A sudden surge of magical power in the vicinity interrupted Gawain's thoughts, and he quickly followed his perception to see layers of pale golden halos suddenly emerge from the air, and in the center of the aura, the figure of the high-ranking dragon priest Helagore was gradually turning from virtual to real.

The dragon priest completed the teleportation, and then stepped out of mid-air onto the terrace and came to Gawain.

"Mr. Hragere," Gawain looked at the unexpectedly visiting dragon priest with some surprise, "we only met yesterday - it looks like the dragon god has something to talk to me about today?" ”

"He wants to see you now," Hragore said bluntly, "and if we can, we'll go now." ”

Gawain was about to respond, Amber and Veronica happened to come to the terrace, they also saw the high priest who appeared here, Amber looked a little surprised: "Huh? Isn't that the Great Priest? ”

"Another invitation," Gawain smiled and nodded to the two, "you and Melita wait for me, I'll come as soon as I go." ”

He then spoke to Amber and Veronica, and then returned to Hragor - the unease in his heart did not delay him in the slightest, and he soon left the terrace with Hrageor's teleportation spell.

After the familiar sense of time and space, the light and shadow in front of Gawain had gradually dissipated, and he reached the upper temple at the top of the hill, where Hragor stood beside him, and the corridor leading to the hall stretched straight ahead.

At the end of the hallway, the wide, ornate but empty hall did not look the same, the round table and refreshments for the guests were still arranged in the center of the hall, and the blonde dragon god Enya stood quietly at the round table, looking at it with a gentle and calm gaze.

This time, instead of waiting in the corridor outside the hall, Hagere followed Gawain into the hall, and naturally stood behind the dragon god's side, serving like a servant.

Gawain came to the round table, nodded slightly to the god in front of him, and then sat down naturally, but before he could open his mouth to ask about the situation, the dragon god had already taken the initiative to break the silence: "It's time for you to return to the Loren Continent." ”

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, the other party's words sounded like an abrupt and blunt eviction order, but he soon realized something: "Something is wrong?" ”

The dragon god did not answer directly, but said lightly: "You have what you have to do...... You are needed there now. ”

Almost instantly, Gawain felt that the uneasiness he had felt from the previous night had finally been confirmed, and he had an urge to leave Talrond at once, and the god who was obviously sitting opposite him had already expected this, and the other man smiled faintly, and said, "I will arrange for Melita to take you back to Loren, but you don't have to be anxious—we still have some time, at least, we can talk a few more words." ”

Gawain had already suppressed the impulse in his heart, and at the same time, he had already thought that if the situation in the Loren Continent had changed drastically, then the Dragon God would definitely not invite him to come and talk so slowly, since he invited himself here instead of directly "throwing" himself back to the Loren Continent with a teleportation divine technique, it means that the situation still has some leeway.

Thinking of this, a trace of curiosity arose in his heart: "What are we talking about today?" ”

"Just one thing," the dragon god's gaze fell on Gawain, "I want to talk to you...... The final end of mortals and gods. ”

"The final end of mortals and gods?" Gawain looked at the other side with some confusion, "What do you mean......"

With seriousness in his eyes, the dragon god looked into Gawain's eyes: "We already know several futures for people and gods on this planet - the one who set sail chooses to destroy all the gods who are out of control, the civilization that dies in the black well is destroyed by its own gods, and there are unfortunate civilizations that can't even resist natural disasters like the demon tide, and in the process of development, they go to the end with their own gods, and the last ...... The eternal cradle of Tallund.

"Gawain Cecil, Wanderer, this is all I have seen in these 1,870,000 years, and all the trajectories of mortals and gods in this spiral of constant cyclical entanglement. But I want to hear your opinion now, in your opinion...... Is there another future, a ...... between mortals and gods? A future that no one has ever walked before? ”

Gawain's hand reaching for the oak cup on the table couldn't help but stop.

It was a question that he did not expect, and it was a question that seemed extremely difficult for him to answer—he didn't even think there would be an answer to it, because even the gods could not predict the trajectory of civilization, and how could he accurately depict it?

But the dragon god was still watching him very seriously, and as a god, he even showed a surprising expectation at the moment.

Maybe...... The other party really thinks that Gawain, the "extraterritorial wanderer", can bring him some answers beyond the cruel rules of this world.

Gawain picked up the oak cup anyway, and tasted the liquid in it, his mind was gradually letting go—he wanted to answer the question seriously, and in thought, he finally had an answer.

"None of the gods can be omniscient, and I can't, so I can't accurately paint or predict a picture of the future to you," he said, looking at the dragon god and speaking his answer, "but it seems to me that perhaps we shouldn't have cram it all into a tight 'frame'." The relationship between the gods and mortals, the future of the gods and mortals, all this...... It should not be 'predestined', let alone some kind of preconceived position and 'standard solution'. ”

The dragon god looked at him: "I don't understand what you mean. ”

"Specific examples, concrete analysis, emancipation of the mind, seeking truth from facts—respecting objective facts, following objective laws," Gawain said in one breath what he had been thinking about for a long time, and until now it was only a vague direction of thinking, "In my opinion, since the existence of the gods is an objective fact, and your birth and operation are also an objective fact, then we should not look at this matter in a dogmatic way, but should respect the objective laws of all this."

"The Voyager chose to destroy all the gods who were out of control, which was determined by the situation at the time, and the civilization in the black well would die with the gods, which was determined by the laws of nature, but there was no law of nature that stipulated that all gods could only follow one path, and there was no evidence that these laws of nature as we know them were the 'all' rules of this world.

