Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 54: Flaw
"How about it? Do you feel very subverted?"
After saying this, the Secret Keeper paused with interest, trying to find an expression of shock on the other person's face.
For the Moon Realm monster whose authority is "secret", the moment the taboo of "keeping secrets" is broken is the moment when its power is at its highest. The more shocked the opponent is, the more powerful it will be.
"So, you mean that William Kane is the missing eighth Holy Spirit?"
The expression on Green's face stiffened slightly at first, and then he confirmed in a tone of verification.
"That's right, mortal."
The Secret Keeper said this with a hint of pride. At this moment, he was already wishing that he could enjoy the other person's soul in advance.
"But...isn't this common sense?"
The first time, Green said this, it was not because of the presiding judge's prompt, but because of his own doubts.
"What?"
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After all, it has been locked in that book, traveling with me through one thousand and eight years...
William thought so after hearing this through the holy emblem.
The keeper's understanding of time, like the self who had just traveled through time, was still stuck in more than a thousand years ago. He did not know that the name William Kane had been placed on the altar of the Eighth Holy Spirit by the Riel Empire.
In other words, the secret it preserved had been lost over the course of more than a thousand years.
However, the secret that the other party mentioned did bring some inspiration to William.
It seems that the high-level Moon Realm monsters were not unaware of his special status as a player in the past, but they had always attributed it to the ability of the "Eighth Holy Spirit".
He remembered that Valk had also said that he hoped to see him show her more "possibilities".
According to the religious books William had read, the authority symbolized by the eighth holy spirit, "The Hermit", was the spirituality hidden in the hearts of all living beings, the exploration and curiosity about unknown things, and the real driving force behind the creation of the world.
He didn't pay much attention to these symbols before, after all, every religion would definitely exaggerate the gods they believed in. But now it seems that if the Eighth Holy Spirit exists based on the specialness of the players, it seems to make some sense.
I have also thought about this before. If he traveled to the game world in the computer, it must be because the player opened the game called "End Watcher" that this world came into existence. And the history of this world, at least the timeline experienced by the player throughout the game process, is indeed shaped by his own choices.
Or to put it another way, if we consider the game developers to be the seven holy spirits, then there seems to be nothing wrong with calling the players the eighth holy spirit.
Looking back, the mission I completed in the past regarding the origin of the Eighth Holy Spirit itself contained some Meta (note*) elements in it - at the end of the mission, the scholar who proposed the "Eighth Holy Spirit Theory" would hint that the player is the "hermit" hidden in the character's mind, whose main body is outside the world, and whose spirit "descends" into the character to turn the tide.
"But after traveling through time and space as my own character, I can't save or load files, or adjust the console..."
William muttered, but stopped mid-sentence.
"So, this is the essence of the Eighth Holy Spirit Throne?"
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"Um... can you tell me the last secret?"
Looking at the Secret Keeper who seemed to be greatly shocked for some reason, Green asked carefully.
"So everyone on the entire Vic continent knows about it..."
The keeper continued to mutter absentmindedly. Seeing that the other party still didn't seem to recover, Green had to raise his voice and ask again:
"Secret Keeper, er... sir? Can you tell ?"
The other party finally came back to its senses as if waking up from a dream. It looked at Green with a vigilant expression and asked:
"Rivenwood is still an endless forest now, right? And their faith is still the old gods named 'Holy Tree Mother' and 'Father of the Wilderness', right?"
Green nodded, thinking, isn't this nonsense?
"That's good……"
The keeper heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the other party nod:
"Then this secret is still worth telling...Mortal, do you know that among the Void Kings, there is a difference between first birth and second birth?"
+Nod directly+
Green, who was about to ask what that meant, heard the judge's voice echoing in his soul the next second.
So he nodded reflexively.
“It would save time to make a deal with you… After every reborn king is promoted from a mortal to a Void King, the first thing he has to do is to completely erase his past history from the world and sublimate that history into a part of his own Moon Realm.
"In this way, they will lose their weaknesses in the timeline and become completely immortal. And this is also the reason why it is difficult to find traces of those reborn kings walking in the world when they were once mortals in the historical records of mortals."
The Secret Keeper, who had recovered from his previous loss, said so.
