Chapter Ninety-Six: Creation and Destruction

  As Huoyao left after giving everyone a final glance, Jian Shu said softly, "Captain, as for what's next... it's up to you."

  "No choice, let's go. We need to speed up and get to Armenia. The Sky Illusion has been lifted, it seems I underestimated them." Iron-faced Blood God had been to the Forgotten Swamp before and was of course aware of its dangers and terrors, as well as the ferocity of that Lifeless Illusion.

  "I, Jinshen, Maren, and that guy, that girl, and the others, it's been a long time since we've had such a lively gathering in the swamp." Kuang Shen sighed, while Tie Mian Xue Shen said softly, "That's wrong, there are not just five teams, there is another opponent present."

  "Is there another force?"

  The iron-faced blood god slightly raised his head and looked in the direction of Armenia "Yes, I know there is still a team here, no, maybe just a few people."

  "Who exactly are you referring to?"

  "The sorrow of being forever banished, the fate that can never find rest, the past that will be difficult to forget for eternity, the survivors of Armenia's great destruction."

  At this moment, Gallo and others are patrolling inside Armenia. The environment here is not severely damaged, and hundreds of years have not brought much change.

  "Alright, let's split up and search around this area to see if we can find anything that can help us. I'll go with Luo, Meng you go with Sha Na, Kelna Si, Xiula you go with Jiaruo, and then we'll meet back here later."

  Everyone nodded and dispersed.

  "Come and see what I've found." Shana held up a map. "I found this in a hotel room just now."

  Moe and Kerna walked over "Let me see."

  The map was made of a very special fur, and it looked well-preserved. After blowing off the dust on its surface, it was clear that this was a city map. However, the words on it looked very strange and were absolutely not in any language they had ever used before, neither Kern's beast language nor Moe's vast knowledge could decipher the words on it.

  "Never mind, let's take it back first, they should be back by now." After searching for a while, there were no more gains, and the three of them carefully retreated.

  Back to where we started gathering, everyone has indeed returned, and it seems that they have all gained something.

  Hand over the map in your hand to Bai Ke and Jia Luo. Jia Luo can't understand what's written on it either, but Bai Ke seems to have figured out something. "This looks like ancient elf script, I've seen it before, but I don't remember it clearly. This way of writing has appeared in some elven books."

  "What's the use of this ancient script? How is it different from trash?" Shana was the first to speak up, and Bai Ke took a closer look "Don't be discouraged, this thing has its uses. You see, the map on here is quite detailed, although we can't understand what the words say, but if we get lost, it's still somewhat useful."

  "Let's take a look at what we've found, Luo." Luo stepped forward and put down the package on his shoulder, opened it up, and inside were all sorts of metal objects.

  "We found this stuff in a big cave, I felt it was very special so I brought it back. You guys take a good look, isn't this stuff a bit strange?"

  Garro picked up a "hmm, this is...", Garro had just picked it up and felt that something was off, the weight and hardness were completely wrong. An object like this should weigh no less than ten kilograms, but when held in hand, it felt like only one or two kilograms at most. Curling his fingers, he lightly tapped it, producing a metallic clanging sound. Moreover, when touched, it seemed to have some softness to it.

  "The texture of metal, the weight and softness of a soft material... this is really rare." Shula also took one and gave such an evaluation.

  The golden sword in Jia Luo's hand shrank into a dagger and stabbed down fiercely, but a strange scene appeared: the metal object seemed to be like water, suddenly sinking in, no matter how hard it was stabbed, it couldn't pierce through. The dagger moved away, and the object returned to its original state.

  "As expected, this thing isn't a direct material." Galo's dagger in his hand turned back into a ring, gently stroking it. "This thing is a manufactured substance that doesn't belong to any original material, in other words, it's a created object."

  "What does it mean? I still don't quite understand..."

  "This world has countless materials, for example, your weapons are generally made of iron, and iron is made from ore extracted from the earth after removing impurities. But this thing is different, its raw material does not belong to any substance, it's not stone, nor iron, nor mud, but a completely new substance that appears out of thin air."

