Chapter 289 The Sacred Entity of Avalon
According to Aiwas's previous understanding, the answer to this question is very clear.
He was Edwards Moriarty. He was also Edwards Alexander. If you included his past life memories, he was a time traveler from another world.
But now, Aiwass is a little unsure.
Why did I come to this world?
Why am I the only one who came into this world?
Why was it that I was the only one who could awaken my past life memories? And I also happened to be the player who had played this "game" and had insight into the future...
When Aiwass was born, his grandfather had already arrived in Eagle Point and lived in seclusion. So was his birth also related to his grandfather's research?
Originally, Aiwass was only wary of his adoptive father - as a mastermind who was elusive and no one knew what he was trying to do, anything he did would be regarded by Aiwass as some kind of long-term plan.
——As a result, Aiwass now discovered that his own grandfather was actually a mad scientist!
This discovery made Aiwass feel uneasy.
Am I a swampman too? Or am I a copy of someone?
It's even possible that I'm Jacob who lost his memory!
And Jacob may not be dead.
...Let’s not talk about the issue of the inheritance of Avalon’s intangible cultural heritage technology, the “art of suspended animation”.
If his research is complete, his achievements will be enough to elevate him to become an apostle.
And then, Aiwass thought of another thing——
——Player.
In other words, the players in the game setting.
There is no such place as Eagle Point Village in the game. But perhaps it is not that it does not exist, but that players cannot find it.
When creating a character, each player has their own background settings - they have to set their own race, background, origin, as well as personal pursuits and goals. In the plot dialogue, these things can become their exclusive dialogue options; some tasks will also be different depending on the player's origin.
Eventually, players arrive at the Glass Island and lose their wallets and identification documents—but before that, they are all registered and real people in this world.
But here comes the problem.
As players of the Serpent Father bloodline, if we look at their backgrounds... then except for the player who chose the "Orphan" background, all other players have parents and families. So why aren't their families descendants of the Serpent Father?
Or, why do players never go home?
From a gameplay perspective, it's easy to explain. Because there are so many origins and backgrounds to choose from, designing individual quests and NPCs related to their pasts for each origin and background would add a lot of unnecessary work.
Therefore, players would always encounter various things, leaving them with no suitable reason to run away and return home... and eventually they got used to being chased away, and then Avalon was directly destroyed. In other words, the whole family was destroyed.
……But.
If there is a player character who is the "official protagonist," that is, the officially confirmed protagonist... then this person should also exist. In other words, because the protagonist has his own origins and background, then this protagonist should also exist in real life - and arrived at Glass Island in October.
But Aiwass confirmed again and again that there was indeed no such person.
So Aiwass came up with a terrible but reasonable idea -
Could it be that the original "protagonist" was the swamp man created by Jacob?
That's why they, who were supposed to be mortals, became descendants of the Serpent Father; that's why no family came to visit after a long period of no contact; that's why players can gain public experience through such transcendental acts as killing powerful enemies; that's why players can be resurrected infinitely after death but at the cost of experience; that's why players can never find the nearby Eagle Point Village; that's why players arrive at the scene just in time to save Aiwass when he's in danger...
If that's the case, then everything makes sense!
The "protagonist" controlled by the player is most likely a test subject created by Jacob using some materials related to the Snake Father!
But now that I have obtained the "system", the person who can use free experience is no longer the player, but myself...
Seeing Aiwass sitting on the sofa with his head down, lost in a long silence and thought, the elder sighed and poured Aiwass a cup of tea.
"Don't overthink it, kid."
The elder said calmly, "Jacob loves you."
"I was just wondering..."
Aiwass hesitated for a moment, then asked, "My grandfather...is he really dead?"
Even now, when Aiwas just recalled the fact that he and Jacob had a fever at the same time... he felt that it was full of conspiracy.
As a high-level Curse Mage—quite possibly the highest-ranking Curse Mage in Avalon at the time—it was impossible for him not to notice he was cursed, let alone to be unable to counter the curse cast by these weak Curse Mages. His eventual death, then, was quite bizarre.
What's even more strange is that all his research notes disappeared after his death.
If the person who stole his research results was Noble Red, then how did they reach Eagle Cape Village, which is protected by the fairy barrier?
If they really arrived at Eagle Cape Village, why didn't they kill everyone here?
So if it wasn't stolen by the Noble Red's men...why didn't the Noble Red come looking for it nearby? And who took these things?
Aiwass felt that he already knew a lot.
But there were even more things he didn't know.
