Chapter 325: Corruption from the Past
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Colin Antigonus was the name of the tomb's owner, and he lived before the "Twenty Year War," roughly 800 to 900 years ago.
At that time, Colin's family had become a viscount in the Kingdom of Loen after generations of effort.
Viscounts back then had fiefdoms, subjects, and even their own armies, making them essentially "local emperors" of their regions.
Therefore, Colin had the energy to organize the knowledge mentioned in his family's records and trace the origins of his family.
The knowledge contained in the "Notes" was very high-end for other Beyonders, but Hobert was basically familiar with it. Even if he wasn't, he could understand the principles with a glance.
Hobert knew more about the origins of the Antigonus family than Colin did, because Colin's records started from the Fourth Epoch.
At that time, the Antigonus family had already begun to support the "Blood Emperor," and it was during this period that the Antigonus family had some descendants.
After the fall of the Blood Emperor and the disappearance of Antigonus, the family members scattered and hid in various countries of the Northern Continent.
Colin's branch concealed their identity and did help the Loen royal family solve some problems, which allowed them to become nobles again.
The last part of the "Notes" was about the extraordinary history of Colin's branch, and there were several descriptions that Hobert found very interesting.
One of them was that Colin's ancestors included three demigods who seemed to often hear whispers from their ancestors.
So they believed that their ancestor Antigonus was still alive, but they didn't know where he was sealed.
One of Colin's demigod ancestors went to search for the legendary "Land of Night," said to be the mysterious country where their ancestor came from. Finally, he found a clear clue, believing that the "Nation of Evernight" should be in the Hornacis Mountains.
After making sufficient preparations, he went to the Hornacis Mountains to search, but he never returned.
Hobert smiled. Of course, he never returned. Even if he found Antigonus's sleeping palace, one glance would have caused him to lose control on the spot. Even a demigod wouldn't be able to handle it.
Continuing to read, Colin's ancestors also tried to find the whereabouts of their ancestor Antigonus through sacrifices and prayers.
As a result, they actually received a response, but everyone in that ritual lost control or turned into lunatics.
Hobert was stunned for a few seconds when he saw this. The more he read this "Notes," the more it seemed like "The Antigonus Family's Memoir of Seeking Death."
Theoretically, Antigonus had the Uniqueness of the "Fool" pathway. If the sacrificial ritual was correct, it should point to Antigonus.
It's just that Antigonus's state... heh, in short, another demigod was written off.
Continuing to read, after many failures, Colin's ancestors gave up the idea of finding their ancestor.
The only remaining demigod was originally a "Scholar of Yore." He accidentally obtained an Beyonder characteristic of the adjacent pathway, "Planeswalker."
With the help of a hidden existence, he became an angel of the "Door" pathway.
Colin's ancestors, who became an "angel family" again, were prominent for a while, and this branch became viscounts from that time on.
Of course, according to the status of an angel, if they sincerely supported the Loen royal family, becoming a duke would be as easy as pie.
But they didn't want to have too much contact with the Loen royal family. After all, the two sides had been equal in status, but now they had become subordinates of the Augustus family, and they inevitably felt unbalanced.
Colin said in the "Notes" that he had seen that angel when he was a child.
He only saw that one side before he later learned that the angel had felt some kind of summoning and was going on a long journey. That time, he gathered all the descendants of the family, and the angel divined the future heir of the family.
After becoming the heir of this branch, Colin learned that the "Planeswalker" was called Spike Antigonus, and the mysterious existence that had helped him before seemed to be constantly calling him.
According to Spike, that existence had a very high status, like a god of the "Door" pathway, but not quite.
That hidden existence said that Antigonus's ancestor was sealed in the same place as Him. He could project power into the real world and hear his call because of the special nature of the pathway, but Antigonus could not do this.
In addition, the information given by this mysterious existence was contradictory, sometimes telling Spike to look for Him, and sometimes telling Spike not to go.
Hobert's eyes narrowed when he saw this. He seemed to understand what was going on, but he didn't seem to understand.
He knew that this might be related to the memory he had sealed in the "Nation of Disorder."
In other words, what he was seeing now might be quite dangerous!
Hobert opened the car window and looked outside, seeing that it was difficult for the guards to see the situation in the carriage, so he glanced at the next few pages, but he didn't have time to read and understand them at all.
Then, he entered the "Nation of Disorder" by squatting and walking backwards. Even from the outside, he looked like he was sitting in the carriage reading a book.
Arriving in the "Nation of Disorder," Hobert picked up the ring that was gathering dust on the stone platform and put it on. This ring, from the "Monster" pathway Sequence 8 "Machine," allowed the brain to operate at high speed after being worn.
Hobert used this ring to "recall" the content of the few pages of "Notes" that he had glanced at earlier.
Looking at Spike's self-description again, Hobert immediately understood that the mysterious existence was "Mr. Door." Before becoming an angel of the "Door" pathway, Spike may have been targeted by "Mr. Door," or rather, by the "Mother Goddess of Depravity."
Letting Spike become an angel was the beginning of the trap of "Mr. Door" and the "Mother Goddess."
Perhaps the "Planeswalker" named Spike heard not only the voice of "Mr. Door" but also the call of the "Mother Goddess."
According to the records in the "Notes," Spike responded to the call and entered the starry sky.
Hobert, sitting on the "Iron Throne," shook his head, knowing that he would definitely never return.
Who knew that when he "recalled" the content of the next page, he was surprised to find that Spike actually returned three years later!
Not only did Spike return, but he also said that he had seen an existence greater than the gods and had become a devotee of that existence. He had returned to spread the gospel of the Lord!
Hobert stopped "recollecting," his eyes full of disbelief: He saw the "Mother Goddess" and was able to return? Aren't they all meat buns thrown to the dogs... Amitabha, forgive me, forgive me.
Continuing to "recall" the subsequent content, it was all Spike's self-described journey. He followed that call and came to a strange planet.
There seemed to be traces of human activity there, with huge temples and large-scale cities.
But now only wilderness remained. Following the sound of the call, Spike came to a deserted temple.
In that temple, there were tall stone pillars and exquisite sculptures.
At the end of the temple were magical, overlapping doors.
Through that door, you could see a beautiful full moon, which seemed to be the moon hanging in the sky, but it looked so beautiful that you couldn't take your eyes off it.
Then Spike heard that sacred voice, and he willingly knelt on one knee, pledging allegiance to that voice, to the moon in front of him.
Hobert already understood that this angel named Spike had been corrupted by the "Mother Goddess of Depravity."
But the corruption seemed very skillful. Hundreds of years had passed, and the Seven Gods had not noticed the existence of this "source of corruption."
Moreover, he did not lose his wisdom but hid himself very well.
In short, there exists in this world an angel corrupted by the "Mother Goddess of Depravity"!
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