Chapter 026 [Inverted V] 26

On the way back to Sumi from Liyue, Solomon had reestablished communication with Chaldea and Gilgamesh.

"Although there is still a long time to go, we can get ready now." Olga Marie was on duty tonight. She was chugging a cup of coffee while looking through the contents of the Banquet of the Seven Gods that Solomon had summarized and submitted. "The Scarlet King will leave the stage in about a thousand years... From this perspective, this time is not that long for the Seven Gods."

"Why not ask King Gilgamesh how he is preparing?" Solomon smiled and stopped in front of a wetland with blooming moon lilies. He asked Gilgamesh, who was connected to him by another communication line, "In fact, for us, a thousand years is just a blink of an eye."

"...After all, I was sleeping most of the time, and when I woke up, I found that hundreds of years had passed. This was the long dream before your journey began." Gilgamesh sat on the throne, looking at the empty hall under his feet, "I wonder if you have read the records about the Red King later-"

"The Lord has sorted out this part." Olgamari pulled out the document prepared by Lansermello and sent it to the two people in Teyvat. "The Lord made relevant annotations on the text content provided by the world consciousness. In the part about the Red King, the Lord mentioned that if she did not choose to decide the three places at once, but made the choice according to the records..."

"The King of Trees cannot be anyone other than King Solomon. Perhaps you would say that Athena and Odin are also within the scope of choice - but please do not forget that the goddess of wisdom is also the goddess of war; although the Nordic king drank the water of the fountain of wisdom, he still came from a tribe of warmongers."

"Since the King of Trees can only be Solomon, then the choice of the God of Flowers is also a natural one - only the Queen of Sheba is the one who asked King Solomon questions and made things difficult for him. Only she would have contact with King Solomon like the God of Flowers and the King of Trees."

"Finally, the only one left was the Red King. In the records, the desert people once called the Red King "the lost son of the sky", but he raised the banner of rebellion against the law of heaven - I think "two-thirds are gods, one-third are humans", as the wedge of heaven, he did not let humans bow their heads and obey the gods again, but was the first to bid farewell to the gods. It is undoubtedly appropriate. "

"But this is just a short and brief record. If we look at the later records, we can see that the Red King sought immortality after the death of the Flower God. If we only look at this part, that is one of the reasons for choosing King Gilgamesh. In the later records, it was mentioned that the Red King was seeking the magic medicine to "abandon the mortal body." "

"The idea of ​​"abandoning the mortal body" is very interesting. The materialization of the soul of the third law allows the master to live forever even if he abandons his body, but can he still be called a human being? At least most people don't think that after losing the human form, such an existence can still be called a human being. "

"However, there are rare exceptions. The King of the Third Sound Zone witnessed by New Chaldea abandoned his human body and put his consciousness into the mechanical Sage body created by Sage Technology. He then ruled the Sage Zone as the only "human" in that Sage Zone and conquered the world."

"In fact, there are more than two people who can be pointed to in the records about the Red King. The Red King is also known as the God of the Sun and Authority. In that case, King Osmanthus of Egypt is also a suitable candidate. He even combined Amon and that Amon and used himself as a vessel to perform more than one divine descent!!!"

"Ha, it seems that there is a reason why she never wants to mention Amon." Gilgamesh laughed at Solomon, "Have you never noticed it?"

"Our current topic is to discuss how you should 'die' in accordance with the needs of the world's consciousness." Solomon replied to Gilgamesh without changing his expression, bringing the topic back on track, "So, did she give a comment on the part about the Red King's ending? I can modify the record of the three treacherous ministers based on the World Tree alone. After all, how could King Gilgamesh allow the treacherous ministers to appear in front of him?"

The maze "Rainforest" opened a passage home for the owner who had been waiting outside for a long time. The trees bowed to their king and welcomed Solomon's return on both sides of the path. Solomon stepped into the maze and walked towards the residence of his relatives deep in the rainforest, while checking the notes written by Lancermero at the place where the Red King fell.

"...I'm beginning to regret arranging for King Gilgamesh to go to this world."

Lancer-Melloi's unique blue handwriting was printed on the edge of the document, and there were spaces between the black words. Solomon rarely saw the student's exposed emotions through these handwritings. He felt that Lancer-Melloi sincerely regretted letting Gilgamesh take on the identity of the Red King.

So Solomon then turned his attention to the neatly written records:

"If one looks at the past with one eye and at the dream with the other, one will surely get lost."

