Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 572 Lulu Saves the World
Nasius thought in silence for a while, and then told as much information as he could about Zariel, but in fact, he didn't know much.

Due to his own power and position, Nasius, as a servant of the gods from another world, spent most of his time in Ilmet's kingdom of God when he was in heaven. Although that place was still located somewhere in the layers of the heavens of Mount Heaven, most of the time, he had nothing to do with original angels like Zariel.

Although they had met each other before in their long lives, most of the time they came and went in a hurry. This resulted in him and Zariel not being familiar with each other, and the information they knew was limited to the public intelligence known to all the residents of Paradise Mountain. However, even this public intelligence was still very valuable.

Nasius told Noshir that although Zariel was one of the original 24 angels, she was different from his brothers and sisters. The angels in heaven had always followed the ancient oath since ancient times, keeping a detached attitude and avoiding influencing worldly affairs as much as possible, but Zariel was different.

She has an extraordinary concern for the good and evil in the world, and has always firmly believed that the angels high up on the mountain of heaven should not be so obsessed with worldly affairs. She believes that they must join this battle between good and evil that concerns the entire universe, and use their own size to cast a heavy weight on the side of goodness.

Zariel thought that the demons of the abyss had been trying to invade the main material plane, but the angels gave the task of resisting these evil demons to a group of devils? This was simply giving up their own lifeline!

She has always firmly believed that the devils and demons are all the same, and given a chance, the balance between them will collapse. One day, one of the two will have an absolute advantage, and after completely defeating or even assimilating the other opponent, it will gradually evolve into a disaster that sweeps across the entire universe and all dimensions.

She wanted to convince her fellow celestials to fight with her, to convince them to join the battle, because this way they could at least seize the initiative when facing those evil things, and thus be prepared before the war actually came, so as not to be defeated in one fell swoop while in confusion, but her words did not cause any waves in Mount Heaven.

The angels continued to repeat the endless years, and Zariel became disappointed with Mount Heaven. Finally, she decided to come to the mortal world alone, wanting to train and recruit a powerful army among these mortals, and finally use the main material plane as the base to completely end this eternal war that had lasted for who knows how long.

"...Of course, we all know the final outcome. Zariel ultimately failed, but why exactly did she fail, and why she fell into depravity after her failure, these are things we cannot know."

Noshil nodded in understanding, then frowned in distress. Although the information Nasius told him gave him a more comprehensive understanding of Zariel's character, and made him more certain that something must have happened during this period that ultimately led to such a noble and righteous man's fall into the devil, he still didn't know what exactly had happened.

"This is really troublesome..."

If he didn't know what happened in the battle deep in hell, he wouldn't be able to find the root cause of Zariel's corruption, nor would he be able to solve this problem by addressing the root cause.

'Do I have to look for the Hell Knights who experienced that battle? No, so many years have passed, and I'm afraid that all those who experienced and knew about that battle are dead. Unless I find the tombs where they are buried, dig out their bodies, and use the dead talk technique to question them one by one, it may be possible to piece together some fragmentary clues, but it is only a possibility.'

"Ah~"

Nosier sighed deeply, his distress and clues were interrupted again, and at this moment, Nasius suddenly opened his mouth and continued.

"I'm sorry, my friend, but this is indeed the limit of what I know. After all, I was not a witness to the bloody battle in hell, and those mortal soldiers who participated in that battle are probably no longer alive. However, if there is anyone in this world who knows the cause and effect of Zariel's fall..."

Nasius suddenly stopped talking here. The person he was talking about who must know the cause and effect of Zariel's fall was actually a celestial being who had been following Zariel since she left Mount Heaven. In fact, as early as when Zariel had just fallen, the angels on Mount Heaven had thought about how to rescue them all back to Mount Heaven, but the final result was that all the prophecy spells they cast could not find the whereabouts of the resident. They could only judge that he might be missing, but it was more likely that he had been killed on the spot by the fallen Zariel and his soul was completely imprisoned.

Because of the result of that prophecy, the angels gave up the idea of ​​rescuing Zariel. The laws of heaven did not allow them to go down to the mortal world at will, and they could only judge him as having completely fallen.

Although there was no way to determine whether the celestial being was alive or dead, it was a fact that they could not find him. Nasius was worried that even if he told Noshir his name, he would not be able to find him, or even his body.

But after hesitating for a moment, Nasius finally chose to tell everything truthfully, and what he talked about next was not just the name of the celestial resident. In order to increase the success rate of the relevant clues, Nasius not only mentioned the name of the celestial resident, but also mentioned the other two people who must have died long ago, but there is still a high probability that they know the cause and effect of all this.

"...In fact, when Zariel first came to the Prime Material Plane, there were two noble and brave human warriors in the powerful mortal army she formed. They had won Zariel's favor and became her right-hand men in the subsequent wars. So even when Zariel was finally defeated, they should have always been by her side."

"No, Nasius, I actually know both of the characters you mentioned. I even managed to control one of them for a short time by chance, and learned a lot of top-secret information about Hell from his mind. But that information did not include the reason for Zariel's fall."

Noshir suddenly interrupted Nacius. He figured out who the two people Nacius was referring to were. One of them was undoubtedly Haruman, who had now fallen into the state of a Nightmare Rider. During the time when Noshir had controlled him, he would look through the memories in his mind whenever he had the chance. So he also knew that Haruman didn't actually know the whole process of Zariel's fall.

According to Haruman's memory, he had been trying hard to get to Zariel's side and help her out in the final battle, but the battlefield that Zariel faced was too cruel and there were too many obstacles in between.

Although he, as a cavalry vanguard, had been trying to return to provide reinforcements after the battle line was defeated, he fought to exhaustion in the process of approaching and finally fainted on the battlefield. When he woke up again, Zariel, who had completely turned into a devil, appeared in front of him, and she was still asking him whether he wanted to continue to be loyal.

After hesitating for a long time, Haruman finally chose to follow her again. In Haruman's memory, another general who had always been with Zariel disappeared after that battle, and there was no news related to him.

Therefore, after becoming a devil, Haruman has always stubbornly believed that the guy, like other deserters, abandoned Zariel and fled alone, because Zariel did not find her soul after the battle, and could never find any trace of her.

Even if what Haruman said was true, and the warrior named Yael really escaped and is still alive, even Zariel can't find any trace of her, let alone Noshir. Now he can only place his hope on Nasius' last candidate.

"...In this case, our only hope now is the legendary Lulu."

“Lulu…Lulu?!”

(End of this chapter)