Wizard Immortal

Chapter 729 The Descent Ritual

In the early morning, the sunlight shines on the earth, turning it into a golden hue.

At this time, Adir arrived in the long-lost Kingdom of Tamru and returned to this place.

Thinking about it carefully, it has been fifty or sixty years since he left the Kingdom of Tamru.

Fifty or sixty years have changed so much.

Over the course of fifty or sixty years, Adir built his empire from scratch.

However, within the Kingdom of Tamru, much has changed in the past fifty or sixty years.

Gruel has since passed away, about a decade or so ago, in a sudden assassination attempt.

This incident caused quite a stir in the area back then.

Even Adir was silent for a long time when he heard the news.

In fact, not only Gruul, but also most of the people Adir encountered in the Kingdom of Tamru fifty or sixty years later have disappeared.

They either died due to various accidents, or left this country for various reasons and went to other places.

"How does it feel?"

Walking quietly through the border city of this country, gazing at Angola on the other side, Adir softly asked.

"What else can we do?"

Angola smiled gently, his expression calm and undisturbed.

"Perhaps there were some feelings at the beginning, but now that fifty or sixty years have passed, the sights to see and the emotions to experience have long since passed. What feelings can there still be?"

He shook his head and said this.

In fact, he felt a deeper connection to the Kingdom of Tamru than to Adir.

This is, after all, his motherland.

Angolan was a former prince of the Kingdom of Tamru and the younger brother of Gruul.

When Gruul died, he represented Adir and went here to personally attend Gruul's funeral.

However, decades have passed, and his memories of the Kingdom of Tamru are gradually fading away.

That's how things are in this world. When you stand still and don't move, time around you won't wait for you; it will continue to move forward and change.

The same is true of the Kingdom of Tamru before us.

As new changes occur little by little, the city and environment of the past will gradually become unfamiliar, until finally they become something you don't recognize at all.

For Angola today, this former homeland has long since become a foreign land.

On the contrary, the Adir Empire, located in the wilderness, became his second home in a sense.

After all, compared to the Tamru Kingdom, which they hadn't had contact with for decades, the Adir Empire was built by Angolan himself, who spent a long time building it together with Adir and others.

In some ways, it is far more significant than the Kingdom of Tamru.

"After all, this is my hometown from the past..."

Adir sighed softly and looked at the Angolan man before him as he spoke.

"If you have the chance, you should go back and pay a visit."

"Some people, if we don't see them now, we may never see them again..."

Angola listened to Adir's words without speaking, but simply nodded silently.

They continued walking and soon came to a small church.

Inside the church, Hilna was already waiting with her people.

"Welcome, Your Excellency Adir..."

Looking at Adir approaching from a distance, Hilna smiled and spoke softly.

Compared to their previous meeting, she was now wearing a silver priestess robe and a long silver crown with dark markings on it, making her look very ornate.

He looked like he was dressed as a priest.

Behind Hilna stood several priests, but their faces were unfamiliar and did not match the priests in Adir's memory.

She looks much younger.

Seemingly noticing Adir's gaze, Hilna smiled and took the initiative to introduce Adir.

As Adir expected, these were all young men, priests trained in the dark church over the past two decades.

It's perfectly normal that he doesn't recognize him.

As for the priests he used to know, they had long since retired and were now enjoying their old age in the dimly lit church headquarters.

After all, although those priests were stronger than ordinary people, they were still far inferior to Adir, and their lifespans were far shorter than Adir's.

Fifty or sixty years is just a blink of an eye for Adir, but for others it may be most of their lives.

The priests that Adir knew back then, even if they hadn't died of old age, were now quite old.

Thinking of this, even though he was already used to it, Adir still sighed slightly.

Led by Hilna, they continued onward.

Soon they arrived at a brand new church.

The church looked magnificent and spacious, but at this moment there was no one standing inside, making it seem very deserted and devoid of any human presence.

Within it, Adir sensed a divine power that was both familiar and strange.

