latelenovela Chapter 769 In Actively Creating Prophecy
Chapter 769 In Actively Creating Prophecy
"Death penalty? There really is a death penalty? I thought it was just a legend. This one and only death penalty is going to fall on the head of someone we've always thought was a god. This... this is so... dramatic!"
Ignoring the roar of discussion from the audience, Kong asked Navelette somewhat anxiously, "Wasn't our plan just to scare her and make her tell the truth? How did she get sentenced to death? What's going on? Even the culprit in that missing girl case wasn't sentenced to death, how could this happen?"
Navelette looked at the note in her hand, pondered for a long time, and then shook her head slightly. "That's not the point."
Kong didn't understand. Was there anything more important than sentencing Funin to death?
"Don't you understand yet?"
Xu Ning sneered, "For the secret that Funina was protecting, you went to great lengths to pull her down from her pedestal, hoping she would compromise. You've achieved your goal: she's guilty. That's the conclusion you reached together with that broken machine. But what did that broken machine call her? 'Water Goddess'? Because the Water Goddess impersonated the Water Goddess, therefore the Water Goddess is guilty? Haha, after all this time, what result have you finally proven?"
The entire courtroom suddenly fell silent; you could hear a pin drop.
Xu Ning ignored the guys and looked down at Funina.
Since the verdict was announced, Funina seems to have completely shut herself off, not speaking, not looking, not listening, and unresponsive to any sounds around her.
Xu Ning sighed inwardly, took her hand, and led Funina to the throne that Funina had specially prepared for herself. Then, he gently helped her sit down.
Throughout the process, Funina was like a puppet without strings, being led by Xu Ning to sit there.
Xu Ning knelt down on one knee, looked up at her face still streaked with tears, and said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter what crime you are accused of. The whole world is just a grand drama. After the curtain falls, there will be a new chapter. Besides, your knight is still here. I will continue to play this role for the time being."
The silence in the opera house didn't last long before it was broken by several Fools who rushed in.
"The Fools? What are they doing here?"
Just as the doubts in everyone's minds began to arise, the freckled boy at the head of the group stammered out his words.
He seemed to have never spoken in front of so many people before, breaking a sentence into more than twenty parts before he could barely finish.
"Is this the first lost stone slab?"
Navilette had the guards find a scaffold to stand the stone slab in the center of the stage so that everyone could see it.
Although the stone slab has many missing parts around the edges, the image in the center is perfectly intact.
It was clearly the appearance of the former water god. Ergolia held her arms in front of her chest, surrounded by a circle of pure water spirits. Everyone looked at the human figure that appeared between Ergolia's arms.
"Is the water god...creating humans?"
"What does this mean? Does it mean we are all humans transformed from pure water spirits? That the water god created us?"
"No, no, no, I don't believe it, how could this be?"
Xu Ning watched as the noise returned and sneered, "What's there to disbelieve? We in Liyue have a saying, 'Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.' If you want to know what you are, just look at what you'll look like after you die."
"Agoria created you using the power of the Primordial Ocean of the Womb, so when you touch the waters of the Primordial Ocean of the Womb again, the power within you will have the urge to return to the Ocean of the Womb. This is the truth behind your dissolution!"
Navelette gently brushed his hand across the stone slab, and it seemed as if some energy was drawn into his fingertips and then into his body.
"Indeed, whether you believe it or not, this is the origin of the Fontaine people."
Navelette explained, “So the prophecies on these four stone tablets can be deciphered. The first image shows that Aegolia created the Fontanites, an act that is not permitted by the laws of the heavens on Sky Island. Therefore, the second image shows her confessing her sins to Sky Island. This is why everyone in Fontanites, including the water god, is burdened with original sin.”
Kong frowned and said, "But the third picture is of Funina, and what does it mean that she is surrounded by people?"
Just as Kong asked the question, a piece of paper was suddenly carried by a gentle breeze and floated down from the sky, landing lightly on the stage.
It was a photograph that had just been taken with a phonograph.
The scene being filmed was exactly what had just happened inside this opera house.
The photographer appears to have shot from a high vantage point using a wide-angle lens, with the subject of this trial, Funina, at the center of the frame.
The people who judged her in the photograph are depicted in the shape of a camera lens, forming a huge circle that makes Funina in the center appear even more lonely and helpless.
The whole world is an enemy.
"This...is the third picture?"
Kong muttered to himself, just about to bend down to pick up the photo and take a closer look, but a little boy was faster than him. He jumped down from the VIP seat with a "whoosh," picked up the photo, blew on it, carefully put it into his little pocket, and ran back up.
Everyone present had sharp eyesight, and they all clearly saw that the scene recorded in the photograph was the third picture among the four stone slabs.
"So the third picture is about us judging Fryna? Doesn't that mean we're still following the prophecy up to this day?"
Paimon couldn't help but ask.
Xu Ning said coldly from the side, "Following the prophecy? Are you trying to shirk responsibility, you little white-haired brat? I think you're actively creating prophecies. You should say that what you're doing now is just that the fourth picture isn't coming fast enough."
Upon hearing Xu Ning's attack on him, Paimon quickly hid behind Kong, tugging at his white hair to reassure himself that Xu Ning wouldn't attack him and that he didn't need to panic. He then poked his head out and asked, "What do you suggest we do, you big drunkard?"
"What to do? Heh, just accept it. That's fate. What's meant to happen will happen...right?"
Before Xu Ning could finish uttering the word "ma," the entire opera house suddenly began to shake.
"Has the prophesied disaster finally arrived?"
The audience members screamed in terror and then frantically ran out of the opera house.
Navelette immediately issued orders for the security forces to maintain order and escort the crowd away quickly.
"What? Nobody cares about your judgment, Water God, and the great justice? It seems everyone is quite honest, choosing to flee without hesitation between life and justice, haha!"
Xu Ning shouted a sarcastic remark at the Fontainebleau audience rushing towards the entrance, then turned his gaze to the center of the opera house.
There was a huge space there that was breaking apart.
Then a long, deep whale song slowly drifted out from inside.