WTYTIAAN Chapter 261

by Volare

This question ran through his mind, and he keenly sensed that this question might be important, but he didn’t have much of a clue about the specifics at the moment.

Let’s ask something else!

“Second question.” Yan Yunqing lowered his eyes, looking at Theodore who was pinned under him on the bed, “Do you know the Eternal God Sect? Are you related to the Eternal God Sect?”

When he asked this question, Yan Yunqing could hear his heart pounding. This question was the reason why he had to come to Theodore. Although he had dispelled his original suspicion of Theodore in Erandtick City, he still wanted to hear a clear answer from Theodore.

“Eternal…God Sect?” Theodore’s expression showed a hint of confusion. After careful observation, Yan Yunqing confirmed that this confusion was not feigned. Theodore was indeed very unfamiliar with this term.

Theodore has nothing to do with the Eternal God Sect, then the so-called resurrection of the Eternal Lord is pure nonsense… Of course, it is also possible that some people are using the banner of resurrecting the Eternal Lord to create a god.

The string that had been taut in Yan Yunqing’s heart suddenly loosened, and his tone became a little more relaxed, “Then what’s the matter with the prophecy? Skyfaller? Tell me about it in detail.”

Theodore, however, showed an expression of astonishment. He hesitated to look up at Yan Yunqing. Because of the angle of the posture, Yan Yunqing always felt that something was strange.

He silently got off Theodore. It’s a bit inappropriate to discuss such important things while lying on top of Theodore, right?

“Cough…you can sit up if you want, but your injury is still quite serious, don’t move too much.”

Yan Yunqing made a fist and pressed it against the corner of his mouth, coughing twice awkwardly.

A few imperceptible losses flashed in Theodore’s eyes, but he still obediently climbed up. As Yan Yunqing said, he didn’t kneel respectfully, but sat on the bed like Yan Yunqing.

“Subordinate…”

Theodore hesitated, seeming to organize his words. Yan Yunqing wasn’t in a hurry, waiting for him to think.

Theodore didn’t ask Yan Yunqing where he learned about the prophecy and its connection to him. He just tilted his head and was silent for a while before slowly stating the origin of the prophecy.

The Demon King has been missing for more than five hundred years. During this period, small forces have risen one after another, trying to challenge the authority of the Empire, but they have all been suppressed by Theodore.

However, Theodore really doesn’t know how to manage a country. The Eternal Empire has not had a decision-maker for many years, and the hearts of the people below have changed.

The Eternal Empire is not entirely managed by alien races. There are also humans in the decision-making layer. These are the talents promoted by the Demon King after establishing the Eternal Empire. This group is basically loyal and talented humans who came to follow the Demon King.

The alien races who followed the Demon King to conquer the empire gradually retreated behind the scenes, still suppressing the surrounding areas with force, but rarely participated in the political center of the empire, leaving Theodore as the Demon King’s guard to bear most of the imperial affairs, and even after the Demon King’s disappearance, he took on the role of temporary manager of the empire.

However, the human talents selected by the Demon King were very good. The only shortcoming was that the lifespan of humans was too short compared to that of alien races. Several batches had been replaced from the establishment of the Eternal Empire to the disappearance of the Demon King, not to mention the five hundred years since the Demon King disappeared.

Humans once again formed the so-called aristocracy, and the hierarchy was divided, while Theodore was still the temporary person in power.

Sometimes the occurrence of a coup does not necessarily come from the oppression of the upper class, but also from unsatisfied greed.

Although Theodore is in power, he is still too simple. In his world, it is more black and white, and he doesn’t have the mind for political struggle. In the eyes of many nobles: The reason why Theodore can become the person in power is only because of his powerful martial arts and that he once followed the Demon King to establish the empire.

——In the five hundred years since the Demon King disappeared, none of the upper-class nobles of the Eternal Empire have ever seen the Demon King, let alone submit to the Demon King.

