Chapter 735 (2/2)
Pasha sighed. “For a long time we were unable to know what was going on in Hermes or any other things that happened outside the ruins of the maze since the original carriers could not be exposed to the sun and the witches who transferred their souls into new bodies needed a long time to adapt to them. When we were able to go outside, we were surprised to discover that they didn’t follow lady Alice’s will when building the new order.”
Agatha said through her teeth, “I knew that! I knew lady Alice would never create such rules. As compared to her plan of God’s Punishment Army, what the church did was destroying the foundation of the witches!”
All the Taquila survivors agreed with her at once.
Roland waited until they calmed down and changed the subject. “What’s a central carrier? Is it different from the original carriers?”
Another voice started to explain, “They’re all shells. As the living beings of the underground civilization were extremely fragile, they had to live in shells. These things were immortal, but we can’t find any detailed information about where they came from in the documents left in the ruins. Based on what we know now, the original carriers are the most common shells, whereas the central carrier which looks similar to them stores many unconscious memories. You can consider it as an original carrier which had been used for many years but had no self-awareness. We need to integrate all the memories into it to understand the remaining documented experiement records in the ruins.” She sounded soft and elegant, different from Pasha and the angry witch.
Listening to this voice, Roland quickly pictured in his head an academic woman who had a long thick braid and wore a pair of black-framed round glasses. He said to her, “Thank you for explaining this to me, you’re…”
“My name is Celine, Your Majesty. I was a member of the Quest Society and used to work with Agatha.”
Agatha got closer to him and whispered in his ear, “I’m not familiar with her. We worked in the same research tower but on different floors. I heard that she was a quiet girl, but every time when it came to magic power, she would become passionate, acting like a totally different person.”
Hearing this, Roland thought, “Only someone like this woman would become a faithful follower of Natalia.” He cleared his throat and asked her another question, “So, are the witches who merged with the central carrier still alive?”
Celine replied, “not really. Apart from the dozen witches who severely injured in the internal battle, there was another thirty-six of us who volunteered to follow lady Eleanor to merge with it. Not everyone was willing to turn into such a monster or spend the rest of her life trapped in a body that can’t feel anything. Their sacrifice finally activated the central carrier, but unfortunately, it can only say yes or no in a dialogue but can’t make a normal conversation.”
Roland was intrigued at once. “It can answer yes or no to any question?”
Celine also grew a little more excited. “It only answers a question it understands and it’ll respond more quickly if you specify your question. It enables us to mend or adjust the magic core. It’s essentially a combination of all the Taquila witches’ willpower. The more witches merge with it, the faster its reaction is. For us, to accompany Lady Eleanor was the last we can do to contribute to the search for the magic power.”
Meanwhile, Roland was excited about something else. “Doesn’t the mechanism of input and feedback sound like a primary bio-computer system? If I set all the conditions, will the central carrier be able to solve an equation or complete some complex calculations by itself? I really want to take this thing to Neverwinter and thoroughly study it here!”
Knowing that it was not the time to make such a request, he decided to put those thoughts aside at this moment and express his wish in future negotiations.
He drank all the Chaos Drink in his cup and said, “I see. Now I’ve got a basic understanding of your situation, but I still have one question. You, the church and those ancient books have repeatedly mentioned the Divine Will, and I heard that one could even feel the existence of the deities in a secret chamber exclusive for the Pope on the top floor of a secret temple under the Hermes Plateau. Could you tell me what the Divine Will is? ”