Chapter 721: Ancient Recollections of the Forgotten Past as Smoke

Chapter 719 718.Ancient Recollections of the Forgotten Past as Smoke

The resonance of ancient memories is an amazing phenomenon.

It would only be triggered after a piece of the ancient one’s memories were awakened, and the conditions were quite harsh, Murphy’s bloodline came from Salokdar, so only if the person Salokdar existed in the other party’s ancient memories could he see that small piece of information.

But the ancient memories were hidden in the bloodline by the ancient one, and it was impossible to hide too many things by thinking with his heels, so Murphy could only see those fragments that were very important to the person concerned every time.

For example, this would be.

Navigator Salokdar in the Eden area with the young lord of Eden management committee members at the time of a conversation, gave Murphy a direct explanation of the secret of the “holy blood land”.

“Uh.”

The vampire lord let out a weak groan.

He had a splitting headache again and was being assisted by Tris behind him, the Blood Vulture Archduke was curious about what Murphy had seen, Murphy sat on the back steps rubbing his brow and telling Tris what he had seen without reservation.

After hearing that the “Land of Sacred Blood” not only hid the origin blood of the ancestors and sealed the Mad Blood Clan, but was also the site used by Lord Paying to collect certain relics of the Creator, even the Scarlet Witch was in shock.

“You mean, Venerable Lord Paying was already a head figure in the Blood Clan and even on the continental forces in the last Era? No wonder he maintained quite a good personal relationship with the major chieftains even in this Era.

However, he prepared for your birth at that time?”

Tris exclaimed as she looked over to the Venerable Lord Paying, who was still sleeping in the bio-pod:

“I always knew he was powerful, but to have actually become this powerful? Could it be that he’s a seer or something like that?”

“No, judging from the conversation between Salokdar and Venerable Lord Paying, the Venerable Lord is just a rather conservative ‘follower of the Creator’, and the reason he chose to work with Salokdar to privately search for and keep those Creator relics in the first place was simply to prevent the Eden Management Committee, which has already gone off the rails, from gaining administrator of the authority.”

Murphy pinched his brow hard as he explained:

“But it does go to show that the young Exalted Lord was already a vampire accustomed to saving for a rainy day, and that his last official assignment in the Eden Sector was to prevent the Dark Lord in the ‘Cage of the Old Gods’ from escaping.

This could also correlate to the secret on Heather.

It seems that even after losing his memories, the Exalted Lord is still fulfilling his duties.

But I’m curious, Tris.

It is our tradition that we Blood Clan go back to the Sacred Blood Land every one hundred years to fortify the seal, and you’ve gone back ten times in over a thousand years, and you haven’t found any clues there?”

“I’ve only been there three times.”

Tris explained, shaking her head:
“Moreover, those who traveled to the Land of Sacred Blood from each clan are all core members, we can only be in charge of the ceremony at the outer perimeter of the Land of Sacred Blood, and only the Archduke is qualified to enter the inner layers to reinforce the seal.

Since the name is Seal, it definitely doesn’t allow people to come and go as they please .
Well, I know what you’re thinking, I did try to sneak in, and Luna and I really did cross the seal during that ceremony two hundred years ago, but what I’m telling you is that the Mad Blood Clan roaming the Land of the Sacred Blood is very scary.

They are definitely sealed away for a reason!

Those guys’ ‘blood of madness’ can infect other blood clans, and you’re basically hopeless if you get bitten once.

And if you want to explore the deepest secrets of the Land of the Sacred Blood, you simply can’t do it without crossing the obstacles of those wandering mad blood, which is probably why the secrets of the Land of the Sacred Blood haven’t been discovered for over a thousand years.

The last of the seven clans was ‘guarding’ it for eternity.

Combined with what you saw earlier, there is reason to believe that the Nosferatu must have made a ‘migration’ after the Eden District was destroyed by the vampire’s ‘perfect life’ experiment.

Perhaps that was the last thing the Archdukes did in the Eden Zone Murphy?

What happened to you?”

Tris was still describing her conjecture when she then realized that Murphy’s state wasn’t quite right, he was in a daze and seemed to have fallen into a new Ancient Dream, this was the first time he had seen this kind of secondary triggering of Ancient memories.

Perhaps it had something to do with the resonance object this time?

After all, Venerable Lord Paying was the one who experienced that period of history, and the memories he could retrieve through this binding ceremony were obviously more numerous and more ponderous.

“Here we go again! Venerable Lord Paying has more ancient memories to activate than Shani and I. I doubt he’ll remember everything this time. Is this the power of the Ancient Ones coming in person?

Completely free of the attrition in the layers of bloodline transmission, the ‘one-handed memories’ of these old ones are really powerful.

Looks like we’ll have to find a way to trick old Edward into coming over as well.”

Murphy joked as he allowed Tris to pull him into her arms, and in the next instant, the resonance of that ancient memory enveloped Murphy’s consciousness once again.

This time it was much more straightforward.

