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She shouldn't have lectured me because of my report, right?

When Crane closed his eyes and was protected by Azik, this ridiculous idea came to his mind.

"No, no, Crane, of course not."

The demon's words sounded directly in his head, playful and leisurely: "But your thoughts let me know interesting things, it turns out that you also reported me." ”

…… ...... Crane began to circulate endlessly in his brain the first few sequences of potions of the soothsayer's pathway.

Azik fell into a stupor when he heard the other party call him "Archon of Death", he stood there fixedly, his eyes gradually revealing a desert that was enough to freeze people's souls, the pale flames became more and more cold, and Crane, who was standing behind him and did not dare to open his eyes, felt that his cold hairs stood up, and he couldn't help but gasp.

Suddenly, Azik pinched his arm hard to pull himself out of the divinity that almost looked down on everything. There were a lot of fragmentary images in his mind for a moment, and too many cluttered memories needed time to sort through. This made him involuntarily cool his voice:

"Get out of the way."

The demon laughed, seemingly amused by Azik's words, and was in a good mood now.

She stretched out the arms on both sides of the spiritual passage and reluctantly exerted force, tearing the brightly colored world apart, and behind the sharply expanding crack was an abyssal darkness. Azik suddenly realized that it was only at this moment that he was deeply aware of the difference in strength between the two sides.

Under tremendous pressure, he used the power that should have penetrated deep into the bone marrow, but now acted entirely on instinct.

Azik Eggers raised his head, opened his mouth, his fangs sharp, and his head and face showed the characteristics of a snake and a man at the same time.

His usually warm black eyes were suddenly pale by the flames, and he made a gesture as if a snake was preying or intimidating, and a phantom of a golden object faintly appeared on his forehead. In the moment before the passage was torn apart, Azik Eggers let out a low hiss from his throat with unprecedented tyranny and anger, the corners of his eyes burst into hideous blue tendons, and the golden forehead ornament shone brightly, and countless life forms in the spirit world suddenly responded to the call of the dead, coming from all directions, blocking the crack regardless of their own lives, turning into pure spirituality and disappearing and devouring!

The spirit of the succession bought Azik less than a second, and Crane's spirit naturally sketched a picture of himself wrapped around him with thick white wings, and he fell with him into a place with a deep river and a place where vines with baby faces grew on the ground.

Skeletons lay on the ground, and a large shadow in the distance resembled a skull.

As soon as he entered this world, Crane immediately remembered the Arctic documentary he had watched in his previous life, because now he seemed to have fallen into a sea of ice, and every inch of his bones and spirits were washed away by the cold breath. Fortunately, the gray mist still permeated the surroundings, slowing down the erosion.

Once the closest being to the god of the dead, to return here is to return home. Azik didn't let him open his eyes, and Crane didn't dare to open them, and he "saw" the wings of the yellow oil-stained feathers behind him and on the top of his head, giving people a great sense of reassurance. He felt the hand gripping his arm cold and hard, and with the Faceling's precise sensitivity to flesh and skin, he felt as if something sharp and hard was in Mr. Azik's palm, cutting through his sleeve and bloodstaining his skin.

"The Sword Comes"

It seems to be scales...... Crane didn't dare to think about it.

Azik's pace was very fast, but his mood did not improve in the slightest.

The world after the Gate of the Underworld is the exclusive zone of the extraordinary people of the "Grim Reaper" path, and other ways cannot be observed, and cannot be entered rashly, but it does not mean that it cannot be tracked. Azik changed several directions in the underworld, moving more than twenty kilometers in the real world, but he still felt that the sense of crisis in him had not disappeared!

There's a good chance the demon will always be able to track him down!

"Crane."

Azik spoke suddenly, startling a highly nervous Crane.

As soon as the words came out, Azik himself was surprised. He spoke in an unusually cold tone now, like a cold and gloomy snake hissing in the dark, how similar to the end of every memory he had!

