Makai County, Beldan.

This is a typical resource-based city, due to the rise of coal mines and the decline of coal mines.

In the just-concluded World War, as the only direction to be breached by the combined forces of Fusak and Intis, Makai suffered heavy losses. At the height of the war, Conston City, the second largest city in Rune and the capital of Makai County, was ravaged by the war, and by the time it fell, more than half of its buildings had collapsed or been destroyed.

As Beldan was an important node in the invasion route of the Fursacks, it is not difficult to imagine what happened to the city in the war.

As a result, now that the war has just ended, the only scourge of the Judge has turned his head and been judged.

It cannot be said that there are many disasters and difficulties, but it can only be said that the fate is bumpy.

The distance from Trier to Beldan was thousands of kilometers, but for Russell, the process took him only a second.

For an angel, a lot of things are so easy.

But there are exceptions, such as the city in front of you.

Russell stands beside a railroad track that connects the city at one end and leads to the end of the horizon at the other.

Bernadette frowned slightly:

"The city is rejecting us."

Russell shook his head lightly and said:

"It's not us, it's everyone."

As the uniqueness of activation, '0-02' has a considerable degree of 'self', which allows it to instinctively protect itself. And using your extraordinary abilities to create an environment that is conducive to it is undoubtedly the best choice.

As the Black Emperor Pathway Sequence 0, which was once adjacent to the Inquisitor Pathway, Russell is no stranger to this set. After all, the Black Emperor path is actually similar to the Inquisitor path, the latter is mainly to create rules that are beneficial to oneself, while the former is a rather alternative way to fully distort the existing rules to achieve the goal.

But the two are essentially the same, they both 'create' rules.

One is to add new rules to existing rules, and the other is to directly distort existing rules.

Varied, but not much.

Because whether you add rules or twist them, you can achieve a similar effect to some extent.

For example, the Extraordinary Person of the Black Emperor Path can 'use' the rules to keep a certain state longer or end it early, so that the rules are more beneficial to themselves, for example, after jumping into the air, they can extend the state of leaving the earth to achieve the effect of 'flying'.

The Inquisitor path can directly add rules for 'flying' or 'floating' to achieve the purpose of 'flying'.

Therefore, these two pathways can not only complement each other, but also 'cancel' each other, which can be regarded as the natural enemies of the other party.

After all, for the extraordinary people of other paths, if you want to defeat the extraordinary people of these two paths, you must first fight against the rules. And between them, the Black Emperor can twist the rules made by the Inquisitor, and the Inquisitor can also invalidate the rules distorted by the Black Emperor by making new rules.

It's nothing more than falling in love and killing each other.

And now this is the case with the band, in order to protect itself, '0-02' chooses to twist the rules of the whole Berdan.

In this way, the city is cut off from the outside world, and the people inside can't get out, and the people from the outside can't get in.

In this case, even angels will not be able to enter the city unless the rules set by '0-02' are broken.

Of course, it is impossible to leave.

Of course, the advantage is that the interference can be eliminated to the greatest extent, but the disadvantage is that it is not hidden enough, and the changes are too obvious, and it is easy to notice.

After all, although Berdan has declined, it is still an important railway node in the Kingdom of Rune, and it suddenly disappeared from the map, and anyone can sense that something is wrong. That's why Russell was able to learn that '0-02' was in Beldan.

And now Russell was standing outside Beldan, facing the same problems as the other angels—he had to find a way to get into the city first.

If you can't get into the city, then everything you do will be in vain.

But as the king of angels of the Black Emperor's path, how could Russell be blocked out by a rule?

Russell's eyes flickered, and the Berdan in his eyes was covered by some invisible barrier.

It hinders the entry of all external things, and also prevents the internal things from leaving.

But when Russell looked at the barrier, the impenetrable barrier had quietly 'corroded' a large hole, because the rules had been invisibly distorted—Berdan forbade all living beings to enter and all living beings to leave, except for the railway line.

"Follow me." Russell looked back and admonished.

He didn't understand why Bernadette had to come in person, but he knew that Bernadette must have her reasons for doing so. So he, the old father, has no choice but to believe in his daughter.

Of course, believing in Bernadette doesn't mean he's going to just leave it alone.

How can anyone be such a father?

Bernadette quietly followed Russell, and the two followed the railway line into the city of Beldan.

By the time they entered the city, the gaping holes in the barrier had been repaired, the twisted rules had been repaired, and the city had become isolated again.

Russell didn't deliberately bend the rules to maintain that 'hole', which didn't mean anything other than draining his power.

If the city can't restrain him, he can always open another 'hole'.

And if he can't get out of the rules, then the hole will be repaired sooner or later.

In that case, why did Russell keep it?

Along the railway line, which showed visible signs of restoration, Russell came to the platform, where there were traces of artillery fire.

On a normal day, it would be crowded with passengers preparing to board the steam train, and it would be very bustling with people. But now it was empty, with neither steam trains nor passengers. The whole city was desolate and dead as far as the eye could see, and there was no trace of any living activity on the streets, which had been going on for a long time, judging by the fallen leaves and dust that had accumulated on the streets.

Bernadette whispered:

"I can feel that there are still a lot of living beings here."

They just didn't dare to come out, they didn't dare to appear on the street.

Russell turned his gaze thoughtfully to the sign standing in front of the town hall.

In the center of the sign, a slightly yellowed white piece of paper was draped over the other signs, with black ink and Runn writing on the surface:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am your new consul.

"Now I issue three new decrees:

"First, no living creature can leave Berdan without my permission, and no outsider can enter Berdan.

"Second, all beings are equal before the law, even angels can be killed by ordinary people.