"The giant deer Ammon destroyed his god through the 'White Star Fall' event, and used fake death to continuously reduce his connection to the chains of faith, and now he can be said to have succeeded;

"The goddess of magic, Mirmina, broke away from her godhood and reinvented herself with a non-directional ideology, and she is now close to succeeding;

"There is a new deity known as the 'Upper Narrator', who has now broken free from the chain after a complex series of events......

"None of these examples, the process, seem to be replicable, but their very existence speaks for one thing: there is indeed another way to go.

"That's how I see it – gods and mortals can be enemies, they can coexist, they can clash for a short time, they can be balanced under certain conditions, and the key is how to achieve them in a rational and logical way, not dogma.

"I'm not the one who set sail, nor am I the rebel of the former Gondor Empire, so I don't take it to the extreme that all gods must be destroyed, on the contrary, as I learn more and more truths, I even ...... the gods There is a certain respect.

"Because no matter what the end course goes, at least in the long history of civilization from ignorance to its rise, the gods have always protected mortals—just like your first story, a dull mother is also a mother after all.

"But on the other hand, I also have to prioritize the survival of the mortal world, so we still have only one choice in the face of the gods who can't coexist, and the 'mad gods' who have gone out of control......"

Gawain paused for a moment, and the dragon god looked thoughtful, and after a brief thought, he broke his silence: "So, you don't want to end the myth, you don't want to maintain it, you don't want to choose opposites, you don't want to simply coexist, you want to build a dynamic system that adjusts with reality in real time, to replace fixed dogmas, and you also think that even if the coexistence of gods and mortals is maintained, civilization can still move forward......"

"Amon is still alive, but the druid technique has advanced to the point where more than half of the canonical dogmas have been overturned, and Mirmina is still alive, and we're working on using the external nervous system to break through the traditional elements of spellcasting," Gawain said, "Of course, these are small steps, but since they can be taken, it means that this direction is feasible-"

"It's only temporary," the dragon god said quietly, "Have you ever thought that this balance is fleeting and fragile in the eyes of the gods—in the case of what you said, if people re-establish their druid or magical beliefs and reconstruct their worship systems, then these 'transgressions' that are currently going on will still come to an abrupt end......

"Even if Ammon and Mirmina are completely gone, as long as mortals rebuild their faith, new gods of nature and magic will still be born," Gawain said without hesitation, "so the point is not the gods, but the people." ”

“…… Funny," Ryujin said unhurriedly, "so how do you solve this 'key is people' problem?" ”

"Widening the wisdom of the people—what I am doing," said Gawain without hesitation, "replacing obscurantism with reason is the most effective way at this stage." If everyone in the world knew the principle of the chain before it was formed, the chain would not have been formed. ”

"It's not as easy as it sounds," Ryujin laughed suddenly, but there was not the slightest hint of sarcasm in that smile, "You know what? You're not the first person to think of doing this. ”

Gawain didn't speak, just looked at each other quietly.

"The last person to realize that the people could fight the chains by opening the people's intelligence was a leader of the civilization of the last season, and the previous person who tried to use the national civilization to fight the chains was a thinker about a million years ago, and there were four more ...... Or five amazing mortals who, like you, have been aware of certain 'principles' and have tried to bring about change through action......

"But alas, none of these great people succeeded."

Gawain listened to the dragon god's calm narration, these are secrets that no one knows except for some ancient beings, and they are things that mortals in the current era cannot imagine, but in a sense, they are not beyond his expectations.

1,870,000 years - there will always be warriors who will come and go, and there will always be other wise men and heroes.

Perhaps it was his calm demeanor that surprised Ryujin, who paused after finishing his story and continued, "So, do you think you can succeed? ”

"I want to confirm one question first - did they fail because there was a problem with the road itself?"

“…… I don't know, because no one makes it to the end, they start too late, so no one can see what the road will end up with. ”

"So the road is still there," Gawain smiled, "someone has to walk it—maybe there are other paths in the world, but unfortunately, mortals are creatures with limited strength and intelligence, and we can't go through every path, we can only choose one path to try." I chose to try this one – if it succeeded, it would be great, and if it failed, I just hoped that someone else would have the opportunity to find another way out. ”

The dragon god looked at Gawain quietly, and the latter also quietly responded to the god's gaze.

"To my surprise," Ryujin finally smiled and shook his head, "Actually, at first I thought you would choose the path of the Voyager...... You are close to those legacies, and you are most likely to dig out power from them, and may even call for the return of that mighty fleet, but in all your thoughts, those legacies never appeared. ”

"The Voyagers are gone—whether they will come back or not, I'm willing to assume they don't," Gawain said calmly, "and they ...... Powerful indeed, powerful enough to strike fear into the mortals of this planet, yet it seems to me that their course may not be suitable for any race other than theirs.

"I did think about digging some power out of those legacies, but after learning about those things about 1.87 million years ago, I realized one thing-

"Some things, if you miss them, you miss them, what mortals can rely on, after all, only your own strength is still your own strength, and after all, you still have to go out on your own way."

A faint glow of holiness floated over the hall, and an ethereal echo of nothingness came from what seemed far away.

The dragon god smiled, didn't make any further comments, didn't ask any more questions, he just pointed to the snack on the table, "Eat some, you can't eat it outside of Talrond." ”

Gawain didn't shirk it, he tasted a few unknown pastries, and then stood up.

"It's time for me to leave," he said, "thank you for your hospitality." ”

"I'm glad to have the opportunity to talk like this," the graceful and beautiful god also stood up, "I don't remember the last time I talked like this. ”

"Actually, just yesterday," Gawain's heart moved, and he wanted to joke with the gods, "they talked to me." ”

Ryujin was stunned for the first time.

The next second, He laughed with great pleasure.

It was a very different smile from the previous holy but indifferent, gentle but detached smile, a happy smile from the bottom of the heart.