He believed that the Earth, as the origin of Her Majesty Hawen, was secretly coveted by the evil god, who wanted to "pollute her" by polluting her "origin". I still don't understand the reasoning behind this...but that's how my father guessed it. He felt that this matter concerned the life and death of Her Majesty Hawen, so the Kingdom of God must descend to cut off the evil claws reaching out to the Earth.
All of Hitzfeld... The Secret Keeper family exists to protect this greatest secret. This is also the root of our suffering, one of the reasons why my father hates Your Majesty...
After some casual thought, Hitzfeld felt that both statements could be true at the same time.
Maybe the Kingdom of the Sun God encountered something along the way and was destroyed?
Alas... I'd better not think about these unlucky things.
"Senior Lika." Hitzfeld continued to ask the skull, "My existence undoubtedly conflicts with His Majesty Harwin's plan. I want to know how you plan to deal with this fact."
"I have no intention of prying into your secrets." Skull Rika took a step back, indicating that she was not interested in the mystery of Hitzfeld's ascension.
She is already dead after all.
Even if she discovered this secret, it would be of no use to her.
"Oh? Aren't you angry at all that such a treasure is in the hands of an outsider?"
Reaching out and tapping his left eye, Hitzfeld did not shy away from the topic.
"The goal of that plan is just to clear out the prisoners in the temple." The skeleton lowered his head. "We emphasize letting the Hawen Protoss do this just to prevent the power from falling into the hands of the evil demons. This is a double insurance to confirm their identities and qualifications."
In other words, as long as the goal can be achieved, the qualifications are no problem, and it is confirmed that they are in the "ally camp", it is not mandatory for who holds the Divine Eye.
"So you confirm that I am an 'ally'?"
"Being able to gain little Alwin's trust and be brought here by her already says a lot."
The skeleton's tone was very solemn.
"What's more, the thing on your neck... that is enough to prove that you are also one of the 'sacrifices'."
“That’s the best proof.”
Ah, she knows that blood spell...
Although he nodded on the surface, Hitzfeld was thinking about the deeper meaning behind Amen Harwin's plan.
Perhaps in the eyes of the Sun King, her arrangement was a relief for the Hitzfeld family. Rather than shouldering a heavy mission and living in the cracks of time for generations just to guard the secret alone, it would be better to entrust the secret to her own descendants from a certain generation.
Does she think this is liberating for "Hitzfeld"?
But the secret we carry is not just this eye, but also the origin of her soul. Her real homeland is the Earth...
As long as such a secret is known, Hitzfeld will never be truly free. In other words, if the judgment here is correct, then either the Sun King intends to kill him directly after his descendants get the eyes, or... he thinks that after his descendants get the eyes, they can solve the problem once and for all and solve the "source of Hitzfeld's inability to live freely" - that is, the gray fog.
But it's possible that she wanted the Harwins to take responsibility for protecting us from that moment on...
Or - just hope that the two families will intermarry from now on?
What's with this feeling of being outrageous yet reasonable?
Hitzfeld looked at Alwin and found that Alwin was also looking at him. When he saw that he was looking at her, he quickly looked away with an unnatural expression on his face.
Wouldn't she find out what we were thinking?
Given her personality, if she doesn't point it out and doesn't refuse, does that mean she doesn't reject it?
Is this destiny?
Hitzfeld frowned in thought.
Is my daughter so lucky?
"In fact, if you want to know more, you should implement our plan."
Skull Rika suddenly said.
"plan?"
"I'm sure little Alvin has already mentioned it to you, which is the procedure after entering the prison hall."
"Indeed, she told me so."
Hitzfeld thought about it and thought that the other party should be referring to some precautions such as "determine whether to move forward or backward after about 55 steps" and "pay attention to the arc of the chain".
The ultimate goal of all these things is to reach the center of the prison hall, which is the table she touched in the temple before.
