At the end of the battle, onlookers from all races dispersed. The impromptu gambling game that was about to start was also interrupted due to Xuan Weizi's intervention. The onlookers saw that this human being was so powerful that even the lonely and mysterious Spellweaver was
They fled, no one dared to say anything, and they left one after another like a movie ending.
"Demit, you have only been away from Evergreen City for a few years, and you are already in such a mess?"
Are you alone?"
The pupilless old mage named Demit sat down on the roadside, panted for a while, and said with obvious fatigue: "'Duke of the Heart', does he see me as pitiful and come here to laugh at me? Is it because he is in Evergreen City?
Ten years of hard labor caused me to completely lose my status and power in the Ether Society... Now I have left the Ether Society."
"Hey, you all enjoyed delicious food and drink during the ten years you spent in Evergreen City. It was nothing more than contributing your spell slots and magic knowledge. I never mistreated you, so how come you are considered hard labor?" Xuan Weizi said with a smile:
"Besides, when you teamed up with Shadow Blade to try to assassinate me, you were lucky enough to leave a way for you to survive, right? The Ether Society knew that you were doing private work, so they didn't come forward to rescue or redeem you at all."
"I know!" Demeter has an impulsive character that is incompatible with his old face: "I just didn't expect that I made so many sacrifices and even dedicated my own body, but in the end it ended up like this. I don't accept it!
"
The experience of this Demeter is quite special. Xuan Weizi has learned in the past that he is the student of a legendary mage in the Ether Society. However, the conditions for becoming a student are more stringent, that is, he has to sacrifice his body in his youth.
Give it to the teacher, so that the teacher can continue to have fresh vitality, while Demeter gets the teacher's abandoned old and weak body.
The Ether Society's research on magic skills related to soul transfer is more profound than other mages' associations, and the top leaders of the Ether Society are even more interested in the practice of soul transfer to maintain long-term existence.
"When the ten years expired, I asked you if you wanted to stay in Evergreen City." Xuan Weizi looked at Demeter and said, "I guess you think Evergreen City is a rural place. That's right. I came to the end.
The battlefield and Pointing City were really eye-opening, as those on the main material plane were just small fights."
Demit's long beard trembled, and he felt unspeakable regret in his heart. Xuan Weizi shook his head and smiled bitterly, then took out a bottle of potion and gave it to him: "I just came to Zhizhi City, and I need a tour guide, and maybe someone to take care of my chores.
"
Demit looked at Xuan Weizi and the Gale Lord behind him, the leader of the Kargaron clan, and took the potion with some doubts. He had stayed in Evergreen City for ten years, and of course he knew that the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce was good at making all kinds of potions, including all kinds of potions.
An expensive secret medicine that delays aging.
"You...what did you come to Zicheng to do?" Demeter stood up and asked.
"I'm here to find a druid." Xuan Weizi said, "Maybe I have to go to the realm of the ancient forest. I don't know if you know."
Demeter looked strange and asked: "Are you here to find Morgan Merlin?"
Xuan Weizi was stunned for a moment: "How did you guess it?"
Demeter replied: "Guess? Not a guess. Recently there is a news circulating in the city, saying that the Archdruid Morgan Merlin from the main material plane is hiding in the ancient forest, and he has a piece of equipment that can
An advanced artifact that modifies the rules of the realm."
"A high-level artifact that changes the rules of the realm?" Xuan Weizi was a little surprised: "Why did such news suddenly come out at this time?"
"I don't know about this." Demeter said as he walked: "Morgan Merlin, the great druid, has disappeared in the main material plane for hundreds of years. I didn't believe it when I heard the news at first.
I thought that he would come to the final battlefield. And it seems that he did not come after death, but through teleportation from another world."
"Is this news credible? Where did it come from?" Xuan Weizi asked.
"It seems that the earliest news came from Gray Gorge, which is a gathering place for some inhuman monsters. But now there are some experts starting to gather in the city, planning to go to the ancient forest. I guess the news is more reliable." Dimit said: "
And it won’t be long before this news spreads throughout the Final Battlefield, and powerful beings in other realms will also take action. If you really have such a magical weapon, you can’t use it and fall into the hands of hostile realms.”
