Simultaneous Travel: Becoming a Legend in the Heavens.

Chapter 381 Ancient Scholars

Strong winds, huge waves, dark clouds, and lightning.

A pitch-black storm swept across the sea, dark lightning streaked across the sky, and the raging sea seemed to never stop surging. Two figures were outlined in the void at the edge.

The leading man had a bronze complexion, soft features, and a tiny black mole under his right ear. He was Azik, a friend and colleague of Kleinho University's mentor Cohen.

University tutor is not Azik’s only identity.

He died and resurrected time and time again, and experienced thousands of different lives. He had been a noble and a refugee, a general and a prisoner, a student and a teacher.

His original identity was the "Death Archon" of the Balam Empire in the Fourth Epoch!
Azik looked at the disaster-like scene in front of him, his eyes filled with reminiscence and confusion.

"I...I remember this place. I am very familiar with this place. Something is calling me."

"The Raging Sea is where the 'God of Death' Salinger fell."

The man standing next to Azik spoke slowly. He had short golden brown hair and dark green eyes like a moonless lake in the middle of the night. He was none other than Creste, a senior deacon of the Church of Evernight, codenamed "Sword of the Goddess".

"At the end of the Fourth Epoch, the 'Original Witch' and the 'Death God' joined forces to launch the 'Pale Disaster'. To resist their attack, the Seven Gods signed the 'Sacred Oath'. The 'Original Witch' was defeated, and the 'Death God' tried to return to the southern continent and the Balam Empire he ruled, but he perished in this sea under the pursuit of the Seven Gods."

"Before his death, he stirred up endless winds and waves, creating an insurmountable obstacle. From then on, the North Continent and the South Continent were blocked until Emperor Roselle opened up a new route."

Azik stared at the raging sea, his shattered memories gradually revived.

He saw himself sitting on the Skull Throne, saw the Extraordinary and ordinary people lying dead in front of the throne, saw innocent people suddenly die, and then one by one they crawled up and turned into pale undead creatures to pledge allegiance to him.

He just watched coldly, without any emotion, allowing the disaster of death to spread to the countryside, to the city, and to fall equally on everyone.

"Then... who am I? What role do I play?"

Azik looked a little painful.

Krestai smiled slightly, "You need to find the answer. You should be able to feel what is calling you in the raging sea, right?"

"..."

After a brief silence, Azik withdrew his gaze from the raging sea. He took out a copper whistle, closed his eyes and listened carefully, then opened them after a moment with a hint of disappointment on his face.

"The voice calling me is not clear enough to pinpoint. I am... still missing something."

The timing was wrong, maybe he came too early.

"That won't be a problem."

Krestai showed a pious look, drew a red moon shape on his chest, and began to pray.

After a few seconds, the sound in Azik's ears suddenly became louder, the vague connection became quite clear, and a scene like a dream appeared in front of him.

The ancient and mysterious mausoleum, the layers of stairs, and the black mist lingering at the end.

In the black fog, the huge and illusory monster began to slowly wriggle. It slowly opened its eyes and looked at Azik with a cold gaze along the screen!
The picture was broken, and the expression on Azik's face became a little indifferent. He looked at Krestel and spoke calmly.

"I think I know where that place is."

The "Archon of Death" who survived the Fourth Epoch closed his eyes, listened quietly to the cry coming from an unknown source, and then clenched his right hand violently.

All the scenes in the nearby spiritual world collapsed inwards, turning into a dark vortex with no visible edge and slowly rotating, swallowing Azik and Krestel.

……

Earl Hall House, Queens.

Audrey slowly opened her eyes and found that an illusory bronze dog had appeared beside her. It squatted on the ground obediently with its head tilted, as if it had been waiting for a while.

Sensing Audrey's gaze, the bronze dog's body slowly dissipated, revealing spots of light and a note.

"The low-sequence Beyonder characteristics of the Audience pathway have been specially processed. There is no need to worry about combining with other items to form a seal. It can be directly used as the main material for the potion.

Promote yourself well, my gem."

"What do you mean by 'my gem'? Mr. 'Emperor' is really not subtle at all..."

Audrey blushed as she put away the note and the Beyonder Characteristics. She tried hard to suppress the upturned corners of her mouth so as not to appear so happy.

Her eyes were filled with movement, and she could not help but stand up, bent down to lift up the hem of her skirt, bowed to the air, walked briskly, turned her body, and danced to a cheerful tune.

