Alice in the Land of Steam
Chapter 778 Is the experiment still going on?
Chapter 778 Is the experiment still going on?
Only a young girl king can kill another young girl king.
This is actually an invalid theory, because even later, when the kingships of Order and Chaos parted ways, embarked on different paths, and fought each other for each other's ideals, the dominant Chaos kingship never killed any Order kingship. On the one hand, it never thought of doing so, and on the other hand, it could not do it.
The young queen will not die, but will only come back again and again in reincarnation. If anyone in the universe can break this rule, it is probably the goddess who created them. But Cenos did not know this truth, and had no way to verify it, so after he came up with this idea, he immediately took action.
"He combined the information he obtained from following Tumi in his research on the sacred artifact of the kingship with his own experience after fighting with the young girl's kingship, and analyzed and summarized the nature of the kingship. Finally, through a special method, he created an embryo with similar properties. His name is Gabriel."
Hearing this, Livia's pupils suddenly contracted, and the wound on her abdomen twitched due to excessive emotion. In the severe pain, more golden blood gushed out, almost dyeing the floor under their feet into a golden lake. The blood flowed along the wounds on her waist and legs, gradually soaking the nun's broken and torn battle skirt, making her look weak and pitiful as she leaned against the wall helplessly, like a piece of broken amber.
"No wonder..." She murmured, as if talking to herself, but also as if answering Carabosse's previous question.
No wonder she said that imitations cannot be compared with the originals. Compared with the real girl kingship, she - or the other soul that resides in her soul, the so-called Holy Son Gabriel, is just an imitation of them. Even the soul created by Lord Kenos, the Cursed Ring King, one of the Twelve Saints, with his painstaking efforts, cannot be compared with the guardians that existed when the Virgin Mary created the world, right?
Unconsciously, Sister Livia had come to believe what Carabosse said, believing that in the story she told, the love and hatred between the young queen and humans were real, and that the natural disaster and the destruction of the city of Guardes did happen. So, extending from this, did the glorious and majestic Saint Lord Tumi really break his promise and commit an act of betrayal?
If they were devout believers, they would naturally choose to believe the former between the saint and the enemy, but Livia didn't know why she believed in Carabosse's words. This trust was not based on position or subjective judgment, and it came out of nowhere. Even Livia herself couldn't help but wonder, could it be because she was their imitation, their half sister, that she was more willing to believe them?
But in the final analysis, this is more like wishful thinking, probably just an excuse Livia made for herself.
Carabosse saw it, and she knew where this subtle mentality came from. If it wasn't Livia's own psychological problem, then it could only be that there was a problem with the other soul that was residing in her soul. This involved another key point in this matter: What exactly is the so-called Son of God Gabriel?
Although it is a replica of the Girl's Kingship, what is its true nature? Where does its power come from? And...
How could she know? It was a secret from the ancient times. Except for Lord Kenos, the Cursed Ring King, perhaps no one knew it?
However, Carabos knew that the Witch Society's archives contained the research materials left by Kenos, and it was this part of the materials that helped them to answer the question of the nature of the Son of God Gabriel, which led the Society to temporarily retain the power of the True Spirit Sect in the city of Renwitin. In name, it was to take into account the stability of the Seven Stars, but the entire city of Renwitin was under the control of the Church Union. Even if there was chaos in the Seven Stars, how big a storm could it cause? Therefore, the real purpose of this decision was to keep the people who hosted the Son of God's soul in the sight of the Society, rather than escaping to places that the Society's power could not reach for the time being, such as the East Continent, which would bring them more trouble.
Livia opened her eyes blankly. Although she was the host of the Son of God's Soul, she didn't even know the origins of the Son Gabriel. She had to rely on Carabosse to explain it. How could she know anything more secretive than that?
"You know."
This truth is probably unknown even to Mufasa, the Judge of the True Spirit Sect. Their actions, which they thought were covert, were actually controlled by the Witch Society. Therefore, when the Cross Church of St. Annville secretly contacted archaeologists and started excavation work on the underground railway in the North Roald District, the society immediately guessed that they had discovered the remains of the ancient city of Ardes, and responded quickly. This is why Carabos appeared here with his adjutant Freud and another philosopher Octavian.
She looked at Livia deeply and said, "You not only know the method by which Kenos created the embryo of the Holy Son, but you also understand it very well."
"Do you know how Cenos created the Son Gabriel?" Carabosse suddenly asked.
But Carabosse had not lied to her. Many times, people thought they knew nothing, only because they did not notice that the answer was hidden in the darkness within reach, just as they would never notice their own shadow when they lowered their heads.
As for the person who was hosting the soul of the Son of God Gabriel, it was an unexpected surprise. That was why Carabos changed her mind temporarily and left the stone carving of "The Beginning of Spirituality" behind. She wanted to get something from Livia, an answer, or a possibility.
