Seeing those runes, Hao Ren's mind seemed to be struck by lightning. It seemed that many scattered or unreliable clues suddenly became clear and orderly, and were supported by solid facts. The Ancient Magic Empire of Holletta and the rebellion of the deicidal race at the Gate of Solenne were linked across hundreds of millions of light years, and the two civilizations with great disparity in strength were drawn into the same vortex by these runes.
"The mage emperors of Holletta had inherited the knowledge of the deicidal race." At this moment, this sentence was no longer baseless speculation, but a fact, and the evidence was engraved on the wall.
"… It's the runic technology of the treacherous children." The MDT immediately found the records in the database. "While the material of this ruin is not comparable to the interstellar alloy of the deicidal race, the power of these runes is real. They blocked the energy explosion here, and that's why the hall outside is so intact."
"Is this the evidence …" Vivian whispered. "Now the mage emperors are really involved in the deicidal event."
"There have been clues for a long time. The ancient mage-emperors had obtained the technology to create 'deity-like creatures' from the treacherous god-slaying children. The price was to keep silent at the moment of the goddess' assassination. They used this technology to create powerful demon hunters, but before they could apply it on themselves, they were wiped off the planet by the furious First Born," Hao Ren said, shaking his head. "Now we just have evidence."
Lily blinked, looked at Hao Ren and then looked at the runes on the wall. Her ears flickered. "But I still feel something is wrong."
"What are you thinking of?" Vivian immediately turned to look at her. The husky maiden had a keen intuition. She could always notice the details that were easily overlooked, which even the most prideful ancient vampire had to admit.
"Didn't I say it before?" Lily crossed her arms. "The ancient mage emperors created the demon hunters (ancients) on the premise of maintaining a devout belief in the goddess. Doesn't that rule out the possibility that they had turned to the deicidal race?"
Hao Ren and Vivian nodded at the same time. This was indeed a contradiction. However, if they accepted this inference, they could not explain the runes in front of them.
After that, Lily pointed to the corpses on the ground. They had died 10,000 years ago, but in this place where time had stood still, their deaths were just a few days ago. "And these Hollettans, no matter how powerful they are, they are just a civilization struggling on their own planet. What can they do to help the deicide? Why would the deicide race teach this level of technology to these people? The technology to create humans isn't that exaggerated, but these runes should be of high quality even in the hands of the deicide race, right? "
Hao Ren pinched his forehead. He knew that what Lily said was indeed a bigger doubt, one that he had only noticed not long ago.
In the beginning, he was not so knowledgeable. When he found out that the ancient magic civilization of Holletta might be involved in the deicidal war, he did not have any doubts. But as he came into more and more contact with the fields beyond the knowledge of mortals, he gradually realized how magnificent and terrible the deicidal war was, and how powerful the two sides in the war were. He gradually began to doubt that Holletta, a small planet on the border of civilization, could also be involved in the deicidal war. Even if the magic empire was far more powerful than today, it was just a civilization that could colonize its own planetary system. Were they qualified to play a role in the whole conspiracy?
Hao Ren now knew how big the gap between the ancient civilization of Holletta and the deicidal race was. At first, he thought that the deicidal race was trying to prevent the ancient civilization from responding to the call of the goddess of creation and bribing them with technology. But now, this conjecture was becoming more and more untenable. There was no need for the powerful deicidal race to "value" this backward civilization so highly. There was sufficient evidence for this: there were countless civilizations in the universe that did not respond to the call of the goddess of creation. Hao Ren had found some of the wreckage, but there was no evidence that the deicidal race had "roped in" or "bribed" these civilizations.
And these civilizations were basically stronger than Holletta.
Hao Ren looked up and exchanged a look with Vivian. He saw the same confusion in her eyes.
"Maybe the elf who used the sacred flame can give us some answers when she wakes up," Vivian said.
She did not directly refer to the elf as a "demon hunter" or "ancient species" because the elf did not look like a test subject from the culture tank, and the characteristics of the elves were obviously not that of a demon hunter. The power of the sacred flame might just be a by-product of the mage-emperors' attempt to integrate the "power of god" into the body of an ordinary race. Perhaps it was this imperfect technology that caused the elf to go crazy.
But for now, everything was just speculation. They had to wait for the elf to wake up and communicate before they could figure out the situation.
Next, Hao Ren and the MDT carefully examined the situation in the hall, trying to find more clues.
