Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 90: Past Events
The arrangement of the ritual itself is not complicated, or in other words, ritual magic has never been a complicated thing. The difficulty of any ritual is always how to gather all the elements to reenact the myth.
The abstract constituent units of Nehe's reincarnation ritual are simple - "father", "mother", and "child" who performs the ritual.
By re-enacting the two events of the child being killed by the father and eaten by the mother, they achieve the result of "rebirth".
With the deity "Father of the Wilderness" no longer alive, the King of the Sacred Tree, who still retains his blessing, can only play the role of "father" with difficulty. Therefore, in order for the ritual to resonate strongly enough with the myth, the role of "mother" must be restored sufficiently.
For this reason , Nehe decided to directly awaken the "Mother Goddess of the Earth" to replace the "Holy Tree Mother" as the new will of the World Tree and truly descend into the world.
According to the conclusion of the Nih Institute, the "Holy Tree Mother" believed by the forest elves is inextricably linked to the "Earth Mother" who devoured her own children. In other words, the "Big Mother" is probably a side of the forest elves that was artificially divided by their ancestors, which is biased towards "kindness".
In this way, the deactivation of the "Holy Tree Mother" has, to a certain extent, paved the way for the awakening of the true Mother Goddess of the Earth.
This is also the underlying reason why the secret sect of the Earth Mother, which had been dormant in the Oak Council for thousands of years, began to stir after the Moon Realm crisis ended. After the inactivation of the "Holy Tree Mother", the more essential side of the Earth Mother had a chance to re-emerge.
Unfortunately, those people chose the wrong time to act. They couldn't help but test William Kane before he left the world. As for the final result... although those behind the scenes were miraculously not exposed, their accumulated foundation over the years was also destroyed by the god of the world.
After Neh completely controlled the secret sect, he studied the original materials passed down and finally completed the conditions for awakening the "Mother Earth Goddess".
The former leader of the secret sect of the Earth Mother, the real mastermind behind the transformation of Nehel into a lich, once claimed, before he was executed after losing his usefulness, that the five thousand years of history of the forest elves was a complete mistake, but that this mistake was not irreparable.
The real Mother Earth had actually accompanied Ravenwood through more than 5,000 years of history in another form. Under the revelation of the Mother Earth, he had seen another possibility of Ravenwood's history in his peaceful sleep. And the mission he was given was to wait for the return of Neh, the son of destiny, to reverse the wrong history.
Although Nehe did not believe the man's crazy talk, he discovered that sleep was indeed the correct medium to communicate with the Mother Goddess of Earth.
Although the act of devouring one's own children may seem like complete madness in the eyes of a third party, for the devoured children, what they can feel is the eternal darkness and warmth of returning to the mother's womb.
The behavior that is closest to that state is sleeping.
Taking this as an opportunity, after many failed attempts, Nihe actually communicated with the lost Mother Goddess of the Earth through the tree spirit's dream.
On this basis, Nehe used dreams as a medium to awaken part of the will of the Earth Mother Goddess and guide it to the human world, allowing her to use the World Tree as a support to devour his body and soul...
Thus, the reincarnation ritual, which Sibyl calculated had a success rate of less than one in ten thousand, actually succeeded like a miracle.
A living Neh, after being completely devoured by the Mother Goddess of the Earth, was born again naked from her mother's womb .
But after his rebirth, the first and only words Neh uttered were -
"Run away."
Hearing this, Nezemar couldn't help but gasp.
Her eyes looked in the direction that Remedios had pointed earlier, as if she was worried that something indescribable would suddenly jump out from there.
Of course, all she could see was the dark tunnel leading deeper into the depths at the end of the root hall.
"Why did Mr. Neher tell you to run away?"
Retracting his gaze, Nezemal asked carefully.
"I have no idea……"
Remedios was also staring at the dark tunnel, but her eyes seemed to be drifting to a very far place. After a long while, she withdrew her gaze and said:
"This place wasn't like this before. The underground root system hall used to be a place full of life. There was no damp and musty smell, and there weren't so many dead branches and leaves. This was originally an exhibition hall for rare plants from all over the Vic Continent. When the Chief Judge was short of certain materials during alchemy, he would urge Kos to come here to 'borrow' some."
Looking at the twisted root systems and the humus soil piled on the ground, Remedios continued:
"After Neh said 'Run', all the plants here began to decay at a speed visible to the naked eye. The roots on the walls seemed to come alive and began to automatically attack everyone in the hall. At first we thought it was the previous 'small disaster' that had not been completely extinguished, and we planned to work with Neh to solve the problem here...
"But Nehe directly used [Zero Entropy] to seal off the core area where he had held the ceremony... At that time, Sibyl and I were exhausted from dealing with the spread of small-scale "disasters". After several unsuccessful attempts to break through the seal set by Nehe, we finally had to escape temporarily under the attack of the endless roots around us.
"I remember the situation was like this... Sibyl."
As she spoke, Remedios suddenly turned around and looked at the little girl who had been held by Nezemal.
The girl named Yinlis Hemer, who inherited the [Eyes of God].
I don't know since when, she is no longer herself.
The consciousness of this Yinlis has been taken over by a will that, strictly speaking, may not have existed in real history.
"I really miss you... Ms. Ranger. But for me it's only been a dozen years, but for you it's been nearly a thousand years."
When Nezemal heard the girl he had been holding hands speak in a tone that was completely different from hers, he withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
"Ms. Sibilla...?"
Nezemar asked tentatively, stuttering a bit.
Stargazer Sibilla Hemer can use her eyes that transcend time and space to travel through history that has never happened without affecting the law of causality - this is what the Lord Inquisitor had explained to Nezemar before, but she found it difficult to understand the concept, and finally regarded this phenomenon as the ability to possess his own successor, just like summoning one's ancestors to possess in the necromancy.
"We meet again, Ms. Judge's believer... Come to think of it, this title was used by the Judge in our time."
Opening his eyes covered with a layer of white film, "Yinlis" looked at Nezemal with interest, then turned to look at Remedios.
"You seem to have guessed that I left a record here?"
Sibilla asked her with a smile.
"When I heard the Chief Judge say that you could use those eyes that span the past and the future to leave a mark in the false history that never existed, I guessed that you would definitely leave something here... After all, what happened here is a secret between the two of us."
Remedios replied indifferently.
It seemed that she was not too excited about seeing her former ally again.
"So why didn't you explain clearly to the presiding judge what happened to Nehe at that time? Since you are here, it means that things are getting out of control again, right?"
Upon hearing this, Sibilla restrained her smile and asked back.
"I forgot."
Remedios answered dryly.
"lie."
The smile on Sibilla's face gradually disappeared, and she spoke without any emotion.
"Then what do you want me to say? Say that it was because he stopped Nehe from committing suicide that the Lady of Hunger and Corruption got a second chance to be reborn? Or tell him that after Nehe regained his body, he became Camilla, a humanoid Moon Realm Rift that was able to break through the World Shell. For this reason, he had to choose to go to the Ruins of Osis for the second time and exile himself to the end of the world?"
"Or maybe you are afraid that the presiding judge will know..."
Sibylla slowly interrupted Remedios's words. She paused here and the expression on her face gradually became gloomy.
Then her lips moved, and Nezemar beside her seemed to hear a mosquito hum.
But to Remedios, the other party's words were like thunder exploding in her ears.
"It was you who revealed Nehe's last whereabouts to the Takma Cult, allowing them to successfully surround and kill a member of the Tribunal in the Ruins of Osis.
"You are afraid that William will know that you killed Neher with the help of an outsider."
