Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 38 Origin (Part 2)
William still remembered that when he used the "Seed of Hope" to reverse cause and effect and revive Blake, he saw the countless possible deaths of Blake in the game.
Some of these deaths do not even exist in the archive of "William Kane".
In a sense, those contradictory possibilities, like the two different origins of Ravenwood Forest, existed simultaneously in a certain period of time, until they were selected by linear causal time after a certain divergence point, leaving only one possibility to become the truth of history.
However, this historical truth does not seem to be unchangeable.
An example is when he used the "Seed of Hope" to save the dead Blake.
The fact that Camilla has been promoted to the Void King, but is still able to leave a body called "World Tree" in the world is also an example.
"So, the powerful force associated with the Moon Realm can break up linear time... and even potentially reshape the past and the future?"
Not asking anyone, William said to himself.
An extremely disturbing thought began to grow in his mind.
The timeline he traveled through was the perfect ending he achieved after making countless choices, experiencing countless deaths, and reloading the game countless times like he had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
If Blake, Sibylla, Camilla and other illusory kings can all exist in a broken time with contradictory possibilities, then do William's failed timelines in the past also exist?
If they exist, is it possible for them to be used and reversed into the current historical truth?
No...it wasn't just William Kane's save file. Were all his past save files also in the same broken time? After all, he had seen Blake die in other save files.
Going further, is myself as "William Kane" really the only one in existence?
In other words, as a time traveler from outside, can he look at the world from a higher narrative level?
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"My adoptive parents were once members of the Platinum Circle. In the past, the investigation into the Blind Sisterhood was always done by the Inner Circle they belonged to. It was through the information they left behind that I learned the truth about the history of the forest elves."
After arriving at the foot of the World Tree that looked like a mountain, Flora looked up at the treetops and said this.
Although William wanted to find out more about her adoptive parents, especially about her surname "Kane", whether it had any connection with him, it was more important to get information about Ms. Hungry. It would be better to wait until later to find out about her family gossip.
"Then tell me the truth as you know it."
William urged.
"The first humans who lived here worshiped a primitive god named 'Beast Lord'. She is the god of wild beasts and hunting, and was born out of the production activities of Ravenwood, which was still in the hunting civilization stage. According to the theory of the Holy Spirit Church, this god should be a mixture of the two holy spirits, 'Father' and 'Boy'. If we take into account some cruel blood sacrifice rituals, she may have been influenced by the 'Lord of Dead Blood'."
"Wait, the only people they worship are 'Father' and 'Boy'?"
William noticed something was wrong.
If the Ravenwood Forest in the past was a forest full of life like it is today, there is no reason why the local residents would not have observed the silhouette of the Holy Spirit "Mother" at the beginning. In fact, in the primitive beliefs of any place in the Vic continent, there are legends of the image of the Mother Goddess who gives life to humans without exception.
"You're curious why there's no image of the Mother Goddess, right?"
"Even in the Blackwater Swamp mythology, which is themed around death, there is the image of the God of Life. Although her status in the mythology is extremely low, and she only appears as a maid of the Goddess of Death Vera, and it is even impossible to resonate her power through ritual magic...but at least there are records of her."
William nodded and said so.
"That's because in Ravenwood Forest at that time, the image of the Mother Goddess, which served as the silhouette of 'Mother', was completely abandoned by the human tribes at that time."
"Abandoned?"
William asked doubtfully.
"To be precise, it was destroyed and forgotten because of fear."
Floral said.
“Why are you afraid of the belief in the Mother Goddess who brings life?”
"Because the image of the 'Mother Goddess' is not just a kind mother... In other regions, due to the harsh environment or limited survival resources, new lives are mostly fragile and precious, so those Mother Goddesses appear with a kind and gentle image. At most, it is similar to the myth of the Storm Land, where the wife of the Storm King embodies her harsh side, but that harshness is only directed at the enemy. But in Ravenwood, life is not scarce but seriously excessive. What threatens their survival is not limited resources, but the unknown deep in the forest. Therefore, in the myth of the locals, the Mother Goddess, as the silhouette of the 'mother', shows her terrifying side."
Flora said this and looked at William. Although there was a veil between them, William felt that she was smiling at the moment.
"Because she is so prosperous, she will eat her own children, causing them to return to their mother's body."
The beast master who taught humans the art of hunting raised his thunder and fire, bringing light to the settlements in the forest clearings. But in the dark and dark forest , for humans whose civilization has just begun, the dark and deep forest is like an omnipresent mouth, chewing up countless lives that have entered it, and making them return to the place where they were born.
"So, before the image of 'Mother' was fixed as a mythological observation, she was abandoned and forgotten by the humans of the time."
William concluded, and then continued to ask:
"But if she had been forgotten, no record should have survived. So, how did you know this?"
"This brings us to the main topic of today's discussion... In order to completely occupy this land, the elf colonists from Ava found the deepest part of the forest and rediscovered the image of 'mother'."
The elven colonists from Ava are becoming weaker and weaker because they are losing the blessing of the spirits. But at the same time, they are unwilling to give up their extraordinary powers and degenerate into mortals who live for only a hundred years to rebuild their civilization from scratch. At this time, the only way to reverse the situation is to find another being who can bless them.
"They were unwilling to believe in the 'Beast Lord' together with the local indigenous people, because this would mean they would be controlled by humans, or even more horrifyingly... become new humans. After the elven colonists discovered the 'Mother' faith abandoned by the indigenous people deep in the jungle, they immediately decided to call it back to make up for their own blessings that were about to disappear completely. Many things happened after that, but no matter what... they finally succeeded, and the image of the mother they called back was the prototype of the future 'Big Mother'."
