Chapter 59: The Final Truth
The surviving humans set up one last altar near the volcano, the one that Ryan saw. It is also the only surviving altar in the whole of Iceland, the others were destroyed in the war.
They first used the altar to communicate with their surroundings, and then except for the sorcerer and his disciples, the others committed suicide in hatred and desecrated the altar, which was transformed from a natural altar into a blood altar.
Using the resentment of the loss of life, the Viking wizard communicates the powerful energy contained beneath a nearby volcano. and channeled this power through a makeshift blood altar.
After absorbing this tainted power, the wizard and his disciples temporarily gained great power, opening the barrier between the world where Ryan is now and the real world, and then this powerful force brought the wizards and those magical creatures into this world together.
As the barrier was breached, the rest of the place was filled with powerful spatial turbulence except for this small space. Most of the magical creatures were swept up in the turbulence of space and died, while the rest fought fiercely with the wizards.
Eventually, the Viking sorcerer swallowed the only treasure he had taken with him when he left his homeland: the blood of a mythical wolf. The giant wolf is wiped out along with the few remaining most powerful magical creatures.
Over time, the spatial turbulence subsided. But the ghosts of the dead still linger in this world. Ryan, on the other hand, is because of the release of a large number of sunlight crystals and various plants in the real world. The powerful life force activates the resentful spirits in this world, and after the resentful spirits awaken, they perform ritual magic according to the obsession of their previous lives, and as a result, they bring Ryan in.
Because they are resentful spirits, they only instinctively attack all living creatures. Ryan also had to fight them for this reason.
Ryan also discovers that the world is somewhere between the real and the unreal, but is more inclined to the spirit world. So plants like him can't be released in this world, and his body is affected by the age of the soul and becomes about 20 years old.
After absorbing the memory, Ryan came to his senses. sighed at the hardships and sacrifices of human beings to enlighten the mountains and forests. He dug a pit under the altar and buried the remains he could find, then bowed respectfully three times. He showed his respect for these human pioneers. Although he did not approve of the sorcerer's act of sacrificing his compatriots and killing indiscriminately.
Obviously, the sacrifice of the first humans to land on the island also wiped out more than ninety percent of the magical creatures on the island. This allowed later humans to successfully take root on the island. Although, due to magic, later humans have forgotten that a group of humans landed on the island before them and died all of them. (In the seafaring technology of those days, it was very normal to go out to sea without hearing from you many times.) )
Perhaps their hometown thought that they had died at sea after they had been shipwrecked. After all, it was an era when there were no Floo nets, no apparitions, and not even broomsticks. For wizards, it is no safer to go far away than ordinary people, and both wizards and Muggles are vulnerable to nature.
After lamenting the lost truth, Ryan began to carefully recall the memories he had just absorbed, trying to find a way to get out of here, but when he cleared his memories, he found that he had gained something new, that is, the life magic mastered by the Viking wizard.
Yes, life magic, not imaginary necromancy. The Viking shaman, known as the shaman in his time, was a sorcerer who communicated nature with life and death to gain power. It's just that due to his madness during his lifetime, all the magic that communicates with nature is gone, and only the magic of life related to life and death remains.
The life magic he mastered was divided into body and soul, and Ryan carefully read the inheritance and found that in fact, these life magic itself did not have any tendencies, but only the power of life and death.
If used for good purposes, then this magic can heal the sick, strengthen oneself, soothe the soul, and ward off evil spirits. It is even highly lethal to all twisted unnatural beings.
But once it is made evil, the magic can enslave souls, drive corpses, and even create countless twisted monsters, such as those made of flesh and blood.
Ryan originally thought that these monsters were extremely evil, and he was extremely disgusted by the magic that caused all this. But after taking a closer look at these things, Ryan hesitated. He was undecided about learning the magic. On the one hand, there is a thirst for power, and on the other hand, there is a fear of the consequences that can happen if it gets out of control.
After a short period of reflection, Ryan chose to accept this knowledge. After all, he now holds the Ten Thousand Worlds Grocery Store, and he will see countless worlds and countless powers in the future. Looking ahead and looking backward is bound to gain nothing.
What's more, he discovers that this power is not an evil force. Rather, it is subject to the user's tendency to show different manifestations. Most of the magic that Ryan learns at Hogwarts is now in this area, so there's no need to worry too much.
For example, an everyday spell like the Levitation Charm may seem safe, but if you use it to float a person and remove it, the effect is no different from the Killing Curse.
This is also in line with an old proverb that Ryan had heard in his previous life: you must never do things because you choke on food.
With this question figured out, Ryan began to delve into what the Legacy had to say about this world. so that you can go back to the real world.
This world is not the world created by the Viking wizard that Ryan imagined, but the wizard used the power of nature to block a small piece of the original world for his own use. Now, with the passage of time and the disappearance of the resentful spirits inside, the power of the blockade has gradually dissipated, which makes it much less difficult for Ryan to leave.
The essence of this world is actually the spiritual world of consciousness of all natural beings, and it is also the main component of world consciousness, or Gaia consciousness. This world is not dead, and many spirit beings survive here.
Some wizards who are sensitive to the soul or nature can easily enter this world. Even some Muggles could break into this world by some chance. Many myths and stories are made up by ordinary people who enter the world and see what happens in this world.
After accepting the inheritance, Ryan quickly mastered the methods of entering and leaving this world. After making a gesture and reciting a spell, Ryan leaves this world without incident.