Faced with such a ‘simple’ person in power, they just wanted to get more power, status…etc. from Theodore.

During this period, there were also many coups, but Theodore’s martial arts were too powerful, and these coups were forcibly suppressed by him, using extremely crude methods – execution, all executed.

This also led to the increasingly serious resistance of the upper-class nobles to Theodore, and even to the alien races. So Romunike and Bato Vita came to everyone’s attention.

These two were once one of the nobles of the Eternal Empire. The banners raised by the two families were similar: to overthrow the rule of the alien races.

Of course, there were many forces that wanted to overthrow the Eternal Empire during this period. After the large and small purges, only Romunike and Bato Vita were left.

It was at this time that the ‘prophecy’ appeared.

“The gods fall, the divine throne collapses, eternity is no more, the griffon and the centaur take the stage, the embodiment of evil and greed returns, war and disaster descend, the world is destroyed, only the skyfaller can save all this.”

Theodore slowly stated the entire original text of the prophecy, “This was the prophecy at the time.”

A strange prophecy spread in the royal city of the Eternal Empire. It seemed that children running through the streets and alleys overnight would repeat one or two sentences related to the prophecy, and the targeting of the griffon and the centaur was too obvious.

So far, there are still two rebel armies that are still alive and not small in scale, one is Romunike, whose banner and representative object is the griffon, and the other is Bato Vita, which is the centaur.

As the central royal city of the Eternal Empire, even children dare to sing such prophecies, let alone the areas far away from the royal city, which are simply the hardest hit areas of the prophecy.

Not long after the prophecy spread, Theodore, as the guardian, discovered it and quickly launched an investigation. He originally thought that the prophecy was spread by the two rebel armies, but the final source he found was the Eternal Temple.

The existence of the Eternal Temple is very abrupt in an empire where gods have fallen, as if to oppose the Demon King, the initial founder of the empire, but in fact, the Eternal Temple was personally established by the Demon King.

Sylvia, who once followed the Demon King in conquering the world, made countless prophecies for the Demon King, and made countless contributions. After the Eternal Empire was established, the only request she made was the position of high priest.

The Demon King agreed and spent a lot of money to build a palace called the Temple for Sylvia. At the beginning of the establishment of the Empire, even before the royal palace was built, the Eternal Temple had been built magnificently.

Because the Demon King had never had a real romantic partner before his disappearance, later people often thought that this Sylvia, the High Priest, had an affair with the Demon King, but several dependents who had followed the Demon King knew that this overly gorgeous temple was not just for Sylvia, the High Priest, but more for monitoring something – divinity.

After the Demon King killed the God of Light, the divinity belonging to the God of Light, as well as the divinities obtained by the God of Light, all fell into the hands of the Demon King, and the Demon King himself had no interest in becoming a god, and the divinity became a hot potato in his hands.

So the Demon King built the Eternal Temple and handed over this divinity to Sylvia for safekeeping. The number of people who knew this news could be counted on two hands.

However, this divinity suddenly disappeared more than three hundred years after the Demon King disappeared. It was not clear whether it was stolen or other reasons. Sylvia, as the person in charge of safekeeping, knew that she had failed in her duty and took the initiative to retreat for nearly two hundred years, just to predict the whereabouts of the divinity.

However, the whereabouts of the divinity had not been predicted yet, and such an outrageous prophecy was first spread in the temple.

Theodore decisively went to the Eternal Temple to ask Sylvia to clarify this matter.

Yan Yunqing suddenly realized.

So the dream he had at the beginning was the day Theodore went to question Sylvia.

“So, this prophecy was actually predicted by Sylvia when she was predicting the divinity?” Yan Yunqing hesitated.

Theodore nodded.

The door of the temple was suddenly pushed open, and the heavy door made an overwhelmed groan, startling the birds outside the window to fly away.

In the center of the temple, a woman in a beautiful sacrificial robe turned her head slightly. She was not frightened by the sudden sound, and still looked at the person calmly and slowly.

