As Gawain removed the tissue that was suspected to be the flesh of a god from the mixing formation in the Umbra World, the aberration in the outside world finally lost its boundless lifeforce.
Following Byron's heavy blow, the monster let out a low howl. It staggered and fell to the ground. Like a real aberration, it rapidly evaporated and decomposed into black smoke that drifted into the air.
Gwen and Amber also returned from the Umbra Realm, but the former had a strange crystal cube in his hand.
Although they did not know what happened, Byron and Heti could guess that their actions in the Umbra Realm had destroyed the resurrection mechanism of the monster. Heti immediately went up to greet them. "Ancestor, the monster is finally dead! Did you find something in the Umbra Realm? "
"I found this." Gwen raised the crystal cube in his hand and then looked at the guards around him. After a moment of thought, he said in a deep voice, "Byron, Heti, and Amber stay here. The rest of you, stand guard outside the room."
The guards realized that their liege had found something extraordinary in the Umbra Realm, so they left the hall without hesitation.
Byron's expression immediately became serious. He had just seen the thing in Gwen's hand, and now he had a vague association. "My lord … That thing in your hand is …"
"It's this thing that is releasing energy that allows the monster outside to resurrect. And the monster is probably also affected by it, so it has lived here for a thousand years and has many abilities that ordinary mutants don't have." Gwen whispered and told Heti and Byron about his discovery in the Umbra Realm. "… That's the situation, I'm afraid we have found something extraordinary."
With a clang, the magic staff in Heidi's hand slipped out of her hand and fell to the ground.
"This … Is this the flesh and blood of the gods?" The woman, who had always been mature and calm, finally lost her composure. She looked at the crystal cube in Gawain's hand in shock and fear. "God, how could God …"
"I know it's hard for you to accept, and I know you are a believer of the Goddess of Mystery and Magic. The fact that the gods have fallen and their flesh and blood have fallen into the hands of mortals is a big shock to you." Gwen softened his tone, hoping that his tone could calm his great-great-great-granddaughter a little. "But I also know that there is a sentence in the creed of the magicians: the road of exploration is endless, and the gods are also in it. Magicians have never been a group of people who are too religious, even if you believe in the Goddess of Magic."
"I just can't believe it." Heti took a breath and smiled bitterly as she picked up her staff. "You know, I've only been so shocked twice in my life. The first time was when I saw you standing up from the coffin."
"Legend has it that there was a war between the gods in ancient times. Some of the gods were defeated, and after they fell, their remains fell into the human world. Their power and fragments turned into various supernatural forces and magical creatures in the human world, and the gods who won the war became the righteous gods in the world today." Gwen gave the explanation he had prepared. "Perhaps not all the remains of the gods were 'transformed'. The Kingdom of Gondor may have found such a piece of remains that was still alive and maintained its original form, and then built this secret base to study it."
This explanation was relatively easy to accept, and it was not made up. In fact, Gwen even felt that this explanation was mostly in line with the truth. At most, the explanation of the cause of the gods' death was a little … euphemistic.
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Compared to Heti, Byron was much calmer. As a mercenary, he was even less in awe of the gods. When he saw the squirming strange biological tissue, he was more nervous and shocked, but not in awe or fear. So he quickly calmed down and thought. "Maybe it's not as exaggerated as we think. There were so many powerful things in ancient times. Maybe the Kingdom of Gondor just found the remains of some demigod creature, and left a little bit of what was it called … 'divine' power, and then they treated it as a god's corpse and studied it."
Gwen had to admit that Byron's explanation made sense. "That's also possible."
As he spoke, he looked around the hall, and he felt that he had grasped the general idea of the research project that was once conducted in this place.
"The Kingdom of Gondor in the Age of Sparks … that was an era when humans were arrogant and supercilious. The energy in the Deep Blue Well was endless, and the human spell system was adapted to the magic of the Deep Blue, which made the human mages the most destructive spellcasters in the world. They were invincible, and the things that humans pursued changed. There was no lack of resources, no lack of power, and what they wanted … was probably eternal like the gods in the legends, "Gawain said as he looked at the line of words on the wall of the hall." Humans will live forever. Even if they disobeyed the gods and used the word 'disobeyed', it means that the researchers at that time knew what they were doing was extremely daring, but they still dared to do it … Madly probing on the edge of courting death, that's probably what it means. "
In the end, he sighed and shook his head. "Unfortunately, the scholars of the empire soon discovered that the Deep Blue Well was the only supernatural magic well on the continent, and its magic transmission had a limit. The powerful Kingdom of Gondor was actually blessed by luck, and the empire's territory was limited to the radiation range of the magic well from the beginning. So when the Age of Sparks came to an end, all the arrogant ideas turned into nothing …"
Everyone was deeply moved by Gwen's words. In the end, it was Heti who broke the silence. "Ancestor, what are you going to do with this … the flesh of the gods?"
