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Chapter 1251 1249. Avalon's Desire for Revival and the Dead World's Plea

"Huhu."

Heavy breathing could be heard from beneath Fraser's helmet, and this accurately reflected the tremendous pressure and unspeakable fatigue that the Brigadier General was under at the moment.

Just now, he used his mortal body to fight against a glimpse of the shadow of chaos, and incidentally lit up a glorious achievement of "Looking directly into the abyss".

Although Fraser was not forced to degenerate into a creature of Chaos not only because Lord Murphy rescued him in time, but more importantly, it was because the symbiotic crystal in his body was strong enough to give Fraser a strong resistance to the power of Chaos. But to be honest, Murphy, who was guest-starring as the "God of Plot" at this time, did not think that anyone could escape from the wrath of the Chaos Shadow in this situation, even if the symbiotic crystal was given to other people.

The thing that the Commodore just faced is a being that is higher in symbolic terms than the "gods" of this world. Although they cannot wreak havoc in the material world, the power they possess is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Murphy's hand was still on Fraser's shoulder, and the purifying power from the Omega Program continued to flow into Fraser's body, suppressing the symbiotic's rampage under stress in this rough, effective but really painful way.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Murphy had arrived a few minutes later, Fraser, who had withstood the gaze from the abyss, would have definitely turned into a "monster".

It’s a really classic card with that iconic setting of enemies and friends being of the same origin!

Why does it feel a bit cool when you think about it?

But the good news is that it is indeed over.

The Black Holy Grail, the culprit that caused all the chaos, has been slain. After the power of the Chaos Shadow dissipated, the Deadwood Tower and the entire nightmare realm began to sway and collapse.

The players could feel the platform beneath their feet groaning under the heavy weight, and when they looked up and looked around, they could easily find that the dreams around them were floating into extinction like rippling water waves, and the cold malice in the air was quickly dissipated under the purification of the flashing Omega halo around Lord Murphy.

This dream woven with the last defenders of Gramois Island as the node seems to be returning to its original state.

"Natalie, take the warriors away!"

Murphy turned around and said to Ms. Natalie who was picking up the Broken Blade of the Arbiter:

"Wait for me in the ruins of the outside world. The story of the Black Grail has ended, but the final fate of Gramayor Island has not yet been determined. The island awaits the final judgment."

"Ah."

Natalie nodded.

She put the broken holy blade in her hand, which still exuded the majesty of arbitration, into the weapon box, while Anbo beside her carefully picked up the broken blade fragments at the front end of the arbitrator and put them into another box.

The Grey Knight's Blade, symbolizing the path of neutrality, has been broken. However, the Great Oak Blade is a holy object bestowed by Avalon himself. It will obviously not lose its magic just because it is broken. Avalon's divine power is still there, so this thing is an artifact that can be recast. And those small broken blades picked up by Anbo can naturally become the best task rewards distributed to players after being reshaped.

Fraser raised his head and gave a weak smile to Murphy who was looking at him.

Murphy also nodded and patted the "Watch Knight" on the shoulder, indicating that he should go and rest first and they would talk about the rest later.

Giant Shark and Niu Niu stepped forward to help up the exhausted brigadier general, and took him to leave the high platform of the Deadwood Tower with Ms. Natalie and others under Murphy's gaze. They guessed that Lord Murphy must have other operations here, but that was not something that the players at this stage could participate in.

Murphy remained in this nightmare that had quieted down.

He bent down and took the black holy grail that was cut in half in his hand. The moment he stood up, the dream behind him floated and formed a flickering door. Under Murphy's strange gaze, Little Rich walked out from the deeper part of the dream carrying the weak Ms. Casper on his back.

"Where is Sim the Undead?"

Murphy asked:

"Didn't the head of the Ring Tower come out with you?"

"The big boss left. He said he still had the responsibility to protect King Louis during this troubled time."

