152 The Root of the Stranger
His face was withered and stiff as a dead man, and the true appearance of the three-eyed crow in front of him caught Charles off guard.
At the same time, his old, faint voice sounded troublesome. This made Charles wonder if the person in front of him was a god or a living corpse long dead.
Probably guessing what Charles was thinking, he sat on the throne of dead wood, and the corpse wrapped in the fishbeam wood spoke hoarsely, "As you can see, I am just an old man who is about to become one with the trees. ”
"You're not the Old God?"
"I'm the Old God, but I'm not the Old God."
There was some contradiction in this statement, but then the other party explained it.
"Every Heart Tree is an ancestral god." As he spoke, his cloudy dark red eyes twitched slightly, and he seemed to shift his gaze behind Charles.
"When a child of the forest dies, he will merge into the fish beam wood and transform into a god. So these little guys you see in front of you should be regarded as the old gods in your mouth. ”
So cheap?
Charles was surprised.
Jon, who had been silent, opened his mouth in astonishment. His gaze swept to the short figures around him, his expression full of disbelief.
The gods that I have believed in since childhood turned out to be these little children?
The Three-Eyed Raven ignored the bastard's expression, and after a brief explanation, his gaze fell on Charles again.
"I'm grateful that you're here to help, but alas, you've fallen into their trap."
"I think so." Charles was surprised for a moment and then stopped worrying about the fact that the old gods were different from his imagination, and when he heard the other party's words, he frowned and said, "What will be next?" Gradual cannibalization? ”
"Nope." The corpse's eyes twitched slightly, and he said, "Your efforts have not been in vain, the growth of the power of the alien gods has been stagnant for a long time, and they simply have no ability to attack your army again." ”
"So what are they going to do? Starve us alive? ”
"Perhaps, but they're going to lock it down at all to trap you." The Three-Eyed Raven said, sighing softly, "That's exactly what I'm worried about, fate is back on track again......"
"Fate?" Charles raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, fate." The three-eyed crow said: "Fate is like a broken lake, the roots of the old gods of the ancestors are rooted in these countless lakes, and they can see everything in the past from the lake, and at the same time, they can also predict some shadows of the future. ”
"But in this future, there should be no you. There were no wizards, no magic, no seven sacred objects that had been deliberately erased by the servants of the gods. ”
"All of these changes have only happened since you appeared in King's Landing."
The Three-Eyed Raven said, his dark red eyes staring at Charles, "So, in order to get this fate back on track, the Xenomorph will not hesitate to give up his small army of ghouls, and trap you here." And I'm ...... Instead, he became his accomplice. ”
With that, he sighed lowly.
"I'm sorry."
Xia Erxin said that if you are really sorry, you should not ask for help in the first place, but since it has happened, it is basically useless to say this, and he is more concerned about another matter.
"Even if you trap me here, what advantage can the so-called alien gods have? The Great Wall is now strong, and as you just said, he can't even deal with the group of people I have now, so what can I do against those more people? And stronger defenses? ”
"Winter's Horn."
The Three-Eyed Raven replied, "Before the gods could find it, I sent the Horn of Winter to the Wall by a night watchman, thinking it would be foolproof. But now I find out that it was a bug. The Xenos have a lot of lackeys south of the Wall. ”
"So, the Horn of Winter you said ......"
"Blowing it can bring down the Great Wall, and when the time comes, no matter how many people ......." The Three-Eyed Raven replied quietly, thinking that Charles didn't know what it was, but before he could finish his words, a hint of surprise flashed across his shriveled old face.
"So that's what you call the Horn of Winter?" A tattered horn pulled out of the bag he was strapped around his waist, and Charles raised his hand to him.
"This ...... How could it be in your hands? The old man's voice couldn't hide the surprise.
"I snatched it from a fat man in black." Charles shrugged.
He actually knows what this thing is for, otherwise he wouldn't have nothing to do to "grab" to play.
Why...... Now that this thing has been discovered, doesn't this kind of big killing weapon that can bring down the Great Wall fall in his own hands, waiting for others to have an accident?
It's just that he won't explain this to the other party.
The three-eyed crow was silent for a long time, and finally he shook his head slightly.
"It seems that we should have prepared early, and the alien lackeys will come to the door sooner or later."
"If he doesn't come, I'll look for it." Charles replied.
At this moment the little ones named the Children of the Forest brought him a chair made of tangled vines, and Charles thanked him and sat down on it.
Jon wasn't treated so well, he stood there, couldn't understand what Charles and the others were saying, and ended up trying to talk to the other "people" around him.
It's just a pity that apart from the first child of the forest, they don't speak the lingua franca at all.
