Chapter Ninety-Four: The End of Shame
While in the sandy area of Karnaca, Mo Chen witnessed first-hand how the effectiveness of the Void Realm seeped through the cracks in reality into Aramis Stilton's house.
Three years ago, Brianna Ashworth, Duke Luca Abile, Kirin Kindoch, and Stilton himself gathered in the vault of the Stilton Mansion in order to bring Delilah, who had been banished by Uncle Daode's seal, from the Void.
There, at that time, they participated in a séance that succeeded in resurrecting Delilah.
However, the result of Delila's unexpected return from the Void is that the Void infiltrates Stilton's home, dragging it into the rift between the real world and the Void.
The infiltrated Void Realm caused a visible environmental change in the manor, and the past time and present time were superimposed at the place where the Void Realm and reality converged.
Because of this, in the Stilton Mansion, even magic is dysfunctional, and the laws of everything are subverted.
After that night, the Duke quickly quarantined Kindoch and sealed the mansion from the rest of the Dust Zone, leaving Stilton alone.
For the next three years, Stilton went insane. He himself and his house were the same, and there was a part of him that never got rid of the events of that night.
The "Time Instrument" given by the Outsider allows users to travel back and forth between the past three years ago and the present three years later, so that Mo Chen and Empress Emily can see the séance meeting three years ago with their own eyes.
Empress Emily finally understands that Delilah's soul was imprisoned in the Void, but during the séance, her soul was extradited back to the world, and the witch Brianna Ashworth had her soul possessed by a bone statue.
Later, the bone statue containing Delila's soul was given to the Duke for safekeeping.
Like the lich, by storing the soul in a container to abandon the fragile mortal body, only to be able to embrace the immortal immortal body.
- Delilah lives forever if she is incomplete.
And the subsequent reappearance of the Outsider also illustrates another problem, he said that the Void Realm is not actually a place, and it is far older and weirder than anyone knows.
He led the two of them into a crumbling island on the edge of the Void, but that place was said to have a special meaning.
It was there that the Outsider was cut four thousand years ago. His life ended there, and he was reborn there. Blood flowed out, and he became a god.
Delilah's biggest secret is related to that place, and at the end of her life, she was wandering in the Void, and should have been lost forever.
But she found that place, the island of the Void Realm, and the place where the Outsider had transformed from a human into a real image of the Void Realm.
So Delilah changed because of this, and she found that by taking advantage of this opportunity, by making the most of the power of that place, she had turned herself into an outsider, or part of the void.
This is also the reason why she is so strong that she is even able to use dark magic to remove the outworld mark that others have. What she possesses is not only the magic that manifests, but also a part of the deeper essential power of the Void.
If I had to find a word to describe it, it would probably be something like "permissions".
In a sense, Delilah has almost become one of the Outsider's kind.
The only way to fight her is to find the bone statue of her soul and return it to her so that she can return to her original form.
Only then can her immortal body be broken, and let her lose the power that can remove the marks of others.
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It was about early in the morning, close to five o'clock.
In the dimly lit basement, there is only the light curtain of the power grid intertwined by the light curtain generator, and the air is filled with the smell of quiet, and a blue film of light in the center is quietly projected from a certain cube.
Like a mysterious "portal" to the unknown, a film of blue light ripples through the space, spreading and disappearing into the air at the edges.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly the outline of a figure appeared in the light film, and the next moment, a young man stepped over the light film and returned to reality from the world behind the door.
"I'm so tired......"
Mo Chen's face was full of exhaustion, and as soon as he came back, he couldn't help but stretch his waist and raise his arms, and yawned long.
Compared with before departure, his current condition was really a diametrically opposite feeling, not only was his face pale and sluggish, but also his arms were bandaged, and his body had a strong smell of medicine and blood.
His hair was a little messy, not only as if he had once again lost in the battle with the barber, but also from the traces of some of the signs that seemed to have been burned by the flames—
It seems that the unknown barber used more than just electric clippers or firecrackers.
All in all, it seems to have been hit hard, and it is.
If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that the result of such an injury would be that he would have died I don't know how many times, and even if he was not an ordinary person, Mo Chen felt quite uncomfortable at the moment.
Even if he made all the preparations, he was not so reckless as to go to Delila for a decisive battle, but this final boss battle was still not easy.
He and Empress Emily dragged on for as long as they could, not going to the final battle with Delilah as soon as her soul was in her hands.
Instead, he gathered as much information as he could about Danvol, figured out the number of members of the witch group and their recent actions, and developed a plan of action to deal with multiple contingencies, and waited specifically for Megan to collect runes from the black market in Karnaca.
