Chapter 10: The Scarlet Nightmare (Part II)
Forbidden Blood, a name that only spread after the Church made it a contraband, until then, this bloody, reddish gem was called the Demon Blood Crystal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
A crystal made from the blood of the devil.
To date, neither the most knowledgeable scholars nor the wisest prophets have been able to figure out where the devil came from. These powerful monsters once swept across the continent, and if it weren't for the miraculous arrival of the Father of All Gods, all living beings would have been cornered by the devil in a world that had turned into a sea of fire, and no one would have been spared.
Fortunately, the Father of All Gods turned the tide of the battle.
Legend has it that after the advent of the Father of All Gods, he succeeded in killing the Demon God among the hosts. Under his influence, the morale-boosting Continental Coalition won the final victory by slaughtering these monsters on countless battlefields across the continent at the cost of great sacrifices.
After that, the devil's blood seeped into the ground in large quantities, and hundreds of years later, countless clusters of underground crystal veins were formed.
They were later first discovered by a priest of the Church of the Fathers of All Gods in an underground cavern. After the identification of His Majesty the Pope at that time, people learned that these bright red crystals were actually condensed by the demon's evil blood after a long and complex evolution, so they named them Demon Blood Crystals.
All of the above is the propaganda of the Church of the Fathers of All Gods.
Sean and his son say it's all.
In their opinion, these Demon Blood Crystals, like Yunying Flame Crystals, were nothing more than a natural ore with unique properties. The reason for the special attention is simply because the Church has discovered that this crystal contains a surging chaotic magical energy.
This is a power that only the devil can wield.
This discovery once detonated the enthusiasm of countless people. After all, after that protracted war, the chaos magic cast by the devil left an extremely painful and deep impression on all the warring races on the continent with its powerful power.
If this energy can be extracted from the forbidden blood for fusion and absorption, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the absorber's magical strength.
Tempted by this thought, a large number of demonic blood crystals were mined from the ground, and countless mages went one after another, trying to refine the chaotic energy in various ways.
But in the end, they all failed.
Many of the recognized leaders among the mages were eventually dismayed to discover that the chaotic energy in the Forbidden Blood had no resemblance to any of the currently known magical elements, either in terms of its foundation or manifestation, and that it was impossible to safely harness it, and that the best option was to give up.
It's a pity that a few relatively rational ideas don't represent everyone's thoughts.
Just because you can't use it "safely" doesn't mean you can't use it.
It's nothing more than a desperate move.
For thousands of years, there has been no shortage of people in the human community who are willing to take risks in the face of temptation.
As a result, many talented magicians, including some clerics, took the extreme method of directly using the power of the soul to forcibly fuse with the chaotic magic elements in the forbidden blood.
As a result, most of these people have turned into extremely aggressive monsters.
In order to destroy these monsters, both the royal family and the Church sent a clean-up force paid a heavy price, but there are still many fish that have escaped the pursuit and killed the party.
The devastated Church then issued a papal edict that listed the Demon Blood Crystal as a first-class contraband that was strictly forbidden to be mined, studied, and traded within the Empire, hence the name of the Forbidden Blood.
But centuries later, the binding force of this edict has long since died in name only, and as Sean said to the Masked Man, it is precisely the church itself that has been manipulating and profiting the most from the underground trade of forbidden blood.
Through the channels established by the greedy clergy of the church, many people were still able to buy high-quality forbidden blood for extremely risky research, and eventually produced a large number of monsters that caused headaches for the Knights in charge of purging.
By chance, Sean's father also obtained a piece of forbidden blood, and the legendary forger who obtained the treasure immediately divided it into several small pieces and began to study the use of chaotic energy through the smelting process.
The results of the research soon came out, leaving Sean dumbfounded.
This problem, which has plagued countless magicians for hundreds of years, was pried open by my father.
In the simplest and most brutal way.
Sean once again picked up the cast iron stick, but this time instead of picking the lid, he controlled the stick to reach directly into the hole reserved on the handle of the pot, and lifted the flame crystal pot throughout.
Sean then used an iron rod to control the flame crystal pot and tilt it slowly, aiming the spout at the flame crystal tray containing the forbidden blood and poured.
Suddenly, sparks flew everywhere.
The connection between the spout and the body of the pot is equipped with a special baffle, those dark brown impurities because they are lighter than the molten iron, have been floating above the red molten iron before, after the body is tilted, they are all blocked by the baffle in the pot to ensure that the poured out is pure molten iron.
After Sean finished pouring the molten iron, he opened the lid again, and carefully poured the impurities from the spout of the pot at a different angle, and then put down the iron rod, ready to check the situation in the flame crystal tray.
It's just that the temperature of the molten iron is too high, and as soon as he took a few steps, he felt an unbearable heat wave rushing towards his face, and Sean had no choice but to recite a spell to summon a wind shield to protect himself, and then he barely approached.
I saw that the scarlet forbidden blood in the plate was rapidly melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon gradually disappeared into the molten iron that shone with golden light.
What happened next, Sean had heard from his father, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.
He stood against the wind shield and watched curiously with wide eyes in the tray of flame crystals.
A moment later.
"Oh my God......"
With Sean's tenacious nerves, he couldn't help but exhale softly.
The molten iron, which would have taken a long time to cool down completely, was condensed almost instantly, and then a dark purple light appeared faintly above the tray with bursts of white gas.
Sean saw that a thick layer of hoarfrost appeared on the surface of the iron ingots in the tray that had been completely solidified, as if the high temperature contained in a whole pot of boiling molten iron was completely absorbed by the forbidden blood in an instant.
Sean stretched out a finger and carefully pressed it on the hoarfrost, and a piercing chill came from his fingertips, as if he was touching a piece of 10,000-year-old ice.
He gently scraped the frost away, and was shocked to find that the iron ingots exposed underneath were purple!
Although the color of iron ore is different, and the auxiliary materials added to the smelting process are also varied, the iron ingots smelted are still mainly dark gray, and the occasional pure black is extremely rare.
But the purple hard iron is still covered with frost?
Rao is Sean has been fully mentally prepared, and he is still extremely shocked to see this strange scene.
Father
Is this the power of God or the power of the devil?