He forcibly suppressed his chaotic thoughts and disorganized memory fragments, and tried to remember his son surnamed Ramde, his daughter with smooth hair and a flower crown, his wife who accompanied him in his last life, and the parents of ordinary people he once had in a life that he didn't know...... These "human" memories touched his emotions, his feelings, and the smiles of his son and daughter made him gradually cover the cold and slightly moved in his heart.

In the corner of the field of vision, her expressionless face, dressed in a gorgeous and heavy robe, stepped back and retreated into the shadows, but Azik still felt that she was still there, quietly watching herself.

Once again, Azk freed himself from the shackles of his innate divinity, slowed his tone, and asked in a voice as soft as usual, but slightly impatient:

"Crane, who is that demon chasing you?"

"By the way, you can open your eyes now."

Crane heard Azik's tone return to normal, and his hanging heart also lowered a few centimeters, if Mr. Azik had another problem at this time, he would have no place to cry!

When he opened his eyes, he saw that there were no wings stained with yellow oil, and that Azik had not grown any extra parts that were not human, except that his top hat was missing, but his sleeves seemed to be really torn.

He put this thought aside and immediately gave out all the information he knew. Azik listened attentively, and his steps did not stop.

"Crane, she's not going to be a Sequence 2......" Azik frowned slightly, "I can feel that she's stronger than me, and I'm just relying on my authority to deal with her right now." ”

"If you go back to the material world, I'm no match for her. And after we go to war, it's hard for you to survive. ”

This...... If Mr. Azik is the second sequence, and Edward Vaughn is better than him, doesn't that mean that Edward Vaughn is the first ...... Sequence One! When was she promoted? I don't know what the demon's promotion ceremony is...... No! Wait a minute! Above Sequence 1, there is only Sequence 0 where the true god is! And the demon path obviously has no true god, and the most powerful demon king, Fabuti, only occupies the position of "demon god" in the occult realm, and it seems that he is not a complete god, so is her goal ......

Crane's face visibly turned ugly. Just then, Azik suddenly stopped, turned around, and walked towards a place filled with the shadow of a large stump in the distance.

"You can't go any further."

Azik told him solemnly, "It's a dangerous place ahead, even for my father...... I don't want to set foot easily. ”

Warned of danger by an angelic father, Crane immediately said, "I see, Mr. Azik. But after turning around, Crane listened carefully to the sound behind him, as if there was a faint sound of water.

After that, he tried to say one sentence: "...... I'm sorry, Mr. Azik, if it weren't for me, you and she would have actually ......"

There is really no reason for hostility.

His guilty look softened Azik's heart a little again, and the university faculty member smiled a little and comforted his student: "You're enough reason for me to be hostile to her, Crane, don't feel guilty for provoking the devil." ”

Crane's heart was shocked, he blinked vigorously, and wanted to say something, but suddenly his eyes went black and his feet slipped.

Azik quickly reached out to help him, and the atmosphere that had just been relaxed was swept away.

"Thanks, huh, thank you, Mr. Azik......" Crane regained his footing, his face turning pale, "I'm a little dizzy. ”

"You can't stay in the underworld any longer, I can see something protecting you, but your body and spirit are still fragile, and if you stay any longer, you will become the dead who wander back here."

He frowned again, revealing a somewhat anxious expression: "But she hasn't left yet, I can feel that she is waiting for me outside." ”

"Do you have any other strong people you can trust? Like the one who shelters you. ”

The one who shelters me? Crane was puzzled for a moment before he realized what Azik was talking about, and suddenly felt the urge to hide his face. If you were to praise the Fool in front of such an angel and your predecessor, would you be so ashamed that you couldn't control the Faceling's abilities and would be so embarrassed that you would sprout flesh......

"I've received a letter from you before, asking how to complete the sacrificial ritual, and asking about a lot of mystical knowledge, although you don't seem to have been swallowed by the evil being for your soul and life, I still don't recommend that you communicate with the hidden being."

"I didn't expect that now, I would feel glad that you still have a chance to live."

