Sauron walked in the cold wind.
Although he was sure that the Phantom Circus he met had some secrets, he didn't have much interest in getting involved. Most of the troubles were caused by himself, so he had to learn to restrain his excessive curiosity. The other people in the Phantom Circus are relatively easy to talk about. The only thing that Sauron can't see through is the elf girl and the woman in the carriage who has never shown up. Sauron had a deep memory of the thin ice on the edge of the carriage, and the person inside seemed to have uncontrollable power.
Among all spell-casting professionals, wizards are the best at manipulating magic power.
Then there are priests and druids. Although their power comes from gods and beliefs, they are equally easy to control. The most uncontrollable power is the natural ability possessed by warlocks, which is why Gloria is worried that Vivienne will cause great damage. The kingdom of Arendelle they are going to, the princess who is about to ascend the throne is also a dangerous warlock. The stronger and more talented the warlock is, the more dangerous they are. It will take a long time for them to learn to control their own power.
The one inside is definitely not a wizard.
Then the possibility of her being a warlock has reached more than 50%, and she is also a powerful warlock who cannot fully control her own power.
In contrast!
Vivienne is much better at controlling power, and she hardly has the energy runaway period that other warlocks have to go through.
Warlocks tend to be withdrawn because of their early energy rampage, and sometimes they even hurt people close to them because of uncontrollable forces.
Snowflakes fell in the sky.
The snow didn't fall very heavily, but Sauron's body was still covered. He shook the cloak on his body, shaking the snow onto the ground. It was almost afternoon, and he passed through a dense snow-covered coniferous forest. The road in front of him gradually became much wider, which meant that he was almost approaching the area of human activities. There are not many goblin kobolds in the Ice and Snow Kingdom. The climate here is too cold, but there are bear goblins with thick fur, a creature that is more dangerous than jackals.
That creature is said to be a goblin, but the size and appearance are very different, maybe it really has some blood branches.
Subspecies creatures are things that are prone to blood variation!
After walking about ten kilometers, Sauron vaguely heard the sound of music, which seemed to be a somewhat sad tune. He frowned and listened for a while, then walked towards the direction of the music. It is very uncomfortable to camp in the wild in the country of ice and snow, because the climate is so cold that sometimes the body freezes up after sleeping, and the temperature here is below 0 degrees all the year round. Sauron is going to find a human town to rest and recover, and supplement the number of spells he has mastered by the way.
A group of people appeared in front of them.
Basically all wearing fur coats, which are the most important possessions of human families in the land of ice and snow. Their hair is thicker, their faces are a bit like Nordic people, and they will not be as rich as the southern regions. People with black pupils and black hair are very common in this world (there are also elves), and the incarnations of some gods look like this, but the races north of the continental shelf tend to have the characteristics of European races. If it is located close to the desert, the ethnic characteristics will be more obvious, and experienced people can rely on this to judge where the other party is from.
Sauron has obvious characteristics of the southern race. His hair is flaxen and blackish, and his pupils are close to dark brown. Part of it is human blood, and the other part is the characteristics brought by elven blood. So when the group of people saw Sauron, they immediately recognized that he was not an aborigine from the Ice and Snow Kingdom, but an adventurer from outside.
An old man from the North came out. He glanced at Sauron and said slowly, "Outsider. Where are you going? Outsiders are not very welcome here recently."
Sauron bent slightly, glanced at the corpses surrounded by the crowd, they were holding a funeral, and replied: "I am a traveling adventurer. I want to stay in a nearby town for a while."
He glanced at the center, and there were three corpses on the ground, all of which were adult men, which made him frown slightly, and slowly said: "May their souls rest in peace. I want to ask what happened Things? Why do you not welcome outsiders?"
Something must have happened.
The three adult men would not die suddenly. Judging by the scale of their funeral, the dead still had some status.
The old elder hesitated for a moment, then exchanged glances with the others, and said slowly: "Recently, a group of evil fallen people entered the Ice and Snow Kingdom, and among them there are terrible witches who have confused many people with spells. Few people have been killed. Our town is also threatened, and the sheriff has closed the town, and now no outsiders are allowed to approach."
"Maybe you can try somewhere else!"
Sauron frowned and took a step forward. It was obvious that a strong man stood up and put his hand on the weapon. The old man waved his hand to stop them. His rich experience told him that it is not easy for a solo adventurer. There is no need to provoke the other party directly. That's why he tactfully refused, or else he could just be expelled directly. There have been successive deaths in the town, and outsiders have been refused to step into their place.
