Chapter 4 Let the world feel the pain!
The West District of the Devil's City, the Temple of Nightmare on Elm Street.
A shadow priest wearing a black robe sat side by side on a bench in the chapel hall with a richly dressed man.
Believers walking in and out of the temple hall frequently paid attention to the man in rich clothes, because his sculpture-like handsome appearance was really unusual.
In hell, this appearance usually only appears on succubi or vampires.
Given the shadow priest's rejection of the succubus, the man's identity seems self-evident, leaving only one possibility.
“How is he doing lately?”
"So-so... How can an "orphan" live? Dear Mr. Roxey, can't you imagine that there is a place where demon kings are cultivated."
h A high-level demon with a distinguished status. As a human with "pure blood", he not only had to learn knowledge there, but also had to be careful not to become the prey of other demons." Hearing the displeasure and condemnation in the tone, Roxey Colin's expression was slightly at a loss, but he still instinctively wanted to excuse his irresponsibility.
"To be honest... I never thought he would take this path. In fact, I would rather recommend him to become a clergyman serving His Majesty the Demon God like Tiffany..."
Feeling the murderous look in the eyes of others, Roxelle couldn't help but trembled his neck and stopped talking wisely.
Although he is a vampire duke, he does not have much confidence in front of this shadow priest.
It has nothing to do with strength or status.
Mainly because this old human shadow priest is the adoptive father of his deceased lover, in other words, he is his prospective father-in-law.
It’s more than that.
After his lover died of a stubborn disease that could not be cured by magic, he shamelessly begged this "father-in-law" to take in the child of him and his lover - Luo Yan.
Even in hell, an illegitimate child is a dishonorable thing, especially an illegitimate child born to a clergyman.
But he actually had no choice.
· Born into a famous family like Colin, even the vampire duke can't help himself many times.
The elders and patriarchs of the family would not agree with him admitting an illegitimate child to dilute the noble blood of the Colin family. No one in the whole hell is more obsessed with blood than the vampires.
Shortly after Tiffany's death, Roxelle was forced to marry the eldest daughter of a side family at the instruction of her father, and now she has a son and a daughter.
"Become a cleric... Haha, His Majesty the Demon God's temple is almost becoming a harem for people like you to raise illegitimate children!"
Jeffrey sighed. Although he despised this guy from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to be too harsh... After all, it was meaningless.
What should be said, he already said it over and over eighteen years ago, and he really doesn’t want to repeat it.
After a moment of pause, the old An Mu slowly spoke.
"Luo Yan...he is a very hard-working child. He has his own ideas and is very independent. He even gave himself this name. Since you have decided not to involve him in the affairs of the Colin family, I hope you can act accordingly. 1. Do what you say and stop interfering with his development."
"I know, I know."
Roxai smiled cowardly and looked at the statue in front of the temple, with a hint of tiredness and a bit of pride in his eyes.
"To be honest, I'm quite surprised. He works harder and is better than I thought. Although his talent in spellcasting can't be helped, in a place like Demon King Academy, his written test scores are actually perfect in all subjects, and for two consecutive years... maybe he is more suitable to be the next head of the family than me."
Although vampires are immortal, the head of the family cannot always be.
Every century, the head of the family will give up the title of prince, which symbolizes the status of the head of the family, to the next head of the family, and he will enter the glorious Presbyterian Church.
However, because of this system, the head of the family actually had no real power in the first fifty years, and in the second fifty years it was basically co-governance with the Presbyterian Church.
And a family head like him might be a pawn of the Presbyterian Church for the entire hundred years... until his child becomes the next head of the family and passively becomes a strong vampire prince due to the weakness of his father's generation.
Looking at this indecisive man, Jeffrey said calmly.
"I remind you again, you said you would not involve him in the disputes between the Colin family."
At this time, a bat flew in from the door of the temple and landed accurately next to the bench.
Looking at the copper pipe placed on the bat's foot, Jeffrey reached out and took it off. When he took out the letter, he stuffed a ticket inside as a reward for delivering the letter.
