Chapter 425: The Goddess's Revelation
White Hart Castle.
It was quiet at the Pand Bank headquarters.
Now the branches in Changhe City, Lieshi City and other places are the main places for doing business, and the main work of the White Deer Castle headquarters is reconciliation and coinage.
Of course, when it comes to cash reserves, the White Hart Castle headquarters has more - all the gold, silver, mithril and other coinage materials are stored in the underground warehouse of White Hart Castle.
Leon and Charles were also in the underground warehouse.
This underground warehouse was originally the prison of White Hart Castle and was once used to store potato seeds. It was completely underground - or in other words, in the belly of the mountain where the main building of White Hart Castle is located.
A few hours ago.
Charles seemed very calm when he met Leon.
"Your Majesty, I know I may have made a mistake, but I dare only tell you the reason... "
Le Ang didn't ask anything, and Charles took the initiative to tell Le Ang what had happened.
Charles had been preparing border defenses in Fletcher, and at the same time he was stockpiling supplies according to Leon's instructions. The supplies to be sold to the Jatu people had been stockpiled several months ago. The plan had already been implemented when Leon asked Ramon to buy sheep, and it was not a spur-of-the-moment plan.
There is a statue of Leon in Fletcher too—also built by Charles, in the riverside camp where Leon fought, at the end of the bridge.
There are two sculptures at the bridge head, one is Eunomia, the goddess of order, and the other is Leon.
Charles would go and talk to the statue every day and pray to the Goddess of Order. He really regarded Leon as an idol and placed Leon on the same level as the Goddess of Order.
The Goddess of Order is the belief of most people in Sarleon, and Charles's 'belief' is Leon, so he built two statues so that both his subjects and himself can have spiritual sustenance.
It is indeed a bit inappropriate to worship Li Ang as a god. After all, Li Ang is still a living person...
However, equating the leader you respect with gods is a normal situation in many places and is not considered to be something extraordinary, so no one thinks there is anything wrong with it.
In early September, a wonderful thing happened to Charles.
The statue spoke.
But it was not Leon who spoke, but the statue of Eunomia.
Charles said that the voice went straight into the soul - Leon could understand because he had also heard Eunomia's voice many times.
At that time, Eunomia said to Charles: "You shouldn't worship evil spirits from another world..."
Evil spirits from another world?
Charles didn't understand what that meant at the time.
But the goddess came down and spoke, which scared Charles a lot.
So he told this to his respected elder, Hereward, who was stationed at Braveshield Castle at the time.
Of course, Hereward didn't understand what this meant. He thought that the goddess's oracle to Charles probably meant that the goddess of order favored Charles. Perhaps the goddess was just warning Charles not to be tempted by evil spirits.
But Charles knew that he had not encountered any temptations, nor was he the kind of person who had a strong desire for power and wealth. He was very satisfied with his current life and status.
Moreover, it was totally unreasonable to say that the goddess of order favored him. Charles did not believe in the goddess of order at all...
I am not a believer of the Goddess of Order at all, why would the goddess favor me?
Maybe this voice is the evil spirit?
Charles felt at the time that the goddess statue probably couldn't be kept...
But the problem was that Hereward and most of the members of the Horn Summoning Rangers were devout believers of the Goddess of Order. Charles did not dare to tell them that he no longer believed in the Goddess, and of course he did not dare to destroy the statue.
After returning to Fletcher, Charles began to dream every day.
And those dreams were like prophecies - he could always dream of real things happening thousands of miles away.
First, he dreamed that Leon was hit by a javelin and seriously injured on the battlefield - this was indeed happening, but Leon was near Dilingang at the time, thousands of miles away from Charles.
Then he dreamed that Amy led farmers to reclaim wasteland in the town of Balanli, and unfortunately she was bitten by a poisonous snake in the grass. Fortunately, the farmers rescued her in time and she was not seriously injured - even Le Ang didn't know about this.
Then I dreamed that a riot broke out in the area around Cliff Bay. The farmers and merchants were plundered again and again by the Firdsaway people. They could hardly survive and launched a large-scale uprising.
After that, Charles began to dream about Leon's experience repeatedly.
From the time Leon set foot on the continent of Pande until the time Leon went to Diling Port - except for the year when he was struck by lightning and disappeared, almost everything appeared in Charles' dream.
Charles felt like he was watching a TV series about Leon in a dream.
