The story of the black silk female knight

Valensa pressed for more details, sounding somewhat eager.

"...I still can't be sure."

The great witch, who had always been able to quickly guide Valensa, hesitated this time, thinking for a while before continuing:

“I don’t want too many church members to know I exist. Think of an excuse to temporarily send the research team away, and withdraw all observations. I want to talk to that person in person.”

"This... okay."

Valensa frowned, but still agreed.

This step was not unexpected. She had already discussed it with Seraya before entering the ice field. Seraya would cooperate with her actions unconditionally if necessary.

Of course, Seraya had heard of Friggia long ago. The Inner Templars had the authority to know information about Friggia; otherwise, Valensa wouldn't have been able to release Friggia back then.

Following Seraya's orders, the research team, though puzzled, quickly took action to temporarily retreat and shut down the previously set-up observation methods.

Seraya also drew her bow and shot an arrow at the Winston father and his two sons from a distance. The arrow exploded and rained down as specially made ink bullets, completely blackening large areas of the ice surface, making it impossible to reflect any image and thus hindering the movement of the two-dimensional girl in the ice.

The anime girl was clearly annoyed by this, but her actions were indeed completely restricted by the flat reflection... Without a smooth surface to reflect the scenery, it was like a character in a game reaching the end of the map with nowhere to go.

"Qingyi! Is that you, Qingyi?"

Taking this opportunity, Friggia walked calmly to the two-dimensional girl, without using any magic to defend herself, and simply looked at her and called out.

The anime girl paused noticeably, and her expression became puzzled.

She stared intently at Friggia across the ice, remaining motionless for a long time.

Could it be that she really is an old friend of Friggia's, and her memories are returning right now?

Just as Valensa thought this, she saw the anime girl suddenly pick up her gorgeous musket again and fire a shot at Friedeja's head.

Bang!

On the ice, the head of Friggia's reflection was shattered by the shot, and her main body on the ice also fell down, lifeless as if dead.

"Sister Friggia!"

Valensa was startled and called out anxiously from a distance, but instead of rushing over, she tried to distract the mysterious anime girl.

How do you entice her? It's simple: just get her to continue pursuing her original goal.

Nana punched the ice surface that Seraya had previously blackened with her ink arrows. The force of the punch sent the ice surface flying and shattering, causing the ice underneath to be blasted out and covered by the ink-blackened ice, forming a new ice surface and giving the anime girl a new path forward.

In the heart of the anime girl, killing the traitor to her tribe, Little Winston, was indeed more important than anything else. She didn't even glance at Friedeja's corpse again and continued chasing after Little Winston.

Valensa rushed to Frigia to check on the situation, while Seraya ordered the research team to withdraw from the ice field along with Winston and his son as originally planned, and to temporarily lure the anime girl away.

The research team was somewhat reluctant; they were still very interested in the truth, but they still carried out Seraya's orders and cooperated with Winston and his two sons to lure the anime girl away.

Meanwhile, Valensa was anxiously preparing to perform an autopsy on Friedeja when the beautiful corpse stretched and stood up on its own, even yawning.

"Sister Friggia? You're really alright!"

Valensa finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, she was a great witch who could withstand even a cosmic catastrophe. Even though the power of that two-dimensional girl was extremely strange, she still couldn't kill Friedeja.

"It's not entirely true that everything is fine."

After stretching, Freya gently shook her head:

"I was indeed killed by her power just now... According to the game, my health points were indeed reduced to 0, and I entered a dead state. If she were a player, she would indeed receive the experience reward for killing me."

"The only reason I can come back to life is because I cheated… The miracle I, as the First Witch, invoked was absolute immortality. The effect is that if I were to truly die, the very fact of my death would be denied by the world, forcibly altering reality."

"What's the difference between this and you not being killed by her at all?"

Valensa frowned, somewhat puzzled.

"Of course there is a difference."

Friggia smiled and flicked the snowflakes off her body:

"You should know that even when the saints of your Sun Church sealed me, they couldn't truly kill me even once, even with the divine artifacts bestowed upon them by your goddess. They had to wear down my magic power to defeat and seal me."

