Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 381 Dimensional Anchor Point, Three Consecutive Draws
An extremely dangerous high-magic world.

It could even be a cesspool, but it's uncertain whether it's a small cesspool or an extra-large one.

The dimensional beacons Duncan observed were highly unstable, with even space itself in a chaotic state. This meant that the anchored location might not even belong to the Prime Material Plane. The world he anchored to was roughly analogous to the perfect bite of a fish; locking onto the Prime Material Plane was the perfect bite. Generally speaking, the Prime Material Plane is the safest place, and it also buys time for the human being to develop.

As for non-orthogonal spatial anchor points, who knows where they ended up?

It might have directly located the monster's home.

Duncan's exploration this time adopted a wide-net approach, using legends to expand the chances of finding other worlds, so the anchor points in space have a very high degree of randomness.

hum!
Just as Duncan was observing the anchor point that was emitting four different colors of light and might not be the prime material plane at all, his divine power suddenly reacted. Then, in the other direction of the huge feather-shaped nebula pattern, a layered and seemingly endless layer appeared. It was like a huge inverted pyramid structure. The vortex at its root was not even on the spatial level, but a concept of dimension, which eventually formed a very large collective consciousness.

Next to this massive inverted pyramid, there is a smaller space, about nine stories high, which appears to have been separated from it.

"demon?"

Duncan attempted to use his divine power to discern and detect the laws of the plane, but the immense collective consciousness reacted instantly. It surged out from the deepest vortex, carrying the most fundamental chaotic power, and wandered through countless levels before retreating back.

So strong.

A collection of consciousnesses that is at least at the level of powerful gods.

Duncan only glimpsed a vast plain and countless, densely packed demons. Heaven knows how many there were; in any case, the massive inverted pyramid was filled with demons of all kinds, including bizarre, insect-like creatures.

There are too many demons.

Before Duncan could even break through the dimensional barrier to get a clearer view, he retreated back to the dimensional level.

The next layer is a little smaller, so there shouldn't be any problem.

Duncan's consciousness once again attempted to break through the dimensional barrier. He wanted to use his divine power to observe the space that only had nine layers. However, after he entered a layer burning with flames and sulfur, in an instant, a powerful consciousness in the depths of that hellish plane reacted. It locked onto the approximate layer, and then a spatial rift opened in the void. A tall figure with two horns on its head, wearing a magnificent black and red robe, and holding a ruby ​​scepter walked out of the spatial rift.

His expression was one of surprise and uncertainty as he stared at the blood-red sky and the dimensional barrier beyond it. He seemed to have just sensed a dangerous presence intruding into this place.

Tiamat.

"Did you feel it just now?" the figure asked in a deep voice.

No response.

Tiamat, the Queen of the Five Colored Dragons, remained silent. She had initially come to this land with the faith of the Mulan people. After the birth of the Enser pantheon, she took on a new form under the name 'Tiamat' and completed the process of ascending to godhood in her human form.

In this process, she gradually severed all ties with the source, forming an independent personality and gradually merging with the one revered as the Mother of Dragons.

Her ultimate goal was to establish herself in this country, because the mythical era that was her roots had long since vanished.

Originally, she wanted to go to a place called the Bottomless Abyss.

But it was too chaotic there.

So after reaching some secret agreements with the great devil beside her, she placed her divine kingdom within his territory.

"Are we from the same place?"

The handsome, tall figure raised another question. The ruby ​​scepter in his palm emitted a strange light, as if he were casting a prophetic spell beyond the imagination of mortals, but still gained nothing. His will only caused a very slight ripple when breaking through the dimensional barrier.

If it weren't for an existence of His level, ordinary gods wouldn't even be able to detect it.

The figure clad in a long red and black robe left in disappointment.

I do not know how long it has been.

Just as His figure disappeared into the void of the spatial rift, Tiamat, the Queen of the Five Colors, spoke in a deep voice, slowly uttering a single word in a strange tone: "Hmm."

The figure vanished, but a voice echoed from the void: "How about competing with Gilgamesh?"

Tiamat, the Queen of the Five-Colored Dragons, remained silent.

Gilgamesh, the son of Enlil, the chief god of the Enser pantheon, and the current King of Enser, is based on Gilgamesh from the Sumerian epic.

This little guy also has a very powerful God-King persona in the Kingdom of Heaven.

However, in the later Great Battle of the Gods, He was directly melted by Tiamat, the Queen of the Five-Colored Dragons, and legend has it that His divine body shattered into crystals of law. In the later stages of the Great Battle of the Gods in this realm, the entire Enser pantheon collapsed due to multiple blows, including internal strife from divine wars, invasions by foreign enemies, and the disintegration of faith.

The Enser pantheon went from being "a group of gods" to being "a lone commander Gilga," with even his divine office being maintained through part-time work.

