swish swish...

Ai Wen is holding the pen he made using "Activated Spiritual Light" and is writing quickly. The gold nib leaves lines of beautiful words and lines on the fine parchment.

It forms a complex and precise array that looks like a work of art.

This is the "Garriott Bird Transformation Technique 3.0" that he is constantly revising. The main body has been completed when he was promoted to an official wizard. Now he is just making some small modifications in details to make it more perfect.

Ivan believes that after this transformation, the seabirds under his command will definitely undergo a qualitative change, and it is no longer a dream to complete the transformation from ordinary creatures to demonic creatures.

Sudden.

The light in the captain's cabin dimmed, and the light of the hanging wind chime seemed to be swallowed up by something.

Then an old man’s gloomy voice suddenly came from the oil painting hanging on the wall:

"Xiao~zi~, quickly find someone to give my old man something to eat, eat... chatter...

Otherwise I will eat you! Chatter..."

Others may be shocked when they hear this, but...

Snapped--

The only response was a snap of Alvin's fingers.

That hair-raising voice became smaller and smaller, until it was finally inaudible.

Because a spiritual barrier has risen on its own, cutting off all connections between the oil painting and the outside world on a mysterious level, making it impossible for the old man inside who couldn't understand the situation to see, hear, or speak.

It was simply worse than when I was at the bottom of the sea.

However, this also means some kind of signal.

The pen in his hand drew the last symbol on the paper. Ivan put away the "Bird Transformation Technique 3.0", replaced it with an ordinary white paper, and refilled himself a cup of black tea.

Then he looked up at the oil painting, as if he was expecting something.

A minute later, the scene of the shipwreck in the oil painting gradually disappeared, and a portrait of a middle-aged man wearing a noble dress from hundreds of years ago and with wavy hair replaced him.

Ai Wen then lifted the spiritual barrier, bowed slightly, and said with a smile:

"Good day, Sir Katalov!"

“Good day, Your Excellency Baron!

Haha, the taste of freedom is better. Especially when you experience freedom, you can also have a noble and excellent audience. It is really perfect.

So, Your Excellency, are you free to listen to me continue to tell the story of the past?"

The man in the painting spoke slowly. Although it still belonged to the old man's voice just now, his tone was completely different, especially the slight rise in tone at the end of each sentence. This was the way nobles used to speak to show their uniqueness.

Hearing this, of course Aiwen would not refuse, because it was "him" he was waiting for.

"Of course, it's my pleasure!"

It has been so long since this painting was fished out of the sea. After being discovered by Kaka and completely exposed to the fact that he had consciousness, and after several not-so-successful exchanges, Alvin has already gained some understanding of the painting and the consciousness that resides in it.

Got a certain understanding.

In other words, he, it, they... can all refer to the consciousness inside.

Ivan's initial guess was correct.

Before and after the disaster of the flute-shaped ship, the escaped wizard hundreds of years ago abandoned his seriously injured body and hid in the form of his soul in this famous painting, which was essentially a "cursed object".

His former name was Simpson, and he was an official wizard belonging to the "Heringer School" of dark wizards during his lifetime.

Proficient in shadow witchcraft and soul witchcraft, he used "cursed objects" to seal his soul, and has been living in the painting to this day.

But a long time has passed, and his own life form has already undergone irreversible changes. His soul and this cursed oil painting have been completely combined, becoming an existence similar to the demon spirit in the painting.

This form of existence is somewhat similar to the legendary battleship "Ship Spirit" that Ivan has learned about. As long as this painting is not destroyed, theoretically it will not completely die.

This allowed him to survive hundreds of years of erosion with the soul essence of a second-level transcendent.

However, the price he paid was far more than that.

The painting was originally titled "Death Portrait of Katalov" and was originally a self-portrait created by an aristocratic painter named Katalov.

I don’t know what happened in the middle, but it finally turned into a "cursed object", causing its former owners to "disappear" inexplicably, and their souls were imprisoned in the painting and continued to sink.

The form shown in the oil painting shows the scene of each victim's death.

While the dark wizard Simpson dominated this cursed oil painting with a powerful soul power that far exceeded any previous victim, he also had to uncontrollably merge with the remaining souls and consciousness of previous victims until

It's hard to tell each other apart.

So what finally appeared in front of Ivan was a "demon in the painting" with Simpson's personality as the main character and countless victims as the secondary ones.

A crazy old man, a learned aristocratic artist, a wealthy businessman who regards wealth as his life, a clumsy thief... Ivan has recorded at least a dozen personalities, and it seems that there should be far more than that.

As for the people who were eaten into the painting after Simpson, such as the unlucky soldier Cyrus, they were really eaten, without even a chance to carve up Simpson's soul and become an independent personality.

Whether it's at the bottom of the sea or after being fished out.

