"At that time, I was working to overthrow the rule of the Egint Empire and establish a pure mage kingdom, and the biggest problem came from the two major churches, or the Order system behind the church. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 You know, it's not easy to destroy a church completely. ”

Adam was touched by this, and even though he was now a true God, the Church of the Dawn still stood in France.

The hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, is probably the most appropriate way to describe this situation.

"That's when I met Colin. As a black mage, I have no resistance at all to proposals such as building a prison capable of imprisoning the gods. ”

"It is not surprising that Colin, who had not yet kindled the fire, was of remarkable appearance and conversation; Proficient in multiple spell factions and excellent in strength; He knew all the major forces of the Empire of Iron, and even successfully penetrated the Dean family, which was able to compete with the royal family at that time, with a prophet, and obtained a lot of confidential information, solving the constraints of the ancient mages within the empire. ”

The so-called ancient mages refer to those who cast spells with bloodlines from the first era to the beginning of the second era, not only limited to humans, as opposed to mages who cast spells with their current spells.

"And all the whimsy that pops up from time to time—" said this, Archmage Morgan seemed to go back to those eventful years, and could not hide his excitement, "There is no second like-minded partner in the world, and it is difficult to refuse him, and soon we have agreed on the establishment of the Shadow Plane." ”

Archmage Morgan admires and appreciates Colin between the lines, and of course, Adam says that how much Archmage Morgan admired Colin in the past, how much he hates the truth now.

In addition, according to the information revealed by Archmage Morgan, combined with Arros's life and experience, there is a good chance that the prophet who broke into the Dean family with Colin is Dietney among the three goddesses of prophecy.

It was around this time that Arros was born in the Dean family, witnessing the fall of the Egint Empire and the disintegration of the Order Gods.

"And then?"

"Later—" Archmage Morgan continued hatefully, "he ignited the divine fire before me, and single-handedly provoked a conflict between the Ancestral God of Order and the Goddess of Silence. I don't know exactly how he provoked the conflict between the two true gods, but in short, he succeeded. ”

"Later, the Empire of Aegent fell, the God of Order disintegrated, the ancestral god fell, the goddess of silence disappeared, the kingdom of the Babelati mages was established, and the shadow plane was successfully built. However, on the day the shadow plane was successfully built—"

"You have been imprisoned by the assassination of the truth?"

"Not really, although in hindsight it is not far off."

"I'm sorry, you continue." Adam spread his hands in frustration.

"I've been hunted down by that prophet and a madwoman, who are ridiculously powerful and accomplished in prophecy, and I'm no match."

"Prophecy of the Three Goddesses!" Adam's first reaction was the three Lady Grace sisters.

"Prophecy of the Three Goddesses? Who are they? ”

Archmage Morgan, who had been imprisoned in the shadow plane and had no information, did not know about Lady Grace and the others.

"Now the three goddesses of the multiverse who are in charge of the prophetic priesthood, it is very likely that two of them were the ones who hunted you down back then, and their relationship with the truth is a bit tricky."

Archmage Morgan nodded: "That's right. In order to evade their pursuit, I had to hide in the shadow plane, and then simply faked my death, devoting all my energy to researching and creating a divine creature capable of guarding the shadow plane—the corpse of the ancestral god. ”

Adam looked at Archmage Morgan thoughtfully, no wonder Babelatis was so loyal to the dark human modification experiment, it turned out that the source came from the founder of the mage kingdom.

Hiss--

A terrible hissing suddenly rang out nearby.

"Be careful! It's the Serpent of Chaos! "Archmage Morgan landed with the three of Adam into a ruin.

"The Serpent of Chaos is the guardian of the Shadow Plane, and usually roams the shattered and twisted space, feeding on the souls of these monsters. Gathering his breath, the Snake of Chaos is extremely sensitive to the energy of the Light Series. ”

A hideous and ugly gray snake appeared in the distance, shrouded in shadows and crawling slowly, its body constantly changing shapes, one second it was still a giant snake with a length of 100 meters and sharp fangs, and the next second it became a small snake no thicker than a thumb and full of tumors.

But no matter how it changes, the gray scales of the Serpent of Chaos will always exude a shadow and an aura of chaos.

