Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 109: The Disaster of Prosperity
Platinum Province, deep in an underground cave about 300 kilometers away from Platinum City.
Countless curved and smooth secret passages form a network that spreads across the underground of the southeastern Platinum Province. Among them, one of the most obscure secret passages leads to a giant building that is literally made of bronze.
There are not a single welded or forged joint, nor any traces of artificial sculpting or etching. This extremely large underground tower is entirely made of massive amounts of bronze cast in one go - not only the building itself, but also the facilities and tools in the tower, as well as various living creatures and even the residents of the tower are all made of bronze.
This is the headquarters of the only two departments in the empire that are allowed to conduct in-depth research on the Moon Realm.
The mysterious Tower of Oblivion.
At the core of the Tower of Annihilation, there is a model of incredible complexity, whose appearance and interior are constantly changing at a dazzling speed.
A broken child's hole hung high on the top of the entire model, and the pure light source it projected was divided into countless broken beams by the shell full of holes. Those beams were projected onto the precise mechanism composed of seven interlocking parts, and reflected thirteen empty reflections again, which were smudged on the oil film covering the mechanism and the shell, reflecting rainbow-like colors.
In front of this model system that was as precise as a clock, an old man covered in rust was turning his inflexible joints and pulling the lever, adjusting something.
While he was busy, he kept muttering to himself:
"Don't be afraid, kids. You can take a closer look at this world model that is closest to the truth. If you have any questions, you can ask them now."
Behind him stood many apprentices who were also cast from bronze. Each of them had a spring at the waist, which was turning at an extremely slow speed.
"Sage, according to the model built by the Takma Cult, the so-called Moon Realm is nothing more than the reflection of the huge system of the present world on the oil film. Then why has the illusory Moon Realm always had such a great influence on the real world in history?"
The leading apprentice asked this after hesitating for a moment.
As the old man pushed a few rods, a bronze pipe popped out next to the apprentice, which looked like a looking glass.
"Real? What is real? Even today, do you still think that..."
As the old man spoke, he raised a finger and pointed at the center of the system, the sophisticated mechanism that symbolized the present world.
"Is that real, just because it seems to exist? Don't be silly, kid. The objective and real world is just an illusion, a product of the seven holy spirits to imprison us. In the world, the only real thing is your thoughts, and the only real world is the world you see."
The child with scattered eyes above the looking glass model symbolizes the perspective of the only existing "Ma" in the Takma cult model.
In the philosophy of the Takma Order, the truth of the world depends on the truth observed by each individual.
The apprentice who asked the question saw through the mirror that the real world had been distorted by the oil film that symbolized the Moon Realm and had changed into a strange appearance.
"You see, what you can observe is the so-called reality. Tell me, what do you see through Ma's perspective?"
The old man asked.
This sophisticated model, built with reference to the philosophy of the Takma Order, connects 24 star lighthouses across the continent. It is used to conduct cloud mapping of the entire Moon Realm. It can monitor the drastic changes in the Moon Realm and the real world at any time , and is an important channel for the Imperial Senate to obtain intelligence on the Moon Realm and the real world.
The apprentice heard this and replied strangely:
"I... I saw that the parts that run the Second Holy Spirit system are stuck, and the reflection of the hungry lady is slowly fading. Sage, does this mean that Camilla has entered a period of confrontation with the Second Holy Spirit?"
"What did you say?!"
The old man was shocked when he heard this and pushed the apprentice away, looking at the mirror himself. After a long while, he walked down with a serious look and turned to the bronze-armored guard at the door and said:
"Go and activate the encrypted teleportation spell to Platinum City immediately. Something big is going to happen in Ravenwood."
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The cry of a newborn baby echoed throughout Ravenwood. The sound did not sound sharp or harsh, but within the range of the sound, every being with the concept of "reproduction" could not help but feel a mixture of emotion and fear.
