Huh? Are they all real?.

"And also, do you know what's wrong with this world?"

What happened to this world?

Moen knew the answer but not the specifics.

Sitting opposite him, Aber carefully examined Moen, and after a moment, he said in surprise:

"Am I right? You're really not even in this world anymore?"

Moen confirmed his idea:

"Yes, I just got back. So there are a lot of things I don't know at all, but I also have things I need to deal with, so I hope you can tell me some important things."

The knowing Abel immediately said:

"What matters is the beginning and the present; the history in between is not important because nothing has changed."

Aber, who was tapping his fingers lightly, did not answer Moen immediately. It had been too long, and he needed to think carefully about what to say.

Realizing what Aber meant, Moen simply lowered his head and started eating the cheese.

The taste is hard to describe; it's far inferior to even bread baked by a novice like Ansa.

After Moen finished eating the cheese, Aber then spoke up:

“A long time ago, I was very proactive and wanted to explore the essence of the world, so I accumulated time through practice.”

"I did find something."

"That is, our world seems to have been separated from some larger world."

As he said this, Aber looked at Moen with great anticipation.

This was a secret he had kept hidden in his heart for countless years.

I've been waiting for the moment when I can surprise someone.

But to Abel's great surprise, Moen immediately said:

"I know that, could you please tell me something else?"

"what?"

Years of waiting have come to nothing.

After giving Moen a complicated look, Aber said:

"Then tell me what you specifically want to know, otherwise I might end up telling you things you already know."

How much do you know about the Lord of Highgarden?

"I don't know much about her. All I know is that she is Sequence Zero of the Winter Path. And that she plays that nameless piece in the Highgarden year-round."

"As for meeting her, we can't see her, and I even suspect that none of the people in the Midgard have seen her either. At least, most of them haven't."

This is tantamount to no answer. Does finding Aber mean we'll remain completely baffled?

However, it was at this moment that Moen suddenly realized another problem:

"Wait, Abel, you said you believe this world separated from some larger world?"

"Yes, didn't you know that?"

Looking at the strange Aber, Moen felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

This means that his friendship with Abel developed after this place was severed.

I did not leave after severing this extraordinary history.

You even stayed here for a long time? So why did you leave in the end?

Why continue to close off everything here?

And does this mean that the fragmentation of alternate history might not be a matter of a single archive?

Is it a combination of two save files or even more save files?

No, there should be at most two, because this place is really too small.

It's not that the area is too small, but rather that the extraordinary here is too small.

It shouldn't be to the point that I create more than two save files.

In other words, it's very likely that there are two archives involved?

With his brain racing, Moen continued to ask:

"Abel. Do you remember how long it took for the mistress of Highgarden to become a god? Was she there as long as this world has records, or something else?"

“She was much earlier than me, but definitely not from the beginning. She must have become a god during that great war. Because before that, according to some things I found, Highgarden was initially unclaimed.”

"That great battle?"

Abel pointed behind him and said:

"It's the legendary great war that decided the fate of the world. If you go to the plains at the foot of Highgarden, you'll see that there are exaggerated ruins and even more exaggerated corpses everywhere."

"How exaggerated is it exactly? Can you give a rough description?"

"How exaggerated is it? Giants as tall as mountains and legendary dragons are everywhere."

"Is it really as tall as a mountain, or is it an exaggeration? Also, are those dragons about the same size as them?"

"Yes, just like you think. By the way, besides giants and dragons, there are many other strange and wonderful creatures. I don't know their names, but I'm sure they are incredibly powerful."

If this isn't an exaggeration, but rather that these are actually that big, then it means that these giants are pure-blooded giants originally created, and that the dragons aren't later creations that were merely defective products with the concept of dragons.

It is, in fact, a genuine Gulong brand.

In addition, there are monsters that can be alongside pure-blooded giants and ancient dragons.

Could it be that the mythical creatures from the creation myth era are all here?

But if they are everywhere on a plain, when exactly did this strange history break apart?

I remember that, according to Sun and Thunder, hummingbirds were still active in the later stages of the Age of Gods.

