The plane of Amonkhet.
This is a world similar to the ancient Egyptian civilization on Earth. You can see glittering gold everywhere, and towering monuments and pyramids stand in the sun-scorched desert.
Local residents revere the great Pharaoh God and believe that he is generous, kind, considerate of the people, and protected them from the terrible evils and monsters in the desert.
Whenever they have free time, countless people will go to the magnificent temple with their families to offer sacrifices to this supreme being to express their inner gratitude.
People living in Amonkhet only need to do two things from the moment they understand.
One is to pray devoutly to the Pharaoh God, and the other is to focus on training to become the most powerful and perfect warrior, and to pass strict and cruel trials as the highest honor, hoping to one day answer the call of the gods and step onto the battlefield.
, dedicating his insignificant life for it.
As for trivial matters such as farming, transportation, and various production activities, they are all completed by embalmed mummies.
The dead serve the living. This is the most unique thing about the time and space of Amonkhet.
Moreover, it has no ruling class, no aristocracy, no exploitation and oppression at all, and it does not even require labor.
All living people are believers of the great Pharaoh God and are in a state of absolute equality.
Peace, fertility, abundance, justice, everything in this world seems so beautiful.
But what is the real situation hidden under the beautiful appearance?
The real situation is that the supreme pharaoh god is the most powerful planeswalker today - Nicol Bolas.
This world is one of the lairs that is completely controlled by him.
A long time ago, Nicol Bolas descended on Amonkhet and slaughtered all the adults in the world, leaving only those children who were easily manipulated.
Then through the power of psychic magic, the memories and histories of all minors were tampered with, shaping themselves into the so-called "Pharaoh God", and secretly building an invincible and powerful "Eternals" army here.
This is why the only thing that living people need to do is to train and then participate in various harsh trials.
When their fighting skills and will are trained to the extreme, and their bodies develop to their physiological limits, they will immediately be transformed into "immortals".
To put it bluntly, it is a special undead creature.
Because their souls are completely preserved, the "Eternal Ones" legion possesses wisdom and thinking abilities that other mass-produced undead creatures do not have, as well as the fruits of more than ten or twenty years of training during their lifetimes.
These powerful undead warriors, painted in gold or dark blue and fully armed, are now neatly arranged in the square deep underground, motionless like statues.
Some of them have been standing here for hundreds of years and are covered with a thick layer of dust.
Nicol Bolas stood on the high platform, looking at the main force that was preparing to launch the "War of the Spark" across time and space. His eyes revealed a kind of arrogance, coldness, cunning and cruelty that cannot be described in words.
Because in his opinion, with the fragile power of the new generation of planeswalkers, as long as they get the "lock" to restrict the power of sparks from traveling through time and space, a dozen or even dozens of "Eternals" warriors can defeat them or even defeat them.
Kill.
Especially after devouring the energy of Alara's time and space, the old dragon has achieved the prerequisites for the launch of the plan in terms of hard power.
The next thing to do is to get the "door" and "lock".
The former is a great invention born from the magical mechanical space-time - Kaladesh. A device called the "Time-Space Crossing Bridge" can connect any two time-spaces and allow inanimate objects to travel freely between them.
With it, the "Eternal One" army can attack directly from Amonkhet to the time and space of Ravnica ruled by many guilds, factions, and alliances.
The reason why we chose Ravnica to launch the "War of the Spark" is because this world is somewhat similar to "Sigil", the center of the universe where the planet Toril is located.
What the two have in common is that countless people enter or leave the city in various ways at all times.
And a large amount of knowledge and ideas from different time and space intersect here, and ultimately many strange philosophical views, values ​​and derivative cultures were born based on different tendencies.
The most important thing is that almost all planeswalkers who ignite the Spark will visit Ravnica without exception, and some will have deep connections with the local "Guildpact".
Therefore, a frontal attack on Ravnica will almost 100% attract a large number of planeswalkers to join the battle.
Only when enough sparks are gathered, Nicol Bolas can use that powerful spell to restore himself to the level before the planeswalker's spark metamorphosis.
The "lock" in the latter refers to the "Eternal Sacred Sun" that can make sparks lose their ability to transmit.
As early as more than 1,300 years ago, Azor, one of the friends of the spirit dragon Ugin, a sphinx (a sphinx with extremely high intelligence) who had lived for tens of thousands of years, used his own planeswalker spark.
The artifact of creation.
