185 The Third Mystery Lock
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Matthew obviously can't learn.
In theory, the Necromancer seems to be the best class for physical slamming into traps.
But in practice, it's not that simple.
Whether it's skeletons or zombies, their lives are too fragile, and a low-level undead can only trigger a trap at most.
And in a trap concentration area like a spider tunnel, if you want to use summons to probe through them one by one, I don't know how much effort it takes.
As for the high-level undead, ordinary necromancers are reluctant to let them use their bodies to carry the damage of the trap.
Therefore, the Margaret exclusion method is not suitable for Matthew at this stage.
There is this kung fu.
He might as well recruit a thief who is proficient in dismantling traps beforehand.
It's cheaper.
However, for Margaret, the power of 4.6 million gold coins allowed her to completely ignore any traps below the legendary.
The job of a sapper is completely overkill.
Present.
Margaret took the lead.
Matthew followed from a distance.
It was only after the area where the traps were heavily triggered that he regained his footsteps with Margaret.
The path in the spider tunnels is not difficult to walk.
The two walked side by side.
Minutes and seconds passed.
Because the journey was too boring, the two chatted unconsciously.
And when Matthew asks Margaret how much she knows about the Bloodflag Kingdom.
The latter immediately began to talk eloquently:
"The history of the Blood Banner Kingdom is very well documented within the Alliance, and there is even a special sub-section in the large library for books related to the Blood Banner Kingdom.
The earliest founder of this kingdom can be traced back to a man named Memphest.
He is a high-ranking devil from the third level of purgatory, the Infernal Cave, and the lover and guard of the demon queen Glesia.
After the Tianlun Palace was promoted.
The Scourge Mage visited Purgatory once, and without saying a word, he beat Bato, the then Lord of the Nine Prisons, to the bottom of the "Bridge of All Beings" on the ninth layer of Purgatory, and sealed him with the gods.
Barto's half-fall caused the distortion and fission of the Infernal Plane.
Hundreds of years since.
Each layer of Purgatory is unstable, and many folds have grown between the layers of it, and these folds have caused the relatively unified nine-layer Purgatory to develop many branching planes like the Endless Abyss.
After passing the initial gestation period, these branching planes soon entered the "fission phase", that is, the period of high-speed outward expansion.
It was at this stage that the planes we are in now were formed.
It was the sub-material realm formed after the folds from the Ninefold Purgatory fused with a certain layer of the Endless Abyss.
And at the beginning of the fission of purgatory.
Memphhisto, the high-ranking devil who witnessed the ascension of Tianlun Palace and the sealing of Barto, had great ambitions.
He tries to convince the Demon Queen Glasia to give him an army of demons through the Pillow Wind.
Memphinostopheles told Glasia that he would lead the army to the nascent plane, defeat all enemies, and find the three drops of "Bato's blood" that had been lost in purgatory when Barto, the Lord of the Nine Hells, was wounded by a scourge mage.
To know.
The Demon Queen Glesia is Bato's own daughter, and with these three drops of Bato's blood, she has a chance to become the new Lord of the Nine Hells.
Coupled with his great trust in his lover, Glesia agreed to Memphheles' request.
And so, Memphices arrived with that army of demons to the nascent Escany, the land beneath our feet.
At first, Memphlast did his best to fight for Grachia.
He had fought fiercely with the demon legions that had come here from the abyss for decades, and tens of thousands of demons had died at his hands.
But the devil can't be killed.
Not only that, but under the leadership of a great demon lord named Blue, the demons actually united to resist the invasion of the devil's army.
As a result, the forces of purgatory in Escany became very tight.
Forced to do so.
Memphhour had to make a compromise and make a deal with the Infernal Terrans, who had wandered from an unknown location.
The two sides will not invade each other and help each other for the next 1,000 years.
As a result, the day after the agreement was signed.
The leader of the Purgatory Terrans, the woman who did not leave her name in history, showed her harvest of Bato's blood in front of Memphhisto.
It turned out that Memphers had been searching for Barto's blood for more than ten years, and one drop of it was obtained by the leader of the Purgatory Terrans.
Memphheles, of course, was greedy for Bartow's blood.
But the two sides have just signed a contract.
And it was the most serious kind of contract for the devil, and he couldn't force the other party to hand over Bato's blood.
Not only Memphinothes couldn't help it, but even the other demons of the Third Purgatory behind him couldn't break the covenant with the Purgatory Terrans.
