Chapter 344: Huan Tiansi's Contractor

When the sun rises, white mist rises from the forbidden swamp as usual.

But today is different from the past.

The quiet swamp suddenly split open, revealing a narrow and clean passage.

Merlin, who was wearing a dark blue robe and holding a long staff, stepped out slowly. He casually touched the staff on the ground, and as he moved forward, the clean and soft ground began to rise one step at a time.

It wasn't until Merlin completely left the swamp that the swamp that avoided both sides, like a living creature, closed again. And those temporary steps also disintegrated and collapsed into a ball of mud again.

"...That guy Jacob will really cause trouble for me."

Merlin sighed and reached out to push up his monocle.

But having said that, he didn't look unhappy at all like he was when someone troubled him. On the contrary, he looked very energetic and enthusiastic.

He had borrowed a door from the Fairy Kingdom and arrived at Jacob's workshop yesterday.

Just as he expected - Jacob indeed placed his ritual workshop at the bottom of the swamp.

To be precise, from the bottom of the swamp to the middle of the fairy kingdom. It exists neither in the Fairy Kingdom nor in the material world... but inside the Fairy Cave.

Of course, this place was not discovered by Jacob.

Because this "secret room" was dug out by Merlin back then.

This kind of large-scale ceremony will last for hundreds of years after it is completed. If it is placed in the material world, let alone the possibility that it will be corroded and weathered, and no matter how tight the defense is, it will definitely be discovered, destroyed, or tampered with.

The reason why he didn't put it in the Fairy Kingdom was because Merlin knew the personalities of the fairies too well.

They are full of curiosity and have a kind of confidence that "although I don't understand anything, I want to try it." If they discover the ritual, they will inevitably change it blindly.

So Merlin secretly opened a mezzanine in the Fairy Cave and stuffed the formation base inside.

——If the goblins want to go to the material world, they must go directly through the door. Not many people will look down to see if there is any problem with the keyhole when they enter the door.

Only humans trying to reach the Fairy Cave from here can discover its existence by searching carefully when passing through the portal.

Then as long as humans are blocked out, no one will discover this ritual.

So Merlin specially made a swamp and buried the Goblin Cave.

It was originally just a deep pit. It's that kind of dark, bottomless pit that's bottomless - if ordinary people jump into it, they might fall to their death. And if you use earth attribute spells in a panic during the fall, you will fall directly into the fairy kingdom.

And anyway, this purely material swamp cannot stop the goblin. Neither water nor mud can get the fairies' bodies wet, so the fairies won't realize there's anything wrong here. Naturally, he would not report to the Queen that there was something wrong with this hole.

In order to prevent passers-by from accidentally falling in, Merlin simply made this place a swamp. This way no one will slip and fall. This also prevents people from being seduced by the goblin cave and walking near the cave entrance unknowingly and falling in.

But the swamp at that time was just an ordinary swamp.

Jacob obviously found this village by following the fairy barrier, but it felt strange that he couldn't find the fairy cave. So he finally found the swamp and successfully used magic to open the door to the Fairy Cave.

But it's different from other humans. Jacob is that idler who will suddenly stop and study the door lock when he is halfway through the door.

So he naturally discovered the secret room left by Merlin and the Shadow of Avalon ritual in it.

What happened next was very simple.

Jacob has always been in contact with Vivian. He apparently learned the essence of this ritual from Vivian and tried to modify the ritual. Even the ordinary swamps left by Merlin were changed into special materials for making swampmen.

Anyway, this workshop is very spacious and can hide many ritual formations. Anyone who wants to destroy this ritual is unlikely to be found outside no matter how hard he searches. The best they can do is to rush into the goblin cave headlong.

What he got before was second-hand information after all - whether it was Aiwass or James, what he was told was vague after all.

After seeing the formation base with his own eyes and studying it carefully, Merlin finally understood the effect of this ritual:

Although this ritual is very immature, it can really bring down Ying Tiansi directly.

Why does it do this?

Because this ritual also contains the power of the Tiansi and even the power of the Pillar God.