Among the otherworldly deities who have become active and risen to prominence in the last one or two thousand years, the most famous is called 'Tyr, the God of Justice'.

—"-2489DR (Note: Before Christ in the Valley Calendar), the Sumerian and Babylonian pantheons, at the invitation of the supreme god Io of the Kingdom of Heaven, entered the Kingdom of Heaven in manifest form, led by Enlil, together with the Egyptian pantheon, forming the Enser pantheon headed by Enlil."

Guided by the ancient god Buta, the incarnations of the gods traversed the endless void and arrived at the planet Toril.

Upon arriving in Faerûn, they further separated the remaining divine essence, creating lesser mortal incarnations—reincarnations (similar to human bodies). These incarnations descended upon the fertile plains of the Imasca Empire, where the most talented were chosen as priests, and the most devout believers were transformed into servants of the gods.

Tiamat then descended upon the heavens of her kingdom.

—"-247DR, Tyr launched the 'Leap of Justice,' descending upon this land from a bursting interdimensional portal near Aragorn in the Tumish region."

Tyr, the god of justice, led 200 otherworldly messengers across the Vernon coast to quell the remnants of the ancient Jemdas pantheon.

During this process, Tyr attracted the attention of a then-unknown god, the suffering god Ilmat, who joined Tyr's camp four years later. At this time, the loyal and brave god Tom also became Tyr's general.

Subsequently, people began to refer to Tyr, Ilmat, and Dom as the Three Gods of Justice.

Barto Hell.

Asmodeus stood in the void, gazing in the direction of Tiamat, the Queen of the Five Colored Dragons. He awaited her reply, for he had been secretly observing these powerful outsiders ever since the first large-scale descent of otherworldly gods into the heavens.

Not to mention that this is a special time, and the 'Cataclysm of the Saints' that just broke out has made all the gods very uneasy.

Tiamat, the Queen of the Five Colors, had recently reached an agreement with Him, and Tiamat, who had lost one of her avatars in the material plane, had just condensed a new avatar, secretly plotting revenge against Gilga, the current god-king of the Enser pantheon.

—"At the end of 1358DR, in the Year of Shadows, the Holy Cataclysm broke out."

—"At the end of 1359DR, a year of turmoil, the Holy Cataclysm ended, and the gods returned."

It is now the year 1360 of the Valley Calendar.

At this critical juncture, a mysterious and unknown will suddenly appeared and used its spirit to probe His Bathorian Hell. How could Asmodeus be at ease?

He always felt that Tiamat seemed to know something.

But it's a pity.

Tiamat remained silent. As an otherworldly goddess who intended to integrate into this realm, no one knew what she was secretly plotting.

The Mesopotamian mythology has declined in the Root World.

Tiamat is actively embracing her new identity, a merged identity that allows her to fully establish herself in the Kingdom of Heaven. Of the many deities who came here with her, and of the Egyptian pantheon that also perished in the original world, only she has truly thrived.

Now that Tiamat has begun to embrace her identity as the Queen of the Five Colors, although she doesn't know who that mysterious will is, she senses a very unique aura.

The last time I felt such an aura was when I met Tyr, the god of justice.

Poor Tyre.

Last year, one of his eyes was gouged out by the supreme god of the realm. Asmodeus seemed somewhat disappointed. His deep eyes were fixed on Tiamat's soul, and he said softly, "Don't forget that it was I who helped you that allowed you to recover your strength so quickly."

"Without my help, your fate might be even more tragic than that of Lady Woking, the Lady of Wealth."

Woking.

That unlucky goddess of fortune?
Tiamat seemed to remember something. Yes, the poor Lady of Wealth was now imprisoned in the Abyss. She had been trapped in the Dark Lord Graz's palace last year, and the Church of Wealth of the Material Plane had been trying to rescue her.

It is said that her church plans to recruit the most elite adventurers from the Prime Material Plane to venture into the Abyss.

Tiamat remained silent after the five-colored dragon.

finally.

Asmodeus left in disappointment. The Holy Cataclysm had just ended, and everything was in chaos. Even if He sensed a trace of the aura of an otherworldly god, He could only put it aside for the time being.

The Church of Wealth is doing everything it can to rescue Goddess Woking. As the ruler of the Bathor Hell, how could He not cause some trouble for the demon lord of the bottomless abyss at this time?

Dimensional space.

Duncan was unaware that his act of using his divine sense to probe the spatial anchor point had alerted a powerful being and led to a series of conjectures from Him.

"It must be the devil's lair."

At this time, Duncan's primordial spirit had returned to the dimensional level. After the end of the previous world, his divine abilities had increased, and his causality had also merged with the Great Derivation Number. Therefore, even without a human body, Duncan was able to glean some information about the anchored world.