They will all conduct internal negotiations and come out regularly to show off. Whoever comes out will be the one shown on the screen.

But most of the time, the main personality of the old dark wizard comes out, and the second most popular one is the original owner of this painting: Sir Katalov.

To be honest, of course the crazy old man as a formal wizard is more valuable. The knowledge of the "Hellinger School" in his mind is very attractive to any extraordinary person.

Although it is impossible for Aiwen to study both at the same time, if he can obtain the shadow witchcraft that belongs to the wizard, he will definitely save a lot of effort when cultivating Kaka, the shadow lizard.

However, Ivan would rather chat with this knowledgeable aristocratic artist than dealing with an old wizard who is crazy but still as cunning as a fox.

Moreover, although the memories between personalities are not interoperable, after three hundred years of getting along, the mutual communication between personalities is enough to complete the sharing of most memories.

At least Katalov knew the memories of everyone who came after him.

As a result, this erudite aristocratic artist gave Alvin an unexpected surprise with his "personal" experiences that had never been recorded in history books.

Although some are high-end and may not be used temporarily, their value is no less than any mysterious knowledge.

Because there may be a secret hidden in it that allows mortals and gods to stand side by side!

"We mentioned last time that a long time ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was famous for being conservative, stubborn, and unkind, and used various dogmas and rules to firmly imprison the people's minds.

This situation has lasted for thousands of years, and people call it the "Dark Millennium".

Until the era I lived in five hundred years ago, the people finally stopped being submissive lambs and were determined to break that dark era from the spiritual world.

It was a movement called the Renaissance, and it was a magnificent period that lasted for two centuries.

Indirectly, it caused the Turkat dynasty that I belong to to "dominate" the continent, or in other words, to become a place of pilgrimage for the entire continent in terms of thought, art, and humanities."

Although the words of this "ancient man" clearly lacked reverence for the seven true gods, Ivan just listened silently, recording first-hand information on the dialogue with "history" on paper from time to time.

Because of his dual status as a noble and an artist, he had enough vision and opportunities to understand the true appearance of that era, which also made Aiwen feel like he had found a treasure!

From his intermittent stories during this period, Alvin seems to have grasped the development of the world and the limits of the true God's power!

According to what he said, the wizards' records plus Ivan's own reasoning and guessing.

In the dark ages, all supernatural powers except the church were suppressed. Wizards were no different from other supernatural beings. They were all struggling to survive in the cracks, but they could barely survive.

But when the "Renaissance" movement from the bottom up developed in full swing and was unanimously welcomed by most countries and people in the Old World, and even formed a certain trend, the True God Church finally could no longer sit still.

With the huge accumulation of having firmly ruled the world for thousands of years in both body and soul, he began to hunt down extraordinary beings, especially wizards among them, with the belief of killing.

Obviously the wisdom of the gods has allowed them to see the changes in the future. After the shackles of thought are broken, what will follow will be a hundred flowers blossoming on the spiritual and material levels.

And those wizards with the most strength, wisdom, creativity, and productivity will surely gain the greatest benefits from this torrent of social change and profoundly change the material world.

It is even possible to use a bottom-up movement to shake the rule of the True God in the Old World based on the public's boredom with the Church's rule in the "Dark Millennium".

Of course, this is something no true god would want to see!

But their plan was not fully realized.

The largest witch-killing campaign in history was in full swing. The forces of the church expelled, killed, and imprisoned most of the witches. They were about to completely kill the budding movement.

Another thing happened that the true gods did not expect.

While the church and wizards were fighting, a group of demigods sprung up in their back garden because of mankind's desire for "Renaissance" and ideological liberation.

Some of them were born directly from human faith, and some were promoted from the peak of extraordinary beings. In just two hundred years, there were even more demigods than in the past thousands of years.

One of the typical examples is Purcell, the "God of Opera" whom Alvin was lucky enough to meet in person!

Even if the trend is not led by wizards, it is slowly unfolding in another form that they are also unwilling to see, and has a profound impact on the world.

From this, the true gods also know that even they who are superior are not the masters of this world, nor are they completely irreplaceable.

Although the will of the world does not have a complete self, [Youyou Reading www.uutxt.vip] also has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The original intention of the operation of all world rules must be conducive to the development and advancement of the world.

The world trend during this period can be temporarily suppressed, but it cannot stay in the age of ignorance forever.

Therefore, the gods also have to make compromises with the world itself.

Under the combined influence of both internal and external forces, the religious reform of the Church of the Seven Gods began, and the "Millennium of Darkness" came to a complete end.

Later.

Several hundred years later, as the various forces competed with each other, the extraordinary ecology that now appears to be balanced gradually emerged.

After straightening out the context, Ivan also obtained one of the keys, a secret that may not even be known to many super-powerful people.

That is something that even the true gods have to give in to - the world trend!
Chapter completed!