Little Fuge relayed the story honestly:
"He said that the eyes of darkness have already set their sights on the Plantagenet Kingdom. If the king is in danger at this time, the entire kingdom will fall into unnecessary chaos. However, before he left, the big man asked me to convey his goodwill to you. He said that he would take the initiative to visit you later."

"Well, that's as it should be."

Murphy nodded, then turned his gaze to the Archdruid Casper who was dodging behind Little Rich. The long-haired lady who worked as a part-time monk buried her head behind Little Rich, seeming afraid to look Murphy in the eye.

"Although you played the role of a hero in this matter, there is no authority over dreams in the realm of Avalon, Ms. Casper. As the Archdruid of the Giant Tree Faction, you theoretically should not have mastered the mysterious technique of weaving dreams. However, this nightmare realm used to seal the Black Holy Grail is very sophisticated even in the eyes of my demigod companions."

Murphy said in a long voice:
"My demigod collaborator suggested that I investigate your background. He told me that you are most likely a cultist who is hiding as a great druid and a legendary monk! As far as I know, there are only two supernatural forces related to the power of dreams in the material world, either Dagon or the nightmare tyrant Baphomet.

Do you have any comment to make regarding this horrific allegation?"

"Ah this!"

After hearing Lord Murphy's accusation, Little Fu Ge was immediately startled and was about to throw the Archdruid behind him down, but he was "locked" by Casper's hands and feet, making it impossible for him to abandon the weak old elf girl.

Facing Murphy's accusation, Ms. Casper, who had been pretending to be stupid, knew that she could no longer hide it, so she simply raised her head and said loudly:
"First of all, I'm not a cultist! At least I'm not the kind of evil guy you think I am. How can I put it?

I took refuge in Baphomet's Labyrinth during the Fourth Black Plague, just after the Black Flame Pass was razed to the ground by the Bone Gnawer King. I spent the most difficult months of my life there. It was also at that time that I came into contact with the faith of Baphomet and became fascinated by the power of dreams.

I declare in advance!
My soul and my faith belong to the supreme Avalon, but this does not prevent me from having some "personal hobbies". Studying the power of dreams is just my interest."

"Don't take her understatement, this is a pretty wild 'God Usurper', Murphy!"

Mannis's voice rang in Murphy's ears, and it hissed:
“This daring spirit sought to seize a portion of the nightmare symbol that belonged to Baphomet. She had gone far in this realm, otherwise she would not have been able to weave such a nightmare seal with the power of Dagon.

But she wasn't lying.

She is still a member of the Order faction.

But this does not conflict with the fact that she is a dangerous person, or just kill her, these ambitious people will always do bad things, the last person who did this was called Tris."

"We'll talk about your business later!"

Murphy snorted and asked:

"Tell me the truth first. Why did you come to Glamour Island?"

"Uh"

Casper's eyes rolled around, and it was obvious that she was trying to get away with it, but Xiaofu slapped her hard on the waist and scolded her:
"Confess and you will be treated leniently! Resist and you will be treated severely! I don't think you are a bad person. If you tell the truth, the fair Lord Murphy will not wrongly accuse you."

"whispering sound."

The Archdruid curled his lips.

She glanced around with nostalgia, and then looked at the Black Grail in Murphy's hand with fear.

she says:

“Eight years ago, I noticed a change in my dreams. The nightmare woven by Dagon landed on Gramore Island, which had just experienced a war. I realized that this might be an opportunity.

Baphomet has been sealed away for too long.

That stingy guy would only share his power with his most devout goat-man believers. Outsiders like me could only pick up some leftovers in that dream. But Dagon was different. Dagon was famous for his 'generosity'!
I thought about using the forbidden knowledge given by Baphomet to seize some of Dagon's nightmare power to help me better control the dream. I applied to the Castilla Tree for action and came to Gramo Island with several apprentices. As soon as I got on the island, I realized that Dagon wanted to seek the filthy holy grail, but the local rebels were twisted but determined.

