"You are standing on my head now." Ethos said slowly.
Lily had just transformed back at this time. She was adjusting her skirt and pulling the hair on her tail. When she heard the words, she jumped up in her throat: "Ethos? That Ethos of Ethos?!"
The slow voice sounded again, as if there were no emotional fluctuations: "I don't quite understand your way of expressing it..."
"You don't need to pay attention to her, she is engaged in literature," Hao Ren pressed Lily down smoothly, and then subconsciously looked up at the sky. Since the energy accumulated in the previous battle had not dissipated, the invisible "jellyfish" in the sky reappeared at this time.
It came out, its undulating surface was sparkling, and countless slender tentacles hung from the sky like silk threads between the clouds and mist, connecting the Colossus Corps on the earth, "You...are the one in the sky?"
"You were the first to observe me. Before I was affected by the energy-rich environment, you observed part of me." Ertos seemed to confirm Hao Ren's guess, "This made me understand
You are interested... Very few creatures can observe the spirit body of Chaos Wanderer, except for those extremely special or extremely ancient ones. But no matter who or what you are, I should express my gratitude to you. Thank you.
You free me from this long toil..."
"Chaos Wanderer? Is that the name of your race?" Hao Ren frowned. He hadn't asked what "long-term labor" meant, but first became interested in the creature Ethos itself. "Aren't you already?
Did he die many years ago? Killed by the 'great master'..."
When he said this, he suddenly remembered something: "Could the 'great master' who had a big fight with you back then be the 'evil spirit' in the pyramid?"
"Chaos Wanderers will not die easily. Many times, death to us is just a change of form," Erthos said slowly. Its huge spiritual body stretched out in the sky and seemed to be being repaired.
The damage caused by the previous battle, "As for the 'Great Master' you mentioned, she is indeed the fallen monster in the pyramid... But I noticed that there is someone among you who looks very similar to her. I can
Can I ask this person’s name first?”
"You can call me Vivian," Vivian said proactively, "Don't worry, I'm not the same as that crazy guy in the pyramid, we just look alike."
Erthos seemed to believe this statement: "I see... that's interesting."
Hao Ren coughed and brought back the topic: "Ahem, so it turns out that you were never dead? That great master was actually deceived by you after the battle with you?"
"No, although the 'Lord' destroyed my body, we are not hostile, and I did not deceive her." Ertos' answer surprised everyone, "There has never been any battle between us."
This time even Yzaks couldn't help it: "What does this mean?"
"The murals we found describe that you were a destructive monster in ancient times. Many human city-states were destroyed by you. Later, the great master suddenly came and completely destroyed you." Hao Ren also frowned, "Does this legend have any meaning?
error?"
"Human beings will use their own way to understand what they see, but they often fail to see the true side of things," Ethos' voice seemed to sigh, "The first half of the legend is correct, my
The activity led to widespread destruction, but that was not my intention. I cannot control the leakage of my energy, just like humans cannot control the operation of their organs, birth, old age, illness and death. To the Chaos Wanderers, storms and flames are nothing but our bodies.
However, in the eyes of humans, those means destructive natural disasters... I once tried to persuade those creatures that approached rashly, but the communication stopped at war... Ah, war, there were really wars everywhere at that time...
"
Hao Ren thought: Is Ertus actually a pacifist?!
Lily stared blankly at the big jellyfish in the sky, and suddenly said: "So what is the truth behind your fight with that 'great master'?"
"She suddenly appeared in front of me and showed great power. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve the dilemma, so I reached a consensus with her," Ertus replied, "I asked her to help me change my life form.
In order to undo the damage I inadvertently caused to the outside world, as you know, the way to change the life form is to dismember my original body."
Hesiana couldn't help but stick out her tongue: "...Plastic surgery in that era was really tasteful..."
"So you and that great master weren't at war at all?" Hao Ren never expected that the truth would be like this. He was stunned for a moment before continuing, "Then what happened on the slate recording that you two fought against each other for several days?
What's going on? You two were throwing ball lightning back and forth..."
Ertus said calmly: "That's what we were talking about. But for humans, this way of talking is probably a bit scary."
Hao Ren: "..."
Hesiana continued to murmur: "The communication between doctors and patients in that era was also very tasteful..."
"So it's like this...It turns out that it's like this," Hao Ren didn't know what expression to show, so he could only sigh in confusion, "Alas, the history recorded by mankind is always limited by time and vision, and it has nothing to do with you ancient gods.
It's even more like this. So what happened after that? I think you should have stayed in this city like this, right? Why would the city of Ethos be destroyed? What about the residents here? What happened to those stone statues?
