Knowing that the tutor had finished the conversation, Zhang Yean left the hall with a slight bow and walked to a room in the back. On either side of the room were rows of iron candlesticks, on which faint candles crackled and burned, illuminating the room much brighter than the rest of the hall. There is a luxurious queen bed in the room, and on the soft and elastic high-end mattress, there is a heavy bronze coffin upright, which is very strange.

Zhang Ye'an slowly walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, his usually cold and stiff face revealed complex emotions at this time: timidity, sadness, and - affectionate!

"Wait a little longer, wait patiently, Xiao Ru..." Zhang Ye'an gently pushed open the lid of the coffin, revealing a pretty woman's face inside, her eyes were closed, her face was white and blue, with a charm on her forehead, and a rope like a thin red silk wrapped around her wrists. Zhang Ye'an stretched out his hand and carefully stroked the face of the woman in the coffin, as if touching the most precious treasure: "When the master opens the passage of the shadow realm, I can use the power of the lord of the shadow world to awaken your mind, although you are no longer alive, but at that time I will also become an immortal shadow body, and we will be together forever and ever." ”

Zhang Ye'an sat beside the coffin in a daze, his eyes blurred as if he was indulging in the past in his memory, and in the crackling sound of the candle flame, the female corpse quietly changed, fine fluff gradually appeared on her face, her neatly trimmed nails began to grow wildly, and her eyelids began to shake a little.

"Xiaoru, if you are wronged for a while, I will set you free soon." Zhang Ye'an's eyes were clear, and he greedily glanced at the woman he loved deeply, and slowly closed the coffin lid with indescribable resoluteness in his tone. As the gossip mirror on the back of the coffin lid was aimed at the woman's eyebrows again, the female corpse fell silent again, changing back to its original appearance.

In the hall, Sauron in the black pool raised his head as if he felt something, and showed a smile that seemed to be both sympathetic and mocking: "Love, simple and complex, sacred but despicable, but in this absurd and empty world, even human beings themselves seem so ugly and insignificant, and the emotions born from human desires are only a sad illusion after all. ”

"My best disciple, when you truly embrace the power of our Lord and witness the great nature of our Lord, you will realize how insignificant the so-called great emotions of mankind are."

Ignoring these trivial matters, Sauron changed his posture and sank into the black pool, raising his turbid and dim translucent palm, the dirty darkness like ink was spreading and eroding the flesh and blood little by little: "It has deteriorated to this extent, the real shadow is really not a forbidden area that can be easily touched by human bodies, the time for this body is running out, this ritual is my last chance." ”

In the Pool of Shadows, the undercurrents from the depths of the shadow plane washed through Sauron's body, resisting the damaging power of the wounds on his chest, and at the same time, like greedy leeches, absorbing the heat of flesh and life in the depths of his body, impregnating and eroding his body one by one. In this torment, Sauron closed his eyes, his mind was a little dazed, and the memories of the scenes that had long faded in the past gradually became vivid.

Born into a devout Christian family, his mother was a university professor of mathematics and his father was a well-known composer and painter, Sauron seems to have inherited his mother's rigorous thinking and his father's inspirational talent, showing remarkable intelligence and perception at an early age. When he was eight years old, Sauron's maternal grandfather, an old man who had left the Xunshan Monastery, discovered a different power hidden within him. After some consideration by his grandfather, Sauron became a member of the Illuminati.

The history of the Illuminati can be traced back to the early Renaissance era, and throughout history, devout believers who advertised their revelations of God's light evolved and merged into a general term for a mystical sect of Christianity. The Illuminati have evolved through the vicissitudes of history, and its members include ascetics, priests, craftsmen, scientists, artists, and other people from a variety of backgrounds, most notably Galileo, who has gone down in the history books.

