To be honest, I had never really thought about what this artifact would look like. After all, its origin could be traced back to an era before the Xi Ling Apostles were born. This time span was not something that could be explained with just the word 'archaeology'. It was probably equivalent to asking Qian Qian's father to use a snuff bottle from the Qing Dynasty to speculate what the Big Bang looked like. In the face of such a time span, any kind of imagination would pale in comparison. The stars that we know today must have looked different a long time ago.
But I was still quite surprised to see this artifact … Why is it a ball? Can't it change its shape?
"After so much effort, it's finally a ball," Icetis muttered as she tapped on the golden ball. "This antique's design is really unique. It's the first time I've seen a spherical recording device … There's no other way. I can't find the reading path. The runes on the surface are in a format that has been abandoned for who knows how many years. Let's put this thing aside for now."
I raised my head to look at the Blood Princess and Blockhead. I realized that their expressions were very interesting. Their lines were as hard as plaster models. They were completely petrified.
"You guys … Don't tell me that even you guys don't know the use of the artifact?" The Blood Princess looked at me with a strange expression. Her gaze finally fell on Alaya. "Didn't you say that the artifact is her stationery box?"
I replied, "… Actually, it's because of the age …"
Why did I have to make up a 'stationery box' back then!
"Let's not talk about this first," Blockhead suddenly interrupted with a rough voice. He looked at Icetis anxiously. "What about Antil? Didn't you guys say that you have a way to separate Antil from the artifact? "
"You don't have to worry about that." Icetis snapped her fingers casually. "The artifact that we are talking about is a higher-end item. It shouldn't affect your wife's condition. Now, let's talk about how the human girl named Antil fused with the artifact. According to my observations, this thing doesn't have any special ability to hide people. Antil isn't trapped in some other dimension. "
Blockhead heaved a sigh of relief, then frowned and scratched his head. "How do I put it … Ever since he was infused with divine power, Antil has become no longer human. When she appears, she descends in the form of a ray of light, and when she rests, she disappears in the form of a ray of light. However, every time she moves around the divine artifact, so we say that she has fused with the divine artifact. "
"A ray of light?" Icetis lowered her head in a professional manner and pressed her hands on her temples. She pondered for a while like an old professor. "I have some bad associations … Let's go back to what I said at the beginning. In theory, the human body cannot withstand any infusion of divinity. Antil turned her flesh and blood into holy light. This has already involved the mass-energy equation … Oh, let's not talk about this. In short, since she turned into a ray of light, then there's only one possibility. Her body … might already be gone. You know, there are some things that mortals can't bear. "
The Blood Princess and Blockhead were both dumbfounded.
"Of course, even if the body is gone, you don't have to worry. This is just a small problem." Icetis waved her hand. "Now, let's lure that little girl out. That dragon girl mentioned before that to summon the goddess, there are two conditions: a sufficiently strong Abyssal Reaction and the power of faith of mortals. The Abyssal Reaction is easy … "
As Icetis spoke, she raised her head and looked at the semi-solid sealed door depicted on the stone wall. "Open this door, and the Abyssal Reaction will appear. As for the faith of mortals, I don't quite understand. We true gods don't need to collect this kind of energy. The so-called power of faith doesn't exist at all. Only false gods will collect spiritual power as their own energy source. Because of something called the Void Stairway, the spirit and will of mortals will not bring any benefits to true gods. The only reason we establish religion and faith is to use it as a customer service network and a resource point for one-way downloads. We listen to mortals' prayers to collect customer service complaints, and mortals receive some protection from the gods through this network. This is the belief system under the name of true gods. I don't think the faith you speak of is the same thing as what I'm talking about. "
Blockhead and the Blood Princess looked at each other, and the latter's ears twitched. "It seems that a lot of our understanding of God is wrong … We always thought that the energy generated by the prayers of the believers awakened the goddess."
"Pfft, praying my foot. How can making a complaint create GDP?" Icetis sneered and waved her hand. "Just tell me about the process of summoning the goddess. I still don't feel anything else sealed in this divine artifact."
"It's a prayer ritual. A large number of believers will pray devoutly for several days …" The Blood Princess immediately began to explain the various rituals used to summon the goddess. She explained the complicated process in detail, with Blockhead helping her from time to time. It was a strange feeling. Hao Ren wondered how surprised the people on earth would be if they saw this scene. The Dim Moon Lord and the Blood Princess, whom they regarded as demons, were so familiar with the process of summoning the goddess. In fact, it was these two who helped formulate the method of summoning the goddess more than two thousand years ago …
Icetis patiently listened to the Blood Princess and Blockhead, and finally showed a thoughtful look. "I think … I get it now. Your prayers and the offerings are actually useless. The only thing that works is that enough people are thinking the same thing at the same time. You have concentrated a large number of thoughts in one place, and then used the incense and religious props at the ritual site to perform shallow hypnosis on the believers. The end result is a huge synchronized thought, and then … the goddess was disturbed by you."
