In the shadow world, against the courtyard, under the golden oak tree, there are still dozens of minutes before the agreed time.
Since the success of the sacrificial ceremony of all the letters, the Theocratic Council has started a series of complex preparations, and at this moment all the preparations are in place.
The splendid crown of golden oak trees covers the huge courtyard, and the shimmering light from the oak trees dispels the eternal darkness in this shadow world. The humming sound of operation maintains the full power operation of the anti-divine barrier, and in the disobedient fortress not far away, there is an urgently established command center to coordinate the situation. The experienced theocratic council technical priests and discipline monks There they monitor all the parameters returned by the device.
Although under the neat "surgical attack" of Ms. Ye, the "human nature" of the gods was completely stripped off, and basically there is no need to worry about the leakage of divinity and spiritual pollution, but Gawain has always been used to being prepared. It was an astonishing move that the human nature of the many gods gathered together. Even he was not sure that things would develop as he expected, so it would be good for the Theocratic Council to prepare all the means of protection.
And outside the courtyard, which is shrouded in all kinds of radiance, a huge open space illuminated by temporary lights is the meeting place.
It is not so much a meeting place, it is better to say that it is a "wasteland" that maintains the original appearance of the Shadow Realm. The dark earth extends infinitely into the distance in the chaos, and criss-crossing cracks and trenches are all over the ground. From time to time, you can see as if The black boulders that have lost their gravity are spinning and floating in the air. In this "bottom of the world", the scene on the wasteland is like an absurd dream after death, and it will make people feel depressing and eerie at a glance.
Ammon stood on the edge of his courtyard nursery, looking up at the wasteland that served as the meeting place. The large and small light **** and industrial-grade magic spar lamps illuminated the place, but they could not dispel the broken earth and the black boulder itself. This scene made him feel a little bit: "I've been lying here for three thousand years, and I have watched such a monotonous scene for three thousand years... At the time, I didn't feel anything at all, even because I finally got rid of my thoughts. Delighted by the constant 'noise' and tearing, I even enjoy the silence of this dark wasteland, and the proving grounds that those magisters of Gondor established here a thousand years ago are even a fun diversion for me ."
He shook his head, the huge antlers were wrapped with emerald vines, and two small flowers swayed gently on the edge of the antlers...
"Looking back on it now, it was a boring day, and I actually enjoyed it for so long."
Gawain stood next to Ammon with Amber, and on the other side were the three Fengzao sisters who had rushed over early to wait for the opening. Hearing Ammon's emotion, Gawain looked back at the lush courtyard and its splendor. The golden oak tree, as well as the magic net terminals, immersion cabin converters, and nerve connectors piled up like the happy room of the dead house under the oak tree, said faintly: "This is called from frugality to luxury and easy, from luxury to frugality. difficult."
"From frugality to extravagance is easy... from extravagance to frugality is difficult," Amorn chewed these words thoughtfully, "if you are full of wisdom, no wonder so many people are keen to study your ordinary words and deeds, and even put It was compiled into a book."
When Gawain heard this, he glanced at Amber next to him subconsciously. He thought that this guy must jump up and push her broken books in the next second, but he didn't expect that the shadow assault goose was just nervous. Standing in the same place, he didn't seem to hear what Amoen was saying at all, which surprised him: "You have been in a daze here since just now, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about Violet's side?"
Amber woke up suddenly, the long elf ears trembled quickly and visibly, with a nervous expression: "Do you think I will be beaten later?"
"Ah?" Gawain didn't react at once, "Why did you get beat up? Who beat you up?"
"Gods!" Amber's face was almost wrinkled, "Did you forget that they were actually fooled by a note from me? In case they came over and found that there was no Lady Ye here at all, There is only a half-elf who is a copycat of a copycat at them, so it's not too embarrassing to turn into anger, you know my strength, then it's gone on the spot..."
When Gawain heard this, he was instantly happy: "You know you're nervous now, but you were so excited when you wrote the note yesterday, why didn't you think of this at that time?"
"At that time, I didn't expect that I would be dragged here by you to show my face in person!" Amber was about to cry, "I thought I was just doing a whole job, and then waiting to see the fun..."