Watching the bats flapping their wings and flying away, Jeffrey unfolded the letter in his hand and read it to the end, with a smile on his face, and then handed it to Roxey who was sitting next to him.
"I want to give you your son's letter... but you'd better read it yourself."
"Roxey took the letter and unfolded it carefully.
When he read that Luo Yan was appreciated by the demigod lich for volunteering to be the Demon King, and was recommended to the cabinet for an important task, he couldn't help but stand up... although he quickly sat back down.
"He actually chose to become the Demon King?!"
This child... is much better than his father.
Roxey couldn't help but feel ashamed when he thought of this, but he couldn't help but feel proud of him.
Jeffrey nodded, with a smile on his face.
"As you can see, he is better than we imagined...even without the support of you and your family."
"I...I don't know what to say." Holding the envelope, Roxelle lowered his head in shame.
Jeffrey said gently.
"There's no need to say anything, we just support him silently behind his back."
Roxey was silent for a long time, then suddenly gritted his teeth and took off the ring on his index finger.
"Please pass it to him for me."
Although this ring is not a very powerful magic item, it is made of expensive mithril and blood diamonds. It can be sold for five to six million hell silver coins without any pressure.
As the next head of the family, although he has no worries about food and clothing, he cannot squeeze out much pocket money.
On the one hand, his father is keeping a close eye on him, and on the other hand, there is also his current wife, whom he is marrying.
Almost all the little money he could squeeze out every month was sent to the temple.
Jeffrey reached out and pushed the ring back, looked at Roxelle and shook his head.
"The ring of the Colin family appeared on the hand of an eighteen-year-old child. I think this is not a good idea for you or him. Not only can you not help him, it may also have a negative effect and let people with malicious intentions target him."
"I didn't give him all the money you sent him every month...of course I didn't donate it to the temple, but I saved most of it for him. Calculated now, there are probably more than two million in that account. Now that he is 18 years old, and he is about to go to the Demon King to take up his post, I think it is the time to use this money."
Roxelle's face showed surprise, and then it turned into excitement.
He did not expect that this prospective father-in-law would actually do so many things for him!
"Thank you..."
Looking at the vampire Duke sincerely thanking him, Jeffrey just smiled faintly and turned his attention to the demon statue in front of the temple.
"You're welcome."
"He's not just your child."
He is also my grandson.
…
The next day.
At six o'clock in the morning, the amethyst dome over the Magic City lit up on time, casting soft moonlight on the sleeping city.
For the demons in hell, the rising of the "moon" means the beginning of a new day.
However, what woke Luo Yan from his dream was not the moonlight shining on the corner of the table, but the knocking at the door.
"Luo Yan, are you up? The graduation ceremony will be held soon. I want to go to the cafeteria first. Do you want to come with me?"
It was Ige's voice.
As one of Luo Yan's few friends in Class 2, Grade 3, the two of them would occasionally go to class together.
Shaking his groggy brain, Luo Yan stood up from the floor.
"Wait a minute, I'm about to - forget it, I can't finish it here in a while, you go first, I'll be there soon."
Looking at the messy room, Luo Yan suddenly changed his words mid-sentence.
Although Ige stood at the door, he was surprised, but he didn’t think much about it.
"Okay, then I'll leave first."
Listening to the footsteps gradually moving away from the door, Luo Yan breathed a sigh of relief and started to get up and clean up the messy room.
Hums I studied "A Fellow's Diary" until late at night last night, but to my surprise, I fell asleep while lying on the floor.
But thanks to this, he has read the entire book from beginning to end.
Generally speaking, what I wrote this time was quite interesting, to the extent that I had to go back to my hometown and submit my article to a website called Qidian, where I might not be able to sign a contract. He even thought of the title of this book, let's call it "This Different World Is Too Real"!
Maybe it can even make it to the monthly vote list? The only thing worth complaining about is that this diary looks a lot like a diary. Most of its contents are Isaac IV's complaints about the backward productivity and production system of other worlds from the standpoint of modern people.
