Chapter 37 Past and Truth

One thousand five years ago, the Quintas continent was still in what we call ancient magic age today. At that time, some humans who controlled the entire world were able to gain powerful power by relying on the source of burning magic power, and they were therefore called ancient mages by ordinary humans and lived on a large island far away from the continent.

Compared with today's magicians, the ancient wizards of that era had power that ordinary people could not imagine. They could obtain infinite magic power with the source of magic, and transform the world with this magic power, doing whatever they wanted. In that era, the ancient wizards could do many things that only gods could do - they could summon various powerful creatures from various planes as slaves; they could use existing species to create new races, including orcs, dwarves and elves as modern humans called them.

But as the usual proverb says, things will reverse when they are extreme, and they will decline when they are prosperous. When the ancient magic era reached an unimaginable level of prosperity, disaster suddenly came. And all the root of the disaster lies in a beetle summoned by an ancient wizard inadvertently from other planes.

After several experiments, the seemingly useless beetles were abandoned casually, but one of the "maternal nests" with fertility began to reproduce a large number of beetles. What is even more frightening is that beetles that are determined to be lacking in intelligence are actually creatures with extremely high IQ. They sneak into the bodies of other creatures, control their bodies, and intend to rely on this subtle influence to occupy the world.

Unfortunately, no ancient mage noticed this fact, so decades later, when the orcs, dwarves and elves suddenly began to attack, the ancient mages were suddenly injured and killed. In fact, these orcs, dwarves and elves controlled by beetles were infected by the power of darkness and completely fell into mutation and demonization, and thus got rid of the control of the ancient mages' magic weapon.

In the face of this crisis, the ancient mages began to counterattack with the source of magic. At the beginning, the ancient mages suffered heavy losses, and even the six magic sources on the road were destroyed by five. But the remaining ancient mages accidentally discovered that the angel puppets they made could emit silver energy to destroy beetles, so they began to create a large number of angel puppets to purify the world.

Soon after, many orcs, dwarves and elves controlled by beetles escaped the doom of being controlled. It is worth noting that some orcs, dwarves and elves have become several brand new races due to the long-term erosion of dark energy - such as Taurus, Bemon, Black Dwarves, and Dark Elf. But in any case, at least these new races have also escaped from the shackles of beetles and remained neutral in the war.

Obviously, if this situation continues, the winner will definitely be the ancient mage. But at this moment, the beetle leader controlled an old mage who was alone and sneaked into the ancient mage base after all twists and turns. In this base, it found and destroyed the last source of magic... So, the ancient mage who lost its energy suddenly collapsed. They were all killed in the beetle's new attack, and only one young man named Kashyapa survived.

In fact, at this time, in order to completely resolve the beetle crisis, the ancient mages had created a huge angel, but they did not operate because they lacked enough energy. In order to avenge their companions and to prevent the beetles from attacking ordinary humans on the continent after conquering this island, Kashyapa took the risk of fusing himself and the angels, and used the only remaining fragment of the magic source.

His adventure was successful, and the angels who merged with Kashyapa's consciousness stood up in the ruins and killed the beetle leader after a battle. Soon after, most of the beetles on the entire island had been eliminated, but the few remaining were hidden with their mother nests that could breed new beetles. They did not know how to open the teleportation array and hid in the continent where ordinary humans lived.

In desperation, the angel could only fly to the continent and continue his mission of destroying the beetles. However, the hurried search did not yield any results, and his energy was almost exhausted. At this time, the angel made a major decision. He came to the continent in the name of God, established the God of Light, and granted the methods of using the divine power he had studied to human believers.

After doing all this, the angel who exhausted his energy fell into a deep sleep, while his believers still obeyed his oracles and began to wander on the continent, using all means to find beetles and their protected mother nests. Time passed by, and the Church of Light went through several ups and downs, lost many scriptures, and gradually forgot the original intention of the establishment of the Church of God. However, a creed was preserved, which was to eliminate all dark forces and the source of darkness behind the power of darkness.

However, coincidentally, since the beetles and mother nests were deeply hidden, the taurens, black dwarves, dark elves and other races who also came to the mainland through the teleportation array became the targets of attack - and all this was because they had residual dark power left in their bodies. Gradually, as the dark race was forced to move to dungeons or remote areas, everyone began to equate the dark race with the source of darkness, which was obviously good news for the hidden beetles and mother nests.

"As for what happened next, you should all understand." After the long story ended, the God of Light looked at Angel beside him and said in a deep voice: "Although my memory is only until I fell asleep, the memories that Angel supplemented are enough to infer the whole story. Simply put, time has caused us to misunderstand, but it has given the beetles a chance to recuperate."

He Taiping and Nicholas looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly. It turned out that everyone had been fighting for so long, but they were all cheaper. The God of Light sighed softly and slowly said, "Then, I will re-enter sleep, and you will tell the whole continent that the truth that has been dug out again. Be careful, although the beetles have been killed, we cannot predict whether they have used their mother nest to cultivate new beetles."

When He heard his mother's nest, He Taiping suddenly remembered something and asked quickly: "Mr. Kashyapa, what can I do to solve the mother's nest in Vivian's body?"

"Mother nest was hit by the divine power before death, and most of it has been damaged. As long as Angel insists on purifying it once a day, I believe it will be completely solved in two years." The God of Light gently ordered, but he slowly sat down. Looking at the dozen people present, he showed a faint smile: "I am very relieved. I have finally completed the mission of my companions... Everyone, please remember my words, never ignore the danger of beetles, maybe they are hiding in the corners we don't notice."

With this instructor, the huge angel returned to his sleeping state again, and the light gradually dimmed from his body, but finally disappeared without a trace. Everyone looked at each other and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Nicholas looked up at He Taiping, and finally said awkwardly: "Mr. He, I'm afraid I want to apologize to you. It is because we did not find the truth that..."

"There is no need to apologize. Just pay me a few million gold coins." He Taiping smiled and waved his hand, but looked at Angel who was sleeping in his arms and said, "In addition, if you have time to talk nonsense to me here, you might as well solve the problem first."

Nicholas was stunned for a moment and turned to look at the broken temple. Thousands of orcs who had returned to normal, dwarfs and dark elves were walking towards this side in a little confused manner. Nicholas patted his forehead and hurriedly took Feng Wu to strode forward to solve the legacy of the battle. He Taiping looked at the hurried figures of the two of them, but couldn't help but smile: "Very good, actually we have also calculated the breath. Perhaps there will be no sacred church in the future."

As he said, as the truth is revealed, the mystery of the God of Light is also unveiled. As a result, the Holy Church will be disbanded because it has lost the existence of God. Alex, Drizzt, Horn and others looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh: "Although this is a good thing, it feels strange, and I always feel that something is missing."

"So, the existence of the enemy will make life full of fun." Holding Angel in his arms tightly, He Taiping looked at his companions around him and showed a very bright smile, "But I prefer interesting friends than the enemy. So, how about we go home now and have a drink?"

"Good idea!" Drizzt touched his chin, looked in the direction of Paradise City, and smiled. "To be honest, I will drink a large bottle every day from today until I drink all the wines I have hidden in Horn."

"Good idea, in addition to the elves and dark elves, a new race will be born - the alcoholic spirit." He retorted without hesitation, Horn looked at Drizzt with wide eyes, as if he was going to have a fight here immediately.
Chapter completed!