite?! "
That's right, the ethereal figure in front of me, with her face and most of her body shrouded in layers of mist, was the kite angel that had been with me for days!
"… My name is Alleria, but … you can call me whatever you want." The angel shrouded in mist gently flapped her wings and jumped lightly. "It seems that after such a long time of deduction, the plan has finally deviated. The current situation is unexpected, but overall, it's developing well. Although there have been various errors in identifying your identities, I think you're the people I've been waiting for. However, the residual effects of the Concept Severing effect are still entrenched in this world. My memory recovery is terrible, and I'm as confused as you are. Maybe we can exchange what we know and piece together the truth. "
"…" I silently looked at the 'kite' that I had been with for a few days. I was not used to the fact that she had suddenly become such a 'living' object. I didn't know what had caused the current situation. Perhaps she had regained her consciousness after being sucked into the assembly hall, or maybe it was the effect of the phantom phenomenon just now. But I felt that the most urgent thing now was for us to sort out our thoughts, so I waved at her. "Wait a minute, we're a little confused, and we need to sort things out."
"Please help yourself." The female angel who called herself Alleria took a few steps back, indicating that she would not disturb us.
Everyone gathered together, looking at each other in confusion. In the end, Icetis, the one with the most nerves, spoke first. "Chen, I'm afraid none of your family can escape this time. There's something wrong with all of you."
I ignored Icetis's strange words and looked at the elder sister. "Sis, that … what do you think …"
"Heh," the elder sister showed a troubled smile. She, who had always been extremely calm, was at a loss at this time. But in the end, she still sighed. "Although it feels unimaginable, I'm afraid we all have a great relationship with the Fifteenth Sky."
"The relationship is unimaginable," Icetis sighed leisurely. "Based on experience, the phantoms of the old days in this place will only be disturbed if their true bodies exist within a certain range. Look at the video just now, there were only a few seriously disturbed phantoms, and one of them was the Emperor of the Fifteenth Sky. Frankly speaking, if you can accept this, I think one of you is the Emperor of the Fifteenth Sky of the old Empire …"
Everyone looked at each other again. Alright, Icetis had directly said something that everyone had guessed but no one dared to confirm. After all, this reasoning was too bizarre, but it had to be said that it was the most logical. Now, based on the premise that Icetis's words were correct, let's eliminate the possibility: Alaya and Pandora had already found their respective phantoms, eliminated. Sandora and Visca had a clear identity, eliminated. Similarly, Icetis, Lin and Monina were eliminated as well. Needless to say, I was eliminated. This way, when the phantoms were disturbed, the only people within the affected range would be Shallow Shallow, Lin Xue, and the elder sister … So, this matter was really inconceivable.
"Can you not be so dramatic?" I felt that my head was in a mess. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't figure out how the situation could be so bizarre. Originally, I thought that when I was identified as a Void Creature, I had already trained myself to be impervious to fire and water. But now, it seemed that you could never imagine how big of a joke life could play on you — and this joke was as big as it could get.
"You wouldn't be a weird family if you weren't dramatic." Icetis looked at me as if she was making a conclusion. "See that kite over there? She definitely knows more than us. It just depends on whether she's willing to tell us. Chen, as the charger for the past few days, go and talk to your battery. We're all depending on you. "
I said, "… Feng … Err, Alleria, we're done. Now, let's talk about what you know."
Alleria, fine, I was still used to calling her kite, floated over after hearing my words. She always had a calm and unhurried aura around her. I felt that she shouldn't be any calmer than us when she was facing her former commanding officer again. But at least for now, she really looked as calm as a gust of wind. After floating in front of us, she first saluted Alaya and said in a gentle voice, "Welcome back, Commander."
"I can't remember," Alaya said honestly. "I'm sorry, I can't remember who you are."
"That's normal. Her Majesty split all the information of the mother planet into two equal and parallel parts. Each part of the mother planet is the real and only mother planet. Therefore, it was necessary to ensure that the information of the two parts of the mother planet was completely separated and never communicated. That way, stability could be maintained. Now, only a small part of the information has been removed and it doesn't include your memory. "
"Was the Emperor of the 15th Heaven one of us?" Lin Xue looked at Kite's blurry face and asked a question that didn't seem to need an answer.
"Yes," Kite turned slightly and bowed to her elder sister who was still wielding the sword. "It's nice to see you again, Your Majesty. Even though you've become like this, you are still my Emperor."
