Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 357: Portrait of Katalov and World Trends
Sha Sha Sha
Ivan is working hard while holding a pen that he has pinched using "Aura of Rejuvenation". The gold nib is on the fine parchment paper, leaving rows of beautiful words and lines.
Compose an entire complex and precise array, which looks almost like a work of art.
This is the Garliott Bird Transformation 30 that he is constantly revising. The subject has been completed when he was promoted to the official wizard. Now only minor changes have been made to make it more perfect.
Ivan believes that after this transformation, the seabirds under his command will be able to usher in a qualitative change, and it is no longer a dream to complete the transformation from a mortal thing to a demonized creature.
Suddenly.
The light in the captain's room dimmed, and the light of the hanging wind chimes seemed to have been swallowed by something.
Then a gloomy voice of an old man suddenly came out from the oil painting on the wall:
"Boy, find someone to give my old man a meal and chatter
Otherwise I will eat you! Chatter"
People may be startled by listening, but
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It was only a snap of Aiwen's finger to respond to it.
The hairy voice became smaller and smaller, until it became inaudible. x
Because a spiritual barrier has risen on its own, isolating all the connections between the oil painting on the mysterious level and the outside world, so that the old man who is confused about the situation can neither see nor hear, let alone speak.
It's worse than when I was on the bottom of the sea.
However, it also means some kind of signal.
The pen in his hand drew the last symbol on the paper, and Ivan put away the bird modification technique 30, replaced it with a piece of ordinary white paper, and refilled himself with a cup of black tea by the way.
Then looked up at the oil painting, as if expecting something.
One minute later, the picture of the shipwreck on the oil painting gradually disappeared, and a portrait of a middle-aged man with big wavy and curly hair wearing a noble dress from hundreds of years ago replaced him.
Ivan then lifted the spiritual barrier, leaned slightly, and said with a smile:
"Sir Kataloff, good day!"
"Your Excellency, good day!
Haha, the taste of freedom is better, especially when you experience freedom, it is perfect to have an excellent audience with noble status.
Then, your excellency, are you free to listen to me continuing to tell the story of the past?"
The man in the painting speaks slowly. Although it is still the voice of an old man, the tone is definitely different, especially at the end of each sentence. The tone rises slightly. This is the way the nobles used to speak in order to show their own uniqueness. .
After hearing this, Ivan certainly wouldn't refuse, because he was waiting for him.
"Of course, it is my honor!"
It’s been so long since this painting was fished out of the sea. After being discovered by KaKa and completely revealing his consciousness, after several unsuccessful exchanges, Ivan was very interested in this painting and the sojourner Consciousness already has a certain understanding.
Or he, it, they can all refer to the consciousness inside.
Ivan’s initial guess was not wrong.
Before and after the flute-shaped ship was killed, the fleeing wizard a few hundred years ago abandoned his seriously injured body and hid in the form of his soul in this famous painting that was essentially a "cursed object".
His former name was Simpson, and he was an official wizard who belonged to the "Black Linger School" of the dark wizard power before his death.
Proficient in shadow witchcraft and soul witchcraft, after using "cursed objects" to seal up his soul, he has been living in the painting to this day.
But after a long time, his own life form has already undergone an irreversible change. The soul and this cursed oil painting have been completely integrated together, and become an existence similar to the devil in the painting.
This form of existence is somewhat similar to the legendary battleship "Ship Spirit" that Ivan has learned about. As long as this painting is not destroyed, in theory, he will not completely die.
This allowed him to survive hundreds of years of erosion with the soul essence of the second-order transcendent.
However, the price he paid was much more than that.
The original name of this painting was Katalov's Portrait of Death, and it was originally a self-portrait created by an aristocratic painter named Katalov.
I don't know what went through in the middle and finally turned into a "cursed thing", which made its former owners inexplicably "hidden", and their souls are also confined in the painting and sinking continuously.
The form presented on the oil painting is to show the scene of each victim at the time of death.
While the dark wizard Simpson dominated this cursed oil painting with a powerful soul power far surpassing any of the previous victims, he also had to uncontrollably merge with the souls and consciousness left by the victims of the past. Together, until it's hard to separate each other.
So what finally appeared in front of Ivan was a "demon in a painting" with Simpson's personality as his main character and countless victims as his counterparts.
There have been at least a dozen personalities recorded by the crazy old man, the learned aristocratic artist, and the wealth-seeking wealth, and it seems that it should be far more than that.
As for the people who were eaten into the painting after Simpson, such as the hapless Hilius soldier, they were actually eaten, and there would be no chance of dividing Simpson's soul into an independent personality.
Whether it is on the bottom of the sea or after being caught up.
They will all conduct internal negotiations and come out regularly to let go. Whoever comes out will be shown on the screen.
