Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 35: 40 Million
"You mean, the entire Ravenwood is now at risk of being pulled into the Lake of Entropy at any time?"
William briefly summarized what Nezemar said.
The other party nodded.
"Except for the 'newly born' kings, all 'reborn' kings need to cut off a piece of the real world as the basis of their existence to expand their territory in the Moon Realm, just like cutting a cake. The original Lady of Hunger and Corruption completed the ceremony in Ravenwood and was upgraded to the Void King. Originally, this place should have turned into a void ocean like the Ruins of Osis. However, for some unclear reasons, Camilla did not bring the land of Ravenwood to the Moon Realm, but created a lonely lake in the Moon Realm, which is now the Lake of Entropy."
Nezemal continued to nod.
In other words, Camilla still has a claim to Ravenwood.
William thought, and then concluded:
"More than a thousand years ago, two rulers of Ravenwood died suddenly at the same time under strange circumstances, which gave Lady Hungry an opportunity. She planned to use her remaining followers in the human world to replace the worship totem of the World Tree with her own symbol, so as to become the 'new Great Mother' believed by the forest elves and re-infiltrate the human world. She was almost successful, but at the last moment, Nehe discovered her conspiracy and did not cooperate with her to complete the last step of the ritual. However, after almost committing a disaster this time, Nehe finally chose to exile herself and leave."
Why does this always happen to that unlucky kid?
William couldn't help but sigh, and then he turned his gaze to the girl who was still sleeping next to him and asked:
"Finally... this little devil who inherited the [Eye of God] told you all these things, claiming that Sibyl exchanged consciousness with her... exchanged consciousness at different times?"
Nazemar gave a final nod very solemnly.
"You talked to her for so long, do you think she was real?"
After a moment's silence, William couldn't help but ask.
And Nazemar looked into William's eyes and answered almost immediately:
"My intuition tells me that it is probably true."
"Wait, let me calm down for a moment..."
William, feeling his brain was overloaded, rubbed his temples.
After a long time, he finally sorted out his thoughts.
"We will verify whether it is true or not later. For now, let's assume that what she said is true. Then the two most critical questions are already in front of us. The first is: What conditions does Camilla need to meet in order to pull the entire Ravenwood into the Moon Realm?"
This kind of thing definitely requires extremely harsh conditions to be accomplished, otherwise the other party would have done it long ago and would not have waited until now.
But from another perspective, as long as they can guard against it strictly and make sure that condition cannot be met, wouldn't it be an easy task to thwart Ms. Hungry's plan?
"So, did the girl who claimed to be Sibyl mention what the conditions were? Was there any ritual that needed to be completed?"
William asked.
And Nezemar immediately replied:
"It is indeed a ritual... but the ritual itself is very simple. Even an ordinary person without magical enlightenment can complete it by following the same method if they have all the tools. What is really difficult is the preliminary preparations for this ritual - this ritual requires the use of a vast number of tired and old souls as fuel."
"Massive? How much exactly do you need?"
William asked:
"According to the number calculated by Sibyl...it's about 40 million."
Hearing this number, William looked at Nazemare with an expression as if to say, "Are you kidding me?"
The souls of forty million elderly people?
Although this world has magic, a highly productive technology, magic is rarely used in people's lives. The living standards of most residents on the continent of Vic are still between the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance. With this kind of productivity, the population on the continent of Vic is not actually dense.
In the entire Vic continent, even including Ava Continent and Daemon Continent in the east, the total number of "elderly" intelligent creatures within the current known range is less than 40 million.
Then the other party told him that this ritual required gathering the souls of 40 million old people in Ravenwood and burning them?
Is this a joke? The entire forest elf race only numbers a few million people.
But William noticed that there was no relaxation on Nazemar's face when he said this number.
"Wait a minute... what you said before, the so-called sins of the forest elves' ancestors, isn't this what you meant?"
Thinking of a possible William, his scalp tingled...
If this is the case, then only the forest elves can gather 40 million old souls.
Because most of the forest elves did not really die, but became part of Ravenwood Forest.
At least one third of the vast forest of Ravenwood is the product of the transformation of ancient forest elves into trees over thousands of years.
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After many unsuccessful attempts to dismantle the barrier with force, Yin Lisi finally gave up his futile attempts.
She had to admit that the barrier set up by the Frost Witch Nihle could not be broken by an ordinary person like her with ordinary talent in magic, even if she was using Sibilla's body at the moment.
"In fact, even if we open this barrier and take out Nehe's phylactery from it, it won't anything. After all, we are in a broken time. As long as we are gathered back into causal time, we will be completely abandoned as unnecessary possibilities. In fact, we have never existed at all."
Thinking of this, Yin Lis said somewhat disappointedly.
"What else do you want? Correct a mistake made hundreds of years ago, and then everything will be fine in the future? If time can really be changed in this way, then the present world is no different from the eternally stagnant Realm of Light. A world without regrets must also be a world without surprises."
Yin Lianna looked around as she spoke , then found a root that looked strong enough to sit on, and then she comforted him:
"It is enough to be able to bring this information back to your time."
"As for those who will die in the next few hundred years, we will have no choice but to watch their souls suffer torture..."
Yinlis lamented.
"Those things are the future for us, but for you, they have become history. So you should save your sadness for later. Otherwise, you may not even be qualified to be sad in the future."
After Yin Lianna finished speaking, she clapped her hands twice, drawing the other person's attention back to reality.
"Well... go on. Keep talking about the information about Ms. Hungry and Corrupted. I will write it all down."
Yin Lisi came back to his senses and answered.
"Where was I talking about before? Oh, yes , about the real power she is involved in. Corruption, rot, hunger, withering... these things are just the appearance of Camilla's power, and it can even be said that they are a cover-up. In fact, the real power held by Lady Hunger and Corruption is the concept of 'loss'."
"loss?"
"As mentioned before, everything in the world is cyclical, whether it is the transition between life and death, or the change of day and night and seasons. Everything is like a wheel, driving the development of history in the repetitive rotation. However, as the wheel rolls forward, it will gradually wear out. And those things that are peeled off from the wheel and inevitably lost belong to Camilla's domain. For this reason, Ms. Hungry and Corrupted's moon realm is called the 'Lake of Entropy', symbolizing those things that are helplessly disappearing."
Yin Lianna said so.
"But will understanding this be of any direct help in thwarting her plans?"
Yinlis asked.
"It can provide us with ideas. Because the so-called loss must be something that is separated from a system that is still in operation. Just like the example given before, Camilla is not pursuing damage to the wheel, but to wear it as much as possible without completely destroying the wheel structure . The dead silence after complete destruction does not belong to Camilla, that is the domain of the ruins demon Biodin."
"so what?"
"The wheels that have been burned to charcoal will not wear out, and there will be no corruption spreading on the ashes. If you want to stop Camilla, the best way is..."
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"So if you want to stop Camilla, the best way is..."
William said as he looked at Flora who was standing beside him.
"Burn the entire Ravenwood Forest to ashes."
