Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 74: Edge
The silence was drowned out by the unique noise of the summer night forest, and everything returned to normal.
While simply healing Ebony's wounds, William briefly discussed the current situation with the two survivors.
After he finished speaking, Flora's computer crashed on the spot because her brain was in severe cognitive confusion, but Ebony unexpectedly accepted William's statement very quickly.
"You just believe it?"
Seeing that the other party believed his words so easily, William felt that it was extremely unreal. However, in response to his question, Ebony, who was in this timeline, answered very calmly:
"Actually... I don't understand what you just said, whether it's the reversal of the timeline or the conspiracy of the Void Kings. But I just think that since you can defeat that Moon Realm monster so easily, there must be no need for you to deceive us."
He was able to send flying the moon-realm monster he called "Silent" with just two swings of his sticks. No matter who he said he was, that was who he was.
You know, even if he had communicated with all the beast spirits in his body before, he could only put up some weak resistance when being manipulated by the Moon Realm Monster like a toy. Therefore, he naturally knew very well the terrifying level of strength of the man in front of him who could swing him away with two sticks.
Especially since the opponent was obviously dressed like a magic caster - the strongest magic caster he knew before, the Holy Tree Duke Flora, could not even release a spark of magic when in the field of silence.
"Don't exaggerate... Actually, for me, Silence is really a very troublesome Moon Realm monster."
In response, William waved his hands repeatedly in a seemingly humble manner.
“And, in the end, it still ran away.”
When he said this, there was a hint of regret in his voice.
Finally, it turned into a broken spider web and disappeared. It was obvious that the Whispering Queen used the contract to rescue it. But I don't know what terms were signed between the demon general "Silence" and the lady with the plan.
What kind of conspiracy is waiting for me afterwards?
The "Silence" that can invalidate all chants is the real natural enemy of magic casters. If he hadn't taken advantage of the opponent's underestimation and approached him so close that he could directly swing the magic medium to smash the opponent's skull, this battle would definitely not have been won so easily.
As long as the opponent distanced himself and used his mobility advantage to harass with long-range attacks, William would find it difficult to resist. At that time, the only way for him to win was to leave the Silent Domain and use those strategic magics to replan the future development of the entire area - but even so, he would still have to bear the risk of being escaped by the opponent, which was really not worth the loss.
If William had known that he would encounter the difficult guy "Silence", he would probably bring Cass with him. As the holder of "Judgment IV", Cass is definitely the most suitable person to deal with "Silence" in the entire Vic continent.
Very troublesome?
Listening to the man in front of them who called himself William Kane mumbling to himself in a complaining tone, Ebony and Flora couldn't help but look at each other.
From what they saw, they really couldn't tell what the trouble was for the man in front of them.
"Okay, let's not talk about these things for now. Flora, after listening to what I said before, have you recovered your previous memories?"
Seeing that the two people in front of him were looking at him strangely, William did not intend to teach them the specific "Silence" strategy and techniques now, so he clapped his hands vigorously to wake the two people from their daze.
After learning that Flora had traveled through time, he immediately and completely assumed this identity. However, William was not too surprised when his memories of the other timeline became even more vague than the labor contract signed by a fresh graduate.
The soul is not the sum of memories, and perception is bound by the body.
Unless it was like me or Ebony, who brought both the body and soul to this timeline at the same time. It was normal for someone like Flora to completely confuse her identity and cognition after changing the timeline in the form of soul transmigration, which was restricted by the memory and perception of the body .
If everyone in the world regards the undead as living people, then the living with normal perspectives are the crazy people in their eyes.
"What is Saya's Song..."
Thinking of this, William complained softly.
It was not until this time that Flora came to her senses.
"Regarding what you said before, I can only say that I have some vague impressions, but it's like trying to recall the memories before I can remember anything. It's very ambiguous, compared to..."
She frowned as she spoke, as if trying to find an apt metaphor.
“Compared to a complete picture, it’s closer to an emotional feeling, right?”
William added for her.
"Yes, that's the feeling."
Hearing this, Fula nodded repeatedly, and then asked in confusion:
"How do you know that?"
"I've encountered similar situations before. At that time, it was called aphrodisiac syndrome or somnambulism, a typical syndrome of lunar pathogens ."
William shrugged and continued:
"The source lies in the Nightmare Lord's control over dreams, and the manifestation often involves the distortion of the dreamer's memory and physical perception. In the past, an entire city of residents was dragged into a similar dream by Juamala, but she didn't expect that was not her limit..."
Right now, the entire Ravenwood is controlled by the dream of Zwamara, or to put it more accurately - all the residents on this side are sleepwalkers who are having the same collective dream.
Although the entire dream is too complex to allow Jawmara to directly control individuals, it is still very simple to suppress their memories when they are "awake".
In particular, pay special attention to those restless ones.
After William finished explaining, he looked at the still very conflicted expression on Flora's face. He leaned on the magic medium in his hand and shook his head:
"If you can't remember, don't force yourself to recall. That kind of thing is not important."
Hearing this, Flora looked up at William with a confused expression and asked:
"How can it not be important? If the truth is really as you said, then who am I at this moment, and what should I fight for? This kind of thing should not be..."
The contradiction between memories, body and soul made it impossible for her to anchor herself on who she really was.
“I say memories are unimportant because who you are is not determined by your past memories, but by the choices you make in the present.”
William interrupted the other person and looked along the green and gold avenue towards the deep darkness in the distance.
"At least, you chose to come here, didn't you?
"Now that we have come this far, use your own eyes to see the edge of Ravenwood and see if this is a place worth protecting."
After saying that, he walked towards the avenue that was full of rugged areas.
…………
About ten minutes later, the three of them arrived at the end of the Green Gold Avenue. Looking at the world outside the boundary monument, the three people had different expressions on their faces.
Floro's conjecture was correct, this avenue where cause and effect intersected with the outside world was the only way to physically leave Ravenwood.
But where will this road lead after leaving Ravenwood ?
"So, what you said is true... Ravenwood, where I have lived for decades, is just a fictional history without a future. And all the residents here are puppets controlled by the three virtual kings to imitate the real performance?"
Flora looked into the distance and couldn't help but say so.
After seeing the truth, she recalled her adoptive parents and her childhood dream of leaving Ravenwood Forest and traveling and adventuring to other places on the continent of Wick.
And is the world outside Ravenwood like this?
So what is this thing she keeps insisting on? Is it a joke?
Ebony said nothing, but stared blankly at the edge of the scene in front of him.
Although he did not guess that the truth would be like this, this scene finally made the stone that had been hanging in his heart fall down.
It's not that he is crazy, it's that the world is crazy.
As for William… he was the most shocked of all.
Is this the scenery at the end of the Ravenwood timeline, which is still fictional history and has not yet become historical truth?
A void of darkness slowly spread out at the end of the avenue, with no end and no limit.
If that were all, it wouldn't be a big deal, but...
Except for the lack of "stars in the sky" symbolizing treasures , this piece of empty darkness is exactly the same as the "empty night sky" of his own treasure hall!
