Chapter 2, Awakening

The Vatican City, Italy, Europe, is an ancient city that is crowded with tourists and devotees from all over the world gather in this sacred city. Time seems to stand still here, as it did all so many years ago, and the city never seems to have changed.

The strange celestial phenomena have passed, when the sky is full of light and rain, when the people of the Vatican are noisy and chaotic, when the white holy light envelops the whole city, when the holy angels of the whole city are flying, when the pious and solemn prayers resound through the heavens and the earth, when the tourists are stunned, and the believers, priests, and bishops pray one after another. The current Pope, Antonio, is walking in the depths of the Vatican. He was a kind old man who always made people feel calm and steady. However, at this moment, Antonio's steps were no longer as steady as before, and his slightly rapid and messy steps revealed the unrest of his master's heart.

Antonio made his way through layers of guards, through the deep cloisters, to an ancient church. Tidying up his clothes, Antonio slowly pushed away the dusty fan that had been sealed for many years. , a door that only successive popes can open.

In the church, there are countless angelic reliefs on the holy and glorious floating dome, some holding swords to kill evil, some holding Bibles in their hands, and praying sincerely.

At this moment, they seem to have stepped out of the relief and turned into reality. Angelic light and shadow swirled and flew, sprinkling light feathers, slowly infiltrating Pope Antonio's old and withered body, making him feel relaxed and energetic for a long time

The church was empty and clean, and as far as the eye could see, there was a twelve-meter-high ancient stone door covered with intricate runes embedded in the wall facing it. The stone gate is pale white in color, scattered with a few mottled spots left by the years. Intricate and mysterious runes filled the entire stone gate, and the veins spread alternately, converging in the diamond-shaped groove in the center of the stone gate.

Antonio carefully removed the opalescent diamond-shaped gem set on the tip of the Scepter of Light in his hand and embedded it in the groove. And a few steps back and waited quietly. In the faint chanting and hymn in the church, the gems emitted a faint white light, gradually melting and spreading along the converging veins, gradually covering the entire stone door.

Then, the pale white stone door, which is full of traces left by time and exudes an ancient atmosphere, slowly opens inward. The white expanse within it is bright, deep, and sacred, like an ocean of light, undulating and flowing.

"That should be what the previous Pope said, the Bright Heavenly Realm inhabited by the Holy See Saints of the past dynasties!

Antonio saw that in the world behind the stone gate, thirteen blurred figures appeared in the flowing sea of light. As they got closer, the figure gradually became clear, and it was a group of young relatives wearing plain white robes. They all give people a sense of extraordinary, or calm and introverted, or radiant, or holy and beautiful, or pure and ethereal. Especially a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, his blond hair was casually draped, his shoulders were healthy, ruddy skin flowing with a faint light, his eyes were as bright as stars, and behind the young man there were circles of golden halos, like the return of a saint and the arrival of a divine son. When they walked out of the stone gate, the white light on the stone door flickered a few times and then slowly closed, isolating the world behind the door from the outside world.

"May we be with God, and may the light of our Lord shine upon the earth!" said Antonio, who went up a few steps and saluted the people. The other young people all nodded their heads in acknowledgment. Only the blonde young man at the head performed an ancient ritual and smiled, "May God be with us!"

Antonio lowered his head slightly and said in a slightly respectful tone: "Holy envoys, please come with me, and on the way, I will introduce you to the development and changes of secular society over the years." "Don't be restrained, just call me glorious. Let's go, we need to hurry," Guangyao smiled gently. His smile is clean and kind, and the faint glow on his skin makes people naturally trust him and unconsciously obey what he says.

The crowd walked out of the church, and when the last person walked out, the doors of the church were gradually closing. Guangyao glanced back at the ancient stone door in the depths of the church and whispered to himself, "I must seize this opportunity, the glory of the Son of God will be mine." ”

The deepest part of the Amazon forest in the Americas, where ancient trees and old vines are grown, it is a paradise for fierce beasts and poisonous insects, and it is a forbidden area for human footprints. Just now, the dense and innumerable green points of light that appeared in the forest, swirling up and down like elves in the forest, emitting a stream of mysterious energy, then they converged into a path like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, and poured into a dilapidated temple hidden in the dense ancient trees.