When the song ended, Audrey stopped dancing and found Susie squatting in the corner of the room, looking at her quietly.

She awkwardly ignored the golden retriever's gaze, pretended nothing had happened, and took Susie's hand.

"Let's go out for a walk. It's been a while since I last took a walk with you."

She planned to go out for a short time under the pretext of taking a walk and find some good detectives to find the child Luke mentioned.

After changing into clean and simple casual clothes and saying goodbye to the maid Anne and other servants, Audrey, Susie and their dog walked out of the mansion.

She took Susie by the hand and walked around the luxurious mansion briefly, then slowly walked away, leaving Queens and heading towards a famous detective agency on the street that she knew.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A dazzling white light suddenly lit up from a distance, the scorching light seemed to melt the eyes, and at the same time it was accompanied by a terrifying thunder that almost perforated the eardrums and seemed to take away all hearing.

A silvery, twisted, and terrifying electric snake descended from the sky, like a divine punishment, completely annihilating an area of ​​the ground!
The rainstorm, which was a beat later than the lightning, began to fall at this time. Large patches of dark clouds gathered rapidly, so fast that it was beyond common sense. The terrifying lightning flashed freely in the clouds, which seemed to indicate that the aftermath was not yet settled.

Before Audrey could react to the shocking vision, Susie pulled her to the nearest store to take shelter from the rain. The second she entered the store, heavy rain began to fall.

The pedestrians on the street were hit by the pillar-like torrential rain and fled in all directions, running quickly. Soon, the only things in the outside world were the suffocating rainstorm and the rumbling thunder.

Audrey looked toward where the initial lightning strike had occurred.

That was...the Church of Storms?
Did Mr. "The Hanged Man" really ask someone to shout "Leodro" and the name of "Lord of Storms" and be punished by God?

"Can you buy me an ice cream?"

A childish voice suddenly sounded, bringing Audrey back to her senses. She walked towards the voice and saw a little boy with a chubby face.

He didn't seem to have come here in a hurry to take shelter from the rain. The small hospital gown he was wearing was dry as new. His light yellow hair was combed neatly. He was looking at him pitifully.

ice cream?
Audrey glanced sideways and realized that the place where she and Susie had run into to take shelter from the rain was an ice cream shop. She looked at the little boy in surprise and keenly discovered that his center of gravity was tilted when he stood.

His leg seemed to be injured and he was not standing steadily.

Boy, wearing hospital gown, lame leg...could this be such a coincidence?

Thinking of what Luke had said, Audrey spoke tentatively:
"Little boy, can you tell me your name?"

The little boy scratched his chubby face and said in a soft voice:

"Okay, but you have to buy me a vanilla ice cream."

Judging from his behavior, he really looked like an ordinary child. Audrey doubted her assumption for a moment. She squatted down and said seriously:
"It's not suitable to eat ice when you're sick, and children can't just eat things given by strangers. What if the person on the other side is a bad person?"

"I'm not..."

The little boy sighed reluctantly and muttered softly: "Okay, although you are stingy, my intuition tells me that I should answer your question. I will regret it if I miss it."

He bowed like a little gentleman, and his childish voice echoed in the ice cream shop.

"My name is Will. Will Auceptin."

……

Backlund, Church of the Storm.

Alger's face was pale and he stayed in his room trembling.

Just now, following Lu Ke's instructions, he went to the East District to find a non-local thug, and asked him to come to the gate of the Storm Church and say "Leodero" for one soli.

The next moment, Alger, who was far away, saw silver lightning falling from the sky, engulfing the gangster completely without leaving even a trace of residue.

That horrific divine punishment almost drove Alger into despair, and he felt like he would die too.

Fortunately, it was just an illusion and he was still safe and sound.

The divine punishment of the "Lord of Storms" did not implicate himself through the gangsters from outsiders, but it lingered for a few seconds as if unwillingly before completely dissipating.

Everything Mr. Emperor said is true!
He actually has the ability to protect those who blaspheme God!

Alger instinctively wanted to hit his left chest with his right fist and recite a prayer, but he hesitated and stopped halfway.

After a brief stalemate, he lowered his right fist, swallowed, and spoke in a low voice.

"Praise...Praise the 'Emperor'!"

……

One Daffodil Street.

Lu Ke's figure emerged from the void, holding in his right hand a heart that looked like flocculent and frosty, and seemed to be still beating.

He stretched out his left hand and reached forward, and a pair of burning dark red eyes appeared in his hand.

