In the black and white Umbra Realm, the blood-red mud gushing out of the black mist was like a living creature. It kept flowing out of the mist, but it also seemed to disappear into thin air and never spread further beyond the black mist. It was like some kind of disgusting, creepy mollusk, and as it rolled, it kept making disturbing, muddy sounds. At first, Gwen thought that the sound was the normal sound of the mud rolling, but soon he heard a murmur from the gurgling sound. No one could hear any logical information from the blasphemous and chaotic murmurs. They only brought fear, irritation, imagination, and uneasiness.
Not only Gwen, but even Amber had never seen such a strange thing in the Umbra Realm. It obviously corresponded to the original location of the cultivation vessels, but the blood-red mud was very different from the "reflection" of the Umbra Realm on the present world. It was obviously something more twisted and should not exist here. Instead of saying that it was "reflected" here, it was better to say that it occupied something that was originally here.
Gwen looked at the mud gushing out of the black mist with an instinctive sense of disgust. He then looked back at Amber and asked, "What is this? Is this the thing that scared you?"
Gwen felt a little strange. The blood-red mud gave him a very bad feeling, and the murmurs were disturbing, and some kind of strange power was constantly trying to play scary slides in his mind. But these things only reminded him of the thrill of staying up late to watch horror movies in his past life. Amber, on the other hand, was a fearless person who dared to dig up the graves of the ancients during the demonic tide. It was possible for her to be scared by the mud, but it was not right for her to be scared out of her wits.
Amber also felt a little strange. She looked at the mud with a little fear and said, "Yes … Yes … But when I looked at it just now, I felt like my head was going to explode. I even had hallucinations when I thought of it. But now, I don't know what's going on … Although it's still disgusting, it doesn't look like I'm under a mental attack anymore."
"Is that so?" Gwen looked at Amber, and then frowned at the mud. Then he gripped the Pathfinder's Sword and carefully walked towards the source of the mud.
Some intuition told him that the strange "mutant hybrid" monster outside most likely had something to do with the mud in the Shadowy Realm. If he did not get rid of the mud, he was afraid that the investigation here would never be able to be carried out smoothly.
Amber watched Gwen move forward and nervously wiped her sweat. In the face of such a strange creature that was beyond common sense, combat strength was not so reliable. But the next second, her eyes widened in shock.
Because as Gwen moved forward step by step, the surging blood-red mud was actually moving back little by little!
At first, it was not very obvious, but after Gwen took a few steps, the mud that was spreading in all directions actually caved in. This was so obvious that anyone could notice it.
Gwen himself was also stunned by the situation. He took another step forward, and the mud moved back again. He simply stopped, and the mud stayed where it was and slowly wriggled in place.
"What's going on?" Amber's surprised voice came from behind. "These things seem to be … afraid of you?"
"It's not so much afraid, it's more like a conditioned reflex." Gwen frowned. He could not figure out why the mud retreated in front of him, but it did not stop him from moving forward. "Well, it saves me a lot of effort."
The mud in front of Gwen finally completely retreated into the black fog, and as Gwen continued to move forward, even the black fog finally began to shrink and deform, finally revealing a gap. Through the gap, Gwen saw the neatly arranged runes on the ground and some magic crystals that were still shimmering.
A magic circle? It was not a magic circle from the real world to the Shadowy Realm, but a magic circle directly built in the Shadowy Realm?
Was it the work of the Gondor magisters?
Gwen was a little stunned for a moment, but when he thought about it, it was not too unbelievable: the magic technology of the Kingdom of Gondor was far beyond that of the modern era. At that time, the unique human magic system was even a skill that amazed the elves. Although the humans at that time could not figure out the nature of the Shadowy Realm, it did not affect the ability of the powerful magisters at that time to enter the Shadowy Realm.
Amber stood far away from the bloody mud. Seeing that Gwen did not move for a long time, she waved her hand and shouted, "What did you find?"
"The magic circle is built on 'this side'," Gwen replied without looking up. "It seems that this experimental facility was built in two parts. The equipment in the real world is only one part, and the other part is built in the Shadowy Realm …"
Amber was surprised. "Wow! The people of that era were very powerful. They could also enter the Shadowy Realm? "
"You can't imagine how powerful the people of that era were," Hao Ren said casually. He stepped into the black fog and looked for the core of the magic circle in the fog. As the black fog continued to recede, the complex and huge magic circle was pieced together little by little before Gwen's eyes.
With his good theoretical knowledge, Gwen quickly judged that this magic circle was very different from the conventional magic circle. Only part of it was' magic ', which was the conventional magic runes or elemental runes, but the other part was engraved with special symbols called' sacred runes' or 'sacred runes'.