The spatial anchor point discovered at this time was not as eerie as the one that emitted four colors of light before.

Duncan used a wisp of his will to investigate and found something.

"How did we discover so many spatial beacons all at once?"

"They all look like high-magic planes?"

Just as Duncan was wondering, the dimensional plane suddenly trembled again, and then the huge feather-shaped nebula pattern seemed to become disordered, transforming into a strange eye, which then linked to a realm that did not belong to the conventional dimension, as if it were a vast spiritual universe.

Surprised, Duncan sent out a wisp of his divine sense to investigate.

In an instant!
Countless eerie whispers and endless shrieks echoed, and from the distant reaches of that vast spiritual universe, the sound of chilling flutes could be heard.

But Duncan's authority now transcends that of a conventional deity, and his will has resisted these spiritual erosions.

finally.

He did see some images; it was a blue planet that resembled Earth. This was the beacon of the space anchor, located in the region of the prime material plane, which was relatively good news.

The bad news is that it's a dead fish!
Just as Duncan used a wisp of divine sense to probe this spatial beacon, he seemed to have spiritual vision and saw the internal structure of this planet.

Although the plane of this anchor point is not a high-magic world.

However, from Duncan's God's perspective, the entire planet was glowing with a blood-red light, which is the 'hostile marker' from God's perspective.

Inside the planet, beneath its crust, a colossal flesh and blood organism is active in the Earth's core, the entire planet resembling an eggshell hatching it.

This planet is His body.

That's why, from Duncan's God's perspective, a blood-red mark the size of a planet would appear.

What's even more disheartening is that this planet is also in the post-mythological era. Although it possesses a certain amount of magical power, it has been suppressed by the decline of mythology, making it roughly equivalent to the original world. Perhaps a three- or four-star power level is already the upper limit that mortals can reach.

"Isn't this sending people to their deaths?"

In a low-magic world, devoid of technology and dependent on planets, they face a colossal planetary monster.

This spatial beacon is practically a perfect example of a dead fish facing the right way.

What's even more reckless is that at the very moment Duncan peered in, it seemed that many mortals were desperately digging into the underground world, probably already digging to the deepest parts of the earth.

"What if digging this up awakens that enormous monster?"

"Won't humanity go extinct?"

Although the third spatial beacon seems more reliable, at least on the prime material plane, once you actually enter it, it's a completely different story.

"Now we just have to wait to capture the human host."

As Duncan's divine computing power grew stronger, he was able to spy on the dimensional beacon he was anchoring to even before capturing a human host. However, the amount of information he obtained varied, and the more dangerous the place, the harder it was for him to gather more intelligence.

"Consume Legendary Points to accelerate the capture of human hosts."

With a thought from Duncan, streaks of pale golden light flashed across these anchored spatial beacons like shooting stars.

at this time.

He then turned his attention back to the Root World.

He had been planning the ceremony for the world's ascension for a long time, and this Holy Grail ceremony in Paris was the key ignition process. After the birth of monotheism, the Root World entered the end of its mythological period, and the ancient Greek gods gradually perished. Now, relying on the power of the Holy Grail, Duncan wants to restart the elemental tides.

The cup used by Jesus and Yggdrasil, while unable to summon a true god or Duncan's true form, is perfectly capable of igniting the ley line energy of the entire European continent.

The entire summoning ceremony of the Heroic Spirits was a scheme orchestrated by Duncan and Odin.

Duncan borrowed the mythology of monotheism.

Odin provides the laws for the heroic spirits.

The combination of these two factors presents an opportunity to shake the foundations of the world and allow the magical tides to return.

to be honest.

When Duncan conquered the Celtic kingdom, he summoned the goddess Sulis (Athena, Minerva), and the guardian fairy Avalon. These god-level beings, after being significantly downgraded, became the Heroic Spirit Summoning System used in the mysterious world today.

However, with the Holy Grail as a vessel, it can gather a huge amount of magical power and achieve an effect similar to a 'miracle'.

But the true gods do not covet a Holy Grail.

The reason why Heroic Spirits are bound to the Holy Grail is because Monotheism is too powerful. Even if Odin didn't steal from Monotheism's homeland and take away their faith power, it would be difficult for him to shake the laws of reality.

The Holy Grail was elevated to a sacred object through faith.

Essentially, everything Duncan planned was about using the power of faith to shake reality.

Unless a divine artifact of the 'Spear of Longinus' level appears, there shouldn't be anything that can disrupt the activation of the Greater Grail Ritual.

When the Hermitage summoned the Dragon Slayer, Duncan was a little worried that St. George would be holding the gun.

Fortunately, he only used it and did not associate it with its mythology.

Now, as long as Duncan maintains his position until the entire ceremony is over, he can continue to manage and handle the newly anchored dimensional beacons.

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(End of this chapter)