Until all the funds available during this time are exchanged for runes, powerful bone runes, and various weapons and ammunition...... It wasn't until everything was ready that he went back to Danwall for a decisive battle.
It can be said that both men are at their best.
But even so, it's good, looking at Mo Chen's current appearance, you can know that this battle is not as easy as going on an outing.
After all, Delilah's allies had been eliminated and her lifebox had been taken, and she would be a little stupid if she didn't even know what was going to happen.
In addition, the Abbey had organized a war overseer to attack the Tower once, and of course the management failed, and the corpses of the slaughtered Overseers were strewn all over the streets of the city, for the wild dog hounds to eat, but it was enough to make Delilah and her witch group more vigilant.
In the game, you can ghost without killing, and you can easily clear the level, until Delilah is knocked out, she still doesn't know what happened.
…… But in reality, there is no such good thing.
Even if they had made a plan in advance, in the end, Mo Chen and Empress Emily almost all the way into the King's Tower, and no one knew what level Delila's arcane link had been raised, nor did they know how many witches she had contracted to do.
Three hundred? Five hundred? Or more witches?
Anyway, she replaced the City Watch with a group of witches, and not only were there many witches patrolling the streets, but there were even more of them in the tower, and they were almost everywhere.
Add to that the abundance of hounds, and the clockwork warriors that Kindoch had created earlier—they slaughtered the entire Ashram of Gristol, leaving the corpses of the Overseers all over the streets of Danwall with a stench of bloodflies.
This kind of defense line is not an exaggeration.
It is precisely because of this that when they fought their way out and faced Delilah, they not only consumed a lot of money, but they were also injured.
If Emily hadn't returned Delilah's soul, it would have greatly weakened her power.
And Mo Chen also discovered one of her fatal flaws by "coincidence" before, and finally succeeded in using it and sealing her in turn in her own painting world......
Then I am afraid that among the two people, there will really be casualties.
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"However, it was always me who won ......"
Pulling out the folding knife and looking at the faint blood stains that seemed to have solidified on it, Mo Chen couldn't help but smile despite his tired expression.
Delilah almost escaped for her at a critical moment, because her spells could pass directly through the void, and neither Mo Chen nor Empress Emily had that ability.
However, the fact that the person himself does not master that kind of skill does not mean that the equipment used does not have that kind of characteristics, and Mo Chen is a little suspicious that the Outsider Demon gave him this folding knife when he foresaw that kind of situation.
In order to make himself successful in mending the knife at a critical moment, he cut off Delila's last way of life.
"Hmm——!! It hurts......"
However, before he had time to be proud, Mo Chen felt that the wounds on his body began to ache faintly, and he couldn't help grinning.
That is, with his vitality and physical fitness that have been strengthened many times, he can bear it, and ordinary people are afraid that they would have died of injuries in great pain.
Delilah's magic is really quite strong, and Mo Chen is suddenly very glad that he chose to take it from his heart before taking action, insisting on waiting until he exchanged all the funds for runes as much as possible to improve his strength before facing that enemy.
Otherwise, it really doesn't know who killed the deer.
It's just that, in fact, to be honest, on the whole, after Delilah was forced to change back to her original appearance and lost the power that was almost "authority", it seemed that Mo Chen's ability value was relatively more advantageous.
It's just that before returning the soul to her, of course, she can't be restrained, just watching, and naturally she will struggle to prevent that process from happening.
Basically, it can be said that the fiercest and most dangerous time of the battle is the period before the soul is successfully returned to Delila's body.
Her magic is powerful, dangerous and deadly, and the most terrifying thing is that when the magic collides, Mo Chen clearly feels that his control over the magic will be shaken.
Delilah, who has separated her own soul and has a part of the power of the Outsider's essence, her magic is really too restrained for other mark holders.
During the battle, she was trying to get rid of the marks held by Mo Chen and Empress Emily all the time - the section chief was careless at the beginning, but he didn't expect her to have such an ability, and she was directly robbed of her strength, so she knelt.
However, after successfully sending the soul back, Delilah is forced to change back to her original form.
She became "herself" again, rather than a part of the Outsider, and thus naturally lost her immortality and her restrained magical powers.
After that, everything was naturally logical, but in order to achieve that process, Mo Chen and Empress Emily teamed up to pay the price of bruises all over their bodies.
But no matter how you put it, it's over, and now it's time to harvest the fruits.
Just like the multi-route choice of the official ending, after the new duke was eliminated, the continent of Sokonos changed rulers.
Logically speaking, the new ruler could be a section chief, a duke stand-in from a commoner, a trench with a gangster background, or an Overseer with a monastic background......
And now, the ending choice of this route is Mo Chen himself.