"How can there be such a good thing? Being forced to stay at the scene of the incident after finishing the incident is the ultimate destination of every happy person. Don't you know?" Gawain felt in a good mood for some reason. Being trapped in himself is a great enjoyment of his life, and then he vigorously rubbed Amber's hair and comforted him casually, "Don't think about it so much, let's not say that the human nature of the gods is rational, but any thinking A normal person would not care about you on this matter, even if there is a stunner who cares about it, didn't Amoen and the three sisters of abundance say they would help maintain order?"
As soon as Gao Wen said this, Amber couldn't help but look up at the gods next to him, and saw that Amoen had already started to lower his head to study a new vegetable field he recently opened, and the three goddesses of abundance had also arrived at some time. Next to Amoen, they were huddled together and muttered, and the chatter of several gods faintly entered her ears: "Hey, your beans are so good... Where did you get the soil here? Is the field next to it growing eggplants? Where did you get the water from... Is your divine power transformed?"
Amber's face was as pale as earth, and she felt that a retired old man who was addicted to farming and three Milu young sisters who couldn't even beat the retired old man couldn't save her...
After a while, Amorn and the three sisters of abundance finally finished their research, Flora glanced at the end of the dark wasteland, and her tone became a little uncertain: "Speaking of... ?"
"It's really almost time," Gaia couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, "but it shouldn't come without one. After all, the sacrifice ceremony went well before, which means that they at least clearly sensed the lady Ye's breath contained in the letter. "
"I understand this mentality," Gawain said next to him, "After all, after the previous 'treatment', it is normal for everyone to be a little bit conflicted. There should be no gods who will refuse Ms. Ye's invitation, but it's still a matter of delaying it until the last second. Sure, just wait a few more minutes."
As soon as he finished speaking, a buzzing sound suddenly came from a magic terminal in the nearby nursery. The three Fengrao sisters were startled by the sudden movement from this "small" machine, while Gao Wen instantly Seeing the two emblems projected over the terminal and the special symbols representing high-privilege encryption, he laughed: "It's the communication between Aldenan and the Elf Royal Court, Rosetta and Belsetia, but they were in place ahead of time."
Today's meeting was led by Gao Wen and Amber in person. Since this was the first attempt, in order to avoid unexpected situations, Gao Wen did not arrange for ordinary staff of the Theocratic Council to enter the meeting venue, and even the temporary command center was arranged in the disobedience. Inside the layers of barriers of the fortress, but at the same time, he arranged for two other people to participate in today's affairs by remote connection, that is, Rosetta Augustus and Belsetia Morningstar.
The reason is very simple. The three empires are the highest authority of the Theocratic Council. He needs the cooperation of Typhon and the Silver Empire for the entire plan after that. At the same time, Typhon and the Silver Empire are the only two other than Cecil that are capable of industrialization. Countries that produce magic crystal explosives, and they all have rich experience in dealing with gods, and even burying pits for gods... Who else can they find if they don't find such a big pit for the gods?
Under the curious gaze of the three goddesses of abundance, the humming "small" device was activated, and a clear holographic projection emerged in mid-air, encrypted layer by layer in the neural network, personally protected by the upper narrator, and Under the strict filtering protection of the anti-divine barrier, the figures of Rosetta Augustus and Bersetia Morningstar appeared in the assembly venue of the "conspiracy of the gods".
"Oh! It's bright!" Flora looked at the holographic projection in surprise, and her elk-like lower limbs happily scratched the ground twice, "Although I have learned about this thing from believers before, but the actual feeling of seeing it Still different."
Rosetta and Belsetia in the holographic projection were about to greet Gawain, but they did not expect that the first people who appeared in front of them after the communication was connected were a few huge ladies who were half human and half deer. Their expressions were a little dull to the naked eye. Stunned, Gawain quickly explained: "The three goddesses of fertility, this is Flora, the goddess of spring, and the two are Gaia, the goddess of earth, and Eve, the goddess of harvest. The other 'participants' have not yet arrived. meeting place."
