OBS Chapter 952: The Truth of the Fallen Floating City
Chapter 952: The Truth of the Fallen Floating City
After Ebner and Miss Justice’s private conversation ended, the members once again began, as usual, to teach Little Sun ancient Hermes, while also learning bits of knowledge in the field of mysticism from each other.Time passed quickly. When the tacit exchange among the members came to a stop, The Fool Klein swept his gaze across the group and said:
"That will be all for today."
"Following Your will." Justice Audrey immediately rose, lifted her skirt slightly, and curtsied. The other members followed almost simultaneously.
Watching one blurry figure after another disappear before his eyes, even Mr. Fool was respectfully seen off. Only one figure remained here besides himself. Klein turned toward that person and directly asked:
"You know the Sequence 4 potion formula of the Spectator pathway?"
"I do." Ebner first nodded, then spoke in a tone tinged with regret. "But you asked too late... I can’t tell you now."
Hearing this, Klein frowned. He had some guesses but still asked in a low voice: "Why?"
Ebner thought for a moment. Instead of answering directly, he carefully said:
"You should still remember the reward given by the Goddess after the events of the first level of the ’Dream Maze Tower,’ right?"
Klein deliberately asked with a serious face: "Which Goddess?"
That time, there were quite a few Goddesses tied to you... the Earth Mother, the Vampire Ancient God, the Evernight Goddess...
Ebner was left speechless and almost rolled his eyes, certain that Klein was nitpicking on purpose.
"If not specified, I usually refer to the Evernight Goddess as ’the Goddess.’" He answered expressionlessly.
"The Goddess... I remember She bestowed an oracle to Miss Daly, asking Mr. Fool’s Blessed—me—to find a way into the Chanis Gate of Saint Samuel Cathedral. For this, I even went out of my way to help Dunn prepare an identity as a wealthy man, to make things easier in the future." Klein pondered aloud. "Does this have something to do with the Trickmaster’s
potion formula?"
Though he said it as a question, Klein was already certain the two were connected, since when he asked Arrodes about it, that was the answer too.o the point that even his supposedly safe energy core could explode out of nowhere...
"And the subsequent battle between the Imperialist
demigods and the True Creator demigods, even the fall of Morning Star, was likely due to this as well!
"But why would Ouroboros strike at me?
"From what I know of myself, since I allowed the construction of churches to the True Creator atop the Floating City, I must’ve had some tacit understanding with that degenerate true god.
"That tacit understanding isn’t hard to guess—it was most likely the True Creator wanting to use my special trait, the authority beyond the ’Pure White Eye,’ the rank of the ’Unknown Land,’ to open the door within the Giant King’s Court.
"And the reason I parked Morning Star City above Afternoon Town was probably twofold: first, as the Machinery Emperor, I was already old and weak, needing mechanical modifications; second, I was waiting for the True Creator’s followers to retrieve the key lost in the outside world.
"But why would that tacit understanding be sabotaged by Ouroboros, the Angel of Fate?
"Hm... The True Creator wanted to open that door alone, and as His other half, Adam certainly couldn’t allow that.
"So if I make a bold hypothesis—it must be that Ouroboros had just brought back followers from the outside, and didn’t yet know of the tacit pact between the Machinery Emperor and His Lord. Adam then used that ignorance to ’arrange’ matters!
"I’d already thought it odd that a small Morning Star City could have four churches of the True Creator, each calling itself pope. Clearly, each had their own doctrine.
"Likely, they had ’heard’ different things, and without a proper angelic envoy to guide them, they each strayed into extremity.
"And ’I’ apparently paid no attention to their divisions, maybe even welcomed them...
"But in the eyes of a devout believer like Ouroboros, that’s blatant blasphemy!
"If this hypothesis holds, then Morning Star City’s fall was inevitable.
"After all, whether Adam, the Three Gods, the Goddess, Lilith, the God of Combat, or even the God of Steam and Machinery—they’d all want to prevent the True Creator from obtaining the Blasphemy Slate.
"I probably foresaw this too, but still wanted to take my chances, so I made two preparations.
’In the darkness, civilization’s miracle is ruined by corruption’...
"I used to think this ’corruption’ meant the corruption of human hearts, or the True Creator Himself.
"But now I see, it has a third layer... To the True Creator, the one who truly ’fell’ was Adam!"
At last, Ebner untangled the causes behind Morning Star’s fall and also gained new considerations on how to eventually bring Morning Star City into reality.
With this in mind, he turned to Klein and asked with a smile:
"Anything else you want to ask?"
Klein thought for a bit, then casually asked:
"Do you know who Frank Lee’s parents are, the ones on Hermit’s ship?"
Ebner froze for a few seconds, then calmly countered:
"Why do you care about that?"
"He’s my friend... and there’s something special about him..." Klein didn’t overthink and simply relayed what Bernadette had said.
After hearing this, Ebner pinched his chin and pondered carefully. Then he frowned slightly and answered:
"Frank... he should be Lamia’s adopted son."