Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 85: The Successor
William's speech caused everyone present to fall into silence.
Of course, different people have different reasons for remaining silent.
For Ebony, who had been in danger before, silence was a kind of relief after surviving a disaster.
For Floro, who suddenly lost her magical sense, silence was because she didn't understand what was happening to her.
For the "Weaver" who had just stepped forward and was ready to show his skills, silence came because he understood why the Whispering Queen did not execute him after there was a flaw in the conspiracy network he had woven, but instead gave him a "chance to prove his worth."
It would be better to say that it is giving myself a "more creative way to die".
As for Quill Wolfspeak, he remained silent because—
"Who are you?"
Looking at the human mage who suddenly walked out of the treetop temple, Quill was the first to break the silence.
How dare a mortal be so arrogant? After the forest girl lost the care of the Holy Tree Mother, she actually said shamelessly that he would take care of her from now on?
Quill's tone was half puzzled, half challenging.
William naturally didn't bother to pay attention to such a small character. He slowly walked to Flora's side, and the Duke of Holy Tree also turned around and looked at him at the same time.
"Your Excellency the Judge, I just..."
"I know."
William, who had already learned the problem from Zhuamala, spoke in a relaxed tone.
"You can't feel the magic power filling your ether, right ?"
Flora nodded in confusion.
"Don't ignore me! You..."
Seeing that the two people in front of him seemed to not take him seriously at all, Quill couldn't help but raise his tone in annoyance.
As he spoke, he pointed to the imperial ambassador beside him, signaling the unfathomable stranger to take down the ignorant magic caster.
But I never thought...
"Just shut up!"
The imperial ambassador, who usually acted bossy and was never polite to anyone, interrupted him with a trembling and distorted voice.
Not only that, the other party suddenly turned around and stared at him with fierce and fearful eyes - as if he had just said something terrible.
Quill was about to say something, but found himself literally shutting up.
His upper and lower jaws were stuck together by countless filaments, so tightly that he felt he couldn't separate them even if he tore his mouth apart.
"Hmm?"
Quill looked at the imperial ambassador. In addition to being shocked, he uttered simple syllables from his nose to express his doubts.
On the other side, the ambassador was shaking like a sieve, and she looked at the unknown gray-haired magic caster with trepidation. The latter just glanced at her and said casually:
"You should know who I am, right?"
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes today, Quill would probably have thought that nodding madly at this amplitude and frequency would break his neck.
Is this physiological structure still considered human?
"Then you should understand that resistance is futile."
Seeing the other party nod, the man said calmly.
"but……"
"It is equally futile to run away or to pray."
The unknown man continued, and then a look of contempt suddenly appeared on his face.
"But maybe you can make up your own excuse for not drawing your sword...if you can all keep quiet from now on."
Almost at the moment the man finished speaking, the Wild Hunts, who had been roaring in low voices behind Quill, suddenly fell silent.
Even without looking back, Quill knew that those people must have the same problem as himself, with their upper and lower jaws stuck together.
Who is this person who can make the imperial ambassador so frightened? A member of the imperial family?
…………
After calming the other party down with a few words, William looked at Flora again and said:
"What you said earlier answered one of my questions. That is, how did you forcibly advance to the God Realm level under the blockade of the Star Law?"
As a forest elf, even if Flora had a pair of adoptive parents with a platinum magic ring background, it would be impossible for her to obtain a place in the Star Council to be promoted to a wizard in the Divine Realm.
“I remember I went through…”
Flora frowned and thought, but after searching through her memory, she still found nothing... It was such an important thing, she should never have forgotten it.
After struggling for a long time and finding that she could not recall any scenes, Flora said firmly:
"But it is true that the source of my magic power comes from the astral realm."
In response to this, William shook his head regretfully:
"Your magic power comes from the 'staff', not the 'coin'."
In order to make the truth seem more acceptable when it was spoken, William deliberately used terms from the classical magic system that had long been eliminated.
In the classical magic system of the High Elves, the path to obtaining magic power or creation quality is divided into three major paths. The symbols are coin, sword and staff. "Coin" represents communication with the astral world, obtaining magic power that has not yet solidified into reality as the material for change; "Sword" represents communication with the moon realm, turning the power that reflects countless mortal thoughts into a weapon that can be held, or it may be the other way around... and "Staff" represents controlling others as one's own firewood, and obtaining change by burning the initiative of mortals.
Under the education of her adoptive parents, Flora, who had excellent knowledge of magic, understood the meaning of William's words almost instantly.
