Chapter 226: A Nightmare Beyond Time (Part I)
A glowing pebble, an object that does not belong in the water, suddenly landed on the tentacles of 'Little Ink', rejuvenating her from the memories of her ancestors.
Xiaomo is a 'benthic magic fish' that has existed for thousands of years, but time has no exact meaning for her, unless she dies due to unnatural factors such as disease or violence, Xiaomo will be immortal, immortal in the true sense. This is a trait of her race itself, as is the case with all benthic mobs.
In his long life, Xiaomo's favorite thing is to constantly look through the memories of his ancestors. Those memories spanned eons of eons of age, were incredibly rich and contained unimaginable information, even how their race was born in the blood of Paises, the 'Queen of the Scarlet'.
The memories of the benthic devilfish race can be directly and completely passed on to their offspring, and then accumulated from generation to generation. They have existed for countless billions of years, and with this terrifying talent, the benthic devilfish have recorded the birth of countless races, the emergence of religions and gods, the evolution of continents and oceans, and the rise and fall of the multiverse.
The ancestor that Xiao Mo was tracing before lived in the depths of the ocean in the Fifth Age. At that time, the tide of magic was at its lowest point, and the power of magic was greatly weakened, and civilization began to explore and advance in other directions.
In the ancestor's memory, the most active race on the ground at that time was the goblins, a small green-skinned man.
Although these little men do not have outstanding physical strength and individual strength, they have a very intelligent brain. Using their superior intelligence and cooperation within the race, they have created tall metal vehicles in the shape of humanoids, giant airships that can soar freely in the sky, cities of steel, and countless machines with different uses.
Throughout the Fifth Age, when magic was scarce, the goblins used the technological civilization they had developed to unify the entire continent with ease. At that time, the continent was filled with the roar of vehicles and machinery, and black smoke covered all the skies like a cloud. The goblins have even tried to use technology to forcibly break through the solid spatial barriers and amber crystal walls to the Chaotic Void and other alien planes.
Goblins are weak individually, and their civilization is equally useless in magic, so their exploration of the Alien Plane and the Void is extremely difficult. Even the strongest machines created by the goblins who gathered the wisdom of the entire race could not adapt well to the extreme environment of various strange states in the heterogeneous plane.
At the same time, the goblins' civilization has reached a bottleneck, and they desperately want to be smarter, so they ......
Just like the moon, no matter how glorious a civilization is, there will be a day when it will decline, and the memory of this ancestor clearly records the situation under the sudden turn of the goblin civilization.
The rise and fall of civilization has long been downplayed by Xiao Mo, and by reading the memories of each ancestor, she knows that the benthic devilfish have also had glory and have built a huge empire across many planes.
In their most glorious period, civilization had not yet been recorded in the form of 'epochs', and even the primordial gods had not yet been born. The rise and fall of the empire of the benthic devilfish spans a long time span beyond the imagination of many races.
No race other than the benthic mobs themselves could comprehend the extremely ancient primordial power they symbolized.
But one way or another, all these glories are gone. The multiverse is constantly changing, and now it has reached the seventh age, and humans dominate the main material plane, as for how long it can last, Xiao Mo can't see it.
The spirit slowly receded from the ancient memory, and Xiao Mo gently swayed the four tentacles around his body, and the poisonous mucus habitually seeped out from the tentacles, mudding the surrounding waters.
She opened the three red egg-like eyes stacked directly in front of her head, and focused her gaze on the glowing pebbles that bounced off her tentacles.
A kind of mage creation! Xiao Mo judged it immediately. Such a discovery couldn't help but make her a little nervous. No matter how old and powerful the benthic demon fish race is, it can't escape the fate of being captured by human mages to study.
Xiaomo's mother is like this.
Of course, in fact, you can also call a father, and it is no different. The benthic devilfish has both female and male reproductive organs, and can reproduce through both sexes and can reproduce unisexually. And Xiaomo himself was born in such a pure sense of 'single-parent family'.
In her mother's inherited memories, Xiaomo clearly learned about the various experiments carried out by the mages of the Magic Empire on her mother at that time.
The mages of the empire sought to learn about the oldest histories and mysteries of the multiverse, as well as the most mysterious existence in the universe, the Ancient Evil, by studying their benthic mothfish race.
After all, their benthic motfish are creatures that preceded all other races (except the Ancients), and have unmistakably recorded every part of their history from their birth to modern times. And their creator, the 'Queen of Blood', Paises, is one of the ancient evils.
Xiao Mo knew that there were a large number of benthic demon fish caught by the imperial mages. But very few of them were released, including her mother. As for the reason for the release, her mother didn't know, so Xiaomo had no way of knowing.
The mages once wanted to obtain the vast and boundless memories carried by each benthic demon fish, but due to the essential differences between species, they humans could not directly read, trace, and accept the massive information that was countless billions of years long through magic, and could only slowly dig it up little by little.
However, the slow excavation of history was not without results, and Xiao Mo knew that those powerful imperial mages had fought a great battle with the gods, and eventually emerged victorious. In this battle, the mages used a god-slaying magic that could directly act on the godhead, and this powerful anti-heaven magic was finally invented by the Imperial mages through some fragments of the primordial gods that were excavated from the benthic demon fish.
Xiaomo doesn't like mages, she doesn't want to be studied by all means.
She quickly probed around the water with her three red oval eyes, but luckily she didn't find any creature in her robes, which reassured her.
While probing her surroundings, Mo's excellent vision allowed her to see the humanoids in leather armor above the water, but she didn't care. Because the underground world has been very chaotic lately, there are often some chaotic creatures falling into the water.
Some of the creatures struggled to sink to the bottom of the water and were casually devoured by Xiao Mo, while others were just passing by like the humanoids on the surface of the water who were about to swim past.
In addition to the memories inherited from generations of her ancestors, Xiaomo can also plunder and peek into the memories of all the creatures she eats.
Through those additional memories, Xiao Mo knew the reason for the chaos underground—the Mind Flayers had actually returned. She didn't like this to happen, she didn't like it very much.
If Xiao Mo had to choose one of the two things of 'being studied by the mages' and 'returning from the Mind Flayer', she would even choose to be studied by the mages.
Of course, it's best to be lighter, Xiaomo is afraid of pain.
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