Chapter 1923 - The Tomb of the Landeshunger Civilization!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“Strange… Did the Kegang Empire not create the sphere it used to record its history?”
Wang Chong frowned as he muttered to himself.
Despite his questions, Wang Chong quickly pressed his palm on the metal sphere.
As he did, it exploded with a dazzling red light. At the same time, an immense wave of Psychic Energy surged into Wang Chong’s mind.
“One from the future, if you were able to come here, it is hoped that the things here can be of use to you!” A strange and solemn voice spoke into Wang Chong’s mind. In a red flash of light, Wang Chong’s mind was drawn into the metal sphere.
A new world slowly revealed itself before Wang Chong. It was a strange room, the floor covered in altars and formations. Many strange humans were busying themselves with what seemed to be experiments of some kind.
There were also people hammering and forging strange metal pieces. Ding! Dang! The hammering was loud and incessant.
Wang Chong saw red lights reminiscent of Ifrit energy flowing in an orderly manner through the entire underground region, all of it ultimately being guided by the formation into the hands of those strange humans.
“Our world is on the verge of collapse. We are currently attempting with all our strength to create something new to deal with this crisis that threatens to destroy the world.” The voice spoke once more into Wang Chong’s mind as if it was explaining everything.
It’s the skeleton on the throne.
Wang Chong suddenly understood who the master of this place was.
‘Crisis’!
What crisis?
The voice had mentioned a crisis, but not what it was.
Buzz!
As if Wang Chong’s question had been heard, the scene in front of him shifted again.
Splash!
Turbid waves of water crashed around Wang Chong, beating against the shore.
Not only were the waves turbid, they stank of horrifying rot and decay.
A few moments later, his view began to pull upward, and Wang Chong was able to see the entirety of this ocean. On this vast ocean was an endless field of floating corpses, bobbing up and down in the turbid waters.
Even though Wang Chong had mentally prepared himself, this sight left him stunned and shocked.
Several hundred thousand bodies would not be enough to cover the surface of the ocean. There had to be nearly one million bodies here.
Whoosh!
What sort of battle could have inflicted such a horrifying death toll? The scene in front of Wang Chong continued to change, shifting back to the original appearance of the Landeshunger civilization. Through the smoke, flames, countless fallen cities and shattered buildings, he could vaguely see that this civilization had once been extremely well-developed.
Bang!
The scenes continued to shift. A rotted horse hoof thumped against the ground, causing the earth to tremble. A moment later, Wang Chong saw the invader of this world.
Riding upon a deathsteed from another world, covered in tattered and rusted armor, a pair of empty eye sockets, a face from which rotting pieces of flesh hung, and an entire body that oozed with death—this was the emissary of death, the destroyer of all things!
The otherworldly invaders!
Wang Chong almost choked on his breath, his heart instantly convulsing. Even after being reborn, Wang Chong could still recognize them with a single glance.
Rumble!
The earth trembled and smoke roiled. Behind the otherworldly invader, Wang Chong saw that the entire world was in the midst of collapse and subsidence.
“…This being should possess the property of indestructibility so that it can take our place in destroying these invaders. We’ve finally found a way to completely destroy them. The Ifrits were born to destroy these invaders!” the solemn voice continued.
The hammering continued, and Wang Chong saw countless members of the Landeshunger civilization beating away with golden hammers. Dark red sparks burst out from their forging platforms, and the erupting flames seemed to have a life of their own, radiating an energy that Wang Chong was extremely familiar with.
The power of the Ifrit!
Bang!
In a flash of light, Wang Chong saw that the Landeshunger had created a massive golden hammer, one identical to the one floating above the platform now. But the energy contained in this hammer was many, many times greater than the one he saw in the present.
Countless bolts of lightning crackled on the handle, and the golden hammer head was almost blinding with dazzling flames.
And below the hammer, Wang Chong saw the metal platform.
Bang! The hammer slammed down, releasing countless high-temperature flames, and amidst them, a massive being roared. Wang Chong saw an incomplete Ifrit rise, its appearance shocking to behold.
“…Creating new life is extremely difficult. We have failed countless times and restarted each time. Finally, we are nearing success!”
