Belavilla brought us an unbelievable piece of history. She revealed the truth behind the final battle of the Army of Destruction 700,000 years ago, as well as the secret of the warship wreckage in the World of Ruins. No one would have thought that this matter would be related to a dead Fallen Apostle, much less that the Fallen Apostle was actually Ockham!
Ockham, whom I killed with a single punch in the Holy Church's Document Library. You're really haunting me even after you're dead.
However, even though Belavilla had provided us with so much information, it did not make Sandora and me feel like we had cleared up the fog. On the contrary, what she told us made us even more confused.
If what she said was correct, then 700,000 years ago, Ockham's army and Visca's Army of Destruction had a fierce battle. That battle resulted in the latter's complete defeat. Visca escaped into the depths of the Void, while the former's strength was greatly damaged. After a period of delay, the former was swallowed up by Belavilla, who had already become a Fallen Apostle. (Perhaps this would explain why Ockham and Belavilla would eventually break off relations, and that cunning bastard would plot against Belavilla after leaving the World of Azeroth when she wasn't paying attention. It was obvious that there was an old grudge between the two of them.) The warship wreckage that we had snatched from the World of Ruins was originally the research flagship of Ockham's fleet. Although Visca had suffered a crushing defeat in that battle, she had still managed to snatch the spaceship. (Now, it seemed that the research flagship had most likely been broken into two by the Army of Destruction's cannon fire.) She had sealed it in the planet that was piled up with the warship wreckage. Before she left, she had even ordered the natives to guard the Sacred Vault for her.
What happened next was inconceivable. The old Empire collapsed due to a void experiment, and Ockham and many of the surviving Shiring Apostles were infected and corrupted. Visca was not connected to the Empire's information network, so she was spared. She continued to wander the void with her remaining warships, and not long after, Visca was found and captured by the Fallen Apostles, and turned into one. More dramatically, she and Ockham met again.
And then … the two of them did not seem to recognize each other.
"If it's Visca, it might be easy to explain," Belavilla said as she pondered. "Before she was cured by your Daddy Aura, she was a lunatic. At that time, forget about remembering what the enemy looked like, she couldn't even remember what mission she had to carry out. She was like a mindless killing machine, so she might have forgotten about the battle with Ockham's army in the ruined world the next day. As for the other guy … Ockham never showed any signs of recognizing Visca. When I first met Visca in the base, he had just completed his transformation, Ockham was there. If he recognized Visca as the one who destroyed his research results, he would have shown it a long time ago. "
"Could it be that he pretended not to know about it, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on Visca through other means? In the end, before he could do so, Visca defected?" I thought for a moment and said, "Then, he was killed by me before he could use Plan B …"
Belavilla was stunned for a moment, then shook her head with a strange expression. "If this is true, then Ockham is really a pitiful person."
Of course, we all knew that this kind of thing could only be treated as a joke. Ockham would not really be that unlucky, and there was no meaning in him doing this. However, why did he not show any signs of knowing Visca before the latter entered the Fallen Apostle camp? That was really an unsolved mystery.
"Perhaps there is another possibility." Sandora thought for a moment. "Did Visca have her own army after entering the Fallen Apostle camp?"
Belavilla immediately shook her head. "Of course not. All of the high ranked Fallen Apostles only viewed her as a powerful weapon. A weapon does not need an army. Moreover, her dangerous mental state did not allow her to possess an army. Even for the Fallen Apostles, the crazy Visca from back then was a hidden danger. After all, even though the Fallen Apostles were twisted, they were not crazy. Meanwhile, Visca was a complete and utter lunatic."
When Belavilla mentioned Visca from back then, she was always used to saying the word 'lunatic'. Of course, even when she was a Fallen Apostle, she was still concerned about Visca, so she did not have any ill intentions when she said that. It only made it easier for me to imagine just how crazy Visca was back then.
"Visca did not have an army in the Fallen Apostle camp. Moreover, she was always sent to the frontlines to kill the enemy alone, so Ockham did not have the chance to see her army's insignia," Sandora said while nodding. "As for when the war started back then, Visca was actually not present. She was busy destroying the Atlantis civilization at that time, and she only returned when the battle in the ruined world was about to end. At that time, the battle might have already ended. Perhaps it was because she did not personally participate in the battle that her army of destruction was completely defeated. With this time difference, Ockham probably did not even know who the enemy general was, and after that, he did not have the chance to see the enemy's insignia again. Doesn't this explain everything? "
Even though what Sandora said was all speculation, I still had to admit that if there was a truth, this might be the closest to the truth. Due to the time difference, Ockham and Visca did not know each other's other identity from the beginning to the end. Thus, these two mortal enemies who almost fought to death that day became colleagues for tens of thousands of years. Even though their relationship as colleagues wasn't that good, this matter was still too dramatic.
"Sigh, life is a drama. Who knows when it will become melodramatic …" Belavilla drank the orange juice and coffee that should have belonged to me and Sandora (How did she manage to mix these two things together?). She let out a long sigh.
