Chapter 414: The Magnificent Library
“And here is the endless ocean.”
Alka said, closing her mouth and looking at the illusory dragon shadow on the throne.
"So the outside has become like this?"
The dragon shadow on the throne said with a slight sigh.
"It turns out there are so many selfish abandoners and betrayers."
"The era I live in is such a glorious one! Among all the stars in the sky, our era is also the best.
The Mother of the World gives birth to all things, so generously."
"These traitors who betrayed the Mother Goddess destroyed the world in their selfishness. Instead of trying to remedy the situation, they took the opportunity to leave."
As he spoke, Long Ying shook his head.
Even though it was just an illusory shadow, everyone could clearly feel his anger, his unwillingness, and his helplessness.
"Can you tell us why the war between gods has reached such a fierce level?" Lucilia asked directly from Alka's shoulder.
"Of course." The Dragon King said directly.
"We have existed in this world for millions of years. We are immortal, indestructible, and unforgettable. But just like those mortals, we cannot suppress the anger and hatred after such a long collision."
After hearing this, Alka and the others roughly understood it, and it was almost the same as what they had known before.
But his words made Alka and the others more certain that what they knew before was correct.
Just as they thought, the gods have existed for too long.
But it can also be seen that these gods are not heartless beings at all. They have their own emotions just like ordinary mortals.
Where there is emotion, there is collision.
Hatred will naturally arise, and the development of hatred will lead to more hatred colliding with each other.
This is where the problem lies. The power of these gods is too strong. Their power comes directly from the world and from the world's generous sharing.
When hatred reaches a point of no return, collisions occur.
The collision of a large number of powerful forces directly destroyed the entire world bit by bit.
At this time, Julia frowned and thought for a while and asked: "The power of the gods comes from the world, so why doesn't the world take it back now?"
Wouldn't this avoid the problem?
The Dragon King raised his head slightly, as if recalling something.
Said: “A million years ago, there was a war like the one ten thousand years ago.
When the fierce collision of war is inevitable, all living things are destroyed, and the mother of the world punishes everything. "
"Over the next tens of thousands of years, all gods became mortals, walking on their own legs."
That is to say, there was indeed a situation in that era where the world took back its power.
"And ten thousand years ago, everything was caused by him."
As it spoke, the illusory dragon shadow raised its dragon claws and waved them. Points of crystal light gathered in the air and then transformed into four spheres of different colors that rotated around each other .
"Four points, mortals who ascended to godhood millions of years ago, are eternally thirsting for the knowledge and secrets of the world."
"He was also the most powerful mortal who reached the top a million times ago, and in the end he even surpassed me. He achieved the pinnacle."
"He is obsessed with knowledge and secrets. No one knows how far his knowledge reaches, and no one knows how deep his secrets are hidden."
As he spoke, he waved his hand again, and the four rotating spheres formed groups of two.
"Among his knowledge, there is a most secret knowledge, which he has sealed away forever.
That is to completely consume the power given by the world."
A twinkling star is enveloped by darkness and then disappears, representing knowledge being hidden.
“He knew clearly that once such knowledge was spread, it would bring about an exaggerated disaster, so he buried it forever.
That was how it should be, until he had problems of his own.”
The spheres, separated into two groups, begin to collide.
"His secrets stole his knowledge and spread the message of this most important knowledge."
Having said that, the Dragon King raised his head slightly and looked at the crystal carvings on the ceiling.
"The gods who had experienced the Fall were so eager for such knowledge that the earliest war broke out.
The first one to master this knowledge was War. He needed the raging flames of war to allow him to perfectly devour War and become War itself, and would no longer be deprived of it by any other existence. "
"Not even my mother."
As he spoke, the four spheres dispersed and condensed into a tall and mighty human figure.
In his hand he held an exaggeratedly huge sword blade, behind which was a long chain that bound his upper body.
The other hand held an exaggerated giant axe.
The figure roared angrily, flames of anger burned around him, and then the war engulfed.
In a burst of fire, the figure disappeared.
"This hidden knowledge has been spread, and the disaster is unstoppable."
As they spoke, they changed into two groups again, and the two spheres began to collide.
"Sifen knows his own problems clearly. If he doesn't solve his own problems, more secret knowledge that is more likely to aggravate the disaster will be spread secretly."