"I was just about to talk about this." Gwen glanced at the crystal cube in his hand, and then looked up at Heti and Byron. "When you look at it, do you have any … mental discomfort? Like fear or auditory hallucinations? "
"No." Byron and Knight shook their heads. "Although I was shocked when I first found out what it was, I've accepted it now."
"Is that so …" Gwen frowned. "I'm going to do a test, and this test may cause some mental stress on you. Are you willing to do it? By the way, Amber has already tried it once. The mental impact is not fatal, and can be recovered. "
Amber glared at him. "I didn't want to try it!"
Heti and Byron did not hesitate. They both nodded. "Ancestor, please begin!"
Gwen thought for a moment, and then carefully placed the crystal cube on the ground, and told the two, "Stand back a little."
Byron and Heti did as they were told. They stood a few meters away from the crystal cube, and then watched Gwen take his hand away from the surface of the cube and slowly step back. Gwen asked as he stepped back, "Do you feel any discomfort now?"
The two still shook their heads. Amber, on the other hand, dashed out the moment she realized what Gwen was going to do. She had no idea where she was at this time.
Gwen continued to step back, paying full attention to the changes in the biological tissue in the crystal. During this process, he repeatedly confirmed the state of Byron and Heti. When he was about fifteen meters away, the flesh and blood sealed in the crystal finally changed!
The biological tissue, which was originally slowly wriggling, suddenly became active. The dark blood flowing slowly around the biological tissue also accelerated, and a large number of small 'tributaries' spread out, forming a three-dimensional structure like a spider web in the crystal. As the flesh and blood in the crystal changed, Byron and Heti's expressions became dazed in an instant!
The moment he saw this scene, Gwen made a judgment. He did not need to ask the state of the two at all. He suddenly took a step back, and it was this step that the flesh and blood, which had just recovered a little, calmed down again.
"This … What's going on?" Heti snapped out of her momentary trance and looked at Gwen with a little lingering fear. She could no longer recall what she saw in that brief moment, but she still remembered the terrible feeling of losing control of her mind, and her brain being filled with noises and illusions. What was more incredible than those terrible feelings was that Gwen only needed to take a step forward to suppress the agitation of the flesh and blood. "How did you do it?"
"To be honest, I don't know, but I seem to be able to suppress the activity of these biological tissues." Gwen himself was in a daze. Although he had a little speculation in his mind, he really did not know how to explain it. "Probably because I, who came back from the dead, have violated the laws of nature, and more or less have some strange power."
Heti looked at Gwen with a hint of awe, but she had a more practical question. "What should we do with this thing? Are you going to keep it with you all the time? "
Amber, who had been hiding in a corner, came out again at this time and expressed his opinion. "I have a feeling that if you eat and sleep with a piece of god's aged jerky, you'll be seen as a pervert …"
Gwen thought for a moment. If what Amber said was true, this was probably the highest level of necrophilia in history, and there was a holy prefix in front of necrophilia …
Then he pulled his mind back and glared at Amber. "No one will treat you as a mute if you keep your mouth shut!"
Next, he carried out a few more tests and finally figured out the "law of invasion" of the flesh and blood of the gods.
After all, it was a remnant of a dead god, and the destruction of these biological tissues was not as great as Gwen initially thought. He found that as long as the average person did not look directly at the flesh and blood, they would not be affected. But if the person was more than twenty meters away from the flesh and blood, even if they looked at it, they could still maintain enough sanity to look away or escape from its range of influence.
In this way, there was no need to send this thing back to the Shadow Realm to preserve it.
To be honest, sending this thing back to the Shadow Realm seemed to be the safest way to preserve it. After all, no one in this realm could enter the Shadow Realm except for Amber. But Gwen always had a faint uneasiness. He thought that the Gondor magisters did not put this piece of flesh in the Shadow Realm for safe control. With the magic technology of the Gondor magisters back then, they were fully capable of creating other kinds of spatial barriers or magic riddles to preserve this thing. It was simpler and more controllable, and the safety factor was not worse than the Shadow Realm. After all, with the average level of the magisters in the Kingdom of Gondor back then, it was not as difficult to enter the Shadow Realm as it was now, so naturally, it was not as safe as it was now.
Come to think of it, the magisters put these biological tissues in the Shadow Realm and set up a complex hybrid array for it. Rather than saying that it was to suppress and restrain it, it was better to say that they were using the power of the Shadow Realm to maintain it.
Gwen recalled that there seemed to be a structure similar to a charging rune on the hybrid array …
Thinking of this, Gwen made up his mind. He was determined not to send this dangerous thing back to the Shadow Realm! What if he lost control of this ancient testing ground and it slowly grew and revived in a place that no one could monitor?
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