I was already used to the slow-witted and silly Sylvia. Suddenly facing the personality of Belavilla, I felt very uncomfortable, especially when she magically mixed the orange juice and coffee together to make a cream cake. Anyone with a normal taste wouldn't be able to get used to this!
But the amazing thing was that Sandora did not react to this at all. She was even able to share such a strange drink with Belavilla without a change in expression. This showed the diversity of life forms. It seemed that all the Shiring Apostles had strange taste buds. Thinking back to the first time I bought an ice cream for Pandora, she ate it with the wrapper still in it.
"Let's stop talking about Ockham for now. Let's talk about the battleship wreckage." I got up and poured myself another cup of coffee. This time, I kept a close eye on it. I definitely couldn't let Belavilla ruin it. "A research ship used to explore the interior of the Gate of the Chaos Abyss. Have you heard of such a thing?"
"I've heard of it, but I'm not sure." Belavilla shrugged. "In the final era of the Old Empire, there were countless crazy projects. When we were even planning to create our own void, it wasn't strange to research the Gate of the Chaos Abyss. Especially for a mad scientist like Ockham. He was once the top scientist of the Old Empire. It wasn't strange for him to research such a dangerous thing. But that guy actually created a research ship that could sail through the Gate of the Chaos Abyss. This is indeed horrifying. "
"In other words, you don't know what kind of results this ship obtained back then? Or does it have any great value? "
"Did you guys run into trouble?" Belavilla glanced at me and said leisurely. Speaking of which, do all the queens in the world have such a style? Her current aloof look was exactly the same as Sandora's at certain times. The 'certain times' here referred to when Sandora was full.
"The wreckage can't be decomposed, so we can't get the key data inside," Sandora said as she poured ketchup into the magical dark green liquid in front of her. "Tawil found a special energy system in the wreckage. That energy system is used to power all the research facilities. Even after the battleship disintegrated, it was still working. Now that all of its safety valves are offline, we can't relieve the pressure on the energy network from the outside. Also, because we don't have the original blueprint, Tawil can't determine which part of the energy network can be safely removed."
We told Bellavilla about the trouble we encountered when we dismantled the battleship wreckage. Bellavilla thought for a while after listening to our story. Then, he downed the horrifying drink that Shadora had mixed into a purplish red. "Actually, I might have the blueprint for that thing …"
I almost drank a mouthful of coffee. "What?"
"The blueprint," Belavilla spread her hands. "You guys forgot that I've been colleagues with Ockham for many years. Although I don't really like that guy, we still have a general exchange of information. Of course, don't be too happy too early. The blueprint in my hands is not complete. In fact, it should only be half of it. "
Sandora and I looked at each other. We could see the disbelief and surprise in each other's eyes at the same time. We originally thought that we would have a huge problem, but now we could solve it by accident. This kind of thing felt surreal no matter how we looked at it. However, the truth was right in front of us: Belavilla had the blueprint of that ancient battleship!
Of course, the blueprint wasn't stored in anything but directly existed in Belavilla's memory. Therefore, it took a lot of effort to extract it. After all, Belavilla's soul had yet to recover. She had to rely on Sylvia's spiritual power to express her own personality. Under such circumstances, it was difficult for her to accurately extract the things in her memory. Fortunately, with the special racial talent of the Shiring Apostles, every Shiring Apostle's memory was stored precisely like a database. When needed, their memory core could be read and repaired like a hard disk. Right now, Belavilla had a broken hard disk, but her magnetic head was broken …
Fortunately, we had a Soul Snatcher named Sandora. As long as Belavilla gave up her authority, Sandora could be the magnetic head. Speaking of which, why do I feel that this statement is so strange?
"Sigh, it would be great if I still had my original dimensional pocket." When Sandora used her power to look into Belavilla's soul to read the data, the latter shook her head and sighed. "After the soul is broken, the dimensional pocket that is connected to the original spiritual power will detach. After a certain period of time, it will lose control and evaporate … There are many good things in there. It's a pity that Sylvia doesn't know how to connect to that dimensional pocket. Even if she could reactivate it, it would still be good."
"Do you expect Sylvia to look after things for you?"
I glanced at Bellavera. His face was shrewd now, but normally ninety per cent of the time it was dazed. Sylvia was a complete simpleton. She would forget where she was going when she was walking. When we had first picked her up, Sylvia's personality had taken over. She had gotten off the ship alone, and the next day, she had to borrow a change of underwear from Sandora … Such a silly girl would often forget about her own dimensional pocket, let alone her own keys!
"The data has been extracted."
Sandora let out a long sigh, and the golden light in her hair gradually dimmed. "The basic structure matches with the scan. It should be correct. But I'm curious, how did you get this thing? "
"Because Ockham has been thinking of ways to rebuild the deep submersible ship," Belavilla replied. Then, her expression suddenly changed. "Wait! I think I understand! "
It was the first time that Sandora and I had seen Belavilla, who had always been calm and collected, reveal such a serious expression. We couldn't help but become nervous. "What did you think of?!"
