Chapter 252: The Dawn Before Darkness
A few days passed in a flash, and Ying and Paimon followed the main story diligently, and although the goal was to save a nonsensical grass god, they believed that Tassel had already arranged it.
And because of the objects given to the Red King by Nahida, the people on the gilded journey fully believe that she is the messenger of the Red King, and what she does is to help the Red King recover.
With Nahida's deliberate corrections, all this proceeded according to the trajectory of the world.
Liyue.
"Ei, the traveler seems to be about to meet the Balladeers, we should go, right?" Yae Miko turned to the shadow who was eating in a chair like her.
"Then let's go, this kind of life is a bit boring." Shadow nodded.
Yae Miko listened to Ei's words and asked a little suspiciously, "yes, why do I feel like you're enjoying life every day?" ”
"Ahem, don't worry about this, take advantage of this to move your muscles and bones." Shadow stood up and changed the subject.
Yae Miko: "."
"Lotia, Liuyun, are you going with you?" Yae Miko asked the two people who were fiddling with the mechanism next to her.
"I'm not going, there's nothing to care about in Sumeru." Liuyun shook his head and said.
Yae Miko continued to ask, "What about Lodia?" ”
"I don't want to go either." Lotia shook her head in refusal.
"Alright then, Ei, let's just go this time." Yae Miko heard the two of them's answers, and spread her hands at the shadow stall.
"Hmm." Shadow Jaw is the first to go.
At this time, Sumeru, with the efforts of a large number of people, the Gilded Brigade had completely controlled the Akademiya.
"Ying, there is obviously no Nahida in the Jingshan Palace, why are we still locked up?" After being rescued by Dehya from the confinement room of the Palace of Wisdom, Paimon said to Ying with some confusion, "Moreover, what are we going to do in the Pure Benevolence Palace now?" ”
"I don't know, but the mission prompts it so, and there must be a reason for it." Ying shook her head.
"Speaking of which, you killed the Fatui Executive Doctor with a single sword, wouldn't there really be any problems?" Paimon asked, a little worried.
Ying glanced at Paimon and replied flatly, "What are you afraid of, there is not only one doctor, his slice will be filled, I simply don't like him." ”
"This, okay." Paimon scratched his head.
And the great sage Azar entered the Jingshan Palace in a hurry after receiving the news that Alhaithham's changed little auspicious grass king had escaped from the Jingshan Palace.
He looked up at the empty cage, and something was about to pop into his mind, but he couldn't remember.
"Impossible"
Hazard couldn't help but close his eyes and shook his head, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw the phantom of the small straw bales locked inside.
"Huh? It's really coming up again. What's going on."
Suddenly, a red silk thread passed through the void terminal of Hazard's mind, and the knowledge and power transmitted in his mind made him tremble with excitement, and his originally panicked face was also hidden by Annai's smile.
Suddenly, a voice rang out behind Hazard.
"It's a funny sight, Hazard."
Hazard: "!! ”
"Even the Great Sage, once a certain thought is thrown into the void in his mind, he will become unable to recognize even the things in front of him." Cyno continued, "You can only see the world in your own mind, the world you think you have. ”
"That's why you ignore the existence of the grass god."
"She's such a wise god."
"Hahaha, ignorant cognition, the wise god is just your self-righteousness, what can she bring to Sumeru with such a weak person? Compared with the glory of the Great Cishu King, she is nothing. Hearing Cyno's words, Hazard raised his head and laughed, "There is only one Grass God of Sumeru in our hearts, and that is the all-knowing and all-powerful Great Tree King. ”
"Azar, you are really hopeless, the Great Mercy Tree King has passed away five hundred years ago, and the new grass god also needs to grow, but what has happened to her from what you have done?" Cyno said with a gritty grip.
"So what? Compared to the all-knowing and all-powerful Great Mercy Tree King, the new Little Auspicious Grass King has insulted the prestige of the god of wisdom. Azar snorted coldly: "Only a god like the Great Mercy Tree King can lead us again, and she is not worthy of the Little Auspicious Grass King." ”
Looking at the crazy Azar, Cyno sensed that something was wrong, and sure enough, Azar's Void Terminal at this time had been infected with bright red.
"This is, forbidden knowledge?!" Cyno's pupils shrank.
"Hahaha, forbidden knowledge? I prefer to call it a gift from the gods. Hazard began: "I can already feel the power churning through me at this point. ”
"Hazard, you're crazy!" Cyno looked at the Great Sage, whose aura suddenly became stronger, and exclaimed.
