Chapter 025 [Inverted V] 25
"——The contract has been made. Anyone who breaks his promise will be punished by being eaten by the rock."
After the banquet of the Seven Gods came to an end, Barbatos excitedly dragged Solomon to find Morax to sign a contract, and he said that an agreement without the witness of the God of Contract was unreliable.
So Morax was also deceived by Barbatos into exploring the world outside under the nose of Tianli.
"You did it on purpose, Barbatos." Morax crossed his arms and looked down at Barbatos from his height. "I just asked you to write a few invitations--"
"Hey." Barbatos smiled and flew to the other side like the wind, hiding behind Solomon, trying to get away with it in front of Morax. "I just remember that the contract between the seven rulers must be witnessed by you, right? It just so happens that we are the only ones left now, and this matter will not affect others."
"But he didn't make this promise to you as the God of Grass, or as the ruler of the world." Morax pressed his brows with a headache, and glanced at Solomon, who was obviously daydreaming. "Besides, I can't guarantee that this contract will still be effective after he leaves Teyvat."
——This is not the Barbatos that Ritsuka always picks up and shakes, and Morax is not the guy that Luvia and Tosaka Rin always borrow...
After Solomon emptied his mind and tried to chase away the strange images in his mind to no avail, he came to his senses just in time to hear Morax say that the contract would not remain valid after Solomon left Teyvat.
"...So I told Barbatos to use the self-enforced document a long time ago." Solomon sighed and looked at the contract on the table. "So, now that the contract has been signed, I should be able to go back, right?"
"Why don't we just clarify things now?" Barbatos tilted his head and winked at Solomon. "And you didn't tell me how to ensure that my memory is not affected by the changes in the World Tree. Now is the perfect time. It will be much more troublesome to find time after we go back."
"So, where do you want to start?" Solomon took the signed contract and turned to ask the other two for their opinions. "Looking at Barbatos's attitude, if I don't make things clear today, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to Sumi."
"Let's start with preserving memories." Morax asked the most important question according to the terms of the contract before Barbatos asked strange questions out of curiosity, "How do you plan to preserve our memories of you? The memory overwrite after the World Tree is modified can even affect the memory of the Demon God--"
"Regarding this matter, in fact, we have done similar operations in the past - before coming to Teyvat." Solomon changed into Roman's appearance and spread his hands to Morax. "But the difference between Teyvat and other worlds - or my original world - is that the modification of the world tree will only involve memory, and reality will not change."
“Reality…?” Barbatos sat on Morax’s desk and raised his hand towards Roman. “No, you can also have different avatars like us?”
“No, both of these images are me—the only difference is Solomon’s ‘past’ and Roman’s ‘present’.” Roman glanced at Barbatos. “To be realistic, the simple fact is—Even if Barbatos still thinks of Everoasis as the tomb of the goddess of flowers, Everoasis has always been Avalon.”
"It's just that you would think it has always been like this, and you don't know that Everoasis was built based on Avalon as a template. By the way, the appearance of Roman's 'present' appearance was changed only because Solomon's 'past' image is still one of the seven registered gods. I don't intend to confuse Teyvat's current understanding of the world's governance."
“So, in your world, changes in memory also mean changes in reality?” Morax lifted Barbatos off the table and summarized Roman’s previous statement. “Am I right?”
“In fact, strictly speaking, in our world, the memory ‘records’ change because the real ‘history’ has changed.” Roman thought of the journey he took with the Savior across the world hundreds of years ago. “It’s because the real ‘history’ has changed that the memory ‘records’ are affected.”
——People who died in the singularity will not come back to life because the singularity disappears. At best, those who were killed by monsters will become those killed by wild beasts. After all, Uruk is destined to decline after this time node, regardless of whether the tide of chaos destroys the city in front of you.
The oldest king of mankind calmly told the truth to the savior who had crossed six singularities. On the eve of the final battle, he told the cruel truth about the singularities to the sixteen-year-old girl.
