"Not much, that's the power given to it by the Four Seasons Dragon, but its power is more than that."
"What is the Dragon of Four Seasons?" Roula asked curiously.
"According to Fili's description, they are lower gods in the kingdom of God." Yodin frowned, "Actually, I don't know what they are... Fili said they are the children of the goddess, but I don't understand... how can the children of the goddess be dragons."
"This is very simple, because the goddess found a dragon, and together they did something that made each other happy—"
"Roula!" Yodin glared, "This is disrespectful to the goddess!"
"…You just know how to be mean to me."
"Let's talk about the Sword of Ahoyin... Do you know why the Sos Plateau became what it is today, and why it changed from yellow soil to red soil?"
"Of course I don't know."
"You should know that." Jodin narrowed his eyes. "Use your intelligence to think about it. You can guess it."
"Hmm..." Roula lowered her head and thought for a while, "You said before that these creepers and the evil worm species were affected by the evil god's corpse and became like this... So the red soil is also caused by this? The evil god's corpse?"
“That’s it.” Jodin nodded and pointed to the floor tiles.
"underground……"
"I thought we were underground enough." Roula muttered.
"Underground... one of the eyes of the Seven-Eyed Evil God is sealed."
"An eye? Can you call this a corpse or a wreckage?"
"The Seven-Eyed Evil God is made up of only seven eyes... What else do you want? This is already one-seventh of its body."
"Okay... tell me what this thing can do."
"Its ability isn't that great actually." Jodin smiled. "This thing - its real value lies in its ability to detect. Its eyes can penetrate the barriers of time and space, and it can reproduce any scene no matter how far away it is."
"Then nothing can be hidden from it."
"That's the theory, but unfortunately, our home, I mean the entire world beyond this continent... is shrouded in its gaze."
"But it can't do anything, can it? You just said it can only watch—"
"That's right, but it has accomplices. There is more than one evil god, and these guys are crossing the void, so there is a high possibility that they are endless. As long as this thing locks on us, we will always be exposed to their sight, and it will be easier for them to invade through the gray fog. This is extremely dangerous."
"Oh! This is horrible!"
"Fortunately, the goddess dealt with it. The holy sword cut off its six eyes, leaving only one to escape... The lone remaining eye turned into eternal night. From then on, people only had to face danger on that day."
"Is this how Eternal Night came about?" Roula was a little unconvinced. "It's too bizarre. Are you kidding me?"
“Is this how you treat an old man?”
"I am very sorry—go on."
"Red Soil Plain!" Yodin glared at her. "The reason it turned into red soil... is because of the sealed eye. Its wound is constantly leaking rotten blood."
"Just as they cannot be killed, their blood is endless. Over the years, it gradually seeped into the soil and polluted it. Thanks to the Sword of Ahoyin, it did not spread outside."
"Is there the Sword of Ahoyin here?"
"Have."
"Didn't you say that Fili only got the Nature Orb..."
"I also have the Book of Ur. Why don't you think about what I got in the Gray Mist Temple?"
"So what you got is the Sword of Ahoyne... This sword can suppress pollution?"
"It can absorb the spilled blood of the evil god and transform it into 'growth', so you can see the large field of crops outside. Normally, crops cannot grow in the underground world."
"That's amazing!" Roula was very excited.
"Book of Ur, Sphere of Nature, Sword of Ahoyin!"
"With so many treasures, we can definitely keep them forever!"
[That’s not the case…]
The huge insect queen shook her body and conveyed a light whisper to the girl.
[Sanfeli is right, although he may not have meant it at first... but any artifact does have its limits.]
[The blood of the evil god is endless, but the sword of Ahoyin cannot absorb it forever. One day it will be contaminated by the corrupt blood, and the divine power that once blessed growth and symbolized spring will be used by the evil god.]
[Yordin died before that.]
[He is too old.]
[I have persisted for too long.]
[As far as I can remember, I quickly started to face everything on my own.]
[Manage the tribe, research the artifact, manipulate the divine sword, and suppress the divine blood.]
[The long time has lost its meaning in this underground.]
[I just remember that one day, I got tired of it.]
[I don’t understand… I’m not sure…]
[I think I discovered something...]
[A secret...]
[His Secret...]
[Then 'Roula' went crazy.]
[She jumped down from here, yes... right where you are standing, and landed on Ahoyne's sword, her whole body was cut in two.]
[Ahoin had already been contaminated, and affected by that power, the girl on the left became me, the original emperor, Emperor Rou.]
[And the other one, the one on the right...]
"...Jona."
Hitzfeld clenched his fists.
"A child picked up from a worm hole."
[So that's what happened.]
A huge shadow passed across the cave wall.
[I want to find my old self and know the secret...what happened back then.]
[I also want to know about your companion...he and I, the memories we once had.]
[This requires you, Aisuen, you need to chant the name of God on behalf of Puen...]
[Wake Him up!]
Wake Him up...
Wake Him up...
He...
[Force Him to tell you—the secret.]
Chapter 88: Eve of Resurrection
With a dull "bang", Hitzfeld was pushed to the ground by a huge force.
The iron gate slammed shut in front of her, and several Creeper guards sneered at her sharply, then walked away together, arm in arm.