When Murphy opened his eyes again, he was back in the Eden Zone.

But this time it wasn’t the peaceful time before the disaster, it was back in the disaster scene after the Eden District was destroyed by the subspace invasion.

Salokdar was currently standing on a ship that looked quite high-tech as it was, and he stood in front of the navigation rudder, skillfully maneuvering the ship to take off through the main buildings of the Eden District, which were constantly crumbling due to the sub-space washout, while using the ship’s probes to observe the apocalyptic scene around him.

Murphy could fully feel the shock, pain and despair that Salokdar was feeling at that moment, as well as the intense self-reproach rolling around in his mind.

And following Salokdar’s eyes, he could also see the images coming back from those monitors, with screaming injured people stumbling out of the collapsing buildings in various locations of the Eden District, just like the runaways from the disaster.

Murphy saw elves, dwarves and halflings.

This was not surprising.

In his previous ancient memories, he had confirmed that these three races were also from the Golden Era.

But what Murphy couldn’t understand was that he also saw a group of goatmen dressed in scholarly attire led by a lavishly dressed leader, who were rushing in the opposite direction into a building that looked like it would be unbeatable, at the risk of the building collapsing.

“Paying! I saw Councilor Vidia heading towards the hazardous materials depository with his followers, that ambitious fellow must have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Quickly!
Activate security to stop them!

Things are bad enough as it is, we can’t let the situation deteriorate any further.”

Murphy heard Salokdar call out over the ship’s comms to the unknown Venerable Lord Paying, whose quantum projection shaped itself in the streaming light of the cockpit in the next second.

He was currently busy in a room filled with technology, with a vampire lady much like him at his side assisting him.

“Ignore them, Salokdar!”

Venerable Lord Paying shouted without looking up:
“Quickly use your ship to take Fato and his people away from the main body of the Eden Zone, the concentration of subspace contamination in them is rising and they are on the verge of being used as a node to contaminate the present world. Send them to the place that only you and I know about!

I’ve set up a stasis force field there, that thing will help insulate them from the gaze of the subspace shadows.

You have twenty minutes!
Get there in a hurry!

Sacrifice the Scarlet Dawn if you have to, you have a locator in your uniform, don’t worry brother, I’ll get you out wherever you land.”

“I’m not afraid to die! We did this kind of thing, we deserve to die here, for God’s sake.” Salokdar roared in grief:
“That bastard Fato, how could he not notice all those suspicions that came up in the experiment, this bastard is going to get us killed, if I don’t make it back, Paying, take care of Oksana for me, and one more thing of the utmost importance
Edward sliced through our civilization tablet, I can feel the power draining away, this will have very serious consequences for our people.

Payeng!

Make sure you get them out, you have to promise me! Those young innocent clansmen, they shouldn’t die here because of our mistakes.”

“Boom.”

A loud bang interrupted Salokdar’s roar.

He tilted his head, and Murphy could see what appeared to be a hint of incoherence in the overhead white light’s move to fend off the subspace encroachment, followed by a black light that slammed into the collapsing Eden Zone like a meteorite, like a nuclear bomb.

There was a horrific explosion as it landed, but the explosion was only the first wave, followed by a black and white aura of tainted light that spread outward at the speed of a flying scattering.

Murphy saw Salokhtar cross his arms in a panicked gesture, causing the Scarlet Dawn to activate some sort of energy matrix, but the black light ignored all defenses and swept over Salokhtar’s body in a breeze.

No damage was done, but the navigator fell to his knees.

He clutched his head and screamed miserably:
“No, He sees us . Paying! He sees us, He’s taken root in our minds, we’ll all be His eyes polluting the world”

“Don’t panic! The Creator had a plan for this situation, I’m going to activate that last resort now, Salokdar, my brother! Quick, get Fato and his people out of here before you lose control!”

“Understood!”

In agony Salokdar climbed to his feet and stood shakily in front of the navigation console, struggling to enter a coordinate for the ship before activating the autopilot pushing the rudder, which controlled speed, to the bottom again.

In that instant, Murphy felt like he had been thrown into a frantically spinning washing machine.

After thousands of revolutions, his senses returned to normal, and the Scarlet Dawn he was in at that moment had already left the Eden area at super-light speed, and arrived at the sky above a hidden place.

But by this time, Salokdar could no longer maneuver the ship to land smoothly, his mind was filled with the whispers of subspace and impacted his mind.

A normal person would have gone numb in such a situation, but Salokdar, being the best navigator and flier of the vampire race, gritted his teeth and crawled in front of the navigational console to enter the final commands.

At the same time that the Scarlet Dawn activated its kinetic neutralizing force field and slammed straight down towards the Holy Bloodlands below, the closed door to the cockpit was forced open by some kind of gigantic force, and the moment a group of chaotic figures rushed into the cockpit, Salokdar himself happened to be catapulted out of the ship.

He looked back with a terrible splitting headache as he hovered in the air on his wings and descended in altitude, his beloved ship like a scarlet sword slamming down from the heights, stabbing viciously at a high ground in the distance.

