Chapter 497: The old friend leaves, the old days return, and the king takes responsibility! (Important chapter)
Material Plane, North.
The wind howled, huge waves crashed into pieces under the cliffs, and the dark sea surged in the biting cold wind.
The King of the Wild Hunt led an eight-legged horse, leaning on a spear in his hand, wearing an eyepatch on his blind left eye, with a lonely look in his eyes as he looked out at the cold sea.
A golden light, surging with light and holiness, fell on the other side of the cliff.
"Godfather."
The young and handsome god exuded the aura of the Nine Rings that looked down upon the Nine Realms, causing the King of the Wild Hunt to stare at him with awe.
He had a gentle and friendly smile on his face. Suddenly, Ye Zhi said with some surprise:
"Your eyes..."
"It cost something, don't worry about it."
The King of the Wild Hunt shook his head, his voice hoarse, and lightly changed the subject, saying with a smile: "I already know that you have been promoted to the ninth ring, Ye Zhi, this is quite remarkable... It is a miracle that I dare not even dream of..."
Ye Zhi was surprised to find that a year had passed since their last meeting, and the King of the Wild Hunt had aged terribly. His black hair had gradually turned gray, his face was covered with wrinkles, and even his left eye had lost its sight.
"What have you experienced this year?" Ye Zhi did not respond, and asked, "What is something that needs to be exchanged for an eye?"
The wind was biting cold, the waves were howling, and the King of the Wild Hunt moved his lips, revealing a heavy and sad look on his face. He slowly said, "This is a very long story... I will try to be brief..."
The time traveler Lorraine entered this world and slowly emerged with the help of his foresight of the game's worldview.
Lorraine built a vast empire and even established the Seven-Ring Sanctuary. He entered into a marriage contract with the Silver Dragon Queen, who was also a Seven-Ring. An empire that unified the material plane and was peaceful and prosperous was about to be built.
The story should have ended here, but disaster struck from the sky and foreign gods invaded.
At that time, the Silver Dragon Queen's prime minister betrayed her, joined forces with the Heaven to launch a rebellion, and executed the Silver Dragon Queen as a sacrifice.
Lorraine, furious, led his army into battle. Even as a time traveler, he was still powerless in the face of the Outer Gods and could only watch the empire fall apart.
A great flood destroyed the Third Age.
After the disaster, the Fourth Era arrived. The Heaven became the most powerful faith, and old gods in the God Realm awakened from their long sleep.
"I remember... I was already dead... Even if I were a time traveler, there was no way I could survive that situation..."
Lorraine said hoarsely: "But I still survived, as if I had crawled back from hell, and... was given the name of the King of the Wild Hunt."
A terrible guess arose in Ye Zhi's mind, but he kept silent.
A biting cold wind blew across Yeats's neck, and he asked calmly:
"Then what?"
"Then... as you can see, those heroes who were supposed to ascend to Valhalla became the Wild Hunt army in my domain." Lorraine said, "Later, I met you and found that you had a similar experience to me, so I rescued you from the hands of the apostles."
"It's been almost five years." Lorraine laughed at himself. "In five years, you have been promoted from the first ring to the ninth ring, and even obtained the Godhead of Light... To be honest, I really admire you, Ye Zhi."
"You have accomplished something that I have never accomplished." Lorraine said in a low voice, "And I... also have things that I must do."
A layer of haze quietly enveloped Ye Zhi's heart. The vision of the future brought him a strong premonition that the future he did not want to see would eventually come.
"What are you going to do?"
“Some people live in the present, while others live in the past.”
The King of the Wild Hunt stood in the cold wind, his originally tall and sturdy figure looking so thin.
Even though he was holding the divine spear Gungnir and leading the divine horse Sleipnir, he could not hide the fact that his life was gradually slipping away.
The Wild Hunt King's voice was filled with sadness, revealing his nostalgia for the good old days. He said hoarsely:
"I once ruled this era, but there is no place for me in the future... and now, the only thing I want to do is..."
"Yeats." The King of the Wild Hunt called out tremblingly, like begging, like confessing, "I want to go home."
