The scene changed to a room at the end of the corridor in the dream world, and Pusiens turned around wearing a hooded cloak.
"That's why you came here."
"Yes." Hitzfeld replied quickly, glancing to the side nervously.
In fact, since she came in, most of her attention was not on Pusiangsi. It was not her fault. She really did not expect to see Annual Rings at this time and place.
Year Ring was inside before she knocked. She looked like she had been talking to Priscilla for a long time.
...I don’t know what they were discussing before I came in.
"I've heard about this." Tree Ring said, "'The Sun on the Seventh Day'... Indeed, if she wants to live longer, this hidden danger must be solved."
This time she did not wear a veil, revealing her charming face with drooping eyes. She wore a white gauze dress similar to a priest's robe, holding a pipe, and sat in the same place where Hitzfeld sat when he first came, puffing out a smoke.
"..." Hitzfeld didn't say anything. She was waiting for Pusance to give her a reply.
"You can stop." After waiting for nearly a minute, the short cloaked man raised his head from the bottles and jars. "The medication cycle is calculated as 7 days... Your trip is planned to last for half a month, which is two cycles. The impact is relatively not that big."
It’s good that we can stop, Hitzfeld breathed a sigh of relief.
On the one hand, she certainly wanted to take the medicine obediently and recover her normal body as soon as possible, but on the other hand, she needed the power of the Divine Eye.
It's not that she is vain, nor is it that she is reluctant to give up her extraordinary status... In fact, she has solved problems many times relying solely on her own ideas.
But the purpose of this trip is very special - the seven-eyed stone tablet may be related to the mystery of the keeper's family, and this mystery may be related to her missing parents... At the very least, it is also related to the mystery of her resurrection.
These are the only things she cannot ignore, otherwise she doesn't care and would rather not have such power.
"You look a little troubled." Nian Lun raised his eyebrows. "Why, do you still dislike that eye?"
"Of course." Hitzfeld gave her a strange look.
It is because of this eye that she has so many messy illnesses and the ability that may be related to other people's nightmares.
Without it, not only would she be able to recover her health, but at least she wouldn't be used as a guinea pig by these people for various dream experiments.
"This is an admirable realization~" Year Ring took a puff of cigarette, "But do you think... this is something you can just give up if you want to?"
"……What's the meaning?"
"You should know the principle of your current 'stability'."
“Hmm…” The girl groaned, “Because the power of the God’s blood and the evil god’s flesh and blood largely cancel each other out.”
"That's right." Nian Lun nodded. "In the past, this kind of confrontation could be said to have been won by the evil god's flesh and blood."
Hitzfeld thought so too.
She really wanted to believe in the divine power contained in the blood of the Sun King.
But after all, so much time has passed.
The two forces have been eroding and wearing away each other for so long.
And she didn't know that the box -
The box that she opened in the backyard of the manor when she was still "him", could it be some kind of related ritual...did her behavior destroy or interfere with it.
In short...if the evil god's flesh and blood did not gain the upper hand in this confrontation, then how to explain the tentacles in her head?
Why did the will, or person, who sent her into this world put a collar around her neck to seal her?
This is obviously because they are afraid that the flesh and blood will get out of control, so the evil god's flesh and blood does have the upper hand.
"Then have you ever thought that the principle of the special medicine is to strengthen the divine blood in your body. In the end, you may not get a body where the two cancel each other out, but a body where the power of God overwhelms everything again?"
"..."
Hitzfeld frowned deeply.
Of course she thought about it.
The power of divine blood is overwhelming, and the consequence could be to destroy the tentacles spreading in her head and return her to a normal life.
But it is also possible that she will become the "real Devourer" - that is, the person who cannot withstand the power of God as Babis Isaacrod, the bishop of Blackwood Parish, told her in the dream world.
It's hard to say.
Because there had never been a Sun King's Eclipse before, they had no reference case.
But what can she do?
She can't just stop getting treatment because of such concerns, right?
"just kidding."
Seeing the girl's expression becoming increasingly gloomy, Nian Lun suddenly burst out laughing.
"I'm sorry... because you always have a serious face. It would be a shame if I didn't flirt with a girl like you..."
Noticing that Hitzfeld's face was getting darker, she restrained herself a little and tried to comfort her:
"Do not worry."
"With your majesty's blood as the medicine, the nature should be very mild..."
"After all, if it was such an unreasonable force, you shouldn't have been able to survive in Blackwood City."
"You have to answer a few questions before I forgive you."
Hitzfeld demanded.
"You ask."
The other party was raising an eyebrow again.
"I want to know the beginnings of the Cult of the Machine and the Sun Goddess," she said.
"I want to know Fili-Niffinks."
“He is a pioneer after all.”
"...Or the successor?"
Chapter 15 The Beginning of Xie Yang Part 2
This question was not something Hitzfeld had prepared for, but something she had just thought of.
The introduction to it was the discussion with Xia yesterday - the discussion of the early history of the cult. She had not intended to dwell on it too much, but Year Ring suddenly mentioned that the Devourer was also different.
Different Devourers have different symptoms.
As far as Hitzfeld knows now, the Devourers are divided into "polluted by God" and "polluted by evil gods".