The Blood Princess and Blockhead, "… Huh?"
"Yes, she was disturbed." Icetis nodded with certainty. "Because my children did something similar. They thought that by organizing the entire star system to hold an unprecedented prayer, they would be able to please the goddess. At that time, the new pope was a hothead. That little brat gathered all the believers in the star system, put on a spiritual synchronizer, and shouted my name at the same time … Damn it, just thinking about it makes me feel uncomfortable. I almost went deaf when I opened the management terminal. You have no idea how much of an impact it is when 24 billion people think the same thing at the same time. Even when I occasionally go to the temple to read the reports, I still have repercussions …"
The Blood Princess and Blockhead were dumbfounded. My expression wasn't any better. I thought that only Jingle had a bunch of idiotic archbishops under her, but now it seemed that Icetis had quite a few weirdos under her as well. All the believers in the star system picked up the Bible and sent a message to Icetis at the same time. Have you ever seen a worse method of harassment than this? Sister Bing didn't destroy the world on the spot, which meant that she loved the world …
"Then what should we do now?" Shallow Shallow looked at everyone curiously. "Should we organize a collective reminiscence of the past? We might not make it in time … "
"There's no need for that." Icetis chuckled as she patted the huge metal ball. "A sufficiently strong collective thought will awaken God from his slumber. This is one of the talents of the Galactic Gods. Back then, Father added this talent to us so that it could act as a final warning. When his believers were facing a calamity, even if they weren't paying attention to the real world, God would immediately receive the warning. Now it seems that the remnant divinity of the scout who died in battle was attached to this divine artifact, giving it the ability to receive this' final warning. 'Due to the limited capabilities of the divine artifact, it mistakenly transferred this warning to Antil. Furthermore, it couldn't tell who was the one who sent the warning. An alarm that has lost its ability to recognize is easily triggered. "
After that, she pressed her hand on the golden ball and silently communicated with the huge metal ball.
Even though the information stored in the ball couldn't be read, its divine reaction was at least controllable. This divine reaction originated from Father had been through countless years, and it still maintained its initial frequency. Divinity, this was the genes and racial memory of the gods. No matter how many times the first generation of the Protoss had evolved, the alarm signal that God Father had set in their natural instincts to protect the "children" was still the same. As a genius Divine Arts expert, Icetis quickly deciphered this warning signal.
"Open the door." The golden holy light that was getting brighter and brighter lingered around Bryndis. At the same time, he pointed at the sealed gate engraved on the stone wall and said loudly.
The Blood Princess had been prepared for a long time. She activated the last few stones under the door that were used to control the runes. Then, she pulled Blockhead and quickly retreated behind us. The two of them had no intention of facing the impact of the abyss.
During the initial activation, the sealed door on the stone wall was already in a semi-solid state. Now that the Blood Princess had removed the last layer of restrictions on this ancient seal, every single engraving on the door glowed brightly. Under the continuous flow of light, the engravings on the door gradually became solid. Then, accompanied by a heavy rumble, it slowly slid to both sides.
Shallow Shallow looked at this magical scene in amazement. She couldn't help but mutter to herself, "So it's sliding. But there's no slide underneath?"
The Blood Princess was stunned. She couldn't help but ask, "… Why is she paying attention to this?"
I nodded heavily. "The Goddess of Time usually doesn't see things from a normal perspective. She lives in a different dimension from all of you."
The Blood Princess nodded even though she didn't understand. "Yeah, the matters of the Gods are indeed profound."
As the sealed door slowly opened, the distorted space on the stone wall appeared before everyone's eyes. The abyss was always so uncreative. There was only darkness on the other side of the door. Only by looking at the endless darkness could you see large clumps of turbid fog churning violently behind the door. And within the churning black fog, there seemed to be something struggling to break free.
The commotion of opening the door had alarmed the beasts and ancient souls trapped in the seal, as well as the power of the Dark Abyss, which was roaming around, intending to contaminate the real world. I could feel an unpleasant aura rushing towards me, but this aura was quickly blocked by a pair of pure white wings. Alaya had finally woken up from her daydreaming state that had lasted for more than half an hour. When she saw the Dark Abyss seal in front of her, she subconsciously placed her wings in front of me and said seriously, "I've already blocked it for Brother Monarch!"
I pulled Alaya's wings so that she was facing the sealed door. "You should focus on what you need to do. After Antir is summoned, you can go in and purify this place. Be quick and don't make too much noise. "
The reason why I gave this task to Alaya at the last minute was because I realized that Icetis didn't seem to be free. The female rogue was busy analyzing the warning port of the Divine Equipment. Also, when I summoned Antir later, she would need to help separate the soul from the Divine Equipment. So, I felt that it would be better to let Alaya help purify the thing behind the door. It wasn't that I didn't think of letting Pandora and Visca go in. Their psionic powers were definitely not any weaker than Alaya's holy light. But the two of them were too big of a commotion. I was worried that they would blow up the planet's core … Based on the personalities of the two traitors, they would definitely do something like that.