Sauron seemed to have seen something, turned his head and said, "Can you let me see these corpses? Maybe I can help."
The old man hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.
Obviously someone among the others wanted to say something, and it seemed that they didn't agree with this kind of desecration of the dead, because the funeral had already started, but it was stopped by the elderly.
"excuse me."
Sauron pushed away the crowd in front of him and saw a woman with red eyes. She was standing beside her with two children in her arms. She lost the pillar of her family, and her life would be very hard in the future. If there is no rich family property, then you can only remarry, otherwise it is difficult for a woman to support two children. Sauron noticed that there were scars on the neck of the corpse. He opened the eyes of the deceased and looked at it, then stretched out his fingers and pressed the forehead of the corpse.
All three bodies were somewhat similar, all of them adult and strong males.
Their expressions were a little weird and distorted, as if they were in pain before death, but there was a weird smile in the pain, and a Kindler was placed on their lips. This is a tradition close to the northern region. According to their legend, there is a god of death who likes wealth very much, and the coins on his lips are dedicated to them to buy travel expenses.
The rich put Kindler, the commoners put Silver Deler, and the poor put Bronze Deler.
The northern tradition believes that the souls of the dead are first taken away by the God of Death, and then they decide whether these souls belong to the kingdom of the gods or enter the cycle of reincarnation in the River of Styx.
The first receiver of the soul must still be the god of death. Their natural power is very powerful. The King of the End] and the [Death Recorder] still exist in a certain corner of the Styx.
He used to be the master of the underworld, although he has retired now.
This extremely powerful ancient god of death is the only ancient god who possessed great divine power in the past and has not yet fallen.
He has existed for an unknown age, and it is said that he has been waiting for the end of all things!
He waited for the end of the universe, recorded the final death, and completed his final mission.
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Regarding the [Great Divine Power] at the master level, he is also the only standard that can be clearly measured, because he personally separated his own power and bestowed the priesthood of death on the three gods. This ancient god of death, who is considered to be the standard of great divine power, created three [powerful divine power] death gods from the dispersed divine power, and also stripped the priesthood from the death god system that enveloped the multiverse.
How strong is this ancient god of death
The information Sauron collected is not very clear. The only thing that can be understood is that there was a period of turmoil in the past, but it only affected the heavens and did not spread to the abyss and hell. The scope of the turmoil was also very small, only concentrated in the The material plane has been destroyed, and the elemental gods and some ancient gods have not yet been affected. It was a period of small-scale turmoil. During this period, the three main gods of death teamed up to single out nearly half of the main gods in the upper plane. Although they still failed in the end, the consequences have been affecting the present.
The template of the Son of Slaughter is said to be the descendant of the blood of the Slaughter God among the Three Death Gods.
And it's not a direct bloodline!
A lot of information has been lost, especially after the rise of the Arcane Empire, there was a very long gap in time, and there was a blank period of more than three thousand years in the literature records.
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Sauron's memory was full of conspiracy theories that had been prevalent for a while.
Because the destruction of the Arcane Empire coincided with the disappearance of the great divine power, and after the destruction of the Arcane Empire, the great divine power never appeared again. Some people speculated that in this competition, a certain god of great power lost, and the Arcane Empire also lost, and only the gods of the heavens still existed.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Arcane Empire studies elemental annihilation matter, and the existence of such a terrifying neutron star golem!
Moreover, the last small-scale turmoil was because the gods of great power forcibly took away the priesthood of other heavenly gods. Conspiracy theorists believe that this is enough to make other gods resist or even kill the great gods. And they also listed part of the information that the Arcane Empire has the ability to help kill the great power, because someone has been to [The Mechanical Mirror of Clockwork Nirvana] (Challenge Level 25).
Conspiracy theorists are also trying to speculate on the truth about this time of turmoil.
It's a pity that there is no useful information, because this time not only the gods of the heavens, but also the ancient gods of the abyss hell and the elemental plane have all lost their godhead power.
This time is obviously not something that can be done by great divine power, because no one in the gods was spared this time!
The ancient death gods who gave up most of their divine power are said to have been knocked down.
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Sauron lifted the clothes off the corpse, which made the others glared and even wanted to do it, because he then took off the clothes of the dead.
clang!
Sauron pulled out his scimitar and pointed it at the person who wanted to attack, making them take a step back involuntarily. He frowned and looked at the scars on the corpse, there were hideous and shocking wounds all over it.
Sauron's face was extremely gloomy, he separated the battered flesh with his fingers, and murmured, "Snake head whip!?"
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