There was no need for Cyril to continue to speculate, Karl immediately understood what the other party was thinking.
Looking at Cyril with a sad look on his face, he immediately said:
"Are you saying that the guys who killed these gods were actually trying to make the ether concentration in this cave reach a certain condition?"
"That's right."
Nodding towards Karl, Cyril continued randomly:
"Strictly restrict the outflow of ether. From this point of view, the situation is very obvious. The other party's purpose is to obtain the magic power in these gods and the ether that will be fed back to the world after their death."
"But in this case, it doesn't make sense."
Having said this, a very puzzled look appeared on Seliel's face.
"Since he has the ability to kill so many gods, why doesn't the other party just swallow the magic power himself? It should be more normal for him to receive it and use it."
There's nothing wrong with Seliel's considerations at all.
Assuming that someone can really defeat so many gods so easily, then he is definitely a truly powerful person who is extremely powerful.
He must have the ability and courage to accept the legacies left by these gods. This can be concluded from Cyril's previous behavior of devouring the corpses of the monkey god and Xihe.
But what about the situation at hand?
The two corpses were just thrown on the ground indifferently. People didn't care about these precious divine corpses at all. They simply restrained the ether in the black forest and even in this bottomless cave.
He did this for the sake of the ether, and even set up some kind of ritual to prevent the ether from being lost to the outside world, but at the same time he was unwilling to enjoy the rich fruits.
No matter which aspect you consider, this is unreasonable behavior.
Seeing Seriel's anxious look, Karl immediately put forward an idea of his own:
"Celile, do you think this is possible?"
"What kind of ritual will the guys who killed these gods actually use these corpses to perform, and at the same time, this ritual must maintain a high concentration of ether?"
"..."
Upon hearing Karl's thoughts, Ceryl's eyes immediately lit up.
But soon, this sudden look disappeared from her body again, and Cyril's eyes dimmed again.
"Karl, based on my superficial knowledge, there is only one ritual that requires so many god corpses and a high ether concentration environment."
"That is the ritual Ragnarok left by Odin, the King of Gods."
Not to mention the god Odin, even the word Ragnarok was relatively familiar to Karl.
In Norse mythology, the end of the gods, the inevitable fate of destruction for the Asa clan, is also a terrible event that Odin, the king of the gods, wants to prevent throughout his life.
Before Carl traveled through time, this was a term that even ordinary people had definitely heard of.
But what Seliel said next was somewhat different from Karl's perception.
According to the goddess in front of him, after the three Odin brothers killed Ymir, the ancestor of the giants, they used the body of the giant creator god and used the blood in Ymir's corpse to place a curse, taking this opportunity to eliminate almost 80% of the people.
of giant.
As a result, after completing this great deed, Odin found that he had been tricked.
Ymir, who had already met his own death, arranged a ritual in his body to destroy enemies who wanted to target his children.
As a result, Odin's behavior perfectly matched the effect of the ritual, causing this creator-level curse to be fully activated, including all the Asirs within the scope of revenge.
At the same time, because Ymir who cast the curse has been killed by him, it is completely impossible to remove the power of the curse from the source.
Realizing that he had made an irreparable mistake, Odin began his subsequent journey.
By drinking the water from the Fountain of Wisdom at the cost of his right eye, he first gained the wisdom of Runas.
Through this powerful power, Odin realized that his current abilities were not enough, so he hung himself upside down on the World Tree and pierced his abdomen with a spear.
Using the World Tree as an altar to sacrifice, and using himself as a sacrifice to himself, Odin finally conquered the World Tree and obtained runes, a power that symbolizes the origin of the world.
As a result, Odin, the King of the Gods, finally developed a ritual called Ragnarok at the expense of the lives of the Æsir gods.
By sacrificing the entire protoss, with the power of this ritual, they will be reborn into the world one day in the future, and completely get rid of all the constraints and curses of the past. It can be called the pinnacle of sacrificial magic and a complete miracle product.
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The above is the only origin of the ritual Ragnarok that Cyril knows about, performed at the cost of the lives of the gods.
After listening to this alternative narration of past myths, Karl rationalized his thinking and asked a question that he was very curious about:
"Since Ragnarok is such a ritual, did the Aesir finally resurrect?"
"snort."
Smiling disdainfully, Cyril said with a hint of sarcasm:
"The ceremony was quite successful, but it's a pity that the ether is gone. How can they resurrect it?"
"..."
Karl expressed his condolences to the Æsir who passed away in history.
After a lot of hard work, they found a way to get rid of the curse, but in the end their entire army was wiped out for this reason. The fate of the Asa clan was really unlucky.
Next, Ceryl's narration also explained why her eyes dimmed.
"I have devoured the corpses of two gods before and found no powerful curse that cannot be lifted, so this speculation is unfounded."
Although the god who died in a calm and peaceful posture in front of us is very consistent with the sacrificial ceremony of Ragnarok, fundamentally speaking, this does not make sense.
After all, this group of gods is different from the Asa Protoss. According to Cyril's inspection, they don't need to get rid of any irresistible curse, so they don't need to go through the trouble of killing themselves first and then resurrecting them.
Just like Cyril or Morrigan, wouldn't it be nice to recover step by step and then survive in the surface world?
For a moment, the atmosphere in the cave became strange.
The possibility of Ragnarok has been ruled out, and Cyril also stated that this is the only ritual she knows that can be performed at the expense of the gods, so what is the truth?
Just a few months ago, what happened in the cave?
"Mr. Karl, if you can't think of anything, then we might as well move on."
While Carl and Cyril were meditating, Green on the side also put forward his own suggestions:
"The current situation is unclear because the information we have is not enough. If we keep going, we will always find something new, right?"
After hearing Green's suggestion, Karl immediately agreed:
"You're right, let's keep going."
So, the three people bid farewell to this place and continued deeper into the cave.