The Death Knell

The feet wearing leather shoes fell gently. Merlin floated like a big black bird and landed on the mud of the seabed. There were many unresponsive fish beside him that were twisting and bouncing wildly because they were stranded. Those round eyes Staring at him, full of fear and confusion.

Merlin didn't pay attention to the looks of these lowly creatures. He just bent down and picked up an iron pot from the side and looked at it curiously.

Yes, times have changed. Today's modern Earth is no longer the Earth of Camelot's time. Although the sea still looks the same, in fact humans have already affected it.

The bottom of the sea is densely covered with all kinds of garbage, including drink bottles, broken ship parts, discarded medical supplies, basically all the types of garbage that can be seen on land are found on the bottom of the sea.

There was a time when the way many coastal countries disposed of garbage was to drag it directly into the high seas with barges and then dump it into the sea, out of sight and out of mind.

All kinds of domestic garbage are trivial. According to the records of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from 1945 to 1993, NATO countries dumped almost 200,000 tons of nuclear waste into the oceans. The Warsaw Pact countries also dumped almost this amount. .

However, the specific location here is the Mediterranean Sea, so Merlin did not see those large jars sealed with cement and lead, only some ordinary garbage, such as the old-fashioned enamel hospital urinal in his hand.

Maybe he had never seen anything like this before, or maybe this pot had a different smell. As he walked forward, he fiddled with the strange container, rubbing it a few times like rubbing a magic lamp, and using his eyes Looking inside from the spout, I fiddled with it for a while and then threw it away after confirming that it was worthless.

The wet seabed was like a canyon sandwiched by high water walls. Looking to both sides, one could see many marine creatures swimming in the water, but Merlin did not appreciate the scenery because such a scene was too disturbing for him. Said it has become commonplace.

He quickened his pace and headed for his destination, the place where Hecate was worshiped by the gods. It was there that she gave power to Zeus, Nabu and others, and opened the age of magic for mankind.

Of course, it is essentially witchcraft and magic, but Zeus and the others renamed it 'divine power' and transformed their bodies, turning them from humans into more like magical creatures.

Merlin felt a little emotional when he thought of this. The methods used by the gods to kill the donkeys were obviously too inferior, which meant that he was born too late. Otherwise, Hecate would not have had the chance to become a witch.

But just thinking about it, Merlin believed that the goddess of witchcraft would not be his opponent, and what he needed was not the power left by Hecate, because both she and the Upside Down died, which was enough to prove that they were not enough. powerful.

It has been more than a week since Merlin was resurrected from the story of the super time flow. He has collected a lot of information about the magic world in secret, and has a clear understanding of where magic comes from in today's world.

Yes, he could feel the energy of the Upside Down being used to power the magic world like a tethered sun, which was enough to prove that it had failed.

The magic used by Merlin is not any kind that people in the magic world can recognize now. It does not come from heaven or hell, but

The old mage didn't step very frequently, but the steps he wore in high-top boots were very large, and each step could span hundreds of meters, so his whole body seemed to be constantly flashing.

After only being distracted for a moment, he arrived at his destination. Under this deep sea, slept a strange city, as if the epitome of all civilizations had gathered here.

The mage smiled crookedly, knowing that he was in the right place.

The earliest Hecate was still in the form of a 'girl' or a 'crescent moon'. She was very simple and kind. After she stole the concept of witchcraft from outside the wall of origin, she was willing to share it with humans.

At that time, people like Zeus in Europe, Nabu in Africa, and Tonadiu in South America were all mortals, just chiefs of large tribes.

In order to win Hecate's favor and gain magical power, these people tried their best to lick the goddess of witchcraft. No one was willing to fall behind. In the end, they built such a small city for Hecate, and each sent many of them. When someone moves in, he will serve her specially.

That period was probably the happiest time for Hecate. She also gradually fell into happiness. She taught all the things she knew to humans and shared her fire-like witchcraft with everyone, so much so that Zeus and the others became gods.

Back then, Zeus was the best at licking, so he gained the most. He even tricked Hecate back into the Olympus pantheon and asked her to marry Hades.

But what happened later, Merlin also knew that Zeus did this just to monopolize Hecate's knowledge and power, and also to attack other gods.

In short, after tricking her back and draining her of knowledge and energy, she was imprisoned in a cave in the underworld, and then teamed up with everyone to seal her, which caused her to completely darken and become an 'old woman' and a 'waning moon', and the city also sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Merlin heard that Zeus disappeared for a long time and returned to Olympus not long ago, so he guessed that the pathetic and weak god probably hid on purpose because he realized that Hecate and the Upside Down wanted to settle accounts with him.

Later it was discovered that both of them were settled by a mortal named Deathstroke, and Zeus sauntered back to the throne and continued to pretend.

Thinking of this, Merlin smiled and shook his head, with a sneer on his face.

The young captain just now said he was a god, and he was immediately amused. Only unsophisticated mortals would think gods are noble. For Merlin, who knew the situation, being called a god was like a joke.

There is no difference between gods and humans, and they are destined never to reach the heights that human 'thoughts' can reach.

Magic is the ability to turn thoughts into reality, so theoretically, as long as a mage dares to think enough and has enough energy, he can instantly turn all the gods into ants, just like what he thinks .

So there is one thing that Merlin is very concerned about. Logically speaking, the Upside Down Man is a conceptual god in the void. It is the magical thought itself, representing the existence of all Upside Down concepts.

How did the mortal named Deathstroke defeat it?

It's a pity that I haven't been able to find the person named Deathstroke so long since I came back. He seems to have disappeared.

Standing outside the dilapidated stone city gate, Merlin looked at the still dripping seaweed entwining the ruins, then stepped into the city, into a place that did not exist in history.

Other relics have nothing to do with him. What he wants is not to perform the action of 'opening the door', but to obtain the 'door' itself.

Hecate is dead, so the 'door' to her house is probably useless.

So, if you remove the remaining door from the deceased's old house and install it where it is needed elsewhere, it can achieve many interesting functions.

For example, traveling through the void, reaching the source, witnessing infinity, manipulating time, etc. It all depends on whether people dare to think of it or not.

At least Merlin dares. When he gets hold of the door, the Almighty Universe will show its true face before his eyes.