Chapter 148 Hope and Reality

Hao Ren was now immensely grateful that he had stayed in this city for a day, and that he had seized the time to explore the Gorgon Abyss, and that he had found the last words of the Malkiri mage in the Gorgon Abyss, and that he had learned of the existence of the Tumen Empire from those last words.

He vaguely realized that those seemingly disjointed clues were actually the most important things. What he had come into contact with was the ultimate truth hidden by this mysterious world of Lahreine.

And when he mentioned the words Tumen Empire and Inheritors, Grand Duke Owen, lying on the bed, did not answer immediately, but asked a question in return: "Are you here to participate in this era's changing?"

Hao Ren looked into the Grand Duke's eyes and nodded solemnly: "Yes."

His face didn't blush, his breathing didn't quicken, and he even seemed to believe it himself.

This was the work ethic of an excellent inspector - without the experience of messing around with his own God, one would never be able to quickly condense such a demeanor.

Grand Duke Owen sighed with relief, and his gaze turned to the Charlemagne siblings beside him: "I know, you have brought something - now take it out."

Charlemagne frowned: "But that thing must be in the presence of His Majesty Berentin or Her Highness Constance..."

"Princess Constance will be here soon," Grand Duke Owen interrupted Charlemagne and looked up slightly at the silver-haired woman standing next to him, "Ginny, let the princess come over."

The silver-haired woman called "Ginny" nodded slightly, then her eyelids slowly closed, and her whole body relaxed, presenting a completely static state. After a few seconds, Hao Ren heard a slight electric current and mechanical friction sound from her body, as if some kind of device was starting up.

The silver-haired woman's temperament changed completely in that instant. The gentle and slightly wooden temperament before became a fierce and very present aura. Her eyelids trembled twice, and when she opened them again, her eyes had become sharp.

"Nice to meet you, I am Constance." She nodded slightly to Hao Ren and his group.

Then she looked at the Charlemagne siblings again: "It's the second time we've met, guests from across the world."

"Woo-hoo—" Lily drawled, letting out an exaggerated sigh. After a brief surprise, she immediately understood what was happening. "Is this possession... ahem, consciousness transfer? Or something like a soul link?"

"It's the same technology as the Black Swordsmen, right?" Hao Ren saw more clearly than Lily. He detected a large number of signal links suddenly appearing on the other party's body as "Ginny" closed her eyes, and before this link was established, the woman had always shown signs of wireless communication with the outside world. "If I'm not mistaken, you've been watching the situation in the room through this lady's eyes?"

"As you said, it's just consciousness transfer technology, which is not considered profound knowledge for the Inheritors," Princess Constance nodded slightly. "I'm sorry that I can only meet you in this form - the situation on the front line is not optimistic. There are still mutated Black Swordsmen impacting the position from time to time. Although we have found a way to deal with them, someone must be here to guard the place."

As she spoke, she turned her eyes left and right to take in the entire scene of the room - because the corrupting power on Grand Duke Owen had been purified by Leah, the abnormal gloom in the room had also disappeared, and the remaining sacred power made it even brighter and cleaner than other normal rooms. "Although I guessed that you were also Inheritors when I heard about your deeds in the Black Pine Forest, I didn't expect you to have such strong power. In this way, the changing of the era will be more hopeful."

"Excuse me..." Avena couldn't help but ask at this time, "What exactly does the changing of the era mean?"

When Hao Ren heard Avena ask this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: Damn it, he was also worried about how to ask...

After all, when he pretended that everything was under control before, his acting was too realistic. After fooling around, he had to face the embarrassing situation of "stable as Lily on the surface, but panicking like crazy inside." The most troublesome thing for investigators was that a lot of questions could not be understood but there was no suitable opportunity to ask them, and fortunately, there were the Charlemagne siblings on the scene - the siblings looked no less confused than himself...

"So, Ison doesn't know the details?" Princess Constance frowned slightly, but then she relieved, "It doesn't matter. Take out what you brought, the thing you were originally prepared to present to my father."

Charlemagne and Avena looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Then they each took out a delicate silver dagger from their space containers, and without hesitation, they cut their fingers, and then pressed their bleeding fingers on the amulet hanging on their chests.

"Archivist, No. C-3035 (No. C-3036)," the two siblings said in unison, but they were not chanting any spells, but said a password that seemed like a secret key, "Synchronization authentication, identification information has been submitted, application to open the vault."

