After preparing for transmigration, Xia Yuan, a top player of storyline mages in his previous life, transmigrated into an NPC, and was even the fourth son of the newly born Duke of the Empire!
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Avis quickly came up with key analytical results for the blood-stained metal cylinder.
In fact, the real function of the cylinder is not only to gather magic power, but also to serve as a container for some special existence.
After absorbing enough blood and souls, the properties of the cylinder underwent a strange transformation.
It was the breath of blood, desire, and pain. Countless tortured souls were wailing in it, gathering a huge negative force.
These forces are used to nourish a certain existence that briefly descended upon it.
Avis' fingers slid lightly across the delicate surface of the cylinder, as if feeling its heartbeat, every scratch, every texture, and the faint, yet strange and hateful breath in it.
He seemed to hear the cries of those souls, their voices intertwined to form a sad elegy.
It is indeed a component of a larger magical ritual, but it is not an ordinary magical ritual. Instead, it is a sacrificial ritual that connects to other hidden angles and is a grand ceremony that guides the advent of some grand will.
Since the things that had descended upon it had already left, Anvis could not yet determine who the Glorious Alliance was working with. But there was no doubt that there must be a foreign god cult behind this.
Although the origin of this blood-colored cylinder cannot be traced back through ordinary prophecy spells, if he really wants to know what is hidden behind it, it is actually not impossible.
Pulling open the drawer of the silver-patterned life wood desk, Avis cast his eyes on a letter stamped with a black and gold mystical seal.
That was a secret letter handed to him by the Door in the Eye a few days ago. The letter conveyed two things concisely. The first was to point out the coming dark doomsday and to invite him to discuss the way out for the future of this world.
The second one was about Avis' recent investigation into the metal cylinder. The Speaker of the Federal Parliament clearly stated in the letter that he hoped he would give up the investigation because it involved their plan to fight the doomsday.
If Avis insists on pursuing and obstructing them, the two sides will unfortunately become irreconcilable enemies.
It seemed clear that Avis's prophecy could not be stopped, and the fate of the letter was not concealed. After Avis traced it back, it was unsurprisingly linked to a ninth-level member of the Federal Parliament.
In another world line, this ninth-rank member was finally confirmed to be a member of the Gate of the Eye, and was the one standing closest to the former Speaker when he was causing trouble. As a result, he was sacrificed first in the end.
It shouldn't be surprising that someone from the Door in the Eye contacted him, but the intelligence he secretly collected showed that some members of the Federal Parliament had been in close private contact with the Alliance of Glory recently.
After stringing together all the events he knew, it was not difficult to initially restore the truth.
The Door in the Pupil and the Ninth Order of the Alliance of Glory were previously cooperating privately with an extraterritorial being. The Ninth Order provided it with sacrifices and coordinates in the main material world to facilitate its descent into this world, while the extraterritorial being needed to provide them with a way to break through the legend.
As for the reason why the Itel Kingdom Federation is currently calm on the surface, it is because all the conflicts have been transferred to the Gloria Empire.
Previously, Avis had broken through to the ninth-level prophet beyond everyone's expectations, and the world coordinates were once again locked by those terrifying beings lost in the unknown dark angles. The impact of this incident has begun to ferment.
As the top existences in the current world, ninth-order professionals will have a vague sense of the impending crisis. Even if they are not as clear about the whole story as the stargazers, after realizing the seriousness of this crisis, they will inevitably investigate the cause frantically in various ways at all costs.
Once the root problem is found, it is time to consider how to solve the problem, but disagreements often arise at this time.
Simply put, it is the difference between the surrender faction, the escape faction and the resistance faction.
Not all extraterritorial beings are incommunicable. For example, the current Speaker of the Federal Parliament, who has established a unique symbiotic relationship with a void predator named So Chaz, has chosen to cooperate with extraterritorial beings and strive to break through the Zenith Wall.
Even though they knew the end of the world was approaching, the other party would probably just try to speed up the process. Combining the intelligence obtained from the two timelines, Avis could roughly guess what they were going to discuss after inviting him.
No one knows what the Stargazers, who are secretly hostile to them, are doing at the moment, but given the background of the Continental Magic Council, the Stargazers' move will not be small either.
Avis could vaguely sense that as the dark doomsday gradually approached, the Stargazers were interfering with the web of fate on a large scale, accelerating the war in the Gloria Empire.
It seemed as if a quick outcome to the war was a crucial factor for him.
Even the blood-colored cylinder of the Glory Alliance was accidentally broken by the Spark Organization, which was also guided by the Stargazers.
Avis' response to the secret letter from the Door in the Eye was to make no response.
His goal is different from that of the Spark Organization. He investigates the metal cylinder only to find out what is hidden behind it, not to destroy the conspiracy of the Glory Alliance.
In another timeline, the Speaker's plan was stopped by him at the critical moment, but this time he wanted to see what would happen if the Speaker really succeeded.
After conveying all his findings on the cylinder to Starfire, including the suspicion that it was related to the Cult of the Other God, Avis took the initiative to stop all actions.
He waited quietly in the province of Karlas, watching the time pass silently, like an observer watching a civilization in a sandbox, allowing the situation on the continent to develop on its own.
Due to his secluded behavior and his terrifying strength as a ninth-level prophet, other major forces in the empire gradually acquiesced to his existence and unanimously gave up their efforts to seize the province of Karlas.
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In contrast, the intensity of war in other parts of the empire continued to escalate. In addition to the other three provinces, the territories directly under the royal family also encountered temptations from some forces.
Many people were waiting and observing the reaction of the lion of the Gloria Empire to determine whether he was really old and foolish.
At this moment of real crisis, the leaderless imperial royal family finally showed its true strength.
In addition to the power that has been revealed on the surface in the past, many institutions that were originally low-key, such as the Royal Research Institute, the Taboo Management Office, and the Rose Agency, have also revealed their prowess at this moment.
The three royal guardians temporarily took over control of the court and exercised wartime authority on behalf of Gloria III.
Soon, the territories directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family were quickly pacified, and all the tentative hands that reached out, whether from the resistance organizations or the Alliance of Glory, were cut off.
However, the power of the royal family did not continue to expand. Instead, it took the initiative to shrink its defense, as if it did not care about the four major provinces of the empire and other scattered small and medium-sized noble territories.
Under this situation, the small nobles in the three provinces were beaten and cried for their parents, and the other three original families of the empire had followed in the footsteps of the Olivendi family and fell into a state of near collapse.
However, Fiona did make a name for herself during this period.
With Avis as her backing, the girl no longer had to hide her existence and began to actively develop her own manpower and power.
After hearing about Fiona's reputation, many remnants of the original four major families of the empire chose to surrender, and Hualuotianxia, having received prior instructions from Anvis, accepted all those who came.
As these people gradually gathered together, a force that could not be ignored began to take shape.
A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if they are just the remnants of the four major families who barely escaped, the part of the family heritage they carry with them is enough for them to re-form a new force close to the scale of the original four major families.
Due to this sudden change in fate, the four major families of the empire, which were originally destined to perish, suddenly had a glimmer of hope and were able to continue to survive. (End of this chapter)