Chapter 946: Rebuilding the Helasar Empire?
After Lanton left, Aiwass, holding the little crow in his arms, suddenly said:
"I quite like this young man."
——Although Aiwass himself is nearly ten years younger than Landon, his rather old-fashioned words at this moment surprisingly did not feel out of place.
"Why?"
Vines was inexplicably dissatisfied: "Is it because of the words he praised you?"
"Because of you."
"……What?"
Aiwass's words made Vignes suddenly stuck for a moment.
"Just kidding," Aiwass chuckled. "Actually, it's because he's empathetic, cautious, and doesn't want to fool anyone. He thought of those who weren't rescued, remembered that Avalon wasn't very accepting of Transcendents before, and when I said, 'I need a Bayard,' he directly stated that he probably couldn't help me... instead of agreeing first and then considering how to deal with it. This shows that he subconsciously considered how he should complete this task."
"Given your status, it's normal that he doesn't dare to fool you."
Instead, Vines began to pour cold water on his junior: "This doesn't prove that he can be so cautious in other matters."
"That's a mentality issue, not a capability issue. Even so, there's still a possibility that he can adjust."
Aiwass said casually, smiling and pinching the warm belly of the little crow in his arms: "Why are you jealous of your junior? He is a boy, my little crow."
He could sense that Bayard was jealous because he was praising other Bayards.
"...This is the effect of the jealousy mark on me." Bayard said stubbornly.
"Yeah, I guess so."
Aiwass didn't press the point. "But you said… 'Territory is the secret treasure, blood is the key.' Is this a universal principle of curses? Is this also how the Herasil Secret Treasury came about? Was it also created by your Bayard family?"
"Definitely not."
Vines replied confidently, "That's the royal treasury. How could they possibly ask a common curse-caster to do it? If a Bayard of a certain generation fell ill or was bribed, wouldn't that be like someone privately duplicating the treasury key?"
"But the principle is the same... It must also be a curse. Whether it's the ritual, the mechanism, or the barrier, it's all too easy to break. As long as the operation is carried out for a long enough time, no matter how complex the ritual is, it can be broken. Since the Herasil Vault has not been cracked yet, it must be based on a curse."
Indeed, Aiwass thought.
This was the case with the Eagle Point Village ritual—Evans, at the time only at the third level, was already able to decipher the Swamp People ritual set by his grandfather. He didn't proceed simply because he wasn't sure if it would cause harm to the residents of Eagle Point Village. Even Vivian, completely ignorant of rituals, stole Arondite, disrupting Merlin's Shadow of Avalon ritual—she had no idea the "dagger" was related to the Shadow of Avalon ritual, yet she could easily disrupt others' rituals.
This is how rituals exist. While they can enable the weak to triumph over the strong, the process is too complex and the principles too opaque—like a transmission consisting of many gears, any one of which, if stopped or damaged, could trigger a chain reaction with unexpected consequences.
"...Since it's a curse," Aiwass said, "Can you help lift it?"
"I can't do that."
Crow shook his head. "This is the biggest difference between a curse and a ritual. A ritualist can dispel or counter the rituals of other ritualists, but a curser cannot dispel curses cast by others. To achieve a universal solution, one needs light—a sufficiently powerful purifying force that can also dispel a curse. But in that case, the curse itself would be completely destroyed."
Is that physical unlocking?
Aiwass thought about it and asked, "If the curse is used to preserve treasure, will this method of breaking it destroy the treasure inside?"
"meeting."
Vines said confidently, "Just like the contaminated remains of Sister Sasha, you, Master, must pray for Sister Sasha to cleanse them personally, rather than simply throwing them into holy water to soak. Similarly, you shouldn't use strong medicine on someone who's been ill for a long time; their body won't be able to withstand it."
But as soon as she said this, she realized what Aiwass was going to do: "You want to open the Vault of Herasil?"
"Although Valentine has taken possession of the Herasil Vault... this does not belong to Valentine, nor does it belong to Star Antimony. Furthermore, there's more to it than that."
Aiwass pondered and whispered, “Lanton’s existence gave me a revelation… Even a Bayard who is living abroad can be considered a Bayard.
"--Then, if the Swamp Man was created with the blood of the Heracles royal family, could he also be considered the true Heracles?"
Valentine VII was now dead, Valentine VIII was being transformed into the Son of the Moon, and the former regent, Queen Louise, had voluntarily fallen into the state of succubus. In a sense, the royal lineage of the Star Antimony Kingdom had long been in tatters, and the regime had completely collapsed.
Although the princess had the magnanimity to inherit the throne... her control over the planet was now almost nonexistent, and even the people no longer trusted Valentine. Furthermore, the princess's desire to improve the planet's chaos and ensure a better life for its people wasn't so much to become the monarch.
As for Prince Szijjártó—he didn't want to be a monarch at all, he just wanted to be a safe and stable alchemist.
All other royal family members who had the hope of inheriting the throne had been killed by the Red Prime Minister.
in this case……
"I suddenly remembered... Julia's real name before she was adopted was Julia Hercules."
Aiwass narrowed his eyes slightly. "As it happens, she's also an alchemist. The Star Antimony people will like her... After all, she's going to participate in the final battle too."
There is another reason why Aiwass suddenly had this idea.
Don't the Moon Children want to rebuild the Herasil Empire? Isn't restoring Herasil's glory the slogan that connects them, the slogan that makes them cooperate across borders and forces?
——Then if a real Herasil is rebuilt directly on the ruins of Xingti...what should they choose?
Let Xingti merge with Avalon - it has all the inheritance of the nine great ways, and its geographical location is also on the old territory of Herasil. It can even reopen the Herasil Vault. The people are the pure-blooded Herasil people of the past, and the ruler is still the pure-blooded Hercules. Even the legal basis for the revival of this old empire can be recognized by the Pope... and Julia can be allowed to become emperor.
In this way, war and hatred will be eliminated.
The dispute between Avalon and Star Antimony has become a regional dispute within a country; the Narcissus Principality and the Black Hawk Principality, which previously claimed independence based on the "orthodox inheritance of Hellasl", may not be unable to rejoin - they broke off their ties with the Star Antimony Kingdom, so what relationship does it have with the New Hellasl Empire?
The Iris Kingdom, which is equally wary of Star Antimony and Avalon, and is even likely to have made great contributions to the independence events of the Narcissus Principality and the Black Hawk Principality, is unlikely to conflict with "New Herasl".
Then peace will come, and peace will bring prosperity, and prosperity will bring glory.
By then, it would not be difficult to truly "revive Hellassar".
When a country looks like Hellas, sounds like Hellas, feels like Hellas...
—Then it is Herasil.
I went to my brother's wedding today. Wow, there were two bottles of Moutai on the table. Unfortunately, I took anti-inflammatory medicine and didn't have the chance to try it (pounding the ground)
I have almost written half of the second chapter and should post it around 8 o'clock!
(End of this chapter)
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