Chapter 1207: Chapter 103: The Forgotten Promise (2)
“It’s all rotten.” Seviss clicked her tongue, “mories… thousands of years of mories… jumbled up in my mind. Every ti I open my mouth, I have to confirm which year it is, and whether I’m speaking to Gongsun Ce or so young person I knew long ago. There aren’t many things I can recall, and I had to work hard to piece together the facts with so guesswork to figure out what’s going on.”
“I guess you didn’t plan on being immortal back then.”
“Impossible, I already picked a grave before I died, right where the Youfu State used to be, called the Saint’s Burial Ground. I used the Gun of Punishnt to execute myself as the last step in the grand sche when I died to ensure nothing could go wrong.” Seviss stared blankly at the distant mountains, “But I underestimated far too many things. I underestimated my own influence and people’s power.”
Gongsun Ce pondered these words carefully, speculating: “Because of belief?”
“Yes, damn belief, I really made a big mistake.” Seviss sighed, “I thought the stories in the holy scripture would just be passed on as they were, at worst forgotten. But I didn’t realize myths can change! The 2010 holy scripture is nothing like the version we wrote back then. That scripture was thin, just a small booklet with 51 chapters, you could flip through it in a few minutes on your way to work and finish it in a few days. But look at this hefty to now, what’s inside?!?”
Seviss pulled out a “holy scripture” and slapped it hard beside her, a pocket-sized edition common across the Northern Continent, condensed to 468 pages of concise language and precious words.
Gongsun Ce gently reminded: “That’s the condensed version, the original holy scriptures totaled 51 volus and nearly 1,700 pages.”
“Who the hell wrote this crap!” The female Ranger slapped the book with frustration, “Most of the stories in here I’ve never heard of! The main church even split into four major sects, and there are countless nonsensical versions in the populace! I could forgive my adventure stories being distorted, but they even started embellishing. The Trinity sect says the Saint’s supre deity heaven wheel is the ascension of the trinity saints turning back into the supre deity ruling the Mortal World. The Angel sect says the Saint and the angel scribe tatron were once one person and now roam Heaven, while the Reversion sect directly claims I never died and am still around the Northern Continent! For fuck’s sake, my grave is in the Youfu State, how can these people fabricate stories like this?!”
“You wrote the original too well, you can’t bla the enthusiasts for actively creating fan works,” Gongsun Ce said. “Besides, you know the public doesn’t care about the truth, they only care about what they want to believe.”
Seviss felt deeply exasperated: “How could I have anticipated this? I’m an explorer, a naturalist, not a scholar of social history and humanities!”
“In short, these ssy beliefs keep your image vivid after death… and then you revived because of that? Why?”
Seviss was expressionless: “Have you heard of ntal s? Now called mind intentions.”
“I know, the vast, miscellaneous ntal intentions converge on cultural s, making s a material for crafting skills…” Gongsun Ce said instinctively, suddenly startled, “You beca a cultural symbol? The Saint is the most famous !”
“You’re right.” Seviss was listless, “Those ownerless ntal intentions would originally converge to a ‘Saint’ unrelated to , but leaving it unwell, I made my grave the stable hub of the civilization front. You know the civilization front is originally a sealing using public cognition. During its operation, these ntal intentions concentrated on … So I lay in my grave for a decade or so, opened my eyes, and was amazed to find I was alive.”
“You transford into an Information Life Form?” Gongsun Ce asked.
“My Spirit Light transford into an Information Life Form.” Seviss corrected, “But my flesh didn’t, though I can interact with you now, this thing is more like… let think, I rember eting a Zero Island woman so ti ago…”
“Red Mage?”
“Ah, yes, she was in that state, the Spirit Light beca sentient.” Seviss said with a mix of emotion, “I tell you, I was initially quite happy, thinking that as a Legendary Saint, I truly deserved to die and live another life. But then I realized things weren’t so ideal. Those ntal intentions not only revived , but they also kept influencing .”
Gongsun Ce rembered Alandia’s class, where she said Qiluo repairing the Impermanence Skill would be fast but definitely malign, because as an Information Life Form, she would directly change her essence under the influence of s. And Seviss’s situation was similar to Qiluo’s. Those ntal intentions could revive her, so they could change her existence again.
The Saint had always been a purely male image in records over the years, yet the Seviss before him still wasn’t much different from before, which indicated she found a way to solve her problem… the image… her appearance stemming from her self “perception”…
Gongsun Ce recalled Qiluo, whose appearance changed, and thought of those deities on Zero Island, twisted by perception, and was suddenly struck with an idea.
“You found a clever way to solve the problem. If you periodically erase your mory and give yourself a preset false identity, you can separate ‘self’ from ‘Saint.’ This way, you can maintain your own perception and prevent yourself from, over ti, wearing down into a true ghost. Amnesia isn’t a side effect of resurrection, it’s you making yourself amnesiac for self-preservation.”
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