A resentful look shot up from the ground, and Fulgrim's dog looked at Luke with an accusing look, just like a middle-aged man who had a mortgage and car loan, a wife and children who were exploited by a black-hearted boss, and who was afraid to quit his job because of the bad economic situation.

"Okay, I'll give you a copy of the Ancient Scholar Extraordinary Characteristics later."

Lu Ke comforted the dog silently, "If you want it now, I can also give you a copy of the extraordinary characteristic of 'Deceiving the Mentor'."

The dog seemed to think for a moment, rubbed Lu Ke's trouser leg, and made a "waiting" gesture.

Compared with the adjacent path of "Deceiving Mentor", it prefers the original "Ancient Scholar" promotion route of the Hounds of Fulgrim.

After calming the dog down, Luke put the two main materials together. When they were close together, they blended together like magnets, mixing and transforming into grayish-white extraordinary properties.

He swallowed the “Ancient Scholar” extraordinary characteristic in one gulp.

The scene before my eyes was shattered.

What reappeared was the gray-white fog with unclear edges, which enveloped the entire world and displayed a series of past experiences.

There was a scene where he just communicated with the "Goddess of Night" in the "Mysterious Realm", a scene where he dealt with Amon's clone through the air, a scene where he signed a contract with the "God of Lamp", a scene where he toasted with the "God of Steam and Machinery", a scene where he fought with the "Hidden Sage", and a scene where he took away Bernadette's extraordinary characteristics...

These images show Luke's experiences when he came into contact with divinity and higher beings, and are valuable enough to be called "occult" knowledge.

At this time, patches of light appeared in the gray fog, the number was astonishing, almost forming a flat road.

Lu Ke's eyes focused and he understood the meaning of those spots of light.

That is a gap in history. Only those who are familiar with that period of history can jump to it, which symbolizes the digestion progress of ancient scholars.

Lu Ke did not hesitate and jumped rapidly above the light spot. Familiar past history appeared before him one after another.

In the Black Iron Age of the Fifth Epoch, during the colonial period, the natives of the southern continent were wantonly invaded by the northern continent. Roselle led the trend of the times and ruled Intis. The War of Forsaken Oaths and the White Rose War...

The Fourth Epoch of the Gods, the Pale Age, the War of the Four Emperors, the United Empire, the First and Second Solomon Empires, the Fall of the Red Angel, the Blood Emperor's deification, and constant disputes.

In the third era of catastrophe, the era of glory, the "Ancient Sun God" ruled the whole world, the eight angel kings performed their duties, and human civilization flourished. In the era of disaster, the Redemption Rose was established, and the "Ancient Sun God" was betrayed and eaten by the three angel kings of Pure White, Wisdom and Storm. The gods fought in chaos and life was destroyed.

In the Dark Age of the Second Era, half-crazy ancient gods ruled the earth, struggle swept the world, mankind fell into the abyss, facing death at all times. The "Ancient Sun God" awakened from the "Sea of ​​Chaos" and fought one ancient god after another to liberate mankind from the bottom of the food chain.

In the First Age, the Age of Chaos, everything was in chaos, Beyonder characteristics were everywhere, monsters were everywhere, death and madness enveloped the entire world, and the "Son of Chaos" sneaked in, and the "Lord of Mysteries" turned him into a "Djinn".

The two "pillars" contained excess "source essence" and were unable to control their aggregation instinct, starting an endless fight to the death, and eventually both died.

Lu Ke leaped through history at a rapid speed, and what ordinary "ancient scholars" found extremely difficult to digest became as easy as walking on flat ground for him, with almost no effort.

He went to a more distant historical gap and saw the nostalgic earth. He also saw the revival of the great will, the awakening of the "beginning" from its slumber, and the destruction of the earth in an instant.

He saw that the "extraordinary characteristics", "uniqueness" and "source quality" of the entire universe were aggregated and could not exist for a long time. He saw that the "beginning" that was always in an unstable state fell asleep again. He saw that the remaining power of the "beginning" formed a barrier. He saw that the ten outer gods were each entrenched on a planet.

The "ancient scholars" have digested it.

In other words, ten more copies of "Ancient Scholars" would also have to be digested.

Suddenly, Lu Ke's will returned to his body and he slowly opened his eyes.

"The harvest is good."

Recalling the scenes he saw through the gaps in history, Lu Ke's lips curled up into a smile.

(End of this chapter)