It is an extremely old temple, full of primitive, wild atmosphere. Most of the temples have collapsed, only a few halls at the core are still standing, and riding on them is also: full of mottled time left by the square in front of the main hall, there are two rows of huge stone pillars more than ten meters high, the stone pillars are depicted with hovering giant snakes, predatory crocodiles, pounced tigers and other fierce beasts, as well as rabbits, pheasants, foxes and other small animals. The style of the carving is extremely rough and primitive, and even after thousands of years of washing, it is still faintly recognizable, and it vaguely shows a sense of authenticity.

At this moment, two dark green pillars of thick light shot out from the depths of the gray stone hall, merging into the stone statues of the leopard-headed human body on both sides of the front door of the temple.

Without leaning, the two stone statues began to reach their faces, and tiny cracks appeared, spreading like cobwebs and quickly spreading all over the body. Soon, with a slight shaking, the cracks on the surface of the two stone statues gradually expanded, gradually leaking out their fresh skin. Then, with the sound of rubble falling to the ground, two leopard-headed human beings stepped out of the stone statues. They wore leather trousers made of simple leather jackets, and the workmanship was very rough, and their bodies were slightly taller than ordinary people, and their bulging muscles appeared extremely strong. Their bloodshot beast's eyes showed excitement.

"Haha! The power of the forest is finally starting to recover. It's great that we finally don't have to go back to sleep. One of the leopard-headed creatures said happily. "Yes, but let's finish what the adults have told us first, and then talk about it, after all these years, I don't know what the world has become? The other creature said cautiously. "What are you afraid of!, the great children of nature still care about those weak annoying, let's go out and ...... first," as the voice faded away, the two creatures quickly melted into the deep and dense forest, and their figures disappeared between the trees and vines.

At the same time, a terrifying vision appeared over an unknown pyramid deep in the Egyptian desert in Africa. Clusters of black clouds appeared inexplicably in the sky, converging and merging, turning into a huge black cloud that obscured the sky. As the black mist converges and merges more and more, its volume continues to increase and become more and more viscous like a liquid.

It didn't take long for the black clouds that had become thicker to squirm strangely, and from the depths of the black clouds came a terrifying scream, which seemed to be the wails of countless living beings before they died. There was darkness between heaven and earth, and suddenly, in this darkness, the ground around the pyramid lit up with white flames. There was a dense sound of clicking bones, and if you looked closely, it was a skeleton crawling out of the ground. They are either in the form of humans or beasts, and although they have been buried in the ground for an unknown number of years, their bones are still white, showing a bit of eerie beauty.

A skeleton gradually merged into a pair with a click sound, and the white flames that swept past the skeletons' heads flickered for a moment, accompanied by an invisible fluctuation. As if they had received an order, they formed small teams and patrolled around the pyramid like soldiers.

The pyramid was hastily surrounded by a fence for protection, and was even unguarded, because in the eyes of the government, the pyramid was not only badly damaged, but also could not find its historical background, so the pyramid was forgotten here. And at a depth of hundreds of meters below the pyramid, which people don't know, in an incomparably large and complex underground palace, this strange change is taking place at this moment.

In a hall on the periphery of the underground palace, there is a coffin in the shape of an old man unique to Egypt. At this time, streams of deep black mist poured out from the strange magic circle on the ground around the coffin, and they all burrowed into the coffin of the humanoid pharaoh and disappeared. Then, with the vibration of the humanoid coffin, the sound of objects rubbing and the sound of strips of cloth pulling and breaking came from within. As the sound faded until the hall was silent, the lid of the pharaoh's coffin slowly slipped open in this eerie calm, leaking a dark gap. Suddenly, a palm wrapped in countless black and yellow uneven hands stretched out from the coffin and rested on the coffin wall......

Something similar is happening all over the world. A transcendent creature awoke from the Seal Cen slumber and walked out of the land of myths and legends.

In Britain, thousands of half-human-sized, blood-red bats loom over an ancient castle on the outskirts of London. They circled up and down, flying around the castle and hissing in cacophony. When the police received the news and rushed to this ancient castle, they only found a dark red coffin with an open lid in its basement, which was inlaid with dozens of precious stones of various colors, but there was no body inside...

In Solomon, a four-meter-tall giant was seen coming out of the ancient ruins.

In Jerusalem, believers met the legendary sage.

In Siberia, hunters heard the howl of a wolf in a huge distance.

In the Arctic...

In the depths of the ocean...

At the top of Mount Olympus...

In countless mysterious and unknown places...