Chapter 221: Old Form! Recapture Candlekeep
Mechanical heart.

Xiao En's figure returned to reality from the broken time and space. He was now getting more and more used to how to enter the long river of time and space, although this required the use of a legendary spell of the time system. Maybe one day after he had dealt with the matter of the weird kingdom, he could consider changing his career to become an astral explorer and go to other crystal wall systems to see the legendary time and space hub, the long-known Sigil City, Baldur's Gate in the Kingdom Sky, the legendary Eastern Kingdom in the Savage Sky, and the broken plane of the Catastrophe Sunset, etc.

In fact, Sean has never had much ambition. If he hadn't been plotted against by others, he might have been able to be a night watchman in Dorne.

In fact, he was already a qualified night watchman at that time.

If Aamon hadn't intervened, Sean might now be the captain of a Night's Watch team.

In fact, Xiao En has always been very clear that he doesn't really want to be a god. He is pushed forward by the trend of history. Many times he has no choice, because his existence itself is a resource. In this crazy and bizarre country, if he takes a step back, he will die.

"Sealed Artifact No. 1."

"Launch the prepared [Shelter] plan." Sean ordered calmly.

The whisper of Seal No. 1 sounded: "What happened?"

"Why do you always make some surprising decisions after casting a time spell?"

"What did you foresee in your time spell?"

Xiao En shook his head gently and said, "Don't ask any more questions. Just follow my orders."

Sealed Object No. 1 was silent for a moment and said, "As you command, Master."

"Should we suspend the construction plan of the floating city? And the expansion plan of the demiplane?"

Xiao En denied it and said, "No, combine the two into the shelter plan."

“Suitable people, mainly young people and children, will be selected from Dagon and surrounding areas to be included in the protection of the sanctuary project.”

"Transmit a copy of the Sanctuary Plans to Lady Hecate."

"She'll know what to do."

Sealed Object No. 1 was silent for a moment and said, "Are you planning to set up a sanctuary?"

Xiao En said calmly: "Don't ask too many questions. Follow the plan and secretly carry out the Fire Plan in the Dagon area. I know that the Fire Plan was carried out once in the Dark Age. You know what to do."

The voice of Sealed Object No. 0 suddenly sounded, "Stars are linked? The Ancients are awakening?"

“You peeked into the future?”

"The Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana can no longer protect the real world?"

Xiao En shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know. But it's better to be prepared."

Astrology table.

Xiao En slowly stepped onto the crystal stairs. He stopped on the platform with a calm look in his eyes. He raised his finger slightly and several crystal balls floated around his body. He said to one of the crystal balls, "Teacher."

"I plan to retake Candlekeep once and for all."

The reflection of Lady Hecate appeared in the suspended crystal ball, and she frowned and asked, "What do you foresee?"

Xiao En said slowly: "The old days are awakening."

"The Pantheon is slowly interfering in everything here. We must race against time."

"Because once the butterfly effect occurs, we can only prepare for the worst!"

Hearing this, Lady Hecate's expression became serious. She said in a deep voice, "You mean, all the sleeping old days will wake up together?"

This is the worst-case scenario, but also the most likely one.

Before the Old Ones become aware of the danger, They will quietly sleep and erode the root laws of this world, but once They feel the threat to their lives, the Old Ones may wake up at the same time.

The arrival of gods from other worlds has begun to disrupt their progress in integrating the laws of the world.

Holy Terra is actually a matrix!
This planet is inhabited by a large number of Old Ones, and the core of the planet has been hollowed out, becoming a nest for hatching Old Ones embryos.

A pregnant beast is very aggressive.

They haven't reached that critical point yet. Once it appears, the Old Ones may not give them any time to react.

Sean nodded and said, "Candlekeep, Sleepy Hollow, Land of the Shades, Valley of Soulshells, etc."

"We can't just retake the material plane."

"We must establish a strategic depth in all linked planes across the entire Weird Kingdom, exchanging space for time."

Lady Hecate seemed to have performed some kind of great prophecy.

She is silent.

Xiao En didn't know what kind of future Ms. Hecate had glimpsed with her ability. She only said in a concentrated voice: "Shadow Plane, Dream Plane, Elemental Plane, Spirit World, Ether, Desolate Realm..."

"You mean we can't wait, we must take the initiative to attack and take down these planes as future strategic depth to prevent the Old Ones from descending directly into reality?"

Xiao En shook his head slightly and said, "Don't worry about the wasteland."

"Outer space."

"Someone will help us intercept the invading Outer Gods."

Lady Hecate was shocked when she heard this and murmured, "Pantheon?"

Sean nodded slightly.

In the entire multiverse, probably only the Pantheon has the ability to intercept all invading Outer Gods outside a galaxy in outer space.

