Act Fifteen: The Shepherd's Plan
"I say!" Before Blanche could make the last number, Andesa suddenly replied through gritted teeth. Brando looked at her silently, as if he wanted to see through the true thoughts of the beautiful face of this woman known for her cunning throughout history, and the lies she was about to tell.
"You know what happened to me who deceived me, I don't want to repeat it a second time, if I doubt what you say, then I will order Akroma at once."
"Y-You can't be so unreasonable." Andesa glared at Brando with angry eyes baring her sharp, snow-white canine teeth.
"Of course I can be so unreasonable." Brando interrupted her impatiently, the anxiety in his heart at the moment was beyond imagination, and he didn't want to waste half a sentence at all: "Now it's up to me to say, your answer must satisfy me, and the standard of my satisfaction is up to me, I don't care what you think, just tell you the consequences first." β
Andesa wisely closed her mouth and poked her eyes in Brando's face, if they were two sharp swords, there would be a hole between Brando's eyes.
"What is Gwendoline's plan for the Dragon Queen?" Brando asked.
"Draw the Dragon of Dusk and kill it...... Everything we do is to save the world, but the world can't understand it, and any war requires sacrifice......"
"I didn't let you say the second half." Brando interrupted her mercilessly.
"I ......"
"You're talking nonsense again, I didn't let you explain, it looks like you don't quite understand it yet - I'm a very impatient person, and I have a bad temper." Brando glanced up at the sky.
Akroma connected to his heart, and a few golden pillars of light immediately descended from the dark night sky, and several blocks of explosions shone together.
The flash of the explosion was reflected in the depths of Andrisa's pupils, and the woman finally felt a deep fear, and the world thought that the shepherd was crazy. But in her opinion, Brando is a complete lunatic.
And the latter is not reasonable at all, he doesn't seem to care about the life and death of this world.
She stared fearfully into Brando's dark brown eyes, and saw that there was a demon living there, and the thick smell of blood from the other's body was in his nose, and his lips were slightly white with blood.
"Why did Gwendolyn do that, you want to say that she has a penchant for being a savior?"
"It's not her alone. Just because she is the head of the Shepherd, this plan is what the Shepherd has been fighting for for thousands of years. At the end, the woman very weakly added: "What I say is true......
Brando didn't appreciate it: "I didn't ask you if it's true or not, I have my own judgment, are you delaying time?" β
Andesa immediately closed her mouth and her eyes, feeling humiliated in her heart.
"What are the details of this plan, and what does it have to do with Roman?" Brando, after confirming that Andesa had completely given in, jumped straight to the issue that he was most concerned about.
ββ¦β¦ The little girl's soul was sealed with a will of the Dragon of Dusk. The Dragon Queen wants to guide the Dragon of Dusk to descend on her and defeat it once and for all. β
"What is she going to do to kill the Dragon of Dusk?"
"In the past, the Dragon of Twilight projected its will onto Vagond, and we were sure that once it materialized in this world, we would find an opportunity to actually kill it, thus ending the confrontation between Civilization and Twilight once and for all."
"It's up to you?"
"The Dragon of Twilight is powerful, but there is a limit to the power it can withstand in this world, even if it doesn't care about the life or death of the carrier. But it is also impossible for the power to grow to the limit at the moment of arrival. What's more, our thousands of years of preparation are not so simple, the shepherds have been searching for the power of the blood of the gods. It is not for the sake of recreating the gods, but for some kind of medium. β
"Some kind of medium?"
"A lost god's bloodline, which can be absorbed and purified by the gods, so that the pure-blood gods have the same power and authority as the ancestors. In this way, once the Dragon of Dusk wants to devour the little girl completely, it will have to face the supreme authority of this world, which is equivalent to the entire Vaurd's power of order and the law of Tiamat. β
Brando understood. It turned out that the Shepherd had fought with this idea, and the Dragon of Dusk had been fighting against the forces of order and the laws of Tiamat throughout Vajnd, but that was in its heyday; But according to Andelsa, when it comes into the world, there will be a period of weakness. At this time, the Dragon Queen will find a way to make Roman purify his bloodline, forcing the Dragon of Dusk to wage an all-out war with the entire Vaynd Order Force and the laws of Tiamat in a weakened state.
"That lost blood of the gods is the blood of Alphes, the furious dragon? You've spent thousands of years planting trees in Vaind just to find it? β
"It's to find Gaia's blood."
"Gaia's blood?" Brando's eyes narrowed, remembering Akroma's wordsβ
'Fridrich is a monster born of the blood of Gaia's mother, and it is immortal as long as it comes into contact with dirt and rock, and it does not die so easily. But these people summoned it in the wrong way, it was weak, and it was no match for me at the moment. β
But he remembered that Fredridge was clearly from the blood of the furious dragon Alphes, and that the blood of Gaia was not the descendant of the evil god Fenridus, the demon tree, who had studied the most among the shepherds?
As if seeing his thoughts in Brando's eyes, Andesa replied, "The Demon Tree Fenlidos has long since died out completely, and we are called the Shepherds, precisely because we want to reproduce this bloodline, but unfortunately we have all failed. The Golden Tree's bloodline is so weak that it is too reluctant to even call it an oracle, and when I went to the Ring of Trade Winds a year ago, one of the purposes was actually to find the legendary Valhalla, and we have always suspected that the magic tree Fenlidos was originally a World Tree. β
Brando realized that the Shepherds had always known about Valhalla, but it was not surprising that Valhalla was originally a fortress on par with Babbel.
Andesa looked at Brando with hatred: "It's a pity that that opportunity was ruined by you, so we had to try an alternative, although Fredridge was created by the blood of Alphes, it also has a part of the blood of Gaia in its body." It was born from two divine bloods. β
"In other words, you already knew about Fredridge's existence, but why didn't you act until now?"
