The Amber Sword

This is an age of ambition, where opportunities and cunning conspiracies are like dark streams sweeping back and forth for hundreds of years.

It's like having an invisible feather pen in the dark deep of your mind, a complete story rolled into Brando's head, and the second half of that story is already foreseeable —— in the heart of the misty ruins of the final battle, in that dark, silent temple —— whatever Her Majesty the Silver Queen saw, what happened, whether it was true or false, or right or wrong at that time, doesn't matter now, and it's doomed to end long ago that the four temples and the Bukas will never let this thing have any after-effects, let alone take its effects out of the Arca region.

But the reason for this is not as vicious and disgusting as the world thinks...

For Elroy, leader of the Silver People and master of the Silver Lightning, swore to the four wise men, under a sacred oath, that the Silver People would carry out their duty to guard and monitor the world for the next century. This commitment, in the eyes of people of this era, may seem a little incredible, even too paedophile - it's just a promise, what does it say?

The people of the present era, up to the nobility of the King, down to the people of Lebanon, people believe in utter selfishness. There is only a naked interest relationship between the state and the state. Between the kingdom and the kingdom, between the communities and the communities, Ruhu me fraud, the dawn and evening change, it has long been the norm of the family, conspiracy and betrayal, this history has been pervasive for centuries.

So they can't imagine.

It is impossible to imagine that glorious age, nor to understand what is promised among the noble.

In such an era, Elroy threw a voice in front of the sacred covenant, and every word he uttered that turned into silver was engraved on a holy white slate, like a shiny silver nail, one nailed into the long river of history. This is not a desire for power, but to prove right and wrong, right and wrong, black and white - as Gilt, the King of Fire, once said: it is a just cause, an ideal in our hearts, and therefore worthy of our protection.

All they have done is to perpetuate civilization and order.

So for a millennium, the Silver People have made a promise that they will no longer be plunged into the war of mortals, that they have built watchtowers on the borders of the civilized world that are more eye-catching than stars, and that Brando, while joking maliciously about the Buga people's power to watch over the mortals of the world, is in fact clear to him: 'Their power has long overtaken the peaks of the world, so much so that mortals look up to their loneliness that even though mortals maliciously speculate on the course of history behind them, they have to admit--'

‘The fact is that for a thousand years the people of Silver have never crossed the line drawn by Elroy. ’

The wizard of Buga has a motto that the latter disobeys faith and is an injury to the noble conduct of his predecessor. In their eyes, the promise of the noble is inviolable, the most precious thing in the world. Because it's too easy to destroy, and once it's destroyed, it's hard to find it back. William has on more than one occasion deplored to the players that human life is too short and therefore too short-sighted to replace those noble values with immediate interests, which are difficult to understand and cannot be lost.

After Tulaman slowly finished the first half of the story, Brando looked up at each other, wondering if it was his illusion, and he felt some deep sadness in the silver eyes of the elder.

He can actually understand where this sadness comes from.

On the battlefield site of the Last Battle, if what happened in that temple truly proved that the four wise men were wrong, or not so just, it would cast a shadow over the sacred covenant. The latter disobeys faith and is damage to the noble behavior of the former, but what if it's all wrong from the beginning?

Now there are only two choices left in front of the four great temples and the people of silver:

Either acknowledge the mistakes of the predecessors and let the world accept a thorough reform and baptism, after which the four temples may be extinct, but at least there is truth. But it is more likely that the world will sink into darkness, that conspiracies and lies will obscure the light of reason, and that Vaughn will become the biggest arena for ambition in the next hundred years.

Alternatively, to conceal the truth, the fire of civilization and order will continue, at least not to plunge the world into the flames, even though it has tarnished its own hearts. The battle of the saints has been over for a thousand years, and there is no reason for the hatred of that era to continue, which is so selfish.

The four main temples chose the latter.

Those present at the time, in addition to the dragons, besides the wizard leaders of the Silver Alliance, also had the pope of the four great temples, the high priests, who, unlike the decayed cavities below, were true truth-seekers, and so the choice was a great pain and suffering for them, because knowing it was a lie, they had to use nobility as an excuse to conceal the lie, which was a double injury to that shining truth.

“Now that a decision has been made to cover up the truth with lies, what happened on the battlefield of the final battle should no longer be seen in front of the world," said Tulaman slowly after a long period of silence, "but so many upper nobles have been sacrificed on the battlefield that there must be one responsible. ”

“This person...”

“Her Royal Highness. ”

“What about my grandfather? ”

“Nobody actually forced Darius, but one day, he suddenly came to us--”

“So you agreed?” Brando asked calmly.

