Act XXIII

"Wait, in this way, isn't the goddess the same as the will of the world?"

Elandall felt that his worldview was shattering little by little, and that it was none other than the Templar Saint, Eustia Losest, who had caused all this.

From Eustia's words, it can be seen that the goddess should belong to the camp of order, and the will of the world is a higher level. ”

Rosen thought of the origin of the dragon he had learned from Tahiria Sphinx, and it seemed that this world was really just a corner of the long-standing war between Order and Chaos.

Thousands of years ago, the goddess took over the area, making it a place of order, and the people of chaos gradually stormed the area in the following days, trying to conquer it.

Originally, this was a normal war, but the goddess stole the power of the will of the world and created a sage to resist the people of chaos, resulting in this place being occupied by the camp of order for a long time, and the will of the world intervened according to the law of balance of the endless world, and the sages who gained power under the influence of their own power turned into the people of chaos and interfered in the world again.

So the goddess finally took extraordinary measures to make the saints face the fate of death after the great war, and solidified this mechanism into the basic law of this world.

"And the goddess, the original ruler of this world, has actually left this area long ago, leaving only this sage mechanism behind, fighting the invasion of the people of chaos over and over again, keeping this world under the control of the side of order. ”

Eustia's voice was cold, like unmeltable ice, more like this indifferent and unforgiving endless world.

"This is the truth of the Sage, and the truth of this world. ”

After that, there was a long silence, and both Randall and Rosen fell into thought.

If this is the case in the world, then Rosen can understand why Ereda Brunhill would turn his back on the Sage's legacy and choose to side with the people of Chaos.

Because both the civilization of order and the forces of chaos are part of the world, and they are an indispensable part of maintaining the balance of this world.

Life and death, the cycle continues, day and night, the cycle repeats.

In the endless world that is too vast, the struggle of this plane for thousands of years is just the tip of the iceberg, and the small can no longer be small, just like giants and ants, why should giants care whether the ant's dwelling is exposed to the sun or flooded.

And the Templars, in a sense, already knew about this fact. ”

Eustia's voice rang out again, and another secret was revealed.

"What !?"

Irandall took two steps back, and before he could recover from the truth of the previous world, he received shocking news.

"Huh?"

Even Rosen was a little surprised, if the Templars knew about these facts in the first place, then the meaning of what the Templars had done over the years would have been completely different.

"I, Brunhill, Logarius, and other like-minded companions, after learning the truth about the world, began to prepare for two things. ”

The image of the starry sky disappeared, replaced by a scene of several men and women sitting in the hall and discussing passionately.

The men were clearly recognizable as the slightly younger Eustia and Brunhill, as well as a priest in a red robe, and several men dressed in garments representing the bishops of the various Inquisitions.

The man in the red robe was clearly Lorgarius Hyrule, the first archbishop of the Templar, and the other bishops must have been the first to establish the Inquisition.

"The first is to ensure the Templar's dominance in this world, although the Templar has become the largest religious force through the expansion near the end of the Holy War, the Templar is still insignificant in the face of traditional forces such as the Dragon Council and the Elven Court. ”

Eustia's voice was long, as if from ancient times.

"However, we soon found out that the Dragon Council and the Elven Court originally drew strength from the will of the world, so after many reincarnations, the chaos forces were still suppressed, and the will of the world gave feedback, and these races that were originally closest to the goddess were cursed and began to retreat into the background, which was the best period for the development of the Templar. ”

Then, she shifted gear.

"But for the Templars, there is another force, and the power of this force does not come from the Goddess, or even from the power of Order, it is the chaos transformed by the Goddess, and as long as this force exists, then the Templar cannot fully control the world. ”

At this point, Rosen already knew what Eustia was referring to.

"That's the ashes. ”

At that time, the Ashes were supposed to be extremely powerful, and with beings such as the legendary Lich Ace Ryan having touched the essence of chaos and order, it would be a great threat to the Templars and their plans if left unchecked.

"It just so happened that at that time, the leader of the Ashes, the Lord of the Sinful Realm, Acerian, had sensed some of the mysteries between chaos and order, and used his power to continue researching, which gave the Templars a reason to go to war, knowing that in the era when the Holy War had just ended, any news related to the people of chaos would touch people's sensitive hearts. ”

After that, things were much like history, as the growing Templars united with the remaining Sages to banish the ashes from the main material plane, and the Templars eventually dominated the continent of Atlas to this day.

"After the Templar banished the ashes and gained absolute authority, we began to make a second preparation, but at that time, the fate of the Sages had already befallen several Sages, starting with Greyius, and the cruel fate had eaten away at these former heroes one by one, so Brunhill and I went separately, he went to find a way to resist fate, and I stayed here. ”

Eustia's voice was soft, but her words were heavy.

"The second preparation we made was to use the power of the Templar to find the place of the departed goddess after a thousand years. Because although the goddess has already left this world in the god generation, every time chaos invades and the laws of this world begin to produce sages, the goddess will communicate to confirm the situation in this world, and at that time, we can track the traces of the goddess, and for this reason, the templar can even tolerate the re-arrival of the people of chaos, and it is also part of the plan that Brunhill will merge with the people of chaos and help them open the way. ”

Her tone was cold, without a hint of emotion.

"Our goal is to find out where the goddess is, and then kill the god. ”