Xuan Weizi had just experienced the Supreme Heaven's crusade against the Demonic Wasteland not long ago, and understood that the battle between different realms was not only to eliminate the creatures in the hostile realm, but also to expand the realm itself.
Territory expansion is not like the expansion of territory between various countries on the main material plane. Once the stronger party occupies it, it is eligible to redefine the territory. Instead, it requires the destruction and disintegration of the spatial characteristics, rules and regulations of the hostile realm. Different realms are
Use their respective methods to engage in invisible confrontation.
It’s just that different realms do not exist in isolation. Just as the Celestial Clan is a manifestation of the core essence of the Supreme Heaven. If the Celestial Clan in a certain area is wiped out in large numbers, then the rules and regulations of the Supreme Heaven in this area will lack a stable pillar and will be vulnerable to other realms.
Intrusion and distortion of rules.
Therefore, the Supreme Heaven's conquest of the Devil's Wasteland requires the elimination of enough demons, clearing out a blank area, and then allowing the Supreme Heaven to confront, destroy, and assimilate the boundary rules of the Devil's Wasteland, and transform the area occupied by the successful conquest into a new one.
Become part of the highest heaven.
This is a complete transformation from rules and regulations to the natural environment and living things. Therefore, when the Supreme Heaven says that it wants to expel all demons, it is essentially to completely wipe out the Demonic Wasteland from the final battlefield and greatly expand the realm of the Supreme Heaven.
What's more, let the Supreme Heaven completely assimilate the entire Final Battlefield, and other realms should have similar ideas. The collision and joining of various planes will form the Final Battlefield. If the disputes are to be completely ended one day, it means that the entire plane belongs to only one realm.
A belief.
It's just that it's easy for different races to fight in groups, but it's difficult and slow for the realms to assimilate each other. And now there is news that there is an artifact that can directly modify the rules of the realm, which will undoubtedly cause conflicts between the realms and the powerful.
The crazy fight between the two.
Xuan Weizi was confused because the appearance of this news was too coincidental. It seemed that this situation would definitely occur as soon as he came to the Final Battlefield and Pointing City.
Xuanweizi and his party used the Qinggang oak leaves as a navigation beacon for otherworldly teleportation, but did not go directly to the vicinity of Morgan Merlin. This incident can barely be attributed to the plane intervention of the Final Battlefield. But this is related to Morgan Merlin
The news came too deliberately.
Considering that the archdruid was originally a green oak tree, and the leaf left to the descendants of the Pendragon royal family is itself a magical object that hooks the end of the "ladder of ascent", use it to cast spells and teleport
, it is not surprising at all that it will arouse the perception of Morgan Merlin himself.
Xuan Weizi made some deductions and was able to roughly confirm that he was not wrong. Morgan Merlin was indeed on the Final Battlefield, and the other party took the initiative to release the news about the artifact, which was to guide Xuan Weizi to find him.
"But this news is too heavy." Xuan Weizi murmured.
"Yes, even the Ether Society is ready to move." Demeter lowered his head and sighed.
"Does the Ether Society also plan to expand in the final battlefield?"
"
"Probably, after all, the foundation of the Ether Society has never been on the main material plane. We... they have never thought about competing with the Eye of Mystery and the Tower of Pentagram for dominance." Demeter said.
Xuan Weizi asked: "What about the Thousand Eyes Matrix? Isn't that where the Master will go after death?"
"Do you think the Thousand-Eyed Matrix is some kind of paradise that mages yearn for?" Demeter shook his head and said, "You also saw the spell weaver just now. The Thousand-Eyed Matrix is a group of monsters who are extremely paranoid about magic. After death, go there
The souls of mages in the Thousand-Eyed Matrix will turn into all kinds of grotesque modrons, working tirelessly to maintain the various instruments and magic arrays in the Thousand-Eyed Matrix. We mages should become the masters of magic, not slaves of magic!"
Although Demeter's last words were loud and powerful, if you think about it carefully, mages on the main material plane are indeed slaves of magic. Most of them gain greater power by studying magic, and regard magic and arcana as their status.
The ladder of promotion. A few mages regard the truth of magic as the goal of lifelong struggle, but they are just running away with their minds and achieving nothing in their lives. Mages who really want to reach the level of Nazareth and Mephistis will have to do it themselves.
There are very few people who claim to have mastered magic.