He truly felt that the old man related to him was not just his adoptive father James - or rather, he was now like a chess piece in a game between two old men. And Aiwass had just realized that there was another chess player.
Afterwards, Aiwass asked the elder again, but he could not provide any new useful information.
So Aiwass could only say goodbye politely and leave.
The next target of inquiry is the only pastor in Eagle Point Village.
In this village shrouded in the power of dusk, the priest might also bring more surprises to Aiwas.
And at this moment.
The Great Guardian George was currently using the soul-searching spell to carefully search the brain of a high-ranking member of the Noble Red whom he had captured alive for information.
Because everyone knows that he has the soul-searching magic, it is extremely difficult for him to capture someone alive... Before being captured alive, the other person will commit suicide.
Only now had he finally captured one. The individual had been lurking on Glass Island for a long time, but had suddenly decided to leave today. As a result, during their transfer, they were caught red-handed by the returning Great Guardian—a surprise attack that had resulted in his first high-ranking capture alive.
George decided to search his memory thoroughly.
As soon as he started reading memories, he encountered a problem - he didn't quite understand the terminology used by the other party. Because reading memories does not include extraordinary knowledge, it is also a kind of protection for the caster.
"...a divine entity?"
The Great Guardian frowned: "What is that..."
He gripped the other person's cheek with a little more force, and the other person's body twitched more violently. Large clouds of white smoke seeped out of the other person's facial features and were slowly inhaled by the Great Guardian.
He received information he had never received before.
In his opinion, the only desires of these Noble Red giants should be revenge on Avalon, independence from Avalon, or seizing Avalon's land. Their most fundamental purpose is to allow Xiong Tiansi to return to the position of Pillar God.
To achieve this goal, they must instigate massive acts of violence around the world, causing chaos and disorder in the world, thereby shaking the concept of authoritarianism.
Just listen to their names and declarations and you will know——
"—We are all wounded fists, bloody hands, and scaleless blades."
The Great Guardian knew that the predecessor of the Noble Red organization was called the Scaleless Hand.
It was a large armed organization composed of unarmored and unloyal superhumans. It was essentially a superhuman rebel army that rebelled against the former king, the tyrant "Hanging King" Tudor III.
After Queen Sophia ascended the throne, gradually appeased the people, and resolved many problems left by Tudor III, the Scaleless Hand lost its core cohesion.
Because even though they haven't done anything yet, or almost nothing, their lives have gotten better on their own, and will continue to get better and better...then they can actually return to their daily lives.
However, the power and heritage of this spontaneously assembled army of transcendents attracted the attention of the Star Antimony Kingdom. With the Star Antimony Kingdom's generous assistance, the Noble Red, with the former Giant Prince at its core, was born.
They are richer and more powerful than the Scaleless Hand - they do not need to provide funds for activities voluntarily like the Scaleless Hand, or carry out assassination missions to obtain funds. They do not need to do anything and the organization will pay them regularly. They are a completely non-production underground organization.
However, greed is insatiable. Their connections in Xingtan allow them to easily initiate smuggling.
In the end, Avalon discovered them by tracking down smuggling.
Otherwise, an organization of extraordinary people whose funds do not flow in from the country, has strict entry thresholds and actively eliminates people, in this era without big data and even bank data cannot be communicated in real time, is basically invisible.
On the other hand, since they took the Star People's money...then they were essentially working for the Star People.
The purpose of the Star Antimony people is naturally to disrupt Avalon.
...But now, the Great Guardian received an unexpected answer.
The memories of this high-ranking official of Noble Red revealed that their acts of "revenge" and "rebellion" against Avalon were merely attempts to defraud money and gain support from Star Antimony.
The Noble Reds were not, as they thought, puppets of the Star Antimony people. They also had their own conspiracies, or rather, their own demands.
Of course, the core appeal is indeed related to the Supreme Heaven.
But they did not hope to seize power by force, nor did they intend to cause chaos - this was indeed behavior consistent with the intelligence and character of the giants, but the giant prince was an unexpectedly wise and calm type.
They had gathered on the Glass Island because Wolfram had received information from a prophecy that a divine entity was currently on the Glass Island. If it could be captured, it would be of great help in the return of the Supreme Heaven.
But the prophecy didn't reveal what this divine entity was. Searching for it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The only definite clue was that this divine entity was related to transcendental deities like the Snake Father or the Heavenly Ring Master.
The reason why they are evacuating now is very simple——
Because this morning, news came from headquarters that the [Sacred Entity] they were looking for was no longer on Glass Island.
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(End of this chapter)
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