Those symbols were not part of the magic system at all, but were commonly used by religious people. They were said to come from the Eternal Slate, and their function was to communicate and channel the power of the gods. The 'magic circle' drawn with these symbols could not be called a 'magic circle', but a divine circle.
In Gwen's common sense, a divine circle and a magic circle were two completely different things, but the one in front of him … was the product of a fusion of the two!
And the function of this hybrid magic circle seemed to be extraordinarily complex. Just by looking at it, Gwen found as many as twenty control rune groups, and a large number of runes similar to a charging structure … This charging structure was not common in the Gondor era. After all, the magic devices of that era were basically maintained by the magic from the Deep Blue Well, and it was rare to see a 'low-efficiency' operation of drawing free energy from the environment. But this magic circle in the Shadowy Realm had a complex and huge charging structure …
But no matter how strange this magic circle was, it was only so big. As the black fog receded in front of Gwen, its core area was finally completely exposed. The moment he saw the core of the magic circle, Gwen's eyes froze.
Disobeying the gods … devouring the flesh of the gods … eating heartily …
As these crazy words surfaced in his mind, Gawain's gaze also fell on the object, not moving for a long time.
It was a piece of artificial crystal only a foot long, and in the center of the crystal was a very strange biological tissue.
Gwen could only describe what he saw as a 'strange biological tissue' because he could not identify what creature the flesh-like thing came from. It was dark red, and there were no structures like blood vessels or veins, but there was something like blood constantly flowing around it. It could have been sealed in the crystal for thousands of years, but it was still slowly shrinking and wriggling …
It was like an immortal heart.
The truth was almost obvious, but Gwen dared not believe the bold idea he had. But if the words on the wall of the experiment hall were true, if the crazy and absurd manuscript records were true, then there was no doubt about what was in the crystal.
In the end, Gwen decided to trust his own judgment because he remembered the 'battlefield communications' recorded in the fragments of the Eternal Slate.
The gods were dead, and it was not unimaginable that their flesh and blood would fall into the human world.
If a devout believer or any normal local was here, after realizing what was in the crystal, they would immediately lose their ability to speak and move in shock and fear. But Gwen was different. He was just a little worried that this' god's flesh and blood 'would suddenly jump up and spit on his face. After all, such a strange thing often meant great danger. But looking at the bloody mud and the black mist around him, it seemed that the flesh and blood was more afraid of him …
Gwen carefully poked the crystal with the Pioneer's Sword. The biological tissue in the crystal seemed to tremble a little, but after a closer look, there was no change.
All in all, there was no danger.
Gwen put away the sword and bent down to pick up the one-foot-long artificial crystal cube. It was quite heavy, but it was nothing to Gwen. As the crystal left the 'magic circle' on the ground, the remaining surging black mist and bloody mud disappeared almost in the blink of an eye.
After losing its core, the Runic Array barely operated for a few seconds before the few remaining Magic Crystals on the Runic Array dimmed rapidly. In the end, all that was left was a complex and mysterious Runic Array. There were no more strange phenomena.
"What … is this …" Amber nervously watched Gwen carry out a large piece of crystal. This was the first time in her life that she had seen such a shiny thing, but she did not have the slightest idea of stealing it and selling it. "Why … why do I feel goosebumps all over just looking at it?"
"Do you really want to know?" Gwen held the flesh tissue that was most likely from the gods and looked at Amber with a half-smile. "With your brain, you should have guessed something, right?"
"I …" Amber suddenly widened her eyes and then gasped. "You're kidding, right?!"
"Legend has it that there was a war between the gods in ancient times. The gods fell in the mortal world, and then there were supernatural powers, including magic, in the mortal world. Since the power of the gods can fall, why is it impossible for their flesh and blood to fall?" Gwen smiled. He did not tell her the information he got from the fragment of the Eternal Slate, but used the legend of the war between the gods in ancient times to explain this matter. After all, no matter how eccentric Amber was, she was still a local, and claimed to be a devout believer of the Goddess of Shadows. She might not be able to accept it if he told her directly that the gods might all be dead, and that the mortals were now worshipping God knows what the hell it was, but the legend of the war between the gods was from ancient times. She should be able to accept this explanation.
After all, it was still acceptable if two or three of the gods fell in the war, but it was a whole other level when the Zenith fleet blocked the door and wiped out the whole family …
Seeing Amber nodding thoughtfully, Gwen secretly made up his mind. If necessary, he would use the same explanation to the people "outside" later.
He didn't want the group of people that he had painstakingly gathered to be tormented by him to the point that their worldview had completely collapsed …
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