The solemn voice continued to speak into Wang Chong’s mind.
Wang Chong saw their countless failures, saw one incomplete Ifrit after another emerge from a vast pool of energy. Due to various flaws, they would all collapse in the end.
“But in the end, we failed. We developed countless ways of creating Ifrits, promoting the development of this ultimate weapon, but what we did not expect was that we would lose control of our creation.
“We created this powerful weapon to save the world, but in the end, we only succeeded in creating an out-of-control monster that only knew destruction, brutal and insane. This was never our intention!”
Wang Chong was shaken to hear this. He had believed Ifrits to be natural creations that had their origins in time immemorial.
He had never imagined that they had actually been artificial creations of humans, ones that had gone out of control!
The Ifrits were made to deal with the otherworldly invaders, but their minds contained the instinct to destroy, so they went out of control and destroyed civilization after civilization. The Ifrit that Khatabah controlled clearly didn’t remember its initial mission, Wang Chong inwardly muttered to himself.
The truth had come far too suddenly. The savior created by humanity had become its destroyer.
The Nightmare Beast once said that it was the same kind of creature as the Ifrit. If the Ifrit was a creation of a long-lost civilization, could the Nightmare Beast also be a human creation?
Wang Chong suddenly had a thought. Given the background of the Ifrit, this was not an impossibility.
Information continued to flow into Wang Chong’s mind, through which Wang Chong began to understand many things about the lost Landeshunger civilization.
“In order to correct our mistake, we Landeshunger people devoted all of our strength into developing a method of creating the Ifrit King. This is a perfect being that is in complete line with our initial objectives while also able to correct our mistake, controlling those Ifrits that escaped.
…Alas, the origin of the world was exhausted, and our civilization’s remaining strength was not enough to create the Ifrit King. This is our greatest regret.”
The solemn voice gave a long sigh filled with boundless regret.
“One from the future, the essence of our civilization has been left here in the hopes that with our help, you may escape this world’s destiny of cyclic destruction!”
The voice faded away, and the scenes from the sphere stopped playing.
Buzz!
Wang Chong opened his eyes, and he once more saw the metal platform and the massive metal hammer above. But now, he looked at this place with completely different eyes.
“Haaah…”
Wang Chong could only deeply sigh over the fate of the Landeshunger people.
With its ability to create the Ifrit, the Landeshunger had probably surpassed the majority of other civilizations.
As he continued to explore the metal sphere, he found a few other things.
There were two more clumps of information in the metal sphere.
“This… is the Ifrit King?”
Through the metal sphere, Wang Chong came to sense that forty to fifty meters below the metal platform, a metal box the size of a palm had been buried, its upper half scorched black.
This metal box seemed to have an extremely powerful isolation effect, but through the metal sphere, Wang Chong could sense that the metal box contained an unbelievable power. An entire sea of energy was surging within the box.
Buzz!
Wang Chong attempted to have the metal sphere make the metal box move upward. Suddenly, deep beneath the metal box, the earth trembled, and then a howling surge of energy erupted like a volcano. Wang Chong sensed that this lava-like energy was more than ten times greater than the energy left by the Kegang Empire.
This energy had remained dormant for tens of thousands of years, but when Wang Chong tried to interact with the metal box, he had awakened it from its slumber.
In front of this energy, the energy Wang Chong had previously absorbed instantly became insignificant.
Buzz!
At almost the same time, the golden seed in Wang Chong’s body trembled in response.
So the golden seed had sensed this energy earlier!
Wang Chong turned pensive.
The golden seed seemed to have an extreme longing for the power of lost civilizations. Wang Chong had not even noticed this energy, but the golden seed had managed to pierce through the various seals around it to perceive its existence.
If my guess is right, this should be the last of the energy the Landeshunger used to create Ifrits! Wang Chong said to himself.
Even after tens of thousands of years, this reserve of energy remained vast. One could only imagine just how much energy the Landeshunger had gathered beneath the ground at their peak!
After some thought, Wang Chong decided to examine the information left in the metal sphere by the Landeshunger rather than rushing to absorb that energy underground.
After a few moments, Wang Chong sent three streams of Stellar Energy into the metal sphere and then rapidly retreated.
