Chapter 293 The Savior, the Chosen Son

In her crone state, Meliteli is dignified and solemn, quite different from the carefree young girl and the loving, maternal pregnant woman.

It's a bit like the strict and solemn appearance of Nenneke when he was old as described in the original book.

It completely matches Ailin's impression of the god's appearance.

So he couldn't help but straighten his body and look where the old woman's finger was pointing.

At first glance, I didn't notice anything.

But wait until Ailin takes a closer look.

At the junction of the golden wheat waves and the brilliant starry sky, there was a faint, cold blue light.

more critical.

It was when he realized the difference between this space and the Mailang Star space...

what is that?
I...how...

The demon hunter's mind seemed to be frozen, and his consciousness quickly stagnated.

"Wake up!" The old woman shouted hoarsely in my ear.

A warm current flows through the body.

“Huff—chi—huff—chi—”

The witcher shuddered suddenly and gasped violently.

Carrying a tiny wisp of cold mist, it rushed towards the golden wheat field like a long mist dragon.

After a long time, it gradually disappeared without a trace.

With the help of Meritel, Arryn drove the cold out.

But after a long time, my almost frozen thoughts gradually warmed up.

After coming back to his senses.

He was so scared that he immediately turned his head away, not daring to look over there again.

The chill that can freeze one's mind is simply terrifying.

When I think about it, my scalp starts to tingle and my hair stands on end.

"What...what is that?" Ailin answered with a trembling voice.

But the next second, his mind thawed and he guessed a name.

"You must know that the time of sword and axe is near. It is the age of the winter wolf and snowstorm."

"The world will die in the frost and be reborn in the new sun."

……

The old woman chanted in her hoarse voice the prophecy that was familiar to everyone in the northern continent.

"Frost, white light, white frost..." The old woman stared at the light that was gradually freezing the kingdom of God and said lightly, "It has many names, but no one knows what it is?"

“Even the gods can’t know?”

"Especially the gods, who have no way of knowing." The old woman tilted her head, looked at him with those cold golden eyes, and replied.

The demon hunter was startled when he heard this.

Especially the gods...

This seems to be quite meaningful!

Before he could ask, the old woman started to explain:
"Gods are prisoners of the world. We share the authority bestowed by the world, but we are also unable to break away from it. We become the world's regulatory rules and a barrier against external influences."

"So we have no way of knowing what's happening outside this world."

"And when we realize that we are being affected, we have already been alienated from the foundation on which we depend for survival, and we have been blinded and gagged..."

"But according to the prophecy, shouldn't the frost have come yet?" the witcher asked doubtfully.

In the original novel and game of the original timeline, hundreds of years later, until the profession of Demon Hunter disappeared, Frost did not arrive.

but.

The frost in the original book is more like a natural cycle of an ice age rather than some kind of supernatural power.

Moreover, it is obviously contradictory to the previous description of the Wild Hunt being chased by the Frost, as well as a series of descriptions of the Frost.

The Wild Hunt can transcend realms.

A demon hunter world may enter an ice age, but it is impossible for every world to enter an ice age one after another, right?

At least with the current thinking of demon hunters, it is difficult to understand that an ordinary natural cycle without any supernatural influence can do this.

Therefore, in reality, the Witcher has never used this somewhat specious and self-contradictory concept in the original work to get closer to the prophesied frost.

But no matter what.

Although there have been some slight differences between reality and some developments in the original game, the main timeline has not changed much.

therefore……

Why was Meliteli affected by the frost hundreds or thousands of years in advance?
“Hasn’t it arrived yet?” The old woman chuckled. “The frost has already arrived. Perhaps it has already begun to affect the world before the gods were deceived…”

"Hmm?" The demon hunter was surprised.

"Do you think the number of monsters is decreasing because you monster hunters have killed too many of them?" the old woman asked.

"Isn't it?" Ailin was stunned when he heard this.

The old woman shook her head:

"No, at least not the most critical factor."

"The magic tide is receding. Affected by the white frost, it is gradually losing its activity, just like my kingdom of God."

"Monsters that rely on magic to reproduce naturally have difficulty reproducing offspring."

"Compared to the number of monsters that have been reduced as a result, the monsters hunted by monster hunters are only a small part."

The witcher was silent.

It's not that he didn't believe the old woman's words.

only……

Why did He expose these things and the weakness and helplessness of God to an ordinary mortal?

"What can I do?" he asked.

