Chapter 158: Post-Mortem Summary
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-- The Corrupt King's Inner Line --
Agaritu: Can you hear me?
Agaritu - sent "intelligence .rar".
Agaritu: It's strange at sea. You take a look.
Edward Vaughn - received the "intelligence .rar".
Edward Vaughn: Got it, I'll see.
-- Exit the internal chat --
Edward put down the newspaper that Beckland's followers had sacrificed, unpacked the intelligence documents, obtained all the memories and observations of the past half a month shared by Agaritus, and began to analyze and study them one by one.
It's a lot more interesting than exchanging insults with Fabuti.
"I feel that the plan is quite smooth, I have grabbed the ship, and I have also obtained the identity, so I am waiting to go to the Eastern Continent for investigation."
She snorted a few times, observing the suspicions in the information:
"The tainted Poseidon traits are missing? Suspected of god-level interference? There is no doubt that the Lord of the Storm will not care about such a trivial matter, what else could it be other than the Source Castle! Crane, this kid ran away to sea? β
"I thought he would use the line of Azq Eggers to go directly to the Southern Continent to seek the protection of the Spirit Order!"
Edward's mind conjured up with Azik's face, and the other party's tangled expression of stoic anger appeared, looking forward to what kind of choice the resurrected hand of the Grim Reaper would make, and what surprises it would bring to the night and Adam.
"After all, Azik Eggers is the son of the Grim Reaper, the designated heir of the Grim Reaper, and he is also a god scroller."
She then responded to Agaritu's suspicions:
"It's unlikely to be the work of the 'hanged man'. According to previous speculation, the 'Hanged Man' is supposed to be a mid-tier or mid-tier sailor, possibly a pirate or a member of the Church of the Storm. The survival of an extraordinary person at this level in the tsunami is the limit, and it is impossible to have the spare strength to do internal response and sacrifice the remaining characteristics to Crane. β
"I'd rather like it's Crane himself, maybe with Azq Eggers in tow. Because 'Aquaman' is now very angry, he has spent a great deal of effort but the fruits of his victory have been plucked by unidentified people. β
"I'm sure you know what to look out for."
The message was sent, and she got a reply of "I'll keep an eye out for relevant information".
Recently, it has been a bad year, after being promoted, he was killed by the dark night, and he was resurrected by the source fort, and now he has been reduced to the extent that the extraordinary characteristics of the way to grab a sailor will be disturbed.
Edward was stunned and began to miss the Demon Path Sequence 1, which he had only owned for less than a month.
This trait was shattered once after being obtained by the Goddess of the Night, and the spiritual imprint residue in it was removed, but the trace of pollution hidden in it was not so easy to eliminate, and it is currently stored in the Quiet Church of Winter County, in a corner of the fourth basement floor, and is listed as a Level 0 seal.
Although he is half a world away from himself, this characteristic still maintains a connection with himself.
Therefore, judging from the heat and irritability felt from time to time, it must have been placed near a seal of the "Sun" pathway.
I didn't have a collection in Beckland, so I was worried that my trait and some of the occult connections between 0-17 would make my Divine Descent Vessel change badly...... Fortunately, a little pollution was left in advance in the characteristics, and the positioning function was very good.
If this feature were in the collection of Beckland, the next day you would see the newspaper headline "Samuel Cathedral Gas Leaks, Huge Explosion, No Survivors!" At the same time, it can also pollute 0-17. Let 0-17 run away on their own, or use the pollution to resurface the consciousness of the "Mother of Heaven".
Edward had already experienced the "secret" firsthand, which was not quite what she had imagined.
"Darkness" and "Death" are adjacent pathways, so she thought that secrecy was another sense of "death", that is, completely eliminated and ceased to exist, but she did not expect to be sent to a specific place and cut off from the outside world.
Also, for living beings, if they cut off all contact with this world, it is equivalent to secrecy.
But since it is "hidden" rather than eliminated, and the body of the "Mother of Heaven" is still alive, it is not impossible to re-strengthen this almost non-existent consciousness.
In the same way, Antigonus may be reawakened in this way.
If all the remnants of the demon wolf wake up, the night must have a headache, right? "Mother of Heaven" also takes the forward play route of "sleeping, sleeping, requiem", and if she comes back to life, the belief in the goddess of the night will be divided...... However, judging from the size of the parish of the night, there is only a limit to the "heavenly mother" that can be separated by the angels, and perhaps Antigonus should be considered to be brought back to life......
