If I hadn't met Hercules, I'm afraid the secret of the true owner of the scepter would be buried in the depths of history forever.
Because the person who made the scepter with his own hands has lost the memory of that period of time, 90% of those who knew about this matter have died in the siege of the demon hunters, and all the written records about the scepter were also destroyed in the flames of war. ——Hagrid Well, he's the only one who knows the truth.
But what happened before and after Vivian made the scepter? What did she know back then? What is her purpose of making the scepter? These are all shrouded in layers of mystery. Judging from Hercules' description, Vivienne was obviously in a state of frenzy on the eve of a deep sleep, but she still barely maintained her sanity. She must have sensed when the core of the scepter fell into the hands of Zeus, so He insisted on going to Mount Olympus and made a big fuss. Every time Vivienne falls asleep, she will take away a lot of her strength and knowledge. Conversely, she becomes stronger and more knowledgeable before each deep sleep, which means that she knew the true face of the core of the scepter in the past.
Even know what to do with that thing.
A slight, crisp sound like glass shattering came from nowhere, and then an unstable wind blew up between the sky and the earth, and the weeds in the wilderness swayed in the wind. At the end of the sky, the high-hanging Orin Mount Pisi gradually became blurred.
"It's almost time," Hercules looked up at the sky with a relieved expression on his face, "I can finally rest my feet."
Hao Ren's pupils shrank. He knew what Hercules meant by "it's almost time".
However, he soon realized that he had no way to save the ancient hero in front of him: Hercules' body had been completely distorted by the evil force in the artifact, his body was dead long ago, and even his soul was dead. Full of wounds, Hercules is already a dead man from spirit to body, and now he is just the power carrier of the scepter-in this case, any medical treatment is meaningless.
But he still had his last hope: "Is there any way to save your soul?"
"It's not necessary," Hercules just shook his head slowly, "Even if you really have a way, I don't need it. I've come too far, I've gone through too many things, and I've spent more than half of my life Not mine, gods and people... I've been fighting for them, but now, I've decided to stop, I'm going to take a good rest."
Hao Ren looked at the hero. He actually wanted to say a lot of persuasive words, but after seeing the other person's eyes, he swallowed all of them. This person does not need persuasion, he has no despair, no regrets, he has no unfulfilled wishes and nostalgia for the world, he is neither curious about the future, nor recalls the past, he just simply wants a long-term the rest.
This is a unique way of death for a long-lived species: life is long enough, it has lost its color, he has lived enough, that's all.
"Before you leave, I want to ask you one last thing." Hercules suddenly turned his head and looked into Hao Ren's eyes.
"What's the matter?" Hao Ren subconsciously responded.
"Thank Hesperis for me," Hercules laughed, "thank her for taking care of her back then."
After Hao Ren nodded, Hercules seemed to have finally completed the last thing in his life. He breathed a sigh of relief, his figure quickly dimmed and became transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye, and behind him, the sky began to shatter Shards of glass shattered.
At this moment, Hao Ren suddenly thought of something. He immediately took a step forward, looked into Hercules' eyes, and silently recited the name with the most powerful power in this universe in his heart, and according to the manual, combined this name with The souls in front of the eyes are connected. Finally, he opened his hands to Hercules: "Rest in peace, the goddess will bless you."
Hercules gave Hao Ren a puzzled look, then slowly closed his eyes.
Some imperceptible black smoke drifted from his thinner and thinner figure, and then his whole body turned into light and gradually dissipated.
And behind him, the sacred mountain of Olympus in his memories shattered along with the sky, turning into an endless darkness where streamers of light fell towards the edge of the spiritual world.
The whole world shook violently.
At the same moment, in the reality outside, Hercules' huge body began to crumble bit by bit.
"Bat, bat, what should we do now?!" Lily, who had recovered her human form, was covered in soot and mud and looked anxiously at the expanding black crack beside the giant. Now that the artifact scepter had been sealed, Hercules, as the host, It is also disintegrating, but the evil force escaping from the "boundary" will not simply disappear out of thin air. These remaining forces are fighting back on the deathbed, as if they can also realize that the defeat is doomed , this evil force started the last wave of eruption with the momentum of pulling everyone to be buried together: the desperate black tide is reappearing.
