bookrandom Chapter 667, Section 14: Traveling Through History
Chapter 667, Section 14: Traveling Through History
Chapter 667-14- Traveling Through History
Year 466 of the Apocalypse Era.
The northern frontier of the continent of Miria.
The silvery-gray sky was gloomy and dark, and the biting cold wind roared and howled as always. The snowflakes swirled and leaped wildly, weaving together into a dense white net under the whirlwind, obscuring the view and blurring the horizon.
Artemis, now in the form of Lilith, gazed at the sky outside the stone window, her silver-gray pupils reflecting the blizzard as heavy as goose feathers.
"Lilith! Stop looking out the window! Don't worry, your father will be back in time. Come and help me put away the firewood!"
Her mother's voice came from behind, but it didn't affect Lilith's actions. She continued to gaze calmly at the sky until the gathering clouds began to churn, at which point a slight change appeared in her silver-gray pupils:
"coming……"
They're here?
Tamia, the mother who was adding fuel to the campfire, frowned.
She instinctively looked out the window but didn't see her husband, Hafdan. Instead, she was quickly drawn to the strange phenomenon in the sky.
Suddenly, the vast sky darkened, and dense lightning slowly gathered in the heavens.
Purple lightning surged forth, and the entire sky seemed to tremble. Then... after the thunder reached a certain peak, the sky suddenly cracked open!
"Moon Goddess...this is...this is..."
Looking at the sky, which seemed like the end of the world, Tamia's face showed terror.
But the next second, a silvery light spread throughout the stone house, her mind became hazy, and she quickly fell asleep.
Lilith stood up.
She glanced at her "mother" who was lying on the ground, then at Harald who was still playing with his toys "silly," and then helped the latter fall asleep before putting the two of them to bed.
Then, she took a step and left the stone house.
With one step, her figure seemed to travel thousands of miles and arrive high in the sky.
Her silver hair grew, her figure changed, and she soon returned to the appearance of the moon goddess Artemis.
Beams of divine power shone across the continent, then rushed toward the place where the strange phenomenon had appeared; clearly, they too had been alarmed.
Artemis frowned slightly.
He had not expected that the appearance of the spacetime rift would cause such a huge commotion.
This did not match His memory. In the memories enlightened by Teacher Charlotte, He had never seen such a large-scale event in His previous life.
'That won't do. The commotion is too loud; what if it disturbs the one who is sleeping…'
Artemis looked worried.
Just as He was quickly thinking of a solution, a crimson light suddenly bloomed at His waist.
A thought struck him, and he looked down to find that the radiant light was from the Blood Scripture that Charlotte had given him.
As if making a connection to something, a look of understanding flashed in the Moon Goddess's eyes. She reached out and picked up the illusory book.
The instant He touched the Blood Codex, an invisible ripple spread out from the codex.
Wherever it goes, all colors fade away, and the world turns gray and white.
The wind stopped, the snow ceased, and even the many gods who had rushed towards the horizon froze in place as the colors faded.
At this moment, the whole world seemed to have become a still black and white painting.
'Time and spacetime stand still...'
Artemis felt a slight stirring in her heart.
This is the power of the laws of spacetime, a power of creation belonging to Teacher Charlotte that even the Primordial Ones had not mastered!
Under the cover of this power, Artemis is the only three colors remaining in this world.
The other two points are the Blood Scripture in His hand, which enveloped Him in its radiance, and the ever-rotating vortex of thunder at the center of the vision.
At this moment, however, the lightning had turned crimson, faintly revealing a power aura that Artemis was extremely familiar with.
That too was the aura of the Blood Codex.
However, it was much weaker and more rigid than the one in Artemis's hand.
Artemis suddenly realized:
That was a sacred text possessed by a teacher who traveled through history in another time and space.
"Lilith, please make sure to deliver it to the 'me' in the future."
Charlotte's words before she fell asleep echoed in Artemis's mind once more.
Sensing the aura of the other Blood Scripture, Artemis did not hesitate and handed over the Blood Scripture in her hand.
As the Blood Codex departed from its body and lost its divine protection, it began to turn a grayish-white color, as if time and space had frozen.
However, ultimately shrouded in the radiance of the sacred texts, before the gray and white completely enveloped her vision, Artemis, through her divine perception, foresaw what would happen next—
The illusory Blood Codex was sent into a rift in spacetime, and then, as if drawn by some force, merged with another identical aura in the darkness.
In an instant, Artemis saw countless shattered images:
A leaf, enveloped in crimson, appears on the vast earth...
Standing amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, a silver-haired girl leans on a broken sword and roars angrily at the sky…
The Blood Ancestor slowly awakens, seated upon his throne...
The blonde girl lay in a crystal coffin, fast asleep...
……
Artemis quickly deduced that they were scenes from before and after Charlotte's time travel.
Time travels from back to front, constantly tracing back, and with each scene that flashes by, the radiance of the Blood Scripture He bestowed dims a little, while the scripture within that scene grows stronger.
The same thing cannot appear in the same time and space.
Artemis remembered what her teacher had said and instantly understood that this was a Blood Scripture from a different time and space, which was "merging" with the one He had sent out, becoming one.
Those images flashed by, only to vanish as the two crimson lights merged, passing through time and again, reincarnating again and again... until finally, at the end.
The end is also the beginning.
It was a magnificent aristocratic bed.
On the bed lay a beautiful girl with pale skin, who looked to be about twelve or thirteen years old.
Her eyes were closed, her blonde hair was disheveled, and she no longer showed any signs of life.
It was the corpse of a young girl.
Outside the bed, a woman with bloodshot eyes was holding a black magic book and chanting incantations to summon the bound spirit.
A crimson glow spread.
The illusory Blood Codex instantly entered the girl's body, and then... she slowly opened her eyes.
……
The image then shattered.
Everything Artemis had just seen in her mind shattered like a bubble, her memories fading as if they had never existed. When she came to her senses, she found herself still standing in the stone house.
He still used Lilith's avatar, and He still gazed at the distant horizon, but there was no thunder or cracks in the horizon, only swirling snowflakes.
Artemis frowned, feeling as if she had forgotten something, but soon... that thought of forgetting disappeared.
But the next moment, He discovered that the Blood Scripture His teacher had given him was "missing".
Artemis felt a sudden tightness in her chest and almost instinctively stood up, her expression extremely serious.
The blizzard has stopped.
Harald, who was at the age of playing, excitedly pulled "Lilith" out to play.
But Artemis wasn't very interested.
While dealing with Harald, who was no different from an ordinary child, He frantically searched for traces of the Blood Scripture with His divine power, His mood steadily sinking:
'Did the Primordial One make a move?'
Or has something changed that I'm unaware of?
'Where did the sacred texts go?!'
'The Primordial... Could it really be that the Primordial has been revived?'
Artemis's expression grew increasingly grim, and a hint of fear even flickered in her pupils.
Until... a commotion arose in the distance.
And accompanying the commotion was Hafdan's ever-loud voice:
"Hahaha! Lord Apocalypse's Heir! Please try our mead!"
Upon hearing this title, Artemis froze instantly.
He grabbed Haral and rushed back to the stone house like a madman. Then, he saw his father sitting casually by the campfire, and opposite his father, a petite figure that was both incredibly familiar and somewhat unfamiliar.
Seeing the curious gaze from the blonde girl and sensing the familiar holy aura emanating from her, a strange realization dawned on Artemis.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes became excited.
'Ah... I see...'
'It seems... I've already successfully handed it over to the teacher...'
……