Chapter 66: The Key to the Realm
"Hey, at this point, my mission is almost a failure, so there's nothing to hide, let's sit down and talk."
As he spoke, Jett patted the ground and sat down, and Xie Feichen also sat down at the same time and listened to him patiently.
"Thanks, I'll call you that, I think you seem to be a marginal person, like you don't know much about the supernatural realm pattern of our world?"
Xie Feichen hesitated slightly, nodded briskly and admitted: "That's right, I'm a fledgling, and I asked Mr. Jett for more advice." ”
"Then I'll start with some common sense." Jett flicked his fingers lightly: "As you can see, although there are not many traces in the surface world, in fact, in secret, we guys with extraordinary power have been active, those high-level people and some powerful people know about our existence, but the vast majority of ordinary people on the earth do not know." ”
"To sum it up in a common word, it can be called the inner world!"
"Just as there are many countries in the world of the table, there are also many organizations in the inner world, my companion and I are from a magical society called the [Constellation Society] in Europa, and the other people you met that night are members of the [Yanhuang Blood], the official occult organization of your country."
"We came to China mainly to hunt down a dangerous man named Darko Soren, who was responsible for the mutation that night in the city. To put it simply, Darko Sauron has been planning for a long time to open a door to a different plane in the city where you live called the Shadow Realm, and the dark shadow monsters came from the other side of the door that night. ”
"I see, it's pretty much what I guessed." Xie Feichen nodded calmly, and then asked: "So we ended up getting involved after that gate was destroyed, and it's no longer on Earth, but it stands to reason that shouldn't we fall into that Shadow Realm, this world doesn't look like the hometown of those dark shadows, right?" ”
"The changes in time and space are very clear." White Wolf Jett's eyes flickered, and after hesitation, he finally decided to confess: "But according to my guess, our situation should be related to the hub of that gate, a thing called [Key to the Realm]. ”
"The Key to the Realm? What's that? Xie Feichen keenly felt that the main event was coming, he had already guessed most of the information that the white wolf Jett had said before, and now it was just confirmed, but the name [Key of the Realm] was the first time he had heard of it, and looking at the other party's expression was obviously some kind of key.
"That's the real goal of our [Star Instrument Society] this time, a magical treasure that is said to open the doors of many different worlds." Jett said, "Thanks, do you know why we supernaturals have been living on Earth since ancient times, but in recent times, we have disappeared more and more? ”
"Isn't it because the state apparatus and the supernatural are deliberately concealing it?"
"Part of it, but the most important thing is that in the past few hundred years, the supernatural power of any kind of inheritance in the East and the West has all weakened rapidly, as if they were rejected by the world, the more powerful the supernaturals are more and more suppressed, either falling into a long sleep or dying for no reason, only the weaker part of the power is barely supported, but it has also lost the power above ordinary people, and can only lurk in the shadows in front of the increasingly advanced technology."
White Wolf Jett licked his lips, revealing sharp canine teeth: "I have the blood of an ancient demon wolf in my body, and I am a descendant of the Ancient Doyd Sect, but my father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather are almost no different from ordinary people for more than ten generations, and it was not until more than thirty years ago that the supernatural powers of the world began to recover, and my bloodline awakened." ”
"Wait, you mean, more than thirty years ago was a critical turning point, and since then there have been many more supernatural beings on Earth? Why? ”
"No one knows why, and although there is a lot of gossip, at least there is not a single claim in the world that is accepted by most people." Jett shrugged: "Maybe those high-ranking big organization bosses know some clues, but obviously it must be an extremely important secret." ”
"According to you, supernaturals must have become more and more active in the past few decades, but why don't I feel that way?" Xie Feichen asked.
"Quite simply, in addition to the development of science and technology, there is another important reason why I mention these things." The white wolf Jet grinned: "Because the vast majority of supernatural powerhouses, their focus is not on the earth!" ”
According to the White Wolf Jett, since thirty years ago, when the supernatural forces of the earth were fully revived, becoming more and more active and on the verge of breaking out with the already stable surface world, it was at that critical point in time that the inner world found a passage to the other world.
