Hao Ren was completely shocked. He had calculated everything, but he never expected that the "noble family" that once lived in the mansion was actually a group of demon hunters!
Not to mention, they were demon hunters who had broken off from the demon hunter order and joined forces with an otherworldling.
Hesperides looked incredulous. "It's impossible! If the notebook and the voice were real, could it be that these demon hunters had defected from their order? This has never happened since ancient times! "
"The demon hunters are extremely united and loyal to the order. Even if there is a big internal conflict, it will not turn into a defection." Vivian shook her head gently. "At least until we lifted the innate hostility, there has never been a case of defection, let alone a group of demon hunters to help Hercules, the otherworldling remnant."
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly remembered a detail he had heard from the echoes of the past. "Wait a minute, didn't we just hear it in the house? A demon hunter said that Hercules drew power from the divine artifact and freed them from the shackles? Could it be that the shackles here are referring to the innate hostility?"
Vivian seemed to have suddenly understood. "Ah, so that's what it means. What the hell is that divine artifact?"
"It has the power of bats and somehow lifted the innate hostility curse of a group of demon hunters. And there is a big villain sealed in it." Lily scratched her hair, her tail wagging restlessly. "Why does it have so many strange attributes?"
Hao Ren did not say anything. He just looked up at the towering tower at the back of the main house. In this old house in a different dimension, the tower was still intact. It was built of stone, the surface was painted with white mortar, and the slender windows were decorated with iron decorative frames. Looking at some of the details of the intact state and thinking of the words he had just heard, Hao Ren realized that it was actually a magic tower.
It was just disguised as the rules of a secular building.
"The echoes of the past seem to follow us," said Hesperides. "Wherever we go, we hear them, and they sound like turning points of some great event."
Vivian nodded. "Perhaps someone deliberately set this up to give us a hint. Or perhaps, a living being stepped into this space and triggered the centuries-old magic here. This phenomenon often happens in ancient ruins."
"That tower," Hao Ren said, pointing to the tower behind the main house. "I think that's where the turning point of all things happened."
The group quickly found the way to the tower. They passed through the path between the main house and the annex house and came to the back of the mansion. It could have been a small garden, but now there were only strange grayish-white gravel and a semi-crystalline, distorted substance in the flower beds and stone pots, and the tower was at the end of the 'small garden'.
Lily mustered up her courage. Just as she was about to walk towards the tower door, she suddenly heard an intense argument in the air nearby.
First came a dignified male voice. "Enough! Sivir! Your research is getting more and more dangerous. Sooner or later, you will also have one foot in the darkness on the other side of the border! "
Then came a young female voice. "I know what I am doing, Master Mohabben. I respect your knowledge, but I despise your cowardice. Don't you see? The wonderful scene on the other side? The darkness is not empty! Except — "
"Besides madness, what else do you want to find?" Mohabben's voice became louder. "Before you completed the first trial of adulthood, you should have heard your mentor say countless times that there are indeed countless mysteries in this world, but not every mystery can be touched by mortals. Some secrets are hidden in the forbidden, distorted world, and some secrets lead to the dark side of the universe. You are now standing only a step away from the dark side of the universe! From today on, you can no longer meet Hercules, and you are not allowed to touch the divine artifact. I want it forever — "
The voice came to an abrupt end, and the brief echo ended.
Hao Ren looked at Hesperides. "It seems like as you said, as long as we arrive at a place where a major event has happened, we will touch the space-time memory here."
Lily came to the door of the tower and sniffed to make sure there was nothing suspicious inside. Then she pushed open the heavy door made of oak and iron.
The moment the door opened, Hao Ren seemed to hear countless voices, which were trivial whispers, intermittent quarrels, and meaningless daytime chatter. It was as if hundreds of invisible people were hiding nearby, pointing and whispering. These whispers were so vague that he could not hear any meaningful fragments.
It was not until ten seconds later that the whispers gradually faded away, but there were still a few sporadic voices floating nearby. Facing the pitch-black door of the Magic Tower, the whispers that came out of nowhere made one's blood run cold.
"This is a magic focus," Hesperides said. She also heard the voices, but she was more professional. "So a lot of additional voices have been recorded."
Hao Ren nodded and stepped into the tower with Lily. The whispers followed them like shadows.
The structure of the tower was surprisingly simple. Perhaps Hao Ren had explored too many large-scale ruins and seen a huge magic tower like the Netherrealm Clock Tower, so he had almost forgotten what the inside of a normal tower looked like. The interior of the building was almost unadorned, and there were no rooms. There was only a wooden staircase that spiraled upwards along the curved wall. In the middle of the tower, there were a few platforms protruding from the wall. Other than that, one could directly see the floor on the top floor.
On the bottom floor, Hao Ren saw many wooden shelves along the wall. On the shelves were suspicious potion bottles, silver ceremonial utensils, and scrolls and books of unknown age. Perhaps because of heterogeneity, all these things appeared to be distorted and disordered. The glass bottles became crooked, the ceremonial utensils glowed with an abnormal luster, and the books and scrolls were blank when opened.
When they stepped on the stairs, they heard the voices of the past again. This time, the voices were mixed with the whispers around them, and they were so distorted that they could not even recognize the voice.
"It has finally begun to enter the real world. Our measures are not very effective. The power of that divine artifact cannot be sealed. It is far beyond our understanding."
"So we can only build a prison."
"In the end, we still have to use Sivir's results. Although her research led to the boundary being broken in advance, she also found a glimmer of possibility."
"Can Sivir come back?"
"I only found her research notes and the destroyed ritual site. She has most likely been sucked into the other side of the boundary, in the dark side of the universe, where no mortal can escape. Unfortunately, we have lost a very promising demon hunter. She was actually the best researcher I have ever seen. If she had stayed in Coldpath, she could have even become a scholar in the library of the Netherrealm Clock Tower. Unfortunately, she followed us out, and her impatience cost her her life. "
"Forget it, forget it. I'm about to die anyway. But you, old buddy, this burden will fall on you and Hathaway. You have to hang in there. "
"Hah, Hercules will be there with us. Don't worry."
The voices faded away, and the spiral staircase was coming to an end.
"They must have performed some kind of ritual up here," Vivian said, looking up at the end of the staircase. "And then created the village's enchantment."
After climbing the last few flights of stairs, Hao Ren leaned on the wooden handrail next to him and looked at the top of the tower. "Huh?"
The top floor of the tower was a circular room with a large number of shelves and desks. Four long and narrow windows were symmetrically distributed on the curved outer wall, and in front of one of the windows, there was a black chair, and a man with a head full of white hair was sitting on it!
His back was facing the stairs, so Hao Ren could not see his face. However, he could see the demon hunter's combat uniform and a sacred silver sword lying across his lap with half of it sticking out from the side.
"Someone's here?!" Lily, who was right behind Hao Ren, could not help but exclaim when she saw the situation above.
"Doggie, your tail hit my face. What's going on up there?"
"Excuse me." Hao Ren stepped toward the old man sitting in front of the window, but the old man did not respond.
From here, Hao Ren could see the man's appearance. He was an old demon hunter. Although his eyes and eyebrows showed that he used to be valiant, he was now old and frail. He slumped on the chair, facing out of the window. His eyes were half-closed, as if he was still alive, but there was no sign of life in him.
Hao Ren reached out his hand, but just as he was about to touch the old demon hunter's shoulder, a faint female voice came from not far away. "Don't disturb the watcher."
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