Even when Claude came out and bowed to Vivian, Hao Ren did not know what was going on.
In fact, Vivian did not know what was going on either.
Except for Claude and Ymir, everyone else's worldview had basically collapsed to the ground!
Hao Ren did not expect things to turn out this way. Through Ymir's memory, he realized that the vampire ancestor, who was so poor that her greatest happiness was to have a full meal and had been wandering aimlessly for 10,000 years, had a close relationship with the demon hunters. They were supposed to be mortal enemies, but in ancient times …
This poor vampire was the 14th sage of the demon hunters!
A vampire was the 14th sage of the demon hunters! Because it was very important, it must be emphasized again.
She was the "cross-clan friend" of the 13 sages, the predecessor of the demon hunters when they were still weak. Even the Coldpath dimension, which was now the base of the demon hunters, was given to them by Vivian as a gift!
However, Vivian had completely forgotten about it. Even the demon hunters themselves seemed to have forgotten about it. This was what Hao Ren could not figure out. After all, everyone knew that Vivian was smart. But how to explain the demon hunters? Although the old guys in ancient times were almost all dead, it was not as if there was no one left, right? Even if there was no one left, it was not as if there was no one left, right? After all, she was the 14th sage of her own race. Was there no record of her at all?
If Hao Ren could think of this, of course, others could as well. Even Lily had a serious look on her face. But the biggest feature of the husky race was that their faces were always serious, so it was difficult to tell whether the maiden was distracted or thinking. Anyway, Y 'zaks said, "What happened then? How did this happen? "
Ymir's voice continued to ring in everyone's mind. This time, he was explaining to Vivian. "Old friend, it was more than 6,000 years ago. You don't remember it anymore. In fact, even I don't know these things. I only learned about these things after I was brought here and spent a long time with the 12 'sages'. So some things may be different. As far as I know, you were indeed the first person to discover Coldpath. I didn't even know you at that time. You led the homeless demon hunters to a place where they could live. Although Coldpath did not have any land in the ordinary sense compared to other dimensions, it was a good base camp. The demon hunters quickly regarded this dimension as their home, and as you can imagine, they began to explore the endless ancient secrets of Coldpath.
"Coldpath brought them great benefits. Before that, the demon hunters were only a relatively weak race. But after they gained control of Coldpath, they began to study their strength in a safe place and began to cultivate and train stronger tribal warriors. More importantly, they began to unearth a variety of powerful relics in this dimension.
"Although most of the excavations are elusive and unusable, just extracting energy from the relics in a primitive and crude way is enough to make the demon hunters powerful. Just like that, everything seemed to be going well.
"Until they found something they shouldn't have touched in a temple," Ymir said.
"The sword?" Hao Ren blurted out.
"Yes, the sword," Ymir said, looking down. "The 14 leaders of the demon hunters, including Vivian, found the sword together. It was casually discarded in the corner of a temple, and its strange material and appearance immediately attracted their attention. Although it looked ordinary, this sword seemed to have a magical power that attracted the 14 Sages together. After some debate, the 14 sages had different opinions on how to deal with the sword.
"Vivian was very cautious, so she thought that the sword of unknown origin should be sealed up.
"The 13 sages felt that the sword would bring more power to the demon hunters, just like other relics in the ruins.
"In the end, Beetholis's intuition played a decisive role: he saw a prosperous future of the demon hunters in an illusion, which was the result of the power of the dark sword. So what happened next was logical: the opinion of the 14th sage was rejected, and the 13 sages held a ceremony to extract power from the dark sword. "
White Flame's eyes widened. She gasped and asked, "The same thing happened this time?"
Ymir's mouth drooped. "No, it's worse. During the second Woe of Madness, only the Council of Elders and the sages stayed in Coldpath. Most of the demon hunters had spread all over the world, so only a small part of the demon hunters were infected. When you came here, you could still fight. During the first Woe of Madness, the number of demon hunters was far less than it is now, and the seal on the gate of Coldpath was not as tight as it is now. During the first Woe of Madness, almost all the demon hunters were concentrated in the other dimension, and the moment the ritual was carried out, the entire race was affected. "
"Where was I at that time?" Vivian asked aloud.
"You left Coldpath," Ymir said, looking up. "You were angry, so you left. But later, you were worried, so you came back and found that something big had happened."
"How did you solve it later?" Vivian frowned. "Did I solve it alone?"
"Yes, you did," Ymir answered affirmatively. "According to the memory I read from the brain waves of the 12 sages, you had a secret passage that could directly sneak into the Netherrealm Clock Tower. This is normal, after all, you were the first to discover this dimension. When all the demon hunters were affected by the Woe of Madness and completely lost control, you took advantage of the chaos to enter the ceremonial hall and interrupted the ritual of the 13 sages. The impact of the interruption of the ritual hurt them badly, so you fought against everyone alone. After several days of fighting, they finally woke up, more or less.
"During the fierce battle, the patriarch of the demon hunters, the first sage, was directly illuminated by the crimson moon. Her soul was almost completely torn apart, and her vitality was exhausted. She died a few years later."
Ymir paused for a moment to give everyone time to think. Vivian broke the silence a few seconds later. "So the first sage actually died in my hands. What happened after that? How did the hunt begin? Why don't the demon hunters know anything about the Fourteen Sages? "
"The Woe of Madness is over, but it has completely changed the demon hunter race," Ymir said with a sigh. "You all know that the races on this planet have hostile instincts toward each other, and the Woe of Madness has greatly magnified the dark side of the demon hunter's heart. They were originally conservative and cautious. But after the disaster, everyone's mind was cleansed. Most people's memories were confused, and their way of thinking was subverted. They were full of anger. Although the vendetta between their own kind was over, their anger was all transferred to the alien races. And so, the hunt began. "
This was the truth of the demon hunters' declaration of war on all the supernatural races in the world. Their innate hostility toward the alien races had been magnified.
Hao Ren suddenly thought of the captured warriors of the Council of Elders. Those warriors were obsessed with the idea of "purifying the heretics". Although they were still conscious, their words and actions were crazy. They did not hesitate to kill their own kind. Six thousand years ago, before the demon hunters launched their first hunt, Coldpath also had a similar "great pollution." Vivian single-handedly stopped the pollution, but her prevention was not perfect. The echo of the Godslayer had changed the way of thinking of the demon hunters, turning their innate hostility toward the otherworldlings into a killing instinct. What was more deadly was that it instilled in them an idea:
Heretics must be purified.
So, in the name of purifying the heretics, the hunt began.
"Their memory was also cleansed, right?" Vivian frowned. "Otherwise, they would have known me."
"This is the weirdest part of the whole incident: their memory was not completely cleansed. In fact, only the memory about you was erased," Ymir said, his eyes staring at Vivian. "There was a complicated curse in this place. Most ordinary demon hunters had completely forgotten about Vivian Ancestor. The sages had survived the memory cleansing. Deep in their consciousness, they still had memories about you, but they could not mention your name and related deeds. Some of the oldest scrolls in this tower still had information about you as the fourteenth sage, but no one could read them. A few of the demon hunters who survived the first Woe of Madness still vaguely remembered what happened, but they all died in an accident when they tried to say your name. Later, the twelve sages realized one thing: it was not the demon hunters who were cursed, but the name Vivian Ancestor.
"You were erased from the memory of the demon hunters. From the first time you met their leader to the outbreak of the Woe of Madness, everything related to you during this period of time was shrouded in dark power," Hao Ren said.
"… That sword failed to kill me, so it killed my name …" Vivian was dumbfounded as she muttered to herself. "Sure enough, that thing was specifically designed to kill the goddess of creation …"
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