Chapter 432 - 182: Kael After the Bath, Tulip’s Compromise (10K, please subscribe)_2
It seemed that Old White had already guessed that his young master would ask this question, and he answered with a smile. "Of course, it can be done. Becoming a ’Chosen One’ is because the Dungeon itself, in order to limit the challenge level, locked away my powers using the simplest and most direct method.
However, if it merely affects the will of the ’Chosen One’ for a short period, that should pose no major issue."
"How long can it last?"
"If I completely deprive the ’Chosen One’ of control over my body and regain the full extent of my abilities... I could probably sustain it for about an hour," replied Old White, his voice calm.
Kael understood in his heart.
Truly a trustworthy Dark Sword, if used properly, it could deliver a fatal blow to the Alliance.
Of course, he wasn’t referring to "fully regaining control of his body to fight for an hour," but rather a different application.
"In any case, that would be it for the Empire’s first Dungeon conquest for now. Let’s go back and recuperate. After that, the real challenges will commence for us... @@novelbin@@
Obviously, with your mind now cluttered with all these messy memories, you would also want to go somewhere to properly recover, right?"
Seeing the Rangers nodding their heads in agreement, Kael sighed once more.
Indeed, tackling a historical echo Dungeon was no easy feat.
Having returned to the Lord Mansion and changed into a bathrobe, Kael submerged himself back in the bath, using the latest shampoo developed by Jiu Yue Heavy Industries to lather Hassaka’s tail. After working up more lather, he gently applied it to his own tired back.
Once out of the Dungeon, Kael felt significantly more alert. Enjoy new chapters from NovelBin.Côm
As long as you leave the historical echo, the virtual memories implanted due to the Dungeon will fade like a dream once you exit.
In principle, as long as Kael and his companions do not re-enter this particular Dungeon soon, their wills would be less likely to be influenced by the virtual memories implanted by the Dungeon.
Apart from players, whose imported memories are directly pushed to the back of their minds, regular inhabitants suffer quite substantial effects from the virtual memories implanted in these historical echo Dungeons.
Just like now, having left the Dungeon, the influence of the implanted virtual memories was quickly fading to nothingness, making him realize that many of his actions inside the Dungeon were indeed influenced by these memories.
If it were a normal situation, although Kael might have also decided to assist the goblins, his first priority in non-essential circumstances would still have been to ensure his own safety and that of the Rangers, and then to rescue Old White.
However, during the time in Wandong City, due to having those memories of living there, to a considerable extent, his way of thinking sided with the goblins, and many of his choices were subconsciously made in the most beneficial manner for them.
Indeed, not just him, but every adventurer involved in the historical echo Dungeon was influenced in this way.
If one were to categorize his state at that time, it would be something like—
Reiner: "I am the Armored Giant. Five years ago, we started destroying the walls and attacking Humans, aiming to completely annihilate them."
Joker King Allen: Turns around with a "black guy question mark.jpg"
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Basically, you could say it was like a "Damn it Reiner," causing a sort of identity displacement that made a person a bit neurotic.
Now turning back and thinking about some decisions he made during the first conquest, he couldn’t help but feel that his sympathy for the goblins was unduly deep, which felt rather peculiar.
Of course, during the first round of conquest, there were four crucial pieces of intelligence that Kael had gathered.
Firstly, the goblins were not a naturally evolved race on the Shenhua Continent, nor were they one of those Otherworld races that melded with the continent along with the Dungeons.
They originated from the World Mother, blessed by her and thus born; when constructing the goblin civilization, what the World Mother mounted onto this civilization was a panel from the "Human Federation Civilization."
Hence, the goblins had a system, knowledge, and even a history similar to those of his past life counterparts from the Human Federation, with them essentially being a replica of the Blue Star civilization.
If Kael’s preliminary acceptance by Wandong City’s upper echelons could be seen as a blessing from the world’s will, then when they realized that Kael’s thought processes and knowledge system were highly similar to their heritage, they acknowledged him as another form of ’kin’.
This intelligence was crucial for Kael, indicating at least that the world’s will might have had contact with the Human Federation.
Secondly, the gods, or at least some of them, were not at all aiming to wipe out the goblins.
Destroying the goblin empire was merely a means to an end; even the "Heavenly Ladder Plan" that produced the Godslayer Artifact and the Divine Armor wasn’t that important to them.
What the gods desired were knowledge from another civilization and potential coordinates of that civilization, namely the whereabouts of the Human Federation.
The Heavenly Ladder Plan simply provided them with a pretext to act, but even without it, they would have found another reason, such as "many goblins stepped out with their left feet today, committing the sin of defiling the gods,’ to launch their Crusade."
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