In the Middle Ages, this organization threatened the authority of the Holy See, so it was frantically suppressed and hunted for a long time, and gradually turned into a secret society with hidden operations, and under this long-term cruel oppression, coupled with the complexity of its own organizational composition, the Illuminati changed and split into many different factions, some still adopted the name of the Illuminati, and some broke away from the establishment or joined other organizations, such as the Sisterhood of Light, the famous Freemasonry, the Illuminati and so on.

Some of these organizations have transformed into the pursuit of secular power, gradually spreading their power to the political, economic and other fields, but a small number of occultists, magicians, and monks are more focused on the pursuit of supernatural power, and over time gradually disconnected from other factions, and finally become a mysterious organization that pursues transcendence, and has a powerful power in the European underworld. The Astrosphere Society, where the White Wolf Jett belongs, is a new group of more radical alchemists, magicians, and astronomers in the Illuminati who broke away from the Illuminati more than a hundred years ago.

After joining the Illuminati, Darko Sauron quickly rose to prominence with his extraordinary talent and devotion to the Christian family he had cultivated since childhood, and in his twentieth year he rose to the rank of deacon, in charge of the affairs of Paris. And the turning point in his life happened that year.

At that time, Sauron received the news and led his people to annihilate a small cult that worshiped ghouls in the catacombs of Paris, and found a copy of the "Ritual of Ghoul Food" while cleaning up the battlefield, a forbidden book written by François, Count of Dreit, France, in the 18th century, which described many cruel histories, strange occult knowledge, and some forbidden spells and depraved rituals. Originally, this evil item should have been reported, and after being identified by a special department, it was decided whether to collect, seal, or destroy it, but the curious Sauron quietly concealed it.

This book opened up a whole new world for him.

Since then, like a thirsty desert traveler who has suddenly discovered an oasis, Sauron has been eager to pursue these forbidden knowledge, and his extreme curiosity about the unknown has fascinated and driven him crazy. But as he delved deeper and understood, the more empty and uneasy his heart became, and his spirit became more and more unstable.

In the truth revealed by these forbidden knowledge, the world is so cruel, how small and fragile human beings are, how human history and society are but sand castles on the beach that can be washed away at any time, and the feelings, achievements, and hopes cherished by human beings are nothing but false bubbles that can be shattered at the slightest touch.

Old Dominators, Chaos Gods, Ancient Evils, Void Demons...... A terrifying and eerie powerful existence.

The god of blind foolishness, the black goat of the forest that gave birth to thousands of offspring, the supreme skull, the lord of treachery, the king of the deep sea, the butcher of truth...... A great and desperate reverence for the real name.

Although many books were vague and vague like dragonflies, Sauron only spied a small part of the truth from these vast knowledge that did not know whether it was true or false, but it made him deeply feel the cold malice and great darkness of the world.

"I have often heard that it is not people who are diligent in seeking knowledge, but those who know who are diligent in seeking others. But I know it's wrong. Those who know it do not seek others, but they go out and chase people away. Its carving is deep and ruthless, like an eagle and a dog chasing a rabbit. ”

This was a passage that Sauron had seen in a broken chapter from a certain country of China, and he deeply felt the cruel truth in it. It turns out that the glorious civilization that mankind was proud of has survived only because of luck.

There is no doubt that Darko Sauron has sunk, and as he pursues these forbidden knowledge, his magic power grows stronger and sharper, but his spirit is as fragile as a crumbling loose building block, he has lost his reverence and faith in God, and he has lost the direction of his life, like a walking corpse. If things go on, maybe just one more madman in the world, which is not uncommon for those who explore the spirit world.

But at that time, Sauron obtained a book called "Black Broken Chapter", and through a silver key obtained at the same time, he accidentally communicated with a certain being in the lower shadow realm known as the Lord of the Netherworld, cold, cruel, and ruthless, but quiet, deep, and nothing, like a stream of ice injected into Sauron's shattered spirit, saving him from the brink of almost madness.

After that, the Illuminati's Deacon Sauron disappeared, and was reborn as the High Priest of the Lord of the Netherworld, Darko Sauron!