Chapter 57: Revelation of Despair
From the very beginning, Roland knew that the copy of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws was on Oleta.
In mid-to-late Lost Christmas, after the Demon Advent expansion and before the Dusk Invasion, there was a week-long world plot called Revelation of Despair.
At that time, when the main force of the demons was repelled by the coalition forces and retreated to the abyss for rectification, Faens ushered in a rare period of recuperation. However, a strange sense of despair gradually spreads among the new White Tower, which has only been built for a few years.
They abandoned the development of demonic equipment while starting to preach among the crowd statements such as "we have no hope", "doomed demise is coming", "the future cannot be changed".
The Demon War had just ended, and the hearts of the people were still unstable, and the words of the wizards soon caused great turmoil among the people of the countries centered on Titan. A considerable number of commoners believed in this eschatology, and even some nobles began to be skeptical, full of pessimism about the future.
At that time, the emperor of Titan, although he had not burped for six years, his rights had been almost divided among his sons. At that time, the three princes advocated that all the wizards who preached such anti-war rhetoric should be killed one by one, while the eldest prince believed that the demons could no longer make enemies at Titan, and that peace should be the main thing. The fighter plane is on the verge of attack.
At the same time, similar rumors spread among Elcat's undead - and the strange thing was that there was no communication between Titan and Elcater at the time, and Elcat's barrier was shielded, so it was theoretically impossible for either despair or some kind of information to be transmitted.
Different from today's plot line, Arthur in later generations has already stepped into the Temple of Truth when he awakened, and his power over his origin is far greater than that of Anrusi, who was catalyzed by Esther. When Elukado lifted the seal, he lifted all of his seals and sank the old White Tower, which had been in ruins for several years, directly to the bottom of the sea. And after the demonic flames ignited the sea, the path was cut off completely.
The fact that the same rumor is circulating at the same time in two places where it is completely impossible to exchange information, and the communicators are almost obsessed, cannot fail to attract the attention of players.
After the research party with the identity of the Winter Elves consulted a lot of materials from the Winter Fruit Society's library, they put forward some arguments on the forum. One of the arguments mentions that the artifact left behind by the Late Knowers is the [Copy of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws] that has been lost for thousands of years.
As the last remnant of the dragonman civilization that has been repeatedly mentioned in other plots, this prophecy book that records all the events from the beginning of the founding to the 800 years of the gods undoubtedly has all the divine powers of the Hinder.
As Aum's original creation, the Sage's miracle cannot be reproduced or replicated. Even the most powerful mortals, even mortals more powerful than the Sages, could not grasp the authority of Faennes—this was the original law set by Aum.
All the laws can only be mastered by the Seven Sages; No existence can deprive the Holy One of his divine powers.
This means that even if a Sage falls, other Sages inherit and digest his concept, they will not be able to inherit his divine power. These powers were always scattered throughout his priesthood, just as Roland was able to receive the power of the Tree of Life through faith.
But this creates a paradox - after the fall of the Prophet, there are no more prophets in this world, and the prophetic powers of the wizards come from the personal judgment of the Eye of Aum, and have nothing to do with the true prophet. But without the prophet, no one can get that part of the power that belongs to the latter.
Even the Celestial Guardians, who are closest to the prophets, are merely prophets of their own dangers, far from the concept of the omniscient.
So there was a rumor that whoever received the copy of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws would receive the full power of a sage.
- However, Roland now knows that it is nothing more than a rumor.
Because about ten years before the fall of the White Tower, the book had already been in the hands of a defector from a certain White Tower. But he's just an ordinary lich, and he doesn't show any difference.
That's right, that's Oleta.
It is true that copying the Book of Ten Thousand Laws is worthy of its status as an artifact. There are two effects of it, the first is that as long as the wielder sees the casting process or the effect of the spell, he will not be affected by any magic or sorcery, no matter whether the effect is good or bad, his effect will be completely devoured, and it will be recorded in the book.
The second is that all the spells written down in the book can be easily used by the wielder, just like the proficiency of the person being copied, without any cost.
Analyze and then manipulate - this is the essential power of the Hindsight. As the supreme scribe of Faennes, it is recorded in Vientiane that he is, in a sense, the highest level of all the saints, the overseer of the other saints.
However, this is too much worse than becoming a Sage, even compared to other Sage artifacts, it can only win more mass-produced [Fragments]. Whether it is the dream of the sleepless that can revive the living and the dead at will, and give the power to the dead and the living, or the golden ark of the covenant that summons the holy fire that burns 300,000 demons after opening it, the rewriting of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws is too weak after all, let alone the power of a saint-level person.
The real reason is that the twilight species of a different world entrenched in Elkat has swallowed up all the power of the copy of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws.
Although it is still not an adult that hatches from the world, it is also a Dusk species similar to the Higgs with snakes in its eyes, rather than an ordinary Dusk Dependent. Even in terms of qualifications, it was much older than Higgs, at least before Higgs fell, it was hiding here, quietly preparing to hatch itself.
Different twilight species have different incubation conditions, and in order to hatch themselves, it devours the history of Faenns, making the rewriting of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws a blank. But Faennes is only 2,000 years old and simply can't satisfy it.
As a result, it created its own clan, the legendary and notorious Isdemon, to devour everyone's history, and then infiltrate society as their identities to devour their friends and relatives.
By the time the plot of Revelation of Despair is approached, it is almost finished. Just breathing while it sleeps is enough to drive people crazy who know enough about the history of the past. Prophecies of the world being swallowed up by the twilight repeatedly appeared in the hearts of those who were knowledgeable, and the premonition of the imminent destruction of the world burned their sanity.
If it had woken up, it would have been able to fabricate the history of the Faens so that it never appeared - or that it had existed to serve itself from the beginning, to erase all of its enemies from its roots.
However, it is also the most bitter twilight species......
Because immediately after its breath leaked, Higgs sensed its presence. Higgs, who regarded the blood of Aum stored in the astral plane as his own bag, didn't say a word, and rushed into Faennes with his body at all costs, devouring it that had not yet woken up.
And with the forcible arrival of Higgs, the walls of Gaia were finally broken, the power of dusk poured out of the ground, the rivers dried up and turned into blood, and dusky yellow flames gushed out of the cracks, and the walls of Aum were burned and corroded, and they were rendered useless on a large scale.
Crucially, the walls of Gaia, made of the flesh of the Dusk Seed as a disguise, were broken, revealing a glimmer of life in this destroyed world. The twilight species of other worlds smelled the smell and began to rush over.
So Higgs took the opportunity to directly awaken his family that had buried the whole world for decades, and launched a war against Faennes, in order to complete his hatching with the help of Orm's blood before the other mature dusk species devoured Faennes.
But in the end, Faennes can only usher in the end. If Roland wants to destroy the world in the true sense of the word, he must not only kill Higgs, but also prevent Higgs from destroying the walls of Gaia.
Thinking of hurricanes that rolled up without warning, Roland could only think of Higgs or the unknown twilight species in the face of this level of mutation.
If this hurricane were to hit a human city, it would wipe out a nation in half a day. With its intensity, it should not be bound by the barrier of Elcat, a catastrophe that only the Sage or the holder of the scepter on the side of the gods can prevent.
- In Elcat, which is forbidden to the Sage, Oleta is the only one who has such abilities.
Oleta as the prophet of the end of the century, the Lord of the Lich, and the rewriter of all laws! (To be continued.) )