"So, that little guy is dead?" Dilpoor's withered old face in that void-like dimensional domain was full of sighs, "I still remember how energetic he was when he first entered the Royal Research Institute. ”

cautiously exposed the death of the Northern Wizard, but the reaction of this old cadaver was surprisingly calm to Penny, and even showed a strange envy: "Well, I really envy him, so that I can be freed, there is no calamity in the world that is more painful than living for thousands of years on the walking corpse, but unfortunately, I don't have this opportunity." ”

Penny was silent, and he could hear the sincerity and exclamation in Dilpur's tone.

For these people, such a survival is indeed not a happy thing.

Very few mages would consciously incorporate immortality into their original real names, because the more they understand the multiverse, the more they will understand that all living things will die one day, and if something that is not natural is forcibly incorporated into the methodology, that distorted conceptual foundation will only create a demon.

Therefore, the lives of most casters who have achieved immortality in some way are blank - all their perceptions and emotions will become weaker and weaker, although their power may become stronger and stronger, but the basis of existence will become weaker and weaker, and most casters who have chosen immortality expect to be able to obtain further sublimation in the extended time - the leap in the form of existence will allow the casters to obtain the theoretical basis of 'immortality', but unfortunately this transformation is too difficult.

Most lichs become more and more chaotic until they are consumed by the emptiness of their self-consciousness, become true undead creatures, or become insane.

That's the case with the wizard to the north.

However, the old cadavers here don't look so crazy, which also lets Penny know that this Durpur's life form is likely to have completed some kind of leap, and the strength is obvious, which makes Penny extremely cautious.

"I also want to be free, but it's a pity that it exists, so I can only continue to guard here. Dilpur sighed and pointed to the 'black hole' floating on the spire, "Maybe this wait will continue until the end of the multiverse." ”

"What the hell is it?" Penny frowned as he looked at the black hole, he had tried to probe the depths of the black hole when he first entered the space, but the devastating power and frenzied feeling made him know that this thing was not something he could test the depths of.

"Pendrim, well, is the bargaining chip between the madmen of the royal family and the gods. Dilpur spread his hands: "They had hoped to use this thing to frighten the gods and thus complete Isil Aaron's plan, but the consequences were ...... You already know. ”

"Negotiate with the gods?" Penny was a little shocked, "Does this thing have the power to threaten the gods?"

"Its full name is Pendrim the God Butcher, and this is one of the three parts of his body, and if the three parts merge with its soul and allow him to descend on Faeron in the form of his true body, the continent will be annihilated in a matter of moments, and the gods have no power to stop it. Dilpur's account left Penny dumbfounded.

He looked up at the black hole, his heart full of shock and incredulity.

This power has exceeded his imagination.

"Actually, it's nothing, well, it's not difficult to destroy the world, there are many spellcasters in our time who can do it, and it only takes a little time to get a legendary spell, even now, I bet there are still quite a few casters of this ability in Faerun. Dirppur put it mildly: "I used to be able to do that." ”

A legendary spell destroys the world. ...,

The corners of Penny's mouth twitched for a while: "How is this possible?"

He began to feel that the old cadaver was mentally deranged.

Even the most advanced legendary spells could not possess such great power.

"Nothing is impossible. Dilpur said, "The reason why we can't do it now is only because that god has limited the power of the source sea, if it is in the chaotic plane where the divine power cannot reach, it is easy to destroy a layer of the plane with a spell." ”

Penny was stunned for a moment before nodding conservatively, this makes sense, after all, those ancient wizards, even if they had this level of power, could not casually meditate on magic to destroy the world - that is something that pure madmen would do.

And now, the power of the source sea is suppressed by the goddess of magic, and it is even more impossible to do such a thing.

"You see, no matter how powerful a spellcaster is, he has to look at the face of the god in the main material realm. Dilpur sighed and pointed to the black hole, "The reason why we summoned it from a distant dimension in the hope of using its power to threaten the gods is only because its power can ignore the power of the gods. ”

"What is he?" Penny frowned, carefully observing this black hole, and there seemed to be only one type of creature that could ignore the limits of divine power in the multiverse: "There seems to be no one type of god that fits such a characteristic, especially the god who has the power to destroy the world, as far as I know, there are only a few." ”

"It's certainly not a god. Dilpur shook his head.