Sister Livia, who was in a daze, was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "I don't know..."
"If you still can't remember, think about it carefully." Karaboss said lightly: "There is indeed a way in this world to create a new soul out of nothing and give it a pure essence. But sometimes, because it is too pure, it appears fragile. You, the believers of religion, have thought of using this method to change the world, but it turns out to be much more dangerous than you imagined. In order to curb your abuse of it, we had to pass the policy of restricting freedom of belief and issued the "Religious Decree". This is a prayer for everything, and it is also a sign of many things in the past, and sometimes, they actually happened earlier, in an era unknown to you."
As Carabosse finished speaking, Sister Livia's face gradually turned pale, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably, not because of fear, but because the other party's words revealed some terrible possibility, a fact that she dared not believe no matter what.
But no matter how much she resisted accepting the reality, Carabosse still spat out the cold answer from her mouth: "The ritual of summoning gods, conceiving gods, that is the essence of the Son of God Gabriel - he appeared a thousand years earlier than the first recorded god, the Mecha God Alexander."
Crash! As soon as the words fell, the broken and damaged golden armor on Sister Livia's body instantly turned into light spots all over the sky and disappeared, turning back to the black nun's uniform she wore at the beginning. Even the blood flowing out of her abdomen faded from its shining gold color and was coated with a shocking scarlet, as if a poppy flower had bloomed in her lower abdomen and under her body, appearing enchanting and dazzling.
"No, impossible..." The nun seemed not to notice the changes in her body, nor did she notice that the soul of the Son of God Gabriel had returned to her sea of spirits and was gradually sinking into the gray ocean. Her lips stammered, and after bumping up and down, she squeezed out a sentence weakly: "We, the True Spirit Sect, believers who follow the Ring of Humanity, would never do such a thing..."
Because they followed the teachings of Saint Tumi, adhered to their original intentions, and revered spirituality, they would never do something as crazy as the group of believers of the Holy Spirit Return Sect. Livia not only knew that Rochelle, the walker of the Fertile Soil Sect, summoned the Spirit God of the Spring, Tifu, and the Spirit God of the Earth Mother, Titan, in the Spring City, Nimsheer, causing the entire Salia Wilderness area to face a catastrophe, she also remembered the old news that the Druid Shepherd Eric summoned the Ancient Tree Elder Salon in the Gemulo Wilderness, causing the area to turn into dry and doomed soil for thousands of miles, and she also remembered the tragedy that the great witch Santa of the Ancestral Spirit Sect used 3,333 believers as a sacrifice in the Muro Mountains to summon the spirits of the ancestors, causing the beasts to riot and attack the surrounding human villages... It was precisely because of so many previous lessons that she was extremely fortunate that as a believer of the True Spirit Sect, she put her faith on the right path instead of hurting others in the name of God.
But now, Karabos told her that there was actually no difference between the believers of the True Spirit Sect and the believers of the Holy Spirit Return Sect. They were even the earliest branches of the animism system that utilized the power of faith and the ritual of summoning gods, but no one knew about it. How could she accept such a cruel fact?
"I don't have to lie to you." Carabosse said coldly, "In fact, the signs have always been there, but you always deliberately ignore them. Ever since you inherited the soul of the Holy Son Gabriel, you have been affected by a certain voice, right? That is actually the echo of the believers' prayers to the gods. The conceptual gods accept this echo and comply with the believers' expectations, creating the kingdom of God they pray for at all costs. However, the soul of the Holy Son Gabriel that you inherited is not a complete conceptual god, but just an embryo. Therefore, only when you merge with Him and become Gabrielvia, you will hear this echo, and as long as you are determined, you can still restrain yourself and not lose control."
"After creating this embryo, Kenos used himself as a carrier to try to nurture it to a complete form. That was the power he envisioned that could fight against the girl's royal power. However, he soon discovered that as the believers' prayers became stronger and stronger, his consciousness was gradually assimilated, and he would soon lose himself and become an illusory god who existed only to respond to the believers' wishes. So he decisively stopped the experiment and stripped the soul of the Holy Son Gabriel. In the years that followed, he only used it as a dangerous seal. Moreover, he also learned a lesson from this failed experiment. Before his death, he warned his students that human wisdom has its limits, and not to try to touch the forbidden field, which would only bring disaster to the world. His students listened to the last motto left by the Curse Ring King, and followed this commandment from then on, and passed it on, which became the prototype of the current True Spirit School's Human Reason Ring Theory."
So that’s it.
Sister Livia was relieved when she heard this: So Lord Kenos, the Curse Ring King, didn't know the dangers of conceiving a god at first, and when he realized it, he immediately stopped the experiment and formulated a new commandment for this, which created the inheritance of the True Spirit Sect today. Therefore, the True Spirit Sect did not abandon its own ideals and cross the boundaries of the Ring of Human Reason. They are still the seekers of human truth and the gatekeepers of forbidden knowledge.