That was the divine power of the Lord of Darkness, which was now permeating the church before him, and was almost omnipresent in his perception.

The reason why it felt so familiar to Adir was that he himself also possessed this divine power of the Lord of Darkness.

Through his interactions with the Church of Darkness, Adir acquired the divinity of the Lord of Darkness many years ago. By transforming the power of slaughter in the Land of Slaughter, he continuously grew his own divinity and successfully obtained the divine power of the Lord of Darkness.

That is why he was so familiar with the dark divine power that filled the space before him.

"It seems you've already made the arrangements..."

Standing in the spacious church, Adir looked around and said this.

The church in front of us appears to be unguarded, but in reality, it is now filled with densely packed runes.

Those are runes of divine magic, now inscribed here. Though they appear calm, once unleashed, they will cause an earth-shattering upheaval.

Even without anyone guarding it, it is enough to withstand any power beyond the legendary.

If combined with the priests of the Lord of Darkness, they could probably hold off even a legendary figure for a while.

Of course, for truly strong individuals, this obstacle has little effect.

That's why Adir and others are needed to oversee things.

Only with a legendary powerhouse like Adir guarding this place could this land remain as stable as Mount Tai, ultimately holding out until the moment the Lord of Darkness descended.

"This place was set up in secret..."

Hilna glanced at Adir quietly, then spoke.

"To prevent others from discovering the time and place of our Lord's coming, we deliberately chose this secluded location instead of the main church."

"This is so that others won't be able to figure out where my Lord will descend..."

"To ensure this, this place was cleared out beforehand, and now only a few of us remain..."

"I see..." Adir nodded quietly, his expression calm.

"As the ceremony of my Lord's coming officially begins, I hope you will not leave this place for the time being..."

Hilna glanced at Adir, sighed, and then began to explain to him.

"It's not that we don't believe you, it's just that some powers in this world are very unique. You might be noticed by others simply by walking out of here, without doing anything..."

"Only by hiding in this place, under the protection of our Lord's divine power, can we achieve true concealment and remain undetected by outsiders..."

"I understand..."

Adir nodded slightly, his face as calm as before, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

"That's good……"

Seeing Adir's reaction, Hilna nodded slightly and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"You and your entourage may stay here for the few days leading up to the official start of the ceremony."

"Everything here is perfect. If you need anything, you can call on the servants and they will prepare it for you..."

She spoke these words, and after Adir nodded, she said something to him and then turned to walk away.

She looks very busy.

Standing there, watching Hilna's hurried departure, Adir shook his head, unconcerned.

"Go and get ready..."

He turned around and spoke to the Angolans standing to the side.

He didn't come alone this time to attend the descent ceremony of the Lord of Darkness; he brought several people with him.

In addition to Angola and Mar, he also brought the Blood Moon.

These three were basically the strongest trio under his command, arguably the most luxurious lineup in the entire Adir Empire.

Over the decades, even the weakest of the three, Angola, has now reached near-legendary strength, while the other two have already become legends.

The three of them combined, along with Adir at this moment, have the strength equivalent to four legends.

It's luxurious enough for any place.

In the days that followed, Adir and the others stayed quietly in this place.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to get up close to the dim church, Adir was also actively sensing the surrounding arrangements.

The church's interior is quite interesting.

The church is surrounded by a dense array of divine runes, which subtly form a unified whole, creating an extremely powerful defensive force.

This model is somewhat similar to the magic arrays in the Wizarding World, but it is also very different.

During his stay at the church, Adir devoted himself to studying these divine runes.

After all, he is also preparing to embark on the path of a god in this world in the future.

These runes contain knowledge at the level of gods. If he walks the path of the gods, he will be able to use them sooner or later.

The research we are doing now is also preparation for the future.

With this in mind, during his time in the church, he and Mar and the others began to conduct research, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to observe carefully.

Time passed slowly amidst this research, and soon half a month had gone by.

Two weeks later, the ceremony was about to begin.

Adir also met the other people who participated in this descent ceremony.

(End of this chapter)