The " Soul of Fire " is not actually coral, nor is it some mysterious magical artifact. It is a special substance originating from an ancient spiritual realm. To be honest, I don't know exactly what it is either. According to the records of the Awakeners' Alliance, there are five such items: besides the " Soul of Fire," there are the " Soul of Stone," the " Soul of Wood," the " Soul of Wind," and the " Soul of Ice." They are collectively known as the Sacred Staff.
The Sacred Staff grants a greater scope of spiritual control, allowing consciousness to extend like tentacles into the distance within a corresponding Mental Power Field, and even enabling communication with Gaia's consciousness. To a certain extent, it symbolizes the supreme wisdom and energy of the Creator. Many ancient civilizations' scepters were modeled after the Sacred Staff, with Ancient Egypt being the most prominent example.
The staff comes in five forms because when humanity established the Earth Mental Power Field, it connected the five endpoints of Ramla. Humanity established five major spiritual Holy Land on the Earth's surface, and then built five altars within the five endpoints. When the altars and Holy Land are connected, the Mental Power Field can be activated, and Gaia's consciousness and the Mental Power pervading the universe will be continuously sent to Earth.
Because Ramla uses the event horizon of a black hole as a mirror image, and due to its space-distorting properties, the Mental Power underwent varying degrees of force field changes within the gravitational tunnel cavity. When it entered Earth through different endpoints, it formed five mental energies with slightly different properties, just as different arrangements of atoms can change the properties of matter.
Human language is insufficient to describe the characteristics of the five spiritual energies, so we can only use our understanding of matter as a metaphor. Thus, Mental Power is roughly divided into five categories. "Wind, fire, wood, stone, and ice".
Doesn't this sound a bit like the ancient Greece theory of the four elements, or the Eastern theory of the five elements? Because the ancients' understanding of the world originated from these!
When the Ramla Ant Nest was sealed off, Earth lost its Mental Power Field, Gaia's consciousness could not reach the human world, human Mental Power became very weak, and evolution could only proceed slowly.
People have long forgotten those ancient stories, forgotten who Gaia was, and forgotten the origin of wisdom and spirit.
However, a very small number of people still possess the ability to control the Earth's faint spiritual energy. They have not forgotten the mission Gaia bestowed upon humanity—the mission of wise beings to prevent the universe from dying—and have guarded the oldest spiritual Holy Land on Earth for generations, attempting to rebuild the Mental Power Field and welcome the return of Gaia Consciousness.
These masters and sages who mastered the spiritual world nurtured generations of Awakened and established Alliance. This is what I referred to earlier as the " Awakeners' Alliance."
Of course, since there are powerful Awakened among you, you should know something about this Alliance. The reason you don't know as much as I do is because the Alliance suffered a devastating blow in the first half of the 20th century. The flames of war that nearly plunged humanity into an abyss spread across the globe, causing the Alliance to disband. We have reason to believe that someone was manipulating all of this behind the scenes. They rebuilt the world order and made humanity forget its mission.
But there are always people who are still awake, always people who remember everything, and always people who are full of hope and dreams. So, we rebuilt the Alliance, and to distinguish it from the past, we changed the name of the Alliance to " Dream Society ". I once served as the chairman of the Dream Society, so I know a little more than the average person.
For thousands of years, we have been unable to restore Earth's Mental Power Field because Gaia's sacred relic— the Sacred Staff— has been taken by the Itza People. The Five Great Sacred Lands and the altar of the Ramla Ant Nest have been destroyed, making it impossible to establish a stable connection between them. The connection between Ramla and Earth has become extremely unstable.
Countless generations of elites from the Alliance have ventured into Ramla to explore, but only a handful have returned alive. The most successful among them was the infamous King of Pirates, Redbeard Hayreddin. In the early 16th century, he discovered Ramla's passage through the Atlantic Ocean, led his entire fleet into Ramla, and retrieved half of the " Soul of Fire " from the Itza People.
Hayreddin lost an arm in the battle against the Itza People, and was later fitted with a "silver prosthetic arm," so he was also known as " Silver Arm."
His achievements were worthy of being engraved on a stone tablet and placed in any Holy Land within the Alliance. However, the powerful mind control abilities of " Soul of Fire " also brought him demise. The Alliance suffered its first split, and even the then-powerful Ottoman Turkish Empire could not save Hayreddin's life; his fleet was destroyed by the Spain Allied Fleet.
After Hayreddin's death, the Soul of Fire passed through the hands of several people, but without exception, all of them met with misfortune.
Until the 19th century, the Soul of Fire came into the possession of Lasus, who, in 1845, took advantage of the reconstruction of the Cathedral of the Île de la Cité to hide it on the cathedral's Soul of Fire. Ah, I wonder if that spire is still intact? May Gaia bless it!
The emergence of the Soul of Fire and the struggle for Awakened rendered the ancient Alliance's justice and mission meaningless, leading people to question the meaning of the Alliance existence. From then on, the Alliance teetered on the brink of division and dissolution, finally coming to an end at the end of World War II.
Oh, am I being too long-winded? I'm sorry, I wasn't like this before. Please understand the loneliness of an old man. I could have died peacefully like those soldiers, since I was already in despair anyway, but I had to live a little longer. I had to leave behind humanity's last hope.
The Sacred Staff is key to activating the Ramla Shrine, reversing the flow of time and space, and restarting Earth Mental Power Field. Unfortunately, apart from half of the " Soul of Fire," all the staffs are not in human hands. The Itza People destroyed the Ant Nest and the Holy Land, taking the staffs. Reclaiming the Sacred Staff from them will not be easy. I led a warship into the Ramla Altar of Fire and barely managed to retrieve half of the " Soul of Fire." Unfortunately, I didn't bring the other half. When activating the shrine, the half of the Soul of Fire couldn't maintain the stability of the space, causing us to fall into a deep well.
I know I can't get out of here alive. The rest is up to you. You must find a way to restart Earth Mental Power Field and welcome back Gaia Consciousness. Only then can humanity truly awaken from its daze and understand the mysteries of life and the universe.
Accept this great mission, my warriors!
Although what follows will be difficult, we've made a good start—I gained experience activating the Altar of Fire. All you need to do is find a way to obtain the Sacred Staff, which is usually in the possession of a shaman from the Itza tribe. Once you have it, enter their tribe's altar and find an hourglass symbol at the bottom—that's also the symbol of the Awakeners' Alliance. Use the Sacred Staff to channel your Mental Power into the connection point of the two triangles within the symbol. When the two triangles glow and invert, you must quickly leave the altar, because at that moment, spacetime will be distorted, easily pulling you into the time loop, and you might end up like me, falling into a deep well.
I believe in you! You can do it! You definitely can! For Gaia, for all of humanity!
Of course, activating Ramla isn't everything. To restart Earth Mental Power Field, you also need to activate the Five Great Sacred Lands. But don't worry, there are people on Earth who are doing this. Once you obtain all the Sacred Staff and activate Ramla, the connection between Ramla and Earth will stabilize, and then you can return to Earth.
If my remains are still here, please send me and the Swordfish back to Earth. My children and I on board are homesick!