Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 54: A Simple Ceremony
The incarnation of the Holy Spirit can indeed kill the real body of the King of Nothingness in the world. William once experienced this in the ending of the waning moon.
In the CG of the ending of "Zanyue", the existence called the incarnation of the Holy Spirit, under the control of the protagonist, pressed down the bodies of the three Void Kings, and beat them so that cracks like tortoise shells appeared on them, and it seemed that they were just one step away from being completely shattered.
If the protagonist's soul had not been almost burned out at the end, and if other Void Kings had not come to rescue them, it is estimated that they would have died in the mortal world.
Unfortunately, the preparations for awakening the Holy Spirit Avatar were extremely cumbersome and demanding, and the cost was huge. And according to the setting, the Avatar could only be effective in the real world. If he wanted to use her to kill the Void King, he had to first let the other party's body enter the real world - which was a catastrophe in itself. Therefore, William did not invest any energy and resources in this matter.
However, what Aire said now gave William some ideas.
Maybe I can really use this...
After all, this was the nth time that William was connected with the Eighth Holy Spirit again.
When William first heard about the concept of the Eighth Holy Spirit, he thought it was just a concept made up out of thin air by Terra Riel, who claimed to be his reincarnation, in an attempt to use his past influence to gain legal recognition.
But after using the "Kane Horn" to truly stop the aftermath of the Corrupted Moon Tide, when he was able to use the blessed holy image to reproduce the holy miracle, and when he truly witnessed the power of the Eighth Holy Spirit, even if William was unwilling to accept it, he had to admit that this new god belief, which was based on his and Terra Riel's beliefs, at least existed objectively.
And today, when he had a brief contact with Terra Riel's "God's Descent" state, he discovered that the Void King of the Moon Realm was providing support behind this power, and that this Void King was expecting him to completely ascend the throne of the Eighth Holy Spirit and kill her.
Since it is a force that you cannot get rid of, what you should do is to face it and think about how to use it to the maximum extent possible and safely.
Instead of just cautiously testing it in some small places as before.
However, on the other hand, William was truly in a state of confusion.
It's not because of the complexity of the matter itself that I'm confused. It's about my own identity and the identity of my role...
William Kane, the protagonist of the game Endwatch, is absolutely just an ordinary person. This has been mentioned many times in the interviews of the game production team. The producer said that he hates the traditional heroic narrative of destiny heroes, blood inheritance, and reincarnation of gods.
The original intention of creating this game is to create a different romantic epic - an alliance composed of various frustrated marginalized people and losers, who save the whole world while .
In fact, the NPCs who can join the Judgment Seat - whether they are persecuted tribes, mercenaries running for revenge, self-exiled rangers, wandering abandoned tribes... their common identity is that they are losers who have no hope. In the era when the game story takes place, no force in the entire continent believed that the End Watcher could succeed.
The protagonist of the story also grew up from an ordinary person to his current height little by little.
William still remembers that in the middle and late stages of the game, there was a special quest line for the protagonist to find out his own life experience. After a series of adventures, the protagonist was finally told that he was actually a mortal with ordinary qualifications and talents - not a descendant of a hero, no god came to the world, and there was no destiny to choose.
So at least, from the perspective of the game itself, there is nothing special about the setting of your character.
Could the truth about the Eighth Holy Spirit be related to my identity as a time traveler?
Thinking of this, William suddenly felt a chill on his back. He looked at Air's empty eyes, was silent for a while and asked:
"What does it mean to ascend the eighth throne? Will I still be myself by then?"
William is extremely resistant to the idea of becoming a god, because all those who call themselves "gods" in this world are his enemies, without exception.
He had witnessed more than once how good people who had obtained the power of God through ritual magic succumbed to it and became slaves to the power, and finally turned into disasters. Therefore, he remembered the information on how to control this power so deeply, and after Cas and Blake returned, he immediately strictly restricted their power and told them to fight like mortals.
Even he himself once became a slave to power in the "Eclipse" ending.
In response to William's question, the Ironhearted Widow El replied:
"You are wrong. Only when you ascend that throne can you become yourself. As for what it means, I believe it means that the gears of the world that have long been stagnant will start turning again because of your completeness."
This is a typical Riddler answer that is as good as saying nothing. If it were placed in a game scene with a framed and fixed dialogue, there would probably only be two options, rejection or acceptance, to determine the next route branch.
But now that William is free from all those restrictions, he doesn't intend to play guessing games with the other party, but directly says:
"Please tell me clearly what will happen after I ascend to the Eighth Throne. How much of my self-awareness will I retain? Will I still exist as a physical entity in this world? Or will I rise like the Seven Holy Spirits and disappear as a concept? Will it have an impact on this world? If so, how big will the impact be... If you ask someone to do something for you but can't even show this little sincerity, I suggest you go back."
William said this very happily, but he felt inexplicably uneasy after he said it.
Completely destroying all the Void Kings is undoubtedly his biggest goal. But now that there is a king who is willing to let him kill him, he still has such an aggressive attitude, which seems a bit unreasonable.
Realizing that his attitude seemed a little unnatural, William waved to Blake who was not far away. The other party understood what he meant and a deep black sphere immediately appeared in his hand.
That is to pull the Moon Law City Palace to the coordinate point of Black Crow Wang. As long as Blake stops maintaining the coordinate point, Black Crow Wang will immediately return to the Mountains of Sorrow, and the projection of the Void King in front of him will be instantly blocked from the world by the Shell of the World.
William's words silenced the other party for a long time. It was not until William became impatient and was about to wave his hand to Black to cancel the coordinate point that Aire slowly spoke:
"There are some things that I cannot translate into logical language to tell you, who is still a mortal. Unless you can understand them yourself, they can only remain secrets. And there are reasons why secrets are secrets. All I can do is prove my sincerity by swearing to you with my iron heart that what I say is true."
William slowly put down his hand, thought for a moment and said:
"Well, since you can't discuss the risk, I won't make any guarantees in advance about this matter... But you have to tell me what I should do, right?"
Feeling that he would not get any further answers if he continued asking, William simply changed the topic to the area that he could actually control.
The Eighth Holy Spirit and the Eighth Throne were too abstract in his understanding.
If the other party hopes to become the eighth holy spirit, then at least he should tell William the specific method to become one? In the ending of the lunar eclipse, the masterminds who bewitched the protagonist of the story to become the Void King at least told the protagonist the specific process of the ritual.
"The ceremony to ascend the Eighth Throne was originally very difficult, but now it has become very simple, especially for you..."
"This ceremony is to become the true emperor of the empire and sit on the throne of the Platinum Palace. By then, you will be promoted to the eighth Holy Spirit, the true king of the world... and also my deceased husband."
