Chapter 187: Counterattack Ritual: Shadow of Avalon
…The Silver Crown Dragon mentioned me?
How could that be a good thing? !
He still remembered it.
The first time he was watched by the Silver Crown Dragon was because he swore not to use his own people as ritual materials… That was because of old Moriarty’s induction. After all, who knows that a constraint like “Simple Oath” can summon the high and mighty Silver Crown Dragon.
Thinking of this, Aiwas suddenly felt a pang in his heart.
——Could it be that the Silver Crown Dragon thought I knew the sin of heavenly evil?
That has nothing to do with me, it’s entirely James’s father’s problem!
Aiwas immediately felt guilty: “That Majesty… What did he say about me?”
The Silver Crown Dragon is the pillar god of the path of authority and the god of kings. Therefore, it is okay to call the other party His Majesty directly.
And the words of Her Majesty the Queen made Aiwas’ heart stop for a moment again: “He said you are a natural transcendent, which reminds Him of his younger self.”
——I’m awesome!
At that moment, Aiwas realized that he might have been exposed.
The Silver Crown Dragon praised him, probably because he saw his performance in the advanced copy of the Transcendence Ceremony. This was not surprising to Aiwass, after all, it was a ceremony presided over by Gawain, the apostle of the Silver Crown Dragon... It was normal for him to mention Aiwass's performance to the Silver Crown Dragon later.
But Aiwass never expected that the Silver Crown Dragon would be so talkative - how could the Nine Pillars chat with humans?
Sizhu has a good temper, but I have never heard of Sizhu chatting with people about such things?
Since the Silver Crown Dragon can mention such things, at least Her Majesty the Queen probably knows that he is a parallel practitioner of the Dedication Path and the Transcendence Path.
Then the lie of "Aleister" that he spread could be easily seen through by her.
After all, Aiwas chose this code name to commemorate his past.
"Aleister" is a variant of "Alexander". Just change a few letters and read it in other countries' languages, and it will become this pronunciation.
Because the writing of Aleister and Alexander in the Iris language is completely different, Aiwass is not worried that an Iris person will recognize his identity. After all, he saw his biological father's face during the ceremony, and he was 70% similar to himself. If someone knows him, they may recognize Aiwas's origin at a glance.
- In simple terms, it's like the "catch shrimp households" joke. The more Iris people are, the less they understand Aiwas' jokes - on the contrary, the Avalon people may understand.
And since Her Majesty knows that Aiwas is also an adaptor of the transcendent path, she may know that Shadow Demon is his contracted demon. Then she can naturally see through who "Aleister" is.
But the good news is that his vest has fallen off, but not completely -
because the Silver Crown Dragon praised him, in other words, he was recognized by the big boss.
At least, his transcendent path is now legal. The queen can say such words to him directly at this moment, which means that she will not cause trouble for him.
Before, Aiwas was worried whether he would run into a court ritualist when he came to the Temple of Silver and Tin.
Although he had never seen one before... But the court ritualist kept by Avalon, no matter how you think about it, must have at least a third level, right? Then at least after getting close, it would be easy to see through his identity.
The good news now is that Aiwas will not be dragged out and hanged for exposing his identity as a demonologist.
The bad news is that the great guardian next to him is already looking at him with a thoughtful look.
- Grandma, please take it easy! George and David are still listening!
... Or are you saying this to George?
Fortunately, the great guardian interrupted at this time and changed the topic that Aiwas could not pick up at all: "What will happen next, Your Majesty? Will it be the same as before?"
The same as before?
Aiwas, who was silent and silent, was moved in his heart and noticed what the great guardian said.
"Well, that's enough."
Her Majesty nodded: "Whether Albert can survive or not... at worst, I'll count myself in, I'm dying anyway."
What is this talking about?
Aiwass was confused, but didn't dare to ask. He could only analyze that this might be related to some sacrificial ceremony...
Fortunately, at this time, David said in confusion: "Dad, Your Majesty... what are you talking about?"
- Good boy, you also have a heart of transcendence!
Aiwass praised David in his heart.
This topic sounded top secret, and I didn't dare to ask. You dare to ask directly in person!
