Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 226 Dark Seed
Nemesis looked at the leopard and decided to spare his life. A dead experimental target would greatly reduce its value. So he began to search for appropriate spells from his own to control the other party.

He snapped his fingers, and the leopard immediately woke up from the control of the spell. His bound body moved, and his originally dull eyes became bright.

It began to struggle violently, its muscles bulging as it tried to break free from the tightly wrapped chains. The chains made a rustling sound as it struggled.

"Hoo!! Damn it, let me go!! How dare you imprison the believers of war!"

His eyes turned red like burning flames, and low roars kept coming out of his mouth. Although it was much better than before when he was unable to speak, he still looked completely crazy.

Nemesis transformed into a human form, floated in front of him in the air, and stared into the other's pupils.

Deep within those topaz-like pupils, there was a hint of black that was barely noticeable, but extremely deep upon closer inspection.

That breath suddenly felt familiar to him.

Nemesis frowned. The Scroll Dragon's photographic memory immediately reminded him where this familiar feeling came from.

It was the tomb that was originally located underground in the Niksaran Basin!
The black energy summoned by the mummy who called himself Ipana III was exactly the same as the aura of this leopard.

He also remembered that the mummy called it.
"Zartek's curse?" Nemesis murmured.

Cunard's body stiffened, a hint of disbelief flashed in his eyes, and even his crazy energy was restrained a lot.

How could he know that he was cursed? Did he know about the existence of the secret method? How could it be possible!

Kunard was in a state of confusion, but Nemesis smiled. His mind had already figured out all the thoughts in the man's mind.

"【Dark Seed】? Is this the secret that allows you to cross the legendary boundary?" Nemesis whispered.

But Kunard looked as if he had seen a ghost. Just as he was about to ask how the other party knew that, Nemesis had already lost interest.

Seventh-ring enchantment spell—[Instant Endless Sleep].

He blew gently, and the magic power turned into a breeze that blew across Kunard's cheeks. His eyes became confused, his eyelids twitched precariously, and he soon fell into a coma.

This spell is like a curse, causing the recipient who is unable to resist the magic power to fall into a permanent sleep, as if he were dead, but the body still remains alive.

With Nemesis' current magical power, even a normal pseudo-legendary warrior would not be able to resist his enchantment spells, let alone a leopard with low intelligence.

He no longer needed to obtain information from Cunard, because he already knew how the other party had managed to cross the legendary boundary.

Consistent with his guess, this was related to the [Zartek's Curse] in the other party's body.

Like Ipana III, the Kingdom of Kurtaka believed in Zaltek, and their rulers naturally knew about the existence of [Zaltek's Curse].

This dark energy is the outward manifestation of Zartek's divine power. Just like the war that sweeps the world, it possesses the overbearing ability to devour everything.

The king of Kurtaka developed a secret technique to utilize this energy, called the Dark Seed.

The caster can plant a seed of this dark energy in another person, and through this seed, the recipient gains access to the power of Zaltek. They gain an ability called "Wailing."

[Howl] can temporarily transform the recipient's blood into the blood of the Zaltek gods, which is the half-human, half-leopard appearance of Kunard at this time.

In legend, Zaltec's image is very similar to the Maztec specialty - the jaguar, and his divine bloodline passed down to later generations also looks similar to the jaguar.

[Wail] turns the recipient into this ugly appearance, but also grants the recipient extremely terrifying speed.

The descendants of the Zaltek gods are born with agility that exceeds the limits of legends, but as a price, their other five attributes are far weaker than ordinary people, especially their intelligence is extremely low. This makes them often not seen in the society where ordinary people live, but enjoy a life of hunting animals by instinct in the deep mountains and old forests.

[Wail] grants the recipient exactly this ability—unparalleled speed.

To be honest, the Dark Seed Secret Technique itself had no effect on Nemesis. Firstly, he did not have the Curse of Zartek as a source of spellcasting, and secondly, he was not interested in sacrificing other attributes to enhance agility.

But he was extremely interested in the principle of the secret technique [Dark Seed].

After all, this secret method relies on using the power of gods as a key to secretly pry open the power of blood!

The blood of the dragon is undoubtedly the top existence in the multiverse. It is born with a strong body, terrible dragon breath, and superb magical talent.

But this is not the most powerful existence!
In the multiverse, there is only one truly top-level bloodline, and that is the bloodline of God!
That is, the descendants of God!
When a god gives birth to a child, no matter the other party is also a god or a mortal, the child will possess extremely powerful powers. Being born a legend is just the most basic condition. Many children are even born gods!

But at the same time, it is very difficult for a god to give birth to a child, especially when both parents are gods.

It is not uncommon to find families with divine blood, but many are merely mortals with exceptional talents, for this very reason.

Gods combine with mortals to give birth to descendants of gods, but gods are countless times rarer and nobler than dragons and seraphim. Most of the descendants of gods are just mortals, and at best they are other descendants of gods.

This results in the bloodline of gods circulating in mortal society in the multiverse being weakened by the bloodline of mortals generation after generation, and finally disappearing among the masses.

Scholars who have studied this aspect have said that starting from the first generation of gods, it only takes five generations of intermarriage with mortals to lose the glory left by the gods.

To date, most of the first generation of gods born would even choose incestuous marriages between brothers and sisters, rather than marrying with mortals and polluting their bloodline.

It is precisely because of this rare and precious bloodline that [Dark Seed] can actually allow the recipient to temporarily gain the abilities of the second generation or even the first generation of gods, which is simply unheard of.

"If I obtain the symbols of power of other gods, can I gain the abilities of other gods?"

"Going further, is it possible to solidify the blood of the descendants of God permanently through some means, rather than turning it into this temporary state?"

"Even, can we use this to get our hands on the power of the gods by tracing the origin of our bloodline in the future legend?"

Just thinking about it, Nemesis felt that the future of this secret technique was extremely bright.

(End of this chapter)