Touch the big book placed above and write your name on the pages with ink - or if there is no ink, with your own blood.
"Why?" Hitzfeld narrowed his eyes. "Will the blood of a person who is not from the Hawen clan be recognized?"
She actually had some thoughts in her mind, because she had interacted with the big book before, and she had never seen it reject her. On the contrary, it was quite "friendly" to this side.
This is probably because the divine blood in her body comes directly from the Sun King himself.
Even if there was only one drop, its purity exceeded the amount that remained after being diluted for many generations. If the judgment was based solely on purity, then that thing would certainly not give her a bad face.
But she wanted to hear what Lika-Haven would say.
"The book is actually made up of two parts." The skeleton looked at Alvin and then at the silver-haired goddess. "The main part is called the 'Book of the Past and the Future'. It was made by Her Majesty Sophia, the former goddess of wisdom, using the skin of the Tidewater Sea People to sew it together."
"Teach us what 'Tide People' are," Hitzfeld said.
"A kind of monster." The skeleton nodded, "Or a 'fantasy species', a 'mythical species'? ... whatever you want to call it. Before the earth was ruled by law, there was a desolate and chaotic history. The mother tree gave birth to not only the four ancient gods but also countless evil demons. The Tidewater People are just one of them. They are considered a favored race because they can travel through time."
The local evil spirit...
Hitzfeld's mind wandered, and he recalled his adventure at Bartlett's Beach.
If the collision of elements over billions of years was only to give birth to concepts such as "human beings" or "the four goddesses of the ancestors of human beings", then it is reasonable that the collision gave birth to some other life in the process - or after that.
It's like when you do an experiment, hoping to make a new element or new material with a fixed purpose by chance. Suppose your life is infinite, your time is infinite, and your materials are infinite. After you have conducted experiments billions of times, you finally find the material you need. But will you get nothing before that?
probably not……
There is a high probability that some other new elements and other new materials will be discovered.
They may not be the first ones you want to discover, but they are indeed new and have their own meaning.
But being able to travel through time... this ability is quite amazing.
"The abilities of the Tidewater People make their biological tissues very valuable, especially their skin, which can be used to carry all the information recorded by time." The Skull continued to introduce, "You can guess from the name - 'Past Future', which means that the 'one' of the book is 'infinity'. It is also countless books. It can become any book that exists in the past or even the future, and perfectly reproduce the contents of that book."
"So magical?"
Hitzfeld was skeptical.
I will believe what you said in the past because I can do it myself.
But the future...
Even Xia could hardly see the projection of the future clearly. At most, he could see some broken images occasionally, and they were all blurry and unclear, just like the "Apocalypse" in the story.
Recording the future...is this really possible?
"In theory, as long as you achieve greatness, the future shouldn't be a secret."
Now it was Lika's turn to be surprised.
"The time of higher life is different from that of lower life. Legend has it that some Grey Mist Evil Gods can see the process of their own death as soon as they are born. They will constantly correct the history that has been tampered with by other factors based on the future they see. They are determined to die from the moment they are born. This is why they are so powerful."
Hitzfeld didn't quite understand this theory, frowned and asked her: "But the lifespan of the evil god..."
"No one knows how long they can live." Lika nodded, "No one knows whether they really want to follow the plan and rush to death according to the future they see, or whether they want to reverse the fate of death."
"All of this is a mystery, a realm that lower beings cannot penetrate."
"Even this information and speculation were left by the Mother Goddess. This is her judgment. She also said, 'Only by standing at the same time as them can we decipher the next move.'"
This is not good news.
Hitzfeld fell silent.
Think about it, if your opponent can predict the future and see every frame of what happens in the future, doesn’t that mean... everything you have worked hard for so far is under the control of the other party?
Just like playing chess.
As a chess piece, you cannot see the hand that controls the game. You think that every movement of the chess pieces is made by themselves, and you don't know whether they are controlled.
If you want to defeat FutureKnower, you have to be FutureKnower yourself.
