Falsifying history is good business

"Are you confused now? God changed the speed of time in order to increase the time you stay here and in Arda. They hope to create a blank period when the writer leaves the big world, and the longer the blank period lasts, the better. Your biggest confusion is that you don't know whether you should go with the flow and fulfill their wish."

"My only confusion is that I don't know what they want to do. I don't know if the big world will still exist after this 'blank period' is over; even if it does, will it still be the big world I was familiar with before? Regardless of whether their wish is fulfilled or not, I don't know what I will face when I go back."

The big world that the writer is familiar with is the one he "wrote" himself stroke by stroke. He is responsible for the specific operations of each fusion and knows the specific rules and general direction of future development.

This time, he was excluded and things were completely out of his control.

Dandelion was silent for a long time. He found that Lin You’s mental state was very similar to when he was just “awakened” a few years ago—wearing the title of “Destiny” but being at a loss about “Destiny”.

"My brother, you should have understood long ago that in the virtual dimension, the status of most gods of fate is actually very awkward. In many cases, let alone the fate of the world, even our own fate is beyond our control. Emhyr is not wrong to regard me as a fortune teller. From the perspective of controlling fate, we are not much better than those poor astrologers."

Hearing the self-mockery of the Supreme God of Destiny, Lin You couldn't help but smile. His situation was different from that of Dandelion, but in essence they were the same, both of them were at a loss for what to do in the face of the sudden "out-of-control situation".

God, Chronos, and the will of the world; Lin You has always been dancing on these "three eggs", but he never expected that one day, the "three eggs" would come together and hit him on the head.

At this point, neither of them had the will or need to continue the conversation. Just as Lin You was about to leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a large fire on the northern hilltop; the fire that stretched across several hilltops reflected the dark night sky red, even obscuring the stars in the northern horizon.

The fire also alarmed Geralt's family in the house. Ciri ran the fastest. She rushed out of the door and immediately climbed onto the roof, looking out into the distance; Geralt and Yennefer just leaned against the window and looked out.

"What happened? Did the Northern and Southern armies start fighting?" The little girl's tone was unclear whether it was surprise or excitement.

"Impossible; the shouts of tens of thousands of people during the battle cannot be heard here." Yennefer, who participated in the Battle of Sodden Mountain, said firmly.

“But such a big fire can’t be started by itself,” Ciri muttered.

Geralt was the most perceptive and warned: "Be quiet and listen; there are people shouting on the mountain... No, not shouting, it's more like many people chanting something collectively. Like the prayers in the church temple."

"It's the eternal fire." Dandelion spoke to clear up the doubts for everyone.

Ciri turned around and shouted happily, "Dandelion, you're back. Have you dealt with the matter?"

Dandelion nodded, "Yes, it's taken care of. Alien invasions will not happen again."

"Doesn't that mean that the North and South will soon fight again?" Xili reacted quickly. When external contradictions disappear, internal contradictions are bound to erupt; although he had never studied the theory of contradictions, it did not prevent Xili from understanding this principle.

"That is beyond our control. The emperor in the south, the king in the north, and the nobles on both sides, many people are eager to fight this war; they all want to achieve their own goals through war."

Dandelion kept talking nonsense, but these seemingly profound thoughts were useless in front of Ciri, as the girl's thoughts jumped very quickly.

"You just mentioned the Eternal Flame. Do you know what happened on the mountain?"

"He is the bishop of the Eternal Flame Sect, and his name seems to be Cyrus Hemelfat. He came two days ago and called on believers to hold a large-scale gathering in the mountains previously occupied by the orc invaders. He said that they wanted to celebrate the sacred power of the Eternal Flame for destroying the invaders from foreign lands, and officially announced to the world that the great power that can dispel darkness and burn evil has come to the world from now on."

As the Supreme God of Destiny spoke, he looked at the writer with amusement. "The sacred power of the Eternal Fire?" Ciri was confused. "Wasn't it Bryce who destroyed the invaders?"

"Yeah, but who knows what he was using fire at the time? Doesn't that give people a chance?" Dandelion made faces at the two of them; at this moment, the bard's sarcastic literary style came out again.

Ciri realized it later and was immediately furious: "They actually want to take credit for Bryce's work?"

Yennefer also came out at this time, looking unhappy. She said angrily: "I have already reminded Philippa not to covet the power and authority of the gods. I didn't expect them to do such a thing - how dare they do it?"

"It's just greed that blinds one's mind. Fanatic religious dealers are the greediest businessmen in the world." Geralt complained with a cold face, and maintained an average level of sharpness.

Lin You sneered, "Besides being blinded by greed, he may also be a bit empiricist; he compares me to gods like Meritelee and the Lady of the Lake, and thinks that I am also the kind of god who basically does not communicate directly with humans."

"Do you want to beat them up? I want to go too!" Ciri volunteered.

"You'd better not go. I'm not going to beat anyone, I'm going to kill someone." Lin You said ruefully. I've been so angry lately, and I just don't have a place to vent!
Dandelion was surprised: "I never knew you had such a high level of moral purity in religion?"

"This has nothing to do with moral cleanliness, but personal responsibility." Lin You has his own reasons. "Religions deceive the world, and how many lies they have told and how many sins they have committed are all their own business; but this time they are using my power to deceive people, so their lies and sins also have a share in me - and they are imposed on me without my knowledge. Since they dare to use my name, they have to pay the price; the copyright fee is very expensive."

Before he finished speaking, the writer disappeared; when he reappeared, he was standing at the location where the flames were most concentrated and the prayers were the loudest.

Only when he reached the top of the mountain did Lin You see the true face of the burning flames.

A huge deep pit was dug at the highest point of each hill, and rocks were laid around it to decorate it into the shape of a fire basin; a slightly shallower trench was dug outward from the "fire basin", extending along the mountain to the ridge, connecting with the trenches extending from other hills, and when a fire was lit, it formed a wall of fire stretching across a dozen hills.

That is to say, there were hundreds of thousands of troops concentrated nearby and had not yet disbanded, so there were enough manpower to complete such a large-scale earthwork in a short period of time.

If you look down from the air, you will find a surprising discovery: the "wall of fire" that stretches over a dozen hills and has a total length of nearly twenty miles surrounds the central castle built by the orc invaders - the location where the gap in time and space originally appeared.

It seems to imply that light surrounds darkness and holy fire surrounds evil.

The hill where Lin You was located had the largest number of people nearby and the largest "fire basin". The blazing fire illuminated the night sky and also illuminated the dignitaries gathered on this hill.

Among these people, the majority were Redanians, wearing red clothes with white stripes and an eagle logo, and they also occupied the middle position of the crowd.

Around the Redanians, many nobles from other kingdoms stood scattered around. The most prominent ones were the nobles from Temeria and Kaedwen, but their numbers were not many, and their combined numbers were only equal to those of the Redanians. More importantly, compared to the collective and fanatical prayers of the Redanians, the attitudes of members from other countries towards the "Eternal Flame" were obviously much more perfunctory.

After all, many people have personally experienced the battle to eliminate the invaders, and they know very well how different the "Eternal Holy Flame" that they lit with their own hands is from the flames they saw on the battlefield that day.

Another striking feature of the scene is that there is no non-human race to be seen. Even though there are dwarves and elves in both the northern and southern armies, and the Mahakam dwarves were also a key force in the previous fight against the orcs, they are nowhere to be seen at the scene.

As you can imagine, these non-human races absolutely reject tonight's "bonfire party". (End of this chapter)