"If Antigonus awakens, the goddess of the night will fall into the same state as the storm, the sun, and wisdom."
"The most formidable contender for the Lord of Mystery is his mortal enemy!"
I really don't understand how they got there.
On the premise of needing the Lord of Mystery to open the seal, he actually has a grudge against the existing high sequence of the three paths of mystery.
And since they all have enmity, there is still no god thinking about the birth of God forcibly opening the seal.
It is not a good idea to count on Antigonus and Amun to fight inwardly, they know who their enemies are, and if they are equal in strength, they will become friends, and becoming gods is the first priority.
In the last 18 years of the apocalypse, the spirit of "Tianzun" has been quite weak.
Having failed, as well as enemies who have become gods and relatives who have become vessels of the gods, Antigonus should be more motivated than Amon to become gods.
The goddess of the night is smart here, after she found out that Crane, an old remnant who could communicate with the source fort, she didn't tell the others, but wild stocking, deliberately ignoring it, otherwise Crane would have been killed by Adam first, so that Amon could get the source fort.
A young man with basic morals is much better controlled than Amon.
"The two of them will definitely not accept the courtship and investment of the Seven Gods, and even if they die, they will let themselves die at the hands of another person...... No matter who becomes a god in the end, the candidate for the Lord of Mystery has already been decided, and the seven gods can't choose someone from infighting. β
Edward was looking forward to the scene, and was already thinking about when to go into secrecy again.
She touched her chin and said to herself: "Pales Zoroaster has not been cared for for so long, and if the situation is complicated, maybe he will be driven out of the duck and put on the shelf for investment, or Charatu may become the biggest winner." β
"Although the Goddess of the Night still has the option of Creon, it ...... In front of the king of angels of this path, what else is Crane worth? If Antigonus is willing, taking the Source Fort is a 'fool' thing, not to mention that Crane may not be willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the current world. β
Playing the "fool" and being a "fool" are two different things.
According to Edward's estimation of Crane, the other party is just an ordinary person who has not yet left the human realm, and it is not Russell's hatred that will destroy the world by himself.
Of course, Crane should have learned about the "Outer Gods" during the Angelic Phase, and then obtained the information that "this is the Earth".
If his obsession collapses, will he lose control and go crazy......
Anyway, Russell probably collapsed for a while, but by then she had already become famous in this world, and she had lived longer than in her previous life.
She didn't get out of control, and the Fallen Mother Goddess quickly made her happy.
Edward stepped out of the house and took a short walk in his little newly renovated garden, gazing out at the active volcano looming in the distance.
From here, you will reach the edge of the abyss.
She took out a map from her bosom, a cut square, part of the western sea, with views of the corners of the southern continent and the small western countries of Fenerport and Lenburg in the northern continent.
It's still a long way to jump from here to the west of the archipelago that Richard is talking about...... The abyss is a place where the real world exists, and that part of the spirit world has been sealed off by pollution, so I can't dive through it.
Agaritu's range of activity is mainly in the east, and the distance from himself is the whole sea.
And his identity is not convenient to go to the abyss, alas, if only there was the skill of the secret puppet master who can exchange his body and the secret puppet at any time!
"Zarathu ......"
Zarathu didn't seem to even have the possibility of becoming a god...... There is no sea of rootless flowers, and she deliberately hides it, and I can't see it clearly...... But Zarathu really doesn't seem to need to worry too much, even if she's very high-ranked......
"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"
Edward muttered to himself, shoveling small flowers to loosen the soil for the garden, and practiced his craft when he was bored.
"Alas!"
"I spent a lot of money to lower the vigilance of the goddess of the night to the limit, but a big haze made her vigilance come back."
"Regret not at the beginning, regret not at the beginning!"
"At that time, choosing 'both loses and the end of the world' was a better world line."
"It's come to this, so I have to follow the example of the great 0-08 and find a way to let the trait run out on its own."
Last week, she built a small garden for herself, burned some bricks and surrounded a small flower garden, and then she felt that the garden was empty, so she built a small dog kennel in it and raised a demon dog with only spirit remaining. Two more fence shelves were made to pull some petunias, but now in winter, the flowers are not blooming, so she added a swing to herself.
