Do you like this eternal cradle?

Gao Wen suddenly thought of the young dragon that had just woken up from the hatching bag, the cheerful cry of the other party to him; the "low-quality citizens" in the lower city who were already confused by the addiction to synergists and hallucinogens and became completely nutrients of gods; the confused and crazy arena, those dragons fighting on the field... They were more than a dozen cold steel machines fighting, with the cranial and ganglion immersed in the hallucination of synergists tied to the machine.

The dragons are indeed alive—but Tallond is dead.

"It's so scary," he suddenly said softly, "life and death are worthless."

Then he paused and asked again: "Can the Eternal Cradle be broken?"

"That would cost a lot," said Dragon God. "The chance of success is very slim - in the final analysis, the cradle itself is the price of failure, and the laws of nature are never tolerant of losers. Any race, even a powerful dragon, is difficult to be qualified to fail twice."

Speaking of this, He suddenly raised his eyes and his eyes fell on Gauvin's face: "So, do you want to help Tallond break this 'cradle of eternity'?"

"Me?" Gao Wen pointed at himself, and couldn't help laughing, "How can I have this ability?"

"You can even destroy it with one command," the Dragon God smiled faintly, "Why not assume you have the ability to break the 'cradle' on this continent?"

This seemed to be a joke, but Gao Wen couldn't help but think about it seriously. After a few seconds of thinking, he still shook his head: "No, at least I can't."

"Why?" Dragon God showed a hint of curiosity, "Don't you feel this cradle is scary?"

"I am not the savior of the Dragon Clan - there has never been any savior," Gao Wen said seriously, "and like you said, breaking the cradle of eternity requires a great price - I can imagine what these prices are, or who can pay them. No one is qualified to sacrifice other people's things to satisfy his or her "save" drama, so I am not qualified to make decisions for the Dragon Clan, nor do I have the right to choose to sacrifice or live for them.

"So, whether you want to sink to death in the cradle of eternity or to fight to find the future for the entire race, this is the Dragon Clan's own business. They should make their own decisions and choose whether to pay that price.

"Cecil does not interfere in other countries' internal affairs - this is my rule."

After Gao Wen finished speaking his thoughts, the god in front of him looked him up and down for several seconds with a strange look. Then He said with a smile: "It's incredible that these words came from a 'hero' recognized 'hero' in the human world. I thought you had positioned yourself as the 'savior' in the human world, but now it seems that this is not the case."

Gao Wen spread his hands: "I didn't save anyone, we are all saving ourselves."

"...You seem to have completely regarded yourself as a member of humanity, as a member of this world, a wanderer outside the territory," Dragon God looked at Gao Wen with some curiosity, "I suddenly felt curious - in your hometown, people will also face problems like this world? For example... When you encounter huge social changes, when your social groups also encounter huge ideological changes, when your beliefs are tested, when you have to abandon traditions and dogmas, and face huge changes in the environment... How do you deal with all this?

"Ah, or I should confirm first-do you have race, society, belief and country, too?"

"Of course we also have concepts like society and country," Gao Wen laughed, but soon there was a bit of complex emotion in his smile. "Of course we will face the...'challenges' you mentioned. To be honest, when people in my hometown face changes from tradition, reality, belief and thought, they will also have turmoil and uneasy. The entire transformation process is often painful and dangerous, but unlike this world - those traditions are just traditions, and people's thinking concepts are just thinking concepts. They do have huge constraints, but... they will not become any 'entities' with actual deterrence, nor will they produce 'power' beyond reality."

Speaking of this, Gao Wen suddenly found that it is likely to be incredible to say these things that seem to be natural to the earthlings in this world, and even gods like Enya feel difficult to understand. He had to consider the words while explaining: "To give a simple example - when a generation of people living in the deep mountains and regarding the mountains as gods decides to move out of the deep mountains, they only need to face the opposition of the old people in the tribe, without worrying about being really surrendered to the gods by the mountain gods."