But during that period, not only were the ancient dragons gone, but other mythical creatures of roughly the same level were becoming increasingly rare, and pure-blooded giants had long since become extinct because they had chosen the wrong side.

More and more mysteries left Moen extremely puzzled.

Why were they on that plain? Were they fighting each other or something else?

"I don't know the specifics, but the ruins suggest they were preparing to attack Highgarden. But what's strange is that, according to the ancient records I found, there shouldn't have been many people in Highgarden at that time."

"Because it's too high and too cold, it's simply not suitable for species to survive."

An attack on High Court?

Moen, stroking his chin, continued to ask:

"Abel, do you remember the name Highgarden? The name of that mountain?"

"That mountain?"

Aber, who had poured himself countless glasses of ale, sipped his drink and muttered to himself:

“We’ve always called it High Court or Ling Mountain, and the only other minor differences are due to the different locations.”

"But that's definitely not what you're asking. You want to know what it was originally called, right? You don't need to answer me, that's what you're asking."

After chuckling, Aber unabashedly dipped his finger in the liquor and wrote a few characters on the table:

“I can only say I don’t know either, but I have spent over six hundred years traversing Highgarden, so I saw a character I had never seen before in one of the caves in Highgarden.”

"This might be the ancient name of Highgarden, because in the murals that it appears, it is carved on the mountain that represents Highgarden."

Moen looked in the direction of the characters Aber had drawn.

After gazing at him for a moment, Moen said:

"Yes, that's right, that's the name of Highgarden, and this character means Babylon! Is there any other clue in that mural?"

“I don’t think it will be of much use, because judging from the content of the mural, it should have been carved by a traveler from afar to commemorate his arrival in Highgarden.”

As he spoke, Aber even drew a rough sketch of the mural.

Moen glanced at it and indeed there was nothing particularly noteworthy.

But that's enough; it truly proves that Highgarden is Babylon.

It is a gift from the hummingbird.

Although he wasn't specifically looking at Moen, Aber could easily interpret those subtle changes in expression:

"It seems you've found a pretty substantial answer. Are there any other questions?"

After thinking for a moment, Moen asked:

"The Seven Kingdoms and their kings—do you know how these titles came about? Do you know Highgarden's stance on this?"

"Is there anything strange about this? What other reason could there be for kings and kingdoms to appear? Aren't they just like so-called chieftains and tribes, they just appeared naturally?"

That's even stranger.

The Iron Law of the God-King was established at the time of Genesis.

The concepts of king and kingdom were abandoned long ago.

Could it be that there was a gap in the history of this area?

Thinking of this, Moen suddenly realized:

"Aber, have you ever considered that your history has been interrupted?"

"A break in history? I can tell you with absolute certainty that our history has definitely been interrupted."

"Because none of the kingdoms had any detailed records of the ancient artifacts I found. Although there were very few of them."

Was there really a break in its lineage?

No wonder such blasphemous words appear without any hindrance.

But why is there a gap in the timeline? Was it because of the Great War?

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After a brief moment of thought, Moen said to Abel:

"That's all, Aber, thank you for your help."

Aber, who had been drinking the whole time, said to Moen:

"You're welcome, you've helped me a lot."

"Not every mortal has had this experience like me. Cheers!"

Following Aber's raised glass, Moen also raised his teacup.

After a light clinking of glasses at the table, the two finished their drinks.

"See you in the next century, my friend."

Abel, holding an empty wine glass, stood up and said this to Moen, then added:

"But next time, don't be late."

Moen bowed with his hand on his chest and said:

"Don't worry, friend, you won't be late next time."

The friendship between the two was just that ordinary.

We only get to see each other once every hundred years, but each hundred years will come.

It may seem ordinary, but it is eternal.

Although Mohn was absent for quite a while.

Abel was one of Moen's few friends who were still alive and well.

The rest, like the King of Turin and others, are no longer here.

The creaking of the pine door hinges as they turned brought down icicles hanging from the eaves, and the falling crystals smashed honeycomb-like holes in the snow.

Snowflakes fell on his eyelashes with the density of ashes scattered at a funeral, and the shadow of the wolfskin hat loomed heavily in his eyes. The white mist formed from his breath was torn apart by the north wind as soon as it reached his collarbone.