The latter usually die faster, and many of them die suddenly the moment they touch the evil god's flesh and blood.
These people were either devoured/fused by flesh and blood and turned into monsters, or their consciousness was wiped out from the spiritual level, losing their self and turning into zombies. In short, their endings were very bad.
As for the former, that is, the genuine God-Eroder, the real God-Eroder, his specific symptoms and how serious they are depend on which god his fused organs and blood come from.
It's hard to judge.
At present, there are no clear rules to accurately distinguish the types of Devourers. Even the Pollution Inspection Department of the Security Bureau, which is considered to be the top medical department in the country and in the entire era, is not sure.
At best, we can only determine that it "does not belong to any god."
Even if you use the process of elimination, you may still not be able to come up with a reasonable explanation in the end.
Hitzfeld didn't care about that; she just made an association with it.
——Since there are so many details about the Divine Devourer, and it also depends on which god the fused things come from, then combining many myths and legends, at the very least, there were many gods in the old times... this is certain.
"I don't understand." She stared at the tree rings. "What about the religions that believe in those gods? Why is there only the belief in the Mechanical Sun Goddess left?"
If the Xieyang Cult is a sect that emphasizes extreme beliefs, then this doubt can be explained.
Sects with extreme beliefs, which can also be called monotheism, usually do not allow other sects to preach normally.
Belief in other gods would be regarded as a provocation and insult by them. Violent conflicts could easily arise between monotheisms, and the most serious of them would simply be religious wars.
But the Xieyang Cult is not a monotheistic religion...
This can be seen just from their name "Cult of the Goddess of Machinery and the Sun" - they worship "machinery", an element that symbolizes science, as an equal to gods!
They place their faith in the pursuit of truth. This phrase is the most appropriate to describe them. They have never forced their followers to believe in the sun goddess, so they naturally would not suppress or restrict other religions and hinder their development.
This is what she couldn't understand.
Sarah sees no trace of any other religious activity now—the Eclipse Church doesn't count, because essentially they worship the "new god," a redefinition of the "old god."
Since the decline of those ancient religions did not seem to be caused by the interference of the Mechanical Yang Cult, then why did they disappear?
And... "Firebringer" Fili-Nifhenx, he created the Mechanical Sun Cult in 1817, which was only 1800 years away from 17, the first year of the arrival of the gray fog.
In 1800, according to the history she learned from King Charuni, Sarah was still in the Seram Dynasty stage.
At least it was the end - although the dynasty fell apart and various places underwent drastic changes due to the arrival of the gray fog, at least it was not the complete end of the world. 17 years should not be enough to cut off its inheritance, and some myths and religions could always survive.
But since Saint Fili founded the religion, it seemed that suddenly the only religion left in that era was the Xieyang Sect.
This is contradictory and abnormal.
How on earth did he create a sect from scratch at the age of 15 that was so novel compared to the era when the Seran Dynasty existed?
If you really want to say it is creation, it is the beginning.
Hitzfeld absolutely didn't believe it.
"You asked a good question."
There was silence for a long time, and it was finally broken by Pusangsi's hoarse voice.
Her tone sounded a little gloating.
That was facing the annual rings, and she seemed very happy to see the annual rings being deflated.
"Aisun." Year Ring frowned, "I think these things are a bit..."
"'Some things have the same value as antiques,'" Hitzfeld interrupted her. "'Antiques are only as valuable as they are antiques, that's all.'"
"..."
"That's probably what you mean... I remember you said these words yourself?"
"..."
"Knowing these secrets cannot reverse time and space, revive the dead, or change the status quo, so what do you want to do with them?"
"You're right." Nian Lun said through gritted teeth.
"And you asked the right person... I'm sure even Her Majesty the Queen may not know this. The reason for the demise of those sects lies in the gray fog."
"Gray fog?"
"There are scary things in the gray fog."
At this point, Year Ring said solemnly, "You don't know about that period of history... Maybe you read some documents and think that the so-called Dark Ages and the coming of the gray fog were rebellions in various places, and that it was the first time that evil spirits, nightmares, and man-eating monsters began to appear."
"Is not it?"
"No." Nian Lun narrowed his eyes, "No."
"That's the end."
She said word by word.
"In that period, no one knew whether they would be able to wake up after falling asleep. People refused to dream because they were afraid of nightmares, but the mental symptoms caused by long-term sleeplessness were even more disastrous..."
"Tens of thousands of people died in cities after cities... Monsters were rampant, evil spirits were everywhere, the ground was covered with dead bones, the entire realm was filled with empty cities, and the occasional survivors were fools or lunatics..."
"I only inherited some fragmented memories." She said softly, "In the scenes I saw, those temples... those bishops, priests, and priests... they were the first to be distorted."
"It happened faster than anything else. Almost overnight after the gray fog descended, everything that was tainted by the old gods was contaminated."
"They became the evil itself, turned into flesh paste, evil seeds, and both clergy and believers had the same fate..."
"So don't ask others such questions anymore, Aisuen."
She shook her head slowly.
"It has never been that anyone wants to suppress or abandon those beliefs."
"Only those who believe in the Sun Goddess and those who have no faith... can survive."
“…” Hitzfeld opened his mouth.