"And that being who seemed to be in green just now killed me with a casual strike... This is something even a peak human expert wielding a divine artifact could never do. To do this, one would at least be a pseudo-god skilled in using power... There's no doubt, she is definitely in green, but her current state is quite strange."

"Are you now certain that she is Qingyi? Why?"

Valensa asked with even greater curiosity:

"Just because you were killed by her using her power once, sister? But didn't you witness Qingyi's soul being shattered back then?"

"For beings whose strength reaches a certain level, appearance is easy to fake, but the essence of power cannot be disguised, at least not to me."

Friggia pointed to her head, which had just been blown apart in the reflection:

"What killed me before was Qingyi's power, I won't mistake it... It couldn't be someone else who inherited Qingyi's power, because her compatibility with the power is too high, the kind of compatibility that only the primordial false god who gave birth to the power can have, and the successor can't do it."

"That's it..."

Valensa nodded.

Despite many remaining doubts, Valensa chose to trust Frieda's judgment... Trust those you employ, and don't employ those you don't trust; when it comes to professional matters, trust the professionals.

"How do you explain the fact that the woman in green is completely dead?"

Valensa simply asked the question again.

"This……"

Friggia hesitated for a moment before answering:

"I have a guess. Perhaps I was wrong back then. Qingyi is not actually dead."

"Oh?"

Valensa was even more curious... Friedia was a pseudo-omniscient being back then, what situation could have made her misjudge?

"...After all, it was only pseudo-omniscience, and I was less than two years old at the time. My judgment was also affected by emotions, so it was not impossible for me to make mistakes."

Seeing Valensa's confusion, Friggia smiled and then sighed:

"Actually, I only thought of this after I was killed by her power just now... You shouldn't have forgotten the prototype of Qingyi, right? She is a very popular game character."

"……so what?"

"Qingyi's ability to become a false god is closely related to her popularity as a game character... Players' fervent love for game characters can be transformed into faith power, so Qingyi can actually be considered a pure faith-based being."

Friggia shrugged again:

"The power of a creature of faith is affected not only by the strength of the source of faith, but also by the cognition of its believer."

In the subconscious mind of almost all gamers, game characters never truly die... no matter how many times they die, they can always reload and respawn.

Chapter 54 How to defeat the two-dimensional world?

"Reload the save file and be reborn...that's true."

Valensa tilted her head slightly, indicating her agreement with Friedeja's words:

"Even in those games that claim you can only finish with one life, your character doesn't actually die... At most, you lose game progress, and you can just click to restart and your character can still fight... Hmm, that still doesn't seem right."

Valensa frowned again as she spoke:

"No matter how special that blue-robed woman's pseudo-divine powers were, she was ultimately a being of faith. It was impossible for her to still be alive after losing all her faith power... And the ancient Eve civilization has disappeared. You even witnessed the death of the blue-robed woman back then, right, Sister Friedia?"

"...That's right. Rather, it's more accurate to say that my sisters all perished together, which is why I initially found it hard to believe that Qingyi was still alive."

Friggia's gaze remained deep for several seconds before returning to its usual calm.

"At that time, the Eve civilization was in its final moments. We could not stop the energy depletion that brought everything to coldness and darkness. Less than one in ten million of the entire planet survived, leaving only a hundred or so young Eve people, who were the last spark and hope."

So I burned away my power, which had reached a state of pseudo-omniscience, and my sisters also voluntarily shattered their divine bodies and dissipated their divine souls, wanting to use our divine power and authority to create a new world, to sever ties with this universe, and to protect the last spark of Eve's civilization.

But we still failed… We did create a small world, but the source of that small world—our divine power and authority—still belongs to this universe… That small world naturally belongs to this universe as well, and cannot escape the catastrophe.”

As she spoke, Friggia laughed self-deprecatingly:

"I am ultimately just a pseudo-omniscient and pseudo-omnipotent... The difference is as thin as a hair's breadth, and I simply cannot completely sever the small world I created from this universe. In the end, I could only watch helplessly as my sisters sacrificed themselves in vain, and the last spark of Eve in the small world was extinguished in the cold and darkness."

In the end, the only one who survived was me, who should have sacrificed myself to protect them.

