Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 41 From the Other Side
"Your Excellency the Duke, you should know why I am here today."
On the other side, the man with a wolf tattoo on his face said this after completing the salute.
He said this with some confusion, and even glanced at William beside him with a little vigilance. In his impression, there was no such person in either the embassy of the Empire or the staff formed by the Duke.
"He is my honored guest. I will explain the details later. Let me first talk about what is happening right now."
Noticing Gare's gaze, Floralo first gave a brief introduction, then said:
"Gare, although I shouldn't say this, please be more patient... Whether it's treating your son or other things, it's a little too early now."
She said, looking towards Quill, who was tied up in front of the shrine.
Their eyes met in mid-air, and after seeing her ice-blue eyes, the other person couldn't help but shudder and turned his head away.
"But don't worry, since you have done what you promised, I will definitely do what I promised for you."
Flora turned around and said.
"But not today."
She added, then looked at William beside her.
At this time, he was having a conversation with Ebony.
"Lord William, can you explain what is going on? A person like you would not go back on your words, right?"
Ebony asked grimly.
"The situation here is really too complicated. I need to figure it all out first."
William replied.
"You can also choose a simple way to deal with it, such as subduing the woman next to you first."
Faced with this statement, William, who didn't know how to answer for a moment, turned to look at Flora beside him, and their eyes happened to cross in mid-air.
"So...what exactly is the evidence you mentioned earlier?"
William asked urgently.
He had been to this holy temple not long ago. If there really was something strange here, he should have been able to discover it the last time he came here.
However, the other party did not directly answer his question, but asked in return:
"You've had previous contact with ebony?"
William nodded.
"From him, I learned a lot about the Jade Province and about you. Including how you kicked him out to take the position, and..."
"And how I brutally killed dissidents and stuff like that? "
Flora spoke first.
William shrugged and spread his hands, indicating that the other party should continue.
"After Camilla was promoted to Lady Hungry and Corrupted, her power tore apart the time of the entire Ravenwood region. Two contradictory timelines were created, giving Ravenwood two different origins. You should know that at the moment the Void King was born, she would transcend the limitations of the past and the present in time and become a free and eternal existence, right?"
Flora continued with the previous conversation.
"I know."
William nodded in response to her question.
The fact that they are always there is a footnote to the great power of the Void Kings. Although once they are born, they will weave traces of their existence into the past and the future from the moment of their birth. It is also for this reason that very little information can be used to verify the origin of the Void Kings.
To give an easy-to-understand example, it is similar to the fact that in reality, the image of "God" was formed around 1200 BC, but in the records of the Old Testament, "God" is a god that existed before the creation of the world.
In fact, the essence of the Void Kings has already existed, but only at the moment when mortals are upgraded to Void Kings, their images are truly recognized - this is the true meaning of "rebirth" in the concept of "rebirth".
"When Lady Hungry and Corrupted was born, she would have packed up the entire Ravenwood area and thrown it into the Moon Realm, making it the cornerstone of her own Moon Realm domain. By then, the history that everyone knows would be that Camilla, the inheritor of the authority of the 'Great Mother', was promoted to the Void King, causing Ravenwood to be irretrievably pulled into the Moon Realm - this should have been the historical truth left behind after time was concluded."
"However, as a reborn king, Camilla still had some personality remnants from her mortal period, so she decided to make some small compensations to her former kin, or to lay the groundwork for her return in the future. In short, she left Ravenwood to continue to exist in the world, which led to the Great Mother's continued existence in the world. This created a contradiction. On the one hand, she was promoted to the Moon Realm as Lady of Hunger and Corruption, and on the other hand, she remained in the world as the Great Mother."
"Wait a minute , you mean to say that the contract between the forest elves and the World Tree is actually a contract with Lady Hungry and Corrupted? The Great Mother and Lady Hungry and Corrupted are essentially two sides of the same coin?"
William interrupted and asked.
But Flora shook her head:
"'Big Mother' and 'Lady Hungry' are two independent entities. Imagine that you wrote two completely different endings for your novel. Then when you write the sequel, you need to write two completely different books along the two different endings. In this case, will readers still treat the protagonists of the two books as the same person? Even if readers can, can the protagonist of the story accept it?"
Hearing this, William felt his palms sweating slightly.
This was actually a question he had thought about before - if the characters in other existing archives also existed, should he regard them as "himself" or "others"?
"So what's the conclusion?"
William asked.
"The conclusion is that the development of the forest elves civilization over the past thousands of years has been accumulating fuel for her to return to the human world. She did not pull Ravenwood to the Moon Realm in the first place, in order to one day be able to pull the Moon Realm to the human world in reverse. It is not about opening a rift in the Moon Realm, nor is it the so-called plane fusion. She hopes to replace the historical truth of the forest elves' development over the past thousands of years, so that another abandoned history controlled by her can be written into the timeline of the human world."
In other words, archive overwrite?
William thought of this first.
"As for the evidence, it's the person in front of you."
Floral said, pointing at Ebony.
"All the tyranny he told you about me before, about killing innocent people, happened in another timeline. There is no tribe called Ebony in our Ravenwood, and the ritual of selecting the successor was cancelled a thousand years ago. More importantly, after the core of the World Tree was severely damaged by you more than a thousand years ago, the Holy Tree Mother has been in a semi-inactive state. Until today, it can only passively respond to requests and prayers, and cannot actively give prophecies or omens."