The old woman smiled, looked at Ailin with admiration, and said:

"Just do what you have to do."

Do what I should do?
Ailin was startled.

What should I do?
Demon hunter...hunting monsters?
or……

Ailin tilted his head to look at the old woman and swallowed.

The old woman smiled kindly and pointed her hand in another direction in the sky.

Although the demon hunter was a little confused, he still glanced at it carefully.

Ok?
Where the old woman's wrinkled fingers pointed, one could feel a biting chill in the dim blue light, and a circle of ripples that were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye appeared.

In the center of the ripples, the faint blue light was so dim that it was almost the pure black of the starry sky.

The blue gets darker from the center outward, but even the edges are lighter than other places.

"It appeared on the first day of the spring equinox," the old woman said, "a green light penetrated my kingdom of God. It was also on this day that the connection between the kingdom of God and the real world deepened."

"Otherwise, on the eve of May Day, I might not even be able to do something like sending a dream."

spring equinox……

The witcher thought about it.

Wasn't that the day of the fighting competition between the Wolf School and the Cat School's apprentices?
so………

"Yes, it was the intersection of the celestial spheres," the old woman explained. "The power of the intersection of the celestial spheres that connects the two worlds broke the white frost's blockade."

"Moreover, for nearly a month afterwards, the power of the white frost that enveloped the Kingdom of God was fading."

"The Kingdom of God is the barrier of the world, that is, it is a part of the world, so our world has obviously benefited a lot from it, delaying the arrival of the White Frost Harvest..."

"So, Son of Miracle, launch the next celestial sphere conjunction as soon as possible. This is something that only you, who possess the power of the Gate of Ade Geis, can do."

The witcher was not surprised that the old woman knew his identity as the miracle child.

After all, this is something that even Ianna, the high priest of the temple, knows.

But the power of the Gate of Ard Ghaith...

It seems that Meliteli is also unaware of the existence of the Demon Hunting Notes, which is worth pondering.

As for the celestial sphere meeting as soon as possible...

Since Meliteli only mentioned the fluctuations at the time of the vernal equinox, the ordinary celestial intersection must be unable to meet the requirements.

At least he had to complete the second-stage hunting mission of "Foreign Fusion", but that would be...

The demon hunter hesitated for a rare moment:
"The Wild Hunt may be chasing the fluctuations of the Ard Ghaith Gate. Frequent use of Celestial Conjunction will definitely attract them."

"It's too dangerous for me to face them now."

"It's okay..." Upon hearing this, the old woman simply tapped the witcher's forehead with her index finger.

A large piece of information was transmitted. [Name: Meliteli's Hidden Ritual]

【Type: Magic Ritual】

[Requirement: Ritual Studies Level 1]

[Materials: Chalk*2, Sulfur*2, Magic Dust*1, Mercury Solution*]

[Function: Create a ritual array that can conceal spatial fluctuations.]

[Note: In fact, this is not a concealment ritual, but more like a remote transmission of a message like "Mom, I'm hungry." All subsequent concealment processes will be remotely controlled by the object of the information transmission using divine power.]

"If you don't want to attract the Wild Hunt, just set up this magic circle in advance."

"But it's just a weak intersection of the celestial spheres..."

"Just like the seed you summoned on May Day, the spatial fluctuations are very weak."

"If the Wild Hunt isn't nearby, it will be hard to detect. Or you can just choose a place that's not open to the sky, like a cave or a dungeon."

"but……"

The old woman paused, sighed and said:
"It's not really the Wild Hunt that's giving you pause, is it?"

This is a certainty, not a question.

The witcher was silent.

to be frank.

Having experienced so much since traveling through time, he considers himself not a pretentious person.

He didn't hesitate when it came to killing the scum of the cat school who was also a witcher.

If any unruly person dared to take his bounty, he would dare to take action against him.

Even if he is the ruler of a country, if he dares to harm something he likes, Ailin will make him die miserably.

The tragic situation after Keban Ade's foreign fusion is still vivid in people's minds.

Blood flowed like a river and corpses were everywhere.

He had no good feelings towards this city, but there were always innocent people in that city. Were all the people who died at that time bad people?
What's more.

The “exotic fusion” after the completion of the second stage hunting mission caused such a big commotion, so what about the third and fourth stages?
Will an accident affect a city like Elland with its simple folk customs?

After all.

He is just an ordinary person born in an orphanage, and he does not have the heart of stone to sacrifice ordinary people for his own benefit.

