Chapter 54: The Unknown Age

It was endless darkness, and after losing all the light, only those quietly burning eyes remained, and Watson felt pressured, she breathed, only to feel that time and space were gradually fading away.

"Do you know what's down here?"

The voice came from the front, and Seni Lothair seemed to have been here many times, and his reaction was much more muted than that of Watson, his hand brushing the wall of the holy silver well, judging the path forward with the glimmer of light.

"I don't know, I never thought there were stairs here. ”

Watson replied that the Well of Ascension had always been an alchemy device within the Demon Hunter Order, and although it was mysterious, it had not been used many times, and no one had ever thought about what was hidden under this pitch-black well.

She followed closely with Seni Lothair, the darkness seemed to be alive, it was slowly wriggling, devouring the blood and flesh of the living, the pure flame of the witcher could not burn at all, and the light could only illuminate the corner not far in front of her, about two or three steps away.

Watson had a strange premonition that if the light disappeared, something terrible would surely happen here after being swallowed up by darkness.

"Eliminate the magazine, make the material more pure, the beautiful rises up, and the filthy falls downward......"

Seni Lothair whispered.

"Sublimation. ”

Watson, who was in the rear, replied.

"yes, you should be thinking about what's down here, right?"

Watson took a deep breath and replied slowly.

"Those filthy things.

The secret blood is extracted from the well of sublimation, and when it is sublimated, the defilement of the fading filth is thrown into the well. ”

"Yes, filth, the filth and malice of this world, since the appearance of the Demon Hunters, when this well of sublimation was cast, those filths have been piled up in the darkness below, and they have become more and more, and even accumulated into some strange creature. ”

Seni Lothair stopped suddenly, and he turned to look at Watson behind him.

"The temple of stasis is alive. ”

Watson nodded stiffly, and she replied.

"I know that all the secret blood of the Demon Hunters comes from a demon that is still alive from ancient times, and our [gaps] are connected by a system called the Nexus Web, which is why we can hear the commands from the Silver Bolt. ”

She hadn't experienced such emotions in a long time, and continued.

"So there is only one conclusion, the 'Stagnant Temple' itself is the ancient demon...... And now it's in the deepest part of the darkness below, right?"

Seni Lothair nodded, for now, as the information was integrated, the mystery would only become clearer, and under the protection of this well of sublimation, they would not have to worry about the attack from the Silencers for the time being.

"016, there's another interesting thing in this information, you have also noticed it, the Silencers hunt humans, only those who touch [the truth], they are protecting this secret. ”

"The Truth Behind the Border. ”

Watson replied in a low voice.

"Then have you ever wondered what the meaning of this well of sublimation is?"

Seni Lothair gently stroked the ancient patterns on the walls of the well, his voice filled with doubt and consternation.

"This is a building that is completely beyond the power of modern technology, and even today, with the development of steam technology, we cannot dig such a building so deep underground, let alone that it is completely made of holy silver, and there is no crack in the splicing. ”

SenΓ© Lothair had returned more than once to explore the area after he had strayed into it, and each time he returned, his mind was shaken even more violently.

"It's a craft beyond our comprehension, and I don't even know where such a huge amount of holy silver came from. ”

He withdrew his arm and made eye contact with Watson, and in the darkness of the abyss, a fishy smell rose below, and a bone-chilling cold.

"With the outbreak of Advent Night, the entire system of the Demon Hunters has been shattered, and after I took power, I tried to restore this glory, but I couldn't, there was nothing left. ”

Seni Lothair wrote herself.

"Until I was cornered, until I set my sights on this well of sublimation. ”

His voice picked up a smile as he asked again.

"What else do you think I've found here?016. ”

"I can't guess. ”

Watson also reached out and gently touched the wall of the well, and when she stepped into the well of sublimation, she had already noticed the patterns carved on the wall of the well, first the magnificent kingdom of heaven, then the battlefield of angels and demons, and then the hideous and terrifying map.

This is a picture of heaven and hell, from top to bottom.

So, what about under hell?

Watson's gaze fell on the unknowable abyss beneath his feet, and if what was depicted on the wall of the well had its purpose, then what else was in the abyss beneath this hell?

"Come with me, it will take some courage and you will soon see [the truth]...... At least part of the truth. ”

Seni Lothair's voice was soft, and his body seemed to have lost its strength, and he fell forward, falling into the dark abyss.

"Raphael!"

Although he said that Raphael was dead, Watson couldn't help but call out the unnamed name, and she reached out to try to grab him, but under the eerie cold, she slowed down and could only watch Seni Lothair fall into the darkness.

