Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Silver City, top of the round tower, chief room.

Colin Iliad, with gray hair and old scars on his face, looked out the window at the deep darkness until a ball of silver-white light suddenly burst out in the distance, bringing a few seconds of light. He then retracted his gaze and nodded gently, saying:

"Hillmon was successfully promoted..."

His eyes immediately fell on the young man who was only a little over two meters tall standing in the middle of the room:

"Derrick, do you know why I, who has become a Sequence 3 Silver Knight, have been holding back on my plan to explore the Giant King's Court?"

Derrick thought for a moment and said:
"Your Excellency, on the one hand, you want to see if there is another way to get to the seaside, and on the other hand, you are waiting for someone from the other elders of the Six-Man Council to advance to Sequence 3."

Now, both of these things are accomplished:
A few months ago, an exploration team from the City of Silver discovered a hidden path that bypassed the mountain where the Giant King's Court was located and reached the seashore. However, the sea was illusory and impossible to pass through. Forcing one into the water would only cause the body to gradually disintegrate.

Now, another demigod of the Six-Man Council, Wetsilmon, has finally been promoted to a Sequence 3 Silver Knight. He can have his own honorific name and respond to the prayers of the rest of the residents of the City of Silver within a certain range.

Colin Iliad said with satisfaction in his eyes:

"Very good, a very clear and comprehensive understanding of the matter."

"It is necessary to explore the Giant King's Court, but I don't know how dangerous such an exploration will be, so I can only make adequate preparations in advance. Now, Hillmon has finally succeeded. Even if something unexpected happens and we can't return, he and the other elders can support the Silver City and keep everything going until the next opportunity."

Derrick remained silent. In fact, he had always felt that exploring the Giant King's Court might not be as dangerous as he had imagined. Because it was explored by Mr. Lover himself, even if there was any danger, it had already been cleared by Mr. Lover.

For Silver City, the danger they need to face may only be comparable to that in the afternoon town camp.

But Derrick knew that he couldn't say these things casually. Unfounded speculation would not bring them any benefit.

Colin Iliad looked at Derrick who had fallen silent, and asked:
"Has your 'Priest of Light' potion been completely digested?"

Derrick said somewhat ashamedly:

"It will take a while."

Mr. Lover had given him the formula for the No Darkness potion, and Mr. World had also promised to provide him with the extraordinary characteristics of No Darkness. However, Derrick's progress in exploring the dream world was almost the slowest in the Tarot Club.

And he has yet to gather the 100 million souls needed to digest the potion.

Silver Knight Colin said softly:

"We will launch our first exploration of the Giant King's Court tomorrow."

Derrick was not surprised by this, nor did he have any complaints.

Neither the Chief nor the City of Silver can wait indefinitely, they must go to the Giant King's Court as soon as possible to confirm with their own eyes the existence of hope.

And Derrick felt that this exploration might be even smoother than he imagined.

If nothing unexpected happens, they should be able to find a direct passage out of the God-forsaken Land.
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North District, 160 Böklund Street. Klein couldn’t help but murmur in a low voice as he watched Yu Jin leave:
"war……"

Since the beginning of the Fifth Era, many large-scale wars have broken out in the Northern Continent, and the most recent one was the War of Oath Breaking, but that happened more than six hundred years ago.

In 738, a war involving religion broke out in the northern continent.

The southern Kingdom of Feynaport originally believed in both the Mother Earth and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. However, due to certain factors, the two major churches became seriously antagonistic and believers often clashed.

Its two northern neighbors, the Kingdom of Loen and the Kingdom of Intis at that time, seized this opportunity and started a war under the pretext of protecting religious freedom. Later, the Feysac Empire joined in and tried to destroy the plots of Loen and Intis, but still failed to reverse the situation and suffered a defeat.

As a result of the war, the countries of Lunburg, Masi, and Segar, located at the border between Loen and Feynaport, and at the border between Intis and Feynaport, became independent and believed in the god of knowledge and wisdom. Only the Church of Mother Earth remained in the Kingdom of Feynaport.

Because both sides of the war accused the other of betraying the sacred oath at the end of the Fourth Era, this conflict, which lasted for five years, was called the 'War of Forsaken Oaths'.

After that, the Northern Continent had a peaceful era for more than 300 years. This was not to say that there were no conflicts between countries, but there were no longer such large-scale wars. This lasted until Roselle invented the steam engine and improved sailing ships and artillery.

