This lounge was very large. It looked like a place used by the big shots in the town's council hall to receive important guests. However, it might be because of the relaxed and natural elven decorations, the environment here made it easy for people to relax. The people in the room were vaguely divided into three groups. The first group was my family, the second group was the iron knight trio, and the third group was the owner of this place, General Angelica. Oh, there was also a dwarf tea girl who was forced to sit on a chair by the Pandora sisters and was not allowed to leave.
I quickly dragged the two 1.2m tall girls over and let the dwarf girl who was already crying leave. The topic of discussion later was too important, so it was better for unrelated people to leave.
Speaking of unrelated people, my gaze fell on the iron knight trio. Are the three of them considered unrelated people?
To be fair, they are, but General Angelica is Joe's biological mother. We only had the opportunity to contact this possible insider with Joe's help. It doesn't feel right to ask them to leave now. Joseph and Anna are stubborn. If you don't give me an explanation, I guess I can only knock them out and carry them out. We weren't worried that the three of them could affect the overall situation. It was just that it was a bit awkward to have three onlookers standing next to us when we were asking about ancient secrets with General Angelica. You definitely don't like to have a group of people standing next to you when you are discussing a bank robbery plan, even if you are speaking Russian and the people around you are using sign language.
"Why do I feel that the atmosphere is a bit off?" Joseph seemed to have noticed that there were already three incompatible auras in the lounge. He couldn't help but scratch the back of his head and muttered. There was a saying that was right: A fool's intuition is always sharp. This guy usually looked careless, but he quickly felt that the atmosphere wasn't too comfortable at this moment.
"I would like to express my gratitude to all of you for taking care of Joe." Joe's mother sat opposite us. She bowed slightly and said to everyone, then she frowned slightly, "Although it is very happy to be able to meet with family, your actions this time are too rash. You don't know the situation on the Dark Moon. Once you come here … I'm afraid it will be difficult to go back."
"We are mentally prepared," Joseph said casually, "Anyway, the 3 of us are not doing well on the ground. Now that we can stay here in the Dark Moon, we might as well stay here. Maybe we can even benefit from Joe …"
Anna stomped her foot on Joseph's foot and said fiercely, "How can you say something like that?! Don't you know that going through the back door has to be deceptive?! "Anna's voice was so loud that the whole house could hear her.
General Angelie smiled stiffly. Her gaze finally landed on me. "I heard about you from Charle. This child's experience is still shallow … You aren't mercenaries, right? Do you know what happened to Lady Sawyer? "
"That dragon lady? Of course we know, "I spread my hands and said while observing the reaction on General Angelie's face." We also know three people: Edwinsa, the barbarian and the Blood Princess. Together with the dragon lady, there are a total of four people. They have a close relationship. "
Joseph and Anna were startled when they heard the words' blood princess'. They might be careless, but they were still able to sense the atmosphere. Anna took the initiative to speak, "Then, should we leave for a while?"
General Angelie nodded silently. At the same time, she turned to Joe who was sitting next to her. "Child, you leave for a while too. I have some important things to discuss with your friends."
The three of them left with complicated expressions. Now, only our family and an elf general who might know the truth of the past were left. I nodded at her. "Angelie, we are here for some historical truth and the origin of the Dark Moon War. Based on our understanding, you didn't experience the initial Dark Moon War. However, your family was a high-ranking noble of the elf race during the first war. Furthermore, you have held important positions in the allied army for thousands of years. Elves are a race with a long lifespan. Only three to four generations have passed since the first war. So, you seem to know quite a bit. Who is the Blood Princess? What was the purpose of the Dark Moon War? "
My questions were very straightforward and each one was more profound than the previous one. No matter how calm Angelie was, she couldn't help but be dumbfounded. She didn't bother to answer my question and instead asked, "Who are you?"
"We are the people in charge of investigating this matter." Icetis waved her hand. "Little elf lass, you can be at ease and speak boldly. Anyway, the things we know might not be any less than you so you don't have to keep it a secret from us. You don't have to rush to know our identity. This explanation will take at least a few hundred thousand words. "
"These secrets can't be leaked." Angelie's expression was abnormally solemn. It was obvious that the trust she could give to a bunch of strangers was very limited. "Who are you?"