"Article 3: Anyone who commits the following offences shall be subject to heavy penalties up to the death penalty:

"1 kills;

"2 Stealing;

"3 Recite the names of the gods in their entirety;

"4 Sacrifice to evil gods;

"5 fraud;

"6 leaks;

“……”

"Huh."

Russell couldn't help but laugh out loud, judging from the style of the notice, it was not difficult to tell that the activation level of '0-02' was not as high as he thought, and this 'trip' may not be as dangerous as he thought.

——

Above the gray fog, Crane kept an eye on Russell's movements until the other party entered Beldan City.

There is a strange power in the city, and the barrier it forms can easily block even the prying eyes of the gods, but with Russell's strength, even if the country of disorder appears in person, Rosell has the means to break that barrier and pray to the 'fool'.

And as long as Klein receives this prayer, he can get Russell and them out, and he doesn't have to worry about safety at all.

Of course, this is also based on the real emergence of the 'State of Disorder'. After all, it is only now determined that Berdan is related to the country of disorder, and it is not yet possible to determine where the country of disorder is, nor can it be determined the degree of activation of the 'country of disorder'.

If it only relies on the seal of '0-02', Rosell can easily solve it alone.

From Klein's point of view, he certainly wants everything to go well.

And if all goes well and Russell succeeds in obtaining the uniqueness of the Inquisitor's path, it will be a sure thing.

Of course, this will take time.

And what is most lacking now is time, in Klein's opinion. As long as Russell can obtain this uniqueness, it is better than anything else to become a true god in the dual path. Although he may not have a strong grasp of this uniqueness, as long as he can use it.

After all, it's only a month in total, so you can't expect Russell to become a thing of the past overnight, right?

It's not realistic.

But for one thing, Klein doesn't want Russell to be old so soon either—because he has intuition, and it's definitely not a good thing to get Russell ahead of him. Although it is not enough to announce to the world that it is a thing of the past, it is estimated that it is not much worse.

At least with Klein's knowledge of Russell's character, he actually did such a thing - well, although the reference is Russell's diary, and Rosell should be much more stable now than he was when he wrote it.

But Klein had already formed preconceived prejudices, and Russell's image in his mind was not so easy to change.

——

In the astral boundary, a stone plaza floats in the vast void.

The black stone pillars supported a magnificent and sacred church, and every pillar and every arch and dome here were inlaid with skulls of different races, most of them were pale, densely clustered together, and their eyes were empty and numb.

The walls, windows, and doors of the church also have transparent, distorted, painful faces.

In front of the huge cross, rows of black seats with backrests are placed.

In every respect, this is a magnificent church that rivals the headquarters of the major orthodox churches, and the only fly in the ointment is that none of the believers come here to pray.

Dressed in a simple white robe and with a pale gold beard, Adam sat in the middle of the first row of benches on the left, with a silver cross pendant around his neck, which he held in his hand and in front of his forehead.

He bowed his head and closed his eyes, as if in contemplation or in prayer.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he slowly opened his eyes, looked up at the stained glass that stood tall, and muttered:

"The ...... of the Disordered Country"

There are three parts of essentia from the outer gods, accounting for one-third of the total, which is not insignificant.

But Adam never had the idea of these three essentia, first, because they were too risky because they were related to the old days.

The second reason is that only one of the six pathways corresponding to these three essentia belongs to Him.

And this path is still an abyssal path, and even its owner is a greedy undead serpent - Lakad even wants to eat it.

Adam was sure that if he showed the slightest weakness in battle, Rackard would not hesitate to eat him. Even if they are allies now, even if the situation has fallen into disadvantage, they are about to lose.

So Adam never trusted Rackard and never pinned his hopes on Rackard.

For the 'visionary', he has a habit of planning everything in advance, and at best, everything goes according to plan. And even if there are occasional variables, they will be in His plan, and they will not exceed His expectations.

But if it is useless to only predict what will happen, He also needs to be able to respond to any situation at any time. To do this, he needed to have enough and reliable allies, and both the Steam Lord and the Primordial Witch belonged to this category, but Kalade, who was more than powerful, was completely unreliable.

If he hadn't had a choice, Adam wouldn't have chosen Lacard.

In fact, he chose the dark side of the universe at first, but he didn't expect that the dark side of the universe had been swallowed by Rakad. For Adam, who had not yet become a god at the time, there was no way to cooperate with Lacard.

And now, Calade, who only has the strength of sequence 0, has become a burden, and the tail is too big.

The price to pay for killing him is too great, but to continue to cooperate with Rackard must always be prepared to be betrayed by Him.

This is a real dilemma.

In contrast, the situation on the other side is much better.

The path of the goddess of the night is unimpeded, and the path of the Mother Earth Goddess, though slightly hindered, will not pose the same deadly threat to her as before. And now, even Russell is on the path to the past, and has even begun to come into contact with essentia 'disordered nations'.

This essentia has been quite stable, and the corresponding pathways have great potential. Even compared to the Perfectionists and Hermits of the Lord of Steam, the Black Emperor and the Inquisitor are even better in terms of potential.

Although Russell is a rising star and is not as stable as the master of steam, it is not known who will win or lose in the actual fight.

If you want to be sure, you have to prevent Russell from gaining access to the Land of Disorder, or even from accessing the Inquisitor's Pathway Uniqueness. And as things stand, it's probably useless to count on a disordered country.

The Children of Chaos can't be counted on, they haven't moved for thousands of years, and they can't be compared to the existence of the Fallen Mother Goddess at all, just like they don't care about the lost essentia at all.

So, if you want to stop Russell, you can only do it yourself.

(End of chapter)