Her black hair was tied up and fixed with delicate and complex silverware, which made her facial features even more enchanting, full of exotic customs, but her beautiful eyebrows and eyes were indifferent, which did not match her appearance.

She looked only twenty or thirty years old, but her core was a real old monster who had lived for nearly nine hundred years.

As a human race, it is incredible to reach this age, not to mention that the people in her tribe have never lived past fifty years old.

Sylvia bowed slightly to Theodore.

“Your Highness Theodore, good day.”

Theodore didn’t respond at all, nor did he use the various complicated etiquette when meeting like those nobles. Instead, he went straight to the point: “The prophecy, did you spread it? What do you want to do?”

The Eternal Empire is something left by the Demon King, and Theodore does not allow anything to destroy it, not even the High Priest who was once appointed by the Demon King.

Sylvia did not beat around the bush in the face of Theodore’s straightforwardness. She sighed, “The prophecy was spread by me.”

“As for what I want to do… I just want to make up for my fault a little bit.”

Theodore frowned, “Fault…the divinity you lost?”

“Yes.”

Sylvia turned around and walked to a giant crystal ball. The crystal ball was half a person tall, and with the heavy base, it was basically on par with Sylvia. She reached out and touched the crystal ball, lowering her eyes.

The crystal ball emitted a faint light, but no image appeared. The so-called prophecy magic can only be understood by people with talent.

Without waiting for Theodore to ask, Sylvia had already recited the so-called prophecy.

“Since the loss of the divinity, I have been guarding here every day, looking for the lost divinity.” Sylvia opened her eyes, “Two hundred years ago, I gained nothing, until recently, my prophecy has received feedback.”

“The loss of the divinity is my fault, I need to make up for my fault, but the prophecy the world gave me is this.”

“This is your prophecy?” Theodore’s voice gradually became cold, and a murderous aura surrounded his body, as if as long as Sylvia admitted it, he would draw his sword and point it at this former companion without saying a word, “Is this the reason why you spread rumors in the city?”

“Your Highness Theodore.” Sylvia sighed, “You also said that this is my prophecy, this is not a rumor.”

“Our world is fragile, like this crystal ball, looking colorful and extremely gorgeous, but like a mirror image in the water, it will break with a touch.”

“I don’t want to hear you say these prophecies, I just want to know the reason why you spread rumors.”

“Sylvia, do you want to shake the king’s rule?”

“Your Highness Theodore, can you do prophecy magic?” Sylvia asked irrelevantly.

Theodore:……

The temple fell into silence.

Sylvia seemed to be talking to herself: “When I was six years old, I could predict the fall of the gods. At thirty-six years old, I helped His Majesty predict one victory after another. I have predicted countless things.”

“Some good things have come true, some bad things have been reversed by His Majesty. I used to think that His Majesty was the destiny, as long as His Majesty is there, then everything will not get worse.”

“But I have never predicted such a terrifying future, Your Highness Theodore.”

Sylvia turned her head and looked directly at Theodore with her deep black eyes.

“This world will usher in destruction. No matter how I calculate, I can’t find a glimmer of hope.”

“I don’t know if this is because I lost the divinity, or if this is a predetermined trajectory of fate.” Sylvia said, “But I only know that I must do something to reverse this terrifying future.”

“…This is not the reason why you spread rumors.” Theodore was still a terrible one-track-minded animal. The facts he Recognized are difficult to be persuaded, unless you give him a reason that is enough for him to give up.

For example, His Highness the Demon King.

“This is not a rumor, Your Highness Theodore.” Sylvia said firmly, “This is the future.”

“This is the only future that I have found in thousands of possibilities that may usher in a turning point, and it is also the only future that has His Majesty.”

Theodore was stunned.

“Please don’t stop me, Your Highness Theodore.”

“Only by following the prophecy can His Majesty return to this world and reverse this terrifying future.”

