0p0 Chapter 691 [Another World]
Chapter 691 [Another World]
"What exactly are they?"
Hearing this, Lin Tian became even more curious about that cult organization.
"【Another World】, that's what they call themselves..."
"Another world?"
"That's right. I had been to many places back then, but I had never heard of such an organization before. It was as if it had appeared out of thin air."
"I see... So? You've found a way to resurrect yourself?"
"This is what I'm going to talk about next. After joining them, I did gain a lot of knowledge that I had never heard of before. That knowledge further improved my skills, but because of this, the more I studied, the more alarmed I became."
"Through my research, I have deduced that these technologies are either ancient or not from this world."
"Later, they taught me another technique, which is soul technology. This is an absolutely groundbreaking technique, and it is also the key technology that they gave me for the resurrection plan."
“They will periodically bring me a batch of [souls], which I will then use technical means to integrate into the bodies of alchemical creatures, thereby achieving the purpose of resurrection.”
"This is not an easy task. Even if I consider myself a master alchemist, I cannot do it immediately. The soul is a very complex thing. Some say that people's souls are given by the gods, some say that the soul is the embryo of psychic energy, and so on..."
"They showed remarkable patience in this regard, continuously providing me with [souls] and also bringing me a large amount of rare alchemical materials."
"Have you ever wondered where those souls came from?"
Hearing Lin Tian's probing words, Duke Enkins fell silent again.
“I have never said that I am a good person. I know myself that I am sinful, and I will not defend that.”
Duke Enkins didn't offer any explanation, and Lin Tian didn't scold him or anything after listening to him.
To put it bluntly, Lin Tian doesn't know those people, and it all happened many years ago. Does he expect Lin Tian to pursue accountability across time and space? Besides, Duke Enkins isn't exactly in a good state right now.
"Next, you successfully resurrected your wife and daughter?"
"No, it didn't work..."
Duke Enkins' expression turned somber again, but this time it was more of a sense of relief.
"In the days that followed, I tried my best to study, but I was always just one step short. My skills continued to improve, and many years later, I may have become the strongest alchemist of that time, but it was still very difficult to completely bring a living person back to life."
"And in the process, I gradually came to understand this organization."
"【Otherworld】is a very mysterious cult. According to others in the organization, it has existed for a very long time, thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and may even date back to ancient times, when the gods were still around. It can be said to have a long history."
"Within the otherworldly organization, members are divided into core members and non-core members. Both core members and non-core members are marked with a special seal to prevent the leakage of the organization's information."
Upon hearing this guy mention cursed seals, Lin Tian suddenly remembered the guys he had captured before. Every time he tried to interrogate them, they would suddenly die, which meant that Lin Tian couldn't get any information out of them.
From this perspective, these guys must have been tattooed with curse marks.
"And what about you? Are you an unofficial member or a core member?"
"I am an unstaff member."
"Hmm? According to what you said before, with your skills, are you still an unofficial staff member?"
"It has nothing to do with technology. To put it nicely, they are unofficial staff, but in reality, they are just their tools. Tools only need to do their jobs and have no opportunity or qualification to come into contact with their core leadership."
"And those core members are the real members of their organization. These core members claim to have received divine favor. Each one is extremely terrifying and they are all die-hard loyalists of the organization."
"Of course, even so, I am certain that what they worship is definitely not the gods we know, but some kind of forbidden existence."
"you sure?"
"I'm sure! Because I've had contact with it before!"
"At that time, my experiments hit a bottleneck, and I created many alchemical creatures. The cookie men or other monsters you see here are all defective products that I failed to create back then."
"Although these defective products look just like normal living beings, what they exhibit are merely pre-programmed, stereotypical behaviors."
“From the moment they are created, they are locked into a circle, which is the boundary between real people and imitations. If this boundary cannot be changed, then they will always be imitations.”
“And I cannot begin my wife’s resurrection until this problem is solved.”
"Just when I was at my wit's end, those core members came to me. They said that as long as I could dedicate my life to that unknown evil god, I would be able to obtain unparalleled knowledge and power."
"You agree?"
"That's right. I had already fallen into depravity by then, so I couldn't resist the temptation. Therefore, I quickly started to worship that unknown evil god like them."
"I don't remember what that evil god looked like or the details of that time. All of those details have been forcibly cut off, but I still remember what I did back then quite clearly."
"After gaining knowledge and power, I quickly broke through that threshold, and so, with their encouragement, I began to work on resurrecting my wife."
"Merust was created during this period. I don't know if there was a problem with the technology itself, or if those bastards tampered with my materials. When the resurrection ritual began, what appeared was not the lover I had hoped for, but a monster covered in black mud and exuding an ominous aura."
“I was furious at the time, and I knew I had done something irreversible. I feel deeply guilty and regretful about it.”
"Later, having lost hope of resurrection, I was no longer willing to be their accomplice, so I began to try to break away from the organization. Through some special means, I did this, and I also sealed Merust here for a long time."
"The plan to revive failed, and my years of efforts came to naught. Perhaps this was my destiny. In the last moment of my life, I built this place, a place filled with my works."
"Although my wife is long gone, I still managed to create a near-human-like existence for Atina using a special method. Although she may not be the same person she was before, I am already satisfied."
"This is my story."