Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 342: Vecna's Eye of Devil (Two in One)

"Boom!"

The castle collapsed, and the underground treasure house was exposed on the ground. The quiet and peaceful little world ushered in an unprecedented destruction.

Cracks first appeared in the sky, and the clouds disintegrated into billions of gray and white pixels, falling to the earth like a flock of dying swans.

Those creations that were not locked by magical logic began to fade away - the castle towers turned into transparent sand, the streams hung upside down into spiral silver threads, and even the sound of birds flapping their wings was decomposed into intermittent electronic noise halfway.

When the first grain of quicksand fell from the position of the sun, the collapse of the entire world suddenly accelerated.

The trees remained lush and green, drifting sideways, and the petals turned into binary code the moment they left the branches. A person who was still running had a fracture at the waist, and the lower half of his body turned into dust while maintaining the running posture, and the terrified expression on the upper half was frozen into a translucent holographic image.

Black ripples began to surge on the ground, and a crisp sound similar to shattering glass was heard when the quicksand was swallowed up. The air density became viscous, the direction of gravity began to become disordered, and the church's stained windows that had not yet dissipated suddenly multiplied into countless geometric mirrors, each fragment reflecting the doomsday scene of a different timeline.

The final collapse occurred in absolute silence. All colors, sounds, and temperatures were swallowed up by nothingness at the same time, and the remaining starlight was scattered like pearls on a broken string.

At a moment in which the time unit cannot be defined, the last orange-red light symbolizing the sunset went out, revealing the pure darkness that stretched infinitely behind.

This darkness is neither a curtain nor an abyss, but the original nothingness after all concepts are eliminated. There are no spatial ripples, no time wrinkles, and even no reference points for thinking and extension.

That was the original darkness.

The true face of the [Erye Sealing Technique], a beautiful work of art created by the Dark Night believers to pay tribute to Shar.

"Is this the place?" Nemesis stood in the void, looking at the darkness around him, feeling a chill in his heart.

Is this the desperate scene that Shar's followers expect?
Darkness, nothingness, and absolute loneliness.

Are there any creatures that would really like such a world?

What a bunch of lunatics.

Arthurek stood beside him, looking at a certain direction in the darkness with sacred eyes, his whole body shaking with excitement: "My Lord, the great My Lord."

Nemesis looked over in confusion, but saw nothing: "Did you see His Majesty? Why didn't I see anything?"

Arthurek murmured, "The invisible God is suspended in the cracks of concepts. His body is a cocoon woven with cognitive blind spots. How can a mortal see the Lord of all hidden things?"

"My Lord, I have been looking for you for three hundred years. Finally, I see you again."

Nemesis watched Arthurek pray in silence, waiting for Vecna ​​to appear.

Who would have thought that after more than ten minutes, the surroundings were still quiet and Arthur was still praying there.

He was getting a little impatient waiting, so he reminded quietly: "Where is the holy weapon?"

Arthurek slowly stopped praying and said calmly, "It's right in front of you."

Nemesis frowned. There was nothing in front of him.

"You can't see it with your naked eyes. The holy artifact carries the hidden authority of our Lord. Without my authorization, mortals cannot see or touch it."

After saying this, Arthurelek was waiting for Nemesis to ask him to grant him permission, but he unexpectedly saw the other party closing his eyes as if thinking about something.

Nemesis was silent in the darkness, concentrating all his attention on the illusory sixth sense - divine consciousness.

He does not need eyes to see, ears to hear, or hands to touch.

But in the dark, he saw a black shadow as big as a human palm lying in front of him.

He did not touch it with his hands, but controlled the invisible divine consciousness to get closer to the black shadow. The next moment, he inexplicably had the feeling of [touching].

Arthurek looked as if he had seen a ghost and said, "How is this possible? How can you cross the barrier of concealment and touch the holy weapon?"

"how did you do it?!"

Nemesis opened his eyes and shrugged. He didn't know how he did it, but now it seems that this new talent is the nemesis of all invisibility and illusion.

Even the authority of God cannot deceive God's mind, so the level is really high.

But then again, as long as I have characteristics related to the Infinity Stones, how can I be a simple character?

When Arthurek saw that he didn't answer, he didn't get angry. He just exclaimed: "You have more secrets than I thought, but it's good this way. Only geniuses who are special enough can be chess pieces in the chess game of God."

He waved his hand, as if to untie some shackles, and a blue-gray human-shaped severed hand appeared in front of Nemesis.