It was confirmed that the direct cause of the abandonment of the experimental base was the explosion that occurred in the central laboratory. The explosion instantly destroyed the central laboratory and killed everyone inside, but the power of the explosion did not spread outside. The "divine" runes engraved on the laboratory walls blocked the shock wave, sparing the periphery of the base. The people in the periphery did not try to open the door to the inner zone after they noticed the accident. Perhaps they had confirmed through some monitoring means that the central laboratory was completely destroyed and there was no value in saving it, or maybe they were worried that the "monster" in the laboratory would go out of control. In short, they chose to abandon the place and seal it permanently. Then, with the rescued data, they went somewhere else to complete the research of the ancient species and synthesize the first batch of "perfect creatures."
The explosion was probably caused by the Sacred Flame Incarnation going berserk.
In the pile of molten wreckage in the center of the hall, Hao Ren found a metal bracelet that had been twisted out of shape. The bracelet was made of slender vine-like alloy wire, with a distinct elven style. Soon, he found another bracelet on the unconscious elf, which proved that the pedestal in the center of the laboratory was indeed prepared for the elf.
Probably because the bracelet was carried by the elf herself, it escaped the impact of the energy explosion and was not completely destroyed.
While examining the clues, Vivian asked, "Why do you think time has stopped here for 10,000 years?"
Vivian's reminder reminded Hao Ren of the question that he had almost forgotten.
The Ancient Magic Empire did not have the ability to control time. In other words, they could not stop a ruin for ten thousand years.
Space-time magic was not uncommon on this planet. In fact, even Hymer had mastered one or two magic such as Time Acceleration or Stagnation. But even he himself never thought that these magic spells were the real power to control time. Most of them regarded this magic as a small-scale, temporary force field spell, which simulated the effect of time acceleration or deceleration by interfering with the material movement in the casting area. In the Ancient Magic Empire, space-time magic was more powerful, but it was not beyond the scope of "false simulation."
On this planet, no one had really touched the truth of the passage of time.
"Maybe it has something to do with these runes?" Hao Ren frowned and looked at the dense divine runes on the wall. "The deicidal race should have this ability. At least, it should not be too difficult for them to bind a small experimental base."
"It is also possible that the energy explosion distorted the structure of time and space here," the MDT said. "Judging from the density of the runes on the wall, there must have been a very powerful energy gathering in this room. Maybe all the ancient facilities in the Gloom Mountains served this laboratory. If all the energy was gathered in one point and exploded in an instant, it may cause space-time distortion, and the blocking and compression effect of the surrounding runes would amplify the process."
Hao Ren frowned. All the speculations were just speculations. After bold assumptions, careful verification was necessary. He instinctively felt that there must be something undiscovered here, perhaps buried under the molten and deformed ruins.
He remembered the notes found in the external laboratory and the various words in the notes.
Oracle … Divine cells … Fusion …
The people of Holletta could not create divine cells out of thin air. For mortals, the supernatural power of divine power must have a carrier to be perceived and manipulated. How did the original oracle and divine power fall into the hands of the ancient mage-emperors?
What 'medium' did they use to carry the great power, inject it into biological cells, and 'make' it into a 'product'?
If this was the initial experimental site of the demon hunters or the 'Perfect Creature Project', then there must be the original source of divine power here! That was the energy source of the entire project!
The source of divine power should be in this central laboratory. The people who escaped from the base had used the produced divine cells to complete the follow-up research. At that time, they did not have the chance to take away the things in the central laboratory. Even if the big explosion destroyed everything here, as a carrier of divine power, the "energy source" should have left some fragments, right?
"Look for it, there should be an energy source here," Hao Ren said immediately. "If they wanted to produce the original divine cells, then there must be a divine energy source. They could not produce divine power out of thin air. The energy must be in a container …"
Vivian was startled for a moment. "Maybe it has exploded …"
"But there should be some fragments left. After all, it is a carrier of divine power!"
Everyone immediately got busy and began to rummage under the scorched and deformed ruins for any fragments that looked suspicious and beyond the level of the ancient civilization. But just as they began to rummage, a high-ranking knight who was left outside suddenly ran in.
"My … my lord!" The knight shouted in a panic. "She's awake! She's awake! "
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment before he realized that the knight was talking about the Sacred Flame Incarnation had woken up.
Vivian noticed the strange expression on the flustered knight's face, so she asked, "Did she speak after she woke up?"
"Y-yes!" The knight nodded vigorously with an incredulous expression on his face. "She said … she said she was Lorissa!"
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