Chapter 176 Great Guardian Saint George
Under the escort of the Great Guardian, Lily quickly pushed the wheelchair to find Aiwass.
After the greetings, he gladly accepted the invitation from the Great Guardian.
"I happen to have something else to say to you."
Aiwass said so.
The Great Guardian glanced at the flame butterfly quietly resting on Aiwass's shoulder and nodded slightly.
He studied Aiwass carefully.
Although he looked a little unwell... he was obviously in good health and looked healthy. This meant that Aleister had not treated Aiwass badly in terms of food.
In this case, maybe my guess is correct...
Unlike Lily, Aiwass immediately recognized the Grand Guardian of Avalon, "Saint George".
——It’s not because he entered the game later or became a BOSS.
But it’s because he is in the game’s entrance CG.
If you wait a little longer on the waiting page when entering the game, the video will automatically start playing. It may be that you are idle, or you may be updating or verifying files.
The content of the video is very smart, and it is consistent with the current mainline progress of the player's last logged-in character - it will use a brief summary method to tell you all the major events you have experienced so far, all the way to the current mainline. Then if it is not updated yet, it will go back and tell it again.
Starting from version 2.0, the first clip played by CG is about him.
As the end of the "Cruel Autumn" event that destroyed Avalon, its iconic CG is the Great Guardian riding his griffin, facing the armed gargoyles in the sky under dark clouds.
Star Antimony's Armed Gargoyles are quite formidable air units and are also representatives of Star Antimony technology.
Unlike elite units like the Air Cavalry, the Armed Gargoyles emphasize mass production.
Gargoyles are essentially familiars, using curses to drive stone statues to move. The principle is similar to that of demon dogs, but the technology is more advanced... at least they can fly.
Gargoyles possess strong spell resistance, capable of deflecting low-level spells and effectively countering entry-level Law spells. With the help of alchemists, these mass-produced gargoyles have had their arms modified into machine guns, and carry two ammunition belts. Their bodies are covered in a layer of flesh armor designed to resist curses, and then a layer of iron shells to protect the flesh armor.
A few armed gargoyles alone could be easily dealt with by the air cavalry, but the problem was that there were too many of them—and once they formed a group, the griffon cavalry could not launch an effective charge, and the overseers also lacked flexible anti-aircraft means.
The priests could have easily dispelled them, but their dispelling light would be blocked and absorbed by the custom-made flesh shells - because those flesh shells were alive. Made of sinners and captives, they were processed by necromancers to preserve a minimum of brains and organs, allowing these flesh to survive for a short period of time.
Only powerful mages can effectively freeze them and smash them from the air... But under the continuous attacks of gargoyles, it is really difficult to protect these fragile back rows.
But in fact, Avalon also had means of resistance at that time.
If the air cavalry summons lightning, it can kill the flesh and blood inside through the iron shell through the lightning, so that the priests' dispel will be effective.
Similarly, the Colossus, which constantly draws upon the earth's power to regenerate no matter how it's killed or shattered, can also be dealt with. The secret to the Colossus's rebirth lies in the rune on its head; simply adding a stroke to the rune will cause the Golem to instantly collapse and die.
However, these secrets were not revealed until much later. At that time, the Star Antimony was a surprise attack... The gargoyles that were almost impossible to resist with any means, and the completely indestructible colossi brought great fear, causing the army to collapse directly.
The Queen was dead, and the Round Table was in chaos. The soldiers had no idea who they were fighting for.
Their morale was already low, and they almost collapsed when faced with a powerful enemy rushing directly at their faces.
After the army was routed, the Grand Guardian, as the supreme commander in chief, ordered the soldiers to surrender.
But he himself did not surrender - he told the other air troopers to survive and take care of their griffin companions.
Then he led his griffin and launched the final charge.
That was the final charge in this war.
In the CG, after the Great Guardian charges forward, the camera zooms out, revealing several massive golems towering into the sky. The Star Antimony army marches in perfect order, while the Avalonian army retreats like a tide of ants. As the golems march, their single eye fires thick lasers, carving vast furrows across the ground and setting the forest ablaze.