Although I desire power, I am not stupid. When I saw the Black Holy Grail with my own eyes, I knew that it was not a dangerous thing that I could interfere with.

Unfortunately, it was too late to run by then, the Black Holy Grail noticed me.

In order to save myself, I had no choice but to cooperate with those twisted local defenders.

I used the souls of those struggling in agony on this island to weave this small 'dream of all living things', hiding the dangerous Black Holy Grail in the dream to prevent it from being taken away by Dagon's servants, but the power of the Black Holy Grail is too outrageous.

The dream I had created was quickly contaminated.

That was the most dangerous and difficult time. During those years of persistence without seeing any hope, I almost got captured by the subspace.

However, perhaps it was really the protection of the God of Avalon. On the third day after the Knight Commander Epirus, who was guarding the Deadwood Tower of the sealed main body in the outside world, was attacked and killed by the Chaos Evil Creatures, two large oak holy blades fell from the sky. Their return gave Epirus and I hope to continue to persevere.

The Arbiter was sent into the dream world to suppress the Black Grail's abnormal movements, while the Punisher was held by the resurrected Epirus, who shaped a wild army of undead in the outside world to resist Dagon's servants.

We have been holding on in this dark nightmare until now. Until you and your warriors arrived."

At this point, Ms. Casper sighed and said:
"I must express my sincerest respect and gratitude to you and your warriors, both from a personal perspective and from the perspective of alleviating the disaster on Gramay Island. Although I have accidentally embarked on a very dangerous path, I do not want to see filth infect the world.

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Especially in the Isle of Gramado, not far from the Castile Peninsula.

Once something happens here, the Elf Kingdom will be the first to encounter the crisis. I am not a good person in the traditional sense, and the fate I am walking is indeed not a good one, but how to explain it?

I think I still have some conscience.”

Murphy nodded at this answer.

The detection of the flow of mind can confirm that Casper is not lying, and he can also reconstruct the story of what happened here when the old church collapsed eight years ago from the scattered information currently dug out by the little players on Grammoor Island.

It is certain that Avalon had lost interest in the corrupt old religion at the beginning of the Ten Years' War.

Whether through the descriptions of eyewitnesses such as Natalie or from Dorothy's side story, it shows that at that time, the old religion, from the top down, had completely deviated from the teachings of the God of Nature.

They occupied too many resources and expanded into a behemoth in the secular world, and played the role of an obstinate stumbling block in the reforms of the Plantagenet Kingdom. The confrontation between theocracy and royal power reached its peak in the twentieth year of King Louis' reign. Unfortunately, King Louis had completed the reform of the domestic army at that time.

What’s even worse is that there were big problems within the Old Church itself, and the devout people who were supposed to protect their faith fell into irreversible depravity.

This is revealed in the personal story of Ms. Dorothy, the leader of the Blood Rat Gang and the ace agent commander of the Shadow Intelligence Agency. She witnessed with her own eyes the Grey Knights desecrating ancient ruins in the forest of Antani during the operation of the Explorers Guild. Because of this incident, Dorothy was hunted down for several years and finally ended up in the chaotic Transia.

Just from this one incident, we can judge the reason why Avalon unilaterally cut off the connection with the Old Religious Faith. If it is not cut off quickly under such circumstances, the reverse erosion of faith will cause the three aspects of the God of Nature to be contaminated. From the incident of Kulkan, we can judge how deadly this situation is for the gods.

Without the protection of Avalon, the Old Church was crushed by King Louis' army at the beginning of the war. The advantages they imagined did not exist at all. Years of extortion and heavy taxation had made the people miserable. In King Louis' war to suppress theocracy, those people who should have followed their faith chose to sit on the sidelines.

This directly led to the fact that by the second year of the war, the seemingly invincible Old Church had fallen into a desperate situation, and it was in the despair of the army besieging the holy land that the last defenders of Grammos Island had to try desperate means.

Judging from the various traces Dagon left on the island, some people in the Old Religion at that time must have reached some kind of corrupt agreement with the Father of the Fish, while another group of people were unwilling to accept it and took another approach.