Hazard put away his crazy expression and said to Cyno with a flat face: "No, I'm not crazy, it's you who are crazy, Cyno the Governor of the Great Wind, you have abandoned our true gods of Sumeru to believe in a weak new god, oh yes, you are originally a citizen of the desert, of course I don't know how strong our belief in the Great Mercy Tree King is." ”
"And now, the sleeping Great Mercy Tree King has been revived, and what I got is also because I still believe in the Great Mercy Tree King's response to me, Cyno, do you see, this power is also given to me by the Great Mercy Tree King, I know that the Great Mercy Tree King has not passed away, and the change of the World Tree more than three hundred years ago is not accidental."
"Hazard, you didn't create the Great Mercy Tree King, it was the Skirmishers." Cyno shouted.
At this time, Cyno felt a god-like coercion from Hazard, which made him dare not act rashly.
"Skirmishers? Are you talking about the false god we created on the birthday of the god of flowers? Adjara pondered for a moment and replied, "What kind of god can be made by humans?" He's just a test subject for us. ”
"Now that the Great Mercy Tree King has recovered, Sumeru has waited for a new dawn, and we don't need him anymore."
Hearing Hazard's answer, Cyno's pupils shrank, he didn't expect that Azar's belief was not a balladeer, if his strength was really the response given to him by the Great Mercy Tree King as he said, then things would be in trouble.
"The Great Mercy Tree King is dead, otherwise there would be no new grass god, Azar, don't be fooled by forbidden knowledge, now you are crazy." Cyno still doesn't believe that the Great Tree King will be revived, because the birth of the little grass god says it all.
"Hmph, ignorance, worthy of being a citizen of the desert, even if you enter the Akademiya, you are just as ignorant." Hazard snorted coldly again: "If it weren't for the Great Mercy Tree King who responded to me, and I also saw her all-knowing and all-powerful figure, I would have told you this?" ”
"Even if you join forces with Alhaitham and the Traveler, you will be vulnerable to the all-knowing and all-powerful Great Tree King."
"As for the false god, we don't need him anymore, let him be annihilated with the Vault Dweller in the glory of the Great Tree of Mercy."
"Then what is the purpose of your creation of this false god, and you do not hesitate to use the dreams of the people of Sumeru to gain power." Cyno continued.
"It doesn't hurt to tell you, because the little auspicious grass king is not worthy to rule Sumeru, and we can't gain more wisdom during this long journey without gods, so we decided to create a god and gain new knowledge from him," Azar explained. ”
"But the premise of all this is that the Great Mercy Tree King has not been revived, because I think that no god can compare to the all-knowing and all-powerful Great Mercy Tree King, her wisdom is infinite, and her abilities are also endless."
Cyno: "."
While Hazard is talking to Cyno, Ying and Paimon also arrive at the Pure Shrine.
"Cyno." Paimon beckoned to Cyno, "Has the Great Sage been resolved?" ”
"No, something is wrong with Eden Hazard, he doesn't know where he got the power of a god, I can't deal with him." Cyno shook his head.
"Ezar, the power of the gods?" Paimon wondered.
"Traveler, Paimon, I'll just tell you how I feel a familiar and majestic aura from you, and I understand this moment." Hazard said to Ying and Paimon.
Ying: "??? ”
"What familiar breath?" Paimon wondered.
"Hahaha, don't pretend, you are also a faithful believer of the Great Mercy Tree King, from the same items you still carry with the Void Terminal, now I can feel the divine power inside." Azar spoke: "I didn't expect that the traveler who obstructed us in every way turned out to be a believer of the Great Mercy Tree King, hahaha, is it true that the truth is always on the side of our faithful believers." ”
Paimon: "."
Ying: "."
Paimon and Ying didn't know how to answer Ezard's words, because the Skynet on their ears was indeed given by the tassel, that is, the gift of the Great Mercy Tree King, but they didn't understand what the tassel was doing, so they were silent in order to avoid losing too many words.
But all this was different in Cyno's eyes, and he turned to the two of them in disbelief and said, "You are also the believers of the Great Mercy Tree King in the mouth of Azar?" ”
"Yes." Ying replied indifferently.
"I see, I see." Cyno sighed as if he had unloaded all the strength from his body.
"Wait, that's not the case, Cyno, the relationship in this one is not what you think." Paimon hurriedly said.
"Explain what? Aren't you? I can feel that the Great Mercy Tree King cares for you far more than ordinary people, and even the Great Mercy Tree King's response to me is not as strong as yours. Eden Hazard spread his hands excitedly at Ying and Paimon and said, "But I don't mind, as long as the Great Mercy Tree King lives, it is enough, she will still lead us to pursue the untouchable truth, and the truth is what we scholars pursue all our lives." ”
"Ying, what now?" Paimon asked, a little worried.
"I don't know, but Hazard is not something we can solve now." Ying replied with a serious face.
