Marvel Magic Case Files

Chapter 1719 The Legacy of the Celestial Gods

Rosa sat on the long sofa in the conservatory, legs crossed, looking extremely relaxed. In the previous phone call, Bayonetta had briefly described her dream to her, which made her leave Baldur and fly directly from Miami to Oxfordshire. She twisted the Cheshire cat lying on the sofa, but the chubby cat did not dare to resist at all and could only accept Rosa's touch obediently.

"What did you see? I mean, what exactly did you see?" She couldn't wait to ask the question as soon as she sat down. "Your identity in the dream will explain most of the secrets, dear Theresa."

As the previous owner of the Eye of the World and the previous leader of the Shadow Witches, Rosa received a much more complete education than Bayonetta or Jeanne. When the witch hunt took place, Bayonetta and Jeanne were still fighting for the title of Shadow Witch, which used to belong to Rosa. The two witches of this era knew very little about the knowledge that the Shadow Witch Organization had collected over the years, because after the Sage of Light captured the Shadow Witch Station, the first thing he did was to burn all the knowledge accumulated by the Shadow Witches. When Rosa returned to the former Shadow Witch Station, she got angry with Balder for this matter, even though it was not Balder of this timeline who burned down the library.

"To be honest, I don't know." Bayonetta didn't sit down, but stared through the greenhouse glass at Miria playing with Miss Peanutbutter outside the window. She once suspected that Miria and Salomon were related by blood, and perhaps she could trace Salomon's coordinates in the timeline through Miria's blood, but it turned out that Miria was just a talented girl. Another way is to use the blood divination magic ritual, using shadows, bird viscera and blood. In order to perform the ritual, she must let her soul enter the witch's way and gain more powerful power and wisdom from the outer dimension. Only in this way can she roughly locate even if she cannot bypass Salomon's protective magic. Perhaps Salomon can respond after he realizes that his protective magic has been touched.

But she did not have Salomon's blood sample. The only complete gene sample was still in the laboratory in the Immortal City, which was the safest place. Without a formal written order from Victor von Doom, no piece of genetic code could leave the laboratory underground in Rome. If she did not directly tell Victor von Doom why she needed a blood sample, I am afraid that this man who trusted no one except the emperor would not agree.

Joan thought that perhaps they could get Salomon's genetic samples without Victor von Doom, after all, he had lived in this manor for so long that there would always be some traces left. Joan had completely forgotten how strictly the sisterhood represented by Dinah controlled the emperor's genetic samples - the cleaning agent used a special protease developed by the Immortal City, designed to destroy any genetic fragments that left the emperor's body. Even when enjoying daily pleasures, Dinah would eat a lot of complete genetic samples, even though Salomon had given them the seeds - at that time, Bayonetta and Joan welcomed Dinah's service very much, and even they themselves ate a lot, after all, Salomon's seeds were rich in vitality and were the best choice for replenishing magic.

As an organization that originated almost at the same time as Rome, the Shadow Witches retained many Roman cultural customs. For example, before officially obtaining the title, the witches were all virgins who were sacrificed to the Witch Road. At that time, Rosa's crimes included not only giving birth to Bayonetta or having an affair with the Sage Clan, but also the felony of betraying her oath. If she were sentenced according to the oldest witch law, Rosa's final result would be to be locked up in a wall and starved to death. Fortunately, the Shadow Witches, who were in Europe at the time and influenced by Christian thought, had abolished some of the laws. It's just that the Shadow Witches have never experienced the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, and part of the culture that seemed very debauched under the moral concepts of the Middle Ages is still retained by the few remaining witches.

According to Rosa, the strong fertility worship in ancient Rome still has some influence on the Shadow Witch. If it were more than a thousand years ago, a man with powerful psychic powers like Salomon would not be the only one that Bayonetta and Jeanne could enjoy. If she had not given birth, she might have shared this powerful power.

"You really don't have any left? What about Jeanne? Doesn't she have any left?" After listening to Bayonetta's plan, Rosa stared at Bayonetta's belly with suspicion, "It's been so long, why?"

"His body has been altered by magic, and his power is incapable of being carried by mortal receptors. He is immortal."

Bayonetta rarely showed an irritated expression. In the past, she would only tease this matter in her usual elegant and arrogant tone, and might even make a joke about Salomon, claiming that he would always be popular with young girls. She was not worried that she would be old when the emperor returned. The former owner of the Eye of the World also sublimated her body. Now the pure ether created by the emperor using a quarter of the reality gem is the philosopher's stone that can bring eternal life to all psychics.