The Dragon God listened in surprise. Finally, He finally understood what the world rules were described by Gao Wen. The god actually showed a dazed expression on his face. It was not until a few seconds later that He whispered: "It's so beautiful."

"It's not easy," Gao Wen couldn't help but want to explain a few more words, "Even if the trend of thought does not form a tangible force, and resisting tradition will not bring direct divine punishment, it is still difficult for people in our places to change a traditional concept. The resistance created by the old forces in their thoughts is sometimes not as good as..."

He was only halfway through his words and hesitated to stop.

The Dragon God sat opposite him, with countless black chains wrapped around his body. The "Dragon of Disorder" at the other end of the chain floated over Tarlond, like an irregular time bomb that could destroy the entire dragon civilization at any time. The entire country was locked in this deadly balance and had been breathing carefully for millions of years.

"Yeah, it's so beautiful," he sighed, "compared to this place."

Then he suddenly remembered something and his eyes fell on the Dragon God: "By the way, there were three stories you just told, but you only told two of them - and there is another story?"

Dragon God looked at Gao Wen and suddenly showed a trace of it - Gao Wen didn't know if he had read it wrong - showed a trace of cunning smile: "The third story has not happened yet."

Gao Wen: "?"

"It will be boring to tell all the stories. Just think I am trying to make you feel happy. Let's leave a suspense on the third story," the "god" said slowly. "I'm also curious about how the third story will develop - if I have the chance in the future, I will tell you again."

The faint roar and howling sound from outside the temple became weaker and weaker, as if a rapid but short storm was gradually subsided. Gao Wen looked at the terrace in the distance, but only saw the starlight and night that were not much different from before.

"Is there anything else I want to ask?" The Dragon God's voice came from the opposite side, "It's still early, we can talk a little more."

Gao Wen thought about it, sorted out several questions he had thought about before coming to Tallond, and asked: "Can you tell me about the 'tide-reversing tide chaos' in ancient times and the tower northwest of Tallond?"

"It depends on which aspect you want to hear," Dragon God nodded, "I will try my best to answer."

"As far as I know, the Anti-Tide Empire went astray because it mistakenly contacted the knowledge left by the person. According to the clues we have found at the moment, the main problem at that time was 'classified knowledge as a miracle'. Did the Anti-Tide Empire deify the legacy of the general? This is why the war broke out between the Dragon Clan and the Anti-Tide Empire?"

"It's generally true," the Dragon God nodded, "the legacy of the people... is too advanced for the races trapped in the earth, especially in an era when a large number of "legacy" still had powerful power millions of years ago. That mortal civilization suddenly gained knowledge and power far beyond their understanding, and their rulers were unable to explain the principles behind those things to the people, and their scholars could not reproduce the logic behind those legacy, so deification became inevitable.

“People will blame miracles for things that far exceed their understanding, which is a trap that many mortal civilizations are easy to step into.

"The war broke out between the Dragon Clan and the Anti-Tide Empire...it is because their 'deification' behavior is creating new and uncontrollable products of thought, and the war itself... is actually not glorious to both sides."

"It's not glorious to both parties?" Gao Wen instantly smelled the gossip and subconsciously leaned forward a little, "What does this mean?"

The Dragon God glanced at Gao Wen and said slowly: "It's very simple, because the one who first cultivated the Anti-Tide Empire and guided the legacy of its contacts... was the Dragon Clan itself."

Gao Wen: "…the dragon clan itself?!"

"That was an unsuccessful attempt, a reckless and bold 'break plan'," said the Dragon God lightly. "It happened many, many years ago - at that time, the 'Eternal Cradle' had not been completely stabilized. It was not long before Tallond had been put on the chains. Many dragon clans still maintained strong free will and expectations for the future. Driven by this impulse, the dragon clan began to seek ways to break the situation from the outside."

Gao Wen frowned: "Build a mortal force independent of Tallond, let the power left by their absorbers become stronger quickly, and then break Tallond's...'cradle'?"