"But Her Highness Camilla, the Hungry Lady, did not choose this. Perhaps she wanted to plan ahead for the future fight for the 'right to discipline' in the human world, or perhaps her promotion ceremony was tampered with, so that she could not bring that period of time to the Moon Realm... In short, the final outcome was that the two timelines appeared in Ravenwood in parallel, leaving an extremely long scar on the time of the human world. Let me think, by the time I was sealed, it had lasted for about four thousand years."
In other words, it has lasted for more than five thousand years.
William thought about it, and then he used [Voice of the Soul] to let Green continue asking questions.
"Will there not be irreconcilable contradictions if such a long period of time is broken?"
Green asked, parroting.
"Contradiction? Perhaps there is, but Lady Hungry and Corrupted used her mortal body, which became the World Tree, to influence the tradition of the entire forest elves, causing them to remain at the level of a hunting civilization. Without the need to develop agriculture on a large scale, there would be no accurate calendar, and without a calendar , their understanding of time would only come from unreliable and ambiguous memories."
Having said that, a stiff smile appeared on the Secret Keeper's face again.
"This will greatly reduce the chaotic records caused by time fragmentation."
As long as there are no historical records, there will be no historical contradictions.
At this point, the Secret Keeper chuckled and continued:
"One of the periods is probably the timeline you can recognize, where the forest elves live in harmony with the forest and practice the culture of cannibalism. The other period is the timeline she created using countless corpses, where countless undead spirits pretend to be alive and decay along with the entire dead forest."
+Ask it, under what circumstances will the two timelines be confused with each other+
William recalled his earlier glimpse of an alternate timeline.
In response to this question, the keeper brought up an irrelevant topic:
"You know that forest elves will turn into trees when they get old, right? Then do you know how those forest elves who have turned into trees perceive the outside world?"
Green shook his head.
"Those wood elves can dream."
The Secret Keeper replied.
"What's the meaning?"
"In that dream, they were in another Ravenwood . Her Highness Lady Hungry and Corrupted infused those aging souls with false memories, allowing them to start another life with a new identity on the other side."
+Ask it how this has to do with the confusion between the two timelines? +
Green immediately repeated the presiding judge's question.
"If someone realizes that his memory may be false, he may bring his corrupt body into your time. In this way, the two different times will be confused."
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“Disaster!
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The moment the thick book was closed again, the Secret Keeper's angry roar stopped abruptly.
Green, covered in cold sweat, looked at the presiding judge who was holding his arm tightly and lifting him directly out of the book. It took him several seconds to realize that he could breathe.
"It just said..."
"One day I will snatch your soul from me."
William finished the second half of his sentence for him.
After obtaining the information he wanted, William went straight over and rescued the dean of Blackwater Academy of Magic.
The Secret Keeper, realizing that he had been tricked, immediately roared in anger, saying that he would definitely take Green's soul back.
Why don't you say a few harsh words to yourself as well?
Green opened his mouth to ask something, and immediately a burning sensation came from his arm, and the mark that had disappeared before appeared there again.
"The Secret Keeper's Brand. The Secret Keeper uses this to mark the souls he or she will torture in the future."
William said this while looking at the chain-shaped brand on the other's arm.
Hearing his calm tone, Green immediately asked anxiously:
"Then can you help me remove this mark?"
No matter what, it is never a pleasant thing to have your soul being targeted by a demon general.
William shook his head at this.
"I can't do that. But you don't have to worry too much. The Secret Keeper has no ability to escape from this book. Those harsh words he said before were just bluffing."
"but……"
"The existence of the Moon Realm is like this. Once they set their sights on you, there is no way to get rid of them."
William said, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.
"Therefore, the real way to get rid of them is to directly erase their existence. Don't worry, when I find Judgment Eleven corresponding to the Forbidden Sage, I will directly erase the other party's existence. By that time, the mark on your hand will naturally disappear."
William said this, but he was not just saying this to Green.
I also say this to myself.
Ms. Hungry and Corrupted left the timeline of her birth in the present world, which indeed allowed her to directly pull the entire Ravenwood area into her own Moon Realm, and use this as an opportunity to begin eroding the entire present world.
But at the same time, this also exposed her history as a mortal, leaving a fatal flaw in her immortal existence itself.
This gave him the opportunity to severely injure or even kill the Void King.
"Before, I was having a headache and couldn't find a way to stop the ritual. Now, isn't this the way?"