"This means that he will experience the torture of time completely. No one knows what he will become after he returns. He has only lived in this era for more than 20 years, but he has lived for thousands of years in the long river of history. Will such a life reshape him? Now he should return to this point in time to meet us, but no, no one knows his whereabouts. Victor von Doom claimed that he did not know about Salomon's prophecy, nor did he know what would happen if he traveled to the past, but I don't believe it." Bayonetta said in an irritable tone. "Now that he has not appeared in front of me, it means that there is a problem with time travel. He never discussed this matter with me, and I could not express my opposition. Victor von Doom believed that time travel was necessary, and he needed time to conduct research. If he hides in time, the spiritual entities from other dimensions cannot find him."

"What did you see?" Rosa asked again.

"I saw him brandishing a flaming sword in front of a jungle of steel, with his guards in golden armor surrounding him. I saw him walking among burning corpses, with spears standing upright on the vast plains, and countless people being pushed into pits because of his orders, strangled to death by the earth. I saw him sailing on the sea, with a huge shadow rising from the bow of the ship, and a horse-shaped sea monster appearing in the waves."

"This is a prophetic dream filled with metaphors, and it is because of your close relationship with him that you have these dreams," Rosa asked. "But who are you, Theresa? From whose perspective are you looking at these things?"

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After returning to the Mesopotamian plains from the Himalayas, the emperor continued his previous plans.

He and Inanna first appeared at the festival in Eridu, and then led the Guards and Dinah to board the barely repaired transport plane with great fanfare, and ordered the transport assault boat to take off in front of everyone. It only took an hour for the assault transport boat to transport them to the sky above Egypt, but they couldn't do it - this assault transport boat was not designed to infiltrate anything. The emperor was sure that the orbits above Egypt were already full of reconnaissance units released by the Kree. It was extremely dangerous to enter the war zone where the war was about to break out with such fanfare. Although the Kree didn't care about the army organized by the emperor, in their view it was just a resistance force organized by the earthlings, but if a machine far beyond the technology of the time appeared at this time, it would inevitably arouse the Kree's vigilance, which was contrary to the emperor's tactics.

No one knows how the Kree discovered the spiritual potential of the human race, but the Emperor had long concluded that perhaps the Kree obtained information about the "First Coming" by tracking the Celestials.

The Kree have been trying to recreate the biochemical experiments of their creators. Earth is definitely not the first object of the experiment, but it is the most special one. The Celestials have conducted ecological experiments on more than one planet. Except for Earth, no planet has become the cemetery of eternal mechanical life forms and the true gods of the physical universe.

The death of the Celestials was a big deal for all intelligent races in the universe. Every capable race tried to find the Celestials' tombs and divide up the legacy of the true gods. Especially the Kree, who already knew the existence of the Celestials and that they were the creations of the Celestials (even if they were second or third generation creations), were eager to obtain the Celestials' legacy and upgrade their race through genetic engineering.

Yet the Celestials' legacy has been shared by the entire Earth.

The first advent polluted the Earth's ecosphere. No one knew why the Celestials, a purely inorganic life form, were polluted by the outer dimension, so that the decayed organic matter entered the Earth's ecological cycle, creating many monsters written into mythological stories. Agamotto realized early on that the human race had a strong psychic potential, and the legacy of the Celestials was integrated into the genetic code of every creature on Earth. When primitive worship gradually emerged in human civilization, human thoughts set off a wave in the outer dimension, creating outer dimensional entities of varying strengths. This was something that other alien civilizations could not imagine, because the number of humans at that time was not enough to create psychic entities. This was called the Age of Gods, and psychic magic was the power of gods. In the etymology of later generations, magic came from the gods in mythology, and these gods wielded supernatural powers as naturally as breathing.

Agamotto also saw the end of the human race. It is hard to say that the agreement between the earth gods and the gods did not include Agamotto's will. The emperor, who held the same idea, also agreed with Agamotto's idea at the time. From then on, the psychic wave of the outer dimension gradually subsided, causing the psychic visions on Earth to gradually decrease, and the gods gradually died out, leaving only the powerful ancient gods who were still lingering.

During this trip to the Himalayas, the first Supreme Sorcerer shared a lot of information. As the most powerful spellcaster, Agamotto's spirit is not limited by the distance of the physical universe. He projected his consciousness to the distant Kree Empire's home planet of Hara and grabbed intelligence from the minds of the Kree nobles.

It is said that the war between the Kree Empire and the Skrulls has fallen into a stalemate, and the casualties of the Kree soldiers are unacceptable. There are not many male warriors among the low-level pink-skinned Kree. However, the situation is not so bad that it is unacceptable. The Skrulls on the front line are being defeated, and the rising estimated cost of manufacturing slave soldiers has reduced the importance of the slave soldier project.

