At the end of the Middle Ages, the supernatural forces on this planet ushered in the last upsurge in history. Although the growing strength of the demon hunters and the church made it increasingly difficult for aliens and wizards to survive, differences gradually emerged between the church and the demon hunters.
It also allowed some small families and tantric sects who were good at hiding to find a chance to breathe. According to Vivian's memories, the tenth century to the fifteenth century AD was the stage when the dark side forces of the world were redivided. During that time period,
The aftermath of the Age of Mythology has long been completely subsided, and the more powerful aliens (including the Ancient Ones) have died or become dormant. After the decline of the alien rule, the church and the demon hunters started a series of debates on the new order of the world.
Among them, the church represents the power of mankind itself. Although the demon hunters are theoretically biased towards "humans", they are still a different race from humans, so it is natural for the two sides to have differences.
This divergent history is not important. Hao Ren just felt it after seeing this lost town where he was exiled. The entire town was completely wiped out by black magic. The movement back then must not be trivial. Baptiste (also known as
The wizard that Hao Ren and the others were looking for) was able to succeed because he obviously took advantage of the struggle between the demon hunter and the church. Moreover, he not only used magic to banish the entire town, he even studied witchcraft under the eyes of ordinary people.
This abandoned house is full of traces of his magic experiments.
Various magic books are scattered at one end of the long table. These magic books all have a creepy texture and an unsettling atmosphere. Most of them are made of black goatskin or special paper soaked in grease.
Written with ink made of blood, the content inside is difficult and obscure, and usually has abstract and weird illustrations. If Vivian hadn't been there to help decipher it, Hao Ren would have almost no idea what these ghostly drawing-like things were.
The magic book he saw for the first time was a handwritten work. The main content discussed various space phenomena and secret summoning rituals. Its author was obviously not Baptiste. This heavy and large book
A disgusting stench is constantly seeping out from the pages of the book. The black and red cover depicts a twisted gate and an eye peering out of the gate. There is a signature of d.r on the title page, which should be the name of this book.
Left by the author. Baptiste should read this book often. He left a lot of notes and memo entries on the pages, and his handwriting was surprisingly neat and beautiful. Based on these notes, Hao Ren could tell the wizard at a glance
What are you most concerned about: the method of opening the door to purgatory, and the secret technique of using soul power to maintain the stability of the space passage.
He found the most frequently read part of the book. The paper in this part had been severely worn and turned black. In this seven-page chapter, the author of the magic book discussed in detail the historical records of the Gate of Purgatory and his
The speculated method of opening the door to purgatory. Baptiste left almost more annotations on the side of the page than the main text. Hao Ren read them one by one with curiosity:
"...The records of the Purgatory Gate in ancient times are not reliable enough. The rulers of the world at that time were the old gods, and they did not allow others to inherit too much knowledge. It is best to ignore this part...
"Master Auburn Moore's discussion of the 'Seven Obsidian Ceremony' is inconsistent with this. The oil that makes obsidian produce magic power may be more critical than the obsidian itself. According to my own experiments, Master Auburn Moore's opinion should be more credible.
Letter. Information related to the test is at...
"A unique insight. The nature of the gate to purgatory is completely different from other gates to different spaces. The process of opening purgatory is naturally the same. Strictly speaking, our goal is not to 'open a door', but to attract purgatory.
Cracks will naturally occur during the collision of two spaces. Therefore, the basis of the experiment is not the portal structure, but the summoning ritual...
The most important task after connecting the two spaces is to ensure the stability of the passage and identify the signs of collapse. I must at least allow time to go to the second level of purgatory. I must also consider how to get out of the purgatory if the gate collapses early.
Reconstruct the path back to the main material world at the other end. Master Vladkov's calculation formula is not accurate enough, so the grass on his grave is already half a meter high. I should re-channel the data..."
Hao Ren murmured while looking through these difficult and difficult records: "Why does this feel like scientific research? Is he a wizard or a space scientist?"