"Those guys … I should have linked these two things together long ago. Have they become dull after sharing a body with Sylvia for so long …" Belavilla quickly clicked on a bunch of holographic projections in the air. Then, she quickly turned off a few of the messy ones. In the end, a few battleship models appeared before us. "Look at this!"
"It looks very similar to the wreckage that we dragged back."
Sandora took a glance and came to a conclusion. "The main structure is similar, but they don't have any weapon systems. The tonnage seems to be the same as well."
"That's right, these ships are replicas of the deep submersible ship!" Belavilla forcefully knocked on the table twice. "Before I left the Fallen Apostle's camp, they had always been trying to build this thing. Ockham was one of the main people in charge of this project … That guy's personal reason was to restore the strongest research ship that he had lost. However, I know that the other reason why the Fallen Apostles replicated these deep submersible ships was related to the 'great cause' …"
"Great cause?"
Sandora and I exchanged glances. There it was again. This grand plan that seemed to be leading all of the Fallen Apostles' actions, but no one could explain it clearly. Even the Fallen Apostles themselves didn't understand it clearly. In that case … we had finally touched upon a part of this grand plan!?
"Controlling the void, ascending to the pinnacle, and making the Empire the absolute ultimate power … From a macro perspective, this was the grand plan. For this grand goal, the Fallen Apostles carried out many actions at the same time, including destroying the world, collecting certain things, researching the void, as well as building these deep submersible ships," Belavilla said in a low voice. "However, the Fallen Apostles didn't share all of their information. After the collapse of the old Empire, the mental network between us fell into the hands of a ruler behind the scenes. He controlled the mental network, preventing the Fallen Apostles from exchanging information 100% like before. Thus, many of their plans were carried out independently. I could only hear about missions that didn't belong to me at most. However, I was very clear about the matter of them trying to replicate the deep submersible ships. This was the information that Ockham revealed … However, I didn't pay much attention to this matter at that time, thinking that it was just another research activity. However, from the looks of it now, since Halland paid such a huge price to snatch the prototype of the deep submersible ships, their motive for creating replicas of the deep submersible ships isn't that simple. "
"Now that they are forcefully snatching the prototype of the deep submersible ships, does that mean that they didn't successfully create a replica?" Sandora keenly grasped a suspicious point in the question. "Ockham wasn't able to rebuild the ship even after his death?"
"That's right." Belavilla nodded. "As far as I know, the prototype of the deep submersible ships wasn't built by Ockham alone. There was also a top scientist who collaborated with him to complete this extremely special starship. However, that scientist died in battle when the Templar Archive was closed back then, so Ockham only had half of the data of the prototype. The Fallen Apostles used this half of the data and Ockham's own research results to replicate the ship, but there were always flaws. That's why they were so eager to obtain the prototype to carry out a crazy experiment … Perhaps it was to directly enter the core of the Abyss."
"The Fallen Apostles themselves possess the power of the Abyss. Could it be that they still need the help of the deep submersible ships to enter a place that is also filled with the power of the Abyss?"
I couldn't help but ask, feeling a little puzzled.
Belavilla spread her hands. "Humans need to drink water, right? But wouldn't they still die if they were thrown into the bottom of the sea? We would only be assimilated into the Abyss, but we wouldn't become the Abyss itself. The overly intense infection of the Abyss would still destroy us. After all, when that thing reaches its limit of madness, it will even destroy itself. As its host, the Fallen Apostles are no exception. That's why they needed the deep submersible ships. "
"Then why didn't they make a move earlier?" I asked doubtfully. "If they needed the prototype to replicate this thing, then what did Ockham do earlier? The ruined world was right there, and the Sacred Vault was only guarded by a group of ignorant natives and a few hundred tattered battleships from the era of the Empire. Why did they have to wait for the Imperial Army to pass before they took advantage of the situation? In the end, they even lost their lives. "
"Because they couldn't find that world, and Ockham didn't even know that the wreckage of the prototype had been preserved. He thought that the wreckage had evaporated into the void along with the end of the world." Belavilla turned on another holographic projection. The projection showed the continuous snowflake-shaped membrane structure that we had scanned outside the ruined world. "I redrew this layer of 'world barrier' based on your description, and then compared it with the information on the deep submersible ships that Ockham showed me back then. In the end, I determined that this thing should be the special shield of the latter. Although Visca was crazy back then, she wasn't a fool. She felt that she didn't have the ability to take the wreckage away safely for the time being, so she prepared a perfect hiding place for it. The Sacred Vault of the ruined world and the ruined planet were just wooden boxes to store the gems. The real safe is this membrane. She enlarged the shield generator of the wreckage to the size of an entire solar system! "
"Holy sh * t!" I almost drank my coffee again. "Isn't that too cruel? Is the shield that cruel, or is Visca that cruel? "
"That's why that ship is a miracle that can't be replicated out of thin air." Belavilla glanced at me and suddenly frowned. "Let me take a look at the structure of that ruined world."
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