"...talking to the 'gods' in this situation is a wonderful experience," Rosetta hesitated for a few seconds before finally speaking, he lowered his head slightly, in a gesture of respect but no humility Greetings to the three goddesses, "It is a pleasure to meet the three gods of abundance, I am Rosetta Augustus, I would like to pay tribute to you as the ruler of Typhon, and thank you for your support in this 4,700-year history. The shelter and help of the world also represents the people who work on the earth, thank you for every harvest you bring."
"It is the hard work of mortals that brings a good harvest," Gaia said with a smile, bowing his head slightly, "We just answered a limited number of prayers, but because of this, we are considered by Miao as the incarnation of abundance."
Hearing Gaia's words, Gawain on the side shook his head with a smile: "But it is undeniable that in the years before the emergence of industrial alchemy potions and the dust of abundance, the existence of the three gods of abundance brought this world every year. This is the result of repeated experiments and statistics by the Theocratic Council and the Overall Planning Committee.”
The three Fengrao sisters looked at Gawain in surprise, but the latter had a serious expression on his face, and he met the gazes of the three goddesses: "The purpose of the Theocracy Council's existence is to end the era of theocracy, but we never deny it. The fact of the existence of the gods and your contribution in history, even after the theocracy is really over, we will record these data forever in history so I think you can accept the thanks of mortals at any time, because you have Dutiful."
Gaia opened her eyes slightly in surprise. She seemed to want to say something, but before she could speak, a powerful breath suddenly approached from the end of the dark wasteland interrupted her movement.
A giant shadow suddenly appeared in the depths of the darkness. He seemed to be wearing a robe, holding something in his hand, and a hazy halo spread out from behind him, like a glow of gold and silver gradually fading in the darkness. Spreading out, he strode toward the direction against the courtyard, and every step he took seemed to be extraordinarily heavy.
When the shadow approached to a certain extent, the giant's fuzzy face finally appeared in every line of sight in the assembly hall. Gawain recognized the other party at a glance, not only because he had written down every god's name before then. The icon, and because of the face of the other party, he had only seen it once not long ago, and that time was very impressive.
It was Buffal, the **** of commerce. He was the first to arrive at the venue, but what made Gawain a little concerned was that the thing held in the hands of the **** of commerce was not the golden scale depicted on the standard icon, but a This is a huge book with a hard cover.
But soon his attention was diverted from the big book of unknown content, because more figures began to appear one after another at the end of the dark wasteland in the distance.
As he said casually before, no gods dared to ignore the call of Ms. Ye, but no gods were big enough to come over and be beaten in advance. Everyone was just like a bunch of pigeon spirits who were pressing the deadline to submit manuscripts. Time is running out to the last second...
At this time, Amber had completely shrunk into the shadow behind Gawain, but Gawain had no time to pay attention to the shadow's attack on the goose, because in front of him was the most amazing and bizarre thing he had seen since he lifted the coffin. , The most shocking, but also very religiously symbolic scene, he saw a shimmering light floating at the end of the darkness, and countless gigantic figures strutting out as if emerging from the long river of history. Among them are awesome giants, some like Figures such as Amorn or the Three Sisters of Plenty have distinct animal forms and retain their original worship characteristics.
These gods, who were shaped by mortals, worshipped by mortals, and sheltered hundreds of millions of souls in the past thousands or even tens of thousands of years, came out one after another, and gathered towards a fortress that stood quietly in the dark. The fort was built thousands of years ago by a group of mortals who called themselves "Rebels".
Gawain stood quietly beside the "pioneer" **** of nature, Ammon, who was the first to be liberated among the gods, and watched the gods arrive at the venue from a distance. Even if there was no spiritual pollution and no divinity leaked, only this scene had The huge sense of oppression produced also made his breathing quicken, and as the distance got closer, he finally saw more details on these great beings. Historians are as big as a bucket.
Some had bandages, some had big heads, some had blood from their eyes, and the blood ran down their necks. Finally, there was even one who came on crutches, who looked like Fawu, the **** of winter and the forest. Le…
Amoen turned his head and glanced at the three Gaia sisters, and the goddess of the earth wiped the blood on her face: "I'll tell you, they haven't grown well..."