Chapter 1496 - A Long Way Ahead (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lily’s departure was expected. It was a reminder to Hao Ren that he would have to complete the journey all by himself ultimately.

After the great battle of the Twilight of the Gods in 44 BC, the journey back in time went further and further back in history. In Hao Ren’s eyes, the world was strange during the BC era. The time-travel journey had utterly changed his view on history. History, as recorded by humans, was inaccurate. All the more so when it came to records about the era of the ancient gods. When there were too many supernatural elements interspersed throughout recorded history, materialistic historians of later generations often chose to separate the myths and legends, and they allowed the scholars of religion and mythology to deal with them. But for Hao Ren, those things that the historians removed were his personal experiences.

He had witnessed many ancient kingdoms that were not recorded in history books. Some were kingdoms of dark magic and some were indescribably different worlds. Some were built on land, which floated in the sky and relied on sunlight to stay afloat. Some were underground, harnessing the energy of magma and rock. Bizarre alien creatures ruled these worlds with strange laws and ceremonies that were ridiculous to modern humans. While at the same time, humans had been slaves to these kingdoms, serving their alien masters for generations and participating in endless wars with other “miracle cities”.

Hao Ren had also seen many real-life versions of myths. When he passed by the Mediterranean region for the second time, he found Jason with the help of Hesperides. Hao Ren helped Jason find the Golden Fleece in exchange for information of Vivian’s whereabouts. While Hao Ren was in Egypt, Seth raided Horus and thrust his knife at the Egyptian god of protection, Hao Ren appeared out of nowhere and decapitated Seth, gaining the gratitude and trust of Ra and access to the anti-gravity fortress, the Solar Ship. With the help of the Solar Ship’s radar, Hao Ren found Vivian in the pyramid buried under the yellow sand. In Babylon, the war battle between Marduk and Tiamat was in a stalemate. Hasse fired a shot from a nearby mountain and blinded an eye of Tiamat, earning the respect of the Babylonian gods, who told him the location of the Lord of the Blood, Vivian.

The prime period of the Mythological Era lasted for 5,000 years, during which Hao Ren saw a world where the aliens ruled the earth, humans were the slaves, and the rise and fall of many lost ancient kingdoms. Those otherworldlings had built many cities and kingdoms, but constant war and the lack of proper social order had often time caused these kingdoms to disappear from this world before they could even make their marks in history.

Those otherworldling gods who could survive the first 3,000 years were divided into two types. They either possessed strong inborn abilities or inherited the technologies and magical creations from their homeworld. The kingdoms these gods built were categorized into two distinct types. The former was darker and more brutal; the cities they built with rocks stank of blood almost every day. The cruel blood sacrifice ceremony was the favorite pastime of these beast-like gods. On the other hand, the latter was more like extraterrestrial aliens that had built their colonies on Earth. The metal and energy barriers that encapsulated the ancient cities were beyond the times. The center of some of the ancient cities was actually a stranded alien spaceship. The stone cities of humankind built around these seemingly sci-fi or magical fortresses looked odd yet mysterious.

But no matter which type of cities, there was not much difference to the humans at that time. Even those advanced cities with a high level of civilization, technology or magic, their comfortable environment was not prepared for humans.

Humans usually were for the biochemical laboratories, radioactive ore mining sites, and battlefields.

There were also a few relatively mild ‘paradise on earth.’ After all, even the most apathetic otherworldlings had a few god bearers who sympathized with the earthlings. But this goodwill could not reverse the tide of the Era. Humans were living in dire straits during the entire Mythological period.

Lightning flashed across the sky. The glaring light was frozen in the night sky before it disappeared. Black, white and gray were the only colors of the world and time stood still.

The Babylonians worshipping in the square had also turned into gray stone statues and were quickly swallowed up by the darkness that came from afar. At last, only the king of Babylon was left. The king, standing in front of the crowd, wearing a crown on his head, was merely regarded by the gods as a leader of the monkey group and a tool. But as the king of the humans, he still had the look of a king. But now, even the king had turned into a stone statue with a surprised expression forever frozen in time on his face.

Hao Ren poked his head out from the door and made sure that the entire city of Babylon had disintegrated into bits and bytes, just like previously before he turned back into the temple.

It was another hurried reunion. This time, Vivian had left Hao Ren a suggestion.

“Do not use your human identity anymore. Going forward, humans would be a bad disguise as they would be regarded as runaway slaves of some gods. At least, this applies in most places where gods are present.”

“We will meet again in the next era.”

“The Mythological Era is such a terrible period.” Hessiana sighed and leaned on a black stone pillar after Vivian left. “Even I can feel how bad the quality of those gods at the end of the Mythological Era was. What could you expect from a group of disorganized and undisciplined otherworldlings in managing a habitable planet? They were unruly. The goddess of creations must have selected the passengers of the Ark by merely throwing the dice.”