I looked at Lin Xue and then at Icetis. Finally, I scratched my head. "Then, let's talk a little. You talk a little. Firstly, the first Dark Moon War was related to a God's Equipment. This God's Equipment released the Demon's Shadow and caused chaos in the world. Am I right? "
"You even know about the God's Equipment?!" Angelie almost jumped up. "There are less than ten people in the world who know about its existence!"
I was shocked too. "Huh? So many people know about it? I thought there would be five people including you … "
Icetis quickly patted my shoulder. "Do you dare to not screw up in such a situation?"
I adjusted my expression and waved my hand at Angelie. "Sit down first. You see, we even know about the divine artifact, so we're the same kind of insiders. Exchanging information now shouldn't be considered as breaking your taboo. Just tell us the origin of the divine artifact. This shouldn't affect world peace, right? "
"I don't know its origin," Angelie immediately replied. Then, she lowered her tone and looked into my eyes sincerely. "I really don't know. When I was born, the four wars had already ended. There were only some things passed down by the elders in my family. These things definitely didn't include the origin of the God's Equipment. In fact, no one should know where the God's Equipment came from. We only know what the God's Equipment's power is. "
"No one knows its true identity …" I nodded. "Alright, let's put the God's Equipment aside for now. What's with the four of them? The Edwinsa who reincarnated for thousands of years, the Barbarian King who is known as the Dark Moon Lord, the stubborn dragon lady and the Blood Princess who was rumored to be ferocious but actually didn't kill a single soldier of the expeditionary army. What did the four of them do back then? Why does your family know about the four of them? Could it be that saving the world back then had something to do with one of your ancestors? "
"My ancestor was fortunate enough to travel with the four heroes for a short period of time," Angelie exhaled. Then, she changed the topic. "It's still difficult for me to be honest with a group of strangers. The prerequisite for being honest is to at least know your identity. Right now, I only know your names. Please forgive my straightforwardness. But don't you think that this kind of communication is too insincere? "
I knew it. What we were going to find out might be the ultimate secret in this world. But to Angelie, we were only half strangers that she had just met for a few minutes. Even though we brought her a son, this contribution wasn't enough for a prudent female general to trust us easily. We could either slowly increase our favorability or we needed a heavyweight identity that could convince her.
Of course, we had this heavyweight identity. The only problem was that I didn't know if it would cause too much of a commotion if I let Icetis release her God form. After all, this world wasn't safe.
I turned to look at Icetis. She nodded slightly and said softly, "Releasing her God form for a short period of time shouldn't affect her."
I turned back to look into Angelie's eyes and said patiently, "Regarding the Artifact, you don't know its origin but you should have heard of its story. Who do you think it belonged to in the beginning?"
"The Artifact obviously belongs to God." Angelie didn't doubt my question. "I heard from my father that it was a strange item that was completely beyond the imagination of mortals. At first, some people thought it was an advanced equipment created by the first civilization. But soon, we realized that it wasn't a substance of this world. Its existence alone was enough to distort the basic laws of the real world. This must be the power of God …"
Before Angelie could finish her sentence, she stared at Brendel with her mouth agape.
Under the soft golden halo, Bryndis slowly spread her huge goddess wings. She looked at Angelie with a holy and gentle smile on her face. "Are you talking about such a god?"
Angelie was dumbfounded. Then, she suddenly jumped up. "No! The wings of the Goddess are white! I have seen her image in some of the ancient Holy Artifacts of the Goddess Religion! "
Bindis' holy smile froze halfway. Then, the female gangster jumped up in exasperation. "F * ck! So what if my makeup isn't right? Didn't I just apply for the wrong specialization?! My wings are black and I'm proud … "
I quickly suppressed this female hooligan who didn't care about anything when her temper flared up. I cursed in my heart. I must be out of my mind to not realize this. Although Icetis is the Goddess of Light, she isn't of the same race as the missing sentinel. Her makeup isn't right …
But now that I thought about it, we seem to have brought along a 'Goddess' with us. Although strictly speaking, she isn't of the same race as the missing sentinel, Angelie definitely wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
Thus, I rubbed my temples and called out to a certain silly cat angel who had slept for a few days in my spiritual world. She was almost in hibernation mode. "Alaya, come out and shine …"
Thus, under Angelie's flabbergasted gaze for the second time, a ray of holy light suddenly descended from the ceiling.
