Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 122 Old God
Ethan searched all the bookshelves and finally found a parchment book titled "The Departure of the Righteous God: The Prophecy of Doomsday". Just by looking at the title of the book, he knew why it was listed as a banned book. If the author was not signed as Saint Hillman, anyone would regard it as a cult book.

It is no wonder that the first king reprimanded Saint Hillman more than once. At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, everything was in thriving. If the first archbishop of the empire made a prophecy about the day of destruction during this period, it would undoubtedly deal a heavy blow to people's confidence.

At the beginning of the parchment book, Hillman expressed his understanding of the decision made by the first king, so he wrote all his research into this book.

In his old age, Hillman resigned from his position as archbishop and returned to his hometown, leaving the forbidden knowledge in the library of the cathedral, hoping that the book would be seen by later believers of the Goddess of Life, continue his unfinished research, and warn the king and the church before the day of destruction, so as to prepare for the final battle of mankind.

Ethan felt that Mr. Hillman would never have dreamed that hundreds of years after his death, the person who would read this book would be an unbeliever.

In the parchment book, the evil gods represented by the old artist Bazatos were classified as old gods. This was a concept proposed by the elemental shapers who ended the Dark Age and founded the academy. Nowadays, most people in the empire believe that the "old gods" refer to the end of the Dark Ages. However, Hillman discovered a clue after visiting many ruins.

For this purpose, Hillman made a special trip to the college and applied to consult the ancient knowledge stored in the college library. When he compared it word by word with the original text, he found that the biggest difference between the "old gods" and the "new gods" lies in the different ways of existence.

The founder of the academy, who is also the first "Hermit", believes that the Old Gods are some kind of existence that was born before civilization. Compared with them, human history is like a spark splashed in the long river of time. However, it is the emergence of humans that sounded the death knell for the Old Gods.

All the main gods and middle gods are classified as "new gods" because almost all legends about them began after the birth of mankind.

As early as the First Age, the Hermit did the same thing as Saint Hillman, and this was the conclusion they came to during their long journey.

So, the "Hermit" put forward a conjecture.

Perhaps the "new gods" are actually a group of humans who are more powerful than them. When fighting against the old gods, they become the opinion leaders of mankind, using power that is difficult for humans to understand to guide mankind out of darkness.

This leads to two possibilities.

First, there is still some way of advancement above the saints that they are unknown to them.

Secondly, although the lifespan of the "new gods" is much longer than that of humans, it also has a limit. After the Twilight War, they couldn't wait to divide the paths and leave behind passages for promotion, knowing that one day they would pass away, and those old gods that disappeared after the Twilight War would make a comeback.

Today, several eras later, Ethan had the same thought.

After he shook the eyes of the old artist Bazatos, he sent his servants to tear a gap near the town of Creekwood. Now an evil god with unknown identity, who calls himself Kane, has appeared.

However, the great Lord of Knights remained silent, and the Sept. of Netheril did not even discover the fact that the Knight-General had broken his oath until the very end.

The hypothesis put forward in the parchment book confirmed Ethan's guess.

However, Saint Hillman is a devout believer after all. He is unwilling to believe that the goddess of life has passed away long ago, and still holds on to beautiful dreams - he believes that the right god has found a way to prolong his life, but the price is to fall into a deep sleep until one day in the future, when the day of destruction comes, and then he will lead mankind to welcome the coming of war again.

It would be a war that would sweep the entire world. Countless people would die on the meat grinder-like battlefield, and even entire cities would be wiped out by the power of the old gods.

Hillman hoped that someone would inherit his research and, when signs of the old gods' revival were detected, pass the forbidden knowledge to the king and the leaders of the Netheril Temple.

Unfortunately, Mr. Hillman's hopes were doomed to fail.

The development of the empire was very different from what he had imagined. The current situation did not require a wise man at all. The signal of the revival of the old gods had been so loud that even the security captain of the border town could hear it. However, the current archbishop was still obsessed with the power struggle in the imperial capital.

However, the knowledge in the book gave Ethan some new inspiration - is there still a way to advance above the saints?
According to the first "Hermit", he seemed to think that as long as he crossed that final path, he could join the ranks of gods in human form.

Just as Ethan was about to continue watching, he received a signal from Winter. Someone is coming!

The footsteps were approaching here, as if they were coming straight towards him.

He quickly put the parchment book back into the bookshelf and hid in the dark. Not long after, an elderly priest came straight to the bookshelf and stood there like a puppet. The priest had dull eyes and seemed to have no intention of turning the pages of the book. But then, "The Departure of the Righteous God: The Prophecy of Doomsday" rose into the air and moved strangely in the air.

Are there any like-minded people?

Ethan suddenly remembered that the herbal medicine shop owner said that before him, someone had purchased a large number of rare medicinal herbs needed for the invisibility potion.

Apparently, someone flipping through the book had also noticed something. A woman's voice came from not far away, "Has anyone been here recently?"

"No……"

The older priest's voice was dull.

This answer immediately alerted the book flipper. She immediately closed the book, stuffed it into the inner pocket of her priest's robe, and guided him out of the restricted area of ​​the library like a puppet.

It was not until the pastor had left for a long time that Winter's voice suddenly rang beside Ethan's ears, "What do you think? Should we go after them?"

The sudden hot air blowing on his ears frightened Ethan and he shivered. "No need, I've almost finished reading the contents of the book... How did you know I was here?"

In fact, on the way here he always felt that Winter could see him.

"secret."

Lin Dong chuckled, "Teachers always have to have some hidden tricks. It's almost time. If you don't want to suddenly show your arm on the road, come back with me."

Winter was very satisfied with today's itinerary. She broke into the restricted area after a long absence and let her good student Ethan experience this indescribable excitement.

The journey out of the church was uneventful until Ethan suddenly asked casually, "By the way, teacher, what book were you reading just now?"

The atmosphere suddenly fell into dead silence.

"……teacher?"

"Banned book."

After a long time, a guilty voice was heard.

This tone...

Ethan frowned, and suddenly felt that things were not simple.

Teacher, what did she see?
(End of this chapter)