Chapter 444

On a hillside in Cornwall.

Miriam was comforting the prisoners brought by Murphy with lightning ravens. Murphy appeared again via lightning teleportation and came to Miriam.

Her appearance looked exactly the same as Sophia's, just extremely weak and haggard because she had been imprisoned for a long time.

Murphy stared at the other party from a distance, unable to distinguish her from Sophia for a while, and even a ridiculous feeling arose in his heart: The Empress disappeared in the future, would she have traveled through a thousand years of time and come to this time?

And this so-called Miriam was just another name she took for herself?

Miriam bandaged the wounds of two prisoners stabbed by spears. Turning her head and seeing Murphy, her eyes suddenly brightened: "You really appeared again, Lord Murphy."

Murphy came to her: "You know me?"

"Although you don't remember it yet, you have saved my life in the past, and I have already learned a lot about your deeds from Sophia."

"Sophia?" Murphy frowned, "What's going on? What do you know?"

"It's a long story," Miriam paused, "Let's go to a safe place first. I have a small cabin nearby."

But before that, Miriam still let Murphy send those prisoners to a nearby village where people lived, and then pointed out the direction for Murphy, who then cast a Levitation Spell for both of them, and soon arrived at the cabin next to a forest.

"This is the place my grandfather left behind." Miriam said, "He was a hunter, and I grew up with him when I was young. Later, after my grandfather passed away, I left. No one else knows about this place."

Miriam pushed open the door of the old wooden cabin. It seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, and a moldy smell filled the air. Miriam chanted a very long spell, then waved her hands, and a breeze rolled away the dust and spider webs in the room, and even put various utensils aside.

Murphy watched the other party cast the spell. This was not the "Scourgify" spell he was familiar with. The incantation used seemed to be some kind of ancient Runic language, long and complex, but it could mobilize the wizard's own magic power and make it organized according to the form of a certain rule.

"Who taught you this kind of spell?" Murphy asked.

"Merlin, although he is a speculator, he indeed has extraordinary magic talent." Miriam said, "It is said that such spells initially all came from gods, and it was they who taught wizards magic."

Murphy remembered Salazar saying that wizards were children of gods when he heard it by the abyss, and frowned, "Does magic come from gods?"

"At least that's what the gods said." Miriam said.

Murphy pondered for a while and shook his head, "No, it's unlikely. If gods are the source of magic, then the return of gods wouldn't still require the improvement of magic power levels. Magic is the cause, and gods are the result. It can only be like this, not the other way around. They lied."

Miriam listened quietly and nodded, "Sophia also said so. She said you have already proven that humans created gods, not gods created humans."

Murphy frowned. He hadn't proven this matter. Why would Sophia say that?

However, more importantly, "What is the relationship between you and Sophia?"

"It seems there is no firewood, let's go find some firewood."

Murphy didn't commit, followed Miriam out of the door. The two picked up some branches at the edge of the forest, and then Murphy used magic to fell a few dead trees and transported them to the front of the wooden cabin. Miriam found an axe from somewhere, ground it on a stone for a long time, and began to chop wood.

She obviously hadn't done this work for a long time. One axe went down, and the round log segment was only split into a small piece, and the axe was still embedded in the stump. She spent a lot of effort, but couldn't pull it out at all.

Murphy looked at her panting appearance, stepped forward and took the axe himself, "You are too weak, let me do it."

Murphy lifted the axe lightly, pulled it out of the stump, and swung it lightly, splitting the round log into two symmetrical halves. The cross-section was as neat as if it had been sawed with a saw.

Magic power was no longer bound by the Magic Net, but instead freer. Murphy felt that he could easily attach magic power to his body and the axe, not only enhancing the strength of his body but even making the axe sharper.

"Enchanting..." Murphy pondered. Although it was not as precise and stable as runes or enchanting rituals, and consumed more magic power, and the effect of enchanting was worse, its operational convenience was far higher than the enchanting method of the future.

Wizards of this era could manipulate magic power more freely than wizards under the Magic Net, and those gods who possessed far more magic power than ordinary wizards could use this to make magic comparable to "wishing", which was not surprising.

"Sophia comes from the distant future. She can cross a thousand years of time in her sleep, enter my body, and control my body." Miriam suddenly said.

Murphy was stunned, remembering that the Empress once told him that it was not Miriam occupying her, but she occupying the other party.

And Lady Yaga also said that the Empress often dreamed and entered another person's life in her dreams.

So that's what it meant.

Miriam sat on a fallen tree trunk on the side, "She told me that we are one body, she is me, and I am her. Her soul is lost in the Spirit World, and for some reason returned to a thousand years ago, reincarnated as me, and I will also create her with my own soul in the future."

"The same soul?" Murphy was stunned. He originally thought there was only a strong blood connection between the two, but didn't expect it to really be the same soul.

It's just that because it is reincarnation, the memories are not the same.

This point is not strange. Horcruxes and the main body can also be seen as two people with the same soul.

"How did she know this, and how did she tell you?" Murphy asked.

"I don't know how Sophia knew this, but when she occupies my body, I will lose perception of the outside world, so she usually uses ways like leaving some diaries to communicate with me." Miriam said.

"Listening to you, the situation of Sophia occupying your body didn't happen just once? When was the first time?"

"Probably five years old," Miriam recalled the moment more than twenty years ago, "At that time, she foresaw... oh, no, it should be that I learned about the danger I would encounter during the later communication with her, so she wrote a lot of words on the wall, reminding me to leave that home quickly."

"Wait..." Murphy interrupted the other party, "You said that she learned about your past danger during the later communication... that is to say, the time Sophia traveled to your body was not in order?"

"Yes, for me, when Sophia first came to my body, she had actually seen me several times in the future. Therefore, the future me told her some things I had encountered, so she was like a prophet who could know my future."

"Although I am called a prophet, my talent in prophecy is not higher than those real prophets. Those most important prophecies I have made are actually things that the future me experienced, which were transmitted to the past me through Sophia."

"……"

Murphy was silent for a while. So that's how prophets are born.

"You said you would encounter danger, what danger was it? What happened later?"

"It's a bit ridiculous to say, the cause of the danger, perhaps, was Sophia's travel."

"In order to let me get rid of the danger, the words she wrote on the wall scared my parents. I was only five years old at the time and hadn't learned to read. Sophia was probably too anxious, so she didn't realize this. In short... my parents thought I was crazy. They were believers of Christ and didn't know much about magic. Those words written on the wall were like masterpieces after being possessed by the devil. So, they called for an exorcist."

"That priest used holy water and a cross and chanted scriptures to me for a day, but none of them worked. So the priest determined that the devil in my body must be hidden very deeply. He thought that Christ needed to be invited to scare away the devil. And the way to invite God was to nail my hands to a cross, so that I would have stigmata and could accept the Holy Spirit."

Murphy frowned. Christ God should be real in this era, but his believers still acted like this.

Is God unable to restrain them? Or does he not want to restrain them at all?

"I was scared to death. When the nail was about to pierce my palm, I suddenly felt a force. I pushed that priest, and he was pushed out for dozens of meters, hit a tree, and died."

"Later I found out that I became a witch. But the people of the Church didn't think so. They felt that the devil in my body had awakened and killed a priest. So they sent knights. They killed my parents because they helped the devil, and the knights even burned down the entire village because they were worried that the devil's plague had polluted the entire village."

"Just when they were about to burn me to death. You appeared."

(End of chapter)