Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 4 Their Later Life (Part 1)
The Rainy Month is the fourth month of the year. The tears of the Holy Spirit "Mother" turn into rain to nourish all things and bring vitality to the entire Vic continent.
Newborns born in this month may randomly be favored by the Traveler, Hunter, or Serpent. In William's time, this meant that they would have extraordinary talents in storm, frost, and transfiguration spells. Now, it means that those newborns are only allowed to practice related spells.
The rain was drizzling outside the window. William raised his hand and lifted the curtain in front of the window, feeling the moist breeze with raindrops hitting his face.
At this moment, the carriage he was riding in was moving forward on the gravel-paved official road, and the outline of Thorn City was not far away.
Although this was not his first time here, it seemed to be the second time he entered the city through the main gate in a carriage.
This was somewhat similar to his previous experience in the game. Except for the one time when he had to enter through the main gate to open the map, the rest of the time he could directly appear in the city's teleportation .
But today he couldn't do that.
In order to solve the problems in Thorn City once and for all, his trip back to Thorn City today needs to be kept secret.
Compared to the last time he came, Thorn City did not look very different from the outside - except that the originally shining Stranger Star Lighthouse was surrounded by a temporary black shell, and the grass had now turned into a dark scorched earth.
William had previously used the [Fire Wall] to thoroughly plow the land there in order to deal with the remains of the Tide of the Undead, to ensure that it would not become a wasteland contaminated by necromancy, but now...
【Life Detection】
In William's eyes, countless weak but tenacious breaths of life were brewing under the scorched earth. When the rain stopped and the sky cleared, green buds would be reborn on this land again.
"After the corpse raised by the necromancy spell is finished being used, the remains must be burned to return it to the cycle of the living world. This is the only way to maintain the balance between life and death."
He recalled what he had said to Liliana. It was just him imitating the idea that a friend often said.
The third seat of the Judgment Seat is Frost Witch Nihel, a forest elf druid who became a lich by mistake. He firmly believed in the druid sect's way of life and death balance, but he became a lich who desecrated the balance of life and death, and because he lost his phylactery, even his soul could not rest in peace.
At the end of this character's quest line, after William found his phylactery, he could choose to give it to him, allowing him to return to the cycle of life and death as he wished, or...
"Over a thousand years, his life box must have floated around this planet countless times with the ocean currents..."
William murmured that this was another thing he had done casually at the time, but it ended up bringing about very bad consequences.
In order to prevent his teammate from leaving the team, William secretly threw his life box into the underground river, letting it be washed away, and then turned around and told Nehe that he did not find it.
Come to think of it, it was an extremely selfish choice.
The reason why William suddenly thought of Neh was that when he heard Blake talking about the whereabouts of other members of the Trial Seat before he came, he was the first one mentioned.
Nehe, who was known as the "Frost Witch", was the first member of the Tribunal to lose contact.
"After the disastrous meeting, Nih returned to the Holy Tree City. He was aware of the possible disputes in the future, but he did not want to get involved in them at all. He hoped to exchange his merits in preventing the Moon Realm Crisis for the title of Druid Priest and to protect the Holy Forest for the rest of his life. But this proposal was rejected by the Sacred Tree King. After that, he became disheartened and left the Vic Continent by boat from White Goose Port, and finally disappeared in the depths of the Misty Sea."
The Sea of Misty Sea is an ocean located between the continent of Vic and the Ruins of Osis. According to legend, that continent completely sank to the bottom of the sea because it completely angered the entire Moon Realm.
He was lucky in that he left before the war broke out completely.
Blake commented.
After that, the sixth seat, "Dragon" Dua Jin, returned to the Dragonbone Islands, and the seventh seat, "Ranger" Remedios Moonshadow, returned to Ava Continent and was elected as the lord of Moon Law City. The development of these two members of the Tribunal is roughly similar to William's post-game story.
Of course, this is assuming nothing happened later.
The rest of the people lived a relatively peaceful life in the following years.
At the beginning, the five-member meeting headed by the fifth seat "Lionheart" Byron could barely maintain the size of the End Watch , and could even use the remaining power of the Judgment Seat to temporarily suppress the flames of war between the seven kingdoms.
At that time, although "Stargazer" Sibyl went to the north to look for the revelation brought to her by the [Eye of God], and "Magic Front" Evelyn returned to her hometown and chose to become a teacher of general magic class, "Jackdaw" and "Dark Swordsman" also suddenly lost contact.
But the Tribunal still has five powerful heroes of the Divine Realm: "Lionheart" Byron, "Shadow" Kos, "Lord of the Sei" Duwei, "Windcaller" Jay and "Discipline" Markarth.
Under the suppression of the five of them, the seven kingdoms, who were looking forward to unifying the continent through a war, had to accept the proposal of temporary peace because they lost the common threat of the Moon Realm . Of course, this peace was only peace relative to the outbreak of a full-scale war. In fact, the seven kingdoms have never stopped infiltrating the End Watchers and recruiting the original members of the Savior Army.
Especially in the war against the Moon Realm, the analysis of various war tools invented by the End Watchers and the summary of the usage of the legionary magic casters. The seven kingdoms were almost eagerly absorbing this knowledge and using it as a guide to improve the construction of their own armies.
"The Blood King is not the only monster shaped by war, Lord Judge."
Blake said so.
"In our efforts to defeat the Moon Realm, we also turned ourselves into monsters. We may have felt extremely happy when we saw those war machines and advanced tactics tearing the Moon Realm monsters into pieces, but we never thought that these weapons would one day be turned against us."
After all, the End Watcher has no territory or subjects of its own. Perhaps in a short period of time, it can rely on absolute suppression to maintain the balance of the situation on the continent, but this balance is undoubtedly very fragile as one side gains while the other loses.
"I heard all this from Coles later. After Byron realized this problem, he proposed an idea in the Council of Five - instead of waiting until the seven kingdoms have enough advantages to break this fragile balance, it is better for us to break this balance first."
Byron intends to let the End Watcher support one of the seven kingdoms and unify the entire continent first.
"So the five-member council was dissolved and split because of this proposal?"
William asked. He had previously learned from Valk's play that later on, several people in the five-member council chose to support different countries.
Blake shook his head and said:
"No, Byron's proposal did cause a lot of arguments and almost caused the entire Council of Five to fall apart. But what later completely split the entire meeting was another matter."
"Although I only heard about this matter, and even now I find it hard to believe it."
"What is it?"
William asked.
"'Lord of the Separatist' Du Wei, the second in command of the Judgment Seat who was most opposed to the End Watchers' support for a certain country to unify the continent, was assassinated."
