One day, he returned to the Black Lake in a dream. He is standing on the lake. In the sky, there is a spot of light similar to the sun, a scar shaped like a crescent moon, and a gap in the shape of a maple leaf.
The sun spoke in his mind: the war is coming to an end, and we will use all our power to sever the connection between the planes forever.
Maple Leaf whispered in his ear: from now on, the devil will no longer be able to invade other worlds, and we will also stay away from the human world.
The sound of the new moon sounded in the distance, as if floating from the endless void: the only special thing is that mortals can still reach my domain of gods through the black lake, seeking the peaceful sleep of the end of life. From now on, the Black Lake will be the only link between mortals and the realm of the gods. It's a pity that the guards of the Black Lake are dead, and no one guards here. Would you like to stay? Or, would you like to leave with us
He didn't have to speak, they could read his answer: he wasn't going. He is only a demigod and does not have the powerful soul of a true god. Once he goes to the God's Domain, he will lose himself and his independent will, and his soul will merge into the God's Domain, just like those human souls that return to the embrace of the gods.
He didn't want to stay in Black Lake either. He still has a lot of unfinished business, such as cleaning up the remaining devil army, such as sniping weird creatures infected and mutated by purgatory elements, such as finding sleeping dragons with humans, such as going back to the valley where he used to be... so Many years have passed, and the land there should have been rejuvenated. He never forgot the mid-spring scenery he saw for the first time, and always wanted to see the flowers blooming on the mountains again.
He also wants to see the legendary "Griffin". It is said that griffons live in groups in the mountains, which separate the desert in the west from the forest plain in the east, and the country at the foot of the mountains has not been touched by the devil so far. Griffons are intelligent and powerful, and they have been helping humans fight against demons. Humans near the mountains worship these creatures very much, and draw their images on stone tablets and parchment.
He also wants to see the human race that defends their homeland tenaciously. Maybe he can live with those brave humans and work with them to eliminate the purgatory monsters that remain in the world.
After seeing his answer, the sun gradually dimmed with a sigh, and the maple leaf-shaped gap gradually closed.
The new moon was the last to disappear. A voice in the void said to him: To fight against the devil, you have raised countless undead. You have to promise me that after the last devil disappears, you will send the undead back to the darkness, otherwise, the undead will also turn the world into purgatory.
"I will do it," he said to the sky, "even if I say I can do it, will you believe me?"
The voice answered him: "The beautiful scenery you yearn for in your heart is the most credible promise."
He wrote it all down in his book. He recorded the time when the plane separation occurred, and also recorded the dying counterattack of the devil army after that. The devils are trapped in the human world, unable to grow stronger, and unable to escape back to purgatory. Even if they can resist for a while, they can only be consumed and die in the end.
Many years later, when he reread the first half of the book, he couldn't help wondering:
The devil monarch trapped in the black lake should be dying, and even go crazy, just like the devil army trapped in the world now... In this case, if the guards of the black lake want to kill the enemy in one go, they will be considered as The lesser gods are powerless, and he can also turn to the three good gods... Then, why did he trap himself in the lake with the devil lord? Why would they annihilate together
The Guardians of the Black Lake wrote down the legend themselves, but never explained why.
He felt sorry. Not only can he not understand that story, but maybe people who read it in the future will not be able to understand it... unless he can meet the Creator again and ask the story in person.
Time passed year by year, and the records he wrote were about a finger thick. During these years, he continued to snipe and kill devils, and continued to march and wander in unfamiliar and familiar lands. He found the country beside the Southwest Mountains and met some ordinary humans living there.
These people cultivate fertile land and build strong castles. Even without the help of the Lord of Bones, they can rely on their own strength to defend against the creatures of purgatory. They worshiped the griffin as they did in ancient times, depicted the majestic appearance of the griffin on their banners and shields, and claimed to be a nation blessed by this sacred creature.
During the years of communicating with these humans, the Lord of Bones received his first creation. According to ancient books, only the true god has the ability to create things, but he did it with three mixed powers.
The first creation was made of the power of the undead and was in the form of a young human woman. She was born in the battlefield to help the Maharaja command the undead army, and her powerful killing ability is like death itself. Originally, she didn't have a name. Later, the Lord of Skeletons gave himself a name from many human legends, and also gave her a name. Her name is Ogilia, which is said to mean the bird that takes the soul.
After many years, the countries under the mountains have become accustomed to the existence of undead creatures. They even formed an alliance with the Lord of Bones and sent troops to act with his undead army. During a certain march, they witnessed the heroic posture of a griffin taking off on a cliff, which gave him some inspiration and allowed him to create a second creation: a huge griffin with dark red fur.
The creature is made of the power of inferno, and its heart is as clear and innocent as those humans who worship griffins. The Lord of Bones secretly appropriated the name of a human general and named the dark red griffin Siegfel.
The traces of the devil have become less and less, but the scars on the earth are hard to erase. That day, Lord Skeleton found the valley where he first came to the world as he wished. It was winter, the mountains were covered with snow, and the cracks left by the fire dragon and the winged snake on the ridge were still clearly visible. Chuang sleeps here forever.