They speak only one special, ethereal language. I don't understand it, but it sounds quite comforting.
It's like the words of nature.
Jon's predicament Charles ignored it, he now had more important things to ask. And now trapped here, it seems that there is nothing else to do.
"What the hell is that so-called alien god?"
He asked.
The three-eyed crow in front of him is "not very old", but this person has a very long heritage, and has a special ability to see the past, so he believes that the other party can answer this question.
In fact, the other party does know about it, and even knows a lot.
"A strange god is a stone."
He replied.
"Stones?"
"That's right, a stone that doesn't belong to this world, and brings boundless cold and destruction."
Under Charles's surprised gaze, the other party's eyes flickered, and he said as if recalled: "Tens of thousands of years? Or hundreds of thousands of years ago? Strange gods descend from the sky. ”
"At that time, the world was ruled by the two ancient gods, the Daughter of Light and the Night Lion, and the Kingdom of the Dawn, which was founded by their descendants. After the arrival of the alien gods, they polluted a prince of the Dawn Kingdom, and civil strife broke out. ”
It seems that he knows that Charles doesn't know anything, so the other party tells in detail.
"At first, no one noticed its appearance, until the scale of the war grew and the number of deaths increased, and the Lady of Light first noticed the anomaly."
However, they realized it a little late, and the alien gods had already gathered a lot of strength in the midst of the war. In the end, the two true gods had to spend a huge price to seal it, and this price was the life of the night lion. ”
As he spoke, he sighed.
"The Night Lion fell, the Lady of Light fell into a deep sleep, and the Dawn Kingdom was destroyed, and the Golden Celestial Empire was built on it, but it has lost its power over the world......"
Speaking of which, the Three-Eyed Raven paused for a moment before continuing:
"The two true gods disappeared, but the seal had to be supervised. So the gods of the forest, who belonged to the Night Lion, brought the sealed alien god to Westeros and took over the task of guarding the seal, and the ancestors did a good job, and the alien god never came out to make trouble again. ”
"It's just that when the ancestors invaded Westeros, the ancestors were unable to resist and were even about to be wiped out. Helplessly, they finally thought of what was under the seal. ”
"So you broke the seal? As a result, the long night was unleashed? Charles raised an eyebrow.
"So to speak." The Three-Eyed Raven replied calmly, "All the calamities have begun, and the ancestors have been unable to control the power of the alien gods, and have even been devoured by it. ”
"Of course, their original purpose has been achieved, and under the threat of the long night, the human ancestors had to make an alliance with the children of the forest to jointly resist this newborn monster."
"It's just that in the face of that root god-like means, how can the pure and mundane be able to fight it? Therefore, in order not to be completely destroyed, the ancient ancestors, under the leadership of the last hero, used a special method to awaken the sleeping Lady of Light, and he gave the last hero a flaming red sword. ”
"That's where the final heroic story comes from." There was a slight pause in his words, and the Three-Eyed Raven then added, "But it is much more cruel than the story, the real history. ”
Charles nodded.
Stannis was regarded as the last hero reincarnated by the Red Robe, so he had heard the story.
It is said that in order to forge the sword, the hero killed his wife......
Ignoring what Charles was thinking, the Three-Eyed Raven said to herself, "The Lady of Light is very angry after her resurrection, she has been fighting with the alien gods for countless years, and the whole world is constantly in turmoil because of it. ”
"Long night, long summer, and reversal in turns, using various methods, but there is still no way to destroy each other. Under countless years of encroachment, the alien gods have devoured the power of the night lion, and it has long been inseparable from this world. And as the foundation of this world, the Lady of Light is also an eternal and immortal existence. ”
"So it's their competition again?"
"That's right." The three-eyed crow said: "A disastrous competition. ”
"So what do we do?"
"All we can do is fight it back."
"That is all there is to it?" Charles frowned, and then he suddenly remembered what the Three-Eyed Raven had said, so he hurriedly asked, "Wait, you said you've been suppressing that ancient god?" So, it's in your hands? ”
"Yes, its power and will permeate the entire land of Eternal Winter, but its true body is still in the seal, in fact, the seal has not been completely unbroken."
"Why didn't you kill it?"
"The alien god has devoured the Night Lion, and the Night Lion is the dark side of this world. Light and darkness are inverted and inseparable, and no one can kill the world unless it plunges into boundless chaos. ”
As he spoke, the three-eyed crow said in a low tone: "Otherwise, the alien god would have died countless times." ”
"Is it really impossible?"
"No way, it has long been integrated into the fate of the whole world, and nothing in the world can kill it."
"In the world?" Charles muttered these words, his face thoughtful.