"Traveler, Paimon, fellow believers of the Great Mercy Tree King, are you going to oppose me if you are favored by the Tree King?" Hazard said to Ying and Paimon in disbelief, "Just now the Great Mercy Tree King sent me an oracle, aren't you afraid of going against the wishes of the Great Mercy Tree King?" ”
"This, this," Paimon said, scratching his head, a little confused.
"What is the oracle of the Great Mercy Tree King that you just mentioned?" Ying asked calmly at Hazard.
It doesn't matter to Ying what Hazard becomes, what matters is the oracle given to Azar by the Great Cishu King, which is an existence that she can't ignore, and since Tassel has done this, she must have her meaning.
"Hahaha, I knew that you would not betray the Great Mercy Tree King." Hearing Ying's answer, Azar smiled and said, "The oracle that the Great Cishu King just sent down is to let us clear the heresies, the Fatui, the abyssal power, and the false gods we did before. ”
"The Fatui and the power of the abyss will not be able to solve it for a while, but it is indeed more than enough to deal with the false gods, and the Great Cishu King has also sent two messengers to assist us."
"Hmm, Ying, what should I do?" Paimon asked, scratching his head at Ying.
"As he says, this order is indeed given by tassels." Ying replied flatly: "And it's important to solve the stragglers first, and then discuss the rest." ”
"A wise decision." When Hazard heard Ying's answer, he said with a smile on his face, "I know that the followers of the Great Mercy Tree King will not do something stupid like these traitors. ”
"Traveler, Paimon, is the Great Mercy Tree King really revived? Aren't you the messengers of the Red King? Why was he blessed by the Great Tree of Mercy? Seeing that things were going in an unpredictable direction, Cyno asked Ying and Paimon with some confusion.
"The Great Mercy Tree King has been revived." Ying was silent for a moment, and gave Cyno an answer.
"Now that the Great Mercy Tree King has recovered, what are we doing now? Is it useless? What about the little auspicious grass king? Hearing Ying's words, Cyno said a little weakly.
"This, this," Paimon scratched his head, a little unsure of how to answer Cyno's question.
"Traveler, the oracle of the Great Tree of Mercy says that her golden guards have arrived in Sumeru, and it only takes your command for them to appear here." Hazard continued to speak to Ying.
"Golden Guard, what's that?" Paimon wondered.
"Ignorance, the Golden Guard, also known as the Sacred Tree Guard, is an army transformed by the Great Mercy Tree King, and they have some of the powers of the Great Mercy Tree King." Hazard explained.
Paimon: "."
"And how do I summon them?" Ying asked Hazard.
"All you need is to say their names and they will appear in front of you." Hazard replied.
In this regard, Ying said that she was a little unconvinced, because tassels did not look like people who could make armies, but according to Hazard, she still decided to give it a try, after all, it would not be a loss to give it a try.
As Ying's thoughts touched, golden figures appeared in front of Ying, their whole bodies were made of golden starry sky, and their bodies were still wrapped in golden tree patterns, but how did Ying look like the previous Abyss Apostle.
The Star Messenger at the head knelt down on one knee and said respectfully to Ying, "Your Highness, the Golden Guard has come at your call, please give us instructions." ”
Ying: "."
Good fellows, aren't these the abyss apostles who follow themselves in that world? How did you get here? And how did they change their style.
Ying looked at the golden guards with some confusion and asked, "Why did you come here and become like this?" ”
"At that time, after you disappeared into that world, we followed you here, and then we met the Divine Throne, and it was the Divine Throne that gave us a new lease of life, and the Divine Throne meant to let me follow you." The Star Messenger replied.
"Is this the power of the Great Mercy Tree King, the Golden Guard, the Golden Guard, what a miracle this is, although it was made by the Great Mercy Tree King, but it is a great wisdom that we will never be able to touch." The Great Sage exclaimed as he looked at the Golden Guard.
Cyno: "."
By this time, Cyno's head was down, and he could no longer comprehend what was going on.
"Cyno, don't be obsessed, as a citizen of the desert, you also have the right to enjoy the gifts of the Great Mercy Tree King." Hazard spoke to Cyno.
Cyno: "."
"Hmph, stubborn, wait until we finish some of the oracles of the Great Mercy Tree King and then come and clean you up." Azar's Void terminal flickered, and he said to Ying and Paimon, "The messengers spoken of by the Great Mercy Tree King have come to Sumeru, Traveler, please help me receive them together." ”
"Ying, are we going?" Paimon asked with some concern, "Who is that messenger?" Do you want us to go with us? ”
"If I'm correct, it's Shadow and Miko." Ying thought for a moment and replied, "Because the plot has already progressed to this point, they should come over." ”
"Huh? Since it's Shadow and Miko, then what are we waiting for, let's hurry up and pick them up. Paimon said happily.
