Krent was not mistaken, and after searching the vicinity, the group found a dilapidated tent.

Rummaging through it, Krent found Morgan's diary under a bed, along with two bottles of finished antidote.

Flipping through the journal in his hand, Krent's body began to tremble as he had drawn so much terrifying information from it.

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[Morgan's Diary]

- 4 years in the Meysar calendar, 995 years in the Arad calendar

Finally, I was back in Neupella, my hometown.

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It's been a few days since I've been here, and I still haven't been able to enter Neupera, and the monsters roaming around the town have stopped me, most of them my countrymen.

Die here, there is no point. Tomorrow I'm going to use the Sleeper Technique to enter the city to investigate. If I had known this, I should have learned the latent technique before.

Finally managed to infiltrate the city. Luckily, no monsters were aware of my presence.

And it's not just corpse snatchers and unjust souls roaming the area...... I saw it, it was indeed a human figure! It seems that this incident is indeed related to human beings.

Today, one day, I followed the humans who roamed the city, and then I learned the following.

They all seem to belong to the same organization, or rather followers of the same "religion" (religion seems to be an essential element for the survival of vulnerable humans).

The name of this group is "The Grim Seekers". I observed their rituals and they seemed to be waiting for something......

"Ahh This is the place where Lord Dirij's grace reigns. ”

"Give us the strength to prepare for the judgment of the absolute God."

Diriji...... Where does it seem to have been heard?

I've been attacked by my fellow people who are infected with infectious diseases, and my latent skills are incomplete, so if there are still rational corpse thieves who are dark elves, they may be discovered...... Careless.

Infectious diseases will gradually eat away at my body from the wound...... I haven't been able to uncover the truth about the murderer of my family, so how can I die here in vain......!

The Grim Seekers are an organization that follows a lot of secrecy. I think they're dangerous. It looks like they're here to carry out an important mission.

I followed one of the higher-looking ones into a heavily guarded area, where it was...... Space-time rift!?

I pray that the people who read this diary are my fellow citizens, and I will explain the secret of the rift in time and space here.

A space-time rift is a chasm, or rift, that arises between the present world and parallel different spaces.

Hundreds of years ago, our dark elves stumbled upon it and studied it in secret.

After a long period of research, it was concluded that "the use of space-time rifts can be used to freely enter and exit different spaces".

Of course, hundreds of years of research have not given our people the ability to freely use the rift in space, nor can they control the anomalies that accompany their use.

Therefore, the rift in time and space can be called extremely dense even among the dark elves, and I am only known because of my status as an alchemist in the court.

In the future, humans will also know about the existence of the rift in space-time. But what does this have to do with infectious diseases......

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The bodies of compatriots who died of infectious diseases were investigated, and a strange thing was discovered.

On them, traces of a rare chemical reaction known as "purple mushrooms" are produced.

This is related to the "Blood Curse" that ran rampant with humanity half a year ago.

According to ancient human records, the "Curse of Blood" represents the spread of the phenomenon of "pretenderization" of human beings.

And "pretenders" refer to monsters that have mutated into monsters that crave the blood of their kind.

The terrifying thing about the Pretenders is that they are no different from ordinary people during the day, perfectly hidden in normal life. As a result, trust between humans has been shattered, and even mad pagan and witch trials have been launched among the same people.

Luckily, if our people are infected with the Blood Curse, purple mushroom-shaped patterns will appear all over the skin. Therefore, we are able to distinguish the pretender from normal people, so that there will be no tragic history like that of human beings.

This is where the "purple mushroom" comes from. However, in recent decades, there have been no official reports of impostors.

Could it be that the curse of blood is spreading in the human world again?

The clergy, who were rumored to have fought off the Blood Curse, are still secretly training to erase the Pretenders.

If you can meet them, you might be able to solve this mystery. If the Blood Curse didn't spread, then who cast the Blood Curse here?

Or maybe the spreader, and what is the relationship between the infectious diseases in this place? All these mysteries may be related to the rift in time and space.

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The space-time rift itself does not activate suddenly.

Then naturally someone is operating. And that person is the one behind bringing the demon Diriji to this world and making it material.

According to Mistress Elise, Diregi has nothing to do with his own will, and will spontaneously spread the plague to the surrounding area, turning the surrounding area into hell.

Who, and why, sent this powerful apostle to this peaceful village deep underground?

Maybe a little bit of a push, but I think so, the man didn't want to move Diriji to the Dark Elf village.

No matter how you think about it, I don't think anyone in the world would think that the dark elves who live peacefully underground and have no quarrel with the world can be full of threats.

I can't imagine anyone going out of their way to shake the survival of such a race.

Led by magic, the Dark Elves possess many powerful abilities. However, if anyone is really afraid of all this, they should not send Dirijah to a town like Noibela, but directly to the capital city of Dark.

In that case, our people may perish in an instant.

Well, I made the inference that the man used the space-time rift to move Diregi somewhere.

And in the process, by chance, Dirij's energy leaked out of the space-time rift near Nojpera!

