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Ai Wen was writing with a fountain pen he had made using the "Activating Aura", the gold tip of the pen on the fine parchment, leaving lines of beautiful words and lines.

The composition is an intricate and intricate array that looks almost like a work of art.

This is the Galliot Bird Modification 3.0 that he is constantly revising, and the main body has been completed when he was promoted to official wizard, and now it is only a few minor changes to make it even better.

Ai Wen believes that after this transformation, the seabirds under his command will definitely usher in a qualitative change, and it is no longer a dream to complete the transformation from mortal to demonic creatures.

Suddenly.

The light in the captain's cabin dimmed, and the light of the hanging wind chimes seemed to have been swallowed up by something.

Then from the oil painting hanging on the wall, an old man's sad voice suddenly sounded:

"Little ~ son ~, quickly find someone to give my old man a meal, eat chatter : :

Otherwise, I'll eat you!"

Others may be taken aback by what they hear, but

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All it responded was a snap of Aven's fingers.

The hairy voice grew smaller and quieter, until it became inaudible.

Because a spiritual barrier has risen on its own, cutting off all contact between the oil painting on the mysterious level and the outside world, so that the old man who can't figure out the situation inside can neither see, hear, or speak.

It's even worse than when I was at the bottom of the ocean.

However, it also means some kind of signal.

The pen in his hand drew the last symbol on the paper, and Ai Wen put away this "Bird Transformation 3.0", replaced it with an ordinary white paper, and refilled himself with a cup of black tea by the way.

Then he looked up at the painting, as if he was expecting something.

A minute later, the painting of a shipwreck faded into obscurity, replaced by a portrait of a middle-aged man dressed in a centuries-old aristocratic dress with wavy curly hair.

Ai Wen then lifted the spiritual barrier, bowed slightly, and said with a smile:

"Good day, Sir Katarov!"

"Good day, Your Excellency!

Haha, it's better to be free, especially when you experience freedom, and you can have a noble and excellent listener, which is really perfect.

So, sir, do you have time to listen to me continue with the story of the past?"

The man in the painting spoke slowly, although it still belonged to the voice of the old man just now, but the tone was decidedly different, especially at the end of each sentence with a slight increase in tone, which was the way the nobles used to speak in order to show their differences.

Hearing this, of course Ai Wen would not refuse, because he was waiting for "him".

"Of course, it's my pleasure!"

It's been so long since the painting was fished out of the sea, and after several not-so-successful exchanges since it was discovered by Kaka, Ai Wen has gained a certain understanding of the painting and the consciousness that inhabits it.

Or he, it, they can all refer to the consciousness in it.

Aven's initial guess was correct.

Around the time of the shipwreck, the fugitive wizard hundreds of years ago gave up his mortally injured body and hid in the form of a soul in this famous painting, which is essentially a "cursed thing".

He used to be called The Simpson, and was an official wizard who belonged to the "Black Ringer School", a dark wizard force.

Proficient in shadow sorcery and soul sorcery, after sealing his soul with "cursed objects", he has been living in the painting until now.

But after a long time, his own life form has long been irreversibly changed. The soul has been completely integrated with this cursed oil painting, and has become an existence similar to the demon spirit in the painting.

This form of existence is somewhat similar to the legendary battleship "Ship Spirit" that Aven has known, and as long as this painting is not destroyed, he will theoretically not die out completely.

This allowed him to survive hundreds of years of erosion with the soul essence of a second-order transcendent.

However, the price he paid was much more than that.

The painting was originally called "Portrait of the Death of Katarov" and was originally a self-portrait created by an aristocratic painter named Katarov.

I don't know what happened in the middle and finally became a "cursed thing", which made its former owners inexplicably "hidden", and the soul was imprisoned in the painting and continued to sink.

The form shown on the oil painting shows the death of each victim.

While the dark wizard Simpson dominated the cursed painting with a soul power far superior to that of any of the previous victims, he also had to merge inexorably with the remaining souls and consciousness of the victims until they were inseparable.

So what finally appeared in front of Evan was a "demon in the painting" with Simpson's personality as the main character and countless victims as the vice.

The crazy weird old man, the learned aristocratic artist, the wealthy merchant who values money as his life, and the clumsy thief Aven have recorded at least a dozen personalities, and it seems that there must be much more than that.

As for the people who were eaten into the painting after Simpson, such as the hapless soldier of Hirius, they were really eaten, and there was no chance to divide Simpson's soul into an independent personality.

Both at the bottom of the sea and after being fished up.

They will all conduct internal consultations, come out regularly to let out the wind, and whoever comes out is who is shown on the screen.

But most of the time it was the main personality of the old dark wizard who came out, and the second in line was the original owner of the painting: Sir Catalov.

