Chapter 22: The Signs of Evil Things
Wren stared at the glass test tube in his hand, at the abominable worm, his arms trembling, and great fear erupted from the depths of his heart.
Maggot ...... of Cayvos
Kevos ......
Kavos, a forbidden name.
Among the many taboo names known, Kevos is the only real name that Wormwalker has the most famous, the most despised, and the most feared.
Yes, Ancient Evil: Worm Walker.
The name signifies destruction and the coming of disaster.
"The rise of the kingdoms has not yet happened, and the floating city has not yet fallen from the sky, and the traces of ancient evil things have already appeared? How is the order of this expansion different from what I remember......"
Wren muttered to himself with a pale face.
Scholars who study forbidden knowledge claim that Kevos is an evil figure who has long since disappeared into history.
He walked the earth in one of the most wicked times in history, when mankind had not yet established a true kingdom, immersed in blasphemous art, and served the gods of darkness.
As the high priest of the evil gods, Kevos claims that the end is looming and that even the gods cannot do anything about it.
His words led to his exile, but instead of being weakened like the other exiles, he became a prophet and even attracted a group of followers who believed in his words and deeds. These followers saw him as the spokesman of the gods, believing that they would be blessed by Cavos and thus sheltered in the apocalyptic times he had prophesied.
Soon after, Kevos discovered the ruins of a lost civilization and obtained rituals related to human sacrifice under the rule of the Six-Armed Tyrants.
After ordering his followers to rebuild the ruined city, Kevos's ambitions urged him to seek greater power, somehow to transcend mortals, transcend legends, and become true gods. After studying the rituals associated with sacrificing the living, Kevos's thoughts gradually became clearer.
If you want to transcend mortal wombs and become gods, then you must sacrifice a large number of living beings.
As a result, his followers became the price that Kevos paid.
On a bloody night, he began the ritual by ordering his loyal priests to gather his followers together and slaughter them all, and then Cavos himself killed them all.
As the ritual progressed, Caivos's flesh melted along with the foul obelisk stone, and at the same time, he gained divinity, but lost it in an instant.
Eventually, Kevos became a being who was neither human nor a godโan ancient evil.
And at the moment when Kaivos turned into an ancient evil, he was sealed in prison by the gods with divine power.
If Wren's memory is not wrong, the Ancient Evil Worm Walker Cavos only broke the seal and descended on the Bauhinia Business Alliance after the Great Voyage was opened.
By the time the Alliance found out and ordered the legendary powerhouses who had explored the Isles of the Dead to hurry back, it was already a step too late. In less than a month, the Wormwalker and its minions, the Undead, the Deviants, had destroyed three large cities, eight small and medium-sized cities, and dozens of hundreds of villages and towns, killing millions of people in the scourge.
Although the Worm Walker was finally suppressed, the Bauhinia Business Alliance also greatly damaged its vitality, and directly became the lowest existence among the four countries of the Western Continent, even the Windy Tribe Federation, which was located in the north and fought with the orc tribe all year round.
However, when the Worm Walker descended in the Bauhinia Alliance, Wren and his guild focused most of their efforts on the northern part of the Western Continent.
The Orc Tribe once again set off the "Battle of Glory" and fought with the Federation of the Windy Tribes.
In order to obtain more foreign aid, the Windwind Tribe Federation has opened up many unique professions that belong to the Federation, and has released a small part of its own big killing weapon [Bloodline Secret Ritual] in order to attract adventurers (NPCs) and Divine Descents (players) to join their side and fight against orcs.
Players have little resistance to such faction confrontation missions, and most of Wren's guild is a melee class, so the attention to the Bauhinia Business Alliance has inevitably decreased a lot.
Even a guild leader like Wren only knew the approximate time of the Worm Walker's arrival and the impact it had, and more specifically, he didn't know anything.
There is no way, when the expansion pack [Demon Flurry] is opened, the entire four countries of the Western Continent are in chaos, either the evil things are revived, the orcs invade, or the evil gods come, and the gods break the seal.
Basically, every ten days and half a month, a big news will break out.
It's a big melon every day, as a player who eats melons, who can remember what each melon looks like......
"I knew that I would cross, so I didn't bury my head in leveling up at the beginning, and it would be good to collect more information."
Wren scratched his hair in distress, looking depressed.
"However, fortunately, what I encountered was only the maggots of Kaivos, not the Kaibos Derivation and the Kaibos family, which means that just signs of awakening are beginning to appear."
It is also sealed, and the awakening of ancient evil things is not quite the same as that of gods.
The movement of the gods breaking free from the seal is even smaller, but the movement of the birth of the ancient evil is very large, and as the ancient evil thing, Worm Walker, and Kaivos begin to recover, [Evil Omen: Worm Infestation] is also triggered.
In the beginning, adventurers occasionally encounter mutant centipedes or centipede clusters in the wild, then it becomes daily, every 12 hours, and finally every hour.
As the seal is broken, so does the power of the Omen.
The insect creatures encountered by adventurers have gradually changed from centipedes to sandworms, hundred-legged monsters, and finally even purple insects, which are rare in the dark regions, will appear on the surface to feed.
That's a single giant insect that weighs 3,000 pounds and reaches level 12!
Recalling the knowledge about the evil object, Wren's expression gradually calmed down.
"It's okay, it's still too late."
Back then, he and his teammates had not killed ancient evil creatures and gods, and they still knew a lot about the process of their breaking the seal.
At first, I was just taken aback.
After all, whoever it is, as a low-level adventurer, will be shocked when he suddenly discovers the traces of ancient evil things. For no other reason, the difference in strength between the two is too great.
However, if an ancient evil creature like the Worm Walker, who has been sealed, wants to break the seal and descend to the main material plane, it needs to go through a ritual called "Omen Resurgence" to accumulate power.
And this process has always been long, with time spans ranging from one year to several years.
Wren, who had calmed down, took a deep breath and said softly:
"In this life, as a holy warrior, now that I know the news of the resurrection of the ancient evil thing, I can't ignore it. Before He can completely break the seal and descend to the main material plane, he must accumulate enough strength to minimize the impact of the arrival of the ancient evil! โ
After making such a decision, Wren only felt much more relaxed in his heart, and he also had a deeper understanding of the way of the holy warrior.
Not long ago, didn't he make a vow of revenge - to find a strong enemy, without distractions.
The Black Knight has dedicated his life to challenging and destroying more powerful evils.
Now, it's time to live your vows!