When the Serpent of Chaos crawled into a cave, Archmage Morgan breathed a sigh of relief: "I don't want to confront the Serpent of Chaos until I have to, he can make people go crazy and lose their minds, I think I should have met him just now, this is the ability that Serpent of Chaos has been given by Colin since No. 8." ”

"Number eight?"

"You wouldn't think the Serpent of Chaos was created all at once, would you? Now the Serpent of Chaos is number 26, and before him, there are 25 more, but all of them have entered his stomach. Experimentation, you know, is the replacement of obsolete pieces by devouring new works. ”

"What about the Discord Dragon?"

"No. 1, it was born only a year ago."

Adam was silent for a moment, and then continued the topic just now: "Does Your Excellency the Archmage know the four orcs?" ”

"Orcs? Of course, I know that they were created by the later dark mages of Babelatis based on the magical notes I left behind when I studied the Serpent of Chaos - when new souls were drawn into the shadow plane, I could forcibly read their memories before they were fully transformed into monsters, and this was the only way I could access information from the outside world, although it wasn't very efficient, and they were often turned into monsters before I could get useful information. ”

"But speaking of orcs, aren't they lizardmen, gnolls, and lionmen? A whole new orc has been studied? ”

"Yes, Dragonman. But Babelates was attacked by the dragon. ”

"Damn, it must be Colin's idea again!"

"Again?"

"That's right! On the day Serpent of Chaos 8 was researched, I lost control of the Shadow Plane and have been imprisoned here. At the same time, a woman under Colin who specializes in psychic magic, now a psychic knight, enters the Babelrates to divide the black mage and the elemental mage, stirring up conflicts between the two factions. ”

Later in history, a war broke out between the Dark Mages and the Elemental Mages, and eventually the Elemental Mages went to the desert to establish the Hanging Gardens and engage in a long battle with Babelatis.

But is it really as it is recorded in history?

"Of course not, from the day of the split of Babelatis, everything worked according to Colin's will. The Hanging Gardens are responsible for exploring the mysteries of elemental magic, providing a reference for the basic elemental laws and spell systems that add alienation to the shadow plane. Babelates continued to deepen the path of the Dark Arts, conducting a large number of experiments in the Dark Arts, providing experimental data for Colin to perfect the Serpent of Chaos and even the Dragon of Discord. ”

"That is to say—" Adam was frightened by the far-sighted God of truth in the mouth of Archmage Morgan.

"As you think, whether it is the direction of development of Babelatis or the Hanging Gardens, or the mutual conquest of the three major forces on the Asha continent for thousands of years, it is Colin's will."

The God of Truth uses the entire Asha Continent as a chessboard, and plays chess alone with the Bosi Empire, the Cult of Truth, the Hanging Gardens, and Babelatis.

This kind of secret is simply terrifying, no less shocking than Adam was when he first learned that the God of Truth was Archmage Colin!

"How? The truth could not have been hidden from the gods about the Hanging Gardens and Babelatis. The Angel of Dawn asked.

The eyes of the gods can see what is happening throughout the multiverse, but it is limited to the "thing" itself, which does not mean that the multiverse has no secrets in front of them.

"Shadow Plane! The Shadow Plane was a spatial prison at the beginning of its creation, and of course, this function has never changed, just look at me. Archmage Morgan laughed to himself, "The Aether Knight is a good at this, he has imprisoned the entire shadow plane of spatial teleportation spells, and no one can use space spells here unless someone is more skilled in spatial spells than him—sorry, it's too far." ”

"I don't mind, I'm actually quite interested in how a prison in an independent space came to be what it is today."

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next, I don't know what method Colin used, anyway, after I was imprisoned, he injected his divine power into the space prison, which was not called a shadow plane at the time, and something unexpected happened - the space was stretched and expanded, blended into the shadows, and everything began to distort and collapse. The Shadow and Aether Knights took over the Shadow Plane and became the Guardians of the Plane. ”

"You mean blending into the shadows?" Adam grasped a very important message.

"Yes, it sounds incredible, but the truth is that it blends into the shadows." Archmage Morgan was very pleased with Adam's acumen, "Colin spent nearly a thousand years integrating the shadow plane into the continent of Asha, and coexisted with Asha on both sides. For a long time, the exits of the shadow plane spread throughout the continent of Asha, and this is how his lackeys stole the results of the Hanging Gardens and Babelatis. ”

"The Shadow Plane is independent, but it does exist. If our cosmic space represents the true essence, the shadow plane is the shadow of cosmic space, but here everything is distorted and broken. ”

The connection between the body and the shadow is inherently indissolent.

