Chapter 38: The Fury of Betrayal
So, naturally, with the power of my elder brother, who is the patriarch of the clan, that is, your father, and my amazing talent for magic among the clan, I managed to infiltrate the school. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 While continuing to achieve excellent results, Info also took up a part-time job as a librarian at the school, taking the opportunity to dabble in, and even steal all kinds of hidden history books.
After my magic power, magic skills, and two indicators all reached the threshold of S-class magicians, I began to continuously gain the trust of more advanced magicians.
It wasn't until I finally broke some of my clearances and gained access to more hidden, sealed data, and I saw a glimmer of hope in a sealed archive given to me by a mentor that recorded thousands of years of hidden history in the continent of Ioros, and as a result, I finally learned about some of the mysteries of history.
Although what the mentor revealed to me was only the tip of the iceberg of the true mysteries, I quickly analyzed and combined all the secrets of the --- clan that had been hidden, as well as the genealogical data that had been published to the public, and my thinking gradually became clear.
In addition, in the past few years, I have been constantly inquiring about the details of various legends and rumors about the "tragic war" fought for this crystal thousands of years ago, and I found that I am getting closer and closer to the truth!
Finally, coupled with his own rational reasoning, he connected all the seemingly unrelated clues, and thus came up with this hypothesis:
The first patriarch, before he died, sealed the "crystal stone" into the body of his descendants. The specific reasoning, the proof process, due to time constraints, I can't explain it in detail for you here. You just need to know that there are crystals in your body!"
"What? It can't be! So what you said about the "sacrifice" was to take the crystal out of my body? Why me?
Even in the "lineage family" formed by my father, who is the patriarch, my mother has not only given birth to me, but also has another brother, why are you so sure of me? You yourself are also my father's own brother, my uncle, why don't you want to think about yourself?"
Still confused, Alice continued to ask.
That's because, when I was secretly investigating the genealogical resumes of all the "individual families" within the clan, I found a strange phenomenon:
Only in our "lineage genealogy", every generation of women, at the time of childbirth, must give birth to a woman!
In the history of our "lineage family", there has always been a tradition of "multiple births and multiple children", and the gender composition of each generation, without exception, is these two basic patterns:
Female + male, or only a simple female is born. There has never been an era in which there have been examples of all men.
Therefore, it occurred to me that the first patriarch must have made a magical contract with the goddess of youth, "Daughter of Zeus, Heber", when he was alive, and his magic was immersed in the blood of his descendants, so that all the descendants born to him, without exception, gave birth to women!
In this way, only women reproduce in a unique way, and when giving birth, the crystal stone sealed in the body is broken down into a liquid or plasma state, which is quietly transmitted to the embryo in the womb, and finally, the liquid gradually solidifies and forms as the fetus grows. In such a peculiar way, it is passed down from generation to generation and sealed this secret!
However, our "Habsburg" family, for thousands of years, has left the tradition of "door-to-door husband", presumably in order to prevent this great magic from being lost to the outside world for a long time!
At the same time, it is also for the sake of one day, when there is really an outstanding genius within the clan who can completely control this power, and then take it for himself! It is even possible that it is to use this divine power to revive the royal family in the distant future!"
"So that's the case, no wonder we haven't deliberately paid attention to it within our "lineage family", and I don't know why there are women born in every generation!
"Since you have come, it is good that this crystal left by the "Goddess of Youth, Heber" is the pride of the people for thousands of years, and at the same time, it is also a fantasia that has driven countless clan forces on the continent crazy! It is the only symbol of our Habsburg family, and it is engraved in the history of the family in the form of heraldry.
Fortunately, I have analyzed this mystery, otherwise, you will keep the crystal in your body all the time, and if you don't use it reasonably, you will have no choice but to pass it on to the next generation.
However, I can master this technique, and it won't be long before we perform a magical ritual to remove this crystal from your body, and then we will attain eternal youth!
In the human realm, to be infinitely close to eternity!"
"Is it because of this that you turned your back on your people, and united with rival nations that were at war, and started a rebellion, and turned your back on your country, and your family, and killed my parents, your own brother?"
"Hmph, why do you resent me for such a trivial matter? Isn't the so-called betrayal an indispensable part of the long history of mankind?
The closer you get to the upper echelons of society, the more you will be moved by interests and make "shameful" betrayals.
Since the birth of human society, wars have broken out constantly, is the source of war really a contest between "good and evil"?
There is no such thing as "good and evil" in the true sense of the word!
It's just a shameful struggle between "interests and interests". Just like seven years ago, the truth of the battle of the plains of "Olpots", do you really believe the official propaganda of the empire?
All I do is obey my own will, and in the long run, the so-called loyalty of mankind will gradually change with the passage of time!
There is no eternal loyalty to external things. Whether it is the blood family related to you, or the lord, the king, or even the belief in the gods, it will be constantly changed with the times, political changes, and so on. In the final analysis, the most sinister thing is the human heart!
However, there is only one thing, absolutely constant!