For example, noble ladies and ladies do not take showers, and the body odor in the banquet hall can knock people down. For example, the toilets in the palace do not have flush toilets. When going to the toilet, you have to be careful of the assassins hiding under the tower... It seems that one of his brothers was killed by the assassin with extraordinary power.
Another example is the lack of light bulbs, the lack of smartphones, the inability to surf the Internet, etc... In short, these are all trivial matters in life.
Of course, this guy is not entirely complaining.
In order to solve these problems, he did some things that a time traveler should do.
For example, he renovated the drainage and water supply system of King Llane's capital, built drainage canals and public baths, improved papermaking, and invented the printing press—even steam engines and fertilizers were invented by him.
Luo Yan is not sure if this guy is given another ten to twenty years, whether he will set off an industrial revolution with the characteristics of strange power and chaotic gods in another world.
In short, if the contents in the diary are true, then this guy cannot be said to be "incompetent".
The so-called "incompetent king" stigma is indeed more like the slander and frame-up of cheese by vested interest groups.
Although the diary did not mention what happened after this series of changes, the "General History of the Ossian Empire" records that Isaac IV incurred divine punishment for blaspheming the gods and was excommunicated by the oracle sent down by Saint Sith himself.
Immediately afterwards, the Isaac IV group, which had rebelled against their relatives, was immediately attacked by the Ossian Empire.
Although the achievements of those reforms were basically preserved, the Isaac dynasty was wiped out in the flames of war, leaving only a few words from the victor to seal its coffin.
Today's Lion Kingdom is already in its third dynasty, and all the past events about Isaac IV are already a thousand years ago...
To be honest, Luo Yan was full of doubts about this period of history.
Hence, according to Principal Ivan, Isaac IV was suspected of possessing power comparable to that of a god at the peak of his power.
With the strong individual strength and the strong overall national power, how could the Isaac Dynasty be abolished by an oracle?
Furthermore, how did this guy commit blasphemy? Or what specifically did you do to earn the fear of the gods?
However, unfortunately, the diary did not mention these things that Luo Yan was really curious about. It only wrote that someone got the steam engine out and ended abruptly.
Even until the end of the diary, Isaac IV only briefly mentioned that he was really not suitable for practicing magic. The elements floating between heaven and earth rejected him as if he had greeted their biological mother, and he was destined to be a bronze in his life.
Obviously.
Until the time this diary was written, Isaac IV only had bronze-level strength, and he gained the worship of mortals entirely by relying on mortal power.
As for gaining power comparable to that of gods, it was unknown how many years after he completed a series of reforms to the Kingdom of Lane.
To be honest, Luo Yan doesn't care about steam engines at all. That thing is not a rare thing for people who have received nine years of compulsory education.
In contrast, of course he wanted to know how Isaac IV broke through the bronze level bottleneck and finally stood on the shoulders of the gods...
But unfortunately, the part he was most curious about was not written!
I don’t know whether Isaac IV himself wrote it in other diaries, or whether this memory has been completely erased in the long river of history.
"It seems that for some reason, Isaac IV did not publish his diary in the end... Was it because he didn't want to, or because he couldn't? Or... had an ulterior motive?"
Luo Yan glanced at the translation written by Professor Ivan next to him.
·It is too hurtful to say that the bull's head is wrong and the horse's mouth is wrong. After all, the punctuation marks are guessed correctly. It is also quite useful to simply regard it as the cultivation experience of a demigod-level lich.
Let’s keep it for now.
If you are lucky enough to be able to practice to the level of demigod or master.
Just when Luo Yan was about to close the diary and go to bed with a disappointed mood, he saw a few lines of small words on the last page of the diary -
"I believe that my time travel was not accidental. After me, there will definitely be people who will come here along the passage I once passed through. As for the reason... …I’m not sure whether I should tell you here, and I’m even less sure that if I choose to tell you now, you will still be able to see this diary.”