"We have been looking for that legendary baby girl, the pure-blooded god of zΓ o created by the gods at the end, the one who has the will of the Dragon of Dusk sleeping in his body, that is, your fiancΓ©e."
"You're lying, you found that baby girl sixty years ago."
"I'm not lying. Don't turn your head! Andrisa hurriedly shouted, her voice full of grievance: "The shepherd actually knew a hundred and thirty years ago that the baby girl had finally gone there, but it wasn't until sixty years ago that she had the opportunity to enter the Last Temple. But the Dragon Queen entered the Last Temple sixty years ago and met the baby girl, but that was not the best time to bring her out. We must avoid the attention of the Bugas and the dragons, and the philistines will not allow us to carry out this crazy plan. β
"You know it's a crazy plan."
"But it worked!"
"Whether it works or not is another matter, continue with the previous question...... You played a play with Her Majesty the Queen and my grandfather, and you deceived everyone, even if it took you ten years. But you've waited for sixty years, ten more than half a century, and that's not a time that can pass in a flash. β
"Sixty years is only a blink of an eye compared to our whole great project, and it has taken us tens of thousands of years to get to where we are today......"
"Because your whole project is so long, you can give it up for sixty years?"
"Of course not, the dragon queen arranged this for a purpose, and avoiding the eyes of the Bugas and the dragon is only one of them. There is also the layout in the Empire, prepared for this perfect ceremony today. We also have people around the world searching for the whereabouts of the Demon Tree Finrydos. Vedridge is just a last resort, it only applies to situations like today, and we have prepared a lot of plans to make sure that nothing goes wrong. β
"That won't take sixty years."
ββ¦β¦ YiqiΔ was all premeditated, and when the Dragon Queen and we first came into contact with the Silver Queen, we were preparing for this day. She deliberately lured the queen to unlock the baby girl's seal. It is to borrow half of her soul to seal it in the body of that baby girl, and then we need to wait for her to grow up, and the two souls are completely fused, although the little girl is not the silver queen, her soul and character are actually deeply influenced by the queen's majesty. β
"So what?"
"Because we need a pure and kind soul to carry the dark side of that baby girl. When she fused with Fredridge's bloodline, unaffected by the chaos of the evil god killing, Her Majesty Queen XiΓ was the most suitable candidate, and the Dragon Queen chose her from the beginning. β
Andelsa's chest rose and fell slightly. "Just after the Cultists of the Black Fire completed their summoning ceremony, the Dragon Queen sacrificed the last soul and caused the evil god Fredridge to descend on her, and that person was the Silver Queen. Her Majesty's dark side is now perfectly integrated with Fridrich, and by the time it meets the baby girl, the two actually have a common soul......"
"So they're going to fuse?"
"It will not take the initiative to fuse, but the dragon queen will make it happen, the pure blood of that baby girl will make her occupy the absolute initiative in the process of fusion, and the pure goodness side of the silver queen will also suppress her dark side, in the process that little girl will sublimate into the existence of the ancestors, and then fight against the will of the dragon at dusk who is vying for the control of her body......"
"In the process of materialization, the power of the Dusk Dragon is pinned on Roman's body, but if it can't get this body for a while, it is equivalent to saying that it has cut off the passage between itself and power, and Roman's body is like a cage, trapping it inside, this is what you are planning?"
Andesa looked at him stunned: "You guessed?" β
"I'm not a fool, maybe you like to treat people as fools, the Silver Queen trusts you, and that's how you repay her?"
"We don't need trust, we just need to plan and execute flawlessly, and there will always be people who have to sacrifice for it."
"Shut up," Brando interrupted her coldly, "If the Silver Queen was voluntary, then this is called sacrifice, and yet now I only see deception and exploitation, you have turned her life's ideals and dedication into a ridiculous joke, you trample on the dignity and lives of others, but you claim to be the savior?" β
"But if we succeed......"
"You can't make it." Brando replied mercilessly.
There was an angry look in Andessa's eyes.
Brando looked at her with some pity, but no sympathy.
The shepherd's patriarch struggled violently as if he had been greatly insulted, and nearly broke Brando's hand away, the blade of the Flame Blade cutting several bloody streaks on her snow-white neck, but the latter seemed unaware.
Two more dazzling pillars of light fell from the dark night sky, and Andrisa let out a whimper like a wounded beast. "Stop!" She shouted, "I was wrong, stop!" β
"How is the Dragon Queen going to kill the Dragon of Dusk." Brando asked indifferently.
"The gods have left the last authority in the world, that is our last hope, as long as the back of the Dusk Dragon is imprisoned in that little girl's body, Gwendoline will activate that permission and kill the Dusk Dragon's entity in this world." Andesa shouted.
"What will happen to Roman after that?" Brando looked at the woman and asked one last question.
Andesa opened her mouth, but she didn't make a sound.
Seeing this, Brando realized that he didn't need an answer, and he threw Andesa forward, who slammed into the rubble with a terrible scream.
Brando slowly raised the blade of flame through the ruins, and Andesa shuddered as she rose from between the broken masonry beams, the cold tip of her sword pressed against her forehead.
Brando looked at the woman coldly.
"Where are the Dragon Queen and Roman?"
"You kill me," the patriarch squealed, closing his eyes, trembling and screaming, "you kill me, and I will never sue you." β
"I'm not going to kill you, I'm going to kill Friedrich." Brando replied.
Andesa opened her eyes at once, and her eyes showed extreme hatred: "You can't do that, you will ruin our hope, the only hope for all of us." β
"You have ruined the hopes of countless people, look at this city, and the thousands of people who have died in this war."
"If we don't, they'll die too!"
β¦β¦ (To be continued......)