novelraw #182 - Section 182
#182 - Section 182
This was actually also part of Roger's calculation.
As long as Xena didn't directly flee to other planes and remained in the Empire, that was enough.
Even if she were to cause trouble with the goal of subverting Great Qing, there was nothing to fear.
A grand game had long been prepared, waiting for this newborn little angel, to turn her into a sharp sword of the Empire.
Of course, it could also be a scabbard?
“Indeed, these things have no mother.”
Roger confirmed a key piece of information from the list of questions: that the God-King Amilas reproduced asexually like King Piccolo (not really).
In reality, he used methods incomprehensible to mortals to create the Seven Gods as his assistants.
Roger was quite happy, not because he was cursing the Seven Gods, but because the true main storyline of this universe didn't hide a God-Queen or some other big boss.
Although he still couldn't solve the math problems, hearing that there was one less test paper meant he could suffer a little less and the psychological pressure would be less, right?
The Eternal Night Empress, on the other hand, was focused on another piece of information, muttering to herself, “The Seven Gods are exploring the Source Sea… as expected, only that kind of place can attract their attention.”
This was a question about Nalinair's true form.
【Inside the God Realm, what do you hate the most?】
Xena's answer was: The Source Sea is too expensive!
This short answer further proved the saying that the shorter the title, the greater the amount of information.
Nalinair's complaint seemed to directly point to the God of Knowledge's plan.
Of course, the God of Knowledge knew what the God-King was doing, but he never told Nalinair.
He just drew away a lot and a lot of faith power every time.
For Nalinair, this was all her hard-earned savings.
However, the God of Knowledge had 100% control over her, with absolute power of disposition, and could draw any amount of faith power with a single thought…
Over time, Nalinair, the miser, watched her hard-earned faith power being spent on inexplicable things, things she couldn't see any return on, and her resentment grew deeper and deeper.
Vengeful!
Being vengeful meant paying attention, and paying attention led to strange discoveries.
With so many repeated operations, she would always discover from the clues that the God of Knowledge was taking that faith power to the Source Sea.
That place was also a forbidden zone for Six-Winged Angels. Nalinair didn't know what her Lord was doing, and didn't dare to ask, but her resentment couldn't be dispelled.
In the end, she was left with the complaint “The Source Sea is too expensive!” as a conclusion stored in Xena's mind.
Xena herself didn't have enough information, so naturally she wouldn't think that such a complaint hid such explosive information.
In her view, wasn't it no different from “Spatial abilities are the most annoying,” “Cockroaches are so ugly,” or “The pity pull was a disaster”?
But details are the devil.
It was just such an improper question, through her dislike, that the Eternal Night Empress vaguely grasped the true goal of the gods.
“Source Sea? Is there really such a place?”
Roger saw the Eternal Night Empress muttering to herself for a long time and became interested.
He felt like he had seen this word in many places, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.
The Eternal Night Empress glanced at him, explaining to Roger as if organizing information:
“The Source Sea is the oldest legendary place in this multiverse. Many mages believe that it is the origin of the entire universe, storing the creator's information and reflecting the history of the entire universe. However, no one has ever discovered the Source Sea, or perhaps, those who have been there are dead.”
“Like a singularity, a hypothesis about the origin of the world?” Roger thought of the Big Bang theory popular on Earth and told it to the Eternal Night Empress.
After listening, the Eternal Night Empress commented from a mage's perspective: “A very interesting hypothesis, but if according to Xena, the Source Sea probably really exists… Combining the singularity theory, the center of an explosion, it's normal for people to die, so the truth is actually a composite of these theories?”
Seeing her fall into deep thought, Roger weakly retorted: “But in your legends, it's a sea. If it's high temperature…”
“Plasma, to some extent, can also be regarded as a liquid sea.”
“Maybe… you can chat with those physicists.”
Roger refused to discuss this metaphysical theory.
He was just an ordinary game streamer, not Colonel Chu!
He could only start from the logical aspect: “Maybe Nalinair is complaining that the project of finding the Source Sea is too expensive, and they haven't found the Source Sea?”
“It's indeed impossible to rule out this possibility, and Xena hasn't provided more information about this… But even if they are looking for the Source Sea, with the gods' investment, there should be results, right?” The Eternal Night Empress suddenly felt itchy in her heart. “Should we capture her and interrogate her seriously?”
The curiosity of a mage, the responsibility of an empress, made her want to squeeze Xena dry now.
Source Sea, this was an irresistible temptation for every strong person who thought about and questioned the world.
Talking about this suddenly makes me not sleepy!
“With Xena's cunning, her willingness to answer this question only means that her understanding of the Source Sea is limited and she doesn't know its importance. Naturally, there won't be more information even if we interrogate Nalinair's true form, let alone Xena.”
Roger rejected the Eternal Night Empress's idea, also scratching his head in confusion, “I'm sure I've seen this word somewhere… where was it?”
Chapter 159: It Turns Out the System Has a Grand Plan
In fact, Roger didn't remember where he had seen the word “Source Sea” until the Eternal Night Empress was preparing to go to the Arcane Society to consult the information tonight.
The news that the Seven Gods had approached the highest secret of the multiverse was too explosive and too able to arouse the curiosity of the mages.
Although it was very likely that the real inside story was limited to the God-King and the God of Knowledge, such news was definitely not good news for the Empire.
Perhaps the void plane created by the Seven Gods was related to the Source Sea?
With such doubts, although the Eternal Night Empress was determined to give herself a vacation, then spend more time with Roger, and cultivate feelings with the world of two, she still chose to follow her heart tonight——
Dating is not as fun as magic!
Men will only affect my casting speed!
If you were to analyze Little O's heart at this time, probably only such thoughts would be left.
