On this spring evening, as the clouds cleared, the clear blue sky was revealed.

A rainbow stretched across the sacred plains, and between the ruins of the city and the giant fingerprints, countless wizards cheered and wept with joy.

For them, the past scenes are full of drama, and they have long given up hope of life, but they never thought that they would really survive.

Not only that, but the powerful church that weighed on the hearts of the entire continent was also destroyed in this way.

And what changed the fate of all of them was just a mysterious powerhouse who had never known them in his life.

Thinking of this, the eyes of gratitude, curiosity, and awe all turned to the back of the sky above the holy city.

However, at this moment, Lin Tuo's mood was not so relaxed.

……

"Hoo ......"

Relying on the main body, floating in mid-air, Lin Tuo frowned and stared at the pile of black ash below, and after looking at it for a while, he finally let out a light breath and confirmed that the thing was dead.

The power of the laser cannon did not disappoint him, of course, in large part, because the huge Pope's defense was lower than he expected.

Lin Tuo had been worried before, for fear that the high temperature of the laser cannon would not cause much damage to him, but now it seems that ......

"It looks bluffing...... Embroidered pillows. ”

Complaining in his heart, Lin Tuo looked at the city below, the originally prosperous holy city had completely turned into ruins, the buildings had collapsed, the land was cracked, and there were countless corpses hidden in between.

A post-apocalyptic sight.

Seeing this, Lin Tuo was silent for a moment before retracting his gaze, controlling his body, and letting himself land next to the black ash.

If you look closely, the "corpse" of the huge pope is also interesting, and there is no huge mountain of corpses.

In fact, most of them are some kind of carbonized black ash, and it seems that when they die, they have returned to their normal size, and even the huge "crown" and "scepter" have returned to normal.

In addition, there is a large amount of aether gathered around it, or, according to this world's parlance, "magic".

"Could it be that this thing escaped after it died?" Lin Tuo was a little surprised, after all, he had crushed the entire knight legion before, and there was not much aether that escaped.

Suddenly, Lin Tuo's eyes lit up, and as the cold wind blew away the black ash, a translucent strange energy cluster that emitted a misty white light was revealed.

Seems to be a "death drop" from the giant Pope.

Lin Tuo carefully observed, repeatedly confirmed, and did not perceive the dangerous aura, so he cautiously tried to touch it.

At this moment, the virtual panel in his retina popped up again without warning.

And a familiar line of text emerges:

[Special items are detected, do you parse them?] 】

"This is ......" Lin Tuo's heart moved, this scene was no stranger to him.

Previously, in the No. 1 sandbox, in the Daxizhou Laboratory, when he touched the "Secret Seal", he had triggered this hidden function of the Derivation Sand Table.

"Sure enough, the 'thing' that caused this crisis is similar to the secret seal......

Feeling the soft touch of this energy between the virtual and the real, Lin Tuo gave his thoughts in his heart:

"Resolution."

On the virtual panel, a slightly slower progress bar fills up quickly.

[Analysis completed]

At the same time, an analysis report came into Lin Tuo's mind in the form of information flow:

Attributes: Spiritual Origin (Transcendent items, dropped by the death of spiritual life.) It is suspected that the remnants of transcendent beings who accompanied the ether from the spirit world into the material world)

Rating: Medium

Condition: Intact and unsullied

Ability: After absorption, it can consume ether, use itself as the origin, construct a certain range of virtual dreams, and pull the target's consciousness into it, exerting influence (except for the user, other targets will greatly reduce their psychological defense after entering the dream...... ）

Negative effects: During use, the caster's own spirit will be loaded, and the caster will feel a certain degree of sleepiness and fatigue, which can be restored by sleeping...... It is recommended to control the time of single use according to your own situation......

Attachment: Memory fragments (part of the memory fragments stripped from the origin of the derivation sand table, readable, no negative effect, automatically cleared after ten hours)

……

[Didi - The host has touched two spiritual items, and it meets the permission to unlock some information related to the spiritual world, please read it at the right time]

……

Closing his eyes slightly, in his mind, he quickly read the entire report with his consciousness, and immediately, Lin Tuo was surprised to find that such a notification popped up on the virtual panel.

"Unlock some information about the spirit world?" Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows, through this period of contact, he had slowly figured out some of the rules of the derivative sand table.

Taking the mall as an example, the items in the mall are not static, but will automatically change with the number of ether points owned by Lin Tuo.

For example, before his points were less than 100 points, there was no "general language" on the shelves in the mall.

Another example is that before he has less than 1,000 points and has not created a sandbox, he has not listed the "creation range".

