Chapter 721 The Dark Lord's Turmoil·The Blood of the Dead in Gray Harbor (I)
Xia Xiu stood in the center of the room, and there was a rustling sound as the pages of the diary in his hand were turned. The entire "Forging Copper Diary" was in front of his eyes. Gradually its chaotic and dark content is revealed.
While flipping through, he frowned slightly and quickly sorted out the trajectory of the purple-robed wizard.
Summary of its contents, Xia Xiu’s thinking is clear:
The author of this diary is a purple-robed wizard named Theodore Kravis. He was just an ordinary person at first. People came to New York with ambitions and desires.
However, in the process, he gradually fell into a weirder and more chaotic world.
His diary mentions a mysterious woman who apparently pushed him on the path to a hundred-layered world and forbidden knowledge.
The Shah he mentioned is one of the collective names of [Salvis] in the mortal world, a very famous "playwright and poet".
Nine times out of ten, the woman Kravis meets is the divine choice of [Salish] or is probably his human incarnation.
In the church age, [Sales] always liked to have his human incarnation come to the present world.
Even if it is because of the [Crystal Sky] and [Wall of Sighs], or even the pursuit of the entire kingdom of heaven, even if what comes is an incarnation with no divine power or knowledge - He doesn't care, and even enjoys it.
The diary is filled with Kravis's pursuit of power and desire, and how he gradually approached those known as "great arts" and "invisible arts" through dream rituals and bloody sacrifices. of black magic.
At the same time, he also mentioned the meaning of the "twenty-four crowns, twenty-four hours" of the Hundred Layers World.
“As the oldest inner world, the Hundred Layers World really still sleeps with the laws of the ancient living gods.”
Xia Xiu came to the conclusion. He saw the words in the diary. When I saw 'named person', I understood it instantly.
According to what was mentioned in "The 176th Edition of the Living Gods·Commemorative Collector's Edition":
[In prehistory, there is no scene like the dying gods of the living gods struggling in the garbled ether information that is disordered and has no aesthetic design. The scene is even more shocking.
They have no clear definition of the scope of their existence. They are slaves of great power, servants of power, and puppets of rules.
They live in a world beneath the surface of the world. That world has no entity, is not ether, and has boundaries. It is beyond conventional logic and mortal understanding, but it is extremely real.
That world is the home of the sun, a temple hidden in the world.
In fact, the difference between the existing gods and the gods of belief is that they may not need faith very much. They are the ones who generate great power by themselves. They are the original authority holders of the etheric information.
One cannot draw a map of where, but one can draw its reflection.
Most of the etheric information there is garbled, and the garbled codes that can be parsed are very limited, so the positions of the existing gods are also very limited, and their pursuers are also limited.
They are the owners of the etheric garbled code in the hidden world, the inner world, and even the real world.
Existing gods have position restrictions, and each existing god has its own desires and hobbies, which are usually determined by the authority they represent. Therefore, they will also be opposed due to conflicts with each other's conspiracies. .
Living gods are served by their 'named ones', and some named ones may become new living gods.
It's just possible.
Because the number of ‘named persons’ is strictly limited.
Not only the living gods, but also the named persons under them, the immortals who have not obtained the appearance of the living gods, and even the lower-level knowers have a limit on the number.
Each living god corresponds to seven named ones, each named person corresponds to seven immortals, and each immortal corresponds to seven wise ones.
The number ‘seven’ has a very important symbolic meaning, often representing perfection, completeness or divine order.
The reason why the existing gods are classified as different gods is also for this reason.
They cannot exercise their Chaos power as they wish like the Four Chaos Monarchs. The Chaos Monarchs can designate whoever they want as the Chosen God, and Chaos has its own added value, and its core characteristics are It is the pursuit of self-enhancement.
They also cannot have the instinct to maximize faith like those who believe in gods. The expansion of belief in gods is to gain more faith, and this pursuit of faith is the core driving force of belief in gods.
