Chapter 313: Chapter 194: The Last Believer Among the Half-Dragon Men_4
[It was a day like any other, the repetitive routine of mining was all of the life the ’Bright Stars’ had gifted me.]
[Perhaps it was fated, within a vein of the mine, I witnessed something extraordinary.]
[A sudden cave-in had me convinced I was about to perish in the mine, but that wasn’t the case, someone must uncover the truth of history...]
[...]
[On the floor of the cave-in stood a huge stone tablet, carved with images and the language of my people.]
[From the wear and tear on the stone tablet, it can be inferred that it is much older than even my great-grandfather.]
[The image carved on the stone tablet depicted our great ancestors looking different from my memories, they were not simply bipedal, but had eyes aplenty.]
[This was... the symbol of the heterodox knowledge seeker!]
[How could our ancestors, as the most faithful followers of the ’Bright Stars’, look like this!]
[Suppressing my shock, I began to read the writing on the stone tablet...]
[Eons ago, the great hermit ancestor was one of the followers of the ’Almighty True Knowledge’.]
[While it didn’t participate in the divine battle, it kept producing offspring, letting them forge contracts with the emissaries of ’Almighty True Knowledge’, contributing to the divine battle in another way.]
[The offspring kept perishing in the war, and the ancestor, with every birth, saw its strength diminish.]
[Every time an offspring died, the emissaries of ’Almighty True Knowledge’ would return its remains to the valley.]
[To not waste the precious vital power of bloodline and to continue contributing to the divine battle, it was consuming the remains of its offspring to restore a fraction of its strength.]
[However, this consumption could not fully restore the power of the ancestor, it would still decline, only at a much slower pace...]
[The true terror didn’t lie in this, but in the incessant reproduction of offspring and frequent consumption of them, which would result in a terrifying ’Chaos’.]
[...]
[The gods ultimately won the battle, but they also created too much ’Chaos’, not only the ancestor went mad, even ’Almighty True Knowledge’ itself went mad!]
[The endless ’Knowledge Barrier’ is the headwaters of ’Chaos’, emanating from the horrific source of ’Almighty True Knowledge’.]
[The remaining offspring united to imprison the deranged ancestor and in order to avoid ’Chaos’, they ripped out their extra eyes, abandoned their faith in the True God, and turned to the barely surviving Star Gods.]
[The ’Chaos’ of the valley was dispelled by the Stars, but this dispelling is not eternal, only through constant service to the Stars by the offspring, can this momentary order be maintained.]
[The offspring were all oath-breakers, traitors to their ancestor, cowards clinging to life, pinned to the column of shame ...]
[The remaining text on the tablet was buried deep underground, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get more truth.]
[Because of my excavation, the cave-in subtly vibrated, boulders skyrocketed around me, and I knew this place was about to collapse.]
[At the last moment, before the cave-in collapsed, I fled for my life...]
[The elders in Dragon Nest are descendants of the offspring, the entirety of the valley is under their control, I wanted to reveal the truth... but no one would believe the stone tablet I’d seen, let alone the truth of history.]
[I must acquire stronger power, purer bloodline.]
[Only when I stand at the top of Dragon Nest, can I make everyone believe, believe what I want them to!]
[The fragmented memories of Shell abruptly end here.]
[You’ve gained Knowledge, your Knowledge Value has increased by 9999999! Current Knowledge Value: .../28500]
[Your Knowledge surpasses the tipping point, you’ve tapped into something extraordinary, once again you glimpse...]
[Here, you cannot glimpse the ’Almighty True Knowledge’...]
[Disarrayed and vast knowledge continuously pouring into your soul, you gradually lose yourself in the ocean of Knowledge.]
[Sanity starts to fade, madness seizes your mind.]
[Your skull explodes in a terrific burst...]
[You are dead!]