Wouldn’t this be a nesting doll?
I predict your prediction, you predict my prediction of your prediction, and then I predict your prediction... Is this the truth of the confrontation between greats?
It shouldn’t be…it shouldn’t be like this…
Otherwise, Ying Ye would not have been born. In any case, chess players definitely don’t want new chess players to appear. They can’t predict me... This observation ability must be flawed...
"The Book of the Past and the Future." Erwin was still communicating with Lika. "What is its second secret?"
"It holds an ancient demon," the skeleton said softly, "it also belongs to the Tidewater race...it is the most powerful individual ever born there."
"It is a criminal. It used its racial talents to travel back and forth between the past and the future, trading and selling the essence, organs, and intelligence of various races... Its actions disrupted the cause and effect line of an entire period of history. It was only until the four ancient gods jointly suppressed it that it was later sealed in a book by Sophia's descendants. Now the two have become one."
"You mean, it might know all the secrets we want to explore?"
Hitzfeld suddenly relaxed his brows.
She thought again of the ice sculpture of the goddess she saw in the Arctic Ice Palace. If she remembered correctly, the statue held a sword in one hand and a book in the other. Could that book be the one in the prison hall?
"Before leaving the Kingdom of God, the Mother Goddess in my memory had always held this book." The skull nodded again, "It must have been placed there by the Mother Goddess. It witnessed what happened before the Mother Goddess left. If anyone can know the truth about the Kingdom of God, it's the only one I can think of."
Therefore, this place is not only a prison for intruders, but also the only hope to find out whether the Kingdom of God continues to exist.
Hitzfeld finally understood why she was so obsessed that even the undead would wander here waiting for practitioners.
Indeed, I will not feel at ease if I don't do this.
But isn’t this relationship even more important?
Elwin was a little frightened when she heard this. She and Skeleton Rika stared at the silver-haired goddess, waiting for her final decision.
"let me try."
Hitzfeld didn't hesitate.
"55 steps is the middle line, right? I hope you're not lying."
It also takes courage to make this decision.
Others may not know what the prison looks like and how dangerous it is.
Even Lika Harwin never dared to go in, because she did not have the Divine Eye, the organ originally from the evil god to confuse those ugly monsters' perception of her.
Her death was caused by the erosion of time.
She died of old age.
It's not like entering the prison to commit suicide.
But Hitzfeld—she’d been there more than once.
She was even almost touched by one of the "Three-Handed Evil Gods" the second time. She had clearly seen the ghostly shadow of the monster reflected on the wall. It was so huge and so eerie...
She had personally felt something lift a lock of her hair.
If the shadow of the Sun King had not appeared and expelled the ghost with the sword in hand, she might have been killed.
And this is also related to the death of Sanfeli.
According to the historical context that has been ascertained, Saint Fili found a gray fog temple in order to seek help from the goddess after he obtained a divine relic called the "Book of Ur".
But he did not get the help he wanted in the temple. Instead, he was cursed by the evil god and could only escape back with the orb of nature.
Here... Hitzfeld is inclined to think that both the "Book of Ur" and the coded book - the "Book of Howl" may be related to the "Book of Past and Future".
Transcription? Fragments?
This connection grants their bearers access to the Temple.
But the difference in treatment between qualified and unqualified is astonishing. Sanfeli obviously suffered a great loss due to the lack of divine blood, so it is amazing that he could find the natural orb. God knows how much effort he put in.
So if there is a nature orb, are there other objects?
She wanted to try for this reason. Not only to explore the secrets and destroy the evil god, she also wanted to dig and see if there were more remaining artifacts stored in the prison hall.
Elwin looked worried, but she didn't say anything in the end, just told Hitzfeld to be careful.
"Its name is Tusa."
At the prison gate, when they were about to part, Skeleton Rika kept repeating this reminder.
"Tusa, Tusa."
"Be sure to remember this."