In 1173, Roselle quelled the rebellion as a colonel, and took advantage of the coup to change the Kingdom of Intis into a republic, and appointed himself as the governor. In the following 19 years, he reformed the code, encouraged inventions, and escorted the industrial revolution, greatly improving the national strength. He also fought wars in the south and the north, and included countries such as Lenburg, Masi, and Segar under his protection, making the three northern continent powers, the Feysac Empire, the Kingdom of Loen, and the Kingdom of Feyneport, bow their heads one after another.

In addition, the new route discovered by Roselle in his later years also made all countries shift their attention from the northern continent to the colonies of the southern continent. For more than a hundred years, there were few local wars in the northern continent, and most of them were open and covert struggles in the colonies of the southern continent.

In other words, generally speaking, there has been no large-scale war in the Northern Continent for more than six hundred years.

This has also made many people unaware of the existence of war. For them, war is already a thing of distant history.

And now, Ember suddenly brought up war.

It sounds a bit far-fetched, but Klein knows very well that the war mentioned by Ember is very likely to happen!

There are two main reasons why there has been no large-scale war in the Northern Continent since Roselle promoted the Industrial Revolution.

One is that in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the Republic of Intis, relying on its first-mover advantage as the initiator of the Industrial Revolution, crushed the other three countries in terms of national strength. However, due to the existence of the church and theocracy, Roselle was not sure of completely annexing the three countries, thus maintaining a short-lived peace.

By the time the other three countries vigorously promoted the industrial revolution, their national strength would be almost the same as that of the Republic of Intis.

Roselle happened to be assassinated by the Eternal Sun Church, the Soran family of the Unis royal family and other nobles, and died in the White Maple Palace.

With the fall of Roselle, the Intis Empire was changed back to a republic, and the strength of the Intis Republic was greatly reduced. It was no longer possible to fight the whole world with the power of one country as in the time of Emperor Roselle.

Therefore, they had no choice but to bow to other powerful countries in the Northern Continent and give up some of their interests in exchange for peace.

Therefore, in the more than one hundred years since then, the Northern Continent has maintained "peace" - a peace that is so fragile that it can be broken with a single poke!

The fact that war has not broken out does not mean that countries are not preparing for war!

Since Russell invented the steam engine, the national strength of all countries has achieved a qualitative leap. On this basis, even though all parties have exercised restraint and no war has broken out, they have been secretly making various preparations for war.

This behavior can be described in four words in a popular sense: arms race. Yes, since the Industrial Revolution, the so-called "peace" over the past 100 years has actually been an arms race that has lasted for more than 100 years!

The Northern Continent at this moment was like a powder keg. Just a tiny spark could quickly trigger a war of unprecedented scale!

This is definitely not an exaggeration, because Klein has enough evidence—

For example, Europe on the eve of World War I!

At that time, Europe had also gone through years of arms race, and the colonies around the world had been divided up, so war was imminent. The Sarajevo incident was the fuse of a full-scale war. Even if there had been no Sarajevo incident, there might have been a "Paris incident" or a "Berlin incident", and war would have definitely broken out!

The same situation is now happening in the Northern Continent. As the colonies of the Southern Continent have been divided up, war between countries has become inevitable.

"and many more……"

Klein's expression suddenly changed because he suddenly realized something horrible.

If the Northern Continent is compared to Europe on the eve of World War I, then even the countries in the Northern Continent can be found to have a one-to-one correspondence!

The Kingdom of Loen corresponds to the United Kingdom, the Republic of Intis corresponds to France, and the Feysac Empire corresponds to Germany!

Not only the role it played in the war, but even the country's positioning in all aspects is surprisingly consistent with the three European hegemons in history!
Before World War I, the British Empire had the world's strongest navy and the most overseas colonies in the world.

The Kingdom of Loen has the strongest navy in the world and also has the most offshore colonies.

Backlund, the capital of the Kingdom of Loen, has extremely poor air quality and is shrouded in smog all year round, making it difficult to see the sun.

London, the capital of the British Empire, was also devastated by industrial pollution and was even nicknamed the "Fog City"!
The monetary system of the British Empire was 1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence.

The currency system of the Kingdom of Loen is 1 gold pound = 20 soli = 240 pence!

