bookrandom Chapter 1479 The Eternal Mystery of Time (1)
Chapter 1479 The Eternal Mystery of Time (1)
The date of the inscription is April 852, which is 600 years ago.
"At this point in time..."
Seeing the time of the signature, Zhou Ning suddenly had some new ideas, and a hint of realization appeared in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, do you have any new discoveries?" Seeing Zhou Ning pondering for a long time, Gallup III looked up at the time dragon in the sky vigilantly, walked to Zhou Ning and asked.
"We have indeed made some discoveries, but they are not yet certain." Zhou Ning nodded. Without explaining, he asked directly, "Do you know what major event happened 600 years ago?"
"600 years ago?" Gallup III pondered for a moment and said in a low voice:
"During that time, the Second Religious War broke out. The Church of the God of War was defeated in Darkland by the Ascetic Church and the Church of the Goddess of Life. I was forced to burn down the Darkland Fortress and lead the Church of the God of War out of the Kingdom of Bryston. We moved to the Kingdom of Sifarik. The owner of this tomb, the God of Fire Hubbard, fell during this religious war."
Patriarch Roger added, "You've overlooked one point. The Church of the God of War and the Church of the Earth Goddess were allies at the time, and this alliance has been tacitly maintained to this day. Adding in other factions, it was effectively a four-on-four situation. However, on the night of the decisive battle, the Earth Goddess didn't appear, ultimately leading to the collapse of the battle. Their explanation at the time was that they were being held back by the Death God's Curse Cult."
Zhou Ning nodded slightly. He had already known about the Second Religious War. In the first dream of the Dream War, the fake Gallup III had already mentioned something similar. He just hadn't expected the influence of the Church of the Earth Goddess to come into play.
"After the Second Religious War, when I first crossed over, the three great families of the Kingdom of Blyston were the Church of the Earth Goddess, the Church of the Life Goddess, and the Church of Asceticism. Not only did the Church of the Earth Goddess not pay a price, it also didn't withdraw from the Kingdom of Blyston like the Church of the God of War did. I won't believe there was no betrayal in between."
"So being backstabbed is a traditional skill for a God of War, yet they can still cooperate despite this. I wonder how they communicated with each other later. Perhaps, for a god who has lived for thousands of years, betrayal is not a big deal. Even their divine wars are more motivated by fulfilling the requirements of the Ascension Ceremony. But he was backstabbed a second time by the Earth Goddess, resulting in his current whereabouts being unknown. He must have been drinking a lot of emotional sop, right?"
"But this also connects all the details. If I'm not mistaken, the Earth Goddess was replaced by the Goddess of Life 600 years ago. Her betrayal is very logical."
"No surprises here. The one buried here should be Hubbard, the Fire God, whose body was once possessed by an evil reincarnator in a certain timeline in the simulator. But is it really that simple?"
"Of course, the Hubbard here can't be the evil reincarnation who completed the Last Supper in the simulated world and killed everyone. How could a true evil reincarnation fall in the Second Religious War?"
"This is the cemetery where successive giant kings are buried. Hubbard isn't the only one among them. But Hubbard's tomb is not only of exceptional size, several times larger than an average tombstone, but it's also the only one to have an epitaph inscribed by the Earth Goddess. This is clearly unusual."
"The alternate timeline described above must have been personally experienced by the 'Earth Goddess' who wrote this epitaph. Only someone who experienced it firsthand would grant such treatment. But would a deity whose divinity is greater than humanity really grant special treatment just because she experienced such an event?"
Zhou Ning pondered silently. The place in front of him was obviously a time singularity. There was a loophole in the time field in this place. If it was exploited by certain people, various disasters in the time field would erupt, causing time to branch. That is, the current time zones would gradually increase, tend to be chaotic and disordered, and tend to be infinity.
Inside, the timeline will continuously jump and even loop, and all kinds of unpredictable phenomena may occur.
600 years ago in Borden Castle, the Earth Goddess once triggered a time storm and killed another self in the storm. This was recorded in "Genesis" and was regarded as a miracle by the Church of the Earth Goddess. It was a sign that the Earth Goddess had completed her superego.
Later news further confirmed that the true identity of the Earth Goddess was actually the Goddess of Life. In this time storm, they traveled to other timelines and killed the Earth Goddess there, usurping her time authority and taking over her identity.
In the field of mysticism, time does not actually exist. It is essentially an abstract concept generated by the movement of objects. When using the authority of time or traveling through the timeline, it often causes inconsistencies in the passage of time, resulting in inexplicable paradoxes.
Therefore, even if one possesses the power of time and travels through time and space in a temporal singularity, one must have a reference point to anchor time. Otherwise, one is likely to get lost in the turbulence of time and space.
This reference object must exist in both worlds at the same time and have certain particularities. It can be a special landmark building that exists in both worlds, or even the rising and setting of the sun, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the cyclical laws of nature.
Now it seems that there is only one possibility: this mausoleum is a reference. To achieve symmetry, the Earth Goddess built this mausoleum in April 852.
However, the tomb's owner clearly wasn't a true god, merely a low-level deity. At this level, a deity could harvest a small amount of anchors, gather faith, and begin to possess a near-infinite lifespan. Furthermore, they could, through pre-planned backup plans or through the passage of time to gather vast amounts of faith, return to the realm of the fallen.
Zhou Ning glanced at the tomb and found that in addition to the extremely rich time element, there was also a large amount of red flame element accumulated in the tomb, which corresponded exactly to the name of Hubbard, the God of Fire.
Just two days ago, during the high-intensity time storm, Zhou Ning tracked down the three goddesses and defeated the Life Elf Goddess in a power war, plundering everything from her. At the same time, he almost broke with the Sun Goddess.
At that time, they seemed to be preparing to enter this time singularity.
With his spiritual awareness, it was not difficult for him to find out that there were quite a few scattered divine remnants around the mausoleum, extending to the portal. This proved that the other party had entered before him and might have set a trap inside.
Furthermore, there is indeed a divine skeleton buried here, and it is even attempting to return to its original state. No, it is already on the verge of returning to its original state. Without external intervention, it will most likely return to its original state within one to two years.
It is undoubtedly impossible to achieve this without a backup plan or external force.
In front of the mausoleum, there's a small altar with some unburned candles, as well as essential oils, moonstones, and herbal powders used for offerings and connecting with spirits. Some of these items clearly contain errors, suggesting they belong to Hubbard's followers. Others are from ordinary people.
"No god is simple," Zhou Ning couldn't help but sigh. Even a nameless god like Hubbard, hidden in history, has his own plans.
He had no intention of stopping the other party from returning, and quickly retracted his gaze, turning to look at the "Gate of Time" with an illusory clock illuminated by the light.
Under the light of the eternal lamp, it seemed extremely dark and quiet there. Only the ticking of the clock could be heard. There were all kinds of strange lines and messy spots of light, which pieced together a large number of shadowy dynamic shadows and countless illusory circles.
This is the passage to the singularity of time. This is the nature of time: as long as time is infinite, everything is possible.
At this time, the "Mystery of Time" task began to shine in Zhou Ning's task list.