In addition, the Kree nobles behind the war were engaged in a new round of political struggle, and the sudden rise of the military made many old political forces in the Kree Empire feel a sense of crisis. This may be the reason why the Inhuman slave soldiers were not truly adopted in the end.

The assault transport boat immediately dived down after arriving at the Sinai Peninsula, using the electromagnetic interference generated by the friction between the bow and the atmosphere to avoid detection. Then, the assault transport boat slid to the sea surface with amazing maneuverability. Inanna even saw through the window that the small boat carrying supplies from the port of Eridu was sailing along the coastline. However, the merchants responsible for transporting supplies could only feel the strong wind above their heads and could not see the huge air fortress at all.

"Where are we going?" Inanna asked curiously.

"The Holy Shield Brotherhood has built several underground bases, where they store enough supplies. We will use those bases as headquarters and move regularly to avoid being raided by Kree headhunters." The emperor was wearing armor that seemed to be made of pure gold. As he got closer to Egypt, his psychic reaction became stronger and stronger, even to the point where static electricity overflowed in the air. He used a spell to affect everyone who saw the ship, erasing the image of the assault transport from their consciousness, and then their brains would fill in the gaps in a way they could understand. They might see a flying bird or a cloud moving at high speed, but they would never see the aircraft.

"Eridu's army will raid the Kree research base, and the headhunters will realize that this is an organized counterattack, because the Egyptians have never had so many metal weapons. The Holy Shield Brotherhood will lead several ambushes against the headhunters, causing them to suffer losses. They will definitely choose to shrink their forces and protect the most important research facilities. That will be our best opportunity to launch an attack." The commander of the guard, Constantine, spread out the map, and his metal-wrapped fingertips pointed at the Kree research base marked on the parchment scroll. "I will lead the Guard to act separately and lead the army and the Egyptians to attack these seven research institutes. Only with fast enough actions and heavy enough losses can the Kree subconsciously gather armed forces including Kree headhunters and slave soldiers."

"This process will not take more than seven days." The emperor added, "If the battle line drags on for too long and the war becomes stalemate, the Kree will disperse and break out. Constantine, I authorize you to exercise the highest military command."

"I will make good use of every soldier's life." The commander of the guards nodded.

"Then what are we doing here?" Inanna frowned, looking at the approaching coastline outside the porthole. "The Guardian Order should be able to kill all the Kree people."

"The so-called Celestials need the souls of intelligent species as nourishment. After the Second Coming a million years ago, the Celestials sent slaves with human appearance to Earth to correct the experimental deviations of the Celestials. These immortals were created by the Celestials using the souls and bodies of countless Homo erectus. Perhaps they are not completely loyal to the Celestials, but their instincts cannot resist the Celestials' orders. About 600,000 years ago, a civil war broke out among the immortals. They left Earth and established colonies on other planets in the solar system. The colonies were still destroyed by the civil war, and only a few of the original one hundred immortals remained. These survivors returned to Earth and forgot the true purpose of the Celestials." The emperor said, "There is an immortal in Egypt today, but we don't know where it is."

"You mean to say that Egypt has an immortal god who walks on the earth?"

"From what I understand, Olympus has made a pact with several immortals to exercise power on behalf of gods who cannot leave Olympus. Some of the old gods will try to use these immortals to create faith in the mortal world and delay their own death."

The Emperor's tone was full of disdain. It was unclear whether it was because of Olympus's tolerance of these immortals or because Olympus was trying to circumvent the loophole in the rules of the Second Coming Protocol a million years ago. He waved his hand, signaling the assault transport to open the rear hatch. Although this aircraft, which was controlled by a true artificial intelligence, only carried a subroutine from the Immortal City, still had enough intelligence to understand what the Emperor meant. The Emperor took Inanna's hand and walked to the hydraulic hatch that was gradually lowered. Sunlight and strong winds gradually poured into the cabin from the opened gap. The migrating wild animals along the coastline raised their heads in fear, trying to find the terrifying predator roaring in the sky.

"I'm not sure if there is a similar situation in Egypt, so it's not just the Kree who are our enemies, maybe the Immortal is too." Dinah brought three black and gray cloaks, and the Emperor took one and tied it on Inanna. "Before the Praetorian Order's raid begins, we have to visit the Immortal without attracting anyone's attention. I hope it can remain silent before our decisive battle with the Kree, and it would be best if it could provide clues to the advanced technology created by the Immortals."

"What if the Immortal refuses?"

"Agamotor believes that the immortals may have a positive impact on the human race, but I don't think so." The emperor's voice was extremely clear in the strong wind. "I must obtain the genetic technology of the immortals. This is the first attempt until I find all the immortals on Earth."

I can resume high-speed updates next, but I will update more short stories, some of which are my own ideas, and some of which are supplements to this book.