Chapter 1730 - Princess Constance (2/2)
The platinum staff was the treasure that Charlemagne and Awenna escorted all the way from Izzo to the Dragon Empire?
Hao Ren could not stop looking at the platinum staff, feeling like he had seen the long staff somewhere else before. Its carvings, which depicted the sun, moon, and stars were very familiar.
“MDT, compare it.”
“No need to compare. This is the platinum scepter that was in the hand of Haersonca, the Holy Queen who appeared in the illusion within Black Pine Forest,” said the MDT in Hao Ren’s head. “The appearance matches 100%, and the energy fluctuations are consistent. It’s authentic.”
Hao Ren was a little shocked but did not show it. It was best not to express one’s thoughts without knowing what the scepter did.
Charlemagne and his sister looked thoughtfully at the platinum scepter for a moment. Apparently, they, too, realized the scepter looked exactly like the one they had seen in Black Pine Forest’s illusion. It looked like they were seeing what they had been escorting for the first time.
“It seems that you have kept your promise not to open the vault before you came here.” Constance guessed it from Charlemagne and Awenna’s expressions. “Have you seen this scepter anywhere else?”
“In Black Pine Forest…” Awenna replied. “We experienced an ‘illusion’ in Black Pine Forest of an ancient queen holding this scepter. She was called the Holy Queen…”
“Ah, that must be the echo of Haersonca.” Constance sighed softly. “May the Queen rest in peace. She has endured too long in this broken world.”
Charlemagne stepped forward and asked, “What is—”
“Do you know the purpose and meaning of this scepter?” Constance interrupted before he could finish his words.
Charlemagne and Awenna shook their heads with the same puzzled expression on their faces.
“Then you probably do not know the Turn and Annihilation of Eras?”
They still shook their heads.
Constance looked at them in silence before she calmly asked, “Then why did you come here and give it to me?”
“Our father suddenly summoned us to the inner court and gave us this mission,” Awenna answered honestly. “He seemed to have foreseen civil strife in the Dragon Empire and told us to come to you if there were enemies in the imperial capital.”
“However, he did not explain things in detail,” Charlemagne continued, “and I think—”
“You do not think your father knows exactly why he is doing this, do you?” Constance went on, sighing a little. “As my father told me, the succession will eventually be broken. The dynasty will not last, the gods will die, the Holy Spirit will die, the wise men and the dragon will die. The reshaping of the world will strip away those memories and knowledge, and even eternal souls will not be immune. In the end, we will all live blindly and ignorantly, driven by ancient obsessions to wage a war that we do not even understand. The immortals will eventually become walking dead. That is the price of eternal life…”
Charlemagne and Awenna were both stunned. Hao Ren’s heart, on the contrary, skipped a beat when he heard “reshaping of the world”.
Princess Constance knew that the world had been reshaped!
Not only did she know, but even her father did!
And between the lines… Hao Ren sensed that the “reshaping of the world” had happened more than once.
In other words, they even knew how the universe was destroyed by the Mad Lord!
“Sorry, this could be hard for you to understand. In the state of mind transmission, some subconscious thoughts are more difficult to control, and I become more emotional than usual. Now, let us get back to the main subject. First, let us talk about the fact that our world has been destroyed in the past.”