Yes? Crane didn't understand what he was talking about.

Azik's eyes showed a deep sense of worry: "At this point, you may have to ask for the help of that being, at least as long as I hold the demon back, that being can help you get out smoothly." ”

After saying that, he looked at Crane expectantly, as if asking, "Pray?" Why not pray yet?

…… The smile on Crane's face was about to be overcome, and the mental preparation he had just made, and the lines he had just made up to praise the fool, were all shattered by Azik's words. He suddenly felt regretful, very regretful, regretting why he pretended to be a god and pretended to be a god, and in the end he actually lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot!

Mr. "Fool" hesitated for a moment, and saw that Azk was very puzzled.

"You're worried that the Hidden Being will befall you?" He thoughtfully patted Crane on the shoulder and encouraged, "It's okay, I'm right here, and if she does something to you, I'll be able to help you get in the way." ”

That's not the problem, Mr. Azik......!

Crane let out a silent cry in his heart, and at last he could not hold back, barely maintaining his composure, and summed up the cause and effect of all this in the simplest words possible:

"There is no secret, Mr. Azik, I am not a member of the cult...... I got it by accident...... A special magical item, and then somehow coincidentally connected with certain people, so that I was considered a god by them, so I took advantage of the situation and set up a party ......" The more Crane spoke, the more he felt his face burned, but he specifically said that the gray mist was a magical object, to prevent Azik from realizing anything like Edward Vaughn, "As for all the occult knowledge, it's, uh, the need for me to play the gods......"

Azik froze.

Crane was so weak that he seemed to have become a student who didn't do his homework in high school but lied that he didn't bring it and was caught red-handed, and he dared to peek at Azik, and felt that he saw a sentence in the other party's complicated and dull eyes:

"Good boy, I thought you believed in evil gods, but I didn't expect you to become evil gods!"

Mr. Fool sweated like rain, and his toes were about to deduct another mysterious gray mist space in this underworld.

Azik looked at his embarrassed and empty appearance, but suddenly burst out laughing: "This is better than I thought, Crane, after all, a hidden existence is no less dangerous than a demon." ”

With that, he turned his head, closed his eyes, and recalled, "I know what the party you said was like. However, this extraordinary item you have acquired can also be dangerous, and if you still want to continue your party, you will have to work on your progression. ”

This sentence and Azik's demeanor caught Crane's attention, and he was a little surprised, he didn't expect that his nonsense actually corresponded to something - could it be that his casual "coincidence" just now came true again, right? - Only then I can't ask, I don't know what Mr. Azik's memory of the magical object with the aforementioned effect and the corresponding party looks like......

The matter of the gods and fools is solved, and the problem returns to the original difficulty.

"Other than that, don't you know any other powerhouse?"

"Nope." Crane shook his head, apart from you, Mr. Azik, the strongest person I know is probably Miss Sharon.

"I remember you being a believer in the goddess of the night." "The presence of demons is certainly not trivial," Azik recalled, "and may attract the attention of the church, so you can try to pray to the gods, give her name, and ask the gods and the powerful people of the church to watch." ”

A Sequence One Demon, what level of powerhouse does it take to drive it away...... Anyway, Edward Vaughn had already been forced out of Beckland because of my whistleblower letter, so why did he suddenly come back now? Or did she not leave at all?

"And what about you, Mr. Azik?" Crane hesitated. As an angel wandering outside the church, Azik must be a considerable hidden danger to the church, and if he really attracts the strong people of the church, it is very likely to implicate the other party.

And he clearly remembered the information that Kohler Sr. had given him, that someone in the East was looking for Azik Eggers, and that there had been a conflict just in the last few days.

Azik shook his head:

"If only you could keep yourself safe."

"Even if I attract the strong people in the church, I may not lose to them, and there are multiple ways to escape."

Crane thought for a second and nodded in agreement.

"Give me your brass whistle."