Whether he wanted to return to the earth or the glorious old times, Yeats already had the answer in his mind.
The cold wind blew, drowning out the trembling in the voice of the King of the Wild Hunt. Ye Zhi just looked at the King of the Wild Hunt quietly and expressed his own inference.
"The chancellor of the Silver Dragon Queen is the current Pope. By betraying the Silver Dragon Queen, he has lived for thousands of years..."
Ye Zhi paused for a moment: "You killed him."
The King of the Wild Hunt did not deny it: "He should have died long ago."
"He is an important lackey of the heavens. They will never let him be assassinated easily. He must have a powerful blessing on him." Ye Zhi said, "Your blind left eye is the price of assassinating the Pope."
"You are very smart, Yeats, but you are only half right..." The King of the Wild Hunt said hoarsely, "Whether I kill him or not, I will go blind."
Ye Zhi was silent for a moment, then looked at the King of the Wild Hunt with complicated eyes:
"Do I have a way to free you?"
The King of the Wild Hunt shook his head with a smile.
"He has awakened in my body. I cannot change my fate... because when He spared my life and gave me power, all this was already determined..."
Yeats had already guessed the cause and effect.
The will that awakened in the body of the King of the Wild Hunt... was exactly the backup plan left by the old God-King long ago.
Only time travelers can be free from the bondage of fate. The supreme ones in the past valued this point and therefore made plans early on.
Minerva's warning, the plans of the Old God-King, and Gungnir in the hands of the King of the Wild Hunt.
The three supreme beings of the past, present and future will finally face off in a fateful confrontation!
"I wanted you to kill me, Ye Zhi, but I found that this would only advance His awakening." The King of the Wild Hunt said with a wry smile, "But fortunately, I can still use His power to accomplish what I have been thinking about for a long time..."
"Do you want me to accompany you?" Ye Zhi said in a low voice with indescribable sadness, "You... helped me a lot... I don't want to see you... alone at the end of your destiny..."
"I'm used to it."
The King of the Wild Hunt smiled with relief.
Immediately, the King of the Wild Hunt turned around and looked up at the sky, with a heroic spirit surging in his body again.
"Let me use the supreme power of the Old Ones to cut off the head of the Death Knight for you—"
The King of the Wild Hunt shouted, "This is my gift for your promotion to the Ninth Ring, Ye Zhi. I hope you are satisfied!!"
The next day, dawn.
A great war broke out in the divine world, and the blood of the angels dyed the sunset glow blood red.
The King of the Wild Hunt, holding Gungnir in his hand and riding on an eight-legged horse, attacked the realm of the gods alone.
The divine world was shaken and suffered heavy casualties. The battle did not stop until dusk!
At nightfall, Yeats learned from Minerva, who looked serious.
Before the Death Knight could even use his full strength, his head was twisted off by the Wild Hunt King.
Afterwards, the King of the Wild Hunt left in front of the eyes of the Heavens, and no one could stop him.
To be precise... that was no longer the King of Lorraine and the Wild Hunt that Yeats knew... but a supreme ruler of a bygone era...
The Death Knight fell silently, shaking the heavens and the nine realms in fear.
With the blood of this last Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Announcing the return of a past supreme being!
"I finally understand, Ye Zhi, why I have never been able to guess the plan of the Old God King before!!"
The goddess of wisdom, Minerva, clenched her teeth, and her teeth were chattering, not sure whether it was out of anger or fear.
"I don't know why, the King of the Wild Hunt... He is not subject to the observation of fate... So I can't predict the whereabouts of the Old God King!"
Ye Zhi had accepted all this calmly and nodded calmly:
"I know."
"You know?" Minerva was stunned for a moment, her face pale, and she repeated in a lost voice, "You know? How is this possible... All the creatures in the Nine Realms must obey fate, and the Supreme is no exception. But the King of the Wild Hunt is not..."
The next moment, Minerva was startled, with shock in her eyes, and looked at Ye Zhi in disbelief:
"Could it be that... Ye Zhi, you..."
Yeats interrupted Minerva, put his hands on her shoulders, and forced her to look at him:
"Think about your philosophy, Minerva. You have to restore order to this world... Calm down. We must now know what the Old God King wants to do!"
