411. The past

Hervin stood in the middle of the basement, looking underground.

The power of Vantigeng appears from the bottom up.

From the underworld to the world.

In fables, there are always evil forces from ancient times rising in the dark, and one of the classic images is the evil tyrant who covets a prosperous and powerful kingdom in the dark and damp underworld.

And such a villain, his purpose also has a certain legitimacy at the legal level.

It is estimated that most people can't imagine how evil mages and vicious warlocks without royal blood can return from the underworld.

The dragon is another common villain.

Many folklore scholars believe that this creeping creature with the ability to fly, with its bat-winged and lizard-like appearance, is related to the most primitive human fear buried in genes.

It is also believed that this ancient creature, in very distant times, had a certain relationship with the ancient snake worship, and had a very special place in the culture, symbolizing greatness and wisdom, but also representing danger and madness.

Professor Hevendelenge has his own understanding.

Based on his fieldwork, he believes that the dragon in most folktales today will be the main villain, mainly from two guys.

The original source of the dragon culture came from the poisonous dragon that gnawed at the roots of the World Tree, Nidhogg.

In the War of Doom, it committed numerous crimes, terrified the gods, and brought the world ultimate despair with countless winged serpents.

It was once a notorious dragon, but since the new gods replaced the old gods, they tried their best to erase the traces of the old gods, and Nidhogg was one of them, but even if it disappeared, in fact, many of the dragons in ancient fables still have his shadow on them.

On the other hand, the evil dragon that influenced a large number of folk creations in Yinglans was King Fu Tigeng.

The dragon and the evil monarch, like Nidhogg, are no longer known to the world, and all they hear is the artistically manipulated and scandalized image of the folk legend of King Arthur.

This is to prevent anyone from having an undeserved worship for him after knowing the true deeds of Fu Tigeng.

And the image of King Arthur is also vaguely represented in these stories, and is as beautiful as the heroes of fairy tales, for the same purpose, to put an end to worship.

The worship of Votigon will give him strength and less resistance to his return to the human world, and may cause some mortals on earth to degenerate into his minions.

The so-called depravity, of course, is that Votigan promises them strength and longevity in order to lure them to join, and Votigon will only choose those who he thinks are capable.

In the same way, he will keep his promises.

There is only one reason why so many people follow this evil tyrant one after another, and that is that he has insight into the minds of all intelligent people, and since it is difficult for smart people to fool, then give them real benefits, and let the mortals who think they are wise judge and choose for themselves......

And Fu Tigeng only needs to know how much price is needed to make them sell their souls to be in the company of demons.

And those who can afford to see the truth, and think that Vitigon has given more than they have now, will naturally turn around and throw themselves into the arms of the evil dragon without hesitation.

And what he can give is also very tempting, strength, dragon blood, territory, power, money, treasures, and even immortality in a sense.

And although the so-called eternal life that Votigen can give to the weak is flawed, he never hides the existence of flaws, and for immortality with side effects, most mortals who have reached the end of their lives cannot refuse.

Votigon was not obsessed with trickery.

But his insight into human nature can be called cunning and extraordinary.

He once said to Hervin that the best lie is to be honest and honest, and unlike the kind of lie woven with truth, there is nothing misleading about Votigen's sincerity.

He believed that sincerity could touch the hearts of all, even if there was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two.

What Voltigen wants is not something that violates the bottom line of humanity, but it is just a cruel and dictatorial rule compared to Arthur, he wants an entire continent, but it is by no means a barren world.

He also found Hervin.

However, Hervin did not agree to his request and went to help him kill King Arthur.

Hervin was not a flawless saint like Arthur, and even he had a price.

But it's a pity.

Votigan's bid was far from sufficient.

In fact, Hervin knew it very well.

No one can afford to drive it at all.

Death.

What a cold word.

It can separate two people forever.

Until the torment caused by not being able to see each other completely takes away the other person.

When mortals can still hope for an encounter in the underworld, but the gods are different.

Even a demigod like Votigon has hope of returning to the human world, but it is precisely because he is not a god that he can return from the underworld.

After the death of the gods, they are not more than the underworld.

Although it is difficult for the gods to be completely killed, the resurrection is also not a simple matter, otherwise Odin and Loki would have been resurrected long ago, and Ymir and Bulli would have returned from nothingness.

But today's god of fire is Gaphnan, not the fire giant Surtr, who brought destruction.

But unlike most of the other gods, god-kings like Odin, who preside over death, and his scheming blood pact brother Loki, are more likely to rise from nothingness than any other god.

This is why the new gods go to great lengths to erase the traces of the old gods.

Because they are afraid of the return of the old forefathers to the earth.

Whether it's Odin, Ymir, Surtr, Loki, Boully, or Niold, any of them are back in the world at half of their prime.

can take half of the world.

And the other half, most of them go to Gaphnan.

Votigeng is hiding in the underworld at the moment.

He'll always find what Enid wants.

Even if Hervin didn't know who it was that influenced Enid into a difficult picture to communicate, such a person may not be so difficult to manipulate, as long as he found the loophole.

Enid will be in the palm of Voltigen's hand.

And Votigeng would indeed give what he had promised to Enid.

The problem is that Enid doesn't necessarily really want those things.

Most likely, she just didn't have a choice.

Hervin is not good at enlightening others.

A person's grief cannot be resolved in a few words.

Healing is a long and difficult process.

So Hewen didn't have a choice.

He had to go to the underworld first.

Then directly killed Fu Tigeng.