Chapter 2317 The Pros and Cons of Erosion
Countless humans were enslaved by these fallen Ascendants, who trampled on their dignity and lives as they pleased. Many powerful human rulers either became slaves of the Ascendants or turned into meat paste. Even if they might get some of the power of the Ascendants and have a longer lifespan than ordinary mortals, they still could not escape the clutches of their masters and had to look at their faces. The moody Ascendants could make themselves lose their lives at any time, or even be treated cruelly, making life worse than death.
The Ascendants who were once feared by humans became terrifying tyrants, so humans secretly gave them a new title, the Darkin, which means the fallen. The Darkin War lasted for 1,500 years, and the number of mortals who died in the war was incalculable. There were also many seemingly immortal Darkin who died because of cannibalism.
The Darkin War was like a continuation of the Void War, and the root of the disaster had been planted as early as the Void War. The later Rune War was caused by the emergence of the World Rune, which was separate from the two wars.
Under the cruel and harsh conquest of the Darkin, Runeland suffered heavy damage, and ordinary people could not survive normally. Therefore, the Titans living in the heavens naturally could not let it go. The Twilight Astral Spirit descended to the world and possessed a girl named Maisha to end the war.
The method used by the previous generation of Twilight Astral Spirit Maisha was also very simple, that is, to kill with a borrowed knife. She found a Darkin who could be used, Ta'anari.
Ta'anari is an ascender who has been a god for a long time. The battles between the Void War and the Ascendants in the past have left him with many injuries, many of which are irreversible.
When his death was approaching, he recalled what he and his compatriots had done in the past, and suddenly realized that these were just acts of violence. They thought that their power would not be taken away, and that they were the masters of the world, until they fought and killed each other for meaningless land. From the supreme and respected god warriors, he became a despised Darkin. He felt disappointed and sighed for himself and his compatriots. He felt that this war should not exist and should have ended long ago.
After seeing that Tayanali had such an idea, Maisha came into his sight and became one of his subordinates, telling Tayanali how to end the Darkin War.
Maisha instructed Tayanali how to find Nasus, who had been in seclusion because of sealing his brother, and then persuaded him to hand over the symbol of the unity of the Ascended, the weapon of the Supreme Queen, Charikar. Then Tayanali invited the Darkin who dominated the world to hold a long-awaited gathering.
Tayanali had only two choices. One was that he successfully persuaded his brothers and sisters with Charikar to stop fighting and lead the world to prosperity together again. The other was that he could not persuade them. Tayanali was forced to use Maisha's teaching, a magic that was based on the sealed divinity in his body and only effective in specific places, to perish with them.
In fact, there was only one option, which was the latter. Under Maisha's calculation, this gathering wiped out most of the Darkin. Later, Maisha also taught mortals how to seal the Darkin, which is to merge the physical form of the Darkin with the energy of the celestial body they sealed through secret means, and bind them to the weapons they carry.
The power of mortals alone cannot compete with the Darkin, so the war spirits who had just been reborn joined forces with humans to fight against the Darkin. Of course, the result was another death, which was even more miserable than the period of Finel. In addition to the assistance of the spirits, there were also humans who used the weapons that sealed the Darkin to gain powerful power, providing a great help in sealing the Darkin.
With the efforts of many parties, in the end, all the Darkin were sealed, their cages were hidden, and they were carefully guarded by the surviving civilizations, and the Darkin War ended.
From the Void War to the Darkin War, they all occurred under the influence of the Void erosion. After Lin Jiu descended to the Rune Land and came into contact with these events, he found that the Void Land had been eroded and assimilated by the power of the Abyss a long time ago.
In this era, the momentum of the erosion of the Void Land was too fierce, just looking at the number of spirits that descended to the Rune Land. During the Void War, a war star spirit came. Although Finel was the strongest star spirit host at that time, and was mainly responsible for controlling the star-casting dragon king Thor to destroy the void channel, it was said that only one star spirit came.
During the Darkin War, only one Twilight Star Spirit was sent to end the Darkin War. It just happened that the war star spirit was resurrected and participated in the war, but unfortunately died again. Even if there was no war star spirit participating, the defeat of the Darkin was a matter of time, it just took a little longer.
In the Rune War stage, there was also only one justice star spirit participating in the war. Basically, there were only one or two star spirits active in Runeland during these stages. At this time, there were six star spirits in Runeland alone, which Lin Jiu learned from the game background. He had killed one before, and now there is another one in the pit of the Fiery Sun Sect, which means that there are a full eight star spirits in Runeland.
The Solari, who are basically under control, the Moon worshippers, who are probably in trouble, the Titan Peak shrouded in black fog, the turbulent abyss cracks under the sea of the Mermaids, the unknown Shadow Islands, etc., all indicate that the erosion of the Void over the years has completely erupted, which is a disaster that sweeps the entire world.
This is why Lin Jiu's main quest has nothing to do with Shurima, but he still put the quest aside and established the Solar Empire as soon as possible.
The Darkin is different from the Disaster Warriors he killed before. They are not directly controlled by the power of the Void, so even if the Darkin revive and return, they will return to the Shurima area as soon as possible.
With the speed of the Solar Empire's development, the return of the Darkin can be easily suppressed unless all the Darkin unite against the Solar Empire. If the Darkin can unite, there will be no Darkin War, not to mention that the two strongest Darkin, Aatrox and Zolani, are still hostile to each other. With the Solar Empire blocking in front, these returning Darkin will not affect his actions.
Lin Jiu doesn't care much about the disaster brought by the void invasion to Runeland, and Samsara Paradise doesn't care either, because the invasion of the void can be seen as a weakened version of the abyss erosion. In the world of abyss erosion, those who can resist it will have great benefits, and those who can overcome and control the disaster power of the void will become stronger.
Just like Finel, before becoming the host of the War Aspect, Finel was just a mortal, and his power came from the War Aspect. The soul fell into the void, and Finel, who re-condensed his body in the power of disaster, was not affected by the power of disaster. He controlled the power of disaster. When fighting with Lin Jiu, his strength might have exceeded the period when he was possessed by the war star spirit.
This is the power obtained when Finel is essentially just a mortal. If Finel has the strength of the star spirit level and controls the power of disaster, then I'm sorry, it is definitely not a general boss-level existence. I'm afraid it can be competent for the ultimate boss of the seventh-level native world.
A correct version in the book of 16-9!
Think about how strong those who successfully countered the erosion of the abyss are, and you can know that this judgment is not exaggerated at all. If you are a strong person, even if you fail to resist the erosion of the abyss, your strength will increase greatly.
The power of disaster belongs to the derived energy of the abyss. Without the great pressure of facing the abyss, the enhancement is not so exaggerated, but it is enough to make the derivative world of Runeland undergo a qualitative change. Of course, the premise is that Runeland can withstand it.
Lin Jiu estimated that this was also because the Samsara Paradise intentionally allowed the changes in the Void Land. If the Rune Land successfully transformed, the Samsara Paradise, which completely controlled this world, would make a fortune.