Chapter 1101: Chapter 573: Mass-Produced Soldier Persons, Traitor’s True Form_4
After escaping the clutches of Louis XI, the other personality within him began to act up again, making it impossible to utilize powers, which made the journey take longer than expected.
Dragging along a mortal body sealed by the "Divine Aspect" all the way westward, it took a few days to cross the border into the Holy Silver Empire.
Through a branch channel of the Mercurius United Trading Company, he arrived at an abandoned small town on a deserted island.
The Mercurius United Trading Company was also the organization to which the Twin Snake Staff emblem Byron had seen on the sugar cane paper belonged, connecting the clues in his hand all at once.
Locking onto the opponent’s core force.
The "Traitor" wound through twists and turns to enter an ancient temple with a style obviously from the Ancient Silver Empire. The large white marble pillars, embraced by several people, stood firm even after centuries of wind and rain.
This type of architecture can at least be traced back to the Mythological Era.
Through the symbolic various sculptures and emblems, it appeared to be a temple dedicated to the God King [Thunder God] Jupiter.
Munin followed closely behind the Traitor into the deepest part of the temple, where a partially collapsed marble mural relief caught their eyes.
Carved above were twelve deities, likely the twelve Chief Gods of the Jupiter Divine System.
But aside from the complete preservation of the [God of Commerce] Mercurius, none of the other sculpted figures, not even the most complete one, had a head, with no trace of Divine Aura remaining.
The "Traitor" couldn’t wait to pounce on Mercurius’s divine statue, using a dagger to cut his palms and pressing them on the twin snakes of the staff in the figure’s hands.
Hiss... hiss...
The temple suddenly resounded with the hissing of snakes.
The snake staff carved from marble shone with Divine Light, enveloping the "Traitor".
Visibly, the previously discordant left and right sides of his face showed signs of recovery.
Though not completely symmetrical like a normal person, it was no longer as eerie as before, clearly showing that the conflict between the two personalities was temporarily suppressed.
This was because the Twin Snake Staff of the [God of Commerce] Mercurius was seen as a symbol of communication and reconciliation, also symbolizing that in commerce, there are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
"Mercurius?"
Byron knew that the [God of Commerce] Mercurius was the son of the ancient Silver Empire god system’s God King Jupiter, with an extremely distinguished status.
He held a series of powers including [Intelligence], [Commerce], [Thief], [Transport], [Tourism], [Animal Husbandry], among others.
But what was the relationship between an ancient god who should have long been dead and the "Traitor"? And what justified the ability to help the "Traitor" restore the most fundamental divine and human balance?
"Unless... the mural was merely a medium, and the authority originally belonged to the ’Traitor’ himself!"
Byron’s eyes lit up, immediately activating the [Echoes of History] towards the mural.
The time condensed within the mural instantly began to trace back towards the past like a film being played in reverse.
The sun rose and set, oceans turned to dry land.
This abandoned temple was mostly deserted, only the "Traitor" coming once every few years, albeit with a different appearance each time.
Until one day more than a thousand years ago, shortly after the Silver Era had just begun, when the Great Flood had not yet completely faded away.
A young man, covered in mud and looking extremely bedraggled, apparently severely injured, cautiously entered the temple.
After devoutly worshiping the only divine statue, [God of Commerce] Mercurius, he could no longer hold on, fainting in front of the statue.
Who knows how much time passed, but the statue began to flicker with billions of lights and shadows, from which a radiant figure emerged.
The body sank downward, then burrowed into the young man’s body.
The young man’s soul was swiftly turned golden by the intruder, his injuries healed completely, and the two eventually merged into one.
Byron’s pupils contracted, finally understanding the essence of [the one whose name must not be mentioned].
"The ’Traitor’ is actually [God of Commerce] Mercurius who emerged from the mural relief?"
No, more accurately, it was during the Silver Continent’s flood invasion, in an era when the Source Tide was extremely active, that... a living legend came into being.
This is not the body of a god who has died but the living knowledge of legends known as ’if spoken, it will be known,’ pursuing and devouring people!
