Chapter 357: Kataloff's Portrait and World Trends

Sha Sha Sha
Aiwen is working hard with a pen that he has pinched with "Aura of Rejuvenation". The gold nib is on the fine parchment paper, leaving rows of beautiful words and lines.
It forms an entire complex and precise array, which looks almost like a work of art.
This is the Garliott Bird Transformation 30 that he is constantly revising. The subject has been completed when he was promoted to the official wizard, and now only minor modifications have been made to make it more perfect.
Ivan believes that after this transformation, the seabirds under his command will surely usher in a qualitative change, and it is no longer a dream to complete the transformation from a mortal thing to a demonized creature.
suddenly.
The light in the captain's room dimmed, and the light of the hanging wind chimes seemed to be swallowed by something.
Then a gloomy voice of an old man suddenly came out from the oil painting on the wall:
"Boy, quickly find someone to give my old man a meal and chatter
Otherwise I will eat you! Chatter
Others may be surprised to hear it, but
Snapped
What responded to it was only a snap of Aiwen.
The hairy voice became smaller and smaller, until it became inaudible. x
Because a spiritual barrier has risen on its own, isolating all the connections between the oil painting on the mysterious level and the outside world, making the old man who can't understand the situation in it neither see nor hear, let alone speak.
It was worse than when he was on the bottom of the sea.
However, this also implies some kind of signal.
The pen in his hand drew the last symbol on the paper, and Aiwen put away the bird modification technique 30, replaced it with a piece of ordinary white paper, and refilled himself with a cup of black tea by the way.
Then he looked up at the oil painting, as if expecting something.
A minute later, the picture of the shipwreck on the oil painting gradually disappeared, and a portrait of a middle-aged man with big wavy and curly hair wearing a noble dress from hundreds of years ago replaced him.
Aiwen then lifted the spiritual barrier, leaned slightly, and said with a smile:
"Sir Kataloff, good day!"
"Your Excellency, good day!
Haha, the taste of freedom is better, especially when you experience freedom, it is perfect to have an excellent audience with noble status.
So, your Excellency, are you free to listen to me telling the story of the past?"
The man in the painting speaks slowly. Although it still belongs to the voice of an old man, the tone is definitely different, especially at the end of each sentence. The tone rises slightly. This is the way the nobles used to speak in order to show their own uniqueness.
Hearing that, Aiwen certainly would not refuse, because he was waiting for him.
"Of course, it is my pleasure!"
It has been so long since this painting was fished out of the sea. After being discovered by KaKa and completely revealing his consciousness, after several not-so-successful exchanges, Ivan already had a sense of this painting and the sojourn in the painting. A certain understanding.
In other words, he, it, and they can all refer to the consciousness inside.
Aiwen's initial guess was not wrong.
Before and after the flute-shaped ship was killed, the fleeing wizard a few hundred years ago abandoned his seriously injured body and hid in the form of a soul in this famous painting that was essentially a "cursed object".
His previous name was Simpson, and he was an official wizard who belonged to the "Black Linger School" of the dark wizard power.
Proficient in shadow witchcraft and soul witchcraft, after using "cursed objects" to seal up his soul, he has been living in the painting until now.
But after a long time, his own life form had already undergone an irreversible change. The soul and this cursed oil painting have been thoroughly integrated together, and become an existence similar to the devil in the painting.
This form of existence is somewhat similar to the legendary battleship "Ship Spirit" that Ivan has understood. As long as this painting is not destroyed, in theory, he will not completely die.
This allowed him to survive hundreds of years of erosion with the soul essence of the second-order transcendent.
However, the price he paid was far more than that.
The original name of this painting was Katalov's Portrait of Death, and it was originally a self-portrait created by an aristocratic painter named Katalov.
I don't know what went through in the middle and finally turned into a "cursed thing", making its former masters "hidden" inexplicably, and their souls are confined in the painting and sinking continuously.
The form presented on the oil painting is to show the scene of each victim's death.
While the Dark Wizard Simpson dominated this cursed oil painting with a powerful soul power far surpassing any of the previous victims, he also had to unstoppably merge with the souls and consciousness of the victims of the past. Difficult to distinguish each other.
So what finally appeared in front of Ivan was a "demon in the picture" with Simpson's personality as his main character and countless victims as his deputy.
There are at least a dozen personalities recorded by the crazy old man, the learned aristocratic artist, and the wealthy rich, and it seems that it should be far more than that.
As for the people who were eaten into the painting after Simpson, such as the hapless Hilius soldier, they were really eaten, and there would be no chance of dividing Simpson's soul into an independent personality.
Whether it is on the bottom of the sea or after being caught up.
They will all conduct internal negotiations and come out regularly to let them go. Whoever comes out is who is shown on the screen.
But most of the time it was the master of the old dark wizard, and the second one was the original owner of the painting: Sir Kataloff.