Perhaps the negative power that has lost its source will be completely exhausted soon, but before that, this different space may collapse earlier.
What's worse is that Hao Ren has lost consciousness since just now—Vivienne turned her head to look at the man lying behind her. The moment he sealed the scepter, he fell headfirst from Hercules. Lily's eye disease was the cause." "Hand" quickly rushed up to catch her landlord, so that the latter did not fall into the tide of monsters: the heroic action of the husky girl must be the result of her usual practice of catching the frisbee.
And Lily's embarrassed appearance is also a by-product of this brave action.
"He's still in the deep link state." The data terminal circled around Hao Ren's head a few times, "Strange, strange, Hercules is dead... who is he connecting with now?!"
"Is he in danger?" Vivian asked immediately.
"There is no danger. This machine is bound to his soul. It can be confirmed that his spiritual world is safe."
Vivienne breathed a sigh of relief, but Hesperis looked worriedly at the black tide that was spreading: "In short, it's enough to stay alive. The most important things right now... must be resolved before the situation completely gets out of control."
Lily became more and more anxious. Her eyes kept turning back and forth between the Black Tide and Hao Ren. The situation in front of her made her feel an unprecedented crisis. At this moment, she realized that Hao Ren has always been the backbone of the team. The challenge only seemed so insignificant when he was leading, but now, this man lost consciousness due to unknown reasons, and she was completely bewildered.
Vivian raised her head and looked into the distance, the dark shadows continued to spread, showing no signs of fading.
Nolan is activating her artillery system, but now everyone is trapped in this different space, and without Hao Ren waking up, without the protection of the shield array, the spaceship dare not fire at will. What's more, this piece of time and space can hardly withstand the second bombardment.
Lily licked Hao Ren's hand, but found no response from him. She raised her head again, only to see Vivienne slowly floating into the air, and waves of bloody whirlwinds were spreading from his side.
Lily was stunned for a moment: "Bat, bat, what are you doing?"
Vivian didn't answer, she just carefully mobilized this power she hadn't used for a long time, recalling its control skills bit by bit from the depths of her memory, her long hair danced without wind under the drive of magic power, every strand The ends of the hair were soaked with blood red light.
And with the increasingly intense energy fluctuations, her figure gradually became blurred, as if some kind of force made her break away from the real time and space.
A hot surge spread from the blood vessels, and Vivienne almost felt that she had a beating heart: she felt that the energy in her body was agitating, which gave her the illusion that her heart was beating, and this energy quickly Becoming strong soon became a huge burden—she frowned, and began to grit her teeth and persevere.
Hesperis was stunned for a while, and finally remembered what this energy fluctuation meant from deep in her memory. Her face changed drastically: "You want to..."
"Don't look up at the sky, don't look directly at the moonlight."
Vivienne's voice came from the sky, and then a piercing red beam of light descended from the sky. Her figure was completely bathed in this primitive force that was powerful enough to distort reality, as if she was covered in a bloody costume.
A red moon slowly rises.
This is a scene that is difficult to describe in words. Although Vivienne tried to summon the red moon three years ago, her summoning only lasted for a short time and was interrupted. He also failed to use all his strength, but this time, the real red moon was already in the sky.
The summoned moon rises to the top of the zenith and gradually expands. This scene is as terrifying as a star falling to the earth, and the blurred lines on the surface of the moon gradually become clear as the moon expands. , These lines of great power are filled with energy, when they shine, the whole world is instantly filled with a distant and mysterious echo like the sound of a bell.
The first bell rang, and the moonlight shone on the earth.
The second bell rang, and all the servants of darkness couldn't help but look up at the sky. In the moonlight, they quickly disappeared like phantoms.
The third bell rang, and everything in the world returned to balance and order. (to be continued~^~)