Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 389 The Emperor's Confusion

Caspian Quinn said, "I know you come from a very far place, but I have already given you all the spirituality you need to use that magic, so even in a time when the Assyrian Empire does not exist, you can still use the Four Beasts' Blessing."

"The power of the four beasts comes from the Lord of Law."

"Therefore, using the power of the four beasts will actually provide an advantage."

Su Nan nodded and said, "Then thank you, Your Majesty."

The emperor suddenly sat up straight and looked at Su Nan, asking, "What is your opinion of the empire I have built?"

Su Nan pondered for a moment and said carefully, "Your Majesty's empire was built through great conquests. It is vast in scale and has a large population. Even the gods can be your enemies."

Emperor Caspian Quinn laughed heartily.

"Su Nan, you have good judgment. But there's one thing I still can't understand: why would such a vast and great empire betray me?"

The emperor rose from his throne, and the spiritual energy of the Assyrian Empire's earth veins converged on his body. A terrifying bronze dragon shadow appeared behind him, unleashing a dreadful roar upon the world.

The emperor looked out of the palace at the five divine avatars wreaking havoc in the capital of the Assyrian Empire. He raised his right hand and saw the masses of the mining region sincerely praying to the spirit-based deities, hoping they would destroy the Assyrian Empire and the emperor, and save them.

Caspian Quinn said, "Those mortals only see the good the gods are doing for them now, but they don't see that the reason the gods are doing good for them is because of the existence of the Assyrian Empire."

"If the Assyrian Empire didn't exist, the ugly faces of those gods would be revealed. Young friend Su Nan, I know you must have traveled to other planes. Have you seen how, under the rule of primordial gods, some planes became a purgatory for the gods, where all living beings were utterly miserable and devoid of self-respect?"

Su Nan shook his head.

"My wizard level is not high enough, so I have only done some basic void travel."

Caspian Quinn waved his hand, and phantoms formed from the earth's magic appeared before Su Nan. These were the miserable conditions of people enslaved by gods in different dimensions.

In some dimensions, humans were crippled by the gods and dared not look up at them.

In some dimensions, humans were mentally damaged by the earth gods and spirits, becoming their playthings.

Caspian Quinn said, "Even demonic spirits don't have clean hands. Look, this is a human sacrifice held for demonic spirits, and the organizer is the Akkadian Empire."

Through the magical images provided by the emperor, Su Nan saw the high priest of the Kingdom of Akkad sacrificing countless human lives to the gods of the Fairy Wilderness in order to worship the gods.

At the same time, Su Nan also saw that during the Akkad Kingdom period, the spirit gods of the demonic realm were indeed not kind to mortals, arbitrarily slaughtering them, and requiring mortals to voluntarily throw themselves into the river every month as offerings to the gods.

Extremely despicable.

Su Nan even saw a scene where a Phoenician high priest raised girls from childhood to be offered as brides to the fairy god.

Every year, the Fairy God selects one thousand beautiful underage girls from the Kingdom of Akkad to be his fairy brides. The humans of Akkad, far from being angry about this, are expected to express their joy.

At this moment, the show put on by those fairy gods in the Assyrian Empire is mostly just empty talk aimed at dismantling the empire.

Caspian Quinn said to Sunan, "See that?"

"This is what the spirits of the demonic realm did to those rebellious mortals outside. They stripped humans of their dignity, treated them as playthings, and used their divine power to restrict the technological progress of mortals."

"Political progress."

"Let humanity remain forever in primitive countries."

"The reason is that if humanity becomes powerful, then humanity will no longer need to seek help from the gods."

"I really don't understand."

Anger flashed in Caspian Quinn's eyes. At this moment, the magical pressure on his body surged violently for the first time, and a kind of madness was already showing on his face. It was a madness that was extremely obsessive.

"I really don't understand."

"I liberated mankind, yet these mortals still rebel against me."

"They want to drive me away, even to summon gods who are worse to them. How long will these foolish people continue to drag civilization down? Why can't all these foolish humans just die out!"

When Caspian Quinn spoke of the death ray, his magical pressure became frenzied and icy, already showing the beginnings of the completely insane emperor's temperament that Su Nan had seen in Mary's inherited memories.

At the same time, Caspian Quinn's magical pressure transformed into a merciless, invisible force, suppressing the entire Assyrian capital.

In that instant, the five divine incarnations who were fighting against the wizard legion led by the second-circle wizards of the Assyrian Empire all changed their expressions drastically.

Because they sensed that after the emperor's demonic pressure swept over them, it seemed to have taken away all the colors in the world, leaving only black.

That was an incredibly terrifying demonic pressure.

The Fairy God sensed something was wrong. "This doesn't seem to be just an ordinary third-ring wizard; this power..."

The Emperor's voice appeared in their ears—[Forbidden Spell: Earth Burial].

The five divine beings looked down and saw that an earthquake had occurred beneath their feet.

Then, the earth cracked open, and in each crack appeared an open, colossal stone coffin, which was meant to absorb the five divine power avatars and seal them in the earth, turning them into eternal coffins.

As time passed, the divine power of the three fairy gods descended into the coffin, which was then sealed. The earth coffin slid down to the earth's core to seal it away forever.

The divine incarnations of the Fairy God and the God of Mischief barely managed to break free of this seal, and they looked with astonishment and uncertainty into the depths of the Assyrian Empire's palace.

The Fairy God was filled with doubt and surprise. "Are third-ring wizards... really that terrifying? They're completely different from second-ring wizards. Wizard civilization... perhaps it really is different."

The God of Mischief said, "Let's march on the palace. Let's not get entangled with these annoying wizard legions."

The Goblin Lord said: "Okay."

Inside the emperor's palace.

Caspian Quinn returned to his throne, seemingly anticipating that the divine incarnations of the two great gods would soon clash. Therefore, he didn't bother leaving the palace to personally suppress the gods.

Caspian Quinn sat on the throne, his pupils lost in thought. It seemed that the betrayal of those mortals, though he appeared indifferent, had actually caused him psychological trauma.

"I liberated human civilization, so why do mortals betray me, and even some wizards betray me?"

"Could it be that those mortals and wizards are not worth my effort to save?"

"I've worked so hard, and they betrayed me."

"Why!"

"Are they inherently inferior and need their bloodline cleansed?!"

Seeing this, Su Nan pondered what he should do: remain silent or take the initiative to do something.

"Could it be that Caspian Quinn actually feels pain because someone betrayed him? That's quite strange. Just now, seeing him kill a second-circle wizard so easily, I thought he was cold-blooded and ruthless."

"So it turns out that the reason for being so harsh on traitors is simply out of fear of betrayal."

"If the emperor went mad because of this, then what should I do to break free from his spell and return to the real timeline?"

(End of this chapter)