In the long history, it is not uncommon to see such passages to the other world as this in the inner world, most of which are half-dimensional and small secret realms, such as the famous Thirty-six Caves of Heaven and Seventy-two Blessed Lands in the East, Kunlun, Shangri-La, Taoyuan Township, etc., while in the West there are also secret realms such as the elven country Avalon and the Misty Cave. It's just that with the decline of supernatural powers, these secret realm entrances have also been disconnected from the earth one after another, and except for a few remnants of chance, most of the rest have been buried in history.
After the mutation thirty years ago, not only the strength of the inhabitants of the inner world is recovering, but the gates to the new world have also been discovered one by one.
For those top powerhouses in the inner world, although the aura of the earth is slowly recovering, it is difficult to heal after all, at most, it can only be regarded as a little breeze suddenly blowing in the room that is almost suffocated, even if the process of death is suspended, it cannot be called how comfortable the environment is. For ordinary members of the Inner World, most of the supernatural resources on Earth have been buried in the period of depletion of demons for hundreds of thousands of years, while the new world represents new powers, new resources, and broad prospects, and naturally swarms away.
As a result, under the manipulation of some great forces who do not want to see great turmoil, the members of the inner world turn their attention to the new world, and the situation on the earth like a powder bag can be vented and smoothly transitioned.
"In other words, doing something like Sauron on Earth is against the rules of the Inner World?"
"Of course, if everyone was as unscrupulous as him, the earth would have become a mess long ago." White Wolf Jett snorted: "Because most people's energy is focused on the new world, the earth has become the logistics center of the members of the world in a sense, and no one wants to have a huge upheaval. ”
"And the key to the realm he has is a magic weapon that can open new otherworldly passages?" Xie Feichen hissed, although he didn't know exactly what the new world meant, but he knew with his toes how valuable this thing was, it could be said to be a treasure that was enough to overthrow the country and the city, this foreigner told him so directly, could it be that he was preparing to extinguish his mouth?
Seeing Xie Feichen's suddenly vigilant eyes, Jet was stunned for a moment and suddenly came to his senses, and sneered lightly: "Don't be nervous, Xie, in fact, this key to the realm is not as precious as you think." Its true ability is only to assist in better communication with otherworldly rituals. ”
In many supernatural power systems, whether it is sacrifice, summoning, or even prophecy or cultivation, communication with the other world is an important part, which often represents valuable feedback such as information, knowledge, power, treasures, materials, etc., but except for a few specific other worlds, due to the unpredictable laws of time and space, many communication channels built with the other world are extremely unstable. It's a trivial matter to make an accident like an energy shock and a big bang and make the organizers go up in smoke.
"The key to the realm alone can't open any otherworldly passages, its function is actually to stabilize the temporary passages constructed by the communication ritual. Like the existing passages to the new world on the earth, they are all naturally formed, and no one force has yet figured out the principles of the law, let alone artificially created a new and stable otherworldly passage. ”
"The reason why Sauron was able to make such a big deal that day was because of the particularity of the Shadow Realm, which itself was attached to the lower plane of the Earth's main world, and had always been very closely connected with our world, even during the Earth's Dry Demon Period, it was not completely disconnected, and the Shadow Creature was a semi-spiritual body that could come to Earth through that gate. And even if no one stops it, that shadow gate won't exist for long, at most ten days and half a month will automatically annihilate under the repulsion of the world. ”
"And what happened to us in this world?" Xie Feichen questioned incredulously.
White Wolf Jett spread his hands and had a helpless expression: "Then I don't know, after all, the knowledge of the space-time plane has always been the most difficult to understand, even the most knowledgeable archmage in the Sage Council is afraid that he is half-understood, and people like me who rely on physical strength to eat are even more confused, maybe when the gate was broken, there was a space-time turbulence or something like that, and it happened to be connected to the current world, so it sent us over." ”
"Anyway, if we're going to go back, we'll have to find the key first?" Xie Feichen pondered for a moment, then asked abruptly, "What kind of organization is the Sage Council?" ”