At this moment, Icetis suddenly whistled. "Done!"
The moment her voice fell, a third party's holy light, different from Alaya's and Icetis's, suddenly condensed in the air near the Divine Equipment. It rapidly gathered, strengthened, and materialized. In just a few short seconds, the holy light that appeared out of nowhere had taken the form of a blurry female. At the same time, I patted Alaya's back. "It's up to you! Silly cat! "
After that, I felt a strong gust of wind blow past me. The angel sister seemed to be out of control … and charged towards the dark sealed door. The black fog and the monsters that were continuously appearing behind the door were originally pushing and shoving against the Draconic runes on the stone wall. But when Alaya's powerful holy light shone on them, they actually retreated without a second thought. Even though they were mindless monsters, they still had instinctive reactions to avoid harm.
However, there was no point in dodging these things. The angel sister was a little dazed, but that didn't affect her battle prowess and battle awareness as a general of the Empire. In the end, the Dark Abyss in this world was just a tiny bit of residue that leaked out from the sample box. Although there was a lot of it, the quality was the same. Those mutated monsters might have some combat prowess, but they had been sealed for more than two thousand years and were currently in a state of absolute weakness. So, Alaya entering the sealed door was like punching a Nanshan Nursing Home and kicking a Beihai kindergarten. The angel sister was like a radiant fusion furnace in the sealed door. Under the illumination of the natural daze, all the darkness retreated …
The twisted monsters didn't even have time to react before they melted like candles in the storm of holy light. Finally, they turned into clouds. Shrill screams echoed throughout the underground space and lasted for a long time. This scene really made the scene look like a demon's cave. The dangerous dark patterns and abnormal shadow areas also disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. The holy light was an abstract object with a high level of order and was on the same level as the world. It could neutralize the Dark Abyss with high efficiency. From the Void Stairway, the Dark Abyss was on the same level as the universe. But the Dark Abyss in this world couldn't even contaminate two planets, so how could it resist the Light of Creation?
It only took a short while to clear the Dark Abyss contamination near the sealed door. After that, the angel sister began the real purification ritual. She spread her wings and used holy light to build a large tower-shaped "building." This was the Beacon of Heaven. It would restore everything that the holy light shone on to the state at the beginning of time, which was the initial state when all things were born. Under the effect of the Beacon of Heaven, everything in the sealed space would turn into elementary particles and radiation waves in a short period of time, just like the world ten seconds after the Big Bang. Monsters and souls would no longer exist, and the Dark Abyss would be completely neutralized.
But our attention was no longer on the purification ritual. Icetis had already "analyzed" the mixed souls in the Divine Equipment. A female figure shrouded in white light floated in the empty space in front of us. If I wasn't mistaken, this should be that Antil. She was an ordinary-looking girl. Her appearance could only be described as delicate. She had a head of slightly curly chestnut-colored hair. She was thin and wore a simple white dress. Just like the statues made by the Church of the Goddess, she had a pair of pure white wings on her back. These wings were definitely the result of mutation. Even though they looked similar to Alaya's wings, the indistinct and unreal texture was enough to prove that this was only the illusion of the Divine Equipment's previous owner. The Divine Equipment didn't have the ability to recognize and forcefully fused this illusion with a mortal.
Antil's condition was a little strange. Even though she had been awakened, her expression was still stiff. She floated stiffly in the air like a lifeless statue. The dimwit and the Blood Princess were standing a few meters in front of her, but this human girl who had been "deified" turned a blind eye to them, as though she didn't have any thoughts.
Then, she finally moved. But it wasn't to reunite with her old friend. Antil suddenly summoned a golden longsword out of thin air and silently charged into the sealed space!
However, she didn't rush out too far. We were already prepared for such a situation. The moment Antil moved, two small figures nimbly flashed in front of her. Pandora and Weska pulled her back, one on each side. The two little girls didn't let go of Antil as she struggled to stretch her body in the direction of the sealed door.
"Brother, brother, this sister is so annoying," Visca complained impatiently.
"She's one of us." I suppressed Visca and turned to look at Icetis. She had a thoughtful expression on her face. After thinking for a while, she nodded. "Yes, it's the same as what I guessed. This human girl's body was probably burned clean the first time she came into contact with the Holy Light. But her afterimage overlapped with the image recorded in the Divine Equipment, and finally became this special form. Strictly speaking, she died more than two thousand years ago. Now, she's a holy … ghost. "
I immediately thought of the ghost maid who could release Holy Light at home.
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