There aren't that many true god-level beings in the Space-Time Hub. To accomplish this, they would probably have to call back the ancient time dragons that guard the long river of history. After all, their branch of inheritance is the origin of the Lord of Time, which is considered one of the branches of the Pantheon. It's just that the Lord of Time's status is too high, allowing them to bargain on an equal footing with the Pantheon.

In the entire center of time and space, only the Guardian and the Ancient Time Dragon are powerful true god-level beings.

Ms. Hecate groaned, "Strategic depth..."

"You mean, if the Old Ones awaken at the same time, the battlefield can't be concentrated on the material plane?"

Xiao En nodded and said, "That would shatter the entire planet."

"I'm afraid that the Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana will find it difficult to protect the real kingdom. Only by placing the battlefield in other planes can we minimize the damage to reality."

Take the initiative.

Sean's proposal is as radical as Aamon's idea back then, because it is tantamount to taking action in advance and regarding the simultaneous awakening of the old as an inevitable future. In this case, the manpower and material resources of the entire weird country will be dispersed, and the deep strategy will inevitably make it difficult to concentrate power, and other planes will not be so easy to move.

The native demigods are more inclined to recover the material plane first, and then slowly consider other planes.

Lady Hecate hesitated, "In that case, our forces would be greatly dispersed."

Xiao En said in a deep voice: "But if the old ones awaken at the same time, we will not have any time to build strategic depth in advance. If there is only one plane, we can only passively defend."

"The battlefield must be placed in another plane."

"Only then can we save this planet! Only then can we buy some buffer time for the mortals!"

Xiao En hadn't said anything else. Only by taking action in other planes could he throw nuclear bombs without scruples and cast all the forbidden spells he could master.

Lady Hecate pondered for a long time.

Finally, she nodded slowly and said, "I will propose this to Chief Death."

"Since you intend to retake Candlekeep."

"Then get ready."

Candlekeep.

One of the anchor points of the spirit world.

Taking it is equivalent to taking over one third of the spiritual world. The area radiated by Candlekeep is quite wide. If Candlekeep is successfully recaptured, many knowledge heritages of the Dark Age can be restored.

Abyss City, Purgatory City, Shura City, Setting Sun City and other places.

Sean's avatars appeared one after another, the Holy Terra Church's war groups began to gather, and at the same time, the Tower of Knowledge also took action. Some of the high-level scholars recruited by him began to act. As the only demigod in the field of knowledge, Sean's existence had already invisibly affected the interior of the Tower of Knowledge. The ritual of linking the Spirit Library was already known to everyone there. In order to obtain new knowledge power from the demigod of knowledge, many people became his pan-believers.

The spellcaster basically has no devout faith, and at most pays verbal respect to a certain god-like being.

There was no doubt that Abyss City was willing to lend a helping hand. There was no response from the other Witch King Cities. Instead, the Primordial Warlock inheritance of Canyang City gave an ambiguous answer.

This time is different from the expedition to the Garden Planet. Only those who thirst for knowledge will covet Candleburg. In the eyes of many people, Candleburg does not have much value.

Several months passed quickly.

With the support of Lady Hecate, the Path of Death also sent out many strong men, most of whom were liches, because they also thirsted for knowledge. This battle was different from the last time they sneaked into Candlekeep. They had to face the mystery lock defense system covering Candlekeep. Although they didn't know how much of it would be effective, once the defense mechanism was activated, Candlekeep's Colossus Legion would definitely be activated.

The reason why Xiao En waited so long was to wait for the helper that Shi Guanglong mentioned.

——Ancient Power Dragon-Soltus (Challenge Level 50+)? !

Powerful dragon.

One of the three legendary dragons.

A newly born Power Dragon is as big as a small house. It is covered with scales that shine like tiny diamonds when it is born. The challenge level of a dragonette is 13, and that of a young dragon is 19. At each stage, the Power Dragon becomes much stronger. As for the Ancient Power Dragon, its challenge level will reach an astonishing 59.

Soltus is a powerful dragon nearly the size of an aircraft carrier. It appeared at the border of the Terra galaxy and flew directly across half of the galaxy into the atmosphere of Holy Terra.

It is said that it had known an unknown time traveler when it was a young dragon, and thus became a mercenary of the Spacetime Hub.

In fact, it is only 362 years old. The reason it was able to grow into an ancient dragon is because it used some strange law of time to allow itself to shorten the age period for dragon transformation.

Legendary dragons naturally break through the upper limit of conventional biological levels. The ancient powerful dragon in front of him has 74 dragon biological levels, so he has such amazing strength. Of course, biological levels are always different. If a professional of level 74 appears, even if it is a warrior, who knows how terrifying the combat power will be.

Candlekeep.

