Chapter 412: Abyss Story
When Bruce's eyes opened again, he found that he had left that spiritual world and returned to the bat base in the real world.
He looked at the time in the monitoring room, and found that he had experienced so much in the spiritual world, it seemed like a long time had passed, but the real time seemed to be frozen, and after he came out, he began to flow again. From entering to coming out, and then being dealt with by Stephen, it only took ten seconds in total.
"Think it's been a long time?" Seeing the look of surprise on Bruce's face, Stephen guessed very experiencedly. "This is the case in the spirit world, where the speed of time in it is not in contrast to the speed of time in the real material universe."
Bruce nodded, a little unsure of what to say. He only felt all kinds of awkwardness in him now, from physical to emotional. But if you really want to find out the source, it will become obscure.
He felt a little heavy in his body, and this feeling was very much like the heaviness and discomfort that his body could feel during the recovery period when he had a serious illness, rested in bed for a long time, and then went down to the ground to recover. An action that used to be easy to do is now clearly difficult.
At the same time, in exchange for the heaviness of his body, he felt that his mental state was a little fluttering, as if he had stuffed a small soul into his powerful body, which had been exercised, and the feeling of burden immediately appeared.
Bruce speculated that this was a bit of a side effect of the surgery and that it would take time to get used to it.
"Here's for you." Stephen tossed a golden, seemingly openwork ball made of unknown metal, to Bruce, who grabbed it in his hand with the reflexes of his body and held it in front of his eyes to take a closer look.
A very ordinary sphere, the sphere seems to be bound by some kind of light, reflecting the color of the sphere along the lines like golden sunlight.
The moment the orb was in his hands, Bruce's body trembled, and a familiar sense of limb extension surfaced in the depths of his mind. The orb in his hand was like something he had lost for a long time, but was still very familiar. This made him look at Stephen and want an answer from him.
"What is this?" Bruce instinctively felt that it was something important to him.
"Pieces of your soul. In other words, it is the part of the bright personality that is cut out after it is embodied. Stephen Dow explained: "Although it is said that it has been cut out, if you wear it around from time to time, it will also be subtly affected by it, and there is a better probability that you will return to your previous mental state as soon as possible." ”
When Bruce heard this, the hand holding the orb suddenly tightened a little. Fragments of your own soul? Can this kind of illusory thing really manifest itself? And really appeared in front of him?
Did Stephen exaggerate and use metaphors, or did he mean the truth? Even if Bruce wasn't a mage or supernatural, he could understand how much trouble a soul fragment could cause him when it fell into someone's hands.
Although Stephen had cut it out completely, feeling that hazy sense of connection, Bruce had already treated it as a weakness.
"And then there's your dark personality. I can't give it to you. It is infected with the Abyss, and no matter what, contact with it is unnecessary and dangerous. Your current state is like a blank slate, and the dark personality is much more powerful and obvious to you than it is. Stephen waved his hand, and in his outstretched palm hung a black orb that was different from Bruce's hand, except for the color, and the other styles were identical.
"What are you going to do with it?" Bruce thought about it for a moment, but asked one more question. After all, this is one of his split personalities, and as its former owner, he still has to ask about such a sensitive thing.
If it weren't for the fact that he had felt the power of the abyss exposed by young Wayne in the spiritual world, and felt great danger from it, he would definitely have snatched it from Stephen. Anyway, after going through so much, he initially had some trust in Stephen, but this trust was not enough for him to let down his vigilance and doubts.
"Bring it back to Luke and see if he can save your dark side. If it can't be saved, then you can only find a way to ban it and block it as dangerous goods. "Stephen is extremely familiar with the process of dealing with abyssal infections. Anyway, it is to control the uncontrolled expansion of the abyss as much as possible.
The Time Authority has used similar items to store a modicum of abyssal power and has destroyed more than one civilization. Many civilizations that have been tricked will feel that strange power after inexplicably obtaining abyssal items. And without knowing the danger of the abyss, and being extremely confident in their own technology, most of them will analyze this item and conduct various experiments.
Some of these technologically powerful civilizations have indeed developed a lot of things from objects, and even developed a discipline from scratch.
But no matter what civilization researches from the abyss objects and what is not researched, over time, it will inevitably fall into war-torn riots and perish.
This time span may be measured in hundreds of years, but none of the people and civilizations that have obtained the items of the Abyss will lead to their final death and destruction.
There are accidents, and there are also those who inexplicably suffer from another civilization, or an abrupt war in which multiple civilizations are combined. The fall of each civilization and the death of its owner seem to be caused by various factors, but with the birth of the ruins of civilizations, it still adds a bit of legend to the abyss items.
There are also some civilized races with special abilities, who have accurately judged the danger of the abyssal item without other information, and have also thought about throwing it away, or destroying it, but both methods have failed at first.
One is that people who have come into contact with abyssal items are marked by abyssal items, and the more they come into contact with them, the deeper the markings become. Coupled with the time administration's covert operations, the option of throwing away the abyss item is almost impossible to achieve.
The other is trying to destroy it. However, abyssal items, materials that can carry the power of the abyss, and have strong resistance and tolerance to them, are even better than the materials used to forge artifacts. Therefore, when the powerful weapons mastered by civilization cannot destroy it, it is often pinned on the omnipotent universe.
Among them, there is a race that is not very advanced in civilization technology, but has a very high advantage in the spiritual aspect of its own race, and once made a plan to throw the inexplicably obtained abyss items into the launcher and put them into the stars of the planetary system. As a result, decades later, the entire sun turned black and possessed strange attribute energy that distorted and infected all life in the star system.