Klein could find many similar examples, such as the House and Lords, the Corn Act, and so on! All of this was enough to prove that the Kingdom of Loen was almost a one-to-one replica of the history of the British Empire!
Similarly, the Republic of Intis is a one-to-one replica of France. In history, France overthrew the Persian dynasty and established the First French Republic, but it was soon replaced by Napoleon's First French Empire. With Napoleon's defeat, France returned to a republic, which is very similar to the experience of Emperor Roselle. The current Republic of Intis is almost identical to France!
The Feysac Empire is no exception. Like Germany, it is full of aggression and also considers itself the descendant of a noble race...

One is a coincidence, so are two and three also coincidences? !

Yes! It's just a coincidence!
"Adam!"

Klein took a deep breath. With just a little thought, he could realize that all of this was closely related to Adam!
Adam is in charge of the Twilight Hermits, whose purpose is to resurrect, or awaken the true Creator.

It is claimed that when the end of everything appears, the original creator will rise from death, wake up from sleep, attribute everything to himself, and create a new world and a new history.

Because the 'era' itself is a part of the original Creator. Only when the 'era' develops in line with expectations can he draw strength from it and be resurrected.

Therefore, the Twilight Council has been interfering with the progress of history, making it suit its own needs, so as to achieve its goals at a certain point. If the trend of the times is not as they expected, they will try their best to reverse this trend.

Roselle was a member of the Twilight Hermits, and so was George III. So could we further infer that the rulers of the Intis Republic, Loen Kingdom, and even the Feysac Empire before that were actually members of the Twilight Hermits?

On the premise that those in power are members of the Twilight Hermits, Adam cleverly uses "coincidences" to promote the development of history in various countries, allowing them to gradually evolve into replicas of Britain, Germany, and France. This is almost no difficulty for Adam as a "writer"!
what does this mean?
"This means that Adam at least knew about Britain, France, and Germany, knew about Europe, and knew about the Industrial Revolution. There is only one explanation for all this - Adam also came from Earth! In other words, the ancient sun god came from Earth!"

Klein took a deep breath and didn't dare to express his inner thoughts in words. Any form of record would be sensed by Adam.

Adam and the true Creator were both the ancient sun god, or parts of him.

Adam's so-called 'resurrection' of the Creator is actually not true at all.

The Creator has already been resurrected, but has not yet become a god.

And everything Adam did was actually paving the way for his own godhood.

The ritual of Sequence 0 'Visionary' is to make the development of the times conform to one's own expectations, and then take the magic potion at the key point, in the prescribed trend of the times.

In the past few thousand years, Adam should have had countless opportunities to do this, but he did not act for a long time, perhaps for many reasons.

On the one hand, '0-08' was in the hands of the Goddess of Night, and Adam, who lacked a Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic, could not be promoted.

On the other hand, perhaps it was because Adam was deeply traumatized by the erosion of the 'Ancient Sun God' by the 'Origin', and was afraid that becoming a god would be eroded again by the 'Origin', so he did not dare to advance casually.

But now, perhaps it has come to the point where he has no choice but to do so, Adam is already seeking to become a god.

And a world war that sweeps the entire world is undoubtedly the "node" that best meets the conditions for the ceremony!
What’s even better is that not even the Seven Gods can stop this war!

Needless to say, the Feysac Empire was thirsty for war.

Even if the other three countries surrender, the Feysac Empire will invade the south sooner or later.

The attitude of the Kingdom of Loen was also quite clear. Last year, The Hanged Man had asked Miss Justice a similar question. Her answer was that the king and the prime minister were inclined towards war, but they chose to make internal changes first and sort out relationships in all aspects.

Now, almost a year has passed, and the various policies introduced at that time have basically been put on track.

In other words, the upper echelons of the Kingdom of Loen probably also thought that it was time to start a war to regain the interests that Loen had lost in East Balam and to regain Sonia Island that Loen had lost during the Twenty Years' War!

War is inevitable, and Adam's deification is inevitable.

So what about Ince Zangwill?

If Adam wants to become a god, he must retrieve '0-08' from Ince Zangwill.

Klein's divination indicated that Ince Zangwill would definitely appear in Backlund.

In other words, Backlund is the focus of the war?

Klein's expression changed slightly. His family and friends were all in Backlund!