Wizard of All Souls

Holy calendar 575 years.

The Cairo Empire is located in the Temple of the Holy Emperor in the province of Doria.

Since the emperor was attacked by evil orcs during the merger ceremony of the Three Kingdoms 175 years ago, he was seriously injured and fell into a deep sleep.

Later, the high level of the empire built the Temple of the Holy Emperor, and placed the sleeping body of the Holy Emperor in the holy temple for people to worship.

The Shengdi Temple has a huge area, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of hectares. The room where the Shengdi crystal coffin is stored can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the same time.

Even so, it is still crowded with people every day.

Twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, the temple of the Holy Emperor, especially the room where the Holy Emperor slept, was crowded with people all the time.

It even had to issue a rule that each person can only pay respects to the Holy Emperor once a day, and each time should not exceed five minutes.

Even so, the lines that line up to pay homage to the Holy Emperor every day can be thousands of meters away, and sometimes it takes days and nights to get their turn.

In addition to the special status of the Holy Emperor in people's hearts, the main reason is that the population of the Cairo Empire has increased significantly!

In the past, when there were three great empires, five great Jedi, and green elves, dwarves, misty forests and other dangerous places, there was a limit to how the population could increase.

However, since the major dangerous lands were leveled, all kinds of monsters and miasma that threatened humans were eliminated, and the three major human empires merged into one human empire, that is, after the Cairo Empire.

The population has exploded!

When Will was exiled to a different galaxy, the combined population of the three major human empires was no more than 500 million.

Now?

A full one and a half billion!

The total population of orcs is less than half of 1.5 billion!

This 15 million square kilometers of land can actually support a population of 1.5 billion, which was unimaginable before.

...

On this day, Shengdi Temple was as usual.

All the devout believers lined up into the Temple of the Holy Emperor, entered the room where the Saint Emperor's Eucharist was visited, and worshiped and looked up at the Holy Emperor.

People were crying, praying, mourning...

The scene of tens of thousands of people kneeling on the ground to worship, even though it has been watched for hundreds of years, is still very spectacular.

When the believers were concentrating on praying, an invisible force shrouded the believers.

A drop of dark red blood overflowed from the believer's forehead and flew towards the depths of the Holy Emperor's Temple.

Regarding this scene, most people in the kneeling worship didn't know about it, and the few who knew didn't care. After all, for the sake of the Holy Emperor, let alone a mere drop of blood, even if it took their lives, they were willing.

To be able to die for the Holy Emperor is the highest honor.

In the depths of the Temple of the Holy Emperor, there is a lake with a diameter of hundreds of meters and an unknown depth.

What is rippling in the lake is not clear lake water, but bright red blood, which is the blood of believers who have reached a certain level of faith in the Holy Emperor.

Of course, no one died from it.

Humans are not so weak that they will die without a drop of blood in a day.

Above the lake, there is a golden gate tens of meters high, like a rainbow, like a dream.

On the edge of this lake, there is a person, or a monster?

Wearing a hooded robe and a veil, Itana, dressed as a foreign woman, stood at the edge of the lake, holding a silver-white severed arm as thick as an elephant leg in her arms, staring blankly at the gold above the blood lake. door.

"When will the Holy Emperor come back?" Itana's tentacles gently stroked the severed arm.

The broken arm that Will left behind when he was exiled back then not only possessed great strength, but also possessed unparalleled wisdom.

The development of the Cairo Empire over the years has been instigated by a broken arm behind the scenes.

As for the establishment of the Holy Emperor Temple, the existence of the Bloody Lake, and the casting of the Golden Gate, they were all established under Broken Arm's command.

And all of this is for the return of the Holy Emperor!

"It's been 175 years, I don't know how long I can wait? Can I still see you, the Holy Emperor, before I die?" Itana sighed softly.

She is no longer young, she is over five hundred and sixty years old, and she is already infinitely close to the end of her lifespan.

If the Holy Emperor has not returned in another ten years, then she...

"Holy Emperor, I still want to see you again, I want to listen to your holy words again, and I want to..." Unknowingly, Itana burst into tears.

"Hey, Lord Xiaoyou, when will the Holy Emperor return?" Itana asked in a low voice to the broken arm named Xiaoyou in her arms.

She didn't get any recovery, Xiaoyou seemed to be asleep.

Itana's tentacles gently stroked Xiaoyou, "I'm sorry, I know that your desire for the return of the Holy Emperor is the same as mine. We all hope that the Holy Emperor can return as soon as possible."

When Itana thought that this day would be spent waiting in the doomed disappointment as usual.

Sudden!

Xiaoyou, who had been so quiet all along, seemed to be asleep, suddenly trembled violently, as if something very exciting had happened.

"Master Xiaoyou, what's the matter with you?"

Under Itana's suspicious gaze, Xiaoyou with the broken arm flew out of her arms and landed in the lake of blood.

The little right five fingers of the broken arm quickly connected dots on the surface of the lake, and circles of ripples immediately rippled in the lake.

And the blood in the lake was also violently tumbling, like boiling water.

"boom--"

"boom--"

"boom--"

There were three loud bangs in a row, and three blood-colored water jets surged from the lake, rushing towards the illusory golden gate in mid-air.

After the golden gate absorbed the blood-colored lake water, the illusory golden gate that was originally like an illusion became solidified.

"This is?" At first, Itana was very puzzled, not knowing what happened.

But it didn't take long for her to figure it out.

Why is Xiaoyou so excited?

Why use the blood stored in the lake for hundreds of years?

Why is the golden gate used as the return passage of the Holy Emperor becoming more and more solid?

Do all these signs mean that the Holy Emperor is coming back!

Itana was trembling with excitement, "Holy Emperor! Is the Holy Emperor coming back? Can I receive the teachings of the Holy Emperor again, and can I accompany the Holy Emperor again?"

The abnormality in the Shengdi Temple is very obvious, but ordinary people around can't feel it.

But just ordinary people.

Nearly ten beams of light flew towards the Temple of the Holy Emperor from a distance.

The first to arrive was Luna, who has now become a second-level wizard.

Afterwards, more than a dozen first-level wizards, including Quinn, Repa, and Prizia, arrived one after another.

They stood on the edge of the blood-colored lake, their eyes looked excitedly at the golden gate above the blood-colored lake, and many of them couldn't help but clenched their fists.

They have waited too long for this day!

Finally, the blood in the lake was exhausted, and the originally illusory golden gate became real.

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, a small figure slowly walked out from the golden gate.

"Welcome the return of the Holy Emperor—"

Almost at the same moment, everyone knelt down.