Chapter 266: The Fog of History
Looks like I was teleported by myself just now?
When Givens saw the sudden change in scenery around him, he realized what had just happened. In front of him was the hall of a dark building, somewhat similar to the temple of the Forge that he had ever seen. However, unlike the long-dusted Temple of the Forging God, it seems to be cleaned and cleaned up, and there are magic lamps on the surrounding walls, illuminating everything in the hall. At the other end of the hall seems to be a long corridor, which is brightly lit and leads to the unknown.
"Where is this? Dorian. In the dim light, Prince Djonnmi's voice was the first to be heard. Givenn looked back and saw that Djoenmi, Adilea, and the Elven King Dorian had all been successfully teleported into the building.
"This is the road of kings, a road that every elf king must walk, ahem. The weakened Elven King Dorian labored to explain the mysterious structure.
"But are we still in the palace?" Before Djonnmi could answer, Jiwen suddenly asked, he didn't care about the inheritance of the elven royal family, he was more concerned about whether he could get out smoothly.
"No, we are deep underground in the royal capital, and through the teleportation array, we can retreat outside the city. The Elven King Dorian answered Given's question, but his skeptical gaze remained at Given, who was still in his form of flame.
"But who are you?" asked the Elven King.
"I'm Given. Jiwen slowly released his flame form, returning to his normal form.
"Brother, he's my friend's summoned beast. Zoenmi looked at Given, a little embarrassed as he explained.
"Your friend?" the Elven King coughed, his tone mocking, "those self-righteous Silver Moon guards, right?"
"You are not qualified to insult the Silver Moon Guard!" Hearing the Elf King's words, Aderia, who had been silent since just now, suddenly shouted. Even the elven kings who ruled the entire world could not insult Teacher Curzon and the people who had sacrificed their lives for her in front of her.
The Elf King turned his head to look at the green-eyed little girl in front of him, he didn't argue, and he didn't try to use his identity to coerce. He just said calmly: "Little girl, I don't have time to quarrel with you now, so you can judge the truth with your own eyes." It's been 10,000 years, so it's good to let you Silver Moon guards see the truth once. ”
After answering Adellia, the Elven King Dorian motioned for Djoenmi to put himself down, and then commanded, "I'll be waiting for you here, Djoenmi." Follow the light and come back to me. ”
Zoenmi seemed to hear the implicit meaning of her brother's words, and she stubbornly shook her head: "No, I'm not going. Let's go, I'll go to Blaence to help detoxify. ”
"It's useless, if even your healing skills are useless, then no one in the royal capital can save me. Since Valanie chose to poison me, she won't miss it. Go ahead, Djoenmi, or I won't have time to answer your questions later. You are also a descendant of the Elven Queen Frey, and you are not entitled to abdicate your responsibilities. ”
Dorian struggled to say that no matter what kind of king he was, he was at least a good brother at the moment. His words finally made Zoenmi resolve, and he turned around and walked towards the dimly lit place.
After Djonnmi left, the Elven King Dorian shouted at Adele and Given.
"Go and see, if you really are the Silvermoon Guard, the Way of Kings can tell you why we won't let Evans' descendants go. ”
After saying that, the elf king Dorian closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, as if he wanted to save his last bit of strength before the toxin destroyed his body.
Let's go, let's take a look.
Givens reminds Adilea that if the Elven King Dorian hadn't lied, the palace called the King's Path would hold the secrets of his ancestor Evans.
Adelia took one last look at the Elven King, and then followed in Jivin's footsteps and walked towards the path of the king.
When Givens and Adilea enter the King's Road, they find that the walls on both sides of the place are covered with reliefs, which are completely different from the works of the elves. The lines of these reliefs are not delicate and soft at all, but have a rough beauty.
The memory of the silver dragon in Given's mind told him who the sculptors who carved these pieces were, the demons who ruled the world 10,000 years ago.
These reliefs record the great achievements of the demon clan in the Demon Era. They conquered the elves of the east and south, the sandmen of the western desert, and even the dragons of the north. Bring the entire continent under the rule of a single king.
If it were tightly conquest, these winged creatures would not be called demons by the elves. But the relief at the back reveals the bloodiest ritual in the life of the demon clan - sacrifice.
The demons believe in worshipping the Lord of Fire and call themselves the Children of Fire. And the Lord of Fire seems to be a god with infinite blood and life. On the reliefs, the demons sent countless lives to the altar and then brutally killed. The sacrifices were beasts, elves, sandmen and dragons, and even the demons themselves.
As demonic rule continued, so did the scale of the sacrifices, even provoking revolts from various other races. Finally, a demonic king put an end to it all.
In the relief, the demon king, with a divine aura behind him, smashes the altar with his own hands. And all the races bowed convincingly at his feet, and the nameplate under the relief recorded the name of the demon monarch.
High Frey the Great
The relief is recorded here, and there is no more. But ignoring the doubts poured into Jiwen's mind. In the history of the Elven Kingdom, Golfrey was the last king of the demons and one of the most evil demons. The rebels led by the Seven Heroes overthrew Guffrey's rule and left him in flames. However, the records in the relief are very different, at least Gauffrey stopped the barbaric sacrifice and saved countless lives. What is the huge difference between the two histories?
Givens looked back at Adilea, her face full of bewilderment. Seeing that the corridor was not over, but only a corner, Givens proposed, "Let's go ahead and see." ”
Govern and Adilea walked around the corner together, and suddenly their eyes lit up, where the gallery had expanded into a huge exhibition hall filled with ancient paintings and sculptures. Unlike the previous reliefs, these sculptures and paintings are of different styles, and many of them even appear to be made by elves.