I will praise you when Miss Aleister meets again!
But Aiwass also realized belatedly that the queen was not sad, and it seemed to have nothing to do with whether she was used to it or not... but there were other reasons.
Because Her Majesty looked at David, but the corners of her mouth rose slightly. It seemed that she was very satisfied with his question.
The Great Guardian did not scold David, but only lowered his head and asked: "Can you tell these children this, Her Majesty Sofia?"
"These are the future pillars of Avalon," the queen said with a chuckle, "Tell them, these secrets must be passed on to them. Anyway, the curse should be over."
Evans was suddenly stunned.
The key is that what she said was really right...
Her Majesty actually guessed it?
This is information that Aiwas has never come across in the game.
This has nothing to do with Aiwas not watching the plot, because players who watch the plot don't know what this curse is.
Aiwas only knows that the last person to die in the curse is Prince Andrew. No one has died since him.
Logically, after the queen's death, the throne should be inherited by Prince Albert, Isabel's father. He is the first heir.
But unfortunately, he is a waste - at least from the perspective of the royal family, he is a waste. But he is also a good person.
In the plot of the game, before the queen was assassinated... he heard that he might inherit the throne, so he ran away secretly.
Of course, it may not be very accurate to say that he ran away.
Specifically, he went to travel.
Like Isabel, Prince Albert also lacks the adaptability to the authoritarian path. Therefore, although he is almost fifty years old this year, he only has the second-level authoritarian power.
He is not interested in the throne at all. He prefers to carry his special guitar and travel around the country like a bard.
He is a very good luthier who has transformed the shape and sound of the guitar. This is his masterpiece.
He gave up his right to inherit the throne a long time ago.
However, according to the plot line in the game, after Prince Andrew's death, there are only three heirs left in the royal family:
Prince Albert, who is on the second level of the authoritarian path and the third level of the wisdom path; Princess Isabel, who is cowardly and autistic, is on the third level of the beauty path; Prince John, who is less than three years old.
——Obviously, even if Albert clearly gave up his right to inherit, his words would not count at this time.
So he ran away. He used magic to change his appearance and changed his name to the bard "Yunus". He traveled around the country and helped the poor and the pitiful with rewards and performance fees. After the demise of Avalon, he also went to the Theocracy. Whenever Isabel met him in the team, his voice was very exaggerated, like singing - at that time he was still a popular and funny character.
It was not until a later branch plot that players knew that "Yunus" was Prince Albert. He wanted to rescue Isabelle who was in danger, but because he was too incompetent, he brought more trouble instead. It was already the 2.0 plot, Isabelle was almost level 40, and Yunus was less than level 30.
After completing the task, he told the truth.
He realized that what he did was not right after he ran away. But he didn't dare to go back, so he could only do good things and help others as much as he could to make up for his guilt of escaping responsibility. When Avalon was restored, his accumulated reputation among the people also played a significant role.
Because of this, Aiwass didn't even consider the possibility of Albert's succession.
——When he knew that Andrew was dead, he immediately knew that Isabelle would become the next queen. So Aiwass was actually quite happy at the time, but he didn't dare to show it in front of the Great Guardian.
"The situation is not complicated."
The Great Guardian said to the two young men: "You should know that the ancestors of the twenty founding families are now apostles of the Silver Crown Dragon, right?"
Aiwass and David nodded.
This is common sense to them.
"However, His Majesty Lancelot, who is also a founder of the country, did not actually ascend to the dream world to become an apostle of the Silver Crown Dragon."
At this time, the words of the Great Guardian suddenly startled Aiwas: "He is actually still alive, because he can never give up everything in the material world. The body is preserved in the Saint Guinevere Chapel, and the soul is trained in the Shadow Kingdom... It is a kind of phantom demon. Occasionally, he can meet other colleagues who have become apostles in the dream world.
"As long as there is the blood of twenty-one Du Lac who died in murder, the ancestor can be resurrected. He will descend into his body again, holding the holy sword Arondette awakened by blood and unsealed-he will become the invincible blade of Avalon. If someone thinks that we Avalon are weak at this time, or chooses to betray Avalon at this time... then they will encounter a surprise.
