842. The Secret History of Castile: Becoming Human
When Murphy first met General Ranger, he was convinced that this guy must have something to do with "Source".
Although the two are at different ages, they are still different races such as elves and half-elves in a sense, but the eyebrows, cheeks and even eyes are almost carved out of the same mold.
That's why Tracey rushes to the ruins to try to find out the truth.
As it turns out, Murphy really can't check everything, and if he does find something, it will be pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, just like this strange scene that is slightly embarrassing right now.
The half-elf Luna, codenamed "Source", is an artificial human, which is outrageous enough, but what is even more outrageous is that Lady Firosil, the Ranger General who is Luna's biological "mother" or "maternal gene provider", is also a fucking artificial human
Wow, this story unfolds and suddenly has the flavor of "Frankenstein".
Moreover, Firosir claimed to be the female clone of the Elven King Querion, which made Murphy feel familiar to him, and Tracy beside him also had a strong sense of déjà vu, isn't this a replica of the relationship between Lord Pa Ying and his blood Lily Cappadocia, who is suspected of maintaining an impure relationship with him?
Oh, you ancients all share a set of ethical templates, right?
At this time, in the face of the scene where the Ranger General was forced to confess under the "coercion" of the god Avalon, Murphy hesitated for a moment, went through the current situation in his heart, and then asked:
"Is Triss correct when she says you're a half-finished godborn?"
"Right, in a sense."
The Ranger General, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, tilted her head, played with the tips of her greenish glossy hair, and gave an answer, saying her unique "mouth fetish" again.
She then organized the language to explain as succinctly as possible:
"I was born 600 years ago, when the study of the 'Descendants of the Gods' in the Kingdom of Castile was still in its infancy, and the great druids of the Castile Tree had not yet fully grasped the sacred knowledge we had gained from the relics of the Creator, so they could only use the limited conditions to simulate the experiments of the Golden Age as fully as possible.
Of course, this process was approved and helped by the gods of nature, and it was by this coincidence that I was created.
I belong to one of the first Divine Descendants, to be precise, the first successful test subject to actually trigger a divine power response.
The power I get from Avalon's 'bloodline' is incomplete and fairly rudimentary, but even that gives me a natural power far beyond that of ordinary elves, my speed is five times that of elves of my age, my strength is three times that of theirs, and I am born with the ability to harness natural psionic energy and have super learning powers.
There is even the potential to surpass my blueprint, which is King Querion.
It was because of my presence that the great druids of the Castile Tree were determined to continue their studies on this path.
I know what you're asking, Luna belongs to the third generation of Godborn.
Her inheritance of divine power is more complete than mine's 'obsolete model', but unfortunately, Luna's divine genes are recessive, which means that she will be an ordinary person in her life, otherwise, Grand Duke Tris would not have been able to take Luna away so easily when he infiltrated the elven court.
In addition, I would like to correct your misconceptions.
We weren't abusing the child at the time, but trying to activate the divine genes in her body through some special rituals recorded in the Golden Age, and according to the ancient knowledge, it was possible for the right amount of pain and stimulation to activate the divine genes, and your presence interrupted the process. ”
General Firosir looked at Triss with a strange gaze, and she hesitated for a moment, and said:
"Frankly, I can't understand what kind of thinking you had in mind to choose to give the power of your bloodline to a child you picked up at will.
But the power of midnight creates a variable that causes part of Luna's divinity genes to be activated, and when you took her around the continent, didn't you realize that the child's manipulation of liquids was unusual? ”
"I found out, but who would think of this in the direction of evil human experiments!"
Tracey retorted:
"I thought Luna was the one who was blessed by Midnight, and that she had learned the secret power of manipulating blood since she first became a vampire, which made me realize her talent, and I taught her my knowledge and skills after that."
"Yes, you value her so much that you desperately want to turn her into a second Scarlet Witch."
The Ranger General sighed and said:
"I don't know if to praise your teaching skills for being too good or to be annoyed that Luna's ability to learn is too strong.
You shaped her with your own way of thinking and acting, and she came out of nowhere, and after the Scarlet Witch 'died', she lost her last shackles and shackles, you may not know it, but the number of elves who died at Luna's hands is a number that makes people chill to read it.
You've been too successful in your words, Lady Trace.
Luna has surpassed the Scarlet Witch.
She turns herself into a monster that everyone feels tricky! ”
Tracey fell silent.
In this matter, she admits that she bears 100% and cannot escape responsibility.
However, Murphy did not leave Firosir a chance to continue attacking his wife, and he asked:
"So, Luna was able to come back from the dead after being killed by Sarlokdal and digging up the vampire's heart, because her divinity genes were accidentally activated by the power of the night?"
"No!"