Jiwen looked down the wall one by one. It was found that these works of art were all about the court life of Emperor Gaufre. For example, the emperor's court, the emperor's dinner, the emperor's hunting trip, and even the intimate footage of the emperor and his concubines. Judging from these works, the court of Emperor Gaufray was very tolerant, whether it was officials, scholars or even concubines, there were figures of various races.
Suddenly, a painting catches the eye of Given. The painting itself is nothing special, and it records the intense discussion between the demon Golfrey and an elf in front of a magic circle. However, the title of the work recorded under the frame is something that Givens will never forget.
The Great and His Best Friend Evans
Evans is a close friend of the Demon Monarch, something that has never been mentioned in any of the accounts. Could it be that this is the reason why the elven royal family killed Evans?
Thinking of this, Givens searched for the works again, and soon he found Evans in different works. Judging from these pictorial records, Evans was probably one of the young wise men who frequented the court during the time of the Great, and he even created certain unknown spells with the Great.
These new clues piqued Given's interest, and he searched more closely, but soon he found Evans in a large scroll of the wedding, but this time he was not interested in observing the legendary elf, because the rest of the picture shocked him even more.
The painting seems to have been painted by elves, the brushstrokes are very realistic, the name of the scroll is "The Great Fusion", and the two protagonists of the wedding are one of the high-spirited elven maidens and the other is a very sacred elven girl. In the queue to watch the ceremony, there was Evans, and the sandman heroine Mingsha that he had seen in the memory fragment of the Forging Temple.
The elven painter who painted seemed to feel that the pattern did not yet convey his state of mind when he painted, and he wrote a blessing in Elven language in the darkness in the lower right corner of the painting.
Bless my lord Galfred the Great, bless Queen Frey, and may their love endure forever on earth.
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Givens froze. It was something he never imagined. The founding queen of the Elven Dynasty was once married to the last monarch of the Demons, Gao Frei. There is no book that records this, and in the founding legend of the Elves, Frey's companion was the hero Lycius, who fell in a rebellion against demons. And all the elven kings are descendants of the widow of the warrior Lycius.
Givens looked back and found several statues of Frey and Golfrey. In all of her works, Frey has a happy expression, without any pain or dissatisfaction at all.
What the hell is going on, is there something hidden?
Just as Given's stunned moment, Adele walked over, and she seemed to have noticed the anomaly in these works. She grabbed Given's hand and said impatiently, "Let's keep walking." ”
Givens nodded, and followed Adele to another room.
But as soon as they walked into the third room, the two of them stopped in unison.
For at the entrance stood a huge stone, on which was carved a word of admonition in the Elven language.
"All the descendants of Solland, you must remember that this world has survived with great sacrifices, and you must protect this land. In this way, you will be worthy of your ancestor Gaufray and the fearless mage Evans. ”
The signature of this terrible word is the elven queen Frey.
Jiwen could imagine the shock of every king who was about to inherit the throne of the elves when he walked in front of this boulder.
The first queen of the elven kingdom has written down the secrets she left for future generations with an indelible notch. All the elven royal families have the blood of the demon king Gao Frei.
Shocked and puzzled, Govern walked around the boulder into the depths of the room. The room was austere and empty, without any ornate work, only the four walls were carved with dense words.
From the handwriting of the engraving, Givan could recognize that the records and the messages on the boulder at the door were the handwriting of a single person. This wall full of records seems to have been carved by the elven queen herself, a priceless treasure for future generations.
Givan hurriedly scanned through the records, and finally discovered the truth that had been sealed in history.
Gaufray was indeed a very powerful king, and he made drastic reforms to make the lower classes of all races more equal. In addition to this, he not only stopped the sacrifices of the demons, but also the barbaric sacrifices that remained among the sandmen and elves.
His actions have freed the entire Solland from ignorance and into civilization, but it has also attracted countless jealousy. The gods who had lost their power and status, the disgruntled nobles, and the angry gods united to overthrow his rule. At this time, Suta, the demon queen who is jealous of the loss of her favor, becomes the target of the fire king's temptation. At the behest of the Fire King, she used sorcery to snatch Gofre's soul and turn him into a puppet.
Immediately after this conspiracy, a bloody storm was set off in Solland. And the Seven Heroes also gathered together at this time to fight together to overthrow the rule of the demons. In the final battle, Evans and Lysius sacrificed themselves and inflicted heavy losses on the Fire King, leaving the demon army in ruins.
This story is very familiar to Jiwen, when he was summoned, the demon tried to occupy his body, but he did not expect that 10,000 years ago, the demon emperor Gao Frei became a victim of this evil spell.
But why would the elven royal family hunt down Evans's descendants?
Givens jumped to see the end of the room. Engraved there, the last admonition of the elven queen Frey to her children.
After the establishment of the Elven Kingdom, Frey abandoned her faith in all the gods, and the gods who had lost the power of faith crossed into the stars and left the land of Thorran, but the Lord of Fire left a prophecy.
Gather the blood of the descendants of Golfrey and Evans, and serve it before him, and you can summon him back.
Galfrey and Evans were two of the Fire King's most hated mortals, one destroying his faith and the other wreaking havoc on his gods. And he also brought this curse to the descendants of these two mortals.
Seeing this, Givens finally understood the truth of the whole thing.
The descendants of the Golfret are easy to find among the remnants of the Demon Royalty, and those demons who want to summon the Fire King will be able to try this evil ritual if they find a descendant of Evans.
In Frey's time, the elven royal family was still trying their best to protect Evans's descendants, but after a generation of elven kings, someone came up with a simpler and more effective way. If you can cut off Evans's bloodline, you can also break this prophecy.
So hunting down Evans's descendants became a common practice for the Elven royal family of Solland.