Chapter 243: Responsibility for Choice

In the next few days, Zhao Mai spent either looking up materials in Maester Emon's library, or practicing spells and psychic abilities outside of Castle Black, with a very busy schedule, rarely appearing among the night watchmen, and the days passed like a retreat. The advantage www.biquge.info of this is that he gradually got a little clue about how the strange ghosts controlled the ghouls.

The natural force with hatred is the root cause of everything. Zhao Mai had felt something similar from the desert of Attas, the kind of planet's hatred for the magicians who had destroyed its ecology, and something similar had appeared in Westeros. When you think back to the great battle between the ancestors and the children of the forest, and the horror of the spirits who wielded stone weapons when they were slaughtered by humans wielding metal weapons, it is not difficult to understand where this hatred came from.

"So now it is certain that the Children of the Forest formed their hatred of humanity into their minds, combined them with the Force of Nature, and condensed them into the original Ice Heart, creating the first generation of Aliens. The Children of the Forest use the Alien as a weapon, giving the Alien the ability to manipulate corpses and form an army to fight against humans, which is the truth of history. Zhao Mai read the ancient poems collected by Aemon, and found a lot of original contradictions, and then used this set of theories to explain them.

The Force of Nature is inherently capable of allowing creatures to multiply, and the Children of the Forest did not expect that their "experimental weapons" would eventually have the ability to expand independently, and they would become a new kind of "creatures". The hatred will only grow heavier and more extreme if it is not resolved, and the Wraiths finally decide to purge all life, including the Children of the Forest, so that there is a world of their own.

So the Children of the Forest and the ancestors had to work together to turn enemies into friends and fight against the Strangers until they were driven back to the coldest places and the Great Wall of Desperation was built. Thinking of this, Zhao Mai complained: "I have to say that the strange ghost did end the war between the children of the forest and the human race to some extent. ”

In a way, his psychic abilities mimic the condensed will of hatred of the aliens. On the planet Attas, Zhao Mai was cursed with blasphemy magic, and then he was affected by the natural will full of hatred many times, and he had more or less the characteristics of that will. I haven't seen a ghost yet, but there may be some similarities. Zhao Mai patted his head: "Bang! Could it be because of this, the Great Wall of Desperation recognizes me as a ghost?"

It's unlikely that if you think about it, won't your car be able to get by? It may seem like a puzzle has been solved, but in fact there may be more puzzles. Zhao Mai shook his head and took back his thoughts for the time being. He didn't want to create a strange ghost, he just had to figure out how to use the Force of Nature. Moreover, if you can mimic the psychic signals sent by the ghosts, you can confuse the ghouls' control and make yourself safer.

The root of the Natural Force is also balance, and the strangers and ghouls who are stronger in the power of ice will be more afraid of fire, especially the flames of the Natural Force. It's like the extreme thing is easier to exert power in the early stage and quickly increase the power, and the neutral and peaceful method can only catch up slowly in the later stage. The Children of the Forest used extreme ice to create the Strangers, and they were supposed to be destroyed with extreme fire. However, the construction of the Great Wall of Desperation not only protects the humans south of the Great Wall, but also prevents their enterprising spirit, giving the strange spirits a chance to recuperate in the cold land.

It's like cancerous tissue is not eradicated, so there are often problems. Alien spirits are immortal, but humans are short-lived. After a long period of inactivity, humanity has forgotten how to deal with the strangers, piling up documents that are full of lessons, experiences, and sacrifices in exchange for the Night's Watch's old books.

Zhao Mai sorted out the information he had found and prepared to pack it up and hand it over to Master Eamon, who would be able to use it one day. He began to research various potions, both for healing and as weapons. Druids are able to concoct their spells into potions, also known as magic potions. Although the preparation method of this potion is different from the technology of the scholars, who says that it cannot be bypassed?

The days went by, and every day Jon would come to Master Aemon's place, at least three times, to see if there were any ravens from the south. He missed his father with apprehension, and the gloom on his face grew worse and worse day by day. Master Aemon taught him about responsibility and choice, and taught him a lesson from his own experience. This blind old man guarding Castle Black, whose surname is Targaryen. Elise Targaryen, the "Mad King" overthrown by the recently deceased King Robert Baratheon, was also his nephew.

In the order of succession to the throne, Aemon was superior to Elise Targaryen's father. When Aemon was young, in order to prevent too many Targaryen descendants from fighting for the throne, Aemon was arranged by his father to become a bachelor. Similar to the Night's Watch, the Bachelor is to give up the power of the family, but fortunately, the Bachelor will not be executed as a traitor.

The succession of House Targaryens came to Aemon after a series of upheavals. He was quietly recalled to the imperial court in preparation for being conferred the throne of king. Emon refused, thinking about it, and gave the throne to his younger brother, while he retained his status as a bachelor. "I don't have the responsibility of a king, my responsibility is a bachelor. After that, he chose to serve in the Black Castle of the Night's Watch, and with the attitude of self-exile as a "Bachelor" and "Night's Watchman", he showed that he was completely away from the core of power.

He thought it would be the last test of his sense of responsibility, but he didn't expect the heaviest one to strike him in his old age. Rob Baratheon led an army to defeat King's Landing and overthrow his brother's son. From the black raven, he received news of his nephew's death, and the entire Targaryen family. The infant child was thrown to death on the steps of the Iron Throne, the young were disemboweled, and the young princess was raped and killed in a pool of her own child's blood. At this point, Aemon was powerless.

As Master Aemon spoke, Zhao Mai was listening, and he saw that Jon's face had changed.

"I can understand your feelings, child...... So I'm not going to say let you stay or let you go. Master Aemon said, "But you have to remember that whatever choice you make, you make it yourself, and then stay with it for the rest of your life, and there will be no excuse to avoid it or shirk it." I can't say that the other way would have been better, would I have been better than my brother Aegon or would have avoided giving the throne to a king like Elis, I don't know. Maybe I'll be crazier than he is. You can only walk one way at a time, and you can't do it all over again, so you have to be cautious!"

Who can do it all over again? Maybe the detached can, and the old man certainly can. Didn't he say that his ability was to make everything start all over again? When Zhao Mai sent Jon, who was still pale, out, he had a strange thought in his heart: Wouldn't he face a choice after detachment, wouldn't there be a dilemma and pain? How did the old man make a choice to overturn something and start over?

What is true detachment? )