Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 330: Dark Night Eclipse
Nemesis didn't know how long he had been walking in the library. Maybe it was a day, a week, or even a year. Time had lost its meaning here.

But he did not give up, and walked firmly between the infinitely distant bookshelves, as if he would definitely find a way out.

Perhaps he had really been walking here for too long. He walked on the road tirelessly without feeling hungry. He moved forward mechanically, and after passing a bookshelf, he was stunned when he found that there were no nauseating bronze bookshelves on both sides in front of him.

"Ok?"

Nemesis was dazed at first, then suddenly came to his senses and looked at the scene in front of him with surprise as it finally changed.

Instead of the unchanging bookshelves, an empty circular area appeared in front of him. A total of six bookshelves were connected here. A sign with the words "Reading Room" was placed on a table in the middle, and on the table was an old computer.

In the center of the reading area, the old-fashioned spherical display is glowing with an emerald halo. This 486 computer with an off-white shell looks like it has traveled through time from an office in the s. The "Subor" sticker on the side of the chassis is peeling off and regenerating repeatedly under the erosion of time, and the keyboard tray is covered with thick dust.

Nemesis walked to the front of the computer with some confusion, and saw that on the CRT screen covered with snow, the Windows 98 startup screen was frozen at 99% of the progress bar.

Surprisingly, the dusty mechanical keyboard was beating on its own, the click of the backspace key and the muffled sound of the enter key weaving into a kind of code. When Nemesis leaned over to observe, he found half a copy of Computer News from 1999 pressed under the faded keyboard.

There is also an old printer next to the computer. As the keyboard is tapped, yellowed three-column printing paper twitches out of the dot-matrix printer. Each sheet of paper is printed with "XX City Meteorological Bureau Manuscript Paper" from different eras. When the 13th sheet of paper starts to print, the ribbon suddenly oozes blue blood, and each word of the "El Niño Phenomenon Termination Report" is reorganized into the doomsday prophecy of the Mayan calendar after seeping into the paper fibers.

When the floating papers rose to the top of the monitor, they were suddenly sucked into the vortex of pixels deep in the screen. Nemesis grabbed the "El Niño Phenomenon Final Report" and held it in his hands to examine it.

It's said to be about weather and meteorology, but the text on it is gibberish that looks extremely difficult to understand.

"When the third star in Orion's belt begins to contract, the menstrual blood trapped in the cesium atomic clock will surge."

"Watch the tides at the new moon, poor people. When night breaks free from the shackles of day, it is the beginning of her skirts."

"The pubic bone of the goddess of night is striking the ecliptic plane. All clocks will give birth to black fetal membranes, and all stagnant souls will return to the original nothingness."

"Poor man, the final ceremony is about to begin."

"The door is the birth canal, the door is the dead fetus, the door is eating the door's umbilical cord"

Nemesis' pupils shrank, and the hand holding the paper trembled. He already knew what was on the paper.

These madman-like mumblings are indeed difficult for mortals to understand, but the huge memory inheritance of the Volume Dragon happens to have a detailed record of this.

【Eclipse of the Dark Night】.

In the vast multiverse, Shar's reputation can be said to make most intelligent creatures tremble in fear.

It's not just because of Shar's evil conspiracy, but also because of her tireless pursuit of the terrible concept of "destruction of the world".

According to the teachings of the Church of Darkness, Shar is a goddess born from the primordial darkness. She first appeared in the era before the distant [Wild God] appeared.

No one knows where Shar was born. When people realized her existence, she was already an absolutely powerful god in the Shadowless Underworld. This is why most scholars in Faerun firmly believe that Shar is not a local god, even though the Church of Shar has always claimed so.

Shar, who plays the role of a dark underground rat in Faerun, is a terrifying existence in other crystal wall systems.

Shar loves darkness, and even more so loves to drag everything into absolute darkness.

Those crystal wall systems that are not protected by powerful gods are often targeted by Shar.

Her followers would spread murder and war in that world, disrupting turmoil in the world, and after collecting a huge amount of sacrifices, they would chant for thirty-three years to perform a planetary-level divine ritual called [Eclipse of Dark Night].

This ritual has only one function, which is to call upon the original darkness - the power of Shar, permanently obscuring all light sources (including moonlight, starlight, and magical light), and returning time to its original state of stagnation, thereby plunging the world into solidified darkness, destroying the existing order and re-establishing Shar's absolute rule.

The ritual is believed to trigger a planet-wide "shadow curse" that merges the material plane with Shar's dark realm. Apart from shadow creatures, almost no creature can survive in this horrific environment.

Because of this terrible effect, the notoriety of [Eclipse] is well-known throughout the multiverse, and Shar's followers have become a target of public condemnation.

After all, no one can accept someone who wants to destroy the world at every turn. According to known records, Shar's followers successfully performed the [Dark Night Eclipse] ceremony at least 64 times.

This means that 64 worlds were destroyed by Shar's power.

"It's true that Shar has also targeted this place. After all, Shar has already come to this world to seal Vecna."

Nemesis had an uncertain expression. He had originally regarded this place as his backup base camp, but now he learned that it was about to be destroyed?

Looking at the information on that piece of paper, I’m afraid 2024 will be the year when the ceremony will be completed.

"No, I have to find the guy who is preparing the ceremony. If the ceremony is really to be completed in 2024, then it should not have reached the chanting stage yet. There is still a chance."

Nemesis calculated in his mind and breathed a sigh of relief. The preparation phase for [Dark Night Eclipse] would take thirty-three years, and according to the time calculation, it should not have started yet.

This is considered a favorable condition, because once the ceremony begins, Nemesis who interrupts the ceremony will directly enter the field of vision of the goddess of darkness, Shar, which is a very dangerous behavior.

Nemesis made up his mind and turned his attention to the computer: "But, this computer can actually predict the future?"

Even though there is no one there, I can keep typing and writing down various things that will happen in the future.

Could it be the medium that seals Victor?
Nemesis tried to reach out his hand towards the computer screen. As soon as his fingers touched the pixel pattern on the screen, he felt a huge suction force.

The next moment, he was sucked into the computer, leaving only the empty reading room and the never-ending sound of the mechanical keyboard tapping.

(End of this chapter)