Listening to the scene of the ruins described by Megael III, Gawain gradually fell into thought.

Ancient facilities buried deep underground, distinctly different from the architectural style of the Gondor Empire and incomprehensible ancient technology, contain "samples" involving the gods...... All these characteristics gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

And the clues that Megale revealed immediately afterwards confirmed his "familiarity".

"On the other hand," a muffled voice came from the starlight aggregate, "the ruins we found beneath Orlandel seem to have a stylistic connection to the ruins found in the Thorin region of the End of the World—they look a lot like two facilities built by the same civilization in different historical periods or under the influence of different regional cultures. However, because the ruins are too old and lack key clues, it took us many years to determine the specific connection between them, let alone decipher the ancient technology in the ruins......"

Gawain suddenly took a soft breath: "It's a legacy ...... against the tide"

Megault had obviously never heard of this word, and subconsciously asked, "Your Majesty?" What do you say? ”

"The ruins you have discovered, and the dungeon where everything will die in the Thorin region, are supposed to have their roots in an ancient civilization called 'Reverse Tide', which was completely destroyed in the war with the dragons, and this empire is inextricably linked to the gods."

He thought of the "Book of Ultimate" that Berthira had given him, the Book of Ultimate was the legacy of the Tides Empire, and its role was to forge keys to communicate with satellite databases in planetary orbits, and according to the clues provided by Bertila, there had been some rooms in the collapsed area deep in the Saurin Underground Palace, which had been eroded and polluted by unspeakable forces, and those rooms were obviously related to the gods.

And now, there are new clues that the underground palace occupied by the Eternal Sleepers, the old capital of the Typhon Empire, is most likely the second existing remnant of the tide!

Megaor obviously didn't expect Gawain to reveal the details of the mysterious ruin—a question that the Eternal Sleeper couldn't figure out for hundreds of years, and it seemed to be just common sense to Gawain, but he soon remembered the true identity behind the apparent "Human Emperor", and his shock gradually subsided.

Gawain didn't continue to discuss with Megaor about the Empire Against the Tide - after all, he knew so much, he looked at Megael and pulled back to the topic: "You also have a certain understanding of the dungeon that will be occupied by the end of all things?" ”

Megale immediately replied: "We have a certain cooperation with them, and we share some less important information. ”

"Well," Gawain nodded, "and then back to the ancient ruins you found - what happened after that?" The royal family of Typhon, the capital of Orlandel at the time, was kept in the dark? ”

"The ruins were so deeply hidden, and the entrance to the surface was almost completely covered in earth and rock, and it was a bit of luck that we were able to find the entrance—and after realizing that it was a great hiding place, we modified and covered the entrance in addition to moving people and supplies in, making it harder to find. For many years afterward, we were careful to hide ourselves, our underground facilities.

"The Eternal Sleepers are a group of people who are very good at hiding themselves, as you might think, for hundreds of years...... The House of Augustus didn't even know that we were hiding under their noses, and they didn't know what was buried beneath their city...... Secret.

"We are the shadows and symbiotes of the city of Orlandal, we have taken root and grown with that city, and we have infiltrated many of the city's facilities, and in this way, we have recuperated among the ancient temples and corridors, and the Order has been rejuvenated little by little—at first, we were only gathered in the shallower layers of the ruins, which were safer and larger enough to accommodate all of our members at the time, but as the Order slowly recovered, we decided to go deeper.

"We wanted to at least figure out what our 'home' looked like.

"We quickly explored the safe vault and the almost empty mid-level connecting cloister, and finally, we found ...... in the deepest part of the ruins Something that's still running. ”

Gawain's eyes immediately became serious: "Something that's still running?" What is it? ”

"Allow me to show you what I saw—"

Maygale spoke in a low voice, and the amorphous starlight body gradually dispersed, turning into a mist, and in the depths of the hazy smoke, Gawain saw a hologram (magical illusion) quickly peel away from Megaul's memory.

He saw a huge rotunda, and on the periphery of the hall there was a huge ring of metal and crystals, and a large number of black obelisk-like devices were set up in the hall at an angle, the top of which pointed to the center of the hall, and in the center of the hall he saw a dazzling, like a sea of light, surging around a circle of ancient devices, it was like some viscous liquid, but when it rose it took on a hazy and illusory brilliance, Inside, something like starlight is constantly moving and flickering.

Gawain immediately frowned: "What is this?" ”

From the smoke and haze that diffused around him came Megaor's voice: "A powerful energy restraint device, composed of an astonishing magnetic field, circulating arcane energy, and an array of elemental stabilizers, is so large that the entire hall and part of the corridor around it are its 'shell'. ”

The former pope then paused, adding: "It took us almost a century to figure out the rough 'functional components'. ”

“…… At the center of the restraint field is the wreckage of the god of dreams? Gawain frowned, "Is this a prison device?" ”

"We used to think so...... And this is one of the biggest mistakes we have made," said Megael III in a deep voice, "after discovering this area, we had no idea what it was doing, and we thought it was the energy source of the ruins, like the magic well in the mage tower, and we studied it carefully, and it took us a century to figure out its general function, only to find that the technology inside could not be replicated and utilized at all—and of course, we did not dare to shut it down rashly, because no one knew the consequences of doing so."