Some people have been single until now, they definitely have to look for reasons from themselves, if they have been working hard to go both ways, would this happen?
Roger didn't think much, it would be strange for an invincible mage to not be curious about such ultimate secrets.
He didn't stay at the Maotai Winery, this flavorful manor, but returned to Charles's mansion.
He would have to talk to Angelina about moving sooner or later, and also stay here for a few more days to miss the place where he first transmigrated.
That big bed was more worthy of remembrance than the apple stall.
“So that place was given to you…” Angelina heard about the ownership of Maotai Winery, not too surprised, just sighed softly.
Such a large project in the City of Arcana, as the chief steward in charge of the Empire's finances, she certainly knew about the construction there.
The Empire had been fighting fewer battles recently, so naturally there were fewer opportunities to confer titles. The only one who could meet the standard of a duke was indeed her own brother.
So Angelina had already vaguely guessed in her heart, but now hearing Roger mention it himself, she had to admit that she really was a little reluctant to part with this bastard.
Roger was also made sentimental by her. Although they hadn't been siblings for long, and she was an older sister who put the Empire first, Angelina's character was also worthy of respect.
At least he asked himself that if he were sitting in Angelina's position, he definitely wouldn't be able to be so pure.
“Actually, sister can move there together.” Roger said softly.
Angelina was amused by this bad idea: “And then wait for you to find a sister-in-law and squeeze me together?”
This was a joke, if Roger's sister-in-law was a certain cunning empress…
Wasn't she always squeezing you?
He chuckled: “How could that kind of thing happen? If you both fall into the river, I will definitely save sister first!”
“No need, I taught you how to swim.” Angelina snorted proudly, pinching his face, “It's good that you have your own house, this place will be mine from now on, I'm more free, I can do whatever I want.”
“Like finding a few more brother-in-laws?”
“Huh?”
“Aren't a few enough? If there are more than a dozen, it's tiring to remember names…”
“What do you take sister for, Taibella?”
A chase of chaos.
……
……
In any case, Angelina's level was at least passed, and there were no crying scenes.
Her younger brother was also made a duke, although she was reluctant, this was considered family honor, Mom and Dad would be very happy in heaven… right?
Even if they separated, Angelina also believed in her heart that the feelings between the two would not deteriorate.
Um… they shouldn't deteriorate, right?
The sister thought about the increasingly handsome boy she had been taking care of since she was a child, and her mind was still very complicated.
But in this kind of occasion, spoiling the fun was definitely not going to happen, what else could she do besides smiling and blessing?
Roger couldn't understand the complicated thoughts of girls. In his opinion, the fact that the two could still joke without restraint meant that she didn't care.
It was just moving, there was a teleportation array, and they would be back with a swoosh.
After chatting with her sister about some random things, he returned to his room.
He informed Little Joey of the itinerary, replied to Tasika's message at the mage camp, and pondered for a while about the gains and losses of the past few days, confirming that there were no forgotten important matters to be dealt with, before lying back.
Alas, women are really a troublesome species!
In the blink of an eye, it was midnight, and Roger casually opened today's lying-flat treasure chest.
【Demacia's Wings: Specially sponsored by a certain company, extra-long absorbent type, comfortable, close-fitting, and breathable. Each piece is printed with a random hero, and the skin can be changed as the amount of absorption increases! 30/30 pieces】
“Co-branded sanitary napkins… it feels like selling to female players, or would it be better to co-brand with Honor of Kings? Also, would anyone look at which skin has been changed at different stages of absorption?”
Looking at the super-large promotional family pack of sanitary napkins that came out of the box, Roger really felt that this thing had too many flaws.
So, Fuji's trash is as trash as ever.
It's not surprising that a bunch of weirdos who can even send the wrong medals come up with some underworld-oriented co-branded products.
Although he once again expelled useless garbage, the system warehouse was infinite, so he didn't throw it away, but casually threw it to the bottom to collect dust.
In case one day a girl around him urgently needs it, he can always be a gentleman and help in times of need.
After all, based on past experience, going to the supermarket to buy this kind of thing under the scrutinizing gaze of the loud-mouthed aunt is more embarrassing than a butt with a glowing Teemo or Vayne.
Looking at the 1% increase in the guaranteed probability on the system interface, Roger casually closed the interface. This unreliable system sends this unreliable thing every day…
He suddenly sat up.
He finally remembered where he had seen the words “Source Sea”:
It was from the pile of garbage that the system had opened, that he didn't know the use of, there was actually a Source Sea series?
Roger instantly cheered up and began to search the system warehouse.
Fortunately, although he had not organized the warehouse, this thing had infinite space, and it could also be arranged according to date or name, which was quite humane.
Probably from the beginning of the design, it had been considered that the host who could play the lying-flat system well was usually not a clean freak who liked to organize boxes…
Roger quickly found four items related to the Source Sea:
【Source Sea Ark: A special creation that can offset the erosion of the Source Sea. No one knows its creator. Shield energy 1000/1000, maximum diving depth 100 meters (upgradable)】
【Source Sea Telescope: Increases vision by one time within the Source Sea. Activating consumes mental power】
【Source Sea Anchor: After anchoring successfully, the next teleport will definitely be to this location】
【Source Sea Elixir: Moderately repairs the erosion caused by the Source Sea, 3/3 uses (automatically refills each time you return to the material world)】
“I don't know if this Source Sea is the kind of Source Sea that Her Majesty said…”
Before, these four items were all inexplicable, useless garbage that he couldn't figure out the purpose of.
But now it seems that he had misunderstood.
It turned out that the system had already sent him the key props to be used in the mid-to-late game, but he hadn't triggered the relevant plot, so he didn't know?
This related plot, wouldn't it be self-taught magic?