Chapter 3522: The Fourth Era and

Miss Gerde was worried that Xia De hadn't heard of this organization, so she explained a bit more:

"It is said that traces of the 【Light-Guiding Occult Society】 have existed in the material world since the Third Era, but their origin must be more ancient. It's just that no one has seen the arrival of doomsday for so many years. However, as long as you can produce suitable chips and prove that you are trustworthy, they will be very happy to conduct various trades with you."

Xia De then planned to seek help from Mr. Edmund in Coldwater Port. Speaking of which, he hadn't visited that old folklore scholar since the Year-End Festival. Of course, Old John in Tobesk was also a member of the Occult Society, but in Xia De's view, for this kind of secret knowledge, Mr. Edmund was more professional.

Xia De's first contact with clues about this organization was discovering the society's symbol on a medicine bottle found in the hidden space of his own basement; and his first real understanding of this organization was from Miss Feilianna and Blaney in the "Forest of Thousand Trees."

In the blink of an eye, two years were almost up, and facts proved that the 【Light-Guiding Occult Society】 was actually right; they really passed down to the era when doomsday was about to arrive.

During the rest in front of the fireplace, Xia De also inquired about the Fourth Era from these witches living in the early Fifth Era. That was an era of darkness and chaos. After ending the hard years of the Third Era when evil spirits and demons were rampant, there were still a large number of dark races and man-eating ghosts threatening intelligent life.

At the same time, various races that came from the Third Era also mastered a large amount of dark and strange knowledge because of their entanglement with evil spirits and demons, causing disasters caused by human factors to erupt within intelligent races from time to time.

Not to mention that starting from the Fourth Era, because intelligent lives had a chance to catch their breath, the various races that were united in the Third Era began to have conflicts and thus erupted into wars.

The history of the entire Fourth Era was filled with wars, disasters, and turmoil. In the early Fifth Era, the general cognition of the previous era by witches was that people finally learned a lesson to use relics cautiously and prevent any ordinary people from coming into contact with supernatural power — this concept was well passed down to the era when the Outsider arrived.

When Miss Gerde and Miss Novare told history and lessons from the perspectives of humans and vampires respectively, although there were differences in positions and viewpoints, their commonality was that they both cherished the current era very much:

"Although the loss of spell-casting ability by males also caused political turmoil and changes in social structure, compared to the previous era, the current era is really beautiful. I think witches will definitely be able to make civilization brilliant again in this era."

"We have learned enough lessons; the Fifth Era will definitely become better... at least it won't be shorter than the time of the Fourth Era."

But in fact, the Fifth Era only lasted less than six thousand years before it ended, while the dark era lasted for more than ten thousand years.

Another major feature of the early Fifth Era is that those strange and terrifying knowledge and powers passed down from the Fourth Era have still not been cut off in the current era.

Compared to the 903rd year of the Sixth Era, 500 years later, when Xia De first met Chloe in the Silver Mountains, this era was still significantly influenced by the Fourth Era. Miss Gerde and Miss Novare both mastered knowledge and secret methods that Xia De thought should not be passed down at all. And the vampire witch could introduce the power of evil objects by actively transforming her right arm for power, which was also because the concepts of this era were different from those later.

In short, the twenty-minute conversation benefited Xia De a lot, and the information about the Fourth Era also greatly expanded Xia De's knowledge system.

Miss Gerde even taught Xia De several magic potion formulas with human blood as the main material. And although this kind of magic potion was not completely banned like soul alchemy in the Sixth Era, it was also a contraband strictly controlled.

Of course, although the time was very sufficient this time, Xia De would not waste the time completely on conversation. After feeling that his spirit had recovered quite well, he proposed to go out again:

"I want to go to the first floor to submit the task to the god, and incidentally ask if the temporarily sealed demon can stay in this hotel. There shouldn't be any danger if I take the elevator directly to the first floor this time. So, are you staying here, or is anyone willing to go with me to see the god?"

The only awake witches were Miss Gerde and Miss Novare. They went to check the situation of the two unconscious wounded again, and then Miss Gerde supported the ground and stood up:

"I'll go out with you this time. I am the only one who hasn't seen the god on the first floor. Since this hotel was built by that god, it would be impolite for me to come here to visit without paying a visit."

And the red-haired vampire girl originally wanted to get up, but seeing her say so, she didn't move:

"Then you go and return quickly; I'll take care of Corns and the others here."

