Gawain finally learned the truth behind the Augustus Family's curse.
The truth was even more twisted and bizarre than he had expected.
As someone who knew of the related events, Megall III believed that the escaped "Eye of God" had suffered a loss of divine status after entering the Augustus Family bloodline. Diluted and degraded generation after generation by mortal blood, it had essentially become a form of Mental Corruption devoid of divinity—but Gawain did not dare to be so optimistic.
After all, he knew of the ancient war that slew the gods. He knew that the gods had returned to the world time and again under different guises, and he knew that the gods' power was fundamentally a projection of mortals' collective will. With so much information at hand, he did not believe that the "Eye of God" merged into the Augustus Family bloodline would simply vanish.
Yet there was no way for him to verify anything now—even with an Augustus Family member standing right here, Gawain had no idea how to determine the state of the "Eye of God" under current technological conditions. He could only think about it.
Megall III did not hear Gawain's final soft murmur to himself. Recalling the Orandell incident from two centuries ago had left even this no-longer-human Dream Pope lost in reflection. After half a minute of silence, his voice emerged once more from the undulating Starlight Aggregate. "Your Majesty, that is all I know regarding the Augustus Family's curse."
Gawain also emerged from his thoughts. He looked at the Former Pope before him and nodded lightly. "It is all important intelligence. Very valuable."
Then he paused before adding, "The fact that you survived Orandell back then was truly a miracle."
"Everyone underestimated the strength of those ancient ruins. Some unimaginable ancient