Bizarre Realm-Chapter 365 - 24: Warlock Clan

Pigs.

In the culture of this land, they symbolize laziness, filth, greed, and the like. Limited by the productivity of this era, pigs are generally fed with mixed excrement. In Shawn’s Spiritual Vision, at least one-third of the people reflect a hideous pig-headed face, regardless of whether they were once ordinary people or Transcendents, no matter which Extraordinary Path sequence they advanced through, even the Wanderers of the Shadow Sequence, behind them is also a hideously twisted projection of a pig-headed human form.

The Wanderer had already grown to a nearly three-hundred-pound weight, making one doubt whether he could still slip into the shadows with his current physique.

"It’s not the descent of the Ancient."

"If it were the descent of the Ancient, the millions of people in the Ring City would have long been dead."

Shawn’s brows were furrowed tightly, he had no doubt that the Ancient had the ability to kill all living people in the city overnight, even if the Ancient merely descended in an avatar, it would pollute everything within hundreds of kilometers, twisting many into the aberrant Clan.

"But the offspring of the Ancient are not that strong, just being the offspring of the Ancient, it couldn’t possibly corrupt the entire city, distorting the consciousness of all people."

The offspring of the Ancient are at minimum a divine being, at most a Demigod Format. They have incomplete Laws, but among the known offspring of the Ancient, it seems there are hardly any with the capability to distort human cognition over such a vast range. Moreover, the traits of the offspring of the Ancient are somewhat like a Divine Abomination, they are extremely uncontrollable entities, if the offspring of the Ancient truly descended, they would have long been on a killing spree.

Shawn’s brain started to frantically whirl, all related memory data was recalled, the mysterious knowledge within his brain was like a search engine.

——"The Ancient."

When Shawn inputted this term in his mind, regardless of the knowledge he possessed or not, as long as it was stored in his brain using Reading Magic, everything was browsed through. The mysterious knowledge automatically associated, actively combing through all relevant information.

The scholarly expertise of the Mage came into effect at this moment, and Shawn, seeing the scene before him, had already guessed what once happened here.

"The Ancient’s Chosen!..."

It wasn’t the descent of the Ancient, nor the offspring of the Ancient, then there was only one possibility, someone here had fallen to become the Ancient’s Chosen, which is why this chronic corruption appeared, ultimately distorting everyone’s cognizance in the entire city.

Strictly speaking, this city had already seen over ten thousand dead!

The reason they still lived now was that the Laws of the Ancient had twisted everything here, once the Laws of the Ancient were peeled away and dispersed, at least over ten thousand people would die from disease and plague. Being tainted by the aura of the Ancient allows mortals to gain an abundant Life Force, even advancing into twisted Transcendents.

"Why did things escalate to this point?"

Shawn’s figure shuttled through the streets and alleys, occasionally hearing the sound of violent coughing coming from within residential buildings. The architecture of the Ring City has a distinctly Gothic style because one of the pioneers here was a soul from another country, he initiated the Demon Hunter’s legacy and established the headquarters of Crow’s Nest here. Although Demon Hunters and Night Watchers do not belong to the same system, the headquarters of the Path of Death is adjacent in the Dorne Kingdom, under normal circumstances, with the Ancient Race’s infiltration so deep, it’s impossible for the Demigods of the Path of Death not to notice.

"Unless the Guardian Clan of Dagon was corrupted!"

"Or even,"

"A Demigod of the Path of Death was corrupted."

Based on Shawn’s understanding of the Night Watcher system, Death Pilgrims routinely traverse neighboring regions, unless the upper echelons were in very serious trouble, it couldn’t be concealed like this.

The best-case scenario now is that only the Guardian Clan was corrupted by the Ancient.

The worst-case scenario is the shadow of a Demigod behind it all.

All that transpired in the Ring City had completely disrupted Shawn’s plan to steal from Dagon, now he could only adapt, seizing opportunities amidst danger, to uncover whether the Guardian Clan or a Demigod of the Path of Death had erred.

Before a towering Gothic church structure, Shawn’s figure lightly landed on the tip of the spire.

His gaze fixed on the distant dark architecture, there, the headquarters of the Demon Hunters, ’Crow’s Nest’, they originated from an Otherworld heritage, rumored to be a world with two moons. The Demon Hunter’s heritage involves concocting a miraculous Magic Potion from a monster’s Extraordinary Relic, and advancing through this potion in the ascension ceremony. However, this potion conversion is quite difficult to apply to other Extraordinary Paths, because the Demon Hunters themselves bear no less pollution, which costs them the ability to procreate.

Known Demon Hunters almost have no offspring, in contrast, other Transcendents can still have some offspring.

"Could the Demon Hunters be extinct?"

Shawn’s brows knitted tightly, since coming to the Dagon Region, he hadn’t seen any trace of a single Demon Hunter. The path of the Demon Hunter involves dual cultivation with fiends, compared to other Otherworlds, equates to their Demon Swordsmen, they first use one of the Extraordinary Relic to gain enhancement on the fleshly side, then concoct another Extraordinary Relic into a Magic Potion for consumption, thereby gaining the most primal Magic Power, mastering casting abilities at the Low Ring, but they must rely on runes, Dharma Seals, and Badges to complete casting.