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Chapter 379: Chapter 287: The Holy Entity of Avalon Chapter 379: Chapter 287: The Holy Entity of Avalon If based on Aiwass’s previous knowledge, the answer to this question was quite clear.

— He was Aiwass Moriarty.

At the same time, he was also Aiwass Alexander.

If the memories of his past life were included, he was also a transmigrator from another world.

But now, Aiwass was somewhat uncertain.

Why had he come to this world?

Why was it only he who had come to this world?

Why was it only he who could awaken the memories of his past life?

And happened to be a player who had played this “game” and had insight into the future…

When Aiwass was born, his grandfather had already reached Eagle Cape Village and gone into seclusion.

So, was his birth also related to his grandfather’s research?

Originally, Aiwass was only wary of his foster father— as a shadowy figure who mysteriously appeared and disappeared, never revealing his true intentions, Aiwass considered everything he did as part of some long-term scheme.

— And now, Aiwass found out his own grandfather was actually a mad scientist!

This discovery filled Aiwass with disquiet.

Could I be a swampfolk?

Or am I a clone of someone?

I could even possibly be Jacob who has lost his memory!

And Jacob might not even be dead.

…Let’s not mention the issue of the “Feign Death Skill,” the intangible cultural heritage technique from Avalon.

If his research was completed, his achievements would be sufficient to ascend and become an Angel Envoy.

And following that thought, Aiwass remembered another thing—

— Players.

Or rather, players in the game setting.

There was no Eagle Cape Village in the game.

But perhaps it didn’t exist, or maybe the players just couldn’t find it.

Each player, when creating their character, had their own background setting— they would decide their race, background, origins, and personal pursuits and goals.

In storyline dialogue, these would become their unique dialogue options; there were also some quests that differed based on the player’s origins.

Eventually, players would arrive at Glass Island and lose their wallets and identification— but before that, they had households, they were someone who truly existed in this world.

But here’s the problem.

For players born of the Serpent Father’s lineage, according to their backgrounds…

aside from players who chose the “orphan” background, all other players had parents and family.

So why weren’t their families of the Serpent Father’s lineage?

Or rather, why did players never go home?

From a gameplay perspective, it’s quite easy to explain.

There are too many selectable origins and backgrounds; if developers were to design individual quests and NPCs related to each player’s past, it would add a massive unnecessary workload.

Thus, players would always encounter various situations that gave them no good reason to run off home…

Later on, they got used to being chased around, and then Avalon just obliterated countries outright.

Roughly speaking, it meant their families and homes were gone.

…But.

If there were a player character who was the “canonical protagonist,” meaning the official protagonist set by the game…

then this person should also truly exist.

In other words, because the protagonist had their own origins and background, they too should truly exist—and had arrived at Glass Island in October.

But after checking repeatedly, Aiwass was sure there was no such person.

And so, Aiwass birthed a terrifying yet plausible idea—

Could the original “protagonist” have been one of the swampfolk created by Jacob?

Which is why they, who should have been mere mortals, became children of the Serpent Father; thus having no family members coming to look for them after no contact for so long; thus players being able to gain shared experience from defeating powerful foes through acts of Transcendence; thus players being able to resurrect indefinitely after death yet lose experience; thus players always failing to find Eagle Cape Village which was so close at hand; thus players always happening to arrive just in time to save Aiwass from danger…

If it were so, then it all makes sense!

The “protagonist” that the players were controlling could very well be specimens created by Jacob using some material related to the Serpent Father!

But now, the one who had obtained the “system” and could use free experience was no longer the players, but himself…

Watching as Aiwass sat on the couch, bowing his head deep in prolonged silence and contemplation, the elder sighed and poured a cup of tea for Aiwass.

“Don’t overthink it, child.”

The elder spoke calmly, “Jacob loved you.”

“I’m just wondering…

”

Aiwass hesitated for a moment but finally asked, “My grandfather…

did he really die?”

Even now, the mere thought of him and Jacob being sick at the same time was enough to make Aiwass sense a conspiracy.

As a high-level Curse Ritual Magician— and very possibly the highest-level Curse Ritual Magician in Avalon at that time, he had no reason not to realize he was cursed, much less be unable to counteract the curses cast by the weaker Cursing Sorcerers.

Hence, his eventual death was very suspicious.

Even more suspicious was the fact that all the research notes around him disappeared after his death.

If the stealers of his research results were Noble Red, then how did they manage to reach Eagle Cape Village that was protected by a fairy barrier?

If they truly reached Eagle Cape Village, why didn’t they eliminate everyone here?

So if Noble Red’s people didn’t steal it…

why hasn’t Noble Red come searching in this vicinity?

And who took those things?

Aiwass felt he had come to know a lot.

But what he didn’t know seemed to have increased even more.