This ray of light seemed to materialize and swiftly condensed into a holy figure. Alaya descended lazily from the sky, looking at the scene before her in confusion. Without batting an eyelid, I hugged her from behind, causing this angel sister's body that was already leaning to the side to straighten up. Alright, with her natural silliness and low blood pressure, Alaya probably didn't even have the ability to walk upright.
Do you think that this lady grew her legs just to wear shoes and socks?
The holy light from Alaya's body filled the entire room. Apart from her face, her image was almost identical to the Goddess recorded in the records of the Goddess Religion. Furthermore, the power from her body was even stronger than the Holy Light released by the strongest monks in the Goddess Religion. Thus, under this double impact, Angelie had already fallen into a daze.
I had no choice but to clap my hands to bring Angelie back to her senses. Then, I pointed at Alaya and said, "I'll be frank with you. We only have one reason for coming here. Can you return my sister's stationery case?"
Icetis had already retracted her wings and was sitting angrily at the side. She burst out in a huff when she heard what I said. She exclaimed in our spiritual connection, "Damn it, stationery case? How the hell did you think of that? "
Without batting an eyelid, I replied in my mind, "You should be glad that I didn't allow Shallow Shallow to speak."
Angelie took half a minute to sort out the situation in front of her. She pointed at Alaya, dumbfounded and speechless. I believed that even if a person of her level hadn't seen the Goddess's true form, she should have witnessed the Goddess's power or other powers that were of the same origin as the God Equipment. Alaya's life form was created by imitating the Star Domain Gods. In the eyes of mortals, she was no different from the Star Domain Protoss. The female Elf General in front of us would definitely think in the same direction as us.
The Elf General took a deep breath. Lin Xue seized the opportunity and said, "We are here to retrieve our belongings. Although I wanted to say that I hope that you don't have the power to pry into the God Equipment, it seems that … some people are too greedy. You opened that thing, right?"
Icetis and I high-fived under the table in celebration. The female pervert celebrated with me, "You and your wife really have a tacit understanding. One look and I can tell that you have the makings of a God."
Angelie forced herself to calm down. Seeing that, I quickly got Alaya to retract all of her power. It was better to be safe than sorry. In this universe where the Fallen Apostle scans us hundreds of times every day, it was better to be careful.
"You are Gods?" Angelie looked at the few of us carefully. The first half of her sentence was normal, but the second half almost made me jump out of my chair. "Why are Gods like that?"
"What's wrong with us? Can't we be Gods?!" Lin Xue grumbled in dissatisfaction. Angelie carefully pointed in the direction of the stove. Shallow Shallow and Visca were squatting in front of the stove. They were using two iron rods to roast two strings of beans.
I said, "… Even Gods have their own private lives. Don't pay attention to this. Let's get down to business. What happened during the first war?"
"Alright, I don't care if you are Gods or not. I'll just treat you as Gods." Angelie smiled. "Do you know the situation of the world before the war?"
"Ah, according to the teaching materials of the Goddess, it was a heavenly era. The world was peaceful and all races lived in harmony." Icetis swayed her body on the chair. "But we've checked. That's nonsense. Dozens of races on the two planets fought each other until their brains spilled all over the ground. All the races randomly grouped up to fight against each other."
"It was such a chaotic world." Angelie sighed. "I was born after the Dark Moon Era. So, I've only heard about the things before that from my ancestors. I don't know the origin of the God Equipment but I know that it fell into the hands of the mountain barbarians. That thing contains immense power and can change the rules of the world. That's the original words passed down by my ancestors. Once the God Equipment is activated, it can produce an endless amount of magic energy. It can make the entire city float in the air. It can even make an army of a hundred thousand people become invulnerable for a short period of time. Furthermore, no one knows its true usage. Just by holding it in one's hand, it can produce various effects. "
"It's simple. That's just the intelligent defense mechanism of the God Equipment at work. I can guess the rest of the story. The mountain barbarians wanted to use this thing to conquer the world, right?" Icetis pouted. "What a lousy development. This kind of thing happens everywhere."