Is that so?
"What a pity," Caraboss suddenly said when Livia was relieved, "This commandment was strictly followed at first, but not later. At least, since the start of the Steam Holy War, the information about the ritual of summoning gods and refining magic has been leaked. Even the followers of the True Spirit Sect could not resist the temptation to create gods and began to touch the forbidden area. They wanted to do what the founder Kenos could not do and nurture the embryo of the Son of God Gabriel into a complete form."
"So, in the era of Judge Humiel, he first continuously improved the status of the Son of God Gabriel in the doctrine, and elevated Him to the messenger of the Trinity, trying to expand the original Trinity system into a system of the Mother, the Saint, the Holy Spirit, and the Son of God. Then, in the era of the Mountain Sage Relanthos, he selected qualified successors from all believers, allowing their souls to resonate with the Son of God Gabriel and grow together. Finally, in the era of the Judge Mufasa, he found you, the most talented successor in the past hundred years, in the home of a civilian believer in the Seven Stars Disk District. He believes that your talent will guide Gabriel's soul to fully take shape and ascend to the eternal throne of God, and then lead the True Spirit Sect to defeat powerful enemies and monopolize the sole divine power of faith."
The Inquisitor Humir, the Mountain Sage Rylantsos, the Judge Mufasa, three generations of leaders of the True Spirit Sect, two hundred and thirteen years of exploration and pursuit, all came to Sister Livia in the cold narration of Carabosse, leaving her stunned and at a loss, never knowing that she was shouldering such a heavy responsibility.
She had always thought that she was just an ordinary believer. Although she had the ability to transform into the Holy Son Gabrielvia, Brother Mufasa once said that it was the blessing of her piety, and it was the messenger of the Holy Trinity who gave her the power to protect other believers. The nun never doubted this. She felt that she had a great responsibility in countless days and nights, so she worked harder and did not dare to slack off in any task assigned to her. But, could it be that the responsibility she thought she had and the responsibility Brother Mufasa wanted her to take on were actually two different things?
"Do you know why Mufasa asked you to come to this church?" Carabosse suddenly looked around and asked a strange question: "What kind of mission did he give you to come to the ruins of the Great Hermitage of All Saints and Gospels, which was once the beginning of civilization and the holy place of all souls?"
Sister Livia seemed to be unaware of what he said, but she still replied dully, "He asked me to... retrieve the Saint's manuscript and make sure it does not fall into the hands of heretics..."
"But now you know how important the soul of the Holy Son Gabriel in your body is to the True Spirit Sect. Is the so-called Saint's manuscript really worth the price he paid to fight for it? Are you willing to believe his words and believe that he is really so devout in his belief in the Saint, or are you more willing to believe that he has other intentions?"
“…” Livia pursed her lips and did not answer, but the silence itself was an answer.
Carabosse looked at her with pity. "Yes, just as you thought. Thousands of years ago, the experiment that the Cursed Ring King Kenos failed to complete was repeated by the Judge Mufasa here. The subjects of the experiment are you and the soul of the Son Gabriel in your body. The purpose of the experiment is to nurture this embryo into a complete divine form, and the most important experimental prop is-"
She took a step to the side, and Livia's sight passed over the broken benches and the dull cracked bricks, and saw the incomplete and broken statue of the God of All Spirits, the gray-white altar covered with dust under the statue, and the stone original of "The Beginning of Spirituality" written by the saint on the altar. At the same time, the voice of Carabosse came to her ears, and the tone seemed very far away, coming from the horizon, but also seemed very close, echoing in her mind:
"As a masterpiece written by a saint himself, the first article in human history that systematically analyzes the essence of spirituality, the origin of the supernatural system, and the manuscript "The First Explanation of Spirituality" that has been sought by countless supernaturals, magicians, and believers of animism for thousands of years, the power of faith entrusted to it has even surpassed the gods of many sects. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a holy object. Once you touch it in the form of the Holy Son Gabrielvia, the power of faith will flow into your soul uncontrollably and be absorbed and assimilated by Gabriel's embryo."
"Such a huge power of faith will cause this embryo to give birth to a cruel and blasphemous soul. I think you should understand without me saying anything, right, Miss Livia?"
Carabosse's words echoed in the empty hall for a long time.
In the distance, the sounds of fierce fighting were still being heard, but they seemed to be floating in the clouds, making the nun lying in a pool of blood feel as if it was neither real nor illusory.
What is real and what is illusion?
What have you been insisting on all along, and what have you given up for it?
Does she live as a believer in God, or does she live as a believer in God?
She gradually became a little...confused.
Give me some meow
(End of this chapter)
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