When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 1611 - 298: Supreme Host Plato

"...This is truly surprising."

The handso Knight riding a white horse murmured softly.

—That was indeed Lancelot.

In the past, he had t Aiwass during the ascension ceremony.

But at that ti, Lancelot never imagined... in just six months, upon eting Aiwass again, they would stand on such opposing grounds.

A blonde girl with Elf ears, Guinevere, sat sideways behind him, her hand around his waist.

"Lancelot."

Upon hearing, she tucked her hair at her temples with resolute eyes on the waves, murmuring softly, "I will be with you."

They are two-as-one Celestial Marshals—relying solely on one was insufficient to beco a Celestial Marshal.

As the leader of the concept of Source River expansion, Lancelot possesses a positional stature and achievents fitting to be a Celestial Marshal. He was the foremost Monarch of the Knight Nation, the Chief Knight of the "King Arthur" Silver-Crowned Dragon, the most perfect Knight... His existence is the embodint of the "Knight" concept, a major contributor to its lasting legacy.

On the conceptual foundation of the River of Violence’s Source, he finds a place both in the Path of Authority and the War Path.

Many Celestial Marshals, in essence, are not particularly powerful... Like the Comrce Heavenly Departnt, Winter Celestial, or Fog Sky Departnt, they are renowned for having special grand achievents, expanding the concept of Source River in the Material Realm and possessing potential to be substitute Pillar Gods.

Yet speaking of Strength, any among them would lose in a contest against Candle Saint’s Castening, let alone to Odin or the forr Banquet Master.

From this perspective, it couldn’t be more fitting for Lancelot to beco Knight Heavenly Departnt.

However, there is one problem.

He had remained in the half-living state for far too long within the Shadow Nation.

For far too long he survived as a living person in the shadow-filled "Underworld", sowhat soaked in Love’s Path, and having been away from living beings for prolonged periods his heart had grown cold, his character turned stable and silent, lacking the fervor and zeal of his past.

—Just like the pitch-black dead ground of yore.

And at this point, Guinevere, now the Candle Saint, ignited her soul, once more dedicating the original Light and Fire for him, awakening his Knightly mories, awareness, and fervor.

Lancelot, affected by Love’s Path power, resonated due to this connection with Guinevere of similar Love’s Path power—linked by "Love", their souls beca one.

From a certain angle, Lancelot’s story resembles Aiwass sowhat.

Beside him, heavy grey mist reminiscent of Silent Hill enveloped.

And within the grey mist, high above, floated the Grand Mage Hassan.

Hassan had not only lost his left arm—now he had lost all limbs, simple shapes of earth, wind, water, and fire ford limbs. Behind him, a constantly changing geotric pattern constituted an array, while a white pentagram was on his forehead, a white Radiance blooming within his pupil.

Solemnly analyzing everything before him, eyebrows furrowed in silence... the problem seed quite thorny.

"—Aren’t you planning to revert to the original form, Plato?"

From the grey mist echoed a man’s steady voice.

If Aiwass could hear, he would know... it was precisely Cardinal Loki’s voice.

Just like Abyssal Celestial Envoy and Aiwass fusion, Grey Celestial Marshal too had reunited.

Once given to Lord of Scalefeather as a Celestial Marshal shard by Grey Celestial Marshal, along with lost Strength, had been handed to one of the chosen resurrectionists, Cardinal Loki.

Cardinal Loki was the sole successor among those Grey Celestial Marshal selected who fully understood what Grey Celestial Marshal aid... saw through his lies, his "Magic Tricks". And the Lord of Scalefeather also handed over the crucial "key".

—And now, the key and lock have once again matched.

Grey Celestial Marshal’s mory, will, and Divine Essence, as he hadn’t truly died, amidst the Material Realm’s spreading lies existed everywhere. Every deceiver, every magician, every writer could be his incarnation.

Using this incarnation of thousands thod, he dwelled amid life’s and death’s crevice.

As Hebashia said... Grey Celestial Marshal’s delineation of lies had reached Pillar God’s domain. Even Pillar God couldn’t see through his lies.