The Archon of Death took the bronze whistle, and his expression suddenly became solemn and majestic, and he placed the bronze whistle in the palm of his hand, and slowly proclaimed:

"Increase access to Cleon Moretti."

"I allow Clyan Moretti to summon a demigod-level pale general, effective immediately!"

The bronze whistle burst into black flames, ripples spreading outward, and Azk motioned for Crane to reach for it.

The moment he got his hand, the black flames burned his palm, and the piercing coldness rushed straight to his mind, and Crane's ears seemed to sound the roars of countless undead, the sound of skeletons colliding and rubbing, as if what he was holding in his hand was no longer a harmless summoning letter using a copper whistle, some of its seals were broken, revealing more fangs and strength, and Crane felt that he was grasping the command banner of thousands of troops commanding the army of the dead!

Demigod-level ...... Bone Messenger? Crane thought wildly.

Azik looked at him, and then at the bronze whistle in Crane's hand, and Crane understood what the other party meant in an instant, and also understood the next square.

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One step, two steps, Edward measured Azk's retreat with his own pace.

She took Crane from the spirit world into the underworld, the incomplete but wide enough underworld constructed by the authority of the god of death, to the right, to the left, in a large circle, from the center of Beckland to the outskirts of the city, with a large woods and wasteland.

As for the method of sensing the Azik position, it is simple, danger perception.

Sequence 2 is naturally able to cause some danger to himself, so when they first met in the spirit passage, Edward provoked Azik's hostility with words and deeds, and successfully planted the seeds of emotion. Before they detonate themselves, the emotional seeds will stay quietly in the depths of the other party's heart, quietly mobilizing hostility, and of course the demon can rely on this hostility to find a target relatively easily.

"Stopped?" Edward also stopped, his gaze sweeping around a void around him.

She wasn't sure how much shelter Fort Source would be able to give Crean soul, and since she was going to the East Side to catch up, she hoped that the Archon of Death would do it quickly.

"Archon of Death, Azik Eggers...... I remember that there is no diagram on the Source Fort that does not have a path to death...... Why didn't Crane pull her in? Are there any limitations? ”

After a minute or two of pause, the subject began to move again, and Edward slowly followed.

Suddenly, the ground beneath her feet turned into a deep pitch-black door, but she didn't fall, but stood firmly in the air. The illusory door slammed open, and countless pale arms and treacherous vines swooped out like a tsunami, engulfing Edward's figure in an instant.

At the same time, a door opened again behind a large tree hundreds of meters away, and Azik and Crane quickly walked out of it.

The vines let out a baby's high-pitched cry, and slender arms were tightly entwined, sealing off the people within.

In the next second, the pitch-black giant claw sliced through these vines and arms with an irresistible sharpness, and the palm of her hand opened, and her palm opened an eye, and in the blink of an eye, she captured the location of Crane and Azik.

Crane suddenly met the eye, and his whole body froze.

Azik's body shook immediately, and the aura around his body immediately became cold, and countless deaths and new births were connected into an illusory river spreading around him, and there were countless "Aziks" lingering endlessly on it, one of which was silently swallowed by rust and turned into flying ash, and then the rust spread to the second and third at an extremely fast speed...... After five deaths in a row, the real Azik completely neutralized the blow to Crane, who stiffened for a moment before flashing back a hundred meters away with Crane.

The Death Archon clenched his fists hard, and Edward's feet suddenly opened four gates of the underworld in the shape of a cross, and countless dead and vines roared out from inside the doors, immediately enveloping the giant claw layer by layer.

The ground within a radius of a hundred meters quickly became barren and depleted, the dry trees withered away in the blink of an eye, and the aura of death was too strong for the living demons to find it difficult, and Azik succeeded in temporarily imprisoning Edward's actions.

Crane hurried to his lips and blew hard, a pale flame ignited in front of them, and out came a rather special skeleton spirit, he had a human upper body, a snake tail, and even broken white wings.

