Crossover Anime: Infinite God Creation, Yukinoka's Familia

These foreign things, if inanimate, are called Abyssal artifacts; if living, they are called Abyssal beings or Abyssal monsters.

"The governments of various countries and those forces hidden in the shadows are doing everything they can to research ways to detect the arrival of the Abyss in order to seize the artifacts of the Abyss."

At this point, Sharon's face showed a complex expression as she slowly said, "Actually, I myself am an abyss creature, and I've been in this world for about a year and a half."

Luo Tian showed no surprise, simply nodding slightly before asking, "What exactly is the difference between abyssal creatures and abyssal monsters?"

Sharon breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the mysterious being did not reject her, and patiently explained: "Most creatures in the abyss are intelligent and can communicate normally, and their appearance is basically human."

There are also rumors in Europe that among the creatures that descended from the abyss were elves and demons—races that only exist in legends.

"Unlike these communicative beings, those that frequently intrude into this world are mostly irrational abyssal monsters that only know how to kill insanely."

These monsters are extremely aggressive, and some are born with special abilities, often causing serious casualties among ordinary people.

"However, as things stand, although the number of abyssal monsters encountered by countries around the world each year is slowly increasing, on average it does not exceed one thousand per year, so social order is still relatively stable."

Luo Tian immediately grasped the key information and asked, "These messages are all being controlled by the authorities, aren't they?"

Sharon nodded in confirmation: "That's right."

Currently, online platforms and news media in various countries are being secretly controlled by the authorities. Domestic social media, social media platforms and video websites in the Americas, and even overseas communication software have all been quietly taken over.

Once someone publishes the truth about the Abyss, the platform will immediately cover it up with a massive amount of irrelevant information and will quickly take control of the publisher, completely sealing off the secret of the Abyss's existence.

"Moreover, these monsters all have very strange appearances, so the officials of various countries have put the same story on the blame for the chaos caused by the abyss monsters, making the island nation take the blame for everyone else's nuclear wastewater pollution."

Luo Tian was stunned, his face full of doubt: "You mean, the island nation didn't discharge any nuclear wastewater at all?"

"It's been discharged." Sharon didn't understand why he was so fixated on this point, and said bluntly, "It's precisely because the island nation discharged nuclear wastewater that all countries unanimously decided to let it bear the negative public opinion of the impending abyss."

Several other countries were originally considered, but they were all excluded because of the nuclear wastewater issue.

In other words, the people will blame the island nation for all the disasters caused by the abyss's descent? Who came up with this idea? Luo Tian was speechless.

Sharon added, "If you want to know what's going on in the Abyss, you can watch NHK news from the island nation. You can see reports of island nation officials bowing and apologizing almost every day."

Just by seeing which region they apologize for the disaster, you can roughly tell which country has suffered a catastrophe, although the news will be delayed by about two days.

"I received information from the Demon Hunter organization that, in exchange, China and the Americas promised not to block the island nation's straits and not to turn this country, which is extremely dependent on imports, into an isolated island at sea."

"Isn't that too shrewd? Using the island nation's existing rights as leverage to force it to take the blame, and the so-called reward is simply not carrying out that threat. This must have been planned by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council together, right?" Luo Tian mentally scoffed, then looked at Sharon: "There must be other benefits involved for the island nation to swallow this insult, right?"

Sharon paused for a moment, then said with a strange expression, "You're right."

In compensation, the various nations tacitly allowed the island nation to secretly establish a market for trading abyssal artifacts.

Luo Tian's expression also became subtle. This was practically like opening a dangerous goods exchange right on their own doorstep. These high-ranking officials were incredibly audacious.

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Upon learning that the Abyss Artifacts Trading Market was located in Japan, Luo Tian instantly saw through everyone's intentions and chuckled, "Is it because Abyss Artifacts can grant humans special abilities?"

"That's right, just like you said, Abyssal artifacts can indeed grant people superpowers." Sharon paused, then continued, "After the Abyss descended, although there were some people who were born with awakened abilities, the vast majority of ability users derived their power from Abyssal artifacts."

"In some clandestine organizations, these abyssal artifacts that can grant abilities are called blessed artifacts and are considered gifts bestowed by the gods."

The official term, however, is more commonly used to describe it as a legacy artifact, to distinguish it from other dangerous abyssal artifacts.

Sharon also talked about the classification of inherited artifacts: "Generally speaking, first-level inherited artifacts have a limited number of uses, those that can function reliably are second-level or above, and a few are third-level."

I've heard that even level four extremely dangerous artifacts possess the ability to inherit power, but this has always remained just a rumor.

Luo Tian knew that Level 1 was safe and could be used normally; Level 2 was dangerous and could be used in limited ways, but could easily cause large-scale casualties; Level 3 was prohibited and its use was forbidden in principle; and Level 4 was not even allowed to be explored.

He chuckled lightly: "It seems that you secretive organizations were quite involved in classifying the Abyss artifacts."

Otherwise, there's no way to explain why clandestine organizations and the official authorities use the same rating standards.

Sharon gave a mocking smile: "You don't know this, but in Europe, secret organizations and official organizations are essentially no different; they just have different names for it."

Luo Tian raised an eyebrow, and then Sharon continued, "As a cadre of the Demon Hunters, I also hold the rank of colonel in the Italian Military Intelligence Bureau (SIM)."

The various branches of the Golden Dawn also maintain connections with government agencies in various countries, and even organizations like Truth Astronomy have numerous financial groups backing their research.

She added with a complicated expression, "I have received information that the managing director of JACES, a police equipment company, is one of the financial backers of Mari Tenbun."

This is probably why Yakushiji Ryoko was so eager to silence me after discovering me.

Luo Tian was not surprised by this; Mika had mentioned similar speculations to him before.

He asked, "Is this member of the Truth Astronomy team who's been working with you the one you've been hunting down?"

Sharon nodded in confirmation, her tone tinged with doubt: "I received information that this executive of Truth Astronomy, through secret channels in the island nation, learned that there was a place within the island nation that sealed a living demon, so he secretly stole an important abyssal artifact from the organization and rushed to the island nation to meet with the channel provider."

Luo Tian frowned upon hearing this. A living demon? He instantly thought of the items the demon warlock was carrying: the Demon Heart that could hypnotize women and the Demon Contract that could swap bodies. Clearly, the Demon Contract was of a higher level. This contract must be the key artifact that the demon warlock stole from the Truth Astronomy.

Moreover, within the realm of Truth Astronomy, there is a faction that specifically seeks to seize the bodies of demons in order to gain greater power and a longer lifespan. In that case… Luo Tian stated with certainty, “The one sealed is a female demon.”