Memphlast pondered and couldn't find a way, so he reported the matter to the Demon Queen.
Glesia, the queen of lust, replied to him:
Just use the beautiful man meter.
Glethia hoped that Memphices would coax the Terran leader into submission, and make her volunteer to offer Bato's blood.
At first, Memphices was a little resistant to the beautiful man's plan.
However, under the repeated persuasion of Glethia.
He agreed.
Memphices had prepared a hundred hands in advance, intending to seduce the Terran leader.
As a result, the two sides hit it off.
In the spring of the following year, the Terran leader gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins for Memphester.
The pair of dragons and phoenixes are actually the ancestors of your friend Rhaegar and the true founders of the Blood Banner Kingdom.
Then again.
Seeing that Memphinos's relationship with the Terran leader was heating up, Glesia urged Memphlast to quickly recover Bato's blood.
But the human heart is such an amazing thing.
After having children.
Memphhisto's ambition faded, he didn't want his children to be dominated by the devil, and years of war had made him tired of the endless bloodshed.
When the Terran leader actually gave Bato's blood to Memphhels, the latter did not hand it over to the Demon Queen, but split it in two and merged it into the twins' bodies.
From this point, it is not difficult to understand why the Kingdom of Blood Banner has been able to stand tall in Escana.
After all, they have the blood of Lord Bato, the lord of the Nine Prisons of the previous generation, in their veins! ”
Matthew listened with relish.
I didn't expect the Blood Banner Kingdom to have such a history.
"And then?"
"Glasia, the Demon Queen, won't just let Memphhits and the Terran leader go, right?"
Matthew asked.
Margaery nodded:
"Of course, when Bato's blood merged into the dragon and phoenix fetus, the Demon Queen sensed Memphhisto's apostasy.
The devil is a terrible creature, and there is a strict hierarchy between their superiors and subordinates, and the system is orderly.
Memphhisto's mutiny enraged Glesia.
She sent an army of devils to fight across borders.
Although at this time, Memphlast had already reached a peace agreement with the archdemon lord Blue.
But the demon army he led and the elite of the Purgatory Terran were simply unable to resist the army of the Demon Queen.
After a miserable battle of annihilation.
The Terran leader, who had just given birth, died on the battlefield.
Memphinostopheles was taken back to the Infernal Cavern of the Third Purgatory.
And the pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses were entrusted by Memphester to a mysterious warrior monk to raise.
Decades since.
There is no record of the pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses within the alliance.
Instead, it's Memphhisto.
After he was captured by the Demon Queen, he was humiliated day and night.
It is said that one of the things that the Demon Queen loves to do most is to appear in front of Memphester in the form of a Terran leader.
Then in front of him, he fought with other devils and exchanged swords.
Even ask Memphhisto:
'How wonderful is that mortal woman?' ’
'Can she do what I do?' ’
'Give you one more chance to demonstrate how you and she did it!' ’
And so on.
Anyway, it's very excessive......"
Hear here.
Matthew couldn't help but wonder:
"Can you even find this kind of content in the Coalition Library?"
"It's as if someone was there when the Demon Queen was tormenting Memphrest."
Margaret said disapprovingly:
"Of course, the creator of the "Secret History of the Infernal Cave", which recorded the ins and outs of this matter, is another personal guard of the Demon Queen.
He saw with his own eyes what was happening at that time.
Later, he became Mr. Fei Capital's contract devil by chance, so he joined the Seven Saints Alliance and served as the director of the Great Library.
If you go to the big library now, you will have a chance to meet that gentleman.
That gentleman wrote a lot of books, all of which were known for their authenticity.
What's even more rare is that the work of that gentleman is not only very professional, but also very readable, and I highly recommend you to borrow a few more copies when you have time! ”
Matthew was curious:
"Why is it called that gentleman? Don't have a specific name? ”
Margaret shook her head:
"That gentleman is easy to be hated because he has written too many secret histories of big people, so his name has been erased, and we can only call him that gentleman. As far as I know, the Lust Queen's personal guard is actually just an incarnation of that gentleman.
His incarnations are thousands.
Some suspect that he is another powerful devil who is close to the Lord of the Nine Hells.
But so far there is no practical basis. ”
Matthew sighed in his heart after listening to it.
It seems that the Alliance's big library itself still has to go to it often, and in addition to spell learning, all kinds of knowledge must also be learned.
so as not to suffer losses in related fields in the future.
"And what about later?"
"The Demon Queen just let go of Memphester's children?"