——In the original records you know, Uruk declined after the fifth monarch. No matter what the reason was, it declined. But there were still humans living in this land. Until the time you were in, there were always people living in this land of Mesopotamia.
——Since we are destined to fall, there is no difference between the remaining five hundred and the remaining king. You must defeat Tiamat not for the survival of Uruk, but for the survival of humans in this land from ancient times to the present, even if this is no longer Uruk.
——However, there is no difference between only 500 people left and only me left. That is just from Alaya's perspective. Fujimaru Ritsuka, you have to remember that it is because of your appearance that there are still 500 people alive in Uruk even now. Originally, at this time, in the future that I saw, I was the only one left.
——Fujimaru Ritsuka, they are alive today because of you, so you don't have to feel guilty about Tiamat's awakening. Besides, if you want to feel guilty about this, are you the king? You are not qualified to feel guilty about this!
“…But this can only be regarded as the self-consistency of historical development. Except for Chaldea, which intervened in the singularity, no one would have any memory of the singularity. It’s like a daydream.” Roman looked away and mentioned the story that happened in another world. “Before coming here, we went to another world. However, when we arrived, it was already a little too late.”
The time error could not be repaired in any way - if the lepton transfer system had successfully completed its size reduction, they could have carried the reduced size lepton transfer system back to an earlier point in time, but at that time the research on the reduced size lepton transfer system had just begun, so they finally concluded that they had to tear it down and rebuild it.
It’s like a second journey hundreds of years ago—the bleaching of humanity, and the final re-editing of humanity that was never seen.
However, this time they took the initiative to whitewash and compile the human logic of that world.
——After all, human reason is a general term for concepts such as human history, so if there is no human reason, there will be destruction. On the contrary, as long as human reason exists, no matter what human beings look like, they will definitely exist in this world. The history of the anomalous zone is the history calculated and deduced by the fantasy tree, and the history of pan-human history is the same, but it is just the dream of the planet itself.
——Since it is a dream, let’s create another one.
——The history of the world, the creatures that exist in it... these are just dreams of the planet under my feet. So it doesn't matter if I come a hundred years late, I just need to give this planet a brand new dream.
“However, since reality is the planet’s dream, rewriting the dream means that the entire world will change, including human memory… I think no one will have any memory of the previous reality ‘dream’.” Roman lowered his eyes and slowly recalled the scene before the magic was performed that night. “Due to the will of the ‘anchor’ that was chosen at the time, we retained his memory of the original reality.”
"How did you do it?" Morax crossed his arms and got straight to the point. "Although the modification of the world tree will not affect reality, the modification of memory overwrites it - it sounds the closest to the world that you directly tore down and rebuilt."
"In fact, I think that method is not suitable for dealing with the World Tree - although that is not the operation I am responsible for." Roman pondered and glanced at Barbatos who sat down casually, "Because it simply strengthens the original memory of the holder - using hints. To deal with the World Tree, I personally think it would be more appropriate to use metaphorical hints of prophecy."
"Or we can weave a dream for you. The reality of Teyvat will not be changed by the World Tree. Then, you can use a certain scenery or concept that has always existed to remind you of our existence." Roman thought for a moment and took out the flower that Merlin left behind to represent the dream. "This is a trigger suggestion. The previous world was a very direct suggestion."
"The triggering formula can only be effective if the triggering conditions are met." Roman pointed to a strange stone placed in a corner of the room. "To put it simply, just like when we mention wind, we think of Barbatos, and when we mention rock, we think of Morax. If we use this method, the keywords for the three of us should be desert, rainforest, and oasis."
"Of course, you can also choose words that are more closely associated with ourselves."
"Is there any other way?" Barbatos said seriously, stroking his chin. "It doesn't seem safe to use only one method. What are the words that are more closely related to you?"
"Then I can write a fairy tale for you - no, I'm not talking about a real fairy tale, but a text with hints like the prophecy I left for you." Roman began to think seriously about possible methods. "In fact, I personally recommend that you use magician as our keyword, because it can trigger three..."
"But if we separate them individually... they are the wise, the sage, and the hero."