That race with excellent spiritual abilities was almost powerless in the face of the sun's pollution. Because it's not just them who are mutating, but also the energy, vegetation, environment, beasts, and bacteria on their planet. They have no way to avoid it, and they have to experience multiple infections every moment. Eventually, they became corrupted and became a mad race that worshiped the Black Sun and the power of the Abyss. These frenzied clansmen even hunted down their own people who were still relatively calm, forcing them to go along with the Fallen rituals, believing that this was the best way to continue the race and life.
Malice, disaster, destruction.
With the massive release of Abyssal items, many multiverses have developed legends about them, and they have been treated as catastrophes like a flood of beasts. But when it comes to obtaining and analyzing Abyssal items, no one can be sure of this. After all, there are many kinds of abyssal items.
It may just be the core of an ore buried beneath the planet, and then the planet is discovered by a nearby civilization and mined some ore with strange powers, which is considered an important resource star, and thus climbs into a new tech tree and points out new technologies.
Then at this moment, they mined the abyss core, after some research and analysis, even if they have realized its danger at this time, but because of the major investment in the early stage and the prospect of various new technologies in the future, they are reluctant to break their wrists and cannot make a decision immediately, so they can only forcibly turn a blind eye to the possible danger and continue to walk with luck. In the end, they inexplicably sink deeper and deeper, more and more fearful and crazy, full of destructive desires and aggression, until they destroy themselves, or are destroyed by other civilizations and strong people.
There was a world with Asgard, and the young version of the god-king Odin, full of desire for conquest and war, had obtained such an abyss item in the conquered and destroyed realm. He kept it as a trophy in his Odin treasury.
The Abyssal Artifact was quickly picked up by Hela and picked out.
It can only be said that Hela's character and strength attributes are very popular with the abyss items, and the two complement each other, Hela's strength expands rapidly, but at the same time, the distortion of the mind and body is becoming more and more unable to cover up. Eventually, her anomaly was discovered by Odin.
Just like the story that the three Thors have learned countless times, their family battle inevitably happens. The first scene is still the familiar god king Odin and the god of the underworld, Hela.
The Valkyries fell, and then the souls did not return to Valhalla, but instead took their bodies with them, under the influence of the Abyssal Objects and Hela's power, they became an aberration of the Abyssal Necrons.
God King Odin did not suppress Hela, who was already extremely powerful, this time, but was beheaded by Hela with a sword, and did many things that Hela longed for but failed to do. Because of the devouring of Odin's divinity and power, Hela's power became stronger and stronger, and with it, the complete fall of Asgard!
Every Asgardian was forcibly subjected to a ritual of corruption, and became the vehicle and family of the two great powers of the Abyss and the Undead in Hela's hands.
It won't die, it won't get tired, and the abyss's high pollution, assimilation, devouringness.
An army of abysses that terrified the entire universe swept through the Nine Realms and the universe under Hela's regrouping.
No one could resist the attack of Shimono Hela. No one else could deal with and destroy that Abyss legion. Even with each one they kill, they pollute a piece of land, eventually resurrecting in the tainted land to continue the fight. This makes it possible for even a powerful legion to go head-to-head with Hela's Abyssal Legion, facing a catastrophic situation in which their homes are polluted, their people are polluted, and they themselves are polluted. In the end, even if they fought to the death, they became the same genus and had to accept the constraints of Hela. This is indeed the point that makes all civilizations and powerful people break through their defenses together.
In the end, Hela, who did not reach the great cause of unification in other universes, was forcibly done by Hela in this universe. All the civilizations and planets that Hela has set foot on have been corrupted and degenerated into the Abyss Army. In the end, things got bigger, and the Time Authority, which couldn't hold back, could only force itself to clean up the situation.
They even guided the rebels of the universe to find the whereabouts of the Infinity Stones, and gave them directions one by one. As the leader of the rebels, Thanos did his old job in other universes, collecting Infinity Stones, crafting Infinity Gauntlets, and snapping his fingers.
Only this time it's not about destroying more than half of the life in the universe, it's about destroying Hela and the abyssal legions that are raging under her command.
With the covert help of the Time Authority, Thanos successfully fulfilled all the prerequisites for snapping his fingers, and snapped his fingers in front of Hela.
The Abyss Legion was indeed destroyed by the power of the Infinity Stones, and the undead could never be resurrected. But the bad thing is that the power of the Infinity Stones failed to erase the power of the abyss, but because of the loss of many carriers, the power of the abyss came to a big explosion, and the life began to pollute the starry universe.
Thanos, who realized this, had to forcibly extract more power from the ring again and restart it. It's a pity that the reboot didn't make the power of the abyss disappear, but because of the early days of the universe restart, it was more deeply integrated with the universe.
Eventually, the Time Authority had to leave Kama Taj's mages and Hebolen's technicians up to clean up the pieces. After spending a huge amount of manpower and resources to contain the abyss in this nascent universe, the energy bank immediately established one harsh law after another for the use of abyssal items, and began to collect abyssal items thrown out in the past, so as not to happen again in the future.
However, as a result, the Time Authority has obtained a number of detailed reports of observations of abyssal objects, and this valuable intelligence and information has been shared with Hebolon and Kama Taj. With the help of this information, the prohibition of the power of the abyss has also been updated twice.
So while the Abyss is still troublesome, as long as it doesn't proliferate, Stephen can even use it as a weapon of destruction. The abyssal pollution on Bruce's body, which is separated by several layers, is not very dangerous to Stephen once it is controlled. (End of chapter)