So in his previous life, even though he had graduated for many years and his performance was so good every year, he was just a powerless middle-level manager.

So the old woman was right.

He did hesitate.

And ever since leaving Ban Ade, I have been hesitating.

There was actually a commission from the water ghost along the way, and it was also convenient for him to do it, but he was vaguely reluctant to do it.

But now.

The true or false questions have been updated.

The weight of innocent people has decreased because of the great mission of saving the world, and something called the overall situation has been placed on the other side of the scale.

How should he choose?
"Can this save the world from the white frost?" the witcher asked with some struggle.

The old woman looked at him with pity and shook her head:

"I do not know."

"But at least the more time we gain, the greater the chance that the world can be saved."

I don’t know… maybe…

Won't you try to convince me?

The demon hunter looked over in surprise when he heard this.

Didn’t I just ask him to launch the celestial conjunction as soon as possible?
Why is there a change of wording now?

The old woman looked calm:

"I said, the more powerful a god is, the more difficult it is to understand the whole picture of Bai Shuang."

"So I'm not sure which option is actually better."

"Just from the perspective of phenomena, as the owner of the Gate of Adges, as many and as large-scale celestial sphere intersections as possible should be beneficial to the world."

"but……"

The old woman paused for a second, as if thinking back.

"Although I was blinded by the white frost for a long time and many things happened in reality, there is one thing I think is correct."

The molten gold eyes stared at the demon hunter solemnly:
"Humanity never needed a God!"

"Son of miracle, since you are conceived by humans, you are a miracle chosen by the world."

"Then I'd rather trust your choice."

The miracle child... The miracle child again...

Choosing the future for humanity sounds cool, but Ailin only feels the suffocating weight of it.

"How was the Child of Miracle chosen by the world?" the demon hunter couldn't help but ask.

Could it be because he is a time traveler?

Can strangers also make choices about their destiny on behalf of the humans in the Witcher world?

Also, he has no information about Bai Shuang, so how can he make a choice?

The old woman was silent for a moment, then shook her head and said:

"This is not something you can know now. It's not that I don't want to answer, but I can't answer."

So mysterious?
Ailin wanted to continue asking questions, but his body became light.

He glanced down.

His body became somewhat transparent, and inside he could see a colorful sphere similar to the one in the dream.

"The time has come," the old woman said, "do you have anything else to ask?"

The inexplicable buoyancy became stronger and stronger, and the witcher's feet left the ground and floated in the air.

The old woman was right.

The time of communication with God was almost over, and he was about to leave Meliteli's kingdom of God.

But is there anything else you want to ask?

He still has a lot of questions to ask...

But most of them are related to white frost, and it seems that there is no answer even if you ask.

The demon hunter was thinking hard, with countless thoughts running through his mind.

correct!

"If we do nothing, how much time do we have?" he asked anxiously, "When will the white frost appear in the world?"

The old woman shook her head. "Originally it was about a thousand years, but since the Wild Hunt appeared in the nearby spiral last month, the time has been shortening. Now it is about eight hundred years..."

Seeing that the demon hunter was about to turn into a ball of light and fly away, He waved his black robe to stabilize Ailin's body, and then continued: "So the legend of Ion Sheed before humans set foot on this continent is correct. The White Frost is indeed chasing the Wild Hunt."

And last month,...

As expected, the Wild Hunt were also heading for the Gate of Ard Ghaith.

Those damn long ears!

and many more!

Maybe he couldn't find a place to get information about Bai Shuang...

But this was not the time to think. He could feel his body becoming lighter and lighter, and even Melitelli's strength could no longer be suppressed.

Suddenly remembering that there were still nine treasure chests in the inventory that had not been opened, Ailin hurriedly asked, "Goddess, can you bless me and make me more fortunate?"

The old woman smiled cheerfully, which was rare: "I don't have the authority over luck or destiny..."

Ok?
But there was no time to ask again.

Meritelie's powers suddenly disappeared.

Caught off guard, the demon hunter suddenly flew into the boundless starry sky.

Meliteli didn't have the power over fate, so how did he win five out of five times?
next second.

Just as the barrier of the kingdom of God was in sight, a golden light suddenly caught up and disappeared into the demon hunter's spherical body.

A playful voice came to my ear.

"Don't make any more mistakes, witcher..."

"I am the god of fertility, harvest and childbirth, the eternal guardian of maidens, mothers and crones..."

"Merritaly!"

(End of this chapter)