In other words, if the derivative sand table is a system.

Then, many of its internal functions are hidden by default before Lin Tuo meets the relevant use conditions.

At the moment, this information also seems to be part of the "hidden rules".

"Can I only unlock information if I have two or more spirit objects in my hands? Is it a protection mechanism? ”

Lin Tuo couldn't help but think.

I remember that the analysis report of the "Secret Seal" mentioned that its extraordinary power comes from "spirituality", and the "spiritual origin" in his hand directly mentions that it comes from "the death of life in the spiritual world".

In other words, both are related to the mysterious "spirit world."

And Lin Tuo had known for a long time that the ether was from the "spirit world", but before, no matter how he asked, the information given by the derivation sand table was extremely limited.

As a result, he always lacked understanding of the "spirit world".

Unexpectedly, the relevant information has been unlocked now.

However, Lin Tuo was surprised, but did not choose to read it immediately, but first pressed down and turned his attention to this analysis report of the "Spiritual Origin".

As stated in the report.

This mass of energy also has a special supernatural ability attached to it.

Look...... It's funny.

Moreover, its "negative effects" are much lighter than those of the "Secret Seal".

The point is, this thing seems to be "absorbed" by him!

If the "Secret Seal" is just a badly damaged consumable item with an unacceptable negative impact.

Then, this mass of energy is more like a "skill" falling from the sky.

It made Lin Tuo's heart move.

However, for the sake of prudence, he also resisted the idea of "absorption", and prepared to wait until he returned to the sand table and figured out what the "spirit world" was before making a choice.

"Well...... However, these memory fragments can be read now. ”

If Lin Tuo's judgment was correct, this should be the so-called "spirit creature", that is, part of the memory of an unknown life attached to the body of the giant pope.

It may be possible to get a full picture of the whole event.

"Open the attachment." As soon as his mind moved, the next second, Lin Tuo only felt that a "picture" flashed in front of him.

It was a "first-person perspective" image, which was not very coherent and jumpy, probably because of the memory damage.

Because it was played in consciousness, it only took less than a minute for Lin Tuo to read all the pictures.

Combined with the information he knew, plus a little brain supplement, he finally roughly completed the cause and effect.

In a nutshell:

The culprit responsible for the whole incident is a spirit creature called "Nightmare".

More than a year ago, it came to the Northern Continent from the spirit world, and at first it was confused, but later, it was pleasantly surprised to find that there were many "delicious foods" living in this world.

That is, those wizards with natural abilities, as well as many cultivators who are "slightly inferior", but can also "have a full stomach".

Instinctively driven, it tries to hunt and prey, however, the special nature of the spirit creature makes it difficult for it to affect the physical world.

Therefore, after some observation, he went to the holy city of "Hayeks", and used his ability to weave dreams and pollute spirits in an attempt to control the Pope and the other church leaders.

At first, it didn't go well, especially since the old Pope himself was a powerful transcendent with a strong spiritual will, which was extremely difficult to control, and the first attempt at contamination ended in failure.

However, this is not for nothing, and the perceptive "Nightmare" soon sees the Pope's inner desire for life - his life is short, and even the strongest man in the continent cannot escape death.

As a result, the Nightmare began to try to "cooperate" with the Pope as a god at the cost of "giving endless life", and although the latter saw its "demonic" nature, it did not resist the temptation of "eternal life" after all.

And once there is a hole in the psychic defense, the rest will be easier.

The Nightmare convinces the Pope to secretly capture the "Sorcerer" and devour it in exchange for an extra lifespan, and it is in this transaction that the Pope is gradually tainted.

Later, its spirit was completely manipulated by nightmares, and the hunt for wizards was issued under the name of the Inquisition Ordinance.

In the process, with the help of the Pope's power, the Nightmare successively polluted a large number of high-ranking members of the Church and controlled the entire Templar Order.

And then the ...... That's what Lin Tuo saw.

……

"Huh......" exhaled softly, and when he finished reading, those memory fragments immediately disintegrated and dissipated, leaving only a sigh.

"The story of a powerful man who was seduced by the devil and became corrupt and degenerate step by step." Lin Tuo smiled bitterly with a complicated expression and concluded.

And what made Lin Tuo feel most absurd was that by reading the memories of the "Nightmare", he already knew that this spiritual creature did not have the authority to give others "eternal life" at all.

The "lifespan" obtained by the Pope and the top of the Church is just an illusion made up by nightmares, nothing more.

But for this illusion, the cost is the lives of thousands of innocent wizards.

In the cold wind, Lin Tuo's cloak hunted.

"What a sad story." He thought.