Penny was stunned for a while, a drop of cold sweat trickled down from the corner of his forehead, except for the gods, in line with Dilpoor's description, there seemed to be only another kind of thing left, he looked at the remains of Pendram, and he was even more sure that he seemed to have seen this name in some places, and the content of it made him feel a wave of fear from the depths of his soul: "He can't be some ancient evil thing, right?

After saying that, he laughed dryly, feeling that those legends seemed too far away from him.

Although he has not been here for a long time, he has received the education of a mage, and he is already familiar with some of the stories of the multiverse, in this world, it is not uncommon to be able to threaten the existence of gods - some high-level mages have a record of slaughtering gods, as for the powerful existence of the lower interface, there are not a few who have killed gods, and in addition, there is nothing more famous than the gods- This divine creature created by the gods has a powerful curse power, the slightly weaker gods already have enough power to threaten the weaker gods, and the more powerful gods, such as the famous hundred-armed Helix, have the power to destroy the entire god system, and can bring about apocalyptic disasters when they appear.

Compared to the demons in the abyss, the horror of the gods lies in their indefinite appearance and destruction, which is more violent and chaotic than the demons, but in the legends of the multiverse, there are still things more terrible than gods.

Most of these things have a longer life than the gods, existed before the birth of the crystal wall system, and even more than the main gods of a plane, and their existence form does not conform to the rules of the god system at all, so they have an unkind attitude towards most worlds - their existence form and concept rules are not in line with the rules of the multiverse known to exist, which makes them more pure evil than the existence of demons, gods, etc.

They are therefore called the Ancients.

Strictly speaking, the ideas of these ancient cults are not evil in their own eyes - some of the ancient cults believe that the gods have set the world in the wrong way and therefore need to correct it, or to recreate a world that suits their own ideals after destruction, and there are also beings who simply hate the gods who make the rules and will use their terrifying powers to destroy the world when they come to a certain world. ...,

Of course, the existence of most ancient evil things is just legends, and Penny doesn't want to believe that he will encounter this kind of thing one day, and when he does, it is estimated that the world is not far from the countdown, but Dilpoel's silence and the smile in his dry eyes make him feel that the end of the world really is not far away, and suddenly a feeling of pins and needles under his ass arises.

Those Imaska wizards had the audait to do such a thing, no wonder they would be punished by the gods.

"Well, you don't have to be nervous, although those imperial families have a problem with their brains, they don't want to release such a scary thing to destroy the world, so when they found this thing, the thirty most powerful magicians in the empire launched a spell together, extracted his soul and separated his body, the gods can't do this kind of thing, but we are not limited by this. After saying that, Dilpur smiled: "How is it, do you think it is funny, the gods have nothing to do with this thing, and we, the humans who are subject to the gods, have the power to restrain the ancient evils." ”

Penny coughed dryly twice, feeling a little puzzled: "If you have such a thing, why is the empire still destroyed?"

This was exactly what puzzled him, and it was conceivable that since the wizards of Imaska had found a way to restrain this ancient evil creature, they should be able to harness its power, and the power of this ancient evil creature was not limited by divine power, and it should be easy to slaughter some gods who descended.

However, according to Dilpur, the empire seemed to have been destroyed by the combined attack of the ancient gods of Faeron and the saints of the otherworldly gods, which puzzled him, and he could not believe that Imaska had not used this thing even when he was on the verge of destruction.

"Well, there are thousands of reasons for the destruction of an empire. Dilpur shook his head slightly, he looked at Penderim with a look of helplessness: "For a country that is doomed to decay, a weapon cannot save him. ”

"Doomed?" Penny was stunned.

"Before the war began, this outcome was already preordained. Dilpur sighed, "The empire will collapse, and I will know it when you red-robed descendants and ancestors rebel against the empire." ”

"Our ancestors?"

"Your ancestors, of course. Dilpur pointed to the top of Penny's head: "In the past few years, I have observed very clearly, this kind of arcane energy diffusion pattern was often used by people in our time, but I didn't expect that now this technology has been simplified by you to look like this, and the function is so incomplete, it is really amazing." ”

"So, we do come from Imasca?" Penny looked weird, "It doesn't sound like you have a grudge against us. ”

He was well aware of the legends about the red-robed mages and the ancient Imaska Empire, in which it was the fatal blow of these betrayers that brought the Imaska Empire to its final end.