Minerva pursed her lips tightly, her eyes flickering, and nodded, "Yes... I have guessed the real plan of the Old God King..."
"What plan?" Yeats asked.
Minerva took a deep breath and stared at Yeats.
"The principle of cause and effect is the original law of this world. It laid the foundation for the Nine Realms. Even the God King cannot defy it..."
"However, the heavenly realm does not belong to this world. If we can merge the nine realms with the heavenly realm, we may be able to create an unprecedented miracle—"
Minerva said:
"The old God King fell after Ragnarok, and now he has returned in the body of the King of the Wild Hunt, just to reverse cause and effect!"
"What would happen if we reversed cause and effect?" Yeats asked.
"Time will flow backwards, and all the fates that happen now and in the future will cease to exist. But Odin can go back to the Second Age, the era when the God of Light still exists... and try to rewrite the ending of Ragnarok!"
Minerva said solemnly: "And everything that is now, whether it is you, me, the Nine Realms or the Heaven, will become nothingness!"
Ye Zhi said: "So... Odin sacrificed the present and the future in order to reverse cause and effect, go back to the past, and try to change the already predetermined outcome? For example, the death of the God of Light?"
Minerva said bitterly: "I know this sounds absurd...but...Yeats, we must stop Him...The thoughts of this Old One are as crazy as the Supreme Will!"
The Supreme Will is to eliminate the heretics in the Nine Realms and create a pure and beautiful new world, and for this it is necessary to bring down a doomsday catastrophe.
In order to return to the past, the Old One needs to merge the fragments of the Nine Realms and the Heavenly Realm. By then, everything now will no longer exist, and everything he owns will become nothing.
Ye Zhi's face was solemn. He felt that the contest between the two supreme beings was like a huge whirlpool that wrapped him tightly and made it difficult for him to breathe.
But in this desperate situation, there was actually a ray of hope... Ye Zhi raised his head, his eyes regained calmness, and said:
"Is there any way for me to become a Ten Rings as quickly as possible, Minerva?"
Minerva nodded, then shook her head.
"What does this mean?"
"With the help of the power of faith from the Nine Realms, you can indeed have divine power that rivals that of the Ten Rings, but it is only temporary."
Minerva whispered:
"Because you are still a human being after all, your body is not strong enough to bear the power of the Ten Rings Supreme..."
"Isn't it the same for Odin?" Ye Zhi said, "He took over the body of the King of the Wild Hunt, and he also doesn't have ten rings!"
Minerva was stunned, like a wise man who suddenly discovered his own mistake.
"Indeed... After two epochs, without the support of faith, Odin's power must be much weaker than before."
Minerva's eyes gleamed: "If you can let the faith of the nine realms be infused into you at the same time, Ye Zhi... you do have a chance of winning!"
"Then what are we waiting for?" Ye Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, we must stop the Old God King and turn everything back to square one!"
"But……"
"No buts... If I go back to the past, my beloved companions, cherished memories, everything I have, and even my own existence, will no longer exist!" Ye Zhi said.
"But... I'm worried about you... Yeats." Minerva said softly, her eyes flickering, and she said slowly, "Are you serious and ready to face all this?"
"To bear the faith of the nine realms will be extremely painful, and thousands of voices will ring in your ears at the same time."
"The belief in light is indeed the oldest and longest-lasting belief of mankind, but... after all, you have only been promoted to the Ninth Ring not long ago..."
Minerva bit her lower lip, her eyes showing determination, and said softly:
"If you can't make up your mind, then let me do it..."
"No need." Yeats said, "Humans worship wisdom, but when it comes to the degree of faith, they still believe in light more."
Minerva's eyes were slightly red as she stared at the young and handsome god.
His white robe was spotless, his voice was gentle, a soft halo surrounded him, and his eyes were filled with firm and persistent belief.
Ye Zhi said slowly: "If in the dispute between the past, present and future, a future Supreme is needed to compete with the other two Supremes..."
"So……"
Ye Zhi's eyes were as sharp as torches, overlooking the nine realms.
"I will take care of all this!"
…
(End of this chapter)
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