Kaecilius moved silently across the world like a venomous snake hidden in the shadows.
The power Chthon had bestowed upon him far exceeded imagination.
It was not merely a surge in raw magical power, but a deeper understanding and control of the laws of darkness.
Without triggering Kamar-Taj's magical surveillance, he could cross national borders like a ghost and reach those forgotten places where dark energy had accumulated.
Ancient human-sacrifice sites deep within the South American jungle, mass graves beneath thousand-year-old battlefields in Eastern Europe, the ruins of evil god temples buried beneath the sands of Middle Eastern deserts...
Whenever he arrived at one, he would spend several days using blood and dark magic to draw spell formations so complex they made the eyes swim.
These formations were buried deep underground or engraved behind concealed rock walls, with no magical fluctuations leaking from the surface.
Only an exceedingly faint, periodic pulse, like the breathing of an abyss.
It blended into the already chaotic background of local dark energy, making it nearly impossible to detect.
However, as the sixth formation neared completion, Kaecilius encountered an immense obstacle he could not avoid—
The three Sanctums Kamar-Taj had established on Earth: the New York Sanctum, the London Sanctum, and the Hong Kong Sanctum.
These three Sanctums formed a triangle, like three enormous nails firmly anchoring Earth's reality dimension and defending it against invasion and erosion from other dimensions.
They were not only symbols of Kamar-Taj's power, but also the central pillars of Earth's dimensional defense system.
Any ritual attempting to bring a powerful being from another dimension to Earth on a massive scale had to destroy these three Sanctums first.
Otherwise, the descending power would be weakened, disrupted, or even completely blocked by the defensive network formed by the Sanctums.
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