"In fact, we really don't know who the curser is... because our ritualist had sealed off all the possibilities of non-contact curses three years ago, leaving the other party with only catalyst curses. In order to kill a person instantly and prevent us from rescuing him, a large amount of catalyst must be used to set up a long-term ritual. From then on, we almost knew where the problem was."
Curse catalyst - that is, blood, hair, nails, underwear and the like.
"Because in the case of deliberate destruction, the person who can still get a large amount of catalyst from the royal family for a long time is most likely another member of the royal family. This is why the royal family has never conducted an in-depth investigation. Because someone was indeed poisoned to death..."
The Great Guardian said meaningfully: "If the purpose of the curser is to exterminate the royal family of Avalon, or just to let Princess Isabel succeed to the throne. Then he should start from the easy to the difficult. It is impossible to skip the easy ones and kill the hard ones with poison first - for example, Prince Connet shaved his head to prevent the curse, so he was poisoned to death.
"Meg has always stubbornly believed that that person might be Prince Andrew - in fact, she also has no evidence, she just intuitively thinks that there is something wrong with him. And we actually have our own doubters... For example, I once said I doubt Prince Albert, but now it seems that Meg is right.”
"After all, Andrew died of a heart burst..."
Her Majesty sighed: "I hope it's him too. But it seems there is no other possibility."
Aiwass also suddenly reacted...his heart burst, which was a symptom of the Heart-killing Curse.
This curse requires fingertip blood, and blood from the middle fingers of both hands.
Generally speaking, this is very difficult to obtain. It is generally used to punish those who break the contract in the terms of the contract. When pressing the fingerprint, the curse is burned into the contract.
This is probably why people are generally less sad...some become more serious and some become more relaxed.
After all, everyone knows that no matter who inherits the throne among the remaining three, there is actually not much difference.
The cause of Prince Andrew's death is basically proof that the Curse stabbed his collaborators in the back and completely erased the evidence.
Aiwass also understood why the quest line of tracing the curse in the game was closed after the death of Prince Andrew; until the Queen was assassinated at the banquet a year later, there was no further pursuit of the curse, and this matter could not be resolved directly. That’s it.
It turns out that the upper echelons of Avalon actually knew that the curse was over... and it would be difficult to get reliable evidence if we wanted to trace it. Since the opponent cursed Andrew to death, he should have probably retreated.
"If you don't break, you won't stand."
The Queen said softly: "Avalon's path is too single, and I have tried my best to change it. But it's still too late... I think they took action now because I chose to change.
"In more than twenty years... no, at most ten years, Avalon's ritual and curse technology will be restored. They realized that if they didn't take action, it would be too late. That's why they took action now , chose the most brutal method to weaken Avalon.”
Her expression was serious and solemn: "But the blood of Du Lac will not be shed in vain. We are the descendants of the Dragon Slayer... If we are to be destroyed, we must bear our anger.
"Before this, there were only three people who knew about this matter except me. I will also tell Meg and Arius about this matter later... Both of them are from civilian backgrounds and don't know about the Avalon War. Shadow' this ceremony."
It was also at this time that Aiwass could truly realize that... this seemingly kind and kind old lady was indeed a rational and ruthless monarch.
For the sake of Avalon's future possibilities, she was able to endure the royal family being killed one by one by curses.
In order to draw out the internal rebels, in order to revive Avalon from the ashes...
Reminiscent of the previous contact between the Silver Crowned Dragon and Her Majesty the Queen.
... Could it be that the destruction of Avalon was the Silver Crown Dragon's plan?
Fake death, right?
But in that case, there is no need for the Queen to really be assassinated... Could it be that she was really assassinated? However, who would know that the Queen is the last step in the ceremony...
And, speaking of.
The Shadow of Avalon seems to be a version that was opened as a sacrifice by Isabel's brother...
Aiwass was suddenly startled and remembered another thing.
——He can't let the Queen complete the "Shadow of Avalon" ritual at this time!
Because there was something wrong with this ritual, it was not Lancelot who came, but Scathach, the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows!
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