After the Great Guardian countered the attack, the Colossus simultaneously launched a massive red beam towards a tiny, barely discernible dot in the sky. The beams converged, and a massive burst of light erupted from the center.
After a few seconds, a howling tornado erupted. The storm then expanded wildly, engulfing the gargoyles and temporarily crumbling the formation on the ground. Even a hole appeared briefly in the dark clouds above.
But that's all.
The Great Guardian was powerless to save the situation and could only choose to die with honor.
Aiwass didn't even know the other powerful figures whose names began with "Great", such as the Grand Judge - he didn't even know what they looked like or whether they were male or female. But he was very familiar with the Grand Guardian.
After all, when you enter the game, pour yourself a cup of tea and you'll see your opponent launch a desperate charge to the sound of tragic and majestic background music. Then, a Chinese voiceover, like that of Mr. Zhao Zhongxiang, begins: "In 1899, the Cruel Autumn Incident announced the destruction of the Kingdom of Avalon..."
Or when you enter the game and update or verify files, you'll usually see the tornado gargoyle—this clip lasts about ten seconds. As for clips after 2.0, you rarely see them, given that the Aiwass family has a pretty good internet connection... If you log in every day, you'll only get to see the major version updates for a while.
This has led to Mr. Great Guardian becoming extremely well-known among players. There's even a meme that goes, "Fortunately, my internet speed is fast enough and the Great Guardian is not dead"; or "My internet is not very good today and I keep getting disconnected. The Great Guardian has already rushed back and forth eight times." Some people even made ghost videos of the Great Guardian or did other dubbing.
Therefore, although Aiwass has never played this main storyline at all - after all, he jumped directly to the beginning of 3.0 after defeating the Flame Butterfly, he also has a good impression of the Great Guardian.
——It was a kind of intimacy that came from meeting an acquaintance in a foreign country.
But at the same time, this also reminded Aiwass of the dangers in the future... After all, so much time had passed. Aiwass had almost forgotten the threat of Xingti... After all, he had lived as Aiwass for another 18 years.
Although the memories of the previous life have just been restored and I can still remember them relatively clearly, I can't help but have a lucky mentality that "that will be a long time in the future, at least more than a year away."
When he saw the Great Guardian again, Aiwass suddenly realized that the future was not far away.
He truly felt the sense of crisis coming from the future, which made his back tighten and his expression became slightly more serious.
Aiwass knew that this was a good man.
Loyal to the queen and the country, upright, brave, pious, humble... He can almost be said to be the epitome of a knight, and the most "knight-like" knight in modern Avalon.
And that's why he died. Because he couldn't tolerate his own betrayal.
I have to find a way to save him. Good people should live longer.
Aiwass thought.
——Although he didn’t know why, the Great Guardian could clearly feel that... Aiwass had a good impression of him.
This made him very happy too.
The Grand Guardian had never met Aiwass properly before. This was their first meeting... Although, as a founding family, they should have been in the same social circle, the Moriarty family rarely held banquets. Only one person could inherit the Moriarty name, and when the new head of the family ascended to the throne, the other siblings would lose their surname and inheritance rights.
Because of this, the way of interacting with the Moriarty family is different from that with other families.
Before they were sure who the next generation of Moriarty would be, it was basically useless to interact with them. So generally speaking, they would choose to wait and see... Unless the previous generation of Moriarty had already named someone, in which case everyone would basically be polite and distant.
This is also to avoid accusations of "influencing and manipulating other family inheritances."
Another reason is that many of the other founding families didn't recognize the Moriartys. After all, the Moriartys had been adopted sons for generations, and they no longer had any of the original Mordred's bloodline... not to mention that Mordred's son had long since betrayed Avalon. Without the Moriartys, the family name would have been exterminated.
Patton was certainly not among them, but the general trend was such that he could only remain silent.
Of the professor's adopted children, the most famous was probably the rumored playboy Aiwass. Before meeting him, he had also thought Aiwass was a playboy.
However, the Great Guardian just came over to take a look, and his intuition told him: Aiwass is a good boy.
That's great, let him talk to David.
It also saves David from having to keep talking about his "Mr. Aleister" - Aiwass is the role model he should learn from.
The Great Guardian thought so.
(End of this chapter)
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