In a way, we are more faithful than anyone else in your world! Because we are not faithful to anyone, to any god, but to our own heart, the truest of hearts! What is wrong with what I have done? I have just seen through the nature of this world and lived more truly than you!
For this purpose, even if I sacrifice everything in this world except myself, what's the matter?"
"You're unreasonable!・・・・・・"
"Since ancient times, those who seek truth have left an incomprehensible impression on all.
Now, look at your expression, revealing a great hatred for me! My ruthlessness, my unrighteousness, my shamefulness, have made you so disgusted that you can only tremble and say this short comment!
However, this also proves the value of life that people like me should have!
Ha Ha Ha ・・・・・・
My beloved niece, no matter how much you resist, it is of no use now, and a new era for me is about to come
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As a result of the total collapse of the "ruin" buildings, a large amount of dust dispersed over the wilderness, and large expanses of earthy yellow smoke, like steam, with the help of the residual heat of the magic, rose upwards and contrasted with the white mist that surrounded it, revealing a mixed but distinct environmental atmosphere.
After more than ten minutes, the smoke and dust were gradually blown away by the mountain breeze in the forest, and what appeared to everyone was a crater with a hemispherical shape, even though it was concave downward, but a polygonal sinkhole with a depth of several hundred meters, in an irregular state, and disorderly distribution.
However, in the immediate vicinity of the sinkhole, the impact of the collapsed geological structure has produced a series of chain reactions one after another: the collapsed terrain has begun to spread continuously against the surrounding forests.
At this time, the shape of the surface of the earth is like a broken and cracked ice on the surface of a lake in winter, densely packed, "growing" and "spreading" like rhizomes; at the same time, some forests on the periphery are also "dragged" into it by the ever-expanding cracks and quickly "swallowed" into the abyss.
Then, from the inside of the "ruins", there were still hundreds of soldiers from both sides who escaped, but without exception, they all fell into exhaustion, and did not even have time to breathe, and in the few minutes that the earthy smoke and dust obscured the sky and the sun, a number of accidents occurred one after another:
A large number of soldiers fell into the crevasses because they could not see the surface clearly, and most of them were still hiding in fear from the crumbling rock formations when the smoke cleared.
"Damn, we almost died, and now we're finally saved!"
"But what the hell is going on? Why did this originally hard underground fortress suddenly collapse?"
"Didn't our base be built by the S-class magician who graduated from the Emperor's Swings?
"By the way, the headquarters of those two adults is also their residence, and it seems that they are at the bottom of the tower, right?
"However, we are strictly forbidden to go to the bottom of the tower, and we don't know what is at the bottom, but, according to the legend, there seems to be a door that has been carved with ornate ornamentation, and there is nothing else but the door!"
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"Lord Jacarlet, and the beautiful girl of the Moon Rabbit clan--- Mu Yu and the Moon, and the stranger, were all trapped at the bottom of the tower, and even at the last moment, even the usually arrogant and domineering Ruer Jones followed not long after Yacaret jumped!
"Lord Yakaret, naturally, he is here to rescue Dye Yue, and almost all of his thoughts, the members of our "King's Army", know it. However, as for the outsider named Yu Lingchenxing, it seems that he has been with Mu Yu Dye Moon all along. The two of them were with Alyse, who were supposed to take out the enemy headquarters.
But now...
"In my opinion, this collapse is not a problem with the quality of the building itself, nor is it caused by the battle between our two sides, it should be deliberately done by the people who built this base, in order to bury us together. ”
"Do you mean: Hildara Habsburg, that traitor, and his own men?!"
"Seven years ago, he betrayed the empire and his people, and killed his own brother, the last patriarch of the Habsburgs.
What else would he not dare to do? For the sake of the power of eternal youth handed down by the "Goddess of Youth, Heber", those remnants of the old tribe of the Thundering Flame Empire are just an abandoned child in his hands!"
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"What, the man of the King's Army said that Lord Shiralda Habsburg did all this, so we were betrayed by him?!
What about Lord Butterfilell, was he also used and killed?"
"No way! Don't talk nonsense, Lord Butterfilell, he will never die, he will lead us to a new world!"
"However, rationally analyzing the current situation, the base has been established for seven years, and it has always been as stable as Mount Tai, and when we practiced in it and practiced magic, we had never seen this building, and it would collapse because of the impact of this magic power!
"It doesn't collapse soon, it doesn't collapse late, but it collapses at this time, and when I designed the entrance of the building, I also wondered how complicated it was, like a labyrinth, the passage was established for a long time, and there were soldiers who got lost!
And now, when the base began to collapse, the boulder that fell from the top also happened to fall on the outside of many safe passages, obviously deliberately calculated, in order to completely cut off our survival path when the boulder fell!
Do you want to keep it to yourself?
All these "phenomena" are basically consistent with our speculation, I am afraid that what he is waiting for is today, and he wants to bury us completely together with the army that is crusading against us!
Damn, we must kill this traitor Hildara Habsburg!"
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