Chapter 4: It's been a thousand years
Platinum calendar year 1886...
The moment he heard this year, Zhou Mu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
He clearly remembered that when the game "Endgame" reached the end of the story, it was the year 878 of the Platinum Calendar.
In other words, he traveled a full 1008 years!
Not to mention the changes in the world, more than a thousand years have been enough for mankind to realize the evolution from cold weapon combat to strategic weapon deterrence in the real world.
How much change will a thousand years have on the world?
How many of my friends are still alive today? Do the traces I left behind still exist? What has the world become now?
And my strength...
Even if it was invincible across the entire continent a thousand years ago... what level is it at now?
Zhou Mu thought of this and couldn't help but turn his gaze to the withering cold in his hand.
At least he won the first battle after traveling through time very easily, even easier than his best expectations.
As the first battle he encountered after traveling through time, Zhou Mu was quite well prepared.
First, use the two auxiliary spells [Featherfall] and [Echo] to hide the sound of your own footsteps and at the same time create false footsteps in another direction to attract the enemy's attention.
Then he used the combination of [Floating] and [Glacier Spike] to knock up and then imprison. This set of controls directly nailed the two sub-demons into fixed targets. Finally, he planned to use [Howling Blast] and [Purification Gun]
The three single-target damage magic with different attributes, Flame] and [Void Thunderstorm], are the ending.
As a result, the damage from [Glacier Spike] alone killed the opponent directly. If it were in the game, those two sub-demon would be nothing more than level 30 fish.
As a result, it seems that I was a little too cautious.
But the question is, can just two sub-demons really represent the overall level of the world a thousand years from now?
He must find more qualified experimental subjects before he can judge.
"Where are we going?"
Just when Zhou Mu was lost in thought, the girl named Liliana behind him suddenly asked.
They had already walked out of the Dusk Fortress. It was almost noon, and the dazzling sunlight coated the ancient fortress with a layer of gold.
The erosion of thousands of years has made this once indestructible fortress dilapidated. Nearly one-third of the buildings have collapsed into ruins. The lush vines have climbed up the walls of the building. If you look at it from a distance, it is impossible to see it.
From distinguishing the difference between the surrounding dense forest and the fortress.
I didn’t expect that the fortress that once ordered the entire continent’s allied forces to expedition to the Moon Realm would be abandoned like this...
"Go to the depths of the Mountains of Sorrow. There is a place called the Scar of Sorrow. The two sub-demons from before should have escaped from there. I have to go and eliminate the source."
Zhou Mu replied while looking back at Dusk Fortress with emotion.
"What is the source?"
Liliana asked.
"Moon Realm Monster."
Zhou Mu gave a short answer.
"What is a lunar monster?"
Zhou Mu, who was a little distracted at first, looked at Liliana in surprise when he heard this.
A thousand years from now, will we not even know what the moon monsters are?
As the biggest villain in the game "Endgame Watch", he almost destroyed the world. A thousand years later, there are people whose names he has never even heard of. Zhou Mu was not sure whether this was good news.
Still bad news.
"Then you should at least know what the Moon Realm is, right?"
Liliana nodded.
"I learned in the introduction to theology that the moon is an illusory reflection created by the kings of nothingness because they were jealous of the beauty of the Holy Spirit's creation and tried to imitate it. They blocked most of the light at night, making it fill the space between the stars.
The nothingness, the demonic realm hanging high in the sky... But these should be just fairy tales."
Zhou Mu sighed.
"No, this statement is too general. In fact, it is not the same thing at all. The essence of the moon is an upper plane that reflects thoughts, which is filled with various monsters born based on extreme emotions and thoughts. The so-called
The King of Nothingness is the most powerful existence among those monsters."
Zhou Mu ignored Liliana's confused expression and continued.
"The sub-demons are fragments peeled off from the bodies of some powerful lunar monsters. Because of this, they will never appear alone. The lunar monsters themselves are nihilistic existences and need to be anchored by obsessions in this world to escape from them.
Obtaining form from nothingness, and the sub-demon as a fragment of the moon realm monster is even more so."
Zhou Mu recalled the background information in the game and said.
"So wherever there are sub-demons, there will definitely be powerful moon-level monsters. And the more sub-demons that appear, the stronger they are, and the higher the level of the moon-level monsters that are their power bodies will be."
Zhou Mu stopped here and waited for the other party to digest the information.
After a while, Liliana finally asked.
"Then why are you sure it will be in the place called the Scar of Sorrow?"
"Because it is difficult for moon realm monsters to directly pass through the shell of the world and come to the real world. If they must come to the real world, they must find a weak point between the real world and the moon realm. The Mark of Sorrow is where the world and the moon realm appear on the Vic continent.
One of the weakest points between realms. So as long as you go through the right rituals on the right day, you can successfully summon them in, and a few days ago is a perfect date."
"A few days ago?"
Liliana asked curiously.
"Didn't you say before that today is around the 24th or 25th of the twilight month?"
Liliana nodded.
"The 22nd day of the twilight moon is the summons day for Camilla, the Hungry Lady, one of the void monarchs in the moon realm. This is the only day every year that she can project her power into the world."
Zhou Mu looked at Liliana and continued in a meaningful tone.
"The Hungry Lady is a generous nothingness monarch. On the summoning day, as long as someone offers enough sacrifices, they will basically get a response."
Liliana quickly understood what the other party meant.
"You mean...someone wants to kill my archaeological team by summoning moon monsters. Why?"
Zhou Mu waved his hand.
"It can only be said that this is possible, or this is just a incidental thing. Of course, it is also possible that they were not summoned from the Scar of Sorrow, but came from somewhere else and came here for other reasons.
."
"no, I can not……"
Zhou Mu's words reminded Liliana that when she was captured by the Yamo, she had heard them mention the name "Hungry Lady" many times.
But why is this? She only came here to do archeology to complete her school year project. Who can she provoke?
"arrive."
Liliana was thinking about this problem along the way, and she didn't come back to her senses until Zhou Mu suddenly stopped.
"Here is..."
"Shh..."
Zhou Mu turned around and made a silencing gesture to Liliana.
Chapter completed!