Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 92: Forgetfulness, Stagnation, and Revenge
But no matter what, these are things to consider later. If I can't solve the current crisis, there won't be so many "later" to talk about.
Sentimentality is always the right of the winner. The only thing we should consider now is how to win.
"So, are you ready?"
Thinking of this, William turned his head and asked Flora.
"Prepare for what?"
Floro, who still looked a little dazed, asked in confusion.
"Be prepared to tell the public the truth about all this."
William replied.
All the forest elves on this timeline are undead. They are driven by the residual memories of their previous lives, and they keep repeating their past actions. In fact, the huge dream woven by Jumala is just to make those repeated actions correspond to the history of the normal timeline as much as possible.
This matter is much simpler than imagined. After all, for a race like the forest elves, which is isolated from information and has a traditional style of behavior, the daily life of most people is just a repetition of a certain day.
It cannot be said that there have never been people in the past five thousand years who are willing to walk eastward along the Green and Gold Avenue to see the end of the world and realize that they are living in an illusion, but it is obvious that the number of such people has never been large enough to shake such a huge country.
"Show the evidence to the people, tell them all that they are already dead. Then tell them that the Ravenwood they live in is just a country in a box, and all of them are just tin soldiers placed in the sandbox by the King of Nothingness."
William looked directly into Flora's eyes and said:
"Can you pass the message to all the forest elves through the spell array inside your Bone White House?"
"It's possible, but why..."
Flora nodded subconsciously at first, then asked in confusion.
She didn't quite understand the point of doing this. Whether the people knew the truth or not, they would not be able to influence the outcome in the subsequent decisive battle.
If this timeline is destined to be edited into a fantasy that never existed, then telling the people the truth will be useless. It would be better to let them peacefully enter destruction in the final illusion.
"Telling the public the truth can effectively destroy the similarities between the two timelines. Although the inertia of the previous five thousand years of history will not have a great effect, it can still increase the difficulty for Ms. Hungry to replace history to a certain extent."
William replied.
In fact, it would be better to just burn down the entire Ravenwood, but he suddenly didn't want to do that.
"Of course, more importantly, they should know the truth. They should know that they are destined to perish, that they are nothing more than a fleeting dream of the dead, and that... after they perish, no one will remember them except us, and they will not leave any trace of their existence. Because from the perspective of the present world, they have never even existed."
As long as this timeline is still floating in the nothingness at the end of the world and has not yet been truly integrated into the real history of the world, then in the final analysis, it is nothing more than a fantasy that carries the memories before the birth of Ms. Hungry and Rotten.
"So why exactly?"
After listening to William's words, Flora asked again.
She couldn't imagine what kind of chaos would be aroused if the truth was told to the people of Ravenwood. How many people would turn to the awakening Earth Mother Goddess, or even directly to the Moon Realm God, in order to continue their existence.
Even if the presiding judge possesses enough power to subdue everyone here, there is no need to actively make things more difficult for himself, right?
However, even though he had said so much, William seemed to think it was not enough and continued:
"After telling them the truth, you must also tell them that this destruction was not just a natural disaster, but the fault of the forest elves themselves. It was their ancestors' massacre of the natives of Ravenwood that awakened the forgotten Dark Mother Goddess, which in turn led to the birth of Lady Hunger and Corruption.
"So they have no right to lament or be angry. Because those who are truly qualified to lament and be angry have long lost their voices. The destruction of this timeline and their demise can only be regarded as atonement for the original inhabitants of Ravenwood."
Hearing this, Wu Mu on the side couldn't listen any more. He walked in front of William, knelt on one knee like the imperial people, and said in a deep voice:
"Forgive me for being rude, Your Excellency the Judge. But this approach seems to have no meaning other than creating chaos and causing you more trouble. Besides, the crime of massacring the indigenous people was committed by the ancestors of the forest elves. What have the descendants of the forest elves done wrong now?"
An invisible force lifted Ebony up directly. William stared at the emerald green eyes of the forest elf in front of him and said:
"Don't you really know what the forest elves did wrong?"
William's eyes were very calm, but Ebony was instantly sweating profusely.
Just like a child being scolded by his parents, he lowered his head, thought for a moment and then replied in a low voice:
"Wrong... Wrong in forgetting?"
William nodded at first, then shook his head.
"Forgetfulness, and worse... stagnation."
Perhaps there really is a so-called "survival of the fittest" law among different civilizations. Perhaps there are also many nations and countries, just like the natives of Ravenwood, who have completely disappeared in the long river of history due to the invasion of foreign races.
But those civilizations that wrote their own history as victors must never forget the blood debt they carried as if nothing had happened . Whether out of repentance, sympathy, sighing, helplessness, or even boasting, they must never forget the fact that they once destroyed another civilization.
Only forgetting is the greatest blasphemy.
The greater sin is that after destroying another civilization and plundering the living space of a race, they lose all motivation to move forward. They stop moving forward and parasitize on the corpses of losers, living day by day and year by year by devouring the remains of losers.
Until the entire race becomes corrupt.
The stagnation of the forest elves' development over the past five thousand years is not only the greatest contempt for themselves, but also for the native people of Ravenwood whom they destroyed.
The living should carry the value of the dead on their shoulders, whether they are those who sacrificed for them or those they killed.
The same goes for civilization.
It is no wonder that the hungry and corrupt lady Camilla would choose the land of Ravenwood as the source of her investment.
It's not just because this is her place of origin, but more importantly, this most vibrant place in the entire Vic continent is also the most corrupt and smelly country in the entire Vic continent in terms of civilization.
Even Blackwater Swamp, a country full of ancestor worship and necromancers, seems more progressive and enlightened than here.
"Tell them everything, and then tell them that although destruction is inevitable and it is all their own fault, they still have one last chance to atone for their sins. They can still try to change something, so that their destruction can burn out the final value and let the entire forest elf race be reborn from the ashes in their destruction."
William paused here, then continued with a sharp gaze:
"And I swear on my own name that I will avenge them all. I will utterly kill the person who was directly responsible for their demise."
"Even if she is an immortal moon god."