In addition, this Azor is also the founder of the "Azorius Guild" in Ravnica, as well as the advocate and founder of the birth of the "Guildpact".
Without him, there would be no so-called order and law in Ravnica today, but would still be stuck in the era of chaos, barbarism, violence, bloodshed and mutual killing 10,000 years ago.
The two conspired to seal Nicol Bolas in a certain world through the "Immortal Sun" so that he could no longer threaten and destroy the entire multiverse.
But unfortunately, as the old dragon successfully killed Ugin in the time of Tarkir, the whole plan was eventually aborted.
Nicol Bolas was undoubtedly cautious about something that might lock him in a certain time and space forever.
He is so cautious that he knew the exact information more than 1,300 years ago, but he still has no idea of ​​trying to seize it.
Because he was not sure whether this news was a trap that Ugin deliberately set before his death to lure him to search for it, and then use the artifact to turn the entire "Ixalan Time and Space" into a prison to imprison himself.
But now, with the planeswalker's spark undergoing a qualitative change, resulting in the loss of power and immortal life comparable to the gods, Nicol Bolas obviously does not have too many choices.
No matter what method he uses, he must obtain the "Eternal Sacred Sun" to complete the last piece of the puzzle in his huge plan.
Just as the old dragon was holding his chin with his front paws, thinking about how to use the chess pieces on hand to seize the Immortal Sun, a dazzling red light suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of him.
Before he could react to what happened, the latter fell straight from the empty square above his head to the steps, making a huge noise.
Bang!
The shield made of ethyl gold directly collided with the stone steps, creating a pit more than half a meter deep on the spot.
When the dust and gravel that filled the air gradually dispersed, Nico Bolas saw clearly that the light group was none other than the man he sent out to investigate the contamination of Mirrodin's space-time by the Shimmering Oil—
—Tezzeret.
As one of the oldest existing planeswalkers, he is very aware of how powerful the Phyrexian forces led by Yawgmoth were.
Even the ancient planeswalkers, who had god-like power before the transformation of Sparks, needed to unite to barely fight against them.
Therefore, the old dragon is extremely vigilant against the shining oil that can infect everything, and the New Phyrexia forces that are conquering the entire Mirrodin space and time.
After all, this is one of the very few things that can pose a direct threat to his army of "Eternals".
He didn't want the secret weapon that took so long to build to end up being used as a wedding dress for New Phyrexia.
At this moment, the genius artifact master Tezzeret looks a little miserable.
Not only was the half of the body modified with ethyl gold severely damaged, but the arm was twisted and deformed by the terrifying force to the point where it was almost like a pile of scrap metal. The hair and eyebrows were also completely burned away by the high temperature, leaving only a large patch of hair.
Burnt black marks where the skin sticks together.
Just based on the creepy degree of carbonization, it is not difficult to judge that he must have been attacked by terrifying flames or red mana-type magic before, and even the ethyl gold shield filled with powerful protective magic was dissolved.p>
If he hadn't activated the spark to escape at the last moment, Tezzeret would probably be an unrecognizable corpse now.
"Tell me! What happened?" Nicol Bolas frowned and asked.
"Yes...it's Soth! He attacked me! He wanted to kill me!"
There was a hint of trembling in Tezzeret's voice, and his eyes revealed intense fear.
"Thos? Why is he in Mirrodin? And why did he attack you? Didn't you show that you are working for me?"
There was strong doubt in Lao Long's tone.
Because in his impression, Zuo Si should be the kind of person who is only interested in profit and knows how to adapt to the situation.
As long as you can give him enough benefits and remain overwhelmingly powerful, then this young planeswalker will not dare to betray you.
In particular, being able to penetrate into the enemy's interior to collect intelligence on Ugin and Solin can bring unimaginable huge advantages in future battles.
Nicol Bolas simply couldn't understand why Zuo Si would attack Tezzeret and almost kill him?
Was there some unknown conflict between the two?
"I'm not sure why he appeared in Mirrodin.
But what is certain is that he established a laboratory there, and while gathering the refugees, he studied Shimmer Oil and New Phyrexia's creations.
He has a very special girl on his hand, who is completely immune to the infection of shimmering oil, and can also clear the infected person's body of shimmering oil to a certain extent.
I thought this should be a good experimental material, so I came to ask for it.
As a result, not only did he choose not to cooperate, but he also used Alara's most powerful ethereal magic, which almost turned me into ashes.
To be continued...