Here we can distinguish between chaos and belief in gods - the former expands in a superposition of disorder and order, while the latter achieves its own expansion through orderly operation (even if it has a belief in chaos-like authority) Gods themselves expand within an orderly framework).
As for the stars, they are cosmic terrorism, and their core lies in the unknown and unknowable. They are somewhat similar to the existing gods in that their surfaces are also garbled.
However, they are even more crazy. They cannot analyze the core specifically. The power and purpose of their existence transcend the boundaries of good and evil. Their existence itself is a kind of terror.
We must understand something.
Before humans could not obtain the same consultation authority to talk to them, they faced those "information integrations" called gods.
We must remain sufficiently humble and vigilant, and do not lose ourselves because of this and go astray into nothingness and destruction. 】
Obviously, under the guidance of Chaos, the purple-robed wizard named Theodore Kravis met an ancient living god in the Hundred-layered World and became his name.
As for whether it is the body of a god or a real living god, there is still some doubt.
He suspected that the other party was pursuing sublimation, from a named person to a living god.
What Xia Xiu is sure of is that in the process of chasing these powers, Kravis finally found a way to enter the hundred-layer world.
Clavius used the so-called invisible art to enter the world of hundreds of layers. In the absurd realm, he encountered chaos, learned more forbidden spells, and finally established a world called "Desire of Desire" "Holy" secret religion and became the leader.
However, as his order grew, the powers of heaven began to take notice of him.
The "jailers" in the diary are actually the enforcers sent by the Kingdom of Heaven to eradicate occult religions and heresies, while the "book burners" are synonymous with the Kingdom of Heaven's crackdown on the spread of taboo knowledge.
And his so-called Lord of the Abyss...
That is the heretic's fearful name for the power of heaven.
In fact, this disaster occurred during the Kingdom of Heaven’s great purge of the esoteric forces a hundred years ago. Kravis and his cult were completely destroyed in this purge.
Xia Xiu stood in the dark room, gently rubbing his chin with his fingers, and memories of this secret sect emerged in his heart.
His eyes still stayed on the open diary, thinking silently in his heart:
“I don’t know which sword-wielding man wiped him out at that time...”
< br>Thoughts surged, and several sword-holders from heaven appeared in his mind.
"Your Excellency Mu... probably didn't have time at that time. The first sword holder and the second sword holder were not fixed on the same battlefield as they are now during the church period, as the radiating power of the kingdom of heaven."
He frowned slightly, thinking about the situation.
"Adam, help me check for traces of this secret sect." Xia Xiu gave an order to his think tank [Adam] in his mind.
[Received——]
[Adam]’s voice responded calmly and quickly.
Within a few seconds, Xia Xiu's cornea quickly flashed with flowing data, like some kind of advanced optical projection, but only he could see it.
The information was retrieved instantly and displayed clearly and in detail before his eyes.
Message about the Mysteries and Theodore Kravis.
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Target file: Theodore Kravis
Identity: Purple-robed wizard, the fallen of the Hundred-layer World, the former "Desire of Desire" "Holy" leader of the secret sect.
Dates of birth and death: Born in 1388 and died in 1436.
Power background: The founder of the secret sect "Holy Desire". This sect pursues corruption, desire and taboo magic. It once tried to subvert the local order and expand the influence of its sect by summoning alien beings.
Crime: Suspected of conducting large-scale depravity rituals, illegally summoning beings from other worlds, touching existing gods, organizing extraordinary crimes, manipulating fate and prophecy, and causing large-scale dimensional rifts.
Ending: Killed by Qing Suppression, the number one sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Background of the event: The secret sect’s purge operation in Gray Harbor Town
Time: July 1436 in the Terra Calendar
Location: Edici Federation Gray Harbor Town
Heaven’s Suppression Power: The number one sword wielder in Heaven (possessing a space-based weapon [Aton] Spear])
Cleaning up process: Theodore Kravis performed a large-scale corruption ritual in the town of Gray Harbor and successfully summoned an alien being (its nature is unknown, it is speculated to be the body or incarnation of an existing god) ).