Firosil denied it affirmatively:
"Luna inherited from me the powers of the Storm Queen, one of Avalon's faces, and Boris, the Hero King, has been strengthened by her paternal genes to control the flow of water and liquids. In this series of experiments on Avalon's divine powers, there is only one type of physiognomy inheritance, in other words, Luna does not have the self-healing power of the dead or the undead.
That's the realm of the Moon Maiden and the Mother of the Forest.
Therefore, I can tell you with certainty that Lord Murphy, Luna's resurrection has nothing to do with her godlike status, it should be a symptom of another force at work.
I'm still investigating this, but I suspect it has something to do with the power of the vampires. ”
"Huh? How did I not know that Midnight Force had such an awesome variant? It's a resurrection from the dead! Even for vampires who feed on life force, it is a forbidden territory. ”
Murphy shook his head and teased.
Since Firosir could not come up with a reasonable explanation, he no longer obsessed with the question, but changed the subject and asked:
"I just said that the first generation of gods like you was born 600 years ago, and what happened at that time that made the elves suddenly start to exert their strength in high-end fields like androids?"
"It started by an accident."
Filosil closed his eyes and said in a calm tone:
At that time, the druids planned to plant a seed to grow into a giant tree as a sacred place for the druid lineage, but fate was unpredictable, they chose a random place to plant the seed, and after it took root, the druids accidentally discovered a creation ruin hidden deep underground.
It originated from a ruin in the Eden District, codenamed Project 'Living Greenhouse' Base R-31.
That base is complete, at least much more complete than the creation relic we are in.
The sages found relics from the previous era there and interpreted a series of research results on divine powers, which are said to be because the study of gods was also taboo during the Golden Age, so this base was far from the main body of civilization in the previous era, but instead survived the catastrophe.
After confirming that this knowledge and test objects were harmless, the sages began to explore in depth with a desire for knowledge, and it should not be difficult to guess what happened after that.
Everything falls into place.
Even when the druids fearfully prayed to the gods whether they should continue to cross the taboo of 'creation', the gods of nature did not object, but clearly expressed their support, and they began to try boldly and confidently.
Until my birth.
I don't have much to say about the cause and development of this matter, and I don't want to express my opinion on it, but I think part of the reason Avalon is asking me to confess today is that he wants to convey to you through my mouth some secrets that only the elves know.
Regarding the extremely bad consequences of this 'android' experiment in the elven civilization"
General Ranger paused.
She opened her eyes and looked at Murphy and Trissy, and the Grand Duke of the Blood Vulture pursed her lips and said:
"You mean, the split of the Shadow Elves more than five hundred years ago was also one of the aftermath of this experiment?"
"Well, the truth about the Shadow Elf split."
The Ranger General said expressionlessly:
It had nothing to do with faith, at least in the beginning, it was just an accident of an experiment. It is rumored that Lady Spider is a dark entity that Avalon actively splintered to maintain her divine purity.
However, the opposite is true.
The god Avalon didn't realize that he was contaminated by the subspace at first, and that pollution was so deep that it could even hide a god's perception of himself.
The reason for this is that during a certain god-descendant experiment in the Elven Kingdom, we accidentally triggered a special divine reaction that was completely absent from the three faces of Avalon, which revealed the truth about the tainted part of Avalon's power.
Soon after being warned and confirmed by the faithful, Avalon realized that he was being dragged into the abyss, so he decisively split his symbolism and allowed Lady Spider to be born.
On the night when the dark face was divided, on the night when Lady Spider was born, the deep and dark divine reaction was fed back to the innocent people by all the divine genes related to it, causing a large number of elves to be affected.
Prior to that night, the Shadow Elves were only synonymous with the group of Assassins, Scouts, and Dark Psionists in Elven society.
It was only after that night that the Shadow Elves were truly born as a race.
As for the Shadow Elf split, that's been decades since it happened, and like you taught Luna, Lady Spider was too 'successful' in teaching the Shadow Elves. ”
"Wait!"
Murphy quickly captured the important details of the Ranger General's words that had been downplayed and brushed aside.
He asked:
"You say, the unique race of shadow elves was born overnight? Their altered appearance stems from a genetic connection to divinity, but it doesn't make sense. Even if your experiments are carried out on the largest scale, the maximum number of test subjects is tens of thousands!
Where did so many related genes get tainted overnight? ”
"Gene pool contamination! Murphy, Firosil apparently concealed some of the elves' hard work in private. ”
Tracey said in a hoarse voice:
"Long before the birth of Lady Spider, the gene pool of the elven civilization was contaminated by the android experiments they conducted! They did not place the failed 'gods' alone, but let them return to the elven society, which directly led to the large-scale flow of the 'created' genetic fragments into the elven society.