"Err …" Angelie looked at Icetis awkwardly. She probably never thought that Gods were creatures that could casually call themselves' Mother '. "That's about it. The mountain barbarians used black magic to analyze the God Equipment and tried to find a way to control it. They succeeded in the beginning. The power of the God Equipment was extracted and used to create various monsters and strengthen their soldiers. Then, the barbarians started to attack all the races in the world. The first to be invaded was the human kingdom. Coincidentally, the human kingdom formed an alliance with the elves, and the elven kingdom was the second to suffer. Word of mouth spread in the family about how powerful the barbarian army was. Within a year, they conquered more than half of the human and elven territories. "
Shallow Shallow walked over with a skewer of baked beans. "And then?"
"And then? Then, the God Equipment went out of control. "Angelie pointed at Alaya who was lying on the table and combing his wings." At first, the power that was extracted from the God Equipment was light, just like the light on her body. But soon, the God Equipment began to release a black shadow. The shadow quickly corrupted the mountain barbarian army, causing them to grow stronger at an uncontrollable speed. Then, they lost their rationality in a short period of time. The barbarian army that had swept through two kingdoms was said to have turned into a plague army within a week. "
"Courting death," Bryndis said concisely. "Welding detonator, saw, light bulb, you guys pulled out the seal protective layer of the artifact."
"Isn't one of the four the Mountain Barbarian King?" Shallow Shallow suddenly thought of something. "Eh, that's not right. According to what you said, the Barbarian King should be the culprit. Why is he …"
"No, there are actually two Mountain Barbarian Kings." Angelie revealed a shocking secret. "The one who first extracted the power of the God Equipment and was corrupted into a demon was the Barbarian King. The current Dim Moon Lord is that demon's son. The latter was once exiled, which was why he escaped when the barbarians were engulfed by the plague."
So that's what happened!
"The Goddess's Bible didn't mention this at all." Icetis widened her eyes exaggeratedly. "So you're saying that it was indeed the Barbarian King who swept through the races, but after he lost his rationality, his son returned and suppressed his father?"
"Strictly speaking, it was four people who killed the crazy Barbarian King." Angelie nodded. "You know who they are. The Dim Moon Lord, the Blood Princess, Archbishop Edsawin, and Dragon Queen Sonya. In the first few years, they were known as the Four Heroes. "
"Wait, let me think about it." I waved my hand to get my not-so-agile brain to catch up. "The sequence is like this: First, there was a war between the various races of the world. Then, the Mountain Barbarians obtained a God Equipment. Following that, they extracted the power of the God Equipment to conquer the world. Then, the God Equipment went out of control and the entire barbarian race was controlled by the plague. That was the main storyline. There was a dark thread after that: A prince of the Mountain Barbarians was exiled many years ago, so he survived the plague. After the barbarians were infected by the plague, the exiled prince and his three heroic companions returned and killed the crazy Barbarian King. Then, they were known as the Four Heroes. What happened to the God Equipment after that? Mortals can kill the Barbarian King, but they definitely can't destroy the God Equipment. "
"I only know a part of it. The main body of the God Equipment is on the Dim Moon and is currently in the custody of the Blood Princess." Angelie revealed an important clue.
We heaved a sigh of relief at the same time. After so long, we finally confirmed the exact whereabouts of the God Equipment. The next step was to find the Blood Princess and reveal our identities to retrieve the God Equipment. Of course, before that, we had to find the Faceless Dragon. After all, we weren't familiar with the Blood Princess, but we had met the Faceless Dragon once. It might be easier to break through from her.
Just as I was thinking that, Icetis suddenly stood up. "Damn, I didn't pay attention. Something happened to the little dragon girl!"
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