Chapter 30: The Origin of the Mecha
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Justine." Arthur greeted the gloomy young man as he looked at him, but Constance Dante did not respond to him, and Arthur just laughed it off.
Looking around, it was a shabby, dirty room, with smoky, pitch-black walls mottled and uneven, and an old wooden table lit with a kerosene lamp, and a blazing fire in the fireplace, crackling and bursting sparks.
Priskas and Constance Dante had just arrived, and although it was spring, the cold spell brought by the onset of the flood season at sea made it still cold in Constantinople at this time.
Arthur took off his cloak and coat and hung it on a hanger by the door.
"You didn't come to us in the middle of the night just to see the situation in Constantinople, you didn't need to work so hard with your means!"
Taking off his gloves, Arthur turned to Preskars and said, "I think you should know what I'm here for." The Holy See has already begun their operation, this time even the Inquisition. β
"[Divine Soldier], huh?" Constance Dante suddenly looked up, his eyes like a torch.
"It seems that His Royal Highness the Knight King has already seen something like that!" Arthur was stunned for a moment, but quickly regained his composure and nodded and looked at Professor Preskas.
"I'm going to tell him sooner or later, isn't it?" Preskars just shrugged, "Without a test drive rider, no matter how powerful a machine is, it's just a machine." You can't complete your hegemony either."
"That's true," Arthur nodded, but turned his gaze to Consitine, "Justinian, how much do you know about the history of mechas?" You know how the so-called mecha appeared in this world, and how it changed the world in just a few decades. β
"A relic of God or a demon rebelling against heaven?" Constance Dante whispered softly. "But from the moment they appeared in the world, the turmoil began. It is not so much a gift from humanity as it is God's punishment for humanity's betrayal. β
"The world belongs to God, and mankind has only rented the world from God, and even the Holy See itself no longer believes in this joke. Unexpectedly, did Justin still believe the words of this theologian? Arthur laughed. This world belongs only to human beings, and the root of the collapse is just **. β
Constance Dante looked at each other coldly: "The fear of God is actually the fear of the world, if you release your own **, it is the time when human beings themselves decline." β
"It was not the Crusaders who destroyed Constantinople ten years ago, but the growing Romans." Constance Dante smiled wryly. It seems to think of the lonely shadow of the old man, the Emperor Scipio, who ascended to the throne by slaughtering his brother in a coup d'Γ©tat, was finally destroyed by his **, the man who called himself his father Molu, how heroic and desolate the moment of death was but made Considae feel sad.
"Perhaps, but I also believe that only the ambition of a king can lead the country, and only the ambition of a hero can lead mankind to illuminate the obscurantism of the times. No amount of death or disaster will be spared. This is the fate of heroes. β
"That's just a madman!" Constance Dante sneered deeply.
Arthur, on the other hand, said lightly: "There is only one step between a madman and a hero, like between greatness and absurdity." β
"The so-called mecha should be the relics left by the ancient extinct civilization." Prescas gave the answer, "It's just that the Holy See completely blocked the news and divided the ruins with the New Roman Empire, and the current war is only because of the uneven distribution of the spoils." β
"In fact, there are two civilizations." Arthur calmly told the shocking secret he had learned.
"Two civilizations!?" Constance Dante frowned, and Preskars was shocked and delighted as if he had discovered a new world.
"What did you say!!" Preskars almost pounced on the other and lost his voice. Even Constance Dante saw this man lose his temper for the first time.
"That's true, Professor Preskas. I think you also know that according to Herod's ancient mythology, Celtic epics and oriental legends, the ancient gods overthrew the giant Titans to dominate the world, which itself is a reflection of the past history, in fact, it is a world-class war between the two civilizations that left a shadow on the human psyche, and this long war eventually caused the two civilizations to die, and the entire human social civilization regressed to the era of Ru Mao drinking blood. Just as Ragnarok did, the old world was destroyed, and the new world was reborn into reincarnation, and order was reshaped. From the excavations of monuments in Jerusalem and Asia Minor, we find that the technological civilization of that time was even far greater than that of today, and that the Holy See was trying to restore the technology of that era to dominate the world. β
"A war can destroy an era!" Constance Dante and Prescas were in shock, a war that had regressed civilization to barbaric times, a force that was simply terrifying.
"The Divine Soldiers are just the tip of the iceberg! There may be more extensive relics of ancient civilizations in the entire East, and the purpose of my visit this time is to stop the intention of the Holy See, the Holy See's mecha technology at this time has reached a bottleneck before launching a war against the East, if one day the mecha technology is perfected in the hands of the Holy See, it is what the Western countries and the Eastern monarchs do not want to see. Arthur continued, telling Constance, Dante and Preskars the secret, and his plans in full.
"This can also explain why there is a difference between the Holy See mecha and the mecha of New Rome, which are originally two systems in themselves." Preskars muttered to himself in a disfigured manner, his voice trembling a little. It is true that Arthur's words are too informative to be believed, but Preskars is different, he holds the core of the mecha and knows the problems in it, and according to Arthur's explanation, the doubts can be easily solved.
"The system can't be talked about, but the two kinds of mecha are indeed very different, few people can drive the mecha of the two civilizations, and that kind of person is called the Chosen Knight, the real Chosen Knight, and Justin Jun is the best of them, so he is regarded as the first knight king in this world or the knight king of the East. The only one who makes us reproduce ancient civilizations is you, Mr. Justinian. β
Constance Dante suddenly stared at the man in front of him and asked slowly, "So what do you want me to do?" He knew that this man would never tell him these things for no reason.
And Arthur didn't try to deny his original thoughts, nodded, and said, "In addition to me and Prescas needing you for mecha development, I also need your strength to reach the East." Only the power of the Knight King deserves my absolute trust, isn't it? β
"What if I refuse?" Constance Dante said bluntly, the young man's eyes were full of determination without the slightest hesitation, not so much a discussion as a categorical refusal.