There is an eyeball in the center of the palm, and the whole palm carries an unspeakable mysterious aura.

[Vecna's Dharma Eye and Demonic Palm].

Grade: Holy weapon.

Effect--

[Arcane Disintegration]: Vecna ​​has imbued his broken palm with his endless magical knowledge, which makes the palm fully aware of all magical knowledge. Any spell will be weakened by three levels the moment it touches the palm.

[Mystic Eye]: The eye in the devil's hand is integrated with the authority that Vecna ​​stole from the Prince of the Abyss, Orcus. The eye has the ability to command all undead creatures and also has the power to grant the caster the power to pardon the lich.

[Endless Oblivion]: The fusion of the Eye of the Law and the Broken Palm allows this holy weapon to break through the limitations of the magic network and call upon the deepest power in the magic network. The holder can release the most powerful legendary enchantment spell of Vecna ​​before his ascension once a day - [Endless Oblivion].

As soon as Nemesis finished reading, the entire space fell into a wave of fluctuations. Emma's voice came from the endless void.

"You win, I surrender." A thousand-meter-tall graceful shadow seemed to appear in the darkness: "Take me away, Volume Dragon, I will serve you as my master, but in exchange, you must provide for me."

Arthurek said with some envy: "A legendary activation spell, this is really a rare thing."

Nemesis smiled and said, "I accept your allegiance."

"But I can't do this before Vecna ​​is released. Otherwise, the appearance of the god's body will probably have a very serious impact on the earth." Nemesis thought to himself.

Go to the reverse world first and retrieve the reverse pupil. After waking up Vicna, take Emma away.

Emma, ​​who had been waiting for a long time, didn't mind waiting a little longer, so she agreed.

Arthurek was anxious to get Nemesis back with the Reverse Eye, but Nemesis still had a question to ask: "Can this holy weapon allow me to deal with the half of His Majesty Vic?"

He looked at the lich suspiciously. The functions of the Dharma Eye and Broken Palm were indeed powerful. The first function could be said to be the nemesis of all spellcasters. It reduced the power of spells by three levels, which was equivalent to an ordinary legendary spell directly falling out of the level of legendary spells.

The second function is even more outrageous, and it is powerful in the literal sense. The first is to control all undead creatures, which means that Nemesis has an absolute advantage in the face of any undead creatures. Even the chief of the Red Robe Mage Association, the lich Sazas Tan, would probably retreat in front of him, after all, the other party is also a kind of undead creature. The second function is more obscure - pardoning liches.

In the impressions of many ordinary people, liches are highly intelligent undead creatures that are transformed through a ritual created by a wizard who is unwilling to die and creates a phylactery.

Could it be that this holy weapon simply omits this step and allows people to be directly transformed into a lich?
It would be too simplistic to think so.

Liches are a very special kind of undead creature. Their strength levels vary, and they usually appear as the leaders of undead creatures.

Few people know that the original origin of the Lich actually comes from one of the three giants in the abyss - the undead monarch Orcus.

Orcus spread the method of becoming a lich in the world and gave the wizard the method of making a phylactery.

The so-called ritual of becoming a lich points to the source of Orcus himself.

The ritual of becoming a lich can be said to be the most secret knowledge in the world. Throughout the ages, only a very small number of great wizards have the ability to become a lich.

Ordinary people don't know that the success of the ceremony to become a lich depends on whether Orcus agrees.

In other words, the vast majority of liches in the entire multiverse were transformed under the witness and consent of Orcus.

Rather than saying that the wizard transformed himself into a lich, it would be more accurate to say that Orcus pardoned the wizard and made him a lich.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine how powerful Orcus' control over the lich is.

Orcus has the power of life and death over most liches - except for the most powerful demiliches.

The root of the problem lies in the [Life Box] on which the liches depend for survival.

The phylactery is a special item that a lich creates during the transformation process. When a lich creates a phylactery, it imprisons its soul inside it. This way, even if the lich's body is destroyed, as long as the phylactery is intact, the lich's soul can escape back into the phylactery and reconstruct a new undead body after a period of time.

Such a powerful ability naturally has side effects that cannot be underestimated.

As the master of the phylactery, the lich must offer the souls of intelligent creatures to the phylactery every day. By absorbing the souls of intelligent creatures, he can maintain his own living soul.

"Do you know where those souls went?" Arthurek said expressionlessly.

