Immediately after that, this guy wrapped in violent energy and directly broke into the magic array. The blue magic array was shining with light, as if it was preparing to resist the invasion of the enemy.
But as the black mist continued to deepen, it felt the abnormality around it, and the magic array had been absorbing its energy.
"What is this?"
A slightly panicked consciousness message spread in the space, and Marco also felt the fear in its panic. It seemed that this guy had encountered this situation for the first time.
"This is a 'gift' specially prepared for you. Do you really think I'm stupid? You've cheated me so many times, do you think I wouldn't be prepared? All the things you did to me before, I'll just return them to you all at once this time!"
Marco's consciousness information was also constantly spreading in the space, which was regarded as answering its questions.
In fact, Marco had been thinking about the purpose of the alien god all the way. Although Marco had once suppressed its power by using the light magic, according to the previous experience, this guy would always keep some backhand, which made Marco have to guard against it.
Just now, after Marco saw the magic array and the artifact, he vaguely guessed the purpose of this guy. Therefore, Marco made some tricks on the magic array. He did not expect that this guy would really fall into it.
The magic array was running slowly, and the black energy was being sucked into it bit by bit. After a brief panic, the pair of blue eyes in the black mist slowly looked at Marco.
At that moment, a terrible aura directly enveloped Marco's consciousness, causing him to almost dissipate on the spot. Then, a piece of consciousness information was transmitted to Marco's mind.
"Ant! You are very talented. You are one of the few lives that I have taken a fancy to. Now I will give you a chance. If you are willing to let go of the suppression and accept my power, then you will gain the ability to be immortal and unparalleled power. Aren't you ants always pursuing these! I will give them all to you, submit to me!"
Marco looked at it coldly, without answering, but thru the exchange of consciousness, he let the seven old gods increase their control over the magic array.
"Humph... ant... one day you will... re... gret..."
Gradually, the energy of the alien god parasitizing in Marco's body was completely swallowed by the magic array, and the energy crystals that eroded the trunk outside also began to dissipate little by little. The trunk also returned to its original state, and the remaining energy on Marco's body was also stripped out little by little.
This power of the Other God is most harmful to intelligent life forms. They rely on emotional energy as a source of power. As long as they are intelligent life forms, they will basically have seven emotions and six desires. Therefore, once they are successfully parasitized, it is difficult to escape their control.
It was thru these days of research that Marco explored its operating principle, and it was because of its constant swallowing and symbiosis that Marco saw a clue.
That's why Marco inferred that this energy had consciousness, so he quietly modified some of the formulas in the magic array, and directly changed the strongest expulsion and purification functions in the magic array into sealing and transformation.
The ability of the alien god energy to devour and coexist is indeed very strong, but when it faces a magic array that operates according to the rules, these advantages will disappear, because it cannot absorb energy to enrich itself.
The magic array kept running, stripping off the energy of the alien god. The conversion between the attributes of the magic array made it impossible to swallow energy at all. Even if it barely swallowed some energy, it would soon be offset by the magic array in another form of energy.
And the pair of eyes had been staring at Marco from beginning to end, as if they wanted to firmly remember his consciousness, while Marco stared back at it without fear. Marco and it had fought countless times, although it might not look up to an opponent of Marco's level, Marco had always regarded it as the final BOSS.
As time went on, this guy finally disappeared into the magic circle, and the pressure on Marco's body suddenly lightened. It was also because Marco didn't have a body now, otherwise, cold sweat would have already soaked his back.
Then, under Marco's guidance, the magic array stopped working, and Marco himself moved to the center of the magic array. He was very curious about what the artifact that even the alien gods coveted was!
"Ding! Congratulations to the host! A special treasure, the Heart of Crystal, has been discovered. Its function is unknown! Does the host want to bind it?"
Looking at the prompt from the system, a question mark popped up in Marco's mind. This thing seemed to be different from the system artifact he imagined, but since the system had already recognized it, Marco would not miss this artifact!
After clicking yes, Marco instantly felt his perception was infinitely magnified, and starting from the Great Wall, everything here was slowly shrinking in Marco's vision.
Marco, on the other hand, was like he had entered the perspective of God. He could now see the entire continent of Westeros, but when he turned his gaze to the continent of Essos, he discovered the differences between the two.
He took a closer look and realized that the Westeros in his sight was also different from what he had imagined. What he saw now seemed to be another world, or another dimension of Westeros.
From the Wall to the Frostfangs, from Dorne on the shores of the Summer Sea to the Wall, the whole of Westeros was dotted with bright yellow lights, dimmer in the south, blindingly bright beyond the Wall.
Out of curiosity, Marco went directly to a light spot on the Frost Snow Tooth. Here, Marco saw a group of cavemen wearing dirty animal skins. They painted their faces blue or green, which looked very strange.
They were taking three swaddled infants to a large tree in the distance. After they left, three White Walkers emerged from the depths of the mountains, followed by some wights and ice spiders. They picked up the children and left.
Then Marco found himself surrounded by a large group of cavemen. One of the older ones dragged up a fellow caveman who looked a little thin. Marco took a closer look and realized that it was a female caveman.
At this time, the old man suddenly opened his mouth to Marco and said, "God... forgive... sacrifice... peace..."
The old man's ancient language was very bad, but Marco was able to understand his meaning very clearly. Seeing that the old man was about to kill people for sacrifice, Marco was a little anxious and subconsciously shouted "Stop".
Although Marco didn't hear his own voice, he could clearly feel that everyone was shocked by his words. These cavemen kept praying to Marco, and Marco finally knew that he had become a weirwood tree, or rather, he was living in a weirwood tree.