Theodore fell into silence.

Yan Yunqing:……

Yan Yunqing opened his mouth, then closed it again, and finally could only mutter, “So you…agreed???”

Theodore lowered his head, and after a long while, he added dryly, “Did not agree.”

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth, “But you didn’t stop it either, you just acquiesced, right?”

Theodore didn’t say anything.

Yan Yunqing didn’t expect that Theodore would let the prophecy spread for this reason. This is too outrageous, right?

Is it so childish?

…Okay, it may not be childish in Theodore’s eyes, because with Sylvia’s ability, it is indeed possible to predict a way for the Demon King to return. After all, she once predicted the fall of the gods.

The record can be checked, so Theodore acquiesced to Sylvia’s approach.

Yan Yunqing had a headache. He had worked hard for this prophecy for a long time, searching for clues everywhere. He had always thought that the water behind the prophecy was very deep, and it might even be someone’s conspiracy. As a result, the final truth was like this…

Yan Yunqing almost crushed his teeth.

In the final analysis, it was the damn game system. If he hadn’t received those game notifications before he crossed over, he would have come to Theodore as soon as he crossed over. How could he have taken so many detours——

Okay, with his cautious character, even if there were no game notifications, he would wait until he leveled up before coming to see Theodore, but it would just be a little less mental torture than now.

Yan Yunqing took a deep breath: “What happened later?”

Theodore: “Later it became more and more chaotic. Romunike and Bato Vita occupied several cities. I couldn’t go on an expedition… Those cities fell.”

According to the prophecy given by Sylvia, the destruction of the Eternal Empire had become a foregone conclusion. It’s just that Theodore still wanted to struggle a bit, but in the end, countless innocent citizens of the Empire were massacred because of the war. Theodore finally chose to let go.

The trajectory of history went to the future predicted by Sylvia, once again confirming that Sylvia might be right. There would be a crisis that would destroy the world in the future, and the Demon King would return to this world because of this and save the world again.

Yan Yunqing paused, and he keenly captured a key point, “Wait, I will save the world? Doesn’t the prophecy say that the skyfaller will save the world?”

If the players had not appeared, Yan Yunqing would still think about who this ‘skyfaller’ refers to, but the players have appeared, what is more in line with the ‘skyfaller’ than the Fourth Natural Disaster?

Theodore shook his head, “Sylvia said it was you, the skyfaller…shouldn’t it be you?”

He said the last sentence with some hesitation, obviously not very sure.

Yan Yunqing frowned.

The skyfaller refers to him? If we follow the identity of the players, he does fit the saying of skyfaller, but instead of using the term ‘skyfaller’, wouldn’t it be more descriptive for the prophecy to directly call him ‘Demon King’ or ‘Eternal Lord’?

Yan Yunqing felt that the ‘skyfaller’ Sylvia was referring to was not necessarily him, and was probably still the players, but Sylvia also said that she saw him in the future, and he was also the key to saving the world, so there must be something that needed him to solve personally.

As soon as the complete prophecy came out, even if Yan Yunqing didn’t understand any prophecy magic, he could still decipher some basic referents based on the information he had collected.

“The gods fall, the divine throne collapses” seems to be talking about the end of the God War, but it is a bit vague in the entire prophecy, so let’s not mention it for now.

“Eternity is no more, the griffon and the centaur take the stage” This is easy to explain. The Eternal Empire will be destroyed, and the griffon Romunike and the centaur Bato Vita will rise and become the next rulers.

“The embodiment of evil and greed returns” If Yan Yunqing had not experienced the Erandtick City incident, he might still be confused about this one, but he had already made some guesses in Erandtick City. Now that he has a preconceived idea, he can easily substitute Qi En’s identity.

Yan Yunqing is actually not sure about this guess, but with this one appearing in the complete prophecy, he is about 90% sure that the so-called ‘evil and greed’ is Qi En, as for the embodiment…

A name jumped out abruptly.