“Of course not," Tullaman shook his head: “But your grandfather said something to us...”

“He said that you cannot hold Princess Constance accountable, that she knows too much, and that there are too many doubts throughout the incident to withstand any doubt. More importantly, she is now the leader of a group of nobles who have also entered the temple, and if you intend to cover everything up, you must appease each of them, so that she must not only become a sinner, but also a hero. ”

“Your grandfather looked at us with his head up, and the glittering light in his eyes, I still can't forget. Then he said slowly," You have sacrificed too much for this, and I cannot let everything you have done go to waste, so let me, here, I am the only one qualified to do so. "”

“Having said that, he turned away from the tent. ”

Brando listened quietly and did not speak for a long time. All he felt was a strange feeling in his heart. He blinked his eyes and his lips were a little dry and astringent.

This is the cause of the noble. How dare I make people so beautiful?

There is such a man, who has so much meaning in his silence, who, though silent, can look back and answer the questions that most people in the world do not dare to face - he deserves his faith and the woman he loves, and it takes more than just courage, it takes too much wisdom, and this man is his grandfather.

This is a life of no regrets, you can't help but make people yearn.

“What trial is next?” Brando asked shrewdly that he thought his accomplishments had surpassed the shadow of his memory, but now he seemed to be a little kid's trick, an idea that he couldn't help but be ashamed of.

“Next up is the trial.” Tulaman replied in silence: "The trial… those who truly know the truth know that it is nothing more than a trick, and few really dare to face that lie, so only a few people are present, and most of the others are absent. So most people think it's a secret trial, but the truth isn't, and this is the last decent thing left for your grandfather. ”

“But as your grandfather's best friend, I was there, and after the trial, your grandfather was supposed to have been secretly executed, but for that reason you knew, he was simply removed from all his duties and prestige and secretly returned to Eruin. ”

“Since then, almost no one has heard of him. ”

“In fact, there are only a few people who truly know that your grandfather is still alive. Most of these people, including the previous high priests of the Temple, chose to go towards self-destruction because they could not bear the suffering of their hearts. ”

“You know what?” Tulaman suddenly said: “At the end of the trial, the Supreme One of the Temples of Fire, the teacher of Walla above the Temple of Fire today, turned back and whispered to me ——”

“‘What face do we have today to pursue truth and right? ’ ”

That phrase caused a terrible wave in Brando's heart.

At that moment he suddenly understood why, sixty years after the Battle of the Saints, the entire continent was rapidly falling into complete darkness. And as for the Third Jihad, it was called the most chaotic, darkest war of mortals. For the next hundred years, Ruyu's fraud was an era of ambition, where opportunities and cunning conspiracies were like dark streams sweeping back and forth for hundreds of years.

With the arrival of the Stone Wars, the glorious wizards were forced to abandon themselves and join the wars of mortals. In the first battle, the heavens and the earth changed colour, and the blood flowed over the earth into rivers, and the old order broke down completely. Then came the night forever, and the power of dusk descended upon the earth without suppression.

That rolling historical flood, at this moment, was like a constantly running long river, running towards him without stopping.

The dust seal on the locks on the Pandora's box cracked at this moment and finally opened in Brando's heart.

‘We're all sinners now. ’

‘The light of civilization has been extinguished since this moment, and then it will be a long winter's night, and perhaps I will not see it lit again for the rest of my life. ’

While the four temples hide all the secrets of the final battlefield, you can fool everything, but not yourself. In Walla, in the heart of his legendary teacher, the faith of the faithful in justice and truth was irrepressibly shaken. The temple lost its dependence on justice and brilliance, and everything they believed in naturally became a loft in the air, and the confusion of the high floors inevitably spread throughout the temple, which, after nearly half a century of brewing, became an uncontrollable panic.

What's the point of this insistence if people realize that everything they insisted on before is wrong?

Furthermore, is the world created by the Four Wise Men really that correct?

“This is where it all started," Turaman laughed bitterly: "The bitter fruit is self-sufficient, so we made the wrong choice from the beginning, and then, as originally planned, the dragon and the temple of flames exchanged privately to make Constance queen of the empire. It's not just to appease the nobles, it's actually to compensate your grandfather, but about her work and past, it's been selectively diluted by the Temple of Fire, after all... they can't be free of complaints. ”

“None of us thought that what happened in the Arca region was as great a shock to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Cardamom at that time. Even more unexpectedly, she was inherited from the Dragon of Darkness. ”

“Later we learned that she had met your grandfather once before returning to the country, when she asked your grandfather if he was willing to work with her to correct the mistakes of history. ”

“My grandfather... refused? ”

Tulaman nodded: "But he also kept his promise that he had never revealed the words of that conversation in his life, and we did not receive a note from him until after his death. ”

Brando found out that his grandfather had written a letter to these Bukas before he died, and he doubted that the same letter might have been sent to the Temple of Fire and several other major temples.

