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We had returned to the Psyops Bunker quite a while back. I and my companions were divulging what we found out. But mostly what I found out. The information was invaluable.
[JENK] "It was never any secret that the sheer amount of belief that Huangdi channels from his followers is the source of his omnipotence... but to think that he was the one who began it all... in a way, he really was the source of this world we've come to inhabit... but not as we knew."
[ESKART] "These findings are eerily consistent with degrees of theories that scholars in my country have developed for years. But the magnitude in which we could postulate was never to this. Nobody has ever dreamt before of such a metaphysical framework... That the Machine God itself had to reveal this information to Muna personally... I can only fear that, somehow, Huangdi has placed fail safes in our world itself."
[HALE] "To prevent the discovery."
[ESKART] "Precisely. Thought itself is a concept as well as the ones we champion on our own. He must have meddled, tampered with it somehow, anyway he could to prevent men from getting close to that which he'd consider most dangerous of all to himself. To prevent them and us all from awakening, and dreaming of our beings. We only ever knew of belief, but we never imagined a clear light acting as a connection between us all on the scale of this universe and beyond. A collective of our unconscious beings subjectively experiencing ourselves... shaping ourselves however we wish."
'And he's rigged it in his favor. He's ensured that we'd only imagine and shape him.'
The Emperor's insidiousness runs deep to no end. It is bottomless.
'Somehow, one way or another, we have to find a way to counter him. To reverse it. To make him fall and return to what he really is. We were born as gods, thanks to him. But him? He was born a mortal. To a mortal he must be able to return.'
[HALE] "We're gifted to know this. We cannot squander it. But for now, we should all rest and plan our moves for tomorrow. We have a lot of work ahead of us.'
I agreed.
Ludwyhn had already long returned to his Hall among the World of Mythology, and Wolfboy was taking a short hibernation for a few days. It was time for us to digest information and get ready. Jenk decided to return to his farm and tend his crops, while Eskart told us he'd be on speed dial whenever we needed him, and decided to return to Belkinsire to check in on his people. Shennu told me she had duty to the oceans to fulfill, and went on her way to ensuring the oceans remained pure still.
I was left alone for the time being to meditate in my personal abode while Hale prepared the Psyops.