Oh my God, are you crazy?
How lucky must you be that you haven't been wiped out by the spread of genetic defects after such a ruthless work? ”
"Extermination? No, on the contrary, it is precisely because of the spread of the genes of the gods that the elven kingdom has survived crises again and again, allowing our people to get rid of the slow evolution and silent weakness unique to the immortal species, and continue to maintain their strength. ”
Firosil shook his head and said:
"The birth and split of the Shadow Elves was just an accident, and after that, the Great Druids of the Castile Tree began to strictly control the interaction between the Divine Descendants and the ordinary Elves, but the truth is that it was too late to make amends.
Today, more than one-third of the elves in the Castile Elven Kingdom carry various divine genes, most of which are invisible, and only a few lucky ones can awaken the true divine inheritance.
Even so, the elven kingdom has gained enough power from it to defend its homeland.
This is why the 'Godborn' project has been moving in the shadows, and although it has shrunk to a very small scale compared to hundreds of years ago, it has not stopped, and it continues.
King Querion is a visionary ruler who wants to create new seeds and guardian power for the Elven kingdom in this way.
Even after something as bad as Luna's happened, the experiment didn't stop, but unfortunately there are too few divine symbols that we can collect in this era, and the constant use of Avalon's divine genes has caused generations of elves to seem to have some kind of 'degeneration', and fewer and fewer awakened gods.
This brings me to the second reason for this conversation with the two of you, who are on a secret mission to participate in the Scourge.
King Querion hopes to gather some of his divine power after the fall of the Lord of the Hunt and bring it back to the Giant Tree of Coloria, so that he can obtain new genetic seeds for the Elven Kingdom from the priesthood of 'Hunting', 'Slaughter' and 'War'. ”
This statement silenced the room.
After more than ten seconds, Murphy spoke:
"I was going to ridicule you for playing with powers that you don't even understand, but then I realized that everything you've done over the course of hundreds of years proves that you seem to be capable of navigating such dangerous knowledge.
It doesn't matter if you're just lucky, or if you have real skills, but I can't agree to what you asked!
The Lord of the Hunt is polluted!
You should be aware of the risks, Avalon has been tainted once and almost lost his life, and I don't think you have enough to harness the power of subspace. ”
"Well, that's a good refusal, but you don't have to be so serious, because I didn't intend to do my brother's advice."
The Ranger General smiled and said:
"I'm different from him, I'm a godborn, I can feel Avalon's will, my god won't allow me to make such a dangerous attempt, I'll follow His will, but back to the original question, Luna's matter can't be delayed any longer!
Gen's activities in the Elven Kingdom have been becoming more and more rampant lately.
As if stimulated, she was constantly searching for the unawakened gods and tricking them into joining a strange organization called the 'Witch Cult'.
I have a hunch that no matter what Luna is up to, she's in the final stages of her plan, so I need your help!
Before she can cause even more horrific effects, let's team up to get rid of her! ”
"Is it really okay to be so cold?"
Murphy asked:
"You said it yourself, you're her mother, in a sense."
"Your Excellency, please think carefully before saying such a thing."
Ms. Firosil shook her head and said:
"I am a priest and a ranger of the Mother of the Forest, and I have devoted my whole life to my gods, and I will have no love and no heirs. It may seem cold to say that, but the truth is, in my eyes, Luna's child is a shoddy product that must be disposed of.
She does have a tragic past, but that doesn't change the sins she made with her hands!
No matter what Lady Triss thinks, I must fulfill my duty to the country and the people as a ranger general, she is a murderer, a murderer, a heinous cultist, and the greatest mercy left to her is an arrow piercing the eye!
I'm an artificial being, but I don't feel sad or hopeless about who I am.
I was created for a great purpose, I grew up without being hostile or abused by others, and I was even fortunate enough to have the warmth of my family.
King Querion values my talent so much that he really treats me as family, my sister-in-law, Lady Elenia Garanord, Queen of the Moon Elves, has nothing to say to me, and I have a lovely niece who regards me as a life coach.
For an artificial being, this is the most perfect happiness I can think of.
In order to protect this happiness, I did not hesitate to stain my hands with blood.
I was going to teach Luna the gentle way King Querion treated me, but Lady Trissy's accidental intervention brought the matter to a sad end, and there could not have been a more merciful way to deal with it so far. ”
The Ranger General stood up.
She looked at Triss and said seriously:
"Take on the responsibility of being a teacher, Lady Trissy!
If you really ever thought of Luna as your daughter, if you really wanted to respond to Luna's twisted and horrible feelings for you, then join me in giving her a relief, and that's good for both of us, well, in a sense. ”
(End of chapter)