Extraordinary Sailing

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Aiwen is holding the pen he made with "activated aura" and is writing vigorously. The gold nib is on the fine parchment, leaving rows of beautiful words and lines.

Forming a complex and precise array, it looks like a work of art.

This is the "Garriott Bird Transformation 3.0" that he is constantly revising. The main body has been completed when he was promoted to an official wizard, and now he is only making some minor modifications to make it more perfect.

Aiwen believes that after this transformation, the seabirds under his command will surely usher in a qualitative change, and it is no longer a dream to complete the transformation from mortals to demonized creatures.

Sudden.

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

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

"Little~ son~, quickly find someone to eat for my old man, eat chatter

Otherwise, I will eat you! chatter"

Bystanders may be taken aback, but

Snapped--

All that responded was a snap of Ivan's fingers.

The hair-raising voice became smaller and smaller until it became inaudible.

Because a spiritual barrier has risen by itself, isolating all connections between the oil painting and the outside world on a mysterious level, so that the old man inside who can't figure out the situation can neither see nor hear, let alone speak.

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

However, it also means some kind of signal.

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

Then he looked up at the oil painting, as if waiting for something.

Sure enough, a minute later, the picture of the sinking ship on the oil painting gradually disappeared, and a portrait of a middle-aged man with wavy curly hair wearing a noble dress hundreds of years ago replaced him.

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

"Sir Katarov, good day!"

"My lord, good day!

Haha, the taste of freedom is still good, especially when you can appreciate this freedom, you can also have a noble and excellent audience. It is really perfect.

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

The man in the painting speaks slowly. Although it still belongs to the voice of the old man just now, the tone is definitely different, especially at the end of each sentence, the tone of the voice rises slightly. This is the way nobles used to speak to show their uniqueness.

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

"Of course, it's my pleasure!"

It has been such a long time since this painting was fished out of the sea. After Kaka discovered that he had completely exposed his consciousness, and after several unsuccessful exchanges, Ai Wen already had some understanding of this painting and the consciousness living in it. Got a certain understanding.

Or he, it, and they can all refer to the consciousness inside.

Ivan's initial guess was not wrong.

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

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

Proficient in shadow witchcraft and soul witchcraft, after using "cursed objects" to seal his soul, he has been lingering in the painting until now.

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

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

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

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

The painting is called "Portrait of Death of Katarov" and it was originally a self-portrait created by an aristocratic painter named Katarov.

I don’t know what happened in the middle and finally turned into a "cursed object", making its former owners "god hidden" inexplicably, and the soul was imprisoned in the painting and continued to sink.

The form presented on the oil painting is to show the picture of each victim when they died.

While the black wizard Simpson took over this cursed oil painting and gained dominance by virtue of his powerful soul power far surpassing that of any previous victim, he also had to merge irresistibly with the remaining souls and consciousness of the victims of the past. , until indistinguishable from each other.

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

There are at least a dozen personalities recorded by the crazy strange old man, the learned aristocratic artist, the wealthy businessman who regards money as his life, and the clumsy thief Aiwen, 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 Cyrus soldier, they were really eaten, and they would not even have the chance to carve up Simpson's soul and become an independent personality.

Whether at the bottom of the sea or after being fished up.

They will conduct internal negotiations and come out regularly to let the air go. Whoever comes out will be shown on the screen.

But most of the time, the main character of the old dark wizard came out, and the second place was the original owner of this painting: Sir Katarov.

To be honest, of course, the crazy old man who is an official 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 practice concurrently, if he can obtain the shadow witchcraft that belongs to the wizard, then it will definitely save a lot of effort when cultivating the shadow lizard Kaka in the future.

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

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

At least Katarov knows the memories of everyone who came after him.

Therefore, this learned aristocratic artist used his "personal" experience that has never been recorded in the history books to give Ai Wen a pleasant surprise.

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

Because there may be a secret hidden in it that can make mortals stand side by side with gods!

"Last time we mentioned that a long time ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was notoriously conservative, stubborn, and unreasonable, using various dogmas and rules to firmly imprison the people's thinking.

This situation has continued 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 meek lambs and were determined to break that dark era from the spiritual world.

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

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

Although the words of this "ancient man" obviously lacked awe of the seven true gods, Aiwen just listened silently, recording first-hand information about the dialogue with "history" on paper from time to time.

Because of his dual identities as aristocrat and artist, he has enough vision and opportunity to understand the true appearance of that era, and it also makes Ai Wen feel like a treasure!

From his intermittent stories during this period, Aiwen seems to have grasped the context of the world's development and the limit of the power of the true god!

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

In the dark age, all the supernatural powers except the church were suppressed, and wizards were no different from other supernatural beings. They were all lingering in the cracks, but they could barely survive.

But when the bottom-up "Renaissance" movement developed in full swing, and was unanimously welcomed by most countries and people in the Old Continent, and even formed a certain trend, the Church of True God finally couldn't sit still.

Relying on the huge accumulation of firmly ruling the world for thousands of years from both body and soul, he began to hunt down the extraordinary with the belief of lore, especially the wizards among them.

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

And those wizards who are the most powerful, intelligent, creative, and productive will surely gain the greatest benefits from this torrent of social change and profoundly change the material world.

It is even unknown that a bottom-up movement will be used to shake the rule of the true God of the Old Continent by taking advantage of the public's disgust with the "Dark Millennium" Church's rule.

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

But their calculations were not fully realized.

The largest witch massacre in history is in full swing. The power of the church has expelled, killed, and imprisoned most of the wizards, and it seems that they will completely kill all the seeds.

Another thing happened, but the true gods did not expect it.

While the church was fighting with wizards, a group of demigods sprang up in their back garden like mushrooms after rain because of human's desire for "Renaissance" and ideological liberation.

Some of them were directly born from human beliefs, while others were promoted from the peak of extraordinary people. There were even more demigods in just two hundred years than in the past few thousand years.

One of them is the "God of Opera" Purcell whom Ivan had the honor to meet with his own eyes!

Even if the trend is not led by wizards, it slowly unfolds in another form that they also don't want to see, and has a profound impact on the world.

From this, the true gods also know that even if they are high above them, they are not the masters of this world, let alone completely irreplaceable.

Although the will of the world does not have a complete self, it 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 promotion of the world.

The world trend during this period can be temporarily suppressed, but it is impossible to stay in the age of ignorance forever.

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

Under the comprehensive influence of internal and external, the religious reform of the Church of Seven Gods began, and the "Dark Millennium" was completely over.

subsequently.

It took another few hundred years, and the forces of various parties competed with each other, and only slowly did the extraordinary ecology that is now seemingly balanced on the surface.

After straightening out the context, Ai Wen also got one of the keys, a secret that may not even be known to many super powerhouses.

That is something that even the true gods have to give way to - the world trend!

"However, with the end of the 'Dark Millennium', the emancipation of the mind is a trend. So is the opening of the 'Great Discovery Age' also a trend?"

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