The coalition forces of many forces gathered outside Candle Castle. The Weird Kingdom has always had a fatal problem, which is that it is impossible to gather all the forces together. Even when the situation is the most difficult and desperate, there has never been a completely united front formed here.

No one else can do it, not even Sean.

Incompatible cultural heritages are ultimately not of the same mind, so Xiao En can only strive for the help he can get.

——Powerful attack [Dragon Breath]!
This was the most terrifying dragon breath Sean had ever seen. After all, he had never seen the breath of a time dragon. An extremely large conical force field spewed out from Soltus' mouth, crushing everything in front of it almost to pieces. Even the nearby liches had expressions of horror, staring blankly at this legendary dragon.

No one knows where it came from. It was a helper that Xiao En found out of nowhere.

Everything in front of my sight was shattering.

The outer high walls of Candlekeep were all reinforced with magic and have stood for nearly a thousand years. However, in front of the three legendary dragons, they were like paper and easily destroyed the dozens of meters high magic walls.

"I'm afraid even Changyuan can't withstand its dragon breath." A great druid whispered.

Force field shattered.

The force field dragon breath of Soltus was at least equivalent to an eleventh-level legendary spell. A hole was instantly created in the maze of Candle Castle, and the energy protection force field was directly ignored. Because the force dragon was immune to all force field magic, its huge figure passed through all the defense lines of the maze and forcibly opened a passage to attack Candle Castle.

Such an existence completely ignores the protective force field and inherently restrains the protective barrier of all maze locks.

"Were they able to break through just like that?" A great sage from the Tower of Knowledge had a shocked expression.

As a spellcaster, he knew best how strong the energy protection field of the maze was. It would probably take a while for all the spells present to break it, but the power dragon just charged in directly.

The reason why among so many places, Xiao En chose Candle Castle as the first place to start the operation was because he had a power dragon as his helper.

If a plutonium dragon came, he might go to the elemental chaos.

Rumble!
The troll statue guarding the perimeter of Candlekeep was activated. Its huge body, hundreds of meters tall, slowly stood up, its cold eyes locked onto all targets in front of it.

——Anti-magic force field!

An extremely large-scale anti-magic force field was opened, directly wiping out most spells. Except for a very few people like Sean who mastered the power of the laws, most people could not break through the anti-magic force field of the Colossus Legion.

——Legendary Sealed Object-Grey Soil.

Xiao En's figure flashed out, and countless clay-like substances rapidly multiplied, turning into long snakes that entangled the stone giant puppet in front of him. At the moment of contact, Xiao En's consciousness began to invade it, and the stone giant that had been ready to attack suddenly turned against it, wielding a heavy weapon and smashing the iron giant opposite.

This is the manifestation of the laws in the field of sculpture.

Xiao En easily invaded the stone colossus's control system, and then his figure turned into a gray mist and merged into the body of the stone colossus in an instant.

The flank of Candlekeep was breached.

The only trouble at the moment is those Iron Colossi with a challenge level of 33. The ancient power dragon, which is as big as an aircraft carrier, swooped down, and its terrifying force field energy suppressed everything in the range. With a dull sound of impact, it actually knocked an Iron Colossus to the ground, and like a landslide and tsunami, a blast wave spread in all directions.

The melee ability of the Power Dragon is in the first tier, and even the Time Dragon cannot gain much advantage over it.

An adult power dragon has a strength attribute of 51 points, which is basically the same as the Ancient Hatred. After the life cycle of an adult dragon, there are middle-aged dragons, old dragons, extremely old dragons, ancient dragons, and then Soltus' current life stage - the Ancient Power Dragon.

If Xiao En had to guess, Soltus's strength attribute would be around 80 points. The strength of the three legendary dragons could not be estimated by ordinary numbers.

Rainbow Dragon: Manipulates all visible and invisible light spectrums.

Power Dragon: Controls the four fundamental forces.

Time Dragon: Manipulates time and is free from the long river of time.

They are born with the power of laws!

——Gravity reversal!
——Super gravity!

Under the energy of Soltus' force field, all the iron colossi sank into the ground, and the gravity in the nearby area became abnormal. Others felt the difficulty in moving before they even got close. If we use a numerical value to estimate, the gravity here may have reached more than ten times the normal value in an instant.

The power dragon has innate ability to control force fields, just like the time dragon can stop time as soon as it hatches from its shell.

"Take down the Great Library!"

One after another, figures entered Candlekeep. This was the first time many people had entered Candlekeep in nearly a thousand years, and without new knowledge, they had no tickets at all.

Tens of thousands of constructs emerged.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"The activation of the mystery lock 'Star Ring' has been detected."

