"Gate of Annihilation Part 2":

Devis Phil was not easily accessible, and he was unwilling to share the secret of the Gate of Annihilation with Morian Zenas. Fortunately, my master's knowledge impressed Phil and taught him the secret of opening the Gate of Annihilation.

) method. If I state the steps (to open the Gate of Annihilation) here, it will break my promise to Zenas and Phil, so I will not reveal the secret even if I can. If there is anything dangerous knowledge, this is it.

Without giving too much away, suffice it to say that Phil's plan relies on a series of portals to various realms from a long-missing Telvanni wizard who may be dead. We weigh the relative reliability against the disadvantage of the limited number of people who can enter them.

After considering the security of the property and those who entered it, we considered ourselves lucky based on the information we got.

Morian Zenas then left this world to begin his adventure. I remained in the library (telepathically) transcribing his messages and helping him with any research he needed.

'Dust,' he whispered to me on the first day of the voyage. Despite the bleakness of the word itself, I could hear his excitement in his voice echoing in my mind. 'I can hear it in a hundred words.'

Seeing from one end of the world to the other in ten thousand gray shadows. There is no sky, no earth, no air, only particles, floating, falling, rotating, surrounding me. I must float up and use magic to breathe...'

Zenas explored the hazy land for some time, encountering steam creatures and smoke palaces. Although he has not yet encountered the Daedra, we can conclude that he is located in the Ashpool, said to be Malachai

St's home, pain, betrayal, and broken promises filled the bitter air like ash.

'The sky is on fire,' I heard him say as he moved to the next realm. 'The land is like mud, but you can walk through it. All around me I see the blackened remnants of a battle here in the distant past.

The air was cold. I cast warm flowers around my body, but I still felt like daggers made of ice were stabbing me from all sides.'

This is Coldharbour, the realm where Morag Bal is the Daedra. To Zenath this is the future of Nirn under the rule of the Cruel Lord: desolate, barren, and full of pain. I can hear it

Morian Zenas wept at what he saw, and trembled as the Imperial Palace was covered in blood and excrement.

'It's so beautiful,' Zenas gasped as he entered the next realm. 'I'm half blind. I see flowers and waterfalls, majestic trees, a silvery city, but it's all blurry. The colors flow like water.

It's raining now and the wind smells like perfume. This must be Moonshadow where Azula lives.'

Zenas was right, and surprisingly, he even had an audience with the Queen of Dawn and Dusk in the Rose Palace. She listened to his stories with a smile and foretold the arrival of the Nerevarine to him. My Master Discovered Moonshadow

So enchanted, he wanted to stay and be half-blind forever, but he knew he had to move forward to complete this journey of discovery.

'I am in the storm,' he told me as we entered the next realm. He pictured dark, twisted trees, roaring spirits, and billowing mist. I thought he might have entered the place where Merunes Dagon died.

But then he quickly said, 'No, I'm not in the forest anymore. There's a flash and now I'm on a ship. The mast is very broken and the crew has been slaughtered. Something is coming through the waves... Oh

, God! Wait, now I am in a dank dungeon, in a small room...'

He was not in a place of death, but in the Nightmare Swamp, Valmina's realm of nightmares. Every few minutes there would be a flash of lightning and reality would shift, always becoming scarier and more shocking. From the Dark Castle

, turned into a lair of ferocious beasts, and then turned into a coffin in a moonlit swamp, where he was buried alive. Fear overcame my master, and he quickly traveled to the next realm.

I heard him laughing, 'Now I feel like I'm at home.'

Morian Zenas described to me an endless library, with shelves stretching out in all directions, stacked on top of each other. The pages were floating on a mysterious wind that he could not feel. Each book had a black cover, but there was no

Title. He couldn't see anyone, but he could feel the ghost moving among the bookshelves, rummaging through the books, always searching.

This is an anomaly where all kinds of forbidden knowledge can be found, and it is the home of Hermoeus Mora. I felt a chill in my consciousness, but I couldn't figure out whether it was the master's or mine.

Morian Zenas never left for another realm known to me.

During my visits to the first four realms, the master often spoke to me. But once he entered the Aberration, he became quieter and was lured into the world of research and learning. This passion controlled his heart during the Nirn period.

.I desperately tried to wake him up, but he closed his consciousness to me.

Then he whispered, 'This can't be...'

'No one will guess the truth...'

'I must learn more...'

'I see the world, the last shimmering illusion, which collapses around us...'

I yelled at him, begging him to tell me what happened, what I saw, what I learned. I even tried to conjure him, thinking he was a Daedra, but he refused to leave. Morian Zenas

lost.

The last time I heard a whisper from him was six months ago. Before that it had been five years. And before that it was three years. His thoughts cannot be explained in any intelligible language. Maybe he is still in the anomaly.

, lost but happy, trapped in a trap that he refuses to escape.

I would save him if I could.

If I could I would silence his whispers."

As Talstein, a renowned scholar, historian and author from the Brookwood Think Tank and an authority on Skaar, senior scholar and researcher at the Great Library, told the Lord.

Unlike most demon gods, the appearance of the Demon God of Knowledge, Hermoeus Mora, is not a human form, but a tangle of eyes, tentacles, claws and an indescribable purple vortex called the "Abyss of Misery".

Hermoeus Mora controls a realm of annihilation called "Apocrypha". Followers of the Demon God of Knowledge call it "Apophis Endless Library", which is filled with black books. All forbidden knowledge can be found in

Found here. This realm is forever haunted by the ghosts of mortals seeking knowledge. Stacks of books form mazes and spiral columns, discarded pages and floating tomes reach into the glowing green sky, and small lanterns float in the fetid air.

Acting as a light source, the realm is covered by a sea of ​​ink and tumbling tentacles, Hermoeus Mora is everywhere...

In addition to magical teleportation, it is easiest for mortals to enter the Codex by reading the Black Books. These black books are forbidden books that have been deliberately scattered throughout Tamriel by the Daedric believers over time. Most mortals who obtain the secrets of the Codex

, will be driven crazy by the endless revelations. Just like the final fate of the mage Morian Zenas recorded in "The Gate of Annihilation", he is famous for disappearing in the apocalypse during his voyage through Annihilation.

However, everything has two sides, and those who successfully travel through the aberrations will gain powerful knowledge and the power contained within it. All in all, Hermoeus Mora's domain is a treasure trove of endless knowledge and memories. As he himself said

Said: "An unsolvable riddle, an unopenable door, and an unreadable book."

It's a pity that all the black books in Apophis' endless library were eaten by Mimir Milak, and the souls of the wise men bound by the black books were also devoured together. So the "greatest mage in history" Morian

Zenas could not escape the fate of being devoured.

It brings together all the black books and all the wise men in Tamriel since ancient times. One can imagine how powerful the pseudo-knowledge demon Mirak Mimir is.

From the high-dimensional perspective of Sanctuary, this may be a "plot counterattack" in response to the lord's deep involvement in the main plot. It is also the so-called "plot rebalancing".

The lord suddenly felt that Miraak Mimir, the pseudo-knowledge demon in "The Elder Scrolls", really looked a bit like the demon king who merged with the player in "The Lord of the Rings".
Chapter completed!