Chapter 148: Testing
As Gawain removed the biological tissue suspected of being the flesh and blood of the gods from the hybrid circle in the Shadow Realm, the mutated deformed body in the outside world finally lost its almost endless vitality.
With a heavy blow from the Byron Knight, the monster let out a low howl, and it staggered to the ground, and began to evaporate and disintegrate into a cloud of black smoke like a true aberration.
Gawain and Amber also return from the Shadow Realm, except that the former has a strange crystal cube in his hand.
Although they don't know exactly what happened, Byron and Hetty can guess that it was the actions of these two people in the Shadow Realm that destroyed the monster's resurrection mechanism, and Hetty immediately greeted him: "Ancestor—that monster is finally dead!" Did you find something in the Shadow Realm? ”
"Found this," Gawain raised the crystal cube in his hand, then looked at the guards around him, and after a moment's thought, he said in a deep voice, "Byron, Hetty, Amber stay here, and the others will stay outside the room for the time being." ”
The soldiers realized that their lord might have found something terrible in the Shadow Realm, and left the hall without hesitation.
Byron's expression immediately became serious, he had seen the thing in Gawain's hand just now, and at this moment he had a vague association: "My lord...... What you have in your hand is ......"
"It's this thing that is releasing energy to bring the monsters out there back to life, and it's likely that the monster has only lived here for a thousand years under its influence, and has many abilities that ordinary aberrations don't have," Gawain whispered, telling Hettie and Byron about his discovery in the Shadow Realm, "...... That's the case, we're afraid we've really found something amazing. ”
When there was a loud bang, it was the staff in Hetty's hand that came out of his hand and fell to the ground.
"This ...... Is it the gods'...... Flesh and blood? This lady, who had always been mature and calm, finally lost her bearings, and she looked at the crystal cube in Gawain's hand with a hint of fear in shock, "Gods, how can gods ......?"
"I know you're hard to accept, and I know you're a believer in the goddess of mysteries and magic, and the fact that the gods have fallen, and even flesh and blood have fallen into the hands of mortals, is a big shock to you," Gawain slowed his tone, hoping that his tone would make his own Zeng Zeng ...... The great-granddaughter calmed a little, "But I also know that there is a saying in the Magician's Creed: there is no limit to exploration, and God is among them—magicians have never been an overly godly group, even if you believe in the goddess of magic." ”
"I just can't believe it," Hetty breathed a sigh of relief and picked up her staff with a wry smile, "You know, I've only been so stunned twice in my life, and the last time was when I saw you get up from a coffin. ”
"Legend has it that in ancient times, there were god wars, some of the gods were defeated, and after the fall, the wreckage fell into the world, and their power and fragments turned into various supernatural powers and magical creatures in the human world, and the gods who won were the gods of the world today," Gawain said, with his prepared explanation, "Maybe not all the wreckage of the gods were 'transformed' - the Gondor Empire may have found such a piece of wreckage that is still alive and untouched, and then built this secret base to study it." ”
This explanation is relatively easy to accept, and it is not a nonsense - in fact, Gawain even thinks that most of this explanation is in line with the truth, at most it is slightly explained in the part about the causes of the deaths of the gods...... A little bit of euphemism.
Save face .jpg the gods.
Compared to Hetty, Byron seemed more calm, and he was even less in awe of the gods as a mercenary, and he was more nervous and shocked when he saw the wriggling strange creature, but he rarely felt awe and fear, so he quickly regained his composure and thought: "Maybe it's not as exaggerated as we thought, there are so many powerful things in ancient times, maybe the Gondor Empire just found the remains of some kind of demigod creature, and there is something left of it...... Divinity's power, and then they studied it as a god's corpse. ”
Gawain had to admit that Byron's statement also made sense: "There is also this possibility. ”
As he spoke, he glanced around the hall, and he felt like he had caught an eye on the research projects that had been going on in this place.
"The Gondor Empire in the Spark Age...... It was a time of pride and emptiness for mankind. The energy of the Deep Blue Well is endless, and the adaptability of the human spell system to the magic power of the Deep Blue led to the fact that the human mage at that time was almost the most destructive spellcaster in the world...... Probably only as eternal as the legendary gods," Gawain said, looking at the line on the wall of the hall, "Humanity will live forever—even if the word disobedience is used to show that the researchers at the time knew what they were doing with the audacity, but they dared to do it...... Crazy temptation on the verge of death, that's probably what I said. ”
In the end, he sighed and shook his head: "It's a pity that soon the scholars of the empire discovered that the Deep Blue Well is the only super-class magic well on the continent, and its magic power has a transmission limit, and the powerful and incomparable Gondor Empire is actually just favored by luck, and the territory of the empire has been limited to the radiation range of the magic well from the beginning, so the Starfire Age is over, and all arrogant thoughts have become washing and sleeping ......"