Speaking of it, of course, it is more valuable to be a mad old man as a formal wizard. The knowledge of the "Heringa School" in his mind is very attractive to any transcendent.
Although it is impossible for Aiwen to study concurrently, if he can obtain the shadow witchcraft that belongs to the wizard, then he will definitely save a lot of effort when he cultivates the shadow lizard.
However, instead of dealing with an old wizard who is crazy but still cunning like a fox, Ivan prefers to chat with this knowledgeable noble artist.
Moreover, although the memories between personalities are not interoperable, after three hundred years of getting along, the mutual communication between personalities is enough to complete most of the sharing of memories.
At least Katalov knew a lot about the memories of everyone after him.
As a result, the learned aristocratic artist used his "personal" experience that has never been recorded in history books to give Aiwen an unexpected joy.
Although some high-end, may not be used temporarily, but the value is no less than any occult knowledge.
Because there may be a secret that can make mortals and gods stand shoulder to shoulder!
"Last time we said that long ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was notoriously conservative, stubborn, and impersonal, and firmly confined the people's thoughts with various dogmas and rules.
This situation has lasted for thousands of years, and people call it the Dark Millennium. xx
It wasn't until the era when I lived five hundred years ago that the people finally stopped being the lamb of resignation, determined to break the dark era from the spiritual world.
It was a movement called the Renaissance, and it was also a magnificent period that lasted for two centuries.
Indirectly caused the Turkat dynasty where I belonged to "rule the roost" mainland, or in terms of ideology, art, and humanities, it became a pilgrimage site for the entire continent. "
Although this "ancient man" clearly lacked the awe of the seven true gods in his words, Aiwen just listened silently, recording first-hand information on the dialogue with "history" on paper from time to time.
Because of the dual identities of aristocrat and artist, he has enough vision and opportunity to understand the true appearance of that era, and it also makes Aiwen a treasure!
From his intermittent stories during this period, Aiwen seems to have grasped the context of the world's development and the limits of the power of the true god!
According to what he said, the records of the wizards plus Irvine's own speculation.
In the dark ages, all supernatural powers except the church were suppressed. Wizards were no different from other supernatural beings. They were lingering in the cracks, just barely able to survive.
But when the bottom-up "Renaissance" movement developed in full swing, and was unanimously welcomed by most countries and people in the Old Continent, and even formed a certain trend, the Church of True God finally couldn't sit still.
Relying on the huge accumulation that has firmly ruled the world for thousands of years from both the body and the soul, he began to hunt down the extraordinary, especially the wizards, with the faith of lore.
Obviously, the wisdom of the gods has allowed them to see the changes in the future. After the imprisonment of thought is broken, what will follow is bound to be a hundred flowers blooming at the spiritual and material levels.
And those wizards with the most power, wisdom, creativity, and productivity will surely be able to get the greatest benefits from this torrent of social change and profoundly change the material world.
Even through the people's boredom with the "dark millennium" church ruling everything, it is not known that a bottom-up movement will shake the rule of the true gods of the old continent.
Of course, this is something no true wants to see!
But their abacus has not been able to fully start.
The largest witch-killing movement in history is in full swing. The power of the church expelled, killed, and imprisoned most witches, seeing a budding that was about to be completely strangled by them.
Another thing happened, but the true gods did not expect it.
While the church was fighting with wizards, a group of demigods in their back garden sprung up like mushrooms after the rain because of the human desire for the "Renaissance" and the liberation of the mind.
Some of them were born directly from the beliefs of mankind, while others were promoted from the pinnacle of transcendents. In just two hundred years, more demigods appeared than in the past few thousand years.
One of the typical examples is Percell, the "God of Opera" Ivan had the honor to meet with his own eyes!
Even if the trend is not guided by wizards ~EbookFREE.me~, it slowly unfolds in another form that they also don't want to see, and has a profound impact on the world.
From this, the true gods also know that even those who are above them are not the masters of this world, and they are not completely irreplaceable.
Although the will of the world does not have a complete self, it also has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The original intention of all the rules of the world must be beneficial to the development and promotion of the world.
The world trend during this period can be temporarily suppressed, but it cannot stay in the age of ignorance forever.
Therefore, the gods also had to compromise on the world itself.
Under the comprehensive influence of internal and external influences, the religious reform of the Church of the Seven Gods began and the "Millennium of Darkness" was completely over.
Subsequently.
After hundreds of years, the forces of all parties were declining and gambling with each other, and only then did they gradually have the supernatural ecology that is seemingly balanced.
After straightening out the context, Ivan also got one of the keys, a secret that may not even be known to many super powers.
That is the world trend of things that even the true has to give in!
"However, at the end of the dark millennium, the emancipation of the mind is the trend. Then the beginning of the era of great voyage, right?" div
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