"And if that day comes, I believe you will be able to understand your mission even without my unnecessary reminder."
"In addition, as a welcome to you, I have prepared a special gift for you, and this is also the last work I will leave in this world -"
"I believe you will like it!"
The writing of these lines is completely different from the previous pages.
Whether it is the quality of the ink or the aliasing of the handwriting, it indicates that these words were probably added on a whim some year after Isaac IV completed the entire diary.
Below this text on the last page, the method of receiving this "special gift" is recorded.
It was a bronze-level magic ritual that did not require high mental power and magic power. Even he could barely afford it.
The only requirement for the ceremony is to prepare a relic that has the aura of Isaac IV himself.
Principal Alvin’s necklace just meets this requirement!
The sleepiness is swept away!
Suppressing his excitement, Luo Yan spent an hour meticulously drawing the magic circle with magic crystal chalk, and placed the necklace in the middle of the circle's eyes, and then read out the line of incantation written in pinyin for some reason—— "Loyalty——"
"Ring the bell of greatness!"
"Piety——"
"Heat the copper furnace, activate the valve!"
"Boiling——"
"The water of sincerity, the pistons dance!"
Praise——"
"The God of the great machine!"
Hum?
The god of machines?
The moment he pronounced the last note, Luo Yan only felt a flash of white light, and then he lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already early morning the next day.
Luo Yan got up from the floor and felt a severe pain in the back of his head, as if he was hungover.
Since this was the first time he encountered this situation, he couldn't figure out whether the pain coming from the back of his head was because he had been lying on the floor all night, or whether it was simply because his magic value was too low and was absorbed by the magic circle in front of him.
"The magic power... doesn't seem to have decreased. Is it not the magic power that drives the magic circle, but other energy sources?"
As for the so-called gift in the diary, Luo Yan didn't have much intuitive feelings, so much so that he even felt like he was being tricked.
What is the situation?
While he was hurriedly wiping the magic circle clean and tidying up the room, he suddenly realized a serious problem.
…Where is the necklace?”
Luo Yan hurriedly leaned over and searched all over the floor. He even opened the unrelated desk drawers and rummaged through them, but he didn't see the shadow of the necklace.
etted?
Luo Yan's expression gradually changed.
If Principal Ivan knew that he had thrown away the antique that the old man gave him that day, I wonder if he would be able to make the old lich come back to life.
Tell it the whole story?
For example, the "secret text" of the diary is actually the language of another world. Isaac IV and himself are both time travellers...
"No...it can't be done."
Luo Yan's forehead is already sweating. It would be easier to fool the old monster than to tell him that he has lost the necklace.
"Anyway, calm down first."
Luo Yan took a deep breath, sank his consciousness into the sea of consciousness, and calmed down to meditate.
At this moment, after calming down, he suddenly noticed something unusual in his sea of consciousness.
There seemed to be something hidden in the white mist as thin as a gauze that he had never seen before.
According to the textbook, the white mist is his spiritual entity, or his soul.
He has never heard of any kind of ritual magic that can change the original shape of the soul!
"...What's going on?"
With a hint of anxiety and curiosity, Luo Yan controlled his consciousness and carefully drifted towards the indescribable fog.
As he continued to go deeper into the spiritual world, he became more and more convinced that there was something hidden in the fog.
There is something there...
Is it that necklace? !
No——
It seems not that simple!
When his consciousness was completely in the center of the spiritual world, he suddenly discovered that there was a stone monument standing in that realm of nothingness.
When he saw the words carved on the stone tablet clearly, Luo Yan was stunned on the spot.
【"Natural Disaster" system loading completed! 】
【Let this stupid world feel the pain! 】
————by, the supreme mechanical god Linte Isaac]
The activity quiz is just for fun, and everyone can have a good time and laugh. Even though I didn’t use a pen name at all, it actually attracted a lot of people. Allow me to feel smug for a second, hehe.
(End of this chapter)