Todd froze in place for a moment, then said in an unbelievable tone, "What do you mean...... You were a Gutero from a thousand years ago?!"

Meredith frowned, "What's wrong?"

"Of course! You've lived for thousands of years, and you're still ...... Young, don't you think it's an amazing thing?!"

Meredith shook his head disappreciatively, looked at the huge black dragon in front of him, and said, "If it's strange, why don't you look at yourself?"

Todder toned, looked down at his dragon body, and was speechless for a moment.

Meredith sat down on the stone pier again, placed the crow mask beside him, and said softly, "I have survived to this day, partly because of the tyrant's gift, and partly because of the help of my master. ”

Todd asked with interest, "So, you're already immortal?"

"Do you think this feels good?" Meredith stroked the black feather with his fingers, his eyes flowing with helplessness and sadness: "For me, whether it is people or things, as time passes, I can only watch them slowly move away from me. When I looked back, I realized that the whole world was no longer familiar, and I was the only one in the end. ”

Todd leaned down and brought the dragon's head to Meredith's side: "Indeed, loneliness is the most painful punishment of human beings. ”

Meredith touched the dragon scales on top of Todd's head: "In these thousand years, I have been married seven times and have had sixteen children. ”

Todd's eyes widened.

"At the beginning, I was trying to change my identity to integrate into human society and live simply. However, my husband and children are slowly aging in front of me, and I am still the same as before. Guess how my family, my friends, my neighbors would look at me? Let me tell you, fear, alienation, even hostility......"

Todd listened quietly to Meredith's statement, but did not speak.

"I can only leave my family behind when my children are still young, and use my departure to avoid people's rumors and slander. I hid incognito, secretly watching my family, watching my children learn to walk, learn to talk, learn to fight for the first time because they were called 'motherless wild seeds'......" Meredith hung her head and whispered: "What saddens me the most is that when the children die and go to the coffin, at the funeral, all I can do is hide behind the tree and wait for the people to disperse before I can offer a bouquet from my mother." ”

Todd sighed faintly, "Eternal life is not a good thing. ”

Meredith's figure was as cold and lonely as a valley, and she said quietly, "When I leave the seventh house, I can't bear this pain anymore. I moved to the Land of Shadows and lived with my master. During these hundreds of years, I spent most of my time on the island, except for the occasional outing to attend to my own affairs, and sometimes no one spoke to me for a month or two, because I was accompanied only by the strange creatures. ”

"Here, I became the guide of the demigod trials. One great hero after another has come to me to seek the path to godhood. After some attempts, they were left with only piles of dry bones to bear witness. Meredith's aqua blue eyes flashed with a dash of the past: "Seeing the lives of life pass away in front of my eyes, I gradually understood the expectations of my master Skaha." ”

"She's like me, we're all waiting, waiting for someone to come, waiting for this person to show us the ultimate future. ”

Meredith looked at the large and small scars on Todd's body, and said softly: "Skaha was originally optimistic about Cúchulainn, but the latter was short-sighted, only saw the rise and fall of the kingdom, but never considered the continuation of race and civilization, so in the end, she chose you." ”

Todd rested his chin on the ground and was silent for a moment, then suddenly remembered something: "Meredith, I heard Skaha say that you are one of the candidates for the Chosen Battle?"

The latter responded: "You are talking about the contest of absolute will, my life is already miserable because of eternal life, and I do not want to put another layer of shackles on my body." ”

Todd raised his head: "Since you've already seen the crystal ...... Absolute will, then you should know the identity of Skaha and Leviathan. ”

"They are the servants of the Absolute Will in the mortal world, responsible for cooperating in the conduct of the War of the Chosen One. ”

"Well, the word servant is a little ambiguous, but I guess they shouldn't care either. Todd continued, "Have you ever heard of the conditions under which the Chosen One prevails?"

"What are the conditions to win?" Meredith smiled and poked Todd's nose with her finger, "Tell me, you really want to be a god?"

Todd tilted his head sideways, looked at Meredith and said, "If a madman like Cú Chulainn wins the battle of the Chosen One, I'm afraid the whole world will be dark." ”

Meredith shook his head with a smile: "The three paths to victory proposed by the Absolute Will are actually almost impossible to achieve. ”

Todd was a little surprised: "Impossible? Why?"

"Let's talk about the power first, make yourself strong enough to defeat any force or creature in this world, including those prehistoric monsters hidden underground and in the deep sea. So, this list should naturally include Leviathan, do you think anyone can beat him?"

Todd thought about it, and it was.

The power proposed by the Crystal Lodge Theory to win requires the strength of the candidate, strong enough to defeat any living creature on the planet, including the first creations of the Crystal Lodge, the Leviathan and Skaha, and the other hidden forerunners. It's almost an impossible task.

Meredith continued: "Speaking of conquest, conquer and win, directly or indirectly occupy more than half of the world's land. It seems that this condition is the easiest, but it is actually the hardest. Because the land exists not only on the continent, but also in the ocean, but they are swallowed by the sea and cannot be seen normally. ”

"Wait. Todd raised his dragon head and interrupted Meredith, "You mean that the conditions of conquest include not only land but also sea?

Meredith said amusedly, "How can it be unreasonable? I have heard my master say that once upon a time there were many cities and kingdoms in the sea, and they even wanted to go ashore and conquer the land. Even now, who knows if there is still life at the bottom of the sea? Therefore, it is naturally impossible to exclude the sea from the conditions of conquest. ”

Hearing Meredith's analysis, Todd was a little dumbfounded.

He had thought that this victory condition would be the easiest to achieve, but he did ignore the fact that the land in Jingsu's mouth included not only the land, but also the continental shelf of the ocean.

So, the condition for victory in conquest is actually the conquest of more than half of the area of this world.

Todd said with some discouragement: "Then there is one last way to victory—the victory of faith." ”

Speaking of the triumph of faith, Meredith's face showed hesitation for the first time.

"I have some doubts about the victory of faith mentioned by the Absolute Will. The woman bit her lower lip and pondered, "The Absolute Will only said something like this—'Convert more than half of the world's population into your own believers, and there are no restrictions on the way and form.'" ”

"There are a couple of vague concepts here. First of all, the population, I think that the absolute will should not only refer to humans, but also to other intelligent races, and even some unexpected things. ”

"Then there is the believer, to what extent can he be converted to be called a believer? Is a person who prays and bows down to be counted as a believer, or does he need to accomplish something else?"

Finally, there is the phrase - there are no restrictions on the form and form. Meredith said this, frowning: "I have thought about this sentence in the mouth of Absolute Will for a long time, but I don't understand, what is called the way and form are not restricted?"

Todd thought along.

The three paths proposed by Jingsu to win the Chosen War are that power victory requires challenging many powerful creatures, including the Precursor Skaha and Leviathan, and unless the organism evolves to an advanced stage, the power victory can be said to be an almost impossible task.

And the victory of conquest does not only require control of the land territory, but also the construction of colonies or outposts in the ocean, which must be achieved by climbing the technology tree to a certain extent, and it seems to be a distant thing.

Finally, there is the triumph of faith...... "to convert more than half of the world's population into its own followers, in no way or in any form."

Jingsu's sentence sounds very simple and easy to understand, but after careful analysis, it is full of doubts.

Todd let out a long breath towards the sky, it seemed that winning the battle of the Chosen was not an easy task at all.

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