Hao Ren looked in surprise at the siblings who had always kept their mission secret along the way, and saw that the amulets on their chests began to brighten at the same time. The amulets were originally used to stimulate the special "royal crest" on their bodies, but now it seemed that they had a greater role: as the two amulets were activated in sync, Hao Ren felt the space around the siblings suddenly began to distort. Soon, a silver-white sphere with a radius of more than one meter, like mercury, appeared in mid-air, and as the honeycomb-shaped patterns on the surface of the sphere appeared and peeled off layer by layer, a platinum staff finally appeared in front of everyone.

This platinum staff was the treasure that the Charlemagne siblings had traveled thousands of miles from Ison to the Dragon Empire to protect?

Hao Ren couldn't help but take a few more glances at the platinum staff. After this look, he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling, as if he had seen the staff somewhere else before - its flowing patterns and the carvings depicting the sun, moon, and stars were unusually familiar.

He immediately raised his shoulder: "Terminal, compare."

"No need to compare, it's the platinum scepter in the hands of the Holy King Helsonjia in the Black Pine Forest illusion," the data terminal's voice sounded in his mind. "The appearance matches one hundred percent, the energy fluctuations are also consistent, and it is genuine."

Hao Ren couldn't help but feel a slight shock in his heart, but he didn't reveal this surprise at all: before he knew the function of this scepter, it was best not to rashly express his thoughts.

The Charlemagne siblings were also stunned for a while after seeing the platinum scepter, and then they each showed a thoughtful look. Obviously, they also saw that the scepter was exactly the same as the one they had seen in the Black Pine Forest illusion, and - they were also seeing the real appearance of what they were escorting for the first time.

"It seems that you kept your promise and didn't open the vault before you came here," Constance said at this moment. She saw the surprise on the faces of the Charlemagne siblings, and guessed something, "Judging by your appearance, have you seen this Ruling Scepter somewhere else?"

"It was in the Black Pine Forest..." Avena replied, "We experienced an 'illusion' in the Black Pine Forest. An ancient queen held this scepter, and she was called the Holy King..."

"Ah, that should be the echo of Helsonjia," Constance sighed softly, "May that king rest in peace as soon as possible. She has persisted in this broken world for too long."

Charlemagne couldn't help but step forward: "Please, what exactly is this..."

Constance interrupted him before he could finish speaking: "Do you know the function and meaning of this scepter?"

Charlemagne and Avena looked at each other and shook their heads. The expressions on their faces were the same confusion.

"Then you shouldn't know about the changing and annihilation of the era either."

The two siblings still shook their heads.

Constance looked at them quietly, with neither ridicule nor contempt in her tone, but just asked indifferently: "Then how do you know to come here and hand over the things in the vault to me?"

"Our father suddenly summoned us to the inner court and gave us this mission," Avena replied honestly. In front of this "princess colleague" who was better than herself in every aspect, she always had a weak feeling, "He even seemed to have foreseen the civil strife in the Dragon Empire, and told us that if the enemy was in the imperial capital, go find you."

"But he didn't explain this in detail," Charlemagne continued, "And I think..."

"You think that even your father doesn't fully understand why he did this, right?" Constance took over Charlemagne's words and sighed slightly, "Just as my father said to me, the inheritance will eventually gradually be cut off, the dynasty is not eternal, the gods will die, the Holy Spirit will die, the sages and dragons will also die, the reshaping of the world will constantly strip away those memories and knowledge, even with an eternal soul it is the same. In the end, we will all live blindly and ignorantly, and be driven by ancient obsessions to carry out this war whose meaning we ourselves do not understand. The immortals will eventually become walking corpses, that is the price of eternal life..."

Charlemagne and Avena were both dumbfounded, but Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat after hearing the words "the reshaping of the world":

Damn it, Princess Constance knows that this world has been reshaped!

Not only does she know, but even her father knows!

And judging from the meaning between the lines... what they know about "world reshaping" is more than once? Otherwise, the words "constantly stripping away" would not be used in those words!

In other words, they even know the history of this universe being destroyed by the Lord of Madness!

"Sorry, these should be difficult for you to understand," Constance's sigh did not continue. She noticed the confusion on the faces of the Charlemagne siblings, and shook her head slightly, "In the state of consciousness transfer, some subconscious thoughts are more difficult to control, and I have become more emotional than usual. Now let's get back to the normal rhythm, first... let's talk about the fact that our world was once destroyed."