The spirits are dressed in tattered robes, and are adorned with gold rings on their wrist bones and snake tailbones. He defied common sense with long, straight black hair, flaming black flames at the ends, and a hideous skeletal face under his long hair.

He first bowed to Azik, then nodded to Crane, and the snake bone slid on the ground, immediately rolling up Crane and carrying him into the colorful spirit realm again, and began to roam at great speed.

Seeing Kryn away, Azik's hanging heart finally let go, and he was about to turn back, when he heard a continuous explosion behind him.

He was about to turn his head, but suddenly felt extremely dangerous, and urgently changed to the side, dodging a punch aimed at the back of his head!

The explosion was a disguise, and Edward had already broken free from his shackles and quietly approached him, wanting to take advantage of the time difference to attack!

Azk's eyes erupted in veins, his eyes turned pale again, and visions of a feathered serpent appeared behind him.

Edward's missed blow immediately turned his head to lock on to Azk's position, and when he saw this, the bones all over his body crackled, the clothes behind his back were torn, and his suddenly outstretched wings blocked the powerful sweep of the feathered serpent's tail. There was a loud bang that no metal could simulate from the collision, and a huge wave of air erupted, making the few trees around it rattle.

Edward was pumped and slid backwards a few centimeters, leaving visible marks on the ground.

Azk was shocked and took a half step back, and he opened his mouth again, his fangs flashing with a cold light.

Spirit creatures and the Gates of the Underworld resurfaced in succession, preventing Edward from bypassing him and entering the Spirit Realm to hunt down Crane.

The demon snorted in displeasure, and when the filthy spirit spread, the spirit creatures that came into contact with the spirit were contaminated in less than a second, and the army of spirits summoned by Azk instantly turned against him, and the arm vines in the gate of the underworld twisted into a mess.

Azik, who had just recovered some of his memories, could not accurately use his powers to correctly judge the situation, and seeing that all his helpers had become the other party's subordinates, he turned his heart on the sidelines and prepared to show a complete mythical creature form to meet the enemy.

Lovely Dehua didn't plan to give him this opportunity, everyone understands the reason why he took advantage of his illness to kill him.

She immediately and majestically poured out filthy words:

"Imprisoned"!

The Azk Angel's personality didn't show much effect, his body twisted and alienated, and patches of pale feathers stained with yellow oil emerged from the surface of his skin. At this moment, his body suddenly shook violently, the whites of his eyes were instantly filled with red bloodshots, his skin exploded inch by inch, and there was a muffled sound in his heart!

Blood manipulation! Lust detonates!

Blood flowed from his eyes and ears, and naturally the place where his brain was located was filled with blood.

The critical moment of the transition was interrupted, and Azk instantly saw a mocking smile on the face of the indifferent self in the shadows, but as a natural mythical creature, his appearance began to slide directly in the direction of inhuman. His fingers scratched wildly at the painful skull, and his feathers and arms were covered in blood. He kept roaring and writhing his body, and the feathered serpent had more and more components on his body, and fewer and fewer human parts.

Edward took out his pocket watch and looked at it for two minutes.

She approached Azik, who was defeated quickly and unjustly, and didn't quite understand why this guy dared to stay alone when his strength was not complete, didn't he have an accurate judgment of the difference in strength between the two sides? Maybe something went wrong with the education of the Grim Reaper.

But just as she was about to give Azik the final blow, Azik suddenly raised his head suddenly, his expression stoic and hideous, and the spirit on his body rioted, and the phantom of a bird-shaped golden forehead appeared on his forehead, as if he was going to die with her.

Seeing this golden forehead ornament, Edward's eyes widened slightly, and the hand that had been stretched out slowly retracted.

She looked at Azik, reconfirmed his identity from the intelligence repositories, and began to search where she had seen the name "Azik Eggers" and heard of this man for more than a thousand years, and her eyes turned to pity.

The Uniqueness of the Grim Reaper and the Resurrection Hand...... I have a good relationship with the Scroller of the Night...... She sneered without a smile in her heart.