Matthew continued to ask.
Margaret said:
"Of course not, after that, the Queen of Lust sent people to search for Escany, but unfortunately she couldn't find the whereabouts of the pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and Memphher was also very tough, until she was tortured to the point that she didn't tell the whereabouts of her children.
Until 300 years later.
On the land of Escana, a pair of Tieflins, who wield the forbidden spells of thunder, lightning, frost and blood, respectively, are sisters and brothers, and they are a couple.
They are the children of the devil born in the blood of Bato.
With their extremely strong strength, the two swept away all enemies.
It only took two years for them to establish the Blood Banner Kingdom on this land.
It is said that at the peak of the Blood Banner Kingdom, the two siblings even led a large army into the third layer of purgatory.
In the end, they had a hard time with the Demon Queen.
It was after this war.
It was only then that people realized the superiority of the Tieflin race.
This race can have the power that the devil is born with, but it will not be bound by order for life like the devil.
The best of the Tiflings possess evolutionary potential close to that of humans.
The Blood Banner Kingdom established by the siblings immediately attracted Tieflin from elsewhere in the multiverse to join.
At the height of the Blood Banner Kingdom.
They can even compete with the most powerful layer of the Nine Prisons!
It's a pity that Tieflin didn't inherit the long life of the devil.
So today, more than a thousand years later.
The Bloodbanner Kingdom's rule in Escany was also not as strong as it had been at first.
After several stormy events.
The current Blood Banner Kingdom is not too much to describe with a sentence of internal and external troubles. ”
Matthew listened and felt that something was wrong:
"Wait, more than a thousand years from now?"
"Bato's blood fell into purgatory after the ascension of Tianlun Palace, right?"
"The ascension of Tianlun Palace is only a few hundred years away from now......"
Margaret patiently explained:
"That's because of the fission period.
Remember when I said that Purgatory went through a long period of outward expansion and extension after Bartow was sealed?
At that stage, the flow of time in Purgatory was greatly accelerated.
In the main material realm, the ascension of Tianlun Palace has only been hundreds of years.
But for purgatory, more than a thousand years have passed.
Until fifty years ago.
The fission period is over.
The speed of time in purgatory is then refitting to the main material realm.
It was also from that period that the devils once again focused their ill-intentioned eyes on the continent of Aiindor. ”
"Time is actually a very delicate concept, and it is not as stable as you think."
"For example, in our impression, the ascension of Tianlun Palace happened hundreds of years ago, but in the end, hundreds of years ago, can you be sure?"
Matthew was stunned for a moment.
That's right!
How many hundred years ago was it?
Why is there no clear description?
He had barely thought about it before.
It seems that the knowledge about this has been completely blocked.
Margaret smiled slightly:
"This is not your confusion alone, in fact, everyone doesn't know the specific time when the ascension of Tianlun Palace happened, including divine mages like Suriel and Isabel who don't have accurate answers."
"This is because the impact of the Tianlun Palace's ascension is too far-reaching, and the Cataclysm Mage has released too much energy in the event of banishing the gods, and these energies have distorted the time realm and blurred the times."
"To this day, the mages of the alliance have extrapolated the time of Tianlun Palace's ascension to between two hundred and four hundred years ago according to various methods, which is already a very remarkable progress."
"According to my teacher's speculation, if we want to know the specific time of this historical event, I'm afraid we have to have the same level of strength as the Scourge Mage."
"It's obviously very difficult to do."
"So we just have to have this concept in our hearts, and we don't have to get to the bottom of it."
"Correspondingly, the same is true of the three mysteries imposed by the gods on the continent of Aiindor."
"We just need to know its concept and existence, and we don't need to delve into its contents."
Matthew's heart moved when he heard this:
"By the way, I only know two of the three mystery locks so far."
"One is the intellectual mystery lock, which blocks the knowledge and history of the gods;
One is the mystery lock of civilization, which blocks the development of civilization in the world of Aindor;
What is the third one? ”
Margaret was stunned and said:
"You haven't even fully figured out the three major mystery locks?"
Matthew scratched his head embarrassedly:
"That's what we country mages are."
Margaret frowned a little worriedly:
"I don't feel at ease if you do this, so I'll go to purgatory."
"You have to grasp the basic skills fiercely!"
"As for the third Mystery Lock, it's the Chaos Mystery Lock!"
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Today, I accompanied the child for a physical examination, and I tossed for most of the day, a little shorter.
(End of chapter)