Rachel's words startled Aisha, who had just sat down, so much so that she stood up again: "What did you say? Twilight City can't be defended?!"
Standing by the door, Evie didn't react much. She asked Rachel, "Is Todd's disappearance also related to this?"
Rachel nodded: "Although there is a connection, the truth is more complicated than you think."
Evie: "I don't care how complicated the facts are, explain them to me."
After organizing her thoughts, Rachel asked Ivy, "Have you heard of the War of the Chosen Ones? Are you familiar with the specific rules?"
Ivy nodded and said, "I've heard of it before."
Rachel then asked, "So, you should also know what's going on with Crystal Nest and Beacon Tower."
Ivy nodded again: "In the village where I used to live, there was a beacon tower in a deep cave nearby. I know a little about the legend of absolute will."
Hearing this, Aisha, completely bewildered, hurriedly asked, "The War of the Chosen Ones? Crystal Constellation? Beacon Tower? What are you talking about?! Why don't I know anything about this?!"
Rachel and Evie exchanged a glance, and the former asked, "Shall we explain, or shall we?"
Evie shrugged: "You come on."
Rachel approached Aisha and spent several minutes explaining to her the origin of the world and God's choice.
Completely disenfranchised, Aisha's mind was in complete chaos, and she trembled with fear at the terrifying and overwhelming truth.
Looking at Aisha, who was completely disoriented, Rachel said to Evie, "She needs some time to process all of this. I can only explain what happened next to you."
Evie stared into Rachel's eyes: "On the condition that I hear the truth."
Rachel: "You want to rescue Todd, and you don't care about anything else. That's what we have in common; we don't have any disagreements or conflicts. In fact, I might even need your help... So, I'll tell you the truth."
Evie: "Whether it's the truth or not, I'll judge for myself. You can start speaking now."
Rachel: "As early as a thousand years ago, when the Presbyterian Church was first established, there were two factions within the council with differing opinions on how to deal with threats from the secular world."
"One faction advocates developing military power, enhancing alien abilities, and when the time is right, launching a counterattack, establishing a kingdom belonging to the alien race, and then controlling the entire world."
"Another faction advocates hiding and avoidance. They believe that there is a way to escape worldly pursuit and persecution and to establish a peaceful, autonomous kingdom in a utopian location, forever escaping worldly conflicts."
"I'll call the first faction the War Faction and the other the Hermit Faction."
"For a thousand years, the two factions have been fighting and opposing each other, and this has continued to this day."
"Currently, in the Council of Elders, the representative of the war faction is the Mother Goddess Eleanor, while the representative of the hermit faction is the High Elder Eliade."
Evie asked impatiently, "What does all this have to do with Todd?"
Rachel: "Be patient, I'll get to that later."
Rachel: "About a hundred years ago, the Presbyterian Church successfully resurrected the sage Sutherland. Both factions hoped to use Sutherland's fame to assist their own faction."
Ultimately, Sutherland chose to support the Hermits.
Evie yawned: "When are you finally getting to the point?"
Rachel: "Soon, I'm going to talk about another part of history that you're very familiar with, the Age of Gods in Beidao mythology."
Ivy suddenly stood up straight: "The gods? What does everything now have to do with that time?"
Rachel: "In the Age of Gods, Odin, the king of the gods, and his people squandered resources, eventually leading to their depletion and the world becoming desolate."
"In order to save the world, Odin sought out the Crystal of Absolute Will, hoping that it could help restore the world's resource balance and bring new life to the realm of the gods."
“Jing Su proposes that Odin and his people can rejoin the War of the Chosen and fight for the right to survive.”
“Odin backed down; he didn’t want to participate in the War of the Chosen again, so he focused his attention on the Beacon Tower.”
“Odin once witnessed Crystal using the beacon tower to travel between different spaces. If one could control the beacon tower, one could open the gate to another world. Then, he and his people could travel to another world and rebuild their home while preserving their power.”
"But Odin failed."
"Not only did he fail to open the otherworldly gate to the beacon tower, he also triggered the beacon tower's mechanism."
"The world has entered the countdown to the end of the world. What is about to happen is Ragnarok, which you are familiar with."
After explaining all this in one breath, Rachel took a breath.
Evie: "What's the difference between the Age of Gods and the present...?"
Rachel added, "I know what you're going to ask... The Elder Council now has the technology to control the beacon tower."
Evie's body trembled, and she reflexively exclaimed, "That's impossible!"
Rachel also looked puzzled: "To be honest, I didn't believe it at first either. But through the notes Eliard gave me, it did describe the beacon tower in detail, including its activation, the opening of the interdimensional portal, and the technology of living teleportation..."
"It contains a lot of information and data, written in runes from the time of the gods. It includes not only long-term observations from the Beacon Tower, but also thousands of years of records of celestial phenomena and tides... It certainly doesn't look like a forged notebook."
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