So he had a hard time believing that an Ancient Empire Wizard would have good intentions towards a red-robed one.

"Hatred? no, that's meaningless, I didn't exist for revenge, not to mention that looking back at the situation at the time, they didn't do anything wrong. Dilpur sighed: "The destruction of the empire has long been doomed, if the struggle between the royal faction and the commoner faction is not so sharp, and no force can stop the establishment of Isil Aaron, we will not risk great danger to carry this terrible thing from another time and space, even so, the empire still has not departed from the destined destiny trajectory." ”

"Royalty and commoners?" Penny was curious, wondering why this ancient empire had fallen, "Can you tell me about it?"

"Actually, there's nothing to say, the relationship between the royal faction and the commoner faction in the empire has not been very good, especially the royal faction always hides precious technology, but it can't prevent the commoner faction from mastering the technology day by day, until they disdain the royal family in many fields, do you know what the result will be?" ”...,

"Sounds terrible. Penny's lips tugged, and he could imagine what would become of the Imaska Empire in such a situation.

"In the first hundred years of the fall of the Empire, there were a total of six slave rebellions, five of which were secretly supported by the Commoners' Strange Mechanics, and as for the last one, all the high-ranking mages of the entire Luo Yan Imperial Academy participated in the rebellion, unfortunately, this rebellion was still suppressed by the royal army, and those scholars in exile became traitors in the imperial literature...... Now you understand. ”

"It's a little ......" Penny nodded, "So, the empire of that era was in constant civil strife?"

"Yes, before the betrayer appeared, the cooperation between the royal faction and the commoner faction in order to complete Isil Aaron was still superficially peaceful, but after this incident, many contradictions within the empire were exposed to the eyes of the outside world. Dilpur sighed, "Despite all the efforts to keep it secret, it was eventually exposed to the eyes of the gods. ”

"That Isil Aaron...... A great threat to the gods?" Penny looked down at the small crystal in his hand.

"Don't ask. Dilpur's tone was a little displeased: "But if you know, you will be amazed, compared to this plan, the twelfth level arcane of that arcanist in the west is like a child. ”

Penny raised an eyebrow, and hearing such a narrative made him even more curious.

The twelfth level of the arcane art of Karthhas is unprecedented for Faeron's image, but listening to Dilpur's tone, it seems that long before that, the Imaska Empire had already begun to study something that was a powerful threat to the gods, so that it was angered by the gods.

"Well, the emperor at that time was a very courageous man, and in order to deal with the gods and bridge the rift between the two factions, he organized such an operation. Dilpur pointed to Pendrum on the spire, and his tone was full of irony: "But I didn't expect that it was precisely this thing that completely plunged the empire into a catastrophe." Because after moving him over, Luo Yan was directly turned into a desert by its power, and if it wasn't for our timely action, the Imasca Empire would not exist at that time. ”

Penny shuddered.

"We've been arguing over whether or not to use this thing against the gods, and the population of the country is dwindling day by day, and many scholars have gone into exile abroad, or have exiled themselves to other crystal wall systems, and they all have their own judgment on the end of the empire, and what happened after that, you know. Dilpur spread his hands: "This is the history of the destruction of the empire, isn't it interesting?"

Penny shook his head, and he looked at Dilpur with a strange gaze, sensing that there seemed to be something strange about the mechanic's tone.

How can anyone evaluate the destruction of their homeland in a gloating tone.

"Does it feel weird?". As if noticing Penny's gaze, Dilpur suddenly smiled, "Well, I forgot to tell you that I worked for those treacherous scholars before the fall of the Empire. ”

Penny was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and then had a new doubt: "But why are you staying here?"

"Grave guarding. He tapped on the handle of his chair: "This thing must be guarded, no one wants the world to end, and I am the same, when I chose to sublimate, I added this to my methodology, and he is also the source of my life and strength." ”

Penny closed his mouth, his gaze turning to solemnity and admiration.

This is truly a remarkable sentiment.

"Honestly, that's one of the reasons I brought you in, eh...... I feel that your presence will make other people find this place. Dilpur's tone changed, and his gaze fell on Panny's right hand, and Penny was stunned for a moment, looking at the dry face, and a cold air came out of the back of his neck...... ，