But most of the time it was the master of the old dark wizard who came out, and the second one was the original master of the painting: Sir Kataloff.
Speaking of which, of course, the crazy old man who is a formal wizard is more valuable. The knowledge of the "Hilling School" in his mind is very attractive to any extraordinary person.
Although it is impossible for Ivan to study concurrently, if he can obtain the shadow witchcraft that belongs to the wizard, then he will definitely save a lot of effort when he cultivates the shadow lizard.
However, instead of dealing with an old wizard who is crazy but still cunning like a fox, Ivan prefers to chat with this knowledgeable noble artist.
Although the memories between personalities are not interoperable, after three hundred years of getting along, the mutual communication between personalities is enough to complete most of the sharing of memories.
At least Katalov knows a lot about the memories of everyone after him.
As a result, this learned aristocratic artist gave Aiwen an unexpected joy with his "personal" experiences that have never been recorded in history books.
Although it is some high-end, it may not be used temporarily, but its value is no less than any occult knowledge.
Because there may be a secret that can make mortals and gods stand shoulder to shoulder!
"Last time we said that a long time ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was notoriously conservative, stubborn, and unkind. It used a variety of dogmas and rules to firmly confine the people's thoughts.
This situation has lasted for thousands of years, and people call it the Dark Millennium. xx
Until the era when I lived five hundred years ago, the people finally stopped being the lamb of resignation, determined to break the dark era from the spiritual world.
It was a movement called the Renaissance, and it was also a magnificent period that lasted for two centuries.
Indirectly caused the Turkat dynasty where I belonged to "ruminate" the continent, or in terms of thought, art, and humanities, it became a pilgrimage site for the entire continent. "
Although this "ancient man" clearly lacked the awe of the seven true gods in his words, Ivan just listened silently, recording first-hand information on the dialogue with "history" on paper from time to time.
Because of the dual identities of aristocrat and artist, he has enough vision and opportunity to understand the true appearance of that era, and it also makes Aiwen a treasure!
From his intermittent stories during this period, Ivan seems to have grasped the context of the development of the world and the limits of the power of the true god!
According to what he said, the records of the wizards, plus Ivan's own speculations.
In the dark ages, all supernatural powers except the church were suppressed. Wizards were no different from other supernatural beings. They were lingering in the cracks, just barely able to survive.
But when the bottom-up "Renaissance" movement developed in full swing, and was unanimously welcomed by most countries and people in the Old Continent, and even formed a certain trend, the Church of the True God finally couldn't sit still.
Relying on the huge accumulation that has firmly ruled the world for thousands of years from both the body and the soul, he began to hunt down the extraordinary, especially the wizards, with the faith of lore.
Obviously, the wisdom of the gods has allowed them to see the changes in the future. After the imprisonment of thought is broken, what will follow will surely be a blossoming of flowers on the spiritual and material level.
The wizards who are the most powerful, intelligent, creative, and productive will surely be able to gain the greatest benefit from this torrent of social change and profoundly change the material world.
It is not even known that a bottom-up movement was used to shake the rule of the true gods of the Old World through the people's disgust with the "Dark Millennium" church ruling everything.
Of course, this is something no true **** wants to see!
But their abacus hasn't fully worked out.
The largest witch-killing movement in history is in full swing. The power of the church expelled, killed, and imprisoned most wizards, seeing a budding that was about to be completely killed by them.
Another thing happened, but the true gods did not expect it.
When the church was fighting with the wizards, a group of demigods in their back garden sprung up because of the human desire for the "Renaissance" and the liberation of the mind.
Some of them were born directly from human beliefs, and some were promoted from the pinnacle of transcendents. In just two hundred years, more demigods have appeared than in the past few thousand years.
One of the typical examples is Percell, the "God of Opera" that Ivan had the honor to meet with his own eyes!
Even if the trend is not guided by wizards~IndoMTL.com~, it is slowly unfolding in another form that they are also unwilling to see, and has a profound impact on the world.
From this, the true gods also know that even those who are above them are not the masters of this world, and they are not completely irreplaceable.
Although the will of the world does not have a complete self, it also has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The original intention of all the rules of the world must be beneficial to the development and promotion of the world.
The world trend during this period can be temporarily suppressed, but it is impossible to stay in the age of ignorance forever.
So, the gods also had to compromise on the world itself.
Under the comprehensive influence of internal and external, the religious reform of the Church of the Seven Gods began, and the "Millennium of Darkness" was completely over.
Subsequently.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the forces of all parties have been declining and gambling with each other, and only then has the seemingly balanced and extraordinary ecology slowly developed.
After straightening out the context, Ivan also got one of the keys, a secret that may not even be known to many super powers.
That is the trend of the world that even the true **** has to give way!
"However, at the end of the dark millennium, the emancipation of the mind is the trend. Then the beginning of the era of great voyage, right?"div
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