Chapter 1442 - 1443: Knight
Chapter 1442: Chapter 1443: Knight
In the Wizard World, if there is any mysterious existence that can stand shoulder to shoulder with a Five Rings True Spirit Wizard, it would be only one person: the Supreme Knight Overlord!
In Ancient Times, in the Wizard World, there were no wizard apprentices as an intermediary. Those were years when an immense chasm separated ordinary human commoners and Wizards. Humans whose spiritual power had not reached ten did not even have the qualification to come into contact with Wizards, while humans whose spiritual power reached ten had no wizard apprentice phase. They would try every possible method to comprehend the Force of Nature, thereby stepping into the domain that belonged to Wizards and seeing a world completely different from before.
Compared to the Wizard World of Ancient Times, the number of human commoners was enormous, far more than in the current Wizard World. Precisely this vast population could support the Wizard Legions of the Ancient Wizards, who, despite their low promotion rate, could field large numbers of Wizards campaigning on all fronts.
Regarding the earliest history of the birth of Knights, the Wizard World has no record at all.
Perhaps in the eyes of those lofty Wizards, the Knights of old were nothing more than slightly stronger humans who organized themselves. The distinction between a Knight and a strong human had no clear boundary in itself. As customs formed and the noble circles of human commoners slowly solidified into a fixed class with rules of their own, Knights came into being.
Although the birth of Knights has no clear boundary, the birth of Bloodline Sorcery is clearly recorded: the Dark Domain of Ancient Dark Sorcerers!
The Ancient Dark Sorcerers certainly would not conduct such dangerous bloodline experiments directly on themselves. Compared with the mature Bloodline Sorcery of the Modern Wizard World, which even wizard apprentices can easily master, back in Ancient Times, when the Dark Sorcerers had just begun their explorations, countless pitiful experimental specimens died in cruel trials.
As for the Dark Sorcerers’ specimens, in order to be closer to their expected experimental models, of course they would not choose monkeys, frogs, or little white mice, but Humans!
Among the humans raised in the tens of thousands of Dark Wizard Laboratory bunkers, an unfortunate Legendary Knight fell into the hands of a Dark Sorcerer. For such rare, slightly stronger experimental material, the Dark Sorcerer naturally would not squander it randomly, but would only use it when obtaining certain key experimental data.
Amid fear and loneliness, watching companions dragged away by the Dark Sorcerer’s vicious grin every single day, never to return, this Knight felt as if he were livestock carefully fattened. Once the time came, he would ultimately not escape the fate of being slaughtered. He knew this clearly.
At last, the day came when that Dark Sorcerer with a rigid smile and a pair of dead-fish eyes stopped in front of the Knight’s bunker cell, bringing along her evil Synthetic Beast.
"Jie-jie-jie-jie, are you ready?"
With every step the old witch took, the stone slabs under her feet would be covered in a layer of black smoke. These black vapors writhed like tiny insects with vibrant vitality, burrowing and crawling about.
The Knight did not speak. Bearing the courage to face death head-on, he refused to let his last scrap of dignity be utterly stripped away.
On the experiment table, the Knight felt his hands and feet completely numb. It was not some witchcraft of the old witch, but his own blood circulation in that stiff body being cut off, leaving his limbs without sensation.
"The secret of life lies in blood and soul. Too much information is hidden in the blood; every single piece of information is as vast as a world. If one can analyze these worlds, one can penetrate the essential mysteries of life. Unfortunately, even for a Wizard, life and energy are limited. This is the secret of the Truth Mystery of the Endless World. Although I cannot fully analyze it all, even mastering a trivial fraction is enough to change the entire Wizard World... Don’t be afraid. You are advancing toward the mysteries of life and death!"
Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp...
Accompanied by the old witch’s "jie-jie-jie-jie" evil laughter, she took out from a jar of murky yellow liquid, as thick as soup, a heart that was beating with heavy "gulp, gulp" sounds. The heart was a pale golden color, and as the old witch chanted a low and guttural incantation, disgusting worms actually crawled out of the heart, as if to maintain its fresh vitality.
"In your body there is a power of blood and qi that ordinary experimental specimens do not possess. Use this power of blood and qi and fuse with this heart as one. Though this process will be a bit painful, jie-jie-jie-jie, because I really don’t like anesthetics!"
One month later.
"Still a failure? Such a pity for this precious Golden Lion Demon Heart. This kind of rare material is not so easy to obtain. Dispose of it..."
The old witch departed, and the Synthetic Beast following behind her was a gigantic creature over twenty meters long, heavy and massive in body, with three snakes’ heads. One of the heads stretched into the cell with agile motion and swallowed the Knight’s so-called corpse whole in one gulp.
A few days later.
The old witch was extremely fastidious, with very strict requirements regarding the cleanliness of the Laboratory environment. Discarded items had their own dedicated disposal method.
The Mirrored Waters of Qiyu, a magical Mirror connecting to the Qiyu World. This bloated Synthetic Beast with wrinkled skin faced one of the water mirrors and slowly began to excrete, discharging its feces into the Illusory World of Qiyu.
...
"Where is this place?"
Within the filthy feces, something kept wriggling, slowly crawling out. It was actually that Knight who had undergone the heart transplant!
Now, his hair and clothing had been completely digested by the Synthetic Beast’s digestive system. His body was stark naked, and a fine layer of pale golden scales covering him had protected him, preventing him from being digested entirely by the Synthetic Beast.
"I... my heart..."
The Knight, adept in the power of blood and qi, discovered in terror that his heart was no longer beating, his pulse had completely disappeared, and he existed like a walking corpse.
It seemed that the Golden Lion Demon Heart had undergone some special mutation with him. The energy in that heart had been far too immense. Even in death, the blood it contained allowed the Knight to survive for a period of time in a special manner and, because of a fake death, to deceive the Dark Sorcerer.
"No!"
After enduring the initial fear and despair, the Knight stepped into the fantasy world and struggled to save himself, seeking a power that would restore his life...
After the Second Civilization War.
The Mirrored Waters of Qiyu, left behind on the Wizard Continent, was discovered by an Ancient Elemental Wizard. Like many Ancient Elemental Wizards, this Elemental Wizard also devoted himself to the Abyssal Underworld, following the footsteps of One Star True Spirit Wizards, hoping to stand out in this brand-new Sorcerer System said to surpass Elemental Wizards.
As Abyss Refining Body Sorcerers gradually fell into a comprehensive disadvantage in their competition with Elemental Wizards, this Stigma Sorcerer likewise failed to step onto the Path of the True Spirit. With the Soul Fire nearly exhausted, he reviewed his life experiences in his final days, sighing and turning restlessly. He decided to spend the last of his time in the Illusory World and ultimately entered the Mirrored Waters of Qiyu.
Perhaps it was the arrangement of destiny. In the old Wizard’s final period of life in the Qiyu illusion, he actually encountered, within that vast Illusory World, the Knight who had continually pushed beyond his own limits to an unimaginable degree!
"Return to the Wizard World and follow the footsteps of the One Star True Spirit Wizards. Perhaps you will become the new hope of Abyss Refinement Body Sorcerers!"
The old Wizard murmured with comfort.
"A Knight must have dignity of his own. A Knight must live for himself!"
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These days I’ve been at Grandma’s place deep in the mountains. Yesterday the WiFi would connect, but there was just no data no matter what, it was driving me crazy. Today I ran all the way into town to upload. QAQ It really is deep in the mountains, there aren’t even any neighbors, only old folks living around here. It takes more than an hour to get to the street, and outside it’s pitch black with not a single light anywhere.