They used the Holy Grail of Avalon, which represents human natural faith, as a carrier to pray for power from an unexpected object.

The giant tree Afidasil that stood in the star realm and has been dead for thousands of years.

This sounds a bit far-fetched.

But considering that humans have believed in the god Avalon for hundreds of years, when they cannot get the protection of the god of nature, they turn to pray to the giant tree in the astral world that has a deep connection with the god of nature. It is understandable that they use this method to convey their repentance to the god of nature and ask for forgiveness.

The god of nature ignored them.

After all, given the situation of the Old Church at that time, Avalon could easily judge that those fallen guys didn't really know they were wrong, they just knew they were going to die.

What's more, it wasn't that there were no people in the old religion at that time who were worth saving.

For example, the White Knight Elder Finnock, who had already taken action at that time, successfully won the attention of the God of Nature, and the old Finnock joined the Dusk in exchange for the Three Sacred Blades, which inadvertently assisted the precarious situation on Gramore Island.

Of course that's another story.

In short, the series of chaotic self-rescue actions of the Old Church before its demise did not bring them hope. On the contrary, it made a mess of the Holy Land of Gramor. The nightmare power of Dagon and the tragic filth of the giant tree of Aphidashir, which was full of despair after witnessing the collapse of the astral realm, were intertwined, causing the city to enter into a doomsday chaos before it was burned.

The Plantagenet sailors who participated in the siege of Avalon Castle had a detailed conclusion on this.

During the two months of the siege, civilians and low-level clergy escaped from the city and surrendered almost every day, but veterans like Old Norman and Porter, who had personally experienced that stage, kept silent about it.

Obviously, that was a nightmare past for them, and old Norman and old Potter lost their families during that period.

The situation in the city was so chaotic that the generals under King Louis did not dare to launch an attack at will. They were worried that an attack under such circumstances would trigger extreme behavior from the last group of fanatics in Castle Avalon. But before the generals besieging the city could make a decision, the city caught fire on its own. That group of desperate guys set the city on fire to commit martyrdom.

The army that was supposed to defeat the core of the old religion became the rescuers on that day.
This is also the reason why veterans like Amber and Porter did not have much deep hatred for the Plantagenet Kingdom's destruction of the Old Church, and they still fought throughout the Ten Years' War.

The essence of this matter is that the old religion brought its own death upon itself, and then it really died.

King Louis and his army did not only play a negative role in this incident. After the collapse of the old church, the king's reputation in the country rose to a higher level, which was inseparable from the effortless skills and strength he showed in cleaning up the corrupt church.

It has to be said that the war that took place on this island eight years ago was secretive and full of unexpected twists, and its consequences are still haunting this land that has witnessed too many tragedies.

"Take her out."

Murphy said to Little Rich:
"Keep an eye on her, don't let her run around."

"Ah."

Little Fu Ge nodded vigorously, took out a chain from somewhere, tied her and himself together under Casper's stunned gaze, and left the collapsing dream under the escort of the summoned creatures.

Murphy stood alone on the platform, looked up and said:

"The story that happened on Gramay Island is full of coincidences. I don't think Casper's luck is that good, so you are indeed involved, right? Avalon. I'm curious, why did you conceal the crisis here until now?
Say it.

Now that we are alone here, I want to hear your explanation. Are you really colluding with Chaos?"

"Not really, Murphy."

The three aspects of Avalon spoke at the same time at this moment, with a tone of guilt and relief, saying:
"These concealments are for a greater purpose. Only after going through all that torture and pain can I convince the stubborn Afidasil to choose the right path, and it is in your hands."

"Ok?"

Murphy lowered his head and looked at the black holy grail in his hand that was cut in half. The wooden holy grail peeled off like weathering, and finally, as he watched without surprise, a seed was revealed in his hand.

"Now, the fate of the astral world is also in your hands, Lord Murphy."

(End of this chapter)