His eyes were a little weird when he said this, because he and the Dragon God knew very well what it meant to "break the cradle". However, the expression on the Dragon God's own face was more calm than Gao Wen, so this strange topic continued.

"It seems that this is not a mature plan now, but they still implemented it with hope," said the Dragon God, shaking his head, "The Anti-Tide Empire at that time was still very weak, so weak that any adult dragon could easily guide its development, so the dragon clans lost their caution... They believed that everything could be controlled, at least for a long time, everything could be controlled in the hands of the dragon clan.

"And you should easily imagine what happened afterwards - arrogance is the biggest original sin. The dragon clans believed that "everything is in control" empire against the tide was unwilling to become a tool for another race from the beginning. The dragon clan's intervention and guidance intensified their spirit of resistance and rebellion, and caused the deterioration of the situation to be far beyond expectations. The tide was out of control, and they were secretly developing many technologies and developing many sects. They cracked the secret arsenal left by the person on the earth, and became powerful in a jumping manner.

"Before Tarrond reacted, the 'Tide Against the Tide' completed its transformation. They quickly became an empire with extreme xenophobia, dragon hatred, powerful force, and most importantly, they were a 'theocratic empire'.

"The excessive dependence on the legacy of the Lord and the deification directly led to the uncontrollable hegemony of the entire Anti-Tide Empire. Even if a few of them realize the danger, they cannot stop this process. The Anti-Tide Empire regards the believers of the Lord and regards the Dragon Clan of Tarlond as a "hereth" of the legacy of the Lord, and all this... is completely contrary to Tarlond's original plan.

"So, that battle against the tide broke out."

Gao Wen opened his mouth and organized the language a few seconds later: "...you agreed to all this?"

"So that's it."

"Why?" Gao Wen couldn't help asking, "Didn't you find the risks?"

Dragon God's voice was low: "The dragon clans in Tallongde did not find it, so I did not find it either - and even if I discovered the risks, as long as the dragon clans cultivated the anti-tide empire, they did not violate Tallongde's 'traditional trend' and did not trigger the 'cross-border', I would not be able to stop all this."

Gao Wen thought of the "two stories" that Dragon God just told him - at this moment, he had a deeper understanding of the rules metaphor behind those two stories.

"That war destroyed the entire anti-tide empire, ended a season of civilization before the arrival of the demon tide, and also seriously hit Tarlong," the Dragon God continued, "The losses brought by the war itself are not terrible. What is terrible is the blow to confidence and belief - the entire Tarlong society was greatly shocked, and this shock was almost immediately reflected in the 'group thoughts' of the dragon clans..."

Gao Wen quickly reacted and widened his eyes: "This has also formed a new 'lock'?!"

"In normal civilizations, this short-lived, lack of accumulation of group emotions is actually nothing. However, the gods of the dragon have become one, and the mutual influence between gods and humans has been enhanced unprecedentedly, so that any strong, group mental fluctuations will quickly produce a large-scale echo in the thoughts, and then the echo becomes a new lock.

"The dragon has never interfered in the world outside Tallond for more than one million years since then, and even the number of dragons leaving Tallond every year has been strictly limited.

"They cannot reveal too much information about the war against the tide to other civilizations, and cannot reveal the secrets of the people at will. When the inheritance of other civilizations contacted the legacy of other civilizations, they must find a way to recover those "dangerous objects" as soon as possible... These are the "reflective echoes" produced by the dragon clan group after the anti-tide rebellion that year. These echoes have become mandatory "locks". Any dragon clan must unconditionally abide by the constraints they bring, even if ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, one million years... Even if the legacy of the people is completely wiped out by time, even if no one remembers what the "Anti-tide Empire" refers to, the dragon clan must always abide by it."

Gao Wen listened in shock and couldn't help but say: "But when Melita mentioned to me that she wanted to recycle certain dangerous objects or block certain information, she just said that it was the order of the superior, and it was the 'enterprise regulations'..."
Chapter completed!