"—Because the one deceiving oneself is one’s own heart. When you devoutly believe a lie, no matter how much evidence, how many flaws you see, you won’t suspect your Faith.

"—The more unwavering the Path’s heart, the harder to escape lies."

For this lie’s na is precisely "hope" itself.

Neither black nor white, silent yet wordless—

But even without any speech, without any essence, without any tangible, people still believe—hope remains.

With Grey Celestial Marshal and Loki fusion anew, no one knows what to call Him now. No one knows, after fusion, who they might be, how they rged... Yet it signifies a "Snake Tail and snake" fusion.

He inherited all of Cardinal Loki’s, as well as all of Grey Celestial Marshal’s.

Thus he knew the secret of Geotric Celestial Marshal, "this isn’t the true form of Geotric Celestial Marshal".

And Geotric Celestial Marshal calmly responded:

"Solution 1: This makes no sense, reverting to original form rely improves cooling efficiency by up to 8%, and exposes more vulnerabilities. 29% of opinion believes so."

"Solution 2: We are deeply analyzing the entity known as ’Hassan’ on Material Realm understanding. This helps us grasp current situation and generate new solution. 48% of opinion believes so."

"Question 1: What are the odds you are the original Grey Celestial Marshal · Ottolucus?"

"Question 2: Have you prepared counterasures? Or do I need to arrange them?"

Geotric Celestial Marshal’s calm voice sounded.

If Geotric Celestial Marshal fully displayed their form, it would beco a constantly changing construct composed of nurous crystalline regular polyhedra.

—For Geotric Celestial Marshal is a construct.

In so way, Geotric Celestial Marshal is an intelligent Mage Tower mainfra.

Its components are identical to Star Spirit’s technique. Or rather, Star Spirit’s manufacturing technique cos from Geotric Celestial Marshal... it could be considered Star Spirit’s "prototype".

Back when Tower of Heaven collapsed, many surviving Winged Mage carried Tower of Heaven’s legacy and left. So traveled to Parthia, continuing Taboo Mage legacy... Yet so didn’t go far but found a towering Great Tree on an uninhabited island and built a second Mage Tower within.

—That land today is Eternal Church State. And that is now the church nation’s prohibited outsider access "ruins", Sixth Ring and Seventh Ring.

They tutored the newborn Elves, much like Pillar God once taught them.

However, Winged Ones eventually t their mortality.

After Taiyi died, no new Winged Ones could be born. One by one they died... passing their souls into the last unhatched Crystal Stone, preserving their consciousness, knowledge, and computation capacity, created "Supre Host" Plato.

—It can be said, "Plato" is a collective concentration of these ancient mages’ consciousness.

Though construct, it isn’t devoid of emotion and soul machinery. On the contrary, many emotions and souls exist within—of all ages and genders. And Geotric Celestial Marshal didn’t unify these into a chaotic consciousness.

Precisely because possessing so many consciousnesses, within Geotric Celestial Marshal is essentially a council. So fragnts are sent to Material Realm expanding their power and concept; manipulate nurous Wise Man souls for calculation supplent using enslaving-like ans.

These ruthless actions represent "optimal solution".

"I’m waiting for Miss Lily to completely hide those mortals."

Loki lightly chuckled, a calm voice echoed in the grey mist: "Before attacking the Great Abyss, He won’t truly act against us. It’s most likely just equality in subrging us with the sea..."

With the descent of Celestial Marshal, Celestial Marshal’s domain descended alongside.

And Grey Celestial Marshal’s domain is "Gray Nest".

That was the operational nest once established by Grey Celestial Marshal. It might appear anywhere in Dream Realm, simulating any form.

And now, they exist within the mist. These are infinitely folded spaces, Lily relies on her mastery over Spider’s Silk Sensing, hiding the Red Hand Gang, thereby evading the unstoppable great waves.

"Now... it’s about ti. The ceremony should be ready..."

Sound from the grey mist said: "Let Red Calamity descend first."