Xia De didn't delay time and set off with Miss Gerde, taking the lamp and matches. It's just that the original kerosene lamp had been completely damaged, so Xia De held a candle, while Miss Gerde held the torch found when Xia De participated in the exploration last time.

The torch should provide more light than the candle in Xia De's hand, but in fact, after coming to the corridor, the area of darkness dispersed by the two was about the same.

The process of walking through the corridor and entering the elevator room didn't have other accidents. It wasn't until the elevator began to descend slowly amidst the vibration that Miss Gerde looked at Xia De's side face and opened her mouth:

"Novare's problem, you should also know, right?"

"You mean her right hand?"

Xia De asked, and Miss Gerde nodded in the slight weightlessness:

"Since Corns entering here is not an accident, she is a guest 'invited' by the god, then is Miss Novare also the same situation? Although I don't know the specific origin of her right hand, that must also be a quite extraordinary evil object."

Xia De then asked:

"Then what about you? Are you also a guest 'invited' by the god? Is your active entry here something the god hoped for?"

The middle-aged witch was not surprised by Xia De's words; she even nodded:

"I have also suspected this. I even suspected whether I am my mother, just having amnesia because of some taboo experiment. But I haven't found any problems with myself so far. If I am also invited by the god, then it can only show that my mother's problem is really big."

She was very rational and didn't avoid discussing this topic with Xia De:

"In fact, if you think about it carefully, for such a special place used to imprison evil objects, three witches meeting here for various reasons is itself abnormal. This can no longer be described as a coincidence. Mother also discussed the topic of destiny and coincidence with me when she was still alive. She said that any low-probability event is worth suspecting whether it is someone's careful arrangement."

Since she said so, Xia De asked again:

"What exactly did your mother do to be expelled by the Zalas Academy?"

Probably because there was only Xia De here, she was willing to answer this question this time:

"She studied some taboo knowledge and really gained something."

Knowledge that could be called "taboo" in the early Fifth Era was probably really "taboo."

"The name generally understood by the public for that research is human body alchemy. Mother not only tried to create life, she even tried to synthesize souls."

"Of course, she didn't succeed in the latter subject, but she used this research to forcibly fuse some captured souls that were unwilling to leave, treating the fused souls as brand-new souls, hoping to truly create life in a real sense."

"After the academy expelled mother, mother still believed that her research was peeping into the root of the soul, that her research was helping intelligent life thoroughly know all the secrets of the soul, thereby promoting the progress of mysticism and even the whole world, while the witches of the academy were just a group of mediocre people with old-fashioned thoughts, who didn't know how to adapt, and were jealous of the talents of those truly genius people."

After experiencing the Fourth Era, people's vigilance against this taboo behavior was very high. It was just expulsion and not pursuit; in Xia De's view, it already belonged to the Zalas Academy not being cautious enough.

Exploring knowledge was not wrong, but some knowledge should not be explored.

"Then how did she come here?"

Xia De asked again. At this time, the elevator vibrated again; they had arrived on the first floor.

Miss Gerde shook her head:

"I am not very clear on this either; after my mother left the academy, I lost contact with her. I only know roughly that my mother discovered a subspecies produced after a peculiar human aberration. She wanted to use this to study the differences between the souls of demi-human races and pure-blooded human races, and thereby crack the reverse influence of flesh on the soul at a deeper level."

There were indeed many subspecies of humans, but by the Sixth Era, almost all human subspecies had disappeared. The document-level relic 【Eye Coin of the Multi-Eyed】 that Xia De once obtained was related to a human subspecies called the "Multi-Eyed Race."

"After leaving the academy, I don't know how far mother's research went. When I found her last hiding place, I only found some of her research notes and information about Whispering Hills."

"The test subjects and experimental records all disappeared strangely. I didn't even find any traces of the human subspecies she studied around mother's hiding place, only knowing that the subspecies was related to snakes."

She sighed:

"After I reported this to the academy, the academy told me not to investigate mother's last research and said that it was not something witches should come into contact with. So I just investigated Whispering Hills and finally opened the channel to come here according to the materials mother left behind, and then met Corns and Novare, until you knocked on the door of the safe house."

Xia De didn't rush to open the door, but hesitated for a while:

"Although it is very impolite to say so, is it possible — you are a product of your mother's human body alchemy?" ===== CHAPTER 3523 =====