Fortunately, so far, the shadow plane has only merged with the Asha continent, otherwise Adam feels that even if the griffon kingdom occupies the entire Upre, he will not have the slightest sense of security.

With the help of the Shadow Plane, the Cult of Truth is literally uninhabited.

"But now the Possi Empire has unified Yasha."

"yes, I should have thought of that." Archmage Morgan sighed, whether it is Babelatis or the Hanging Garden, it is his mantle that inherits, "The shadow plane has evolved over the years and tends to be perfected, and the second divine creature that guards the plane, the Discord Dragon, was also created not long ago, the Hanging Garden and Babelates have lost their use value, of course he wants to sweep the tail and include the entire Yasha into the territory of faith, and complete the complete integration of the shadow plane and the Yasha continent." ”

Adam thought for a moment and told Archmage Morgan a relatively good news: "The Hanging Gardens are not dead, and they officially joined my kingdom not long ago. ”

"No wonder."

"What's the wonder?"

"You have the aura of the origin of magic on you, although it is very faint, but I can smell it at once."

This is one of the reasons why Morgan was able to find the three Adams soon after they were plotted into the shadow plane.

The origin of magic?

Adam blinked, he was pretty sure he hadn't touched anything like this, in fact it was the first time he'd even heard of it, unless......

Archmage Morgan pointed to the priesthood crystal that was locked in nine chains from the Giant Eye: "In the third hundred years of my imprisonment in the shadow plane, I transformed the worship of the mages into the power of faith, ignited the divine fire, and tried to break through the confinement. And yet—"

Adam glanced at Archmage Morgan's illusory cleric crystal entangled in the Chaos Star Ring, and it was clear that he had failed.

At least, not to become a true god.

"Because of the special rules of the shadow plane, I didn't get a divine fire in the full sense, but a virtual divine fire, which can calcine my faith and transform my divine power, but I can't get in touch with the Force Ocean, so I can't really ascend to the divine throne."

"It's the same with the priesthood, because of my status as the founder of Babelatis, the first priesthood I acquired was the mage, the god of mages. The second priesthood is magic, the god of magic, so I'm very sensitive to the taste of the origin of magic. ”

"Wait—" Adam couldn't help but look at Archmage Morgan's chain-wrapped cleric crystal again, there was only one crystal.

"This is the mage priesthood, and the magic priesthood was stripped by Colin on the day I successfully gathered and made into this artifact called the Chaos Star Ring. I thought that entering the realm of gods was the capital to escape from the shadow plane, but I didn't want it to be the beginning of stepping into the abyss. ”

"I don't understand."

"Colin wants to transform me into the third divine creature to guard the shadow plane! He even had a name in mind - the Magic Ancient Dragon. That's why I kept changing my body, but I couldn't escape the shackles of the Chaos Ring. ”

The true purpose of the God of Truth to create the Chaos Star Ring turned out to be here, as for what to seek magic priesthood and the like, it was all smoke bombs!

"We're here."

Adam followed Master Morgan into a black water pipe, and after many turns, his vision suddenly opened up, and a starry sky appeared in front of him, and he was standing on a lonely island suspended in the air.

"This is my cell, the only safe place in the shadow plane. It's not a big area, but at least there's no need to worry about the ubiquitous twisting power. And the Serpent of Chaos will never come here. Now, let's talk about how to leave the shadow plane. ”

"Asha!" Adam looked at the starry sky in front of him and soon found a continent covered in countless shadows.

"Scary, isn't it?" Archmage Morgan walked up to Adam and pointed to the shadows that kept sticking out from the continent of Asha, "Since two thousand years ago, these shadows have been trying to capture another continent that I have never seen before, and they have been unsuccessful, until three months ago, he did it. ”

Adam looked in the direction of Archmage Morgan's finger and saw countless shadows like octopus tentacles dragging a piece of land out of a cloud of mist.

"Merica!"

The continent hidden in that fog is the New World Merica, and the reason why the Shadow Plane was able to merge smoothly three months ago was because the Shadow Knight came and established the Shadow Principality in the New World!

"Merica is—!"

Archmage Morgan suddenly cursed as a monstrous serpent large enough to crush a star appeared in the starry sky and swooped down towards where they were.