  "Putting down what's in your hand... It seems like my goal is now within reach."

  What does she mean?

  "This thing can't be made by a blacksmith or the like, in other words, only someone of my caliber in alchemy can create something like this." Galo placed his hand on the object, and with a flash of light, the metal object was broken down into a yellow steel and some bluish-gray mud.

  "I came here for information on alchemy, and now I can confirm that there is definitely high-level alchemy present here. My goal has already been half accomplished."

  "Never mind about this, did you guys gain anything?"

  Karlo pulled out a piece of paper "I found this, although it's not very useful, but for us, it's still relatively suitable."

  Open it gently, the texture of the paper is not as good as that map, already torn and tattered, with many damages, looking very bad.

  Fortunately, the words above can still be understood. Bai looked through it once and frowned, "This is terrible, the paper quality is poor, many characters are already invisible, I'll read the parts that make sense."

  "I was born here... I spent over 40 years of happy life... Everything made me satisfied... But, a great destructive power appeared... Everything was destroyed... My children all died... From that day on... My body also didn't work... I felt my death approaching... The power that shouldn't have existed... Was possessed by ordinary living beings... This is... Not supposed to be... Rebellious power against God... Will only bring the descent of divine wrath... This is... My final words."

  It appears that this piece of paper records the content of a will. Although it is not detailed, the words inside are really shocking.

  "What does it mean by 'Great destructive power'? 'Reversal of God's power'? 'Destruction'? What is the meaning of this?" Meng was also puzzled at this moment, but Gallo was clear that although the content on this paper was not much, it had already explained many things.

  First, the destructive power of the Great Devastation brought about destruction. Although the information is incomplete, Gallo thought of a possibility: from the metal objects just now, it can be seen that the direction of alchemy development here is material alchemy, plus a bit of puppet alchemy. A very likely point is that the material alchemy back then underwent a major change, leading to the failure of alchemy, and thus turning the entire Armenia into a dead city for hundreds of years.

  But could alchemy really spread to such a large extent? Is that possible? This was also a question that made Gallo dare not confirm.

  And the last question, Inverse God, what exactly is this Inverse God mentioned on this paper? In the Alchemy world, only Soul Transmutation is referred to as the Inverse God domain, but in this alchemy, there is also the appearance of Inverse God power, or should I say, the appearance of Soul Transmutation?

  Everyone was deep in thought when suddenly, Shura let out a loud cry of "Be careful!"

  A cold light suddenly shot out! The speed was so fast that it couldn't be imagined, and all that could be seen was a flash of cold light. A long and narrow arrow had already pierced through the small space among the crowd and stuck into the ground, creating a huge impact that directly cracked open a large fissure on the surface.

  "What an astonishing archery skill, and what power! Among all the long-range weapons I've seen so far, this arrow is the most formidable one." The crowd looked up, only to see a figure standing proudly on a high building, holding a strange bow.

  The other party did not directly attack them, indicating that it was not yet the worst situation. Gallo took a step forward "Who are you?"

  "I am a survivor of Armenia, who are you? Why have you come here?"

  "Survivors!" Meng and others were shocked "Could it be that there are still survivors in Armenia?"

  "My name is Garo, I came here to look for some information."

  "What about information on that aspect?"

  "The gigantic stone statue at your doorstep, as well as these non-physical aspects and the destructive power mentioned in this great destruction." Gallo was unsure whether the other party referred to these as alchemy, so he could only respond in this manner.

  "Creation and Destruction Technique! You're actually looking for information on the Creation and Destruction Technique!" The figure seemed to be shocked, fell silent for a moment, then said "You can go back now, the data is gone. An accident 100 years ago made everything disappear, there's nothing you need here."

  "Found them! It's them!" Suddenly, a voice came over, and Garo and the others were startled, turning their heads to look back. There, in the sky, was the Demon King! As beings of the demon tribe, they had found Garo and the others even faster than the Golden Gods!