The stars in the sky suddenly shone, a comet fell from the sky, and countless statues and constructs walked out of the walls. In the plantation area, those activated plants, activated spells, and activated tools all poured out. The maze protection mechanism of Candle Castle has been completely activated, and all the backup plans arranged that year have become means to stop them.

at this time.

A three-headed, three-bodied phantom of a god appeared in the sky. She opened her palms and caught the meteor falling from the sky. In the broken space, the falling meteor was transferred to other areas.

The figures of demigods appeared one after another.

The Sage of the Forest transformed into a huge tree giant and fell down. The moment it touched the ground, countless vines spread out and thousands of plant guards were trapped in place.

Xiao En also entered the Candle Castle.

He passed through one barrier after another and headed straight for the core area of ​​Candle Castle. He didn't know when the space around him changed, and a magnificent golden gate appeared before his eyes.

——The Key to All Doors-Otycus [Ancient Spirit]!
——"According to legend, Ortycus is a very mysterious pact spirit, because he seems to originate outside of any known alignment plane. Some ancient contract magic materials mention some places or planes called "Distant Kingdoms", but most of them cannot be used to explain Ortycus's past. Some materials somehow conclude that Ortycus is the key to the Distant Kingdom, but this assumption based solely on Ortycus' appearance is not true."

When Ortycus appeared, a locked golden door appeared in the seal, and blue mist swirled between the gate bars, making the things behind it unclear. After a moment of silence, some invisible force hit the door heavily, and the golden door shook violently and roared, as if some monster was desperate to open it.

Heavy breathing was heard from behind the door, and an indescribable outline gradually emerged from the fog.

The key to Candlekeep.

Unlike the three portkeys that Amon was looking for, the key to Candlekeep is composed of the [Key of All Gates - Ortycus]. Strictly speaking, it also has the ability to cross the crystal wall system, but it is quite difficult to control.

Candlekeep was once one of the bases of the Otherworld Soul faction.

Xiao En's figure stopped.

He walked to the golden gate in front of him, and for some reason his figure began to distort and become indescribable.

A deep space crack emerged.

It directly cut off Sean's head. It was the broken plane law, with terrifying energy that could destroy all matter.

"The body was severely damaged!"

"The head was decapitated by the plane rift!...The law of body energyization was activated!..."

Sean's headless body stood there motionless.

next second.

A new head grew out, and the original head turned into a spot of energy and dissipated into the air.

Ignore all fatal flaws.

Never die from a serious injury.

Xiao En did not take any action. He looked down at his abdomen that was cut in half, moved his fingers expressionlessly, and reconnected the two broken sections of his waist and abdomen. The next second, he was completely restored.

He is an energy being.

The laws of demigod transcend all mortal things!
He roughly knew what kind of abilities the Key to All Gates in front of him - Ortycus - possessed, incomplete spatial laws, and a little bit of divine power [changing space].

The power of law is distorted.

Sean's body gradually melted away, and under the interference of space, he could no longer maintain his human form, as if he was an exploded bubble. He turned into a lavender sphere, surrounded by endless nebulae. The terrifying energy vortex was constructed by countless silver knowledge runes. Indescribable shapes gathered in the purple bubbles, and endless knowledge was like a torrent forming a gorgeous galaxy. In the center was a silver brain emerging from nothingness.

It looks like a smaller version of Suen's Brain, the Upper Old One of the Terra Galaxy. It is Sean's truest form, or a projection of his transcendental essence.

He was already a thing of the past.

Because if you seize the laws of the old days and seize the extraordinary essence of the old days, you will eventually become a part of the old days.

This is the curse borne by all demigods promoted from the grotesque realms. They cannot enter the Pantheon unless they reverse the root laws and restore their original appearance from their indescribable old forms.

From behind the golden door, there came a gasp of fear.

It's scared.

——Xiao En [Indescribable old form]!
In the spreading purple bubbles, the endless nebula seemed to be spinning like a whirlpool, and countless mysterious knowledge swarmed out, gnawing frantically at the golden gate in front of it. The key to all gates - Otycus let out a shrill scream, and its form was melting away bit by bit, just like when Sean was parasitized by the great detective - Motilion. Endless knowledge began to build a nest on this golden gate.

This is Sean’s true demigod form!
A person's appearance is just his habit, or a disguise.

He wants to return to being a normal human being.

Only when the root laws of the world were corrected, the rotating nebula runes in the lavender bubble formed a huge rune matrix, the laws of space were reshaped, the golden door disappeared, and finally a door key engraved with a strange eyeball and surrounded by tentacles appeared.

"The Law of Devouring Gate Path!"

"Master the extraordinary power [Change Space]!"

Xiao En's figure recovered from the indescribable state, he turned into a handsome human man, and gently grasped the key to all doors in his hand.

An ancient spirit disappeared forever in the long river of history.

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(End of this chapter)