Until mid-September.
That was Charles' last dream. In the dream, he 'saw' Leon and a woman whose face he couldn't see clearly in a strange chaotic space.
The woman seemed like a phantom, and it was impossible to tell what she looked like.
As for that Leon, Charles always felt that there was something different about him, but he couldn't tell exactly what it was.
Probably, he looked like the first time Charles saw Leon at the door of the House of Lords - maybe a few years younger than now.
"Charles, go and cooperate with the Jatu warlord Zakar and let the Jatu people occupy Changhe Town..."
In his dream, Charles heard the young Leon say these words.
That was indeed Leon's appearance, and that was indeed Leon's voice.
Of course, he had to obey Leon's orders, but Charles was still a little hesitant at the time. He asked, "Your Majesty, why do you do this? Who is this... lady?"
"She is a god. Charles, if you don't do this, Leon will die, and you will die too... That evil spirit will eventually kill everyone, just like Hereward!"
The two men disappeared after leaving these words, and were replaced by Hereward in the dream - Charles dreamed that Hereward had died of illness.
And a day later, Charles received the bad news from BraveShield Castle—Hereward really died of illness!
Charles personally investigated and found that Hereward was not murdered by anyone but died of illness. This was not a man-made conspiracy but a revelation from God!
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"Your Majesty, I know that all my dreams are real - just like Uncle Hereward... Even if their words are malicious threats, I must obey, otherwise... I am not afraid of death, but I can't gamble with your life. I went to find Zakar as the majesty in the dream said, and let his troops enter the hinterland from the Noldor Forest, but I restricted him from looting in the country, otherwise I would not cooperate with him."
Charles smiled bitterly: "But after being locked up here, I figured it out. I might have been possessed by an evil spirit - that person said 'Changhe Town', not 'Changhe City'. Maybe they are the evil spirits. They disguised themselves as you to deceive me, so the goddess asked me to 'expel the evil spirits from another world'."
"It's good that you can figure it out...I won't blame you. On the contrary, I should thank you, Charles."
Li Ang sighed with a headache.
He knew that Charles didn't understand at all.
But fortunately, Charles was extremely loyal to him. He did not think of any other possibilities, but instead imagined that the evil spirit disguised itself as Leon to deceive him...
He only dared to explain the reason to Leon, and it was also for Leon's reputation - it was Leon who gave him the order personally, and Charles could not tell anyone else. He did not think that Leon was "killing the donkey after it has done its work", but planned to take the blame himself.
Leon has understood that the evil spirit that Eunomia wanted Charles to expel is actually Leon himself...
He was indeed a soul from another world, occupying the body of the original 'Leon'.
Originally, this was done by Eunomia in order to manipulate the Chosen Ones to deal with the Snake Cult.
But after Azi Dahaka exploded, his soul truly merged with Leon's body, and released Eunomia's control over the Chosen One - that is, Eunomia could not send Leon's soul back...
To the goddess, this out-of-control soul is indeed an evil spirit from another world, just like the devil from the abyss...
The dreams that Charles had were actually the goddess telling him that his current boss was not himself, but another soul.
The young man he last dreamed of was not himself, but the soul of 'Leon'.
Charles started having the dream in early September, when Leon was attacked and injured by Agathon in the village of Buyulin and had been staying in Bacchus.
The dream lasted until mid-September, when Charles received instructions from Leon to cooperate with the Jatu people...
Mid-September was when Leon met Kavala and Malbert in Dilingang Port.
In other words, after Leon was injured on September 1st, Eunomia began to prepare. If Leon returned to Changhe City after being injured, Eunomia would probably not harass Charles, but would directly harass Leon himself like Kavala...
Because early September should be when Kavala first started to make trouble - the two gods should have started making preparations after discovering that Leon was seriously injured.
But after being injured, Li Ang did not return to the Fierce Lion Realm, but stayed in the Imperial Port to recuperate...
Originally this was because the Knights of the Radiant Cross were very good at treating external injuries, and chest injuries made it difficult to move.
This just happened to avoid the original preparations of the two gods - Bacchus was not Eunomia's territory, and there were neither statues of Eunomia nor statues of Kavala in the territory.
So Kavala, who couldn't wait any longer, went to Dilingang with Alers and Malbert.