“From that letter we learned the true idea of the Queen of the Cruz, who wanted to be the Dragon of Darkness. ”

“Become the Dragon of Darkness?” Brando's heart jumped slightly.

“More than that, we do not know what she saw in the temple, but she must have seen more than those nobles, and she seemed to think that what the four wise men did was a total mistake, so she was determined to correct that mistake - whether it was for King's Landing or to insist on what she thought was right. ”

“That's...” Brando asked softly. "This is where this war started, isn't it? ”

Tulaman nodded slowly.

Brando was silent for a moment: "Did you know all this? ”

“A little earlier than you,” said Tulaman once again with a bitter smile, "but we cannot confirm whether this is the real idea in Her Majesty's heart, after all she has been holding back for decades. She seemed to be waiting for a moment, but no one knew exactly what that moment was. ”

“Why didn't the Temple of Fire stop her?” After asking this question, Brando realized that he had asked a silly question. He saw Tulaman looking at himself helplessly, and the party in question was now the master of the Temple of Fire - Vala, who must still be as deeply lost as everyone else, and if the Temple of Fire could not confirm that what they had done was right, what reason would they have to stop the Silver Queen?

What a sin.

Brando couldn't help moaning: "So you didn't pick me, did you? How can I stop Her Majesty? ”

“Of course you do, little guy,” the old man winked at him playfully: “Don't think I don't know, you haven't played any cards yet. ”

Brando immediately understood what they were saying, the Crouse Prince, who suddenly felt at this moment that he had let the guy stay, whether he had lifted a stone and smashed his foot, helpless: “Well, having a cardboard is one thing, but the power gap is one thing, why should I play chess on the same footing as Her Majesty? ”

“It looks like it, but what she did was crazy, and not everyone would support her inside the Empire, and you'd always find a supporter, wouldn't you? Besides, you're still the descendant of Darius, and nobody's better suited to this than you. Maybe that's what the Underworld wants, little man. ”

“And then what, you Bukas just stay out of it?” Brando answered with some impatience: “It's good to be clean, but by this time you still care about your feathers, let alone the trouble you caused. ”

Upon hearing this, the old man's face dimmed.

He shook his head slowly.

“Hey, you don't understand, little guy, the next one on the four temples is lost, why don't we try that? Since that incident, we have now been afraid to make the right choice, and there have been loud voices in Parliament demanding that we stay out of mortal affairs as little as possible in order to avoid a repetition, and this time helping you build your fleet in secret is the limit we can fight for. ”

Truman had said it with utmost sincerity, but Brando refused to accept it and replied, "But since you can't even confirm whether you're wrong or right, how can I be sure that I'm standing opposite Her Majesty the Queen? Does it not seem to you that there is no insistence on justice in my heart? ”

“No, you're not, little guy, anyone can say they're wrong, but you can't, because you're Darius' descendant.” Tulaman looked at him and said, word for word: "Noble acts in themselves can never be wrong, and we will never think of those who have lost their lives in the service of justice as persevering in their ideals, even if we question their choices. ”

“Do you understand? ”

The old man patted Brando on the shoulder: "The long night of civilization is coming, and the flames are extinguished in the ashes, but there are still sparks beneath the ashes, and perhaps our generation will not see it ignite again, but for you it must be rekindled, and will it be hoped that the generations will continue? ”

“And this is the mission of the pioneers you are pursuing...”

After listening to this, Brando was caught in silence.

He looked to the west and a round of red sun was slowly sinking under the mountains as if it were a sign of a cold night.

Yet in the night.

Who would raise a star and light a torch?

He raised his head and remembered the image of the silent old man as extraordinarily clear and vivid; at the same time, the prophecy of the future in Tulaman's mouth came to his mind...

‘XVI: THETOWER——

The lost moon took away the light.

XX: JUDGEMENT --

Light lost.

XVII: THESTAR——

A generation of silver lost to the earth and marched in darkness and obscurity.

VIII: STRENGTH——

A coincidence between an emperor and a fool.

IX: THEHERMIT——

Rusty hair is being reset.

XXI: THEWORLD——

The sword that changes destiny.

……