"Orcus?" Nemesis guessed.

The lich nodded and said, "Orcus is the master of the lich's phylacteries. Through the lich's phylacteries, he is endlessly grabbing the souls of the living. Most of the liches in the multiverse are just tools for Orcus to collect souls."

"In exchange, the cruel Prince of the Abyss gave them the power to live."

Nemesis was shocked. A lich had to offer 365 souls to the phylactery every year. How many great wizards were unwilling to die in the entire multiverse, and how many of them turned into liches? How many souls had Orcus obtained from them during these endless years?

Legend has it that Orcus was once just an ordinary mortal, starting as the lowest maggot in the abyss, and step by step became one of the three giants who aspired to dominate the abyss. It is likely that those liches contributed at least half of the power to his rise.

"My Lord was once just a pawn in the hands of Orcus, but He succeeded in ascending to God with His own strength and wisdom. And on the day He exalted the Kingdom of God, He tore apart the authority of Orcus."

Arthurek looked at the broken palm of the Dharma Eye with fanaticism in his eyes: "If you have it, you can be like the Prince of the Abyss and pardon the liches. They will become your most loyal followers, because their phylacteries are chess pieces at your mercy. They will also become your tools to harvest souls, because for every soul offered to the phylactery, half will be dedicated to you."

Nemesis raised an eyebrow: "Aren't all of them given to me?"

Arthurelek glanced at him. Although the skull face had no expression, Nemesis could somehow see contempt in it: "Can you use your power to give those liches eternal life like Orcus did?"

Nemesis suddenly realized.

Then, he looked at the third ability of the holy weapon - Endless Forgetfulness.

This legendary spell belongs to the category of enchantment, but after seeing its power, Nemesis couldn't help but exclaim at the high talent of the person who conceived this spell.

[Endless Forgetfulness] requires the caster to select a recipient and define his own existence for it.

It could be his memory, organs, emotions, soul, life, or even traces of his existence.

Choose an object and cast this legendary spell. The recipient will unconsciously begin to forget the existence of that object within a month.

If the caster chooses the memory of the recipient, the recipient will forget his memory. However, as the top legendary spell created by Vecna, its function will naturally not be so simple.

The horror of [Endless Forgetfulness] lies in the fact that not only the recipient, but any creature that participated in and created this memory with the recipient will forget this memory together, as if it had never happened.

Similarly, under the effect of the spell, the recipient's organs, emotions, and even life will be forgotten, and eventually it will be as if they had never existed.

The recipient will forget his own life, and the world will also forget his life, fundamentally erasing all traces of a person's existence in this world.

"This legendary spell is indeed very powerful." Nemesis hesitated, "But it seems that it is not enough to deal with that person, right?"

After all, the opponent is the other half of a god. No matter how powerful the legendary spell is, it is impossible to kill a god with one blow, right?

Arthurek's jaws kept colliding, making a silent mockery: "God is not as indestructible as you think."

"Mortals cannot harm them simply because they do not have the 'qualification' to do so."

"Gods are beings that transcend the mortal world, possessing divine bodies that cannot be touched by mortals."

"But that's all."

"Possessing divinity gives you the qualification to 'touch' the gods. And the holy vessel is the embodiment of divinity."

"Nitong's IQ is very low, even comparable to that of a child. It cannot mobilize the true divine power of my Lord. You who possess the holy weapon are enough to fight it." Arthurek spoke with disdain, and even used the pronoun "it" instead of "he" to refer to the other half of a god.

Nemesis seemed to understand that Vecna's half body was in a much worse condition than he had imagined. He was given this holy weapon just to give himself the qualification to "touch" the divine body.

This statement is indeed mentioned in Nemesis' memory inheritance, but it is not known whether it is true or not.

Legend has it that the only ones who can harm gods are those who are also gods. No matter how powerful the legendary spells cast by mortals are, they cannot pose a fatal threat to gods.

To be honest, in Nemesis's impression, legendary spells that could destroy the heavens and the earth, or even planets, were not uncommon. At first, he really couldn't imagine how powerful the gods were, and that attacks of this level could not affect them.

Now after listening to Arthur Lek's words, he had a vague guess.

The so-called gods probably possessed bodies with completely different rules from those in the material world. Without a special medium like 'divinity', mortal attacks could not even touch the gods, let alone harm them.

It's really fascinating, God
Nemesis sighed.

(End of this chapter)