In short, the Thousand-Eyed Matrix of the Final Battlefield seems to be full of profound knowledge and exquisite creations related to magic, but it is still not suitable for mages to stay there.
"Then why are you being targeted by the Spellweaver?" Xuan Weizi asked.
Demeter was silent for a moment and then said: "I hope to get my body back."
"Didn't you exchange your body with your teacher?" Xuan Weizi asked: "I remember your teacher is a legendary mage, why do you get your body back?"
"There is a magic item in the Thousand Eyes Matrix that can help me." Demeter's eyes dodge when he said this.
"And you got this magic item, so you were chased by the Spellweaver." Xuan Weizi said: "No wonder you refused to drink the life-extending potion given to you. It turned out that he planned to leave his aging body to your teacher.
?”
"You know everything now, so please don't spread the news." Demeter said, and looked back at Lord Gale and Chief Kagaron.
"None of them are better than you." Xuan Weizi said with a smile: "People look down on this thing about you... But I'm different. What am I good at? It's worth the risk of being assimilated.
, go to a realm to steal."
Demeter was about to refuse, but he thought that he was now abandoned by the Ether Society, and that he might be hunted down by masters sent by Thousand Eyes Matrix in the future, so he might as well take the opportunity to rely on the "Duke of the Heart" as his backer.
"Then you come with me." Demeter made up his mind and took Xuan Weizi to his residence in the city, which was a loaf-shaped hut.
After entering the house, Demeter took out an octagonal prism that was as long as a forearm and as wide as a palm from his dimensional pocket. There were strange and complex geometric patterns on its surface, which were not sculptures or drawings, but looked like light and shadow on a screen.
"That's it. The modrons in the Thousand Eyes Matrix call it the 'Body Transformation Machine'." Demeter looked a little excited: "As long as you have this device and cooperate with the soul transfer magic circle of our Etheric Society, you can forcibly separate me from the body."
The teacher’s body swap is back! He doesn’t even need to agree!”
Xuanweizi stared at the eight-prismed prism for a moment, raising his eyebrows in embarrassment. Seeing that he didn't speak, Demeter raised his eyes and looked at the two people behind Xuanweizi. Lord Gale closed his eyes and shook his head, while Chief Kagaron's expression was half-hearted.
A half-smile.
"Is there something wrong with this?" Demeter asked in a panic.
"If I read correctly, this device is only suitable for constructs or golems." Xuan Weizi said: "The modron you just mentioned should be a construct creature unique to the Thousand Eyes Matrix? Body conversion machine
… Could it be that it is used to renew their broken and worn-out bodies?”
Before Xuan Weizi finished speaking, Demit showed an almost desperate look. He scratched his beard and face, and gradually began to talk to himself crazily:
"No, no, no, no... it shouldn't be like this. I got it with great difficulty... almost all my property was bet on it... Wow——"
With a bang, Demit, who looked old and had all white hair and beard, fell to the ground and burst into tears on the spot. He did not have the magnanimity of the former high mage of the Ether Society at all. He was extremely rude, throwing his limbs around and rolling on the ground, with tears streaming down his face.
, the beard and eyebrows are stuck together.
Lord Gale whispered: "In order to extend one's own life, taking someone else's body and then abandoning him like a waste, doing this and still holding a high position shows the nature of this etheric society."
The leader of the Cagaron clan shook his head and said: "Compared with the endless exploration of magic and accumulation of knowledge, the life span of human beings is too short. For the sake of one's own existence, any ethics and morals can be abandoned. Maybe for the top leaders of the Ether Society,
This is still an excellent quality.”
Xuan Weizi looked at Demit who was rolling on the ground. He had been planning for a long time and had worked hard, but in the end it was like a dream. Once it was shattered, not everyone could immediately develop the renunciation to see through the world. Unable to accept reality and avoid the setbacks of reality,
It is the instinct of most ordinary people.
"Have you cried enough?"
usefulness."
"No, you are right, I have figured it out now." Demeter looked despairing: "The body conversion machine is of no use to me, and there are many of them in the Thousand Eyes Matrix, otherwise
There’s not just one Spellweaver here to hunt me down... Haha, I’m so sorry that in order to save someone like me, I made you provoke the Thousand-Eyed Matrix.”