The Demonic Tide Returns, the Wizard's Trail, The Realm of the Believers!

Chapter 71 The Return of the Demonic Tide, the Wizard's Trail, [The Realm of the Believers]! (Please continue reading)

However, despite the pleasant surprise, this place was clearly not a place to linger.

Li Wei found more than a dozen gold coins on another ghost mask. This guy was a penniless wretch and looked like a wandering knight.

As a mid-ranking knight, it's shameful to carry so little cash!

In the end, Li Wei collected more than four hundred gold coins.

"A horse won't get fat without night grazing, and a person won't get rich without unexpected wealth!"

Li Wei now realizes that forging and farming are nothing compared to robbery!

"Don't get carried away. If you rob too many people, you'll eventually get caught. It's better to be honest and law-abiding."

These people's weapons and equipment could not be wasted, so Li Wei tied them all up and carried them on his back.

"I didn't want to do it myself, but since you're the Duke of Black Mountain's man, there's no need for it," Li Wei muttered to himself.

Riding the middle-aged nobleman's horse, they headed towards the stronghold of the Deathbird's Voice.

He quietly made his way into the outpost and found it had been abandoned.

There's no one inside now; it's eerily quiet.

"I wonder what the Deathbird's Voice is planning next. Are they going to send out Grand Knights? Or Five Kage-level assassins to kill me?"

Unaware of this, Li Wei rode away from Icewind City under the cover of night.

The gains from this trip far exceeded my expectations. I was just hoping to buy a breathing technique, but I received an unexpected surprise.

Compared to this unexpected joy, neither the "Giant Rhinoceros Breathing Technique" nor the "Bull Breathing Technique" are worth mentioning.

……

After safely returning to Blackwater Valley, Li Wei handed over the weapons and equipment to the forging department and then eagerly took out the "Exorcism Manual" in the shelter to study it. The ancient handwriting on the manual was striking.

While people live under the "holy light" of the Father God and enjoy divine protection, our family is waging an endless and protracted struggle in the shadows against terrifying beings that people regard as mere legends.

Since the beginning of the Holy Radiance era, the once-lost demonic tide has gradually begun to return. Unfortunately, only our four great families know the truth about this. Our ancestors once petitioned the Church, hoping that it would reveal the truth to the public and pleading with the gods to allow those people to return in order to combat the impending calamity of the demonic tide. However, the Church regarded our ancestors as "descendants of fallen wizards" who were bewitching people and creating panic, and from then on, we could only live in darkness.

But I know that one day, when the surging tide of evil sweeps across this continent, when the multiverse and the world we live in overlap and intersect, those terrifying beings from other dimensions that terrify the Church and even frighten the gods will return. The truth cannot be hidden forever; the world has the right to know the truth, and the Church cannot conceal it forever! When more and more people discover that evil spirits are among them, the Church will regret its past actions.

The one who can save all of this is neither the gods trapped in the astral plane, nor the inactive church that pursues fame and fortune.

Rather, they were those who, before the first year of the Holy Radiance, were pressured by the gods and exiled themselves to the "Land of the Unbelievers"!

wizard!

I, Mann Winchester, the last exorcist of the Winchester family, and my friend Dean Constantine, the last exorcist of the Constantine family, were trapped here while working together to kill a demonic entity from another dimension. My friend is dead, and I know my days are numbered.

Before we set off, our bloodline descendants were still infants. I inherited my old friend's last wish and passed on my life's cultivation insights of the four great seals of the Constantine family: the "Seal of Flame Flow" and the "Seal of Hell," as well as the "Seal of Guardian" and the "Seal of Dragon's Might" of our Winchester family.

If you are lucky enough to find it, please give it to anyone with the surnames Winchester and Constantine. You will receive a wealth of more than you can imagine. Otherwise, it will be nothing but a piece of waste paper to you. Remember that!

—Mann Winchester, Holy Radiance Year 864, Warm Month.