Soon after, the demigod received his third creation. This creation is composed of the power of God's Domain, which can sensitively sense the alien world, sort out restless elements, and even heal the damage caused by various negative forces. He is closer to the magic itself than any angel or priest, and it can be said to be a unique miracle in the world.
His name is Odette. The name was thought up by Odile, who changed her name from "the bird that takes the soul" to "the bird that brings life back". But Odette is not a bird, nor a girl, nor a griffin, he is a silver dragon as huge as a mountain.
Once alive, the Creations are three separate entities. They are not undead, nor human beings, but another living creature created by God. They can grow up like human children, and even the Skeleton King cannot estimate their potential.
Ogilia slays the devil on the battlefield, her figure is like a god of death; Siegfried can take away the alien elements emitted by the devil and prevent them from affecting the world; Odette spreads her wings to protect her compatriots and human beings from the flames of the devil , he can make soldiers forget their pain and let the dead sleep peacefully. When the sun shines on him, the light reflected from the silver dragon scales can purify the polluted land and make the valley that has been desolate for hundreds of years reappear new green.
The Lord of Skeletons handed over the book to three creators for safekeeping. They continued to record what they saw and heard as they continued to add paper to the thicker and thicker pages, and Odette put one of her own dragon scales in the book to protect it from decay.
The Lord of Skeletons no longer records anything by himself, and now he has no energy to take care of these at all. He promised that after the last devil disappeared, he would send the undead back to the darkness, otherwise, the undead would also turn the world into purgatory.
Originally, he thought it would not be difficult, he could awaken the dead, and naturally he could destroy them... But he was wrong. He found that his strength was weakening, and the undead gradually began to lose control.
He is facing an overdraft of power. Just like humans, no matter how strong humans are, they cannot work day and night. They must rest properly to recover their strength the next day, and then the cycle repeats. This is not the case with the Lord of Skeletons. He has been expending strength since he came to the world, and has almost never really recuperated. To this day, his soul has been worn out and riddled with holes, and it is impossible to restore to a state of full strength.
A true god wouldn't have this problem, but he's only a demigod. Even if he started to cultivate now, it was too late, the army of undead became more and more out of control, and it was no longer possible for him to coexist safely with the living.
Now most human beings no longer fear the devil, and some young children don't even know that the creatures of hell really existed... Now people start to fear the dead, they worry that their loved ones will come back to life and become flesh-eating monsters.
Maharaja knows a way to quickly restore strength. He could have killed those three creatures, devouring their burgeoning souls back...but he didn't want to.
There is another way: to return to the Black Lake, inherit that God's Domain, and become the new Guardian of the Black Lake. Back then, Otarot had invited him in this way before leaving, but unfortunately he refused. Now that the plane of the Black Lake has been cut off, except for the souls of the dead, I am afraid that no one can enter it.
Maybe there is another way... After the three good gods left, the power they left in the world formed a magical vein, which can indicate the thinner points of the plane. The thin dots are like spider silk. One end of the spider silk hangs on the object, and the tiny clues can indicate the location of another space.
He could find a thinner plane and find a way to return to the Black Lake...but it would take a long time, and he might have to gamble on his luck. Before the undead creatures became more and more out of control and caused irreversible tragedies, he didn't know if he had a chance...
In the year when the incident happened, Odile went to the southeast of the mainland, trying to appease the ghosts of the battlefield who had fallen into madness. The Purgatory Winged Serpent...
Their master, the Skeleton Lord, was left alone in the Southwest Mountains. He tried to lead the undead army across the mountains to the sparsely populated desert to the west. These things were getting harder and harder to control, and it took him a while to put them to sleep again.
Ogilia was the first to come back, and when she found her master, he was standing in a sea of blood.
The place where they stood was once a square, full of noisy humans. But now, there is no living person in all directions here, only countless corpses.
There are new and old corpses. The old ones are inactive undead soldiers, and the new ones are human beings who have just died. They overlap tragically and strangely, covering the ground and part of the building, and the edge cannot be seen at all.
The bones formed a hill, and on the hill stood a mottled and broken battle flag. The flag was ravaged by blood and thick smoke so that it could not see its color, but the silver griffin pattern in the center was still vivid, shining brightly in the sunlight.
The blood-stained griffin raised its forelimbs, raised its chest and flapped its wings, roaring towards the sky.
Odile wrote: The master has been silent, as if turned into a stone statue. It wasn't until Siegfried and Odette came back that he told them his next plan.
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While reading this, Lotterbald suddenly remembered. Even if he didn't read the following content, he still completely remembered what happened at that time.
Since the gods imprisoned him in the Swamp of the Dead, why didn't they cleanse his creation as well? Because... before he created, the separation of the planes had already occurred, and the true god had already left.
No one knew that he could create things as a demigod, and no one questioned his record of killing demons, and no one regarded him as a dangerous product because of this.
He was misled by the guesses and accounts of later generations, thinking that the legends he heard were his real experiences. And now, he remembered.
The person who imprisoned him was not the real god, but himself.
The author has something to say:
sigh,
I finally wrote it here hehe...
The magical runes are condensed, and the retelling version is also condensed... I will finish reading the next chapter on the mage's side, and then I can start the sequelae (what...