Harnessing the power of space-time rifts means distorting and folding time and space, resulting in new space-time rifts in unpredictable places. This is one of its known basic side effects.

Thinking about all this, one word came to my head - "transfer"!

I heard that human society is now in chaos because of the "shift". The newly transferred beings are also the apostles who appear in the words of Lord Elise, and their names are "Shylock" and "Lotus".

Could it be that all these events are related......

Is this all part of the huge conspiracy of "the man behind the scenes"......?

If this were all part of a deliberate plan, it might have been possible for hundreds of years.

I felt a chill run down my spine. Then the "Curse of Blood" hundreds of years ago and the "Purple Mushroom" found here are themselves evidence of this plan.

Temporal rifts. In ancient times, our ancestors, who studied its secrets, once said: This is a mystery that the gods want to hide, and mortals must not touch it at will......

Is it true that someone has used a rift in time and space, and the divine punishment has to be borne by the innocent inhabitants of Noypera......

However, the biggest question was in front of me. The method of using the power of the space-time rift is a knowledge that even the dark elves like me have not mastered.

Is there really anyone who can achieve research results far beyond those of the dark elves for hundreds of years, understand the secrets of the space-time rift, and freely use its power?

What's more, even if we dark elves have this knowledge, we can't make perfect use of the space-time rift. Because it requires an unimaginably large amount of energy.

As far as I know, the only one that can produce such energy is the "Terra Stone" that exists in the Demon Realm.

So, is the human organization of the Grim Seekers really the mastermind of this project?

I watched them for a few days. It was found that although they knew about the existence and ability of the space-time rift, it was not as if they had mastered how to use it.

In fact, I've heard that humans know that the space-time rift has only recently been discovered, and that they have only studied it on a small scale.

Humans are basically a timid race, and it may take a long history to get the knowledge that our race knows.

And our knowledge today is based on the sacrifices of our ancestors...... So, what is the truth of the matter......

Occasionally, my consciousness would become hazy and my gaze would lose focus. The injured left wrist slowly began to swell into a mushroom shape. Purple mushrooms...... Sure enough, from then on, I contracted an infectious disease.

The Grim Seekers didn't come here purely to perform religious rituals, they seem to be experimenting.

Substances leaking from the rift in space-time (or more accurately as apparitions or evil thoughts) were injected into the human body for experimentation. The subject was then bandaged and placed.

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After a few days, something amazing happened. Where the bandaged subject should have been lying down, only the bandage that had lost its human silhouette remained.

Then a man with a different skin color came out of the Cold Seeker, and after whispering a few words in front of the bandage, the bandage automatically rolled into the shape of a human and was revived!

Ancient human texts that have studied the impostor have been studied have the following description: "The impostor may take various forms depending on the region. ”

For example, wolves, bats, spiders, etc. Although the combination of human bodies and the characteristics of animals and insects is the most representative, there are also countless monster forms that cannot distinguish between types.

The most peculiar example is that it is unable to maintain its original form, and its form as a living form disappears, turning into an energy form that is absorbed by the host.

The average pretender retains its human form during the day and manifests itself at night.

However, in this case, it is said that the impostor will remain in the form of objects that can be found around us during the day, and at night the host will take on a humanoid role.

In the Dark Holy War, Ozma is said to have worked with the Dark Knight to drive the Pretenders day and night. In particular, they project the Impostor in the form of energy into books, bandages, or clothing, and infiltrate behind enemy lines.

Later, it was used as an army, and many times it was used to deal unexpected blows to the clergy. He even drove them to death at one point...... "I'm even more sure of that."

There is a clear connection between the impostor and the infectious disease, although the symptoms of the organism are different. The "Grim Seekers", a human organization that secretly creates pretenders in the town of the Dark Elves.

The key to the answer is in their hands!

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Ahhhh......h Is that so...... Finally I knew who initiated this perfect and terrible thing...... Damn it...... It's unbelievable!! That's right, although it makes sense logically...... Ahhhh......h But why exactly!?

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Krent...... Even if I die and become a corpse thief before I see you, please be sure to find me.

If you are disgusted with the corrupt and ugly body that roams me, if you can't stand my screams of pain accompanied by blood, please at least kill me with your own hands.

But after you see my eyes full of sorrow and pleading, after you see them shed tears of pain and anger, I hope you will understand...... Then, I hope you will be able to find my diary......

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"The Apostles of the 13...... The Grim Seeker...... Behind the scenes......"

Krent began to digest the information he saw, and Yang Bai took the diary in his hand and flipped through it.

For those who knew the plot of the DNF, the contents of the diary were clearer, he knew that there were indeed more than nine apostles, and he also knew that the so-called ruthless seekers were the radicals of the Violent Raiders.

"Humans are not real murderers! The real mastermind is someone else! Suddenly exclaimed, Crent seemed to have figured out something, but then he became as lost in endless contemplation as Morgan in his diary.

"Why did the man behind it want to exterminate the Apostles? What benefits will he bring by doing so? ”

patted Krent on the shoulder, Yang Bai knew very well that Krent could not guess the truth only by relying on these clues, and the final result would only drive him crazy.