How did the evil spirits in the pyramid become 'fallen'?"
Faced with this sudden pile of problems, Ertus's voice was still unhurried: "It was many years ago when the 'great master' you called me finally helped me get rid of the layer of inability to adapt to the environment.
After the shell of my body, some aboriginal people used local materials to rebuild their homes using my fragments. They used my armor to make weapons and golems, used my organic matter to make medicines and living materials, and built structures on my bones.
A city. My spirit body has been wandering near them, because this energetic little creature is really curious... and after wandering for a while, I discovered that the 'great master' had also moved in from the wilderness.
The city was even more surprising, so I simply attached my spirit body to the city and wanted to pass the time by observing the activities of short-lived creatures like 'human beings'...
"In the first days, all races in the city lived in peace, and humans worked diligently. The slightly larger tribal leaders, known as the 'Beast-Headed Gods', were responsible for giving orders, while the 'Masters' lived in
In the big temple in the city center, as the nominal supreme ruler here, he accepts worship from everyone."
Hao Ren couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this: "That 'evil spirit' has really been the 'city lord' here for a while? How long did it take?"
"It didn't take a long time, maybe a few decades," Ertos said indifferently to Hao Ren's interruption, "and she never really 'ruled' the city. She just spent most of her time in the pyramid.
He was sleeping deep inside, and when he woke up occasionally, he was just talking to himself. But no matter what, the city was peaceful in the first few decades... and then the situation gradually deteriorated.
"'Master's' mood is not stable. In fact, I suspect that she does not have normal reason and logic most of the time. She seems to be completely immersed in her own world, and her reactions to external stimuli are very weird even in my opinion.
Weird, in a popular saying of that era, she was a 'moody and unpredictable god of chaos'. At first, her mood swings only caused her to be occasionally irritable, but as time went by, her irritability gradually became
It became violent.
"The increasing tyranny of the 'Lord' has of course caused panic among the residents of the city. However, no one is her opponent. The only ones with fighting power in the city are the 'Beast-Headed Gods', but they and the battle stone statues they made combined are not enough.
To suppress the furious 'Lord'. The conflict became more serious day by day, and the behavior of the 'Lord' gradually reached a level that was completely unreasonable. So the residents of the city finally carried out the rebellion under the leadership of the priest class, those animal-headed gods.
Resist.
"What is strange is that the always cruel 'Master' turned a blind eye to such a blatant act of rebellion. When humans and beast-headed gods gathered in the city, she had been watching with cold eyes, and when the rebels were about to rush to the high ground,
, she disappeared from the great temple without leaving any trace. The angry rebels were carried away by their emotions and did not realize that the situation was abnormal. They ransacked the entire temple and took away all the gold and silver treasures.
According to my long-term observation of human beings, I think this is exactly a manifestation of fear."
Lily nodded: "Fear will make people do things beyond fear, because only by using more crazy behavior can they self-anaesthetize and escape the inner uneasiness."
Hao Ren, who was next to him, felt that a doubt in his mind had finally been answered:
Why did the great temple appear to have been looted? It seems that it was indeed because of a rebellion, but the specific form of the rebellion was very different from what everyone had originally guessed: it was not that the lower class people rebelled against the upper class priests, but that it included
Everyone, including the priests and the people, jointly resisted the "gods". However, in the early stages of this rebellion, the so-called "gods" did not take action at all. This resulted in the great temple being looted and nothing more serious.
traces of damage.
"That 'evil spirit' definitely didn't suddenly change her mind and become a good person," Yzaks said in a sullen voice, "She should have taken action soon, right?"
"Yes, just when the rebellion came to an end and the priests and people dispersed, the 'Lord' suddenly appeared and brought a huge disaster."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "She destroyed the city of Ertus?"
"It's even more terrifying than that," Erthos said. "She summoned a bloody moon and bathed the whole city in moonlight. The moonlight controlled everyone's minds, so everyone in the city began to kill each other.
, some people tried to escape from the city gate, but the moonlight formed a wall-like barrier in front of them. Some people tried to record what happened here before they died to warn future generations, but the moonlight made them fall into hallucinations, and they were just in the air.
The words were carved, and the last group of conscious beast-headed gods carried out a desperate resistance, and almost succeeded: they summoned the power of the ancestor spirits to collapse a section of the city wall, and punched a hole in the moonlight barrier, but they still failed...
…”
Lily asked impatiently: "Why?"
"Because space collapsed," Ethos said, "the 'Master' tore apart the structure of space and threw the entire city into another time and space."