Chapter 736 (1/2)
Chapter 736: The Giant Paintings and the Divine Will
Translator: TransN Editor: Meh
Pasha was astonished at Roland’s question for a moment and then said, “Phyllis is right. You do know lots about us. As for the Divine Will, we didn’t know much about it until the fall of Taquila, so it’s impossible for you to get this information from Agatha.”
Roland put on some airs by propping his chin with interlaced fingers and said, “Don’t forget it, the church was defeated by me. All the Pure Witches who held management positions in the Holy City of Hermes now are imprisoned in Neverwinter.”
“I see.”
With these words, Pasha became silent, as if she were looking at Roland carefully. Even though she had no eyes, he could still felt her gaze. After a long time, Pasha’s voice appeared in his head again. “I can tell you what the Divine Will is, but you have to promise you’ll keep this secret forever and so do the others in this meeting. If people are running after or protecting something intangible, they won’t easily fall into despair, but when this something becomes tangible, they’ll probably get stressed out. I mean if this information is leaked out, it’ll do no good to human beings.”
Roland made an eye contact with all his witches to confirm that they would keep this secret and then asked in a deep voice, “So that’s to say, the Divine Will is something tangible?”
Pasha slowed down, as if she was talking while recalling. “Yes, it looks like a transparent God’s Stone of Retaliation, shaped like a spindle apparatus, but it can’t affect the use of magic power or has any other special function. As long as you open your heart near it, you’ll truly feel the call of the deities and see something incredible.”
“Like what?”
“You’ll see an infinitely spacious hall with the Bloody Moon high above your head and four giant paintings around you. The paintings seem to be alive and change all the time…” The ancient witch described the illusion created by the Divine Will in detail.
Tilly could not help asking, “What do those paintings stand for?”
Hearing this question, all of them held their breath waiting for the answer.
Pasha’s tentacles stood up at once. “This question baffled the people for nearly 1,000 years. The Quest Society kept on looking for the answer but failed. We had no idea about it either until we decoded the contents in the documented records in the ruins of ruins. The four paintings the deities showed us respectively represent the mankind, the demons, some unknown enemy and the underground civilization. The shape of the Divine Will corroborates this speculation, as it’s not a complete spindle apparatus but a quarter of a sphere which we called the relic of the deities.”
Roland knitted his eyebrows. “Four Giant Paintings and a quarter of the relic of deities… Do you mean every civilization pictured in the paintings has a relic like this?”
“Not everyone. The underground civilization lost its part of the Divine Will. As a result, one of the paintings showed by the deities is always black. It turned black right after the end of the first Battle of Divine Will. According to the documented records in the ruin of the maze and those in the ancient documents of the Union, we surmise that the underground civilization is already removed from the Battle of Divine Will forever.” Gooseprickles crawled up everyone’s arms when they heard Pasha’s answer.
They were shocked to learn that all the civilizations had fought for hundreds of years just for some relic, and more importantly, for each civilization, losing its part of relic would mean losing everything.
Hearing such a shocking news, Roland knitted his eyebrows even more tightly together. As compared to some unknown enemy in this war, what he cared more about was who had set up the whole thing. He wondered, “is it merely an accident or carefully arranged. Did it happen randomly or due to human being’s doomed fate? What’s the purpose of leaving behind this relic? Does it have anything to do with the Bloody Moon which emerges periodically? More importantly, did the Taquila survivors understand these things correctly?” He was lost in thought and meanwhile felt he caught a vague clue…
He thought,”What if I replace the word ‘deities’ in this story with something else?”
When he was absorbed in thought, Tilly asked, “If we collect all of the four parts of the relic, what will happen? Didn’t the deities give you any guidance?”
Pasha calmly replied, “No one knows the answer, and the deities have never responded to our calls. The deities don’t love people. They only favor the winner.”