Of course, the mad old man was more valuable as a full-fledged wizard, and the knowledge of the "Black Ringer School" in his head would be of great interest to any transcendent being.

Although it is impossible for Ewen to cultivate both, if he can obtain the shadow sorcery that belongs to the wizard, then he will definitely save a lot of effort when cultivating the shadow lizard of Kaka in the future.

However, Evan preferred to chat with the learned aristocratic artist rather than deal with an old wizard who was insane but still cunning as a fox.

Moreover, although the memories between personalities are not interconnected, after three hundred years of getting along, the mutual communication between personalities is enough to complete the sharing of most memories.

At least Katarov knows a lot about the memories of everyone after him.

Thus, this erudite aristocratic artist gave Evan a surprise with his "personal" experiences that have never been recorded in the history books.

Although some high-end may not be used for the time being, the value is no less than any occult knowledge.

Because there may be a secret hidden in it that can keep mortals and gods side by side!

"As we mentioned last time, a long time ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was notoriously conservative, stubborn, and impersonal, using all kinds of dogmas and rules to imprison the minds of the people.

This has been going on for thousands of years, and people call it the 'Dark Millennium'.

It was not until 500 years ago that I lived in a time when the people finally ceased to be obedient lambs and were determined to break out of that dark age from the spiritual world.

It was a movement called the Renaissance, and it was a period that lasted for two centuries.

Indirectly, the Turkat dynasty where I belong "dominated" the continent, or in other words, in terms of thought, art, and humanities, it became a place of pilgrimage for the whole continent. ”

Although the words of this "ancient" obviously lacked the reverence for the seven true gods, Ai Wen only listened silently, and from time to time recorded first-hand accounts of conversations with "history" on paper.

Because of his dual identity as an aristocrat and an artist, he had enough vision and opportunities to understand the true appearance of that era, and it also made Ai Wen like a treasure!

From his intermittent stories during this time, Evan seems to have grasped the context of the development of the world and the limits of the power of the true god!

Based on what he said, the records of the wizards, and Aven's own reasoning.

In the Dark Ages, all supernatural powers were suppressed except for the Church, and wizards and other transcendents were no different, all of them were struggling to survive in the cracks.

But when the "Renaissance" movement from the bottom up was in full swing and was unanimously welcomed by most countries and people in the Old World, and even formed a certain trend, the Church of the True God finally could not sit still.

With a huge accumulation of thousands of years of firmly ruling the world from both physical and spiritual aspects, he began to hunt down the transcendents with the belief of lore, especially the wizards among them.

Obviously, the wisdom of the gods has allowed them to see the changes in the future, and after the imprisonment of the mind is broken, it will be followed by a hundred flowers on the spiritual and material levels.

And those wizards who are most powerful, intelligent, creative, and productive will surely reap the greatest benefits from this torrent of social change, profoundly changing the material world.

It is not even known that the rule of the true God of the Old World will be shaken by a bottom-up movement to take advantage of the people's weariness with the rule of the "Dark Millennium" Church ruling everything.

Of course, this is something that no true God wants to see!

But their calculations were not fully realized.

The largest witch slaughter campaign in history is in full swing, and the forces of the Church have expelled, killed, and imprisoned most of the wizards, and it is time for them to completely kill the bud.

Another thing happened that the true gods did not expect.

While the church was fighting with wizards, a group of demigods in their back garden sprung up like mushrooms after a rain because of mankind's desire for the "Renaissance" and the emancipation of the mind.

Some of them were born directly from the beliefs of humans, while others were promoted from the pinnacle of transcendentals, and more demigods appeared in just two hundred years than in the past few thousand years.

One of them is the "God of Opera" Percell, whom Evan was fortunate enough to see!

Even if the tide is not led by the shaman, it unfolds in a form that they are equally unwilling to see, and has a profound impact on the world.

From this, the true gods also know that even the high Ones are not the masters of this world, let alone completely irreplaceable.

Although the will of the world does not have a complete self, it also has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The original intention of the operation of all world rules must be conducive to the development and promotion of the world.

The world tide during this period can be temporarily suppressed, but it cannot stay in the age of obscurantism forever.

So, too, the gods had to make compromises with the world itself.

Under the combined influence of internal and external, the Reformation of the Church of the Seven Gods began, and the "Dark Millennium" came to an end.

Subsequently.

After a few hundred years, the forces of all parties played with each other, and it was only then that there was a transcendent ecology that is now apparently balanced.

After straightening out the context, Ai Wen also got one of the keys, a secret that may not even be known to many super-level powerhouses.

That's the trend of the world that even the true God has to back down!

"However, the 'dark millennium' is over, and the emancipation of the mind is the trend. So the beginning of the 'Age of Discovery', isn't it?"