Vivian was holding a dark glass bottle and looking around. After hearing Hao Ren's words, she casually replied: "Wizards themselves are knowledgeable guys. Putting aside the world view, they want to throw it into ordinary people.
All of them can be called true polymaths."
Hao Ren casually put the book back to its place: "This Baptiste seems to have been working on opening the door to purgatory a long time ago. All the information he left here is related to space magic. But it is not mentioned here.
Why did he summon the Blood King, and he didn’t mention what happened to the town of Domir. By the way, what are you studying? Is there something good in this bottle? "
"It's sulfur spring water, a specialty of the purgatory space. Although there's only half a bottle left." Vivian threw the small bottle to Hao Ren, "In addition to the Purgatory Ripper specimen that Hesiana found earlier. This Ba
Tiste must have successfully opened the door to Purgatory once, but his attempt to open the door this time probably failed. It was probably because the duration was too short. He only had time to bring some materials from the first level of Purgatory, which was obviously not as good as his original goal.
expect."
At this time, Nangong Sanba came over holding a thick notebook and took over Vivian's words: "You are right, he did open the door once, and the result made him very dissatisfied. He should have summoned the Blood King
I want to use the power of the ancients to help stabilize the gate."
Hao Ren pointed to the thick book in Nangong Sanba's hand: "What is that? A diary?"
"No, it's a record of a magic experiment. It just mentions the successful opening of the door to purgatory. The door to purgatory he opened for the first time only lasted less than an hour, and he himself almost died inside. In addition to the experimental record,
There were also a lot of curses and complaints. According to the above, the reason why the gate of purgatory was closed early was that there was insufficient energy and the surrounding environment was not stable enough. The constant rejection of purgatory in the real world led to the collapse of the gate. He mentioned the need to accumulate
Open the door with more abundant magic power, and there is a hint of asking for help from those ancient aliens...I think this is the reason why he summoned the Blood King."
"He wants to use the power of the evil spirit Vivian to open the passage to purgatory?" Hao Ren blinked, "But the key to the problem is how does he know where the red-haired evil spirit in this ritual comes from."
"It's not mentioned above," Nangong Sanba shrugged, "This place is too messy, I guess we have to mess around for a while."
Hao Ren snorted and asked Vivian curiously: "By the way, what is on the second level of Purgatory? This Baptiste is so obsessed with wanting to go there."
"Actually, no one knows," Vivian shook her head. "It's already quite difficult to move around on the first level of Purgatory, let alone go deeper. Moreover, the connection between Purgatory and the earth is too unstable, and in such a short time
There aren’t enough people to go back and forth to the second floor, so no one knows what’s deeper.”
Hao Ren touched his nose: "Is it an unknown place? I really don't know what the appeal of this kind of place is... Why do I keep smelling a strange smell?"
"It seems like something is burning," Lily sniffed and raised her head from the pile of debris next to her, "I smell it too!"
At this time, other people also looked up from their busy work. The strange smell in the air around them was so strong that everyone was aware of it. It was not only the smell of something burning, but also mixed with a fishy smell.
and a strange slightly sour smell. Hao Ren raised his head to look for the source of the smell, but suddenly found that the fog outside had invaded the house at some point. A layer of pale mist was drifting in from all the gaps in the windows and doors.
, the mist squirmed and filled the entire indoor space as if it were alive, and it looked as weird as possible.
"It seems like the smell of some kind of magic grease..." Nangong Sanba murmured and subconsciously put his hand into his arms, "I feel something is wrong."
Hesiana's first reaction was to look up at Hemerwin who had brought everyone to this place, only to find that the man was sitting on the chair as stiffly as a stone. She stepped forward and knocked the man on the shoulder with the handle of the whip.
: "Hey, this is..."
Before she could finish her words, Heimerwin quietly collapsed into a pile of black ash.
At the same time, a harsh sound came from outside the house.
Hao Ren immediately shouted: "This situation is not right, everyone get out!" (To be continued)