There was silence. Everyone was in a state of confusion. They were half shocked and the other half had expected it. We were silent for a few seconds, trying to repair our own worldviews. Qian Qian was the easiest to repair because it was hard to say whether she had worldviews or not. She was the first to speak, "Was Sister Chen Qian really the Emperor? Are you sure? Is there any evidence? Sis Chen Qian is a human! She was born on Earth. I've been with her since I was a child … "
I pointed at myself helplessly. "Two years ago, I also felt that I was an Earthling. Besides, you've been with me since you were a child."
"Soul similarity, information markers, some key information points, and this sword," Alleria pointed at the command sword in her elder sister's hand. Kite pointed at the saber in his sister's hand. "This saber and this dimension combine to form an information entanglement that incorporates the Empire's most cutting-edge mysticism technology. Her Majesty herself is one of the components of this entanglement. When the information of the two halves of Mother Planet was split apart, she left a key in both halves to remove the split. I'm not sure about the situation on the other side, but on this side, the key to remove the split is Her Majesty herself. Only she can resonate with this saber and release the 'lock core' in the dimension. The moment I recovered part of my memory, there was no doubt about Her Majesty's identity. "
"Alright, I understand. Let's put this topic aside for now," the elder sister suddenly said. Her expression was complicated, with a rare sense of confusion and uneasiness. However, she still controlled her emotions well and squeezed my hand gently. "Ah Jun, don't worry. I'm fine. Alleria, can you explain what happened back then from the beginning to the end? Why did the Mother Planet split? Why did the Emperor back then … who was me back then, go to the depths of the void and disappear? Tell me everything you know. We're in a mess now. "
Alleria? Kite seemed to think for a while before nodding. "I'll try my best. This is a very long story."
Everyone quieted down and prepared to listen to this piece of history that was still shrouded in mystery.
"I don't think I need to explain about the disaster. You should already know that part of history." Alleria glanced at us and got everyone's affirmation. "What I want to talk about is the actions taken by Her Majesty the Emperor on the eve of the disaster that was about to engulf the Empire. Unlike the emperors of the other heavens, the former emperor of the 15th heavens was never enthusiastic about the crazy plan of the past. She was far-sighted and had long realized that once something went wrong in those large-scale experiments, it would have disastrous consequences. But in the parliament composed of 135 emperors, there were less than ten who did not participate in the plan, and only four or five who clearly opposed it. Everything was unstoppable.
Her Majesty had been working hard and once tried to join forces with other Emperors. She did convince several Emperors who opposed the Void experiment, but just before they took action, the disaster had already broken out. Even Madam Reggie, who had the ability to predict the future, couldn't predict the form and the exact time of the disaster. "
"That's normal." Shadora sighed. "The Void and the Abyss aren't things that can be predicted so easily. Moreover, it's a combination of both of them to cause an explosion. It's not easy for you to sense that something is amiss before this."
I heard a hint of helplessness in Sandora's tone. Although she didn't say it out loud, I could tell what she was thinking after being connected with her for a long time. In fact, everything could have been avoided at that time. If the Emperor of the Fifteen Heavens and her prophet could have successfully warned the organizers of the experiment, the disaster would not have broken out.
But in the end, no one listened to such a warning. The originally powerful, wise, and omnipotent Shiring Apostles had collectively fallen into a state of blindness and fanaticism. Their pride did not allow them to admit that their race would be destroyed by an unwarranted disaster. Even the prophet's warning could not change the fanatical researchers. Of course, it might have been useful. The warning from the Fifteen Heavens might have made them put a few more psionic barriers in the experimental site. It might have made them check the experimental equipment again, or it might have made them slightly reduce the energy supply to the Void Converter. But what was the use of such measures against the impact of the Abyss that was about to break out in the spiritual network of the Shiring Apostles?
"If you don't listen to the prophet, you will suffer a big loss in the end." Lin Xue shook her head and sighed. I didn't know how she felt listening to others discussing the deeds of a person suspected of her previous life. I looked at her in agreement. Anyway, as far as we were concerned, absolutely no one dared to ignore anything that the girl said. Although most of the time she said nonsense like "if you don't take me to eat roast duck, there will be a bloody disaster tomorrow".
After the outbreak of the disaster, the Fifteen Heavens could only take action on their own to save themselves. I didn't know why the Emperor here did not participate in the 'Archive' project. It seemed that Alleria didn't even know that someone had built a Archive after the disaster, let alone that more than 30 Schilling Emperors had died in the Archive. The Fifteen Heavens acted completely on their own. Had they given up on communicating with their compatriots?
When I raised these questions, Alleria seemed to smile.
"I don't know what the Archive is, but Lady Alleria ordered all communication channels between the Fifteen Heavens and the outside world to be closed. She even cut off our spiritual network with the hinterland of the Empire. Now it seems that our actions were correct."
"Listen to the prophet, and you will live."
Lin Xue shook her head again.
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