bookbashuk Chapter 466 The Extraordinary Era
Chapter 466 The Extraordinary Era
Chapter 466 The Extraordinary Era
Time flies by in the blink of an eye.
Dui travels back and forth between Valinor and Middle-earth, visiting his daughter Elros while constantly gathering the spiritual energy of all living beings.
The Lorean Forest, blessed by Dui and shrouded in the power of time, will remain beautiful and vibrant forever without Elros continuing to protect it with the power of the Earth Ring, Kaia.
With Dui, the Lord of Time, around, the distance between Valinor and Middle-earth is no longer insurmountable.
Ellos would sometimes accompany Dui to Valino Avasha to reunite with her family.
Sometimes Dui would return to Middle-earth with his wife Alvin and son Elses to experience the development of the human era.
Millennia passed—humanity had come to rule the entire world of Arda, and even ventured into the stars, beginning to explore more distant parts of the universe.
The gods of Valinor have completely severed their ties with the mortal world. Apart from the Valar, who can still descend upon Arda, the other Maiar and Elves can no longer enter the world.
Under the observation of future technology, the magical world, which was once hidden by magic, has finally been exposed to the eyes of ordinary humans.
The extraordinary power of magic aroused the curiosity and exploration of ordinary humans, who began to try to study and master this extraordinary power.
Furthermore, they discovered ancient fragments about gods in ancient books and various relics in the magical world.
As a result, people who had long since stopped believing in God began to frantically search for the legends and traces of their gods.
They are like the people of Númenor who were on the verge of destruction, opening Pandora's box in an attempt to find the existence of gods and to gain immortality, or even to become gods!
Human wisdom should never be underestimated. They were able to uncover the ruins of ancient elves with just a few words and clues, and even found traces of the Valley and Lorien in the magical history of wizards.
Upon learning that the legendary elves still existed there, he was overjoyed and charged into the valley and Lorien with his weapons in hand.
But to humanity's astonishment, the legendary beautiful valley and Lorien were completely deserted, just an ordinary canyon and forest, devoid of elves, unicorns, phoenixes, thunderbirds, or other creatures.
It turned out that Dui had foreseen this situation, so he used his great power to separate Hogsmeade, Hogwarts, The Valley, Lorien, and Eisengard from the real world's timeline, creating a new timeline.
On this timeline, the loyalists among the wizards, elves, dwarves, hobbits, and even phoenixes and thunderbirds...
The dragons and other magical creatures all lived carefree lives.
In the real world, after failing to track down the elves, humans did not give up but instead became even more obsessed.
They went up mountains and down to the sea, constantly excavating ruins. They not only successfully discovered the ancient continent that had long been sunk, as well as the ruins of Sauron in Mordor, but also continued to trace and reconstruct the past, which led them to speculate about the ancient War of the Ring and the even more distant War of Wrath.
Moreover, through technological means, they successfully deciphered the genes of the wizard bloodline and applied them to humans.
Thus, humanity ushered in an extraordinary era, where magic, which had been in decline, shone brightly once again, even more brilliantly than before.
Everyone has superpowers; the combination of technology and magic gives magic an unprecedented vitality.
Various forms of magic were continuously developed, and a magic stone that could grant immortality was successfully created, although at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
The greatest beneficiary of the blossoming of magic was not humanity, but Dui, its founder.
Humanity traces the history of wizards back to Duir, the mysterious figure who created the wizarding race. He is highly praised in the history of magic, called the Wizard Supreme, Lord of Dragons, founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and recorded that he gained immortality and eventually went to the land of Wonderland to enjoy bliss.
So, in imitation of the statue of Duir from the Ministry of Magic, humans erected statues of the god all over the world, venerating him as the god of magic and believing him to be the source of all magic.
The immense faith converged in the warp, giving rise to new authority magic for Dui.
Even the warp has undergone a different change. All the magic of wizards, like the power of the mind, has converged in the warp, forming a sea of magic.
The Sea of Magic is located at the bottom of the Warp, while the Sea of the Mind is located at the top of the Warp, serving as the source of power for all.
Dui's magic also merged into the sea of magic, and he gained control of it. He could fully utilize the power of this sea of magic to unleash even greater magical power.
He could even lend his magic to all humans, making them stronger.
Correspondingly, after the wizard dies, Dui can reap the wizard's development and application of magic, absorb their wisdom, and also reclaim a more refined and powerful magic.
This method reminded Dui of a certain world-dimensional demon god, who also lent power to mages through a loan relationship, ultimately reaping even greater benefits through compound interest.
The only difference between Dui and them is that he doesn't need the souls of these borrowers.
The Valar of Valinor have no intention of interfering in the situation in the human world.
Because these are all choices made spontaneously by humankind, and because humankind was given the freedom to choose their destiny by the creator god Ilúvatar, they let things develop as they will, unless there is external interference.
However, even the most compassionate Veranina couldn't help but sigh when she saw humanity's relentless pursuit of power, even the abuse of magic, the growing arrogance, and the desire for immortality and godhood.
This scene is strikingly similar to that of the people of Númenor in the past.
The people of Númenor were once corrupted by Sauron, becoming arrogant and even desiring to rule Valinor, the home of the Valar, in an attempt to seize immortality.
But in the end, they angered the creator god Ilúvatar, who directly unleashed divine punishment, sinking the island of Númenor.
Humanity today is gradually following the path once taken by Númenóre.
If the creator goddess Ilúvatar were to become utterly disillusioned with humanity, that would be the end of the world, and everything would return to chaos.
While the Vera were sighing or worrying, Dui didn't care.
In his view, the human pursuit of power, even immortality or godhood, is not the problem.
After all, he started as an ordinary wizard and worked his way up to where he is today.
There's no reason for him to block the path of those who come after him just because he became a god.
Judging from the attitudes of other Vera, they seem to be very pessimistic about this, and even believe that humanity is on the path of self-destruction.
He had never met the creator god Ilúvatar, nor did he know his attitude.
Perhaps divine punishment will descend once again because humanity desires to become gods and achieve immortality?
Dui didn't understand, and if Ilúvatar were to unleash divine punishment, he wouldn't be able to stop it at all.
Therefore, he could only seize the time to make himself stronger.
That way, even if the world ends and the universe returns to chaos, he can still protect his family from being affected.