Yarra's Adventure Notes-Chapter 1413 - 199 Guardians

"Combat-oriented Guardians have a certain deterrent effect on weaker deities, but they pose hardly any threat to higher-level deities, such as the chief gods," the Bone Dragon said regretfully. "That one time at the World’s Heart, oh, which is now called the Sighing Desert by you all, was originally known as the World’s Heart because it was the center of the world energy node. During that battle at the World’s Heart, eleven deities’ fanatics clashed violently. Although the deities themselves did not participate directly, their divine power constantly surged through their fanatics on the battlefield. We sixty-three Guardians acted together in an attempt to stop this battle, as the structure of the Yarran World had already become very fragile. Battles of this scale could not be sustained much longer."

"I have never understood why it ended this way." Ava, her face expressionless, suddenly interrupted the conversation. The mechanical girl had never grasped the purpose of the War of Faith that nearly destroyed the world three thousand years ago. Despite collecting extensive data, she could not deduce the answer to her question through mere logic. Now, facing someone who clearly knew much about that war, she finally seized the opportunity to ask, "Don’t the deities know that a world collapse is detrimental to everyone? Mortals live dependent on this world, and deities need mortals’ faith to strengthen their power. It’s a win-win situation. If the whole world collapses like before, mortal creatures won’t have a chance to survive. Then what’s the point of deities starting a war over faith? The outcome of the war could only be loss. The deities knew this but continued stubbornly; it doesn’t make sense."

"Actually, I don’t really understand either," Vivian was the first and only one to stand up and support Ava. As a scholar, she truly didn’t understand why the deities would suddenly do such a foolish thing, but regarding issues unrelated to academia, she never spent more than five seconds contemplating them. Only in moments like this would she ask the same question as Ava.

"Are you... friends of Mr. Kyle?" The Bone Dragon turned its head towards Vivian, its voice filled with confusion, as if wondering why the girl would ask such a question. But when it recognized Vivian’s identity, the confusion quickly disappeared, and it resumed its position on the ground, saying, "So, it’s the Mage and the child. No wonder you ask such odd questions." freeweɓnovel.cѳm

"Hm? Is our question that strange?" Vivian looked around in surprise, noticing that aside from the two little Undead who were still foolishly marveled at seeing such a huge skeleton, only Ava, who was mistaken for a child, was on her side. Even Lina, the foolish one, was nodding incessantly at her, agreeing that the question was indeed odd.

"Smack," the thick novel in Lina’s hand inevitably hit the soft cap on Vivian’s head as the priestess glared and said with slanted eyes, "You just called me a fool, didn’t you? Your eyes gave you away."

"Cough cough, Ava doesn’t understand human nature, and scholars mostly don’t bother to think deeply about these matters, so it’s not that strange," Catherine slapped away Freya’s hand, which was pointing at her own nose, and soothed the two girls by patting their heads: "Actually, their actions are quite normal for most people. In similar situations, not only deities but most mortals would make the same choice. It’s the same between two races, two nations, two families, and even between two individuals—the conflict of interests is often just like this."

"For the sake of interests?" The Mage girl frowned, either finally understanding or simply too lazy to delve deeper. Only Ava, her face stern, still showed a hint of lingering doubt in her eyes.

"Well... this issue is complicated to explain clearly right now. I’ll explain it to you in detail later," Catherine thought for a moment and said, "In any case, when faced with such situations, retreating only leads to being gradually weakened and ultimately destroyed. That’s why most people would never choose to back down, and even if everyone knows that war would lead to the destruction of the world, nothing would change."

"Yes, that’s how it is," the Bone Dragon said with distress. "This has brought significant troubles to our operations. As Guardians, we issued warnings to the various Deities, but they didn’t directly engage in the battle and dismissed us easily with official language. They did promise to restrain their powers and protect the Yarran World, but there was no actual action, and the intensity of the battle did not decrease but increased."

"In this regard, don’t you have any effective strategies?" Catherine asked, biting her lip. "Since the battle has lasted so long, it suggests that the strengths are approximately equal. Starting from this point, there must be ways to mitigate the damage of the battle."

"We know we could join the side with the advantage, thereby changing the balance of power between the two sides and tipping the scales of war abnormally to achieve the goal of ending the battle sooner," the Bone Dragon shook its massive head. "This is indeed a very effective method, but we cannot do it. We are Guardians, endowed by the Will of the Father God with the duty of protecting this world, so our stance must always remain neutral, and we absolutely cannot join any side for any reason, or it would be a betrayal of the Father God’s Will."

"Perhaps the Deities also know you must remain neutral, which is why they dare to ignore your warnings," Catherine said with a bitter smile. "You are destined to remain bystanders, and surely they wouldn’t care about your stance."

"So, there isn’t much we can do to stop that battle," the Bone Dragon sighed. "We can only jointly set up a sealed Guardian Barrier around the battlefield to try to prevent the Divine Power, churned up in the melee, from scattering and damaging the space."

"That must be difficult, especially in the melee, where the barrier is essentially always enduring the assault of Divine Power," Lina said, getting caught up in the story and speaking with concern. "Can you really withstand it continuously?"

"Ah, what a fool," Catherine said, poking Lina in the ribs and lowering her voice. "Don’t ask such questions you shouldn’t ask. If they could withstand it, would they still be here?"

"Hehe, it’s okay, I don’t mind. We are Guardians, and sacrificing our lives to protect the world is our duty and honor," the Bone Dragon laughed instead, crisply. "You guessed right. In the final energy surge, the Guardian Barrier ultimately couldn’t hold, and we were devoured by the energy explosion created jointly by eleven Deities."