Although it is called crying, the sound heard by each being is actually different. The sound echoing in the ears of humans and forest elves is the "woooo woooo" of a baby, the wild beasts in the forest hear the whimpering of a baby being born, the reptiles and birds hear the sound of eggshells breaking, and the flowers, plants and trees "hear" the subtle sound of loose soil.
At this moment, transcending the limitations of different timelines and breaking through the barrier between the real world and the moon realm, the concept of "birth" spread across the land of the real world through William's act of cutting off the "umbilical cord" of the Mother Earth.
“It’s the Prosperous Disaster… Could it be that the one who was controlling that incarnation of nothingness just now wasn’t Camilla?”
The incarnation of nothingness is essentially a real body that can carry the power of the Moon Realm Void King. Although the incarnation itself needs to undergo many Moon Realm transformations in order to meet the king's will, its body is actually still a real creation - it may be the body of a hero, a city, a magic weapon, or even a day, a war.
For example, the incarnation of the hungry lady in front of us was transformed based on the embodiment of the Mother Earth. Naturally, this incarnation can also perform the power of the Mother Earth.
After it was recovered as a side effect by the Second Sect, it can even reversely direct the power of "Mother" to the Mother Goddess of the Earth.
For example, cutting the umbilical cord during childbirth.
Hearing the familiar crying sound, William recalled something bad.
According to the degree of worship and personification , once Camilla gave up control of this incarnation, she would become completely disastrous like she is now!
The disaster did not come from the extraterritorial threat of the Moon Realm, but from the rough human interference in this sophisticated system of the world, which caused the delicate balance to be broken, resulting in an overflow of harmful natural disasters.
The "prosperous disaster" that symbolized the mother at that time first spread in the Ravenwood area.
In terms of achievements, there are only two things that can be considered as "saving the world" for the End Watchers: sealing the seven disasters and resolving the crisis in the Moon Realm. In today's era when the Moon Realm has been forgotten by most people, the most obvious achievement of the End Watchers back then is sealing the seven disasters.
However, the irony is that it was the Holy Spirit Church that created the disaster by engaging in personality worship, but the final method to seal the disaster is to make it go all the way to personality, so that the disaster like a natural disaster is completely bound to a specific person. Then defeat her head-on, so that the out-of-control power is no longer controlled by the personality.
For those who are chosen, it is better to say that they are containers of the power of the Holy Spirit rather than being inspired by God or sent by God.
So all that happened before was just a trick, and Ms. Hungry's real purpose is to weaken the shell of the world here by awakening the Mother's Disaster?
William thought.
Compared to the "Avatar of Nothingness", the threat posed by "Prosperity Disaster" is not that great, but the trouble it can bring is much greater.
"Luxuriant Disaster", which symbolizes endless vitality, is a mechanical BOSS in the game - if the weapon is not blessed by Lady Hunger and Corruption and is given the concept of "loss", then her health value will be infinite.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not infinite, but because it is bound to the Holy Spirit "Mother", simply wanting to kill the disaster in a physical sense is equivalent to killing all life in the world, including itself.
But if she used weapons such as the Blade of Corruption to give the concept of "loss", then Lady Hungry and Corrupted could use this as an opportunity to directly open the huge Moon Realm rift, just like she did more than a thousand years ago.
There is even a chance that a crack will open directly, allowing the main body to pass through!
Following the sound of the baby's cry, William looked around at the surrounding trees, looking for the .
At this moment, an identical human figure appeared on each of the subtrees whose umbilical cords he had cut off before. Then they leaped towards their "mother" and overlapped their bodies together beside the corrupted giantess. As they slowly merged, the newly born son of God revealed his true identity.
Although he was mentally prepared, William couldn't help but sigh when the figure revealed himself.
"Nehe..."
But his words did not cause the forest elf spirit, who looked exactly like Nehe back then, to react in the slightest. At this moment, the other party was like an empty puppet, mechanically controlling the dozens of saplings to rise from the ground, and then...
He strode towards the Bone White House.
