Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 38 The truth behind the myth
Subtly, William could feel that Remedios was still continuing with the work in her hands.
At this "moment", she is still burning her magic power, trying to close her time loop and fix herself as a phenomenon.
Even as a powerful being at the divine realm level, using the magic power in her personal etheric realm as fuel, the phenomena that could eventually be fixed were only extremely minor things.
For example, becoming a ghost that appears on a lighthouse on a stormy night, or becoming a tiny sunspot that can occasionally be observed on the moon.
Perhaps this is how many legends in this world come from.
As for what the other party is doing... According to the member of the Takma sect, she intends to use herself as a adopted child to infiltrate history and connect the two concepts of "William Kane" and "the Eighth Holy Spirit".
The name William Kane had been worshipped by the Empire for eight hundred years, and the faith contained in it was enough to serve as fuel to complete the closed loop. So she planned to use William from one thousand and eight years ago as the main body of the ceremony, and use herself as the medium of the closed loop to send the faith from one thousand and eight years and one thousand years back to the past.
Once successful, the power of the Holy Spirit is something that has always existed.
Of course, in this way, both William and Remedios would become fixed phenomena. Although William was not sure whether he would retain his self-consciousness, Remedios was definitely doomed.
So he spoke directly:
"My coming back has nothing to do with what you are doing now, so stop it immediately."
"No, don't lie to me, Your Excellency the Judge..."
An unexpected and inexplicable answer.
It was a very strange thing. The other party was clearly a group of countless overlapping shadows, an image that would make ordinary people dizzy just by looking at it, but William could actually feel the serious and sad expression on the other party's face.
"What did I lie to you about?"
William asked quickly.
"I can feel that your existence is extremely unstable now, like an illusory bubble. You can't really return to the real world, right?"
"ha?"
William only remembered this at this time.
"Wait a minute...wait a moment."
William quickly raised his hand and tried to explain in a somewhat chaotic manner.
"You are now just a fragment of the power of the real Lord William Kane. He has not truly returned."
William covered his forehead. This was a huge misunderstanding.
"This is a clone created using Mirror Image..."
He explained immediately.
"Is that ..."
The other party laughed lonely, and countless overlapping faces showed an expression of "as expected" at the same time.
It seems that what I just said actually confirmed the other party's guess...
So he hastened to continue:
"What I mean is, he, bah, my real body is now near the Dawn Fortress, and I can't come here due to some troublesome reasons, so I let..."
In the loop of time, he could only move along his own timeline. Therefore, even though the distance between the two was only a few meters, he seemed unable to do anything other than explain.
But the other party didn't seem to pay attention to William's words. Instead, the shadow on his body began to become more solid.
All selves in time become one, there is no past and future, this is a precursor to closing one's own timeline.
"Your Excellency the Judge, this is probably the only thing I can do for you."
As Remedios's voice rang out again, everything around her began to gradually disintegrate and change.
"Don't make a decision for me on your own, just wait a minute!"
This time, William, who was so anxious that he jumped up and down, yelled out loud.
Remedios was startled by William's sudden movement, and she stopped what she was doing.
"Has this thousand years made you so stubborn?"
"Besides, I don't want to be some bullshit eighth holy spirit!"
William continued to roar.
The words of the Takma sect member made William understand many problems.
The settings and background information in the game have always been recorded in the form of history books. The official has never used an "authoritative" tone to determine what an event is like. Even the official setting collection is a collection of a large amount of information collected and sorted by a historian, and there are even contradictory documents in it.
Among the player community, there are many different speculations about the nature of the Void King, the Holy Spirit, and various immortal beings.
In this regard, he did not have much advantage over the natives here, except that he had more comprehensive information. Even his inertial thinking formed by his materialistic education might sometimes become an obstacle to his understanding of the world.
But this theory of time stratification opened up William's mind and answered many questions.
Where does the immortality of gods come from? What is the so-called authority? Where are the holy spirits?
The answers to all these questions can be explained by another level of time.
Death is a concept of cause and effect, authority is a cycle of large and small sizes that will be repeated, and the Holy Spirit exists in cyclical time.
This reminded William of some mythological stories he had read in the real world.
The ancient Norse believed that the arrival of winter was because the goddess of spring was kidnapped by the ice giants. Whenever this happened, Thor would pick up his hammer and go to the ice giants' territory to save the goddess of spring. The sparks he produced became lightning, foreshadowing the arrival of spring.
William thought the most unreasonable thing about this story was that, if it was true, it would mean that the goddess of spring would be kidnapped by the ice giants once a year, and Thor would have to go and rescue the goddess every year.
From a human perspective, aren't these gods too shortsighted?
Of course, in the real world, the arrival of spring does not depend on the blowing of the goddess of spring, and lightning is not the spark produced by Thor's hammer - in fact, the possibility that the so-called Thor is an alien is greater than this, and maybe he prefers to use an axe rather than a hammer.
However, stories with similar structures are everywhere in the mythology of this world.
The most typical example is the transformation myth of the king and the bandit in the Blackwater Swamp region, Orka, the god of death, and Vera. If we think about it from the perspective of mortals, we will find them unreasonable - can't they just calmly give their defeated enemies a final blow after becoming kings? Or is it difficult to give them a different position instead of sending them to the underworld to serve as the god of death?
What’s even more terrible is that, unlike the real world, these myths are basically true - because mortals can really gain strength from imitating those mythological deeds, and no one can question this, which is equivalent to ironclad evidence.
But if we deduce from this conclusion, there seems to be only one possibility - those gods are actually a group of morons, and their IQ may not even be as good as that of some children.
But now, William understands where the problem lies.
It is true that gods exist, but they exist in another dimension of time.
It would be extremely foolish for mortals to try to deduce their social structure from those myths , because the myths themselves are the cyclical time in which they live.
This theory further deepened William's previous firm belief.
Whether it's the Holy Spirit, ancient gods, or even the Void King, he can use their power, but he can never give up his human identity to become them.
It was as if he could use the tides, seasons, and phases of the moon to defeat his enemies, but he could not become the tides, seasons, and phases of the moon himself.
If victory is not achieved as a mortal, then everything in the end will be meaningless.