Yae Miko's voice sounded here: "No need, we're already here." ”
"Miko, Shadow! It's really you. Paimon was surprised.
"It's not who else can we be, we are here to solve the problem of the collapse of the country." Yae Miko smiled and said, "We've been preparing for him for a long time. ”
"Where is the collapse of the country?" Shadow spoke briefly.
"Two messengers of the Lord of the Tree King, I will take you there." Hazard felt the divine power on the two of them and hurriedly said.
Shadow said, "Yes." ”
Eden Hazard was leading the way in front like a little brother at this time, but there was no dissatisfaction on his face, but a strong excitement, because everyone here was higher than his status, and the strong blessing of the Tree King detected in them through the Void Terminal could speak for itself.
"Paimon, let's go." Seeing that Yae Miko and Shadow had already followed, Ying turned to Paimon and greeted him.
"Come on, wait for me, Cyno, let's go and get rid of the stragglers first, and we'll talk about some things when we get back." After greeting Cyno, Paimon followed.
Because of Ying's departure, the golden guards naturally followed, and at this time, there was only Cyno alone in the Jingshan Palace.
Cyno: "."
Cyno was silent for a moment, and then sighed helplessly, and then turned to leave, he couldn't sit still, because he had to tell the others about this sudden change.
When Cyno came to the Grand Bazaar, he saw Alhaithham, Nilou, Dehya and others waiting here.
"Cyno, what's the situation, have you rescued the little grass god?" Seeing Cyno's arrival, Dehya hurriedly asked.
"Nope." Cyno shook his head.
"What about the Great Sage? If you go over, he shouldn't be able to escape, right? Alhaitham asked.
Cyno was silent for a moment, and told a shocking secret to several people: "The Great Mercy Tree King has been revived. ”
"What!"
The few people present all exclaimed in disbelief when they heard Cyno's news, this was really earth-shattering news for them.
"Tell me how the situation is?" Alhaitham asked calmly, "What about the other travelers?" Why didn't I come with you? ”
"Here's the thing, I'm in the Jingshan Palace after besieging the Great Sage"
Cyno began to slowly tell what he had seen.
"Speaking of which, Traveler and Paimon are also followers of the Great Mercy Tree King, and although we don't know if this Great Mercy Tree King is real or not, this has completely disrupted our plans." Alhaitham touched his chin and analyzed: "Of course, I'm not saying that the Great Mercy Tree King is pretending, and Adjara is not so stupid, after all, we haven't seen the Great Mercy Tree King with our own eyes, so this matter needs to be discussed." ”
"Alhaitham is right, even if the other party is not the Great Mercy Tree King, he is a very powerful god, and he can elevate ordinary great sages to the level of close to gods in an instant, this kind of thing is not something that ordinary people can do, no, even ordinary gods can't do it." Tighnari also opened his mouth to analyze.
"So what do we do now? If the Great Cishu King is really revived, what will happen to the Little Auspicious Grass King? Nilou asked, a little worried.
Alhaitham said flatly: "At this time, it is no longer the matter of the Little Auspicious Grass King, for the people of Sumeru, the influence of the Great Mercy Tree King is much more far-reaching than that of the Little Auspicious Grass King, if this Great Mercy Tree King is true, I will not hesitate to believe her." ”
"Alhaithham, you." Cyno shouted angrily.
"Cyno, what's wrong? Am I not right, if she is really the King of the Great Mercy Tree, what is wrong with me believing in her? After all, she is our original god of Sumeru. Seeing the suddenly excited Cyno, Alhaitham gave him a strange look.
"It's fine."
Cyno still said a little unwillingly, because she had met Nahida, and he also knew that Nahida was working hard for Sumeru, but wouldn't the appearance of the Great Mercy Tree King make her efforts in vain?
"Okay, okay, Cyno, Alhaithham, you don't have to argue, as the people of Sumeru, it is right to believe in the Great Mercy Tree King, but now that there is a newborn little auspicious grass king, I really don't know what to do, if we turn a blind eye to the little auspicious grass king, it will not be good."
Tighnari opened his mouth to mediate, "Besides, we can't be sure of the identity of this Great Mercy Tree King, so the main thing now is not to quarrel, but to determine the accuracy of the information." ”
Alhaitham had already picked up a book at this time, found a place to sit down, and said calmly while flipping through it: "I don't think there is a need to go through a lot of trouble to understand the truth of the matter, if she is really the Great Mercy Tree King, we will know the news that she has returned in a few days, so we just need to wait quietly." ”
"Well, what Alhaitham said is not unreasonable, let's wait a few days to see how the situation goes, if there is no news then we will secretly check it." Tighnari nodded, he also thought Alhaithham's solution was very practical, just wait.
"Then let's wait a few days." Dehya nodded as well.
(End of chapter)