Out of curiosity, Marco tried to manipulate his current "body", but found that the fish beam tree was full of rich life energy, and these life energy was full of endless fear and resentment.
"Could it be that this so-called divine artifact is the central hub that controls all the weirwood trees? No wonder that guy would be interested in this thing."
Marco thot to himself, and at this moment, Marco felt a special prompt sound coming from his mind.
"Ding! The system has detected special energy. The 'Crystal Heart' can be converted. There are already suitable biological template attributes. The sacrificial ceremony has been established. Do you want to spend 1,000 gold and 1,000 rubies to convert the special arms of the dungeon forces?"
Marco, who heard the system prompt, almost had his heart jump out. Although the top-level arms he imagined might not appear, this was already a good start for Marco.
So Marco clicked on it with a try-it-out mentality. Then a large amount of black and red light emanated from the weirwood tree where Marco was, and the light clusters accumulated more and more, directly rushing to the front of the girl.
Immediately afterward, the girl who was sacrificed was covered by the black and red energy. The crackling sound of bones and the tearing sound of flesh and blood kept coming, scaring the surrounding cavemen to lower their heads.
After a while, an elven girl with fair skin and long, thin ears appeared in front of everyone. She touched her face in surprise, and then she was so shocked that she couldn't speak. However, she quickly guessed the reason for all this, so she unconsciously turned her eyes to Marco's position.
Bloody Girl (Special)
Introduction: This is an ancient ancestor who has awakened the bloodline talent. Due to the influence of blood and death, she has become a humanoid species similar to dark elves.
Special Abilities: Swiftness (she has superhuman speed, and can easily dodge arrows if she wants to), Blink (she can make a short-range spatial jump once per day).
"Gods... Grace... Conquest..."
Seeing that his transformation ritual was successful, Marco had a plan in his mind. So he pretended to be profound and gave instructions to the cavemen around him. The girl heard the words and prayed to Marco with excitement.
Because the Children of the Forest's Old Gods faith has no fixed system and canon, the prayers of each person sound different. After the prayer, the girl said to the surrounding people:
"Gods... Conquest... Departure... Hope."
Then, the numerous cavemen cheered, they took out the weapons hanging on their waists, and roared to the sky, they all thot that they had received the revelation of the gods, and they would fight for the gods.
After Marco lifted this state, he returned to the space of the magic array, and the seven old gods also slowly surrounded him.
"Lord Markel! Have you been recognized by that artifact? You suddenly disappeared just now, and we thot something was wrong with you?"
The sound of the river was still so gentle, making Marco's mind instantly calm down. Marco sometimes thot that if this old god was embodied as a human, she must be a beautiful woman.
"Actually, I discovered the secret of this artifact. If used properly, it can restore you to your peak state and double the number of your believers."
Marco's consciousness information was constantly being transmitted to the seven big guys around him, and this news also made them excited one by one, and streams of consciousness were constantly converging in the space.
After that, Marco explained the usage of the artifact to them in detail, and Marco also summoned the artifact and bound it to the seven gods around him.
Although many places south of the North have no weirwood trees, this thing is worthy of being called the tree of eternity. Although the tree is dead, the roots still exist, and they are constantly accumulating weak life energy.
Although these old gods are still a little lacking in the use of life energy, now that this artifact exists, Marco can teach them to establish the divine kingdom and belief order that belong to the old gods.
Marco will use this central artifact as the basis for the reconstruction of this dimensional world, and use these weirwood trees on the continent of Westeros to achieve the purpose of gradually transforming the world.
And at that time, Marco will also use the support of the Vitality Magic Spring to make all kinds of systemic organisms appear in this world, but these need to be done little by little.
Marco hopes to use this world to establish a complete symbiotic relationship between the vitality magic spring and the life energy, and also to purify the resentful spirits that cannot be transformed in these fish beam trees little by little.
Marko can see the influence of these wraiths on the life energy and the weirwood trees thru the "Magic Control" skill. It may also be because there are too many negative emotions of the human race, which makes the life energy more and more difficult to control and use. The decline of the old gods is certainly affected by the Others, but in Marko's view, this should be the main reason.
Although the life energy is primitive and powerful, it is easily affected by the emotional fluctuations of intelligent creatures. In particular, the dead resentful spirits will also affect the attributes of life energy, which is why the White Walkers have risen so rapidly.
After agreeing on the basic framework with the seven gods, Marco and the others began to transform the new world. This world would be divided into two realms, the upper realm being the divine kingdom where the believers lived, which was warm and pleasant, with spring all year round, and fragrant fruits; the lower realm was the ice and snow hell where the oath-breakers and unbelievers suffered, which was full of yin winds, bone-chilling cold winds, and was extremely terrifying.
Marco added the concept of heaven and hell to the teachings of the Old Gods, allowing the seven Old Gods to constantly patrol this world, accepting the prayers and wishes of believers thru the weirwood trees, and constantly purifying the resentful spirits thru the upper and lower realms, providing pure life energy for the Old Gods.
Marco will first see the work efficiency of these seven guys, and then gradually open the permissions to them. At present, they are only given part of the control permissions of life energy.
The seven gods were shocked by Marco's new method. In the past, they had always used the children of the forest to exert their power, but as the number of children of the forest and weirwood trees decreased, their divine power gradually failed to manifest. In addition, the "pollution" of life energy caused their strength to decline again and again, and they gradually lost their suppression of the Others.
"Lord Markel! Come and see! I actually helped this believer, it's so magical! I couldn't respond to human prayers before!"
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