He genuinely felt that the old man related to him wasn’t just Foster Father James—in fact, he now seemed like a pawn in a game between two old men.

And Aiwass had only just realized that there was another player in the game.

Afterward, Aiwass questioned the elder, but he could not provide any new effective information.

So Aiwass could only politely say goodbye and leave afterward.

The next target of his inquiry was the only priest in Eagle Cape Village.

In this village shrouded by Dusk Power, the priest might also give Aiwass more surprises.

And just at this moment.

The Great Guardian George was currently using a Soul-Searching Spell, meticulously searching the mind of a high-ranking Noble Red member he had captured alive for information.

Since everyone knew he possessed the Soul-Searching Spell, capturing someone alive was extremely difficult…

Before he could capture them, they would commit suicide.

Only today had he finally caught one.

The person had been lurking on Glass Island for quite awhile and suddenly decided to leave.@@novelbin@@

During the transfer, he was caught red-handed by the returning Great Guardian—through a stealth attack, he captured the first high-ranking living prisoner he had gotten so far.

George determined he must thoroughly search the man’s memories.

But just as he began to access the memories, he encountered a problem—he wasn’t clear on the terminology used by the other person.

Because reading memories did not include transcendental knowledge, which was a form of protection for the spellcaster.

“…Holy Entity?”

The Great Guardian furrowed his brow, “What is that…”

He squeezed the cheeks of the one in his grip a bit harder, and the body convulsed even more violently, large plumes of white smoke seeping out from the facial features, slowly inhaled by the Great Guardian.

He acquired information he had never gotten before.

As far as he was aware, Noble Red’s Giants were solely motivated by vengeance against Avalon, either to become independent from Avalon or to seize land from Avalon.

And their most fundamental aim was to allow the Bear Celestial Marshal to return to the Seat of the Pillar God.

For this purpose, they needed to initiate a vast amount of violence worldwide to create chaos and disorder, thus shaking the concept of authority.

Just listen to their names and declarations to understand—

“—We are all the fist wrought from suffering, the hand clutching blood, the scaleless blade.”

The Great Guardian knew the precursor to Noble Red was called the Hand of the Scaleless.

It was a large military organization formed by Transcendents not armored or loyal to the Silver-Crowned Dragon.

Essentially, it was the rebellious Transcendent militia raised against the former king, the tyrant known as “The Execution King” Tudor III.

However, after Queen Sofia’s ascension to the throne, gradually pacifying the citizens and addressing many of the issues left behind by Tudor III, the Hand of the Scaleless lost its core cohesion.

Because although they hadn’t done much, or almost anything at all, life had already improved on its own and was only getting better…

Thus, they could realistically return to everyday life.

But the strength and legacy of this spontaneously unified Transcendent militia attracted attention from the Star Antimony Kingdom.

With extensive aid offered at no cost by Star Antimony, Noble Red led by the former Giant Prince was reconstituted anew.

They were richer and more powerful than the Hand of the Scaleless—without needing to provide funding for activities as the Hand of the Scaleless did, or take on assassination missions for the funds.

They didn’t need to do anything, and the organization would regularly hand out money, a fully detached underground organization.

But greed is never satisfied.

Their connections in Star Antimony facilitated the initiation of smuggling activities.

Ultimately, it was through tracing smuggling that Avalon discovered them.

Otherwise, a Transcendent organization not drawing funds from the inside, with strict membership criteria and actively silencing whistleblowers, is practically invisible in an era lacking big data, even without real-time banking data interchange.

Conversely, since they took money from Star Antimony people…

in essence, they were working for Star Antimony.

The objective of Star Antimony was naturally to create havoc in Avalon.

…But now, the Great Guardian had received an unexpected answer.

This high-ranking member of Noble Red, the memory in his brain revealed…

their acts of “vengeance” and “rebellion” against Avalon were merely to swindle money and support from Star Antimony.

Noble Red wasn’t the puppet of Star Antimony as they had assumed.

They also had their own schemes, or in other words, their own demands.

Of course, their core demand indeed involved the Supreme Heaven.

But they didn’t hope to seize power through armed conflict, nor were they planning to incite chaos—indeed, such actions would befit the intelligence and nature of Giants, yet the Giant Prince was the unusually wise and composed type.

They had gathered on Glass Island because Wolfram gleaned from prophecy that a “Holy Entity” at that moment resided on Glass Island.

If they could obtain it, it would greatly assist the return to Supreme Heaven.

But what exactly the Holy Entity was, the prophecy did not specify.

Searching for it was nothing short of looking for a needle in a haystack.

The only concrete clue was that the Holy Entity was related to either the Serpent Father or the Serpent Celestial Marshal, those entities that transcend the Path.

And the reason they were withdrawing now was simple—

Because this morning, word came from headquarters—the “Holy Entity” they were looking for had already left Glass Island.