Eunomia, who was patient, waited until mid-September, until Leon locked Kavala in his soul space, and then brought the original "Leon" to Charles to dream and let Charles let the Jatu people enter.
Letting Charles lead the Jatu people into Changhecheng may be to allow Leon to face a more difficult battle again while his injuries have not healed.
She might have wanted to make Leon lose consciousness, so that the original 'Leon' could return to this body, or to try to slow down Leon's conquest of the continent.
Li Ang could actually understand why Eunomia wanted to deal with him...
Because the Snake Cult in the continent of Pendor had been eradicated, Kavala was also imprisoned in Leon's own soul space.
It is obvious that Eunomia wants to get rid of the donkey after it has served its purpose, and she can also send Kavala away at the same time - now exiling Leon's soul is equivalent to exiling Kavala as well, and Eunomia probably doesn't want to miss this good opportunity.
In addition, there must be another very important reason - Charles built a statue for himself and placed himself on a par with the gods...
This is what Kavala once did.
Eunomia probably thought that Leon would become another Kavala.
Moreover, she could no longer come to the earth in person, so she could only try her best to let others kill Le Ang - before Le Ang gained enough faith and became a true god.
Stupid God...
Li Ang feels a little helpless now .
Gods also have obsessions - or rather, it is precisely because of their obsessions that they can become gods.
The teachings of the goddess of order, Eunomia, are of course to maintain harmony and order on earth. She must also know that only a unified continent of Pendor can have true order.
But if the king who unified the continent wanted to become a god... like Kavala, then in the eyes of Eunomia, this person would be the cancer of this continent - her view was a bit extreme, but not wrong.
If it were Kavala's thinking, if the continent of Pendor was conquered by him again, he might brainwash everyone into snake worshippers, and then turn those who could not be brainwashed into 'devoured' - in this way, he could be the only god forever.
In this case, it is indeed equivalent to that everyone is dead - perhaps it is more terrifying than death. A world where everyone is brainwashed is probably worse than the Blood Hell Abyss. At least true love does exist in the Blood Hell Abyss.
As for whether Leon will be different from Kavala...Eunomia definitely doesn't want to gamble. One Kavala is enough for her. If she is unlucky and another one comes out, she will be doomed...
Eunomia knew better than anyone how Kavala became a god - Kavala had never been defeated in a battle throughout his life. He was regarded as the god of knights and was worshipped by many warriors. In his later years, he even became a god in the flesh.
And in the eyes of Eunomia, Leon must be more terrifying than Kavala, because Leon's progress in conquering the continent was much faster than Kavala. In just a few years, he went from a penniless poor boy to a king who controlled half of the continent. He was also good at making money and solved the Red Death... It seemed that nothing could stump him.
This means that not only warriors and lords, but also merchants, doctors and civilians will worship Leon - Charles is an obvious case. He is a lord without much ambition. The reason he worships Leon is actually because Leon seems to be able to solve all kinds of problems.
Therefore, Eunomia wanted to stop Leon . She wanted Leon to be defeated, or even die in battle...
From the perspective of Eunomia, this is indeed how it should be done - whether it is the Jatu people, the Crowmen, the Misty Mountain people, anyone can do it, as long as they can kill Leon or stop Leon from unifying the continent and prevent Leon from becoming a god like Kavala.
Destiny is a strange thing...
Leon and Kavala are both chosen ones of Eunomia, but both are targeted by Eunomia.
In fact, Leon is feeling very aggrieved now - he really has no intention of becoming a god, and building the statue is Charles' personal behavior, Leon doesn't know about it at all...
But this is the case with many things. Both hostile parties may be working for the well-being of the entire continent and for the future of more people.
Leon did not blame Charles. It was indeed not his fault.
The problem now is how to solve this problem - otherwise Eunomia will definitely continue to cause trouble. A goddess with obsession is quite scary.
Leon wanted to try to see if he could communicate with Eunomia.
But this must wait until Wendy returns, because only Wendy can call Maltis back from the Vengedarian continent.
If you want to communicate with Eunomia, you can only do it in the soul space.
However, if the soul space is opened, that is, if the protection of the soul is given up, then Kavala might cause trouble - perhaps only Martis can keep Leon from getting into trouble.
In order to avoid any trouble before Wendy came back, Li Ang locked himself in the bank warehouse first.
Just treat it as a vacation. At least I'll have Charles with me so I won't be lonely.