Everyone was overwhelmed by Gawain's words, and in the end it was Hetty who broke the silence: "Ancestor, what are you going to do with this...... Flesh and blood of the gods? ”
"I was about to say this," Gawain glanced at the crystal cube in his hand, then looked up at Hetty and Byron, "Did you have anything when you looked at it...... Mental discomfort? Like fear or auditory hallucinations? ”
"No," the Byron knight shook his head, "though I was startled when I first found out what it was, but now that I accept it, it's nothing." ”
"Yes......" Gawain frowned, "I'm going to do a test, this test might put some pressure on your spirit, are you willing?" By the way, Amber had already tried it on her own just now, and this mental effect was not fatal and could be recovered. ”
Amber suddenly glared: "I didn't take the initiative to try it just now!" ”
Herty and Byron didn't hesitate too much, and the two of them nodded together: "Ancestor (adult), please start!" ”
Gawain thought for a moment, carefully placed the crystal cube on the ground, and instructed the two, "You guys leave a little." ”
Byron and Hetty did so without knowing why, standing a few meters away from the crystal cube, and then watched Gawain take his hand away from the surface of the cube and slowly retreat, while Gawain asked as he retreated, "Do you feel any discomfort now?" ”
The two of them still shook their heads, and Amber scurried out the moment she realized what Gawain was trying to do, and she didn't know where to go.
Gawain continued to retreat, and paid full attention to the changes in the biological organization in the crystal, in the process, he also confirmed the status of Byron and Hetty over and over again, and it was not until he retreated to a distance of about fifteen meters that the flesh and blood sealed in the crystal finally suddenly changed!
The originally slowly wriggling biological tissues suddenly became active, and the dark plasma that was slowly circulating around the biological tissues also increased its flow rate, and a large number of small "tributaries" spread out, forming a three-dimensional spider web-like structure in the crystal, and with the changes in the flesh and blood in the crystal, Byron and Hetty's expressions also became trance in an instant!
The moment he saw this scene, Gao Wen completed his judgment, and he suddenly took a step back without asking about the state of the two, and it was the distance of this step that the flesh and blood of the gods who had just recovered a little vitality calmed down again.
"It's ...... What's going on?! Hetty woke up from a brief mental trance and looked at Gawain with a little residual palpitation, she couldn't remember what she had seen in that brief moment, but she still remembered the terrible feeling of losing control of her mind and her brain being filled with noises and illusions, and what made her feel even more incredible than those terrible feelings was that Gawain only needed to take one step forward to suppress the restlessness of the god's flesh and blood, "How did you do it just now?" ”
"To be honest, I don't know, but I seem to be able to suppress the activity of these biological tissues," Gawain himself is actually really blindsided, although he has a slight guess in his heart, but he really doesn't know how to say it, "It's probably that I, the guy who came back from the dead, is also against the laws of nature, and has some strange powers." ”
Hetty's eyes suddenly brought a hint of awe to Gawain's eyes, but in addition to the awe, she had a more practical question: "Then what should I do with this thing?" Do you want to keep it with you all the time? ”
The amber in the horn that I didn't know which horn just now also came out again, and expressed his opinion next to him: "I always feel that if you want to eat and sleep with such a piece of god old jerky, you will be regarded as a perverted ......"
Gawain thought for a moment, and said in his heart that if it was really as Amber said, this would probably be the highest-level necrophilia ever, and this necrophilia would probably have to be prefixed with a holy prefix......
Then he grabbed his train of thought that was starting to deviate, and glared at Amber: "Don't say a word, no one will treat you as a dumb person!" ”
Next, he conducted several more tests, and finally roughly figured out the "law of aggression" of these gods' flesh and blood.
After all, it was a little scrap of a dead god, and the destructive nature of these biological tissues was not as devastating as Gawain had imagined at first, and he found that ordinary people would not be affected by these flesh as long as they did not directly look at them, and if the distance between them and these flesh and blood was more than twenty meters, then even if they looked at it, they could still maintain enough reason to divert their gaze or escape from their area of influence.
That way, you don't have to send it back to the Shadow Realm to be saved.
To be honest, sending this thing back to the Shadow Realm seems to be the safest way to preserve it, after all, no one in this realm can enter the Shadow Realm except for amber, but Gawain always has a faint uneasiness, he thinks that those Gondor Magisters put this piece of god flesh in the Shadow Realm not for security control - because with the magic technology of the time, they are fully capable of creating other kinds of space shields or magic mystery locks to preserve this thing, which is more simple and controllable, and the safety factor is no worse than that of the Shadow Realm- After all, with the average magus level of the Gondor Empire back then, it was not as difficult to enter the Shadow Realm as it is today, so it was naturally not as safe to put things in the Shadow Realm as it is now.
If you think about it, those magisters put these biological tissues in the Shadow Realm, and set up a complex hybrid magic circle for it, not so much to suppress and restrain it, but to maintain it with the help of the power of the Shadow Realm.
Gawain recalled that there seemed to be a structure similar to a charged rune on the hybrid circle......
Thinking of this, Gawain made up his mind: he decided that he couldn't send this dangerous thing back to the Shadow Realm! What if it loses control of this ancient testing ground, and it slowly grows and resurrects itself in that place that no one can monitor?
In my previous life, many TV movies have reminded me: sealing things in a place that I can't see is the first step in overturning!