In this way, one of the two demon kings, she lived a stable retirement life with all kinds of flowers and plants touching dogs.
Because she was really bored, she also carved a pendant statue of the real creator out of wood and found an opportunity to sacrifice to the past.
The True Creator did not refuse. And returned a newspaper.
"There is still too little consciousness to make up Agaritu, he has not established his own persona, and he is still subconsciously imitating me...... actually called Her Royal Highness Princess Bernadette, which is very good. β
"I feel that Bernadette will feel that these two identities have a certain degree of connection in her heart......"
Edward cooed, still plotting an escape route.
Of course, he couldn't be watched by the goddess of the night all the time, and Edward looked at the newspaper dateβtoday, January 17th.
I've been in prison for half a month, so it's a shame, right? If you don't go into the night, you have to wonder if you have a conspiracy.
Pack your things and run away before it's too late!
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Daniz managed to bypass the Storm Church and members of the military who roamed the streets, and took a lot of time back to the hotel from the side road.
He had just run back to the hotel where he and Gelman were staying, and had just closed the door when he heard the sound of the door opening from behind him!
Daniz was shocked, and looked back as if he were at home, only to see the well-dressed Gelman open the door and cast a cold glance.
The big pirate suddenly fell into confusion, he looked out the window, at himself, at the crazy adventurer who had flashed by just now but was obviously real, his mouth slowly widened, and he felt his worldview collapse violently.
I was scared to death, and I thought it was an illegal break-in, but it turned out to be Daniz......
Behind the door, Crane breathed a sigh of relief. He locked the door, took four steps backwards, and then lay down on the bed and pretended to rest, resuming the ritual that had been interrupted.
When the familiar majestic palace came into view, his heart calmed down, and then the excitement continued to surge.
Crane sat in the high-backed chair that belonged to the Fool, raised his right palm, and examined the short staff inlaid with blue "gems" and dyed with a hint of black and morning light.
Around the seal, countless points of light floated, each of which seemed to correspond to a praying devotee, making the scepter's milky white body glow, both psychedelic and sacred.
At this moment, Crane felt that this scepter was the "Sea God" deity!
So, he took the opportunity to name it "Poseidon Scepter",
Due to the spiritual warning, he did not rashly touch it with his hands, and the short staff was wrapped in gray mist and floated in the air, looking very harmless.
After a period of tossing, Crane initially figured out the ability of the "Poseidon Scepter":
It can create tsunamis, it can cause hurricanes, it can produce torrential rain, it can bring lightning strikes, it can make people fly in the sky, it can walk on the bottom of the sea, there are almost no restrictions.
It is nearly indestructible, it can directly smash the head of an enemy, it allows the wielder to never get lost without the superposition of other powerful factors, it can provide an unimaginable balance, it can drive many underwater creatures, answer the prayers of believers, and give people the power of a sea monster, which is equivalent to the domination of an area of sea.
Is this what Kavituva is capable of? Indeed, it is enough to call himself "the god of the sea"!
It's no wonder that from Sequence 4 onwards, they are called demigods and half-humans, which is really more like gods than humans...... Crane sighed silently, and then laughed at himself:
"If I can use the 'Seagod Scepter' normally, I can already serve as the senior deacon of the night watchman, and become one of the twenty or so most powerful people in the church...... If Ince Zangwell hadn't had '0-08' and was at sea, I would have been able to get revenge on him immediately, and I even had a good chance of success.
"But can I use the 'Poseidon Scepter' normally?"
"Can't ......"
Crane had just discovered that the negative effects of the "Poseidon Scepter" were amazingly large, and within the Night Church, it was definitely easy to get the evaluation of "Level 1" seals, and I don't know how many researchers had to die to figure out the best way to use the seal.
There are four negative effects of "Poseidon's Scepter":
One is to make the holder irritable, easily angry, and easily overheated;
As for how large the range is and what is the specific value of the cycle, it is difficult for Crane, who is not a professional researcher, to give an accurate description, and can only make a rough estimate, thinking that the range is 600 meters to 1 kilometer, and the period is 20 minutes to 35 minutes;
The third is to gather and present the prayers of believers, with sound and images, which can easily make non-demigod-level holders whose spirits are not strong enough to collapse and lose control.
Fourth, from the moment it touches the scepter, the user's body will begin to collapse rapidly. Once the body collapses, the spirit dies at the same time. Judging from the previous spiritual picture, the self in Sequence 6 can't even touch it, and if you want to reach out and hold it, you have to at least Sequence 5.