But she was totally unable to admit it.
How could I be a heretic wizard who burned other people's souls as firewood?
She can obviously communicate with the magic of the astral world...
"It's just an illusion."
William spoke directly after seeing through what the other party was thinking at a glance.
"illusion?"
Flora looked at William in confusion.
"I just figured it out after I got the clue. Your master, 'Neh', was actually transformed into a lich in an accident, and it was in that accident that he was directly promoted to... ahem, I mean directly promoted to the realm of God. Before that, he was just an ordinary forest druid, and had nothing to do with the modern magic system."
The best route to explore the game - after completing the novice quest to activate the Dusk Scene, players can take the powerful plot NPC to Ravenwood, where they can rescue Nehe who has just been transformed into a lich by the Undead Mage, and thus obtain the only teammate who has reached level 80 in the early stage of the game.
Although Nih, as a magic chanter, cannot learn any spells before completing the task of "Rebuilding the Mages Guild", and refuses to kill any living person because of his own beliefs, his panel attributes brought by his high level and the powerful racial talent of the lich make him a god of war in the early stage, a big brother in the land reclamation, and a model worker in overtime.
This is why Neh is ranked third in the Tribunal - except for William, the presiding judge, and Dewey, the second-in-command and the lord of Dusk Fortress, the Frost Witch Neh is the one who joined the Endwatch the earliest and has the longest seniority.
Recalling the early days of the game, when Nih had helped him to kill his way through a number of high-difficulty dungeons, William smoothed out the slight smile on his face and continued:
"After becoming a lich, Nehe's magic power soared to the level of the divine realm. But before he systematically learned magic, he couldn't safely control his power. As you inherited his legacy and used the same transformation ritual to become a lich, theoretically, you should be able to do the same."
William's words reminded Flora of a terrible possibility. She widened her eyes and said:
"What do you mean? Mr. Neher is also..."
William nodded.
"Neh had divine- level magic power from the beginning, but he was unwilling to accept his talent. It was not until he joined the Mage Guild and started learning magic again as an apprentice that he gradually achieved his later achievements."
William remembered that after the start of the Mages Guild storyline, Nih had been away from the team for quite a long time to study in the academy, but during that time there had not been a level change of one level.
Originally, he thought it was just a patch made to balance the difficulty of the early game, but at this moment, William unexpectedly got a reasonable explanation...
The reason why Nih was unwilling to study and use magic in the early days was because he knew, or at least vaguely realized, the truth that he possessed divine-level magic power - that magic power did not come from the astral realm, but from using the souls of his own people as fuel.
This explains his subsequent masochistic guilt and his morbid obsession with Ravenwood Forest.
So, regarding those former teammates of mine, hidden beneath those texts and branching plots, how much of their true thoughts are there that I don't know about?
A faint melancholy filled William's heart. He sighed and looked at Flora and continued:
"I think your adoptive parents probably just... didn't want you to discover the truth about the source of your magic power, so they let you have the illusion that you can communicate with the astral world."
"Then am I just a... joke?"
Floralo's expression was a little dazed - her power never belonged to her, but came from the remains of those she swore to protect.
"no."
William first gave a brief but powerful denial, then continued:
"Nehe is not, so neither are you. The real joke is those so-called gods who think they can control your fate. Even if she can cut off your source of magic power, she can't take away your strong will to cast spells, nor the countless spells you have studied. It's just to rebuild the magic channel to the astral world. After that, as long as you come to the Dawn Fortress, with your talent, it won't take long for you to truly step into the realm of the gods with the help of the star disk. As for finding a substitute for the magic flow of the divine realm level, I have as many as you want."
As William spoke, he took out several dazzling soul-storing crystals and several bottles of glowing potions from the storage space.
According to William's recovery speed after reaching the maximum level, as long as certain extreme situations are excluded, he basically does not need any magic recovery items or potions. However, in order to improve his alchemy and enchantment proficiency, he has accumulated a lot of recovery items, which are still gathering dust in the consumables column of the storage space.
Now is a good opportunity to clear out your inventory.
Thinking of this, William turned to the web weaver and said:
"I'm giving you a chance to survive. If I don't do anything, you can run away now. It's your own ability to run away."
Then, William ignored the web weaver who was running away in the woods like crazy, and threw all the things in his hand to Flora.
"You should know how to use it, right? Ah, that's good to know. You can kill the others, but please bring back the Web Weaver alive. Yes, that's right, the Imperial Ambassador in your eyes."
"No reason. If you are the successor of Nih, I believe you can do it."