The purpose of this ceremony is not just to bring down Ying Tiansi. Instead, he wanted to pull her to the material world, let her have a real body, and be bound by the power of balance, then seal her in the body, kill her in the material world... and thus usurp her Tiansi fragment.

There is no doubt that this is a ritual that transcends the path.

"——This is definitely not a prank by that woman Vivian."

Merlin was very unfortunate to realize this problem.

Because when he realized this problem, it meant that he was involved in a Tiansi-level conspiracy.

But Merlin was not afraid.

He just thought it was all very interesting -

He missed it last time, but this time he was finally able to catch up with the excitement.

The one who provided the power for this ritual was the son of the Snake Father, the Ouroboros... the chief of the Heavenly Master who was honored as Huan Tianshi. He was the Heavenly Master second only to the Snake Father in the Transcendent Path, and the second most powerful great being in the entire Transcendent Path.

Huan Tianshi had the power of "reincarnation, rebirth, and reaching infinity". The essence of this ritual was not to violently pull down the Heavenly Master... but a reincarnation ritual that allowed the Heavenly Master to go further. Because of this, it was difficult to resist.

——Merlin certainly knew this ritual.

In ancient times, there was a legendary human warrior who usurped the body of a giant dragon with a bloody transcendence ritual of slaying a dragon and sublimated to the dream world. He eventually became the Crowned Heavenly Master in the dream world, constantly surpassing the former from weak to strong, and becoming more and more powerful until he reached the position of the chief of the Heavenly Master of the Power Path.

At this point, the Crowned Heavenly Master encountered a problem.

He could not become stronger any further. Because he had already concentrated all the power of the Path that the Dream World could get on his side, and at this moment, he was still far behind the Supreme Heaven. He needs to re-enter the material world and gain additional power of the new path through "behavior".

However, unlike the apostles who can interfere with the material world, the Tianshi who has obtained authority is basically impossible to re-enter the material world... However, Huan Tianshi broke this common sense.

Ouroboros provided a ritual called "Ouroboros Ring" for His friendship.

The Crown Tianshi, whose power reached the limit, successfully transformed into a mortal. He dispersed his excess power and created the "Knights of the Round Table" - these Knights of the Round Table became stronger through the power dispersed by the Crown Tianshi. And in the end, they also followed Arthur and completed the transcendent feat of defeating the giant country with mortal bodies.

Only then can He compete with the Supreme Heaven and win, becoming the new Lord of the Path, the Silver Crown Dragon.

Like the Ouroboros, devouring oneself and rebirth.

Devouring all of oneself and obtaining a complete rebirth is essentially "molting and rebirth", transforming oneself into a stronger form, and having the possibility of transcendence again.

——Whether it was the ceremony of his usurping the dragon's body or the ceremony of his coming to the world again, they were all provided by this Huan Tiansi.

Even in the early days... when he was not yet the Crown Tiansi and had not yet defeated the dragon, he was still the contractor of Huan Tiansi.

Merlin remembered that Arthur told him the story of that era.

It seemed to be an extraordinary profession related to the concept of "shedding skin". This is also the fundamental basis for the Crown Tiansi to turn back into a human body and become stronger again.

But the Shadow Tiansi is different from the Crown Tiansi.

The Shadow Tiansi does not have the affinity of transcending the Tao, and she does not want to replace Hengwo.

If the queen of the Shadow Kingdom descended into the male body of Lancelot I and imprisoned her and did not let her go back... that crazy woman would definitely go crazy. The gods of the Tao of Love are much crazier than the extraordinary people of the Tao of Love.

However, according to Merlin's knowledge, there is no contradiction between Huan Tiansi and Shadow Tiansi. Not only that, they don't even have much contact.

So this is definitely not a personal grudge.

——Then there is only one possibility to activate this ancient ritual again.

"Huantianshi, do you want to... go one step further?"

Merlin raised his head and looked at the sky.

His eyes were deep, and he murmured in a low voice: "Jacob... are you with Him? Are you also His contractor?"

So, what is Aiwass's role in your plan?

Is he a pawn, a helper, a collaborator, an heir...

... Or, some kind of obstacle?