"After many more years, we finally found some way to control the flow of energy, and during an attempt to adjust the flow of energy, a very small crack opened in the center of the confinement field - something that was shielded from it finally leaked out, and I was on the spot.

"In that breath, I sensed some terrible and familiar 'voices'—"

There was a sudden tremor and hesitation in Megaul's voice, as if that terrible feeling was still haunting his now heterogeneous body and mind, but after a moment of composure, he calmed his tone and continued:

"I felt the breath of the gods.

"An astonishing truth shook us all—it was not anything else that was 'imprisoned' in the confinement field, but the God we once worshipped and feared, or rather, was part of God......

"It was a fragment of the god of dreams, we don't know where it came from, we don't know what kind of power could cut a fragment from the god's body, we don't know how many years it has been imprisoned in that device, we only know one thing - the terrible, the god that is on the verge of madness, which will eventually engulf the whole world, can be hurt and imprisoned.

"After the events of the Ancestral Peak, everyone was shrouded in a long sense of despair, because the power of the gods was so powerful, so strong that mortals could not fight against it, and at the same time, this force walked on an unstoppable and increasingly crazy path, all of which was as irreversible as the countdown to the end of the world, but the device we found in the ground seemed to give us a glimmer of light—it was a fragment of the gods! Fragments imprisoned by the device that can be used for research!

"After overcoming great fear, we ...... Start working on that thing.

"The power of the restraint field to shield the spiritual pollution of the gods makes it possible for our research to be realized, and it is precisely these properties of the restraint field that make us make a terrible and wrong judgment about everything - we mistakenly believe that the entire underground facility is a prison, and that the restraint device is used to trap the gods......"

Gao Wen just wanted to ask, but Amber next to him couldn't help but break the silence: "Isn't it?" ”

"Of course not, that thing...... It's actually an altar.

"An altar used to greet the gods, to talk to them, and to provide temporary containers for the gods—the so-called containers are the binding fields in the hall.

"The will of the gods 'descended' in the form of 'fragments' in the center of that binding field, like an out-of-body eye through which the god of dreams observed the world, and we, under the gaze of this eye, have been busy for hundreds of years."

Amber gasped, "...... Mommy......"

Even Gawain felt a chill creep over his heart, and he could fully imagine what a terrifying truth it was, so much so that at this moment, Megael III's tone trembled when he mentioned the relevant matter.

"Everything you do is watched by the god of dreams?" His tone was extraordinarily serious, and his brow furrowed as he looked at Megaul, who had regrouped.

"Fortunately in misfortune - the 'Vision' in that device is not connected to the god itself in real time," Megale said in a complicated tone, "The 'Vision' in the device is more like a split doppelganger, it collects information in the present world, and after a certain point, the polarity of the core of the restraint device will be reversed, and the fragments that are the 'Vision' will be released back to the divine realm, and then the god of dreams will know." The Eye's Vision, and the restraint we found may be too old, or it may have been disrupted and some function has been stuck, and it has never released the Vision, which is at the center of the energy field.

"In a sense, a malfunctioning device is actually a real prison...... But unlike a real prison, the 'prisoners' inside it are theoretically the masters of the prison, and the gates of the prison are ...... It can open up at any time as the system heals itself.

"You can imagine how scary this is for us."

"I can imagine," Gawain nodded slightly, "but I'm curious, how did you find out this truth?" Could it be that there is still a manual next to the ancient device? ”

Megael was silent for a moment, and the starlight aggregate slowly expanded and contracted: "...... Your Majesty, do you know how I came to be like this? ”

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it to prolong his life and change his life form?" ”

"At that time, I had used the technology provided by the Society of the End of All Things to extend my life, and I would live for at least a few more centuries," Megale sighed in his voice, "It was an experimental accident that made me what I looked like.

"Because of a mistake in manipulating the energy flow, I was hit by a ray bursting out of the confinement field, the ray destroyed my body, but the powerful energy of the confined field trapped my soul, and I was swept into the rushing energy, and ...... Slightly touched the 'Vision of God' that was bound to the core. ”

Gao Wen confessed: "The knowledge of the gods has the property of forced indoctrination - you 'see' the truth of the device from the fragments of the dream god?" ”

"Yes," Megael III confirmed Gawain's speculation, "the moment I came into contact with the Vision, I learned the truth about the device and the terrible consequences of being released back into the Divine Realm - all our secrets would be exposed to the gods, and the gods would never tolerate such rebellion.

"Luckily, I survived that terrible accident, and thanks to the timely actions of my fellow Order members on the scene, my soul was freed before it was completely annihilated, but at the same time it was severely twisted and mutated - from that day on, I became like this.

"But compared to the reality of the Vision, the mutation of the soul is nothing, and we must solve the hidden danger of the Vision, either completely destroy it, or permanently cut off its connection with the Divine Realm, so that it can never return to the God of Dreams."