"It finally turned out like this..."
Supporting his aching waist with his hand, Hitzfeld carefully moved to the edge of the bed and rubbed his butt that was almost broken into four pieces.
"Aisun?" A voice called from the end of the corridor. "What's going on? Did they lock you up too?"
Hitzfeld opened his mouth, thought for a moment, then moved slowly to the side wall, slid down and sat down against the wall.
"Someone has revealed his hand," she said. "Tomorrow is the resurrection ceremony, and they plan to use me as a sacrifice to communicate with the evil god."
"What did you say?" Xia Yibing didn't understand. She couldn't accept this development.
Isn't Hitzfeld important to them?
You're surrounded by so many of your own people in the city, and you're still worried, why do you want to lock them up as well?
"This is basically what happened..." Hitzfeld briefly told her everything he had learned so far.
At first, she was very cautious, fearing that the guards would hide nearby to prevent her from revealing the news. But gradually, she was sure that Rou and Puen really didn't care about them and didn't mind their conspiracy at all.
"So the female insect and Jonah are actually Roula Darent. She was on the verge of death when Jodin used a magic weapon to revive her, and she became the leader of this tribe." Xia Yibing pondered, "But she later committed suicide for some reason, and 'Roula' and 'Jona' are her remains."
"That's it." Hitzfeld leaned against the wall and closed his eyes. He barely had the strength to speak. "From what I heard from Rou, she doesn't remember her past with Maps. She wants to use the power of the evil god to reunite with Jonah and use this method to turn back into Roula."
"Then she has known about the existence of the Awakening Alliance for a long time." Xia Yibing frowned, "She is the real ruler of the Worm Tribe!"
"But I have a question." She leaned against the railing, trying her best to imagine the girl's current state. "Both are half of Roula, and Rou has such a strong power. How come Qiao Na is so much weaker than her?"
Jodin used a magic weapon to keep her alive, didn't he? That thing called a magic ball... There is such a powerful force in Roula's body, so it doesn't make sense that her other half, Jonah, would be so weak?
"There are two possibilities." Hitzfeld's tone was light, but his voice sounded particularly clear. "One is that the Sword of Ahoyne was already highly contaminated at the time. Under its influence, most of the power of the artifact was transferred to the side of 'Soft'."
"The other one."
"The other possibility is that there is still power in Jonah's body that has not been developed." The girl shook her head. "Rip said that she has extraordinary power. It's like a prophecy, more like guidance... It was her suggestion to trigger the anasthenia in advance and send people to warn us. They just thought it would be beneficial to their plan, so they just did it. Until now, no one knows why Jonah made those suggestions, and what purpose she wanted to achieve by doing so."
Ultimately, it comes down to too little information, and this is what is currently giving Hitzfeld the most headaches.
Although a lot of secret information has been unearthed, even the relationship between Roula and Darent has been mastered, there are still a lot of mysteries hidden in the darkness, and each one may become their hope of survival.
For example, why did Roula go crazy and commit suicide?
For example, what does Jonah want to do? Does she really know nothing or does she have her own plans in secret?
"If I knew what the nature sphere was used for... maybe I could deduce something from the side." The girl said dryly, "But he didn't say... Old man Yodin never said anything until he died, and there was nothing special about Roula that I saw."
Chigran's Nature Sphere.
Just look at the name of this artifact - Nature. Chiglan is even known as the God of Nature, so it is probably related to powers such as "life" and "healing".
This could explain why Jodin was able to save Roula, but she really couldn't figure out what abilities Roula's clone Jonah might have that corresponded to "Roula".
"Nature... life... growth... gestation..." Xia Yibing silently counted on her fingers.
"Aisun."
"how."
"I think you may have made a mistake." Xia Yibing stared at the ceiling. "The Sword of Ahoyin can only extract corrupted blood and transform it into growth power. Not to mention that it is contaminated by corrupted blood... Even if it is not, it can't bring the two corpses back to life, right?"
Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that it made sense.
"The thing that gave Roula's two corpses power and allowed them to regenerate into two lives..." She stared blankly into the air, "Is it the Nature Orb?"
No...how could this thing be so outrageous?
It was already very exaggerated that it could bring people back from the brink of death, heal all injuries, delay aging and suppress diseases. Who would have thought that it was more than that? It could also regenerate the remains separately?
She suddenly felt that it was a little unfair.
She once thought that the Broken Sword Fragment and the Book of Roar were also artifacts, but their effects were far inferior to those of the Nature Orb.
Only the Divine Blood Pen that involves rules can be compared, but that is essentially just relying on the power of divine blood, and it cannot be regarded as a fair competition between divine weapons.
So why would old man Yodin run away from home with such a powerful thing...
Hitzfeld's head started to hurt again.
Wouldn't it be better for such a powerful artifact to remain in the cult?
Even though it was stated in the flashback that it was to suppress the corpse of the evil god, this kind of thing...it doesn't have to be done by him alone!
He could speak out, tell others, and mobilize the entire sect to help.
Isn't this much more efficient than him just standing here stupidly until he dies?
As he thought about it, Hitzfeld gradually frowned.
If she could think of this, there was no reason why Yodin couldn't.
But he still did it.