And Azik was ready for any attack, and he was ready to fight to the death, but he didn't want the demon's hideous bone spurs to gradually retract, and the wings disappeared, revealing bare elbows, and the texture of metal faded from the surface of her body.

"Hello, Archon of Death." The demon's tone was as if he were greeting an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time, "Maybe you'd rather I call you Mr. Azik Eggers?" ”

"You don't seem to be in a good shape right now, and I'm not going to compete with you, would you be interested in talking to me a little bit?"

"......" Azik maintained a fighting posture, extremely vigilant, and did not answer.

"I have a personal vendetta with Cleon Moretti."

Edward didn't care if Azik replied or not, and said what he was going to say: "Of course, as a fellow countryman, I am willing to open up to him, and if there is your mediation, there may be a chance for the grievances between us to be resolved." ”

Azik was startled by one of the words, he sensed that it was a deliberate bait from the demon, but he couldn't possibly not feel the word: "Countryman? I don't remember you in Tingen. ”

As he thought, he saw Edward's extraordinarily gentle and friendly smile, and he knew unequivocally that he had stepped into a trap.

"It seems that Crane didn't tell you that he was pretending to be a great being?"

“……”

"Well, it looks like you already know about it."

"What exactly are you trying to express?"

Edward followed the temptation: "I don't know if you have heard of 'Source Castle'...... It doesn't matter if you don't, you should know what 'essentia' is. I'm guessing he's already told you that he's pretended to be a great being, he's used essentia to form a party, and naturally deceived quite a few newcomers to the extraordinary world in the name of the god 'Fool'. ”

Essentia ...... Azik suddenly remembered something, the Pale Plague, the Grim Reaper, the Father, the River of Eternal Darkness...... He didn't want to doubt Crane, but he couldn't imagine that something equivalent to a river that could be swallowed by even the "Grim Reaper" could be controlled by a young man who watched himself enter an extraordinary world.

Unless......

Unless it's no longer Crane, it's the great presence that Crane says he "plays" in the party......

No, it's the devil who is tempting me to think in which direction, I should believe in Crane more!

The more Azik was struck by lightning, the more he warned himself to believe his students, the more he couldn't believe the implicit meaning of this information, and finally, he chose to warn himself in his heart: Don't believe anything the devil says!

"Maybe you've realized something, Mr. Azik."

Edward's dagger saw that Azik felt that the other party was more like a poisonous snake, and only after luring people into a trap did he show his fangs slowly: "Perhaps, you would like to listen to me tell a story?" ”

"A story about 'Cleon Moretti', 'Zhou Mingrui', and maybe a god involved in the scheme."

…………

Ince Zangwill wiped the blood from his face, put himself back together, and turned his head to see that 0-08 had actually stood up and was ready to start writing.

He immediately flew to the side of the notebook to stop 0-08 from letting himself go, and soon found that 0-08 did not seem to be in a state of making up nonsense based on his own negative effects, but as if an invisible person held the pen and wrote a few words steadily:

"Cleon Moretti was taken away by a demigod-level Death Pathway Spirit and began to roam the spirit realm."

"But that demigod has just been released from the seal, and his power is not stable. Thus, after roaming a long enough distance, the demigod spirit needed a short rest, and they were gathered together and appeared together in the room where Ince Zangwill and his friends were. ”

Clean Moretti? This man is the man I wrote to death in Tingen, but he was in danger many times...... Ince Zangwill frowned, as for who wrote these words, which were obviously helping him, and even giving information, he already knew exactly what he had answered.

After a few seconds, the space was distorted, and Ince Zangwill saw that the colors of a certain place outside the room suddenly became bright, and he immediately pushed the door out, and what appeared in front of him was the one he had been trying to kill day and night - Sherlock Moriarty!

TBC

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Eight thousand words in a big chapter, super strong two in one.

As an aside, the wind commentary in this article is poured on both sides, one side thinks that licking Crane and the other thinks that the dark current, so I want to pour these two waves of people together to neutralize.