Chapter 2 Return to the Golden Tree - Phantom
"The change is really big, it's like the Roland I knew before."
Andre was surprised when explaining to Andre about the general results of the secret negotiation meeting and his about to go to Luo Lian, who was still relying on magical voice transmission to contact him.
Nowadays, Roland not only has his style but also his methods are too different from before, but his temperament has also changed a lot.
"How to say... your personality was quite cowardly, in terms of your identity, but I still like Roland in the past, which would be easier to control."
"A word hit the vital point, Andre. I just don't want to be a puppet anymore, and I will make a decision only after being used." Understanding Andre's hint in his words, Roland knew that he suddenly changed so much. Not to mention Andre and Allen, even Yadel expressed confusion when no one was left.
"Let's talk about the alliance, don't always surround me."
Seeing that Roland was unwilling to talk about him more, Andre also tactfully changed the topic.
"On the Alliance, first of all, the Magical Council was satisfied with the signing of the armistice agreement. Of course, since Yitzhak only signed the agreement on behalf of the church, the empire still had to make the decision on the emperor's own decision, so you asked them to rush back, right?"
"Yeah, this is just one of them. But the main reason is that I have to look at the reactions within the empire.
How many empire regimes did Ain control have been impossible to investigate on the surface. Major decisions such as the armistice agreement that are related to the survival of the country must be understood. It is false to say that it is not a problem. The Holy Empire is the largest kingdom of mankind, occupying more than half of the land in the entire Southern Continent.
In addition to its allies, the total territory has exceeded any alliance in the other three continents. The only ones that can be fought against are the Northern Alliance formed by Ningal five hundred years ago and the Dark Night Empire now."
Some clues were vaguely heard from Roland's words, and Andre's excitement made him involuntarily raise his tone.
"You mean... to make the empire chaos."
"No, I want to seize the rule of the Holy Empire. Such a huge and far-reaching empire should not be ruled by a foolish emperor and incompetent nobles." From the moment of making the decision, I had made up my mind to put aside the past, otherwise there would be no future. Roland held his hands tightly.
Yes, there is no time to hesitate.
The gods in the sky have been looking for a way to reseal. If it weren't for Meijie, how could Rafa find ways to get Moya into the Star Ghost Realm?
You must seize control of the empire before the gods act and before they discover me.
"Oh... When did our president become interested in power?" Andre was quite surprised when he heard that Roland wanted to take over the rule of the empire.
In his impression, General Ming Zhan has always been a weird person with no desires and no desires.
He is neither interested in power nor has any special pursuits.
How could the idea of seizing the largest empire of mankind suddenly emerge?
"I am a dead soul, and the position of power is useless to me. The throne...you must let the suitable person sit on it to play its true effect. Lord Luo Lian is a most suitable candidate.
He was born as a nobleman, holding two knights of the Golden Tree and Luo Lian in his hand, and was one of the heirs of the empire. Regardless of his life and bloodline, he was impeccable. As long as I was eliminated, the daughter of Ain, who had become a puppet of the undead, I would have a way to make him ascend the throne."
Of course, Roland would not be the emperor of the empire. The reason why she replaced the current emperor was to find the other seven seals hidden in the earthly realm.
After Rafa, the head of the gods, seized the "power of catastrophe" by the gods headed by Tillian, two artifacts left by the Father God, the body was split into nine parts, and he was prevented from being resurrected by a separate seal.
What the gods did not expect was that Rafa relied on the last artifact "Crown of Destruction" to completely retain the soul crystal, and had to transform it into a new species of creature - the undead in the empty underworld.
Finally, after obtaining Roland from another world's blood covenant, he obtained a refuge that had resisted and avoided the search of the gods.
Five hundred years ago, Roland stopped Rafa's idea of trying to destroy the entire Anesia in a self-destructive way. But the crazy Laxis once again caused Rafa, who had finally fallen into a deep sleep, to raise the idea of destruction, and the gods had to decide to cast the seal again.
It is precisely because of this that they closed the passage between the Star Realm and the Earth Realm, trying to directly cut off the connection between Rafa and Roland.
Because the gods knew very well that Roland had half of Rafa's power. As long as he did not recover his power for a day, Rafa was not the leader of the invincible gods.
In order to monitor the gods, Rafa tried every means to persuade Moya, pretending to accept the summoning to ascend to the Star Ghost Realm. However, he did not expect that the earth world would fall into war. In order to curb this war that lasted for too long, Roland had thought of countless ways to stop this war that lasted for too long, and finally found the perfect solution when the dragons were about to intervene.
Charles from the future is the greatest encouragement of Roland's change. Since Anesia was not destroyed in the end, she can also let go of the plans she had always wanted but dared to truly implement.
By restraining the dragon clan, restraining the thieves, and stopping the mutual war of attrition between the Holy Empire and the Night Elf, she can only find the seal that has been buried for thousands of years with peace of mind.
Because the problem now is no longer how to dissuade Rafa from giving up destruction, but how to deal with the gods.
Only by helping Rafa get his strength back first can we consider how to prevent him from destroying Anesia. This is Roland's current plan.
However, Roland cannot reveal to Andre about Rafa, Moya, and the future fate of the world, so her decision became extremely strange in the eyes of outsiders.
"Strange thought..." Although he said this, Andre still did not object to Roland's decision. Anyway, he was only interested in rights.
If he could really control the empire as Roland said, then Tarasha, whom he established, could also control other kingdoms other than the empire.
Thinking of this, Andre cut off the magic communication and prepared Roland to explain all the details that had been arranged.
"Just as that lich said, your changes really make me unable to understand." In the underworld, the demon dragon Yader, who had been with him for the longest time, appeared when no one was gone.
"I really can't believe that a person will change so much..." It was because he had been together for too long that Yader couldn't understand what kind of mentality Roland currently has.
"I said I was tired, Yadell. For a long time, I have been chasing a shadow - General Ming Zhan.
Although this body was made by Rafa, this soul belongs to me. From the moment I remember, from the moment I came to this world, you are talking to me about a faint shadow, a dead soul that had died five hundred years ago.
She has the past I never had, and I also have the present she never experienced. But... no matter how hard I try, I will never be able to catch up with that too far away phantom.
What you, Rafa, Moya, Sistale, and even Laxis see and think are Roland, the general of the underworld, but not me who is standing in front of you now!
And I, a fool, have been chasing the phantoms of my past, always looking for the fusion that others hope for, similarity. When I realized that I am dying in constant compromise, retreat and hesitation, I decided to give up this stupid competition.
There is no need to deliberately look for the past, because the past, present, and future me will always be alone. No matter what I become, it is still Roland, I am myself!!"
Looking at Roland who was expressing his heartfelt words in a daze, Yader vaguely saw the soul in the underworld that made it interested in the wonderful creature "human" for the first time.
"It's indeed the same person..." In an instant, Yader also understood the profound meaning of Roland contained in his words; "Welcome back, Roland."
Yes, you are the same person, and whether you have the same memory or not, you will always make the same choice.
Chapter completed!