Magic Chronicles : Fallen Race

After cleaning up the aftermath, now almost all the blood race members and those human scholars of the Second Prince were whispering to each other, all discussing Reji\'s previous actions.

Some of them argued with flushed faces, some seemed to still not dare to believe it, and even more blood race members were extremely exaggerated, actually worshipping the conference room where Reji was located as if he were a deity.

The root of all this was in the conference room.

Louise, who was sitting upright, took a deep breath. She stared straight at the young man opposite her and solemnly asked:

"Before answering your question, can you tell me one thing first?"

Reji: "Go ahead."

"Who are you?"

"Demon King."

Louise was clearly very serious, but after hearing the young man\'s words, she almost fainted from anger on the spot. If Reji hadn\'t saved their camp and displayed that kind of miraculous power, with her explosive temper, she would have...

This young primordial took a few more deep breaths, but unfortunately, her flat chest didn\'t rise and fall much.

Afterwards, she began to answer Reji\'s initial question.

What are the Evil God\'s offspring? Why can\'t magic power be used? What kind of transformation was that?

Louise\'s answer was: "This plane has already been contaminated."

"Contaminated?"

"Yes, if you compare the plane to a living being, then it is currently suffering from a serious illness."

"What illness?"

"It has lost its immunity."

At this point, Louise\'s tone suddenly changed, and she asked Reji in return: "You\'re a new face, you shouldn\'t be a local prisoner of Stillwater Prison, right? Do you know how those inferior races, including Skaven, got in here?"

"They said it was the Emperor\'s deception. In the name of an alliance to prevent the demon race, he killed the kings of all their tribes."

"That\'s right." Louise nodded.

And what this young girl said next surprised Reji.

"But do you know, we blood race are different from other races. We... entered voluntarily."

"Voluntarily?"

"A thousand years ago, the blood race fell into a long slumber and happened to miss the Emperor\'s message. When they woke up, they had no intention of catering to the Emperor and humans anymore. That era was a time full of opportunities and development for all races because the demon race was gone. We no longer needed to hide around, and we didn\'t have to fear anything anymore."

"At that time, we even regarded humans as the second threat. So at the royal cousin meeting, they unanimously passed the resolution to expand the tribe. From then on, the blood race began a crazy invasion of the surrounding world."

"The more worlds we occupied, the more resources we obtained. Thanks to the innate abilities of our blood race, the strength of all members was rising at an extremely terrifying speed in just a dozen years."

"Perhaps just saying it, you still can\'t imagine the golden age of the blood race. Before the demon race was defeated, we blood race only had two ninth-tier primordials, nine eighth-tier royal cousins, and over a hundred seventh-tier elders. But after the \'Great Expansion\'..."

"The number of ninth-tier primordials reached eighteen, a full nine times more than before. The number of eighth-tier royal cousins was even more, at one hundred and thirty, more than ten times. As for the seventh-tier elders... at that time, they were already countless and couldn\'t be ranked at all."

"All the blood race members at that time were reveling in this unprecedented prosperity. Everyone began to become increasingly greedy. The pursuit of magic power and the growth of strength reached a morbid level. At first, no one paid attention to this disaster until the first \'Fallen One\' appeared."

At this point, fear appeared in Louise\'s eyes.

Even after a thousand years, recalling the experience of that time was still a shadow for her.

"That day should have been the most celebratory for the entire blood race. Our ninth-tier king was about to awaken from his slumber. At that time, the king would break through the ninth-tier level and reach the legendary position of \'Deity\', creating a brand new fate track for our entire blood race."

"However, at the coffin-opening ceremony, violent sounds came from the king\'s wooden coffin, as if something was constantly hitting the inner walls. Cracks spread inch by inch on the king\'s wooden coffin, and the next moment, what burst out from the coffin was a... yes, a flesh monster."

"The king\'s entire body was bloated. The frantically proliferating lumps of flesh piled up and expanded into a meat mountain larger than the palace. And all the blood race members present, as long as they had seen such a meat mountain monster, would be instantly contaminated and corroded, undergoing the same mutation all over their bodies."

"And this was far from over. Some blood race members who had narrowly escaped found that the magic power in their bodies began to go out of control. Even if they didn\'t cultivate or feed, it would continue to grow. Their strength began to increase more and more, but in contrast, their minds became weaker and weaker, becoming perplexed, confused, muttering until the final madness."

"From that moment on, all blood race began to fear magic power and fear the progress of their own strength. They were thinking about how to weaken themselves and lose power, but everything was in vain. It was as if they had already been targeted, and the transformation had begun. All the struggles were nothing more than the difference between fast and slow."

"And what finally saved us from the brink of collapse and gave us redemption was... the Emperor, it was this Stillwater Prison."

"Those inferior race prisoners fear the Gloom, thinking it is a curse that makes them lose their magic power. But only we who have personally experienced that horror know that it is precisely the power of this Gloom that has protected us and curbed the growth of magic power within us, thus preventing us from being transformed."

After hearing Louise\'s description of the blood race\'s experience, Reji finally seemed to understand many of the Emperor\'s previous actions.

After pondering for a moment, he summarized to Louise:

"So you mean, the stronger the power, the more one cultivates magic power, the closer one actually gets to falling? Losing oneself and eventually turning into that kind of flesh monster?"

"Yes, I\'m very certain. When I was ascending to the seventh tier, I could vaguely feel that the magic power in my body was mixed with some kind of strange foreign will. And by the eighth tier, this feeling became even stronger, as if it were a magnet. The stronger my power, the easier it was to draw me into the abyss. Fortunately, I stopped in time and resisted the temptation, but the others..."

Louise shook her head.

This wasn\'t just a matter of willpower or not. She had also mentioned before that even if other blood race members didn\'t cultivate and even wanted to give up magic power, they couldn\'t. The magic power would automatically continue to grow.

"I speculate that such contamination is definitely not a coincidence. Perhaps it has existed in the plane for a very, very long time. But due to the existence of the demon race, the development of all other races was greatly curbed. Even if there were powerful races, as soon as they were about to approach that contamination and mutation threshold, they would quickly be destroyed by the demon race."

"However, after the disappearance of the demon race..." Louise didn\'t need to say any further, it was very clear.

"I think that human Emperor must have discovered this point, which is why he would use such extreme means to gather the kings of all races to carry out the slaughter."

"And also use such extreme means to... treat the humans."