Chapter 160: The Origin of the Kindred and the Twilight Protocol [Please Subscribe]

Since the remaining blood of the Human Sovereign had not yet been obtained, and Yi Shen was indeed interested in what Nicole had to say, he finally reached a simple agreement with the woman before him.

In any case, it was not a loss for Yi Shen. In fact, thanks to this woman's guidance, it was the first time Yi Shen learned how to channel the power of the Heart of the Magic God within his body.

Previously, whenever Yi Shen tried to find a way to tap into it, he always missed the knack, never expecting that this power required special energy circuits to be unleashed.

If he could truly use the power of the Heart of the Magic God as a conventional force in the future, his strength would probably leap to a whole new level, and then some! At that moment, he even felt an urge to fight Nicole again.

Earlier, by utilizing the power of moonlight, he had only managed to fight Nicole to a draw, spending most of the time on the defensive.

If he could now properly harness the power of the Heart of the Magic God, Yi Shen felt there might even be a possibility of inflicting harm on the woman in front of him!

Of course.

Since she had already extended an olive branch, Yi Shen agreed to a temporary truce. He believed he could extract much more knowledge from this woman.

Yi Shen's thirst for magical knowledge now surpassed his pursuit of attribute gains and level progression. While those in the physical class could break through their realms through physical limits, the magical class mostly had to rely on "wisdom" and "knowledge." Such a rare opportunity was something Yi Shen naturally wanted to seize.

Nicole truly did not disappoint Yi Shen.

Over the next dozen minutes, she accompanied Yi Shen into the fifth and sixth grand halls respectively, securing the subsequent drops of the Human Sovereign's blood.

Nicole understood far more than Yi Shen did.

And her strength was even greater than he had imagined!

In the fifth grand hall, there were various mechanical traps; she directly froze all the mechanisms solid and effortlessly retrieved the blood of the Human Sovereign.

The sixth trial involved those special runes. Instead of using brute-force trial and error, Nicole already knew the meanings of these runes. She easily acquired the sixth drop of the Human Sovereign's blood and handed it straight to Yi Shen.

While clearing the trials together, Yi Shen raised his doubts, and Nicole held nothing back.

Since she would need Yi Shen to help her dismantle the world nodes later on, she needed him to understand the truth of the world in order to cooperate further. Although she held no great fondness for Explorers, to a figure like Nicole, personal sentiment was one thing, and cooperation was another.

Through this back-and-forth conversation, Yi Shen finally understood what the origin of the Vampire race truly was, and why the entire world had turned into a digitized game!

According to Nicole.

Long, long ago, the era she lived in was called the "Era of Light."

The world was divided into three massive continents, with the rest formed by oceans. Back then, they did not call the blue planet a planet, but rather referred to it as their ancestral land.

At its furthest extent, their civilization had even ventured beyond the blue planet, becoming an interstellar civilization.

In those days.

Various kinds of energies existed in the world.

This allowed diverse civilizations to flourish.

Yet, nobody knew since when, certain creatures in their world began to perceive changes in data, and could even acquire tremendous strength in a very short span of time, sparking a revolution throughout the entire civilization.

...

At first, no one cared about this disaster. It was just a spell, a war, the pioneering of a new world, the disappearance of a race. Marvelous things were always happening in the world anyway, and people even felt that digitization was a gift and a favor from the gods.

Until this disaster began to entangle everyone.

Races continuously waged wars, and new worlds constantly intervened.

The world plunged into endless warfare. The pressure of war grew heavier and heavier, so much so that everyone forgot about their own development and focused solely on the power brought by digitization.

By the time they realized the perils of digitization, it was already too late.

Everything in civilization had been conquered by digitization, causing them to lose their original essence.

The world's energy was gradually absorbed and exhausted by digitization, leaving behind only infinite warfare and death. In the end, they encountered a civilization far more powerful than their own, plunging the entire "Era of Light" into darkness.

Of course, there was still a group of people who had realized that digitization was not a gift, but a disaster. In the final moments, they anticipated that digitization was about to abandon them.

That period was known as the Twilight of the Gods. They began to use various forces that digitization could not encompass to mask their own auras.

It was also from that time, spearheaded by the Ancient Elven race alongside the five major races of the Era of Light, that they signed the [Twilight Pact] to contend against digitization.

As the Holy Spirit of the Ancient Elves, Nicole was one of the initiators of the Twilight Pact!

Their sole objective was to preserve the sparks of the Era of Light by any means necessary!!

Nicole did not elaborate on the specific procedures to Yi Shen, but the general gist was that they ingeniously created the vampires, using digitization to mask the vampires' true identities and deceive the digitization process. Then, they sent certain prime bodies into deep slumber, tucked away within world folds or undetectable zones.

Every once in a while, the vampires and their descendants would awaken them.

According to the pact, they would help the vampires deal with certain troubles while monitoring the degree of digitization's development.

A demigod with predictive abilities back in those days had once said.

The world encompassed by digitization was too vast, and as it developed further, certain "world loopholes" would inevitably be generated.

Nicole's findings upon her recent awakenings proved this to be true. With digitization's updates and iterations, Yi Shen's generation was already the sixth iteration of digitization, and the entire blue planet had already spawned six major civilizations!

The only way for them to live normally was to completely eradicate the source of digitization.

Only power originating from oneself was the true path of civilization's development. Any method relying on external forces, once digitization was attained, meant that at some point in the future, what was lost would definitely be much greater!!

"Ever since I awakened this time, I've sensed that the world's architecture has become quite unstable. In your world, it seems to be called Gates of Planes, but in reality, many Gates of Planes are established by attaching to world nodes."

Nicole continued her account.

"Based on my deduction, there are a total of 1,024 world nodes. As long as these nodes are destroyed, the entire world can return to normal."