Chapter 777 About Inferno
The terrible, red-haired Vivian reminded Hao Ren that the information Hessiana brought was very important. He gathered everyone in the family. Y’zaks joined them as he returned from the outside. Since the coffee table was broken, Hao Ren moved the dining table to the center of the living room. Hessiana placed the dried body of the “Infernal Fleshripper” on the table and began to explain.
“It was Mythological Period,” Hessiana said, facing Hao Ren, her serious face looked the sa as when Vivian was lecturing them. “You should know already that Earth was quite different back then. Magic was widespread, supernatural power was the norm, humans weren’t well-verse in magic and the cities they built were fragile, they needed protection. The otherworldlings at that ti had not only built super structure unimaginable to humans today but the magical environnt at that ti also made the planet very different from today. The alien dinsions were linked to the earth, so of them were artificial and the others naturally occurring since the beginning.”
Hao Ren nodded slightly. He had heard of this before from Vivian, but no harm to brush up the knowledge, he thought.
“At that ti, the otherworldlings had built many things. Families who self-proclaid as gods had built huge ‘divine kingdoms’, such as Mount Olympus and Asgard. But now the ruins of these magnificent places are nowhere to be found on earth because these ‘divine kingdoms’ are in different dinsions,” Vivian said, continued what Hessiana started. “These divine kingdoms are artificial dinsions. There are so natural dinsions, which have existed and linked to Earth as far as I can rembered. They include Inferno and so demonic planes. Even so of the otherworldlings, such as the shadelings originally lived in these dinsions. Their hotown is called the Shadowy World; it is a frozen place with no starlight. I have been there once and it’s astounding.”
This was new to Hao Ren. He imdiately link it with the coming of otherworldlings to Earth.
They were originally inhabitants of the Plane of Dreams. They ca to this universe through the crack on the Wall of Reality.
Were the alien dinsions of ancient tis also from the Plane of Dreams? Or, in other word, had the rupture on the Wall of Reality not only brought a large number of other races to this space, but also flung the dinsional debris of the Plane of Dreams here?
Hao Ren exchanged a look with the others as if they already had the sa conclusion in this mind. But they did not harp on this point. Taking into account the condition of the Wall of Reality and the theoretical model of Grand Unified Theory, the leaking of dinsional debris into this universe through the crack on the Wall of Reality was entire normal. Instead, what mattered most was the scale of the leakage. By now, it seed that the leakage was more serious than imagined.
“After the collapse of the Mythological Era, the alien dinsions were basically gone,” Hessiana continued. “The artificial divine kingdoms lost their support after the death of the master. Most of them collapsed, and the rest closed. The one dinsion that we have found in the Temple of Olympus is a closed dinsion while the natural dinsions are in exile. The demon hunters could not have destroyed the space-ti structure, so to sever the foundation of the otherworldling races the demon hunters locked them in and destroyed the link between them and the main plane.”
“Now those alien dinsions should be still floating in the cracks of space-ti. There are no way to rebuilding links from the inside, so they wander in an endless space-ti until the universe cos to an end,” Vivian said. Suddenly, she felt a chill ran down her spine. “I was lucky that I didn’t go and hibernate in any of those dinsions. I would have been trapped inside and drifting endlessly now.”
Hao Ren looked at the Infernal Fleshripper on the table, wondering what kind of environnt could give birth to this quirky creature. “What kind of place is Inferno?”
“The craziest among all the dinsions. There are no intelligent life in it, only beasts,” Hessiana said as she compressed her lips and looked up at Vivian. “You should ask Vivian. Everything about the ancient tis I heard it from others but Vivian was the one seeing it.”
Vivian sighed, recalling the past mory. “I have not been to Inferno though. Even during Mythological Era, few had been there. The link between Inferno and the main plane was unstable. Unlike other dinsions where there were fixed passages or thod of access, the door to Inferno opened randomly on Earth. The first level of Inferno was easier to understand. So daring wizards would explore the dinsion, where there were poisonous air and hot springs of extre temperature, so hot that the whole world was boiling. The Infernal Fleshripper lived on the first level. Monsters occupied the second level of Inferno. They were beasts in flesh and blood, lacking intelligence. They mauled and killed each other. Killing instinct dictated their actions. They would rip apart all the mortals that intruded into their space. Back then, Hades had tried to form an Undead Legion explore Inferno. But the twisted monsters in Inferno ripped those skeletons and zombies apart. It is an insane place.”
“An awful dinsion filled of primitive beasts,” Hao Ren said, scratching his jaw. “Why did the wizards want to study the place?”
“The creatures in Inferno were born with imnse strength, and their flesh and blood contained a special primitive energy,” Vivian said. “Although those bloodthirsty monsters are dangerous, the wizards regarded them highly. So ointnts made from Infernal creatures were said to be useful in casting taboo spells, such as elevating human beings into immortal witches, or opening the portal to deeper, distorted dinsions. During the Mythological Era, wizards were minions of the otherworldlings. At that ti, they were forced to explore Inferno by their masters, but after the end of Mythological Era, so wizards did that on their own initiative.”
Lily imdiately yelled. “Oh, wait a second. Inferno not in exile? I thought the demon hunters had cast it away together with other alien dinsions after the Mythological Era ended?”
“The demon hunters had cast away other natural dinsions, except Inferno.” Vivian shook her head. “Like I said before, Inferno is an unstable dinsion. Its connection with the main plane is completely random. There is no native intelligent races, no one could control the connection—even the demon hunter could not get hold of the dinsion. So after the end of Mythological Era, Inferno still linked to Earth from ti to ti when so surviving otherworldlings or wizards were crossing over. But after that, the demon hunters interfered. They used a kind of dinsional disturbance power to push Inferno away. Though it hadn’t destroyed the connection with Earth completely it had greatly reduced the frequency of connection. Since then, Inferno had not appeared for almost two thousand years. The last ti it appeared was during Augustus period, a door was opened in the north of Ro where monsters swallowed up a few villages. That was the last ti the appearance of the ‘gate’. Unfortunately, the Inferno gate incidents at that ti wasn’t big enough to leave any historical clues behind.”
Hao Ren listened to the stories, wide-eyed. What happened after the end of Mythological Period surprised him. His eyes landed on the specin of the Inferno Fleshripper. “That thing…”
“That thing was made into specin hundreds of years ago,” Hessiana said as she nodded. “It ans that a wizard had opened the Inferno gate hundreds of years ago, and brought sothing out of it alive.”
“Hundreds of years ago? It was already the ti when humans and the demon hunters ruling the earth.” Hao Ren felt it incredible. “Hadn’t the demon hunters discovered the opening?”
“I don’t know, but the wizard obviously had evaded the demon hunters. We found so clues pointing to the activity of the wizard in Europe until Arican Revolution broke out.”
“So in summary there was a wizard who had opened the gate to Inferno hundreds of years ago, and brought sothing out from it. Then the wizard had left behind a magic book that could summon the evil-spirit Vivian…” Hao Ren knocked on the table with his knuckles. “What is the connection between the two things?”
“There is evidence shows that the summoning ritual recorded in the book is just one of the wizard’s many taboo spells. We found so random manuscripts left behind by the wizard,” Hessiana said as she slid a glance at Vivian. “His summoning of the ‘King of Blood’ was not the ultimate goal, but he wanted to make use of the power of the King of Blood to bring him deeper into Inferno. He must have left behind many more manuscripts. And, there may be more than one taboo spell associated with Vivian. The secrets should be hidden sowhere where he opened the gate to Inferno.”
“Where?”
“Northern Europe.”
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