"He...destroyed himself."
The two spheres collided with each other, and then the four spheres collapsed in an instant.
"He dispersed knowledge to all mortal life."
The two colliding spheres turned into starlight and began to spread among all life.
"This knowledge will become the final possibility."
Then the other group of two spheres should represent the secret one.
The two spheres were crushed by an illusory palm and then thrown away.
"The secret was thrown out, buried, destroyed.
There is no longer anyone who can peek into the deepest secrets, and secrets remain secrets."
After saying this, the Dragon King waved away the phantom and continued to sit on the throne.
Everyone stood under the throne and recalled the story told by this person who had personally experienced everything of that era.
The story is so unreal.
So when the war attacked the city-state of Vastva, did it happen after or before the Quarterly Destruction?
But considering that it was only a few thousand years away from the final destruction of the world, perhaps it was after the destruction of the four parts.
After all, the records of the Vastva city-state clearly showed that they did not receive any inspiration from the gods until the very end.
Perhaps the war at that time was intended to gain more knowledge from these believers.
"Is there any hope for the world to recover?" Julia murmured to herself.
After all, those gods who left must have eaten up part of the world.
Otherwise, how could those gods leave peacefully?
"We failed, but that doesn't mean we didn't do anything."
As the Dragon King spoke, he waved his hand again, and more phantoms appeared.
They saw figures of various races in the illusion, including dragons, giants, monsters and humans.
They battled various natural disasters and giant creatures.
Some died, some were destroyed.
These huge natural disasters and the broken points of light after the death of living creatures returned to the world.
"This should be the treasure you are talking about now. We let it return to the world in an attempt to slow down the world's decline."
"Until the unexpected guests arrived."
As he spoke, the Dragon King waved his sword again. A demon-like creature began to move.
They swarmed in like sharks smelling blood.
Alka and the others couldn't understand what the actions above meant, but these disgusting things must have done something.
Then the object representing the world shattered directly in a huge explosion.
"These damn demons destroyed the foundation of the world and shattered it into pieces. There were countless opportunities to stop it, but those damn traitors ignored them.
They are taking this opportunity to continue to devour part of the world."
"I also died in this battle."
The Dragon King said.
"So what is your existence like now..." Alka couldn't help but ask.
Is it part of the soul? Or something else?
"It's the memory. It's the memory of me that remains on this throne."
Memory? That's a whole different area.
“Then…” Everyone wanted to ask something, but the Dragon King waved his hand gently, and everyone’s mouths closed tightly, and no sound came out.
Then he waved his hand and sent everyone flying.
The Dragon King curled up on the throne, closed his eyes and seemed to be resting.
Everyone was directly thrown out of the hall, but they did not fly out directly. A strange force lifted them up to the top of the castle.
Then it fell through the broken part of a spire.
"What are they playing?"
"Let's see who can fly into the hole accurately."
Several puppet girls on the ruins of other spires spoke as they watched this scene.
Alka and the others fell directly from the gap in the spire and then fell into a huge building.
This building should be behind the hall.
After landing, the strange force that was supporting them dissipated, and they fell to the ground.
After rubbing their bodies, everyone stood up and looked around.
"Oh my God..." Lucelia was completely stunned as she looked at the situation around her.
The situation here shocked her even more than what she had just seen in the hall.
This is an area comparable to the lobby, but it is packed to the brim.
Bookshelves one after another covered the entire wall, and countless bookshelves were floating in the sky.
There is a column of light in the center, with various stone slabs floating on it.
Scrolls, books, recorded crystals, carved stone tablets, and even ancient tree bark, all kinds of knowledge carriers are stored here.
And at the very top, a huge book like a wall was spread out.
With the arrival of everyone, the book began to turn the pages by itself without wind.
With the sound of clattering, various bookcases and shelves began to move slowly.
The people who were trapped in place also seemed to feel that they were able to move.
"So he dumped us here, meaning for us to find it ourselves? Don't ask him anymore?" Porro asked, looking at the situation around him.
"I don't know. After all, he said that his body is made up of memories. Maybe he doesn't have as much energy as we think."
Alka said indifferently, looking at the magnificent library with his eyes open.