……

Li Wei quietly read through the contents of the journal, word by word.

This small piece of parchment contains an enormous amount of information.

"First of all, this doesn't seem to be the wizarding heritage I imagined, but rather the bloodline of some wizards. What's recorded here isn't spells, but signifiers, a kind of spell-like ability that can be activated by the bloodline of the descendants and the casting materials, without needing to construct a spell model through meditation. It's kind of a castrated version of spells, and it can't even be considered a trick. But judging from the description of the owner of this notebook, if the signifiers are cultivated to the highest level, their power is stronger than trickifiers and no weaker than ordinary formal spells."

Secondly, the owner of this journal mentioned that a mysterious force known as the "Demonic Tide" began to resurface on this continent a thousand years ago. However, this resurrection process was extremely long, and creatures like evil spirits were deformed beings born from the "Demonic Tide's Return" in the human world. This was merely a harbinger of the Demonic Tide's return. Evil spirits were the weakest of the Demonic Tide's creatures; the truly terrifying ones were those terrifying beings that came directly from other dimensions during the planes' convergence. Among these terrifying beings from other dimensions were some that could rival the Astral Gods.

Gods likely exist, but they reside in a wondrous place called the Astral Plane, a chaotic realm formed from pure spiritual projections. These gods endure in the Astral Plane, gaining immortality through it, yet are also imprisoned by it, unable to descend to the mortal world. They can only briefly unleash a fraction of their divine power to intervene in reality through bridges built by earthly believers, such as churches. The earthly beings capable of bearing the divine power of these gods are known as: Saints!

Finally, wizards did exist, but they disappeared long before historical records existed, going to a place called the [Land of the Believers]. According to the description of the owner of this journal, it was a place that even the power of the astral gods could not penetrate.

This place is a subspace independent of the world we live in, a paradise and utopia for wizards. It may be right next to us, but we cannot see it with our mortal eyes.

Its entrance might be an unnamed alleyway, an abandoned cabin in the woods, a discarded wardrobe, a cave at the bottom of a lake, an ancient mirror, or even a fairy tale book. Things that seem ordinary to mortals could become the physical medium for a warp entrance, and to enter such a place, a formal wizard is needed as a guide.

"The four great exorcism families—the Winchester, Constantine, Van Helsing, and Duncan families—are the bloodline descendants of four powerful wizards in the mortal world. They are responsible for clearing away demonic forces such as evil spirits from the mortal realm, as well as finding mortals with wizarding aptitude and contacting legitimate wizards in the Land of the Unbelievers to take them away."

"Unfortunately, the Duncan family, known as the 'Monster Slayers,' and the Van Helsing family, known as the 'Vampire Slayers,' vanished completely five hundred years ago, never to be heard from again. As for the Winchester family, known as the 'Exorcists,' and the Constantine family, known as the 'Exorcists,' it's unknown whether they still have any descendants."

Li Wei muttered to himself, "The road ahead is now much clearer."

Going directly to those elusive wizards, like the witches Gulvig and Rolin, is practically impossible.

The only ones that are relatively easy to find are the descendants of these four great families.

The Winchester and Constantine families both had their last heirs more than a hundred years ago, and Li Wei thinks there is a good chance that their descendants are still alive.

Finally, after determining his direction...

Li Wei was in high spirits, and he focused his attention on the cultivation methods of the four Dharma Seals recorded in the notebook.

"Since the proficiency panel can ignore the knight's bloodline curse and learn the bloodline breathing technique, then practicing this hand seal should be no problem, right?"

Today's two chapters totaling six thousand words are equivalent to three updates for other authors. The wizarding journey is about to begin, and the author will strive to write a wizarding novel that is different from the past.

Finally, on the first day of the Sanjiang event, I'm asking for your continued reading and monthly votes. The book will be available for purchase this month, so let's aim for the top spot on the new book monthly vote chart!

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