Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 52: The Iron-Hearted Widow
"Is this what you call everyone being able to become a star? You sound so high-sounding, but in the end, you still need the help of the Moon Realm to accomplish your goal?"
After seeing clearly who the shadow in the distance was, William said sarcastically to the old man in front of him.
In response, the old man just replied calmly:
"We are just partners with the same goal. Besides, if you hadn't brought us to this Moon Realm, it would have been difficult for us to reveal the trump card in our hands. To be honest, even I am not sure that she is really willing to help us. But since she has chosen to help, your failure is already doomed."
Looking at the other party's confident look, William felt a slight headache.
"Are you a partner with the Moon Realm's Void King who shares the same goal? Until today, I thought the people of the Takma Cult were very wise. Also, do you want to guess why those Moon Realm monsters called me 'Disaster' back then?"
William asked.
"But you still lack the weapon to deal with her, don't you?"
The old man replied.
Before William, whose face had become slightly gloomy, could say anything, the other party continued:
"And you will never get that weapon back, the weapon called Judgment Three."
There was a hint of gloating in his tone.
With his words, William decided that after things here were settled, he would give this old bastard a painful death.
Thinking of this, William turned his gaze to the distance again.
Floating in the air was a thin, sickly woman, wearing a black veil and the kind of solemn black evening dress you would only see at a funeral. She seemed to be floating in the air in a somewhat lonely manner.
She looked indifferent, with no expression on her face. There was a huge hole in her chest, and where her heart should have been, there was only a deep void. Her bony hands were clasped together, holding a shrunken heart in front of her chest.
At this moment, the other party was confronting a dark cloud formed by circling ravens in the sky.
The vain king and the iron-hearted widow Alas!
Although she is a past boss, William can hardly call her an old acquaintance. There are very few quest lines related to the Ironheart Widow in the game, and most of them are filler quests with no characteristics at all, and there are almost no interactions with the player. Except for the slightly unique mechanism of the final boss battle, there is really nothing memorable about her.
Oh, yes, and her strange name.
To sum up, when everyone in the forum discusses who is the boss with the weakest presence in the entire game, they may forget about her existence.
The realm she symbolizes is numbness, silence and loneliness - the opposite of everything related to love in the world.
The opposite of love is not hate, but neglect.
William has always had a problem that he couldn't figure out.
The reason why the Seven Holy Spirits can truly manifest holy signs is that the Holy Spirit Church has collected the myths of various tribes on the Vic continent and summarized similar gods into a unified belief prototype. To some extent, this is a highly planned ritual magic system.
But the mythological prototype of the so-called Eighth Holy Spirit has never appeared in the legends of various races. It just used the deeds of mortals out of thin air - whether it was William's deeds or Terra's deeds, it only used the deeds of mortals to make it truly manifest. This sounds a bit unscientific... mysticism.
Throughout history, there have been countless rulers who have claimed to be gods, but none of them has been able to become like the Eighth Holy Spirit, a being that can gain a faint blessing just by touching his statue.
However, when William saw clearly that it was the Iron-Hearted Widow who was confronting Blake in the distance, he seemed to understand what the "manifestation" of the Eighth Holy Spirit was all about.
He recalled what he had talked about with the Saint of the Eighth Order named Diana on his way to Ava.
At that time, the girl told William that she obtained the revelation of the Eighth Holy Spirit because she dug up an amulet that William had personally enchanted and made. After that, she helped Wanren City expel the "Blood and Tears Plague" and was finally named the Saint of the Eighth Church.
William felt strange at the time. The amulet he had enchanted had no healing effect at all, and the authority of the Eighth Holy Spirit should not be related to the concept of "healing". So how did the other party expel the blood and tears plague?
But after William saw the arrival of the Ironheart Widow, the answer was very clear - the blood and tears plague was not expelled by any "Eighth Holy Spirit", but was stopped by the Ironheart Widow, the king of nothingness who created it, Air herself.
The Eighth Order and the Takma Order, they cooperate with the Moon Realm.
Whether it existed from the beginning or was created at a certain stage, the birth of the concept of "Eighth Holy Spirit" must be closely related to the Void King.
William even felt that he could pinpoint it directly to the iron-hearted widow, the illusory king.
In the game, when fighting a boss battle with the Void Avatar of Aiel, the most special features of the opponent are the two mechanisms of "silence" and "instant death".
Air is known as the "Iron-Hearted Widow". Although the name "widow" has always been unclear, the word "Iron-Hearted" is the best interpretation of her symbolic domain.
Metal spells are also called death spells. This is because in the creation model, metal is the end point of magic power sinking and condensing. It is magic power that has died and completely lost its vitality.
The concept of "iron heart" corresponds exactly to this point - the numbness, silence and coldness without passion seal all creativity in the cold reality.
Looking back now, the two powers displayed by the so-called "Eighth Holy Spirit" - whether it is the magic-forbidden ability that directly destroys the spell itself, or the unreasonable ability of instant death, seem to be similar to the Iron-Hearted Widow that William fought against back then.
It’s just that I had never thought about the Moon Realm or the Iron-Hearted Widow before.
At this time, a raven flew over crookedly, and William raised his food and ordered it to land on it.
"Your Honor, the projection of the Void King, the Ironheart Widow, has descended upon Black Crow Watch through the mark on the girl from before."
The raven opened its mouth and made the sound of Blake.
"Is it possible that the other party will use this projection as a springboard to descend into Black Crow Hope or appear in the world in person?"
William thought for a moment and asked .
"Now more than 50% of Black Crow Wang has been integrated with the real world, and the protection of the World Shell will also be effective for us. Unless the other party kills me completely and swallows up Black Crow Wang into its own domain, it is impossible for him to descend into Black Crow Wang or even the real world with his true body."
In other words, the other party was just a projection that came here.
After confirming this, William was completely relieved.
Although William, as a magic chanter, had the worst compatibility with the Ironheart Widow among the thirteen Void Kings, it shouldn't be a big problem to deal with her if she was just a projection, even if she wasn't fully equipped and didn't have the corresponding Judgment Armor.
"Are you okay over there?"
William noticed that the raven sent by Blake to deliver the letter was injured.
As the "Father of Crows", every raven in Black Crow Watch is an extension of his power. So naturally, the injuries suffered by Blake will also be reflected on those ravens .
"Fortunately, apart from the sneak attack at the beginning, the enemy didn't get any benefits afterwards. But the enemy doesn't seem to be very interested in fighting either."
It's okay not to be too enthusiastic about fighting, after all, this is in line with the other party's personality.
After complaining slightly in his heart, William continued to ask:
"Can you do this by yourself? Or do you need my help?"
The "Father of Crows" is a Moon Realm existence whose rank is second only to the Void King. William feels that even if he does not take action, Blake should be able to deal with him.
"It's very easy to deal with him. As long as I stop maintaining the 'coordinate point' in Yuefa City and let Black Crow Wang get closer to the real world, he will be directly pushed back to the Moon Realm by the World Shell."
Blake replied through the raven.
But the moment these words came out, the raven froze.
William felt that the raven standing on his finger suddenly became heavy and cold. Before he could react, it flipped backwards and fell on the rocky ground with a crisp sound.
The raven familiar made of Brian's power instantly turned into metal.
+I have a deal to discuss with Disaster. It's not too late to issue the expulsion order after I finish speaking.+
A crisp and cold sound like the collision of iron, echoing in the depths of the soul of everyone present.
The next moment, the woman in a black evening dress, holding her iron heart in both hands, appeared in front of William.