"... Out of obsession with old memories, the lonely king created a dreamland that would never age in the middle of the desert."

Solomon's eyelids twitched violently - he probably anticipated what would happen next.

Solomon then looked back at the communication video connected to the Chaldea Control Room, but found that the person sitting in the director's seat had changed from Olgamari to Lansermello.

"Send the children back to bed?" Solomon asked Lansermero, closing the document full of comments. "Since you are here, there is no need to continue reading this document, right?"

"Fujimaru is still asleep." Lanser-Melo answered Solomon's question irrelevantly, "Olga is not someone who can handle that kind of situation, so I came here - the king doesn't need to see it, but we still have to wait for King Gilgamesh's choice."

"Alice." Gilgamesh read the entire document and said the student's name with a cold face. "I think you should know what you were thinking when you wrote it, right? Then tell us everything you were thinking here. Teyvat is not our world. Even if it is the same story, it will leave different records here."

"King Gilgamesh, I don't think you can love anyone—" Lansemello looked at Gilgamesh calmly, "You are undoubtedly an excellent king, and you have the responsibility to protect human rights, but you will not pay attention to a single individual, and naturally you will not fall in love with the 'Goddess of Flowers' like the 'Red King' in the records, there is no doubt about that."

——The devil has the instinct to love.

In the past, the three people in the Great Oasis - Merlin could act out that he loved humanity, because abundant dreams allowed him to express rich emotions, but that was just an act; Solomon only needed to act like the machine and puppet of the royal theocracy he once was, and respond to every citizen who made a request to him with a smile to show that he loved humanity.

However, Gilgamesh is different from them - even though the Red King is an authoritative god, the only remaining records show that the Red King loves his people; but Gilgamesh only looks at what his people create, and not at the creator himself.

However, out of a king's instinct, Gilgamesh remembered the names of all the people in the Great Oasis, just as the Seventh Anomaly remembered the names of everyone in Uruk.

Even though he did not show them real love, the people living in the Great Oasis believed they were loved.

But now——

"King Gilgamesh, can you please listen to the reputation of the desert region about you?" Lansemello sighed helplessly, "I won't say anything about you rebuilding the city of Uruk in the desert, after all, the world consciousness itself has no opinion on it - but now your reputation in the desert has become like that of the hero king!?"

"I think if going to the underworld can bring the 'Flower Goddess' back to life - provided that Teyvat exists in the underworld - the 'Red King' might abandon his country and go on an adventure to the underworld like King Gilgamesh did." Solomon looked at the notes written by Lansemero and expressed his opinion. "Since his reputation has become that of the King of Heroes, let's just do it -"

"I think Alice's suggestion is very reliable. Just think back to how you felt when Enkidu died in front of you."

Gilgamesh: "How can Merlin be compared to Enkidu!?"

"What I mean is that the Red King lost his beloved, and King Gilgamesh lost his best friend." Lansemero explained to Gilgamesh, "I don't think a scum like Mr. Merlin can be compared with Enkidu. I am more compatible with Enkidu than Mr. Merlin."

"The main thing is that King Gilgamesh, you don't have such a thing as a favorite!!!"

"Then I can only use my only best friend as a substitute!!!"

"In the end, we asked Enkidu for his opinion, and he agreed." Fujimaru Ritsuka subtly glanced at the Akasaka standing beside him, and conveyed the opinion of his best friend to Gilgamesh. "Then, Enkidu's opinion is - King Gilgamesh, please work hard and don't make trouble."

“Ah!???” A demigod who had just entered the room slipped and fell hard after hearing this, and only managed to steady himself by grabbing the door frame. “King Gilgamesh would be upset!? How come I didn’t know!? No, he – I mean that King Gilgamesh – would actually be upset!?”

"It's more like only Mr. Enkidu would consider King Gilgamesh's behavior as weird." Mash concluded calmly, "Generally, people would think of this as the anger of a tyrant. Moreover, King Gilgamesh has already ruined his reputation in the desert into the image of a tyrant as a heroic king in his youth."

"In short, the story of the desert should come to an end." Lansermero closed the notebook in his hand and glanced at the people below the director's seat. "The capital built by the 'Red King' will be destroyed by the 'Red King' alone. Overnight, the kingdom of wisdom and authority was buried by the raging sand of retribution. The wisdom of millions of people converged into the same wisdom, and the lonely wisdom will eventually turn into madness."