The light of the Pure Flame was shrouded in darkness, and in an instant Watson was gone, and now she was the only one left in the lonely darkness.

After a moment's hesitation, Watson did the same thing as Seni Lothair, leaning forward and falling into the unknowable darkness together.

It didn't take long to fall, only a brief moment Watson touched the ground, the mottled blade piercing into the soft ground, and she slowly got up and saw Seni Lothair standing in front of her.

Looking back, Watson could dimly see the staircase in the darkness, and it turned out that the staircase had reached its end.

"It's courageous, I hesitate for a long time every time, not because I'm afraid of death, but because I'm afraid that I'll stay here forever, and if that's the case, I'll never know [the truth] anymore. ”

The sound of chains sounded, and Seni Lothair handed the chains in his hand to Watson.

"Hold on to it, it's easy to get lost in this endless darkness, and this is our proof of return. ”

Watson didn't say much, and as Seni Lothair had said, she grabbed her chains and followed him.

It was an eerie space, where the witcher's keen eyesight had no effect, and even the light of the fire had faded away, unable to dispel the darkness.

The tip of his nose was full of the fishy smell, and the air was cold, condensing into frost on the blade of the sword.

Slowly moving forward, Hua Sheng seemed to have kicked something, she stopped, stared at the thing, and then the fear of the unknown took over her eyes, and she looked elsewhere, vaguely full of the same things, and it was at this moment that Seny Lothair's voice sounded slowly.

"I've always been curious about the fate of the witchers, although most of us will die in the battle with the demons, but there will always be one or two lucky ones who will survive to the end, but no, it's like at a certain point in time, all the witchers will disappear, and then a new one will appear. ”

He leaned down and straightened a corroded and barely visible head.

"Or the secret execution within the Demon Hunting Order, I've also thought about this, after all, as we get older, our control over the secret blood will become weaker and weaker, these are all understandable...... Until I found out here. ”

Slitted his wrist and the blazing blood fell to the earth, as a flaming white flame rose from it, lighting up the dim space.

Watson felt a little suffocated for a moment, she looked at the place where the light was shining, it was the scarlet flesh earth, and there were countless corpses on the earth, each of them was a witcher, the corpses nourished the land like nourishment, they were corroded, devoured, and fused together.

It starts here and ends here.

"Although there is no "Apocalypse", but I also found the technology to imitate the secret blood, this is here, this is like a spare arsenal, maybe the predecessors have long thought about it, maybe one day the Demon Hunting Order will be hit by the generation, and this is the emergency arsenal, every corpse here has holy silver in it, and the holy silver is wrapped in a stable secret blood. ”

"Is this where the Protestant Order was born?" Watson asked.

"Of course, cruel, but at least we're still there. ”

To all this, Seni Lothair replied very calmly.

"An incomparably huge demon, a [Messianic] level demon called a Leviathan......"

Watson gradually remembered the classification and record of demons in the Demon Hunting Order, and she looked at the countless corpses, and the vast flesh and blood beneath them.

These are not legends, but they are real, and she is in the midst of a demon body beyond imagination, and this demon is wrapped in a structure made entirely of holy silver, just like the relationship between the silver bolt and the secret blood, and it has continued to grow for so many years......

Watson didn't dare to continue thinking about it, she thought that after gaining the power Gabriel and obtaining the [Sublimation], she had come into contact with the [Truth], but compared to what she saw now, she was still too small.

"Also, have you ever wondered how long humans have been around?016. ”

Seni Lothair dragged the chains and kept going. He was glad that he had kept these secrets in his heart for so long, and it felt good to be able to share them now.

Watson didn't respond, she felt her mind freeze under the barrage of information.

This is the end of hell.

"Hundreds, thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years? If the history of mankind is really that long, then why is there no record of that bygone era? ”

He continued to ask.

"016, haven't you ever wondered where those technologies that transcend modernity come from?

"The age of traceability, the age of darkness, the age of silver...... The Golden Age. ”

Watson whispered about the ideas that Lorenzo Medici had proposed, and his ideas coincided with those of Seni Lothair.

Yes, in those more distant times, times that no one remembers.

"It's a fortress made of holy silver, but what is it protecting?016. ”

Seni Lothair muttered.

"It is the one that blocks the Silencer, which means that it was designed to protect something from being destroyed by the Silencer, and you know that the monsters are driven by the Truth to destroy anything that dares to cross the border. ”

"It is [the truth] that the barrier protects. ”

Watson replied, and in a trance she felt like she had figured everything out.