How terrifying is the knowledge recorded here.
To be honest, he couldn't imagine it at all.
"As expected of a scholar and recorder of the dragon clan." Lucilia murmured to herself.
The books here can be said to be the only ones Alka and his friends have ever seen in their lives, and they will never be able to finish reading them in a lifetime.
"I wonder how long Urulius and the others' trial will take." Xiadaiti said.
Hearing this, Alka couldn't help but say, "To be honest, I now hope they can...slow down."
Everyone else nodded involuntarily.
If this place is closed or collapses after they finish it, it would be so heartbreaking that they would feel suffocated.
"I could stay here forever," Lucelia said.
But just after she finished speaking, she patted her head again and said, "No, I have been in places like this for my whole life. I want to take back what I just said."
She couldn't help but think of what happened before her death.
"With so many books, how can we find the information we need? We can't just read them randomly. It may take a month or even years just to read the title and the introduction."
The exaggerated collection of books here made Juanlu couldn't help but speak.
"Let's spread out and take a look. This place is a bit too big."
Alka said as he walked in one direction, while the others also walked in different directions.
There is also a zero-gravity environment here that allows you to float. You can just jump upwards and get books from higher places.
Alka came to the center, where the beam of light was.
Floating on top of the water was the huge book that had just made the rustling sound.
In the beam of light below, pieces of stone slabs were floating.
There were some mysterious and incomprehensible words on the stone slab, engraved with some kind of knowledge.
Alka narrowed his eyes slightly, then immediately closed them.
My eyes started to sore as soon as I took a look. It is obviously better not to explore the secrets here too much.
Although the words on the stone slab could not be seen, Alka jumped lightly and landed on the huge book floating above.
I looked at the book Wufengzhiran, and this is what was written on it: the catalog.
And it is not just text, but also contains maps and pictures.
This book seems to have no first page and no last page and just keeps turning.
Alka could feel a link of emotion probing, as if asking.
After thinking about it, Alka connected it.
The books began to move, and then a line of text appeared.
The God of Four
As you can tell from the title of this book, it seems to be introducing the story of the Four-Part God, or a historical record.
Just what Alka wanted to see.
Then the book shook again and turned into a hollow map.
One of the bookshelves shook slightly, and based on the direction shown on the map above, Alka should be at the twelve o'clock direction on the top.
He quickly turned around and said to the people who were watching everywhere, "Come to this huge book and connect to its exploration link, so that it can help you find the book you want to find."
As he spoke, without waiting for everyone, he released a slight burst of magic power.
Pushing Alka to fly in the direction just indicated.
Although there are many floating bookshelves here, Alka can clearly find the one that has just appeared.
Landed in front of the bookshelf.
There is a nameplate on the top of the entire bookshelf.
Written on it in the language of the White Crocodile is: "When the Darkest Falls - The First Ascendants of God."
This bookcase should record the era millions of years ago when all the gods fell and became mortals, as the Dragon King just said.
What is recorded here should be the first group of people who ascended to gods.
Alka looked at the books in front of him.
He couldn't understand all languages, to be honest he didn't recognize most of them.
Of the remaining half that could be recognized, 80% spoke the language of the White Crocodile.
He was now extremely glad that he had learned the language.
The rest that can be understood are basically written in the language of the Four Gods. Although some of the words seem to have been changed, they should be derived from the ancient language.
In other words, the languages used in the areas governed by the four gods should be the languages used by their former gods, but have been slightly changed and simplified after long-term use.
Alka, who was able to read, found several books that might interest him.
"Alcide, the Journey of Usurpation."
"Split in Two" "Short Stories of Desire"
"Mother of Stone, Oli Luspin, Barefoot Virgin of Wheat Ears."
And the "God of Four" that he just wanted to see
After taking out the book, Alka did not open it immediately to check, but reached out and took a book with a very long name.
Alka thinks the book might be about the Virgin Mary.
He is now temporarily more interested in this book than the one he just wanted.
The painting on the page shows a barefoot, graceful woman of ordinary appearance walking among ears of wheat.
It's basically certain.
Alka opened it and took a quick look.
really.
It talks about the Virgin Mary's deeds in that era.
She should be one of the first to return to the Gods after their fall.