"The first one is okay, if you only use it for a short time, anger and irritability are acceptable, to put it simply, with such a strong seal, recklessness is over......"
"The third one, in fact, there is a way to circumvent it, huh...... If I keep it on top of the gray fog, it seems that I can break the limit of distance, but the sound or picture of the prayer will be shielded and restored to a point of light, which will not affect me in the slightest, so that I can freely choose whether to respond or not, who to respond to, and how to respond......"
"The biggest problem is the second one, I'm okay myself, when I incarnated as the Black Emperor, I belonged to a resentful soul, no blood, and I wasn't afraid of being drained, but those creatures around me were miserable, this one didn't distinguish between me at all, and the cycle was not easy to grasp...... You can't encounter a dangerous situation, discuss with the enemy first, and let's make an appointment at another time and place? β
Crane thought carefully and conceived several scenarios for using the "Poseidon Scepter", but this depended on the environment and accurate judgment in advance, and it was hardly feasible.
"Whew...... Could it be that its destiny is to stay above the gray mist, and to give them a shuttle, nay, a bolt of ......lightning when someone like Amun tries to 'touch' it?"
"The fourth negative effect is a bit strange, it can actually cause the physical and spiritual bodies to collapse at the same time, and it takes at least sequence 5 to touch it. If you want to use it for a long time, you have to be at least a demigod, but it is also a seal created by the extraordinary properties of Sequence 3...... If you need to be at the same level or even higher to be able to use it freely, isn't this a chicken rib? β
Knowing that the collapse also works on the spirits, even in the Source Castle, Crane is a little reluctant to touch it.
The gray mist wrapped the scepter around him, and it was coming, and Crane had to admit that it was really forceful.
"It feels like this negative effect is too strong, a bit like the power of Kavituva itself, could it be that Kavituva itself has suffered some pollution or curse, and it has also been preserved?"
After a moment of reflection, Crane thought about something important.
"Poseidon" is dead, do you want to care about the rebels and Poseidon believers?
There is no need, this native belief has long been outdated and very ignorant, but after the Kavituis no longer responds to the believers, it is very likely that these desperate believers will increase the number and number of living sacrifices, just like the madness of their god before death...... Without years or even decades of propaganda and crackdowns, they would not be willing to accept the reality that "Poseidon is dead".
When, without the support of the indigenous gods of Cavitua, the rebels may have to turn to Fersak or Intis, they are likely to be driven to do inhumane things, such as attacking places where civilians gather, for example, by keeping children with innocent eyes in front of them......
This is a great benefit to me, and now I can directly play the role of a "god" after I have obtained the scepter!
"I need to give them some guidance, I need to tell them what is the right way to believe, but not to burden myself, just give some help within the scope of my ability...... I'm not responsible for saving their fate......"
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to act, and all Poseidon believers are their own spectators, answering prayers and getting plenty of feedback to help them make their progress in digesting the Faceling's potion.
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In the jungle of the Blue Mountains Island, in a hidden cave.
The bald rebel Kalat fell from his wheelchair and crawled in front of him with a desperate and confused look on his face as he shattered the statue of Kavituwa.
He vaguely sensed something, but he didn't want to believe it, because it meant that all the persistence, all the sacrifices, all the pain, would be meaningless.
No...... He screamed silently, chanting the name of Kavituwa, the god of the sea, in an attempt to get a response from the gods.
He propped his elbows on the ground, his fingers digging into the mud, and moved inch by inch in front of the shattered statue, and picked up the head of a sea serpent carved out of stone, and found that the position of his eyes was strangely sunken into a black hole, and his teeth had fallen out one by one.
Kalat was nearly frozen, and it seemed that there was no light in front of him.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a figure in the lake, and behind him was a deep blue tsunami pouring into the sky and silver-white lightning like branch-like branches.
In the midst of the shock, Carat instinctively lowered his head, and his heart welled up with joy that he couldn't believe.
He saw the soles of the figure's feet surrounded by waves and a coiling hurricane, majestic and holy, lofty and vast.
Then he heard a loud voice:
"I'm back."
As the voice echoed, Carat burst into tears.
TBC
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1.17 is Monday, but this time the tarot will be skipped in the main text.
There was still a month and a half before Ulorius was born.