"You know what?016, I always felt that I should be written into the history books of the Evangelical Church, that I would be the greatest pope, the emperor of all emperors. ”

Seni Lothair suddenly boasted for some reason, he was so arrogant, so powerful.

"I confirmed the existence of that time, and I confirmed its existence in a time when people have forgotten it. ”

There was a hint of madness in the words, and under the light of the fire, the face of the corpse was like a devil depicted on the wall of the well.

"Do you remember the baptism of the gods?016. ”

He asked suddenly.

"Aren't you curious about that magnificent fantasy world?"

"Haven't you thought about the connection between that world and our world?"

"After you mastered the power Gabriel, haven't you realized the nature of the baptism of God?"

The words fell on Watson's body, she thought she was the closest to the [truth], but in front of Seni Lothair she was like a toddler, no one could imagine what this demonic creature in front of her had paid in the past years.

Watson thought of it.

In an instant, it was as if another door had opened to her, and as if the heavy curtain had been torn off, she saw the truth of the baptism of God.

"yes...... Is that the case? Every Demon Hunter is initially exposed to the ...... of the Gap"

The pupils of their eyes gradually became frightened, and the connection between the witchers and the "Stagnant Sanctuary" was not only a blood connection, but they had come to the "Sanctuary of Stagnation" or the [gap] of the "Sanctuary of Stasis" in the first place.

This is the essence of the baptism of God's family.

In that ancient ritual, the will of the demon hunter was connected to the huge demon beneath his feet, and the so-called network connecting the heart was actually entering the [gap] of this demon.

Those magnificent and fantastical worlds, those things that have been seen and heard, everything is the memory of this demon.

It has witnessed that unknown era.

"That's what this barrier is all about, it's protecting this demon...... Protect the past that the demon remembers. ”

Seni Lothair gazed tenderly at the flesh-and-blood land.

"That magnificent fantasy world is that unknown time, this is our past, our glory, so what happened?

He smiled.

"Aren't you curious?"

"So...... Is that what my value is? you want me to invade this demon, the demon called Leviathan, and find the truth from that ancient memory. ”

Watson couldn't help but clench the blade of the sword, this was Seny Lothair's purpose, he wanted to use himself to spy on this [truth], but this was also what Watson wanted to do, and for a while she couldn't even find any reason to refuse.

After giving so much and dying so many people, the truth of this world is right in front of us.

"No ......"

Seni Lothair held back his ecstasy, knowing full well that this was not the time.

"It's too risky, it's a perfect barrier, and after all these years, it's still protecting the truth, and maybe there's some defense within it that we don't know yet.

016, your strength is very precious, once something happens, it will only make us say goodbye to [the truth], it is better to try it from him than to do those risky things. ”

Seni Lothair stepped out of the way, and it was only then that Watson noticed a corpse kneeling in front of him, no ...... It wasn't a corpse, the shriveled chest was still heaving slightly, and there were still people alive at the end of this hell.

Watson saw the person's face clearly, perhaps the information he learned today was too shocking, Watson's mood at the moment did not fluctuate, and she also felt that the appearance of this guy here was in line with the development of the situation.

"Then I'm sorry for you, 016. ”

Seni Lothair grabbed the old Pope's head, opened his eyelids with his fingers, and forced him to look at Watson.

"Excuse me to invade his [gap]. ”

"No...... You can't do that!"

The old Pope seemed to realize what was coming, and he wept bitterly and whimpered, trying to stop it all, but could do nothing.

Before his eyes, Watson and Seni Lothair had become demons completely, propelled by their bewitching curiosity towards secrets that should not be remembered.

"No, you don't understand what's going on, you don't know what we're up against!"

The burning light of the fire had swallowed up the old Pope, and Watson had approached him, his eyes like torches, and no one would stop in the face of this temptation.

"Kill me!

The old pope broke down and shouted, but this time he wasn't speaking to the two, he was calling for something.

Therefore, the countless eyes in the darkness of the void slowly opened, and they saw it all, and someone had crossed the border, and they tried to stop it, but the barrier of the Holy Silver halted their advance.

[The Requiem program is abnormal.] 】

[Something is abnormal.] 】

[Exceptional.] 】

After repeated attempts, the Silencers whispered mechanically, staring at each other in the void before finally speaking in unison.

[Needs to be corrected.] 】

[Confirm the correction.] 】

【Awakening ......】

The will of nothingness dissipated, and the sound of a vivid heartbeat sounded in the depths, breaking the silence that had lasted for a thousand years, and the life born in it let out a child's whimper, like a dream, it whispered.

[For the survival of mankind.] 】