The Kingdom of Heaven dispatched the first sword holder to carry out the purge.
The first swordsman used the [Spear of Adon] to pierce the alien being and nailed it to the Gray Harbor port area.
Due to the powerful power and uncontrollability of the alien existence, its body could not be recovered in time.
After death, the corpse of the alien being was dragged into the plane rift by hundreds of giant hands summoned by the world consciousness of the hundred-layered world, and the corpse disappeared into the real space.
The first sword-bearer was engaged in a fierce battle with the human incarnation of a sand warrior (Shalishi) during a clearing operation, and was unable to deal with the aftermath of the alien existence. The intensity of the battle is extremely high. The fourth etheric guide chain is activated to frame the basic principles of the present world, and the aftermath of the main battlefield is transferred to the fourth guide chain through the spirit son.
The incarnation of Sandon was finally defeated, and the first swordsman successfully completed his mission.
Follow-up processing:
●The International Federation of Wizards refused Heavenly Kingdom’s in-depth investigation of this incident on the grounds of “non-interference in each other’s internal affairs”.
●Many wizards from the Federation stated through diplomatic channels that the issue of gods in the Hundred-layer World will be handled by themselves, and the Kingdom of Heaven does not need to intervene.
●Many high-level wizards who have won the First Class Order of Merlin said that the Federation has already begun to deal with a number of issues related to the existing gods and their dependents.
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Xia Xiu’s eyes still stayed on the stream of information, and a calm thought was going on in his heart.
Information surged through his mind like a torrent.
The No. 1 Sword Holder’s purge operation was indeed decisive and effective, but due to the sudden intervention of the Hundred Layer World, the matter could not be completely resolved.
And now, the shadow of this secret sect has resurfaced in the town of Gray Harbor, which seems to indicate that the issue of the existing gods promised by the Wizards' Federation has not been completely cleared up at all.
The idea gradually became clear in Xia Xiu's mind - the purple-robed wizard in this residence undoubtedly obtained the "spiritual residue" of Theodore Kravis, which is this diary.
The wizarding world and the foggy magic world all have a consensus: the purple-robed wizard is extremely dangerous.
They invented a series of thaumaturgy, including the [pensieve] which was banned by the Kingdom of Heaven.
The use of [Pensieve] involves retrieving, storing and viewing memories.
And it has caused many out-of-control incidents of 'personality overwriting', so it is listed as a forbidden item by the Kingdom of Heaven, and the International United Wizards Association also lists it as a sequential forbidden technique.
If you want to use the Pensieve, you need to register and cooperate with the review organization of the Kingdom of Heaven and the International United Wizards to complete a series of cumbersome treaty restrictions.
There are many restrictions on ancient magic, including those who can transform into a specific animal [Animagus] also need to be registered.
In addition to the Pensieve, the purple-robed wizards have also invented many black magics, such as killing people in dreams, modifying memories, contaminating the mind, seizing personality, etc.
Obviously, Theodore Kravis set many traps for those who tried to follow him before his death. His memory and spirituality may still be sealed, waiting for the right person to contact and reactivate .
“Some people or forces have inherited the spirituality extracted by Theodore Kravis, and are trying to follow Theodore’s old path, and the operators of the Administration seem to have just met their plan.”
Thinking of this, Xia Xiu frowned slightly, and his eyes slowly swept across the room.
He peeled off the cocoon and quickly came to the conclusion,
"Being able to convert spiritual remnants into a diary means that the other party has a pensieve; instead of leaving a pensieve, he left a diary. Ben, because the diary is very dangerous, he stayed here as a bait and trap."
He peeled off the cocoon, and he came to a clear conclusion in his heart:
"However, the other party must stay here. Signs of Pensieve Use ”
[Vashak] appeared silently behind Xia Xiu.
The Time Demon wears an inverted triangular skull on his head, extending to his chin. No object can be seen in the hollow of the face, only the deep and mysterious purple eyes, shining slightly in the dim room. .
[Time sequence control·Time insight——]
[Vashak] stretched out his slender and majestic right hand, and in the palm of his hand, a strong energy began to condense , forming a purple time wheel.
This time wheel is like an ancient clock, with its edges wrapped in delicate gears and a series of strange runes engraved in the center.
The time wheel began to slowly rotate counterclockwise at the moment it appeared. With a low "tick" sound, every moment of the world was rewoven into the trajectory of time.
Tick-tock——
Tick-tock——
Tick-tock——
The power of time insight begins to act on every detail around it.
Xia Xiu's eyes were still calm, and he could clearly feel that [Vashak] began to reveal past events related to the object by touching it.
In the air, as the wheel of time reverses, everything in the room seems to be going backwards bit by bit, as if slowly retracing a certain scene in history.
Some blurry images began to appear in the surrounding dust, books, and even the distorted flow of space.
The first person to appear was a slender middle-aged man, with a purple robe swaying gently on his body. His face was handsome and unexpectedly handsome, which formed a clear contrast with his identity of controlling black magic. contrast.
The man stood in front of a dark table, holding a silver dagger in his hand. The sharp blade shone with an icy cold light in the dim light.
In front of him is a stone basin that emits a strange light. Purple smoke rises from the basin like a living thing, coiling in the air, filled with a dangerous atmosphere.
The man's hands reached into the pensieve, and his fingers moved gently in it. As he moved, the smoke became thicker.
In the image, he seemed to be reading something in the Pensieve. Then he picked up an ancient book and used a dagger to carve some kind of runes on the pages.
Smoke pours out of the Pensieve as if alive, wrapping every page of the book, gradually transforming it into the current "Forged Copper Diary".
This diary not only records the memory and spiritual remnants of Theodore Kravis, but is also set as a medium to trigger a trap.
The wheel of time continues to turn, and scenes change more rapidly and chaotically.
In the next scene, the man's expression suddenly became panicked.
The man's fingers moved rapidly in the air, performing several magic tricks.
The runes flashed in the air, as if trying to erase traces of their existence.
However, the sense of oppression in the air became stronger and stronger, as if some force was approaching silently, completely disrupting his original plan.
His hands were shaking slightly, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his steps became more chaotic
He rushed towards a secret door in the corner of the room.
The secret door is almost the most inconspicuous place in the room.
The man suddenly stopped in panic and turned to look at the secret door. His eyes were full of eagerness and fear, and the wand in his hand was raised sharply, pointing at the secret door. His voice was trembling but with a hint of decisive power.
"The breeding of wearing a crown——"
The words came out of his mouth, short and urgent, with some unquestionable power.
The words of a curse echoed in the air, and then something responded to him.
As the spell was uttered, the feeling of oppression in the air became more intense.
It was as if invisible eyes were watching him, approaching faster and faster.
The secret door was pushed by a powerful force in an instant and slowly opened.
What is reflected behind the door is not an ordinary passage, but an unpredictable body of water. The water surface glows with a deep blue light in the dim light, like an entrance to another world.
The man jumped directly without any hesitation.
The moment his body jumped into the water, his body underwent strange changes in the air.
The skin began to turn white rapidly, the spine was curved and elongated, the hands and feet gradually disappeared, and the whole person completely changed its shape in an instant.
When he finally fell into the water, he was no longer a human being, but a white whale.
White hair covered his entire body, and his huge figure slowly sank in the water. The underwater world accepted his huge but flexible body.
The man's figure was quickly engulfed by the water and disappeared into this unfathomable underwater world.
[Vashak] slowly retracted his slender hand, the time wheel stopped rotating, and everything in the room returned to silence again, with only the twisted magic aura remaining in the air still looming.
Xia Xiu slowly recited the words mentioned by the man in his heart:
"The breeding of wearing a crown..."
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