With a loud thud and a tumbling cloud of smoke, Salokdar couldn’t hold on any longer.

He wanted to give himself a break, but the quantum communication around his neck was still ringing with the shouts of Venerable Lord Paying with pain:
“Hold on! My brother, I am about to activate the device that cleanses us of subspace contamination, the thing that will completely strip the corrosive seed of subspace from our minds and grant us purification, but in order to prevent the echoes of subspace from continuing to play havoc with our memories, I have to format all the survivors’ memories at once.

This is going to hurt a bit, bear with me.”

“I will I forget you all?”

The Navigator vampire, who had slumped down to catch his breath after landing hard, smiled hard, and a moment of silence on the side of the Venerable Lord Paying said reassuringly:

“It’s okay, we have plenty of time to get to know each other again and become friends and brothers again, time has always been generous to vampires. Just wait there, we’ll pick you up in a few minutes. Pilot subspace cleanup program code name ‘Beta’, countdown to activation.
Five, four.”

“Tell . Tell Oksana that I.. I love.”

“Buzz.”

The last tenderness was still unspoken, and the white light that rose in the distance like a shockwave from a blazing white sun blotted out all light in front of Salokdar’s eyes in that instant.

Murphy’s activated Ancient Memories resonance was about to dissipate at that moment as well.

But at the moment his consciousness returned, he could feel all of Salokdar’s memories, whether they were beautiful or painful, being rapidly disintegrated and stripped away like quicksand, and at the end of the emptied memories came into his eyes a segment of
Ah.

Damn it!

Salokdar!
I can understand that you love your wife, but please don’t carve everything into your DNA!
It’s the last minute, can’t you think of something fucking innocent?

And at this moment, far away in the Crimson Fortress, Archduke Shani, who was dealing with mountains of important information, also suddenly reached out and covered her head, and her body trembled strangely.

Blanch!
This.
How did those damned ancient memories come flooding back! So this thing is still a passive state? I can’t believe it’s not disposable it’s also really god enough, the Creator’s technology is really mysterious.

But, asshole!

Let’s not talk about that nasty technology at this point, okay? These clothes are new!

Murphy, on the other hand, was helped out of the bio-room by Tris, who still had no idea that Salokdar’s memories contained such explosive stuff.

After the two of them left, the bio-chamber slid open quietly, and Lord Payeng opened his eyes, gasping violently, his mind filled with memories of the past that had been awakened.

So dark, so painful, so heavy .
Even in that instant, it was about to crush the coldness and proud sanity that he had molded over a thousand years, and he crawled out of the bio-pod almost on all fours, and lay on the cold floor of the bio-chamber in a big shape in such a sorry state.

His eyes were wide open, and he looked at the gentle, cold-colored light above his head.

The memories were still rushing through his mind.
The Great Extinction, the rescue of civilization under the dawn, the exile across the sea of stars, the landing of the New World, the establishment of the Eden Sector, the transformation of the world and the seeding of civilization, the Creator’s grand plan, and the destruction of the Golden Era.

Murphy had guessed well.

The Ancient One would revive all of his memories when he performed the Candidate Binding, and it made Payeng realize that his true age was not a pitiful eleven hundred years Before he had awakened in this Era, he had lived a long three thousand seven hundred years.

Not only him, but every ancient person is so “long-lived”.

The original inhabitants of Eden were also such long-lived species; after all, the hundreds of years of exile on the Star Ocean alone was not a time span that short-lived species could afford.

“The vampires destroyed the new world that was still in its infancy, oh my, what a terrible original sin.”

It was only after thirty minutes of sorting through his memories that Lord Paying gradually regained consciousness, the memories of the past were so complex that they almost immersed him in the consciousness of his original “self”, and almost assimilated him into the present.

He already knew all the causes and consequences of the past, and an unexplained heaviness made the Lord a little breathless.

However, he knew very well that knowing this could not change the current situation on the continent, but it could provide him with a new way of thinking, and most importantly, His Holiness Pa Ying was once a member of the Eden Management Committee.

He knew a lot of secrets that the other Ancient Ones didn’t know, and in this memory flashback he confirmed another thing.

Murphy’s true identity.
Who would have thought that his somewhat risky and stubborn decision back then would actually blossom a thousand years later.

The “Administrator Alpha” of the Creator’s program was really born.

It seems that the world’s situation has fallen below a certain threshold, allowing this back-up plan to be activated quietly, but now that the Administrator program has come into effect, there is another solution to the problems of a continent that may be headed for chaos.

As the Exalted Master pondered these things in his head, he very skillfully activated the cleaning program in the bio-room to get himself cleaned up and changed into a researcher’s uniform to walk out of the place.

He wanted to have a chat with Murphy but heard something less than decent outside the bedroom .
Well.

Let’s give the administrator some time to deal with his and Tris’s “relationship issues”… it’s not like there’s a big rush when things have gotten this bad anyway.

(End of chapter)