Demetrius.

This person has many secrets, has inextricable connections with the Eternal God Sect, and is called the young master by the black rats of the Eternal God Sect…

The term embodiment is difficult to understand, but Yan Yunqing had seen Demetrius, who was marked with the same name by the system, but whose appearance, voice, and personality were completely unlike the same person.

From this, he came up with a small guess, maybe… body snatching? Possession? Of course, it may also be something like multiple personalities.

This can also explain Demetrius’s contradiction.

“War and disaster descend, the world is destroyed, only the skyfaller can save all this.” This last paragraph is the prophecy that has been widely spread, and there are many interpretations of it, so Yan Yunqing doesn’t need to interpret it himself at all.

War is self-evident, disaster should be a demon, the world is destroyed…

Yan Yunqing thought about it, and only the ‘heart’ in the third dream came to his mind. Based on Theodore’s experience, Yan Yunqing deduced that the ‘heart’ stole the divinity on the remains and created the low-level intelligent species of demons, and the existence of demons did threaten the safety of ordinary people’s lives.

But to say that it would destroy the world, that’s a bit exaggerated…

Could it be that the ‘heart’ wants to destroy the world? Indeed, he doesn’t know the reason why the ‘heart’ created the demons.

As the messiah designated by Sylvia in the prophecy, Yan Yunqing only felt stressed.

Even though he had a hunch, after all, he had crossed over, which traverser doesn’t end up becoming a savior? Unless he crossed over as cannon fodder, he would be used by the real savior in various ways, tirelessly.

In this way, it is better to become a savior.

So his goal now is to level up, and when he is about as strong as Theodore, go and solve that ‘heart’?

Yan Yunqing felt that something was wrong.

He suddenly remembered, “So, my sudden return was done by you and Sylvia? How did you do it?”

Theodore once again showed a confused expression, hesitating for a moment, “Sylvia only told me that as long as we wait…you will definitely come back.”

The implication is that he didn’t do anything, of course, not including frantically searching for the Demon King all over the world.

Yan Yunqing:……?

His crossing has nothing to do with Theodore? Sylvia did it herself?

“Didn’t Sylvia tell you anything?” Yan Yunqing asked. He now knows that he crossed over to save the world, but he doesn’t know how he crossed over!

“Sylvia died in the temple not long after the prophecy came out.”

Yan Yunqing really didn’t expect this, “Death? Was she accidentally injured by the rebel army?”

Theodore shook his head, “The doctor said that Sylvia’s life was over and she died normally.”

Yan Yunqing was shocked. He suddenly remembered that Sylvia seemed to be a human race, and none of the people in her tribe had lived past fifty years old.

But how long did Sylvia live…

She was already in her twenties when she joined the Demon King’s camp. The Demon King fought for decades after that, and she always maintained her appearance in her twenties, until she made the prophecy…

Yan Yunqing was so shocked that he counted on his fingers. This high priest, who was destined to be short-lived, actually lived for nearly nine hundred years.

This is different from Merlin. Merlin can live so long purely because he exploited the bug in the curse and bound Isabel’s lifespan to his lifespan. As long as Isabel doesn’t die, Merlin can live.

But Sylvia doesn’t have a partner who can bind the curse!

How can she live so long?

No, she can live so long, but she died immediately after finishing the prophecy? This is not reasonable, right?

But the doctor can confirm that her life has come to an end…

Theodore added, “She died during the period when the Empire was about to be destroyed.”

Yan Yunqing blinked, “Ah…”

Is it such a coincidence?

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but think crookedly. There are also some strange legends on the Blue Star, such as the national teacher being bound to the luck of a country…

Sylvia used all her abilities for the Demon King, and finally only asked for the position of high priest, and also required the Demon King not to actively launch wars for various reasons after the end of the God War. Could it be because she bound herself to the empire established by the Demon King?