Volume 7: War and Peace in an Abandoned Town Chapter 5 Ancient Prophecy (Part 2)
"In simple terms, it means limiting summons, right? I understand."
"You don't seem surprised?"
Looking at Li Lin's calm face, the professor showed a slightly curious expression.
"If I wanted to stop you from using Sally's power before, you would have always refused to do it. Why are you so easy to talk to now? Is it because you have seen through something or is there some other reason?"
"No, I guess at this level, the dungeons start to have restrictions. Just like you can play low-level dungeons at will, but high-level dungeons must have various restrictions and coordination operations. I can still understand this. Don't take my quality as a professional player as unreasonable, professor."
"Although I still don't understand what you are saying, it's OK as long as you can accept this."
After all, this is actually one of the requirements.
Listening to Li Lin's description, which was completely different from normal language, the professor blinked his eyes, but still keenly noticed Li Lin's fearlessness. After swallowing up the history of the Black Forest, the spirit and matter that permeated Li Lin also had a strange change.
Sacrifice is always effective. After sacrificing a species, the magic power carried by Li Lin naturally has affixes such as "eternal existence". However, this spiritual change is also a pleasant surprise, and it also gives the professor the confidence to continue. After all, the things involved next may have surpassed the assistant level and reached the difficulty of the lecturer or even the associate professor level. Moreover, after removing Sally, Li Lin's ability has also greatly decreased, which makes the professor a little worried.
But thinking about Li Lin's usual shitty appearance and his ability to never die, of course, what he valued most were some of the qualities he had shown before. Looking at the intact cross on Li Lin's neck, the professor pushed his glasses and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he imprinted his interpretation on the parchment scroll and handed it to Li Lin.
The moment he took the parchment scroll, a system warning sounded in Li Lin's mind.
'System prompt: You are accepting the rare item: The Book of the Decaying Sun Prophecy.'
'System prompt: The structure of the Decaying Sun Prophecy is detected in the mind. The Decaying Sun Prophecy Book will be used as a task to interpret the Decaying Sun Prophecy. The required level for this task is 40. The current player level does not meet the regular process sequence, and the default difficulty is Purgatory.'
'System prompt: You have triggered the mission, the Prophecy of Decaying Day. Do you want to accept it? This mission is more than ten levels higher than the player's level. It is not recommended for players to accept the mission. If you force yourself to accept it, all consequences will be borne by the player. There may be negative effects such as level drop, skill seal, status mutation, etc. Please consider carefully before accepting it. This mission is unique.'
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Is there any need to ask? How can you be considered as playing games if you don't do stupid things? Of course I accepted it.
After taking a look at the black-red warning, Li Lin shrugged, opened the seal and read it carefully.
The professor's magic burned an exquisite and horrifying story on the parchment scroll, telling the story of a cult that had emerged in a small town and was praising a corrupted sun.
The main perspective is that of a cultist, who enthusiastically describes the radiance of the sun he feels, as well as the joy and beauty that is born around him when he is bathed in the sun. The description is bizarre and grotesque, and does not seem to conform to current logic and ideas, using unusual words to praise a certain product that exists in the void.
Strictly speaking, there was nothing strange about this little story. It was just a normal story of a cult threatening and intimidating people and developing offline members. However, the god described in it gave people a kind of trembling shadow , as if calling his name would cause some kind of destruction. The horror and despair that penetrated deep into the brain caused Li Lin, as a player, to have some uncontrollable shaking in his body. It was a completely different kind of fear and confusion after coming into contact with the void, as if that thing should have died long ago.
Moreover, looking at those related words and sacrificial rituals, Li Lin always had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Feels familiar, doesn't it? You actually surprised me that you were able to touch this thing."
Looking at Li Lin's thoughtful expression, the professor shrugged.
"According to the prophecy of the Decayed Sun, the sun of positive energy has long been decayed, and no action can reverse this decayed sun. Sooner or later, the decayed sun will tear off its own cortical disguise, and the festering abscess will destroy the entire world. Only by following the footsteps of the Decayed Sun can one be freed from this doomed destruction. This is the superficial meaning, but the inner meaning is not so. In fact, his core is only one, calling on the ancient blood of madness, completing the sacrifice, and calling out the corrupt gods of the previous era."
"Ancient blood of madness? Last era? Corrupted gods?"
Looking at the abnormal knowledge progress that was jumping up and down, Li Lin raised his eyebrows and accurately grasped several key words.
"I remember that I seem to have this thing, but isn't this the characteristic that I brought with me when I sacrificed myself? Could it be that this thing has come into contact with something else ?"
"Of course, everything is interconnected. When everyone traces back to the origin of their magic, they will inevitably come into contact with some things that should disappear, some that have already disappeared, and some that should disappear. The wind will be traced back to the origin of the wind, and the water will be traced back to the origin of the water. The origins of these magics are all due to one thing, that is, fear."
Sitting in the chair, the professor's eyes flickered, as if with some inexplicable meaning.
"The awakening of magic can be traced back to one's own thoughts, and these all come from fear. The birth of wisdom and order is due to the fear of the outside world. And evil and chaos are the affixes added later. Then the gods who were incarnated by the fear of the first intelligent creatures, those ancient, the original fear hidden behind the world, do they still exist? The answer is of course, they still exist. But they were all wiped out by the original Pale Temple."
"Fear always brings resistance and hope. The original Pale Templar defeated fears one by one, and order and wisdom gradually spread, but evil and chaos were also born. When the old gods who represented fear were defeated, the world became what we know now. But did they die? No."
"As long as fear exists, the old corrupt gods will not die. And what you predicted this time is exactly the treasure house and sacrificial site where the god who fears the sun was born. What you are facing is no other than a real god."
"You are facing nothing but a rotten sun."
Looking into Li Lin's eyes, the professor spoke word by word.