Under normal circumstances, I should have already given up and given up struggling... Anyway, by then I would have almost nothing left, and there was nothing I could do but wait for death in the catastrophe.

But I am not resigned to it... It is precisely because I clearly realize that I am the only one left to survive that I cannot die no matter what, otherwise the Eve civilization will be completely wiped out.

But I've exhausted all means and exerted every effort, yet I still cannot withstand the catastrophe. How can I survive it? Isn't there only one way?

"any solution?"

Valensa asked with considerable curiosity.

This was the first time she had heard Friggia recount the details of the last moments of the previous civilization.

"It's simple, just pray, pray to the gods... When humanity has exhausted all its efforts but still faces despair, what else can it do but pray?"

Friggia's self-mockery deepened, tinged with regret and pain:

"But the Sun Goddess had not yet awakened at that time. I, who had reached the state of pseudo-omniscience and pseudo-omnipotence, was likely to be the most powerful pseudo-god in the universe... So who should I pray to?"

"...I can only pray to magic itself and ask for a miracle."

When Friggia said this, her smile was very bright, but it gave the impression that she was crying:

"Unexpectedly, it succeeded... And thus I became the first witch in the universe, and the only life form to survive the catastrophe, apart from the planet protected by the Sun Goddess."

But I didn't want it to be like this; I wanted to leave this opportunity to my creators... Unfortunately, when I finally succeeded, they were all gone.

"..."

There's no way to console or comfort someone in this situation, and Valensa has already done plenty of comforting words and actions. At this point, all we can do is wait for Friedia to adjust her own emotions.

Friggia adjusted quickly:

"In short, what I mean is that Qingyi, as a false god based on a game character and a pure faith being, is indeed more immortal than her sisters, but she will definitely not escape the death of having her soul shattered... because all those who worship her are already dead."

"Sister Friggia, you just said she was Qingyi?"

Valensa was immediately confused.

"She is indeed Qingyi... or rather, the ghost of Qingyi."

Friggia smiled calmly:

"However, Valencia, your previous understanding was wrong... The concept I was referring to, that game characters don't truly die even when they die, doesn't refer to the game's setting of restarting, but something more fundamental."

"I misunderstood, something more fundamental?"

Valensa was even more confused, so she simply hugged Frieda's arm and snuggled close to her chest, acting coquettishly.

"Sister Kofrigia, you clearly said you'd reload a save file and be reborn!"

"But it's not what you think about reloading a save and being reborn, or rather, the focus isn't on being reborn, but on reloading a save."

Friggia squinted comfortably and readily gave the answer:

"The reason why game characters can be reborn infinitely lies in this save file. What is the essence of this save file? It is the data in the game server. That is the true body of the game character. Destroying that data is the only way to completely kill a game character, and it will inevitably kill a game character, even if that game character has absorbed faith and become a god."

"The data in the game server..."

Valensa suddenly realized, and then a thought flashed through her mind. Combining this with what Frieda had just said, she instantly realized a possibility:

"Could it be..."

"That must be the difficult one."

Friggia sighed:

"Qingyi is a false god, a creature of faith, but in essence she is still a game character. She does not have a three-dimensional divine body and can only exist in the server as a data concept."

"Back then, Qingyi did indeed lose her soul and shatter her body before my very eyes, but only her physical body shattered at that time... She was just a game character, essentially just a bunch of data."

“And data has the concept of backup, so Qingyi actually has many divine bodies... No matter how many times that girl’s image is shattered in the face of catastrophe, as long as there is still her data backup, her divine body will not be truly destroyed... Sister Friggia, the main reason you firmly believed that Qingyi was dead was because you saw Qingyi’s soul dissipate.”

Valensa continued along this line of thought:

"But Qingyi's soul has actually dissipated, and there is a high possibility that her data backup still exists in some game server in this world."

Since the equipment of the ancient Eve civilization in the underground ruins can be restarted after being repaired and recharged, the game server carrying Qingyi's data can naturally do the same.

That's why you, Sister Friggia, call the one in blue "the spirit of the blue-clad woman"... because she no longer possesses the soul of the blue-clad woman; she's more like a corpse with self-awareness.

"good."

Friggia smiled and nodded: