Extraordinary pedigree

Chapter 721 Dark Lord Turmoil·Blood of the Dead in Gray Harbor (I)

Xia Xiu stood in the center of the room, and the diary in his hand made a rustling sound as he turned the pages. The entire "Forged Copper Diary" gradually revealed its chaotic and dark contents in front of him.

He frowned slightly as he flipped through the pages, and quickly sorted out the trajectory of this purple-robed wizard in his mind.

Summarizing its contents, Xia Xiu's thinking was clear and logical:

The author of this diary was a purple-robed wizard named Theodore Kravis. He was just an ordinary person at first, and came to New York with ambition and desire.

However, he gradually fell into a more bizarre and chaotic world in the process.

His diary mentioned a mysterious woman, who was obviously behind him pushing him to embark on the road to the Hundred Worlds and forbidden knowledge.

The Shaweng he mentioned was one of the general names of [Shalish] in the mortal world, a very famous "playwright and poet".

The woman that Kravis met was most likely the chosen one of [Shalish] or very likely his incarnation on earth.

In the church era, [Shalish] always liked to descend on the earth to incarnate himself.

Even if it was because of [Crystal Sky] and [Wall of Sighs], or even the whole heaven's pursuit, even if the descended incarnation was without divine power and knowledge - He didn't care, and even enjoyed it.

The diary is full of Clavius's pursuit of power and desire, and how he gradually approached the black magic known as "great art" and "invisible art" through dream rituals and bloody sacrifices.

At the same time, he also mentioned the meaning of "twenty-four crowns, twenty-four hours" in the Hundred Layer World.

"As the oldest inner world, the Hundred Layer World is indeed still sleeping in the law body of the ancient living gods."

Xia Xiu said the conclusion. When he saw the "named person" in the diary, he understood it instantly.

According to the book "Existing Gods 176th Edition·Commemorative Collector's Edition":

[In prehistory, no scene is more shocking than the scene of the living gods struggling to death in the disordered and aesthetically pleasing etheric information garbled code.

They have no clear boundaries for their own 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, nor is it ether. It has boundaries. It is beyond conventional logic and mortal understanding, but it is extremely real.

That world is the home of the sun and a temple hidden behind the world.

In fact, the difference between the living gods and the gods of faith is that they may not need faith. They are the self-generated ones of great power and the original owners of etheric information.

People cannot draw a map for where they cannot be, but they can draw its reflection.

There is mostly etheric information garbled code, and the garbled code that can be parsed is very limited, so the position of the living gods is also very limited, and their pursuers are also limited.

They are the owners of the etheric code of the hidden world, the inner world, and even the real world.

The living gods are limited in position. Each living god has his own desires and hobbies, which are usually determined by the authority they represent. Therefore, they will also oppose each other due to conflicts in conspiracy.

The living gods are served by their "named ones", and some named ones may also become new living gods.

It's just a possibility.

Because the number of "named ones" is strictly limited.

Not only the living gods, but also the named ones under them, the immortals who have not obtained the face of the living gods, and even the lower-level knowers have a limited number.

Each living god corresponds to seven named ones, each named one corresponds to seven immortals, and each immortal corresponds to seven knowers.

The number "seven" has a very important symbolic meaning, often representing perfection, completeness or sacred order.

The reason why the living gods are classified as different gods is also for this reason.

They cannot exercise their chaotic power as they please like the four monarchs of Chaos. The monarchs of Chaos can appoint anyone as the Chosen One, and Chaos has its own added value, and its core characteristic is the pursuit of self-proliferation.

They also cannot have the instinct to maximize faith like the gods of faith. The expansion of the gods of faith is to gain more faith, and this pursuit of faith is the core driving force of the gods of faith.

Here we can distinguish between chaos and gods of faith - the former expands in a superposition of disorder and order, while the latter achieves its own expansion through orderly operation (even the gods of faith who have quasi-chaos authority themselves expand in 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 gods of the world in that their surface is also garbled.

However, they are more crazy than that. They cannot specifically analyze the core. 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 one thing.

Before humans can obtain the same consulting authority to talk to them, facing those "information integrations" called gods.

We must remain humble and vigilant, and at the same time, do not lose ourselves and go astray into nothingness and destruction. 】

Obviously, this purple-robed wizard named Theodore Clavius, under the guidance of chaos, met an ancient living god in the Hundred Layers World and became its named one.

Whether it was the body of a god or a real living god, this was still in doubt.

He suspected that the other party was seeking sublimation, from a named being to a living god.

What Xia Xiu could be sure of was that in the process of pursuing these powers, Clavius ​​finally found the way to enter the Hundred Layers World.

Clavius ​​used the so-called invisible technique to enter the Hundred Layers World. In the absurd realm, he encountered chaos, learned more forbidden spells, and eventually established a secret cult called "Saint of Desire" and became the leader.

However, as his cult grew, the power of the Kingdom of Heaven began to notice him.

The "jailer" in the diary was actually the executor sent by the Kingdom of Heaven to eradicate secret cults and heretics, while the "book burner" was a nickname for the Kingdom of Heaven's crackdown on the spread of taboo knowledge.

And what he called the Lord of the Abyss...

That was the fearful name of the heretics for the power of the Kingdom of Heaven.

In fact, this disaster occurred during the Kingdom of Heaven's large-scale purge of secret cult forces a hundred years ago. Clavius ​​and his cult were completely destroyed in this purge.

Xia Xiu stood in the dark room, stroking his chin with his fingers, and memories of this secret cult emerged in his mind.

His eyes still stayed on the open diary, and he silently said in his heart:

"I wonder which sword holder cleared him out at that time..."

His thoughts surged, and several sword holders of the Kingdom of Heaven emerged in his mind.

"Mr. Mu... Maybe he was not free at that time. The first and second sword holders were not fixed on a battlefield like they are now during the church period, as the radiation power of the Kingdom of Heaven."

He frowned slightly, thinking about the situation at that time.

"Adam, help me find out about the traces of this secret cult." Xia Xiu gave an order to his think tank [Adam] in his mind.

[Received——]

[Adam] responded calmly and quickly.

Within a few seconds, Xia Xiu's cornea quickly flashed a stream of 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 in front of him.

Information about the Secret Cult and Theodore Clavius.

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Target Profile: Theodore Clavius

Identity: Purple-robed wizard, fallen person of the Hundred-layer World, former leader of the "Saint of Desire" Secret Cult.

Date of Birth and Death: Born in 1388, died in 1436.

Power Background: The founder of the "Saint of Desire" Secret Cult, which advocates depravity, desire and forbidden magic. It has tried to subvert the local order and expand the influence of its sect by summoning alien beings.

Crimes: Suspected of conducting large-scale depravity rituals, illegally summoning alien beings, touching the living gods, organizing extraordinary crimes, manipulating fate and prophecy, and causing large-scale dimensional rifts.

Ending: Killed by the first sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Background of the event: The cult purge in Gray Harbor

Time: July 1436 in the Terra calendar

Location: Gray Harbor, Edici Federation

Heavenly Kingdom Purge Force: Heavenly Kingdom's First Sword Bearer (holding the space-based weapon [Spear of Atun])

Purge process: Theodore Kravis conducted a large-scale depravity ritual in Gray Harbor and successfully summoned an alien being (whose nature is unknown, presumed to be the body or incarnation of a living god).

Heavenly Kingdom sent the First Sword Bearer to carry out the purge.

The First Sword Bearer used [Spear of Atun] to pierce the alien being and nailed it to death in the Gray Harbor port area.

Due to the powerful power and uncontrollability of the alien being, its body could not be recovered in time.

After death, the body of the alien being was dragged into the plane rift by the hundred giant hands summoned by the world consciousness of the hundred layers of the world, and the body disappeared in the real space.

During the purge, the First Sword Bearer was fighting fiercely with a human incarnation of Shavon (Shalish) and failed to deal with the aftermath of the alien being.

The battle was extremely intense. The fourth etheric chain was activated to frame the principle of the present world, and the aftermath of the main battlefield was transferred to the fourth chain through the spirit particle.

The incarnation of Shavon was finally defeated, and the first sword bearer successfully completed the task.

Subsequent processing:

● The International Wizarding Federation refused the Kingdom of Heaven's in-depth investigation of the incident on the grounds of "non-interference in each other's internal affairs".

● Many wizards of the Federation stated through diplomatic channels that the gods of the Hundred Layers World will be handled by them themselves, and the Kingdom of Heaven does not need to intervene.

● Many high-level wizards who have won the first-level Merlin medal stated that the Federation has already begun to deal with several issues related to the living gods and their dependents.

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Xia Xiu's eyes still stayed on the flowing information, and a calm thinking was going on in his heart.

Information surged in his mind like a torrent.

The first sword bearer's clearing action was indeed decisive and effective, but due to the sudden interference of the Hundred Layers World, the matter was not completely resolved.

Now, the shadow of this secret cult has reappeared in Gray Harbor Town, which seems to indicate that the problem of the living gods promised by the Wizard Union has not been completely cleared up.

Xia Xiu's thoughts gradually became clear - the purple-robed wizard in this residence undoubtedly obtained the "spiritual remnants" of Theodore Kravis, that is, this diary.

There is a consensus in the wizarding world and the foggy magic world: purple-robed wizards are extremely dangerous.

They invented a series of magic, including the [Pension Bowl] that was listed as a forbidden item by the Kingdom of Heaven.

The use of the [Pension Bowl] involves extracting, storing and viewing memories.

It has caused many out-of-control incidents of 'personality overwriting', so it has been listed as a forbidden item by the Kingdom of Heaven, and the International United Wizards Association has also listed 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, 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.

"Someone or force has inherited the spirituality extracted by Theodore Kravis, and is trying to follow Theodore's old path, and the operators of the Administration seem to have just happened to meet their plan."

Thinking of this, Xia Xiu frowned slightly, and his eyes slowly swept across the room.

He scratched the surface and quickly came to the conclusion,

"Being able to convert the spiritual remnants into a diary means that the other party has a pensieve. Instead of leaving a pensieve, the diary was left because the diary was very dangerous, so it was left as a bait and trap."

He peeled off the cocoon and came to a clear conclusion in his mind:

"However, the other party must have left traces of using the pensieve here."

[Vashak] appeared silently behind Xia Xiu.

The Time Demon wears an inverted triangular skull on his head, which extends to his lower jaw. No object can be seen in the hollow of his face, only his deep and mysterious purple eyes, shining slightly in the dim room.

[Timing 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 you.

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 was in sharp contrast to his identity of controlling black magic.

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 poured out of the pensieve as if it were alive, wrapping every page of the book, gradually transforming it into the current "Forged Bronze 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 magical arts.

The runes flickered 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 messy.

He hurried 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.

Words like a curse echoed in the air, and then something responded to him.

As the spell was uttered, the pressure 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 hit the water, he was no longer a human, 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 magical 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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